BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lake George Arts Project - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://lakegeorgearts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Lake George Arts Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231217 DTSTAMP:20260415T183635 CREATED:20220604T031857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T191407Z UID:7327-1700006400-1702771199@lakegeorgearts.org SUMMARY:Jeff Wigman Excelsior DESCRIPTION:Click Here to read the Times Union review of Excelsior: New Oils by Jeff Wigman\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Artist’s Gallery Reception:Saturday\, November 18\, 20234:00 – 6:00 PM \nSunday ArtsSunday\, November 19\, 2023Gallery open 1:00 – 4:00PMGallery visit and maker space for all ages \nA Conversation with the Artist:Friday\, December 1\, 20237:00 PMJeff Wigman: Excelsior – New OilsJoin Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89768965189Meeting ID: 897 6896 5189 \n  \n  \n                                                                                 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nArtist’s Statement \nPainting is where internal and external experience mix. It’s a way to process and relate to the world\, like conversing with a person or chewing food. My first response to an idea or event is to interpret it\, to make it something I can see. A phrase like “drunken centaur\,” doesn’t go far on its own\, but by turning it over this way and that\, finding forms for invisible notions\, and inviting in accident and precedent\, painting becomes a space of illumination. It’s a way to get past words. In the open space of the page\, metaphors popup like sudden jokes\, fully formed and emblematic. Imagination here isn’t about escape or fancy; it’s a matter of engaging the mind’s eye as the primary interpretive tool. \nI use oil paints\, often making my own. It’s mesmerizing stuff that takes on endless qualities. It mixes so easily with the eye\, ready to become something\, making suggestions as if it has its own desires. Looking closely into it shows something of the mystery of substance and representation altogether\, of how the material world conspires with perception\, mind\, and knowledge to make up our experience. I pay attention to the vitality of the paint layers and the movement of the surface. There are moments like “ah\, I’ve seen that in so and so”—passages of paint that share in a lineage. \nI paint with a range of historical approaches not to mimic a look\, but as a practice. There’s wisdom in method and material. There’s richness. Technical investigation sheds light on and expands the creative process beyond notions of a verisimilitude or style. Painting is an outlook. Rather than just dressing up the ancients in modern clothes\, I see these processes as incisive analytical tools\, like finding an old hand-ground lens that still magnifies whatever it’s placed in front of. \nBio \nJeff Wigman has shown regularly since moving his studio upstate in 2006. His work has been exhibited in venues such as The Albany Institute of History and Art\, Albany\, NY; Opalka Gallery\, Albany\, NY; The Hyde Collection\, Glens Falls\, NY; Manifest Gallery\, Cincinnati\,OH; Bowery Gallery\, Manhattan; Good Naked Gallery\, Brooklyn; and Kunstverein Eisenstadt\, Austria. Jeff earned a BFA in painting and sculpture from Parsons School of Design in 1992. He grew up in southern Ohio and lives and works in Troy\, New York. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nThe Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse\,corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streetsin Lake George\, NY.\nDuring scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours areWednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm& Saturdays 12 – 4 pm.\nIf you would like to visit exhibitions outside of Gallery hours or request a tour for a group\, please contact June Waters\, Director of Exhibitions (contact information below)\nIf you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through email:\nJune Waters\, Director of Exhibitions\, june@lakegeorgearts.org\nTanya Tobias-Tomis\, Executive Director\, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THANK YOU!This exhibition is funded in part by the Town of Lake George\, the Village of Lake George\, The New York State Council on the Arts\, the Glenn & Carol Pearsall Foundation\, the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust\, Anonymous\, and Lake George Arts Project Members. Please Join us today! \nWe would also like to thank our Media Sponsor: 518 Profiles URL:https://lakegeorgearts.org/event/jeff-wigman/ LOCATION:Courthouse Gallery\, 1 Amherst St\, Lake George\, NY\, 12845\, United States CATEGORIES:Courthouse Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lakegeorgearts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/349_passing_storm-copy-2-300x229-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T183635 CREATED:20231106T234626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231106T234626Z UID:10917-1701970200-1701979200@lakegeorgearts.org SUMMARY:2023 Holiday Party & Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Holiday Party & Annual Meeting\nThursday\, December 7\, 2023\n5:30pm – Cocktail Hour\n6:30pm – Dinner and Meeting \nWe hope our friends and members can join us for an evening of great company\, a little bit of Arts Project business\, and a celebration of The Arts Project and all that we do.\nSocial & Cocktail Hour starts at 5:30pm\, followed by an amazing buffet dinner and the Annual Meeting at 6:30pm. We’ve got entertainment and a cash bar. \n$45 per person\nTickets can be purchased online (below)\nvia phone: 518-668-2616\nor email: Tanya@lakegeorgearts.org URL:https://lakegeorgearts.org/event/2023-holiday-party-annual-meeting/ LOCATION:The Lake George Beach Club\, 3 Montcalm Street\, Lake George\, NY\, 12845\, United States CATEGORIES:Fundraising Events,Special ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lakegeorgearts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Square-holiday-party-annual-meeting.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR