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2008-01-29T15:06:00.001-05:00

For more information on GO NORTH: A Space for Contemporary Art, please visit our newly launched website at www.gonorthgallery.com. The site includes details of the current show, images of exhibited work, artist information, directions to the gallery, and much more.

2008-01-02T11:17:00.000-05:00

Erica Hauser, "1920s Ford," 2007.

GO NORTH is very pleased to present “Paint Job,” an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Erica Hauser. This is Hauser’s first solo show with the gallery, and runs from January 5 to 27, 2008. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, January 5, from 6 to 9 pm.

Erica Hauser’s work is indelibly linked to travel in its various forms. Driving around upstate New York, wandering through woods and along sidewalks, unearthing old photographs or digging in antique shops is how Hauser finds inspiration for her paintings and drawings of old trucks, cars, and handmade signs. The beauty and subtle humor she finds in these abandoned objects translate into an appealing sense of familiarity for both herself and the viewer. Hauser explains that painting allows her to transport others back to a particular place in time, whether to imagine a story, appreciate the details, or slip into nostalgic reverie.

Time spent observing and painting helps Hauser to prolong her experience of these objects and places. A glimpse of peeling paint or automotive rust might be enough to pull her off the road for a closer look. Hauser states: “I am interested in the effects of weather, light, love or neglect upon surfaces, and in the textures of rust, wood, and gleaming chrome.” Hauser’s precise handling of paint faithfully represents these textures and effects of light without overstating the subjects’ nostalgic associations. Her antiquarian imagery registers as consistently cool, tempered as it is by her documentarian’s sense of objectivity, and graciously allows the viewer to time-travel and fill in the backstory.

Hauser holds a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and has studied at the Art Students League and Cornell University. She has shown her work at the Edward Hopper House in Nyack, Washington Sq. East Gallery in NYC, and the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY.

Gallery hours: 12 - 6 PM Saturday & Sunday, and by appointment.

GO NORTH: A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main St., Beacon, NY 12508
845.242.1951
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-12-02T23:32:00.000-05:00

Anne Polashenski, Japanese Interior Obliteration, 2006.

GO NORTH is pleased to present “Evolve Dissolve,” a group show featuring seven artists. The show will run from December 8 to December 30, 2007. A reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, December 8, from 6 to 9 pm.

The pieces constituting “Evolve Dissolve” are revealing studies of transition. Figures and buildings move in and out of being, new forms of life mature and pass, and patterns replicate in myriad fashions. The methods of chronicling these changes vary. Some of the artists’ work tends to focus more on process and structural elements, while others mine narrative techniques and visual relationships as a means of developing philosophical, historical, or political underpinnings. And all the while, time passes.

In Jonathan Allen’s Fallujah Dollhouse, we’re confronted with the ubiquitous image of our most current war—the bombed-out car chassis—over which in twisted ascension a meshwork of houses and cultural debris stream (and plunge) from a seemingly secure, stately edifice. Is the vegetation sprouting from the side a sign of hope or the green specter of consumerism?

The work of Aaron Sing Fox examines the nature of fabrication. Representation is a process, which Fox renders in painstaking detail. Be it the construction of a building or the casual growth of trees, Fox leaves up the scaffolding, inviting us to view the architecture of content. His art is a testament to the ongoing, mutable, raw quality of life.

Upon viewing Julie Anne Mann’s Mortifera series, each fashioned from the bones of various animals, one immediately wonders, ‘Evolution or genetic breeding? Unearthed fossils or a sign of things to come?’ Bewildering as they are elegant, Mann’s specimens actuate the tension between artifice and reality.

The figures in Sarah Moran’s work develops as we do, intimately, over time, in layers, evoking personality, consciousness, and selfhood as constructs of the biological and/or artistic form.

Anne Polashenski’s work investigates psychological issues of control, power, and entrapment, as with Japanese Interior Obliteration—a piece as luxurious as it is haunting—where an idiosyncratic dress pattern takes a viral turn, generating a dreamlike virtual space beyond the sleeping figure it engulfs as it threatens to move beyond the paper.

The utterly engaging “visual diaries” of Edina S. apply painted fragments of memory and narrative to concrete and resin figurative sculptures as a means of conveying emotional states.

At first glimpse, Stacy Seiler’s silhouette images of industrial landscapes appear to be the work of a seasoned B&W photographer. Yet closer inspection reveals tiny black flecks peppering the white spaces. With lines and edges so carefully exacted, these meditative pieces enliven the defunct structures while approaching a kind of charcoal precisionism.

Gallery hours: 12 - 6 PM Saturday & Sunday, and by appointment.

GO NORTH: A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main St., Beacon, NY 12508
845.242.1951
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-11-05T11:55:00.000-05:00

Celeste Fichter, "Caught," 2007.

GO NORTH is pleased to present “Northern Light,” recent work by Celeste Fichter. The show will be on view from November 10 to December 2, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, November 10, from 6 to 9 pm.

Viewed in semi-darkness, Fichter’s mixed media work illuminates itself in an installation whose title is a play on both the colorful light displays visible in the night sky near the North Pole and the supposed ideal direction of natural light used by fine art painters. Using video monitors, televisions, flashlights, strobes and nightlights, Fichter introduces viewers to a quietly subversive world where the conversation between reality and its representation are at odds and nothing is what it seems: umbrellas swim with jellyfish, pictures are mistaken for pitchers, deer are caught in headlights and miniature light switches swarm light bulbs.

Celeste Fichter holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and has exhibited at PH Gallery, DeChiara Stewart Gallery, Islip Art Museum and the Bronx Museum of the Art. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and The Village Voice. Her video work is currently in several traveling exhibitions and film festivals in Europe and the US.

Gallery hours: 12 - 6 PM Saturday & Sunday, and by appointment.

GO NORTH: A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main St., Beacon, NY 12508
845.242.1951
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-10-08T21:50:00.000-04:00

Megan Maloy, "Harford Fair"

GO NORTH is pleased to present “Harford Fair,” an exhibition of photographs by Megan Maloy. This is Maloy’s first solo show with the gallery, and runs from October 13 to November 4, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, October 13, from 6 to 9 pm.

Maloy’s large color photographs offer a range of unforgettable portraits taken at the Harford Fair in Susquehanna County, rural Northeast Pennsylvania. Maloy shows us the faces of people who’ve worked hard all year to participate in the event: 4-H kids who dress up livestock for the animal costume contest, or sell them off to slaughter at one of the fair's many auctions; teenage girls competing to become the Harford Fair Queen; and farmers displaying gargantuan produce in hopes of winning a prize. People come from all around to experience the fair. Highlights include the tractor pull, the horse pull, the rodeo, the wood chopping contest, monster trucks, lawnmower races, flying trapeze artists, circus bears, country music, and—best of all—the demolition derby. On a deeper level, the photographs provide a character study of the subjects and their lifestyle, as well as an opportunity to travel back in time to a community and geography that have changed relatively little over time.

Maloy has been working and exhibiting as a photographer since graduating from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in 1997. She was born in New Jersey in 1973 and currently lives in Jersey City. Maloy freelances as a lifestyle and portrait photographer and shoots for magazines, advertising agencies, and stock photography. She is currently represented by Bransch for assignment work, and Getty Images for her stock photography. Maloy’s fine art photography has been exhibited in several galleries and museums in NYC and the surrounding area, including the Jersey City Museum, the Noyes Museum, the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, the Perkins Center for the Arts, and AIR gallery in NYC.

Gallery hours: Saturday - Sunday 12 - 6 PM; Friday by appointment.

GO NORTH: A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main St., Beacon, NY 12508
845.242.1951
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-09-05T21:36:00.000-04:00

Rachel B. Abrams. Top image: "Second Order Consequences/Precipitates (heuristics)," 2007; Bottom image: "Precipitates (portent)," 2007.

Go North—A Space for Contemporary Art is pleased to present "Neologisms," recent work by Rachel B. Abrams. "Neologisms" is Abrams' first solo show with the gallery. The show will be on view September 8 to October 7, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, September 8, 6 to 9 pm.

Abrams' sculptural and mixed media work explores the complex relationship between humans and specific ecosystems, and its impact on our environment.

Gallery hours: Saturday - Sunday 12 - 6 PM; Friday by appointment.

Go North
A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main St., Beacon, NY 12508
845.242.1951
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-08-01T09:30:00.000-04:00

GO NORTH is pleased to present “Out of Line,” a summer group exhibition. The show features work by 11 artists who use line as an expressive, formal, or conceptual element within traditional and non-traditional mediums. The show will be on view from August 4 to 26, 2007. A reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, August 11, from 6 to 9 pm.

Participating artists in “Out of Line” include Elizabeth Beckmann, Thomas Egan, Pamela Hardenburg, Erica Hauser, Kit Keith, Adam Menzies, Jon Patrick Murphy, Christopher Stackhouse, James Walsh, Eleanor White and Mike White.

After nearly a year of offering a culturally rich space to artists and visitors, Go North is taking important steps to better fill the needs of Beacon’s growing arts community. The gallery is very pleased to welcome Joe Millar—poet, novelist, installation artist and publisher—to its curatorial team. His enthusiasm and experience are expected to take the gallery’s programming in exciting new directions.

In addition, Go North has closed its original location and moved next door, effectively doubling the size of its exhibition space. The new space will accommodate more events—artist talks, readings, video screenings—as well as a project room and an artist flat file. The move will enable the gallery to stay true to its mission and curatorial vision of creating a dynamic venue for new art and ideas.

Gallery hours: Saturday - Sunday 12 - 6 PM; Friday by appointment.

Go North
A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main St., Beacon, NY 12508
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-07-03T10:08:00.000-04:00

Thomas Doyle, "In the Bone," (detail), 2007, mixed media.

GO NORTH is pleased to announce the opening of "Human remains," Thomas Doyle’s first solo show with the gallery. His work will be on view from July 7 through 29, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, July 7, from 6 to 9 p.m.

Doyle creates miniature environments sculpted in 1:43 scale and smaller. Drawing from model railroading and architectural supplies, the scenes in Doyle’s work explore the remnants of memory by depicting moments suspended under glass. The pieces’ radically reduced scales elicit feelings of omnipotence—as well as the intimacy one might feel peering into a museum display case or dollhouse. In this way viewers are invited to project themselves into the single, fragile moments the figures inhabiting the works endure.

Small-scale sculpture is a logical medium for Doyle, who built his first diorama at age four. Combining his formal training as a painter and printmaker with a lifelong fascination with scale models, the works in “Human remains” reflect the ability of small worlds to provoke wonder. Doyle’s work has been shown in New York, California, and points in between. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Gallery hours: 12 - 6 PM, Friday - Sunday

Go North
A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main St., Beacon, NY 12508
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-05-31T14:00:00.001-04:00

Christopher Albert, "Night in the Museum," 2007.

GO NORTH is pleased to announce the opening of "Skin Trade," Christopher Albert’s first solo show with the gallery. His work will be on exhibit from June 2 through July 1, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, June 2, from 6 to 9 pm.

Christopher Albert’s new paintings use images from pornographic magazines as the underlying structure for the formal elements of his work. Painting on top of these graphic sexual images, he transforms them into a sensual blend of colors, forms, textures and lines. Often, Albert leaves behind small traces of the original source material, including the text associated with the acts depicted. Literally and metaphorically, Albert's work “trades” the visual stimuli associated with pornography for the visual pleasures of painting.

Gallery hours: 12 to 6 pm, Friday through Sunday.

Go North – A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-04-30T13:59:00.001-04:00

Monica d. Church, "Fair Is Fowl, Fowl Is Fair," 2007.

GO NORTH – A Space for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of Monica d. Church’s first solo show with the gallery. "Fly Away Little Bird" will be on view from May 5 through May 27, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, May 5, 6 - 9 pm.

Church began to formulate the ideas for her current work while reading the article Greetings Kill: Primer for a Pandemic, by Donald G. McNeil Jr. in The New York Times, in which the author muses about how Americans must learn to “rewrite the way we interact” as a result of the very real possibility of a global pandemic. The potential threat of a global pandemic of H5N1 virus (a type of avian influenza, or bird flu) became the basis for “Fly Away Little Bird.”

Representing a symbolic bird flu pandemic, the exhibition incorporates elements carefully chosen for both their literal and metaphorical power. For example, a wishbone is literally part of a dead bird, yet it is also potent as a vehicle of transformation: the longing for wish fulfillment. If we wish hard enough, will all of the bad stuff go away? There are invisible connections between the pieces in the exhibition: desire/fear, germs/health, scientific theory/superstition, travel/home, fragility of life/finality of death.

Church is a multimedia artist working in installation, painting, and photo-based printmaking. She studied printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design and Bennington College, where she received a B.A. in Visual Arts (1987). She went on to earn an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Kentucky (1993). She has won numerous awards and fellowships for her work, including the 2006-07 Dutchess County Art’s Council Individual Artist Fellowship for Digital Photography; The 2005 Steven Madwed Memorial Prize for Photography or Digital Art from the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut; The 2004 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Best in Show Award also at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center; a Carolyn Grant from Vassar College; the 2002 Dutchess County Art's Council Individual Artist Fellowship for Painting; and a fellowship for a six-week residency at the Woman’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York.

Gallery hours: 12 to 6 pm, Friday through Sunday.

Go North – A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-04-02T10:43:00.000-04:00

Dakin Roy, top image; Sonia Roy, bottom image.

GO NORTH - A Space for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of Sonia and Dakin Roy’s show “Memento Mori." The exhibition runs from April 7 to 29, 2007. A reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, April 7, 6 to 9 pm.

In "Memento Mori," Sonia and Dakin Roy explore issues of mortality and how people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, religions, and demographic groups deal with death. Through photographs and works on paper, the Roys have taken pieces of the past and combined them with the present, thereby creating new memories and homages out of the remnants of those who have come before us. The Roys reexamine and redefine what it is to be alive and how we choose to remember those who are gone. The Roys live and work in Beacon, NY.

Founded in September 2006 by artists Karlos Carcamo and Gregory Slick, Go North – A Space for Contemporary Art’s mission is to exhibit and promote art by local, national, and international artists. Our focus is contemporary art that is dedicated to exploring cutting-edge cultural and artistic issues by pushing the boundaries of traditional media. Staging monthly exhibitions on a rotating basis, the gallery gives artists the opportunity to expand and explore new dimensions in their work.

Gallery hours: 12 to 6 pm, Friday through Sunday.

Go North – A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-03-12T19:42:00.000-04:00

Founded in September 2006 by artists Karlos Carcamo and Gregory Slick, Go North – A Space for Contemporary Art’s mission is to exhibit and promote art by local, national, and international artists. Our focus is contemporary art that is dedicated to exploring cutting-edge cultural and artistic issues by pushing the boundaries of traditional media. Staging monthly exhibitions on a rotating basis, the gallery gives artists the opportunity to expand and explore new dimensions in their work.

Our focus enables us to keep our exhibitions fresh and updated, while providing a place in the Hudson Valley for contemplation and discussion of ideas. Go North – A Space for Contemporary Art stands at the center of Beacon’s emerging art scene, which in recent years has come to complement the area’s other art destinations, such as Dia:Beacon and Storm King Sculpture Park.

Through our exhibitions, activities, and featured artists, we are engendering thought-provoking conversations about contemporary art and other cultural issues that help fill the needs of Beacon’s growing arts community. In the process, we hope to create a culturally rich space for artists, visitors, and the community to share in, and to foster an appreciation for the diversity of work being made by some of today’s most interesting artists.

Hours: Friday — Sunday, 12 – 6 pm

For further information please contact:
Gallery directors Karlos Carcamo or Gregory Slick
at gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-02-27T12:19:00.000-05:00

Kit Keith: "Kiss" 2006, mixed media.

GO NORTH – A Space for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of Kit Keith's first solo show with the gallery. "New Boots and Panties" will be on view from March 3 through April 1, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, March 3, 6 - 9 pm. The reception will also premier a new score of prerecorded music by Jack Krause, specifically commissioned for this show.

In "New Boots and Panties," Keith's signature style of sign painting from the 1950s combines with found materials, some decades old, such as maps, wallpaper and pieces of vinyl. The resulting series of insightful portraits is freighted with emotion, longing and memory. Her portraits, many of women, consider the nature of “normal” and the struggle of outsiders who wish to find their place within mainstream America. Contemporary questions of conformity and identity—all from a feminist perspective—are central to her practice.

Gallery hours: 12 to 6 pm, Friday through Sunday.

Go North – A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2007-01-22T11:56:00.000-05:00

Joel Holub

GO NORTH – A Space for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of “So Lone Sunshine.“ The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, and drawings by New York City-based artists William Crow and Joel Holub. The exhibition runs from February 3rd through February 25th. There will be a reception for the artists Saturday, February 3rd, from 6 to 9pm.

William Crow makes oil paintings of common camping tents he sees while on his many camping trips around New York State. The paintings are derived from drawings made on site. Small and intimate, they are done in a loose, expressionistic style that maintains a straightforward composition.

Joel Holub creates small-scale sculptures and watercolors made from memory. His watercolors are based on roadside landscapes, and are mind shots caught by slow absorption over time (multiple views) or fleeting glimpses from a car window. The medium of watercolor lends itself perfectly to the hazy and unfocused aspects of recollection and the imagined. His sculptural pieces are portraits of strangers that he sees on the street or in the subway. Also from memory, they consist of heads made out of Sculpey clay mounted on discarded/used containers and found materials.

Go North – A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2006-12-11T10:55:00.000-05:00

Megan Maloy, "Bridal Shower."

GO NORTH - A Space for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of "Holidaze," a group show that runs from December 9, 2006 through January 28, 2007.

"Holidaze" takes an insightful and sometimes cynical look at the pressures and dramas of the holiday season through a range of mediums. Participating artists include Ellie Brown, Pete Crotty, Thomas Doyle, Peter Iannarelli, Megan Maloy, Calvin Siebert, and Susan "Richter" Todd.

Hours: Friday to Sunday 12 to 6 pm, and by appointment.

GO NORTH - A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main Street
Beacon, NY 12508
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2006-11-02T17:26:00.000-05:00

Thomas Egan, "Pool Moles," 2006.

GO NORTH – A Space for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Thomas Egan’s first solo show with the gallery. “Night Shift” is a selection of Egan’s nocturnal photographs taken in and around seemingly uninhabited urban and suburban areas, including parks, pools, railroad overpasses, and piers. Although devoid of people, these images abound with the ghosts of various daytime human activities, or seem to anticipate the stirrings of the waking world. In the case of Egan’s lush and gently seductive images of trees and leaves, nighttime flora either coyly shrink from our view, filtering harsh streetlight through lacy screens, or stand starkly illuminated as if by police searchlights. Egan’s colors are often strange, subterranean and electric, and tend to render the familiar unfamiliar.

“Night Shift” runs from November 11 through December 3, 2006. On Saturday, November 11, there will be a reception for the artist from 6 to 9 pm.

GO NORTH is the latest addition to the Hudson River towns’ vibrant art scene, which includes such notable venues as Dia:Beacon, Van Brunt Gallery, Max Protetch, BAU, and Yellow Bird Gallery. The gallery's aim is to further enhance the cultural life of Beacon through group exhibitions, individual artist projects, and site-specific installations.

Hours: Friday to Sunday 12 to 6 pm, and by appointment.

GO NORTH - A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main Street
Beacon, NY 12508
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

2006-10-13T16:07:00.000-04:00

Patricia H. Ragette

GO NORTH - A Space for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of Patricia H. Ragette's first solo show with the gallery. The exhibition is titled "Concerning Forms," and explores issues of non-violence, civil rights, social and environmental responsibilities, using past historical ceramic forms rediscovered by the artist.

"Concerning Forms" will run from October 14th to November 5th, 2006. On Saturday, October 14th, there will be a reception for the artist from 6 to 9 pm.

GO NORTH is the latest addition to the Hudson River towns’ vibrant art scene, which includes such notable venues as Dia:Beacon, Van Brunt Gallery, Max Protetch, BAU, and Yellow Bird Gallery. The gallery's aim is to further enhance the cultural life of Beacon through group exhibitions, individual artist projects, and site-specific installations.

Hours: Friday to Sunday 12 to 6 pm, and by appointment.

GO NORTH - A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main Street
Beacon, NY 12508
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com