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ImageMixed-media ranging from collages, paintings, sculptures and figurines, to prints and photography highlight downtown Ithaca’s First Fridays Gallery Night, scheduled for 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Friday, November 6, 2009.

First Fridays Gallery Night is free and open to the public. All of the participating galleries are within a short walking distance of one another, and maps with information about the exhibits taking place at each gallery will be available that evening along the Ithaca Commons. For more information, visit the First Fridays Gallery Night website at www.gallerynightithaca.com, or the Downtown Ithaca Alliance website .

Several new exhibits highlight November’s First Fridays Gallery Night.

State of the Art Gallery at 120 W. State Street, presents Event Horizons, a new show featuring acrylic and oil paintings by local artist Barbara Mink. A reception for the artist that evening will also feature electronika music by Laika. State of the Art Gallery continues it’s 20th anniversary celebration with member-artist paintings, prints, sculptures and more in it’s Salon.

Collegetown Bagels at 203 North Aurora Street presents Borrowed Time, Stolen Bones, a new, solo show by Katelyn Inman featuring pieces composed in mixed media and collage.

Mainly Blue makes its debut at the Community School of Music and Arts, 330 East State Street, The Mainly Blue project exhibits multiple viewpoints, mediums and explorations of the color blue. The show features Mainly Blue visions by twenty-six artists. It's a multifaceted metaphor and symbol used in music, art, literature and world religions. It’s the ocean, sky, spirit, flight, deep thought.  In many cultures blue is associated with intelligence, stability, calmness, peace and unity.

The CAP ArtSpace in Center Ithaca at 171 The Commons presents Curious, by James Spitzenagel. Spitznagel’s curiosity about the world around him is merged with how curious (or peculiar) this world can be. Each photographic element, distorted in color and shape, originates as an object observed by the artist. Through the use of a digital camera, a computer and a television screen, Spitznagel engages in an ultra-modern form of Abstract Expressionism, using gradients, cropping tools and high resolutions to illustrate the emotions the Action Painters once illustrated through paint and canvas.

Diptych/Triptych is a new exhibit at The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, located on the 2nd floor at 330 East State Street. The exhibit shows prints consisting of two or three parts that closely relate to each other. The concept was popular in the Renaissance when artists worked for churches or secular patrons. To relate two or three themes with each other to explore the inner story of an artwork is still a challenge today. In art, a diptych is a painting, especially an altarpiece, on two hinged wooden panels that may be closed like a book. A triptych is picture or relief carving on three panels, typically hinged together side by side and used as an altarpiece, or any set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together.

Other participating galleries with new or continuing exhibits, or showcases of artist works on sale for the holidays include, Belle Melange at 210 West Stare Street, the Upstairs Gallery and Sola Gallery, both at 215 North Cayuga Street in the Dewitt Mall, Shangri-La at 171 The Commons, and Spirit and Kitsch, which will be located in the Plantation building, at 130 The Commons.

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