Gallery Night scheduled for September 23, 2016
August 23, 2016, Erie, PA—The Erie Art Museum is organizing the next Gallery Night, scheduled for Friday, September 23 from 7 until 10 p.m. A city-wide art gallery crawl through local, independent galleries and the Museum, participating Gallery Night venues will open their doors after-hours for visitors to get up close and personal with art and artists in a unique way. Each gallery offers a different experience, from artist meet and greets to wine samplings to live music, and visual art, featuring local, regional, and national artists. Admission is free to the public.
The Erie Art Museum will feature the following exhibits: Mood Swing Review: A solo exhibition by Ron Bayuzick, Dark Garden: An Installation by Linda Huey, Jose Picayo: Poloroids (1986 – 2015), Dietrich Wegner: I Think I Found It Upside Down and InnovationErieDesign Competition. InnovationErie award announcement at 7:30 in the Special Events Room and Dietrich Wegner artist talk in the Main Gallery at 8:00 p.m. Meet Ron Bayuzick in the Holstein Gallery.
Erie Arts & Culture will be spearheading a live social media event. Join in the event by hash tagging #vibranterie as you visit participating galleries. Each time you tweet, post, or check in using #vibranterie on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, you will receive one entry to win a Downtown Sampler Pass and other prize items, drawn at the end of the evening.
Participating Galleries:
1.) Artlore Studio • 3402 West Lake Road
Featuring Eric Schwartz, Robo Tins, a conglomeration of collectable cast-offs, vintage tins & other found objects lovingly constructed into unique sculptures. Also showcasing the exquisite mosaics of Lena Logvina. Lena's unique mosaic work often takes on the look of a painting on a canvas. Meet Lena for a gallery talk in the field of mosaic. Live acoustics by Eric Brewer.
2.) Bayfront Gallery • 17 East Dobbins Landing
Presenting Celebrating Nautical Art, an exhibit featuring contemporary, vintage and antique nautical artwork on display and for sale by various gallery members. Light refreshments will be offered.
3.) Beachcomber Boutique • 3445 W 12th Street
Featuring 2016 Fall Lake Erie Beach Glass Jewelry and Art by designer Denise Walker. Presenting History of Lake Erie by John Scott and Debra Gilmore, showcasing photographs of owner Denise Walker's beach glass collection sites over the last 20 years. Also featuring nautical works from tattoo artist Cory Thompson. Music provided by Jon Halmi with light hors d'oeuvres.
4.) Crime Victim Center • 125 West 18th Street
Featuring works created during this summer's Mid-Day Dance Break. This is the third year in which Erie Arts & Culture has sponsored the collaboration between CVC and Jennifer Dennehy to offer live dancing and visual art creation in Perry Square. The finished art pieces by Bryan Toy, Kris Risto, Brad Lethaby, Ehren Knapp and Deborah Sementelli will be on display and for sale. Refreshments served.
5.) D'Hopkins Denniston Gallery • 5 West 10th Street
Proudly presenting another outstanding show of new paintings by realistic painter Herm Weber. Join us for an exciting evening with the artist. The Artisan Boutique and Gallery is filled with new gift ideas for early Christmas planning. Light refreshments served.
6.) Erie Art Museum • East 5th St. between State & French
Exhibits on view: Mood Swing Review: A solo exhibition by Ron Bayuzick, Dark Garden: An Installation by Linda Huey, Jose Picayo: Poloroids (1986 – 2015), Dietrich Wegner: I Think I Found It Upside Down and InnovationErieDesign Competition. InnovationErie award announcement at 7:30 in the Special Events Room and Dietrich Wegner artist talk in the Main Gallery at 8:00 p.m.
7.) Glass Growers Gallery • 10 East 5th Street
Presenting Just the Blues by Joyce Perowicz, a collection of paintings depicting waterscapes. Her work interprets the sea and sky with passionate and evocative fascination. Joyce Perowicz began showing her art at Glass Growers Gallery in the late 1970's. Come see the evolution of her art. Refreshments served.
8.) LifeWorks Erie • LECOM Health, 406 Peach Street
Presenting the LifeWorks Erie Annual Art Show featuring works by participants of Creativity Matters, the LifeWorks Erie participatory arts program. Meet the artists and enjoy refreshments. LifeWorks Erie offers engaging and enriching lifelong learning programs including art participation and appreciation.
9.) Pointe Four Vintage Boutique • 1804 W 8th Street
Featuring Salina Bowe, Zach Dorsch and Roman Glass. Bowe, a self-proclaimed artist and fashion guru, enjoys working with mixed media. In collaboration with Emily George, she used photography to create characters of the soon-to-be infamous "Pointe Foure Dolls" as they slay their way through the fashion field. Dorsch, a former collegiate photojournalist, has combined his love of urban landscape and fashion to create his
series Find Beauty Amongst the Decay, in collaboration with Emily George and Salina Bowe. Glass, featuring the screens Glass uses to create his textile works of art as the owner of No Dress Code Studios.
10.) Presque Isle Artist Association (First Niagara Bank Community Room) • 8th & State Street, entrance on East 8th Street
Presenting the 27th Annual Show, featuring original art that has never shown with PIAA. Featured Artist Bill Engell will present many of his oil and oil pastel landscapes. The juror is Mary Miller from Girard, PA and will award first, second, third place along with honorable mention in two categories: Photography and Painting & Drawing. Guests and members will award a People's Choice Award. Meet the artists. Light refreshments served.
11.) Radius CoWork Gallery • 1001 State Street 9th Floor
Presenting Mercedes Maclay. "Mercy" was born 1990, in San Diego, California. From a young age, mythology, dreams and her ongoing narratives of the imagination have inspired her. Mercy's body of work consists of vivid paintings and drawings of ethereal female forms in stunning settings. Now an Erie resident, she has entered the local art scene in 2015 as an entirely self-taught artist, sharing her artwork depicting femininity in fantasy worlds.
12.) Satya Yoga Center • 10 East 5th Street (2nd floor)
If you look closely, common patterns, designs, and structures can be found throughout all of nature. These natural patterns and structures contain geometrical similarities which reveal to us the Satya(truth) and nature of form, giving us a blueprint for the interconnected union that we are all a part of. Featuring local artists and their journey through the collective consciousness with Sacred Geometry and the Art of Satya.
13.) SOVEREIGN Ballet • 2539 W 12th St, near Yorktown Centre
Stillness in Motion is an exploration into the transformative and uniting power of creativity. A uniquely beautiful exhibit inspired by the splendor of the distinctive posturing of dancers caught in time and space, Stillness in Motion is inspired by the works of Edgar Degas as well as modern-day artists. Sovereign Ballet dancers and photographer, Vance Lupher have joined forces to produce an aesthetically striking exhibit of dancers "stopped" in time. Additional art pieces on display by Chris Adelhardt and Oz Osborne.
14.) Urraro Gallery • 135 West 14th Street
Exhibiting cutting-edge contemporary fine art with a focus on the heritage and practice of sailing by artists Heather Hertel and Michael Engro. In the wake of the 2016 Tall Ships festival, Urraro Gallery has brought these two artists together to push the boundaries of traditional medium and space. Utilizing sail material from the local EYC racing fleet, the gallery will be transformed into a maritime experience like no other.
Emerging knife-maker Chris Adelhardt and photographer Vincent Gonzales will round out the show with hand crafted knives, collaborations and nautical imagery.
About the Erie Art Museum
The Erie Art Museum anchors downtown Erie's cultural and economic revitalization, occupying a group of restored mid-19th century commercial buildings and a modern, 'Green,' 10,500 square foot expansion. The newly expanded Museum marks the first LEED-certified building in the region, soon to be complete with a planted rooftop.
The Museum maintains an ambitious program of changing exhibitions annually, embracing a wide range of subjects, both historical and contemporary and including folk art, contemporary craft, multi-disciplinary installations, community-based work, as well as traditional media.
The Erie Art Museum also holds a collection of over 8,000 objects, which includes significant works in American ceramics, Tibetan painting, Indian bronzes, contemporary baskets, and a variety of other categories.
The Museum offers a wide range of education programs and artists' services including interdisciplinary and interactive school tours and a wide variety of classes for the community. Performing arts are showcased in the 25-year-old Contemporary Music Series, which represents national and international performers of serious music with an emphasis on composer/performers, and a popular annual two-day Blues & Jazz Festival.
The Erie Art Museum, café, and gift shop is open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. For additional visitor information, visit online at www.erieartmuseum.org or call 814-459-5477.
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