Martin Cohen
Ladderback Beaded Bathing Beauty, 2005, Mixed Media on paper, 25" x 18.5"
Martin Cohen
Martin incorporates mixed media, including photographic cutouts and found objects, into his abstract expressionist oil paintings and paper pieces, to introduce a textural quality and to explore elements of popular culture. Martin received a BFA degree from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon, where he studied with renowned artist Sam Gilliam. He has had one-man shows at Vivian Horan Fine Art, Cooper Union, and Gallery New World Stages. His pieces were featured in a two-person exhibit at the corporate headquarters of the Estée Lauder Companies Inc. in New York City and in a group show at the Laurie M. Tisch Gallery at the Jewish Community Center of Manhattan. Martin has exhibited at Fountain Gallery in solo and group shows including: Wishful, Sinful, Wicked You; Doors of Expression; Body Language; and Collaged Realities. His work was shown in an exhibition at the Education and Research Center of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). His pieces have been acquired by corporate patrons such as the Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, and Citi. Martin was the subject of a profile in Mann About Town magazine. He is a 2012 winner of the prestigious Wynn Newhouse Awards, a program that provides grants to artists of excellence who happen to have disabilities.
Jonathan Glass
Jonathan works primarily in the medium of pen and ink drawing and is also a painter and photographer. He discovered his penchant for drawing when he was 10 years of age and studied art during elementary and high school. He holds a BFA in Illustration from SUNY Buffalo where he was mentored by noted illustrator Alan E. Cober, who encouraged Jon to "journal" his experiences through sketching. Jon applied this concept and eventually found a niche in drawing musicians in live performance at jazz venues around New York City and in Chicago, New Orleans, and Paris. He has become part of the fabric of the New York City jazz scene and counts a number of accomplished musicians among his friends. Jon was the subject of a profile in Mann About Townmagazine. His work was featured in a two-person show at Fountain Gallery and in a three-person show at Gallery New World Stages. Jon's jazz drawings are frequently displayed at Jazz Gallery, and he is preparing an exhibit to be presented at Zinc Bar.
Jonathan Glass
Holli Ross Quartet, 2012, Pen and Ink on paper,16.5" x 23.25"
Antonella Sissa
Antonella Sissa
"When I create I reach a state of pure solitude, undertaking an inner journey, that allows me to express myself and make me feel alive and confident to explore every nook and cranny of my memory, fully drawing from the well of life.
I seek in my experience, to cleanse the pangs of life and convey positive feelings, which, I hope, are beneficial to the spirit of the observer. Once this creative purification process is complete, the observer is free to read my works and find these positive messages.
Pristine canvas on the floor of my studio call to me and ask to be covered in colour. This dialogue turns into an inner journey of reflection on existence and the world: an existence that floats on the waves of an uncertain future, but hopefully sails - following distant stars - towards safe havens; a world often unjust, populated by hypocrisy, pride, superficiality. A world I wish could be inhabited by worthy people.
I begin by laying primary colors, working the canvas with my bare hands, creating a basis for an intricate forest of signs. Myriad twirls of traces, of arms, of outstretched hands struggling to break free: they accompany me in search of freedom by pointing out possible mysterious routes as maps for safer exits from the labyrinth of our lives, a maze of streets, all free of obstruction, which lead to light at the end of the tunnel"
October 3-26
Abstraction & Improvisation
Jonathan Glass
Martin Cohen
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3rd, 6-8pm
October 3-29
Antonella Sissa
"Memories..."
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3rd, 6-8pm