To purchase a postcard set ($30) or print ($30 unframed/$40 framed), please call GCCA at 51 or go to Proceeds from the postcard set and the 10/10 artist prints will benefit GCCA’s Visual Art Program. Forty chosen works were produced into a set of postcards called the “40 Years/40 Artists” collection. Lohnes, the Curator of Art Collections and Exhibitions at Union College, and Iadicicco, the Executive Director of Albany Center Gallery, are both artists and arts leaders in the Capital Region. Jurors Julie Lohnes and Tony Iadicicco chose a cross-section of their favorite pieces from each of the genres that were submitted. These artists were selected from over eighty other submissions of landscapes, contemporary abstractions, photographs, portraits, and whimsical illustrations by GCCA members. Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. The show will be on view from January 16 th through February 27 th, with an opening reception on Saturday, January 23 rd, immediately following GCCA’s Annual Membership Meeting at 4pm. Artists Richard Armstrong, Lauren Simkin Berke, Dot Chast, Allen Grindle, Eva Melas, Giselle Potter, Kate Hamilton, Jim Krewson, Amy Siberkleit, and Jersey Walz were selected by a jury for this exhibition opportunity and to reproduce one piece each as a fine art print edition of five. The Greene County Council on the Arts is proud to present work by ten stellar artists in a group show called “Ten Artists: One Group Show.” The show is the next in a series of events to commemorate GCCA’s 40 th Anniversary. GCCA Catskill Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Opening Reception, Saturday January 23rd, 5-7pm, following GCCA’s Annual Membership Meeting at 4pm. “Ten Artists: One Group Show.” January 16 th to February 27th. She mailed in a few images and a statement about her project to, and within a week of being featured on their website, the teabags were picked up by a variety of web and print publications. The excitement was encouraging she began sending out more applications to shows and residencies. “At first,” Silviousrecalls, “10 likes per day was a really big deal.” She noticed that people responded most strongly to the paintings on recycled teabags. On January 3rd, 2015, she committed herself to post a tea-themed art piece on social media every day. These shows inspired her to expand her artistic discipline. Looking back, she considers two group shows to be her artistic turning point: one at Albany Center Gallery in 2012 and another at Atlantic Gallery in Chelsea, NY last year. In Albany, she joined the Colonie Art League, Upstate Artists Guild and Albany Center Gallery for more exhibition opportunities. She joined Greene County Arts and Crafts Guild in the early 1980s, exhibiting alongside Regina Petrosky and Dot Chast. Her employers funded her next two degrees: AS Business Administration from Columbia Greene Community College and BS Marketing Management from Siena College. In 1986, she moved to Athens to join her then-husband and worked as an architectural draftsman for firms in Albany. For a number of years, she attended $2 figure drawing classes at the Art Students’ League while working in an administrative capacity at Bergdorf Goodman. She studied architecture and fine arts in the Philippines and joined her family in New York City in 1977. Silvious has always been creative, but did not identify as an “artist” until she moved upstate in 1986. Her winning submission is from her series “363 Days of Tea” where she draws, paints and collages moody, evocative and cheerful daily scenes in a tea-stained travel journal on dried, used teabag paper. She won the “People’s Choice Award” at GCCA’s 40th Anniversary Party at the unveiling of the “40 Years/40 Artists” Collection. Her award winning work has been exhibited internationally and is included in institutional and private collections. Silvious was born in Tacloban City, Philippines and currently lives in Coxsackie. “Tea and Alchemy” will be on view from January 16th through February 27th, with an opening reception on Saturday, January 23rd, immediately following GCCA’s Annual Membership Meeting at 4pm. Recently, her hard work has been paying off in spades her mixed-media paintings on used teabags went viral at the end of October on blogs and publications including The Guardian, Metro Russia, Viral Nova, Bored Panda, Design Taxi and Art Exhibeo. “363 Days of Tea,” a project by Ruby Silvious that has garnered instantaneous international attention from the social media world this fall, will be on view in “Tea and Alchemy,” her Solo Show at Greene County Council on the Arts this January. Silvious has been exhibiting in the Hudson Valley and Capital Region since 1986. Coxsackie Artist Ruby Silvious “Went Viral” Internationally for the Recycled Teabags on view in her Solo Show, “Tea and Alchemy” at Greene County Council on the Arts
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