NOTES FROM THE PAST TWO SEASONS

For the first time in its more than fifty years of existence in Manhattan, Bowery Gallery closed its doors for 17 months, as COVID shut down institutions all over the country and artists retreated to their studios. In September 2021, however, Bowery reopened with solo shows by gallery artists showing new work in its new space in Chelsea—a pristine, luminous setting on the fifth floor of 547 W 27 Street. See the listing below for upcoming shows by gallery artists in the 2022-23 season. In this Fall 2022 issue, Bowery artists report on their public doings—in person and virtual— during the 2020-21 season, as well as the 2021-22 season. The artists continue to discuss art, artists, and their own work in Zoom talks archived on YouTube; for further information about Bowery artists, shows and talks, as well as artwork images, please visit www.bowerygallery.org.

GALLERY ARTISTS were represented by one work each in the 2022 exhibition “Artists of the Bowery Gallery,” in the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio…

MARTHA ARMSTRONG showed small works in a solo show at the Oxbow Gallery in Easthampton, MA…

RITA BARAGONA had solo shows at Gamut Gallery, Stroudsburg, PA in 2020, and at Romano Gallery, Blair Academy, Blairstown, PA, where she also lectured on her work. In 2020, her work was shown at the Ramsaysburg Homestead, and at the Dutoit Museum in 2020 and 2021; in 2022, at Rutherford Hall Gallery and in a three-person show at Romano Gallery of Blair Academy…She lectured to students at the University of Mississippi, was in the inaugural class of the Blair Academy Arts Guide, and executed a painting commission for the Blair Academy…

TEMMA BELL had work in a group show curated by the critic Karen Wilkin at Westbeth, and was in a Zeuxis show at the Miller Museum in Sturgeon Bay, WI…

MONICA BERNIER showed work in a group show, “Lynn Kotula and Friends,” at the Buster Levy Gallery in Cold Spring, New York, and in a group show, "Inside Out: Artists in the Studio,” at the Katzen Museum, Washington D.C.…

ROBERT BRACZYK had work in group shows at Carter Burden Gallery in NYC, and at Gallery at Four…

SIMON CARR had 10 watercolors published in "Not A Snake," a book with text by poet Leonard Schwartz, from Chax Press with support of a PSC/CUNY grant. His work is represented by the Alice Gauvin Gallery in Portland, ME, where he has been in various group shows…

GLEN CEBULASH had work in shows at the Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, with the Midwest Paint Group at Hoyt Art Center, Newcastle, PA, in a Members Exhibition at the Dutoit Museum, Dayton, OH, and in a Zeuxis show at There Gallery in NYC…

AUDREY COHN-GANZ had work in the 2020 and 2021 NY Studio School Alumni Shows, in the 2020 and 2022 Prince Street juried shows, and was included in shows at the Art Students League, Ceres Gallery, and in juried annuals at First Street Gallery and Blue Mountain Gallery, all in New York…

COLLEEN FRANCA had work in a group show of small works at the Gaia Gallery, and received a City Artists Corps grant from NYFA…

DOROTHY FREY had a solo exhibition at the Lancaster Galleries, where she was also included in a number of group shows in 2020 and 2021. Her work was in shows of Millersville University faculty at the Ware Center and the Sykes Gallery in Millersville, PA and Lancaster, and was chosen for invitational shows at the Demuth Museum in Lancaster. She executed a painting commission for Penn State Health, co-curated at the Sykes Gallery, and was an awards judge for the annual student shows at the Mount Gretna School of Art in Mt. Gretna, PA… Westbeth Gallery in NYC, and in a Zeuxis show, “For Love of Chardin,” at the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay, WI. He lectured and gave a critique at the interval session of Mt. Gretna School of Art, Mt. Gretna, PA…

JANET GORZEGNO was included in a show of Mississippi collegiate art faculty at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, MS, and had work in virtual group shows of art and design faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi. She was also in a New York Studio School alumni show. She participated in a panel on collaborations between the visual arts and dance at the University of Southern Mississippi. In 2022. She had a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and was a Visual Arts Fellow in residence in Auvillar, France…

DEBORAH KAHN was in a group show at Les Yeux du Monde, New Orleans, LA, and had a conversation with Susan Yanero from the Washington Studio School that can be viewed on Vimeo and the Washington Studio School’s website…

TIMOTHY KING had work in group shows in 2020 at Elgin Community College in Elgin, IL, and with the Midwest Paint Group at There in NYC. In 2021, he was in group shows including one with Midwest Paint Group and another, of friends’ self-portraits, at the Hoyt Art Center, New Castle, PA. He was in an exhibition of faculty from the College of Lake County in Grayslake, IL…

ADRIANNE LOBEL had a solo show at On the Fringe Gallery, NYC, and was included in group shows--at Julia Keyes Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, curated by George Negroponte; and at the Century Club, NYC. Her memoir about her life in the theater, “Moving Scenery: A Memoir,” was published by The Scenographer…