Lake George Arts Project

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.

thank you to our sponsors:

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!

thank you to our sponsors:

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!
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"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.

A Conversation With the Artist: Paul Mauren
2023-07-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
A Conversation with the Artist:Clusters, New Work by Paul MaurenWednesday, July 26 at 7pmZOOM LINKPaul’s Mauren’s craftsmanship and technical ingenuity allow him to build from an agglomeration of natural and human-made materials in intriguing, and often unexpected ways. Join our conversation with Paul to hear about his work, his technique for creating his unique sculptures and his creative process.

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.

LGAP at the Library: Jazzy Preschool Story and Art Time!
2023-08-31 10:30 - 12:00 | The Caldwell Lake George Library, 336 Canada St, Lake George, New York, 12845
LGAP at the Library:
Hear a jazzy story and make a (quiet) musical instrument of your own!
Visit the Courthouse Gallery at 1 Lower Amherst Street during gallery hours to seeJazz at the Lake: A Graphic Design Retrospective and enjoy a visual scavenger hunt!
GALLERY HOURS:WED – FRI 12:00 – 5:00 PM, SAT 12:00 – 4:00 PMSUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 1:00 – 4:00SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 12:00 – 5:00
Contact June@lakegeorgearts.org for more information

Hanna Washburn
2023-10-07 - 2023-11-10
About the Work
Hanna Washburn builds sculptures from recycled clothing and textiles, furniture, household items, and other materials that have former utilities and associations. She sews by hand and works intuitively, allowing the forms to grow organically into complex aggregates of color, pattern, and texture. The resulting sculptures gradually emerge as anthropomorphic and bodily: they droop, gesture, and hold space. Washburn’s work visualizes the patchwork of identity-forming and the complex joy of existing inside a body.
Jog your Memory is about the colors, patterns, forms, and gestures that remind you of something. Sometimes those connections are strong and vibrant; sometimes they are fuzzy or choppy. Washburn uses the materials of everyday life to build up sculptures with distinct personalities. Washburn will occasionally incorporate the literal object or material from her past—or, if she no longer has the thing, will recreate the specific pattern or item in her own hand.
Jog Your Memory also marks the first time Washburn has displayed several of her hanging sculptures together, a relatively new part of her practice. The hanging sculptures occupy the space of suspended items found in the home: hanging planters, light fixtures, and chandeliers. They are inspired in particular by her great grandmother’s front porch—a place Washburn remembers as sunlit and filled with many delightful hanging objects: flowers and bird cages and other intriguing things. Washburn’s hanging sculptures also serve the purpose of occupying the space between the floor, the wall, and the ceiling, interrupting the exhibition and interrupting your thoughts. Washburn thinks of them as representing the way a memory can stop you in your tracks.
About the Artist
Hanna Washburn is an artist and curator based in Beacon, New York. Washburn’s work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Cult Bytes, and the Femme Art Review. Exhibition venues include SPRING/BREAK Art Fair (New York, NY), the Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY), NADA Art Fair (New York, NY), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Munson (Utica, NY), Sotheby’s Institute of Art (New York, NY), and Rice University (Houston, TX). Washburn has held artist residences at organizations including Haystack Mountain School (2023), Monson Arts (2020), Vermont Studio Center (2019), the Textile Arts Center (2018), and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Colony (2018).
Washburn received her MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts in 2018, and her BA in Fine Art and English Literature from Kenyon College in 2014. She currently works in the Curatorial Department at Storm King Art Center.
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:
This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

Click here for Hanna Washburn - Studio Spotlight Video

Jeff Wigman Excelsior
2023-11-15 - 2023-12-16 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Click Here to read the Times Union review of Excelsior: New Oils by Jeff Wigman

Artist’s Gallery Reception:Saturday, November 18, 20234:00 – 6:00 PM
Sunday ArtsSunday, November 19, 2023Gallery open 1:00 – 4:00PMGallery visit and maker space for all ages
A Conversation with the Artist:Friday, December 1, 20237:00 PMJeff Wigman: Excelsior – New OilsJoin Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89768965189Meeting ID: 897 6896 5189

Artist’s Statement
Painting is where internal and external experience mix. It’s a way to process and relate to the world, like conversing with a person or chewing food. My first response to an idea or event is to interpret it, to make it something I can see. A phrase like “drunken centaur,” doesn’t go far on its own, but by turning it over this way and that, finding forms for invisible notions, and inviting in accident and precedent, painting becomes a space of illumination. It’s a way to get past words. In the open space of the page, metaphors popup like sudden jokes, fully formed and emblematic. Imagination here isn’t about escape or fancy; it’s a matter of engaging the mind’s eye as the primary interpretive tool.
I use oil paints, often making my own. It’s mesmerizing stuff that takes on endless qualities. It mixes so easily with the eye, ready to become something, making suggestions as if it has its own desires. Looking closely into it shows something of the mystery of substance and representation altogether, of how the material world conspires with perception, mind, and knowledge to make up our experience. I pay attention to the vitality of the paint layers and the movement of the surface. There are moments like “ah, I’ve seen that in so and so”—passages of paint that share in a lineage.
I paint with a range of historical approaches not to mimic a look, but as a practice. There’s wisdom in method and material. There’s richness. Technical investigation sheds light on and expands the creative process beyond notions of a verisimilitude or style. Painting is an outlook. Rather than just dressing up the ancients in modern clothes, I see these processes as incisive analytical tools, like finding an old hand-ground lens that still magnifies whatever it’s placed in front of.
Bio
Jeff Wigman has shown regularly since moving his studio upstate in 2006. His work has been exhibited in venues such as The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY; Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati,OH; Bowery Gallery, Manhattan; Good Naked Gallery, Brooklyn; and Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Austria. Jeff earned a BFA in painting and sculpture from Parsons School of Design in 1992. He grew up in southern Ohio and lives and works in Troy, New York.

The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse,corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streetsin Lake George, NY.
During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours areWednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm& Saturdays 12 – 4 pm.
If you would like to visit exhibitions outside of Gallery hours or request a tour for a group, please contact June Waters, Director of Exhibitions (contact information below)
If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through email:
June Waters, Director of Exhibitions, june@lakegeorgearts.org
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org

THANK YOU!This exhibition is funded in part by the Town of Lake George, the Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, the Glenn & Carol Pearsall Foundation, the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Anonymous, and Lake George Arts Project Members. Please Join us today!
We would also like to thank our Media Sponsor: 518 Profiles

John McGiff: Painting as Vision
2024-03-16 11:00 - 2024-04-13 16:00
Artist’s Statement
I am naturally inclined towards making groups of images, exploring a central idea and evolving a language of gesture, color and design that best expresses the interests that grow from this meditation, often over the span of years.
A recent series, for example, is based on the palette and design patterns of Indian Ragamala paintings and involve using Indian block printing and gouache. The theme is the house as a repository of personal and historical memory, as well as a metaphor for the self. The compositions have moved from the exterior of these “Rag” houses to their inhabited interiors, the figures almost hermetic in their solitary pursuits, which hint at pursuits of self-knowledge.
The Icarus Unbound paintings that follow dramatize how these interior monologues might unfold, rewriting this Greek myth to suit the process. This suite of 6 paintings also mirror a three year therapeutic process with a Jungian Analyst in which I became aware of my path on The Hero’s Journey. Icarus is given a second chance to learn to fly and he does it with the agency of the Divine Feminine, with whom he ultimately finds union.
All of the paintings I make are in some fashion self-portraits and because the themes are common to us all, they touch on broader archetypal experiences that go beyond my own personal reflections.

Bio
I have been a painter and a teacher for over forty years and have exhibited my work in many different venues across the Mid Atlantic. I have recently relocated to the Hudson River Valley from Delaware, where I was Chair of the Arts Department at an Independent Boarding school for 20+ years.
I am currently teaching art history for Vassar’s Life Long Learning Institute and developing a series of paintings reinterpreting Classic Greek mythological tales. My reimagining of the Icarus story is travelling to 3 separate galleries this year, including the Lake George Arts Project. I live with my wife, Elizabeth, a ceramicist, and dog, Bear, in Dutchess County. My Daughter, Olivia, is an illustrator in NYC and son, Aidan, is a builder and sculptor who lives nearby.

Click here for recorded Zoom Conversation with John McGiff

Thank you to our exhibition sponsors!

Images: Top: Icarus Awakes in the Garden, Gouache, 36″ x 48″ Above: The Serenade, 2021,Gouache, 30” x 38”

Cadence Giersbach: Through the Summer Garden
2024-07-10 12:00 - 2024-08-11 16:00
SPECIAL EXHIBITION RELATED EVENTS

Constellation, 2022, Glazed Porcelain, 15 x 9 x 8 in

ARTIST’S RECEPTION
Saturday, July 13th4:00 – 6:00 PM
Artist Talk at 5:00 PM
Join LGAP staff, the artist and friends to celebrate the work of Cadence Giersbach – free and open to all

ZOOM CONVERSATION
WITH CADENCE GIERSBACH
Wednesday, July 17th7:00 -8:00 PM
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SUNDAY ARTS
Sunday, August 11th12:00 – 4:00 PM
Gallery tour and art-making opportunity for ALL ages Free of charge

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Through the Summer Garden...

STATEMENT
Drawing inspiration from my garden in upstate New York, I create painted paper-pulp sculptures and fabric paintings. I am fascinated by the world encapsulated in the small piece of earth surrounding my home—its textures, shapes, and gestures—and the sensations and memories it evokes. As I dig the soil, lift stones, and plant seeds, I am a participant and an observer, keenly aware of the shifting ecology around me. I combine abstract, symbolic, and figurative references to living things and geological formations with ancient archetypes like spirals, snakes, and stars to create layers of association and explore our complex relationship with the natural world. For instance, a series of sewn kite-shaped paintings alludes to the sensation of being grounded on the earth while looking upward, connected to the sky. Paintings are not stretched or primed, so their surfaces undulate, while the sculptures’ textures are rough and jagged, reminiscent of a mountain range, or smooth like a boulder. Paint often drips and flows like streams in the landscape. Color is heightened or used symbolically, and shapes are exaggerated to portray the garden as a place of memory, sensation, and thought. My intention is to animate the work and coax it into expressing the story it contains. With each piece, I strive to elicit visceral emotions that connect us to the earth and sky and inspire curiosity, empathy, and care. The garden is a metaphor for life’s beauty, intensity, and fragility.

BIOGRAPHY
Inspired by the materiality of the natural landscape, Cadence Giersbach (b. 1966, New York, NY) creates abstract paintings and sculptures. Giersbach earned a BA from Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY); an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ); and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, ME). The artist has participated in exhibitions at P.S.122 Gallery (New York, NY); White Columns (New York, NY); Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill (Bronx, NY); P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art (Queens, NY); Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City, Mexico); Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY); Galerie Faurschou (Copenhagen, Denmark); Kunsthalle Nürnberg (Nürnberg, Germany); Roebling Hall (Brooklyn, NY); Venetia Kapernekas Fine Arts (New York, NY); Deitch Projects (New York, NY); among others.

...Cadence Giersbach

She is a recipient of awards and fellowships, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting. Residencies include P.S. 122 Studio Program, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, Cité Internationale des Arts, and Nordisk Kunstnarsenter. Gierbah’s work has been commissioned by Arts for Transit, MTA (Brooklyn, NY), the Town of Montclair (Montclair, NY), Percent for Art (Queens, NY), the Palladium Co. (West Palm Beach, FL), and is in the public collections of the Albright-Knnos (Buffalo, NY), Harvard Business School (Boston, MA), and the RISD Museum (Providence, RI). Giersbach lives in New York, NY, and in Sullivan County, NY.

Images:Mirror with Snakes, 2022, Flashe and acrylic on instant paper mache, aluminum, mirror, 23 x 29 x 15 in.
There is a Snake in the Garden, 2022, Acrylic and flashe on sewn muslin, 57 x 38 inConstellation, 2022, Glazed Porcelain, 15 x 9 x 8 inRooster, 2021, Acrylic and flashe on sewn muslin, 70 x 50 in

Courthouse Gallery 1 Lower Amherst Street Lake George, NY 12845 518-668-2616
Hours: Wednesday – Friday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM Saturday: 12:00 – 4:00 PMSundays July 14th, 21st, 28th and August 4th and 11th 12:00 – 4:00 PM
For exhibition information or to schedule a visit outside of gallery hours please contactJune Waters, Director of Exhibitions june@lakegeorgearts.org 518-668-2616
Thank you to our exhibition sponsors!

Courthouse Gallery 1 Lower Amherst Street Lake George, NY 12845 518-668-2616
Hours: Wednesday – Friday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM Saturday: 12:00 – 4:00 PMSundays July 14th, 21st, 28th and August 4th and 11th 12:00 – 4:00 PM
For exhibition information or to schedule a visit outside of gallery hours please contactJune Waters, Director of Exhibitions june@lakegeorgearts.org 518-668-2616
Thank you to our exhibition sponsors!

Synesthesia: Seeing Sound
2024-08-28 12:00 - 2024-09-15 17:00
Wednesday, August 28 –Sunday, September 15thin the Courthouse Gallery
Organized in conjunction with the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Jazz at the Lake Festival, September 13th, 14th, and 15th, this juried exhibition showcases artists’ visual interpretations of natural sound and music.

Closing Day Artists’ ReceptionSunday, September 15th12:00 – 5:00
Visit the gallery during the final day of Jazz at the Lake. Meet the artists, enjoy light refreshments, and try some synesthesia drawing!

Stephen Tyson, Classical Groove: for AdB, 2004, charcoal

Image: Jeff De Luca, Looking Up, 2021, colored pencil and acrylic

Learn more about Jazz at the Lake

Participating Artists
Tiina Bockrath, Seth Butler, Liz Coleman, Robert Coppola,Jeff DeLuca, Laura Frare, Kyra Garrigue, Gail Gelburd, Mike Glier,Jenny Hutchinson, Nicholas Kopp, Kevin Larmon, David Levine, Christine Levy,Kris Moss, Joy Muller-McCoola, Victoria Palermo, Leslie Parke,Gretchen Saam, Russell Serrianne, Terry Teitelbaum,Adam Tinkle, Stephen Tyson, Ann Womack

The Courthouse Gallery1 Lower Amherst StreetLake George, NY 12845518-668-2616

Hours:Wednesday – Friday: 12:00 – 5:00 PMSaturday: 12:00 – 4:00 PMSelect Sundays: 12:00 – 4:00 PM

For exhibition information or to schedule a visit outside of gallery hours please contact June Waters, Director of Exhibitions – june@lakegeorgearts.org or 518-668-2616

THANK YOU!This exhibition is funded in part by the Town of Lake George, the Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Anonymous, and Lake George Arts Project Members and donors.
We would also like to thank our Media Sponsors: 518 Profiles & Look TV Media

Ario Elami: Numinous Altars
2025-03-12 12:00 - 2025-04-12 17:00
Ario Elami: Numinous Altars
March 12 through April 12, 2025
Artist’s ReceptionSaturday, March 22nd4:00 – 6:00 PM
Numinous: Something mysterious, supernatural, spiritual, awe-inspiring, and perhaps holy.
Altar: A table, as in early forms of architecture, used as the focus for a religious ritual, often for making offerings to a deity.

Bio
Ario Elami, is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts’ MFA program through Tufts University, a composer, author, and artist whose work explores architecture as the tension between human design and nature. Claiming dual citizenship as an Iranian and North American, he has spent much of his life on the east coast and in Michigan.
Elami works exclusively on paper in an often limited palette, with the resulting works resembling prints or bookplates. They appear to be timeless, as if found from a remote past in a secret library. Each piece resembles the type of anthropological or archeological drawings made to document temples, palaces, sacrificial sites, or necropolises found in jungles, and not fully understood by their discoverers. Elami, in depicting undefined architectural sites of relics or ruins, allows us to dream of uses both sacred and profane; to explore the tension between human design and nature on the verge of reclaiming its primacy. Elami’s latest art has developed in tandem with an understanding of the earliest architecture as numinous altars, and a perception of nature as a roiling mass of aggressive life, perpetuating itself through overabundance. In this vision, architecture manifested out of violent, spiritual rituals, externalizing what is internal. Elami sees architecture, revitalized with its primitive and mythopoeic qualities, as a portal back to a cosmos overflowing with meaning and mystery.

LEARN MORE ABOUT ARIO ELAMI'S WORK

Images from top
World Machine III, Colored Pencil, pen and watercolor on paperWorld Machine II, Colored Pencil, pen, and watercolor on paperTemple to a Fungal Spirit, Colored pencil, pen, and watercolor on paper

Courthouse Gallery
1 Lower Amherst StreetLake George, NY 12845518-668-2616
Hours: Wednesday – Friday: 12:00 – 5:00 PMSaturday: 12:00 – 4:00 PMSundays: 12:00 – 4:00 PM (June – September)Select Sundays Monthly (October – May)
Or give us a call if you are in town. There is a good chance we are in the office and would love to open our doors for you!
For exhibition information or to schedule a visit outside of gallery hours please contact:
June WatersDirector of Exhibitionsjune@lakegeorgearts.org or 518-668-2616

THANK YOU!

Throughout the year, we offer 17 exhibitions of work by emerging and established artists in our Courthouse Gallery and in partner locations throughout Lake George.
We are able to do this because of the support of our sponsors and LGAP members.

This program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Talent Unlimited 2025
2025-04-26 - 2025-05-04 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Talent Unlimited 2025
April 26 through May 4, 2025
The Lake George Arts Project is proud to showcase the incredible work of local students in grades 7–12 whose writing and artwork were selected for publication in the Talent Unlimited Journal, a student literary and art magazine published by BOCES.

ABOUT TALENT UNLIMITED

How would you create imagery or writing that expresses your interpretation of the word “Perspective?”
That is the theme of the 40th annual Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal. Students in grades 7 – 12 were inspired by this theme to create thoughtful and imaginative paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media, and graphic design pieces and to write compelling essays, poems and stories and submitted their best work to be considered for publication. The art and writing, 50 pieces in each category, were chosen by juries of professional artists and writers.
The Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal is published by the Enrichment Resource Center at the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES. It provides young artists and writers with the opportunity to have their art seen and their writing read while participating in a selection process that mirrors the professional worlds of art and publishing.
The Talent Unlimited 2025 exhibition in the Courthouse Gallery features over 40 pieces of the published students’ original artwork.

Images:Top: Cover Art by Charlotte MeasekAbove: Night Routine by Hailey Hamm

COMPLIMENTARY PROGRAMS

Saturday, April 26, 2025Artists’ Reception
1pm – 3pmCome celebrate the talent, imagination, and hard work of these young artists and writers. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!

Sunday, April 27thSunday Arts
Drop-in between 1pm-4pm for agallery tour and art-making opportunity!
All ages and abilities welcome!Free of Charge.
