Oriens pairs the works of collection-enhancing artists with charities and service organizations we feel are doing extraordinary service.

The gallery is curated by artist, Christopher Gallego.
All proceeds go directly to the artist and the charity, so your purchase really does make a difference.

PAST EXHIBITIONS

Through December 15, 2011

Closing Celebration - Meet the Artist Reception

Wednesday, December 8, 2011, 6:00-8:00pm

The soulful, haunting mixed media portrait and figure works by North Carolina artist Tamie Beldue will be on view from September 8 through December 15, 2011.

Ms. Beldue has exhibited extensively in the US, including the Fort Wayne Museum of Art Realism Biennial, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Mobile Museum of Art, William King Museum, and Fontbonne University Arts Gallery. She is a professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Her works are in the permanent collections of the Arnot Museum of Art, The DeYoung Museum, Howard & Judy Tullman Collection, James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings and the Sandy & Diane Besser Collection.

She is represented by Keny Galleries in Columbus, OH. Exhibition curated by Christopher Gallego

Summer 2011

The vivid energy of Jessica's paintings is fueled by a deep love of her native New York City, its architecture, landscapes, blue hues and nighttime world of performers and spectators. Her work explores ways in which spaces are transformed for the viewer into theatrical environments.

Jessica studied at Swarthmore College and the Rudolf Steiner School, and was trained in Rome and at the National Academy in New York, where she was awarded the Nechamkin prize in drawing. Her work is held in both private and institutional collections.

About Good Shepherd
Good Shepherd Services, the winner of the inaugural New York Times Award for overall management excellence, works with more than 20,000 New York City children, youth, and families through 70 programs. The agency’s programs include two networks of community-based youth development, education, and family service programs in Brooklyn and the Bronx; group homes for adolescents; and foster care and adoption services. All of Good Shepherd’s programs are united by a common goal: to help vulnerable youth and families find a safe passage to self-sufficiency.

Winter 2010 – Spring 2011

In her exuberant, explosive pictures, Lois Greenfield seems to have captured on film not just the lithe and acrobatic forms of dancers performing their art, but the purity and exhilaration of movement itself. Without tricks or manipulation of any kind, she captures these fleeting and impossible moments in a style that is both lyrical and graphic.

About Lois Greenfield
Lois Greenfield is the preeminent dance photographer working today. She has created innovative and iconic images for most of the major contemporary dance companies. Her unique approach to photographing the human form in motion has radically redefined the genre, and influenced a generation of photographers.

Many of these images can be seen in virtually every major magazine, as well as exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. The publication of her popular monographs Breaking Bounds and Airborne (Thames and Hudson 1992 and 1998) established her as a major contemporary artist.

Commercial clients have picked up on the metaphoric potential of her unique vision and built campaigns around her work. She has created imagery for brand names such as Sony, Rolex, Hanes, Playtex, AT&T, Seagram’s, Pepsi and Disney. She also directs dance videos and TV commercials.

She has pioneered the interactive use of “live” photography as an integral part of a dance performance. Her groundbreaking and award winning collaboration with the Australian Dance Theatre on the concept, creation and performance of Held was a dance inspired by her photography.

Artist Statement
"I've spent the last 25 years of my photographic career investigating movement and its expressive potential. My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see. My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine. What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer, but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened. I want my images to defy logic, or as Salvador Dali wrote, I strive to ‘systematize confusion and discredit reality.' I can't depict the moments before or after the camera's click, but I invite the viewer's consideration of that question."