Roosevelt Island, New York/Opening September 19th, 2020
Vernissage XIX embraces Roosevelt Island with the emotion and images designed to reach beyond the everyday. Images for mind and heart. COVID-19 forced Gallery RIVAA’s closing in March, but they’re coming back. The traditional spring opener finally happens, this week, and we’ve got a preview for you.
RIVAA artists mounted Vernissage XIX, but just hours before the opening, COVID-19 locked the doors.
Hoping to bring the art to Roosevelt Island and beyond, in spite of the coronavirus, we started talking with RIVAA president Tad Sudol. Sudol, spent hours photographing pictures in the gallery. As a result, we are now able to deliver them here.
The 40 images that follow represent the passions of dozens of artists, and they offer them as an embrace for the Roosevelt Island community.
We join the artists of Vernissage XIX in reaching out with power of art.
Although we are able to identify each artist, we don’t have titles for all the work now. We may add them in the future.
Vernissage XIX, Art Embraces Roosevelt Island
The Art
It makes sense to start with one of Gallery RIVAA’s most loved artists, Ioan Popoiu, represented here by three acrylic abstracts.
Laura Hussey’s paintings, frequent scenes from Greece, highlight many RIVAA group shows.
Works from RIVAA’s Vernissage XIX on Roosevelt Island Continues
Mind bending sculpture from Victoria Thorson.
For Vernissage XIX, Tony Vita added classic references in passionate triptych.
Bogdan Mattei’s sinewy images brought a different slant to Vernissage XIX.
Photographer Piotr Olszewski brought deep contemplation into the frame.
Saundra Lamb’s moon confronts the viewer’s easy expectations about nature.
More than meets the eye in Rachel Garrick’s swirling abstraction.
More from Ms. Garrick.
Natasha Landau-Flint tells stories at Vernissage XIX.
Detail from Ms. Landau-Flint.
Su Im Kim dynamic abstraction whirls and bubbles with life.
Lyrical poetry in visual art: Photography by Anne-Marie Dannenberg.
A colorfully precise installation by Ching Wen Tsai for Roosevelt Island’s Vernissage XIX.
Deceptive simplicity in a photograph by Alexander Movshovich
Conclusion: RIVAA’s Vernissage XIX for Roosevelt Island
Fear can close a gallery, but artistry never stops.
What I found, going through these images, is the fresh embrace of creativity, the lively vitality that our artists bring to Roosevelt Island.
We don’t know the future of Vernissage XIX, but we hope the quarantines lift in time to see it live in the gallery. For now, we’ve got this and a tremendous debt of gratitude for the artists who walk with us every day.
Love seeing this wonderfully varied show from Alaska!
Thanks for your comment, Katharine. These artists deserve to be seen and appreciated. DS