Ron holds an MEd from Kutztown University in art education and currently ... Donatello, Della Robbia and other Renaissan
ABOUT THE ARTISTS Khalil Allaik Khalil is a multidisciplinary artist known for futuristic, hybrid forms that combine aspects of the organic, the anthropomorphic, and the abstract. His process-driven work draws inspiration from his individual experience of cosmic forces, such as the relationship of the Earth to the universe, and the past to the future. In his native Lebanon, Khalil graduated from Lebanese University, Beirut, and worked as an art dealer for eight years. Classically trained, he earned fine arts degrees in painting and drawing, as well as a degree in interior design. Khalil has lived and worked in the Lehigh Valley for the past twelve years. upstairs
Daniel Alters Daniel is a Pennsylvania native who graduated from Tyler School of Art in 2002 with a BFA. He has been able to pursue his passion for glass by working full time for a variety of glass studios and artists as well as creating his own style. Daniel is currently head gaffer at Taylor Backes glass studio in Boyertown. upstairs
The Baum School of Art For ninety years, the Baum School of Art has nurtured the creative spirit of artists of all ages in Allentown. And for more than forty years, faculty member Renzo Faggioli has created a legacy of instruction and guidance to hundreds of students in the ceramics department, from beginners to working artists alike, helping each student develop her or his unique artistic voice. This booth features a selection of works by the adult students in the ceramics department: Janet Bishop, Catherine Debbage, Laura Elmore, Lisa Fraenkel, Bruce Fritzinger, Sandra Goretti, Robert Jenkinson, Linda Koontz, Chris Sarley, and Lenore Scharf. upstairs
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Karen Benco Karen has been painting in watercolor for more than twenty years and has won numerous awards in juried and judged shows. When she was younger she took a classes at the Baum School and Barnstone Studios. In 2008 she gained signature status through the Philadelphia Water Color Society and in 2009 for the PA Watercolor Society. She appeared in International Artist magazine twice in 2009, as a landscape-painting finalist and also as a flower-painting finalist, and in the June/July 2013 issue as a featured artist with a multiple-page spread. She first started painting florals but her recent love is painting rocks and water and the designs that she sees in them. downstairs
Nina Boodhansingh Inspired by architectural structures, microscopic images, and nature, Nina’s paintings represent microcosms and macrocosms based on abstract elements of the world. “I create images that are comforting,” she says, “by including geometric and organic forms and using cool tones and touches of warm hues.” The surface of her work has a tangible texture built with paint, gel mediums, and polymer varnish. Her color palette includes variations of blue, purple, and green with accents of bold reds, oranges, and yellows. The finished pieces suggest self-contained worlds, which may include tedious and time-consuming drawings of podlike, geometric figures that essentially float through the piece—they can move fluidly throughout or be alienated from the surrounding environment. downstairs
Ron De Long Ron holds an MEd from Kutztown University in art education and currently teaches drawing, painting, and printmaking at Penn State University–Lehigh Valley. He studied painting and European cinema at the University of Salzburg, Austria, and has studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Additionally, Ron studied privately with Rosemarie Sloat, whose work is held in the National Portrait Gallery, and with John Terelak, director of the Gloucester Academy of Arts. He was commissioned by Crayola to create The Vision award, and to create a mural for the Pennsylvania State University music department in Center Valley. De Long works out of his Studio & Gallery 2908 LLC in Slatington. upstairs
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS James A. DePietro James is an award-winning educator and artist who was born and raised in Bethlehem. A graduate of Kutztown University and member of the Audubon Artists of New York and the American Artists Professional League in New York City, he taught for thirty-five years in the Bethlehem Area School District while also having his artwork shown in national juried exhibits. His highly detailed paintings focus on social, political, or environmentally themed issues. His artwork has appeared in American Artist magazine and can be seen in the book How to Discover Your Personal Painting Style. James will be having a solo exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ, this November. downstairs
Renzo Faggioli Renzo achieved Master Craftsman status in ceramics from Scuola Statale—Ceramica della Robbia, in Florence, Italy, and pursued advanced study at Alfred University and Carnegie Mellon University. He has been ceramist-in-residence at Moravian College and ceramics instructor at the Baum School since 1972. “In my work I try to transcend the purely utilitarian and demonstrate characteristics of sculptural and tactile elegance,” he says. “The pieces are primarily done through raku firing. . . . My influences range from Etruscan terracotta works from my native Tuscany, the works of Donatello, Della Robbia and other Renaissance masters, to modern masters such as Marino Marini.” upstairs
Emma Horning Emma is a color photographer. She received a BFA in fine art photography from Kutztown University and has exhibited across the United States. Her work focuses on the effect or aftermath that humans have left on an area, be it through architecture, decoration, advertising, events, or simply their own home. She is also interested in the idea of what lies just under the surface of the everyday experience. upstairs
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Will Hübscher “The discards of people’s lives have always fascinated me,” says Will, “especially photographic histories of their past. Someone somewhere thought enough to catalog their place in time. And now that time is gone. So I will happen upon a photograph of a face, a moment, a situation that catches my eye, tugs at my soul, or revives a memory of my own and then base my artwork upon the lives of these people.” Will scans the vintage photos into his computer, tints them with color, and then prints the new image onto lithograph or photographic paper using archival inks. These are then cut and trimmed and assembled into a collage that is passed through an etching press and printed onto watercolor paper, creating a monotype of rich colors and bleeds and freeing the original memory from its demise. downstairs
Femi J. Johnson Femi was born in Manhattan and raised in Easton from age ten. He is mostly a self-taught artist but a two-year study in studio fine art in Hudson Valley, New York, helped inspire in him contemporary and modern views of art. Femi works predominantly in the medium of paint collaging and drawing. With all new original paintings on canvas and paper this year, the focus of his work is more abstract, with iconic movements in application, tone, and contrast. upstairs
Zach Kleemeyer Zach’s primary inspiration for his art comes from his grandparents. Learning from them firsthand lead to him tinkering with wood scraps in his grandpop’s workshop garage in the summer of 2015. Recycled materials, especially wood, pique Zach’s interest as mediums. He values a playful approach and keeping an open mind for tweaking the composition. It wasn’t until he accepted a spontaneous sublet from an artist at the Banana Factory in May 2016 that the woodworks started pouring out of him. Zach was the featured artist at the Lehigh Valley Arts Council in July and August 2016. He graduated from Bloomsburg University in December 2012 with a BA in communication and a minor in studio art. upstairs
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Barbara Kozero Barbara is an artist/educator whose work has been exhibited regionally as well as nationally. With an emphasis on mosaics, she uses glass and clay to form her two-dimensional and three-dimensional works. Her pieces are brightly colored and often humorous, and they can be seen throughout the Lehigh Valley in hospitals, schools, libraries, and colleges. downstairs
Ann A. Lalik Ann is an art administrator, art educator, and artist with a studio in Allentown. As an artist she focuses on designing and creating wearable art objects that chronicle her life as a woman. “This body of work focuses on the formal design vocabulary of my father’s work that holds a special place in my heart. I started by clearly mimicking his work. A wonderful, creative synergy happened because when I started to conceptualize the work, I realized it required translucent colors and needed to be large. So I dug out the cast acrylic and electroformed copper pieces I made thirty years ago— waiting for the time to use them. It seems to make perfect sense to me to be inspired by my father’s designs and to use materials I made such a long time ago, evolving from our shared past.” downstairs
Beth Moser Beth is an award-winning seed bead artist who has followed her love for beading since 1992, while in college. Her creativity stems from her passion to create one-of-a-kind wearable art. One of Beth’s proud moments was when her work was worn on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. Beth’s designs are currently available in the Corning Museum of Glass. upstairs
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Michelle Neifert Michelle graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in printmaking from Kutztown University. She has continued her education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Baum School of Art. Michelle’s work typically is divided between Abstract Expressionism and Impressionist landscapes. She is motivated by her love of paint itself—its color and nuance, light glistening on the surface, pulling the eye in closer—and her art is informed by emotion. She prefers to work large scale and in multiple panel units: diptych, triptych, four-panel, and beyond. upstairs
Peter Grippe Estate Peter (1912–2002) was born in Buffalo, NY. He studied at the Albright-Knox Art School and the Art Institute of Buffalo. A member of the American Abstract Artists group, in the early 1940s he studied with Stanley William Hayter at the New York intaglio printmaking workshop, Atelier 17; he later served as director. In the summer of 1948 he taught sculpture at Black Mountain College and later taught at the Pratt Institute and Smith College. He was the first professor of sculpture and graphics at Brandeis University. In 2010 the Allentown Art Museum showed Peter Grippe, A Personal Vocabulary. His work is in permanent collections throughout the country. upstairs
Andrei Protsouk Born in Donet’sk, Ukraine, in 1961, Andrei graduated from Lugansk State School of Fine Art in 1981 and pursued his MFA (graduated 1989) and Ph.D. from the Russian Academy of Art in St. Petersburg. Today, Andrei has a studio and gallery space off Main Street in Stroudsburg, where he lives with his family. The soul of his artwork is his infatuation with human relationships. His paintings often show people flirting, kissing, hugging. He believes that the universal language in the world is love. His work is actively exhibited in the United States, UK, New Zealand, Japan, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Russia, and elsewhere. downstairs
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Amanda Quevedo The main focus of Amanda’s work is understanding and interpreting universal emotion and human experiences through the fleeting and often overlooked moments of everyday life. She is increasingly fascinated by the amount of beautiful and sometimes bizarre moments that one’s surroundings always provide if only one makes oneself available enough to notice it. Amanda’s work is driven and inspired by her own need and want to understand the connections between people and the mysterious love that the world has to offer. upstairs
Barnaby Ruhe Barnaby received his doctorate in shamanism and art practice, an interdisciplinary effort combining psychology, anthropology, art history, phenomenology, and art-studio action. He was senior editor of Art/World newspaper in the 1980s and 1990s and wrote the first New York City reviews for Francesco Clemente and the Starn Twins, as well as essays on Francisco de Goya, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, and Joseph Beuys. Barnaby incorporates sentiment, gesture, and psychic journeying in his paintings, and he runs shaman healing workshops at Shamandome Camp at the Burning Man festival each summer. upstairs
Ann Elizabeth Schlegel “To paint, to create art, to lose myself in the moment . . . that is what drives me, thrills me. To put down my brush and stand back and say, ‘Yes! it has been a good day.’” Ann has received the distinction of Invitée d’Honneur and Artiste d’Honneur of Antibes, France, and she has been artiste en residence five times in the beautiful Villa Fontaine situated in the historic section of Safranier, Antibes, France. She will return for her sixth residency in Antibes in 2017. Locally, Ann received the Arts Ovation Award for outstanding achievement in the visual arts and most recent exhibition was a solo show in Penn State Lehigh Valley’s Freyberger Gallery from September 8 through October 18, 2016. upstairs
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Joseph Skrapits An Allentown-based artist, Joseph takes his inspiration from the colors and patterns of the Lehigh Valley’s fastdisappearing agricultural landscapes. He began painting in the 1980s, a period of renewed interest in the early twentieth century Pennsylvania school of landscape painting. Thirty years on, he continues to develop his personal inflection of this respected local tradition. A former contributing editor for American Artist magazine, Joseph writes about the history and practice of outdoor landscape painting for Plein Air magazine. upstairs
Svetlana Designs Jewelry Svetlana Howells has been creating one-of-a-kind art jewelry for twenty-nine years. She has a BA in art history but jewelry making has become her passion; that and Argentine Tango, which is more of an obsession but clearly has influenced her work of the past ten years. Drawing inspiration from nature, Asian themes, and dance, Svetlana fabricates sculptural, organic jewelry in sterling silver that presents complex surface textures with particular attention to design balance and movement. All pieces are handcrafted entirely by Svetlana from conception to final execution. She lives in Allentown with her boyfriend, Eugene Moyer, and cat Ochi. downstairs
Kimberly Tanzos Kimberly is a 2009 graduate of Kutztown University, where she earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Art Education with a minor in Crafts. During her time at Kutztown she concentrated her studio studies around the fiber arts, including both weaving and non-loom techniques. Kimberly is a resident artist at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem. She plans to continue creating and experiencing all she can in the area of fiber arts while teaching classes in various types of felt making within the community. upstairs
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Corianne Thompson Corianne teaches ceramics and sculpture at Penn State Lehigh Valley. She earned both her MAT and BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore and also studied art in Rome through Temple University. Her current work is inspired by the incredibly intriguing forms found in the sea. The abstraction of these organic forms lends an infinite formal language to the design of her wheelthrown porcelain vessels. The artist sees her work as a type of memorial to the way information is pieced together in our minds and then built into a framework—a framework from which we gain understanding of who we are and our place in this world. downstairs
Loretta Tryon/Tryon Design Loretta, originally from Philadelphia, is a contemporary metalsmith and painter based in the Lehigh Valley. She received her BFA in metalsmithing and abstract drawing from Moore College of Art and Design. During this time she was also studying ceramics, printmaking and dance. After making jewelry for many years she found the forming techniques that would visually combine motion and gesture in metal. Working from her studio in Coopersburg since 1999, Loretta has exhibited in numerous gallery and retail shows, including in Milan, Italy, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Reading Public Museum. Recently her work was featured on the title page of 500 Silver Jewelry Designs by Sterling Publishing. upstairs
Though art is at the heart of this event, there is an abundance of delicious food for you to enjoy throughout the evening. The offerings include a sushi station, a carving station, passed hors d’oeuvres, and dessert, so be sure to check out the selection upstairs and downstairs. And don’t miss the signature cocktail from the Hamilton Kitchen & Bar or the spirits tasting courtesy of County Seat Spirits, both upstairs.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Opens November 13, 2016
And the photographers of Allentown X 7! Work from seven area photographers was commissioned for the exhibition Allentown X 7, which will open in the Museum’s Scheller and Fowler Galleries on November 13. Tonight you can take a sneak peek at work by the artists included in the exhibition and order prints for your home or office. upstairs
Theo Anderson “The context of everyday life in Allentown is used in my visual exploration: the solitary photographer, traveling without itinerary, free of constraints and immersed in the moment. Allowing serendipity to be my guide, I am a witness to and a participant in transformation. My journey is expressed in my photographs.”
Vicki DaSilva “Drawing with light is a mysterious and intriguing type of challenge. The fact that the work is noninvasive, leaves no physical trace of having existed, and has a sustainability aspect environmentally is not only enticing but also fundamental for me. . . . My work also allows me to tap into a creative awareness of artistic practice and social activism.”
Rose DeSiano “Scouring the landscape, researching histories, and chronicling images, I use the camera to seek out and record moments when archetypes appear in real life. My work is largely concerned with the photographic collective consciousness, the sociological ramifications of image manipulation, and the long, tangled history of the photograph as both a record keeper and mythmaker.”
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Ed Eckstein “The camera is my tool, selected to understand life and communicate the result to others. In my approach to documenting the human condition I shy away from photographic coverage and tend to be involved in photographic discoverage. It seems to me that the paradox of life, and also photography, is that you go out and seek things which you never expected.”
Larry Fink “If each line within the photograph could be equated to each stanza within the texts of a musical score, then we would have a marriage of energies which came from two different sensual impulses. It is that which I try to enter. My ambition, for the most part, is to try to suggest the rapture of sound through the drawing of line and shape and light and form.”
Dan R. Talley “I have become fascinated with the proliferation and cultural impact of the photograph due to its increased ubiquity and representations of the quotidian, particularly via the Internet. Much as painting morphed after the advent of photography, photography in the post-Internet, post Instagram, post– camera phone world is rapidly changing.”
Luke Wynne “Just as there is an instant when the mockingbird rights itself and gently lands on terra firma, there is also an instant when a photograph comes together. Minor White called it previsualization. For Cartier-Bresson it was the decisive moment. . . . It is the photographer’s job to document that moment when ‘beauty and grace are performed.’ It’s the least we can do.”
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