Friends, Family et al Exhibition at Regal Bag Factory in Newburgh, NY

Chris Davison Gallery is excited to present the

Friends, family et al exhibition

at Regal Bag located at
302 Water Street, Newburgh, NY 12550

(parking for this exhibition is down on the waterfront past Blue Pointe –
formerly Torches)

This exhibition will showcase over 40 international and local artists
covering the entire fourth floors footprint of 16,000sf

Friends, family et al will open at 1pm on the 16th of April with the opening reception from 6-8pm
The exhibition will be open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 12-5pm
and will also stay open late until 8pm on Newburgh’s last Saturdays
The exhibition closes on 18th June 2016

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Foreground:Judy Thomas. Cascade, 2015

Installation View of Friends, Family et al Exhibition at Regal Bag, Newburgh.                          Curated by Chris Davison

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Judy Thomas, Cadence, 2016

Black & White Gala, January 30th, 2016 at Teran Studio, Newburgh, NY

Judy Thomas with friends at the Black & White Gala at Teran Studio, Newburgh, NY.  The mobile sculpture was created in Judy Thomas' Ritz Box Office studio. 

UPDATE 16.1

Weathervane Gallery opens its new season with a sculptural installation by artist Judy Thomas.  Composed of one curved line, ‘Kaleidoscope’ is a lyrical ‘painting’ in 3-dimensional space.  Using simple industrial materials like PEX, vinyl, and hosiery, Thomas has transformed the gallery into a sculptural wonderland that activates the senses.  Colorful tendrils unfurl and intertwine in a weird curvilinear space, suggesting a Dr. Seussian world of ribbons or musical notes.

The play of light and shadow, real and implied volume and high key color that Thomas practices in her work evokes a sense of wonder and a feeling of pure joy that speaks to all generations and revisits 20th century abstraction through a 21st century lens.  Thomas’ work is informed by scientific theories of chaos and order, particle explosions, string theory and the butterfly effect - in which a small change at one point can result in large differences in a later state.

Underlying the playful nature of Judy Thomas’ work is an investigation into the formal elements of color, line and form, and scientific theories of chaos and order, particle explosions, string theory and the butterfly effect.  These 3-dimensional ‘paintings’ revisit 20th century abstraction through a 21st century lens.

The pioneering, renegade spirit of the early 90's helped to shape the direction of Judy Thomas’ art, when she began to create temporary, large scale sculptural works in abandoned warehouse spaces along the waterfront in Brooklyn.  Recent installations include work in The Arsenal Center for the Arts, Brandeis University and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.  

Thomas won a 2015 Individual Artist Commission grant from Arts Mid-Hudson for her community-responsive piece MATRIX:RENEWAL. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Time Out New York, The Detroit News, Huffington Post and the Mid-Hudson Times.  Thomas lives and works in Newburgh, NY.

weathervane is a window gallery visible 24/7 and by appointment

Email: info@weathervanebrooklyn.com

Judy Thomas
'Expansion', 2014
PEX, vinyl, pantyhose, aluminum, steel

EXPERT FROM ROLL MAGAZINE   2014

Worlds of Wonder at the Dorsky Museum

by Claire Lambe

One of the most anticipated art events in the Hudson Valley region is the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition, now in existence for over twenty years.  Worlds of Wonder is curated by Ian Berry, Dayton Director of the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, who will lead a tour of the exhibition at 4 pm on June 21, preceding the opening reception. Berry is a specialist in contemporary art and a leader in the field of college and university museums. He joined Skidmore as the Tang’s founding curator in 2000 and was named director in 2012.

The point of this annual exhibition is to highlight emerging and mid- career artists living and working in the Hudson Valley, and the artists are selected from an open call. The aim of Worlds of Wonder, according to Berry, is to focus on the laboratory- like environment of the artist studio, and to exemplify the exploration and curiosity that is at the heart of many artistic practices. In his call for submissions, Berry asked, “To what extent do science and nature, architecture, design, and history weave in and out of contemporary art making? How do artists bring together disparate elements into a singular work, or a cluster of related images or objects?”

Possibly the pièce de résistance of the show is Judy Thomas’s Expansion ― a curvilinear exuberance of tubing wrapped in orange, purple, blue and green with clear tubing pole- dancing around it, the whole held together by various materials including a favorite of Thomas’s: colored pantyhose. The piece also includes another signature element of hers: handmade soft balls. Among the events planned during the course of the exhibition is Senses of Wonder on June 29th during which Thomas will lead people through the sculpture allowing them to touch the parts.