Lake George Arts Project

"Retroflection", paintings by Frank Owen
2018-09-21 - 2018-10-26 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
September 21 – October 26, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, September 21, 5 – 7 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm
Review online: Review online: Lake George Mirror
Frank Owen, Searcher (2018), Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 inches.
Frank Owen’s paintings are a vibrant mix of colorful abstract works, both large and small in scale. He says: “I always say, there are no bad colors. I want the paintings to feel rambunctious. Extravagant. Unruly.” The works glisten, due to a unique painting process incorporating many layers. Using polyethylene coated paper, he creates a “skin” with a variety of abstract shapes, swirls, plaids, and stripes that he later cuts, scores or carves. He’ll create dozens of these “skins,” more than he’ll need, finally peeling off individual shapes from the plastic, incorporating them into his paintings. He says: “I begin to peel them off the poly, and I place them, compose them. But the whole process is front-to-back. It’s the opposite of the conventional way of layering an image. The first skins I lay down will appear as the front layer of the painting.” Many works are inspired by the natural world around him, near his home in Keene, NY.
Frank Owen was born in Kalispell, Montana in 1939, but spent much of his childhood in Woodland City, west of Sacramento, California. He received his B.A. and his M.A. from the University of California at Davis, where he received a Regents Fellowship in 1967-1968. He was twice awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1978-79 and in 1989-90. Owen’s work has been shown in galleries, museums and universities throughout the United States and Europe. For many years he has shown his work at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York City. He lives and works in the Adirondack Mountains, in Keene, NY.
This exhibition is funded in part by The Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Adirondack Studios, The Community Exchange Foundation, and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.

Adolph and Joshua Rosenblatt
2018-11-10 - 2018-12-14 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 10, 4 – 6 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm

Adolph Rosenblatt’s ceramic works celebrate people in their everyday lives – from the diner cook flipping eggs, the customer at the lunch counter, to a young student learning to draw. They also capture a sense of a place – depicting the house on the hill or the giant oak tree in the neighborhood – as well as capturing significant and dramatic moments from news headlines. Adolph Rosenblatt passed in February of 2017 at the age of 83. At that time Jim Higgins from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote “Rosenblatt started out painting two-dimensionally, but with a palette knife rather than brushes. The thickness of those paintings led him to sculpting in beeswax, then casting in bronze. When the cost of bronze prompted him to look for an alternative, he took inspiration from his sons’ schoolboy projects and began working in clay. But he retained a painter’s passionate concern with color.” Milwaukee Sentinel art critic Dean Jensen wrote in 1982: “The longer one studies Rosenblatt’s clay works … the more they suggest Expressionist pictures that somehow left the canvas and took on a third dimension.
Adolph Rosenblatt was born in New Haven, CT, 1933. He earned his BFA from Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1956. While at Yale he studied with art world luminaries Josef Albers, James Brooks, and Bernard Chaet. He was a beloved and celebrated Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for over 30 years. He had numerous solo exhibitions throughout the country, most recently “Moments & Markers”, a major retrospective exhibit at the Jewish Museum, Milwaukee. Other solo shows include exhibitions at Lill Street Gallery, Chicago; Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY; Anderson Art Museum, Kenosha, WI; Milwaukee Art Museum, Haggerty Art Museum, Marquette University Gallery of Wisconsin Art; Charles Allis Art Museum; and Peltz Gallery, all in Milwaukee, WI. His work was included in group exhibitions at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; Yale School of Design Gallery, New Haven, CT; Forum Gallery, New York, NY; Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; Los Angeles Museum of Science and Industry; Objects Gallery, Chicago, IL; Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY; Dean Jensen Gallery, and Peltz Gallery, both in Milwaukee, WI. His awards include Wisconsin Arts Board Grant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Research Award, Midwest Arts Fellowship. In 2013 he was given a Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award. His work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, Ft Wayne Museum of Art, Carlisle Museum of Art, Williamstown Museum, and Milwaukee Art Museum.

Joshua Rosenblatt, son of Adolph, often works in a series, building on a theme by drawing from life, which is later expanded and completed in his studio. His most recent works are charcoal on paper drawings that record his day-to-day life experiences. His work as Director of Collections and Exhibitions Preparation at the Whitney Museum in NYC often finds him traveling to install exhibitions throughout the US, Europe, Russia, and Asia. His travels resulted in a series of work observing people in public spaces, such as airport terminals, and another set of drawings depicting hotel room interiors. Other themes developed through observing the changing light and shadows on an exterior wall of his home over the course of several years, views from his daily commute to work, as well the view through his car window. His reflections of seemingly “mundane” places, be it from business travel, or walks through his neighborhood, celebrate the easily lost details of how light, reflections, patterns, and human gestures, create a unique mood and sense of place. Much like his father, Joshua’s drawings, ranging from big and bold to light and delicate, share a compassion for humanity in their sensitivity in depicting people, recognizing the nuance of places, and much that is overlooked in a “busy” world.
Joshua Rosenblatt earned his BFA from SUNY Purchase in 1986. Recent exhibitions include his third solo show at The RE Institute in Millerton, NY, a 2000 square foot exhibition space, where he displayed a number of large-scale drawings. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Brooklyn Cider House, The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Shim, Paper Box, Brooklyn Fireproof, Arthelix – all located in Brooklyn, NY; Charles Allis Art Museum, Gallery of Wisconsin, J.C.C. Gallery, all located in Milwaukee, WI; White Box, New York, NY; One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY; and Portland Gallery of Art, Portland, ME. He lives and works in Astoria, NY.
While we feature here the work of these two members of the Rosenblatt family, this is a family of accomplished creative poets and painters: Suzanne, Adolph’s wife, and Joshua’s mother, is a poet and visual artist; Adolph’s daughter Sarah is a poet; Eli, Joshua’s twin brother, is also a painter. The family also has close ties to Lake George, having vacationed in the region for many years.
This exhibition is funded in part by The Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Adirondack Studios, The Community Exchange Foundation, and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Adaptations to Extremes, An Art / Science Collaboration
2019-01-19 - 2019-02-22
Artist Reception – February 2nd 4:00-6:00pm
Panel Talk at Bolton Historical Museum, February 3rd at 3pm
Both events are FREE and open to the public
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 1:00-5:00pm and Saturday 12:00-4:00pm

The Lake George Arts Project has produced a 30 page hardcover book documenting the Adaptations to Extremes Project. You can view the book online HERE. If you would like to purchase a hard copy, please call us (518) 668-2616 or contact mail@lakegeorgearts.org.

Opening January 19th and running through February 22nd, 2019, the Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery will present “Adaptations to Extremes,” an Art/Science collaboration. The reception for the artists has been rescheduled for February 2nd, 4 – 6 pm. The exhibition is co-curated by Laura Von Rosk and scientists Dr. Joan Bernhard and Dr. Sam Bowser; artists include Elizabeth Albert, JoAnn Axford, Terry Conrad, Josh Dorman, Susan Heideman, Eva Henderson, Charlene Leary, Deanna Lee, Corwin Levi, Marilyn McCabe, Joy Muller-McCoola, Jeanne Noordsy, Shaun O’Boyle, Victoria Palermo, Rebecca Smith, and Kathleen Thum.
In addition to the exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, there will be a panel discussion on February 3rd, 3 PM, at the Bolton Historical Museum in Bolton Landing, NY, with writer Michael Coffey serving as moderator. A number of participating artists will join curator Laura Von Rosk and scientists Joan Bernhard and Sam Bowser to discuss the importance of Joan’s research, as well as the challenges and insights resulting from this year-long art/science dialogue, and their endeavors in artistic creations and interdisciplinary connections. Both events are FREE and open to the public.
A major theme in the biological sciences is the way in which organisms adapt to environmental extremes. The Santa Barbara Basin is a bowl-shaped geological formation off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. Limited movement of water in this depression has created an environment severely depleted of oxygen. In such a place it would be surprising to find organisms that need oxygen to live, yet scientists have documented the existence of foraminifera, a type of single-celled organism, living there in abundance. How have foraminifera adapted to an oxygen-deprived environment? For that matter, how do anyorganisms respond to living in such extreme environments? These questions fuel the research of Dr. Joan Bernhard, from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and her colleagues in their study of this natural “dead zone” in the ocean. The exhibition “Adaptations to Extremes” presents work by a group of artists engaged with the scientists involved in this research, as well as samples of their communications over the course of this ongoing project.
One group of artists explored the theme specifically using the “optics” of Dr. Bernhard’s research. These artists made new work based on correspondence with Dr. Bernhard and her colleague Sam Bowser, scientific advisor to the exhibition. They were offered access to technical reports, photographs, and the researchers’ hypotheses. One artist, Terry Conrad, was invited to accompany and assist Dr. Bernhard’s crew last spring aboard the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Robert Gordon Sproul research vessel as they sampled the sea floor in the Santa Barbara Basin.
A second group of artists — selected for the exhibition because of their interest in the biological or marine sciences – had already produced original works germane to the broad theme of adaptation.
Dr. Bowser engaged with all the artists by questioning them on their artworks using the scientific method of hypothesis testing. The resulting dialogues in both groups – artists responding to scientific research, and scientists responding to artworks – were often surprising, sometimes amusing, and always thoughtful and fascinating.
What informs both the work of science and art is a spirit of inquiry and imagination. Equally, both disciplines must embrace their sometimes perplexing results — and then dive in and ponder further.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust; Adirondack Studios; the Community Exchange Foundation; Mannix Marketing; the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; and the National Science Foundation. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 PM, Saturday 12 – 4 PM, and all other times by appointment.
Articles and info online:
Lake George Mirror: Artists and Scientists in Conversation
Terry Conrad – University of Iowa
JoAnn Axford – Ceramics Monthly
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Falling in love with foraminifera
Artists and Scientist in dialogue: Adaptations to Extremes Exhibition

Brian Cirmo
2019-03-09 - 2019-04-12 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9th, 4 – 6 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm

Often working in a series, prolific painter Brian Cirmo sources western painting, literature, popular culture, and personal memories to create his narrative paintings. His works are both poignant and humorous, intelligent and sharp-witted examinations of the “human condition, such as life and death, love and loss, evolution and creationism, comedy and tragedy, fame and anonymity, conflict and harmony, and morality and immorality.”
He explains: “I have spent the past two decades traveling throughout the country visiting museums, large cities, small towns, national parks, civil war battlefields, assassination sites, graveyards, and national monuments. I am a lifelong student of the vast profundity of American music as well as a glutton for American history, literature, western painting, film, comic strips, and cartoons; all of which have consumed my nights and days. These interests and practices are harvested and used within my process to create an intertextuality in the paintings.”
Cirmo was born in Utica, NY and completed his first two years of college at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute. He earned his B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the State University of New York at Albany. Cirmo has had multiple solo exhibitions including recent shows at the Burrell Roberts Triangle Gallery, Sinclair College in Dayton, OH; the Rice Gallery, McDaniel College in Westminster, MD; and the Wilson Art Gallery, Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. He has appeared in numerous group exhibitions in museums and galleries across the country including: Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, MA; The Hyde Collection Museum in Glens Falls, NY; Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly University in Pomona, CA; and Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA. His awards include an Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency in Granville, NY; the 2017 Mona Ruth Brickman Artist of the Year Award from Albany Center Gallery; a 2009 and 2013 Juror’s award at the Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region; and in 2009 and 2015 a University at Albany Purchase Award at the Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region Exhibition. His work is in the collections of University Art Museum in Albany; Siena College; and the College of Saint Rose.
Cirmo lives and works in Albany, NY and Syracuse, NY and is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Onondaga Community College.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust; Adirondack Studios; the Community Exchange Foundation; Mannix Marketing; the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Yura Adams
2019-05-11 - 2019-06-14 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
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Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 4 – 6 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm.
Reviews online: Get Visual
Works by Yura Adams stem from her intimate survey and imaginative observations of the natural world outside her studio window, located in the Hudson Valley of NY State. There, surrounded by overgrown fields, observing weather events and the changing light of the seasons, she creates works that are abstract, but inspired by, and rooted in, the real world. Her deep interest in the natural sciences, as well as cultural and current events, have lead to a new body of work: Fast Earth. She says: “The study of Earth is at the center here… a vision of Earth as it survives without hum
Yura Adams earned her MFA and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited nationally in many venues, such as The New Museum, Experimental Intermedia, Franklin Furnace, New Music America, all in New York City; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; and one person shows at the John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY. She has taught for many years Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson, NY. Her awards include an Individual Artist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; Two New York Decentralization Grants; the Martha Boschen Porter grant from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation; and she is a recipient of the New York Foundation of the Arts Mark program. She is currently represented by John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust; Adirondack Studios; the Community Exchange Foundation; Mannix Marketing; the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.
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World Awareness Children's Museum
2019-06-27 - 2019-07-06
Courthouse Gallery:
WACM at LGAP’s Courthouse Gallery: “ARTeX Waterscapes”
June 27 – July 6, 2019.
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 27, 4 – 6 pm.

This week-long exhibition will showcase water themed paintings from the International Youth Art Exchange at the World Awareness Children’s Museum in Glens Falls, NY. The Opening Reception takes place on Thursday, June 27, and will include a postcard project for all ages.
This event is FREE and open to the public. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. The Courthouse Gallery hours during this exhibition: Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.

Location, Location, Location
2019-07-13 - 2019-08-16 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Location, Location, Location features three distinct perspectives in landscape painting:
Joshua Brehse, inspired by the landscape and history surrounding his home in NY state’s Upper Hudson Valley, creates unique sculptural three-dimensional paintings molded from wood and encaustic paint.
Matt Chinian’s intimate, painterly and refreshingly unpretentious plein air works are inspired by both urban and rural sites near his home in Washington County, and throughout upstate New York.
Through her dramatic narrative paintings, Kellyann Monaghan, like a weather reporter with an eye on real-time current events of environmental disasters from floods to fires, records the impacts of our changing climate.
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 4 – 6 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm.
Joshua Brehse

Joshua Brehse’s recent works contain encaustic paint on hand-cut pieces of wood assembled into a variety of configurations. These three-dimensional, irregularly-shaped works range from descriptive to abstract, all rooted in landscape. He says: “Throughout my career the landscape has been my primary inspiration. For over fifteen years I have been incorporating the unique characteristics of encaustic paint (beeswax) into my work and continue to find new applications for this incredibly versatile and seductive medium. Being a lifelong resident of the Hudson River Valley, I am very much drawn to the long history of American landscape painting and see my work as part of that continuum.”
Josh Brehse earned his BFA in Painting from Boston University and MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College, Montpelier, VT. His work has been exhibited at a number of galleries throughout the Northeast region, including Gallery at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, NY; Andrea Keogh Gallery, Litchfield CT; Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY; Atwater Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY; Hudson Mohawk Regional at the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls (2013); Albany Institute of History, Albany NY; Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY; Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY; Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme CT; Vermont College, Montpelier, VT; The Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY ; Boylan Gallery, Rhinebeck; and the Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY.

Matt Chinian

Matt Chinian is a prolific landscape painter, working in oil. Matt travels throughout upstate New York seeking subjects – both urban and rural. Working quickly on site (usually less than 2 hours per painting) allows him to capture fleeting atmospheric light conditions. He says: “Like a reporter I record time and place of my wanderings around Upstate New York and New England. I find places and scenes that fascinate me: quiet woodland or gas station, farmland or industrial site, places I see in passing, sometimes from the corner of my eye often times easily overlooked. This is where I find the beauty and the sublime.”
Matt Chinian earned his BA in Sculpture and painting at Bennington College, Bennington, VT and 1988 MFA in Sculpture and Drawing at the University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany NY. His work has been exhibited at many venues throughout the region, including The Laffer Gallery Schuylerville NY; Amp Galleries, Saratoga Springs NY; Landscapes for Landsake, Coila, NY; Saratoga Springs Public Library; Folk Life Center, Crandall Library, Glens Falls, NY; Salem Art Works, Salem, NY; Saratoga Springs Visitors Center; Uncommon Grounds, Albany, NY; Goodrich Gallery, Williams College, Williamstown, MA; Munson Williams Proctor, Utica, NY; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; SUNY Albany, Albany, NY; and The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY.

Kellyann Monaghan

Kellyann Monaghan’s dramatic paintings and mono-prints are inspired by nuances of light, atmosphere and weather. Her recent works maintain a painterly directness in depicting catastrophic weather and its effect on the landscape and human made structures, evoking a sense of both anxiety and awe of natural phenomena. She says: “Stormy weather and extreme climate conditions permeating the natural landscape have become a new trajectory in my painting. The surface of the paintings erupts with textured and expressive gestural marks, which are depictions of radical weather events. The weather is instinctive inspiration for my tendencies as an alla prima (wet on wet) painter.”
Kellyann Monaghan earned her BFA in Painting from Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA and MFA in Painting, from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY. Her recent solo exhibitions include Artist of the Month, Edward Hopper Art Center, Nyack, NY; Brooklyn Landscapes, Exhibit Salon, Brooklyn, NY; Cityscapes: Rivers, Bridges and Towers, Piermont Straus Gallery, Piermont, NY; Recent French Landscapes, St. Asaph’s Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Landscapes, Earlville Opera House Gallery, Earlville, NY. Her awards include a La Muse Artist Residencyat Labastide Esparbaireneque, France; an Exhibition Grantfrom the Lower Manhattan Cultural Alliance; and a Greenwall Foundation Grantfrom Brooklyn Public Library. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Alfred Solomon Charitable Trust; Adirondack Studios; the Community Exchange Foundation; Mannix Marketing; the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.
Articles and info online:
Lake George Mirror
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SEVEN COUNT: "After the Tone"
2019-09-14 - 2019-10-19 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Running from September 14 through October 19, 2019, the Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents After the Tone, a unique multidisciplinary, improvisational, multimedia installation which will include two separate live performances created by the artist collective Seven Count: Angus McCullough, Jake Nussbaum and Adam Tinkle.
On September 14, 6.30 pm, Seven Count will play a variety of instruments (trumpet, saxophone, guitar, percussion) and a vast library of samples, taking audiences on a genre-bending improvisatory trip embedded in the immersive installation they created specifically for the Courthouse Gallery. (Lake George Arts Project Jazz Weekend fans, note that this event takes place between sets of musicians performing in nearby Shepard Park, allowing time to attend both.) There will be a closing reception on October 19, 4 – 6 pm, including a second live performance at 5 pm that is the culmination of content gathered during this 5-week exhibition. All events are FREE.
The exhibition After the Tone is expected to evolve in response to viewer participation. Adam Tinkle, Seven Count member, explains: “After the Tone is an immersive, interactive collage in multiple media: including sound installation, archival ephemera on paper and video, and a deck of cards for divination and creative strategy. The continuous soundscape projected from around the gallery offers a space for meditative reflection, while the other elements suggest new ways to listen and provide pathways for discovery and inspiration. Though disparate in form, these varied threads all emerge from the artists’ years-long process of improvised music-making, pirate radio broadcasting, collaboration with friends and strangers, and resulting development of a cosmology of sound and social interaction.”
Seven Count is Angus McCullough, Jake Nussbaum and Adam Tinkle. Its collective output to date includes two LPs of music (on Risky Forager Records), three gallery exhibitions (at Border Patrol in Portland, ME, at BUOY in Kittery, ME, and at Community Arts Phoenixville, PA), an editioned ‘zine with cassette (shown at artist book fairs across the Northeast), a sonic dinner and tea ceremony, as well as numerous live performances and radio broadcasts.

This exhibition is funded in part by the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust; Adirondack Studios; the Community Exchange Foundation; Mannix Marketing; the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.
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Ken Ragsdale
2019-11-02 - 2019-12-06 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Memory As Process RevisitedA solo exhibition of work by Ken Ragsdale
Nov 2 to Dec 6, 2019
Opening Reception: Sat, Nov 2, 4-6 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours:Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pmSat 12 – 4 pm.
Ken Ragsdale’s work is constructed from his childhood memories, particularly of camping in the Pacific Northwest, and his current reflections on the growth of America as a nation. His work creates an atmosphere of tension and anticipation generated by open space and large scale, and by ambiguous forms in incongruous spaces. In this, even the most mundane events of his past are reformed into epic visual stories.
Ragsdale says: “I try to illustrate in my work, on as many levels as I can, the callous, ironic, and indifferent manipulations related to the national belief in manifest destiny. At the same time, I want to expose and illuminate the beauty and welcoming comfort of the landscape that remains and my relationship to it.”
Ken Ragsdale’s photographic works are likewise literal constructions. He begins by making rough sketches of places and things from his past that tie to contemporary themes. These sketches become working drawings, and from these, complex schematics, which are cut out, folded, and tabbed into colorless three-dimensional forms. He then moves to the camera, using the lens to create the final image, and arranging his studio lighting to create color and atmosphere.
Exhibition reviews online:Albany Times UnionGet Visual
This exhibition is funded in part by the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust; Adirondack Studios; the Community Exchange Foundation; Mannix Marketing; the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.
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Call for Artists
2019-12-01 - 2020-01-31 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents 6 exhibitions yearly of regional, national, emerging and established contemporary visual artists in all media. Our gallery mission is to provide exhibition opportunities to emerging and professional artists, preference given to work created within the last 2 years, and to experimental or non-traditional work. We provide artists with a quality space where they can present a solid body of work in a solo or small group show.
Artists are invited to send exhibition proposals to the Courthouse Gallery. We seek proposals from professional artists and crafts-persons (those making a living, or endeavoring to make a living, through their artwork). Strong preference is given to work created within the past two years. We welcome proposals for special exhibitions, installations, mixed media presentations, and performance art. The deadline is always January 31.
To begin the process you will need the following:
1. 10 to 12 images (Formats accepted for upload: JPG, TIFF or GIF)
2. Resume/CV
3. Artist Statement/Bio
Proposals are accepted online between December 1st – January 31st.
Please follow this link to submit work for review:

Please do not email proposals, or send links to web sites.
Selection and notification is usually complete by April.

in a blue time - solo exhibition by Justin Baker
2020-01-18 - 2020-02-21 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Gallery Hours: Wed – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm
Listen HERE for Justin’s interview with NCPR’s Mitch Teich
“hand, shadow, weed and New Yorker page.” Archival inkjet print, 2018
Justin Baker’s exhibition, in a blue time, is a product of his extensive “and at times exhaustive” exploration of photography as an alchemic process and medium. In his most recent work, Baker uses long-expired slide film, but processes it as normal color film in order to introduce chance color possibilities. The color prints are then manipulated digitally, allowing for further transmutation and the ability to add elements that didn’t previously exist.
in a blue time contains three distinct bodies of Baker’s work — each answering a unique question, but all working in tandem.
A death in the family stemmed from two questions – “how can image-making be most simplified to be more direct?” and the second arising from the concurrent beginning of his fatherhood and imminent death of his own father. Critical to this body of work are the artist’s meditative thoughts on life and death and how these two aspects of life are necessary.
Exodus from Mirth (a requiem for Sara Burdock) sees Baker returning to his interest in introducing more chance into the photographic process and color.
“Frodo’s Ghost XVII” Archival inkjet print, 2019
Frodo’s ghost and other ephemera, is the culmination of experimentation with other materials and process — primarily using 3 black and white negatives plus 3 RGB filters to create color separations. This method of color photography was the first viable means to create color photographs. With this ongoing body of work the concentration has shifted more towards the experience of time, perception and illusory space.
Justin Baker grew up in Greenwich, NY. He attended Sage Jr. College of Albany for two years and studied Photography. The next two years were spent playing music and writing songs with his friends. Purchase College came next, where his artistic strides led him to Printmaking and, again Photography. In 2007 Justin received his MFA with a concentration in Combined Media at SUNY Albany. Justin teaches Digital Imaging and Web Art and Design at Hudson Valley Community College. He is also a board member of Collar Works Gallery in Troy, NY. He currently lives in Troy, NY with his wife Kyra, daughters Lola and Rona, and cats Lulu and Lilly.

The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.
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Katherine Chwazik
2020-03-07 - 2020-04-10
Opening reception March 7, 4 – 6pm.
In compliance with the public health recommendations and mandates, the Courthouse Gallery will be closed through the month of March. Please stay tuned for updates.
Please Click HERE to view a brief slideshow of Katherine’s exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery, or view same photos below.

Through combined processes of printmaking, drawing, and sculpture, Katherine Chwazik creates layered architectural imagery inspired by places in and around the Capital Region of Albany, NY. This recent work explores the meaning of home and place for herself, as well as other current and former residents of Albany County. Chwazik interviewed a number of regional residents, gathering memories and emotional impressions, visiting the homes themselves to make observational drawings.
While the drawings become the structure of a piece, the residents’ recollections guide her goal to capture the mood and experience of their homes. She says: “I use printmaking and sculpture to fluidly inform one another and to build hybrid objects. I construct spaces that reference the local and regional urban environment to evoke a sense of place. Many of the spaces I create are familiar and believable, but not factual or possible.”
One of the works in the exhibition, “Smallbany,” is a 7-foot woodblock print depicting a cityscape composite of a number of Albany’s notable buildings. She says: “The title pokes fun at the city’s nickname while simultaneously highlighting how truly monumental some parts of the city can feel.”
Katherine Chwazik earned her M.A. from The College of Saint Rose, where she also completed her dual concentration B.F.A. in Art Education and Drawing and Painting. Her work was recently exhibited at Albany’s Architecture through Artists’ Eyes, Historic Albany Foundation, Albany; Algorithms, Scarlet Seven Fine Art Gallery, Troy, NY; Tchotchke, Nine Pin, Albany, NY; Fence Select, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY; Impressive, Albany Barn, Albany, NY; and Compound Fragments, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY. Her awards include a DEC Arts Grant / Individual Artist Commission in 2018 for Memory and Observation; A Mixed-Media Study of “Home”, and a Juror’s Choice Award for BUILT, through Historic Albany Foundation, 2017.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George; the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust; 518 Profiles; Mannix Marketing; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.
Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours are temporarily suspended due to COVID-19 health emergency. Call 518-668-2616 or visit www.lakegeorgearts.org for updates.

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Lee Malerich and Michael Van Winkle
2020-05-09 - 2020-06-12 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Courthouse Gallery Virtual Exhibition + Online Event:
Sculpture by Lee Malerich and Paintings by Michael Van Winkle
May 9 – June 12, 2020
View our recorded talk with the Artists!
In place of a Gallery Reception on May 9, 2020, The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presented an online talk with exhibiting artists Lee Malerich and Michael Van Winkle. For those that were unable to tune in for the Live Talk, follow the link above, or click the photo.
*Unfortunately the recording started ten minutes in, so we are missing some footage of Lee, who went first, talking about her work.
Follow these links to a brief slideshow film about each artist and their work:
Lee Malerich
Michael Van Winkle
Follow these links to view work for sale:
Lee Malerich Checklist of works
Michael Van Winkle Checklist of works
This exhibition will be installed in the gallery, but while public health mandates related to COVID 19 are in place, the gallery will remain closed, and we will not host any receptions or meetings. We will reassess the situation as restrictions are eventually lifted, possibly allowing for pre-scheduled gallery visits for individuals, or very small groups.
Lee Malerich, “Disguise”. Recycled wooden chairs, 29 x 18 x 19 inches.
About the Artists:
Both Lee Malerich and Michael Van Winkle create works depicting or referencing the human figure. Lee Malerich considers women’s issues, and bodies, as she recycles broken wooden furniture. Michael Van Winkle’s acrylic on canvas works depict figures in contorted postures, literally pushing against the painting’s perimeters. Each in their unique way taps into shared aspects of our collective human condition.
Lee Malerich utilizes discarded chairs, reassembling them into expressive sculptures that serve as metaphors for the female body. She says: “I make Uneasy Chairs. Chairs in which one cannot sit. Each chair represents a woman – They reflect the human body without describing it. They inhabit the body’s negative space. They contain many parts of many different chairs, redesigned so they can continue to stand, after losing a bit of themselves. Imagine scar tissue, as the viewer notes the differences between a normal chair and these mixed and matched rebuilt modifications which are the poster girls of resistance. How is a woman’s composition altered when she has a baby on her hip? Or when the baby is still in utero?”
Lee Malerich earned her BFA and MFA in Fiber/Fabrics from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. Her work has been exhibited at many venues, including Columbia College; Coker College; University of South Carolina; Columbia Museum of Art (all in South Carolina); The Ormond Beach Museum, Ormond Beach, Fl; Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY; North Carolina Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC; and Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE. Her awards include three South Carolina Arts Commission fellowships in the area of Crafts, and one Regional National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She currently lives in Neeses, SC. Learn more about Lee Malerich at leemalerich.wordpress.com.
Michael Van Winkle, “In the Wet with Shards”, acrylic on canvas, 46 x 30 inches.
Michael Van Winkle’s paintings stem from a mix of observation, invention and memory. His recent paintings explore a broad tradition of representational painting and its relationship to abstraction. He says: “Dancers, explorers and amateur philosophers; the figures in my paintings and drawings are earnest and silly. They are working hard to discover meaning within the bounds of their environment. Their bodies are poised and their positions strain for purpose. However, the paintings aren’t primarily concerned with their actions or intentions, but focus on their material constraints and the painted environment they inhabit.”
Michael Van Winkle earned his BFA in Painting, with a Minor in Philosophy, from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, NY, and his MFA in Painting from State University of New York at Albany. His work was recently exhibited in solo shows at The Times Club, Iowa City, IA; ECA+ Gallery, Easthampton, MA; Historic Northampton Museum, Northampton, MA; Yates Gallery, Siena College, Loudonville, NY; The Foundry for Art, Design and Culture, Cohoes, NY; and in group shows at LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY; Collarworks Gallery, Troy NY; and Artspace, New Haven, CT. His awards include residencies at The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency in Granville, NY; Ragged Edge Print Studio, Cohoes, NY; and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. He has taught at Skidmore College, Siena College, The Doane Stuart School, SUNY Albany, and College of St Rose. He currently lives in Mechanicville, NY. Learn more about Michael Van Winkle at: www.michaelvanwinkle.com.
Artist Resume /CV:
Lee Malerich
Michael Van Winkle
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.
Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours are temporarily suspended due to COVID-19 health emergency. Call 518-668-2616 or visit www.lakegeorgearts.org for updates.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George; the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust; 518 Profiles; Mannix Marketing; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

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Jenny Kemp
2020-07-11 - 2020-08-14 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
This exhibition is installed in the gallery and available for the public to view when we re-open on July 11, 2020. The exhibition runs through August 14, 2020.
For updates on our gallery hours please call 518-668-2616, ​or ​email laura@lakegeorgarts.org.
In place of an on-site gallery reception, LGAP hosted a Live Talk with Jenny Kemp​ ​on July 11th, recorded HERE.
Shelter, gouache, 15 x 11 inches, 2020.
Wadding, gouache, 15 x 11 inches, 2020.

Jenny Kemp’s vibrant abstract paintings, drawings and animations reflect phenomena of the natural world. Biomorphic forms are created through hand-painted parallel lines that weave through space. Through pattern repetition, overlapping shapes, interactions of contrasting colors, she creates an illusion of space and movement referencing nature, biology and human experience.
She says: “This body of work is a continued concentration on line and pattern and its ability to embody conduits for trains of thought. I create rhythmic spaces where compositions begin with a revelatory moment and grow into a reactionary process in which linear marks thread, converse and evolve into breathing forms with teeming energies. Housed within significant shapes that sometimes reference personal events and musings, these become visual manifestations of discovery, habitude, and human navigation.”
Whirlwind, gouache, 15 x 11 inches, 2020.
Jenny Kemp earned her BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and MFA in Painting from the University at Albany. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the country, most recently at Gold/Scopophilia* in Montclair, NJ and the Mandeville Gallery at Union College in Schenectady, NY. She has been featured in publications such as 100 Painters of Tomorrow published by Thames & Hudson, New American Paintings, The Huffington Post, Seattle’s City Arts, New York Times, and The New England Review. Kemp is also a recipient of a 2015 NYFA fellowship in painting and the 2015 Emerging Artist Award recipient from the Art Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY. She sits on the board of Collar Works, an art space dedicated to the support of emerging and under-represented artists exhibiting challenging and culturally-relevant contemporary artworks in Troy, NY where she lives and works.
View a Checklist of works in the exhibition.
View Jenny Kemp’s video animation “In or Out.”
View a brief slideshow of Jenny Kemp works at LGAP.
View Jenny Kemp Statement.
View Jenny Kemp Resume.
View LGAP’s Talk with Jenny Kemp on July 11, 2020.
View a Short video of Jenny Kemp from PBS’s AHA! A House For Arts.

*The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. Regular gallery hours during exhibitions are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. Gallery hours may change due to the COVID-19 health emergency.
We are committed to public safety within our UpState NY community and beyond, and want everybody to stay strong, safe, and healthy!
All entering our office and gallery space will need to wear a mask and will be asked to sign in with their name and two points of contact (email, address, and/or phone number). We will provide masks for those that need one, and provide hand sanitizing stations throughout our space.
Please double check our website, facebook page, or call to check our business hours, as they may change due to NYS guidelines related to Covid-19.
If you are a group larger than 10 people, please notify the gallery 24 hours in advance of your group visit. These measures allow us time and space to prepare for physical distancing in the gallery for your safety, as well as for future visitors, and our staff.
Call us if you have any questions or concerns: 518.668.2616, or email laura@lakegeorgarts.org or tanya@lakegeorgearts.org.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George; the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust; 518 Profiles; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation, Stewart’s Shops and the Dake Family Foundations, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
thank you to our sponsors:

D. Jack Solomon
2020-09-26 - 2020-10-30 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Interlude, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 inches.
LikeWise, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 inches.
This exhibition is installed in the gallery, and available for the public to view.
We are committed to public safety within our Up-State NY community and beyond, and want everybody to stay strong, safe, and healthy.
All entering our office and gallery space will need to wear a mask and will be asked to sign in with their name and two points of contact (email, address, and/or phone number). This is strictly for NYS contact tracing.
We will admit no more than 5 people at a time in the gallery.
We will provide masks for those that need one, and provide hand sanitizing stations throughout our space. We suggest that you contact the gallery before your visit, since NYS guidelines related to Covid-19 may change. Call 518-323-5499, ​or ​email mail@lakegeorgarts.org.
In place of on-site gallery reception we presented an Online Talk with Jack Solomon​ on September 26. View the recording HERE.
Check out online review from GET VISUAL Art Blog HERE >
Jack Solomon’s vibrant paintings are a complex mix of imagery, often whimsical, with rich colors and surfaces. Working from a red undercoat creates luminous eye-popping effects where the red paint is exposed. It also serves to unify the contrasting forms weaving through the paintings intricate space. Solomon draws from many sources, including early modernism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, pop art and cartoon imagery, to name a few. But Solomon finds inspiration everywhere. He says: “There is not a day that goes by that I am not inspired by something or someone. I’m very grateful for this.” Finding inspiration from so many places has led to a prolific painting career spanning many decades.
He says: “My paintings are a condensation of sensations received through juxtapositions of shape, line and color, interpreted into a visual language. Inventing a unique structure that positions disparate elements to the whole is one of the most challenging and motivation facets of making my art. I have been intrigued throughout my creative life with the similarities among all the arts as to how component parts assembled within a specific context come to a desired gestalt. It is the organization and orchestration in musical composition that I most profoundly relate to and have been influenced by.”
Re-Encounter, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 inches.
Jack Solomon earned his B.A. from San Diego State College, and M.A. from San Francisco State College. He also served in the Underwater Demolition Team in the U.S. Navy from 1953 – 57. His work has been featured in many solo exhibitions, most recently at Gallery A, Richmond, VA; Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY; Conde Nast Gallery, New York, NY; Clement Art Gallery, Troy, NY; and Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY. His work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY; Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham NY; Cross Cotemporary, Saugerties, NY; Scarlet Seven Fine Art Gallery, Troy, NY; and Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. His works can be found in many public collections, including the Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; and Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA. His awards include grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Rensselaer County Council for the Arts; Change, Inc; and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant. Solomon has taught at many colleges and universities, including Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Brooklyn Museum School of Art, Brooklyn, NY; SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY; SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY; and 29 years at Parsons School of Design in New York, City, retiring in 2011. He currently lives and works in Hudson, NY with his wife, and fellow artist, Jeannette Fintz.
View paintings in the exhibition HERE
View Price List HERE
View short film / slide show of D. Jack Solomon paintings HERE
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. Hours during exhibitions are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.
Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours may change due to the COVID-19 health emergency. For Updates please call 518-668-2616 or email laura@lakegeorgearts.org.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George; the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust; 518 Profiles; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation, Stewart’s Shops and the Dake Family Foundations, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
thank you to our sponsors:

Steve Rosenzweig
2020-11-14 - 2020-12-18 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
“A BELLYFUL of SAWDUST”: new work by Steve Rosenzweig​
This exhibition is installed in the gallery, and available for the public to view.

We are committed to public safety within our Up-State NY community and beyond, and want everyone to stay strong, safe, and healthy. All entering our office and gallery space will need to wear a mask and will be asked to sign in with their name and two points of contact (email, address, and/or phone number). We will admit no more than 5 people at a time in the gallery, with max of 30 minute time frame. We will provide masks for those that need one, and provide hand sanitizing stations throughout our space. We suggest that you contact the gallery before your visit, since NYS guidelines related to Covid-19 may change. Call 518-323-5499, ​or ​email mail@lakegeorgarts.org.
In place of on-site gallery reception, we presented a Live Online Talk with Steve Rosenzweig​ on November 14 at 4 pm.
If you missed our that talk, check out the video below, where you can view Steve Rosenzweig and Lake George Arts Project’s Gallery Director, Laura Von Rosk, discuss Steve’s solo exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery. This walk around the gallery was filmed on November 18, 2020.

To view slideshow of work in the exhibition CLICK HERE
To view pricelist of work for sale CLICK HERE
View Steve’s interview with LOOK TV HERE

About the Artist:
Steve Rosenzweig’s materials include metal, wood, canvas, plastic, and paint. Working spontaneously, these materials are cut, bolted, burned, stretched, melted, or poured into works that are developed with no blueprint or specific plan. The pieces evolve as they are being constructed. Rosenzweig’s process relies in improvisation, essential for invention and discovery, as well as deliberation and precision, needed for constructing 3-D works on and off the wall.
He says: “Moving through the stretches that mark my time in the studio, each new series is typically prompted by a blend of specific and hazy motivators. In this latest spell, I found myself looking at Baroque still life paintings. These were of commonplace objects, both natural and man-made, and often created without a deliberate expression of allegory or symbolism… My first piece in this sculptural gambit was a simple still life – a vase of roses, carved in wood. Allowing the principle elements to remain representational, I simultaneously engaged my toolbox of bold textures, dissonant shapes and vibrant colors in an effort to find a pulse and generate some energy. This sparked another 3D still life, and then another.”
Referring to his new work in this exhibition he says: “Psychedelic, cut-out shapes and saturated matte colors became a nod to animation cels and the cartoons I loved as a kid. Kooky characters and loose gestures emerged, as if I was channeling my prepubescent self – someone who would incessantly doodle in the margins of my notebooks in school.”
Steve Rosenzweig​ ​earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from SUNY Purchase. After receiving his BFA, he moved to NYC and worked as a studio assistant to internationally recognized artist, Red Grooms. Soon after, he embarked on a decades-long stretch working as a Production Designer in the film, television and theater businesses. He has been involved in projects spanning Independent movies, Dr. Seuss-inspired children’s TV programming, to a stage production which premiered at the Salzburg Opera Festival. Rosenzweig’s work is in the collection of the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and in private collections both regionally and in Europe. Recently he was commissioned to create paintings for set decoration for ABC and Warner Brothers Television. He currently lives and works in New York State’s Hudson Valley.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. Hours during exhibitions are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.
Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours may change due to the COVID-19 health emergency. For updates please call 518-668-2616, ​or ​email laura@lakegeorgarts.org, or visit www.lakegeorgearts.org.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George; the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust; 518 Profiles; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation, Stewart’s Shops and the Dake Family Foundations, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
thank you to our sponsors:

Call for Artists
2020-12-01 - 2021-01-31 | lake george arts project, 1 Amherst Street, Lake George, 12845
Annual Call for Artists

The Lake George Arts Project invites regional, national, emerging and established artists to submit exhibition proposals to the Courthouse Gallery. Preference is given to experimental or non-traditional work created in the last two years. We welcome proposals for special exhibitions, installations, mixed media presentations, and performance art. The postmark deadline is always January 31.
We have New Guidelines for Submitting Exhibition Proposals:
To begin the process you will need the following:
1. 10 to 12 images (Formats accepted for upload: JPG, TIFF or GIF)
2. Resume/CV
3. Artist Statement/Bio
Starting December 1st through January 31st artists may follow this link to submit work for review:
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT
Please do not email proposals, or send links to web sites.
Selection and notification is usually complete by April.
If you have questions, or need more information please call LGAP at (518) 668-2616.

Susan Hoffer
2021-01-16 - 2021-02-19 | lake george arts project, 1 Amherst Street, Lake George, 12845
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents “Painted Stories”, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Susan Hoffer. The exhibition runs from January 16 – February 19, 2021. In place of on-site gallery reception, we presented an Online Artist Talk, January 16, 2021.
The exhibition will be installed in the gallery, and available for the public to view on site from January 20 to February 19, 2021. The Courthouse Gallery will be open by appointment only (with preferred 24-hour notice). We do hope to continue regular gallery hours soon. Please contact us at mail@lakegeorgearts.org or 518-323-5499 to schedule your visit!
Susan Hoffer Artist’s StatementSusan Hoffer CVThe Stories Behind the paintingsChecklist of work for saleNorth Country Public Radio Interview“Get Visual” Review of the exhibitionView “Where’s Dayna?” interview/gallery visit
About the Artist:
“Watching History Repeat”, oil on wood panel, 16 x 11 inches.
Susan Hoffer’s new work is deeply rooted in her surrounding environment, rural Upstate NY’s Adirondack Park. Her autobiographical paintings spring from her experiences and exchanges with family, friends, students and neighbors. With close attention to current events, and a keen eye for observing detail, she depicts how technology is relied on and weaved into everyday life. Her subjects are carefully staged in various interior spaces, often with dramatic lighting rendered through thick brushwork, and surrounded by objects that inform each narrative. Her compositions reveal psychological states of her subjects, her empathy for them, as well as her love of light and texture in paint.
She says: “I am interested in the experience of real or perceived isolation that is a result of geographical place and in the ways we use technology to form connections. In our digital age, new media have become a primary means of informational access for many people living in rural areas such as the Adirondack Park. In each painting, I aim to connect my subjects to their broader context, hinting at their engagement with global concerns…Those whom I meet speak of an interest to be engaged in culture and politics beyond their immediate locale; a reliance on often unreliable internet and cell towers; suspicion about how to tell which internet sources might troll or manipulate truth; and always pressure—pressure to piece together multiple jobs in order to make ends meet. It is evident, too, that there are frictions here that have resulted from acres of poverty with pockets of great wealth, and shifting and aging populations; all of this I express through ordinary objects and people, frayed cuffs and halos of light, non-traditional alignments of the pedestrian and the sublime. And through this body of work, I am becoming increasingly aware of theeasy assumptions we make about ourselves and others.”
“Saving the planet’s biodiversity – one turtle at a time – Schroon Lake, NY”, oil on wood panel, 16 x 11 inches, 2020.
Susan Hoffer​ ​earned her Bachelor in Art and Education at Molloy College and her MFA in Visual Arts / Painting at Johnson State College, Johnson, VT. Her work recently featured in solo shows at Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, NY, and group shows at Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY, The Shirt Factory, Glens Falls, NY, Butzel Gallery, Schenectady, NY, and Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Springs, NY. Her awards include grants from Essex County Arts Council Grant, a European Studies Grant from Emma Willard School, residencies at Tyrone Guthrie, Newbliss, Ireland, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, Canada and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. She was awarded First Place Award from Northwind Fine Arts Gallery, Saranac Lake, NY 2020; Juror’s Choice Award from North Country Arts, Glens Falls NY, 2020; Best of Show Award at AAG Juried Invitational, Saranac Lake, NY 2020; Best of Show, The Shirt Factory Juried Invitational, Glens Falls, NY 2020; Best of Show, LPCA Juried Invitational, Lake Placid, NY 2019; ​Mohawk-Hudson Regional Juror’s Award and a Purchase Prize from Albany Institute of History and Art in 2018. She currently lives in Jay NY and teaches at North Country Community College. You can learn more about her work at https://susanhofferart.com.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. Currently we are open by appointment only, but hope to continue regular gallery hours in February, 2021. Regular gallery hours during exhibitions are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. We suggest that you contact the gallery before your visit, since NYS guidelines related to Covid-19 may change. Call 518-323-5499, ​or ​email laura@lakegeorgarts.org.
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; Stewart’s Shops and the Dake Family Foundations, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
thank you to our sponsors:

Scott Brodie
2021-03-06 - 2021-04-09
The Waiting Part 1(d), 16″x11″, oil on canvas, 2020.
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents “The Waiting”, a solo exhibition of recent work by Scott Brodie. The exhibition will be installed in the gallery, and available for the public to view. In place of an on-site gallery reception, LGAP hosted a Live Talk with Scott Brodie on March 6th.​ You can view the Talk HERE.
View slide show of works in the exhibition HERE
View checklist of works for sale HERE
View “Where’s Dayna?” interview/gallery visit
About the Artist:
Scott Brodie has been painting what could be defined as the seemingly “ordinary” for most of his 40+ years as an artist. This exhibition will feature his most recent work, all created within the last year. They are observations of daily life, ranging from still life to landscape. Through the immediacy of his loose brush work, these deftly painted works capture the intimacy of meditative moments of observation of light and color. Depending on his subject, Brodie alternates his palette from bold saturated colors to warm soft light, accentuated with flecks of a warm ground color peeking through. Any object, such as a glass, a can, a chair, a plant, or a lawnmower, can be transformed into a celebration of painting.
Plague Spring No. 6, 14”x11”, oil on canvas, 2020.
He says: “The series titles, ‘Plague Spring,’ ‘Beached in the Backyard,’ and ‘The Waiting’ do refer to the pandemic, or more precisely to the state of existing during the pandemic, but they are open-ended and don’t dictate the subject matter… In terms of subject, there is only a tangential connection. I generally don’t favor ‘topical’ work, it tends to be newsy, literal, and has a short shelf life. But the staying-at-home and the waiting-for-it-to-pass have had an effect. For one, it got me out of the house to do some plein air work, but alas, only as far as my back yard”.

Scott Brodie earned his Bachelor of Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Master of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing from the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston. His recent exhibition include “Something” (2-Person show with Paul Mauren), Onandaga Community College Gallery, Syracuse, NY, 2020; “Affinities and Outliers”, University at Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY, 2020; “Roaring Twenties”, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY, 2020; “Holiday”, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY, 2019; “Artists of the Hudson Mohawk Region”, Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, 2019. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at Picotte Gallery, College of Saint Rose, Albany; Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; Massry Center for the Arts, Albany, NY; Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY; and Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. His awards include residencies at MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL; and a Dr. Arthur N. Collins Purchase Award from the “Artists of the Hudson-Mohawk Region”, Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY. Brodie retired from The College of Saint Rose in 2018, after 33 years as a Professor of Drawing and Painting. He currently lives in Niskayuna, NY. You can learn more about his work at https://www.scottbrodie.com.
Plague Spring No. 9, oil on canvas panel, 11″x14″ inches, 2020.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. Hours during exhibitions are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.
Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours may change due to COVID-19 public health concerns and protocols. For updates please call 518-323-5499 ​or ​email laura@lakegeorgarts.org.
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; Stewart’s Shops and the Dake Family Foundations, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
thank you to our sponsors:

"Go Home", works by Paul Akira Miyamoto
2021-05-05 - 2021-06-05
Reach, oil on canvas, 30 x 24”, 2021
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents “Go Home“, a solo exhibition of work by Paul Akira Miyamoto.
The exhibition is installed in the gallery from May 5 – June 5, 2021, and available for the public to view.
In place of an on-site gallery reception, LGAP hosted a Live Online Talk with Paul Akira Miyamoto on May 4, 2021.​ View an edited recording of the talk HERE.
Miyamoto’s grandparents came to the United States from Kumamoto, Japan, and worked as itinerant farmers throughout the central coast of California and the desert of the Imperial Valley. During WWII they, along with Paul’s parents and oldest sibling, were sent to Poston Camp in Arizona. The internment of naturalized citizens as well as Americans of Japanese descent, from 1941 to 1946, informs much of Paul’s work of late. The figures in his paintings recall the Issei, a term used for first generation Japanese Americans who emigrated from Japan, but were not eligible for U.S. citizenship. The distilled forms of field workers, often placed in landscapes drawn from his own memory, portray the strength and endurance of past family members, but could easily represent present-day immigrant farmworkers.
He says: “My paintings reflect a relationship to the geography of my past and the silent rage and emotional shame that earlier generations were never able to express. The mountains illustrate the barriers to independence, the furrows signify the possibility of regeneration, and the clear, expansive skies invite hope for the future.”
Promise, oil on canvas, 30 x 24”, 2021
Paul Akira Miyamoto earned both his Master of Fine Art and Bachelor of Fine Art degrees at Otis College of Art & Design. In addition to his studio art practice, he was a Clinical Professor of Visual Communication at RPI for more than 20 years and still maintains a graphic design practice. His recent exhibitions include: Rear View: Life Examined, Albany Public Library; Artists of the Hudson Mohawk Valley, Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; Body Language, Albany International Airport Gallery and An Armory Show, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY. His work has also been included in exhibitions at MIA Gallery, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL; Brooklyn Zen Center, Brooklyn, NY; Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, MA; Albany Center Galleries; and The Art Center for the Capital Region, Albany NY. His artwork is in the collection of the MWPI Museum of Art, Utica, NY, Utica, NY and in numerous private collections. You can learn more about his work at www.paulmiyamotoart.com.
See Miyamoto family photos, Poston Camp photo and read Paul Miyamoto’s Full Artist’s Statement HERE
View slide show of works in the exhibition HERE
View checklist of works for sale HERE
Read Lake George Mirror Article about Paul’s exhibition HERE.
Read David Brickman’s review in Get Visual HERE.
Listen to North Country Public Radio‘s interview with Paul HERE.
View Mountain Lake PBS interview HERE.
View Look TV’s recent episode of “Where’s Dayna?” HERE.
Did you know it is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month? Thank you to Kaori Otera Chen at the NY State Writers Institute for a great reading list, as well as a shout out to visit Paul Miyamoto’s exhibition.

No Home, oil on canvas, 30 x 24”, 2021
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. Our office hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. Gallery hours same, but only during exhibition dates. Visit our calendar for more information.
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; the Glen & Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours may change due to COVID-19 public health concerns and protocols. For updates please call 518-323-5499 ​or email laura@lakegeorgarts.org
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"The End of Eden", paintings by Laura Colomb
2021-07-14 - 2021-08-14
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents “The End of Eden”, a solo exhibition of paintings by Laura Colomb, July 14 – August 14, 2021.

View our Online Talk with Laura Colomb from July 14, 2021, HERE.
Read Robert Shane’s review in Whitehot Magazine HERE.

All are welcome to join us for our closing reception on August 14, 4 – 6 pm. Come meet Laura Colomb in person! All visitors will be required to wear a mask, and practice social distancing.
Laura Colomb, a native of Glens Falls, on the southern border of the Adirondack Park, has long been aware of the complex messages that weave through the desire for preservation of wild spaces. Her appreciation of the role State and National Parks play in allowing one to experience nature, especially substantially wild areas, is part of what informs her work as a painter, as well as the complicated historical records of particular places, often at odds with the natural beauty of the place.
Her most recent work focuses on sites just outside her current city of Jacksonville, FL, primarily Kingsley Plantation, Fort Caroline National Monument and the Talbot Islands State Parks. She says: “Most major natural spaces, where one can really experience raw nature, are through State and National Parks; many of which were initially protected due to their proximity to sites which contained historical significance. The density of these forests, with the ominous rustle of creatures moving next to you, but which you can’t see, create a miasma of nightmare. Yet, in the light, the greenery, and the scrub, there is a rich beauty, as if steeped in a world where time stands still, where one can still momentarily get lost in the romanticism of the natural landscape.”
Laura Colomb earned her BFA degree from the College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, a BA degree in French Studies from the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL and MFA degree at Boston University, Boston, MA. Recent exhibitions include Sensory Illusions, The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, Contemplations, Jax Makerspace, Jacksonville, FL, and an upcoming solo exhibition at Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY. Her awards include an Art Ventures grant from the Community Foundation of Northeast Florida, the Starr Fellowship from the Royal Academy of the Arts in London, UK, Best Emerging Regional Curator award from Metroland Magazine, Constantin Alajalov Scholarship and Academic scholarship from Boston University, as well as the Artist’s Award, Visual Arts scholarship and Academic Scholarship from the College of Saint Rose. She has taught at the University of North Florida, Boston University, the College of Saint Rose and SUNY Adirondack. She has been a guest critic/speaker for the Camberwell College of Art in London, UK, The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY and the Upper Hudson Valley Watercolor Society in Queensbury, NY. She has curated and organized exhibitions for various galleries including Saratoga Arts in Saratoga Springs, NY and North Main Gallery in Salem, NY. You can learn more about her work at www.lauracolomb.com.
View Checklist of paintings for sale HERE.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.
Hours during exhibitions are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; the Glen & Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

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"Nature Songs", paintings by Yeachin Tsai
2021-09-29 - 2021-10-30
The Sky Dancer, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 24 inches.
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents Nature Songs, a solo exhibition of paintings by Yeachin Tsai.
View our Online Talk with Yeachin Tsai from October 3, 2021 HERE.
View a Checklist of works in the exhibition HERE.
Read her full BIO HERE, and learn more about her work at https://www.yeachintsaifineart.com. Also, check out this wonderful video on WMHT’s AHA! A House For Arts: Calligraphy Meets Abstraction with Yeachin Tsai , and view Look TV’s recent episode of “Where’s Dayna?” HERE.
Yeachin Tsai’s art swings between the seen world of rhythmic colors and forms, and the unseen world of momentum and energies. While growing up in Taiwan, Tsai studied traditional Chinese brush painting and calligraphy, and she would later incorporate that training into her work after moving to New York. Rather than building up a painting surface, she creates a surface that soaks in paint – canvases prepared with grounds that behave like traditional rice paper, pulling the paint in.
Summer Vibes, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 56 inches.
She says: “I’ve always been intrigued by form, pattern and colors from nature. My interest may have started when I was four years old. I remember seeing the floating, shining dust particles reflecting the sunlight in the stale attic air of my family’s old house. The magic quality of nowness left an unspeakable feeling in my mind… I want to create artwork that is primordial and timeless, ancient yet modern. I wish to catch the symbolism and momentum of the flow. The materials are used to reflect the feelings and perceptions I have experienced in life – the ever changing, transient, fleeting moments of this dynamic, chaotic yet harmonious worl
Yeachin Tsai earned her BFA degree from National Taiwan Normal University, and MFA degree Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Her recent exhibitions include Blue, Gallery at 46 Green Street, Hudson, NY; Upstate Artists, The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY; All is Safely Gathered In, Spring Street Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC, Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region (2019)Exhibition, The Hyde Collection, NY, The Unusuals, Invitational, The Painting Center, Chelsea, NYC; Printmakers Open Portfolio (part of the Screenprint Biennial 2018), The Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY; Creations: Connections and Collections, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY; Article 13, The LAB at Collar Works, Troy, NY; Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Four Person Show, Scarlet Seven Fine Art Gallery, Troy, NY; and Winter Joy, a solo exhibition at Pause Gallery, Troy, New York in 2019. Her work is in numerous collections, including the Art Student League of New York and the New York Public Library.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. Our office & gallery hours during exhibition dates are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. Other dates and times we can be reached by phone or email: Contact Gallery Director Laura Von Rosk at 518-323-5499 or laura@lakegeorgearts.org. Contact Executive Director Tanya Tobias-Tomis at 518-832-0183 or tanya@lakegeorgearts.org. Visit our calendar for more information.
Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours may change due to COVID-19 public health mandates. For updates call 518-668-2616, 518-323-5499, or email laura@lakegeorgarts.org.
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; the Glen & Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
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"Parallel Play", new work by Barbara Todd
2021-11-17 - 2021-12-18
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents Parallel Play, a solo exhibition of new work by Barbara Todd.
*Please note the gallery will be closed for Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Day, Nov 25, and Friday Nov 26.
View our November 20, 2021 Online Talk with Barbara Todd HERE.
Recent article from the Albany Times Union: Less is definitely more for artist Barbara Todd
Listen to North Country Public Radio’s reporter Monica Sandreczki interview with Barbara Todd HERE
Listen to Barbara talk about her work on Look TV’s recent episode of “Where’s Dayna?”
Review of the exhibition on Get Visual: A parallel play of Parallel Plays.
View Checklist of works in the exhibition HERE.
Barbara Todd is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary artist, best known for her textile works. With a minimalist sensibility she draws inspiration from poems, her personal experience and perceptions of the everyday.
Parallel Play is the term for a stage in early childhood development, where children, playing side by side, do not interact, though they may be doing the same thing. For example, one may have a backhoe and the other may be playing with a crane, but they do not cooperate to make something. Or, if they’re at the beach they may each be building a sandcastle but they won’t build a city together.
In the context of this exhibition, three related series of works: sewn fabric drawings, large woolen quilts, and tiny linen collages, share the unique space of the Courthouse Gallery, each adhering to its own, independent, installation plan. Seen together, the works translate fleeting glimpses of color pairings into tactile reminders of place and experience, becoming an abstract archive of things noticed. Just as one day folds into another, and another, it is their accumulation that gives form to the whole.
Todd’s involvement with textiles began early. She says: “When I was seven years old my grandmother taught me how to knit. Our first project was a red mohair sweater. At about the same time another well-intentioned mentor helped me to sew clothes for my Barbie doll. It’s possible my career as an artist began then… Ever since, though I have worked with many different materials, and read and looked widely, textiles remain central to my practice. It’s the conversation between material and process and meaning that keeps me going”.
Barbara Todd earned her B.A. in fine art from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her work has been featured in major exhibitions across Canada, including her quilt series Security Blankets, which was organized by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and traveled throughout Canada from 1992 to 1995. More recent exhibitions include Sculpture – Art Textile, Biennale de sculpture de St. Jean Port-Joli, St. Jean Port-Joli, Québec; Mohawk-Hudson Regional Invitational Exhibition (2020), Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY; In Faux-Structure, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY; Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region (2019), The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; Fait-main/Hand-made, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec; Bombhead, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Home – Collar Works, Troy, NY; Interwoven, Albany Public Library, Albany, NY; Reclamation, Collar Works, Troy, NY; and Barbara Todd: Colour Play, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, QC. Her awards include grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and residencies at Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, and Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY. Her work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Canadian Museum of History. Her public commissions, include “Many Little Plans” for the St. Patrick Subway Station in Toronto, Canada and “Jardin de guérison” (Healing Garden), a one-hundred foot long colored glass mural for Sacred Heart Hospital, Montréal. She has taught in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University, Montréal, and in the Arts Department at Emma Willard School in Troy, NY. Todd lives and works in Troy, NY. You can learn more about her work at www.barbaratodd.com.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. Hours during exhibitions are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. Visit our calendar for more information.
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; the Glen & Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
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Irja Boden and Beth Humphrey
2022-07-13 - 2022-08-13
Irja Boden
Beth Humphrey

The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents “Ceramics & Collage”, a two-person exhibition of ceramics by Irja Bodén and collage, drawings and paintings by Beth Humphrey. Join us for an opening reception at the gallery for the artists on Saturday, July 16, 4 – 6 PM.
Irja Bodén’s ceramic work combines raw clay and glazes in a rich textured surface. Her series “To Dress a Ptarmigan” refers to her hometown, Kiruna (67.8558° N) in Sweden, north of the arctic circle. It is the inspiration for much of her work since 2018. She says: “The title references Kiruna, which in Sápmi means ptarmigan. The city’s center, now unstable after decades of iron mining, is being destroyed and rebuilt in a new location, to a dismaying loss. Yet, the area is also known for many things, among them spectacular shows of aurora borealis. So Kiruna exists in tension between what is above and below.”
Irja Bodén earned her BFA in painting from SUNY Potsdam, and a BA in Social Science from Lund University, Sweden. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad, including The Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY; Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY; Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020; Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; and Konstmuseet i Norr, Kiruna, Sweden. In 2022 her ceramics will be featured by the River Valley Arts Collective at The Al Held Foundation, ART + NATURE + HOME ‘22, Upstate Diary. Her awards include residencies at Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY; Mass MoCA Studios; Vermont Studio Center, and a grant from The Berkshire Taconic Foundation. She lives and works in NY’s Hudson Valley.
Beth Humphrey’s recent collage work often begins with brown paper bags as a ground, where she builds up the surface with paint, wood, and found materials. She says: “I love the expression ‘force of nature’. I think about cycles, evaporation, respiration, erosion, gentle and violent forces at a moment of change. The shape of things at moments of transformation, how forces intersect with our connection to place, our connection to our environment, both built and natural, is fascinating to me.”
Beth Humphrey earned her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art & Design, and a Certificate in Craft, Surface Design, Oregon College of Art & Craft. Recent solo exhibitions were presented at Unison Arts, New Paltz, NY and Deepdive Projects, Cleveland OH. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Ephemerally Occupied, Shaker Heritage Society, Albany NY; Pieced Together, Art at Albany Public Library with Olpalka Gallery, Albany NY; Not Just another Anthropocentric Love Story, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn NY; Rhizomatic, William Blizzard Gallery Springfield College, Springfield MA; Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Albany Institute for History & Art, Albany NY; Cut & Color, Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany NY; and Translations, Albany Center Gallery, Albany NY. Her awards include a residency at Ucross Foundation, WY, and a NYFA Mark Program Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives and works in the Catskill Mountains of NY.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm.
If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:
Laura Von Rosk, Gallery Director, 518.323.5499, laura@lakegeorgearts.org
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
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Quilting in the Age of the Pandemic
2022-09-28 - 2022-10-29
Work by MICA Quilt Raffle Group, photo credit: Andrea Dixon.

Quilting in the Age of the Pandemic: Susie Brandt and The MICA Quilt Raffle Group

The MICA Quilt Raffle Group originated in 2015 at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), founded by Fiber Art Department faculty member Susie Brandt. Brandt organized a weekly gathering of students, staff, faculty, and alumni to work together on quilts that were eventually raffled to help fund student scholarships at the college. In 2017, their group expanded to include members of the African American Quilters of Baltimore.
When the pandemic hit in March 2020, Brandt found herself teaching remotely from Lake Luzerne, NY. That May she used the tools she’d learned teaching online to reassemble the group. She posted step by step tutorials and other resources on a website, and distributed materials and tools via USPS. Members mailed finished hand-stitched quilt blocks to Brandt in Lake Luzerne, where she assembled the quilts.
For two years the MICA Raffle Quilt Group met weekly on Zoom where stitchers shared their works in progress, helpful hints, other related projects, as well as their joys and their sorrows. Word spread, and people from across the US joined, ranging in age from 10-82.
Since 2015 the number of participants has grown, as well as the project’s creative quilt work, and proceeds from their auctioned quilts have benefitted numerous organizations. Collectively 76 people made a total of 15 quilts – with two more in the works. A selection of those quilts will be shown at Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery from September 28 through October 29, 2022.
Through their determination to continue creative work as a group, the Raffle Quilt Project group continues to meet regularly.
Their work was recently featured in the Art Journal Bmore Art: Finding a Common Thread: MICA’s Quilt Club
Here is a list of the all the participants to date:
Andrea Dixon, Baltimore, MD
Ann Marie Cordner, Baltimore, MD
Anna Brackett, Baltimore, MD
Audrey Naiva, Wauwatosa, WI
Betty Racicot, Idylewylde, MD
Beverly Ahern, Kansas City, MO
Carol Frost, Baltimore, MD
Christine Manganaro, Baltimore, MD
Clare Conteh-Morgan, Wauwatosa, WI
Cole Wade, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Denise Bailey-Jones, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Leslie King Hammond, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Lowery Sims, Baltimore, MD
Drew Morse, Baltimore, MD
Ellen Burchenal, Baltimore, MD
Emma Fowler, Sacramento, CA
Erika Carruth, Columbia, MD
Finn Chlebowski, Austin, TX
Gabriel Roethe, Rockford, IL
Gladys Perkins, Aptos, CA
Glenda Richardson, Ft. Washington, MD
Hannah Moog, Baltimore, MD
Jan Stinchcomb, Abingdon, MD
Jane Khattak, Baltimore, MD
Janine D’Adamo, Baltimore, MD
Joan Freedman, Baltimore, MD
Joann (Linda) Dixon, Halethorpe, MD
Joseph Malson, Savannah, GA
Julia Racicot, Baltimore, MD
Justin Darrow, Baltimore, MD
Karen Carroll, Chester, PA
Kathy Cowan, Baltimore, MD
Katie Commodore, Providence, RI
Kenya Miles, Baltimore, MD
Kibibi Ajunku, Baltimore, MD
Kirra Barnes, York, PA
Leighann Gross, Baltimore, MD
Linah Sedeek, Towson, MD
Lowell Zelenka, Baltimore, MD
Maddie Olsen, Baltimore, MD
Mahala Mrozek, Baltimore, MD
Maia Malakoff, Baltimore, MD
Malvina D’Alterio, Baltimore, MD
Margaret D’Adamo, Baltimore, MD
Marla Parker, Baltimore, MD
Nina Bova, Stony Brook, NY
Oletha DeVane, Baltimore, MD
Omalara Williams McCalister, Dorchester, MA
Patty Gallivan, Baltimore, MD
Piper Shepard, Baltimore, MD
Rae Drotleff, Baltimore, MD
Robin King, Temple Hills, MD
Rodette Jones, Baltimore, MD
Rosa Chang, Baltimore, MD
Rosalind F Robinson, Ellicott City, MD
Ruben Reynolds, Baltimore, MD
Sanzi Kermes, Baltimore, MD
Sarah Barnes, Linthicum, MD
Sarah Black Sadler, Tallahassee, FL
Sarah Magida, Baltimore, MD
Sharone Conteh-Morgan, Wauwatosa, WI
Sophia Gentile, Canton, CT
Susan Tuberville, Baltimore, MD
Susie Brandt, Baltimore, MD
Suzanne Coley, Parkville, MD
Suzanne Hill, Towson, MD
Talia Melcer, Washington, DC
Terri Ach, Duluth, MN
Tiffany Holmes, Towson, MD
Tobyanne Suyemoto, Chestnut Hill, MA
Ursula Populoh, Baltimore, MD
Valeska Populoh, Baltimore, MD
Vanessa Perrigo, Baltimore, MD
Will Grimm, Cleveland, OH
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm.
If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:
Laura Von Rosk, Gallery Director, 518.323.5499, laura@lakegeorgearts.org
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
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Jeremy Dennis
2022-11-16 - 2022-12-17
Through digital photography and various cinematic tools, artist Jeremy Dennis — a tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY — examines indigenous identity, cultural assimilation, and the ancestral traditional practices of the Shinnecock People. His unique experience of living on a sovereign Indian reservation, combined with extensive research of archaeological and anthropological records, oral stories, and newspaper archives, allows him to trace issues that plague his, and other indigenous communities, back to their source. Jeremy’s photographs of staged scenes are not without humor, but tackle serious and urgent issues, aimed to recount and honor the Shinnecock’s 10,000-plus years’ presence in Long Island, NY, and to document their resilience, and struggle to maintain autonomy.
He says: “Digital photography lets me create cinematic images. Nowhere have indigenous people been more poorly misrepresented than in American movies. My images question and disrupt the post-colonial narrative that dominates in film and media and results in damaging stereotypes, such as the “noble savage” depictions in Disney’s Pocahontas. As racial divisions and tensions reach a nationwide fever pitch, it’s more important to me than ever to offer a complex and compelling representation of indigenous people.” Despite four hundred years of colonization, we remain anchored to our land by our ancient stories. The indigenous mythology that influences my photography grants me access to the minds of my ancestors, including the value they placed on our sacred lands. By outfitting and arranging models to depict those myths, I strive to continue my ancestors’ tradition of storytelling and showcase the sanctity of our land, elevating its worth beyond a prize for the highest bidder.”
Jeremy Dennis earned his BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, and MFA from Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. His recent solo exhibitions include Shinnecock Sites and Portraits: Photographs by Jeremy Dennis, Hope Horn Gallery, Scranton, PA; Indigenous Lands, Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, NY; Moving Through Land, Gallery North, Setauket, NY; Having Never Left, Keyes Fine Art, Sag Harbor, NY; On This Site: The Shinnecock Sites, Hampton Library in Bridgehampton, Bridgehampton, NY; Jeremy Dennis – On View, Bartow Pell Mansion Museum, Bronx, NY; The Photographic Works of Jeremy Dennis, Amagansett Public Library, Amagansett, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Cycles of Nature, Hudson River Museum, Hudson, NY; Future Return, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, PA; Speaking With Light, Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX. His awards include many Artist Residency Fellowships: Smoke Sygnals Indigenous Residency, Modern House Trust, Wellfleet, MA; Light Work, Syracuse, NY; Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY; Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY; Saltonstall, Ithaca, NY; and the Vermont Studio Center hosted by the Harpo Foundation, Johnson, VT. His awards also include grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation; Getty Images Creative Bursar Award; and the Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators from the online art journal Hyperallergic. His work is in the collections of the Heckscher Museum of Art; Hudson River Museum; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Parish Art Museum; New York State Museum; and Center for Photography at Woodstock. Dennis is the leader of Ma’s House and BIPOC Art Studio Inc., a communal art space and residency program he founded in 2020 on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation, where he was raised and currently lives.
You can learn more about his work at his website: http://www.jeremynative.com,as well as these other online links:WNET – All Arts: Jeremy Dennis on Building Ma’s House & BIPOC Art StudioTupelo Quarterly: ON USING CINEMA’S TOOLS TO REDIRECT CURIOSITYInterview with Heather Sellers: Seven Questions for Jeremy Dennis, PhotographerKeyes Art: JEREMY DENNIS.
Contact:June Waters, Director of Exhibtions, june@lakegeorgearts.orgTanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust; and LGAP members.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm.
If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:June Watrs, Director of Exhibtions, june@lakegeorgearts.orgTanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

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ORT Project - Oona Nelson & Anna Noelle Rockwell
2023-01-25 - 2023-02-25
Ort Project is the collaborative union of artists Oona Nelson and Anna Noelle Rockwell, whose lush installations and photographs explore and critique aspects of consumption, abundance and decay. Within their work Ort Project blends the influence of art history, the contemporary cult of convenience and abundance, along with current corresponding environmental threats and distorted value systems, into uncommon balances of the grotesque and the beautiful. They explain: “Inspired by 17th century ‘vanitas’ paintings from The Netherlands, ORT Project turns this antique style of painting into a contemporary sculptural tableau vivant that re-contextualizes the macabre nature of the genre. Continuing the focus on themes of temporality and impermanence – and employing symbolic objects designed to remind the viewer of their mortality – ORT Project pushes the concept of the historical vanitas through a contemporary prism to expose the vanity and vulnerability of our corporeal world.”
Oona Nelson earned her BFA in Film Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute, and MFA in New Genres from the Chicago Art Institute. Anna Noelle Rockwel earned her BA in Cultural Anthropology and Fine Art from Bennington College, Vermont, and also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, CA and Parsons School of Design, NY. Ort Project’s recent exhibitions include “Still Life”, John B. Aird Gallery, Ontario, Canada; “Reclaim Award”, billboards, Cologne, Germany; “Fence Select”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY in 2020 and 2021; “7 Deadly Sins”, Artless Bastard Gallery, West De Pere, WI; and “Memory and Perception”, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA. Ort Project’s awards include a 2022 residency from IASPIS, Stockholm Sweden; a Purchase Prize Award from Albany Institute of History and Art from the 2022 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region at the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; a Critical Forum Fellowship from the Arts Center for the Capital Region, Troy, NY; and inclusion in the juried exhibition and fine art Photography book “Food ~ The Aftermath” at Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. Learn more about their work at www.ortproject.com
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse Building, located on the corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm.
Contact:
June Waters Director of Exhibtuions
june@lakegeorgearts.org
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director,
518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org

This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust; and LGAP members.
https://www.ortproject.com
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

“Here and There”, a solo exhibition of paintings by Kathryn Lynch
2023-03-15 - 2023-04-15
Please join us for a gallery reception on March 18, 4 – 6 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Kathryn Lynch’s paintings draw from a variety of subjects, often daily encounters that range from NY’s Hudson Valley landscape, NYC cityscapes, New England seascapes, and sometimes dogs, people, flowers, and even tug boats. Her paintings are not “plein air”, or observed from direct observation, but capture what is caught in the periphery, or peripheral vision – a sense form, light, and atmosphere. The simplicity of forms, and direct, yet seemingly loose strokes in her paint handling, become distilled records of passing moments. She says: “I am not painting a specific place, I’m painting a specific mood and feeling about a place.” … “because when I leave a place it’s still with me—I keep painting it.”
Kathryn Lynch earned her BA from William Smith College, and her MFA from University of Pennsylvania. She also studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her recent solo shows include City Grit, Sears-Peyton Gallery, NYC; Restless Nights, Private Public Gallery, Hudson NY; Between the Streets, Turn Gallery, Palour Room, NYC; Islands, The Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Far Away Home, Sears-Peyton, Gallery, NYC; Hot Days and Nights, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY. Her awards include a 2018 NYSCA/ NYFA Artist Fellowship in painting, and residencies at Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Foundation Valparaiso and the Millay Colony. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Art News, the online contemporary art magazine Two Coats of Paint and Guernica Magazine, among other publications. Her work is in public and corporate collections such as the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson and others.

Online Articles:Two Coats of PaintGUERNICA a magazine of art & politicsYou can learn more about her work at https://www.kathrynlynch.com.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:Laura Von Rosk, Gallery Director, 518.323.5499, laura@lakegeorgearts.orgTanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, 518 Profiles Magazine, the Glenn & Carol Pearsall Foundation, the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

"Seeing Through Times", a solo exhibition of paintings by Martin Weinstein
2023-05-03 - 2023-06-03
Artist’s Gallery Reception: Saturday, May 6, 4 – 6 pm.
Online Artist Talk: Thursday, May 11 @ 6 pm.
Direct Zoom link HERE.
These events are free and open to the public.
For a time, Martin Weinstein was an abstract painter, until he came to a point of transition while searching for ways of painting that would satisfy his love of the visible world. This search gradually led him to a technique of painting on layered interlocking sheets of clear acrylic panels. Through this process a single work is composed of several distinct painted views of the same location at different times, often a combination of different lighting related to distinct weather or seasonal changes. His unique approach captures the essence and experience of a place, often the landscape near his home in NY’s Hudson Valley, revealing a deep connection with its history, personal memories, as well as the joy of observing the natural world.
He says: “These sheets enable me to juxtapose elements of visual material either in discrete layers, or more intuitively so that passages float upward toward the surface, influencing successive layers of paint. The layers are painted on different days, months or even years so that the paintings become an investigation of time and memory as well as a diary of acts of perception”.
Martin Weinstein’s work was presented in recent solo exhibitions at Pearl Fincher Art Museum, Houston, TX; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings SD; Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, AL; The Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN; Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY; Goddard Center for Visual Arts, Ardmore, OK; and Westfield Athenaeum, Westfield, MA. Recent group exhibitions include Refracture: Visual Realignment. Lichtundfire, New York, NY; Forest Bathing. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY ; LandX Red Fox Contemporary Art, Pound Ridge, NY; In Conversation, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, New York, NY; Water Works, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY; and Pattern, Power, Chaos and Quiet Housatonic Museum of Art. Bridgeport, CT. Learn more about his work at www.martinweinstein.com.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse Building, located on the corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY.
Gallery hours during scheduled exhibition dates are Wed through Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm, or by appointment.
Contact:
Laura Von Rosk, Gallery Director, 518.323.5499, laura@lakegeorgearts.org

This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, 518 Profiles Magazine, the Glenn & Carol Pearsall Foundation, the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

“Clusters,” a solo exhibition of new work by Paul Mauren
2023-07-12 - 2023-08-12
Artist’s Gallery Reception:Saturday, July 15, 4 – 6 pm
Online Artist Talk:DATE TBA
Sunday ArtsSunday, August 6, 2023 1:00 PMGallery visit and maker space for all ages

About the WorkPaul Mauren’s unique sculptural works stem from observations and memories of the natural world, melded with an improvisational approach in combining various shapes, materials, and imagery. His elegant, gestural works are the product of a well-established personal studio practice, as well as working as an educator for many years. His craftsmanship and technical ingenuity allow him to build from an agglomeration of natural and human-made materials in intriguing, and often unexpected ways.
Mauren states: “Conceptual strategies, improvised construction methods, and structural inventions drive my sculptural ideas and processes. Important influences for my work derive from observing the endless diversity of unembellished winter-woodland ecosystems. I am not interested in illustrating landscape. Instead, I prefer to explore a broad range of compatible and disparate relationships that offer promise and resistance, opening opportunities to engage in the discovery of freshly animated forms. This leads to unexpected revelations infused with history and disjointed conclusions.”
About the ArtistPaul Mauren earned his BFA and MFA at Eastern Michigan University. During the early 1980s, he served as Master Teacher of Sculpture at The New York State Summer School for the Arts, sponsored by the New York State Education Department and the State University of New York at Fredonia. He was a Professor of Art at The Center for Art and Design, the College of Saint Rose for 40 years, where he taught undergraduate and graduate sculpture since 1978. Paul is an alumni residency artist at Sculpture Space, Inc. in Utica, NY, and he recently participated in the Salem-to-Salem artist residency program at Salem Art Works in Salem, NY.
Mauren’s recent exhibitions include “Rebound”, Five New York State Artists, Sandy Hills Arts Center, Hudson Falls, NY, Curated by Dan Cameron. “Force”, curated by Pearl Cafritz at the Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, and “Something”, Mauren Sculpture / Brodie Painting, a two-person exhibition at the Onondaga Community College gallery, Syracuse, NY. He has exhibited widely, with exhibitions in New York State at Albany Center Gallery, Albany; Art/Omi, Ghent; Jamaica Art Center, Queens; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany; Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany; Sculpture Center, New York City; Hudson Valley Community College, Troy; Queens College, Queens; Hartwick College, Oneonta; Union College, Schenectady; Opalka Gallery, Sage Colleges, Albany; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica. His work has also been included in exhibitions at Williams College, Williamstown, MA; Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT; Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge, MA; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH.
