Garrison Art Center Announces

Exhibitions by Grey Zeien and Bill Dane

Opening Saturday, February 23, Garrison Art Center will exhibit large scale multi-media paintings in the Gillette Gallery by Cold Spring artist Grey Zeien and photographs in the Balter Gallery by San Francisco artist Bill Dane. The reception to meet the artists will be from 5-8pm. GAC’s galleries are open seven days a week, noon to 5pm.

Zeien has lived and worked in the Hudson Valley for over twenty years and his work is part of numerous national and international collections. This exhibition is comprised of big abstract paintings that are collaged onto large sheets of masonite. Influenced by the crumbling edifices found in southern Italy, Spain and France, they deal with the themes of construction, deconstruction, aging and decomposition. The application, removal and resurfacing leads to a unique surface texture and composition that, while appearing to be entirely random is upon closer and prolonged examination, tightly controlled.

Bill Dane was born William Thacher Dane in Pasadena, California in 1938.   In 1969/1970, after seven years as a painter, Dane took up photography.  His pursuit is an effort of harvesting the curious and ordinary from our everyday world.  "If you're not confused, you're not paying attention." His pictures are pieces of a simultaneously poignant and synthetic puzzle telling us visual truths about our most uncommon common world.  Recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and two National Endowments for the Arts, Dane's work has been internationally exhibited and collected.  His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Both exhibits will remain on view through March 23, 2008. For more information, please visit the website, garrisonartcenter.org or call the office, 845.424.3960.