Westchester Arts Council's Invitational Exhibit : YEA !

Friday, 02 June 2006 10:24

White Plains, NY - Who are the rising stars on the Westchester art scene?  Find out this June during the Westchester Arts Council’s invitational exhibit YEA! Young Emerging Artists.  The exhibit includes painting, sculpture, photography and installation works by 37 artists, all of whom were hand-picked by the county’s most distinguished curators and arts professionals.  This exciting and eclectic exhibit opens June 10th until July 29th.

The line-up of artists in YEA! was proposed by curators from the county’s museums, including the Neuberger Museum of Art, the Katonah Museum of Art and the Hudson River Museum. Gallery directors from the Castle Gallery in New Rochelle, Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Larchmont and Maxwell Fine Arts in Peekskill also lent their expertise.  Independent curator Rosemary Cohane Erpf put all the pieces together, resulting in a multifaceted exhibition that will surprise, delight and perhaps shock the viewer.

Erpf’s pick, Tom Sanford, will be represented by a large scale contemporary cultural history painting titled “The DEFosition Burn.”  Contemporary art authority Livia Strauss, President of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art thinks that mixed media artist, Saya Woolfalk from Scarsdale is the up and coming artist to watch.  Dede Young from the Neuberger Museum of Art and Denise Mullen of SUNY Purchase, School of Art + Design suggested several artists coming out of the MFA program at Purchase including Sasha Kopelwitz, a painter whose fantastic images of imaginary aliens captivate the viewer.  Toni Quest’s penetrating portraits of black women were discovered through Surya Peterson, director of the Sunday Gallery.

Nature and artifice is a recurrent theme in many of the artists’ works.  Mia Brownell configures photorealistic images of fruit into giant DNA chains.  Kenise Barnes of Kenise Barnes Fine Art suggested New Rochelle artist Martin Kruck whose grid of manipulated photographs situates the same viewer looking out 9 different vistas reminiscent of travel folder panoramas.

Westchester Arts Council, founded in 1965, is the largest, private, not-for-profit arts council in New York State.  Its mission is to provide leadership, vision, and support to ensure the availability, accessibility, and diversity of the arts. 

Visit http://www.westarts.com/

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