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Lily Hoyda & Chana Rosa Petrikovsky

Assemblage

Maria Novak: Croatia

Reflections

The Romantic & The Exotic

 

     
 
 

 

 

Lily Hoyda

 

Lily Hoyda was born on September 9, 1989, in Great Neck, NY. She attended Great Neck schools and graduated in June, 2007, from John L. Miller North High School. Over the years, Lily has attended classes at the Great Neck Art Center, including art, cartooning, ceramics and singing. In her junior year of high school, she was the recipient of The Nicole Krauss Creative Writing Award, which is a two-fold scholarship awarded annually to two junior students whom show exemplary creative abilities in writing. The second part of the scholarship involved both students, in their senior year, collaborating with their creative writing teacher to form a compilation into an unpublished book of their prose, poetry and artwork. This collaboration culminated in a book-signing event in the spring at the school’s end-of-the-year art exhibit and musical recital. Lily is a freshman at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, affiliated with Tufts University and Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts, where she is following her passion for animation.
 

 

Chana Rosa Petrikovsky

 

Chana Rosa Petrikovsky is a young artist whose painting talent began to emerge at the precocious age of one when she started drawing profiles of birds. Born in 1991 into a Jewish Orthodox home to a father who is a physician and a mother who is an artist and singer, Chana Rosa was home-schooled until the age of six in a household where Jewish traditions are highly respected. During this time, a love of drawing was instilled in Chana Rosa as her mother would often depict the subject matter being taught by drawing images. Chana Rosa’s talent is eclectic, depicting a variety of themes using different materials including acrylic, oil pastels, charcoal, watercolors, and gouache. Much of Chana Rosa’s work, however, reflects soulful themes in traditional Jewish life: images of weddings, rabbis, chanukah and other festival celebrations, as well as children in Hebrew school. Chana Rosa is currently a high school student at the Stella Abraham School for Girls, Long Island, New York.
 

 

 

 

 

 

An artist reception will be held at

The Art Center on

Sunday January 27th 2008, 4pm-6:30pm.

 

An artist talk will be held at

The Art Center on

Thursday March 6th 2008, 6pm-7:30pm.

 

Receptions are free and open to the public.

 

Assemblage is a work of art made from a collection of found objects or materials not usually thought of as art materials assembled together to form a work of art. Assemblage is the new “green”. The five artists featured in this exhibition express their art and their awareness of our environment by transforming unique materials and discards into exquisite works of art. Curator: Vivi Nassim.

 

Glass sculptor and multi-media artist Jude Amsel layers translucent colored glass to create her fragile yet powerful female torsos.

 

Ginger Balizer-Hendler, a collage artist, works with paper and found objects to create an imaginary world on canvas.

 

Colby Lippmann colorful and tactile glass pieces challenge the fine line between art and science.

 

Howard Levine complex yet harmonic mosaics explore our spiritual universe.

 

Georgia Vahue collects bits and pieces of detritus and places them with her photographs creating a relationship.

 

Each artist's process, materials, and medium is different, yet together they create a versatile and enriched exhibit of Assemblage.

 

 
 

An artist reception and Book Signing will be held at the Arts Center on Thursday March 27th 2008, 6-8:30pm. Receptions are free and open to the public.

 

Great Neck Arts Center's exhibit of Croatian-born artist Mario Novak’s latest works explores the combination of remote and challenging locations in Turkey, Croatia, and Central America, and quality printing in sizes and resolution that will blow you away.


On Thursday, March 27, 6pm – 8:30pm Great Neck Arts Center (GNAC) will host an Artist Reception with Mr. Novak signing his recently published book, Croatia, a 340 page exploration of his native country. “We are delighted to welcome Mario back to the Arts Center. With his first book Mario demonstrates his mastery of photography and his love for Croatia as he presents glimpses of his captivating native country”, says Gallery Director, Georgia Vahue. The reception will feature an exhibition of Mr. Novak’s latest works, as well as a signing of his new book, Croatia, from Ilok to Savudrijia to Dubrovnik, the first internationally published full size coffee table book on Croatia.
 

 


 

 

 

 

 

Reflections focuses on the paintings of five artists: Regina Gil, Judith Goldstein, Ann Shore, Frederic Terna, and Dorrit Title. Each has been affected by the Holocaust in a personal way, and each has added to our memory and understanding of the Holocaust by providing us with their personal reflections—their imagined constructions—of a time whose horrors often seem beyond imagination. In so doing they provide us with a legacy that addresses both the suffering of humanity and the extraordinary strength of people to survive. Their work not only helps us understand the past, but makes it possible to think hopefully about the future.
Dr. Jack Salzman

 

For more information contact:

Georgia Vahue at 516-829-2570 or georgia@greatneckarts.org

 

 

 

 
 


 

 

 

 

 

June 17 – August 20, 2008
Reception June 17, 7 PM

 

“The Romantic & The Exotic" captures the romantic spirit of the living world and combines it with rare exotic and unusual decorative pieces from the mysterious east. Vintage Audubon prints are paired with original Persian Botanicals painted using ancient brushwork techniques. These images give us a view of a beautiful universe that bursts with life, minutiae of nature against areas of lush vegetation. The decorative pieces are breathtaking and range from a pair of rare Lapis Lazuli pedestal tables to a pair of inlaid chairs from India.
 

This stunning exhibition explores phenomena found in nature and a world that encompasses both the beauty and the wildness of nature. Viewers experience a sensual environment that will draw them into a place of mystery and beauty rarely considered.

 

For more information contact:

Georgia Vahue at 516-829-2570 or georgia@greatneckarts.org

 

 

 

 

 

   

 
 

 

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