Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Richard Deming, Brenda Iijima and Michael Ruby


Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Richard Deming is a poet and a theorist who works on the philosophy of literature. He is the author of Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman Books), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His poems have appeared in such places as Sulfur, Field, Indiana Review, and The Nation. He is also the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford University Press). He teaches at Yale University.

Brenda Iijima was born in the hilly town of North Adams, Massachusetts. She is the author of Around Sea (O Books), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press), revv. you’ll—ution (Displaced Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press) as well as numerous chapbooks and artist’s books. She is also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books and PP@YYL). Currently she is working on a body of work titled Some Simple Things Said by and About Humans—a chronicle of how humans have used animals as surrogates. She is also doing research on women who were murdered in North Adams during the 1970’s when she was growing up there. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.

Michael Ruby is the author of six books of poetry: At an Intersection (Alef Books, 2002), Window on the City (BlazeVOX [books], 2006), Fleeting Memories (Ugly Duckling Presse ebook, 2008), The Edge of the Underworld (BlazeVOX, 2010), Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010) and Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (forthcoming Argotist Online, 2011). He is also the editor of Washtenaw County Jail and Other Writings by David Herfort (Xlibris, 2005). A graduate of Harvard College and Brown University’s writing program, he lives in Brooklyn and works as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal. He spends weekends, when he can, in Gallatin in nearby southern Columbia County.

In the Gallery at R&F:

‘Conversations’, an exhibition of works by eight painters and sculptors who also work on paper. The show will run from April 2nd through May 12th, 2011. There will be an opening reception for the artists and gallery talk on Saturday, April 2nd, from 5 to 7 p.m. There will also be a gallery closing, on Saturday, May 14 from 2-4 pm, where the artists will be on hand to have conversations with visitors.

Co-curated by Joanne Mattera and Laura Moriarty, ‘Conversations’ is a group exhibition that looks at the work on paper of artists who are primarily known for their paintings or sculpture. By showing these different mediums together, ‘Conversations’ presents a visual dialog between the artists’ two mediums, vis a vis materials, dimensions, proportions, palette and content; as well as a conversation among the participating artists on these same issues.

The eight artists include Steven Alexander, Nancy Azara, Grace DeGennaro, Pam Farrell, Lorrie Fredette, George Mason, Joanne Mattera and Laura Moriarty.

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Jennifer Bartlett, Anne Gorrick and Maryrose Larkin



Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Jennifer Bartlett was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Her collections include Derivative of the Moving Image (UNM Press 2007), (a) lullaby without any music (Chax 2011), and Anti-Autobiography: A Chapbook Designed by Andrea Baker (Saint Eliizabeth Street/Youth-in-Asia Press 2010).

Anne Gorrick is the author of I-Formation (Book One) (Shearman Books, 2010), the forthcoming I-Formation (Book Two), and Kyotologic (Shearsman Books, 2008). She also collaborated with artist Cynthia Winika to produce a limited edition artists’ book, “Swans, the ice,” she said, funded with grants from the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She curates this reading series, and co-edits the electronic poetry journal Peep/Show with poet Lynn Behrendt.

Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books, 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. press, 2007) and DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009. Larkin is one of the organizers of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press. Her new book, The Name of This Intersection is Frost, is out from Shearsman Books.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Waxing Geometric, a solo exhibition by painter, Astrid Fitzgerald. The show will run from February 5th through March 19th, 2011. There will be an opening reception for the artist and informal gallery talk on Saturday, February 5th, from 5 to 7 p.m.

For Astrid Fitzgerald, painting is a spiritual pursuit and a path to self-knowledge. Fitzgerald’s work privileges the universal over the personal, and is characterized by simple geometric elements. Her study of Perennial Philosophy led to an appreciation of the Golden Mean, and for over twenty-five years now, her work has explored philosophical geometry, including the Fibonacci sequence, the Pythagorean Theorem and, most importantly, the Golden Mean proportion, a unique ratio preferred by nature as the most advantageous geometry for growth and energy conservation.

If there is a common thread to my work it is the desire to uncover the inner order in the world of appearances. I have always agreed with Emerson’s observation that “We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.” – Astrid Fitzgerald

Born and educated in Switzerland, Astrid Fitzgerald has been living in New York since 1961. Her work has been featured in over twenty solo exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States, and included in over 40 group exhibitions. Fitzgerald’s work is represented in many public, private and corporate collections, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CN; Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY; Credit Suisse, NYC; and PES Architects, Nagoya, Japan. An installation by Fitzgerald was selected to represent the US at the ArtCanal Exposition in Le Landeron, Switzerland in 2002. She has lectured on the Golden Mean proportion in art, and is the author of An Artist's Book of Inspiration—A Collection of Thoughts on Art, Artists, and Creativity (Lindisfarne Books, 1996) and Being Consciousness Bliss—A Seeker's Guide (Lindisfarne Books, 2002). Fitzgerald currently lives and works in Kerhonkson, New York.