Exhibits and Events
“Go APE” Advanced Placement Student Exhibition Opens at Art League ofLong Island January 14
The Art League of Long Island’s fifth annual “Go APE” Advanced Placement Exhibition will be on view in the League’s Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery January 14 – February 5. More than 120 Advanced Placement Art Students from 31 Long Island high schools exhibit their budding talents in a wide spectrum of visual arts such as Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Photography, and Computer Graphics in a professional gallery setting.
“APE Awards” will be given out at the opening reception and will recognize outstanding work created in each of the following categories: Drawing Portfolio, 2D Design Portfolio, and 3D Design Portfolio. The opening reception is on Sunday January 15, 3 – 5pm.
The exhibit can be viewed in the Art League’s Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery.
Hours:
Monday through Friday 9am – 4pm
Saturday and Sunday 11am -4pm.
The gallery is located at 107 East Deer Park Road in Dix Hills, NY. For more information call (631) 462-5400 or visit www.artleagueli.org.
“Director’s Cut 2012” Opens at Art League of Long Island February 11
“Director’s Cut 2012” is back by popular demand with a new group of dynamic young artists. Get a preview of what art in the new decade may look like as the Art League of Long Island presents a talent showcase that best represents the individual voice in the collective from the art departments of Long Island ’s
colleges and universities.
To see what a new generation is thinking and doing in the realm of visual art, fourteen colleges and university gallery directors or art department heads on Long Island were asked to select a promising student or recent graduate to participate in this unique exhibition. The response was enthusiastic.
The institutions taking part are Adelphi University, Dowling College, Farmingdale State College, Hofstra University, Long Island University, New York Institute of Technology, St. Joseph’s College, SUNY Old Westbury, and SUNY Stony Brook.
Among the young artists on view are Anthony Catania’s works on environmental issues, nominated by Professor Stephen Lamia at Dowling College; Dong Hee Lee’s spherical molten glue cellular installation, chosen by Graduate Director, Seung Lee at LIU C.W.Post campus; Kaitlyn Yale’s vibrant portraits chosen by Professor Laurie Fendrich at Hofstra University; prints focused on intimate objects by Katarzyna Bator for the undergraduate program and vivacious carnival paintings
representing his culture by Jaleel Akaloo representing the Masters Program, both selected by Eliz Alahverdian, Director of Exhibitions at Adelphi University.
The exhibit also will feature the multilayered complex textural image by Michael Capobianco, nominated by Catherine Bernard from SUNY Old Westbury campus and Drawings by Dan Hess chosen by Stephanie Dinkins, the director of graduate program SUNY Stony Brook. Rounding out the exhibition are the prints by Arianna Warner chosen by Professor Nobuho Nagasawa for the undergraduate program at SUNY Stony Brook; the manipulated self-portrait of Christina Xenophontos recommended by Peter Voci of NYIT; and Erica Mailand’s abstracted figure drawings nominated by the Professor Dawn Lee at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue.
The exhibit is on view in the Art League’s Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery:
February 11 through March 18.
An artist’s reception takes place
Sunday, February 12 from 3pm – 5pm.
The Art League’s Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery is open to the general public free of charge.
Hours:
Monday through Friday 9am – 4pm
Saturday and Sunday 11am -4pm.
The gallery is located at:
107 East
Deer Park Road in Dix Hills, NY.
For more information call (631) 462-5400 or visit www.artleagueli.org.