A Monthly Multi-disciplinary Arts Series by Joanne Pagano Weber and Bruce Weber
Place: 9W Diner, 3 Simmons Plaza
Featuring:
Tracy Phillips, painter
Josepha Gutelius, painter
John Kleinhans, photographer
Christine Hughes, painter
Dan Gelfand, painter
Anne Leith, painter
Info About This Month's Guest Artists:
TRACY PHILLIPS is a painter, for whom each work is part of an ongoing conversation with memory, time, reverie, and environment, inspired by patterns in nature, geometric structures, and the unseen currents that shape our inner and outer worlds. She has exhibited widely, in spaces such as I-Gallery in New York, Diane Boisvert Gallery in Brooklyn, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, and Avelan' Arts in France, and many others. In 2017 she won a Juror's Choice Award at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, and in 2002 and 2003 from the National Association for Women Artists, among other awards. Many affiliations include the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition and the New York Artists Circle.
JOSEPHA GUTELIUS is a painter. Her work explores the vitality, crises and grim humor of contemporary life, with a sociopolitical viewpoint. An award-winning poet and playwright, she made a radical switch to visual art in 2015 — inspired by an impulse to continue writing on the canvas, to convert narratives into visions. She usually works in series, each painting an interdependent expression of a particular theme, such as “Shape of Water,” and “Roman Elegies.” Her series “Silence of Nowhere” received a generous grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and “Inhabiting New Earth” was the subject of a discussion and interview on Yale University Radio. She has exhibited at the Albany Institute of History and Art, Mohawk-Hudson Regional, Emerge Gallery, Site: Brooklyn, and Opus 40, to name a few. Josepha lives in Saugerties, New York with her husband, whom she met at Salvador Dali's house in Cadaques, Spain, in 1971.
JOHN KLEINHANS is a photographer with a BA in Music, a doctorate in Experimental Psychology, and lifelong practice in art. He has been an active participant in the Woodstock art scene since he moved there in 1980. He has long been involved with the Woodstock School of Art, where he met his future wife, the artist Paula Nelson. For a period he photographed for the Woodstock Times, as well as for artists and sculptors. Kleinhans has exhibited in many area galleries, such as the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Byrdcliffe Guild, and the James Cox Gallery in Willow.
CHRISTINE HUGHES is a painter known for her work with the forms of compost and fragments from nature. Born in Detroit, she was first influenced by the Cass Corridor artists, whose work grew out of the post-Industrial landscape of that city. She received a BFA from Wayne State University and moved to New York. Hughes’ paintings employ a limited palette of enamels creating a muted tangle of imagery. Her drawings are straightforward explorations of form and relationship. She is currently producing a series of small paintings on paper which further abstract, simplify and distill her visual vocabulary into what she refers to as physical abstraction. Hughes was a founding member of the online art magazine Arteidolia, where she wrote reviews and interviews. She has shown in New York City, Upstate NY and Detroit, in spaces including The Drawing Center, Bard College, The NY Studio School, The Willis Gallery, and Alley Culture in Detroit. She has had one person shows at The Willis Gallery, Art 101 in Brooklyn, The John Davis Gallery and The Foundation Gallery in Hudson, Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York. She received the Pollock Krasner Grant in 2022.
DAN GELFAND is a painter. A native of Queens, he studied art at several schools in New York, including Southampton College, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and the New York Studio School, and completed graduate work at C. W. Post College and SUNY New Paltz. He initially came to the Woodstock area in 1973. In the 1980's and 1990's he was actively engaged in printmaking and in printing for other artists, such as Andree Ruellen and Norma Morgan. For many years Gelfand was deeply involved with and exhibited in the Woodstock artistic community. He taught at the Woodstock School of Art, and currently resides in Saugerties.
ANNE LEITH holds an MFA in Painting and an MA in Art History. She is a former Adjunct Professor of Art at Rosemont College in Pennsylvania, and her expertise includes Art Restoration. She has been Manager of Planning and Operations for International Projects at the Guggenheim Museum in NY; Curator and Marketing Manager for NextMonet.com, a pioneer international online art gallery; and currently owner of Allartstudio, a video company specializing in creating content for artists and non-profit art organizations. Anne exhibits in both the US and Europe in diverse spaces such as galleries, cultural art spaces, nightclubs, bars and restaurants, university galleries, and museums. A resident of Saugerties, NY, she currently has a personal showroom space at the Newberry Building in town. She is an active member at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in Woodstock, NY, as well as a member at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. Says Anne, “Landscapes are my primary subject matter. I paint plein-air as well as in the studio from memory. I seek that curious vibrating balance between the recognizable image, abstraction, and that moment of achieving a beautiful painted surface.” For more information, visit www.anneleith.com, Anne Leith on Facebook, and annegleith on Instagram.
Guests present their work for about ten minutes each, followed by an open discussion/Q&A. Open mic sign-up - Three artists maximum - strict three minute limit per artist
Please note: The 9W Diner is our host for Dialogues for the Ear and Eye • There is a great menu, and a beautiful spacious side room where we will have our gathering. We suggest that you come before 7 and get situated in the performance room and order food or drinks early so that we can focus on the artists between 7 and 9. The restaurant closes at 9 but we are allowed to linger a bit.
• COVID awareness - please use discretion and sign in so if someone gets sick, we can notify you.
• You don’t have to register for tickets or prepay, just arrive!
• Our hosts kindly aren't asking for a minimum order, but we encourage you to support the venue by enjoying their good food and beverages.
• Please be generous to the artists when we pass the hat. All money we collect goes to the artists. We suggest a donation of $10 or more, but leave this to your discretion.