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Exhibit: A Moment’s Time

Fahey — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:36:36 +0000

BluSeed Studios proudly presents A Moment's Time:

JESSICA JEFFREY and SHAUN ONDAK ~ 2010 Artists in Residence Exhibition

Artist Reception: March 5, 2010 ~ 7-9pm

Exhibition runs: March 5th – April 4th, 2010

“A Moment in Time” will feature the mono prints of Jessica Jeffery and photography of Shaun Ondak. Jeffery and Ondak are BluSeed Studios 2010 Artist in Residence. Jessica works in the printmaking studio creating unique prints using Xerox transfers and celestial textures. Shaun’s digital photography is a collection of narrative “nightscapes” from the surrounding area.

Jeffery says this about her art, “I believe that the act of making something changes the maker and that we are altered by what we see. Therefore I gently fashion us all into some kind of creature that can gracefully tread that vast scope of experience between wonder and terror”.

She uses her mono prints in an attempt to slow down the sense of time out of control, connect with the lineage of printmaking and incorporate new discoveries in science and culture. Jeffery is happy to be back home in the Adirondacks after a long string of travels and the completion of her BFA in Printmaking at the Maine College of Art.

Ondak states, "At night when the sky opens up, I seem to escape behind the stars and the possibilities seem endless. You never know what will come out of a dark space if you just expose it in its proper time". He then adds, "The unknown factor of finding something at night and photographing it reveals hidden elements that would otherwise go unnoticed. Allowing extreme exposures increases the perception of time and the tranquilities that otherwise would be unfound in a simple snap-shot".

Shaun Ondak grew up on the edge of the Niagara River just outside Buffalo. He spent most of his time involved in sports and other outdoor activities. Prior to finishing college he spent a year in Australia where he purchased his first SLR camera. His fascination with photography began with the Australian environment and now continues within the Blue Line. Shaun now resides in Saranac Lake as an Artist in Residence at BluSeed Studios. He is in charge of the framing and digital printing studio.

Exhibit: ’09 – Jill Littlewood

Geoffrey Sanford — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:17:21 +0000

Jill Littlewood: "Death and Other Lives"

Art Exhibition: Sept. 17, 2009

Jill Littlewood’s full room installation is called Death and Other Lives. As she says, “I chose death as a topic because I wanted something big enough to be both mythic and encyclopedic. It was a good choice–death takes you everywhere.”

photos by Shaun Ondak

Phil Gallos: Artist Reception

Geoffrey Sanford — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:52:20 +0000

Art Exhibition: Phil Gallos…

Photos from Artist Reception: 8/20/2009, 5–7pm….
Recent works by Phil Gallos…

photos by Shaun Ondak

Exhibit: ’09 – M. Sprague & J. Heinz

Geoffrey Sanford — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:13:40 +0000

Exhibition Runs:
June 18-July 12, 2009
Opens: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 5-7pm

Exhibit: ’08 – “15 Years”…

Geoffrey Sanford — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:29:17 +0000

The recent works of Stephanie Gerolimatos & Mark Bodah
Opened on June 19-July 13, 2008

Stephanie Gerolimatos and Mark Bodah met in 1993 while earning art degrees at SUNY Plattsburgh. It took seven years, but inevitably, a random palm reader’s love prophecy came to pass, and in 2000 they became a couple. Today, they share a home in Western Massachusetts with their five feline friends.

Stephanie spends most days in her home studio making art. Her work begins and ends with the physicalómaterials and process. Barriers between various disciplines such as painting and sculpture disappear or lose significance. She employs whatever works on any given day whether it’s oil paint, encaustic, expanding foam insulation or desiccated animal remains. Finding a balance between imposing her will and allowing the materials and objects to exert their inherent properties is a major consideration. Ultimately, this dilemma becomes a metaphor for finding ways to exist outside the studio.

Mark is preparator for the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, plays drums for several bands, has a home recording set-up and periodically ventures back into the visual arts. His visual work draws from biology, archeology and the natural environment and focuses on the moment of transition between one state of being and the next. Themes include the topography of body and landscape.

In addition to this exhibition, they have another scheduled for September 2008 at Hosmer Gallery in Northampton, MA.

Exhibit: ’08 – “Side by Side”

Geoffrey Sanford — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:45:59 +0000

Featured new work of Maria D’Angelo and Matthew Paul

Opened on Friday Feb. 29,2008
Show ran Feb. 29 – March 30, 2008

Exhibit: ’07 – “If Walls Could Sing”

Geoffrey Sanford — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:47:53 +0000

Mary Lou Reed

Ran: 9/20-10/28/2007

An exhibition of sculptural wall hangings and three-densional chimes, a combination of materials that emphasizes the hidden elements of sound.

Exhibit: ’07 – “Stealth Towers”

Geoffrey Sanford — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:50:10 +0000

Peter Seward…"Stealth Towers"

A series of landscape paintings documenting real and imagined cell phone towers disguised as sacred icons. Ubiquitous in the modern landscape, Stealth Towers both serve and surveil us. Seward paints in watercolor and oil, to explore the themes around the artifice of technology, in this case communication infrastructure.

Exhibit: ’07 – Green Door Studio

Geoffrey Sanford — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:51:44 +0000

The Green Door Studio is a studio arts collective based out of Burlington, VT, that opened in March 2002.

The exhibit includes current work by photographers Tom Lascell, Phil Gingrow, Gemma Perretta, and Brian Miles; paintings by Michael C. Scott, Andrea Currie, Clark Derbes, Lydia Bright and Kevin Matott; a mixed media video installation by Athena Kafantaris; interactive performance involving the deep frying of books by John Lafalce; the collaborative book ‘Warrior Writers’ by Drew Cameron and other Iraq Veterans Against the War; and recent artists books with letterpress printing and handmade papers by Drew Luan Matott. (www.greendoorstudio.net)