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East End Arts Winners' Show
October 14 - November 11, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday, October 14, 5-7PM

This gallery exhibit features the work of Best in Show artists from juried East End Arts Gallery shows that took place during 2010. These artists are:

Rani Carson – gouache artist from Riverhead and East End Arts member since 1997; Best in Show for Self Portrait created in casein, winner of the “Self as Subject” exhibit

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Bryan Gutman – abstracts and large colorful landscapes painter from Westhampton and East End Arts member since 2008; Best in Show for painting Cedar Tree with Hostas created in oil, featured in the “Botanicals” exhibit

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Anthony Lombardo – landscapes, seascapes, nudes photographer from Water Mill and East End Arts member since 2008; Best in Show for photograph Waves & Rocks in the “Body in Motion” exhibit.

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Richard Wozniak – photographer from Shoreham and East End Arts member since 2005; Best in Show for photograph The Road in the “Scenes from a Book” exhibit

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Jeanette Dowdell – poet from Ridge and East End Arts member since 2009; Best in Show for poem entitled Botanicals in the “Botanicals” exhibit

“LIFE”

The clock is life,
Living, breathing, moving away from each yesterday,
Awakening each tomorrow,
Relentlessly stealing time from all who hear it speak

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Jax Peters Lowell – poet and author from Philadelphia and East End Arts member since 2006; Best in Show for poem They Say You Danced in the “Body in Motion” exhibit

                  Wa t e r  Mu s i c
                  -- A  n a r r a t i v e  p o e m

                  The breakers roll in from the Atlantic salt stung, glistening with sun and sea spray. 
                  They carry kelp, jellyfish, plankton, oyster shells, sand shark, driftwood and the whisper of distant continents.  In the waves’ rush and retreat, gulls, cormorants, sandpipers, puffins, and plovers gossip about ghost ships, giant swordfish and the sonorous singing of whales.  Seawater left behind by the ebbing tide soaks sand pocked with hermit crabs and piss clams, and erases the timid footprints of terns.
                  It runs under the dunes and the stilted glass houses perched on their priceless shoulders.
                  It runs under beach plum, juniper berry, cucumber and sea rocket on its march toward the hamlets and village privets, summer lawns, grass courts and ladies’ tees of East, West, South and Bridgehampton, Sagaponak, and Amagansett.
                   It cools the polished toes of bikinied beauties on Asparagus Beach.
                  It moves north, under the railroad tracks, pastures and fields, meadows and vineyards that roll in long, espaliered rows over the vanished farms of the North Fork.  Along the way, it picks up rocks, rainwater, beetle carcasses, dung, dinosaur bones, arrowheads, exoskeletons, snake skins, fossils, cherry pits and every poison ever sprayed on rhubarb, strawberries, potatoes, pumpkins and peaches eaten straight from the bushel on a hot day. 
                  It creeps, and pools, bubbles and seeps.
                  The water reaches for the rocky bluffs and pebbled beaches of the North Fork, all the way to Orient and out into the Sound to Plum Island, Falkner’s, Great Gull, Little Gull and The Thimbles, lapping at the private lawns and golf courses of Fishers, greened by money and manicured to perfection.
                  It carries with it the old stories of the Shinnecock, Montauk, Matinecock, Rockaway, Canarsie, Merrick, Nissequoge, Sectoag, Seatauket, Patchoag, Corchaug, and Manhasset, said to be descendants of prehistoric Aleuts who walked the ice bridge from Asia to North America to the long, narrow estuary that would be Long Island, formed by flux and tumult, drift and sediment after the great melt. 
                  Land of Tribute, the Paumanok called it.  They planted corn and beans fertilized with fish heads, and hunted in marshy grasses and forests teeming with red fox, muskrat, deer and pheasant.  They cast their nets and traps into its rivers and bays for otter, scallops, quahog, porgies, bass and bluefish, dipped their gourds into pristine ponds and drank their fill.  Their children would live to regret the peaceful welcome they offered the first white settlers, the kindnesses that sealed their fates.  In the water that lives forever, bits of flint, arrowheads, the bitter taste of betrayal.
                  In the arts and crafts bungalows that sprang up in the thirties and forties alongside the wave of Polish farmers who fled the pogroms, then the fascists, and the Nazis and the Russians again in their collective paranoia, the water issues up from private wells, clear, cold and quenching.  It gushes out of old beach pumps, primed with sand. It splashes down throats parched from sun and gritty sandwiches; it cools blue-lipped children full of horseplay, rinses diapers, hands sticky with peanut butter and the plums their mothers carry in straw beach bags.  It courses through pipes, clinks in cocktail glasses and jelly jars, wriggles in Jell-O molds, lurks in lobster bisque, sugared corn water, spaghetti pots; it scrubs whitewalls and flows through the walls of summer porches, gazebos, cool white rooms laid with rattan rugs.
                    It sleeps coiled in garden hoses, jittery anacondas hissing at dogs, teasing bare legs and arms, and it coaxes day lilies, phlox, sweet basil and mint out of the porous soil.  It washes sandy feet, bathing suits, hair, two-toned sedans with fins.  Mixed with vinegar, it takes the sting out of sleeping in the sun, and on occasion, baptizes the innocent of their sins.  It ices tea, percolates coffee, dilutes Kool-Aid, lemonade, gin and tonic, is swallowed, imbibed, sipped, gulped, slurped, swigged, knocked back, lapped, chug-a-lugged, drunk, gurgled, gargled, sprayed.  It drips and drips until it takes on the hard stone of our lives. 
                  No one asks what’s in it.

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RED DOT
Competition for Art Collectors
Gallery Dates: September 2 – October 7, 2011
Guest Juror: Charles A. Riley II

Best in Show: From the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Friedman Jubilation Artist: Robert Strimban (Cutchogue)
	First Place: From the collection of Patricia Lloyd Untitled Artist: Lidya Buzio (Greenport)
	Second Place: From the collection of James Dawson Paving AM #5 Artist: Jan Culbertson (Shelter Island)
	Third Place: From the collection of Phil Cardinale Sunflowers Artist: Anna Jurinich (Wading River)

Honorable Mention
From the collection of Bob Peters
Porch of the Once Upon a Time Maiden
Artist: Caroline Waloski (Greenport)

Honorable Mention
From the collection of Frank Bilotta
Internet
Artist: Barbara Bilotta (Mt. Sinai)

Click Here for More About Guest Juror Dr. Charles A. Riley, II

The show will be on display from September 2 through October 7, 2011. The Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10AM to 4PM.

For more information, contact Jane Kirkwood, Gallery Director: (631) 727-0900 or gallery@eastendarts.org

The Print Show
July 22 - August 26, 2011
Guest Juror Craig Zamiello,
Master Printmaker, Artist, and Arts Educator

Best in Show: Dianne Martin Leaf Peel, solar etching
	First Place: Alexandra losub Arianna (Senseless) lithograph
	Second Place: Beth Atkinson Parts of the Whole solar plate
	Third Place: Caroline Waloski My One and Oni etching

Folk Art
June 10 - July 15, 2011
Guest Juror Kathy Curran

Best in Show: Jonathan Pearlman Skate Boys, Sculpture
	First Place: Gina Gilmour Sanctuary Mixed Media
	Second Place: Scott O'Hare Belle Starr Mixed Media
	Third Place: Mae-z Meehan Hysterical Delusion Oil

Juried All Media Show: EAST END LIGHT
April 22 - June 3, 2011
Guest Juror Glynis Berry

Best in Show: Marion Jones
	1st Place Lisa Petker-Mintz, Mixed Media
	2nd Place Steve Berger, Photography
	3rd Place Toby Haynes, Pastel

Juried All Media Show: WOMEN
March 4 - April 15, 2011
Guest Juror Pamela Williams

Best in Show Barbara Groot, Easthampton M'Lady 1, 2 & 3	First Place: Anne Seelbach, Sag Harbor Invoking the Muse
	Second Place: Gena Griffith, Cutchogue
	Third Place: Gary Barteloni, Greenport Motherhood

January Members Miniatures Show

It is best to email your questions to the Gallery Director at gallery@eastendarts.org
Offices/Gallery 133 East Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901 631-727-0900
Gallery hours: 10 to 4, Monday through Saturday, 12-4 Sundays Memorial Day-Labor Day.
Closed on major holidays.

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