All That Glitters and Thru Rain

a shared exhibit featuring works of
 

Ms. Hertog assembles her pieces with found objects, incorporating them in her surrealistic/abstract sculpture and collages. Materials she uses include resin, glitter, ink, sponges and discarded baby toys that used to belong to her son. She is not afraid of color, and many of her pieces reflect the influence of transcendent art of Miro and Calder.

 

In the spring of this year, Ms. Hertog was in a group show at Long Beach Arts in California juried by former Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator Darlene DeAngelo. Concurrently, she was in the "Texas National" show, juried by New York artist Paul Brach. Other recent shows include the "War is Over" exhibition at Sideshow Gallery and the "Black and White" show at the Holland Tunnel Gallery, both in Brooklyn. In November of this year, she will have a one-person show at the Mind Puddles Gallery in Houston, and in January of next year, she will have a one-person show at Galeria Janet Kurnatowski in Brooklyn. Ms. Hertog is participating in "…and the levee Broke: meditations on the power of water" traveling exhibition to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina, originated by Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

 

Other recent shows include a group show at the Alpan Gallery in Huntington, New York, juried by former New York Times critic Phyllis Braff and a "Brush with Art," a Havre De Grace, Maryland show juried by Stephen Bennett Phillips, chief curator of the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. 

 

about Howard's show:

Francis Scott Key wrote an anthem appropriate to July and to the exhibition of Howard Skrill's recent paintings 'Thru Rain' at chashama's 112 West 44th Street location.

 

Mr. Skrill has written:

   "Upon a boat in Baltimore harbor, during the War of 1812, Key poetically expressed gratitude that the nation's flag still flew through 'bombs bursting in air'. Key noticed that fluttering pendant obscured by radiant glow of massive incendiary devices fired from Britain’s great warships, his vision impeded by sparkling lights and curling smoke.

   "With a quite vivid memory of incendiary devices that lit upon the contemporary landscape and the contemporary psyche, I can not recall flags sturdily surviving more recent conflagrations.

   "As a long time landscape artist, particularly of the New York waterfront and New Jersey's wetlands, particularly as seen 'thru' gates, electrical towers and railroad trestles, I had always envisioned and rendered these vistas in the pure light of early September, until early September.

   "Now these same places form the foundation for 'Thru Rain', with rains and bombs bursting in the in-between, reminiscent perhaps of Key in Baltimore harbor, but less gratifying."

   Howard Skrill's work also on exhibit in a solo show at Safe-T Gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn, at 111 Front Street, through July 22. Mr. Skrill is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Art Department of CUNY-Bronx Community College and the International Cultural Studies Program at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, New York.