EXHIBITION CHECKLIST

Woodstock Artists AssociAtion & MuseuMMAIN GALLERY octoBer 27 - noVeMBer 25, 2018

Juror, daniel Goodwin Photographer, Professor of Art, SUNY Albany

RECEPTION saturday, november 3, 4-6 PM

GALLERY TALK Friday, october 26, 5 PM

13. Joyce Washor Saltzman Drinking Glass #3 watercolor $550

14. Joyce Washor Saltzman Drinking Glass #4 watercolor $550

15. Joyce Washor Saltzman Drinking Glass #5 watercolor $550

16. Philip Palmieri Elisabeth oil on canvas nFs

17. Philip Palmieri Christine #2 oil on canvas nFs

18. Philip Palmieri Nicholas oil on canvas nFs

19. Philip Palmieri Alexandra #2 oil on canvas nFs

20. Francesco Mastalia Gaura Vani wet-collodion image printed on Museum etching paper $950

21. Francesco Mastalia Amanbir wet-collodion image printed on Museum etching paper $950

22. Francesco Mastalia Sri Dharma Mittra wet-collodion image printed on Museum etching paper $950

23. Francesco Mastalia Raghunath wet-collodion image printed on Museum etching paper $950

24. Irwin Berman The Myrmidons gouache & ink $1,400

25. Irwin Berman Pi gouache & ink $1,400

26. Irwin Berman The Sibyl gouache & ink $1,400

27. Alon Koppel Middle Eastern Promises Stereoscope Viewer with 8 Stereoscope Cards nFs

28. Alon Koppel Olive-Trees, Gethsemane, Palestine, 1900-2014 blended photograph $500

29. Alon Koppel Haifa and the Bay of Akka, Palestine, 1900-2014 blended photograph $500

30. Alon Koppel Valley of Kedron and Village of Siloam, Palestine, 1900-2014 blended photograph $500

31. Kenneth Ragsdale Bus Ride archival inkjet print $1,800

32. Kenneth Ragsdale A New Crop archival inkjet print $1,800

33. Kenneth Ragsdale The First Wave archival inkjet print $1,800

34. Kenneth Ragsdale The Scout 3 archival inkjet print $1,800

35. Kenneth Ragsdale Clearcut archival inkjet print $1,800

36. Ralph Moseley Catskill Summer oil on canvas nFs

37. Ralph Moseley Catskill Winter oil on canvas nFs

38. Ralph Moseley Catskill Winter Solstice oil on canvas nFs

39. Francesco Mastalia David Life wet-collodion image printed on Museum etching paper $950 AWARD: Kenneth Ragsdale, Anne Helioff/Benjamin Hirschberg Award

kenneth ragsdale, Bus Ride, archival inkjet print

Exhibiting Artists:

Irwin Berman Alon Koppel Francesco Mastalia Ralph Moseley Philip Palmieri Richard Pantell Elise Pittelman Kenneth Ragsdale Russell Ritell Joyce Washor Saltzman

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FOCUS: Looking Real/Really Looking

i was delighted to be asked to jury this exhibition for WAAM. My guiding principle, in selecting the artists i did, was a sensitivity to the shifting and contingent contemporary definitions of the Real. consider these snapshots from the weird future that is our present: Pokemon Go players stagger through mall parking lots like zombies looking for virtual treasure through the augmented reality of their phones; political pundits with incredibly life-like rubber heads heedlessly instruct us not to believe what we see, citing “alternative facts”; “deep-fake” videos produced with sophisticated cGi, voice synthesis and facial feature-mapping depict, with staggering verisimilitude, speeches by politicians that never actually happened.

Artists could be forgiven for becoming cynical, jaded, paranoid, or otherwise stultified by the seemingly-sisyphean effort required to clock in to the studio to produce another work to be launched into this image-saturated arena. the artists in this show, though, are not cynical or jaded. Quite the opposite, in fact. the work in this exhibition embraces complexity and paradox and celebrates poetry.

richard Pantell’s large canvases depict quiet, quotidian moments with unflinching earnestness. Ralph Moseley’s geometric abstract paintings evoke the ubiquitous eye of global aerial surveillance. Alon koppel transforms a vintage stereoscopic viewer into a time machine, overlaying historical and contemporary images of Palestine. irwin Berman’s small but vibrant gouache and ink drawings bristle with energy. Joyce Washor saltzman’s diminutive watercolor meditations on a drinking glass are the visual equivalent of a Zen Buddhist koan. the sympathetic subjects in the unsettling and beautiful paintings by Philip Palmieri look back at the viewer with only one good eye. kenneth ragsdale’s obsessively constructed and painstakingly lit-and-photographed sets, designed entirely from memory, picture a complete and oddly plausible world made only of paper-thin surfaces. the intense chiaroscuro and painterly prowess of russell ritell’s large canvases

Juried by Daniel GoodwinPhotographer, Professor of Art, SUNY Albany

1. Richard Pantell Sleeping Paleontologist oil on canvas nFs

2. Richard Pantell After a Long Day oil on canvas nFs

3. Richard Pantell Multi-tasking oil on canvas nFs

4. Elise Pittelman Teenage Girls With Black Shoes acrylic on canvas $2,500

5. Elise Pittelman Table 6 acrylic on canvas $3,000

6. Elise Pittelman The Dance acrylic on canvas $3,000

7. Elise Pittelman Cutting the Challah acrylic on canvas $1,500

8. Russell Ritell Grandmother Medicine oil on linen $15,500

9. Russell Ritell Judas’ Behavior oil on linen $15,000

10. Russell Ritell Victory oil on linen $14,000

11. Joyce Washor Saltzman Drinking Glass #1 watercolor $550

12. Joyce Washor Saltzman Drinking Glass #2 watercolor $550

EXHIBITION CHECKLIST(Continued on back)

Images (clockwise from top left):

Richard Pantell, After a Long Day Joyce Washor Saltzman, Drinking Glass #3 Francesco Mastalia, Sri Dharma MittraElise Pittelman, Teenage Girls With Black ShoesRussell Ritell, Judas’ Behavior

Images (from top):

Alon Koppel, Middle Eastern Promises Stereoscope Viewer with 8 Stereoscope CardsIrwin Berman, The MyrmidonsPhilip Palmieri, Alexandra #2Ralph Moseley, Catskill Summer

conjure the violence and drama of caravaggio. Francesco Mastalia’s ink-jet prints of wet-collodion photographs depict, with impossibly shallow depth-of-field, the piercing eyes of contemporary yogis. And the charmingly quirky paintings of elise Pittelman memorialize not only the celebratory events depicted, but also the photographs on which they are based; excerpts from an index or lexicon of new York Jewish culture of the 1950s and ‘60s.

each of these artists, in divergent ways, show us their reality of what it is to be human. some look real, some are really looking. All are urging us to take a moment to breathe and imagine other, more tenable realities.

Daniel Goodwin, October 2018