(clockwise, top left): Barbara Curcio, Beneath the Surface, photograph; Denis Ponsot, Pont Notre-Dame, watercolor; Candice Dorsey, Untitled Lidded Vessel, clay, raku; Chris Ann Ambery, Emergence, solarplate etching; Doug Zider, Downtown Lights, oil.
The Art League of Long Island’s juried exhibition, “It’s all about the…LIGHT!,” challenged artists from the Long Island region to submit their interpretations or representations of light in their 2-D or 3-D artwork.
Out of 465 images submitted by 165 artists, exhibition juror Karen Levitov selected 60 works to exhibit in the League’s Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery.
The exhibit will be on view Saturday, July 7 through Sunday, Aug. 5, with an artists’ reception taking place on July 15 from 1 to 3 p.m.
Levitov will discuss her selections in a gallery talk on Tuesday, July 17 at 7 p.m. These events are free and open to the general public. The list of participating artists can be found at www.artleagueli.org.
In her four years as Director and Curator of the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University, Levitov has organized numerous professional solo and group exhibitions of contemporary art, each with exhibition catalogs, and also mounts annual graduate and undergraduate student shows. These exhibitions include group shows of abstract painting and sculpture, photography by artists of color, experimental new media artists, and solo shows by prominent artists including the feminist collective, the Guerrilla Girls.
Levitov has initiated diverse educational programming, including artist talks, salons, Art2Go and the campus-wide Art Crawl. Prior to her Stony Brook appointment, she was a curator and senior administrator at the Jewish Museum in New York City, where she organized numerous exhibitions, including a solo exhibition of contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley’s monumental portraits, work by Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, and an exhibition of modern masterpieces by Matisse, Picasso and others.
Levitov’s books published in conjunction with her exhibitions include “New York: Capital of Photography,” “Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country,” and “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore.”
The Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, located at 107 East Deer Park Road in Dix Hills, is open free of charge from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, and 11a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends.
For more information about the Art League visit www.artleagueli.org or call 631-462-5400.
