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March 2014


Upstream Gallery Returns to its Hastings Roots With Solo Shows from Goldstein and Meer

 

This year marks Upstream Gallery's 23rd season as a successful independent cooperative gallery. Upstream began in Hastings in 1991 and came home this February after many wonderful years in Dobbs Ferry. We open our first Hastings season of members' solo exhibits with long-time member Eleanor Goldstein's New Visions in our East Gallery. Photographer Jo Zalon Meer's Not Out of the Woods Yet will hang in the West Gallery.  

 

 

We invite you to meet the artists and celebrate our move at the opening reception Sunday, March 2nd, from 2-5pm.

 


Eleanor Goldstein, Construction Site, Watercolor Diptych, 30" x 44", 2014 (Photo courtesy of John Maggiotto)
Eleanor Goldstein
New Visions

Goldstein's large-scale watercolors and tightly focused etchings create a narrative of urban construction and demolition.  

 

Her inherent lyricism, supported by strong geometry, creates a world of angular energy. Goldstein's work is in many collections including IBM, PepsiCo, Pfizer & Co and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Of her approach, she says: "Light informs or obscures an image.... The viewer is invited to journey to places that are almost familiar... and to celebrate a vision of the past"

 

Gold Toned Kallitype
Jo Zalon Meer, Round Pond, June 2011, Gold Toned Kallitype printed 12/2013
Jo Zalon Meer
Not Out of the Woods Yet

 

Meer is a self-confessed "photographic dinosaur", still working primarily from film in a wet darkroom. The current work continues a ten-year exploration of the forests of coastal Maine. Over the years, she has often returned to certain places which evolve, yet stay mysteriously the same.  

 

"I began this work years ago as a kind of report on this very specific corner of the world.  More and more, I find that it has also become a report on my own interior landscape, reflecting the rhythms of loss and age as well as a continued delight in image making.

 

 

Rachel Whitlow, Rocks in Fog, Schoodic Point, Mixed Media on Paper, 2013
Introducing
Rachel Whitlow
 
Upstream's newest member, Rachel Whitlow, graduated from the Cooper Union with a BFA in painting.  She has studied lithography and print-making at Academie Minerve in Groningen, Netherlands, and is a master of both the Tamarind and Paris schools of lithography.

Whitlow has shown in group shows at Denise Bibro Fine Art, The Donell Library, and Upstream Gallery among others.  Her solo exhibitions include The Houghton Gallery at Cooper Union, and the Society for the Advancement of Judaism.  Her second solo show at the SAJ is currently on view through March.  She is a guest lecturer at the Fashion Institute for Technology and sits on the Alumni Board of the Cooper Union. 

 
Lest We Forget Member News

Members Ed Lessing and Paul Greco are featured in Lest We Forget: Holocaust in Art at the ARTSW Gallery 9, 31 Mamaroneck Ave. White Plains, NY. Tel: 914 428 4220.

The exhibition is sponsored by the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center/ArtsWestchester. The opening reception on Saturday, March 8th, will feature a talk by Ed Lessing titled "Heroine Mother".  The show runs through Sunday April 27th and will close on Sunday April 27th with a candle lighting ceremony from 2-4:30 pm.

For more information, click the image at right.

 

Upcoming Exhibits:   

 

 

February 3rd through March 22nd:  Upstream Gallery Small Works Show, Municipal Hall, 7 Maple Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson NY 10706 

 

February 27th through March 23rd: Eleanor Goldstein, New Visions and Jo Zalon Meer, Not Out of the Woods Yet.  Opening Reception Sunday, March 2nd 2-5pm.   

 

March 27th through April 20th: Mitch Goldberg, Variations: Etchings, Fused Glass and Collage.  Susan Richman, Under Glass.  Opening reception: Sunday March 30th 2-5 pm.

 

April 24th to April 27th: Rivertowns Studio Tour Show.  Stay tuned for special events and hours.

 

Music:   

Saturday, March 8th at 8 pm. Brian Gelfand, Keyboard and David Meer, Bass  An Evening of Jazz

 

Saturday, March 22nd at 8 pm.  Tillary & Gold, soulful folk trio with a touch of Brooklyn Country.  

 

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Upstream Gallery was started in 1991 by a group of Westchester artists who were looking for a venue to show their work outside of traditional commercial galleries.

 

The gallery has two street level exhibition spaces.  The current artist members work in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, collage / assemblage, print-making and photography.  Styles range from the representational to the abstract.  Members have shown in a wide variety of venues throughout the United States and Europe. Upstream encourages artists to submit their work for review.  Submissions are reviewed on a monthly basis.

 

Please call 914 591 7135 for further information, or click the image to go to our website. 

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