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Date Posted: 06:10:14 07/18/10 Sun
Author: Ridge Sitter
Subject: Newburgh Library Art


CUTLINE:Jonathan Dobin's "Portrait of Ted Freed" and Marion (Maggie) J. Kurtz's "Fig Tree" are on display at the Newburgh Free Library along with the works of several other artists from The Cornerstone Residence at Safe Harbors of the Hudson in Newburgh. The art exhibit runs through August 6.



SAFE HARBOR ARTISTS EXHIBIT AT THE NEWBURGH FREE LIBRARY



Several artists from The Cornerstone Residence at Safe Harbors of the Hudson have produced an electric array of artwork that's on display in the lobby gallery of the Newburgh Free Library from July 13 - August 6. Sponsored by the library, the show features oils, acrylics, collage, tempera and paper mache.


Artist Peter Cody, who studied sculpture and painting at The School of Visual Arts in New York City, considers himself a third-generation Bauhaus artist. His works have been shown in major galleries throughout the Hudson Valley and are on permanent display in public buildings, restaurants and bars and included in the private collections of many collectors throughout the region. He considers his works to show the balance between amorphous and geometric shapes. He calls this balance as "orgametric." "This balance is a reflection of what occurs in nature - at the molecular level to the expanse of the cosmos," said Cody, who has been a resident of the Hudson Valley for twenty years.



A self-taught painter and illustrator, Jonathan Dobin was born 1955 in Bronx, New York. From the age of 9 through his teens, he was influenced by the works of Albrecht Dürer and the late German Renaissance artists. A linear assuredness, acute attention to detail and an archaic and often grotesque representation of portraiture are clearly evident. Jonathan put his creative life primarily on hold from 1992 to 1997 as he recovered from a near-fatal accident. He now resides in Newburgh where he is once again active in the arts - both visual and performing - as a singer, composer and arranger. His song "Newburgh, Old Newburgh, My New Hometown!" has been sung and recorded with Claudia Cummings around town to much acclaim. He was featured artist in Delaware & Hudson Canvas Magazine, May 2009 and is now creating works comprised of wood and found objects with plans to show these works publicly in the near future.



Kris Jaroka loves creating collage - a mixture of form and medium. Credit for the invention of paper collè -- from the French coller: to paste or glue -- is given to both Braque and Picasso. Yet, more than a thousand years ago, calligraphers in Japan copied poems on delicate scraps of pasted paper. "I like working with paper, selecting text and a certain texture of color which is then organized to complement one another and give meaning to a particular shape or form. One cuts and chooses and shifts and pastes and sometimes cuts off and begins again," Kris explained. Her collages sometime have a childlike gaiety with whimsical and fanciful shapes and delicate lines which create a lyrical vision.



Charles "Tusay" Jenulevich is a coast guard veteran, a former builder, producer of short films and a poet. After a stroke rendered him partially paralyzed and with aphasia in the 1990's, he turned his driving energies of communication to painting. Of the hundreds of works he has produced, more than 50 are currently on display in the lobby of Safe Harbors of the Hudson in Newburgh alone. His paintings run the gamut of emotions and are, by turns, surreal, playful, representational, mystical, existential, conflicted, joyful, hopeful. All demonstrate a fluid plasticity of technique and expert command of color.



Kay Larson in The New York Times, (December 2, 2001) writes: "Outsider Art erupts out of the creative urgencies of people who have mostly never heard of the art mainstream. But the term has always been a bit disingenuous. Outside what? Who is an insider?" Tusay's art suggests you can be an outsider to yourself. In one of his earlier paintings, a maelstrom of ice-cream colors swirls around a cipherlike black figure: a void in the shape of a person. Mustering his words like precious fruit from a paradisiacal tree, Tusay gasped, ''Art makes me feel whole.'' '



Marion (Maggie) J. Kurtz studied at the renowned Art Students League in Manhattan. Up until 15 years ago, she painted "traditional" works in a representational style. However, a few years back, she came to a cross roads in her work and no longer wanted to paint the "physical world," but had the desire and the need to portray the unseen world of Spirit -- a world within -- where love, joy and peace abide. Painting from her spirit, she creates large and small canvases of acrylic, glass and mixed mediums and captures a meditative atmosphere of movement and color to invite the viewer into their own awareness of Spirit within. Maggie has exhibited widely: in any small galleries on Long Island, in Manhattan and in several important shows in Beacon. In recent years, Maggie has created poetry as an integral element to accompany her art works.



For information about the exhibit, call the library, 845-563-3619 Library summer hours are: Mon. & Fri. 9 - 9, Tues., Wed., and Fri. 9 - 5, Sat. 10 - 3 and Sun. Closed.


Pat Lewis
Newburgh Free Library
Programs and Publications
845-563-3619

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