SCNY Spring Auctions coming soon!

I dropped off my three painting submissions for the upcoming Spring Art Auctions at the Salmagundi Club. On three Friday evenings, March 13, 20, and 27 @ 8:00 PM, auctioneers will take bids for artwork submitted by Club members. Part of the proceeds will go towards the funding of the Club’s offerings: exhibitions, lectures, Artist Roundtables, music performances, etc.  Bids start remarkably low: $250 for original paintings, $150 for photography and graphics, $400 for sculptures. I’ll know on Monday which (if not all 3!) of my paintings are accepted by the jury. The auctions are open to the public; I’m planning to be there on the 20th & 27th. You’re all invited!

Drizzly Morning Downtown, 14″x14″

Pink Afternoon, Wellfleet Harbor, 12″ x 16″

Mohegan Bluffs, Block Island, 14″x18″

“Sledding in Prospect Park”

I’ve finished this painting, “Sledding Home in Prospect Park” and am starting another snowy scene in Prospect Park painting, which I’ll add to “Works in Progress” later.  Painting snow was something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time and I thought it was going to be kind a fight, in the way I took on painting water as a challenge. But, it turned out to be a more enjoyable learning experience. Now, I’m packing up for a trip out West and am taking my new pochade box with me. I can’t wait to try it out. Somehow I never got around to testing it out at home, so we’ll see how it works on the road! Hoping to catch some nice snowy mountain scenes in the next couple of weeks. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!

Enthusiastic crowd at last night’s exhibition reception

There must have been well over 200 people attending yesterday evening’s reception and award ceremony for the “Contemporary NY Waterways” and “History Panorama” exhibition at the Salmagundi Club. It was one of the swankiest receptions I’ve attended there with a jazz trio, hot appetizers being passed by white-uniformed waiters, not to mention the usual wine and cheese. I got a lot of questions about “Lehigh Valley Barge at Red Hook” (image of it is in an entry below) – where is it docked exactly, how is it used today (it’s now the Waterfront Museum); and a couple of people offered historical information about how barges were an important part of NYC history way back when.  All this in celebration of the Dutch discovery of Manhattan 400 years ago!

Painting of Bordighera, Italy, on the town’s website

A painting I made while on a trip to Bordighera, Italy, on the Mediterranean near the French border several years ago was just selected to be added to the town’s website, www.bordighera.net. (Images are in artists’ last name order, i.e. you need to scroll way down to find Yang.)  To see it again was like having an old friend visit!