GALLERY 1 Joining Sky and Earth, Linda Lauro-Lazin and Kejoo Park

GALLERY 2 Apparitions, Pamela Vlahakis

Beacon Room Fishing With Matisse, Jebah Baum

Opening Reception Second Saturday, November 9th, OPEN from 12-6 pm, with an artists’ reception from 6-8 pm

Exhibit ends Sunday, December 8th, at 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY. Saturdays and Sundays 12-6 pm or by appointment

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Gallery 1: Joining Sky and Earth, Linda Lauro-Lazin and Kejoo Park

Joining Sky and Earth, a two person show of paintings and works on paper featuring BAU artist, Linda Lauro-Lazin and invited guest artist, Kejoo Park.

The exhibition brings together two distinctly different yet related approaches to creative exploration, reflected in different depictions of earth and landscapes: Kejoo Park’s inward-looking, gestural works and Linda Lauro-Lazin’s external viewpoint works that reflect her spacious absorption of the environment.

Viewing the earth from above and below can shift perception, evident in both inner landscapes and futuristic-imaginary views. Kejoo Park and Linda Lauro-Lazin each offer unique perspectives through their art. Linda Lauro-Lazin translates external images and reality into her work. Her pieces are the result of an ongoing contemplation of our changing surroundings, filtered through her digital perspective. In contrast, Kejoo Park’s silent pictures stem from meditative self-questioning, incorporating the landscapes she has seen and experienced.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Linda Lauro-Lazin is a visual artist, an educator and a technologist, developing a vernacular of digital mark making and abstraction that conflates analog and digital painting. She is the Assistant Chair of the Department of Digital Arts in the School of Art at Pratt Institute. Lauro-Lazin is a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of the Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, the Fondation Karolyi Residency, with works exhibited at BAU Gallery, the Knockdown Center, Dorsky Museum among many others. She received an MFA from Pratt Institute, an MA from New York Institute of Technology.

Kejoo Park is a Korean-American artist, landscape artist and architect. In her works, Park focuses on the duality of the internal and external worlds and her paintings, objects and installations manifest the alienation between man and nature; they address external nature, which is revealed in what man did not create himself. Park has won various prizes in architecture and landscape architecture and taught in several universities including Harvard University summer school, Yunsei University, Korea, and Technical University of Stuttgart, Germany. She had numerous exhibitions internationally. She holds an MLA in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University, and a BFA from Cornell University.

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Gallery 2: Apparitions, Pamela Vlahakis

The motivation for this body of work stems from Pamela’s inherent desire to see the hidden beauty in things that do not conform to traditional aesthetics. The people and objects of everyday life in the world exude an alien interpretation of beauty that teaches her how to view things from multiple perspectives. Her marriage into an unquestionably Greek family, and the following twenty years of travel to rural villages in the mountains, gave her another opportunity to extend her perspective, and through photography she hopes to deliver her personal experience to the general public.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Pamela Vlahakis is a photographer who lives and works in Westport CT. The driving force behind her work is her desire to demonstrate the beauty in places, people, and things that would otherwise seem ordinary.

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Beacon Room: Fishing With Matisse, Jebah Baum

Inspired by 20th Century Modernism in the south of France

This exhibition is based on drawings that artist Jebah Baum made during a three month residency at the La Napoule Art Center in the south of France. Channeling energy from the influential modernists that resided there during and after the second world war, Baum worked at a frenzied pace to transfigure their voices in his own oeuvre. The resulting images are both a loving tribute and an impassioned attempt to carry forward the vitality and imagination of this expansive period in visual art.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jebah Baum was born in Brooklyn, grew up in the Hudson Valley. He received a BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from Cornell University. He is a sculptor, painter and printmaker and has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad.