The Art League of Long Island will be hosting the upcoming exhibit titled “Brush/Lens Project,” featuring the work of photographic artist Holly Gordon and watercolorist Ward Hooper, opening August 8.
The Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery of the Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills will be housing 52 pieces of work pairing the new photographic art of Gordon with the paintings of Hooper of the same locations and inspired by the rugged and diverse North Shore terrain of Long Island, .an area rich with the history of art and artists.
The Brush/Lens Project is a contemporary union of two artists. Hooper’s on sight paintings and Gordon’s painterly images of the same locations give the viewer a unique opportunity to see side-by-side creative interpretations of the same subject…and along the way they discovered that many of their locations for inspiration were rooted in the fertile ground of Arthur Dove and Helen Torr, celebrated early American abstract artists who lived and worked on the North Shore of Long Island 75 years ago.
Gordon and Hooper connected via Facebook and creative sparks flew, igniting a unique collaboration and friendship. The discovery of parallels between Dove and Torr and the creativity that arose from their relationship further embraced this unique year-long collaboration.
Hooper and Gordon led independent lives for decades until social media brought them together to discover that they lived in parallel universes. Each has a long history of honors, exhibitions and published work.
Hooper taught at the Art League of Long Island for 12 years and is represented by LaMantia Gallery in Northport. Gordon is a working photographer whose work is frequently viewed as paintings. She is an artist with the Long Island photography collective, fotofoto gallery in Huntington.
The Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery is located at 107 E. Deer Park Rd., Dix Hills. An opening reception is scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 9 from 2 to 4 p.m. and a gallery talk by the artists for Sunday, Aug. 16 from 2 to 4 p.m. The exhibit will be on display from August 8 through August 23.
