Ossining Arts Council

SAVE THE DATE:  SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 7PM
Admission:  $15 & $10 (for seniors, students and Arts Westchester members)
Wine & Tapas Bar (very reasonably priced)

‘Nature Abhors a Vacuum’ (1973)

In 1953 Helen Frankenthaler, who died this week at age 83, received a visit from Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, two artists from Washington who were stuck in an Abstract Expressionist rut. In her studio they saw “Mountains and Sea,” of the year before, a characteristically abstract work painted by pouring pigment onto a canvas laid on the floor.  

The poured-paint technique had been pioneered by Jackson Pollock a few years earlier, but in this work the 24-year-old Frankenthaler made it her own. In place of the older artist’s looping and whipping lines of gray, black and tan, her imagery consisted of spreading pools and washes of luxuriant pinks, blues and greens nudged here and there with a sponge. The painting was a revelation to the two men—a “bridge between Pollock and what was possible,” Louis later said. Her novel technique, combined with a chromatic freedom and mastery unprecedented in recent American art, helped launch them, and others, on their own paths of color abstraction, thus ultimately changing the course of American art.

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Ossining, New York.  Sunday, November 20th from 3-6p.m.

A Photography Exhibit called: SOS (Save our Starving) will be held at the new Cafe Express at 123 Main Street  in Ossining.

Framed photographic prints will be on sale.

Proceeds will benefit ”Doctors Without Borders’  which is currently nourishing and feeding millions of starving families in Africa, Asia and Europe….all money from sales will go to this organization.

Prices will range from $10.00 to $25.00

The exhibit runs through January 8th, 2012!

Here is an opportunity to get a unique original art work as a gift or for yourself and help to feed the starving for days and weeks! from each picture you buy.

If you have any questions or wish to contribute a framed original photo call Mark @ 914-762-0219.

Sponsored by The Sunday Photo Group.

First Friday Tango Rescheduled For Second Friday!

Photography/John Hamburger - Type Styling/Robert Stava

The Ossining Arts Council is proud to offer OAC members an exciting opportunity to exhibit at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill.

“O” at the Paramount will be on display from September 15th through October 29th, 2011 at the Paramount Center for the Arts, 1008 Brown Street, Peekskill, NY 10562. This show is open to all visual artists.

Details about “O” are here.

To celebrate “O”, the OAC will hold an opening reception for “O” on Friday, September 16, from 6:00 – 7:45 PM and another event during the Paramount’s “HIPPIEFEST: a Concert for Peace and Love,” on Saturday, October 14, from 6:30 – 8:00 PM. Artists and their guests will have special seating and VIP treatment at “HIPPIEFEST”  featuring rock ‘n’ roll luminaries Dave Mason, Rick Derringer and Felix Cavaliere. Tickets for “HIPPIEFEST” are $40 each. 10% of all Sales benefit the OAC.

Download General Info Guide, Art Submission and Contact Forms