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HADAS GALLERY CURATOR'S REVIEW ON
EXTENDED LIVES by Soojin Park

MAY 2-6, 2011
Pratt Institute
Steuben South Gallery
“Extended Lives” is an installation/ mixed media exhibition of artwork by Soojin Park.

What draws me into Soojin Park’s artwork is her delicate concern for touch. Her artwork focuses on a relationship between her watercolor paintings of tree forms and the physical objects themselves. Park’s process begins with the collection of fallen twigs and branches, which she glues to a mounted piece of watercolor paper. She then continues the physical form of the tree into her painting. Subversively simple in appearance, her work requires a great attention to technique.

Her mimicking of twigs and leaves are formed by the pooling and evaporation of water. This leaves a hard edge, while retaining an inner wash, similar to...Read more

1st ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION
MARCH 6- MAY 8, 2011

Opening Reception: March 6th, 2-5pm
Panel discussion: March 29th 12:30-1:30pm
Closing Reception: Sunday, May 8, 11-4pm
Hadas Gallery is proud to present our first annual student group exhibition featuring the artwork of students at Pratt Institute.

One of our main initiatives at Hadas Gallery is to encourage and promote student artwork. Art being made by students seeking professional careers have a unique rawness about them. These are emerging artists that are involved in developing and exploring themes, composition, color, and theory. The academic framework allows them the ability to focus their complete attention on artmaking- a rare opportunity in the professional world.

The artwork, which ranges in medium and content, provide insight into artistic influences and academic areas that are significant to the next generation of professionals. Most importantly, group exhibitions featuring emerging artwork reminds us of the ever changing range of subjects, concepts, and techniques that epitomize the possibilities of making art in the 21st century.

Hadas Gallery’s ”1st Annual Student Exhibition” will be shown March 6- May 8. Regular gallery hours are Sunday through Thursday 1pm-6pm or by appointment. The opening will be Sunday March 6, 2-5pm. A panel discussion will be held Tuesday March 29, 12:30-1:30pm and a closing reception on Sunday May 8, 11-4pm.

Hadas Gallery is located at 543 Myrtle Avenue near the campus of Pratt Institute (between Steuben and Emerson Sts., across from the Pratt Store).

ORDER, CHAOS & PSYCHEDELIC SNAILS

It would be fair to call Jon Axelrod’s paintings synesthetic. They are, after all, visual representations of sound. However, these aren’t the idiosyncratic cross-sense connections of an unfettered mind. His is a willful synesthesia. Axelrod uses science and math to reveal relationships between color, shape and sound. He finds kinship, for example, in the frequency of high-pitched tones and the high-frequency wavelengths of blues and violets...Read more

1st ANNUAL STUDENT GROUP EXHIBITION
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEB. 20TH

Opening Reception: March 6th, 2-5pm
Panel discussion: March 29th 12:30-1:30pm
Closing Reception: Sunday, May 8, 11-4pm
Contact the Curator, Joshua Stulman for submissions at info@hadasgallery.com

The exhibition is open March 6 - May 8, 2011. Regular gallery hours are Sunday through Thursday 1pm-6pm or by appointment. The opening will be Sunday March 6th, 2-5pm. An Panel discussion will be Tuesday March 29th 12:30-1:30pm

Hadas Gallery is located at 541 Myrtle Avenue in The Rohr Jewish Center near the campus of Pratt Institute (between Steuben and Emerson Sts., across from the Pratt Store).

Hadas Gallery is proud to present the recent work of painter Jon Axelrod.

At first glance, Axelrod's paintings depict seemingly organic abstract forms that drift in large color-fields. The colors are vibrant harmonies that transition seamlessly throughout the painting. The paintings take on an awareness of an environment, whether it be an underwater seascape or movement through the sky. They are beautiful, and for many artists, this may be reason enough to enjoy their craft- but not for...Continue

Hadas Gallery is proud to present the recent work of photographer Richard W. Golden.

Golden’s photography reveals the beauty of natural subjects that often go unnoticed by the casual viewer. His sense of framing and composition create an awareness of textures and a humorous play with abstraction.

“Depth / Balance / Surface” moves the viewer’s attention to different areas of the image. In some photographs, Golden leads the viewer’s eye to the deepest background. Others generate natural shifts between the foreground and background, creating a balance of areas. Several photographs retain the viewer’s focus on the surface of the...Continue