Saratoga Arts - Arts Center | Arts Council

Mind and Matter

Jane Dell and Liz Parsons

June 1 - July 27

Opening Reception  |  June 1, 6-8pm

Discussion with the Artists  |  June 1, 5:30pm

 Image: Jane Dell (top)  Liz Parsons (bottom)

This exhibit brings together two painters who explore both inner psychology and the physical world around them.

Jane Dell’s paintings explore the expressive and metaphorical potential of scale, the poetics of space and mental states.  They represent a relative and curious universe that invites the discovery of imaginative worlds as they unfold.

Liz Parsons’ paintings take form as a visual journal on canvas, where layers of autobiographical experiences evolve through memory, imagery and thoughts.

Jane Dell is an award winning artist, born in NYC.  She has studied at the Arts Students League of New York and the School of Visual Arts.  Dell received her BFA from Pratt Institute.  Dell has exhibited widely in the Northeast including the Monmouth Museum and the Drawing Center in New York.  She lives in New Jersey.

Liz Parsons is a mixed media artist living and working in Glens Falls, NY.  Considered an outsider/ expressionist artist, she specializes in paintings and artist books.

Saratoga 150: Then, Now and Beyond!

Saratoga Arts' Annual Juried Exhibition

August 3 - September 28, 2013

Opening Reception  |  August 3, 6-8pm

2013 marks the 150th Anniversary for The Saratoga Race Course.  In celebration of this citywide sesquicentennial event, Saratoga Arts will exhibit artworks that reflect on our region’s rich past, represents or comments on our own time in Saratoga Springs, or envisions Saratoga’s future. The exhibition will merge history with the present day and anticipate fresh, innovative ideas of what’s to come. 

American Storytellers

Brian Cirmo and Jill Shoffiett

October 5 - November 9, 2013

Opening Reception  |  October 5, 6-8pm

Discussion with the Artists  |  October 5, 5:30pm

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Impressions of society and tales of American identity come together in this invented and visually narrated exhibition of paintings and drawings by artists Brian Cirmo and Jill Shoffiett.

Based on childhood memory and fantasy, Jill Shofiett depicts scenes of an imaginary south – an escape to a private, delirious utopia.  From re-purposed washing machines, homemade roller coasters, weather-beaten structures and the general detritus of daily life in rural America, Shofiett creates a narrative about industrious, embattled creators who are inventing a curious, isolated world in which they inhabit.

Influenced by American history, literature and music, Brian Cirmo creates an environment where the protagonist, inebriated from whiskey, war and solitariness, loses all sense of time in a dystopian landscape while searching for the meaning of being American.

Jill Shoffiett received her BFA from the Mississippi University for Women and her MFA from Pratt Institute.  Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries including, Pierogi 2000, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Drawing Center, NYC, Monya Rowe Gallery and Casteel Gallery.  Shoffiett has received numerous awards, including a New York Foundation For The Arts Fellowship.  She lives in Cold Spring, NY

Brian Cirmo received his BFA from The College of Saint Rose and his MFA from the State University at Albany.  His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries throughout New York State, including the Albany Institute of History and Art, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, Green Gallery and more.  His work has received numerous awards.  He lives in Albany, NY where he is Adjunct Professor of Art at Sage College and The College of Saint Rose.

Annual Members' Exhibition

November 16 - December 31, 2013

Guests are welcome to visit the The Arts Center Gallery from 9am-5pm Monday through Friday.  Local, regional and nationally-known artists' work is displayed in our 2,000 square-foot gallery.  Opening receptions and Discussions with the artists are free and open to the public.  Visitors are encouraged to browse through our Gallery Shop, featuring fine art by over 50 of our member artists.  For more information, please contact Elizabeth Dubben, Director of Exhibitions atedubben@saratoga-arts.org or call 518.584.4132