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Art Omi: Architecture Celebrates the Opening of ‘InConstruction: Cristina Parreño’, Feb 16

Join Art Omi to celebrate the opening of InConstruction: Cristina Parreño.

Cristina Parreño, TransTectonics — Cristina Parreño, *TransTectonics in Construction*, 2019.
Glass, Metal, Wood, Stone, 12” x 12” x 12”

Join Art Omi to celebrate the opening of InConstruction: Cristina Parreño. Presenting TransTectonics in Construction, a set of four provocations that challenge conventional processes of material assemblies pushing towards innovation in design research.

With remarks from Cristina Parreño and Warren James, Director of Art Omi: Architecture. Refreshments will be served.

InConstruction is an intimate exhibition series in the Kantor Lobby of the Benenson Center at Art Omi that focuses on architecture and design projects, by contemporary architects, and presented publicly for the first time.

DATE/TIME:
Opening Reception – Saturday, February 16, 2019: 2 – 4pm

InConstruction: Cristina Parreño will be on view through March 3, 2019

LOCATION:
Omi International Arts Center – Kantor Lobby
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY 12075

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Terms of Endearment at the Copake Grange

The Two Of Us Productions, the award winning theater company based in Columbia County NY, is pleased to present Terms Of Endearment by Dan Gordon.

The Two Of Us Productions, the award winning theater company based in Columbia County NY, is pleased to present Terms Of Endearment by Dan Gordon.

Challenges in life and love test the resilience of a mother-daughter relationship in Dan Gordon’s adaption of Terms Of Endearment from the Oscar-winning screenplay by James L. Brooks and Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Larry McMurtry. Though Emma is often exasperated by her highly-opinionated mother Aurora, they talk every day about their problems, from Aurora finding unexpected love even as she becomes a reluctant grandmother, to Emma’s struggle with her troubled marriage. But when they need one another most, will they be able to find the courage in each other? This funny and touching story captures the delicate, sometimes fractured bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and lovers, both old and new.

DATE/TIME:
Weekends February 15th through 24th, 2019
Fridays & Saturdays: 7:30pm
Sundays: 3pm

LOCATION:
The Copake Grange
628 Empire Road
Copake, NY 12516

ADMISSION:
Adults: $20
Students & Seniors: $15
Group rate available: $12. Call 518-329-6293

Tickets are available at the door, or call (518) 758-1648 or email constancerlopez@gmail.com.

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The Ghent Playhouse Presents, Miracle on South Division Street

The Ghent Playhouse’s 2019 season is off and running with Miracle on South Division Street.

The Ghent Playhouse’s 2019 season is off and running with Miracle on South Division Street.

Clara Nowak, of Buffalo, NY, and her three grown kids have always known they were special, ever since the miraculous night in 1942, when the Blessed Mother appeared to their grandfather in his barbershop! Since then the neighborhood has looked upon the Nowaks’ commemorative shrine as a beacon of hope and faith amidst the urban rubble. When daughter Ruth announces her plans to write and star in a one-woman show about the family miracle so the “whole world will know,” a deathbed confession causes the family legend to unravel.

By Tom Dudzick
Directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher

Starring:
MEG DOOLEY as Clara
SAM REILLY as Jimmy
CHRISTINA HARRIGAN as Beverly
SIERRA LYNCH as Ruth

DATES/TIMES:
February 8-10, 15-17, 2019:
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 pm
Sunday Matinees at 2:00 pm

TICKETS:
General $22.00
Members of The Ghent Playhouse $17.00
Student $10.00

To purchase, visit https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3579813

LOCATION:
The Ghent Playhouse
6 Town Hall Place
Ghent, NY

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Christopher Wool, Untitled, Now on View at Art Omi

Untitled is a large-scale bronze and copper plated steel sculpture, exhibited outdoors for the first time at Art Omi.

Untitled is a large-scale bronze and copper plated steel sculpture, exhibited outdoors for the first time at Art Omi. In the past few years, Wool has cultivated a sculptural practice that intersects with his more widely known two-dimensional body of work. The sculptures demonstrate his penchant for appropriating existing forms, deriving their structure from ranching wire found around his property in Texas. The structures are uniquely defined by their coiled and twisted lines, evoking the silk-screened and spray painted contours found in the artist’s earlier two-dimensional work. The work will be on view at Art Omi through at least the end of 2019.

Christopher Wool is primarily known as a painter, his photographs, sculptures, artist books, and prints are also integral to his practice. Wool’s work has been presented at institutions around the world, including solo exhibitions at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1989); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, and Kunsthalle Bern (1991); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (1998–99), and Kunsthalle Basel (1999); Institut Valencià d’Art Modern and Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (2006); Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (2008–09), and Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2009); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2012); and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Art Institute of Chicago (2013–2014). Wool currently lives and works in New York City and Marfa, Texas.

Artists in The Fields 2019 exhibition program include: Katherine Bernhardt, Sarah Braman, Francesca DiMattio, Matthew Geller, Virginia Overton, Tschabalala Self, David Shrigley, Brian Tolle, Christopher Wool, and others to be announced.

Info & Image from ArtOmi.org

DATE/TIME:
Now through the end of 2019

LOCATION:
Omi International Arts Center – The Fields Sculpture Park
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY 12075

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“Columbia County Portraits” Part 2 of an Illustrated Lecture by Art Historian & Appraiser, Gayle Skluzacek, Feb 9

This is the 2nd of a two part lecture series, and will explore Columbia County portraiture, focusing on paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Columbia County Historical Society.

The Columbia County Historical Society presents “Columbia County Portraits” An Illustrated Lecture by Art Historian and appraiser, Gayle Skluzacek.

This is the 2nd of a two part lecture series, and will explore Columbia County portraiture, focusing on paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Columbia County Historical Society. Ms. Skluzacek is a classically educated art historian and appraiser. After working in curatorial, research, and public relations at the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, the Oriental Institute, and the Carnegie Institute, she began appraising in 1981. She has catalogued important collections, estates, and archives, identified lost masterpieces, served as an art/personal property expert in court cases, and has worked closely with major museums in their art acquisition programs.

Ms. Skluzacek served on the Board of Directors of the Appraisers Association of America and served as President, 2000-2002. She was presented with the Director’s Award for her services in 2015.

Since 1995 Ms. Skluzacek has been on the faculty of FIT’s Graduate School, teaching appraisal classes. She has also been on the faculty of NYU since 1992, where she teaches classes on appraising, American Art, connoisseurship, wine, and ethics. She teaches appraisal ethics to auction house experts throughout the country, including Sotheby’s, Phillips, Skinner, Doyle, Freeman’s, Bonham’s, and Heritage. In 2001 she was invited by the Cuban government to teach a course on appraisal ethics in Havana. Recently she was appointed as fine art expert to a NY committee for the restoration of public murals.

DATE/TIME:
Saturday, February 9, 2019: 4:30pm – 6:30pm

TICKETS:
Advance Tickets $15
At the Door:
$15 Members (CCHS)
$ 20 Non-Members

Tickets can be purchased online at www.cchsny.org/lecturenyamericanportraits.html

LOCATION:
Van Buren Hall
6 Chatham Street,
Kinderhook, NY 12106

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