This was a fun interview in the context of my participation in the CSMA Arts for All Marathon this year.
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Edward R. Marion
Life in the Finger Lakes
Ed goes Pop! at Americana Vineyards & Winery
This month at American Vineyards & Winery in Interlaken, NY, I've hung a show of 16 self-portraits embedded in QR Codes. Readable with a smartphone, each painting/print takes the viewer to my online web site -- edmarion.com -- to see the art, including portraits and self-portraits, behind my painting practice.
The show at Americana Vineyards & Winery's Crystal Lake Cafe, 4367 E. Covert Rd., Interlaken, NY, runs through August 31, 2011.
Good Evening, Hockey Fans! opens
this Friday, March 4, 2011, 5 to 8pm
Please join me at the opening of my new art exhibit -- Good Evening, Hockey Fans! -- a show of paintings inspired by many years of watching Cornell's Big Red Men's Ice Hockey team at Lynah Rink in Ithaca, New York.
Feel free to click (and print) the poster, at left, to share with your friends and coleagues at work. You can also help me spread the word of the show on facebook -- http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=130509040338444 -- by inviting your hockey-loving facebook friends to the show.
I hope to see you at the opening this coming Friday, March 4th, from 5 to 8pm and also at my artists's talk on Monday, March 21st, from 6:30 to 7:30pm. All events to be held at the CAP ArtSpace, 171 Ithaca Commons (right in Center Ithaca on the downtown Ithaca Commons).
March
This March, I have a show of paintings on display at Collegetown Bagels in East Hill Plaza. Collegetown Bagels is one of my very favorite places in all of Ithaca to eat, get a coffee, meet friends, relax, the whole shebang. I also have a double self-portrait (above) hanging in CSMA's Post-Decade show and I'm working on a new series of works that will be on display during the month of May at the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca.
I am so proud of the work that Luke Fenchel and company is doing over at theithacapost.com. I have always thought that Ithaca and Tompkins County represented possibly the best cultural destination in all of New York State outside of New York City and now many of our creatives are coming together to write about the cultural treasure trove that we make, experience, and live every day. For news on the musicians, painters, dancers, playwrights and actors who make, display and perform their art on a daily basis, check out The Ithaca Post.
As April approaches, I’m gearing up to do a one-hour live painting with 24 of my fellow artists at the Fourth Annual Ithaca Festival Paint Off which is being held on Friday, April 2, 2010 at 7:00pm at Center Ithaca on the Ithaca Commons. The Paint Off is a fabulous event in which 25 artists paint their respective masterpieces in 60 minutes before a live crowd. It’s Gallery Night, so they’ll be music, food, a chance to win all of the Paint Off paintings via raffle or auction, and me! So come down to Center Ithaca, support the Ithaca Festival with your $15 admission fee, and watch great art being made in real time.
And just in case you forgot how fun the Paint Off is, here's a video snippet of last year's event to remind you.
The CSMA Post-It® Art Show for the 2009 Arts for All Marathon (Sep. 28 - Oct. 24)
I'm very excited to be participating again in this year's Arts for All Marathon (2009 web update coming soon) to benefit the Community School of Music and Arts in Ithaca, New York. In 2009, the Marathon will run from Monday, September 28th through Saturday, October 24th.
As part of the Marathon, CSMA will be hosting a Post-It® Art Show inviting all Ithacans to make, view, and buy art on Post-It® notes for a gallery show and opening which will take place on Friday, October 23, 2009. So here's an easy and great chance to have your art displayed at CSMA for all your neighbors to see. Take Post-It®, make art on it, get it to CSMA. Up on the CSMA gallery walls it goes to the first buyer at our opening/closing celebration on Friday, October 23rd.
It will be a great chance, too, for you to see the art of all of your neighbors (hopefully, thousands of them). Further details to follow.
I'm also assisting in curating the first floor front gallery for CSMA during the Arts for All Marathon. During the Marathon, a score or more of artists will display their craft and hold mini-marathons of their own in CSMA's first floor gallery. Interested artists wishing to participate are urged to visit the Arts for All Marathon web site for more details.
Art at Ithaca's Moosewood Restaurant
So my art show at the world-famous Moosewood Restaurant is finally up and running through the month of August.
I called the show Multiple Personality because I tried out a few new different series of multiple paintings, including original oil and acrylic paintings of pineapples, skateboarders and a guitarist. The exhibit of 32 paintings basically encompasses much of my work from 2009.
Now that the show is up, I'm gearing up for CSMA's Arts for All Marathon which will again run from September through October of this year. As part of the marathon, I'll be the head cheerleader and motivator for a community-wide "Post-It" sticky note art show that will be a featured fundraiser for CSMA.
Our goal in raising money for CSMA scholarships is to bring out both the artist and arts consumer in each of us. The Post-It show will culminate in a great one-night gallery show at CSMA where all of the art submitted on Post-Its will be up for sale to raise funds for CSMA's art scholarships. If you visit Moosewood during the month of August, I'll try to keep the restaurant stocked with some Post-It art of my own to give away during August -- if only to whet your collective collector's whistle.
Art in Ithaca this weekend: Americana Vineyards & gimme! T-Burg
Starting Friday, July 3rd, my painted barrel will be on display at American Vineyards in Interlaken (see, post below) and starting Sunday, July 5th, I'll be hanging a new show of portraits and people at the gimme! Espresso shop in Trumansburg.
So if you're in the mood for a nice drive, some driving capuccino, and a great bottle of wine, it may be the ideal weekend to take in some of my art along with some of the best food and beverage our region has to offer.
Visit my painted wine barrel at Americana Vineyards in Interlaken and online at PaintedBarrels.com
This week I finished painting a wine barrel for Americana Vineyards in Interlaken which will be part of the Painted Barrels exhibit of some 27 wine barrels located throughout the Finger Lakes wine trails on Cayuga, Seneca, and Keuka Lakes.
Part of the excitement for me was being assigned to Americana Vineyards. They are one of the closest Finger Lakes wineries to Ithaca and also one of the most fun to visit.
I was all revved up to do a typical oil painting of Americana fireworks themes when I ran into my first experience painting with exterior oil-based paints. Part of the rules of the game were that the barrels had to be painted for both indoor and outdoor use. While I’m used to working with very malleable and controllable oil and acrylic paints, these exterior paints excelled at dripping, running and not mixing well at all.
Thus, in a flash, my goal of painting New York City fireworks along with the American flag on the moon and at Iwo Jima, quickly turned into inspiration to do a red, white and blue Jackson Pollock-homage drip painting that was more appropriate to the medium.
You, dear viewer, now get the pleasure of touring all of the wineries of the Finger Lakes listed at the Painted Barrels web site to check out these barrels, check out the wines, and bid to purchase the barrels of your choice (here's a link to mine). While I’d like to think my barrel is reason enough to visit Americana Vineyards, you’ll also want to visit their tasting room, perhaps dine at the Crystal Lake Café (sample menu), and take home some of their great wine with those great Americana-themed wine labels.
