Please join me on May 5 from 5-8pm at the Evolve Design Gallery in Woodstock, NY for the public reception of my solo exhibition, “Mighty Light”.  The gallery is located at 88 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock, 12498; 845.679.9979.

In Spring, 12″ diameter, oil with copper on .5″ MDF panel.

Light continues to be a major theme in this new work.  We are blessed with breathtaking natural light all around us in this world.  But other kinds of light suffuse our experiences.  The energy of Spring contains a special sort of light, as does our very breath.  Light can transform before our very eyes, as Walt Whitman accurately reports in his poem:

Sparkles from the Wheel

by Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)

Where the city’s ceaseless crowd moves on the livelong day,
Withdrawn I join a group of children watching, I pause aside with them.
By the curb toward the edge of the flagging,
A knife-grinder works at his wheel sharpening a great knife,
Bending over he carefully holds it to the stone, by foot and knee,
With measur’d tread he turns rapidly, as he presses with light but
firm hand,
Forth issue then in copious golden jets,
Sparkles from the wheel.
The scene and all its belongings, how they seize and affect me,
The sad sharp-chinn’d old man with worn clothes and broad
shoulder-band of leather,
Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here
absorb’d and arrested,
The group, (an unminded point set in a vast surrounding,)
The attentive, quiet children, the loud, proud, restive base of the
streets,
The low hoarse purr of the whirling stone, the light-press’d blade,
Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
Sparkles from the wheel.

When Breath Leaves My Body, 40″ diameter, oil with aluminum, silver and 12k gold in MDF panel.

I look forward to visiting with you at the gallery!

Please join me for a special artist’s talk on March 29, 2012 from 6:00-8:30pm at the Knox Gallery.

Deborah Pannell wrote about the opening in her blog here:

http://www.eventwist.com/blog/events-in-new-york/week-art-nyc-macro-micro/

Her picture of all of us on opening night:

A huge thank you to Carl Davis, aka Rashu Aten, Chinese Gong Master, for providing exceptional music for the evening festivities.

Kristen Reed has put together a fabulous exhibition; don’t miss it!

www.knoxgallery.com; 129 West 129th Street, New York, NY 10027

“Karen Fitzgerald’s paintings transform matter into cosmic revelations.”

-Michaël Amy, 2.2012

Please join me for the opening reception of “The SHIFT” on Friday, March 9, 2012; 6-9pm.

The SHIFT exhibition runs from March 9 – April 13, 2012 at Knox Gallery, Harlem, NYC
The participating artists explore non-physical realms of consciousness and the space in-between our ordinary reality and the abstract blueprint of life. We move toward a new understanding of the world as an energetic totality that focuses on the heart-centered—mirroring human consciousness in the world around us at this extraordinary moment in Earth’s history.

Guest Curated by Kristin Reed and including:

Maggie Cousins
Diane Davis
Karen Fitzgerald
Nate Ladson
Paula Overbay
Kristin Reed
Atanaska Tassart
Shirley Taylor
Opening Reception: Friday 9 March 6–9 pm
Special appearance by Gong Master Rashu Aten
Artists Speak Events: Thursdays 6–8:30 pm
See schedule & info at www.knoxgallery.com
Closing Reception: Friday 13 April 6–9 pm
Please RSVP for all events at aljohnson@knoxgallery.com
129 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027
(between Adam Clayton Powell & Lenox Avenues)
Knox Gallery is open from Wednesday through Sunday by appointment only. Contact Al Johnson, Creative Director, for information about this exhibition or
to schedule a private showing: aljohnson@knoxgallery.com or 646.963.0498

Idir Eathara, oil with silver and 12k gold on prepared paper, 2012

 Public reception:  Thursday,

    January 26, 2012, 6-8pm

  Exhibition curated

   by Karen Fitzgerald

Holiday Inn Manhattan View, 3905 29th Street, viewing 24/7

Space Realty Group Gallery,2909 39th Avenue, viewing M-F 10am-6pm

Both venues are located in Long Island City;  take the N or Q train to the 39th Avenue stop, walk 2 blocks West for both locations.

Language has often been included in visual art.  Artists use titles as a way to suggest what they are thinking about.  Some artists have also built powerful visual vocabularies using language as a basic visual component within the work.  Yet the visual and verbal languages are profoundly different from each other.  How do they affect each other? The work gathered together for this exhibition explores how two distinct languages intersect in the visual arena.  Words bend color and form yet space within these 2-dimensional works also bends our wordy language. The results are as light as air, and as heavy as air most certainly is.

Participating Artists:  Audrey Anastasi, Lisa Breznak, Tony Bruno, Margaret Campbell, Giada Crispiels, Tony Egan, Ayakoh Furukawa, Tony Geiger, Beryl Goldberg, Ellen Grossman, Alejandro Gutierrez, Murray Hochman, Robin Jordan, Carla Lobmier, Ben Louria, Barbara Lubliner, Ann Sgarlata and Mary Vengrofski.

Thank you to both venues

for sponsoring this project!

The Javits Center, NYC, will host a Contemporary Art Fair the third weekend in November.

PLEASE JOIN ME at BOOTH H35

Fair hours:

Friday. November 18 2-7pm; Saturday, November 19, 10am-7pm; Sunday, November 20, 10am-4pm.

The Javits Center is located at 39th Street and 11th Avenue on Manhattan’s West Side.   Visit www.Americanartmarketing.com/promo to register for a discount coupon for your entry ticket.  Input code NYC11PC; 50% off full price.

I will be presenting a gilding demonstration AT MY BOOTH on Saturday at 3pm.  Stop in!

Please join me for the public reception to A Sense of Place on Thursday, October 20 from 6-8pm.  Both venues sponsoring this exhibition program will host the reception: Space Realty Group at 29-09 39th Ave., and Holiday Inn Manhattan View, 39-05 29th St., Long Island City, NY 11101. The exhibition runs through December 27: you can visit it 24/7 at Holiday Inn and M – F, 10-6pm at Space Realty.

The exhibition features 25 artists exploring work that is surprising and inspiring.  A place can be a physical space.   Often, our sense of a place relies on a memory, or a mental imprint of a previous experience.  Emotions provide a sense of place, as do human relations and interactions.  Place is not just a physical idea.  It encompasses the human sense of belonging and being in community or in communion with something.

I am curating this new project, exploring the idea of “Buy Art, Buy Local” in collaboration with local businesses.  Thank you to the excellent, participating artists!  Thank you to Holiday Inn and Space Realty for sponsoring this project.  This is an excellent opportunity to secure contemporary artwork.

Travel directions:  Public transit, take the N or Q train towards Queens.  Exit at 39th Avenue, walk 1 short block West; both venues are on the block between 30th and 29th Streets.

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Save the dates!

Please join me for a very special exhibition and concert at the Great Hall, 12 West 12th Street, 2nd Floor, Greenwich Village, New York, NY 10011.

The project features a gong concert by Gong Master Carl E. Davis, photographs by Amelia Scheffs-Bevington, a nine-year old who passed away in May, 2010 from a brain tumor, and gilded paintings from my new works suite.

The exhibition opens on September 11, 2011

The public reception is Sunday, September 18 from 12:30-2:30pm. 

The Gong Concert will take place in the gallery on Thursday, September 22 from 6-8pm.  No reservations required!

This exhibition runs through October 20.  It is open to the public on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 – 4pm.  One exception: the gallery will be closed on Tuesday, September 20, but open on Wednesday, September 21.

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August in the Midwest.  Sunrise is an occasion for awe each day.  Most mornings the hollow below the old white oak was filled with fog, obscuring the early morning deer, the cautious turkey clans.  Once the sun was up, flocks of red-wing blackbirds headed to the breakfast trough – usually the dew-kissed lawn, harboring some delicacy that made them squawk with busy excitement.  One morning the lawn was nearly black with them.  True flockers, they rise together when startled, and fly together when a menu change is offered.  That sound of hundreds of wings beating together, raising black bodies to the sky, recurred throughout the morning.  I could even hear it when they quit the pines across the yard.  I am glad I did not remain long enough to witness their Fall departure, I’m sure it would have made my heart sink to know those voices would be absent for months again.

The land in the Midwest was wet and verdant beyond compare.  My prairie garden surprised me with a sense of towering vegetation.

Elderberries planted last year held their own.  The overpopulated mosquitoes trimmed my work schedule several days running – no amount of insect repellant, voice commands or spiritual pleading could stay their pursuit of healthy blood meals. Two garden denizens were assured strong, fat growth from that food source.  The grass snake I visited with last year greeted me again.  Being fond of the sun, I could always locate him absorbing the green energy.  The other, a huge fox or pine snake totally surprised me.  We met on my last morning in the garden.  The night had been very cool, for reptiles at least.  Just past 8 a.m., I was setting final pavers over newly weeded areas when I happened to glance at the fresh ground against the garden house.  He was curled there, soaking up sun warmth.  He was huge.  Over 6 feet long and the girth of a baseball; after watching him and determining he was who I thought he was, I finally made him move.  It took careful prodding with a very long stick to encourage him to relinquish his spot.

Many thoughts occur about this citizen of the garden.  What would you wonder about if you met such a creature?  Please visit my WordPress section to explore this interesting corner of conversation.

Please join me on Friday, June 24 from 6-8pm for a conversation about contemporary art.

Come away with a new understanding of the profound communication embedded in all works of art.

Visit my WordPress section for a link to RSVP and to register.

About Glamour Gallery announces a group exhibition, Artronomy with a reception Friday, May 6 from 6 – 9 pm.
107-A North Third Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  718.599.3044

www.AboutGlamour.net

The exhibition runs through June 26, 2011.

A crescent moon, lilac perfume.  Who invented the blue skull of the sky?

wondrous way only in the dark?