Paintings and drawings by mother and son

NARROWSBURG, NY — “Mother and Son: Paintings and Drawings” by Diane Green and Isaac Green Diebboll opens with a reception on Friday, September 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Delaware Arts Center’s Alliance Gallery. The reception will feature a special piano performance by Isaac. The exhibit will be on view through October 4.

“My son Isaac and I are drawn to the figure as a representation of the human connection to either self or in relationship with others,” said painter Green. “Our work is both personal and metaphorical and is driven by an intuitive spirit for a larger meaning that is often not nameable.” Green’s paintings are layered, detailed and delicate. Figures are abstracted from their context, forming a narrative that isn’t fully stated.

Born in Boston, Green received her BA from Bennington College and her MFA in painting from Yale University. She lives in New York City, where she runs The Green Studio School in lower Manhattan. She has had a number of solo and group shows in New York City, Philadelphia, and most recently at the Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill, Maine.

“Thinking about the weight and shape of a rock, balanced in the palm of my hand, I draw faces from my mind,” said Green Diebboll. “These faces are one person I recreate differently again and again; a human in time and space, hoping and suffering.”

Born and raised in New York City, Green Diebboll received his BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011 before moving to Callicoon. Here he founded the North School Studio with a mission to “broaden cultural awareness and reinforce social infrastructure through projects and collaborations.” Green Diebboll also makes short films, which have shown at several US film festivals, including New Orleans and Maryland.

For more information call 845/252-7576 or visit www.delawarevalleyartsalliance.org.

Photographs by two friends

NARROWSBURG, NY — A two-person show of photographs by John Back and Jan Tyniec opens with a reception on Friday, September 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Delaware Arts Center’s Loft Gallery. The exhibit will be on view through October 4.

Though educated on different continents, the artists share an affinity for the formal traditions of art, and both are interested in capturing the essence of observed details in the landscape.

The pictures they have chosen for this exhibit—Tyniec’s Bonsai photographs and Back’s “Variations” series—reflect intense observation of their immediate surroundings, and the desire to create images that move toward abstraction of shape, shadow, scale, color and pattern. Both are producing work that explores landscape and vegetation in the Northeastern US and in the tropics.

Back has worked as a photographer in New York City since 1980. Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Back earned his BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin and his MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design.

“I have specialized in photographing art, architecture, design and personalities,” he said.

He currently lives in Barryville, NY and maintains a photography studio in Greenwich Village, in what was previously a rehearsal space for Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground.

Born in Poland in 1960, Tyniec received an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw before he moved to New York City in 1986 and earned another MFA from Hunter College. “In my works I have been avoiding storytelling and references of scale and time in order to unravel meaning,” Tyniec said. “I remain most interested in exploring the relationships between culture and nature.”

He currently he lives in Pike County, PA and Bali, Indonesia.

The two artists have been friends and colleagues for more than 25 years.