July Notes - 2025

Jun 13

SUMMER EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED

There is still some time to see the exhibition at The Erik Laffer Gallery. Then, on the weekend of July 11-13, the pop-up exhibition, curated by Dan Cameron, takes place at Varosy Studios. And in August Echos of Form at Jessica Hagen Fine Art in Newport, Rhode Island.

JULY 11-13

CURRENT WORK 2025

CURATED by DAN CAMERON

VAROSY STUDIOS

1522 North Road, Greenwich, NY 12834

July 11 - July 13,2025

Reception
Friday, September 5, 5-7 pm

518-677-8872
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A three-day pop-up in a converted barn gallery just over the Vermont border.

Reception Fri July 11, 5–7 pm; doors stay open through Sunday at 5 pm. Think of it as an art week-end in the countryside.

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AUGUST 9 – SEPTEMBER 14

ECHOS OF FORMS

JESSICA HAGEN FINE ART + DESIGN

9A Bridge St.
Newport, Rhode Island 02840

Six-artist show exploring the meeting point of science and poetry in visual form.

Opening Sat Aug 9, 5–7 pm.

I’ll have new canvases alongside works by Tom Deininger, Nicholas Benson, and others.

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: GEORGIANA HOUGHTON

Georgiana Houghton, *Glory Be to God*, 5th July 1864, courtesy of the Spiritualists Union, Melbourne, Australia, watercolor, gouache.

“British artist, Georgiana Houghton (1814-1884), developed skills as a medium after attending her first séance in 1859 and achieved her first mediumistic drawings in 1861. For the next decade, under the guidance of a spirit called Lenny followed by master painters and 70 Archangels, she produced over 155 extraordinary watercolour spirit drawings. Most of these have been lost, hopefully awaiting rediscovery. Of the 46 that have survived the majority are in the collections of spiritualist societies. The College of Psychic Studies, formerly known as the London Spiritualist Alliance, have 7 and around 35 have been preserved by the Victorian Spiritualist Union in Melbourne.”

AT THE MOVIES: CAI GUO-QIANG

“The Sky Ladder is a 1,650-foot ladder of fire climbing into the skies above artist Cai Guo-Qiang's hometown. Creating ambitious signature pieces on the largest imaginable scales, Cai's electrifying work often transcends physical permanence while burning its philosophies into the audience members' minds. Told through the artist's own words and those of family, friends, and observers, the film tracks Cai's meteoric rise and examines why he engineers artworks that loom as far as the eye can see.” AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX