Lake George Arts Project

Still, a solo exhibition of work by Sarah Sweeney
2017-01-28 - 2017-03-03 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
January 28 – March 3, 2017
Curated by Rachel Seligman, Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College.
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 28, 4 – 6 pm
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm

In her work, Sarah Sweeney explores the space between information that is stored in our memory and the information that is captured by documentary technologies, such as cameras, phones, stereoscopic images and home videos. She explains: “When a photograph is taken, or a voice is recorded, or a video is captured, there is a duplication that occurs. One is a memory stored internally by the body to be reconstituted later, while the other takes a physical form and enters into the archive of memory objects. It is the relationship between the two forms – one living and malleable, the other rigid and enduring – that my work takes as its subject.”
Still, Sarah Sweeney’s recent series of work, comprises large scale archival pigment prints and animations created from video footage and photographs captured at different sites in Iceland. Each work is constructed from dozens of images of the landscape combined with images of tourists taken at the same location. Sweeney digitally repositions bodies like theatrical props or mannequins among the the waterfalls, glaciers, and lava fields. Sweeney says: “Iceland’s tourism board describes their natural landscapes as a contrast between majestic mountains, picturesque lagoons, catastrophic glaciers, and raging torrential rivers. Close to a million tourists overrun Iceland every year hoping to capture and bring home these landscapes in the form of photographs. In the photographic series Still I explore the paradox that arises when hundreds of tourist bodies armed with cameras around their necks invade these remote landscapes hoping to capture a sense of wilderness, isolation, and untouched space.”

Sarah Sweeney earned her BA in Studio Art from Williams College and MFA in Digital Media from Columbia University School of the Arts. Her work has appeared nationally and internationally in exhibitions at locations including the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the New Jersey State Museum, the Black and White Gallery, and the UCR/California Photography Museum. Her work was recently featured at Laughter and Forgetting, Bucharest Art Week, Bucharest, Romania; Screening Scholarship Media Festival Exhibition, Annenberg School Of Communication, University Of Pennsylvania; and Slingshot Festival of Music, Electronic Art, Tech, Film & Comedy, Athens, Georgia. Other recent exhibitions include Re-Picturing Photography, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, Illinois;This into That: Found Object Art, Assemblage, and Other Transformed Work, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, Massachusetts; The Dam Show, Reservoir Art Space, Ridgewood, New York; Selected Art Faculty Exhibition, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; public media, private media, curated by Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts. She is currently Associate Professor of Digital Media and Interactive Design in the Art Department at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
You can learn more about her at sarahelizabethsweeney.com.
Sarah Sweeney in Conversation with curator Rachel Seligman:
RS: Could you start by sharing a little about your background as an artist?
SS: I grew up with photography because my grandfather was a serious collector. I was a photographer in high school and I wanted to be one in college. My junior year I went to the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. There I studied digital photography for the first time and I was introduced to the computer. That was first time I had any type of experience with a computer and I made a piece that was really important to me. My father died when I was 17, right before I went to college. I loved photographs but I felt that in the time after he died photographs let me down. They had been promised to be memories, and I was terribly disappointed because I used the same photographs over and over and they stopped bringing back my father. And I just felt very much like it was photography’s fault that I was losing my memories. With the computer, I could do things that reflected the way I was thinking about memories, so my first real piece was called My Father Died Four Years Ago and it involved removing him from all the photographs I had of him. And one of the ideas was that you could see the hole that he left, which was a much more present reality than actually seeing his body, which was no longer here. So it was a way to alter the photographs to reflect the present reality, as opposed to something that was in the past.
Since that time, all of my work has been about exploring photography without taking photographs. Instead, I work mainly with found photographs, slides I buy from eBay, things like that. I hadn’t taken photographs in 10 years before the Still series, and I haven’t taken them in any of my projects since.
RS: What do you think about the relationship between the photograph as a perceived document – we like to think they are snapshots of reality – and the fact that your work involves altering or fabricating the photograph?
SS: My work relies upon that perception – of photography as reality – because it allows for a sense of wonder when seeing my work. But I believe that all photography is completely constructed. While we consider photographs to be really near and dear (they’re the first thing you grab in a fire, right?) I actually think that photographs are really problematic. I think that they’re false and artificial in ways that we don’t readily perceive. And I think that’s one of the reasons all my work is in photography, and is why I alter them, because I think that when we see photographs, we don’t think about all the ways that they don’t actually equate to reality or memory…
RS: And do you feel like your personal experience of loss was the moment that you had that realization?
SS: Yes. I think because I love photography so much, and felt so betrayed.
RS: I’m interested that you had such a powerful and emotional feeling of betrayal, but that instead of completely rejecting photography and going in another direction, you ended up diving in deeply, creating your own path into photography.
SS: Every one of my works questions a different aspect of photography and our relationship to it. Not to suggest that people shouldn’t love photography, because I think photography is incredible. But to see how strange and awkward photography is, instead of just familiar, and warm, and cuddly, and all those things people generally feel about it.
RS: Tell me about the current series: how did you come to make this work, which is different from all your previous work in that you’ve actually taken these photographs yourself?
SS: People are not still in reality. We don’t see that. We don’t know what that looks like. But in photographs, we totally accept that moment. Stillness is weird and strange, but to make people see that, I rotate people 90°, because then the awkwardness seems more obvious. Also, when you’re vertical you don’t notice how rigid our bodies are, but when you turn them, they’re so rigid, almost like rigor mortis. And there are all these postures and gestures that we’re not even conscious of, because they’re so familiar. So by turning people on their side it becomes unfamiliar, and we start thinking a little bit more about what it is to be still. The other thing that really got me excited was taxidermy, and thinking about photography as visual taxidermy. Because taxidermy has all the same things as rigor mortis, it’s unnatural, but very lifelike.
The related artifice with photography is this sense… (and that goes back to my dad) …that it can bring someone back. I think our culture is very obsessed with this.
RS: Did you go to Iceland with this particular project in mind?
SS: I did. I’d been working with old slides for a long time and I decided I wanted to work with contemporary images. For this project I started looking at Flickr, but none of the photographs were a big enough size for me to use. I decided Iceland was the best place to go to make my own images because I was looking at a lot of Caspar David Friedrich, and thinking about the Rückenfigur [a figure placed in a landscape painting, seen from behind, contemplating the view]. I knew that Iceland looked a lot like some Caspar David Friedrich paintings. And one of the best things about Iceland is that it’s so compact, with many different kinds of landscape. I had a map that I had planned out with 28 sites that I would visit in 14 days. I would visit a site, and just sit there and wait for tourists to come. And it was a very odd experience of feeling like I was hunting tourists, because I’d get very excited when they would show up en-masse, armed with cameras around their necks, swarming into these remote landscapes. And then I would “shoot” them. I also took a lot of photographs of the backgrounds, so I could put them together piece by piece, because I wanted some of the work to be really big.
RS: I want to talk a little bit about the role of humor in this work.
SS: My work is not usually funny; I don’t intend it to be funny.
RS: Why do you think that people think this work is funny?
SS: I think maybe because it’s kind of uncomfortable. If you’ve ever been to a place and been one of these people, I’m somewhat poking fun at you. If you’ve ever been a tourist, you’re somewhat implicated through these people. I also think there is irony in the images: that masses of tourists descend on these sites to capture a sense of wilderness, isolation, and untouched space.
RS: It seems to me that this is a critique of how we flock to places that have been designated as being special, and we try to capture them in some way, to own them, to possess them.
SS: Yes, and I don’t understand that. I guess that’s one of the weird parts for me about this series, is that I don’t usually do this. If I go to a foreign country, I don’t take images. I don’t take pictures of my children (my husband does). I don’t take pictures of myself, I don’t take pictures pretty much at all. So this is very foreign to me.
And there’s this sense that because we’re taking all these photographs with cameras that we’re not taking anything away from a place.
RS: What do you think about that?
SS: I do think that we are taking something away from a place. I do. And I think it’s strange that on a given day in Iceland, hundreds of people have the same exact photograph. It seems incredibly wasteful. It’s digital so nobody thinks it’s wasteful. And so part of this trip was a lot about me coming to terms with, “Is it Okay? Is it not Okay? What does it mean when all these people travel through this place? What does it mean when you take something? What does it mean to own a digital piece of a place?” And so I guess one of the things that occurred to me about this is that I really think photographs are not necessarily just for memory. I think they’re a lot about communicating what it is we’re doing at a given time. I guess I’m interrogating the act and the culture of it.
RS: So you think – because you started to allude to this – that it’s about both the moment of taking it, but also the moment of sharing it with others? Maybe even more about the sharing?
SS: Yes, I think a lot of it is sharing. And I think the sharing is, on one level, tied to capitalism and colonialism. “I went to this place. You should see it… These are the most amazing things…” People who have enough money go to a country that’s not theirs, take photographs (among other things) from that country, and bring them back as a way to show off their wealth and power.
RS: Photography as a mode of conquest…
SS: It is a mode of conquest and that’s the part that is very intriguing to me. I’ve read a lot on tourism and conquest. To be in someone else’s country to “experience” it… I’m interested in what that means, and how the camera becomes a tool in service to the impulse for control and possession.
But I also don’t take photographs of my life now because I find it to be a really strange practice. You have this very odd moment where everyone is stopping, becoming still, to take the photograph. At least for me, that’s very odd. But I love photographs. That’s the paradox for me, because I love photography. And in my work, I’m trying to bring to the surface some of the paradoxes that exist for me in photography. We hold photography very close but I feel it needs to be more closely examined.
This exhibition is funded in part by The Community Exchange Foundation, Adirondack Studios and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.<

Sol Survivors: Solo exhibition of work by Andrea Hersh
2017-03-11 - 2017-04-14 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
March 11 – April 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 11, 4 – 6 pm
Click HERE to see performance choreographed by Andrea Hersh, with dancers Liz Fillipone and Louisa Barta
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm

Andrea Hersh is a painter and multi-media artist examining the relationship between nature and humanity. In “Sol Survivor” she has created a world where strange hybrid, “post human” creatures have inherited an over populated and polluted planet. Her colorful paintings combine her love of the natural world with her alarm over society’s destructive disposable culture, where these anthropomorphic creatures are caught in a drama, fighting for resources. She says: “My work represents fragments of dreams, fantasies, and moments in time. My protagonists are part human, part vegetable. By insinuating these fanciful hybrids into precarious and toxic situations, I can explore themes of vulnerability, desire, greed, and industry gone awry… This work hopes to balance the beauty I see in nature with the ugliness that I have contributed to it as an active member of a disposable culture.”
Andrea Hersh earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University at Albany, and her Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Skidmore College. Her solo exhibitions include “Celestial Bodies” (2016) and “Flora & Fauna” (2011) at The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY; and “Community Garden” at the Masery Gallery, College of St. Rose. She was recently voted “Best in Show” at the Laffer Gallery’s 2016 juried Upstate Artists exhibition, and was an exhibiting artist in the 2016 Hudson-Mohawk Regional at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. Her work has also been shown at Clement Gallery in Troy, NY, the Albany Center Gallery, the Albany International Airport Gallery and the Saratoga Arts Center. Her awards include a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts, two NYFA Special Opportunity Stipends, as well as Artist Residency awards from The Arts Center for the Capital Region, the Millay Colony in Austerlitz, NY, and a Boreas Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland. She lives and works in Slingerlands, NY, and has taught mixed-media, painting and drawing classes as an adjunct professor for the past 15 years in and around the Capital District. You can learn more about her and her work at www.andreahersh.com.
This exhibition is funded in part by The Community Exchange Foundation, Adirondack Studios and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.

Linear Landscapes: Solo exhibition of work by Rachel Kohn
2017-05-06 - 2017-06-09 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
May 6 – June 9, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 6, 4 – 6 pm
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm

Rachel Kohn’s imagery comes from real and imagined landscapes inspired by cycles of growth and decay. She will exhibit a series of miniature three-dimensional paintings that are carved and built up from layers of plaster, foam, and aquaresin. A final layer of either encaustic wax or acrylic medium is added to create a deep and luminous surface. Kohn will also exhibit a series of drawings on handmade paper. In addition to making the paper herself, she uses a variety of drawing media, including charcoal, graphite, watercolor, paper mache, and acrylic. By deconstructing and reconstructing paper pulp, rough and torn areas create images that appear to be fragile and deteriorating landscapes. She says: “My work has a focus on nature, and is also inspired by human fragility. I am influenced by cycles of deterioration, devastation, and renewal. These perpetual cycles are a natural process, and in my work I attempt to find beauty in these sometimes harrowing experiences. I look for balance from the unbalanced, control from chaos, and light from darkness.”
Rachel Kohn earned her Bachelor of Arts from Skidmore College, and Her Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College in NYC. Her recent solo exhibitions include Ground Gradation, Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY; Harmonious Decay, Crossing Art Gallery, Queens, NY; Moments in Weeds, Greenport Art and Design, Greenport, NY; Existing Caves, Tarryn Teresa Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA. Her work has been included in many group exhibitions, including Mile Square Exhibition, Roig Gallery, Hoboken, NJ; Salon Art Mora, Art Mora Gallery, New York, NY; Existential Navigation, Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY; Paradoxes, Mooney Center Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY; Your Presence is Requested, Resobox Gallery, Long Island City, NY; The Right Amount of Wrong, ISE Cultural Foundation Main Gallery, New York, NY; Waxing, Denise Bibro Fine Art, NY. Her awards include an Artist Residency at Coohaus Art, New York, NY, Kenise Barnes Fine Art Award, Larchmont Arts Festival and a Going Green Award from Crossing Art, Queens, NY. She currently lives and works in New York City, and teaches in the Graduate Art Department at The College of New Rochelle.
This exhibition is funded in part by The Community Exchange Foundation, Adirondack Studios and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.

"Shifting Perceptions" a solo exhibition of new work by Jenny Hutchinson
2017-06-07 - 2018-08-10 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
July 7 – August 10, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, July 7, 4 – 6 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm
Review online: Get Visual

Jenny Hutchinson’s work is informed by her love for drawing from life. Her recent work is inspired by time spent outside in the natural world, as well as the plants residing in her house, observing changes that come through the course of a day, as well as through the seasons. She says: “Each artwork draws inspiration from my passion for the beauty of the outdoors and plants. The selected color palette is informed by different times of the day and the lighting effect that impacts our apprehension of color. I avidly spend time outdoors watching the world slowly change around me. The plants drawn from my own household evolve too, throughout the year, and they have served as additional inspiration. The artworks mimic this interplay of encounters, observing something unfold and change… which is representative of the enthusiasm and curiosity I feel for these plants and places.”
Jenny Hutchinson earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Clemson University and Bachelor of Fine Arts from Plattsburgh State University. Her work has been shown at many venues, including The Shirt Factory Gallery and LARAC, both in Glens Falls, NY; Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY; Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY; Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY. She currently works as the Head of Museum Education at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY. She formerly worked as Gallery Curator and Marketing Coordinator at LARAC in Glens Falls, and taught Basic Design and Introductory Drawingat SUNY Adirondack, also in Glens Falls, NY. Her private studio space is located at The Shirt Factory in Glens Falls, NY. You can learn more about her work at www.jennyhutch.com
This exhibition is funded in part by The Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Adirondack Studios, The Community Exchange Foundation, and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.

Story Time: Children and Young Adult Authors and Illustrators
2017-07-07 - 2017-08-11 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Featuring the work of Bruce Hiscock, Marika McCoola, and Jennifer Sattler

Opening July 7 and running through August 11, 2017, the Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery will present “Story Time: Children and Young Adult Authors and Illustrators”, a 3 person exhibition featuring the work of Bruce Hiscock, Marika McCoola, and Jennifer Sattler. The opening reception takes place on Friday, July 7, from 6 – 8 PM. We will also present a panel discussion with the artists on Tuesday, August 1st at 6 pm at Northshire Bookstore, 424 Broadway in Saratoga Springs, NY. Our exhibiting artists will discuss their creative process and relationship between visual illustration and storytelling. All events are free and open to the public.
Bruce Hiscock is the author/illustrator of many natural history books for children. His stories, like “The Big Rock” and “The Big Tree,” are based on actual objects, near his home, and contain enough information to enlighten grade school kids as well as most adults. These books, among others, have been designated as Outstanding Science Trade Books by the Children’s Book Council. “The Big Rock” and “The Big Storm” were honored on the John Burrough’s Riveby Award List of Books for Young Readers. Well versed in many aspects of science, Bruce studied chemistry in college and graduated from the University of Michigan, B.S. 1962 and Cornell University, Ph.D., 1966. At age 40 he decided to combine his artistic talents with science and begin a career in children’s books. His journeys across the North American Arctic from Alaska to Labrador form the basis of several works, including “Tundra,” “The Big Caribou Herd,” and most recently, “Ookpik- the Travels of a Snowy Owl,” a finalist for the Charlotte Award of New York State. Bruce lives in Porter Corners, NY, in a house he built by hand using the native rocks and trees. He often gives programs in schools and libraries, teaching kids to draw and encouraging them to read and write stories for themselves. You can learn more about his work at brucehiscock.com.
Marika McCoola is an illustrator, educator, and the New York Times bestselling author of “Baba Yaga’s Assistant.” She studied illustration, art history, creative writing, and ceramics at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and received her BFA in Illustration in 2009. Marika then went on to study creative writing and children’s literature at Simmons College, receiving an MFA in Writing for Children in 2012. In addition to writing and illustrating, Marika teaches Studio Art, Illustration, and Children’s Literature online for the State University of New York, Empire State College, works as an indie bookseller, and teaches classes through the Emerson Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, MA. She’s also taught Children’s Literature for the K-6 Classroom for Skidmore College’s Education department. Her awards include a 2016 Ivan Gold Fiction Fellowship from Writers’ Room of Boston; 2015 Finalist for JP Reads Flash Fiction Contest; Rusty Drugan Scholarship from New England Independent Booksellers’ Association, 2012, and CHIRP Scholarship for Winter Institute 7 from Candlewick Press, 2012. Marika grew up in Glens Falls, and currently resides in Somerville, MA. You can learn more about her and her work at marikamccoola.com.
Jennifer Sattler is the award winning author and illustrator of several children’s books, including “Sylvie,” which won the Mockingbird Award and the Georgia Children’s Book Award, “Uh O DoDo,” and her newest book “Frankie The Blankie.” She is also the author of the popular “Chick-N-Pug” and “Pig Kahuna” series. Jennifer earned her BFA in painting from the University of New Hampshire and MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington. In 1996, she won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Although she has worked as a landscape painter and professor of painting and drawing, her real passion is creating books for children. After her first daughter Mayzie was born, she found it harder and harder to get out to the painting studio. “I couldn’t wait to read to Mayzie. She slept most of the time, but I kept reading, silly voices and all! The magic of picture books excited me so much more than making pictures to hang on the wall.” Jennifer began drawing elephants, Mayzie’s favorite animals at the time. A year later her first book was published, “Bella’s Saratoga Summer,” starring Bella the Elephant (named after their 100 lb. dog). The following year her second book was published. “All Aboard Owney! The Adirondack Mail Dog” was based on the true story of a scruffy dog that rode the rails in the early 1900’s. She says: “I’ve been asked why I only use animals as my characters in my books. It’s simple, really. I want children to identify with the personalities of my characters, their situations, worries and joys… When the characters are animals, it’s much more universally relatable.” Jennifer lives and works in Saratoga Springs. You can learn more about her and her work at jennifersattlerbooks.com.
This exhibition is funded in part by Northshire Bookstore in Saratoga Springs, Adirondack Studios, Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.

Electron │ Photon
2017-09-23 - 2017-10-27 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
September 23 – October 27, 2017
3 Photographers’ Unique Approach to Image-Making – Dee Breger, Suran Song and Eleanor Sweeney
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 23, 4 – 6 pm
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm
Read: Albany Times Union Review Here
Dee Breger
Eleanor Sweeney
Suran Song
Dee Breger’s images stand at the intersection of art, science, education and technology. The Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) she worked with could magnify a specimen over 300,000 times. The structures seen in her images are preserved, while their aesthetic presentation is manipulated through an array of graphics techniques. She says: “In using a research laboratory’s high-tech visualizing instrument to produce revelatory – and relevant – art, my goal is to offer arresting pictures of the microworld that inspire a sense of wonder at its elegance, astonishment at its diversity, and delight in the stories it has to tell. As a scientist grounded in the disciplines of research, I seek to maintain the integrity – the truth – of the specimens. As an artist, I want my images to speak to the viewer’s heart.”
Dee Breger received a degree in Art from the University of Wisconsin and began her career as a scientific illustrator at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, switching to electron microscopy soon after. She founded Lamont/Columbia’s first professional SEM and X-ray microanalysis facility, which she directed for 22 years. Her work has been exhibited around the world and was featured in the BBC documentary “Hidden Visions.” Her book “Journeys into Microspace: The Art of the Scanning Electron Microscope” was featured in the New York Times magazine. Besides specializing in the technology, scientific application, and artistry of the SEM, Breger also led or participated in several Earth science programs on over 30 field expeditions, with a specialization in Antarctic oceanography. From 2004 to 2009 she served as Director of Microscopy at Drexel University. She retired from academia in 2009 to return to her first love: art. She launched Micrographic Arts that year in Saratoga Springs, NY, where she lived until her death, working as a consultant and artist. Dee Breger passed away in September of 2016 after a battle with leukemia. More information about Dee Breger can be found at www.micrographicarts.com,and her TED Ed talk, “Visualizing Hidden Worlds Inside Your Body,” can be seen at https://ed.ted.com/lessons/visualizing-hidden-worlds-inside-your-body-dee-breger.
Sanskrit and the civics of politics, as well as a routine practice of Yoga, are both strong influences for Suran Song. Her work encompasses printmaking, painting, installation, sculpture, photography, video and performance art. A recent project “There’s More to Life Than Increasing Its Speed! We need each other here!” contains a series of limited edition c-prints depicting flower mandalas projected on to the hands of participants held in various mudras (symbolic hand gestures), while practicing yogic breathing. The work is inspired by her routine practice of Yoga and the Sanskrit Pushpam Veda mantra, a Vedic hymn that expresses water as the basis of the universe and is used at the time of offering flowers to the deities at the very end of the Pujas (a prayer ritual performed to honor one or more deities). Song conceived of the project as a means for participants to practice fasting from cell phones and other screens by returning to their breath and presence, and to experience colors often used in yogic therapy to transmit uplifting and healing vibrations. She says: “I am interested in engaging with the public by making experiential art that transcends the viewer. Working in a multitude of disciplines further allows me to continually test the boundaries of the senses, the embrace of Sanskrit and the breath, all core elements that inform my artistic path.”
Suran Song earned her BFA from University of The Arts in Philadelphia, PA and her MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY. She has received awards and residencies from the Queens Council for the Arts and the New York Artist and Community Council: The Laundromat Project. Her work has been exhibited at numerous venues, including The Villa Terrace Museum of Decorative Arts, Milwaukee, WI; Chashama Windows Project, Harlem, NY; Art in Odd Places, New York, NY; The Walk Exchange, London, England & New York, NY; Southview Co-operative, Queens, NY; Shirin Gallery, Chelsea, NY, NY; Queens Museum, Queens, NY. Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC; The Experimental Space, Long Island City, NY; and Fabio Scalia Art Space, Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a multi-media artist and performer, she is a student of Sanskrit, and a yoga instructor with an International Teacher’s Certification in Himalayan Yoga. She lives and works in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY. More information about Suran Song and her work can be found at www.suransong.com and also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn2P7snwycY, where she is a featured artist in a brief video describing her work.
Photographer Eleanor Sweeney makes digital transfers on metal, paper, wood and fabric, as well as traditional photographic prints. Her eye is often drawn to small, ordinary things, which she likes to manipulate a bit. She says: “I have been making photographs for a long time, starting out with classic black and white images. Gradually I became interested in color, doing a little hand coloring and working with colored slides. For many years, I made Polaroid transfers, and later began to teach myself to make transfers using digital photographs. This way I can play around with color and shape in the computer. All the photographs in this show are reflections in silver Mylar. I place a sheet of Plexiglas covered by a piece of Mylar against a tree or wall or something, set up the tripod to the side, and photograph what is reflected. The Mylar is not very tight, so it ripples in the slightest breeze, creating the wavy abstract result in the photograph. Some of the photographs are printed on paper, while others are transferred onto metal or wood.”
Eleanor Sweeney, born in Cincinnati, Ohio 1937, earned a BA in Russian from Middlebury College in 1959. She studied photography at North Country Community College from 1974-1976, and took various photography workshops around the country. In 1997 she co-founded Adirondack Artists Guild in Saranac Lake, NY. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the Northeast, and featured in solo exhibitions at Adirondack Artists Guild and Pendragon Theatre, both in Saranac Lake; St Louis Artists Guild; Visitor Interpretive Centers in Paul Smiths and Newcomb, NY; Geonomics Center at Middlebury College, VT; and For ArtSake in Malone, NY. Recent group exhibitions include “Catching Water,” Bluseed Studios, Saranac Lake and “Imagined Landscapes,” Lake Placid Center for the Arts. She is the recipient of three NY decentralization grants, and was awarded Best In Show at Frederic Remington “Members’ Show” (2017) and First Place in Photography in “Central Adk Art Show” at View Old Forge, NY (2017). She lives and work in Saranac Lake, NY.
This exhibition is funded in part by The Community Exchange Foundation, Adirondack Studios and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.

Open Immediately: Collages by Sarah Nicole Phillips
2017-11-11 - 2017-12-15 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
November 11 – December 15, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 11, 4 – 6 pm
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm

Sarah Nicole Phillips is a Toronto-born, Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist. Her recent work is a series of collages created with hundreds of recycled, patterned security envelopes. She says: “I began playing with security envelopes when I had an office job. I would tear open the mail every day and started noticing the intricate patterns printed on their insides. Security envelopes are used to camouflage sensitive and private documents. Their decorative patterns make it impossible to read what is inside. For this body of work, the imagery is inspired by naturally occurring camouflage. That’s what the printed pattern is for, to hide documents, and it made sense to echo the botany and camouflage idea in the work… some scenes are benign, such as a square of monotonous grass, suggestive of a wider expanse of more of the same. Recent collages include office and lobby imagery such as cubicles, elevators and artificial floral arrangements. These collages represent a fantasy in which the material of the reliable, boring disappointments of life, are transformed into a means of escape.”
Sarah Nicole Phillips earned her B.A. in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto in 2003, and her MFA from Brooklyn College in 2006, with a concentration in printmaking. From 2006-07 she participated in a year-long artist residency at the Lower Eastside Print Shop where taught monotype. Sarah exhibits widely in Canada and the US and has recently been included in shows at the Queens Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and The McKinley Arts & Culture Center in Reno, NV. In 2009 and 2014 she was a recipient of Brooklyn Arts Council Grants. Her other awards include residency fellowships from The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City, NE, and Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY. Her work is in the permanent collection of NYU Langone Hospital. For more information about her work, please visit www.sarahnicolephillips.com.
This exhibition is funded in part by The Community Exchange Foundation, Adirondack Studios and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.

Ceramics by Regis Brodie and Paintings by Leslie Yolen
2018-01-13 - 2018-02-15 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
January 13 – February 15, 2018
Artists Reception: Saturday, February 3rd, 4 – 6 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm
Regis Brodie

Leslie Yolen

Regis Brodie works in porcelain and stoneware. His colorful, surface-layered ceramics are the culmination of his training as a painter and sculptor. Both painting and sculpture are parallel and overlapping experiences in his works. He says “My methodology of making art is exploratory in nature. It deals with the direct manipulation of materials and processes. My vessel or sculptural forms are elegant and classical. The surface painting, drawing, and textural treatment on the other hand, is out of the Abstract Expressionist and Post-Modernist Schools. I love the interplay that is created between the refinements of the form and the spontaneously decorated surface. It contrasts the elegant with the organic. I am tight and at the same time loose… I do not establish a hierarchy or dominance of the form (mass) verses the surface (decoration). As I consider the form, the surface reveals itself as it becomes intrinsic and essential to the whole.”
Regis Brodie is an Emeritus Professor of Art at Skidmore College. He earned his B.S. and Masters in Art Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Regis taught for 41 years in the Studio Art department at Skidmore College until his retirement in 2011. In addition to his regular teaching duties he directed Skidmore’s prestigious “Summer SIX Art Program” for 35 years, as well taught in the Summer SIX Art Program for 39 of those years. His work was recently shown at Laffer Gallery and the Saratoga Clay Studio, both in Schuylerville, NY. Regis continues his ongoing body of work with lectures and exhibits worldwide.
Leslie Yolen has worked predominantly in clay until recently, when encaustics became her favored medium. She finds her process of encaustic painting, (beeswax and tree resin mixed with pigments) similar to the additive and subtractive processes of working with clay. Her paintings on wood panels are created using brushes, torches, knives, and scraping tools. Her series of work for this exhibit is titled “Treescapes”. She says “These paintings were inspired by my lifelong fascination with trees and the way they frame our world in different light and through different seasons. The genesis for these paintings was the clearing of brush at the edge of the woods around my home, opening new and inviting views into and through the woods.”
Leslie Yolen earned her B.F.A. from Bennington College and an M.S. in Visual Arts Education from the College of Saint Rose. She is the Arts Education Associate for the New York State Education Department’s Office of Curriculum & Instruction, where she provides statewide leadership in relation to the implementation of the NYS Learning Standards for the Arts, supporting arts teachers, administrators and students across the state. Prior to working with NYSED, Leslie taught Visual Art in the public schools, focusing on curriculum development, instructional planning, and professional development for arts teachers. Her recent exhibitions include a solo show at Carey Institute for Global Good in Rensselaerville, NY, and “Great Places and Spaces”, Albany Center Gallery’s satellite exhibit at the New York State Museum, Albany NY. She lives and works in rural Albany County, NY.
This exhibition is funded in part by Adirondack Studios, Mirror Lake Inn, Lake Placid, The Community Exchange Foundation, and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.

Just Beyond the River, mixed media work by Daesha Devón Harris
2018-03-10 - 2018-04-13 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
March 10 – April 13, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, March 10, 4 – 6 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm

Daesha Devón Harris is a mixed media artist weaving texts with images, historical and current, that often focus on her own home town community of Saratoga Springs, NY. By subtly combining biographic information of her subjects within her mixed media/photographic work, she documents the challenges facing urban neighborhoods, the severe effects of gentrification on many communities, as well as the diverse and rich contributions of many through history that are rarely, if ever, told. She says: “Through my artwork I strive to promote a sincere understanding of the contemporary and historic contributions of people of color … with insight, compassion and protectiveness I endeavor to capture the ‘life’ that continues to evolve amidst struggle and success. And with ardent respect for a profound past, I challenge the viewer to consider the complexity of issues facing communities of color.”
Just Beyond the River features selections from Harris’ series of mixed media pieces, made using a personal collection of unidentified discarded Victorian era portraits. In production over multiple years, throughout every season, her process includes submerging a transparent version of a portrait in a body of water amongst an arranged aquatic still-life and photographing the constructed scene. The resulting image, layered with various visual elements from the past and the present, is in fact a single frame embodying all components in the same space. Also featured are selections from Harris’ newest exploration of underwater imagery that combines time-lapse photography with choreographed movements and reenactments. This work is inspired by Negro Folklore, Slave Narratives and Harlem Renaissance poetry and aims to illuminate America’s enduring legacies of colonialism and systemic racism that defines our nation’s history, while reiterating the central narrative that emerges from the referenced memoirs – the ongoing struggle for Freedom.
Daesha Devón Harris earned her BFA in Studio Art from the College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, and her MFA in Visual Art from The University at Buffalo, NY. She has been featured in numerous exhibitions across New York State, and beyond. Her work was recently exhibited at the 80th Mohawk-Hudson Regional at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY; Many Rivers: Black Dimensions In Art, 40 Years at the Saratoga Art Center; the 37th Annual Photography Regional at the Opalka Gallery in Albany; Reclamation at Collar Works Gallery and Just Beyond The River at the Rensselaer County Historical Society, both in Troy, NY. Along with her work as a visual artist, Harris is active in her community as a youth advocate and cultural history preservationist. Her awards include grants from NYSCA/Saratoga County Arts Funding, and she has been a featured artist and speaker at many art, community and educational events, including the 15th Annual Underground Railroad Public History Conference in Troy, NY (2016), the MDOCS Portrait and Biography Series and the Harry Burleigh Commemoration Event (2016), both at Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY. You can learn more about her work at http://www.daeshadevonharris.com.
This exhibition is funded in part by The Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Adirondack Studios, Mirror Lake Inn, Lake Placid, The Community Exchange Foundation, and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.

"Rest Area" A Solo Exhibition of work by Rob O'Neil
2018-05-05 - 2018-06-08 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
May 5 – June 8, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 5th, 4 – 6 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm
Review online: Albany Times Union

Rob O’Neil finds beauty in unexpected places, particularly Rest Stops, found along highways all through the country. He is fascinated by their variety in size and amenities: some highlight past history; some are peaceful settings with gardens, and are family friendly; others are mall-like, selling goods; some are simple with only a picnic table and a trashcan. They are necessary places, all sharing a common goal: “…off-road spaces with provisions for emergency stopping and resting by motorists for short periods” (A Policy on Safety Rest Areas for the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, 1958). After earning his undergraduate degree, O’Neil took a job that had him driving a box truck across the Eastern United States several times a year. Rest areas became a vital part of his driving experience. He says: “Like a draftsman’s line across a white sheet of paper, highways and interstates paint sweeping arcs and pin-straight lines across the landscape. Multiple midpoints exist on these lines; they’re called rest areas, travel plazas, picnic areas, pit stops, or welcome centers. Even with the constant drone of traffic, these are areas of comfort and serenity. There is a structure and plan that makes sense; we breathe, and our weary bodies relax a little bit. These places are interesting and useful physically, sociologically, and emotionally.”
Rob O’Neil earned his BFA with a concentration in photography from the University of Akron, Ohio and his MFA in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His work has been exhibited at many regional galleries and museums, including Esther Massry Gallery; Albany Center Galleries; Albany Institute of History and Art; Opalka Gallery; University at Albany Museum; and Albany International Airport Gallery, all located in Albany, NY; The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY; Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY. His work has also traveled to many universities throughout the country, including Siena College, University of Akron, Florida International University, University of Nevada, and the University Museum Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His awards include a NYFA Special Opportunity Stipend Grant; numerous College Professional Development Grants, as well as an Artists and Scholars Grant, both through the College of St. Rose. He is a three-time recipient of a Mohawk Hudson Regional Purchase Award, one for the University at Albany University Museum, and two for the Schenectady Museum. He currently lives in Albany, NY and is an Assistant Professor of Photography at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.
This exhibition is funded in part by The Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Adirondack Studios, The Community Exchange Foundation, a Professional Development Grant through the College of St Rose, and theNew York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.

Roots and Branches: Work by Betsy Krebs
2018-06-22 - 2018-06-30 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
June 22 – 30, 2018
Opening Reception Friday, June 22, 5 – 7 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm

Roots & Branches: Work by Betsy Krebs
A visual conversation about an unassuming building in Lake George, NY, and its impact on the community.
Betsy Krebs says the genesis of the exhibit “Roots and Branches” evolved from a strong desire to bring attention to the unique humanitarian history and events that have taken place at the Old Stone School House,a historic building located in the Town of Lake George, and her former place of residence. Krebs says this “stoic folk Victorian structure exudes strength and protection as a community strong hold. While teaching locally and living in the school house, my dream was to find out more about the space, since a lot of information was undocumented oral history. Notable Metropolitan opera singer Madam Homer was known to sing at the school house every Sunday during summer months. Georgia O’Keeffe was known to take walks on Middle road, as told by local, Clara Mae Norton. Another notable neighbor was Edward Morse Shepard, the man that Shepard Park, in the Village of Lake George, is named after. He also built and lived in what is known as Erlowest,right down the hill from the school house. The works in the exhibition are a spin off from a recipe book compiled in 1910 by the ladies of the ‘Lend a hand’ club that used the building as a meeting place after hours and on weekends, working to find ways to help the community. The recipes they compiled were the catalyst for each image in the exhibit. Recipes were submitted by local community members, as well as seasonal residents.”
Betsy Krebs earned her M.S. in Art Education from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Her work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions throughout the NY North Country, including the Albany Boys Academy in Albany, NY; the College of Saint Rose; the Gibson Gallery in Potsdam College, Potsdam, NY; the Cool Beans Cafe Gallery in Queensbury NY; Valley Artisans Gallery in Cambridge, NY; The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, NY; the Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga, NY; Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, The Lake Placid Center for the Arts and L.A.R.A.C. Arts Gallery in Glens Falls, NY.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. This exhibition is funded in part by The Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust and the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bands 'n Beans 2019
2019-03-31 14:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Fort William Henry Hotel, 48 Canada St, NY, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Bands ‘n Beans in Lake George, NY

All the Chili you can eat!
Bands ‘n Beans has become the biggest party of the year in the north country, a sign of winter’s end and the beginning of spring.
2019 saw our 28th annual event, with hot chili and hot music served up in style! While attendees sampled delicious fare, continuous music played throughout the day on two stages with The Radio Junkies, PJ Ferguson 2, Rich Ortiz, The Switch, Steve and Kenny, Stony Creek Band, Tim Wechgelaer & Chris Carey Band, and Ten Most Wanted. More than twenty area restaurants participated in this hotly contested event. Several hundreds of attendees voted for their favorite chili, and see the award winners listed below!
Other offerings include breads from Rock Hill Bakehouse, raffle prizes and auction items from area merchants. Proceeds from Bands ‘n Beans benefits the Lake George Arts Project.
BANDS N’ BEANS 2019 Chili Award Winners:
First Place: Andy’s Adirondack Grille
Hootin’ Tootin’ Award: Bean’s Country Store
Hot Stuff Award: Sticks-n- Stones
President’s Choice Award: Lake George Beach Club
Director’s Choice Award: Dizzy Chicken
BIG THANKS to our amazing past and future volunteers: the kitchen crew, ticket sellers, t-shirt crew, raffle sellers, Fort William Henry staff, and to all those who donate to our Silent Auction! You make our Arts Community strong!
This event is a fundraiser for the Lake George Arts Project. Proceeds help fund the Lake George Arts Project’s FREE Art & Music Programs: Summer Concert Series, Lake George Jazz Weekend in Shepard Park and year-round Courthouse Gallery exhibitions.
First Place: Andy’s Adirondack Grille
President’s Choice: Lake George Beach Club
Award winning bread from Rock Hill Bakehouse
Hot Stuff Award: Sticks-n- Stones
Director’s Choice Award: Dizzy Chicken
Hootin’ Tootin’ Award: Bean’s Country Store

Yura Adams
2019-05-11 - 2019-06-14 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
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Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 4 – 6 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm.
Reviews online: Get Visual
Works by Yura Adams stem from her intimate survey and imaginative observations of the natural world outside her studio window, located in the Hudson Valley of NY State. There, surrounded by overgrown fields, observing weather events and the changing light of the seasons, she creates works that are abstract, but inspired by, and rooted in, the real world. Her deep interest in the natural sciences, as well as cultural and current events, have lead to a new body of work: Fast Earth. She says: “The study of Earth is at the center here… a vision of Earth as it survives without hum
Yura Adams earned her MFA and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited nationally in many venues, such as The New Museum, Experimental Intermedia, Franklin Furnace, New Music America, all in New York City; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; and one person shows at the John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY. She has taught for many years Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson, NY. Her awards include an Individual Artist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; Two New York Decentralization Grants; the Martha Boschen Porter grant from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation; and she is a recipient of the New York Foundation of the Arts Mark program. She is currently represented by John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust; Adirondack Studios; the Community Exchange Foundation; Mannix Marketing; the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.
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Lake George Summer Solstice Groovy 60s Cruise
2019-06-19 | NY
We were All Aboard Lake George’s luxury boat, The Adirondac for a groovy 60’s cruise!

It was a packed night of 60’s themed fun, including a two hour cruise along the lake, delicious light fare from area restaurants, live music from Graham Tichy and the New Lowdown, raffle prizes, a silent auction, and the grooviest of outfits. If you were there, you know how much fun it was… if you missed it, check out our next fundraising event.

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Special Thanks to all of our participating restaurants:
AAdirondack Pub & Brewery
Adirondack Olykoeks
Backstreet BBQ & Tap Room
Barnsider BBQ
Ben & Jerry’s
Christie’s On The Lake
Cleverdale Country Store
Fort William Henry Resort and Conference Center
The Garrison
Gaslight of Lake George
Holiday Inn Resort Lake George – Water View
Lake George Baking Company
Lake George Beach Club
Mama Riso’s Italian Restaurant
Mario’s Lake George
Pizza Jerks
Rockhill Bakehouse
Sans Souci of Cleverdale
SJ Garcia’s Stony Creek
InnTavern 16

World Awareness Children's Museum
2019-06-27 - 2019-07-06 | NY
Courthouse Gallery:
WACM at LGAP’s Courthouse Gallery: “ARTeX Waterscapes”
June 27 – July 6, 2019.
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 27, 4 – 6 pm.

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

Summer Concert Series double bill: Stony Creek Band and Circle of Willis
2019-07-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Lake George Arts Project’s Summer Concert Series kicks off with a double bill featuring Circle of Willis and the Stony Creek Band.
Circle of Willis
This trio is fronted by the “Mad Fiddler” Nelson Rock, and also features Michael Kelley on keyboards and vocals, along with drummer Bobby Assini.
Rock has performed throughout the Northeast and at Mardi Gras in New Orleans along with the Neville Brothers. Kelley is a veteran performer, having played with many of the northeast’s best bands, including Blotto, the Lustre Kings, John Kribs, Ernie Williams, and Mark Emanatian.
Stony Creek Band

The Stony Creek Band is one of the Adirondack region’s most enduringly popular bands. Since forming in the early 1970’s, the band has evolved from an acoustic trio playing traditional folk and country to an eclectic Americana outfit featuring exhuberant, superbly tight eclectic arrangements. Their inspiring songs ring with the unsilenceable voices of everyday heroes. Never saccharine or self-absorberd, Stony Creek is a band of mature, seasoned artists who play with an intuition only possible among first-rate artists whose collaboration has spanned four decades.
The Stony Creek Band performs a combination of country, blues, rock, and bluegrass. It’s members are Hank Soto on electric guitar, John Strong on acoustic guitar, Dave Maswick on bass, Fred Lantz on mandolin, and Mike Lomaestro on drums. All are singer/songwriters.
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Summer Concert Series: Frank Vignola’s Hot Jazz Guitar Trio
2019-07-10 19:00 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Wynton Marsalis, Tommy Emmanuel, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his “Five Most Admired Guitarists List” for the Wall Street Journal. Vignola’s jaw dropping technique explains why the New York Times deemed him “one of the brightest stars of the guitar”.
He will be joined by long-time collaborator Vinny Ranioli and the brilliant young guitarist, Jan Knutson.
Vinny Raniolo and his dynamic playing has brought him to 18 countries performing alongside Frank Vignola, Tommy Emmanuel, Vince Giordano, and Deana Martin. Vinny has also been featured on three PBS Music shows including the heavily programmed Tommy Emmanuel and Friends, Frank Vignola’s Four Generations of Guitar, and in the Music Gone Public series. Film and recording credits include soundtracks and on-screen appearances for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”, Woody Allen’s film “Café Society” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman”.
Jan Knutson is an extremely versatile musician. This talented young guitarist has performed at major venues across the country. Jan was a 2016 Strathmore Artist, was featured at the 2017 Richmond Folk Festival, and has had the honor of performing with such luminaries as Bucky Pizzarelli, Julian Lage, and Martin Taylor. Jan has recorded two solo CDs and currently studies with Rodney Jones at the Manhattan School of Music.

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

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

Matt Chinian

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

Kellyann Monaghan

Kellyann Monaghan’s dramatic paintings and mono-prints are inspired by nuances of light, atmosphere and weather. Her recent works maintain a painterly directness in depicting catastrophic weather and its effect on the landscape and human made structures, evoking a sense of both anxiety and awe of natural phenomena. She says: “Stormy weather and extreme climate conditions permeating the natural landscape have become a new trajectory in my painting. The surface of the paintings erupts with textured and expressive gestural marks, which are depictions of radical weather events. The weather is instinctive inspiration for my tendencies as an alla prima (wet on wet) painter.”
Kellyann Monaghan earned her BFA in Painting from Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA and MFA in Painting, from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY. Her recent solo exhibitions include Artist of the Month, Edward Hopper Art Center, Nyack, NY; Brooklyn Landscapes, Exhibit Salon, Brooklyn, NY; Cityscapes: Rivers, Bridges and Towers, Piermont Straus Gallery, Piermont, NY; Recent French Landscapes, St. Asaph’s Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Landscapes, Earlville Opera House Gallery, Earlville, NY. Her awards include a La Muse Artist Residencyat Labastide Esparbaireneque, France; an Exhibition Grantfrom the Lower Manhattan Cultural Alliance; and a Greenwall Foundation Grantfrom Brooklyn Public Library. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Alfred Solomon Charitable Trust; Adirondack Studios; the Community Exchange Foundation; Mannix Marketing; the New York State Council on The Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. The Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment.
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Summer Concert Series: Maria Muldaur – sings the blues
2019-07-17 19:00 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
NOTE: Tonight’s MURIA MULDAUR show has been moved indoors due to inclement weather. Join us at King Neptune’s Pub, 1 Kurosaka Lane (about 2 blocks south of the park)

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Maria Muldaur is best known world-wide for her 1974 mega-hit “Midnight at the Oasis,” which received several Grammy nominations. And this year she’s been nominated again in the Best Traditional Blues category for her 41st album ‘DON’T YOU FEEL MY LEG ~ The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Barker.’
Despite her considerable pop music success, her 50-year career could best be described a long and adventurous odyssey through the various forms of American Roots Music. She began her recording career in 1963 with the Even Dozen Jug Band and shortly thereafter, joining the very popular Jim Kweskin Jug Band, touring and recording with them throughout the 60s. In 2011 Maria released Steady Love, a contemporary electric Blues album that reflects the kind of music she loves to perform live – what she calls “Bluesiana Music” – her own brand of New Orleans-flavored Blues, R&B and “Swamp Funk.”

Summer Concert: Huntertones – Hipsters w/ Horns
2019-07-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Huntertones brings people together around the globe with fun, imaginative and fearless music. Their high energy, horn-driven sound features genre bending compositions and unconventional covers. Every show is a social experience celebrating the joy of music.
Honest, genuine, skillfully executed music without limitations that is uplifting and cannot be quantified. – Jon Batiste

Summer Concert Series: Blues Night with Mulebone & Matt Mirabile Band
2019-07-31 19:00 - 20:30 | NY
Mulebone

Mulebone is the Brooklyn-based blues musical duo of Hugh Pool on guitar, boot board, vocals, and harmonica, and John Ragusa on any number of flutes, tin whistles, jaw harp, and Conch shells. This is a predictably unpredictable group, delightful, unusual, and thoroughly enjoyable.
Some of the best blues you’re likely to hear this side of 1925. Hugh and John don’t just rehash classics from the blues greats, they recreate them as their own, and write originals that fit in seamlessly with that repertoire. The real deal. – JEFF RASPE, Music Wizard WBJB-FM; 90.5

Matt Mirabile

From sweet and soulful to full on jam Matt Mirabile has it covered. Deeply rooted in Blues, Soul, R&B, and Funk, he began performing at age twelve and quickly went from a being a young novelty player to being a serious threat on the guitar. With nearly two decades of professional playing experience Mirabile’s musical journey has brought him to many parts of the US and even Europe. He has shared the stage with blues greats such as, Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Lurrie Bell and Kenny Neal. Mirabile plays with a tone and feeling well beyond his years and keeps his audience wanting more.

Summer Concert Series: Jim Gaudet & the Railroad Boys
2019-08-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Tonight’s performance by Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys is in King Neptune’s Pub.
King Neptune’s is 1 Kurosaka Lane, behind the post office. Two blocks south of Shepard Park.

Jim Gaudet & the Railroad Boys’ sound is steeped in the tradition of “Acoustic Americana Roots Music.” They deliver a dynamic blend of traditional mountain music fused with Gaudet’s diverse contemporary songwriting. Gaudet’s unique percussive rhythms become the perfect springboard for his voice to follow and his melodies are downright infectious. It’s typical during any live performance to see the band’s fans shouting right along on favorites like “So Far So Good.” Gaudet has assembled a strong cast of characters in the Railroad Boys.
Individually the Railroad Boys are Jim Gaudet on guitar and vocals, Bobby Ristau on bass and vocals, Sten Isachsen on mandolin and vocals, and Mat Kane on fiddle.

Summer Concert Series: The McKrells
2019-08-14 19:00 | NY
The McKrells are one of the Capital District’s most well-known Irish and bluegrass acts, who performed at the top of the local music scene for 15 years before taking a hiatus in 2006. Folk singer, songwriter, and artist Kevin McKrell has had his songs recorded and performed by artists from around the world. He has performed in theaters, clubs, and on festival stages across the United States, Canada, Ireland and the U.K.
Led by Kevin, the New McKrell’s is a high energy collective and a who’s who of North Country Roots Music, each player a top draw in their own right. John Kribs is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who is known throughout the Northeast for the classic roots rock band Johnny and the Triumphs, along with the beloved Raquette River Rounders.
On mandolin is Orion Kribs, a world-class string player capable of break neck speed and nuanced solo work so crucial to the McKrell sound.
Arlin Greene is the bass backbone of the group, a member of a musical family that has attained legendary status in the northeast. Son of the great Smokey Greene, he is a bassist of exceptional abilities, whether it is a high energy bluegrass stomp or one of McKrells’ Celtic ballads.
On percussion is Brian Melick, an active teacher and instrumentalist that has been featured on over 375 professional recordings.
On fiddle is Doug Moody, a Buffalo N.Y. legend for his work with the alt-country band The Steam Donkeys.
With each player in The New McKrells capable of lead singer status, the harmony vocals of this collective of like-minded musicians are stunning, the energy explosive, and each song a gem. They have been called amazing, stunning, brilliant … McKrellica.

Summer Concert Series: Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound
2019-08-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Benefitting from years of unassuming and understated hipness, this Milwaukee based band brings forth a funky, lyrically charged racket that sits comfortably with soulful sounds the world over. Intricate but free-swinging, explosive yet intimate, fresh and green as grass. Taking cues from the dance bands of western Louisiana (and his native Midwest), the streets of New Orleans, touring African and Caribbean combos and the soul, funk & blues of his youth, Cebar is a masterful synthesist of rhythmic culture.
Tomorrow Sound are an elite crew of offhand adepts who bring plenty of their own wood to the fire. Drummer Reggie Bordeaux casts his nets with a mystifying subtlety bringing his own fleet-footed refinement and grease. Multi-instrumentalist Bob Jennings, lends his bandleader the luxury of implying a much larger ensemble with his multi-hued contributions on keys and reeds. Bassist Mike Fredrickson (a distinguished singer-songwriter in his own right) anchors and prods with the best of them.

Lake George Arts Project Summer Concert Series: Big Medicine
2019-08-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Based in Saratoga Springs, NY, Big Medicine has been exciting audiences from Albany to Lake George and beyond for a decade and a half. Performing for local venues, festivals, weddings, television – events of all kinds – public and private.
The band is led by Jeff Walton on guitar, harmonica and vocals, and features the beautiful voice of Becky Walton. Tim Wechgelaer plays violin, mandolin and guitar; Rick Bolton is on lead guitar; and Pat Perkinson and Mike Lomaestro hold it down on bass and drums.
Strong vocals and harmonies by all members are accompanied by supple R&B and folk-rock grooves with rich acoustic-based textures. A healthy dose of originals, seductive renditions of songs by others, and an unbridled creative energy… great reasons to check out Big Medicine.

Jazz Weekend 2019
2019-09-14 - 2019-09-15 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Join us to catch this fantastic lineup:
Camila Meza & The Nectar Orchestra: Sat 1pm

Camila Meza, equally prized as a vocalist, guitarist and composer, has brought a sound full of warmth, intricacy and rhythmic clarity to the New York jazz scene ever since her arrival from Santiago, Chile in 2009. Inspired by jazz, South American music and American popular song of many eras and genres, she has uplifted audiences worldwide with her rare combination of talents: assured and beautiful singing; highly advanced guitar; and vividly colorful, melodic songwriting that reveals complex layers with every listen. Her latest album, Ámbar, released on Sony Masterworks, features her group The Nectar Orchestra, an 8-piece group consisting of guitar/voice, piano, bass, drums with string quartet.
Camila Meza & The Nectar Orchestra:
Camila Meza – Guitar & Vocals
Eden Ladin – Piano
Noam Wiesenberg – Bass, String arrangements
Keita Ogawa – Drums
Tomoko Omura – Violin
Fung Chern Hwei – Violin
Benni von Gutzeit – Viola
Brian Sanders – Cello

Wayne Escoffery Quartet: Sat 2:45pm

Downbeat Critics Poll Winner and Grammy Award-winning tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery is one of the jazz world’s most talented rising stars and in-demand sidemen.
For the past decade, Escoffery has toured the globe with trumpeter Tom Harrell, recorded seven CDs with The Tom Harrell Quintet and co-produced four of those releases. He has also been a member of The Mingus Dynasty, Big Band and Orchestra since 2000 and has made several recordings with that group. He has recorded and performed internationally with the who’s who in jazz including Ron Carter, Ben Riley, Abdullah Ibrahim, Eric Reed, Carl Allen, Al Foster, Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson, Rufus Reid, Wallace Roney and Herbie Hancock.
Wayne Escoffery Quartet:
Wayne Escoffery – Saxophone
David Kikoski – Piano
Ugonna Okegwo – Bass
Ralph Peterson – Drums

Chano Domínguez – Piano Ibérico: Sat 4:30pm

For over 40 years, internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Chano Domínguez has integrated the rhythms and languages of jazz and flamenco, placing him among the most influential musicians in the history of flamenco-jazz.
He has released over 20 albums as a bandleader, and has collaborated extensively with other jazz artists including Paquito D’Rivera, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Joe Lovano, Chucho Valdes, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
Piano Ibérico features Chano’s trio of piano, bass and percussion augmented by flamenco singer Ismael Fernandez and flamenco dancer Sonia Olla.
This performance of Chano Domínguez’s Piano Ibérico has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s 2017 New Jazz
Works program funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Chano Domínguez – Piano Ibérico:
Chano Domínguez – Piano
Sonia Olla – Dance
Ismael Fernandez – Vocals
Alexis Cuadrado – Bass
Jose Moreno – Percussion

Nate Smith + KINFOLK: Sat 7:30pm

Since moving from Chesapeake, Virginia to New York City in 2001, Nate Smith has helped reinvigorate the international jazz scene with his visceral style of drumming by playing with such esteemed leading lights as guitarist Pat Metheny, bassist Dave Holland, saxophonists Chris
Potter and Ravi Coltrane, and singers Patricia Barber, Somi, and José James.
The New York Times described Smith as “a firecracker of a drummer.” Smith’s rising career reaches a new benchmark with the release of his bandleader debut, KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere, on which he fuses his original modern jazz compositions with R&B, pop, and hip-hop.
Nate Smith + KINFOLK:
Nate Smith – drums
Jon Cowherd – piano
Fima Ephron – bass
Jaleel Shaw – sax
Amma Whatt – vocals
Brad Allen Williams – guitar

John Ellis & Double-Wide: Sun 1pm

Gifted, versatile saxophonist/clarinetist/composer John Ellis occupies an imaginary (and extremely imaginative) space directly between the celebratory, welcoming spirit of New Orleans and the edgy, frantic streets of New York City. Ellis expresses a keen intellect and easy
virtuosity while maintaining a mischievous gleam in his eye and never letting tongue stray far from cheek. That dichotomy perfectly encapsulates his group Double-Wide’s split metropolitan personality, with a chainsaw-juggling balance of bayou brass, raucous gospel, and devil-may-care modern jazz.
John Ellis & Double Wide:
John Ellis – Saxophone
Matt Perrine – Sousaphone
Alan Ferber – Trombone
Gary Versace – Organ and accordion
Jason Marsalis – Drums

Nicole Zuraitis: Sun 2:45pm

Grammy-nominated vocalist, pianist and songwriter, Nicole Zuraitis blends clever songwriting skills, an effervescent presence and dazzling vocals in a consummate package that has thrilled audiences around the world. While pursuing a career that has spanned jazz, pop and classical, Nicole has collaborated with Cyrille Aimee, Thana Alexa, Dave Stryker, Livingston Taylor, Tom Chapin, Omar Hakim, Melanie Safka, Helen Sung and Bernard Purdie. She is the vocalist for the world-famous Birdland Big Band in New York City and her latest album Hive Mind won Best Jazz Album in the 2018 International Music and Entertainment Awards.
Nicole Zuraitis:
Nicole Zuraitis – Voice/piano
Idan Morim – Guitar
Alex Busby Smith – Bass
Dan Pugach – Drums

Dafnis Prieto Sextet: Sun 4:30pm

Cuban drummer, composer, bandleader and MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow Dafnis Prieto’s revolutionary drumming techniques and compositions have had a powerful impact on the Latin and jazz music scene, nationally and internationally.
His latest big band album Back to the Sunset recently won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.
Since his arrival to New York in 1999, Prieto has worked in bands led by Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Eddie Palmieri, Chico and Arturo O’Farrill, Dave Samuels and The Caribbean Jazz Project, Jane Bunnett, D.D. Jackson, Edward Simon, Michel Camilo, Chucho Valdés, Bebo Valdés, Roy Hargrove, Don Byron, and Andrew Hill.
Dafnis Prieto Sextet:
Alex Norris, Trumpet
Roman Filiu, Alto Saxophone
Peter Apfelbaum, Tenor Saxophone
Osmany Paredes, Piano
Johannes Weidenmueller, Bass
Dafnis Prieto, Drums
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