Opening Reception August 5th in Ballston Spa

You are cordially invited to:

The National Bottle Museum Artist Space presents:

                 “Fli-N-Shu”

          2 and 3 dimensional solo works of miChelle M. Vara

          Opening Reception- August 5^th, 5 to 7pm

Vara used the opportunity at the National Bottle Museum’s Jan Rutland Artist Space, to display new abstract work. The dimensional pieces include glass, metal, stone and horses in Saratoga Springs race season fashion.

          Show until September 17^th 2012, Friday-Tuesday 10am -4pm

Located- The National Bottle Museum Ph:(518) 885-7589

76 Milton Ave. Ballston Spa NY- the Jan Rutland Memorial Artist Space

Art Receptions- Up-coming

“Art Harvest”

Opening Reception- August 3nd, 6 to 8pm

Located- Chestertown Gallery, 6378 State Rt9 Chestertown NY. Artist will not be on site.

3. “Work of the Moment”

Opening Reception- August 3^nd, 5 to 8 pm thru September 6th

Located -The Women's Building, 373 Central Ave, Albany NY.

4.  “Fli-N-Shu”

          Opening Reception- August 5^th, 5 to 7pm

Vara used the opportunity at the National Bottle Museum’s Jan Rutland Artist Space, to display new abstract work. The dimensional pieces include glass, metal, stone and horses in Saratoga Springs race season fashion.

Show until September 17^th 2012, Friday-Tuesday 10am -4pm

Located- The National Bottle Museum 76 Milton Ave. Ballston Spa NY

 In the Memorial Jan Rutland Artist Space -2^nd floor.

5.  Albany Center Gallery (Name to be release)

          Opening Reception- October 19^th or November 2, 5 to 9pm.

          Show open until November 9^th 2012

          Located- Albany Center Gallery 39 Columbia St. Albany NY

6.  “inVoices” a solo exhibition

          Opening reception- November 2^nd, 6 to 8 pm

          Show runs until- December 3^rd 2012, 10am to 10pm

Location- Borgia Gallery, Elms College

291 Springfield St.  Chicopee Massac

A Smash Hit for North Bennington Sculpture Show

Show stands untill October 13th, 2012 

Strong show and Excellent artist work ='s Good fun  and stimulation............................

Fred X getting ready for performance....

 Painting above- Ann Pibal

  Maria Siskinds having a hoot of a time in performance with her Pc- Die Katze.

This is what I'm showing called Home Town its on the corner of the Post Office.

North Bennington Art Park’s 15th Outdoor Sculpture Show

Opening reception- July 21^st 4 to 8pm

35 nationally acclaimed Artist, Food, Music, Ice cream, Live show

Located- Rt. 67 on the property’s around the post office

Show runs through October 13^th 2012

Horses Horses and more Saratoga Horses!

 

miChelle has created a large new inventory of sculpted horses for the opening of race season in Saratoga NY. The newly Published article reads (previously posted) about how meeting the artist is free family fun while vacationing in Saratoga. The artist has been welcoming visitors for more than 20 years, from around the country at the Ballard Road Art Studio Gallery, located Exit 16 off the Northway one mile East on the corner of Rt50 (you can’t miss it). The studio gallery has a large display of outdoor sculpture in various styles that are available for purchase. The artist works by commission and personal vision. Vara has 4 shows solo shows coming up so please visit again or go to http://www.michellevara.com/for the updated information and pictures.

If you are seeing this through some one else's site (hacked) please visit Vara's ACTUAL SITE:

HTTP://WWW.MICHELLEVARA.COM

-Thank you!

Experience Junkie

I’m reading about the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s relationship with artist Eduardo Chilida. I found there point of view very interesting and of my personal perception and thought.  I enjoy, look forward to, have many, I am always reaching for more experiences.  From those experiences I do build perception but with that also comes the art. My art is the heart of who I am. In this process I can say the journey reveals discovery leading to development of my works. Unlike Eduardo Chillida, I do not feel that experience is one foot in the past. I like to think that all of me even in reflection is in the present or the now.

This is the excerpt I am referring to:

Eduardo Chillida engaged into a dialog with the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. When the two men met, they discovered that from different angles, they were "working" with space in the same way. Heidegger wrote: "We would have to learn to recognize that things themselves are places and do not merely belong to a place," and that sculpture is thereby "...the embodiment of places." Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we belong to the world, a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and homelessness. Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein.

Chillida has been quoted as saying: "My whole Work is a journey of discovery in Space. Space is the liveliest of all, the one that surrounds us. ...I do not believe so much in experience. I think it is conservative. I believe in perception, which is something else. It is riskier and more progressive. There is something that still wants to progress and grow. Also, this is what I think makes you perceive, and perceiving directly acts upon the present, but with one foot firmly planted in the future. Experience, on the other hand, does the contrary: you are in the present, but with one foot in the past. In other words, I prefer the position of perception. All of my work is the progeny of the question. I am a specialist in asking questions, some without answers."

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