ART SITE

art sites llc

651 West Main St.

Riverhead<= /span>, NY 11901

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ALAN BULL<= /o:p>

RANI CARSON

TERI KENNEDY

JONAS VAIDA

art sites

651 West Main S= treet (Route 25), Riverhead, New York 11901 T: 631- 591-2401

http://www.artsitesgallery.com<= o:p>

= Date: = February 7 – March 15, 2009

= Reception = S= aturday, February 7, 5-7 PM=

Gallery Hours: &n= bsp; Thursday –Sunday, 12-5 PM.

For group tour information and additional hours call 631-591-2401

Artis= ts have context. Their place, culture, and adopted homelands influence their respon= ses to the world around them. These artists combine affection, humor and critic= ism in their depictions of the places and people of their lives.

Alan = Bull is well known locally for his renderings of junked farm trucks and rural motifs. He= was inspired by his family’s farms in Mapleton, ME and Orient, NY. A form= er artist-in residence at William Steeple Davis House, Orient, Bull received h= is BFA at the Philadelphia College of Art and has worked as a portrait artist, theatrical set painter, muralist and glass artist, before embarking on his career.

Rani = Carson divides her time between Riverhead, NY and Oracabessa, St. Mary, Jamaica. H= er paintings gently and lovingly depict Jamaican people in natural, domestic s= ettings. There is peacefulness and dignity in the sometimes solitary figures. Carson= is a Professor of Art at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, NY and direct= or of the art gallery on campus. She graduated from Barnard and Brooklyn Colle= ges, lived in Paris and studied paintings in museums in Europe.

Teri = Kennedy, a resident of Springs, crafts her sculptures from found, discarded or recei= ved objects. Their humor and pathos often resonate with fabricated narratives, often of = feminine issues and foibles. When she moved to the East End, she found herself drawn= to the art and artists of this locale. When she inherited the art supplies of a close friend, the painter and mask maker Francisco (Paco) Sainz, she spent hours organizing his work. Soon after she began her own foray into making a= rt. Local artists Jim Gingrich, Dennis Leri, and Kimberly Monson influenced her development

Jonas= Vaida is the professional name for the artistic collaboration of Jonas Balciunas = and Vaidilute Vidugiryte. Both were born in Lithuania and now reside in the Uni= ted States. Their collaborative paintings realistically depict the faces of peo= ple from their adopted country, set against flat fields of color and symbolic forms, empty of detail. Their works have been shown in New York, Washington, D.C., Lithuania, Estonia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.=