Archive: Arts & Entertainment

 The Kitchen Theater’s 10th Annual Online Auction at the Clinton House Art Space and the State of the Art Gallery’s 20th Annual Juried Photography Competition highlight Gallery Night in Downtown Ithaca on Friday, March 6, 2009 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Nine participating downtown Ithaca galleries will be holding open houses with featured exhibits, grand openings, food and beverages, while several other businesses will be hosting arts-related events. Legendary folk musician Joan Baez will also be performing at the State Theater of Ithaca.

The Clinton House Art Space will feature artwork that has been donated to the Kitchen Theatre for its 10th Annual On-Line Auction.  Artists include Carol Spence, Annie Campbell, Roberta Dixon, Renee Freed, Jody Vander Yacht, Dora Donovan, Michael Maxwell, Susan Larkin, Barbara Mamora, Ellie Jones, Ileen Kaplan, and more!  Gallery Night coincides with the start of the on-line auction.  Bidding stations will be set up to allow you to get in on the action right away.  Enjoy the artwork, wine, and snacks, and help the Kitchen Theatre produce wonderful art on stage.  www.ktcauction.com

The State of the Art Gallery will open Gallery Night in Downtown Ithaca with its 20th Annual Juried Photography Show.  The exhibit features photographers from across upstate New York and many of them will be present at the reception. Prize winners will be announced. The judge for this year's competition is Wilka Roig, Assistant Professor of Photography at Cornell. This exhibition has become a very popular event in the central New York area both in terms of those who enter and those who come to view the variety of photographic mediums represented in the show.


Other participating galleries include the Community School of Music and Arts, Shangri-La, The Upstairs Gallery, The Titus Gallery, Belle Melange, The Ink Shop Printmaking Shop and Olive Branch Press, and Sola Gallery. Highlights at these galleries include Metromorphose: An Exhibition of Digital Fine Art Photography, by James Spitznagel at The Upstairs Gallery. Spitznagel’s futuristic digital images borrow scenes from everyday life and distort them to the point that they are no longer recognizable.  His photographic works are edited and modified through computer imaging techniques and employ a restricted palette, slick sense of geometry and pixilated rhythmic movement. To chase the winter blues away, Shangri-La will open its new exhibit of Batik Art by Jaka Wuryanto of Indonesia. Jaka Wuryanto was born in Yogyakarta, a city on the island of Java in Indonesia. He infuses his works with vibrant color to reveal sensuously touching scenes of traditional Southeast Asian life.

Arts-related activities will also take place at Ten Thousand Villages and Home Green Home, two independent businesses that are located in downtown Ithaca.

For more information about the different exhibits, visit the Gallery Night in Downtown Ithaca website at www.gallerynightithaca.com

Legendary folk musician Joan Baez will also be performing at the State Theater of Ithaca that night. Tickets and information are available on the theater’s website, www.stateofithaca.com

Gallery Night in Downtown Ithaca is a quarterly event that has grown in popularity over the past few years, due in large part to the fact that all of the participating galleries and businesses are within a short walking distance of each other and surrounded by many restaurants and dining establishments.

It is expanding this year to include Art House Night in Downtown Ithaca, which will be held on the first Friday of April, June, July, August, October and November. Art House Nights in downtown Ithaca will be an expanded, but more casual version of Gallery Night in Downtown Ithaca that includes many more businesses, restaurants and dining establishments.

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