HERE TODAY | GONE TOMORROW

Vernon M. Byron III, Daniel Giordano, Matt Kinney, Ryan Scails, Greg Slick, &Julie Torres

HERE TODAY | GONE TOMORROW is a group show bringing together the work of Vernon M. Byron III, Daniel Giordano, Matt Kinney, Ryan Scails, Greg Slick, and Julie Torres curated by Lacey Fekishazy of SARDINE. It will run as  part of the Orange County Art Council Open Studio Tour from 11 am to 5 pm on Saturday, May 20 and Sunday, May 21, 2017 at Space Create, in Newburgh, NY.  It will also be open for Newburgh Last Saturday for May and for the Newburgh Illuminated Festival. 

here: attention, opportunity, presence, in, at, to, now, punctual, place, stream of consciousness, attention, wave hello today: du jour, present, gift, nowadays, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, midnight, nowness, this is the day, presently gone: time, fleeting, no longer, past tense, occupied, reality bites, void, ephemeral, fugitive, passing, transitory, evanescent, wave goodbye tomorrow: mañana, a day away, passive time, future, eyes on the prize, possibilities, temporal, better, eventuality, later gator

Vernon M. Byron III’s practice centers on the intersection between sound, narrative, architecture, and object. Byron’s work is a response to the advent of virtual reality, where sound, environment, and other non-visual means are employed to alter the viewer’s perception of reality. His work has been shown throughout the Hudson Valley, including The Concourse Gallery A at the Albany International Airport, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of art, The Art Society of Kingston, Space Create, and The Chris Davison Gallery. He lives and works in Newburgh, NY. 

Daniel Giordano co-directs Vicki, a curatorial project in Newburgh, NY. Focusing on sculpture because it collects dust in the most obvious manner, Giordano says his work is driven by an autobiographical mythology, with his brother as the focus of much of his work. Giordano has exhibited nationally and internationally and recently completed a residency at New Age Drinks in Flagstaff, AZ. He received his MFA from the University of Delaware and lives in Newburgh, NY. 

Matt Kinney is an artist who works in sculpture. Kinney was born in Georgetown, Massachusettes. He attended Art school at Pratt Institute and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He began his art career out of school making paintings in 1994 in Los Angeles, California and then Boston and New York City. In 2003 he moved to the Hudson Valley, where he currently lives and works. In 2006 he switched from painting to sculpture. He craved a more hands on, tactile and visceral experience. Kinney’s art is shaped by the materials he works with, the ideas that surface from them and the environment he lives in. He looks to the everyday as a sounding board for his art. In the new year of 2017 he opened his new 3300 square foot studio in Newburgh, NY. His new large scale work incorporates javelins piercing tree trunks, arrows, reclaimed floor joists and is building on crossed themed paintings and sculptures, Saint Sebastian as well as industry, sport and hunting. 

Ryan Scails is currently working out of his studio in Bethel, CT. His most recent solo exhibitions include Able Bodies at 287 Gallery (Danbury, CT) Object Lessons|Adaptive Research at High Desert Test Sites HQ (Yucca Valley, CA) and (Gardens) of Feeling and Fervor at Chinatown Soup (New York). Ryan received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2014 and he likes to acknowledge how the built world gives humans context in ways that confront the limits of our bodies and the matter that surrounds us. The results include compounded drawings with unreasonable layers of material, overbuilt paintings composed for structural integrity and forms that embrace the idea of saturation.

Greg Slick has exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at The Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY, and Matteawan Gallery (2017, 2015 and 2013). His work has been included in group exhibitions at LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD; TSA New York and Ground Floor Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; 1 Mile Gallery and KMoCA, Kingston, NY; and BAU, Mad Dooley Gallery, and Van Brunt Gallery, in Beacon, NY. In September 2017, Slick will be an artist in residence at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, NY. In 2013, he was awarded an artist residency at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland and in 2003 he was a Resident Artist at the Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia. Slick studied Chinese calligraphy and painting at the Chinese Information and Culture Center, NYC. He lives in Beacon, NY.

Julie Torres creates drawings and objects with gouache and acrylic paint. Her current curatorial project Taconic North featuring 117 artists from the greater Hudson Valley  (co-curated with Susan Jennings) is on view at LABspace in Hillsdale NY through June 11, 2017. She recently relocated from Brooklyn, NY to Hudson, NY where she lives and works.

Lacey Fekishazy is the owner and director of SARDINE, a gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn founded in 2011. Active in both the Brooklyn and Newburgh art communities, she recently curated the inaugural exhibition Silent Shout at The Gallery at Atlas in Newburgh, NY. As part of Newburgh Open Studios she organizes Glenlily Grounds, an outdoor exhibition now in its fourth year. Fekishazy is an artist as well as a curator, and holds a BFA in Painting from SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY and an MFA in Art from Queens College CUNY, Flushing, NY. She lives in Newburgh, NY. 

Space Create is located at 115 Broadway, Newburgh, NY. 12550. Contact: Lacey Fekishazy at 914.805.1974 or sardinebk@gmail.com.