Best of Westchester’s Award Winning Katonah Art Stroll continues on Saturday Evening September 21, from 4 to 8 p.m. Named Best New Community Event by Westchester Magazine, The Katonah Art Stroll is the place to be for fun and inspiration! Come see live music and enjoy refreshments throughout this idyllic Westchester town. Shops stay open late, restaurants pour out onto the sidewalks, and people slow down and mingle late into the evening in downtown Katonah. Also keep a look out for sneak peeks of new businesses!
There will be a kick-off event at 4pm at the Katonah Museum of Art, 134 Jay Street, with free admission and refreshments. Their new exhibition The Edge Effect includes works in all media submitted by artists from all over the U.S. and 13 countries around the world describes an ecological phenomenon in the border area between disparate habitats, such as meadow and a forest, which results in exponentially greater biodiversity. When the museum closes at 5pm, the stroll will continue along Katonah Avenue with more than a dozen shops and galleries to visit, as well as other special attractions.
Currently on view at Katonah Village Library, 26 Bedford Road, is Nancy Hull Kearing Artworks. The opening reception will be during the September Katonah Art Stroll on Saturday, September 21 from 5 to 8pm. Kearing’s non-objective canvases, collages, and works on paper use the language of circle, rectangle, square, and trapezoid forms to evoke the spirit of music and dance. Kearing states, “Using these forms, colors, and lines, I aim to stimulate sensations of movement, rhythm, and harmony. I like to make color and shape interact in the same way that sounds and rhythms interact in a musical composition. Fast, slow, bouyant, lyrical, or discordant—it’s an intuitive pursuit.” The exhibit is on the accessible lower level of the library in the Garden Room and the Meeting Room through October 7.
Also at the Katonah Village Library, a sculpture by Robert Spinazzola will be installed on the plaza in front of the library’s historic entrance. Blue Headed Geeks. will be on display through November. Spinazzola has created a humorous celebration of fish crows, which perched and squawked frequently outside his studio. Turning these disruptive visitors into subject matter, the sculptor played with their proportion and balance evoking movement and humor. Spinazzola has pieces in galleries and private collections throughout the North East.
Offerings Gallery, 59 Katonah Ave will be exhibiting oil paintings by notable Hudson Valley Painter Catherine Wagner Minnery. Catherine is constantly inspired by the natural world; the sunrises and sunsets, the ‘ordinary’ uptate NY landsape that she sees on a daily basis. She is also deeply moved by the majestic: the rivers and streams and mountains that are part of this landscape. As an added treat, guitarist/singer Joe K will be performing at the Gallery. Joe plays a variety of material including originals and covers in all genres. As a member of Pete Seeger’s Power of Song program he received a GRAMMY credit for his guitar contributions.
CB Gallery, 23 Valley Road, Westchester Magazine’s best new Art Gallery presents an amazing exhibition of incredibly unique sculptures and drawings by Kris Scheifele called Fade. Not only does Fade, represent the investigative efforts of an artist in search of a personal and singular form of expression, but they are so aesthetically playful and intriguing. Live Rock Music and refreshments.
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Majestic Hudson, 223 Katonah Ave, presents Laura Trisiano is a mixed media, found object and assemblage artist, creating sculptural wall art and freestanding sculpture inspired by nature, architecture, and the Yogic Arts. In the Courtyard, Music by The Recliners: Bob Gulian and Noah Luongo produce a sound of tight raw harmonies and thumpy syncopation. https://www.majestichudson.com
Oak&Oil Gallery, 89 Katonah Ave., is showcasing a duo exhibition ; Photographs from Julie Testwuide and Paintings and Monotypes from Jane Cooper. “Unbridled” examines the interconnections of their subjects: Testwuide’s search through her lens for the wild and unshackled and Cooper’s exploration of atmospheric spaces between stillness and storm, inhabited by sea, sky and land. Testwuide’ s images were captured on remote Sable Island in Nova Scotia, Cumberland Island, Georgia, Assateague, Chincoteague, Camargue, France, Iceland, Santa Fe, NM. Cooper’s work evolves from years of traversing passages, coasts, oceans and seas. Places of inspiration include the Great Lakes of Michigan, Long Island Sound, southern coastlines and the Atlantic coast of Ireland. The artists also collaborated on two pieces. Julie’s eye and camera captured an image of the water meeting the sky, which she printed on canvas. Jane used her brushes and oil paints; two artistic expressions of the horizon at sea.There will be live music by “Eleventwentytwo” an Indie and Alternative duo with Omar Ramirez, musician and song writer and Kimmy Naus, singers, song writer. They perform locally and in NYC. (www.oakandoil.com)
The Eclectic Collector, 215 Katonah Ave., will be showing one of a kind jewelry by Jim LeTerneau who will our visiting jeweler. Refreshments will be served. (www.theeclecticcollector.com)
Old New House, 33 Katonah Ave., will be featuring new ethereal weavings by Brooklyn artist Lea Thomas, as well as black and white photography by Purchase artist Dennis Dilmaghani, hand-painted furniture by local @Matt_Ulrich_Paint, and oil paintings by Chappaqua artist Grace Keogh. Refreshments will be served. (www.oldnewhouse.com)
For more information, contact Mindy Yanish at [email protected] 914-232-9643
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