JUDY THOMAS 'FORM & COLOR' at Queen City 15 Gallery
MAY 2021
photo courtesy Queen City 15 Gallery
Judy Thomas, Cadence, 2016
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
Foreground:Judy Thomas. Cascade, 2015
Installation View of Friends, Family et al Exhibition at Regal Bag, Newburgh. Curated by Chris Davison
Judy Thomas, Cadence, 2016
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.