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SUMMARY:Janine Lambers: Reaching Across
DESCRIPTION:Janine Lambers: Reaching Across\nMay 16 – June 22\, 2026 \n\nIn this time of growing division and discontent I’d like to focus on reaching across perceived boundaries. Perceived because most of the time they are creations of our biases and delusions rather than reality. In my experience\, while these notions are part of life and help us navigate our mundane existence\, they are insignificant in the bigger picture of life. The deeper\, more mysterious quest is finding the way home to unity or paradise / nirvana. All my work comes from a spiritual source teaching love\, goodwill\, peace\, harmony and stillness.  That is the mindset I work in while creating. That is the reality I want to create. \n  \nJanine Lambers is a German born artist working from her studio in Beacon\, NY. Trained under the auspices of the German Guild Academy she graduated as a gilder and during the course of her career developed into an artist. With a deep reverence and understanding of her craft she started to create her art. Over the years Lambers has exhibited her work on occasion but mostly works on commissions such as an 18ft gilded wall mural for a private super yacht and triptychs to national and international clientele. \n\nArtist Statement:\nI started making art in my mind as long as I can remember. Yet\, the path to making ‘real’ pieces was a long one. My upbringing put emphasis on learning a skill that would guarantee a solid basis for life; and I am immensely grateful for my apprenticeship as a gilder as it has awarded me exactly that. Immigrating to the US and more specifically NYC landed me in the world of high end homes and clients that appreciate fine objects. This brought me in contact with incredible art over the years. The inspiration I feel from that is intensifying with each piece of art that springs from my mind. They express a combination of my lived experiences and learned wisdom with the ancient techniques I have honed for many years in new ways. In my ‘living paintings and living objects’ work I explore impermanence by challenging my concept of solidity and permanence. What I perceive to have a solid core or an identifiable form changes with closer inspection. What I see as a solid mass has merely a higher density. This density varies and opens up to where boundaries interweave and connect – where the different forms obscure\ninto one another. \nImpermanence is shown through the choice of different karat gold / precious metals and silver leaf. The more pure the gold leaf the less it will change its color\, the more silver content in it the more it will darken and tarnish over time. Gold symbolizes purity and eternity. Silver symbolizes the decaying aspect of nature. Some of my works are deliberately left unvarnished to allow them to continue to ‘live’ and thereby change their character. \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSaturday\, May 16\, 5 – 7 pm \nPlease join us to meet the artist and view the works; light refreshments will be served. \n  \nThe WRCA galleries and art reception are always free and open to the public. \nGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm \n  \nImage: Janine Lambers\, Untying Knots\, mixed media
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/janine-lambers-reaching-across/
LOCATION:Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, 232 Ward Street\, Montgomery\, NY\, 12549\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Events,Gallery Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Sarah Fortner: Weeds
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Fortner: Weeds\nMay 16 – June 22\, 2026 \n\nNothing is more beautiful and alien than a close-up view of a plant. Spots and hairs\, oddly shaped caverns\, unexpected streaks of color; even the humblest daisy reveals itself as a spiral of miniature flowers\, moving from tight green buds at the center through powdery pollen to frayed brown seeds at the edges. An entire life cycle is visible in what we call a simple flower. \nBotanical studies have been a constant in my practice\, a source of both inspiration and renewal. This exhibition continues that exploration\, but focuses on the plants we’ve learned to ignore: the wild flora that populate ditches\, vacant lots\, and forest edges in Orange County\, New York.  Instead of focusing on showy flowers\, I explored the resilient\, unloved\, everyday plants we call weeds.  Rendered as oil paintings\, these plants demand the attention we typically reserve for the rare and precious.  \nAs I began photographing and drawing wild plants for this body of work\, I was dismayed to discover that a large part of my studies were of plants that were not native\, even though I had seen them my entire life.  Some\, such as purple loosestrife and Norway maple\, are considered invasive\, disrupting ecosystems and displacing species that evolved here over millennia. Still\, others\, like white clover and dandelion\, are ubiquitous and naturalized but originally came from across the ocean.  I found a new appreciation for native mountain laurel\, milkweed\, and ephemeral trout lilies\, but inevitably\, my enjoyment of the wild became more tempered.   \nThe presence of non-native plants raises uncomfortable questions. If a plant is harmful to the ecosystem\, does depicting its beauty become complicity? At what point are these plants considered part of the landscape? Are attempts to control their spread futile? I’ve turned a critical eye to my own backyard and have begun replacing ornamentals with native plants.   \nThe work focuses on intimate views of common wild plants\, exploring stems\, flowers\, seeds\, and decay with equal interest. Each work notes whether its subject is native\, naturalized\, or invasive. These weeds are everywhere\, thriving in the margins we often overlook. They’re beautiful. They’re problematic. They’re persistent. I remind myself that a weed is simply a plant deemed unwanted. \n  \nAbout the artist:  \nSarah Fortner is a multidisciplinary artist and arts administrator residing in Orange County\, New York. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area\, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art Practice from the University of California\, Berkeley\, graduating with Highest Honors in 2000.  She relocated to New York City in 2001 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts at Hunter College. Since 2008\, Fortner has been based in Orange County\, New York\, where she founded the Washingtonville Artist Collective in 2014. From 2018 to 2024\, she served as Executive Director of the Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, a nonprofit arts organization in Montgomery\, NY. She currently serves as Chair of the Kurt Seligmann Art Committee at the Seligmann Center in Sugar Loaf\, NY and works as a grant writer for SUNY Orange in Middletown\, NY. \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSaturday\, May 16\, 5 – 7 pm \nPlease join us to meet the artist and view the works; light refreshments will be served. \n  \nArt receptions and the galleries at WRCA are free and open to the public. \nGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm \n  \nImage: Sarah Fortner\, Milk Thistle\, oil on canvas\, 24 x 18 in.
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/sarah-fortner-weeds/
LOCATION:Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, 232 Ward Street\, Montgomery\, NY\, 12549\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Events,Gallery Exhibits
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SUMMARY:BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS\, A Regional Juried Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS\nA Regional Exhibition Juried by Janine Lambers\nMay 16 – June 21\, 2026 \n\nCall for entries – submissions due April 20\, 2026 \nPROSPECTUS \n  \nIn addition to Janine Lambers solo show Reaching Across\, Lambers will jury a companion exhibition\, BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS\, featuring botanical inspired artworks which will be on view concurrently in the Patchett Gallery. \nAbout the Juror: Janine Lambers is a German born artist working from her studio in Beacon\, NY. Trained under the auspices of the German Guild Academy\, she graduated as a gilder. During the course of her career\, with a deep reverence and understanding of her craft\, she started to create her own works of art. Lambers exhibits her work internationally and has received numerous commissions including site-specific works such as an 18ft gilded wall mural for a private super yacht. \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSaturday\, May 16\, 5 – 7 pm \nPlease join us to meet the artists and view the works; light refreshments will be served. \n  \nArt receptions and the galleries at WRCA are always free and open to the public. \nGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm \n 
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/botanical-observations-a-regional-juried-exhibition/
LOCATION:Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, 232 Ward Street\, Montgomery\, NY\, 12549\, United States
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SUMMARY:REMEMBER WHEN\, A National Exhibition Juried by Ransome
DESCRIPTION:Remember When\nA National Exhibition Juried by Ransome\nJune 27 – August 9\, 2026 \n\nCall for Artwork \nThis exhibit is a national call\, open to all U.S. artists 18 years of age or older. Artwork may range from realism to non-representational abstraction; 2D and 3D works in all media are welcome; size restrictions apply. \n\nDescription \nRemember When: Nostalgia is a powerful sentiment. We can experience it on a personal level\, a family level\, a cultural level\, a spiritual level. We invite you to submit images that speak to this theme. Let’s explore our pasts together as we look back at the times and experiences that shaped us as individuals and as a collective. \n  \nSubmissions due: May 7\, 2026 \nREMEMBER WHEN PROSPECTUS\n \n  \n\nMeet the JUROR: Ransome \n\nMy artwork centers on my African-American lineage\, which is traced back to sharecroppers of the American South who migrated to Northern cities along the East Coast. My pictorial narratives are personal\, yet the symbols I use are universal and interplay with larger social\, racial\, ancestral\, economic\, and political histories that inform our nation to this day. The history of my family is the history of black Americans\, which is the history of all of North America. \nIn my works\, I often combine acrylic paint with an array of found\, made\, and purchased papers. The materials I use are conceptual statements on this legacy of an often-overlooked portion of society that made something out of nothing. \nBoth my representational and abstract works incorporate a variety of symbols\, patterns\, and marks to create powerful images filled with the rhythmic properties of music that weave throughout my oeuvre. Born in a generation infused by soul and R&B music\, I grew up hearing rap music that freely sampled the music of my childhood\, mixing and recomposing these songs to create rhythms befitting to hip hop music. In my work\, my natural instinct is to paint and collage on the same surface\, applying the same spontaneity of hip hop deejays and the resourcefulness of rural quilters\, who use what is at hand\, assembling\, collaging\, and creating. \nWhile made of the energy of contemporary culture\, my work is also influenced by Abstract Expressionism and draws from the soulfulness of the quilts from the women of Gee’s Bend. For me\, there is a visual rhythm to layering these antipodes: found versus purchased objects\, figures versus abstract\, paint versus paper\, busy versus quiet. My work aims to imbue each piece with a lyrical yet authentic resilience borne of limited resources and frugality that speaks to the struggle and hope\, pain\, joy\, and soul of folks in the black community. \n–​ \nA graduate from Pratt Institute\, Ransome served as a tenured professor in the School of Visual Performing Arts at Syracuse University before retiring to pursue his dreams of being a studio artist. Nationally exhibited and collected by museums and private foundations\, Ransome received an MFA in Studio Arts from Lesley University and currently resides in the Hudson Valley. \n  \nImage: Ransome\, The Curse Of Ham\, acrylic and collage with table\, 50 x 72 in.\, 2025
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/remember-when-a-national-exhibition-juried-by-ransome/
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