196 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, New York. Hours: Friday through Sunday 12-6 and by appointment. Located 4 blocks from Metro North Train Station and the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

BOUNTY GROUP SHOW AT G.A.S. GALLERY

Poughkeepsie, NY, June 20 – July 19, 2009

For more information, contact Joanne Klein 914-489-8228 or info@joanneklein.com.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

In honor of the Hudson Fulton Champlain Quadricentennial, G.A.S. is pleased to announce a group show titled ‘BOUNTY’ featuring 7 Hudson Valley artists working in various media—painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, quilting and installation.   The exhibition opens June 20th and runs through July 19th. 2009.  An artist’s reception will take place Saturday, June 20th from 6-9 pm.
                 
The Hudson Valley 7 is a diverse group of artists, nationally and internationally exhibited, who share an ongoing dialogue about artistic process and an affinity for life here in this bucolic region.  This show is a celebration of that intersect, that bounty: rich color, textured surface and form, abstraction, realism and conceptual thinking; all somehow interconnected and relating to the experience of life here in the Hudson Valley both presently and historically.
                 
Molly Ahearn has been photographing for more than 25 years. Best known for black-and-white documentary photographic essays of American life, her new work Truth, Lies and Legends is conceptual in nature and features intense color.
                 
Jennifer Axinn-Weiss is a mixed media artist who has exhibited for over 25 years. Jennifer creates textured, often figurative works, at times blurring the boundary between painting and collage.  She currently employs vintage imagery of Geisha and Victorian  women evoking both romance and contemplation.
                 
Susan Hoffman, a pioneering contemporary quilt maker for over 35 years, thinks like a painter.  Fabric is her palette and stitches are her pencil.  Using traditional piecework and quilting techniques, she is inspired by the environment we share and the warmth quilts generate— both literally and metaphorically.
                 
Joanne Klein creates minimalist color field paintings in which color relationships and linear planes are fundamental to the articulation of emotive content.  Her work is both controlled and exuberant.
                 
E. Elizabeth Peters is a multidisciplinary artist whose recent work explores the history of 17th century Dutch still life painting and the continuing impact of global trade and post colonialism in contemporary art and culture.
                 
Helen Suter incorporates diverse, reused materials in her large-scale steel constructions, small objects and works on paper.  Her current body of work reflects her opposition to all wars, an idea to use fabric and her confidence in communicating perceptions, feelings and concepts through purely visual means.
                 
Elizabeth Watt is a photographer whose lush 20x24 polaroid Botanical studies are reminiscent of  Dutch still life paintings.  Elizabeth draws her inspiration from painting, collage, sculpture and nature. Her photographs are characterized by a painterly sensibility, classical composition and exquisite light.