bau 85: Go West - Karlos Carcamo, Greg Slick with Eleanor White

Opens This Saturday!   

bau 85 

    Go
West 

Karlos Carcamo, Greg Slick 

with Eleanor White

at bau gallery
161 Main Street Beacon, NY 

Exhibition runs from Saturday January 14th. thru Sunday February 5th.    

Opening Reception for the Artists

This Saturday Evening from 6 to 9 pm

bau presents 

    Go 

West 

An homage to Go North's Karlos Carcamo and Greg Slick

One of the missions of Beacon Artist Union has been to provide a vital link between the activities at bau and the community of Beacon. Every year bau opens it's doors to invitationals and this year it has chosen to exhibit three exceptional artists of Beacon, Karlos Carcamo, Greg Slick and Eleanor White. 

While we all miss Go North gallery in Beacon and the wonderful curatorial eye and aesthetic of Caracamo and Slick, they have not disappeared. The dynamic duo still curate together including last years well received curation at the Dorsky Museum. Carcamo and Slick are well regarded artists in their own right and have exhibited extensively including recent shows in Manhattan but curiously not together. Well, bau decided it was high time these two fine artists exhibited together and where better to show together than in their adopted  hometown of Beacon. 

Also showing at bau in the back gallery, Beacon's own Eleanor White. Eleanor's outstanding works have caught our eye at Beacon Open Studios for several years in a row now.

 

Karlos Carcamo

His artistic practice involves a multi-discipline approach to art making 

that incorporates a broad spectrum 

of high and low cultural references. He use this conceptual framework 

as a means to make work that reflects his own personal subjective experiences while also commenting on issues related to contemporary culture at large.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greg Slick

Is a multimedia artist. Slick attempts to find and formalize a personal and socially critical point of view in abstraction. His work deals with themes that range from everyday observations of human nature to intellectual queries and issues of global and historical significance. Stripping away the inessential and showing only what is indispensable, Slick lays down forms and colors taken from a constantly evolving lexicon of imagery that, on many levels, owes much to influences ranging from crowd dynamics to Chinese calligraphy, from street art to Tlingit iconography.

 

 

Eleanor White 

Is a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship recipient in Drawings. She received her M.F.A. in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

She will be exhibiting Works on Paper from her "Playing Card Drawings" The pieces in this series are made by either drawing on playing cards, or scratching off areas of the cards.

 

bau 83: Migrations - New works by Lisa Zukowski

bau 82: Carol Flaitz

Greetings! bau gallery is pleased to introduce our newest member    Carol Flaitz   in a solo exhibition  featuring her new series   bau 82       TOUCHING      ONE BILLIONTH       OF A          METER     Opening Reception  Saturday October 8th  6-9pm   Carol Flaitz "Fissure"  Artist Carol Flaitz makes the unseen tactile in Touching  One Billionth of a Meter  BEACON, NY, October 2011 - Infinitesimal landscapes of precious metals transformed  by electric current come to enlarged life in Touching One Billionth of a Meter, a solo      exhibition of recent works by multimedia artist Carol Flaitz at BAU gallery, 161 Main  Street in Beacon, New York, from October 8 through November 6. Flaitz's tactile panels,  which she encourages visitors to touch, are based on extreme magnifications of the  insides of computer chips. Flaitz, originally a ceramics artist, became infatuated with project images from an electron microscope brought home by her husband, IBM senior engineer Phil Flaitz. Cross sections of the metals inside layers of computer chips, originally used for diagnostic purposes, fascinated the artist while teasing her with nano-landscapes she could see but not touch. Flaitz then began interpreting these images onto large wooden panels (the largest currently at 5 feet long) and building up reliefs using various materials to mimic the imagery she encountered; images of structures so small that light particles themselves were too large to capture with even microscopic photography. Flaitz digs into her panels, creating "fissures" or deep crevices that hint at further worlds beyond, then builds up her surfaces with various compounds, salts, resins and glazes to bring to life geological landscapes that man has created but until her work could not truly inhabit. "For all the benefits of digital technology," says Flaitz, "the machines man creates literally shut him off from direct experience, reducing everything to the virtual world of light under glass. Within my lifetime, humanity has become beholden to a man-made world we cannot touch or feel. But once we get down to the molecular level, we find that the tidy clean chips and boards that run and rule our days are really organic minerals subject to the stresses of natural geophysics, and the illusion of perfection quickly breaks down, replaced by a natural beauty that is profound, chaotic and much more interesting." While the final pieces themselves look like they occurred naturally, the work required to make them seem so is anything but a simple process. Single panels can take weeks or even months to layer enough to create the desired effect, and the combination of sometimes volatile materials often requires the artist to be as much chemist as painter or sculptor. Flaitz has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in Cologne, Germany. She holds a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Wales in Cardiff, Great Britain and a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the prestigious College of Ceramics at Alfred University in New York. She and her family live in Newburgh, New York. The Beacon Artist Union Gallery was formed in 2004 by six artists as a place for member artists to grow, present and market their works.  It also has collaborative curatorial projects and hosts events on related disciplines like performances, talks, music and film.  The gallery is located at 161 Main Street, Beacon, New York and is open Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.  For more information, please visit: www.beaconartistunion.com. or www.carolflaitz.com

The exhibit runs from  Saturday Oct. 8th thru Sunday Nov. 6th    Beacon Artist Union (bau) Gallery This is the 82nd consecutive month that bau has brought new and innovative artwork to the public. An artist-run collective, bau exhibits members' work, other local artists' work and seeks to be a positive force in the Hudson Valley art scene. Find out more at baugallery.com      bau gallery  161 Main Street, Beacon, NY   845 440-7584     gallery hours 12-6 Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment About Us bau / beacon artist union was founded in the fall of 2004 by six artists - bau gallery is located at  161 Main Street, Beacon, NY our current members for 2011 gary jacketti carla goldberg kirsten olson tom holmes           michael gaydos grey zeien carol flaitz lisa zukowski bau is a platform for -member artists to grow, present and market their work -collaborate curatorial projects -hosting events of related disciplines like performance, talks, film, and music -building a vital link between the activities at bau and the community find out more at baugallery.com  for press information contact Carla Goldberg (845) 222 0177 or goldbergstudioart@gmail.com

bau79 - Tom Holmes

bau gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition & opening reception  

featuring new work by Tom Holmes   

bau 79 Tom Holmes- Frozen in Frost Opening Reception July 9th from 6-9pm bau gallery  161 Main Street, Beacon, NY  845 440-7584  Exhibition runs from  July 9 thru August 7  Gallery Hours  12-6pm Sat and Sun.

Title: Half Empty Heart Materials: Ice, pigment, Water, Burnt Wood, Light 2011 Tom Holmes is a sculptor working in stone, metal, wood, light, ice and water. He works seasonally, tracking the weather. Different temperatures demand independent responses to materials and approaches. "Ice follows the freezing mark of winter, stone and steel the exterior work space of summer. Spring begins the search for materials and Fall settles all debts, emotional, physical and intellectual." This show, Frozen in Frost will feature eight large scale photos of ice work from the 2011 ice season. Tom creates ice events using, glass, ice, water, steel, pigments and lights. He then photographs these events as a way of preserving and sharing the work. There will also be a live melting ice work at the opening. Tom never carves ice. He only works abstractly and with the intuition that natural forces bring into play as dynamic experience. Featured on one of the gallery walls will be a large scale burnt wood piece developed over the last 11 years. This standing timber hung in the woods for the last decade waiting for decay and momentum to bring it to the ground. Gathered in early March, the piece, "Patience of the Expectant Mother", is sure to stop you in your tracks. Smaller works of stone and steel will also be featured. With a larger work, "Bike Ride to Paris" of stone and steel featured in the main gallery space. You can visit Tom Holmes work at www.TomHolmes.com

This is the 79th consecutive month that Beacon Artist Union has brought new and innovated artwork to the public. An artist -run collective, BAU exhibits members' work, other local artists work and seeks to be a positive force in the Hudson Valley art scene.

About Us

bau / beacon artist union

was founded in the fall of 2004 by six artists -

currently bau gallery is located at 

161 Main Street, Beacon, NY

bau 70 - Michael Gaydos - New Paintings

bau 69: Tom Holmes - The Bullet Show

The Bullet Show

A Seminal Event.......... Tom Holmes

20 new works

bau

161 Main Street

Beacon New York

Opening September 11, 2010

Reception 6-9pm

Credits: Pierre Holtz | UNICEF CAR | www.hdptcar.net

Photo Collage by Tom Holmes and Randy FitzGerald

bau 68: Kirsten Olson - Motile: JUST ADD WATER

Motile: JUST ADD WATER



As a child, I spent hours playing in the stream by my home. It was through this play that I began to explore the idea of creation within the aquatic ecosystem.



With my sculpture, I attempt to connect elements of play and scientific theory by making ceramics - a weighty medium derived from the natural elements of earth and fire - float. While the sculptures I've created are not conceived from direct source material, they are derived from basic microbiological forms and concepts.



The environments in which I place these sculptures are designed to activate the pieces, transforming them into elements of play, and removing them from the static form that ceramics traditionally take. I have also used simple devices to add kinetic and sonic elements to the work, allowing the pieces to oscillate, swirl, bob, cluster and even reverberate.