Carrie Haddad Gallery

Keith Loutit in New York Magazine this week

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:47:00 +0000

Photographer Keith Loutit's tilt shift videos are featured in New York Magazine this week - congratulations Keith!

http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/55989/

Watch Keith's latest videos on Vimeo
View Keith's photographs available for purchase here

Sacred Ground opening photos

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:35:00 +0000

Photographs from the opening of the Sacred Ground exhibit at Carrie Haddad Gallery:

Photographs by Johannes Courtens

New Video by Keith Loutit

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:04:00 +0000

Mardi Gras from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Stills from Keith's videos can be foundHere

EQUUS extended through March 8th

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:32:00 +0000

The horses will be sticking around the gallery for an extra week, so, if you have not yet had an opportunity to visit and catch the show, you have till March 8th to do so!

Here are a few photos from the Artist Talk on Feb 7th:

(photos by Johannes Courtens)

Our next exhibit, Other Nature, opens Saturday March 14. More information about the upcoming show soon!

- Melissa

Free artist talk Saturday Feb 7

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:12:00 +0000

We know it's cold outside....

so come join us tomorrow afternoon in the (warm) gallery for a talk with photographers David Seiler, Ida Weygandt and Juliet Harrison, as they discuss their work in our current exhibit.

Talks are typically a casual hour-long discussion of the artist's process and motivation behind their work followed by Q & A and light refreshments

This free talk will be held at the gallery from 4 to 6pm on Saturday, February 7.

For more information please contact 518-828-7655 or email melissa.stafford@carriehaddadgallery.com

Have a lovely weekend, friends (and stay warm!)
- Melissa

Ralph Stout's Home Town

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:03:00 +0000

Photographer Ralph Stout has just released a beautiful 20 piece portfolio on Hudson, New York....

His opening page reads:

These slightly off-kilter cityscapes, taken in the back streets and alleyways of my newly adopted home town of Hudson, New York between 2005 and 2008, reflect some of the most unusual architectural features and jarring contrasts that Hudson has in abundance. Hudson strikes me as a cross between a Grandma Moses painting and a tableau from the brush of a Joan Sloan or a George Luks. The main drag, lined with freshly renovated vintage buildings, is postcard material. The back streets reflect decades of neglect. I was drawn at once to the gray area that lies between prosperous Warren Street and neighboring Diamond (now Columbia) Street, which in years past housed the speakeasies and bordellos that kept this place going.

I did not set out to depict the remarkable Hudson renaissance, or indeed, its persistent squalor – I am an abstractionist at heart. Still, despite earnest attempts to distance these images from their referents, I appear to have done quite the opposite. Photography is full of surprises, almost all of them unpleasant, but in the present case, things worked out very well. I give the town of Hudson credit for that. There is something about its character that shines through no matter how you look at it.

More information about this portfolio can be found here....or stop in the gallery to take a look at it in person

Three Columns by Ralph Stout

Equus opens Jan 24th

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:08:00 +0000

Through the ages, the Horse has remained inseparable from man as a symbolic element of the sublime within the spirit of humanity. As representations of strength, devotion, wisdom, divination and freedom, the equine form projects not its own beauty; it reflects instead the beauty – or horror – of man’s unconscious power. Equus, opening January 22, 2009, at Carrie Haddad Photographs in Hudson, New York, spotlights the multi-layered relationship between people and horses. The exhibit will include the work of local and international photographers Tim Flach, David Seiler, Ida Weygandt, Juliet Harrison, Paul Solberg and Christopher Makos.

For more info click here

Hope to see you on the 24th!
- Melissa

Jefferson Hayman in December issue of ARTnews

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:09:00 +0000

Photographer Jefferson Hayman is reviewed by Meredith Mendelsohn in this month's issue of ARTnews

(click text below to enlarge)

Jefferson's work is currently on view at 318 Warren Street in the exhibit, Such Great Heights through Jan. 11th.

Keith Loutit featured on Wired

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:28:00 +0000

Wired magazine featured photographer Keith Loutit's new Metal Heart video: read their post about it here:

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/11/metal-heart-til.html

Watch the full video here:

Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Opening Night - Carrie Haddad Photographs

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:22:00 +0000

Thank you to everyone who came out last night! What a fantastic evening!

Carrie Haddad Photographs
318 Warren Street, Hudson NY 12534
518-828-7655 & 518-828-7656

Smashing Magazine features Laforet & Loutit

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:59:00 +0000

Both Photographer Vincent Laforet and Keith Loutit whose works will be featured in our first exhibit at Carrie Haddad Photographs (opening on Nov 29!) were featured this week in Smashing Magazine's 50 beautiful examples of tilt-shift photography

For more information about their upcoming exhibit click here

We are opening a new gallery!

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:43:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce that we are opening a brand new gallery in Hudson! As you know, we have always exhibited photography on the second floor of the Carrie Haddad Gallery - we felt it was only proper to create a separate space dedicated to showing the gallery's strong roster of photographers. Carrie Haddad Photographs will present the works of established and emerging contemporary photographers from all over the world with an emphasis on exhibiting photographers of the Hudson Valley region. We really look forward to creating a bold and exciting new space for photography in the Hudson Valley.

Our first exhibit, "Such Great Heights", opens Saturday November 29 from 6 to 8pm and runs through January 11.
Hope to see you in the new space!

Love,
Carrie & Melissa

Image: Vincent Laforet, Grand Central Station, New York, NY

Carrie Haddad Photographs
318 Warren Street, Hudson New York

SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS
Curated by Melissa Stafford

John Griebsch
Jefferson Hayman
Kahn & Selesnick
Vincent Laforet
Keith Loutit

November 27 – January 4 2009
Reception: Saturday, November 29 from 6 to 8 pm

The inaugural exhibition at Carrie Haddad Photographs, the brand new exhibit space of Carrie Haddad Gallery, borrows its title from The Postal Services' song, Such Great Heights. The song romantically proclaims that, "everything looks perfect from far away" and the five photographers featured in this show explore a world seen from this same spectacular vantage point. Whether they attempt to transmit a narrative or not, they radiate a sense of great magnitude; the world appears immense and yet wholly intimate and personal. Standing on the edge of the photograph, the viewer feels fierce and full of possibility. The unbounded horizon has always stood as metaphor for the limitless nature of personal experience, inviting explorers and wanderers betokened by the grandeur of the expansive landscape.

Such Great Heights, speaks of an idyllic euphoria, a dizzying love affair, always aggressive, leaving you on a peak you are reluctant to depart: "They will see us waving from such great heights/ 'come down now,' they'll say / But everything looks perfect from far away, / 'come down now,' but we'll stay." The photographs included in this exhibition share this same intoxication.

In his essay, "Truth and Landscape'' Robert Adams states that landscape art is important because it can meet our need to experience the world as comprehensible: ''We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. It is the fitness of a landscape to one's experience of life's condition and possibilities that finally makes a scene important or not."

Carrie Haddad Photographs is located at 318 Warren Street in Hudson, NY. Gallery hours are from 10 am to 9pm Thursday through Saturday, 10 am to 6pm Sunday and Monday. For more information please call the gallery at 518-828-7655 (we will not be answering this phone number until the week of November 23rd!) or visit www.carriehaddadgallery.com

Harry Orlyk new works

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:27:00 +0000

The full exhibition catalog for Harry Orlyk's work is now available. Please click the image above to view all 25 works.

New Work by Darshan Russell

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:24:00 +0000

Hilary and Obama, 2007
17" X 25"
$500.00

Hudson Valley artist Darshan Russell is a self-taught artist and has exhibited her work in many locations throughout the region. The colors and feeling of her compositions are greatly influenced by Matisse, but Russell’s inspiration comes directly from life and the simple scenes that surround her - whether from her hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York or from newspaper stories and photographs.

Father's Support Group, 2000
19" X 24"
$500.00

To view more work, please click here

New Artist - Grey Zeien

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:48:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce work by Grey Zeien on the website and we will be scheduling a show with the artist for Summer 2009.

Marsala, 2005
48" X 48"
$4,000.00

To view more works by Grey, please click here

Drawings by Mark Beard

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:11:00 +0000

We have posted some new drawings online by Mark Beard

Click here to view

MB002, 2005
30" X 22"
$1,600.00

More available, please call the gallery (518-828-1915) to inquire.

Emil Alzamora

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:58:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce a new piece in the gallery by sculptor Emil Alzamora

This ceramic piece is titled Embonpoint. It measures 9'' x 7.5'' x 7.5''.

For more information about Emil or his work, please contact the gallery

New work by Jeff Briggs

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:36:00 +0000

New painting in the gallery today by artist Jeff Briggs:

Untitled Green, 28 x 33 inches, $1600

Briggs is fascinated with the forest floor; the leaves, the brush and the flickers of light are subjects he has painted for the past 6 years.

For more information about Jeff Briggs please contact the gallery

New work by Thomas Locker

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:25:00 +0000

Two new paintings are available at the gallery by Thomas Locker:

Pitching Point, 10 x 15 $1500

(This is right by Storm King and Locker told us that this is sort of a historic site near West Point where they would cut down the trees and throw them over the cliff where they would be later transported via the Hudson River)

Forest Interior, 10 x 15 $1500

Save the Date! June 12 -15

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:49:00 +0000

For more information please visit: www.aafnyc.com

Opening Reception - May 31st

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:13:00 +0000

Please join us tomorrow evening from 6 to 8pm for the opening reception of our newest exhibit. This show features work by Paul Abrams, Richard Britell, Tracy Helgeson and Carrie Waldman.

Hope to see you tomorrow night!

New work by Rourke and Eddy

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:44:00 +0000

We have just added new works by Ragellah Rourke and David Eddy online.

Ragellah Rourke
Room Full of Secrets, 2008
14" X 14"
$1,200.00

David Eddy
Night Light, 2008
18" X 16"
$1,300.00

Affordable Art Fair June 12-15

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:42:00 +0000

Carrie Haddad Gallery is proud to announce their participation in the 7th annual AFFORDABLE ART FAIR to be held June 12 through June 15 at the Metropolitan Pavilion and adjoining Altman Building, 135 West 18th Street, NYC. We are pleased to be featuring artists Mark Beard, Stevan Jennis, James O'Shea, Tracy Helgeson and Lependorf + Shire during this exciting event. Look for us at booth number A-303.

Please join us on opening night for the Private Preview Cocktail Party and be among the first to preview AAF NYC 2008. For information on how to purchase tickets please call 212 255 2003 or email info@aafnyc.com. Free drinks will be served.

Carrie Haddad Gallery listing on the AAF website:
http://www.aafnyc.com/exhibitors.php?exhibit=13

Harry Orlyk featured in Roll Magazine

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:50:00 +0000

This month's issue of Roll Magazine features a wonderful article by Ross Rice on painter Harry Orlyk.

To read the full article click here:
http://www.rollmagazine.com/march2008/harry_orlyk.html

Magazine show-off Day

melissastafford@gmail.com (Me) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:04:00 +0000

Look for our ad in the March issue of American Art Collector and be sure to pick up a copy of the newest issue of New American Paintings which features our own Ian Hemingway. Congratulations Ian!