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smARTshow at the Karpeles Museum
The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum presents:
smARTshow
Innovative work in collage by Kristine Werkman Jaroka and Monica Ostrow
Sunday, December 6, 2009 – Thursday, January 3, 2010
Collage is the art of affixing various objects or materials onto a surface to create a three-dimensional composition, thus blurring the distinction between reality and illusion. The two artists whose work appears in the present exhibition use different materials and reflect different aesthetic sensibilities in the same highly sophisticated medium.
Kristine Werkman Jaroka incorporates found objects, sometimes unidentifiable from their original function, as elements of composition that focus on their abstract form. The color and evidence of age in rusted pieces of metal have a particular interest for her, and she has made imaginative and provocative use of them in her work. Ms. Jaroka studied art privately, at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, and at SUNY New Paltz and has shown her work at Orange County Community College, at the Times Herald-record Lobby Exhibit, and at numerous other venues in the region. She has also taught art at the Cornerstone residence and at the Glen E. Hines memorial Boys and Girls Club.
Monica Ostrow uses as many as twelve different elements in her complex collage boxes, including wire and watercolor paint with sponges, brushes, cotton, and tissue paper to create a tactile surface of uneven textures. “Depth is exceedingly important,” she points out. “The feeling I seek to convey is one of time suspended.” A graduate with honors of Wilkes College and Scranton University graduate school in Pennsylvania, she also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Among the honors that Ms. Ostrow’s mixed-media compositions have won is the first place award at the 2007 Orange County Federation exhibition.
Together the two artists founded the Artist’s Alternative, a highly successful artists’ cooperative focusing on abstract art, in 1994.
The public is invited to meet the artists at an opening reception at the museum on
Sunday, December 6, 2009, from 12 to 4 p.m.
The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum is located at 94 Broadway, across from City Hall,
in the City of Newburgh. The Karpeles Museums are a national chain with nine in the U.S., specializing in the preservation and display of original, historically significant documents and
manuscripts. Museum Hours: Thu.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m.
Admission is always free.
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