Gallery Schedule
2008-2009 SEASON
subject to change
June-July Hours: Monday-Friday 10-4, and by appointment
Gallery will be closed Friday, July 4
September-May Hours: Monday-Friday 10-4:30, Sundays Noon-4
Monday-Thursday evenings 6-8
Gallery open by appointment only October 12-14 & November 26-30
The gallery is closed between exhibits and open by appointment when classes are not in session.
Most exhibition receptions are scheduled as part of
Albany First Friday
A PARIS SCHOLARS EXHIBIT
June 6 - August 1, 2008,
reception Friday June 6, 5-9pm
Joleen M. Button, Ann Cohan, George Dirolf, Sean Basil McGiver, Todd McMahon, Winnie Pino, Kim Schaller, Peter Theron
Opalka Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by eight past recipients of The Sage Fine Arts Scholarship for Study Abroad. Best known as the Paris Scholarship, this award is for a tuition-paid semester at PARSONSPARIS School of Design, Paris, France during the fall semester. The Paris Scholarship has been awarded annually since 1974. Thus far there have been 35 Paris Scholars
GRACE HARTIGAN: A SURVEY of SEVEN DECADES
courtesy of
ACA Galleries, NY
September 2 - October 19, 2008,
Reception Friday, September 5, 5-9pm
Grace Hartigan's remarkable career began in the 1950s as part of the Abstract Expressionist circle of artists, also known as The New York School. Shortly after her first solo exhibit in New York in 1951 her work was purchased by The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago and The Corcoran Gallery, among others. She was the only woman artist included in the Museum of Modern Arts pivotal exhibition Twelve Americans (1956) and its seminal show The New American Painting (1958) which toured eight European countries and established Abstract Expressionism as the dominant force in contemporary art. Hartigan is also a precursor to the Pop Art movement whose work has remained vital and influential through decades of production. This exhibit is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. A special addition to the exhibit is the painting White, 1951, loaned by the Feibes & Schmitt Collection of Schenectady for the Albany installation.
BOB GLUCK TRIO (jazz performance)
Sunday, September 21, 3:00
Michael Bisio (bass),
Bob Gluck (piano and electronics), with special guest
Jay Rosen (percussion)
Opalka Gallery is pleased to present a performance by the Bob Gluck Trio reinterpreting music from Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi Band plus new music by Bob Gluck.
The Mwandishi band, formally known as The Herbie Hancock Sextet, was a musical ensemble in the early 1970s that defied easy categorization. Their broad embrace of multiple musical worlds, sounds, rhythms and textures has been a source of inspiration and creativity for many musicians. Mwandishi was one of the first ensembles in the context of jazz to draw up new electronic technologies and aesthetics, particularly on their 1972 recording, Crossings, from which the Bob Gluck Trio will draw in this concert.
The Bob Gluck Trio brings a uniquely creative yet disciplined edge to jazz performance. All three musicians are known for their blend of virtuosity and deep musicality. The trio's watchwords are collaboration, listening and response, and collective dynamism. Structured tunes flow in and out of free improvisation, taking the performers and listeners alike to unexpected imaginative places. Bob Gluck Trio
Tickets: $15 adult, $10 student, free for Sage students
Tickets and info: 518-292-7742 or opalka@sage.edu
ART from THE INK SHOP,
November 2 - December 12, 2008,
Reception, Friday, November 7, 5-9pm
Intaglio workshop on Thursday, November 6 at 1pm given by Christa Wolf.
Gum Transfer workshop on Thursday, November 6 at 4:30
Introduction to Printmaking on Saturday, November 8 at 1:00pm
given by Pamela Drix
call 518.292.7742 for details on workshops
The Ink Shop Printmaking Center & Olive Branch Press is a not-for-profit printmakers' center, fine art press and gallery which offers professional facilities for the making of fine art prints. As a regional resource for printmaking, The Ink Shop offers workshops for professionals and the community. The Shop also organizes collaborative projects, group and exchange exhibitions and maintains a slide registry for collectors and curators. The Olive Branch Press prints editions and handmade books. This exhibit includes 25 works by 16 artists representing an array of print media and approach.
CAROL HAMOY: PSALMSONG
January 20 - February 22, 2009
1st Friday Reception Friday, February 6, 5-9pm, Formal Reception Sunday, February 8, 1-4pm
Carol Hamoy: PsalmSong, is a fine art installation inspired by three elements: the ten Psalms deemed by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav to promote healing, Kabbalah's mystical illumination of the connections between the divine and human worlds, and herbal healing traditions from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages. The diaphanous environment provides a sanctuary for reflection and meditation. PsalmSong encourages the visitor to quietly search within themselves for a restful place for renewal and wellbeing - one in which spiritual, physical, and emotional healing can take place.
31st ANNUAL PHOTOGRAPHY REGIONAL
curated by Elizabeth Dubben
March 6 - April 12, 2009,
Reception, Friday, March 6, 5-9pm
The 2009 iteration of the Photo Regional is curated by Elizabeth Dubben, photographer and Director of Amrose & Sable Gallery. Dubben has earned the respect of critics, collectors, and artists for the quality of work she has chosen to present at Amrose & Sable and other locales. Capital Region photographers who feel the curator may not be familiar with their work should send representative images to her attention in care of the Opalka Gallery.
MUSICIANS of MA'ALWYCK (classical performance)
Sunday, March 22, 3:00pm
Musicians of Ma'alwyck is a flexible-size Chamber music ensemble formed in 1999 by Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz. The group performs regularly in Upstate New York presenting programs specializing in the music of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.
This concert features works of Boccherini and Kernis for guitar and string quartet, as well as two almost never-heard American string quartet gems: William Grant Still's Panamanian Dances and Charles Griffess: Sketches on Native American Themes. Performers include guitarist Sten Isachsen, violinist and Musicians of Ma'alwyck director Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, cellist Petia Kassarova and guest violinist Lisa Rautenberg, who has performed with chamber ensembles throughout America and Europe.
Tickets: $20 adults, $10 students, Free for Sage Students
518-377-3623
Musicians of Ma'alwyck
BFA EXHIBITION(s)
April 23 May 9, 2009
2007-2008 Season
All exhibition receptions except for the High School Regional and the BFA shows are scheduled as part of Albany First Friday
Summer gallery hours are Monday-Friday 10-4 and by appointment. The gallery will be closed Wednesday, July 4.
1) Jean Dahlgren, Melanie Printup Hope, Willie Marlowe, and Linda Morrell
June 1 July 29, 2007
Reception Friday, June 1, 5-9pm
Opalka Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by four of the fulltime visual art faculty of The Sage Colleges.
Jean Dahlgren is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Graphic Design. She has been exhibiting nationally since the early 1980s and has been with The Sage Colleges since 1988. Her work in this show grew out of the experience of being in London in July 2005 when the terrorists struck that city. Increased security and technical malfunction impacted the digital photos she took at that time. This year she re-examined those shots to find in them a metaphor for the post-terrorist situation.
Melanie Printup Hope is Associate Professor of Graphic Design and has been with The Sage Colleges since 1997. She has been exhibiting in both Europe and North America since the early 1990s and has been the recipient of numerous fellowships including; Rockerfeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts. Her work is an exploration of her Native American identity and ancestry. The pieces in this show utilize the traditional Iroquois craft of beadwork. About this works Hope has said, It is through the process of sewing these beads that I am able to connect with the past while reflecting on the present.
Willie Marlowe is a Professor of Art who has been with The Sage Colleges since 1977. She has been exhibiting internationally since the early 1970s. Her work is held by many permanent collections including; The Wexford Arts Centre in Ireland, Franklin Furnace in NYC, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina, The Budapest Gallery in Hungary, as well as, the Albany Institute of History and Art and the University Art Museum in Albany. Best known for her sensual and intimate acrylic paintings, the works in this show include her recent digital paintings as well as small acrylics on paper. These works refer to the mysterious ambiguities of being.
Linda Morrell is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Photography. She has been with The Sage Colleges since 1985. She has exhibited nationally since the 1970s. Among her the honors and awards are Rochester Institute of Technology Fellowship, Faculty Distinguished Faculty Award, and David Lloyd Kreeger Award for Photography. Morrells photographs in this exhibit derive from her recent sabbatical in Italy. They represent a view into a cultural landscape rich with religious icons and the coexistence of profound ancient ancestry with a modern society.
The artists will be present for the catered reception on Friday, April 6 from 5-8pm. This event is part of Albany First Friday. There will be trolley service between the Opalka and Center Square.
Click here for a printable version of the exhibition brochure. [PDF 3.78mb]
Gallery Hours during the Fall and Spring semesters are;
Monday-Friday 10-4:30, Monday-Thursday evenings 6-8, and Sundays Noon-4
The gallery is closed between exhibitions
The gallery is open by appointment when classes are not in session.
2) Insights into Suburbia
Curated by Esther Thyssen
and Penny Dell
September 4 - October 21, 2007
Reception Friday, Sept 7, 5-9pm
Panel Presentation,
Sunday, September 23, 1- 3pm
Insights into Suburbia is an exhibition by members of the National Association of Women Artists. Curated by Esther Thyssen, Associate Professor of Art History at The Sage Colleges, and Penny Dell, Exhibition Chair at NAWA, this exhibition showcases contemporary art by women that plumbs themes of contemporary suburbia across the nation. This is a traveling exhibition, and its next venue is the galleries of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Insights into Suburbia features about 50 works by 25 artists who live and work in all regions of the United States, from New York to California, Oregon to Florida, Vermont to Virginia and in the mid-western states. The artworks convey physical, social and cultural perceptions about contemporary American suburbia. This exhibition features paintings, drawings, photographs and mixed media work by women artists who explore the construction of the facts and myths of the suburban experience.
The role of women in the construction of the facts and myths of American suburbia has been studied by social scientists and is the subject of popular publications. This exhibition portrays characteristics of suburbia, as seen through the artistic lens of contemporary women artists.
This exhibit traveled to Purdue and Rutgers Universities after its debut in Albany.
Printable version of the exhibition catalogue Exhibition Catalogue (PDF 1.67 mb)
2a) Wheel of Life: Harold Lohner
September 7 14, 2007
Harold Lohners Wheel of Life draws on the artists ongoing investigation of portraiture in a new manner. Creating works for projection on the exterior white (west) wall of the Opalka, Harold moves the artistic dialogue out of the white cube sanctuary into the public domain. Wheel of Life will debut on September 7, during Albanys 1st Friday Celebration, and be visible the following weekday evenings from 7-9pm Harold Lohner
3) Resonant Journeys: Paintings by Sarah Bowen and Brian Dickerson 
November 2 December 9, 2007
Reception Friday, November 2, 5-9pm
The artists geographical locations differ, while their inner geography--that of the soul--shares important common ground. These affinities include a shared focus on the inner as well as outer landscape, the complex layering, configuring, and revealing of experience, and the subtle, spiritual use of form, line, and color harmonies to express the numinous. At the same time, their common ground also leaves space for the individual areas of focus that each is pursuing: Brian explores the Helderberg Mountain region in upstate New York. His three-dimensional images contain complex layering, configuring, that explore themes of life, death, and renewal; Sarahs luminous contemplative paintings express the desire to move through the experiences life offers with beauty and integrity.
Printable version of exhibition catalogue Exhibition Catalogue (1.4mb PDF)
4) Positions: Gregory Coates
Curated by Horace Brockington
January 22 March 16, 2008
Reception Friday, February 1, 5-9pm
Gregory Coates has been working tirelessly on a production that has been quietly and subtly enriched over the years. He manages to transmit thoroughly mixed messages. His main work involves found objects wrapped in bicycle inner tubes seeming like some funky downtown urban grab-bag post modernism. However, the work is made light with powdered pigment and imbued with history. There is a persistent sense of hard-won sophistication which has something to do with the blues; that is blue as in pigment and as in the American experience. This exhibitit is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an extensive essay by Horace Brockington, widley published critic, curator, and art historian. Positions installation views
Printable version of exhibiton catalogue Positions: Gregory Coates (1.2mb PDF)
Musicians of Maalwyck: Concert
Sunday, March 2, 2008, 3:00pm
Adirondack Light by Hilary Tann, Pierrot lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg and Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss musiciansofmaalwyck.org
5) High School Regional Art Exhibition
March 30 April 13, 2008
Reception Sunday, March 30, 1-3pm
Exhibition Speaker and Awards Presentation at 2pm
Speaker and Juror: Dr. Patricia Barbanell, Project VIEW Museum/School Education Coordinator, Schenectady City Schools
Additional jurors: Karene Faul, College of St. Rose and Timothy M. Martin, Sage College of Albany
6) BFA 1
April 17-27, 2008
reception; Thursday, 4/17, 4:30-7pm
7) BFA 2
May 2-12, 2008
reception; Friday, 5/2, 4:30-9pm
(subject to change)
Terrence Tiernan: Major Works
Thursday, June 8 - Friday, July 28, 2006
Reception: Thursday, June 8, 5-7pm
This exhibition of paintings by Terrence Tiernan is assembled of work selected by Jim Richard Wilson, the director of the Opalka Gallery at The Sage Colleges. Tiernan chaired the Department of Visual Arts at the Sage College of Albany for fifteen years, and worked closely with Jim Wilson as the department and the exhibition program matured. Concurrently Tiernan managed an ambitious painting practice, turning out a substantial body of work. Since 1980 he staged nine solo shows and participated in numerous group exhibitions. His paintings can be found in private, corporate, and university collections.
This selection of paintings and collages produced since the mid-1980s reveals Tiernans consistent commitment to the making of art. Tiernan finds satisfaction in developing visual ideas in response to possibilities presented by initial applications of paint to the canvas. While spontaneity and deeply felt emotions form the background of Tiernans visual ideas, the artist frequently applies his observations of natural phenomena and man-made structures to the refinement of his subjects. Although factual experiences are seldom the beginning of a working session, the juxtaposition of pigments and developing forms will more likely trigger a recollection in the artist, and become the found subject of the work of art. Overall there are broadly-based themes derived from natural features of the landscape, veiled figurative situations, as well as pure abstraction.
from the essay by Esther Tornai Thyssen
Robert Beck
Courtesy of CRG Gallery, NY
August 14 - October 22, 2006
Reception for the artist:
Sunday, September 17, 1-4pm
Artist Talk: Tuesday, September 19, 7-8pm
Robert Beck creates encounters between objects and viewers. His work is poetic engaging, visceral and sometimes violent. Beck deploys a diverse range of media including offset printing blankets, plaster casts, as well as, drawings that incorporate finger print powder. Beck has also produced 3 video installation pieces. As an aspect of the show at the Opalka, the artist will recreate the makeshift shrine of flowers, balloons and candles that greeted visitors to his first exhibit at CRG in New York. Throughout his work, intensely personal narratives are intertwined with cultural icons and myths.
The exhibit is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue containing an essay by Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Gallery Hours during this exhibit:
August 14 - September 2, M-F 10-4
September 5 - October 22, M-F 10-4:30, M-Th 6-8, Su 12-4
Gallery closed, September 4 and October 8-10
Seminal Works of Robert Richenburg
from the collection of Richard Zahn
Courtesy of David Findlay, Jr. Fine Art, NY
November 5 - December 18, 2006
Reception: Sunday, November 19, 1-4pm
Robert Richenburg (1917-2006) studied at the Art Students League in New York with George Grosz and Reginald Marsh. After serving in the U.S. Army and then living and teaching abroad, Richenburg returned to New York in 1947 where he studied with Hans Hofmann. Within two years Richenburg's work was included in an exhibition at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (now the Guggenheim Museum) and he was invited to join the Club where he became friends with Franz Kline, Willem De Kooning and Ad Reinhardt. In 1951 Leo Castelli included Richenburg's work in the historic Ninth Street Show.
By the early 1960s the artist's paintings were receiving strong critical acclaim. Irving Sandler, noted author and art critic, wrote: Richenburg emerges as one of the most forceful painters on the New York Art Scene. Richenburg has had one person shows at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dayton Art Institute and Rose Art Museum (Brandeis University) among others. While his oeuvre has evolved and expanded over the years, it has never lost its enthusiasm, vitality and verve.
This exhibit includes nearly thirty of Richenburgs works, including 18 from the collection of Richard Zahn. These works range from the intimate to the monumental in scale and were created over a span of 50 years, 1940 to 1990.
Jon Schueler: The Sign of the Gale
Curated by Victoria Keller
Courtesy of ACA Galleries, NY and the Jon Schueler Estate
January 22 - February 25, 2007
Reception: Friday, February 2, 4:30-7:30pm
Curators Presentation: Sunday, February 4,1-4pm
Jon Schueler (1916-1992) was an American master who produced ethereal canvases reflecting the profound influence of nature, in particular the wild skies and countryside of the Scottish highlands. Schueler studied at the California School of Fine Arts under Clyfford Still and Richard Diebenkorn. He arrived in New York in 1951, during the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionist luminaries Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, all of whom influenced his work. In 1957 Schueler left New York for Scotland, setting up a studio in the small fishing village of Mallaig in the western highlands on the Sound of Sleat. For the remainder of his life, he would return to Scotland where the light and weather of the western coast were lasting influences on his canvases, reflecting the transitory and turbulent moods of sea and sky.
Joan Robey: Recent Sculpture
Courtesy of O.K. Harris Works of Art, NY
March 11 - April 15
Reception, Friday, April 6, 5-8pm
Joan Robey's sculpture utilizes old and discarded objects and brings them into a fresh context. Her materials, chosen for their markings and form, are combined into simple, poetic assemblies. The completed sculptures speak to aspects common to man, nature and physics; elements such as gravity, inertia, chance and relationship. The work explores the impact of forces and events and expresses themes of movement/repose, tension/equilibrium, attraction/repulsion. Robeys work has been most seen in her home state of California. This is Joan Robeys second solo exhibition in the Northeast. The exhibit is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with essay by Timothy Cahill.
BFA Exhibition I
Thursday, April 26 - Sunday May 6, 2007
Reception: Thursday, April 26, 4:30-6:30pm
BFA Exhibition II
Thursday, May 10 - Sunday May 20, 2007
Reception: Thursday, May 10, 4:30-6:30pm
The Opalka Gallery is the formal exhibition facility of The Sage Colleges. Located on the Sage Albany Campus, the Opalkas primary concentration is on work by professional artists from outside the region. An important aspect of the cultural life in the Capital Region, the Gallery frequently features multi-disciplinary projects and hosts poetry readings, recitals, and symposia, often in conjunction with its exhibitions.
Opalka Gallery is a member of The Exhibition Alliance, the Association of College and University Museums and Galleries, and the Museum Association of New York.
Jim Richard Wilson, Director
518/292-7742
opalka@sage.edu
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The gallery is open by appointment only between exhibitions
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