2009 Arsenal Gallery Exhibits
The Arsenal Gallery is located at 64th Street and Fifth Avenue inside Central Park, Third Floor of the Arsenal Building. Gallery hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. (Closed municipal holidays.) Admission is free.
Current Exhibit
June 18 – August 13, 2009
Bascove, A Walk in the Park
This exhibition celebrates the beauty and diversity of Central Park's bridges. In her colorful oil paintings and drawings, Bascove shares her fascination with these structures by capturing their individual architecture.
Throughout her career, Bascove has painted many of New York City's bridges. From the Verrazano Bridge to the Harlem River Bridges, she has spanned all five boroughs using curved geometrical strokes and vivid colors to render monumental bridge structures. For this exhibition, she has concentrated on Central Park and the smaller arch structures that span its waterways and paths.
The Gallery wishes to thank Thomas Paul Fine Art for their generous support of this exhibition.
Image: Gothic Bridge, 94th St, oil on canvas, 2008
Past Exhibits
May 14 – June 11, 2009
Nancy Mladenoff Post-Audubon
The Arsenal Gallery is pleased to present Post-Audubon, a series of watercolor and marker studies of the major species of birds and insects in North America by Wisconsin artist Nancy Mladenoff. By delving into ideas such as botany, entomology, ornithology, geography, and history as they relate to contemporary culture, these works not only become a witty take on the work of John James Audubon, but a post-modern look at naturalism in art.
March 12 – April 30, 2009
Urban Woodlands: Drawings by Mary Reilly
Mary Reilly's Urban Woodlands is an exhibition of graphite drawings rendered employing imagery captured within parks located in all five boroughs in New York City. Revealing the unexpected—ancient forests with magnificent old trees, winding rivers and streams, creeks and marshes, lakes and ponds, and miles of sand dune filled beaches—Reilly captures the essence of each location by focusing on areas that lie beyond one's passing glance.
Reilly's drawings are rendered using reductive and additive process. By laying a mid–tone on the paper's surface with up to eight layers of graphite, she then develops her image by pushing the darks and lifting the lights. This working and reworking of each piece brings into focus nature's determined perseverance against time, and the subtle shift in tone produced by her intricate process imbues each piece with a sensual soft–focused photographic quality.
Mary Reilly was born in Yorktown, New York and has been a resident of New York City for over twenty years. She has studied at the School of Visual Arts, the Art Students League of New York, and the National Academy School for Design. Reilly is represented by the DFN gallery, and her work has been featured in American Artist Drawing Magazine.
February 2 – March 5, 2009
The African American Experience
This exhibition features paintings, drawings, collage, quilts, ceramics, and photographs by artists, Parks & Recreation employees, retirees, and participants at the City's recreation centers. The show is organized in conjunction with the Parks & Recreation's Ebony Society Black History committee.
Image: Hydrant Song by Anthony Almeida