Since the Beginning

Two Villages

Egypt

Spirit of Weaving

Tingatinga

Spirit into Matter - Matter into Spirit (Martha Loving Orgain)

Richard Gaeta: My Peopled World

Online: Doug Safranek

Online: Dan Marshall

On display and coordinated with our May 3rd celebration is this current exhibit at Gallery 138. At right is "Bus Stop" by Penny Carter, which was featured in issue #2 of our magazine Threshold released in 2001.

Artists on display include:

Jorge Sanz-Cardona studied architecture and design at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, Germany and he led his own design office in Manhattan for many years. As co-founder of Anthro Habitat, he is researching the practical applications of Rudolf Steiner's artistic impulse in the areas of architecture, sculpture and painting. He is currently represented by the 78th Street Gallery ~ Art-Color-Spirit in Santa Fe, NM.

THRESHOLD; oil on canvas; AURORA; oil on canvas; DAWN; oil on canvas

Sylvia Mandel was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel and immigrated to the US with her family in 1955. She has always had an active interest in art, healing, and esoteric studies, and was introduced to the Egyptian myths in the 1980's through association with a spiritual study group in the East Village. She has studied at Cooper Union School of Fine Arts and the School of Visual Arts. Her training in healing with sound, color, and movement in 2003-4 introduced her to Rudolf Steiner's teachings and she joined ASNYC in 2006. She currently studies the Gerard Wagner painting method with David Anderson and Hans Schumm.

RA; temperas; 1987; ISIS & OSIRIS; temperas; 1987; MA’AT; temperas; 1987; THOTH; temperas; 1987; CROSSING BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: protective amulet - Eye of Horus on Solar Barque; colored pencil; 1987; SCARAB: amulet of regeneration and spontaneous creation; colored pencil; 1987; CANDELABRA; watercolor; 2006; BUTTERFLY; colored pencil; 2007; LOPHOPHORI WILLIAMSII (peyote button flower - hallucinogen); watercolor; 2000; PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM (opium poppy - morphine); watercolor; 2000; TRICHOCEREUS PACHANOI (Cactus flower - mescaline); watercolor; 2000

Dan Marshall lives and works in New York City. He has shown in numerous galleries, including Arnaud Gallery and the 1816 Gallery in France, and the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. He created the film “Pig” with Andy Warhol, currently in the MOMA collection. Clement Greenberg was an admirer of Dan’s work. Contact artist for sales at 212-369-0359.

STARRY NIGHT; acrylic on paper; 2006; THE ALCHEMIST; acrylic on paper; 2006; HIGH NOON; acrylic on paper; 2006

Lelia Rivera majored in commercial art and received a scholarship to the Detroit Institute of the Arts, and has a BA in Art Education from Wayne State University. She attended the Detroit Waldorf Teacher Training Institute, where she painted with Barbara Glas, and earned her diploma in anthroposophical art therapy from “de Wervel” Akademie vor Kunstzinnig Therapie in the Netherlands. She is also a graduate of the Spatial Dynamics training with Jaimen McMillen, and has a master’s degree in special education. She currently works as a resource room teacher in special education in Brooklyn. Previous exhibitions include the Detroit
Institute of the Arts (1965); Port Huron, MI (1972); the Chicago Waldorf School (1995); and recently, the Christian Community in NYC.

AUTUMN; watercolor; 2007; $250; RED ROSE; watercolor; 2003; WINTER LANDSCAPE; watercolor, India ink, tissue paper; 2007

David Anderson is an artist and an art teacher. He trained at the Gerard Wagner School of Painting at the Goetheanum, and has studied numerous art techniques. He has offered painting and drawing courses at the NY Branch for over 10 years, and has recently been teaching painting and drawing at the New York Open Center as well.

MEDITATION: The Raising of Lazarus in the Elements; watercolor

Dominique Raeuber was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1953. He apprenticed in stained glass, studying techniques for leading, etching, staining and painting. He moved to the US in 1977 and opened a studio with partner Gene Mallard in the northern Catskills. He later moved to NYC for two years where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and the New York Studio School of Sculpture, Drawing and Painting. He worked at a private painting restoration studio, operated a small independent glass studio in the Berkshires, and currently lives and works in New Jersey, where he is employed as production manager and art director at Lamb Studios in Wycoff, NJ.

IF A FISH COULD SEE ITSELF; hand-blown glass, slumped, etched and painted, lead and brass. Installed in light-box, but best viewed with sunlight; A DROP OF SPACE; hand-blown and fused glass, fired and polished copper; THE WOMB THAT BEARS HERSELF; OUT OF EARTH BODY; plant pigment in emulsion, shellac, on paper

Penny Carter has written and illustrated numerous books for children and adults. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from “In Style” to “The New York Times.” More of her work can be seen on her website at www.pennycarter.com. She has exhibited extensively, especially in her childhood home state of South Carolina. Contact artist via her website for
sales info.

CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR; acrylic on paper; 2008; TREE; acrylic on paper; 2008; SUNDAY, AFTER SUPPER; acrylic on paper; 2008; NEVER AGAIN WILL HE BE SO HAPPY; acrylic on paper; 2008; DELANCY; acrylic on paper; 2008; SHAKE; acrylic on paper; 2008; NAVIGATION ELATION; acrylic on paper; 2008

“Bibi” Fairchild Smith has been a member of the New York Branch for many years. As a young woman, she studied painting in Italy, where she proved to be quite a gifted artist. The four paintings on display here – a small sampling of her lovely work - were painted in the 1950’s. She is currently living in a retirement community in Westchester County.

NAPLES with Vesuvius; watercolor; TOWER, Sienna; watercolor; PARK, Padua; watercolor; VENICE; watercolor; NFS

Anthony Spitaliere has only recently discovered his creativity and love of art, and has been studying painting with David Anderson. He has a BioDynamic farm in Colombia, SA, and a home on Long Island, where his children attend the Waldorf School.

CHRISTMAS MOOD RISING; watercolor; MARCO VALIENT; watercolor; THE LIGHT WITHIN; watercolor; LUNA ECLIPSE; watercolor; SPIRIT MOVEMENT; watercolor; CREATIVE CHAOS; watercolor; NIGHT VENTURING; watercolor

Robb Creese is a largely self-taught novice who has been working with colors for the past four years. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, an MA from NYU and a law degree from Cornell Law School. He has been a member of the Anthroposophical Society since 1978 and is active in The Christian Community. All of the prints on exhibit are reproductions of artworks created either by applying colored inks diluted with isopropyl alcohol to cotton fabric or by using digital drawing and painting tools.

ORANGE NET; THREE TOWERS; PALLADIO; QUILT FORMS; THREE TREES; THREE RIVERS; RED CELL; SUMMER TREE; TEMPTATION; NIGHTMARE; OWL TOTEM; GREEN MOSAIC; BLUE MOSAIC;
ORANGE MOSAIC; THREE RASHERS; MAHLER’S FOURTH; GREEN ISLAND; AQUA / MAGENTA; BIRD FORM; FLAMES; DUCK FORM

Sonia Saldarriaga has been painting for over thirty years. She has studied with David Anderson here at the Branch, and at the New York Art Student’s League, and is otherwise largely self-taught. She has exhibited her work here as well as at the Christian Community.

No Title; watercolor on paper

Adesha Village is a therapeutic community serving adults with mental illness through support, care, advocacy and education. Located in Kimberton PA, it is comprised of individuals with all kinds of strengths and challenges, coming together for social, practical and spiritual support.

Phoenix Village Art Center is a strong cultural presence in downtown Phoenixville PA, and enriches the life of the community with art classes, studio facilities, art shows. Collaboration between the two organizations began over two years ago, and the Adesha Art Program was born, and has produced some amazing growth both personally and artistically for the friends at Adesha Art. Please come and see the fruits of this true community effort!

This exhibition is also joined by The Bryn Mawr Consumer’s Center, a place for connections, services, and healing activities; and Artists for Recovery, a unique organization that has for many years been a self-run center of artistic expression in many forms (music, performance, and the visual arts) as well as offering mutual support and inspiration.

For more information regarding the exhibition itself and the organizations involved, please contact Joyce Reilly at 973-635-4063 (office), 201-213-6294 (cell).

Martha Loving Orgain [www.lovingcolor.org]

An artist, educator, astrologer and painting therapist, she comes out of an ancestry of weavers and quilters. Martha feels at one with and receives inspiration from nature and the spiritual forces behind what we see. She has been influenced in both her life and work by Sonia Sheridan, Dennis Klocek, and Liane Collot d'Herbois - the latter two having introduced her to the work of Steiner and Goethe. Martha has been reappointed for a third 4-year term on the Virginia Commission for the Arts Professional Artists Roster. Her work is held in many public and private collections.

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Never having had formal training in art, Richard has developed a natural and uncanny ability to translate his perceptions of people and animals into gesture and color, creating soul portraits of great humor and impact. He has always had a good eye for the unusual and the absurd, and has the ability to express his visions in wonderfully whimsical ways.  Art Exhibit runs through Mid-March.

Donations welcome

Richard Gaeta

Always spontaneous, painted characters and scenes of Richard Gaeta inspired vivid descriptions.  He has since written a number of short plays, which have been produced.  A current project is a series of greeting cards featuring fantastic birds complete with field notes (available for sale in our bookstore during the exhibition).  His art has been shown at various venues in the Seattle area.

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