Three artists focus of Saugerties gallery’s exhibition
An exhibition titled “3: Brenda Goodman, Christina Tenaglia & Marie Vickerilla” opens Friday, July 6, at Cross Contemporary Art, 99 Partition St., Saugerties.
Goodman, Tenaglia and Vickerilla are artists who work with bold form and deep color. These paintings, or in the case of Tenaglia, painted sculptures, invoke presences and voids that serve as portals into other sensory experiences. All three artists play with open-ended narratives, but come to very different conclusions. “
Goodman’s small paintings on paper and larger oil paintings on wood begin with random mark making that through a process of intuitive decision making coalesce into coherent abstract shapes that evoke figurative and landscape elements. Originally from Detroit, Goodman has been the recipient of many awards from New York Foundation of the Arts, a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowments for the Arts, an American Academy Arts and Letters Award and, in 2017, an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, the College of Creative Studies in Detroit. Ms. Goodman will be having a solo show at Sikkema Jenkins in New York next January.
Vickerilla uses determined brushwork to create shapes that defy gravity and assert their weight against their space. She is a graduate of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, with a master’s degree in fine art and a bachelor of fine arts degree from California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland. She has received a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts and an honorable mention for the National 93 Small Works Exhibition.
Tenaglia’s painted sculptures contain glancing references to other objects while retaining their own distinct identities. Currently on the faculty of Vassar College, Tenaglia is
a graduate of Vassar, with a bachelor of fine arts degree, and the Yale University School of Art, with a master of fine arts degree.
She was the recipient of a Purchase Award from the 2018 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
A reception for the artists will take place Saturday, July 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. The exhibition runs
through Sunday, July 29. Gallery hours are Thursdays through Mondays from noon to 5 p.m. or Tuesdays and Wednesdays by appointment.
Call Jen Dragon at (845) 247-3122 or visit crosscontemporaryart.com for more information.