Emerging New York Artist To Exhibit Work In Hoosick Falls

120Gallery90 at The Armory in Hoosick Falls is pleased to announce its fourth exhibition, which will run July 12 to August 9. The Gallery is excited to be showing recent landscape paintings by emerging New York artist Alessandro Keegan in Gallery90 and an exhibit called “Seeing Through,” works on beveled glass panes, by Hoosick Artist Guild artists in 120Gallery. Each of the first three shows in this exciting art space has been very successful, and this one should prove to be also.
Opening Reception July 12
Everyone is invited to meet the artists and view the work at the Opening Reception on Friday, July 12, from 6 to 8 pm. Music will be performed by The Brewsters. 120Gallery90 is downstairs at The Armory, 80 Church Street, Hoosick Falls.
Alessandro Keegan is a painter, writer and independent curator living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and has exhibited his work in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other cities throughout the country. Most recently, his work has appeared in the journal Helvete (Punctum Books), and as the album cover for “Sinews” (Load Records) by the New York based band, White Suns.
Writing about the work in this exhibit, Keegan says, “The spaces that I paint may seem to have a familiar relationship with the world, but they are made entirely from imagination and memory.” Stylistically influenced by late nineteenth century and early twentieth century modernism, his paintings hang in the blurred boundary between representation and abstraction. Light, line, form and mystery pull the viewer into the spaces the artist has created on his canvasses. Keegan’s images are evocative and strangely familiar, suggesting a larger picture that the viewer must complete in his or her mind. They are a visible manifestation of the artist’s inner psyche, a window into something seemingly inaccessible: the natural and fantastic spaces that lay hidden within each of us. The viewer must bring his/her own associations to the work. Critics have called his work “simply transporting.”
The exhibition in 120Gallery is a collection of works on antique beveled glass panes. Local artists were challenged to interpret and explore both the different meanings of the theme, “Seeing Through,” as well as the process and effects of working with, or on, a glass surface. The results are remarkable and varied.
The Brewsters, Hoosick Falls’ very own von Trapp family, will be performing in The Owls Nest at 7 pm on July 12. Husband and wife, Mike and Cindy, and their sons Mike, Matthew and Levi, will entertain with popular songs.