2023 Green Kill Exhibition Schedule
Green Kill in 2023 Exhibition exhibiting artists
This is the list of exhibiting artist for the 2023 Exhibition Year at Green Kill. Let’s provide a warm reception for them by attending their openings which will be announced one month in advance of each show.
Please revisit this page to read more details about the artists. Information will be posted over time as it becomes available.
January/ February
The January/February art exhibition is curated by Brett De Palma "Digital Rorschach," featuring the artists Jake Couri, Joanne Howard, and Lynn Stein.
Digital Rorschach: What you see is what you get, open to interpretation.
The opening party is Saturday, January 7, 2023, 5-7 PM. The exhibition runs from Saturday, January 7 unitl until Saturday, February 25.
Exhibition hours are from 3-5:30 PM, Tuesday through Saturday. You may make special appointments by calling 347-689-2323.
About the Curator, Brett De Palma
In Brett De Palma’s alternately humorous and emotionally charged paintings, the artist samples from history and pop culture in searing, electric color. De Palma took part in the vibrant downtown scene of New York during the 1980s, and as a result, his work visibly melds the principles of painting with punk aesthetics. “People, places, and things are the subjects of my art,” De Palma says in a statement on his website. “They need no explanation in order to exist; that would be like having to explain jazz. Ideas such as these are best apprehended in experiencing the thing in all of its inexplicability, much like a person's existence.” De Palma further describes his work as “anxious abstractions from the tension between the physical body interacting with the space it inhabits and the objects it encounters.De Palma was born in 1949 in Lexington, Kentucky. He received a BA from Vanderbilt University in 1970 and a BFA from the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1972. In 1973, he earned his MFA from Tufts University, before moving to New York City in the 1980s, where he found work at Sperone Westwater Gallery and as an assistant to artist Red Grooms. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Eli Broad Family Foundation in Los Angeles, among others.
Jake Couri
Jake Couri’s practice leverages digital space, employing a series of computer-generated characters, environments, and conditions for the viewer to navigate. The relationship between digital and physical reality is examined, leaning on the potential to further understand the human condition through the fabrication of CGI avatars, cinematic effects, and theatrical sound composition. Sculptural objects are presented as companions to the digital, disguised to appear almost indistinguishable from found objects. Designed as machines performing tasks or static objects put out of commission, both are functions of industry. The sculptures work in harmony with the digital video, often behaving as a byproduct, totem, or red herring to support the works delivery.
Full Exhibition
Joanne Howard
The foundation of my artistic practice is rooted in my fascination with the human attraction too order and perfection. This attraction is bound to the concept of beauty and its inextricable ties to the natural world. I am interested in finding the juncture between beauty, the decorative, and the concept of appearances, where the tension between the facade and the internal is prevalent.
Through a visual language and and a variety of media, I am examining this tension while recognizing its bond to humor and the absurd.
Full Exhibition
Lynn Stein
My focus has been on creating things I want and things I need seemingly spun with my ever present anxiety. The goal is then to get out of my own way and make work.
My work is a vehicle where I can be seen while being safe.
My imagination is my truth.
Full Exhibition
March/April
Green Kill is honored to announce the exhibition of Tom Corrado, Deirdre Day, Franc Palaia for March and April of 2023.
The opening party is Saturday, March 4, 2023, 5-7 PM. The exhibition runs from Saturday, March 4 until until Saturday, April 29, 2023.
Exhibition hours are from 3-5:30 PM, Tuesday through Saturday. You may make special appointments by calling 347-689-2323. ( Green Kill now has a Google Nest Doorbell on the side of the door to the left of the Gallery. If you come and for some reason the door to the gallery is locked or the curtains are drawn, which sometimes the case when live stream equipment in the main gallery space, simply ring the doorbell. The ring goes right to the phone of the administrator. You should receive a response promptly in most cases. )
Tom Corrado
Applying paint to a surface is for me magical. How loading a brush or
palette knife can jumpstart and direct the process. I use acrylic paint
exclusively, scrubbing, scraping, scratching, or removing paint, spraying it
with water to extend its life. I push paint not to represent anything or
make meaning but simply to engage and explore the act, to play with
indeterminacy, with abstraction, with pictures of nothing, thereby better
inviting the collaboration of the viewer into the experience of a painting.
Full Exhibition
Deirdre Day
Deirdre’s collage work is often itself a collage of collages. In “Blues” she has created a wall of blueness each individual painting contributing to the effect of individuals within a whole. Like a mosaic of canvases unified by their color she explores the variousness of one color (but a host of hues).
Full Exhibition
Franc Palaia, Wall Works
My works begin as large scale archival color photo prints, the images are murals, walls, posters, street art and graffiti taken from numerous cities and countries such as Italy, France, China, Germany, (Berlin Wall), Cuba, the U.S. among others. I mount the prints onto a variety of supports such as Cement Board, Sheetrock and large slabs of Polystyrene. I adhere the prints to the substrates then paint, (some in fresco), collage, tear, cut, spray and sandpaper the surface of the prints to create real texture as you would see on an actual wall. The finished works simulate the final result of physically ripping pieces of masonry out of urban buildings. I also add 3D found objects to the surfaces, such as wood, rusted metal, plastic tubing, etc. to enhance the sculptural quality of the pieces. Their scale range from small and intimate to real life human scale up to 16 feet.
Full Exhibition
May/June
Green Kill is honored to announce the exhibition of Fred Duignan, Red Hammond, Steven Van Nort, May/June Exhibition, 2023.
Please be advised, one of the artist is suffering with cancer and in hospice, Fred Duignan. His exhibition is about his define an artist's personal reckoning. At the opening there will be a live stream set up so that Fred can watch from his bed. You will be able to see him and he will be able to see you, both of you will be able to talk to each other and it will be broadcast on YouTube.
The opening party is Saturday, May 6, 2023, 5-7 PM. The exhibition runs from Saturday, May 6 until until Saturday, June 24, 2023.
Exhibition hours are from 3-5:30 PM, Tuesday through Saturday. You may make special appointments by calling 347-689-2323. ( Green Kill now has a Google Nest Doorbell on the side of the door to the left of the Gallery. If you come and for some reason the door to the gallery is locked or the curtains are drawn, which sometimes the case when live stream equipment in the main gallery space, simply ring the doorbell. The ring goes right to the phone of the administrator. You should receive a response promptly in most cases. )
Fred Duignan, “The Key to C”
There are moments in life that define an artist's personal reckoning as they face art making in the most profound way. My seven-painting series, The Key to C, addresses my current battle with cancer, which will end my life. When first faced with the diagnosis, I looked for a diversionary outlet and once again discovered the Ken Burns documentary Jazz. In light of the film's enormous scope, gravitas and joy, I decided to approach my subject in line with individual jazz works that spoke to the little white square that I am, in the deepest, most respectful homage that I could conjure. With a humility that I hope allows me to effectively use this musical genius, which is the most original creative voice that towers above all American art. I hope this depiction of my mortal journey plays as a tune that resonates with the depths of that unique and authentic voice.
Fred Duignan Full Exhibition
Red Hammond
I place significant emphasis on inventing personal shapes that establish a dialogue within the painting. More than paint a painting I build a painting with shapes that are more like personal symbols which hopefully go beyond words, creating works that may at times appear mysterious or opaque.
Red Hammond Full Exhibition
Steven Van Nort
Painting is my expression for emotional experiences occurring in my life. Forms and colors coalesce into a visual vocabulary floating on a flat rectangle. On that rectangle visual moments are created by a process that is imperfect. An imperfect concept corresponding to things seen and felt.
Steven Van Nort Full Exhibition
July/August
The summer exhibition at Green Kill is The Long View - Creativity Over Time - Blue Mountain Gallery Artists. Read more below.
Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald on Sunday July 9 at 7 PM will host three artists from the exhibion—Elizabeth Bisbing, Marcia Clark and Kim Do.
Read more about the exhibition below.
The opening party is Saturday, July 1, 2023, 5-7 PM. The exhibition runs from Saturday, July 1 until Saturday, August 26, 2023.
The Long View - Creativity Over Time Blue Mountain Gallery Artists
Each artist in the exhibition has selected two works that demonstrate the development of their ideas over time. An illustrated catalogue includes statements by the artists about the juxtapositions of works from different stages in their career, looking back over many decades or many years. Forty one current members and associates of Blue Mountain Gallery are represented.
Charting one's own development can be an adventure. It not only involves the perception of changes and continuities in style, aesthetics and content over a lifetime, but also gives us a chance to ask the important qualitative questions of existence that will always lead us back to the metaphysical question, what is it to be a person? How does that affect an artist’s work? Am I the same person I was forty years ago, ten years ago? What kinds of changes do artists experience, and why? How does a perceived "breakthrough" in our work compare with a slow and steady metamorphosis? What are the threads that have remained constant? What changes in the outside world have had an impact?
“The Long View” celebrates past and current work and the varied ways the artists understand the continuities and transformations in their work over time.
The exhibition includes artwork by Gulgun Aliriza, Doug Anderson, Nancy Sandler Bass, *Nancy Beal, Jane Beckwith, Pamela Berkeley, Elizabeth Bisbing, Richard Castellana, Michael Chelminski, *Marcia Clark, Anne Diggory, *Kim van Do, Ken Ecker, Owen Gray, Carol Heft, Marilyn Honigman, Sam Jungkurth, Charles Kaiman, Joan Marie Kelly, Marjorie Kramer, Suzanne Lacke, John Leavey, *Margaret Leveson,* Helene Manzo,*Richard K. Mills, Alakananda Mukerji, Alexander Purves, Timothy Ross, Victoria Salzman, Gina Sawin, Janet Sawyer, Linda Smith, Clifford Thompson, Sam Thurston, Jenny Toth, Pamela Tucker, Marie van Elder, Jim Weidle and Jeanie Wing.
Full Exhibition
September/October
Green Kill is honored to announce the exhibition of Leslie Bender and Karen Shasha, September and October of 2023.
The opening party is Saturday, September 2, 2023, 5-7 PM. The exhibition runs from Saturday, September 2 until until Saturday, October 28, 2023.
Exhibition hours are from 3-5:30 PM, Tuesday through Saturday. You may make special appointments by calling 347-689-2323. ( Green Kill now has a Google Nest Doorbell on the side of the door to the left of the Gallery. If you come and for some reason the door to the gallery is locked or the curtains are drawn, which sometimes the case when live stream equipment in the main gallery space, simply ring the doorbell. The ring goes right to the phone of the administrator. You should receive a response promptly in most cases. )
Karen Shasha, Story Thresholds
I think of these works as presenting thresholds of stories. The very first began with a photo of a store window in the empty streets of Soho at the beginning of the pandemic. Within days it looked nothing like what I first photographed, whether it was the lighting on the street or the store itself I’m not sure. In order to ground where this piece was coming from, a sense of waiting for something I wasn’t sure I could believe in, the title became, Once Inhabited.
Once Inhabited - 2021
The photos I use are among so many I have worked with for so long that they have begun to have significance as a kind of visual language. Elements of them sometimes return in more than one work in different combinations and interconnections
Echos 2023
Don’ Look Back 2023
The elements build up to completion with an associative concern for what connects them. In the end, these works exist as an invitation to conversation.
Origami Clothes 2023
Karen Shasha – July 2023
Full Exhibition
November/December
The work of Stephen Lewis will be on exhibiton at Green Kill from Saturday, December 2, 2023 until Saturday, January 6, 2024. Read More below.
Exhibition hours are from 3-5:30 PM, Tuesday through Saturday. You may make special appointments by calling 347-689-2323. ( Green Kill now has a Google Nest Doorbell on the side of the door to the left of the Gallery. If you come and for some reason the door to the gallery is locked or the curtains are drawn, which sometimes the case when live stream equipment in the main gallery space, simply ring the doorbell. The ring goes right to the phone of the administrator. You should receive a response promptly in most cases.)
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis is a painter and printmaker who is work is primarily concerned with art of observation of both the sociopolitical and natural world. In that sense, his work is unique in that it inhabits two distinct genres; naturalism and political art, but the artist sees his practice as incorporating the same principals in the creation of both bodies of work -they are tied together by the artists unique ability to articulate realities that only become obvious thru monastic observation and study.
“The message that American pop culture is polluting the world isn’t anything new. But, Lewis sends it in such an over the top manner that the viewer gets pulled into the imagery. How a person who looks as serene and contemplative as Lewis does in his self-portrait can channel so much anger into his paintings is anyone’s guess. But it isn’t just the anger that makes his work compelling it’s the skill with which he translates it into art”
Ferdinand postman, the Washington post
While in Washington, dc he was one of the co-directors of signal66 a 3000 sq. ft. gallery and exhibition space that was widely accepted as the dominate gallery in the city during its tenure.
His work has been reviewed or featured in diverse publications including; the Washington post, art news, timeout, high times, casa vogue, and the New Yorker.
He currently resides in Port Ewen NY with his wife and daughter and is the co-publisher of the art / satirical print newspaper” The Quiet American”. He currently records under the moniker “the royal wylds” and is attempting to re invigorate plein aire painting in a way that doesn’t suck.
Full Exhibition
