February 26–March 22, 2008

Main Gallery

Rella Stuart-Hunt

Painting Poems

Craig Manister

Recent Black and White Paintings

Exhibition Information

Project Room

Marie-Noëlle Moginie

Ni Noir Ni Blanc

Exhibition Information

Opening Reception for both exhibitions:

Thursday, February 28, 6-8 PM

Please join The Painting Center this coming Thursday for the opening reception for Rella Stuart-Hunt, Painting Poems and Craig Manister: Recent Black and White Paintings in the Main Gallery and Marie-Noëlle Moginie, Ni Noir Ni Blanc in the Project Room.

Rella Stuart-Hunt, born in England, has been living and working in New York since 1969. She describes her work as following in the tradition of non-objective painting and deriving from a directly felt response to her poetry. Her poems, through their exploration of visual sensory experiences, help her to bridge the gap between her aesthetic and semantic ideas in painting. Stuart-Hunt has shown at Condeso/Lawler, Neo Persona, Northside Arts Industries, and A.I.R., as well as the Project Room of The Painting Center, where she is currently a member. She received a BA in Art History and an MA in Art from Hunter College.

Craig Manister’s paintings are borne in the tradition of abstraction maintaining a strong sense of surface and expansion. Structure within the painting is found during the act of painting and allows the paint its own authority. Recent paintings, executed in black and white, use landscape to contextualize abstract forms. The forms, based on the keyhole, function as surrogates for the human figure. A member of The Painting Center, Craig Manister has exhibited widely including such venues as the National Academy Museum, Beijing Art Institute, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Staten Island Museum, and Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art. He attended the New York Studio School and earned an M.F.A. at Brooklyn College.

Marie-Noëlle Moginie: We are continually challenged by the turbulent relationship between the natural and industrial worlds. Nature is invaded, brutalized and polluted on a daily basis. It is under constant stress and pleads for accommodation. Ni Noir Ni Blanc is a series that further explores a visual metaphor that alludes to a game. Tension is created between disparate materials (acrylic paint, birds nest paper and bark) as well as configurations (two and three dimensions) played out on the game board. Marie-Noëlle graduated from Ramapo College with a BA in Art and Psychology and now resides in Carversville, PA. Her work was recently shown at the Pascal Gallery in Mahwah, NJ and the New Hope Art Center in New Hope, PA. in Art History and an MA in Art from Hunter College.

We hope to see you there!