Windows on Main St events

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windows on main st opens 8.13

'Windows on Main Street'
August 13th - Sept 4th, 2005
Beacon, New York
*Opens to the public on (Second Saturday Beacon) August 13th, 12 - 9pm.

On August 13th the city of Beacon will host over 25 contemporary artists who have been invited to create site-specific works of art as a means to engage the community, residences, and businesses through a month long exhibition displayed in store windows located along Main Street. Over 25 local businesses will be participating in this unique event allowing the use of their windows for the display of art.
This collaborative and multidisciplinary project is intended to stimulate interaction between artists, residents, and commercial vendors to explore how art can provide cultural and social understanding, be a catalyst for economic improvement in communities, and strengthen the relationship between residents and artists.
Artwork produced will bring attention to the historical specificity and uniqueness of Beacon's community, and will take into consideration the site and or history of each business in the creation of the work. The project is a way for residents and businesses along Main Street to celebrate, the past and future arts and culture of Beacon. Using art as a way of attracting visitors to local businesses, creating a venue for artists to showcase their work and to build awareness of Beacon's growing cultural and economic community.

This event is part of Beacon's Second Saturday celebration, a monthly celebration of the arts in which galleries and shops are open from 12-9PM for openings, performances and other events. Beacon's Second Saturday is a project of the Beacon Arts Community Association (BACA). For more information about Second Saturday events in August, please visit www.beaconarts.org.

Opening reception: An opening reception for the event will take place on Saturday August 13th from 9 - 12pm at Spire Studios, located at 45 Beekman Street. For further information please contact Todd Spire at 845-231-3275 or check out www.nynarts.com
Event Information Maps and information can be picked up at Hudson Beach Glass, RiverWinds Gallery, World's Ends Books, and The Framery, located at either end of Main Street.

-Windows on Main Street is realized with the generous help and support of the Beacon Arts Community Association, BACA, dedicated to promoting the city of Beacon as a center for the arts - www.beaconarts.org, Spire Studios, and BeaconStruction, Inc.

DirectionsBy Train: Metro-North Railroad\'s Hudson Line to Poughkeepsie, Beacon Stop. Visit www.mta.org or call 212.532.4900 or 800.metro.info.

By Car from NYC: Take upper level of George Washington Bridge to Palisades Parkway North to end. At rotary take 6 East/202 across Bear Mountain Bridge. 1st left onto Route 9D North 16.5 miles to Beacon, At the fourth traffic light in Beacon (just past Beacon, City Hall), turn right onto Main Street.By Car from points South and West: Take 1-87 North to Exit 17, I-84. Follow local signs, to I-84 east, across the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. 1st, exit, turn left onto Route 9D South. Turn left at the third traffic light onto Main Street.By Car from points East: Take I-84 West to Exit 11, Route 9D. Turn left onto Route 9D South. At the third traffic light after bridge turn left onto Main Street."All events are free and open to the Public.


Inquires concerning "Windows on Main Street" please contact project managers Karlos Carcamo at 347-531-6111 odessythree@aol.com or Christopher Albert at info@maykr.com or visit www.maykr.com for more info

PpAaIiNnTtIiNnGg opening 8.13 at para/site

ParaSite @ The Iron Fish Trading Company Presents:"PpAaIiNnTtIiNnGg"James Sheehan, Alison Moritsugu, Louis CameronAugust 13th - August 28th, 2005Opening Reception : Saturday, August 13th, 5-8pm***Tailgate BBQ"PpAaIiNnTtIiNnGg" - The word "painting" spelled out in small and capital letters, is an exhibition exploring the various approaches to contemporary painting, how we see, engage, and eventually come to understand the complex vocabulary used by painters today. Using the formal qualities of the medium, such as scale, support, surface and color. James Sheehan, Alison Moritsugu, and Louis Cameron find very unique and idiosyncratic ways to express their personal concerns, while adding their own individual voice, to the long history of painting.

James Sheehan (Brooklyn, NY) Has an M.F.A from The Tyler School of Art, Temple University and a B.A. in Art History/Fine Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, CA. His work has been included in national and international exhibitions in New York, Montreal, Tokyo, Prague, Switzerland, and Germany. Awards include the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program, LMCC: World Trade Center Residency and ARCUS Residency: Ibaraki Prefecture in Moriya, Japan.

Alison Moritsugu (Beacon, NY) Has been the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships and residencies including ones from the MacDowell Colony, The Bronx Museum of the Arts' "AIM Program", Yaddo, the Cite' Internationale des Arts in Paris and New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, Missouri, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Visual Arts in New York.

Louis Cameron (Brooklyn, NY) Since earning an MFA at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in 1997, Cameron has participated in the Artist-In-Residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has had solo exhibitions at I-20 gallery, Art in General, and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. His work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, and internationally at Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, and M'ARS Gallery, Moscow. Currently his work is on view in "Abstraction" at the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, New York."PpAaIiNnTtIiNnGg" will be on view at ParaSite Art Space, located inside The Iron Fish Trading Company, 167 Main Street, Beacon, NY, from Aug 13th -August 28th, 2005. For more information please contact gallery director Karlos Carcamo at (347) 531-6111. Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 12:00 to 6:00pm.