Labyrinth 229- John Hampshire

The process of art making can be a meditative and calming experience.  This is the focus of Lana Santorelli Gallery’s summer show, Unwind.  The exhibition explores summer as a time of re-centering through art, a reprieve from the swirling forces of daily life which continually bombard us throughout the year.  

Exhibiting Artists: Joan Barker, Pablo Caviedes, Patricia B. Fabian, Samantha French, John Hampshire, Lynn Johnson, Raina Kapicic, Yuriko Katori, Lacey Kyungeun Kim, Graham McNamara, Alexander M. Ross, Lana Santorelli, Lubomir Tomaszewski, Yuko Torihara, and Deborah Zlotsky

  Morning Rituals- Lubomir Tomaszewski

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense.  All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. -Siddhartha Gautama

The driving force behind great loves, brief flings, adorations, proclivities, innuendos, fetishes, affairs, and embarrassments, Lust is the sultry theme of  this group show at Lana Santorelli Gallery. From Sari Wynne’s shoe fetish photography to Eric Levin’s anthropomorphized garbage cans, this exhibition gets hot and heavy with the spectrum of sexual attraction.

Exhibiting Artists: Anne Alexander, Alana Appel, Lauri Burrier, Claudia Butz, Matthew Thomas Cianfrani, Sarah Dineen, Tyler Kandel, Eric Levin, Ytaelena Lopez, Gregory Prescott, Lana Santorelli, Doug Schwab, Frank Sheehan, William Stoehr, Gigi Stoll, Lubomir Tomaszewski, Lee Vasu, and Sari Wynne

 

  

Everything for Everyone- Jennifer Maloney, Gouache on Paper, 12" x 24"

The time has come once again for Lana Santorelli Gallery's annual Small Works show.  This time, twenty-two artists contribute work that is diminutive in size but packs a giant punch.  From Jennifer Maloney's quirky Everything for Everyone to Jagdish Prabhu's elegant Presences Studies, Small Works culls artwork under twenty-four inches in scale from some of the most intriguing emerging artists.

Exhibiting Artists: Claudia Butz, Angela Cazel-Jahn, Eleanor Chung, Sean Patrick Flannigan, June Glasson, Carla Goldberg, Robin S. Halpern, Marilyn J. Jones, Daniel Kariko, Eric Levin, Jennifer Maloney, Ingrid Marrero, Raquel Zenaida Muslin, Jagdish Prabhu, Alexander M. Ross, Nu Ryu, Lana Santorelli, Seth Scantlen, Lubomir Tomaszewski, Louise and David Weinberg, and Deborah Zlotsky

  
Passing Moment- Lana Santorelli, Oil on Canvas, 18" x 36"

Lana Santorelli's subject matter is universal- life, death, love- though the end product, her colorful, rebellious artwork, is anything but.  Santorelli wants the viewer to feel her work on a close, personal level.  It's a reciprocal relationship; the viewer's connection with her work is a driving force in her lifelong quest for emotional expression.  Point of Connection focused on recent work by Lana Santorelli Gallery's artist-owner that exemplifies these emotional experiments she conducts.   

10% of all proceeds from Point of Connection went go to Hope for a Healthier Humanity.  As a public charity, HHH is committed to assisting the developing nations of the Caribbean and Latin America achieve sustainable improvements in health sciences education and the delivery of health services.  HHH believes that through education and the development of international cross-cultural partnerships, health providers both in the US and abroad can better serve the health needs of the poorest of our brothers and sisters living here in the United States as well as abroad.

Food can comfort. Food can disgust. Food can ignite.  The act of putting something into your mouth, into your body, can be transformative. Food preparation and presentation, undeniably an art itself, is the impetus behind Lana Santorelli's latest group show.  From the delicious to the atrocious, Gastronomy is an exhibition of artwork inspired by what we eat.
   
Exhibiting Artists: Mikhail Dontsov, Kristin Gambell, Adam D. Handler, Amy Miller, Mary Parisi, Brendan Regan, Aubrey Saget, Lana Santorelli, Doug Schwab, Richard Silver, Lindsay Stern, Louise Weinberg, and Rachel Yoakum

The tattered softness of your favorite stuffed animal. Stretching your feet out to touch the clouds as your swing climbs higher and higher.  A boundless expanse of time sprawling before you, imagination running wild with possibility. As we grow older, we yearn for and try to reclaim the simplistic beauty of childhood.  We strive for this most priceless and difficult to attain element of youth: a free and open state of mind.
   
Exhibiting Artists: Walter Garcia, Kimberly Gaul, Stephanie Graegin, Angela Cazel Jahn, Ilana Kohn, Angie Lee, Basha Maryanska, Jessica Roller, Lana Santorelli, Mark G. Taber, Rin TERADA, Edina Tokodi/ Mosstika Group, and Lubomir Tomaszewski

  

 Molecule C, #18- Jagdish Prabhu, Smoke on Paper, 18” x 26”

Breaking down form into abstraction can create a powerful paradigm shift. It necessitates a special eye and, when successfully done, opens an artwork to greater and more diverse interpretations. Distilling materiality to intangibility was the focus of Entropy. Works ranged from enigmatic and ethereal, with drawings in smoke by Jagdish Prabhu and Heidi Thompson's intensely intuitive paintings, to the more earthly visceral oils by Deborah Zlotsky and Elaine Lorenz's anthropomorphic stoneware sculptures.
    
Artists: Pansum Cheng, Evan Conley, Kristin Gambell, Elaine Lorenz, Mike Nemire, Jagdish Prabhu, Lana Santorelli, Paul Seftel, Frank Sheehan, Merrill Steiger, Heidi Thompson, and Deborah Zlotsky 

 

It's not the skyline that makes New York so unique; it's those who have created it.  It's the people that make this city stand out- their energy, fortitude, and overwhelming diversity. New York, NY was a love letter from seventeen artists to the city. From the solitary, architectural calm of John Belardo's sculpture, Statue of Liberty's Geodesic Face, to Jay Pingree's discussion of collective identity of the crowd in his painting, Mass, New York, NY brought together artwork inspired by the city it calls home.

Exhibiting Artists:  Jonathan Allen, John Belardo, Craig Blankenhorn, Zesopol C. Caminha, Matthew Dayler, Larry Dvoskin, Brian Hamill, Allison Malinsky, Ella Manor, Suyeon Na, Chad Nelson, Jay Pingree, Lana Santorelli, Claudia Sbrissa, Jodi Shapiro, Richard Silver, and Shi Ying Vicki Yang

Thaw
March 12 - April 18, 2009

Rotte Tree 2005-07- Ha Rhin Kim, Acrylic on Mylar, 18" x 24"   On frigid winter days it may seem far away, but spring awaits.  Life lies dormant beneath the cold and ice, waiting to resurface. Thaw, focused on the natural world about to reawaken.  From Ha Rhin Kim's delicate anthropomorphic plant creatures of her Rotte Tree series to Robert Cannon's stately living terraform sculpture, Male Armored Torso, Thaw exhibited work made from and inspired by elements of nature. Exhibiting Artists: Kristin Anderson, Allan Baillie, Blair Borthwick, Robert Cannon, Laurel Garcia Colvin, Lisa Dillin, Jee Hwang, Zev Jonas, Ha Rhin Kim, Peggy Klineman, Julie Anne Mann, Sabina Păuţa Pieslak, Jagdish Prabhu, Daniel Rosenbaum, Lana Santorelli, Frank Sheehan, Heidi Thompson, Natalie Tyler, Sarah Vogwill, and Deborah Zlotsky


The ephemeral nature of life is a continual source of tension in art, both in the actual process of creating artwork and in that which inspires the work's conception.  With the passing of the seasons comes Lana Santorelli Gallery's latest group exhibition, Falling Away, which examines artists' contemplations on the transitory. 
 


Exhibiting Artists: Jessica Drenk, Joseph Farbrook, James Frazo, Margaret Inga, Kiseok Kim, Songyi Kim, Carol Pfeffer, Lana Santorelli, Natalie Tyler, Heayeon Yoon