Cadmium Text Series

L.S. Asekoff and Caroline Crumpacker

2012-01-03T07:55:00.001-08:00

Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

L.S. Asekoff, former coordinator of the M.F.A. Poetry Program at Brooklyn College, has published four books of poetry: Dreams of a Work (1994), North Star (1997), with Orchises Press, and The Gate of Horn (2010) and a book-length verse-novella Freedom Hill (2011) both with TriQuarterly Books (Northwestern University Press). He has received awards from the NEA, NYFA, Fund for Poetry, and his poems have appeared in such magazines as American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Tikkun, Slate, and Brooklyn Rail. He is currently working on Clermont, a series of collaged word-field prose & verse poems.

Caroline Crumpacker is a Gemini. She lives in so-called “mid-upstate New York” with her lovely daughter Coco and her husband the puppeteer Roberto Rossi. A bit further upstate, she runs The Millay Colony for the Arts, an artists’ residency program. She was a founding Poetry Editor of Fence, an editor of the French/American online magazine Double Change, and a contributing editor for Circumference. She is also the curator of the Bilingual Reading Series/World of Poetry at the Bowery Poetry Club. She has published the chapbooks Recherche Theories (Etherdome Press, 2010) and The Institution in Her Twilight (Dusie Kollectiv, 2011) and Upon Nostalgia(Belladonna *, 2011). Her poetry, translations and reviews also appear in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The Talisman Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Talisman, 2007); American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan University Press,2007); Not For Mothers Only (Fence Books, 2007); and Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Verse Press, 2004).

In the Gallery at R&F:

Snippets: Visual Text, a group exhibition of works by six visual artists (two of which are also poets working collaboratively on a visual project). The show will run from February 4th through March 24th, 2012. There will be an opening reception for the artists and gallery talk on Saturday, February 4th, from 5 to 7 pm.

Snippets is a group exhibition that looks at a variety of ways that artists use text, or allow their work to reference and be informed by words as the building blocks for an object or image. The featured artists approach text in a variety of ways; as pure matter, as metaphor, as specific content, as texture or atmosphere, and as concept. By bringing these different but related works together, Snippets presents a visual conversation between the participating artists on these same issues, connecting through ideas of language.

The artists include Kristy Deetz (Wisconsin), Anne Gorrick (West Park, New York) & Scott Helmes (Minnesota), Kathy Miller (California), Graceann Warn (Michigan), and Daniella Woolf (California).

Bethany Ides and Christina Mengert

2011-11-11T05:55:00.000-08:00

Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Bethany Ides makes work that interprets functions inherent to language. Ides’ solo, text-based video, performance and installation pieces have been presented at The Brooklyn Museum and PS122 in New York as well as in galleries across the Pacific Northwest. In 2010, Ides presented an evening-length opera, Children Get Stuck Places Underground, at Half/Dozen Gallery and an eponymous monograph is forthcoming from H/D Editions. Her 2009 multi-phasic project, APPROX L, was enacted incrementally before culminating as an expansive, 3-room treatise on the evasiveness of proper names (in particular: Lindsay) at Worksound Gallery in Portland, OR. Approximate L, a chapbook-length prose poem which initiated the project was published by Cosa Nostra Editions in 2009. As curator, Ides co-directed the Gilded Pony Performance Festival in Troy and Valley Falls, NY in 2006 and recently developed a program on radical nostalgia as part of the Alembic guest-curated series at Performance Works NW, called The Third Side. Ides served as founding editor of FO (A) RM, an interdisciplinary journal of arts and research from 2002 – 2006. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, Ides (formerly Wright) teaches art theory & history as well as the literature of sacred text at School of Visual Art.

Christina Mengert is the author of As We Are Sung (Burning Deck, 2011) and co-editor of 12x12: Conversations in Poetry and Poetics (University of Iowa Press). She has co-written a few feature films shot in the Hudson Valley area in the past two years. From time to time she teaches and/or advises for Bard's Prison Initiative Program.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Anne Surprenant's show, Out of the Blue, opens on Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 from 5-7pm. The exhibit runs through January 19th, 2012.

In her most recent work, Anne Surprenant explores the ways in which we experience distance. That is, the kind of experience that is almost imperceptible [discreet] and then very suddenly and overtly upon someone, somewhere. Surprenant uses Drone aircraft to embody this 'hanging in the balance'; push a button in Vegas and the impact is felt halfway around the world. The void between an action taken in a small dark room and its implication is revealed on a small blue screen. The depictions of these new American Beauties; the Drone float on the pictures surface as inertly as do the images on the nightly news. Perhaps they inform us in some way but at best serve to embolden us to believe in an experience which is not our own.

Stay tuned...

2011-11-10T06:02:00.000-08:00

Saturday, March 17, 2012
Marcella Durand/Timothy Liu with Hansa Bergwall

Saturday, April 21, 2012
Lori Anderson Moseman and Robert Kelly

Annandale Dream Gazette

2011-11-09T06:00:00.000-08:00

Some believe the dream comes from the gods. Some believe that the dream comes from the ancestors. Some believe that dreams come from a part of the dreamer’s self usually remote or removed from consciousness. Some believe that dreams are scraps of memory and fantasy, remnants of the day. All of these beliefs are probably true enough in their ways, and certainly all have been productive of creative and analytic results. Scriptures and assassinations, benzene rings and orphic odes arise from dreams.

What if the dream is something else as well? Not individual, not a message from God or from the archetypes or from the soul. We hear Freudians speak of the language of dream, but what if dream is language, is language the way language is language: systematic, intentional, focused on saying something. What if dream is above all, exactly as language is, social. This is the aspect of the dream that is seldom considered, dream as arising from the speaking back into a community, a community of native dreamers (so to say).

It was to examine the idea that a dream seeks an intended audience outside the dreamer, that the Annandale Dream Gazette was founded years ago. The dreamer dreams towards someone—and that someone is within the community. Thus two goals are achieved by harvesting the night’s dreams and publishing them: the dream may find its intended hearer, and we may gradually come to learn the nature and shape of the community itself, the community into which one dreams.

So: the dream is public. The dream is social. The dream is communication. The dream intends to speak to you. These are the notions to investigate.

—Robert Kelly

http://www.annandaledreamgazetteonline.blogspot.com/

Matthew Klane and Kimberly Lyons

2011-10-12T12:26:00.001-07:00

Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Matthew Klane is founder and co-editor of Flim Forum Press . His book is B_____ Meditations (Stockport Flats, 2008). Recent or forthcoming work can be found in Taiga, mutha fucka, Stretching Panties, and Cant. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY, where he co-curates the Yes! Reading Series .

Kimberly Lyons has a new book of poems forthcoming from Instance Press: Rouge. She is the author of Saline, also from Instance Press and most recently, Phototherapique from YoYoLabs/Katalanche Press. Her poems have appeared recently in Talisman, Zen Monster, Peaches and Bats, Unarmed and online at Peep/Show . Her essay on Bernadette Mayer's Studying Hunger is in a recent issue of Aufgabe. Kimberly Lyons lives in Brooklyn and has been involved in poetical doings at the Poetry Project and Zinc Bar. Last May, she helped to organize a day of talks honoring Robert Kelly at Anthology Film. She has read recently on the lawn of Governor's Island and at 443 Gallery in NYC. Currently, she is working on producing a video and event on the visual work of artist and writer Basil King to take place in 2012. She publishes Lunar Chandelier Press.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Cat Crotchett's show, Strange Currencies, opens on Saturday, October 1st from 5-7pm. The exhibit runs through Saturday, November 19th, 2011.

Cat Crotchett’s paintings create a visual dialog between encaustic painting and the art of Javanese batik. The body of work on exhibit was influenced by the experience of cross-cultural workshops that the artist presented during a residency in Indonesia. To make these works, Crotchett used traditional batik tools for encaustic painting. Encaustics and batik processes share significant technical similarities.

Brenda Coultas and Anna Elena Eyre

2011-09-16T06:18:00.000-07:00

Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Brenda Coultas is the author of The Marvelous Bones of Time (2008) and A Handmade Museum (2003) from Coffee House Press. She most recently taught a workshop at The Poetry Project in New York City. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Witness and Volt.

Anna Elena Eyre grew up on the outskirts of the commune Reality in northern New Mexico. She is absolutely devoted to investigations of corporeality and language and is currently wrestling most with the words of Jaime de Angulo, Jack Spicer, Stephen Jonas and Hannah Weiner for her doctoral dissertation. Her chapbook Metaplasmic was published by effing press, and her newest chapbook are me is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Currently she lives in Albany, New York.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Cat Crotchett's show, Strange Currencies, opens on Saturday, October 1st from 5-7pm. The exhibit runs through Saturday, November 19th, 2011.

Cat Crotchett’s paintings create a visual dialog between encaustic painting and the art of Javanese batik. The body of work on exhibit was influenced by the experience of cross-cultural workshops that the artist presented during a residency in Indonesia. To make these works, Crotchett used traditional batik tools for encaustic painting. Encaustics and batik processes share significant technical similarities.

Stan Apps, Lynn Behrendt and Joe Elliot

2011-07-07T09:38:00.001-07:00

Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Stan Apps is a writer. His books include The World as Phone Bill (essays from Combo), God's Livestock Policy (poems from Les Figues), and This Club Will Have Anyone (poem from Gauss PDF). Stan is currently living in New York and attending NYU Law School. Previous to that he was a Los Angeles poet, before that he was from Waco, Texas, and prior to that he was born and lived in Toronto, Canada. In the long term, Stan would like to write a science fantasy, a comedy of manners, a memoir, an occult conspiracy novel, and a legal thriller, and, in the interests of time, he would like them all to be the same book. Stan blogs here.

Lynn Behrendt's work has appeared in How2, No Tell Motel, and other journals. She is the author of four chapbooks: The Moon As Chance, Characters, Tinder, and Luminous Flux. A full length collection, petals, emblems, is available here from Lunar Chandelier Press. She co-edits the Annandale Dream Gazette, a chronicle of poets' dreams, and she co-curates the electronic journal Peep/Show. Lynn blogs here and you can see more of her chapbooks there.

Joe Elliot ran a weekly reading series at Biblios Bookstore and Café in NYC. He co-edited two chapbook series: A Musty Bone and Situations, which published authors such as Antje Katcher, Paul Genega, Duncan Nichols, Mitch Highfill, Kim Lyons, Douglas Rothschild, Shannon Ketch, Lisa Jarnot, Bill Luoma, Kevin Davies, Marcella Durand and many others. Joe is the author of numerous chapbooks including: You Gotta Go In It’s The Big Game, Poems To Be Centered On Much Much Larger Sheets Of Paper, 15 Clanking Radiators, 14 Knots, Reduced, Half Gross (a collaboration with artist John Koos), and Object Lesson (a collaboration with artist Rich O’Russa). Granary Books published If It Rained Here, a collaboration with artist Julie Harrison. His work has appeared in many magazines, including The World, The Poker, Hanging Loose, Giants Play Well In The Drizzle, Lungfull, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Torque, Occo, Chain, Eoagh, and Arras. His long poem, 101 Designs for The World Trade Center, was published by Faux Press’ e-mag, and a collection of his work, Opposable Thumb, was published by subpress in 2006. Homework (Lunar Chandelier, 2010) is his latest work.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Intersections, is a solo exhibition of works by visiting artist Lorraine Glessner. Lorraine has a background as a textile, interior and graphic designer. She has profound interest in maps and geology which has inspired her to explore how the earth, the body and the grid intersect.

There will be an opening reception on Saturday, August 6th, 5-7pm, and a gallery talk at 5pm. The exhibit runs through September 17th, 2011.

Richard Deming, Brenda Iijima and Michael Ruby

2011-02-22T11:06:00.000-08:00

Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Richard Deming is a poet and a theorist who works on the philosophy of literature. He is the author of Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman Books), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His poems have appeared in such places as Sulfur, Field, Indiana Review, and The Nation. He is also the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford University Press). He teaches at Yale University.

Brenda Iijima was born in the hilly town of North Adams, Massachusetts. She is the author of Around Sea (O Books), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press), revv. you’ll—ution (Displaced Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press) as well as numerous chapbooks and artist’s books. She is also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books and PP@YYL). Currently she is working on a body of work titled Some Simple Things Said by and About Humans—a chronicle of how humans have used animals as surrogates. She is also doing research on women who were murdered in North Adams during the 1970’s when she was growing up there. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.

Michael Ruby is the author of six books of poetry: At an Intersection (Alef Books, 2002), Window on the City (BlazeVOX [books], 2006), Fleeting Memories (Ugly Duckling Presse ebook, 2008), The Edge of the Underworld (BlazeVOX, 2010), Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010) and Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (forthcoming Argotist Online, 2011). He is also the editor of Washtenaw County Jail and Other Writings by David Herfort (Xlibris, 2005). A graduate of Harvard College and Brown University’s writing program, he lives in Brooklyn and works as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal. He spends weekends, when he can, in Gallatin in nearby southern Columbia County.

In the Gallery at R&F:

‘Conversations’, an exhibition of works by eight painters and sculptors who also work on paper. The show will run from April 2nd through May 12th, 2011. There will be an opening reception for the artists and gallery talk on Saturday, April 2nd, from 5 to 7 p.m. There will also be a gallery closing, on Saturday, May 14 from 2-4 pm, where the artists will be on hand to have conversations with visitors.

Co-curated by Joanne Mattera and Laura Moriarty, ‘Conversations’ is a group exhibition that looks at the work on paper of artists who are primarily known for their paintings or sculpture. By showing these different mediums together, ‘Conversations’ presents a visual dialog between the artists’ two mediums, vis a vis materials, dimensions, proportions, palette and content; as well as a conversation among the participating artists on these same issues.

The eight artists include Steven Alexander, Nancy Azara, Grace DeGennaro, Pam Farrell, Lorrie Fredette, George Mason, Joanne Mattera and Laura Moriarty.

Jennifer Bartlett, Anne Gorrick and Maryrose Larkin

2011-02-01T09:57:00.001-08:00

Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Jennifer Bartlett was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Her collections include Derivative of the Moving Image (UNM Press 2007), (a) lullaby without any music (Chax 2011), and Anti-Autobiography: A Chapbook Designed by Andrea Baker (Saint Eliizabeth Street/Youth-in-Asia Press 2010).

Anne Gorrick is the author of I-Formation (Book One) (Shearman Books, 2010), the forthcoming I-Formation (Book Two), and Kyotologic (Shearsman Books, 2008). She also collaborated with artist Cynthia Winika to produce a limited edition artists’ book, “Swans, the ice,” she said, funded with grants from the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She curates this reading series, and co-edits the electronic poetry journal Peep/Show with poet Lynn Behrendt.

Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books, 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. press, 2007) and DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009. Larkin is one of the organizers of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press. Her new book, The Name of This Intersection is Frost, is out from Shearsman Books.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Waxing Geometric, a solo exhibition by painter, Astrid Fitzgerald. The show will run from February 5th through March 19th, 2011. There will be an opening reception for the artist and informal gallery talk on Saturday, February 5th, from 5 to 7 p.m.

For Astrid Fitzgerald, painting is a spiritual pursuit and a path to self-knowledge. Fitzgerald’s work privileges the universal over the personal, and is characterized by simple geometric elements. Her study of Perennial Philosophy led to an appreciation of the Golden Mean, and for over twenty-five years now, her work has explored philosophical geometry, including the Fibonacci sequence, the Pythagorean Theorem and, most importantly, the Golden Mean proportion, a unique ratio preferred by nature as the most advantageous geometry for growth and energy conservation.

If there is a common thread to my work it is the desire to uncover the inner order in the world of appearances. I have always agreed with Emerson’s observation that “We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.” – Astrid Fitzgerald

Born and educated in Switzerland, Astrid Fitzgerald has been living in New York since 1961. Her work has been featured in over twenty solo exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States, and included in over 40 group exhibitions. Fitzgerald’s work is represented in many public, private and corporate collections, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CN; Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY; Credit Suisse, NYC; and PES Architects, Nagoya, Japan. An installation by Fitzgerald was selected to represent the US at the ArtCanal Exposition in Le Landeron, Switzerland in 2002. She has lectured on the Golden Mean proportion in art, and is the author of An Artist's Book of Inspiration—A Collection of Thoughts on Art, Artists, and Creativity (Lindisfarne Books, 1996) and Being Consciousness Bliss—A Seeker's Guide (Lindisfarne Books, 2002). Fitzgerald currently lives and works in Kerhonkson, New York.

Cynthia Arrieu-King and George Quasha

2011-01-06T12:31:00.001-08:00

Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College and former Kundiman fellow. Her book People are Tiny in Paintings of China was released from Octopus Books in 2010. Her work has or will appear this year in Witness, Boston Review and Jacket. She lives near Atlantic City.

George Quasha works across mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. Solo exhibitions of axial stones and axial drawings include the Baumgartner Gallery in New York (Chelsea), the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. This work is featured in the published book, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, Foreword by Carter Ratcliff (North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, 2006). In 2006 awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in video art. A new book, An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings, Foreword by Lynne Cooke, is out from Ediciones Poligrafa (Barcelona), in collaboration with Charles Stein (distrib. D.A.P. in US). 14 other books include poetry (Somapoetics, Giving the Lily Back Her Hands, Ainu Dreams [with Chie Hasegawa], Preverbs; anthologies (America a Prophecy [with Jerome Rothenberg], Open Poetry [with Ronald Gross], An Active Anthology [with Susan Quasha], The Station Hill Blanchot Reader [with Charles Stein]); and writing on art (Gary Hill: Language Willing; with Charles Stein: Tall Ships, HanD HearD/liminal objects, Viewer).

In the Gallery at R&F:

Waxing Geometric, a solo exhibition by painter, Astrid Fitzgerald. The show will run from February 5th through March 19th, 2011. There will be an opening reception for the artist and informal gallery talk on Saturday, February 5th, from 5 to 7 p.m.

For Astrid Fitzgerald, painting is a spiritual pursuit and a path to self-knowledge. Fitzgerald’s work privileges the universal over the personal, and is characterized by simple geometric elements. Her study of Perennial Philosophy led to an appreciation of the Golden Mean, and for over twenty-five years now, her work has explored philosophical geometry, including the Fibonacci sequence, the Pythagorean Theorem and, most importantly, the Golden Mean proportion, a unique ratio preferred by nature as the most advantageous geometry for growth and energy conservation.

If there is a common thread to my work it is the desire to uncover the inner order in the world of appearances. I have always agreed with Emerson’s observation that “We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.” – Astrid Fitzgerald

Born and educated in Switzerland, Astrid Fitzgerald has been living in New York since 1961. Her work has been featured in over twenty solo exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States, and included in over 40 group exhibitions. Fitzgerald’s work is represented in many public, private and corporate collections, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CN; Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY; Credit Suisse, NYC; and PES Architects, Nagoya, Japan. An installation by Fitzgerald was selected to represent the US at the ArtCanal Exposition in Le Landeron, Switzerland in 2002. She has lectured on the Golden Mean proportion in art, and is the author of An Artist's Book of Inspiration—A Collection of Thoughts on Art, Artists, and Creativity (Lindisfarne Books, 1996) and Being Consciousness Bliss—A Seeker's Guide (Lindisfarne Books, 2002). Fitzgerald currently lives and works in Kerhonkson, New York.

Anna Moschovakis and Maureen Thorson

2010-11-05T07:24:00.001-07:00

Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Anna Moschovakis is the author of two books of poems, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone and You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake. She is also an editor at the Brooklyn-based publishing collective, Ugly Duckling Presse. She lives in Delaware County, NY.

Maureen Thorson is a poet, publisher, and book designer living in Washington, D.C. Her first book, Applies to Oranges, is being published by Ugly Duckling Presse. She is the author of a number of chapbooks, including Mayport (2006), which won the Poetry Society of America's National Chapbook Fellowship. Maureen is the publisher and editor of Big Game Books, a small press dedicated to emerging poets. She is also the co-curator of the In Your Ear reading series at the DC Arts Center.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Sean Sullivan's Lost on Roads - Opening Reception Saturday December 4th, 5-7pm / Artist talk at 5pm. The exhibit runs through January 22nd, 2011.

Lost on Roads is a solo exhibition of new works by Rosendale painter and R&F paint-maker, Sean Sullivan. Sean does his best thinking on the move, in the car, the radio on. The world disappears. Thus, Lost on Roads is a travelogue of sorts, a postcard, a found film – a document as honest as the artist could make at this time. When Sullivan first began to think about ideas to pursue for this show, a few unsaid, unwritten rules emerged in regard to theme and process. As for process, it was very clear that the art making needed to be simple, direct and quick – even easy, in terms of execution. Most of the work was done using pigment sticks on paper or a combination of encaustic medium and charcoal on paper.

Vyt Bakaitis and Nancy Kuhl

2010-09-15T11:40:00.000-07:00

Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Vyt Bakaitis, a native of Lithuania, has been living in New York City since 1968. His book of poems, City Country, appeared in 1991 (Black Thistle Press, NYC), and CON/STRUCTS, his book of visual poems and photographs, came out in a limited edition in 2001 (Arunas K. Photo+Graphics, NYC). A new book of poems, Deliberate Proof, is due to come out by year’s end (Lunar Chandelier Press, NYC).

Vyt has also published translations of poetry from several languages. His versions of the classic Romantics Hölderlin and Mickiewicz are included in Norton's World Poetry (1998). In 1996 his versions of two early books of Lithuanian poems by Jonas Mekas, Idylls of Semeniskiai and Remeniscences, came out in a bi-lingual edition (There Is No Ithaca, Black Thistle Press). The Lithuanian Writers’ Union subsequently published two bi-lingual volumes of his selections from 20th-century Lithuanian poetry: XL Poems by Julius Keleras (1998) and the anthology Breathing Free (2001). In 2003, Daybooks 1970-1972, the second book of his translations from Mekas appeared (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, NYC).

Nancy Kuhl is the author of Suspend (2010), The Wife of the Left Hand (2007), and chapbooks including The Nocturnal Factory (2008). She is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher and Curator of Poetry of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Sean Sullivan's Lost on Roads - Opening Reception Saturday December 4th, 5-7pm / Artist talk at 5pm. The exhibit runs through January 22nd, 2011.

Lost on Roads is a solo exhibition of new works by Rosendale painter and R&F paint-maker, Sean Sullivan. Sean does his best thinking on the move, in the car, the radio on. The world disappears. Thus, Lost on Roads is a travelogue of sorts, a postcard, a found film – a document as honest as the artist could make at this time. When Sullivan first began to think about ideas to pursue for this show, a few unsaid, unwritten rules emerged in regard to theme and process. As for process, it was very clear that the art making needed to be simple, direct and quick – even easy, in terms of execution. Most of the work was done using pigment sticks on paper or a combination of encaustic medium and charcoal on paper.

Sarah Goldstein, Claire Hero and Deborah Poe

2010-07-09T05:24:00.000-07:00

Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Sarah Goldstein's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Bateau, Barrow Street, Caketrain, Denver Quarterly, and Verse. She is also a visual artist and has received awards in painting and drawing from the Rhode Island Council on the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Her first book, Fables, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press in spring 2011. She currently resides in western Massachusetts.

Claire Hero is the author of Sing, Mongrel (Noemi Press) and two chapbooks: Cabinet (dancing girl press) and afterpastures, winner of the 2007 Caketrain Chapbook Competition. She teaches creative writing at SUNY-New Paltz.

Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections Elements (Stockport Flats Press 2010) and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008). Deborah’s writing has recently appeared in journals such as Jacket Magazine, Peaches & Bats, Sidebrow, Filter and Denver Quarterly. Deborah Poe is assistant professor of English at Pace University, fiction editor of the international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat and guest curator/editor for Trickhouse's "Experiment" door 2010/2011. For more information about Deborah, visit www.deborahpoe.com

In the Gallery at R&F:

A solo exhibition by painter Charles Forsberg. The show will run from August 7th – September 18th, 2010.

Charles Forsberg is a self-taught abstract painter currently based in Berlin. He grew up in northern British Columbia, Canada. Before relocating to France two years ago, he spent a dozen years in Vancouver, working as a docent at the Vancouver Art Gallery, giving educational tours. Charles has also collaborated on large-scale set design for Ballet British Columbia and the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts. Charles goes where his paintings go, and so for this exhibition at R&F Handmade Paints, he has relocated temporarily to Tivoli in the Hudson Valley, where he very recently created all the works in this show.

20th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival

2010-06-29T11:35:00.001-07:00

including: Cara Benson, Steve Cotten, Geof Huth, Maryrose Larkin with Eric Matchett, Sharon Mesmer, Wayne Montecalvo, Lori Anderson Moseman with Tom Moseman, Michael Peters, George Quasha, Richard Rizzi, R. Dionysius Whiteurs with Phillip Levine and David Wolach

Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 1pm

The Widow Jane Mine
at Century House Historical Society
Rosendale, NY 12472

A $5 donation is suggested. This event is a benefit for CHHS.

For directions, kindly visit the website for Century House Historical Society.

The Poets/Perfomers:

Cara Benson is author of a book of interconnected pre-elegiac prose poems for humans animals plants and earth called (made), now out with BookThug. Protean Parade, a book-length meditation on historical, biological and cosmological evolution, is forthcoming later this year. She teaches poetry in a NY State Prison and is a member of Black Radish Books, an international poet-publisher collective which attempts to make all decisions by bumpy consensus. Benson's "Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation" won the 2008 bpNichol Award. She edited the interdisciplinary book Predictions for Chain Links and edits the online text and image journal Sous Rature.

Steve Cotten is an instrumental finger-style guitar player who blends many musical styles and guitar techniques into a unique and engaging musical experience. Steve's first CD, All or Nothing, was nominated in 2006 for Best Solo Guitar Album and Best Solo Guitar Song by the independent music organization, Just Plain Folks. Steve lives in Western MA where he continues to write, record and perform his music.

The scope of Geof Huth's poetic production includes handdrawn and computer-generated visual poems (some of them wordless), one-word poems, extemporaneous poems recorded in the act of living, and poems performed in a language that doesn't exist with melodies created as the audience listens. For this year, the year that he is fifty years of age, he is writing each day a poem that is also a letter to someone he knows. He mails each poem out to its intended recipient and posts it to a blog entitled 365 ltrs. He writes almost daily on visual poetry and the textual imagination at his blog, dbqp: visualizing poetics. His latest book is ntst: the collected pwoermds of geof huth, a book of 775 one-word poems.

Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books, 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. press, 2007), DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009), and The Name of This Intersection is Frost (Shearsman Books, 2010). Maryrose is one of the organizers of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press.

Sharon Mesmer is a Fulbright Specialist and a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in poetry. Her most recent poetry collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books, 2008) and The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose, 2008). Other poetry books are Vertigo Seeks Affinities (Belladonna, 2006), Half Angel, Half Lunch (Hard Press, 1998) and Crossing Second Avenue (ABJ Books, Japan, 1997). Fiction collections include In Ordinary Time and The Empty Quarter (Hanging Loose, 2005 and 2000) and Ma Vie a Yonago (Hachette Litteratures, France, 2005). Her art book collaboration with painter David Humphrey, Lonely Tylenol, was published in 2003 by Flying Horse Editions/University of Central Florida. She teaches undergrad literature courses and fiction workshops, as well as MFA poetry seminars, at the New School in Manhattan.

Wayne Montecalvo was born in Edison, New Jersey and is now based in Rosendale, New York. He attended the School of Visual Art in New York City, where he earned a BFA in Sculpture. Montecalvo is an inter-disciplinary artist whose works involve video, audio, story telling, painting and sculpture. In addition to showing work in fine art galleries and museums, Wayne has worked with local performance groups, Blackbird Theater and Cave Dogs. His awards and honors include two full fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, and an Artists At Work: Community Projects Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Wayne currently teaches in the Art Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Lori Anderson Moseman and Tom Moseman founded Stockport Flats Press and the High Watermark Salo[o]n after Federal Disaster #1649, a Delaware River flood. Anderson Moseman's poetry books are Cultivating Excess (The Eighth Mountain Press), Persona (Swank Books) and Temporary Bunk (Swank Books). Her Doctorate of Arts in writing is from the University at Albany; her Masters in Fine Arts in poetry is from the University of Iowa. Her work is also in literary journals: 13th Moon, Confrontation, Denver Quarterly, divide, dislocate, Epoch, Harpur Palate, Feile Festa,Iowa Journal of Literary Studies, Little Magazine, Passages North, PEEP/SHOW, Phoebe, Portland Review, poeticdiversity, Praxis, SEEDS, Sing Heavenly Muse! , Slab, Terra Nova, Tonopah Review, Water-Stone, and Wising Up.

Michael Peters is the author of the sound-imaging poem Vaast Bin (Calamari Press, 2007) and other language art and sound works. Manifestations of work appear in print and on-line journals like SleepingFish, Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, and Word for/Word, to name a few. With the musical group Poem Rocket and the Be Blank Consort, sounds appear on labels like Atavistic and Luna Bisonte Prods. Visual works can be found in collections, such as the Sackner Archive, as well as anthologies and galleries. In addition to editing issues of The Little Magazine, Xtant, and Word for/Word, writings include an essay on Charles Olson, entries for Kostelanetz’s Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, and a transcription of Sun Ra’s 1971 lecture for Nathaniel Mackey’s Hambone (19). In the Fall of 2009, Peters created a sound-image installation for the &Now Festival of Innovative Literature and Art. Visit him here.

George Quasha works across mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. Solo exhibitions of axial stones and axial drawings include the Baumgartner Gallery in New York (Chelsea), the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. This work is featured in the published book, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, Foreword by Carter Ratcliff (North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, 2006). In 2006 awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in video art. A new book, An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings, Foreword by Lynne Cooke, is out from Ediciones Poligrafa (Barcelona), in collaboration with Charles Stein (distrib. D.A.P. in US). 14 other books include poetry (Somapoetics, Giving the Lily Back Her Hands, Ainu Dreams [with Chie Hasegawa], Preverbs [forthcoming]; anthologies (America a Prophecy [with Jerome Rothenberg], Open Poetry [with Ronald Gross], An Active Anthology [with Susan Quasha], The Station Hill Blanchot Reader [with Charles Stein]); and writing on art (Gary Hill: Language Willing; with Charles Stein: Tall Ships, HanD HearD/liminal objects, Viewer).

Richard Rizzi was born on January 1st, 1937 in Brooklyn, NY. After serving in the United States Army in occupied Germany he returned to the U.S., settled in New York and began his life long passion and devotion to the study and exploration of music, poetry, visual and performance arts. From the late 1950’s to the 1970’s he played tenor and alto saxophone, performing with several avant-garde jazz groups in New York and San Francisco. He has written poetry continuously from the 1950’s and has been the organizer, founder and co-founder of numerous poetry reading series, benefits for the arts and artistic groups, including the Hudson Valley Poetry Society in 1975 and the poetry/performance group Outists Living in the Country in 1989. His poetry has been published in several literary magazines and publications such as The Poets Gallery, Long Shot, Arson, Thin Air Magazine and a chapbook published by Hunger Magazine and Press. Most recently Richard has traveled to Denmark to perform with the experimental group Trio CHROCH, combining Richards words to the groups eclectic sounds. Richard has been along time resident of New Paltz, NY where currently he resides with his wife Susan.

R. Dionysius Whiteurs has recorded four poems for the Steve Charney "Knock-On-Wood" Show on WAMC Albany Public Radio. He was featured in the biographic film Trapped in Amber by Bart Thrall of Big Time Records. He hosted the 19th Annual Subterranean Cave Reading in the Widow Jane Mine; and has been published in Abraxas, the Rondout Review, the Poets Gallery, Chronogram, Hunger Magazine, Wuzz Buzzin, Arabesque, and Home Planet News.

David Wolach is editor of Wheelhouse Magazine & Press, a former union organizer, and participant in Nonsite Collective. His full-length book of poems, Occultations, has just been released through Black Radish Books. Other recent books are Prefab Eulogies Volume 1: Nothings Houses (BlazeVox [books], 2010), Hospitalogy (Scantily Clad Press, forth.), and book alter(ed) (Ungovernable Press, 2009). Critical work on the poetics of spatial practice is forthcoming from Jacket and Sibila: Poesia y Cultura (Brazil). His poetry can be found, or is forthcoming, from venues such as Aufgabe, Dusie, No Tell Motel, 5_Trope, and Little Red Leaves. Wolach is professor of text arts, poetics, and aesthetics at The Evergreen State College, and visiting professor in Bard College's Workshop In Language & Thinking.

(the photo at the top of this post was taken by Geof and Nancy Huth at the 18th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival in 2008)

Mikhail Horowitz and Ed Sanders

2010-03-12T10:37:00.000-08:00

Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Mikhail Horowitz is the author of Big League Poets (City Lights, San Francisco, 1978; a collection of captioned collages), and two books of poetry—The Opus of Everything in Nothing Flat (Red Hill/Outloud, 1993), and Rafting Into the Afterlife (Codhill Press, 2007). His poetry, prose, and artwork have been published in scores of anthologies including City Lights Journal, The Stiffest of the Corpse, and Yellow Silk Anthology, as well as in lit journals, magazines, and newspapers (including the New York Times). As a performing artist, he’s been working solo, duo (with Gilles Malkine), or with various configurations of acoustic and/or jazz musicians for more than 30 years, opening shows for or collaborating and/or sharing bills with such writers, musicians, and performers as Charles Mingus, David Amram, Ed Sanders, Peter “P.D.Q. Bach” Schickele, Justin Kolb, and Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, among others. His CD of jazz-related performance pieces, The Blues of the Birth, was released by Sundazed Records on its Euphoria/Jazz label; two other CDs, of acoustic folk parodies and literary spoofs, are available on the No Help Here label. His work has also been featured on seven anthology CDs, including Bring It On Home, Vol. II, on Columbia Records (Legacy). His day gig finds him in the Publications Office at Bard College, where he diligently redacts academic wapdoodle.

Edward Sanders is a poet, historian and musician. He has been at work, since 1998, on a 9-volume America, a History in Verse. The first five volumes, tracing the history of the 20th century, have been completed and published in a fully indexed CD format, over 2,000 pages in length, by Blake Route Press. Another recent writing project is Poems for New Orleans, a book and CD on the history of that great city, and its tribulations during and after hurricane Katrina. He has been granted a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in verse, an American Book Award for his collected poems, and other awards for his writing.

Other books in print include Tales of Beatnik Glory (4 volumes published in a single edition), 1968, a History in Verse; The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg; The Family, a history of the Charles Manson murder group, and Chekhov, a biography in verse of Anton Chekhov. Sanders was the founder of the satiric folk/rock group, The Fugs, which has released many albums and CDs during its 45 year history.

Two of his books, The Family and Tales of Beatnik Glory, are under option to be made into movies.

His selected poems, 1986-2008, Let’s Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War, has just been published by Coffee House Press.

Be Free, The Fugs Final CD (Part 2) has been released in February, 2010, featuring 14completely new tunes. The eminent singer and composer Jules Shear, and Ed Sanders, have written and completed a song cycle during the summer and fall of ’09, titled “The Surreal Housewives of Woodstock.” The cycle consists of 15 tunes, just over 69 minutes in total length.

He lives in Woodstock, New York with his wife, the essayist and painter Miriam Sanders, and both are active in environmental and other social issues.

In the Gallery at R&F:

A solo exhibition by Gabe Brown entitled, Collect the Sun. The show will run from April 3rd – May 22nd, 2010.

Gabe Brown, painter, uses formal abstract elements to create narrative landscapes, drawing parallels between natural and man-made environments. Brown’s visual vocabulary is derived from the natural world, where quiet, everyday events such as conversations between birds and the cellular structure of plant life are animated and filled with an active power to trigger desire, temptation and a sense of frailty. Exploring a magical world beyond tangible reality, where the force of humanity creates illusions that tease with their playfulness and temp with their visceral beauty, the artist creates an alternative inner-world where rainbow teardrops become stand-ins for loss and uncertainty. Working in harmony with the changing seasons, the artist views the process of painting as a ‘portal for adventure’, through which she creates intuitive vignettes that are both alluring and mysterious.

Gabe Brown comes from a family of artists and has been painting for over twenty years. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Davis, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and holds a BFA from Cooper Union. The artist moved to the Hudson Valley from New York City five years ago, and currently teaches at Fordham University.

Dorothy Albertini, Nate Pritts and Alan Semerdjian

2010-02-03T08:11:00.000-08:00

Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Dorothy Albertini received her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2008 and has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Arts Colony and Wellspring House. Her fiction and poetry appear in Chronogram, Shifter, textsound, Tantalum, Dog Under Porch, Milk Money, and the current issue of NANO Fiction, where she was the winner of the first annual NANO fiction contest. The winning piece was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at Bard College's satellite campuses in New York State prisons and co-curates the Bard Roving Reading Series.

Nate Pritts is the author of three full-length collections of poetry - The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books, 2010), Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008) and Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007). The founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N, Nate teaches poetry for the Downtown Writer's Center/YMCA in Syracuse, NY. Find him online at http://www.natepritts.com

Writer/musician Alan Semerdjian’s poems and essays have appeared in several print and online publications and anthologies including Chain, The Lyric Review, Adbusters, Arson, Ararat, and Diagram. He released a chapbook of poems called An Improvised Device (Lock n Load Press) in 2005 and his first full-length book In the Architecture of Bone (GenPop Books) in 2009. His songs have appeared in television and film and charted on CMJ. Alan has performed and read all over North America. He currently teaches English at Herricks High School in New Hyde Park, NY, writes a monthly column for the LI Pulse, and resides in New York City’s East Village. You can visit him digitally at alanarts.com, alansemerdjian.com, or Google away.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Barbara Ellmann's exhibit Foreign Affairs runs through March 20, 2010.

Barbara Ellmann, painter, has had two works recently collected by the City of New York. The Cambria Heights Public Library in Queens has an expanse of 55 encaustic painted panels, ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, which was commissioned as a part of the Percent for Art Program administered by New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs. An elevated subway platform on the J Z line in Brooklyn, is now a permanent home to seven of her abstract glass windscreens, THE VIEW FROM HERE.

"My interest has always been about repetitions, patterns and their inconsistencies, in complex arrangements. I notice the ethnic garment of a person walking in front of me, the stripes of buildings overlapping in the view from my studio, the horizontal bands of color as I drive through the landscape, the intricately embroidered textile at the street fair, and the syncopated rhythm of rectangles lit up in a residential high-rise at night. I take these observations from my lived experience, and through the language of abstraction, line, color and shape, I refer to the world out there."

Basil King and India Radfar

2010-01-08T09:56:00.000-08:00

Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Basil King is a painter/poet, born in England before World War 2 and living in Brooklyn since 1968. He attended Black Mountain College as a teenager and completed an apprenticeship as an abstract expressionist painter in San Francisco and New York. For the past three decades he has taken his art “from the abstract to the figure, from the figure to the abstract.” He began to write in the 1980’s and now practices both arts daily. His books include mirage: a poem in 22 sections, Warp Spasm, Identity, and most recently 77 Beasts/Basil King’s Beastiary and a chapbook, In the Fields Where Daffodils Grow, an excerpt from an on-going work “Learning to Draw/A history.”

India Radfar, author most recently of Position & Relation (a formal farewell to the rivers and mountains) from Station Hill/ Barrytown Books and former resident of Woodstock, N.Y. now lives in Los Angeles where she is hard at work on a memoir she calls “The Autobiography of my Mother-in-Law or Speaking Aramaic in America.” She has also just finished a new book length manuscript of poems entitled “I Thought Joan Miro was a Woman.”

In the Gallery at R&F:

Barbara Ellmann's exhibit Foreign Affairs runs through March 20, 2010.

Barbara Ellmann, painter, has had two works recently collected by the City of New York. The Cambria Heights Public Library in Queens has an expanse of 55 encaustic painted panels, ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, which was commissioned as a part of the Percent for Art Program administered by New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs. An elevated subway platform on the J Z line in Brooklyn, is now a permanent home to seven of her abstract glass windscreens, THE VIEW FROM HERE.

"My interest has always been about repetitions, patterns and their inconsistencies, in complex arrangements. I notice the ethnic garment of a person walking in front of me, the stripes of buildings overlapping in the view from my studio, the horizontal bands of color as I drive through the landscape, the intricately embroidered textile at the street fair, and the syncopated rhythm of rectangles lit up in a residential high-rise at night. I take these observations from my lived experience, and through the language of abstraction, line, color and shape, I refer to the world out there."

NF Huth and Sam Truitt

2009-11-30T05:36:00.000-08:00

Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website.

NF Huth's writing has appeared in small magazines, and her chapbook, Once Water, was published by Runaway Spoon Press. She has taught literature, writing and creative writing at Syracuse University and at Elmira College. But that was a long time ago. For the past 21 years, Nancy has taught in the Schenectady City School District. This past summer she participated in a visual poetry workshop in Finland and had her work exhibited at the City Library of Helsinki. Her poetry blog, A Formal Feeling, features her textual and visual poetry. She also publishes found sound at her audio blog, Click Buzz Chirp, and photographic images that are both pointy and blue at Pointy Blue.

Sam Truitt is the author of the forthcoming Vertical Elegies 6: Street Mete (Palm, 2010) and the previously published Vertical Elegies: Three Works (UDP, 2008), Vertical Elegies 5: The Section (Georgia, 2003) and Anamorphosis Eisenhower (Lost Roads, 1998), among other books. He lives with Kimberly Truitt and their daughters, Indiana and Evangeline, in the Mid-Hudson Valley. For more information, go to www.samtruitt.org

In that Gallery at R&F:

Paula Roland's exhibit, Poetics of Pattern, runs through January 23rd, 2010.

In Roland’s innovative dipped works on paper, the tactile and aromatic qualities of beeswax combine with the direct touch of graphite drawing to engage the senses and involve the viewer. Her installations are layered spaces formed by overlapping patterns on pierced paper. The semi-translucent wax monotypes that she creates these installations with are lit from the back, inviting the viewer into the work by creating a physical presence beyond that of the surface image.

Lynn Behrendt and Rachel Levitsky

2009-10-15T05:47:00.000-07:00

Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Lynn Behrendt is the author of chapbooks The Moon As Chance, Characters, Tinder, and Luminous Flux. A full length collection, petals, emblems, is due out from Lunar Chandelier in 2010. She co-edits the Annandale Dream Gazette, an online repository for poets' dreams.

Rachel Levitsky’s second book, NEIGHBOR, is newly released by Ugly Duckling Presse (2009). Her first full length volume, Under the Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. With Jan Lauwereyns she is currently guest editing DWB, in the 2010 issue of the Dutch language magazine, “The Empire of Women.” Online, you can read her poems, prose and essays at Puppy Flowers, Sous Rature, and How2. In 1999, she started Belladonna*, a multi-faceted feminist avant-garde writing confluence. This past September, she moved into a house in Saugerties, NY.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Daydreamers: the R&F Staff Show (through November 28, 2009)

This exhibition celebrates at the local level with our own workers and dreamers. Daydreamers will include drawings, paintings, installations and sculptural works in a variety of media by: Heather Aderson, Lea Bozman, Danielle B. Correia, Lorrie Fredette, Richard Frumess, James Haskin, Matthew Kelly, Kelly McGrath, Laura Moriarty, Kristin Ploucquet, Darin Seim, Sean Sullivan, Anne Surprenant, Sylvan Thorncraft and Cynthia Winika.

Elizabeth Bryant and Max Winter

2009-09-22T09:53:00.001-07:00

Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at: http://www.rfpaints.com/

Elizabeth Bryant is a writer living in Red Hook, NY. She edits Defeffable and co-curates the Bard Roving Reading series. Her most current publications include a chapbook, Fluorescence Buzz (Dusie, 2009), and a new full-length serial piece, (nevertheless enjoyment... (Quale Press, 2010). She has new writing in Wheelhouse, and upcoming in Coconut.

Max Winter's The Pictures was published by Tarpaulin Sky Press in 2007. He has also published poems in New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Boulevard, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. His reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, Bookforum, The San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. He has been a Poetry Editor of Fence Magazine since 2001.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Hendrik Dijk's show So Far, So Close, October 3rd - November 14th, 2009

Hendrik Dijk’s work is about energy. He is a colorist who will use form, find and create for the purpose of letting colors have a life of their own. Dijk thinks that colors are like humans; each one is unique and likes to have good neighbors. Therefore, even though his work is often chromatically pronounced, he always asks himself if each color harmonizes with neighboring colors. Born in Oostmahorn, Friesland, Netherlands, Hendrik Dijk moved to the USA in 1983. Since 1986, he has lived in Kingston, NY and teaches art at Kingston High School. He has made six murals for the City of Kingston in city parks. Dijk’s present creative efforts go mainly into painting and photography. He is a co-founder of the Arts Society of Kingston and the Kingston Biennial Sculpture Show.

Don Byrd and Chris Piuma

2009-07-16T12:34:00.000-07:00

Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Don Byrd lives in Albany, NY, and teaches at the State University. His publications include Aesop's Garden, Charles Olson's Maximus, Technics of Travel, The Great Dime Store Centennial, and The Poetics of the Common Knowledge. In the mid-1990s, having decided that something had gone terribly wrong, and for the most part, quit publishing. He has been working intently on a writing of ambiguous genre during these many years. It is entitled "Abstraction." It is now nearing completion. Thousands of pages have been written and most of them filed away, some on electronic media that would now be hard access.

Chris Piuma is thinking about nouniness. Chris Piuma has had a few chapbooks published, but they're out of print, so you can't have any. Chris Piuma wishes it weren't so hot out. Chris Piuma just added a new post on his poety blog, Buggeryville, at: http://www.buggeryville.blogspot.com/ Chris Piuma is accustomed to the third person. Chris Piuma and how grammar enables affective connections with the dead. Chris Piuma misses Portland and co-organizing the Spare Room poetry series, but enjoys Toronto and grad school. Chris Piuma is learning yet another language! Chris Piuma remembers when life provided cocktail party anecdotes, but now it's all Facebook status updates.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Russell Thurston's show Deus Ex Machina, August 1st -September 19th, 2009. Thurston describes his painting process as a journey without a map. He considers every painting an experiment, and also a collaboration between his own ideas and the perceived will of the painting. At times unsure what direction the work will take, Thurston accepts that in this process, accidents often happen. Parts get covered up; hidden, then scraped off; perhaps revealing something new. The beeswax medium moves in unexpected ways. Thus, working like a scientist, the artist uses the process of painting to better understand the nature of things.

Thurston’s latest mixed-media and encaustic work combines roofing tar and other building materials such as foil tape, nylon mesh and tar paper. He in interested in endowing these materials with a beauty and aesthetic resonance that transcends their functionality.

Russell Thurston was born in Norman, Oklahoma and grew up in Southern California. He received a B.F.A. from California State University, Fullerton, and an M.F.A. from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Russell has worked as freelance illustrator & photographer for 20 years. The artist currently lives in Santa Fe with his wife, Gretchen, a freelance writer, and their son, Max. Thurston’s’ work is represented in Santa Fe at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, and in Chicago at wag artworks.

Lee Ann Brown and Charles Stein

2009-03-12T06:50:00.000-07:00

Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Lee Ann Brown is the author of Polyverse and The Sleep That Changed Everything. She teaches poetry at St. John's University in New York City where she is active in poetry, and lives summers in Marshall, NC, outside of Asheville. A cycle of her song-poems is available at PENNSOUND, under the title "The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time." She will be reading from new work, and singing some very old songs.

Charles Stein is the author of many books of poetry including The Hat Rack Tree from Station Hill Press. His most recent publication is a new verse translation of The Odyssey from North Atlantic Books. He also recently co-authored, with George Quasha, An Art of Limina / Gary Hill (Ediciones Poligrafa).

In the Gallery at R&F:

An encaustic installation by Mimi Czajka Graminski, from April 4th - May 30th, 2009

Mimi Czajka Graminski is known for creating large-scale, delicate installations and sculptures out of translucent materials, such as mesh, tissue and paper. For her installation at the Gallery at R&F, the artist decided to strip away the translucent veil in order to get down to the bare essentials. The Spaces Between is a project composed of small wax dots applied directly to the gallery wall in order to highlight points in space. Like stars, cells, atomic particles and birds flying in formation, these points are defined by the spaces between them, which delineate and give meaning to the images they represent.

The artists’ inspiration comes from nature, the female form and the subconscious. Spending time in nature observing its forms, structures and themes, Mimi Czajka Graminski applies these influences to a study of the figure, drawing on the shapes and curves of the female body and its attire, bringing to her work an interest in the ideas of feminism, femininity, and where the two intersect at a place of both power and fragility. She is also influenced by the subconscious, gleaning ideas from her dreams and waking musings. She translates these inspirations and ideas into formal structures, which are reflective of their origin.

Graminski received her formal art education at Bard College, Annandale, NY and holds a degree in International Studies from the College of St. Rose, Albany, NY. Her work has been featured in many group shows in the Hudson Valley and beyond over the past ten years, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, Islip Art Museum, Katonah Art Museum, and the Albany Institute of History and Art. Most recently, her work was featured in “For the Love of Art” at the Hat Factory in Peekskill, through which her work was highlighted in the New York Times. Graminski was one of 66 artists from across New York State chosen for the New York Foundation for the Arts MARK program, and presented her work at Exit Art in New York City in association with the program. Mimi Czajka Graminski lives and works in Red Hook.

Anne Gorrick, Jill Magi and Christian Peet

2009-01-29T12:45:00.001-08:00

Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Anne Gorrick’s work has been published in many journals including: American Letters and Commentary, the Cortland Review, Dislocate, eratio, Fence, Gutcult, No Tell Motel, Otoliths, the Seneca Review, Sulfur, and word for/word. Her work has appeared in several anthologies including: The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, (No Tell Press, 2006), Homage to Vallejo (Greenhouse Review Press, 2006), and Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers (Codhill Press, 2007). Collaborating with artist Cynthia Winika, she produced a limited edition artists’ book “Swans, the ice,” she said with grants from the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. Her first book, Kyotologic, is available from Shearsman Books (Exeter, UK). She also curates this reading series.

Jill Magi's text-image works include the book Threads (Futurepoem 2007), the forthcoming chapbooks Poetry Barn Barn! (2nd Avenue) and From the Body Project (Felt Press). Other books of poetry include Torchwood (Shearsman 2008) and Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 2005), and inclusions in Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia 2008), Fiction from the Brooklyn Rail (Hanging Loose 2006), and the forthcoming Eco-language Reader (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Jill's visual work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, online at Hilda Magazine, Apexart, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Open Studios where she was writer-in-residence from 2006-2007. She teaches at Eugene Lang, Goddard, and The City College Center for Worker Education. You can view her homepage at http://sites.google.com/site/jillmagi/.

Christian Peet is the author of Big American Trip (Shearsman Books, 2009) and two chapbook-installments of an ongoing cross-genre project, The Nines. “Book 1” of The Nines (Palm Press) is available through Small Press Distribution. “Book 2” is forthcoming from Interbirth Books. His work appears in the anthology, A Best Of Fence: The First Nine Years, as well as in journals such as Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, and SleepingFish, among others. He lives in Vermont, where he runs Tarpaulin Sky Press and splits a lot of wood. Please visit his website at http://www.christianpeet.com/

In the Gallery at R&F:

More Sense Data an exhibition of paintings by Stephen Niccholls, February 7th - March 21st, 2009.

The paintings of Stephen Niccolls diagram a series of actions – he begins by making a gesture or form, and then responds to it somehow, maybe even by canceling it out and creating a void. And then he responds to the void by contradicting it, echoing its’ form, or harmonizing with it. These voids thus develop into central themes as the artist maps out his personal process of interacting with the world through his work. The accretion of forms and qualities in Niccolls’ work is like a record of a long conversation. Reflecting on an intuitive understanding of the processes of life, including organization, metabolism, responsiveness, movements, and reproduction, this new body of paintings seeks to understand life in a non-linear way.

Stephen Niccolls was born in Texas in 1949, to a family of ranchers. He studied and practiced visual art early in life, but began formal training in the 1970's, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1997 he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Since that time he has exhibited his paintings in a variety of settings around the United States. He has taught art courses and lectured in Massachusetts, France, Minnesota, New Hampshire and New York. Mr. Niccolls currently lives in Kingston, New York and teaches at Marist College in nearby Poughkeepsie. Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, New York represents him.

Jennifer Bartlett and Richard Rizzi

2009-01-16T06:10:00.000-08:00

Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Jennifer Bartlett was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Her first collection of poetry is Derivative of the Moving Image (University of New Mexico Press, 2007). She has poems forthcoming in New American Writing. Visit her blog, a winter of wordless birds, at http://saintelizabethstreet.blogspot.com/

Richard Rizzi was born in the back of a pool hall, on December 31, 1936 in Brooklyn, NY. After serving in the United States Army in occupied Germany, he returned to the U.S. in the 1950’s and settled in New York City where he began a life long pursuit of study and exploration of music, poetry, visual, and performance art. He has been the founder or co-founder of numerous poetry reading series, benefits for the arts and artistic groups, including the Hudson Valley Poetry Society and the poetry performance group Outist Living in America. Over the last 40 years, he has periodically combined this eclectic mix of art forms to create several public live performance pieces being realized in both theater and nature.

Since the 1960’s Rizzi has traveled extensively to study visual and poetic arts, including trips to Spain to study Garcia Lorca; to Switzerland to study Paul Klee; to Amsterdam for Van Gogh. Between travels Rizzi is a resident of New Paltz, NY where he spends much of his time fostering the work of younger artist in his community with the same enthusiasm, dedication and curiosity that he brings daily to his own work. For the past seven years he has traveled back and forth between the U.S. and Denmark, performing with Trio CHROCH, a word/sound experimental improvisational ensemble.

In the Gallery at R&F:

More Sense Data an exhibition of paintings by Stephen Niccholls, February 7th - March 21st, 2009.

The paintings of Stephen Niccolls diagram a series of actions – he begins by making a gesture or form, and then responds to it somehow, maybe even by canceling it out and creating a void. And then he responds to the void by contradicting it, echoing its’ form, or harmonizing with it. These voids thus develop into central themes as the artist maps out his personal process of interacting with the world through his work. The accretion of forms and qualities in Niccolls’ work is like a record of a long conversation. Reflecting on an intuitive understanding of the processes of life, including organization, metabolism, responsiveness, movements, and reproduction, this new body of paintings seeks to understand life in a non-linear way.

Stephen Niccolls was born in Texas in 1949, to a family of ranchers. He studied and practiced visual art early in life, but began formal training in the 1970's, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1997 he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Since that time he has exhibited his paintings in a variety of settings around the United States. He has taught art courses and lectured in Massachusetts, France, Minnesota, New Hampshire and New York. Mr. Niccolls currently lives in Kingston, New York and teaches at Marist College in nearby Poughkeepsie. Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, New York represents him.

Lori Anderson Moseman, Deborah Poe and Alana Siegel

2008-12-15T08:58:00.001-08:00

Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paint
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Lori Anderson Moseman is the author of Persona (Swank Books), Cultivating Excess (The Eighth Mountain Press) and Walking the Dead (Heaven Bone Press). Temporary Bunk (Swank Books) is forthcoming in 2009. Anderson Moseman has an Masters of Fine Art from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Doctor of Arts from the University at Albany. She also has an MFA in Electronic Arts. Her undergraduate degrees are in Forestry and Technical Journalism. Anderson Moseman's poems about Sheila Goloborotko's monotypes are featured (in English and Portuguese) in um daqueles lugares sublimes, an exhibition catalogue for galeria Gravura Brasileira. Anderson Moseman's poems appeared in the following anthologies: Oh One Arrow (Flim Forum Press, 2007); Illness & Grace, Terror and Transformation (Wising Up Press, 2007) The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets (Chatoyant, 2004); Poetry in Performance 32 (CUNY, 2004); Writing on Air (Terra Nova, MIT Press, 2003).

Deborah Poe is the author of a poetry collection entitled Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) as well as chapbooks from Furniture_Press and Stockport Flats Press. Deborah has received several literary awards including the Thayer Fellowship of the Arts (2008) and three Pushcart Prize nominations. Her writing has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Many Mountains Moving, Drunken Boat, MiPOesias, Caesura, and other journals as well as in the anthologies Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora (Third World Press 2007) and A Sing Economy (Flim Forum 2008). Deborah’s current projects include Elements—her poetry collection based on the periodic table—a short fiction collection entitled Event Landmarks, and a collaboration with artist Robin Ward. She currently is Assistant Professor of English at Pace University.

Alana Siegel was born in Santa Monica, California. She moved to the Hudson Valley to attend Bard College, graduating in 2007. She devoted her final year of study to writing and completing a book of poems, Password. After graduating she spent six months in Italy and England, then returned to Barrytown, where she now lives and writes.

In the Gallery at R&F:

Ahead of the Buzz, a group exhibition comprised of works that were generated during, and as a result of, an advanced workshop for encaustic painters which occured at R&F Handmade Paints over the summer. The exhibition will run from December 6th, 2008 through January 17th, 2009.

The “Ahead of the Buzz” workshop was juried from a pool of applicants who proposed projects which they would work on independently at R&F Handmade Paints, while interacting with a series of visiting master artists and critics who led demonstrations and discussions, and helped the group focus on ways of taking their work to the next level. Five artists, who represent a diverse cross-section of the United States, participated, including Ginger Smith from White Lake, NY; Karen Levine from Kingston, NY; Michal Sagar from Minneapolis, MN, Martha Burgess from New York, NY, and Gabrielle Zane from Wilimantic, CT. The Ahead of the Buzz workshop was led by a series of prominant artists, including Richard Purdy, Carl Van Brunt, Barbara Ellmann, Grimanesa Amoros, and Cindy Stockton Moore.

Mark Lamoureux and Joan Retallack

2008-10-13T07:56:00.000-07:00

November 15, 2008 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paint
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Mark Lamoureux lives in Astoria, NY. His first full-length collection, Astrometry Orgonon was published by BlazeVOX books in 2008. He is the author of 5 chapbooks: Poem Stripped of Artifice (winner of the New School 2007 Chapbooks Contest), Traceland, 29 Cheeseburgers, Film Poems and City/Temple. His work has been published in print and online in Fence, Mustachioed, miPoesias, Jubilat, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, Lungfull!, Carve Poems, Coconut, GutCult and many others. In 2006 he started Cy Gist Press, a micropress focusing on ekphrastic poetry. He is Reviews Editor for Boog City, a Manhattan-based literary paper, and teaches composition in the CUNY system.

Joan Retallack’s most recent publication is her Gertrude Stein: Selections with an extensive introduction/discussion of Stein’s work, brought out by University of California Press. She is the author of seven volumes of poetry including Memnoir, Mongrelisme, How To Do Things With Words, Afterrimages, and Errata 5uite which won the Columbia Book Award chosen by Robert Creeley. Currently at work on a poetic project, “The Reinvention of Truth,” Retallack is the author of Musicage: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack, Wesleyan University Press, recipient of the America Award in Belles-Lettres. Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (Palgrave MacMillan, co-edited with Juliana Spahr) came out in 2006. The Poethical Wager, a book of interrelated essays, was published in 2004 by the University of California Press. She was the recipient of a Lanan Foundation award for poetry in 1998-99. A collection of Retallack’s procedural poems will come out next year from Roof Books. Retallack has had the pleasure of living in the Hudson Valley since January 2000 when she became the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College.

In the Gallery at R&F until November 22, 2008: Fabrication vs Verse, a solo exhibition of recent encaustic paintings by Kingston-based artist, Denise Orzo.

For this recent body of work, Denise Orzo was thinking about expectations, and how they often fulfill their conclusions. Using a highly innovative and original approach to cut-paper stencils, Orzo explores the formal interplay of positive and negative space, while constructing stories about the all-too-human tendency to form our realities with incomplete fragments of information. Using photographs as source material, the artist translates these flashes and glimpses as if they were manuscripts of light, shadow and time, illustrating how what we see is informed by what we have previously seen. The controlled precision of mapping an image, the fallibility of the human hand, and the wild, tempestuous nature of painting with hot wax all combine to augment the mutability of perception.

Denise Orzo was born in Queens, New York in 1972. She spent her early years on the piscine shaped island, dually informed by the powerful expansiveness of the ocean and the crippling claustrophobia of suburbia. Orzo holds a BFA in Painting from SUNY New Paltz. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, The Wright Gallery and The Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, among other Hudson Valley venues. The artist currently lives and works in Kingston, New York.

Brenda Coultas and Kimberly Lyons

2008-10-06T05:58:00.000-07:00

October 18, 2008 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paint
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Brenda Coultas moved from Southern Indiana to New York City in 1995 in order to live among poets on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She graduated from the Naropa Institute in 1994 where she studied under Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman and moved to the Lower East Side to work at the Poetry Project in St. Marks Church in the Bowery. She is the author of A Handmade Museum which won the Norma Farber Award from The Poetry Society of America, and a Greenwall Fund publishing grant from the Academy of American Poets. A Handmade Museum was published by Coffee House Press in 2003. She has served as Program Assistant and series curator at the Poetry Project in NYC. She has taught at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and the Poetry Project in New York, City. Her writing can be found in many publications including: Conjunctions, Explosive, Brooklyn Rail, and Bombay Gin. Other books include Early Films (Rodent Press) and A Summer Newsreel (Second Story Press). She has lived a block from the Bowery, for the past ten years. Her most recent book, The Marvelous Bones of Time, is about ghosts and abolition.

Kimberly Lyons is the author of Phototherapique, a chapbook of poems co-published by Portable Press and Ketalanche Press in 2008. Other books include Saline, (Instance Press, 2005); and Abracadabra and Mettle (with artist Ed Epping) both published by Granary Books. She has had poems published recently online in Critiphora and Miopoesias and in the fall 2007 issue of Ocho and in Satellite Telephone magazine and in the 2008 issue of The Recluse magazine. Bernadette Mayer's book Studying Hunger was the topic of a talk she gave at the Conference on poetry of the 1970s held at Orono Maine in June of this year. For five years, Lyons was the program coordinator at the Poetry Project and organized lectures there: her favorites being a Gertrude Stein Day and a public reading of Frank O'Hara's poem Second Avenue held where else: on Second Avenue in New York.

In the Gallery at R&F until November 22, 2008: Fabrication vs Verse, a solo exhibition of recent encaustic paintings by Kingston-based artist, Denise Orzo.

For this recent body of work, Denise Orzo was thinking about expectations, and how they often fulfill their conclusions. Using a highly innovative and original approach to cut-paper stencils, Orzo explores the formal interplay of positive and negative space, while constructing stories about the all-too-human tendency to form our realities with incomplete fragments of information. Using photographs as source material, the artist translates these flashes and glimpses as if they were manuscripts of light, shadow and time, illustrating how what we see is informed by what we have previously seen. The controlled precision of mapping an image, the fallibility of the human hand, and the wild, tempestuous nature of painting with hot wax all combine to augment the mutability of perception.

Denise Orzo was born in Queens, New York in 1972. She spent her early years on the piscine shaped island, dually informed by the powerful expansiveness of the ocean and the crippling claustrophobia of suburbia. Orzo holds a BFA in Painting from SUNY New Paltz. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, The Wright Gallery and The Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, among other Hudson Valley venues. The artist currently lives and works in Kingston, New York.

18th Annual Subterranean Poetry Reading

2008-08-25T08:24:00.000-07:00

Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 2pm

with: JJ Blickstein, Steve Cotten, Teresa Genovese, Steve Hirsch, Geof Huth, Maryrose Larkin, Susan McKechnie, Wayne Montecalvo, George Quasha, Alana Siegel, Lorna Smedman, Charles Stein, Carl Welden, and R. Dionysius Whiteurs

The Widow Jane Mine
Century House Historical Society
Route 213
Rosendale, NY 12472

A $5 donation is suggested to benefit Century House

For directions, visit the Century House website at: http://centuryhouse.org/

Reb Livingston and George Quasha

2008-03-24T12:42:00.000-07:00

April 19, 2008 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paint
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Reb Livingston is the author Your Ten Favorite Words - http://www.yourtenfavoritewords.com/ - (Coconut Books 2007) and co-editor of The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor - http://www.notellbooks.org/secondfloor - (No Tell Books 2007). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2006, The American Poetry Review, Caffeine Destiny and other publications. She's the poetry editor of No Tell Motel - http://www.notellmotel.org/ - and publisher of No Tell Books - http://notellbooks.org/

Visit Reb's blog at: http://cacklingjackal.blogspot.com/

George Quasha is an artist and poet who works across mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. Solo exhibitions of his axial stones and axial drawings include the Baumgartner Gallery in New York (Chelsea), the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. This work is featured in the recently published book, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, Foreword by Carter Ratcliff (North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, 2006).

For his video installation work art is: Speaking Portraits (in the performative indicative), he has recorded over 600 artists, poets, and composers (in 10 countries and 20 languages) saying what in their view art is. This ongoing work (“art is/music is/poetry is”) has been exhibited at the Snite Museum of Art (University of Notre Dame), at White Box in Chelsea, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum (SUNY New Paltz), and in several other countries (including France and India), and has been featured in several biennials (Wroclaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Kingston, New York). Further extensions of this work in speaking portraiture include "myth is” and “peace is.” His other work in axial video (including Pulp Friction, Axial Objects, Verbal Objects, Axial Landscapes) has appeared internationally in museums, galleries, schools, and biennials. A 30-year performance collaboration (video/language/sound) continues with Gary Hill and Charles Stein.

In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in video art.

His other 14 books include poetry: Somapoetics, Giving the Lily Back Her Hands, Ainu Dreams (with Chie Hasegawa), and Preverbs [forthcoming]; anthologies: America a Prophecy [with Jerome Rothenberg], Open Poetry [with Ronald Gross], An Active Anthology [with Susan Quasha], The Station Hill Blanchot Reader [with Charles Stein]); and writing on art: Gary Hill: Language Willing, with Charles Stein: Tall Ships, HanD HearD/liminal objects, Viewer. A new book on Gary Hill is forthcoming from Ediciones Poligrafa (Barcelona), also in collaboration with Charles Stein.

Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry. He has taught at Stony Brook University (SUNY), Bard College, New School University (Graduate Anthropology Department), and Naropa University. With Susan Quasha he is founder/publisher of Barrytown/Station Hill Press in Barrytown, New York.

In the Gallery at R&F: "Rituals", a solo exhibition of recent encaustic paintings by New Orleans artist, Mary Jane Parker. The show will run from April 5th through May 24th, 2008.

Mary Jane Parker is fascinated by the many intrinsic similarities between the natural world and the human body. The root system of a plant, for example, serves a purpose similar to that of the human intestine, and a satellite picture showing the amazing complexity and mystery of distant galaxies resembles a miscroscopic image of our blood cells. Parkers’ work explores these natural affinities, drawing attention to the unity that exists between our humanity and the world we inhabit. Informed by references from history, medicine and botany, Parker explores her fascination with rituals and ways that we order nature - "from the innocent clover chain to stones that hold a message for the dead", Parker merges the distant and foreign with the intimate and familiar.

Mary Jane Parker lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she is part of the visual art faculty of the prestigeous NOCCA/Riverfront school. She has been actively exhibiting her work since the late 1980’s, though this will be her first solo exhibition in the Northeast. Parker has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors for her work, the most recent being a 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her work is represented by Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans.

Lea Graham and Lorna Smedman

2008-02-11T11:48:00.000-08:00

March 15, 2008 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Lea Graham’s poems, translations, reviews and articles have been published in or are forthcoming in journals such as Notre Dame Review, American Letters & Commentary, Mudlark, Shadow Train and The Worcester Review. Her work was included in two recent anthologies, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry in the 21st Century and The Bedside Guide to the No Tell Motel, 2nd Floor. Her chapbook, Calendar Girls, was published in spring of 2006 by above/ground Press in Ottawa. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Lea Graham was born in Memphis and grew up in Northwest Arkansas.

Lorna Smedman is a graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the author of Dangers of Reading (Prospect Books). She has had stories published in Rites of Passage, an anthology of travel stories published by Lonely Planet, Prima Materia, and Percontra.

In the Gallery at R&F: "A Pattern of Connections", an ambitious new installation by Lorrie Fredette. The show will run from February 2nd through March 22nd, 2008.

Lorrie Fredette's delicate new suspended installation sprang from an unlikely source for artistic inspiration - an outbreak of poison ivy. Two years ago, the artist used her own skin as a site for intense study - drawing, photographing and further manipulating images of her rash digitally, and storing these images on her computer. Through further research, her data bank expanded to include a voyeuristic collection of images of other people’s rashes, as well as encompassing current environmental and polical issues related to climate change, (because it turns out that poison ivy thrives and becomes more potent with an increase in carbon dioxide). This led to further research about the molecular structure of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gasses.

At a certain point, Fredette had collected so much information that she had to devise a system for sorting and storing it. She made a purposeful decision to keep this process as random as the dealing of cards, intentionally skewing her data. "A Pattern of Connections" is a chain-of-events story that has both evolved and degraded over a long period of time, with each new link containing a new "misrepresentation". The finished piece, suspended from the gallery ceiling like an undulating canopy, becomes a demonstration of how information is morphed by the very processes which attempt to collect, store and represent it.

Celia Bland and Charlotte Mandell

2008-01-16T10:38:00.000-08:00

February 16, 2008 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Celia Bland teaches poetry and essay-writing at Bard College, where she is the Dean of Studies. She has degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and New York University and has been a visiting artist at Utica College, Iona College, Keene State University, and the Rome Community Center. Her profiles of poets Robert Kelly and Jean Valentine appeared in Poets & Writers in 2004. Her book of poetry, Soft Box (CavanKerry Press) was nominated for Poetry Society of America and PEN America first book awards, and received the silver medal for best book of poetry for 2004 from ForeWord magazine. It was named one of the ten best books of 2004 by Chronogram magazine.

Check out Celia's work at:

http://www.entelechyjournal.com/captions_for_cartoons_not_yet_dr.htm

http://www.acarts.org/mystic/MRR5bland.html

Charlotte Mandell has translated over twenty books, including Fragments of the Artwork by Jean Genet, The Book to Come by Maurice Blanchot, and A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert. Her translation of The Lemoine Affair, a novella by Marcel Proust that has never been translated into English before, is forthcoming from Melville House. She is currently translating Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones for HarperCollins. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, the poet Robert Kelly.

See Charlotte's work at:

http://home.earthlink.net/~cmandell/charlottemandell/

http://this-space.blogspot.com/2007/09/maurice-blanchot-1907-2003-by-jean-luc.html

In the Gallery at R&F: "A Pattern of Connections", an ambitious new installation by Lorrie Fredette. The show will run from February 2nd through March 22nd, 2008.

Lorrie Fredette's delicate new suspended installation sprang from an unlikely source for artistic inspiration - an outbreak of poison ivy. Two years ago, the artist used her own skin as a site for intense study - drawing, photographing and further manipulating images of her rash digitally, and storing these images on her computer. Through further research, her data bank expanded to include a voyeuristic collection of images of other people’s rashes, as well as encompassing current environmental and polical issues related to climate change, (because it turns out that poison ivy thrives and becomes more potent with an increase in carbon dioxide). This led to further research about the molecular structure of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gasses.

At a certain point, Fredette had collected so much information that she had to devise a system for sorting and storing it. She made a purposeful decision to keep this process as random as the dealing of cards, intentionally skewing her data. "A Pattern of Connections" is a chain-of-events story that has both evolved and degraded over a long period of time, with each new link containing a new "misrepresentation". The finished piece, suspended from the gallery ceiling like an undulating canopy, becomes a demonstration of how information is morphed by the very processes which attempt to collect, store and represent it.

Joshua Harmon, Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang and Maryrose Larkin

2007-12-17T10:10:00.000-08:00

January 19, 2008 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Joshua Harmon is the author of Quinnehtukqut, a novel, and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in various journals, and he teaches at Vassar College.

Recent reviews of Quinnehtukqut can be read at:

http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/november-voices-in-the-woods/

http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2007/10/quinnehtukqut.html

Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang is a graduate of Princeton University and has been an editor at The Sheep Meadow Press, a comic book editor at Marvel Enterprises, written locally for Chronogram and Upstate House, and now works at Bard College. She has lived and taught in southern China and central Mexico, and is currently working on a novella.

Check out Jennifer's work at:

http://www.papotage.com/apr03/jennifer.html

http://archive.chronogram.com/issue/2004/03/communitynotebook/

Maryrose Larkin is the author of the chapbook-length poem, Inverse, (nine muses books, 2006). Her newest collection is The Book of Ocean (i.e. Press). A graduate of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, she is a freelance researcher and founding member of Spare Room, which organizes readings and other events in Portland. She's also a co-editor of Flash+Card, a chapbook press.

Reviews of The Book of Ocean can be read at:

http://wallacethinksagain.blogspot.com/2007/10/maryrose-larkins-book-of-ocean.html

http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n30/book_of_ocean

In the Gallery at R&F:

Ahead of the Buzz, a group exhibition comprised of works that were generated during, and as a result of, an advanced workshop for encaustic painters which occured at R&F Handmade Paints during Summer 2007. The exhibition will run from December 1st, 2007 through January 19th, 2008.

The Ahead of the Buzz workshop was juried from a pool of applicants who proposed projects which they would work on independently at R&F Handmade Paints, while interacting with a series of visiting master artists and critics who led demonstrations and discussions, and helped the group focus on ways of taking their work to the next level. Six artists, who represent a diverse cross-section of the United States, participated, including Lynda Cole from Ann Arbor, MI; Julia Dzikiewicz from Alexandria, VA; Cari Hernandez from San Anselmo, CA; Lissa Rankin from San Diego, CA; Ruth Sack from Cheshire, CT; and Karen Zimmerman from Tucson, AZ. The Ahead of the Buzz workshop was led by a series of prominant artists, writers and critics, including Donna Sharrett, Timothy MacDowell, Heather Hutchison, Gail Gregg and Beth E. Wilson.

Kate Greenstreet and Rebecca Wolff

2007-10-23T06:17:00.000-07:00

November 17, 2007 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Kate Greenstreet is the author of case sensitive (Ahsahta Press, 2006), and three chapbooks, Learning the Language (Etherdome Press, 2005), Rushes (above/ground press, 2007), and This is why I hurt you (forthcoming from Lame House Press). Her second book, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta in 2009. Visit her online at: http://www.kickingwind.com/

Rebecca Wolff is the author of Manderley (University of Illinois Press) and Figment (W.W. Norton), and soon of a novel called The Beginners. She grew up in New York City and has been living in the Hudson Valley since 2005. In 2007 her journal and press, Fence and Fence Books, affiliated with the University at Albany, so that is where she now spends her days.

The Gallery at R&F is pleased to present a solo exhibition by New York artist, Richard Purdy. This mini-retrospective will focus on the artists’ innovative encaustic works from the year 2000 to the present. Richard Purdy: Encaustics 2000-2007 will run from October 6th through November 24th, 2007.

Richard Purdy's paintings employ a mechanism derived from cutting-edge scientific thought. Inspired by the physicist Stephen Woldram’s book, "A New Kind of Science", Purdy’s compositions are generated by a mathematical system called cellular automata - grid-based formations where the identity of each element is determined by its immediate neighbors. In their pure state, the successive boxes of cellular automata are filled by numerical values, and only a mathematician can recognize the complex patterns they reveal—to the rest of us, they appear to be numbers distributed at random. In Purdy’s paintings, however, colors take the place of numbers, making the patterns visible to everyone. And to the surprise even of the artist, the patterns they create are incredibly beautiful in the way that geometric structures often can be, revealing the living implications of advanced scientific thought. Purdy combines the use of computer generated patterning with children’s drawing implements, such as stencils and the spirograph, to yield a range of visual possibilities not available from other media.

Richard Purdy was born in Chicago and attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania (BA in Fine Arts 1978) and the School of Visual Arts (MFA in Computer Arts). He is represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York City. For more information about the artist and his work, visit http://www.richardprudy.net/

Lynn Behrendt and Robert Kelly

2007-10-01T09:06:00.000-07:00

October 20, 2007 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Lynn Behrendt came to the Hudson Valley three decades ago to study poetry with Robert Kelly. She has published four chapbooks of poetry: The Moon as Chance, Characters, Tinder, and most recently, 8 Poems from Meridian Roundelay. She edits The Annandale Dream Gazette, an online newspaper of poets' dreams. She also welds and makes steel sculpture, a few of which can be seen at: http://www.vincemurraywelding.com/ Her portraits of poets are at: http://www.poetportraits.blogspot.com/ Lynn lives in Red Hook, NY with her husband and two sons.

Robert Kelly’s latest books are Lapis (Godine-Black Sparrow) and Shame/Scham, a prose collaboration with the German poet Birgit Kempker (McPherson). Forthcoming are the long poem The Language of Eden (Black Square), the chapbook Terre Sainte (Shivastan), the poem cycle Threads (First Intensity) and a big collection of poems 2003-2005, May Day, from Parsifal Press. Kelly has taught at Bard College in New York State for many years, and is a director of the Writing Program there. His wife is the translator Charlotte Mandell. They live in Annandale-on-Hudson.

Richard Purdy's paintings employ a mechanism derived from cutting-edge scientific thought. Inspired by the physicist Stephen Woldram’s book, "A New Kind of Science", Purdy’s compositions are generated by a mathematical system called cellular automata - grid-based formations where the identity of each element is determined by its immediate neighbors. In their pure state, the successive boxes of cellular automata are filled by numerical values, and only a mathematician can recognize the complex patterns they reveal—to the rest of us, they appear to be numbers distributed at random. In Purdy’s paintings, however, colors take the place of numbers, making the patterns visible to everyone. And to the surprise even of the artist, the patterns they create are incredibly beautiful in the way that geometric structures often can be, revealing the living implications of advanced scientific thought. Purdy combines the use of computer generated patterning with children’s drawing implements, such as stencils and the spirograph, to yield a range of visual possibilities not available from other media.

Richard Purdy was born in Chicago and attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania (BA in Fine Arts 1978) and the School of Visual Arts (MFA in Computer Arts). He is represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York City. For more information about the artist and his work, visit http://www.richardprudy.net/

Dennis Doherty and Carly Sachs

2007-08-20T13:21:00.000-07:00

September 15, 2007 at 2pm

Please note the following location change:
The Flow Lounge
138 Smith Avenue
Kingston, NY
(if you can make it to R&F, the Flow Lounge is two easy blocks away)

A $5 donation is suggested.

Dennis Doherty is Director of the Creative Writing Program at SUNY New Paltz, where he teaches creative writing, literature, outraged love, and friendly subversion. His essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Yankee Magazine, Chiron Review, Slipstream, Slant, Bayou, and dozens of other reviews and anthologies. His first poetry collection, The Bad Man (Ye Olde Font Shoppe Press), appeared in 2004. His second collection, Fugitive (Codhill Press), is due out in the fall of 2007.

Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her first book of poems, the steam sequence won the 2006 Washington Writers’ Publishing House first book prize. With Reb Livingston, she curates Lolita and Gilda’s Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge in Washington, DC. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Alimentum, Another Chicago Magazine, Beltway Quarterly Review, Coconut, CrossRoads, MiPoesias, Poem Memoir Story, No Tell Motel, Runes Review, and Best American Poetry 2004. Carly is currently an Arts Fellow at the Drisha Institute in NYC. Visit Carly's blog at: http://fivefeetabovewater.blogspot.com/index.html

Check out Carly's work:

http://www.coconutpoetry.org/sachs1.htm

http://www.mipoesias.com/Poetry/sachs_carly.html

http://www.notellmotel.org/poem_single.php?id=348_0_1_0

Steve Hirsch, PF Potvin, and R. Dionysius Whiteurs

2007-05-14T06:47:00.000-07:00

June 9, 2007 at 2pm
The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Steve Hirsch is a poet, musician, electronic publishing guru, and editor/publisher of the literary magazine Heaven Bone. He studied writing and drama at Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO, where he was a student and apprentice of Allen Ginsberg and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He has been leading poetry workshops and giving poetry readings nationally for over 25 years. Steve is the author of Ramapo 500 Affirmations (Flower Thief, 1998) and he has had poems appear in Hunger, Napalm Health Spa Report, For Immediate Release, Pudding, Big Scream, Hazmat Review, Muse Apprentice Guild, and Etcetera.

See Steve's work here:

http://www.poetz.com/fir/june02.htm#Steve%20Hirsch

http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs02/hirsch.html

http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs98/hirsch.html

PF Potvin is a writer, musician, and ultramarathon runner who is looking forward to returning to Vermont after a stint in Miami. He is the author of The Attention Lesson (No Tell Books). Currently, he is at work on a multimedia project and a novel. Visit him at www.pfpotvin.com

Check out PF's work at:

http://www.mipoesias.com/2007/potvin_pf.htm

http://memorious.org/?author=33

http://www.coconutpoetry.org/potvin1.htm

R. Dionysius Whiteurs was born in the Bronx and brought up in the hills of Mahwah, NJ. Ron (R. Dionysius) Whiteurs has lived in the New Paltz-Rosendale region since 1966. He is a noted toy collector, music lover, and craftsman of fine costumes and objects. Ron was featured in the short biographic film Trapped in Amber (2006) by Bart Thrall of Big Time Records. He has been published in the Rondout Review, The Poets Gallery, Chronogram, Hunger Magazine, and Wuzz Buzzin (Switzerland). Ron is a member of the Woodstock Poetry Society.

Take a look at Ron's work:

http://www.woodstockpoetry.com/member-poems/RWhiteurs.html

http://www.arthurjoseph.org/tootsie.html

In the Gallery at R&F through July 28th, 2007:

Matthew Kelly’s new work is preoccupied with lines in the environment. It began years ago during a road trip out west, where he noticed that the wide open spaces were broken up and sectioned off by power lines. Kelly thought about how these lines broke the environment up into zones, and noticed how much activity occurred in those zones as objects, shadows and light passed through them. Rather than isolating objects, these spatial separations created relationships between things, and these relationships were continually redefined by one another. It struck Kelly that this was similar to how the painter continually redefines a painting as it reflects and tints the ever-shifting light that hits it moment by moment.

The paintings featured in The Walks all began as linear compositions of how the space on the canvas was to be organized. Then Kelly began to fill the sections in, continuing to balance the predetermined space with layers of transparent color. He worked on several pieces simultaneously, with the aim of creating an intuitive spectrum of colors that would play off of one another in the gallery space. By day, Kelly is Principle Paintmaker for R&F Handmade Paints, so his awareness of color is acute. Built up gradually over a period of time, the paintings inform one another, but each is distinct, and eventually reaches a point where a narrative aspect is revealed. A painting may evolve to remind the artist of struggles, family issues, events or relationships with people. Like members of a studio community, the paintings take on a personality, the DNA of which is determined by composition, color, form, and the struggles associated with bringing it into being.

Geof Huth and Susan McKechnie

2007-04-23T09:32:00.000-07:00

May 12, 2007 at 2pm
The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Geof Huth is an American who has lived on most continents on earth (but not Australia). Over the years, he has created visual and other poems in a wide variety of formats: lineated verse, prose, paintings, drawings, and films. He has been published in venues as diverse as The American Poetry Review, Dreams and Nightmares, Kalligram, Lost and Found Times, Modern Haiku, La Poire D'Angoisse, Prakalpana Literature, ZYX , and atop bandaids. His chapbooks include Analphabet, The Dreams of the Fishwife, ghostlight, Peristyle, To a Small Stream of Water (or Ditch), and wreadings. Huth recently edited &2: an/thology of pwoermds, the first-ever anthology of one-word poems. Next up is his chapbook of visual poems, Out of Character, from Paper Kite Press. He writes almost daily on visual poetry at his blog dbqp: visualizing poetics.

Check out Geof's work at:

http://www.mipoesias.com/2006/huth.html

http://www.albany.edu/~litmag/work/current/huth_01.html

http://www.wordforword.info/vol9/Huth.htm

Susan McKechnie has been writing and reading in the Hudson Valley for the past twenty years. She was the assistant editor of Hunger Magazine, and has been published in Arson, Heaven Bone, and Long Shot, among others. Her chapbook The Sailor Poems was published by Hunger Press in 2000. She currently lives in New Paltz, NY, where she writes, studies piano and raises orchids.

See Susan's work at:

http://www.milkmag.org/mckechnie.htm

http://www.longshot.org/ls22/susanmckechine.htm

In the Gallery at R&F until May 26, 2007:

What is it that drives artists to persist in rendering the world around them in paint, despite the rise of photography, which is a more accurate, and far easier way to record exterior reality? The exhibition Get Real brings together a group of artists who are enamored with landscape, still life and figure study, but who also impart something new into the standard formulas instead of just recalling a heroic past. By doing this, they're creating uniquely contemporary works that broaden the conversation around representational art. Featuring: Lea Bozman (Rosendale, NY), Matt Duffin (Nevada City, CA), Kevin Frank (New York, NY), Tom Sarrantonio (Rosendale, NY), Wayne Montecalvo (Rosendale, NY), and Margaret Crenson (Pleasant Valley, NY).

Matt Duffin’s surreal monochromatic painting, "Billboard Blinders", explores the themes of solitude and irony, dwelling in the realm of dark recesses and stark contrasts. Lea Bozman’s series of portraits, "The Iron Oxide Blues", focuses tenderly on family relationships while exploring the historical significance and chemical makeup of Prussian Blue, a beautiful color with a tainted past.

Tom Sarrantonio’s large-scale landscape, "Transition", reflects the artists desire to mediate between inner life and outer world, capturing perceptual experiences that are sensual and transitory. Margaret Crenson paints the roads and fields that abound throughout the Hudson Valley, using photography, memory and imagination to bring a sense of expressionism to her representational works.

Kevin Frank takes a historical approach to encaustic painting in his "Cubist Still Life", which was created using a traditional Greek palette consisting of only four colors - mars yellow, mars red, white and black. Wayne Montecalvo takes a more modern approach to painting technology in his series of "Anonymous Mugshots", creating paint-by-numbers style portraits that are derived from digital photographs.

Richard Rizzi and Maureen Thorson

2007-03-19T13:40:00.000-07:00

April 14, 2007 at 2pm
The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Richard Rizzi was born on New Year's Eve 1936, in the backroom of a pool hall in Brooklyn, NY to an unwed factory worker,Vera, and the gangster Duke Rizzi. After serving in the United States Army in Occupied Germany he returned to the US to pursue his career in Jazz as a tenor and alto saxophone player. From 1947 to the present he studied the arts and literature and wrote poetry. He also studied Zen Shiatsu with the late Master, Masanaga and Master Yuho. He has traveled the world extensively in pursuit of artistic knowledge. In addition to writing poetry, Richard has spent the last 30 years as a Performance and Multi Media Artist. He currently lives in New Paltz, New York.

See his work at:

http://www.hungermagazine.com/is4p1.htm

http://www.poetz.com/fir/june02.htm

Maureen Thorson is the author of two chapbooks: Novelty Act (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Mayport (Poetry Society of America). She lives in Washington, D.C., where she practices law and runs the tiniest press in the world, Big Game Books. Visit her press (http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/biggame.html) and blog (http://www.reenhead.com/mole/mole.php).

Check out Maureen's work at:

http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue05/poets/Maureen_Thorson.htm

http://www.typomag.com/issue08/thorson.html

http://www.kulturevulture.org/thorson.html

In the Gallery at R&F beginning April 7, 2007:

What is it that drives artists to persist in rendering the world around them in paint, despite the rise of photography, which is a more accurate, and far easier way to record exterior reality? The exhibition Get Real brings together a group of artists who are enamored with landscape, still life and figure study, but who also impart something new into the standard formulas instead of just recalling a heroic past. By doing this, they're creating uniquely contemporary works that broaden the conversation around representational art. Featuring: Lea Bozman (Rosendale, NY), Matt Duffin (Nevada City, CA), Kevin Frank (New York, NY), Tom Sarrantonio (Rosendale, NY), Wayne Montecalvo (Rosendale, NY), and Margaret Crenson (Pleasant Valley, NY).

3/17 Reading Canceled for Snow

2007-02-26T11:22:00.000-08:00

The weather gods apparently are up 50-0 against the poetry gods.

Dennis Doherty and Carly Sachs
March 17, 2007 at 2pm
The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Dennis Doherty is Director of the Creative Writing Program at SUNY New Paltz, where he teaches creative writing, literature, outraged love, and friendly subversion. His essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Yankee Magazine, Chiron Review, Slipstream, Slant, Bayou, and dozens of other reviews and anthologies. His first poetry collection, The Bad Man (Ye Olde Font Shoppe Press), appeared in 2004. His second collection, Fugitive (Codhill Press), is due out in the spring of 2007.

Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her first book of poems, the steam sequence won the 2006 Washington Writers’ Publishing House first book prize. With Reb Livingston, she curates Lolita and Gilda’s Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge in Washington, DC. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Alimentum, Another Chicago Magazine, Beltway Quarterly Review, Coconut, CrossRoads, MiPoesias, Poem Memoir Story, No Tell Motel, Runes Review, and Best American Poetry 2004. Visit Carly's blog at: http://fivefeetabovewater.blogspot.com/index.html

Check out Carly's work:

http://www.coconutpoetry.org/sachs1.htm

http://www.mipoesias.com/Poetry/sachs_carly.html

http://www.notellmotel.org/poem_single.php?id=348_0_1_0

Currrently in the Gallery at R&F until March 31, 2007, the artists featured in Not Seeing the Forest use the metaphor of landscape to express the potential of the process of painting.

For Natalie Abrams, (Denver, CO), the landscape symbolizes her relationship with history. Working both pictorally and in a Minimalist style, her encaustic paintings bare the wounds of history by revealing layer upon layer of growth and decay. Carved into and torn back, Abrams’s paintings expose the beauty and pain buried within the landscape of the painting. Abrams’s Minimalist work speaks to what the artist has described as "the texture of a moment...the final air bubble just under the surface, having escaped from someone who’s been under too long..."

The work of Dorothy Robinson, (Brooklyn, NY), has evolved out of a deep fascination with the metaphor of landscape and the expressive possibilities of oil paint. In working with paint, Robinson finds that aspects of the physical environment emerge and demand expression. Water, weather and geological processes become agents of change, acting on landforms that are repositories of memory and accumulated experience. The process is two-fold: to allow disparate elements to arise from the unconscious through the spontaneous application of paint; and to weave these together into a landscape that, despite numerous impossibilities, makes sense to her. Says the artist, "I am trying to convey not a moment, but a process, one that integrates a series of infinitely small changes into a larger whole."

The creation of nonspecific place is the focus of Pam Wallace, (Lynchburg, VA). Detailed representational images of part of a natural object, devoid of contextual clues, act as metaphor and invite the viewer into a familiar but imaginary place for the human spirit to dwell. Wallace’s process begins with actual trees, from which plates are made. Prints made from yhe plates are used in mixed media works with encaustic. "Trees go through life cycles of a few to several decades", explains the artist. "During one year of four seasons, however, they epitomize the beautiful but transitory nature of life; as buds give way to green, turn brilliant, and fall to earth. In the woods, we can appreciate the silence, the solitude, the opportunity to be contemplative. We become aware of being part of all that has preceded us."

J.J. Blickstein and Anne Gorrick

2007-01-22T06:26:00.000-08:00

February 17, 2007 at 2pm
The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at
http://www.rfpaints.com/

Join us to celebrate the publication of J.J. Blickstein's new book, Barefoot on a drawing of the Sun (Fish Drum, www.fishdrum.com).

J. J. Blickstein is a poet, visual artist, & the editor/publisher of the now defunct Hunger Magazine & Press. He lives in Upstate New York next to the Esopus River with a lovely biologist and three kids. He works as a stone mason/handyman & occasionally teaches about the tarot. A chapbook, Visions of Salt & Water was published by Bagatela Press (Juarez, Mexico/El Paso, TX, 2003). His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in the following journals: Van Gogh’s Ear (France), House Organ, Arson, Fire (UK), Skanky Possum, Milk, 5_Trope, The Louisiana Review, Dream International Quarterly, Sundog: A Southwestern Literary Review, and Heavenbone. His work has also appeared in the following anthologies: American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa Press, 2001), Vespers: Religion & Spirituality in Contemporary American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2003), and Shamanic Warriors, Now Poets (R&R Publishing, Scotland, 2004).

You can see his work at:

http://www.poembeat.com/winter2002/blickstein.html

http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooOne/blickstein.html

http://www.hungermagazine.com/is4p2.htm

Anne Gorrick’s poetry has been published in many journals including: American Letters and Commentary, the Cortland Review, Dislocate, eratio, Fence, Gutcult, Hunger Magazine, No Tell Motel, the Seneca Review, Sulfur, and word for/word. She has work in the following anthologies: The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, (No Tell Press, 2006) and Homage to Vallejo (Greenhouse Review Press, 2006). Collaborating with artist Cynthia Winika, she produced a limited edition artists’ book called “Swans, the ice,” she said with grants from the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the New York State Council for the Arts. Bored to death by the confines of her laser printer, she is also a visual artist working in traditional Japanese papermaking, printmaking and encaustic.

Check out her work at:

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/30/gorrick.html

http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/issue8_Gorrick.html

http://www.gutcult.com/Site/litjourn6/html/AG1.htm

Currrently in the Gallery at R&F:

The artists featured in Not Seeing the Forest use the metaphor of landscape to express the potential of the process of painting.

For Natalie Abrams, (Denver, CO), the landscape symbolizes her relationship with history. Working both pictorally and in a Minimalist style, her encaustic paintings bare the wounds of history by revealing layer upon layer of growth and decay. Carved into and torn back, Abrams’s paintings expose the beauty and pain buried within the landscape of the painting. Abrams’s Minimalist work speaks to what the artist has described as "the texture of a moment...the final air bubble just under the surface, having escaped from someone who’s been under too long..."

The work of Dorothy Robinson, (Brooklyn, NY), has evolved out of a deep fascination with the metaphor of landscape and the expressive possibilities of oil paint. In working with paint, Robinson finds that aspects of the physical environment emerge and demand expression. Water, weather and geological processes become agents of change, acting on landforms that are repositories of memory and accumulated experience. The process is two-fold: to allow disparate elements to arise from the unconscious through the spontaneous application of paint; and to weave these together into a landscape that, despite numerous impossibilities, makes sense to her. Says the artist, "I am trying to convey not a moment, but a process, one that integrates a series of infinitely small changes into a larger whole."

The creation of nonspecific place is the focus of Pam Wallace, (Lynchburg, VA). Detailed representational images of part of a natural object, devoid of contextual clues, act as metaphor and invite the viewer into a familiar but imaginary place for the human spirit to dwell. Wallace’s process begins with actual trees, from which plates are made. Prints made from yhe plates are used in mixed media works with encaustic. "Trees go through life cycles of a few to several decades", explains the artist. "During one year of four seasons, however, they epitomize the beautiful but transitory nature of life; as buds give way to green, turn brilliant, and fall to earth. In the woods, we can appreciate the silence, the solitude, the opportunity to be contemplative. We become aware of being part of all that has preceded us."

Joshua Harmon and Jane Heidgerd Garrick

2006-12-05T07:15:00.000-08:00

January 20, 2007 at 2pm
The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at
http://www.rfpaints.com/

Joshua Harmon’s poetry has appeared recently in Colorado Review, Columbia, Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Gulf Coast, LIT, Slope, Sonora Review, Verse, and Volt. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such journals as Agni, Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Iowa Review, New England Review, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, and Witness. His first novel, Quinnehtukqut, is forthcoming in summer 2007 from Starcherone Books. He has received fellowships in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Joshua currently lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he teaches at Vassar College. He blogs at: http://joshuaharmon.blogspot.com/

You can see his work:

http://www.slope.org/archive/issue18/index.php?file=poetry_harmon.htm

http://www.arts.gov/features/Writers/Harmon.html

http://thediagram.com/5_5/harmon.html

Jane Heidgerd Garrick’s work has appeared in First Intensity, Hudson Valley Magazine, Bullhead Books, Riverdreams, and Chronogram. She has also completed a novella entitled The Seas of West Virginia. She received her MFA from the Milton Avery School of Fine Arts at Bard College. In 1995, she worked with Scenic Hudson to create Poets’ Walk in Red Hook, NY and continues to coordinate poetry readings there. In 2001 she received the Gort Foundation Award for Poetry from the National Arts Club, and in 2002 she collaborated and performed with Robert Kelly at Scenic Hudson’s annual gala. Jane is a longtime resident of the Hudson Valley.

Check out Poet's Walk at http://www.scenichudson.org/parks/shparks/poetswalk/index.html

In the Gallery at R&F:

The artists featured in the Gallery at R&F’s show Give and Take draw on symbolism, borrowed from history, and allude to merging cultures and an exchange of values. The show will run through January 27, 2007.

Kim Bruce’s ongoing autobiographical series is an examination of the contradictions she experienced being raised in a catholic household during the 50's at the height of the women's movement. Her works analyze the mixed messages she received while growing up in a value system that was reinforced by a formative catholic education. The work is motivated by the challenge of being self-sufficient in a society and church system that encouraged dependency and subjugation. Bruce creates constructions that are plied with images and other elements to form assemblages that make succinct yet subjective statements and find bittersweet contradictions that reference the dichotomies that exist within the church, the world and ourselves. Kim Bruce lives and works in Redwood Meadows, Alberta, Canada.

Valerie Hammond is a portraitist that captures her subject in the outline of gestures made with their hands. She then fills the silhouetted forms with materials collected from forests, fields and gardens, creating mixed media drawings that marry fauna and ferns with images of the body. These drawings reflect the unique expressiveness of individual hands while revealing tracings of the spirit. Hammond unearths the deep-rooted connection between our bodies and the earth; the way things deteriorate and are reborn. "By focusing on remnants and traces she creates a physical reliquary representing our ancestors and our lives in flux." -Kiki Smith. Valerie Hammond lives and works in Germantown and Manhattan.

Judith Kindler’s series, "Surface" is inspired by the worn down and vandalized walls of Venetian buildings photographed during a recent trip. Many of the images speak to cultural ambivalences; those contradictions that happen when a word of graffiti, like "assassin," happens to fall next to an embedded shrine of Mary and the Child. These deliberate and accidental combinations of things, words and emotions that are played out over time on these surfaces, became a wellspring for Kindler, who began introducing the photograps into mixed media paintings with encaustics and oils. By inscribing her own markings on the surface of the wax, she becomes a contributor to the history of these wonderful surfaces. Judith Kindler lives and works in Seattle, Washington.

John Maul uses the Greek cross in many of his works, not so much as a symbol of the orthodox church, but to represent organized religion in general. Taking a minimalist approach to these loaded icons, Maul asks us to think about why a simple form can produce such powerful emotions independent of any rational context. Stripping away all secondary associations, Maul puts us in direct touch with the source of our memories, invoking the most universal passions through the sparest means. "I selected the Greek cross over the Latin cross for both design considerations and its resemblance to the x, a symbol of negation. Many modern religious groups will condemn or hold judgments against those who dont subscribe to their philosophies. To me, this translates to simple bigotry and intolerance." John Maul lives and works in Corvallis, Oregon, where he is presently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Art at OSU.

Maryrose Larkin

2006-11-01T07:22:00.000-08:00

November 11, 2006 at 2pm
The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Maryrose Larkin lived in New Paltz, NY from 1981 to 1994. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books); Whimsy Daybook 2007, a collaboration with encaustic artist Nita Hill (FLASH+CARD); and the forthcoming Book of Ocean (i.e. books). She is also a member of Spare Room, a collective in Portland, OR that organizes poetry readings and other events that focus on innovative writing. Maryrose Larkin is a graduate of SUNY New Paltz and Bard College. She currently lives in Portland, OR.

You can get a taste of her work at:

http://www.gutcult.com/litjourn4/html/larkin1.html

http://www.speakeasy.org/~subtext/poetry/maryroselarkin/poem2.htm

http://www.notellmotel.org/poem_single.php?id=608_0_1_0

In the Gallery at R&F:

Elizabeth Chandler’s exhibition, entitled "California Fusion", will run through November 25th, 2006. Elizabeth Chandler paints subtly hued abstractions with layered, diagrammatic patterns and textures suggestive of primitive mapmaking. Executed in oil and encaustic paint, Chandler creates a meandering, dreamlike pictorial space in landscape format where the map and the territory are one and the same. Elizabeth Chandler resides in California and is represented by Gremillion Gallery in Houston.