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Katherine Bernhardt’s ‘GOLD’ Exhibition Opening at Art Omi

Art Omi’s latest exhibit, Katherine Bernhardt’s ‘GOLD’, is a collection of seven large paintings of the enigmatic yet illustrious Pink Panther.

Screen Shot 2019-03-14 at 5.28.35 PM — Katherine Bernhardt, *green*, 2019.
96 in x 120 in, acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Courtesy the artist and Canada, New York

Art Omi’s latest exhibit, Katherine Bernhardt’s ‘GOLD’, is a collection of seven large paintings of the enigmatic yet illustrious Pink Panther. The paintings are not dissimilar to Bernhardt’s early work, which focused on supermodels such as Gisele Bündchen and Kate Moss. Over the past decade, Katherine Bernhardt’s subjects have expanded to include pop cultural icons (e.g. Darth Vader, R2D2, Garfield, Smurfs, E.T., the Pink Panther, etc.), as well as more quotidian objects (cigarettes, toilet paper, MTA MetroCards, plantains, sharks, watermelons, tennis shoes, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Scotch Tape, ice cream, pizza, etc.).

Bernhardt began painting the Pink Panther after she arrived at the Pink Palace Hotel (also called the Royal Hawai’ian Hotel) located on a sandy beach in Waikiki, Oahu. The pinkness of this trip continued after she checked into the hotel that featured pink bathroom towels, pink sheets, pink eye masks for sleeping, pink carpeting, pink beach chairs, pink beach towels, pink stationery, pink sunsets, pink pancakes at breakfast, and the Pink Panther on TV screens. After Bernhardt repeatedly watched videos of the panther along with her son while lounging atop their huge pink bed and while strolling around the hotel grounds while her son Khalifa continued to watch Pink Panther videos from a cell phone, she decided that the panther could look great on large-scale canvas too.

DATE/TIME:
‘GOLD’ will be on view March 16 – May 19, 2019.

Opening Reception – Saturday, April 6, 2019: 2 – 4pm

LOCATION:
Omi International Arts Center – Newmark Gallery
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY 12075

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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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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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Winter Architecture Exhibitions Opening at Art Omi

Opening this weekend at Art Omi: EXIT Architecture: Speculations for the Hereafter, and InConstruction: Hariri + Hariri.

Opening this weekend at Art Omi: EXIT Architecture: Speculations for the Hereafter, and InConstruction: Hariri + Hariri, the inaugural exhibition in this new series focusing on architecture and design projects, by contemporary architects presented publicly for the first time. EXIT Architecture is a speculative look at designing for the afterlife in all its potential architectural and design forms, and new ways of marking our exit, and was curated by Warren James, and Julia van den Hout + Kyle May.

Refreshments will be served, with remarks from the exhibiting architects, curators, and Warren James, Director of Art Omi: Architecture.

DATE/TIME:
Saturday, January 12, 2019: 2 – 4 pm

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

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Celebrate 200 Years of Ghent w/ Art Omi Local Photography Exhibition

Art Omi inivites visitors to join them this Saturday for an opening celebration for the exhibition All of Us: Portraits of the Ghent Bicentennial, a series of photographs of Ghent residents captured throughout 2018 by photographer Richard Beaven.

unnamed — Richard Beaven, *Denise Davis, 25 years*

Art Omi inivites visitors to join them this Saturday for an opening celebration for the exhibition All of Us: Portraits of the Ghent Bicentennial, a series of photographs of Ghent residents captured throughout 2018 by photographer Richard Beaven.

All of Us is a vast photographic survey of the present-day Ghent citizenry, and includes portraits of 275 residents, or nearly 5% of the total population of 5,400. All of Us is the final in a yearlong series of events commemorating the 200th anniversary of Ghent’s founding in 1818.

DATE/TIME:
Exhibition Opening Celebration – Saturday, December 8, 2018: 5 – 7pm

All of Us will be on view from December 5 – 10, 2018.

ADMISSION:
Free and Open to the Public

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

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