We are on the radio just a few days before the Gardiner Open Studio Tour.

WKZE Radio Redhook interviews artist and chairman of the GOST

It was very exciting to do a radio interview this past week with radio host Will at WKZE Radio in Redhook NY. I'd actually never done a radio interview before and it was fun. It was definitely good to get the word out about the tour, which is this weekend.

The weather looks hopeful and the artists are all getting ready. So pick up a map and artist guide or download one from our website and go on tour!

If you want to learn more about the GOST and skip reading things, give a listen to this YouTube version of the radio interview with an accompanying slideshow of artists' work and shots of the #GOSTdoors.

Click here for the: WKZE Radio Interview and Slideshow for 2016 Gardiner Open Studio Tour

Signs of Spring: GOST 2016 - the banners are going up around town. Can the #GOSTdoors won't be far behind.

GOST sign at the NYS Thruway Exit in New Paltz, NY. Find our Artist Guide and Studio Tour Map Brochures in many local stores and online at www.GOSTartists.org.

Gardiner NY is the home of the #GOSTartists and #GOSTdoors. Join the tour at the end of this month. April 30 & May 1, 2016.

Look for the #GOSTdoors to be on display this weekend in Gardiner and around the area after that. The GOSTdoors are artist painted doors placed in and around the local landscape, and they stand weirdly in the absence of anything that needs a door to enter. But the GOSTdoors allow you to enter the world of art without having to go to the museum, or a gallery. They are meant to be playful and fun and inviting.

Then at the end of April, "Go Behind the Doors," by taking the Gardiner Open Studio Tour. It's a free self-guided art studio tour of the studios of 22 artists in Gardiner. Though the tour used to be twice a year, it's now only one time per year, in the Spring. So don't miss your only chance this year to see what's happening here in the art studios of the GOSTartists.

Gost Arts

GOSTartists Profile: Marcia Cole - Encaustics and Painting

18 SHOWS IN 18 MONTHS

By Chaya Lakhiani

Marcia has always been an artist, both teaching and working in a wide variety of media. She holds many accolades for her art teaching over the years including an Art Travelship Award to France where she painted in the footsteps of Cezanne. During the past 18 months she has established a studio at Woodrock Studios in Gardiner, N.Y. Since then she's been on a roll with a solo show and work in 18 shows in the Hudson Valley. Her work with encaustic monotype was published in the book Authentic Visual Voices, by Catherine Nash, and last year the Middletown Art Society recognized her Encaustic Monotypes with an Award Of Excellence. This will be her second year as a member of The Gardiner Open Studio Tour, and she is delighted to announce that she has also joined Roost Studios in New Paltz, New York, where she will have a solo show running through August and September of this year.

“Mainly, I just love paint, all kinds of it! I’ve taught nearly every process to students from 3 to 73. I love seeing it, using brushes, pouring and printing with it, dragging paper and cloth through it, additive and subtractive processes, and the brainwork of harnessing it to express a concept that’s important to me.”

Marcia tends to work in series, exploring each media deeply and pushing her materials to achieve the desired effects. Currently, she is working with encaustic paint and watercolor, often incorporating gold and silver leaf into her works as well.

CHANTS 

In this year’s GOST TOUR she is featuring her Chants series. These are distinctive in shape – some are in square format to be arranged - that is hung or stacked, according to the owner’s preference - and some are tall, narrow and intimate pieces. They are spiritually inspired celebrations of color and nuance that vibrate with their own sense of energy. The inspiration for this work came from Marcia’s own more spiritual explorations, and from the sound of a dear friend’s chanting. In reaction to the attention they have received, Marcia has made more Chants in sizes ranging from 24” to 48”. It is her desire to make these works varied and unique, so that they can lend their energy to any setting and any space.

VISITORS AND CHANT OWNERS SAY:

“The colors are earthy, yet they resonate with a deep saturation that is very beautiful to behold. They remind me of buried treasures. Layer upon layer of richly textured civilizations, one builds on the other, creating a rhythm that is meditative. – Marcy Bernstein of Roost Studios

Visitors to the studio have commented:

“The tiny, detailed effects of the paint and trails of molten wax and gold and silver leaf catch the eye, begging you to slow down and linger.”

“They seem to resonate and enrich the space or setting in a personal way over time.” “They are like music for the eyes”.

For more information about the artist:

Marcia Cole

Woodrock Studios

Gardiner, N.Y. 

Marciacoleart@gmail.com

www.Marciacoleart.com

Ulster Savings Bank showcases work of the #GOSTartists of the Gardiner Open Studio Tour.

GOSTartists kick off a series of events leading up to the Spring 2016 Gardiner Open Studio Tour at the end of April.

This event was the first of two group shows and openings for the GOSTartists this Spring as leadin's to the Spring 2016 GOST. The next show will be at The Bakery in New Paltz beginning April 15, 2016, with a Paint-Out/Opening tentatively planned for April 23rd. Stay tuned.

The Ulster Savings Bank Exhibition Opening was held this past Friday with many of the GOSTartists in attendance as well as other visitors, friends and bank customers. Ulster Savings  has been a long time GOST sponsor and supporter.

The show continues through May 12, 2016. Eighteen works are on display at the bank throughout the public spaces. Some highlights include a fabulous mural sized painting by Meadow, show below, which brings a dynamic sense of pizzazz to the otherwise drab bank conference room, an eye catching piece by Marilyn Perry that hangs behind the teller's counter, and wonderful print by internationally collected artist, Lady Pink, which is near the bank manager's desk.

As in all the prior shows, the diversity of the #GOSTartists group is easy to see in this show, but thanks to curation efforts by Lady Pink and Roger Smith, who hung the show, there is a sense of cohesiveness, and upbeat enthusiasm that the pieces all convey. The show's theme of "Creation" seems to have been taken to mean both the creation of art work and and "creation" as in, all the wild and wondrous energy of the world, which this selection of pieces seems to be channelling.

The show is open to the public during bank hours. Art is available for purchase. Simply contact the artist of your choice--their contact information is available in the Show Bio Book on the table in the Bank Conference Room, or you can also find contact information for individual artists on the group's website: www.GOSTartists.org.

Many thanks to Jared Cole and the staff of the Ulster Savings Bank for hosting the opening and supporting the GOSTartists and the Tour.

Finally, don't miss the upcoming Gardiner Open Studio Tour, Apr. 30 & May 1, 2016. More info on the website, or pickup a brochure at Ulster Savings and many other area locations.

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Meadow with her spectacular wall hanging at the show, Holland Tulips, Acrylic on canvas, 60” x 71”,  $2000

Left:  Abstract sunset by Andrea McFarland, Purple Sunset, Pastels, 16” x 20”, $700
Right: Jean Tansey, Aurora Borealis #1, Acrylic on wood, 24” x 32”, $125

DM Weil's work in the entry hallway. Coral Reef, Enhanced giclee print, 24” x 30”, $425

Stacie Flint with her very upbeat painting, Blooms, Oil on canvas, 24” x 30”, NFS

Lady Pink with her woman shaped cityscape, a print of a much larger original oil painting,
Queen Matilda, Giclee print on canvas, 36” x 24”, $450

Jonathan Pazer with his composite sunset photograph, which includes cloth for clouds and a phillips head screw for the sun.
"You never said you would return, that’s my fantasy", Chromaluxe print on aluminum, 24” x 36”,  $500.

Marilyn Perry with her piece, Lava, Acrylic on paper, 31” x 37.5”, $650

From Left to Right: Jared Cole--Ulster Savings Bank, GOSTArtists--Alexa Ginsburg,
Marilyn Perry, Meadow, Stacie Flint, Leonie Lacouette and Jonathan Pazer.