Irvington Library 2020-2021 Virtual Exhibit Archive
- August 2022: Michael Mendel
- July 2022: Monique Ford
- June 2022: Arnold Arbeit Abstracts
- May 2022: Maura Doern Danko
- January 2022: Pam Grafstein
- December 2021: Jim Maciel
- November 2021: Nellie Misch
- August and September 2021: Kurt Capalbo
- July 2021: Meg Lindsay
- May and June 2021: Renee Shamosh
- March and April 2021: Lea Carmichael
- January and February 2021: Pam Grafstein
- November and December 2020: Jim Maciel
- August and September 2020: Bruce Jacovitz
August 2022 Art Exhibit
Watercolor Paintings by Michael Mendel
The Outhouse 5
The Long and Lonely Road
From Brooklyn to Queens on the Double G
For the Birds
Leo
Splish Splash
Everlasting Friendship
Dancing the Night Away
July 2022 Art Exhibit
In the Martucci Gallery at the Irvington Library
Artist Reception: Saturday July 9th from 2-4pm.
“Botanical Figurations”
by Monique Ford
Artist’s Statement:
My “Botanical Anatomy” series began after a major personal transition stimulating tremendous growth. My artistic process became a new experience. I started to envision new forms. It was liberating and natural. The anatomical forms played a key role in representing the human presence and slowly, the botanical forms became the human experience. The works are about relationships, the tension between them, the power, pain, joy and impermanence of how we connect and move through one another. Color, line, form and composition are all devices that enrich and build on the narrative within the floral imagery. The most recent work is a return to the figure itself, to the human presence. Returning to the figure has been a return to the sacred connection between humans and to the earth. On a deeper level, beyond the current state of the world exists a long lasting narrative surrounding relationships and their own challenges for connection. Honoring the individuals and loved ones around us so that you can really see them and remain in the current moment can be more challenging as we become closer to one another. The women in my “Look Me in the Eyes” series are complicated, intoxicating and powerful and they demand more, more intimacy, more connection and more attention. The body of work in this larger series travels from the external to the internal from botanical to figuration.
View the virtual exhibit below, then visit the full gallery in-person at the Irvington Public Library!
Be sure to check our event calendar or call first to ensure that the gallery is open at the time of your visit.
New Beginnings
watercolor on canvas, 24X16″
Look Me in the Eyes
watercolor on canvas, 24X24″
Just Breath
watercolor on canvas, 24X24″
Heart Power
watercolor on canvas, 24X24″
Interpersonal
watercolor and acrylic on canvas, 20X24″
Surrender
watercolor on canvas, 24X24”
Alicia
watercolor/acrylic on canvas, 40X30”
I’m Rising
watercolor/acrylic on canvas, 40X30”
Gaslight
watercolor/acrylic on canvas, 30X40“
Lina
watercolor/acrylic on canvas, 40X30″
I, You, We Are One
watercolor on canvas, 24X20”
Groundlessness
watercolor on canvas, 24X24”
Patty
watercolor/acrylic on canvas, 30X40″
Infinity
watercolor/acrylic on canvas, 24X24”
More information can be found at moniquecreate.com
June 2022 Art Exhibit
In the Martucci Gallery at the Irvington Library
Arnold Arbeit Abstracts
This exhibit showcases of a variety of styles and sizes of oil on canvas abstract artwork painted by Arnold A. Arbeit from the 1950s through the 1970s. More information at arnoldarbeit.com
Artist’s Statement: “To achieve a cloudburst, to find the answer to a superior force, to indicate the energy bursting within matter. This inundating form I should like to achieve – nothing more, to show the potential explosive force of common forms.”
View a preview of the exhibit below, then visit the full gallery in person at the Irvington Public Library!
Be sure to check our event calendar or call to ensure the gallery is open at the time of your visit.
Sun in Space
Black and White Cookie
Black Horse
Red Woman
Light+Shadow Rome
Cloudy Sky Over the Red
Early Dawn
More information can be found at https://www.arnoldarbeit.com/
Invented Paintings; Real Life Scenarios
The experience of the everyday world influences the direction of my painting – the stuff strewn along the tabletop, moments lived or observed, memories or people or circumstances, and lots of references to things that cross my path throughout the day. It is an intuitive following of ideas. I digest the visceral sensations of looking, combined with conceptual meanderings about content or subject. I respond in drawing and painting.
The work for the Irvington Library is mostly from the experience of spending time during Covid. Our family biked, camped, watched TV together, and discovered new places along the Hudson River, Westchester and Duchess Counties, and Long Island.
View a preview of the exhibit below, then visit the full gallery in person at the Irvington Public Library!
After Biking
Girls in Summer
Girls in a Snowy Landscape
Pound Ridge
Sail Shop, Hudson
Creatively Composed
Photography by Pam Grafstein
on view in the Martucci Gallery January 3, 2022-January 30, 2022
Examining small details has always defined my character. Early on, I learned to appreciate the value of patient observation, and discovered that fascinating scenes can be found in what at first glance appears ordinary. My work demonstrates an emphasis on the simplicity of shape and pattern accomplished by thoughtful composition. It exemplifies the sentiment that one does not have to travel far for wonderful photographic opportunity, as many of my favorite images were created at my home, or not very far away.
Visit my website at www.pamgrafsteinphotography.com to see more of my work!
Forlorn
Gehry Staircase
Come Together
Ruffles
Blink
Trapped Inside
Shakespeare's Works
Handyman Special
Won't You Come Play With Me?
Perpendicular
Where's the Cilantro?
Anthurium
Staples
Entwined Allium
White Orchid
Hooked Up
God Forsaken
Please contact me at pamgrafstein@gmail.com to arrange a purchase, or just to let me know how my art speaks to you.
Visit my website at www.pamgrafsteinphotography.com to see more of my work!
December 2021 Art Exhibit
Structures
Exhibit by Jim Maciel
Framed Watercolors, 24″ by 30″
For more information on these pieces, please contact Jim Maciel at ide9999@optonline.net or call 914 476 5581. JMacielart.com
November 2021 Art Exhibit
Nellie Misch
“Illuminate: People in Stained Glass”
“Josephine Baker”
“Carnival”
“Besties”
“Beauty and the Beast”
August 2021 Art Exhibit
Recovery
Works by Kurt Capalbo
Kurt Capalbo is a visual artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work revolves around harnessing the natural entropy of materials to express the universal degradation surrounding us. This allows his art to take on a regenerative design, creating new opportunities for systems to exist. Works transcend a single medium using recycled materials such as glass, metals, plastics and wax alongside conventional acrylics, oils, markers and pencils.
Daily explorations through urban and natural environments provide the menagerie of raw materials, otherwise treated as waste, as inspiration for his fragmented visual motifs. He refers to his work as socially responsible and innately durable by striving to bring beauty from byproducts. Akin to the randomness of particles colliding, he meshes an artistic stew of organic evolution, enabling his work to take on a life of its own.
The human race will be gone well before his art has reached its denouement. This organized decomposition is the true chronicle of Kurt’s experiences through art.
Located in the Martucci Gallery of the Irvington Library (12 South Astor St, Irvington, NY)
View a Virtual Exhibit version below.
July 2021 Virtual Art Exhibit
Painting and Poetics
by Meg Lindsay
About the Artist
A painter’s poetics – the crossover of words and image, the music and rhythms of color and language on canvas and page- come from the same place, one person’s imagination.
Early March 2020 Meg Lindsay opened a painting exhibition in Irvington and celebrated publication of her most recent book, except all was interrupted by the pandemic’s shutdown. Here are her paintings, some from that exhibition, interspersed for flavor with some of her poetry.
An established painter for over 40 years showing in galleries and museums, her first book about the emotions and difficulties of painting, A Painter’s Night Journal, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016 (available on Amazon). Writers love to write about paintings, but most writers confine themselves to the subject matter of a painting, not the process, since after all most do not paint.
The subject of her writing dramatically changed direction when her husband, athletic and never ill before, collapsed with bone cancer, multiple myeloma. The poems in her second book, Notes from a Caregiver, published in 2020 by the literary press, The Poetry Box, were written in doctors’ offices and hospitals. William Carlos Williams, the poet and doctor, wrote many poems on a prescription pad – an inspiration. As Frost said, “no tears for the writer, no tears for the reader.”
Her paintings grace the covers of both books which are available at Amazon. Notes from a Caregiver is also available from The Poetry Box as well at https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/notes-from-caregiver
Price list for paintings can be found at the end of this presentation.
Click on the green hover boxes to see poetry.
All poetry quoted is about painting and excerpted from Meg Lindsay’s book, “A Painter’s Night Journal.”
Note: All Works Are Subject to Copyright.
“Pink Tulips & 3 Limes & an Orange” - acrylic on canvas 22 1/2 h x 28 ½ w
Cover for Book “A Painter’s Night Journal”
“Kafka and Buddha Cat” - acrylic on canvas 21h x 17w
Cover for Book “Notes from a Caregiver”
"Dragonfly"- oil on canvas 20 ½ h x 24 ¾ w
"Desert Outside Vegas" - acrylic and oil on canvas 24 ½ h x 36 ½ w
"Desert Dawn"- acrylic on canvas 20 ¼ h x 36 ½ w
"3 Trees" - oil on canvas 14 ½ h x 18 ½ w
"3 Trees Fauves"- oil on canvas 11 ½ h x 14 ½ w
…pink glows in oil next to
what I know to be sap green, a translucent olive color
…Pink is just a color:
what color is it next to?
"Patio"- oil on canvas 24h x 30w
"Hudson Being Seen Thru 3 Slender Trees" - acrylic on canvas 24 ½ h x 20 ½ w
"Red Sun and Jade River" - oil on canvas 16 ¾ h x 18 ½ w
“Billboard” - oil on canvas 36h x 48w
“Blue Beach Umbrellas” - acrylic on linen 24h x 26w
why aren’t I painting you?
…in the sticky August air
sand
the color
of sand
“Blazing Sunset over Palisades” - oil on canvas 30h x 36w
Today I will paint cloud patterns.
Not clouds. Their patterns.
…I’ve moved on
from why,
when I forgot to wonder
what patterns exist
in clouds at all,
vanished when not
locked down
on a canvas.
“Landscape Magic” - oil on canvas 31h x 37w
“Brightening Day” - acrylic on canvas 12h x 16w
“Ochre Castle at the Reservoir” - oil on canvas 11h x 14w
"Man Photographing Bull" - acrylic on canvas 15h x 20w
"Lap Pool at Sunset" - acrylic on canvas 16h x 20w
A painting is glue and dirt on cloth.
A poem is scratchings on a sheet of paper.
Or is it sounds in the night?
To write about a spider,
write about the rock
around which it spins its web.
"Hudson River Summer Sun Setting" - oil on canvas 13h x 9 ¾ w
"After the Storm Trees and Orange and Blue Sky" - acrylic on canvas 20 ½ h x 24 ¾ w
"Autumn Field" - acrylic on canvas 11h x 14w
“Abstract with 2 White Squares” - oil on canvas 24 ½ h x 20 ½ w
“2 Dogs under a Yellow Sun” - oil on canvas 24h x 30w
“Light Between 3 Pears” - oil on canvas 16 ½ h x 26 ½ w
Writing and Painting Bios
MEG LINDSAY
website: www.meglindsayartist.com
email: mlindsay.paint@gmail.com
WRITING BIO
2 books: Notes from a Caregiver, published by Poetry Box 2020 and A Painter’s Night
Journal, published by Finishing Line Press 2016.
A semi-finalist in two “Discovery”/The Nation Contests and a finalist in an Inkwell
competition, Meg Lindsay has had poems published in Tricycle, Pivot, Salamander,
Alimentum, Connecticut River Review, Intima, Tiferet, etc. and earned an
MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College
PAINTING BIO
HIGHLIGHTS
Juried shows at the Hudson River Museum & Silvermine Arts Center
6 solo shows
40 shows in 11 states
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Martucci Gallery, Irvington, N.Y.
2013 Gregory James Gallery, New Milford, CT
2012 Martucci Gallery, Irvington, N.Y.
2008 Gallery at Woodloch, Hawley, PA
2007 Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, N.Y.
1973 Mamaroneck Artist Guild, Inc., Mamaroneck, N.Y.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 invitational/Greenwich/Westchester International Art Fair, Purchase, N.Y.
2018 Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
2016 Gallery at Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
2015 Gregory James Gallery, New Milford, CT
2011 Sweet Grass, Tarrytown, N.Y.
2010 Kiesendahl + Calhoun, Pleasantville, N.Y.
2007 Gallery Yellow, Cross River, N.Y.
2002 Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, Mass.
2000 ART OF THE HUDSON, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, N.Y.
ART OF THE HUDSON RIVER, Art on Main Street, Yonkers, N.Y.
1998 Nat. Assoc. Women Artists, New World Art Center, New York,N.Y.
Gallery Art 54, New York, N.Y.
1996 Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia
Port Washington Library, Port Washington, N.Y.
Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, N.J.
1995 Marist College Gallery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
SHOWCASE ’95, Lever House, New York, N.Y.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas
Stevens College Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Lousiana
1994 395 West Broadway Gallery, New York, N.Y.
SURFACES, The Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Hudson River Gallery, Ossining, N.Y.
1993 du Pont Gallery, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Hillyer Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Wilkes Art Gallery, North Wilkesboro, N.C.
1992 Olana, Hudson, N.Y.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, N.Y.
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, N.Y.
1991 The NATURAL PERCEPTION, The Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
The CURRENT RIVER VIEW, The Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
1990 HUDSON RIVER CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, Hudson River Museum,
Yonkers, N.Y.
ART of NORTHEAST USA, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Ct.
1985-1986 Obsessions Gallery, Lake Placid, N.Y. & Santa Fe, N.M.
1973 Carroll-Condit Galleries, White Plains, N.Y.
TELEVISION & RADIO APPEARANCES
2007 Featured on radio WVOX — Paul Feiner’s GREENBURGH REPORT
1992 Featured on Westchester STATE OF THE ARTS
Price List
1 and 2) Paintings for 2 book covers NFS (Not for Sale)
3)”Dragonfly” oil on canvas 20 ½ h x 24 ¾ w $1,300
4) “Desert Outside Vegas” acrylic & oil on canvas 24 ½ h x 36 ½ w $1,200
5) “Desert Dawn” acrylic on canvas 20 ¼ h x 36 ½ w $1,100
6) “3 Trees” oil on canvas 14 ½ h x 18 ½ w $1,300
7) “3 Trees Fauves” oil on canvas 11 ½ h x 14 ½ w $1,200
8) “Patio” oil on canvas 24h x 30w $1,300
9) “Hudson Being Seen Thru 3 Slender Trees” acrylic on canvas 24 ½ h x 20 ½ w $1,300
10) “Red Sun & Jade River” oil on canvas 16 ¾ h x 18 ½ w $1,100
11) “Billboard” oil on canvas 36h x 48w $2,400
12) “Blue Beach Umbrellas” acrylic on linen 24h x 26w $1,800
13) “Blazing Sunset over Palisades” oil on canvas 30h x 36w $1,500
14) “Landscape Magic” oil on canvas 31h x 37w $1,900
15) “Brightening Day” acrylic on canvas 12h x 16w $1,200
16) “Ochre Castle at the Reservoir” oil on canvas 11h x 14w $1,100
17) “Man Photographing Bull” acrylic on canvas 15h x 20w $1,200
18) “Lap Pool at Sunset” acrylic on canvas 16h x 20w $1,200
19) “Hudson River Summer Sun Setting” oil on canvas 13h x 9 ¾ w $1,100
20) “After the Storm Trees and Orange and Blue Sky” acrylic on canvas 20 ½ h x 24 ¾ w $1,200
21) “Autumn Field” acrylic on canvas 11h x 14w $1,100
22) “Abstract with 2 White Squares” oil on canvas 24 ½ h x 20 ½ w $1,600
23) “2 Dogs under a Yellow Sun” oil on canvas 24h x 30w $1,750
24) “Light Between 3 Pears” oil on canvas 16 ½ h x 26 ½ w $1,350
Thank you for visiting! Please contact Meg at mlindsay.paint@gmail.com for inquiries regarding her work.
Please note that all artwork is subject to copyright.
Attention Artists
The library strongly encourages local artists to apply for exhibit space.
Please download a copy of our exhibition policy and an exhibit application, or call Rosemarie Gatzek, the Library’s Director, at (914) 591-7840. You may view the room floor plan here as well.
If you are interested in having a reception, you will need to contact Rosemarie Gatzek directly to schedule a date and time.
Attention non-profit groups
Our program room is available to non-profit community-based organizations for special programs. Rental fees, security deposits and proof of insurance are required. Read our Program Room Policy by clicking here. Download an application for use of the Program Room here. For more information call
Rosemarie Gatzek, the Library’s Director, at (914) 591-7840.
May and June 2021 Virtual Art Exhibit
JUST BREATHE
Oil on Canvas by Renee Shamosh
Renee Shamosh is a multi-media artist with over 35 years of art teaching experience.
An avid gardener and member of The Garden Club of Irvington and The Irvington Beautification Committee,
Renee uses elements of nature in her work. Renee and her family have lived here for over 30 years.
Artist’s Statement
My goal has been to capture the tranquil beauty that can be found in a garden and our surroundings without going far from home.
I strive to capture the essence of what we see but often take for granted as we walk, jog, or drive around the greenery.
Simply put, stop to look around, think, and take a breath.
Please contact Renee at artsnroses@aol.com for inquiries regarding her work.
Note: All Works Are Subject to Copyright.
Walk At Dawn, 18” x 24′′
Over the Wall, 24” x 24”
Walking Posie, 24” x 24”
Quiet Corner, 24” x 30”
Ode to Georgia, 12” x 12”
In The Pink, 16” x 20”
Sweet Boy, 18” x 24”
Gathering Blooms, 18” x 24”
Tidying Up, 24” x 30”
Hydrangea Jungle, 24” x 30”
Perfect Cut, 24” x 30”
Red Dress, 24” x 30”
Reflections, 24” x 30”
Garden’s End, 18” x 24”
Taking a Break, 18” x 24”
Better Not Park, 12” x 16”
Rainy Day, 18” x 24”
First Autumn, 12” x 16”
Daylily Path, 12” x 16”
Out of the Mist. 12” x 16”
Must Run, 12” x 16”
Peony Garden, 12” x 12”
Rose Day, 24” x 30”
Quarry’s Edge, 24” x 30”
Best Friends 18” x 24”
Thank you for visiting! Please contact Renee at artsnroses@aol.com for inquiries regarding her work.
Please note that all artwork is subject to copyright.
March and April 2021 Virtual Art Exhibit
"Lea Carmichael: Small Abstracts"
Artist’s Statement
Over the years I have worked in several media and genres—pastel still-life and landscape, hand-colored photography, expressive drawing of migraine(resulting in the publication of “The Migraine Book”), and more. One genre that I have worked on all along, “on the side”, is abstraction.
A few years ago I decided to go at abstraction headlong. It has been an exciting challenge.
My objective is to free the visual experience from a narrative, so that all that is left is the abstract. I do not give my works descriptive titles; instead, I label them by date.
The works here were all done in January, 2021. Trying to get past a dry spell I committed to creating at least one work every day. I continue on in that discipline, and it has been a good journey so far.
I welcome you to visit my website: Leacarmichael.com. You may contact me there or at my email: Paintmoth@gmail.com. I’m on Instagram at Leacarmichaelart.
Note: all works are 6 x 6” unless noted otherwise.
All works are on watercolor paper, done in gouache, watercolor, cut paper, crayon, colored pencil, pencil, ink, and acrylic.
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2021.1.26.2 (6 x 4")
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2021.1.30.2 (6 x 4")
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Thank you for visiting! Please contact Paintmoth@gmail.com for more information on these works and to let her know how her art speaks to you.
Please note that all artwork is subject to copyright.
"Photographic Compositions"
January 2020 Virtual Exhibit by Pam Grafstein
Lotus
Palm
Leafscape
God Forsaken
Perpendicular
Redial
Ready Player One
Fresh Birch
Handyman Special
Gehry Staircase
Fly on Rudbeckia
Mum Fingers
Anthurium
Duo
Ant on Peony
Asian Ladybeetle
Trapped Inside
Where's the Cilantro
December 2020 Virtual Exhibit: Jim Maciel
Landscapes
August and September 2020 Virtual Exhibit: Bruce Jacovitz
3D Hard Cut-Out Artworks made of the highest quality material lasting 200 yr Art Density sign material with Archival Ink and Acrylic paint imagery . Most of the 3D works are dimensions of 21" x 25" x 1.5". Price is available upon request by emailing bruce.jacovitz@yahoo.com. ALL ARTWORK IS SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT
3D Hard Cut-Outs
3D Hard Cut-Outs
3D Hard Cut-Outs
3D Hard Cut-Outs
3D Hard Cut-Outs
Archival Prints: ALL ARTWORK IS SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT
Archival Prints
Archival Prints
Archival Prints
Archival Prints
Archival Prints
Archival Prints
Archival Prints
Archival Prints
Archival Prints
Archival Prints
