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Upcoming Exhibition: Lyrical Abstraction

PATCHOGUE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS

Lyrical Abstraction

Curated by John Cino

September 9 – October 27, 2017

Reception: Saturday, September 9, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM

(Chris Ann Ambery, Deeper)

The Patchogue Arts Council is proud to present Lyrical Abstraction, a group exhibition curated by John Cino. The exhibition features the artwork of Susan Abramson, Chris Ann Ambery, Stuart Bigley, Hyon Hartberger and Pamela Waldroup. The exhibition is on view at the Patchogue Arts Gallery from September 9 to October 27, 2017, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 9, from 5:00 – 7:00 PM.

 

What:    Lyrical Abstraction

When:   September 9 – October 27, 2017

Where:  Patchogue Arts Gallery, 20 Terry St., Suite 116, Patchogue, NY 11772

Cost:   Free and open to the public

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Ratgrrl “The Constellation, Dos Esposas”

The art of grief
BY TARA SMITH

“Sad lady art” is the term Jessica Valentin uses to describe her work; one she embraces with a smile. She’s always tried to make sense of her grief in a light hearted way, using the hashtag #sadladyproblems following the death of her husband, Darren, in 2015. The loss came after Darren’s hard-fought battle with brain cancer, Valentin explained. But she was no stranger to grief: she had been widowed twice by the time she turned 37.
Try as she might, those themes of heartache and loss remain constant in her colorful graphic art. “I lost a husband in my twenties and in my thirties,” Valentin says, softly. “A lot of what I do is influenced by my grief, and working through it, but also trying to make something colorful and beautiful out of that pain.”

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PAC Spotlight #3 – Amalia Drewes

The Patchogue Arts Council

presents

“1967: Summer of Love”

This week’s Spotlight Artist:

Amalia Drewes

“I am inspired by nature, spirituality, and stories of the everyday person.”
-Amalia Drewes

(Amalia Drewes, Sun and Moon masks, multi media, 2015 5ft long)
Pictured above was Amalia’s piece that was on display at the Patchogue Arts Gallery’s “1967: Summer of Love” exhibit.  

 

I asked Amalia what the ‘Summer of Love’ theme meant to her:

“First, I want to mention how important this exhibition is.  I am 24 years old, I did not have opportunity to grow up during the 60s and 70s when Love was a symbol of hope, peace, and togetherness. Love was how people “fought back” against violence and prejudices. I believe this is a similar time for the need of people coming together and sharing love with one another, to fight against the negativity of current events.
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My Sun and Moon masks reflect the idea of lightness and darkness.  The Sun is bright and welcoming.  The Moon is dark and mysterious.  Separate, they are their own objects, but together they become so much more, they balance the ways of life.  Although the Sun and Moon are different, they must exist together in harmony.  I believe that The Summer Love exhibition gives us the same opportunity to harmonize with our communities, even if we don’t always agree with our neighbors.”

 

Amalia has done live performances with her pieces. It’s interesting how people reacted to the different masks.

Amalia: “The two masks were included in an Art Performance in Thompkins Square Park, to celebrate the Sun and Moon during specific times of the year.  It was incredible to see the difference between how people reacted to the darkness of the Moon and the brightness of the Sun. I found that most people were afraid to approach me as the Moon, some even ran away from me in fear.  The Sun encouraged people to walk up to me, take pictures with me, and dance with me in the park.“

[Amalia Drewes, Sun and Moon Sketch]

Artist Bio:

My name is Amalia Drewes. I am a professional Mixed Media Illustrator. I lived in Manhattan and went to school at The New School, Parsons School of Design for 5 years, but I currently live in West Babylon, NY (my hometown). I graduated with a BFA in Illustration.  Although I learned a lot from school, most of my skills are self-taught through playful experimentation. I have been a part of many shows and exhibitions throughout the last 7 years. Out of all the shows that I am showcased in, I truly enjoy being a part of fundraisers and contributing to a more meaningful purpose to help others around the world.  I was included in The Child Trafficking awareness Fundraiser, hosted by Set NYC (2016), and the La Alianza

‘GIRLS’ fundraiser (2016).  The money made from all the sold artwork went towards the support and education for young girls and boys worldwide.  Right now, I am passionate about supporting musicians.  I have completed many Album Covers and Album art templates.  My most recent work for Album Art is

“Under One Sun,” composed by Billy Drewes and completed with the liner notes written by Paul Simon. It is truly an honor to work with musicians, as I believe Visual Art and Music work hand in hand.


More at:

www.amaliadrewes.com
@AmaliaDrewes
Facebook

Be sure to stop by our gallery to see some of the best art Long Island has to offer.

See you next time when we feature another artist at the PAC.

Gallery Info:
Patchogue Arts Gallery
20 Terry Street, Ste. 116
Patchogue, NY 11772
631-627-8686

Hours:
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Thurs-Fri: 2pm-7:30pm
Sat-Sun: 1pm-5pm

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for the Patchogue Arts Council

 

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Artist Spotlight #2 – Linda Louis

The Patchogue Arts Council

presents

“1967: Summer of Love”

This week’s spotlight Artist:

Linda Louis

“Art has no rules … it is not like medicine, or science, or the law… in art rules exist to be broken. Art invites the ephemeral, the subjective, the idiosyncratic.  Art celebrates innovation, it delves the mind.” [From Linda’s artist statement]

(The Mystical Trip, Oil on Canvas, 34 x52, 2016)

Pictured above is Linda’s piece that was on display at the Patchogue Arts Gallery’s “1967: Summer of Love” exhibit.  

 

Linda gave us some background info about her piece:

‘The Magical Trip’(now The Mystical Trip) first emerged as part of a series of 12 small, roughly 5”x 7” wax and pigment paintings on paper. They did not have a names. I informally called them ‘personal experiences’. Fascinated by this particular ‘personal experience’, and drawn to working on wood, it transitioned itself into a 36”x36” wax and pigment painting called ‘A Remarkable Journey’. After a time, while still inspired by the subject, I turned again to this particular image, thus creating the 34”x52” oil on-canvas painting called ‘The Magical Trip’. – Linda Louis

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ACES Mag Article

THE SUMMER OF LOVE HAS COME TO PATCHOGUE

 

It has been 50 years since the young descended en masse on the city of San Francisco and began a cultural revolution. Over 100,000 flower children gathered in Haight-Ashbury to spread their idealistic counter-cultural movement, which embraced the themes of peace, love, psychedelia, and Zen philosophy. It is this revolutionary time that is at the core of this year’s Summer of Love 1967-2017, presented by the Patchogue Arts Council.

 

Beginning this past April and continuing through late September, The Summer of Love 1967-2017 features a series of exhibitions and events inspired by the themes of the late 1960s. On view at the Patchogue Arts Gallery is 1967: The Summer of Love, a group exhibition curated by John Cino and featuring artwork inspired by the Summer of Love, psychedelia, and flower power themes. The exhibition is on view through June 25, while next door the Artspace Residents’ Gallery features the exhibition Surreal Abstract Expressions, curated by Dave Rogers and on view during the month of June.

Satellite exhibitions can be found in Roast Coffee & Tea Trading Company, Toast Coffeehouse, the Patchogue-Medford Library, and the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts. Roast Coffee & Tea Trading Company hosts the solo exhibition Neil Leinwohl: The Summer of Love, which presents select ink-jet prints by Neil Leinwohl, on view through July 16. Toast Coffeehouse hosts the solo exhibition You Spin Me Round, which exhibits new work by Ratgrrl from June 1 – August 30. The Patchogue-Medford Library and the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts both exhibit the iconic photography of renowned artist Rowland Scherman during the month of June. The political photography of Rowland Scherman can be found at the Patchogue-Medford Library in the exhibition Lens on the Later Sixties; selections of his cultural and musical imagery of the 1960s can be found at the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts in the exhibition Sounds of the Sixties. All exhibitions are on view during the business hours of their respective venues.

The festival also incorporates the 2nd annual Arts on Terry street fair, co-presented by the Patchogue Arts Council, Artspace Patchogue, and the Patchogue-Medford Library. The full-day event features pop-up art exhibits from Long Island-based arts organizations, individual artist booths, family-friendly vendors and activities, street artists, live music, demonstrations, and much more. Arts on Terry will be held on Sunday, June 4, from 12:00 – 6:00 PM, on Terry Street in front of the Artspace building in Patchogue, NY. The event is rain or shine and free to attend.

 

In addition to the multitude of exhibitions and Arts on Terry, the Patchogue Garden Club hosts outdoor sculpture installations by John Bell, Laurence Lee, Bill Shillalies, Dwight Trujillo and Ratgrrl in the garden at the corner of Terry Street and South Ocean Avenue in Patchogue, NY. The sculpture garden also features painted logs that were created during the Patchogue Arts Council’s 8th annual Log Jam Festival that took place at Blue Point Brewery on May 28. The sculpture garden will be on view from June 4 to September 30. The Patchogue-Medford Library will also display a temporary mural painted by John Hollingsworth. As with the rest of the festival, the mural is inspired by the Summer of Love, psychedelia, and flower power themes. The mural will be on view on the rear wall of the Patchogue-Medford Library through September 3.

 

The Patchogue Arts Council, Inc. was formed to encourage, support, and promote the arts while aiding in the revitalization and sustainability of the community. The Patchogue Arts Council, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose focus is to serve the greater south shore of the Town of Brookhaven. For more information on The Summer of Love 1967-2017 and Arts on Terry, please visit www.patchoguearts.org.

 

Jay Schuck

 

Patchogue Arts Council

20 Terry St., Suite 116

Patchogue, NY 11772

 

Image Credit

Red Lady Spin Me Round © Ratgrrl 2017

Love the One You’re With © Neil Leinwohl 2016

 

All images courtesy of the Patchogue Arts Council

 

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Interview with Grammy Winner – Rowland Scherman

Patchogue Arts Council Presents: Rowland Scherman

by Tara Smith

You may know Rowland Scherman by name, or you may not. His iconic photographs have been hanging around Patchogue in both the library and theater lobby as part of the Patchogue Arts Council’s “Summer of Love” tribute.
Scherman was the first photographer for the Peace Corps in 1961, documenting the work of volunteers all over the world. His photos helped define the image of the agency we know today. In 1963, he became a freelance photographer, frequently published in Life, Look, National Geographic, Time, Paris Match and Playboy just to name a few.
He photographed many of the iconic musical, cultural and political events of the 60’s including the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, the March on Washington, DC, the Beatles first US concert and Woodstock. He traveled with Bobby Kennedy on his campaign for the presidency, went on tour with Judy Collins, was in the studio when Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their first album.

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Newsday Article: 1967’s hippes…

1967’s hippies, Summer of Love celebrated with free events in Patchogue

By Steve Parks
(original article)

The Summer of Love — the hippie phenomenon centered in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood — began 50 years ago.

The golden anniversary of this countercultural turning point in 1967, which in some ways defined about half the Baby Boomer generation, is being observed coast to coast, including in Patchogue with a summerlong arts festival running through September.

Other observances are scattered around the globe but also, of course, in San Francisco, where it all began.

“We’re hoping our observance won’t be generated just by us,” says John Cino, curator of the Summer of Love Festival sponsored by the Patchogue Arts Council. “We want other people to join in spontaneously, like it happened 50 years ago.”

FLOWER POWER

While most of the hippies who experienced the original Summer of Love — some of them preferred to be known as “flower children” — are now in their late 60s or early 70s, Cino remembers it from afar. “I was very moved by it though I was only 10 at the time. I had a big sister who was into all that, so it rubbed off on me.”

“All that” was peace and love — the hippie mantra — but also sex, drugs and rock and roll. Communal living contributed to the first of these as 100,000 students and dropouts descended on what became the most famous intersection in the world for a few months. People slept in parks, on the streets and a dozen or more per one-bedroom flat. The drugs — especially LSD and marijuana — were celebrated by such influential figures of the time as Timothy Leary (“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”). That summer and its prelude, the Human Be-in at Golden Gate Park, directly inspired the 1968 Broadway musical “Hair,” according to creators James Rado and Gerome Ragni. “We thought, ‘This is happening in the streets. We want to bring it to the stage,’ ” Rado recalled.

Among the anthems of that summer was Scott McKenzie’s “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” written by John Phillips of the The Mamas & the Papas, and the Grateful Dead became troubadours of the movement spurred in part by opposition to the Vietnam War and what many regarded as rampant consumerism.

That culturally historic summer is recalled in Patchogue through art exhibits in venues all over the village, not just in galleries, as well as in a “flower power” garden and a community mural and one-night music festival.

In keeping with another popular phrase of the time, “free love,” Patchogue’s “Summer of Love” happenings are free. Far out and right on.

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Artist Spotlight #1 Lisa Petker-Mintz

 

The Patchogue Arts Council

presents

“1967: Summer of Love”

This week’s Spotlight Artist:

Lisa Petker-Mintz

 

“My paintings are autobiographical and focus on different places, people, and experiences in my life. The themes are personal but universal, death, love, divorce, marriage, and children dominant emotionally in the work.  Every series begins with a spark and a desire to paint; I need to express the thoughts in my head….” [From Lisa’s’ artist statement]

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Celebrate Flower Power All Summer Long

Written by Summer of Love Special Features Writer Tara Smith

In 1967, school let out for the summer and a cultural revolution brewed as thousands of young people descended upon San Francisco. Civil rights, peace signs and experimentation with drugs became symbols that defined a decade marked by an ever-growing chasm between America’s youth and their parents.
That summer would go on to be remembered as the Summer of Love—if you close your eyes you can probably picture a girl “with flowers in her hair.”
This summer, the City of San Francisco will remember that summer 50 years later. But you don’t have to book a six-hour flight to take part in the festivities. The Patchogue Arts Council will be remembering the Summer of Love with festivals; events and exhibitions all summer long, starting with the Arts on Terry festival planned for this Sunday, June 4.
Set against the backdrop of a psychedelic mural created by Artspace resident Jonny Mike, hundreds of artists will be set up in tents along Terry Street, the heart of Patchogue’s arts district. Walk down Terry Street and the Roe Walkway for live art demonstrations, tye-dye, chalk, ceramics and glass as well as body painting and poetry readings.

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Psychedelic Imagery Commemorating the Summer of Love is Celebrated in New Mural

By Jay Schuck for Pat-Med Lib

If you have visited the library over the last couple weeks, you may have noticed a bit more color on our rear facade!

Local artist John Michael Hollingworth, a.k.a. Jonny Mike, has completed his new mural, titled Summer of Love. The mural is part of the Patchogue Arts Council’s Summer of Love 1967 – 2017, a summer-long festival commemorating the original happening. It also serves as a backdrop for the organization’s Arts on Terry Street, happening this Sunday from 12 – 6 PM. The day-long, family-friendly, street fair features pop-up exhibitions, artist demos, live music, and much more.

About the Mural

The temporary mural adorns the back wall of the library and is up now through September 3. It celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, a cultural revolution where over 100,000 flower children gathered in San Francisco. Once there, they spread their counter-culture movement, which embraced the themes of peace, love, psychedelia, and Zen philosophy.

The mural is bright, colorful, and beautiful. Using Flame BLUE acrylic paints that span the colors of the rainbow, Hollingworth began with round back colors before adding the main graphical details. All the call-backs to the flower-power movement are here. Hearts, peace-signs, and flowers are all prominently featured alongside the words ‘peace’ and ‘love.’ There is even a bell-bottom girl, and Volkswagen bus! When interviewed by Tara Smith for the Long Island Advance, Hollingworth mentioned the mural is the largest he has created. He also said he enjoyed it when people stopped by to admire the mural as he worked on it. It is a celebration of art and music.

 

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