GALLERY 364 OFFERS LOVE & SYMPATHY FOR COUNCILMAN VINCENT GENTILE

On behalf of all the artists you whole heartedly support, we offer our condolences to you and your family on the loss of your Mother Mrs. Theresa Gentile. Our prayers are with you and your family at this very difficult time.

Much Love,
Georgine Benvenuto, owner/curator

Your Friends at:
Gallery 364
Art in the Park
Green Market Artists

CALLING ALL ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS "BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS" $150 BEST IN SHOW

Gallery 364 "Bay Ridge's First Fine Arts Gallery" is pleased to go forth
with our April Art Competition, entitled "BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS".

We believe in giving just a keyword/s to our artists and see what they come forward with in terms of visual artwork.

If you are interested in submitting work for this competition, for consideration please call Georgine for an appointment to show your work,
or email jpegs for review. No URL's please. You will be notified by email of acceptance. And we look forward to seeing you at our opening reception.

The entry fee is $25.00 per piece, for work accepted, with a limit of 4 pieces per artist. All art must be ready to hang.

All art will be for sale. Gallery 364 retains 30% of all sales.


Gallery 364 will award:

One "Best In Show" $150 Prize (Winners will be announced at Opening Reception)

One "Honorable Mention" $50 Prize

Deadline for submissions: Sat. April 25th, 2009

Artists Opening Reception: Thurs., April 30th,, 2009 (by invitation only)

CONGRATS TO ANTHONY ALMEIDA BEST IN SHOW "WATER"

Features


‘Water’ Quenches Creative Thirsts at Gallery 364 Show
by Harold Egeln (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 03-16-2009
Southwest Brooklyn Space Goes International
By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE — From the city’s Narrows to Switzerland’s Lake Lucrene, the new “Water” art show for March at Gallery 364 in Bay Ridge signals Bay Ridge’s first art gallery entry as an international showcase.

“I grew up by the beautiful Lake Lucerne, and my father would often show me the boats and vessels docked and sailing on the lake. It gave me a sense of wonder and set off my imagination,” said Swiss citizen Marco Schmid – an artist known as “Mr. Kong” — at his first Brooklyn exhibit featuring his acrylic paintings of his stylized mermaids “Marina” and “Rivera.”

He recently began a one-year tour of the United States with artist Vero Schmid (“Queen Kong”), and the couple will be criss-crossing the country in search of art adventures and exposure. “This is a remarkably wonderful space to exhibit, and we’re glad to be doing this in Brooklyn,” said the artist sharing the space with many Brooklyn-based artists.

H2O was the artist formula for Gallery 364’s theme of the month show and sale – “Water” — framed inside the entire first floor of an historic brownstone house on the residential tree-lined block of 72nd Street in Bay Ridge, a destination and home to the area’s growing art colony.

There was a contest for the best in show and honorable mention, a feature of the gallery founded in April 2007 by professional photographer Georgine Benvenuto. Making those waves were two winners. One was “Fire Hydrant Frenzy,” a black-and-white photograph taken in 1969 by Anthony Almeida of children splashing in the hydrant’s spray.

The other winner was Trisha O’Donnell’s “Beach” painting of a Coney Island scene with people resting on the beach. By pure coincidence, the two artworks were mounted side-by-side on the wall.

For Park Slope artist Carole Harris, her photo of raindrops dripping off flowers — “Crying Sunflowers” — was among the many and greatly varied photographs and paintings that dazzled viewers as artists and photographers took up the challenging “Water” theme call to them.

Harris, an English professor at NYC College of Technology, is looking forward to her two-month-long show at a Starbucks in Park Slope, at 164 Seventh Ave. Titled “Route 441 — Signs from Flannery O’Connor’s Milledgeville,” it is running from April 1 through May 31 with photos of the fiction writer’s town in Georgia.

For Brooklyn artist Katarzyna Polkowska, born in Warsaw, Poland and a Pratt Institute graduate, her “The Rising Sun,” showing the sun rising over sea waves in a stained glass mosaic on wood artwork, gave a rare look at a now uncommon and ancient art medium.

She noted, “Artworks made with stained glass mosaics are not seen too much these days. I love the medium and glad that I have this opportunity to exhibit in this fantastic space.”

Photographer Larry Nicosa, a frequent exhibitor, displayed his black-and-white photo of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in the mist with a fogbank along the shoreline. It made the towering structure seem like it was emerging from or descending into the mists of time.

“Wow, this is just great!” exclaimed attorney Bob Howe, president of the Merchants of Third Avenue as he enjoyed the “Water” art show on his home turf of Bay Ridge, mingling with regular and brand-new first-time visitors

CONGRATS TO DAVE FOSS BEST IN SHOW "MOTION"

‘Motion Pictures and Paintings’ Create Moving Experience at Gallery 364
by Harold Egeln (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 12-23-2008

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BAY RIDGE – When one thinks about motion pictures, it usually means movies. But how about motion pictures, motion paintings and stationary artworks that depict motion in many artistic ways?

That is the provocative premise guiding artists and photographers who responded to Gallery 364 founder Georgine Benvenuto’s call for their creations on the theme of “Motion” for the showcase’s December art show.

In their response, as with other theme exhibits that are Gallery 364’s hallmark, they have once again outdone themselves with a moving experience for the viewer, setting in motion emotions, thoughts and feelings that swirl and travel through mind and heart.

With variety and vision, the creative community of Bay Ridge and its environs has outdone itself. Looking at a red fire-truck children’s ride in motion at Coney Island’s Astroland, in a photo by Bill Storoniak, is to experience both the physical motion and emotion felt by children on it.

Viewing photographer Joel Bieder’s large photos of swirling smoke signals, with the camera capturing the finely intricate shapes and spirals, is to experience the artistic wonder of natural forms. Bieder’s work won “honorable mention” in the show’s competition.

“Tango in NYC” by artist Inga Poslitur shows stylish dancing couples circling around the tilted tower of the Chrysler Building (perhaps swaying to the unheard music) and floating on Grecian columns suspended in air. It evokes the emotion of delight for the fanciful. That also is evoked in her “Space and Motion” of people sitting on what appears to be a series of tables suspended in air.

A photo of the wide, slanted corridor at Grand Central Station connecting the main and lower levels shows people in walking and rushing motion. They seem at first to be a blur, but then a spooky emotion enters. It is as if the people’s souls are their shadowy companions, said photographer Larry Nicosia.

“I like the city because its always in motion,” he said, noting his photos of blurred yellow taxicabs in front of a large wall fashion ad of a woman descending stairs.

Fast-Motion Grand Central To Slow-Motion Flower

A single little flower on sandy ground and a tuft of grass nearby, in Gary Heller’s “Struggle” photograph, shows the flower seeking to survive, a spirit struggling for life.

Dave Foss’s black-and-white photographs suspended on a mobile – shades of Alexander Calder – show a nude woman moving in various poses in front of a large window, light streaming in. They portray double motion: the mobile’s photos are making literal movements, and the photos themselves portray a woman moving. The mobile won “best in show” in the exhibit’s competition.

A large photo of a child running happily through a spray of water from a park fountain, the water drops lit by the sun as if they were liquid light particles, stirs the emotional energy of delight and fun.

Tender joy is portrayed in a large photo of two birds, one standing in water after dappling its beak in it, sending a spray of water drops splashing around in a shiny silver shower, as another bird stands nearby at the waterline among greenery.

Another bird photo captures a hawk in flight, its wings fully opened and extended above it, tree branches behind it.

“Roll Call,” a large painting by Alexandra Pacula, shows what seem to be letters, words or general shapes in motion, with two swirling rings like those of Saturn. It seems almost like musical notes in motion, or, perhaps, a painting of a poem’s rhymes, if they could be visually perceived.

Certainly in motion is Gallery 364, in an historic house at 364 72nd St., making waves at its monthly theme art shows since the spring of 2007. Classes are available and exhibit viewing is by appointment only. For more information, call (917) 767-3848.

CALLING ALL ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS

We at Gallery 364 "Bay Ridge's First Fine Arts Gallery" are pleased to go forth
with our March Art Competition, entitled "WATER".

We believe in giving just a keyword/s to our artists and see what
they come forward with in terms of visual artwork.

If you are interested in submitting work for this competition, for consideration please call Georgine for an appointment to show your work,
or email jpegs for review. No URL's please. You will be notified by email of acceptance. And we look forward to seeing you at our opening reception.

The entry fee is $25.00 per piece, for work accepted, with a limit of 4 pieces per artist. All art must be ready to hang.

All art will be for sale. Gallery 364 retains 30% of all sales.


Gallery 364 will award:

One "Best In Show" $150 Prize (Winners will be announced at Opening Reception)

One "Honorable Mention" $50 Prize

Deadline for submissions: Sat, Feb.28, 2009

Artists Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5th, 2009 (by invitation only)


Contact Georgine for more info:

Gallery 364
364 72nd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11209
917-767-3848

Be Our Guest Tomorrow

Please join us at Gallery 364 "Bay Ridge's First Art Gallery & Studio" ---OUR LAST SHOW OF 2008

FOR OUR DECEMBER ART COMPETITION ''MOTION" AND VIEW WINNING ARTWORK FROM OUR LAST TWO SHOWS "REALITY/FANTASY" & "STILL LIFE"

OUR GUEST JUDGE WILL BE PAINTER ADAM MILLER.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11TH, 2008


Opening Time: 6PM-10PM (Press Welcome)

Refreshments will be served, compliments of HOM AND THE GREEN SPA AND WELLNESS CENTER

Noshes will also be served,compliments of TURQUA GRILL

By Invitation Only
All Other Times by Appointment-Show Open Thru Dec. 31st, 2008


Gallery 364
364 72nd Street (between 3rd & 4th ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11209
917-767-3848
georgine@gallery364.com

"R" Train to Bay Ridge Ave 69th Street
Car Pooling and the use of mass transit is recommended

We hope to see you here!!!

---Georgine Benvenuto

SPECIAL ART COMPETITION "STILL LIFE"

We at Gallery 364 "Bay Ridge's First Fine Arts Gallery" are pleased to go forth
with our SPECIAL Art Competition, entitled "STILL LIFE", sponsored in part by The East Coast Scandinavian Museum celebrating The Five Dutch Days.

If you are interested in submitting work for this competition, for consideration please call Georgine for an appointment to show your work,
or email jpegs for review. No URL's please. You will be notified by email of acceptance. And we look forward to seeing you at our opening reception.

The entry fee is $15.00 per piece, for work accepted, with a limit of 4 pieces per artist. All art must be ready to hang.

All art will be for sale. Gallery 364 retains 30% of all sales.

Gallery 364 will award:

One "Best In Show" $150 Prize (Winners will be announced at Opening Reception)

One "Honorable Mention" $50

Deadline for submissions: Friday, Nov. 7th, 2008

Artists Opening Reception: Sat., Nov. 15th, 2008 (by invitation only)

Sneak Preview for Community Groups and Children Friday, Nov. 14th, 2008 (by appointment)