Gallery and Studio – Arts Journal

Dance

Ballet for a Better World

by Marina Hadley

Films

Empty Box of Matches – The Infinite and the Mundane: fugue and variations

by Woody Sempliner

Visual Arts

Shared Visions: The Artist-Run Gallery

by Linda Ganus Albulescu

Visual Arts

The Visionary Assemblages of Nancy Staub Laughlin

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Editorial • Profiles

All About Ed

by Jeannie McCormack

Visual Arts

A Spotlight Shining on Schoor

Events

Instant Tunnel

Theater

Into the Woods Jr.

by Marina Hadley

Poetry

After Dark After Restoration

by Mary Lindberg

Museums • Profiles • Visual Arts

Taiwan in green, blue and yellow.

by Sebastien Aurillon

Summer Issue - Editorial

Summer has arrived in New York with a mix of heat waves, torrential rains, humidity and the Covid-19 Delta variant. It is usually a quiet time for galleries, so we wait with trepidation to hear the news of which galleries have re-opened already, which will have closed for good, and how many new galleries will open for the first time. We talk to four artist-run galleries. It will also be interesting to see how the pandemic affected art sales. Anecdotally, we have heard that sales continued worldwide, and collectors have bought more in their domestic markets, with intel from Sebastien Aurillon in Taiwan. …more

Art in Quarantine

brown and white acrylic painting

Jean Marc
Calvet

A woman with black hair, a lace shawl, cracks from her chest up to her face, and no eyes stands against a dark background.

Ashley
Rang

Pyramid-like origami sculptures of thick material strapped with gold string and brass pins with knotted heads.

Renee
Cuny

Photograph of a the inside of a rustic hut with rays of sun crossing the front of the lens. A wooden bench is piled with bed linens, and a wooden ledge is full of books, jars and vases.

Barbara
Schneider

Abstract work of blacks, pinks and greys, with lines strocking upwards in an hourglass shape. in the lower half there is photograph of a person's face and spread hands peering through a window in a darkened room

Madeleine
Wories

Painting of a multi-colored Buddha-like figure with a beaded necklace, yellow jacket, and a large belly.

Jim
Charette

A variety of pond foliage and autumn leaves floating on water.

Susan
Laing

4 people in a painting

Karina
Sala

Flyer that says “New York in TOON: An original tapestry woven from the fabric of New York Day in the Life Stories & Published Our Town NYC Comic Book Reality Narratives, Art Illustrations and Photography Photoons.”

Peter
Pereira

A shirtless person wearing a headwrap facing a headboard and curtains in a room.

Christie
Cruise

Abstract multicolored painting with broad paint strokes.

Sheila
Hecht

A person bends over and is seen from the back. There is a tattooed symbol on their butt and their vulva is seen.

Hannah
Mallaby

A photograph of a couple standing together wearing medial masks

Eva
Lewarne

abstract painting with a woman's face at the bottom of the image, a neon image of the word love, bright colored swathes of paint, including drips

Eddy
Bogaert

A list reading “my friends, my friends, my friends, my friends, my friends, road trips, swimming” signed R, clipped on a map.

Merih
Akman

Surgical glove with geometric and organic pattern.

Guillaume
Saur

Described as abstract informal by the artist. In 3 horizontal parts, small people, robots and other characters, on surfaces/planets covered in colorful dots.

Teruhisa
Tahara

A colorful scene with cats and a woman in a dress, on a patterned background.

Mark
Kurdziel

Screen print of Frida Kahlo overlaid with vaguely horizontal swathes of colors that are someone reminsicent of the rainbow.

Tina
Morris

Portrait of a woman created from four canvases

Lars
Winther

abstract painting in a grid, predominantly blue

Bob
Leonard

A nude figure opens their arms towards a dark landscape with their back facing the audience.

Glen
Rogers

Woman holding a boy in her arms - painting.

Linda
Pierson

Dennis
Elleflot

painting of blue water, lillypads and greeen shoreline

Don
Gropman

A woman sews flowers onto a material with various objects behind her.

Hira
Kazmi

A wooden household shelf filled with screens, purity tassels, a rising sun, alter, rope, greenery, and stones.

Joseph
Fox

Face wearing sunglasses with a convertible in the reflection.

Joe
Chierchio

Photograph of a woman's torso partially covered with cloth and with one breast uncovered

Anthony
Buscaino

abstract expressionist painting with multi-colored splashes and dots

Manon
Casimir-Sainton

A girl with an easel, painter’s palette, windows, and the words: "I will spend time alone and know this is temporary."

Kayley
Isaacson

Three elephant walking in long grass in Kenya

Lesa
Walker

Blue, black and white abstract image with upward vertical paintstrokes.

Marceil
Kazickas

Three registers showing various plants. Some text reads "DEATH PLANTS".

Emeline
Callaway

Abstract collage with many figures, such as a clown-like figure, clouds, hands, and many colors against a brown background.

David
Jenowe

An embroidery hoop with text that says "There is less room to avoid ourselves now."

Loosey
Hughes

A black and white image of a woman lying on the ground, wearing sweats and a sports bra, with pink blossoms around her.

Grace
Plimpton-Sims

A piece of paper, on pinstripe cloth, with abstract faded yellow and red lines on it.

Terri
Fraser

Self portrait in black watercolor. head and shoulders with shoulder length hair with bangs shadowing the face

Hanne
Rivrud

The World Takes A Breath

Thomas
Pickarski

portrait of a person in color pencils

Lou
Patrou

Collage of woman with a glass in her hand.

Denise
Adler

Scantily clad woman with her left hand over her head and clutching at her hair looking to her left.

Ashleigh
Alexandria

Abstract digital rendering of space with lots of abstracted debri and a planet at the top. All in a dark background.

Stefania Carrozzini

black and white phtograph of an inside corner, with rays of sun hitting the two walls and the corner.

Brian
Auerbach

Abstract collage with some of a face shown in the center of the work.

Bernice
Sokol Kramer

Drawing of a blue dream catcher surrounded by blue circular designs on a black background.

Dulcie
Dee

Abstract painting in shades of red and pink. The word “vulnerable” is hidden by paint and a wash.

NJ
Weaver

Astract work in tones from white/grey and brown/black. Swathes of color, overlaid and textured paint

Jerry
McLaughlin

Marrakech art work framed

Sebastien
Aurillon

A long-haired girl in color wearing a blue mask in a black and white old-style NY subway.

Valerie
Patterson

A church with flying buttresses in a large open piazza, with a few tourists around the edge

Martin
Rich

Drawing of a red fox

Heather
Levy

Abstract painting with blues, greens and purple swathes

Katharine
Dufault

Many abstract headless figures cavorting around with various blobs of color floating around and plant-like bodies.

Betina
Jung

Painting of a cowboy on a horse in the background with a young calf in the foreground.

Melchor
Moore

Landscape with a blue sky, puffy clouds, verdant trees, a pond with clouds reflected in it, and pondweed on the edges.

Alyssa
Meadows

A naked woman sits cross-legged on a stool, gripping her abdomen while looking away to her right.

Jezzelle
Kellam

geometric abstract painting with orange, blues, yellow, and various shades of beige amongst other colors

Matthew
Turov

An opaque plastic female body form with large crystal-like shapes lies on grass.

Bridget
Howard

Abstract representation of a sun-like shape with many different patterns.

R.d.H.

sculpture of ribbed conch shell like shape. Glazed in dark brown/black and lighter colors with a pink tinged inner part

Naomi
Teppich

Abstract work vaguely reminiscent of torn fabric with a flower pattern.

Minya
Mikic

Abstract work of white, blue, black and mixed colors of brushes of paint that look like waterfalls at all different angles.

Marti
Garaughty

A bridge over water with orange and red trees in the background. Many people are on the bridge and in boats in the water.

Allan
Einhorn

sculpture of a child writing on colored tiles sitting at the foot of a concrete wall

Helle
Rask Crawford

OIl painting of two women in a shell

Molly
Rose Strugatz

abstract work predominantly using orange, blue and black, florescent and electric sytle

Keith
Morant

abstract paper and paint in black, red,white and beige

Carl
Heyward

Painting of a cat rolling around on the floor

Nemo
Librizzi

Monologue for a crisis

Paul
Beaudoin

circles looking like bubbles on an opaque screen over an image of a girl standing on a train platform, overlook by another person.

Susumu
Ohira

Brightly colored portrait of Lady Gaga with a black frame above her head. The letters 4 U GAGA are littered around her face.

Jed
Williams

A barren landscape with many metal-framed beds spaced apart. A lone figure in the center sits on a bed while looking down.

June
He

Abstract image of various small white outlined shapes on a black background. The shapes are conentrated at the top left and cascade down.

Claude
Smith

A chain link fence with a metal white chair behind it in an empty lot, with the skyline of New York seen in the background.

Giedrius
Jokubauskis

A black and white photograph of two dogs tied to a railing - six feet apart.

Jim
Lustenader

Three people are outdoors. Two stand on their phones while one sits. They are all wearing casual clothes and sunglasses.

Luong
Thai

A mix of flowers against a dark background.

Cecilia
Mignon

Surrealist painting with a staircase, triangular base, pink cone, pink wire, box, ribbon, on a blue background

Alex
Berdysheff

Six registers of different abstract works with a singular string on top of all of them.

Miss Ellen Ruth
Levy

A large white candle-like shaped sculpture with a rose on top sits on a flat circular metallic board.

Sydney
Valiquet

Christine
Graf

A black and white photograph of a field of wheat with a small house in the far left corner

Peter
Welch

Digital images of a street of London overlaid. There is a red double decker bus, pedestrians, cars and buildings

Fabrizio
Bellanca

Street scene in Madrid

Tomas
Castaño

Image of flower

Michael
Fellows

Dots in variations of cream to brown on a plain background and are denser to the bottom as they disperse upwards.

Capucine
Bourcart

A person with a sad expression has her hands, which are covered with black paint, covering her face.

Akiko
Suzuki

Global Art
Project

Colorful abstract work showing a seated, masked humanoid.

Kaye
Freeman

A sketchbook page with abstract multi-colored geometric shapes.

Amy
Rosenfeld-Kass

painting on a wall - an abstract of pale, grey, tan and white patches that look fluffy. There is one black oblong with a white cross in the center of the painting with a few other random shapes and objects

Robert
Kingston

Donald Trump holding a head of Trump with a small man in front of him adorned with the symbols of American Life.

Robert
Cenedella

Abstract lines and paint strokes.

Dellamarie
Parrilli

Painting of a human figure curled up inside of an opaque white egg on a dark background.

Anki
King

A human-like form dressed in plaid with a cat's head, holding another cat’s head. They stand in plants with cat heads.

Hanae
Sasaoka

portrait of a woman with black hair and red lipd wearing an exotic headress and necklace, both with circular decorations

Marylu
Downing

Nude bodies of a woman and man

Vivian
O’Shaughnessy

Museums

Colorful buildings in Keelung

Museums • Profiles • Visual Arts

Taiwan in green, blue and yellow.

by Sebastien Aurillon

Museums

Hermitage Museum

Museums

VOLCANO! at the PAM

by Dr. Bill Thierfelder

Poetry

Poetry

After Dark After Restoration

by Mary Lindberg

Poetry

Antidote for Grief

by Linda Leedy Schneider

Poetry

An Illuminated Poem by Ed McCormack

by Ed McCormack

Visual Arts

Visual Arts

Shared Visions: The Artist-Run Gallery

by Linda Ganus Albulescu

Visual Arts

The Visionary Assemblages of Nancy Staub Laughlin

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Visual Arts

A Spotlight Shining on Schoor

Colorful buildings in Keelung

Museums • Profiles • Visual Arts

Taiwan in green, blue and yellow.

by Sebastien Aurillon

Show Card for MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021 at Blue Mountain Gallery. Information detailed in link

Visual Arts

Social Conscience, Spirituality and Wiccan in One Show

by Christine Graf

Visual Arts

A Gentle Augur of Seasons

Films

Films

Empty Box of Matches – The Infinite and the Mundane: fugue and variations

by Woody Sempliner

A car with other mechanical objects behind it.

Films

On Remembering and Remembering Dreams

by Woody Sempliner

Wooden poles creating a structure with clothes hanging on it. Clouds and mountains are seen in the background.

Films

Film’s Poetic Subconscious

by Woody Sempliner

Two men by their van, showing some of the technical setup inside the van.

Films

“Drive”
The Longest of the Best

by Woody Sempliner

Dance

Dance

Ballet for a Better World

by Marina Hadley

Photograph of a couple dancing with people looking on.

Dance

The Tango Tangle Social Club

by Carolyn Mitchell

Two constumed dancers, one in a red costume and the other in blue

Dance

The Latest Out Of Chicago: Hiplet Ballerinas

by Marina Hadley

Photograph of two dancers

Dance

Gibney: The Beating Heart

by Trina Mannino