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Peekskill City Hall Art Exhibit

Peekskill City Hall’s historic rotunda is home to the third in a series of art exhibits, this time featuring the works of four artists who use color in amazing and thoughtful ways. The current exhibit runs through August 5, 2011.The works of art are available for viewing during normal City Hall hours, Monday through Friday, 9am - 5pm and at other times when City Hall is open for meetings. The exhibits are being researched, designed and assembled by Peekskill-based Innovative Arts. “Each of our featured artists use color in very different and unique ways to express everything from beauty and time to humor and energy. In this exhibit, it truly is all about color and how the artists’ use of color can communicate thoughts and feelings in ways that don’t require words,” said Judith Solomon, Innovative Arts and curator of the exhibits.Featured artists include: Daniel Intriligator, deemed a “rising artistic star,” Adele Kamp, whose career as an artist spans 30 years, Jeorjia Shea, who is a new addition to the Peekskill art scene and Maureen Winzig who describes her own work as having “boldness.”Intriligator, at age 23, is already an award winning professional artist. He currently has works in the collection at Hartwick College and has exhibited through out New York State. Admitting to using tools, water, and even his own breath to shape his “poured” paintings, Intriligator says, “These attempts at molding the painting’s final image usually ends with entirely unpredictable results due the viscosity of the paint. Chance and time are the foundations of my paintings.”Adele Kamp says, “Art is beauty and its beauty echoes within our lives.” During her more than three decades as an artist, Kamp has had exhibits at Avery Fisher Hall and Lincoln Center, as well as numerous one woman shows.Jeorji Shea is a new comer to Peekskill’s artist community. With her boundless energy, she experiments with images, materials and subjects. She uses color, texture and shape to create a mood. “For me, painting is a release and expression of the inner workings of my deepest self,” said Shea.Maureen Winzig has an image called “Woman on Fire” in this month’s exhibit which portrays a woman with fired up intellect and imagination--not unlike herself. “In my work is boldness and great color contrast. My figure work is sensual and real with a hint of surreal. My nature work is powerful and crisp and my abstracts forever swirling,” said Winzig.This is the third of seven exhibitions to be installed in the City Hall Rotunda and its adjacent hallways.

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