Art and Sound Galley thrilled to announce the opening reception for our next show, 'Topographies + Origins: A Group Exhibition' featuring the work of Eric Jiaju Lee, Leslie B Weissman + Rosalind Schneider. Please join us to gather around these multifacted and evokative works of painting, monotype and digitial fusion. The reception will take place Saturday June 4th from 6-9 PM at Art and Sound Gallery. Help us celebrate these artists, our community and (as always) Art and Sound.
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Artist Info:
Rosalind Schneider has shown work at the The Bronx Museum of Arts, The Islip Museum, The Chelsea Museum, The Hudson River Museum, SculptureCenter, and was part of ‘The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought, Women Avant-garde Filmmakers in America,’ at the Whitney Museum. Her reviews include the New York Times and the Journal News. Schneider’s work deals with the natural environment as a continuing source of inspiration. She creates layered landscape images with multiple realities that progress from the real into abstraction and a fusion of the two. Schneider uses digital technology to define the structure and color of her video footage then further transforms the image with drawing, paint and glass particle collage. Her hybrid works create a dialogue between paint and photography and reflects Schneider’s interest in challenging the nature of perceived realities.

Eric Jiaju Lee (Eric Jiaju Lee Studio) was recently profiled in the The Huffington Post and exhibits regularly both locally and abroad, with works belonging to many international private and corporate collections. Lee is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, a professor of fine arts at Hunter College, an independent curator and a guest lecturer at various institutions in the greater New York area. His work is an intersection of contemporary abstraction and traditional Chinese painting, where both aspire to elucidate the relationship between nature and consciousness through an idiosyncratic yet lyrical sensibility. With a quixotic nod to science, science fiction and scientific theories, his organic forms suggest a microscopic to macrocosmic continuum inherent to nature. He uses a process that is by turns both premeditated and improvisational by pouring, dripping and brushing paint onto fabric such as canvas, linen, satin or silk.

Leslie B.Weissman has shown in numerous galleries, her work is part of many private collections and is the founder of The Northern Westchester Artists Guildd and the co-owner of Presents For Purpose, a socially conscious gift company whose sales benefit cancer and health charities. Weissman is currently exploring the suburban landscape and the real and imagined boundaries that prevail in daily life; a thought about social, economic and political status. Approaching this from two vantage points; the abstract figure and the boundaries of planned suburban development she is hoping to initiate a dialogue about how we relate to each other and function as a community. She is interested in personal intrigues and how those personal struggles and background stories impact our reactions and relations to those around us.