September 6, 2018 - 12:00am - October 11, 2018 - 12:00am
Surface Tension, a multi-media group exhibition will be on display at the Art Gallery in Cazenovia College's Reisman Hall from September 6 - October 11. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, September 6, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
This multi-media group exhibition includes the work of artists from Golden Artist Colors, Inc.:
About the Artists
Scott Bennett
Website: scottbennettart.com
Biography
Scott Bennett received his BFA from Syracuse University in 1974. He has been a visiting artist at Tokyo University in Japan, Southern Indiana University, Oswego State University and the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2005 he was included in a historically important two part exhibition, "Clement Greenberg in Syracuse: Then and Now", curated by Karen Wilkin. The first part of the exhibit opened in Syracuse, NY and the second part was shown at the Palitz Gallery in NYC. Bennett's paintings are in numerous domestic and international collections. He lives and works in upstate New York.
Artist Statement
I like the adventure of making paintings. I like paint in all its glorious variation: thick, thin, smooth, gritty, opaque, translucent, glossy, matte. Making art takes me to places nothing else does. It satisfies me like nothing else does. While I am a landscape painter at heart, I need the open-ended-ness of a non-objective painter. Color and authenticity of feeling comes first.
My recent work has a range that goes from more obvious landscape reference, to what might appear to be non-objective. Sometimes they feel like landscape, still life and portrait all rolled into one. To me, art along with science and religion, is part of the triangle of human seeking and expression. At its best, it transcends the apparent subject matter and illuminates the human spirit and our connection to the universe. Sounds highfalutin but feels true.
Throughout my evolution as an artist, my goal has been to make the best art I can, using the best of the past as my guide, while remaining true to my own nature. To do this calls for me to be constructively self critical, open to the possibilities of the moment, confident and humble. The studio and life in general always supplies the humble. I supply the fortitude.
Sarah Burns
Biography
Sarah Burns graduated from University of the Arts in 2012 with BFA in Illustration. She is now a production artist in the marketing department at Golden Artist Colors. In her spare time she has done freelance illustrations from travel posters to portrait commissions. Burns primarily work in watercolor, ink, and color pencil. She grew up in Clinton, NY.
Artist Statement
I am an illustrator inspired by the fantastical and history. The series of crowned animals is a nod to the Dunstable Swan Jewel created in the 15th century and then adopted by the Lancastrian royal British family as an emblem. I was inspired to create other illustrations with the same crown and chain theme after I completed my version of the Dunstable Swan. The imagery of these powerful animals chained to their crowns is an allegory for the responsibility of power and its limitations. The last piece in this series is a self-portrait where I smooched my face against glass because I wanted to see what it look like.
Brent DeLanoy
Email: brentdelanoy@gmail.com
Biography
Brent received an MFA in Fiction from New Mexico State University in 2006. He is a writer and photographer living in Oneonta, NY. His writing has appeared in many journals in print and online, including Sixfold and The Missouri Review. His essay, “Airhead” was listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays of 2016. He has been practicing photography for about fifteen years, working with film and digital processes. As a self-taught photographer, he’s always looking to learn new things about the craft. He works mostly with landscape photography and portraiture.
Artist Statement
I grew up in New Mexico where, on a clear day, it’s no trouble to see a mountaintop two hundred miles away. The open space inspired my first interest in photography. Now, I can’t imagine nature without photography, or photography without nature. I just try to capture the way I see the world. If it resonates with an audience or, even better, inspires someone to go take a hike, I’m happy.
Chris Farrell
Website: farrellchristopher.com
Biography
Christopher Farrell has a BFA from School of Visual Arts and MS from Mercy College. He’s won numerous awards for design, advertising and marketing. Prior to taking his position as Creative Disruptor at GOLDEN in 2009, Christopher was a creative director at Rodale Publishing and Group Creative Director at RAPP. Farrell currently resides and paints in Hamilton, NY. He is originally from California.
Artist Statement
I strive to pay homage to architects and artists who’ve influenced me. My work reflects some chaos of my creative process while presenting a hint of mathematical precision and inner dialog. There is a sensuality and technicality to the materials that I try to balance in tensile forms and weaves.
As a child I spent hours weaving construction paper, gluing and painting. I enjoy making art now as much as I enjoyed making art when I was a child; my goal is to be as good at it as I was back then.
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Scott Avery Fischer
Biography
Scott Avery Fischer is a graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Fine Arts Graduate of Kansas State University where he studied painting. In his practice, he enjoys painting still-life from direct observation as well as landscapes. He has been a part of many national, group and juried art exhibitions and has previous experience as an art instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Fischer is actively engaged in painting and continues to extend his work while employed at Golden Artist Colors as a Materials and Applications Specialist. He currently resides in New
Hartford, NY.
Artist Statement
My work is by nature, iterative. It is not uncommon for me to spend several years working exhaustively with a particular subject. Each still-life form represents a separate task, or inroad into painting, with subtle variations. I enjoy revisiting a dialogue in paint as these subjects and the resultant paintings act as signposts for measurable progress. Often what attracts me to these subjects initially is an element of tongue-in-cheek, which invariably ends in some form of existential dread. If I am to commit to a body of work, humor provides a counterpoint to the seriousness and discipline of painting from observation. Fundamentally, what interests me about painting is the power to simultaneously represent and transform how something is experienced.
Ulysses Jackson
Website: UlyssesJackson.com
Biography
As a painter, sculptor, jeweler, musician, and scientist, Ulysses Jackson is living up to his explorer name; an intellectual tradesman who takes joy in experiencing all facets of creativity. Jackson grew up in North Carolina. Being the son of two artists allowed Ulysses the ability to venture out into world feeling that anything was truly possible, from making experiments with his grandfathers chemistry set in the basement to roving through the woods creating private kingdoms. After college Jackson set off on a long road trip around the United States, driving, hiking, reading, and always painting. After becoming weary of the road and craving the stationary life of a studio for larger works, Jackson picked upstate New York to settle down. Jackson is now a Formulator at Golden Artist Colors, a position that ties into his creative desires. In his artistic career Ulysses has had many successful solo exhibitions and is in numerous collections both public and private.
Artist Statement
In my work I build in details from all the stimulus around me creating a pictorial schematic of my mind during a given duration of time. This could include aspects of my current research into plants, alchemy, communications with the universe, and myth. This non-linear journaling allows for a narrative of mystery that one can then use to create their own meaning.
Catherine Jennings
Website: cjenningsgallery.com
Biography
Dr. Catherine Jennings fell in love with color and paint early in life, and knew then she would be a painter. By the time she entered high school, she also wished to teach. She painted and drew her way through college and two graduate schools (although earning a PhD didn’t allow as much time for painting). She has painted on the east coast, west coast, and in the southwest—and taught at universities in those places, too. She creates representational landscapes that embody her sense of place. The paintings might be created with watercolor, oils, or acrylics, and have been shown in solo, group, and juried shows across the US. Currently she works at Golden Artist Colors, where she continues to help artists. She also continues to paint.
Artist Statement
I am a painter, the landscapes and cityscapes of specific places form my primary subject matter, and I work both in the studio and on location. Within a painting, I try to balance representation and formal concerns with an entirely subjective experience of the content as a place I experienced over time. For me, the land is a living presence as I paint, and the works I create incorporate this experience into the painting process. My experience of this “presence” of the land and its history is one of the reasons painting on location forms such a vital and irreplaceable part of my process. Through this subjective realism, I hope to spark in the viewer a sense of, and connection, to the place I am painting. Subject, content, form, and material are all of importance to the process of painting.
Stacy Rosende
Biography
Stacy Rosende developed a language based in her response to the materiality of humble, often discarded materials. Her interest began when she was forced from her home during the recession. She packed all of her belongings into cardboard boxes with the uncertainty that she may ever see them again. At this moment, the objects in the box became unimportant. It was the container of these things that had the most resonance. She began printing the surface of these boxes as a means of capturing the history of the container’s use. This process evolved to include large scale hand colored prints and paintings. Her current imagery is derived from paper products designed around the intent to advertise or label such as mailers, catalogs, packaging, and cast-offs. She identifies their utilitarian existence and mass production as a metaphor for the working class, the common, and the self. These images are deconstructed, broken apart, and used to create completely new imagery, transforming their intent and purpose to something no longer common and disposable, but unique and rare.
Artist Statement
This series of nonobjective or highly abstracted images takes on the gesture and action of human interactions and intentions by the construction of dynamic compositions that utilize fragments of color or pattern from discarded mass produced imagery from my daily life. The majority of these works began as small collage sketches for the paintings. I focused on hard edge geometric shapes that isolated and contained specific colors and textures as suspended experiences that build the whole. It was my desire to detach from literal depictions while maintaining representation of the delicate nature of the human condition.
Sarah Sands
Website: sarahsands.com
Biography
Sarah Sands received her BA in Studio Art from UC Santa Cruz, and MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art, where she also worked as a Studio Assistant in the Conservation Department of the Yale University Art Gallery. After Yale she taught at the NY Academy of Art and Indiana
University, then left academia to help run Williamsburg in the mid-90's, providing the main technical research and product support for customers. In 2002 Sands joined Golden Artist Colors where she is currently the Senior Technical Specialist for both GOLDEN Acrylics and
Williamsburg Handmade Oils.
Artist Statement
My work is a response to the wooded landscapes that lie between Gilbertsville and Columbus, NY. These are spaces I travel through and live in daily, places where the horizons of hills and valley-views dart in and out between the thick lattice of branch and leaf, like single threads drawn through a loom. And in the intervals and interstices jagged blue shots of sky hang like grace notes in the air. And in time these thickets and groves and forested glens became endless textures of complexity – woven from lines and layers, dots and dashes, a textile forever recreating itself in new patterns and energies. My paintings are meant to capture some of that play and puzzlement of remembered experience. They are mementos in the broadest sense of that term.
Michael Townsend
Website: michaeltownsendart.webstarts.com
Biography
Michael Townsend graduated from Mansfield University in 1989 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art. After college, Townsend worked at PAC Signs in Binghamton until he began working at Golden Artist Colors in 1989. Starting in the Quality Control Department, he moved on to Research and Development, the Custom Lab, and Technical Support (for artists). Presently he is an artist Materials Specialist consulting with artists around the world about all things paint. Townsend was born in Binghamton, New York. His interest in artwork increased throughout his high school years at Windsor Central High School.
Artist Statement
Nature is my biggest influence. It beckons me to try and capture her. I find myself driving along the road appreciating the clouds and shifting patterns, wondering if I’ll ever get a chance to recreate them, or more accurately the emotion of the ever changing sky. Although I still paint a la Plein Aire and otherwise representationally, I get more out of trying to harness the forces that create what nature does so effortlessly.
My artwork culminates my thoughts and experiences that have to get it out of my head or I risk constantly thinking about it. In my recent paintings, I apply flowing mediums and paints in such a way to create “controlled chaos”. I combine materials in a way that forces opposites to collide, and the results resemble what occurs accidentally in the universe. Inspecting the cured image invokes thoughts on how to begin the next painting.
Greg Watson
Biography
Greg Watson studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA and later earned his graduate degree in painting from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. He also studied independently with Virgil Elliott and Norwegian Painter Odd Nerdrum. He has exhibited his work in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York City and New York state. Watson joined the Materials and Application Specialist team at Golden Artist Colors as their Oil Paint Specialist in 2016.
Artist Statement
My primary concern in painting is to understand the working properties of oil paint. I have developed multiple bodies of work in varying styles over the years, from Old Master to Impressionism, to my most recent body of work focusing on process-based abstraction. I have always been interested in the way artists use their materials. I have investigated both historic and contemporary processes through extensive research and experimentation. This has helped me develop an appreciation for all different types of painting as well as a point of reference to understand the challenges artists face regardless of their style. In this body of work, I load the paint onto the surface directly from the tube to establish both textural and visual patterns. The shallow spaces and strong foreground elements in these works provide a testing ground to more fully understand the principles of layering and the drying behaviors of oil paint.
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visit us at: www.cazenovia.edu/art-gallery
This multi-media group exhibition includes the work of artists from Golden Artist Colors, Inc.:
- Scott Bennett
- Sarah Burns
- Brent DeLanoy
- Chris Farrell
- Scott Avery Fischer
- Ulysses Jackson
- Catherine Jennings
- Stacy Rosende
- Sarah Sands
- Michael Townsend
- Greg Watson
About the Artists
Scott Bennett
Website: scottbennettart.com
Scott Bennett received his BFA from Syracuse University in 1974. He has been a visiting artist at Tokyo University in Japan, Southern Indiana University, Oswego State University and the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2005 he was included in a historically important two part exhibition, "Clement Greenberg in Syracuse: Then and Now", curated by Karen Wilkin. The first part of the exhibit opened in Syracuse, NY and the second part was shown at the Palitz Gallery in NYC. Bennett's paintings are in numerous domestic and international collections. He lives and works in upstate New York.
Artist Statement
I like the adventure of making paintings. I like paint in all its glorious variation: thick, thin, smooth, gritty, opaque, translucent, glossy, matte. Making art takes me to places nothing else does. It satisfies me like nothing else does. While I am a landscape painter at heart, I need the open-ended-ness of a non-objective painter. Color and authenticity of feeling comes first.
My recent work has a range that goes from more obvious landscape reference, to what might appear to be non-objective. Sometimes they feel like landscape, still life and portrait all rolled into one. To me, art along with science and religion, is part of the triangle of human seeking and expression. At its best, it transcends the apparent subject matter and illuminates the human spirit and our connection to the universe. Sounds highfalutin but feels true.
Throughout my evolution as an artist, my goal has been to make the best art I can, using the best of the past as my guide, while remaining true to my own nature. To do this calls for me to be constructively self critical, open to the possibilities of the moment, confident and humble. The studio and life in general always supplies the humble. I supply the fortitude.
Sarah Burns
Sarah Burns graduated from University of the Arts in 2012 with BFA in Illustration. She is now a production artist in the marketing department at Golden Artist Colors. In her spare time she has done freelance illustrations from travel posters to portrait commissions. Burns primarily work in watercolor, ink, and color pencil. She grew up in Clinton, NY.
Artist Statement
I am an illustrator inspired by the fantastical and history. The series of crowned animals is a nod to the Dunstable Swan Jewel created in the 15th century and then adopted by the Lancastrian royal British family as an emblem. I was inspired to create other illustrations with the same crown and chain theme after I completed my version of the Dunstable Swan. The imagery of these powerful animals chained to their crowns is an allegory for the responsibility of power and its limitations. The last piece in this series is a self-portrait where I smooched my face against glass because I wanted to see what it look like.
Brent DeLanoy
Email: brentdelanoy@gmail.com
Brent received an MFA in Fiction from New Mexico State University in 2006. He is a writer and photographer living in Oneonta, NY. His writing has appeared in many journals in print and online, including Sixfold and The Missouri Review. His essay, “Airhead” was listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays of 2016. He has been practicing photography for about fifteen years, working with film and digital processes. As a self-taught photographer, he’s always looking to learn new things about the craft. He works mostly with landscape photography and portraiture.
Artist Statement
I grew up in New Mexico where, on a clear day, it’s no trouble to see a mountaintop two hundred miles away. The open space inspired my first interest in photography. Now, I can’t imagine nature without photography, or photography without nature. I just try to capture the way I see the world. If it resonates with an audience or, even better, inspires someone to go take a hike, I’m happy.
Chris Farrell
Website: farrellchristopher.com
Christopher Farrell has a BFA from School of Visual Arts and MS from Mercy College. He’s won numerous awards for design, advertising and marketing. Prior to taking his position as Creative Disruptor at GOLDEN in 2009, Christopher was a creative director at Rodale Publishing and Group Creative Director at RAPP. Farrell currently resides and paints in Hamilton, NY. He is originally from California.
Artist Statement
I strive to pay homage to architects and artists who’ve influenced me. My work reflects some chaos of my creative process while presenting a hint of mathematical precision and inner dialog. There is a sensuality and technicality to the materials that I try to balance in tensile forms and weaves.
As a child I spent hours weaving construction paper, gluing and painting. I enjoy making art now as much as I enjoyed making art when I was a child; my goal is to be as good at it as I was back then.
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Scott Avery Fischer
Scott Avery Fischer is a graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Fine Arts Graduate of Kansas State University where he studied painting. In his practice, he enjoys painting still-life from direct observation as well as landscapes. He has been a part of many national, group and juried art exhibitions and has previous experience as an art instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Fischer is actively engaged in painting and continues to extend his work while employed at Golden Artist Colors as a Materials and Applications Specialist. He currently resides in New
Hartford, NY.
Artist Statement
My work is by nature, iterative. It is not uncommon for me to spend several years working exhaustively with a particular subject. Each still-life form represents a separate task, or inroad into painting, with subtle variations. I enjoy revisiting a dialogue in paint as these subjects and the resultant paintings act as signposts for measurable progress. Often what attracts me to these subjects initially is an element of tongue-in-cheek, which invariably ends in some form of existential dread. If I am to commit to a body of work, humor provides a counterpoint to the seriousness and discipline of painting from observation. Fundamentally, what interests me about painting is the power to simultaneously represent and transform how something is experienced.
Ulysses Jackson
Website: UlyssesJackson.com
As a painter, sculptor, jeweler, musician, and scientist, Ulysses Jackson is living up to his explorer name; an intellectual tradesman who takes joy in experiencing all facets of creativity. Jackson grew up in North Carolina. Being the son of two artists allowed Ulysses the ability to venture out into world feeling that anything was truly possible, from making experiments with his grandfathers chemistry set in the basement to roving through the woods creating private kingdoms. After college Jackson set off on a long road trip around the United States, driving, hiking, reading, and always painting. After becoming weary of the road and craving the stationary life of a studio for larger works, Jackson picked upstate New York to settle down. Jackson is now a Formulator at Golden Artist Colors, a position that ties into his creative desires. In his artistic career Ulysses has had many successful solo exhibitions and is in numerous collections both public and private.
Artist Statement
In my work I build in details from all the stimulus around me creating a pictorial schematic of my mind during a given duration of time. This could include aspects of my current research into plants, alchemy, communications with the universe, and myth. This non-linear journaling allows for a narrative of mystery that one can then use to create their own meaning.
Catherine Jennings
Website: cjenningsgallery.com
Dr. Catherine Jennings fell in love with color and paint early in life, and knew then she would be a painter. By the time she entered high school, she also wished to teach. She painted and drew her way through college and two graduate schools (although earning a PhD didn’t allow as much time for painting). She has painted on the east coast, west coast, and in the southwest—and taught at universities in those places, too. She creates representational landscapes that embody her sense of place. The paintings might be created with watercolor, oils, or acrylics, and have been shown in solo, group, and juried shows across the US. Currently she works at Golden Artist Colors, where she continues to help artists. She also continues to paint.
Artist Statement
I am a painter, the landscapes and cityscapes of specific places form my primary subject matter, and I work both in the studio and on location. Within a painting, I try to balance representation and formal concerns with an entirely subjective experience of the content as a place I experienced over time. For me, the land is a living presence as I paint, and the works I create incorporate this experience into the painting process. My experience of this “presence” of the land and its history is one of the reasons painting on location forms such a vital and irreplaceable part of my process. Through this subjective realism, I hope to spark in the viewer a sense of, and connection, to the place I am painting. Subject, content, form, and material are all of importance to the process of painting.
Stacy Rosende
Stacy Rosende developed a language based in her response to the materiality of humble, often discarded materials. Her interest began when she was forced from her home during the recession. She packed all of her belongings into cardboard boxes with the uncertainty that she may ever see them again. At this moment, the objects in the box became unimportant. It was the container of these things that had the most resonance. She began printing the surface of these boxes as a means of capturing the history of the container’s use. This process evolved to include large scale hand colored prints and paintings. Her current imagery is derived from paper products designed around the intent to advertise or label such as mailers, catalogs, packaging, and cast-offs. She identifies their utilitarian existence and mass production as a metaphor for the working class, the common, and the self. These images are deconstructed, broken apart, and used to create completely new imagery, transforming their intent and purpose to something no longer common and disposable, but unique and rare.
Artist Statement
This series of nonobjective or highly abstracted images takes on the gesture and action of human interactions and intentions by the construction of dynamic compositions that utilize fragments of color or pattern from discarded mass produced imagery from my daily life. The majority of these works began as small collage sketches for the paintings. I focused on hard edge geometric shapes that isolated and contained specific colors and textures as suspended experiences that build the whole. It was my desire to detach from literal depictions while maintaining representation of the delicate nature of the human condition.
Sarah Sands
Website: sarahsands.com
Sarah Sands received her BA in Studio Art from UC Santa Cruz, and MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art, where she also worked as a Studio Assistant in the Conservation Department of the Yale University Art Gallery. After Yale she taught at the NY Academy of Art and Indiana
University, then left academia to help run Williamsburg in the mid-90's, providing the main technical research and product support for customers. In 2002 Sands joined Golden Artist Colors where she is currently the Senior Technical Specialist for both GOLDEN Acrylics and
Williamsburg Handmade Oils.
Artist Statement
My work is a response to the wooded landscapes that lie between Gilbertsville and Columbus, NY. These are spaces I travel through and live in daily, places where the horizons of hills and valley-views dart in and out between the thick lattice of branch and leaf, like single threads drawn through a loom. And in the intervals and interstices jagged blue shots of sky hang like grace notes in the air. And in time these thickets and groves and forested glens became endless textures of complexity – woven from lines and layers, dots and dashes, a textile forever recreating itself in new patterns and energies. My paintings are meant to capture some of that play and puzzlement of remembered experience. They are mementos in the broadest sense of that term.
Michael Townsend
Website: michaeltownsendart.webstarts.com
Michael Townsend graduated from Mansfield University in 1989 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art. After college, Townsend worked at PAC Signs in Binghamton until he began working at Golden Artist Colors in 1989. Starting in the Quality Control Department, he moved on to Research and Development, the Custom Lab, and Technical Support (for artists). Presently he is an artist Materials Specialist consulting with artists around the world about all things paint. Townsend was born in Binghamton, New York. His interest in artwork increased throughout his high school years at Windsor Central High School.
Artist Statement
Nature is my biggest influence. It beckons me to try and capture her. I find myself driving along the road appreciating the clouds and shifting patterns, wondering if I’ll ever get a chance to recreate them, or more accurately the emotion of the ever changing sky. Although I still paint a la Plein Aire and otherwise representationally, I get more out of trying to harness the forces that create what nature does so effortlessly.
My artwork culminates my thoughts and experiences that have to get it out of my head or I risk constantly thinking about it. In my recent paintings, I apply flowing mediums and paints in such a way to create “controlled chaos”. I combine materials in a way that forces opposites to collide, and the results resemble what occurs accidentally in the universe. Inspecting the cured image invokes thoughts on how to begin the next painting.
Greg Watson
Greg Watson studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA and later earned his graduate degree in painting from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. He also studied independently with Virgil Elliott and Norwegian Painter Odd Nerdrum. He has exhibited his work in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York City and New York state. Watson joined the Materials and Application Specialist team at Golden Artist Colors as their Oil Paint Specialist in 2016.
Artist Statement
My primary concern in painting is to understand the working properties of oil paint. I have developed multiple bodies of work in varying styles over the years, from Old Master to Impressionism, to my most recent body of work focusing on process-based abstraction. I have always been interested in the way artists use their materials. I have investigated both historic and contemporary processes through extensive research and experimentation. This has helped me develop an appreciation for all different types of painting as well as a point of reference to understand the challenges artists face regardless of their style. In this body of work, I load the paint onto the surface directly from the tube to establish both textural and visual patterns. The shallow spaces and strong foreground elements in these works provide a testing ground to more fully understand the principles of layering and the drying behaviors of oil paint.
———-
visit us at: www.cazenovia.edu/art-gallery