See list of achieves with the events and exhibitions we held from 2007- 09

This was the first post on our blogsite in 2007:
As a group of artists, we have come together to open a cooperative gallery in the nationally renowned antiques and arts area of Hudson, NY on Warren Street. We seek to create a space where showing and making art can be shared by a broad based group of people, of all economic and educational backgrounds. We hope that the community that arises out of this endeavor will be a supportive network fostering creative search, creative courage and independence for all those involved.

We are committed to:

• Openings that include artistic activity
• Dialogue that helps a viewer to enter into a piece of art
• A wide range of prices
• Showing art that represents each artist’s independence of search without economic pressure.
• Working collaboratively in a circle of artists and supporters


Art is in my opinion the only revolutionary energy. In other words,
the situation can only be changed through man’s creativity.
Joseph Beuys

The spirit casts its shadow
into space and that is beauty.
The shadow becomes a living being
through the artist’s creative spirit.
Rudolf Steiner

Please join us at Gallery 345 in Hudson, New York for a conversation with
David Schulz and Laura Summer concerning David's present solo exhibition,
The Mirror.


Artists' Talk, Saturday, May 9, 5pm


Gallery 345
345 Warren Street
Hudson, New York


David Schulz
The MirrorDavid Schulz, The Mirror

May 2, 2009­May 31, 2009
Opening Reception, Saturday, May 2, 5­9pm
Artist¹s Talk, Saturday May 9, 2009, 5pm





Hudson, NY This spring, Gallery 345 will present a special exhibition, The
Mirror, by David Schulz. Continuing his interest in parallel narratives, The
Mirror combines photographic diptychs (injet prints, 8 x 22² wide), and text
which is reproduced and mounted along the baseboards, running around the
perimeter of the gallery.

The Mirror consists of photographic image and text that contains a story
about a man watching a video of his parents, with his wife. As time unfolds,
he realizes his dad is actually alone (in the physical world)‹his mother is
a ghost. Still later, he realizes he is alone‹his wife vanishes into thin
air. But the story is not about being alone, it¹s about how everything is at
once itself and an image of itself. As with a mirror, on one side you stand;
on the other, your image stands. In the story, his awareness of his
predicament becomes his image. As horizontal diptychs, the photographs mimic
the subject-object relationship that plays out in a mirror. The photographic
content‹peripheral views of the everyday: hallways, city streets,
doorhandles, and radiators‹comments on the ebb and flow of things in the
world as we gain conscious recognition of them, and lose them, as we lose
our memories, in a fluid state of preformation.

Additionally, The Mirror, is a photo-bookwork published in November, 2008,
by David Schulz, in an edition of 200, offset printed, perfect-bound, 44
pages, 7 x 9².

David Schulz has exhibited with many galleries and organizations in the New
York City area including Gigantic Art Space, the Front Room, Dumbo Arts
Center, Pratt Institute (where he is faculty), the Parrish Art Musuem, and
the Cellar Gallery (co-founder, 1996). Additionally, David¹s work has been
included in two exhibitions at the Brooklyn Art Museum: Artists¹ Books,
2000, and Open House, 2004. He is part of the following collectives: Nurture
Art, White Columns, Pierogi 2000 (flat files), and Art in General. His
photo-bookworks are held in various national and international collections
including the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Whitney
Museum of American Art, the Yale University Library, the Art Institute of
Chicago, the Walker Art Museum, the Getty Research Library, and the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art.

David lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
May 2-May 30, 2009

Seeds of Metamorphosis

Michael Howard
Drawings, Paintings and Sculptures


Gallery 345
April 4 -26, 2009

Reception: Saturday, April 4, 5 - 9 pm
Creative Conversations: Saturdays, April 4, 11, 18 & 25 at 7 pm

Open Saturdays and Sundays, 1- 9 pm
April 4/5, 11/12, 18/19, 25 /26

345 Warren Street, Hudson, NY



Metamorphosis is not merely change of form; it is the transformation from one form into another. We encounter metamorphosis in plants when we behold a seed becoming a shoot, followed by leaves, flower and fruit. Likewise, we encounter metamorphosis in the bodily development of animals and the human being beginning with embryonic development and continuing through adulthood.

Metamorphosis can also refer to an inner transformation in the human being, for example, when we experience a change of heart in the way we look at and think about the world or other people.

Exploring the phenomenon of metamorphosis has become a central aspect of my creative work in drawing, painting and sculpting - a window into the mystery of all life, and in particular, our potential to develop and transform ourselves. I see metamorphosis in the arts as a way we can develop new capacities for understanding and meeting the social and ecological challenges of our time.

My efforts are best characterized as artistic research, compared to the more familiar view of artistic expression. The drawings, paintings and sculptures in this exhibit are for me the seeds of a new art of metamorphosis founded on the exact perception of color and form qualities.

My striving is to create forms that inwardly move us in the way music moves us. I invite the visitors to this exhibition to inwardly participate in the visual music of these drawings, paintings and sculptures. Living in the music of form and color quickens the seeds of our own metamorphosis, transforming the way we see and think about our selves, other people and the world.

During open hours I will be present at the Gallery working on one or more creative projects so visitors can experience something of the creative process behind the finished works. I welcome conversation about art and the challenges of our time.

Beginning at 7 pm each Saturday evening, all are warmly invited to participate in a creative conversation about art and the transformation of our selves and the world. Each conversation will include conversing through the playful medium of rice drawing.

March 2009 "Triptych" Opening
Peter Donahoe, David Schultz, Wendy Holmes Noyes

"TRIPTYCH"

March 7- 29, 2009
Opening reception Saturday , March 7 5-9 PM
Photographic works by Peter Donahoe, David Schulz, Wendy Holmes Noyes



Gallery hours Sat/Sun 1-5 and by appointment (518) 392- 2730




David Schulz's work is concerned with narrative structures. Through the parallel use of photographic imagery and text, he explores motifs such as reflection, memory, and identity. His use of assemblage poses questions concerning the nature of things and our perception of them. Included in the show at Gallery 345, are several images from his work, Mirage, where he has created a series of vertical diptychs that simulate the physical nature of a mirage, namely, vertical layers of warm and cool air that refract and reflect light which produces an image. The photographic content, peripheral views of the everyday, comments on the ebb and flow of things in the world as we gain conscious recognition of them. David Schulz is an artist and teacher living in Brooklyn, New York. His Photo Book-Works can be found in several major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Getty Institute.



Wendy Holmes Noyes

"Memory seems to live in layers, years on years, lives on lives, stuff collected, objects endowed with soul.

The house where I grew up is laden with such "objects."
It was my parents' home for fifty-three years. Now, as a way of gathering my feelings together to say goodbye to a place that I too have inhabited spiritually for over half a century, I have set about to commemorate my mother's collections in photographs.

We jokingly called her "the curator," and would tease her about her inability to toss anything -- anything at all that is. At age 12 I typed chore lists for the entire family, pasting each person's special list on the inside of his or her closet door. At the bottom of every list I typed, "Everyday, throw away." This message was exactly counter to what my mother had learned by living through the depression.

I never followed my own advice either. Now I am sorting through the jumble of treasure and trash in this family house, and I find in this task the starting point for unexpected travels, mingling memory and magic. My goal for now is to move beyond the grip of the physical and into a free blend of then and now. I'm looking to loosen the power of the past with its nostalgia and gain a new energetic freedom for myself.

The characters encountered on this journey are purely fictional. Any resemblance to real people, especially to those in my own family, is completely misleading and unintentional."




Peter Donahoe

Pinhole Photography
"Portrait as a Memorial/Monument"







In the past few years Peter Donahoe has returned to a theme that has occupied him ever since he abandoned lensed-camera photography for self-made pinhole cameras nearly two decades ago: the monumental as personal and as memorial. In the past he concentrated primarily on barns and farmsteads as the vernacular embodiment of the monumental in the landscape.
More recently he has explored this concern through the portrait, either of the living person or the figurative in sculpture. He says "For me portrait making is always an act of memorialization, a way that we counter loss, alienation and separation." By using pinhole cameras exclusively, the discipline of cooperation between photographer and subject is amplified; there is no point and shoot here. Long exposures require an intent and intensity not common in conventional photography; the lack of a viewfinder demands intuition. "The photograph is the aide-mémoire of our personal histories."
His book-length photo essay about cab driving in NYC The Night Line was published in 1990 and his work is in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. His pinhole camera work as been published in Stenope in the Photo Poche series in France.

Feb 7- Mar 1

Opening Reception:
Sat, Feb 7, 5-9pm

“Enter Face”




Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-8pm and Sundays, 1-
5pm (including the 7th). Exhibitors:

Daniel Pate
and Nathaniel Williams.

Daniel Pate was trained in
oils at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN
and subsequently at the neueKUNSTschule in
Basel, Switzerland. He has been painting since
1997. Dan's paintings arise out of an interest in a
beautiful expression of hidden aspects of the human
soul as they relate to the world and the self.
Nathaniel Williams trained at the
neueKUNSTschule, as well, and has been active as
an artist and teacher of art since.



Daniel: “For these paintings, I am attempting to
reveal hidden aspects of my own identity, my own
structure, which I experience as having other layers
than merely bone and flesh. My face can be seen
from the outside, as appearance, an appearance
which can convey myriad thoughts and emotions,
but beyond thoughts and emotions, a face can
bespeak more complicated states of being: health or
illness, heredity, environmental experiences. How
can gestures of line convey the gestures underlying
a human soul? My intent is not to speculate on the
answers to these questions but to paint in
simultaneous response to my own experience of my
FACE, something which when experienced from
the inside, is clearly an experience of the intangible,
an intangible which through contemplative painting
can become tangible.”





Nathaniel: “Faces cover people yet they also speak
them. One moment they are striving for some
independent life, the next they are totally pure
expression of my friend’s heart and mind. The face
clearly has a secret life yet it is not a life truly
foreign to its carrier, indeed it seems a deeper layer,
a woven stream of personhood; a nose hurries
ahead, while eye globes peacefully receive in
contented reflection under the fanning acanthus of a
(yellow?) forehead. Surely one must paint these
things for who would believe them otherwise?!”
Location: Studio 345, 345 Warren Street, Hudson,
NY. Contact: Nathaniel Williams 518-672-7984


Photos at the Opening

Photographs of January events Chelle Mayer & Emily Hassell


Emily Hassell Live Installation



Hours for January are
Sat open only for events 7 - 9 pm
Sundays as usual 1-5 pm
If you are in town and happen to be going by check the open sign , while if we are there during the week we may be open,so feel free to come in and get a glimpse of our process.

Also note
Jan 10th performance and paintings by Chelle Mayer
Jan 24 New works and performance Emily Hassell
Jan 31 will be our CLOSING Reception
Works By Martina Muller,Laura Summer, Wendy Holmes Noyes, and Nathaniel Williams also available

. Please Scroll to bottom for poster invitation

C L O S E


Mark Moffett
Wendy Holmes Noyes



Paintings and Photographs

November 8 - 30, 2008

Please join us at the reception:
Saturday, November 8, 5 - 8pm


Gallery 345

Open Saturdays and Sundays, 1-5pm
and by appointment at 518-392-2730

345 Warren Street, Hudson, NY









More about the artists:

Artists' Reception on Saturday, November 8, 5-8pm.
Please join us!

Born in 1956, Moffett was raised in Port Washington, NY, Paris, France and Brandon, Vermont. He studied art, music and French literature at Reed College
in Portland, Oregon, and at the Institute for American Universities in
Aix-en-Provence, France. More recently, he studied time-based mediums
and electronic art (video, animation, computer music) in the iEAR mfa program
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He explains:

"While I am interested in all forms of expression, painting has been a mainstay
for me as its requirements remain somewhat primitive: ... an attempt to find stillness and quiet in the fleeting mesmer of everyday life--an attempt to distill
and concentrate energy by the simplest of means."

Along with the work in CLOSE, Moffett's work can be seen in Waxworks, a solo exhibition currently at the Christine Price Gallery Fine Arts Center at Castleton State College, Castleton, VT, or online at moffko.com.

Born in NYC, Wendy Holmes first studied aesthetics in an independent study with painters and photographers at Amherst College, then with Minor White at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. She has taught at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in NYC, and, among other places, at the photography workshops at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY. She discusses her recent work:

"After 35 years of working in black and white photography, I discovered the new color printmaking techniques made available through inkjet printing, sometimes called gicleé, using beautiful papers and pigment-based inks. The resulting palette of colors and overall mood of the image are startlingly satisfying to me.
At the same time about five years ago now, I also began experimenting with combining my photographs into collages, which has been a radical opening of possibilities. Getting up CLOSE with my camera has allowed me to explore the color of the natural world in a fresh and abstract way. I'm looking forward to seeing Mark's and my work hang together as I know we have a lot to learn from each other."

Holmes' work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art Houston, the
Vassar Art Museum, the Bibiliothèque Nationale, the NJ State Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and many private collections.

Gallery 345 has been on Warren Street in Hudson, NY for over a year; it is a cooperative gallery run by three local artists: Martina Angela Muller, Laura Summer, and Wendy Holmes Noyes who organize the monthly shows together.

The December show will be "Small Works," exhibiting work by all artists who have shown in the gallery over the past year. The pieces will be excellent for holiday gifts. Please plan to visit us also in December.

Gallery 345 Presents "Collaboration"


collaborate: to work jointly especially with one or a limited number of others in a project involving composition or research to be jointly accredited. From Late Latin: com = together, laborare = to labor




Where does a piece of artwork begin? Can it be traced back to a thought, a feeling, a conversation, a mood, an observation, a sound, a choice, an influence? Is it not a layered creation that becomes transposed into physicality, visibility, or something tactile? Does it have to be defined by one creator, one point of view, one ego, one style? And if not, how does it, or can it become the work of different people with one objective, to collaborate…?
More than twelve artists, including

Stella Elliston
Jason Healy
Emily Hassell
Mona Mark
Chelle Mayer
Martina Müller
Wendy Holmes Noyes
Laura Summer
Helen Suter
and Nathaniel Williams

have been working with this theme over the past two months. The result is an intriguing blend of multimedia projects, video installation, paintings that mesh into one another as joint artworks, music that becomes color, words that become surface, line, and movement. This exhibition shows a remarkable process between artists, of having allowed each other to interact with their art work to the point of complete transformation. The works render a rarely seen trusting that arises on both a personal and artistic level. And as the viewer observes, the admirable accomplishment of compassionate, often humorous, well thought out art work, clearly makes you wonder why there is not more collaboration?
Artists Reception Oct 4, from 5-8. Exhibition available for viewing through Nov 26th Gallery 345, 345 Warren St, Hudson NY For more information call (518) 672-7302 Open Weekly Sat/Sun 1-5

Gallery 345 Presents "Collaboration"


collaborate: to work jointly especially with one or a limited number of others in a project involving composition or research to be jointly accredited. From Late Latin: com = together, laborare = to labor




Where does a piece of artwork begin? Can it be traced back to a thought, a feeling, a conversation, a mood, an observation, a sound, a choice, an influence? Is it not a layered creation that becomes transposed into physicality, visibility, or something tactile? Does it have to be defined by one creator, one point of view, one ego, one style? And if not, how does it, or can it become the work of different people with one objective, to collaborate…?
More than twelve artists, including

Stella Elliston
Jason Healy
Emily Hassell
Mona Mark
Chelle Mayer
Martina Müller
Wendy Holmes Noyes
Laura Summer
Helen Suter
and Nathaniel Williams

have been working with this theme over the past two months. The result is an intriguing blend of multimedia projects, video installation, paintings that mesh into one another as joint artworks, music that becomes color, words that become surface, line, and movement. This exhibition shows a remarkable process between artists, of having allowed each other to interact with their art work to the point of complete transformation. The works render a rarely seen trusting that arises on both a personal and artistic level. And as the viewer observes, the admirable accomplishment of compassionate, often humorous, well thought out art work, clearly makes you wonder why there is not more collaboration?
Artists Reception Oct 4, from 5-8. Exhibition available for viewing through Nov 26th Gallery 345, 345 Warren St, Hudson NY For more information call (518) 672-7302 Open Weekly Sat/Sun 1-5

August


Book Signing Erik Muller (right)



Gallery 345 presents

"Summer Signatures"

New works by four of the original founders; a group of independent artists created this collective commercial locale last September on Warren Street. As Gallery 345's Anniversary nears, we invite you to celebrate with us by enjoying
new works at the Gallery this month.

"There are times when the heart of humanity is challenged to change. Sometimes it reaches the height of its ideals, and other times it must strive to better its endeavor in order to become the promise that it held at its own beginning." Unknown Author

The Dog

Gallery 345
345 Warren Street
Hudson NY


Group Show

max dworkin
stella elliston
dale evva gelfand
marcel gianelloni
emily hassell
daisy noyes
mona mark
wendy holmes noyes
sedat pakay
laura summer
helen suter
dorothea von haeften
and others

July 5 – Aug 2 2008 Opening Reception 4-7 pm Saturday July 5


Paintings by Laura Summer

Artists Reception
June 7th 4-7 pm

Gallery 345 is honored to have the opportunity to have Shigeru showing his work at our space this month. We are also honored to have Eileen, jill of many trades, and and long time resident of the Berkshires.Michael Limberger, who has also worked in Hudson for many years in the antique scene on Warren St, is presenting recently completed works, and will presently be taking his work to Wales next month.

Shigeru
Born in Gifu,Japan, Shigeru attended Kinki University ,Studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, then graduated at Osaka College of Art in 2002. His work has been shown at over 10 different galleries from 2003 -06 in Japan, including solo shows at The Contemporary Art Space Osaka Osaka, Owase-City,Mikisato-cho,Public Hall Mie, Gallery Den Osaka, Gallery Haku Osaka, HAC Gallery Kobe,Japan. He has also participated in numerous group shows in Japan. He received the Shell Award 2004 and will present his newest work completed in New York while residing and working as a volunteer at Camphill Triform, as well as assisting in weekly classes for Triforms residents with painter Laura Summer.







Michael Limberger Sculpture








Eileen Brennen Sculpture

RED
learn to pray


an installation by Laura Summer


Opening reception with 345 guest artists:
Kristin Dalton & Peter Buckbee will be held

Friday April 5 from
5pm – 8pm


Gallery 345
featuring work by:
Emily Hassell
Martina Angela Muller
Wendy Holmes Noyes &
Laura Summer

Join us this Sunday March 15th at 4:30 for the Recpetion of:

I MIGHT BE EDGAR ALLAN POE
By Dawson Nichols
Directed by Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan
With directorial assistance from John McManus
Performed by Dale March
March 6-8 (The Triplex Theater, Gt. Barrington, MA)
March 14-16 (Space 360, Hudson, NY)


Since Joseph’s admission to Oakbrook after "the incident with the fire", he has endured endless therapy sessions, but not without coming up with a few ideas of his own. In fact, he has discovered that he might be the master of horror fiction himself, Edgar Allan Poe. Taking matters into his own hands, Joseph unearths some of the more cryptic metaphysical insights of the 20th Century as he subjects himself, his doctors and his fellow patients to a humorous and disturbing analysis of his own.

"Engaging, amusing and disturbing all at once" --The Scotsman

"Will give anyone unfamiliar with his (Poe's) writings a thrilling introduction" --The West Australian


"A bravely intense and purely creative work" --BUZZCUTS

For More Information on performances and Tickets go to www.wtdtheatre.org
Last performance Matinee at Space 360 at 2PM Dont miss the shows they go back to Australia with Dale afer this!
This is a great chance to talk to the actor and directors, as well as view the latest works from the Gallery 345 Artists Laura Summer, Wendy Holmes Noyes, Martina Muller, and Emily Hassell.

February to March

Still life on film
Berkshires Week
02/11/2008

PITTSFIELD — Wendy Holmes Noyes will discuss "Still Life Photography, the most patient subject matter," at the Berkshire Museum Camera Club meeting
this coming Tuesday, February 19, at 7:30 p.m. The presentation will be at the Masonic Temple at 116 South Street, since the Berkshire Museum is closed
for renovations.

Noyes has been a still life and abstract photographer for over 30 years, and she recently switched from black and white and palladium printmaking to archival
inkjet color.

The gallery at Melbourne Place in Pittsfield at 140 Melbourne Street is currently displaying Noyes' photographs from a recent trek in Spain. The gallery there is
open 9-5pm daily. Her work will be on display until February 29. Noyes, a Smith College graduate, has studied with Minor White at MIT's Creative Photo Lab, and her work has been displayed in galleries in California, Texas, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts, and France. She is currently a director of the 345 Gallery in Hudson, N.Y.

Please enter the Masonic Temple via the back door.

The Berkshire Museum Camera Club meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday from September through May. The purpose of the Camera Club is to enhance the photographic skills of its members and to increase their enjoyment of photography. All meetings are free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Camera Club's web site at www.BerkshireCameraClub.org.

Everyone welcome!