Reception Friday January 2
Then & Now featuring the work of Channing Lefebvre, Peter Leue
and Terry Slade opens January 2 and runs until February 7. The
opening reception will be held on Friday January 2 from 5 p.m. –
9 p.m. in conjunction with 1st Friday.
Channing Lefebvre received his M.F.A. from the State University
of New York at Albany in Printmaking and his B.F.A. from the Art
Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Lefebvre’s
prints are on archive with the Print Club of Albany and the Zea
Mays Printmaking. His works are in numerous collections
including The State University of New York at Albany, The
Rensselaer-Newman Foundation, RPI Campus, Northeast Savings Bank
Corporate Headquarters and General Electric just to name a few.
Lefebvre received the prestigious National Endowment Fellowship
Grant in Printmaking in 1974 and his works have been on exhibit
at Russell Sage College Gallery, The Schenectady Museum, Empire
State Plaza, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany Center
Gallery and many more. This exhibit features approximately
twenty new drawings which are process driven. “The mark is made
by the repetitive movement of my natural gesture. The mark
making is methodical, energetic, rhythmic and hypnotic.
Interwoven, multidirectional and overlapping marks create subtle
layers of gradations. This translates the lines into translucent
layers of color and emerging form, creating a ‘chaotic elegance’
. Although there are no overt associations with the forms at the
start of the drawings, associations appear as the drawing
progresses”.
Peter Leue received his B.F.A. in woodworking and furniture
design from the Rochester Institute of Technology and attended
the School for American Craftsmen. Leue has had a one-man show
at the Schenectady Museum and received the Historic Albany
Foundation Preservation Merit Award. Leue’s work was featured in
House and Garden, Playboy, Esquire, Home Furnishings Daily and
Hudson Valley Magazines. Leue is a master at blurring the line
between furniture and sculpture. “My practical side, however,
has always enjoyed the interactive nature of furniture. It
matters if a chair feels right, a cabinet befits life-style
needs and a well-crafted handrail leads the eye and hand to its
destination. Enjoy my toys”.
Terry Slade has lived in New York State since 1983. Slade’s work
has been exhibited widely throughout the United States,
including solo exhibitions in NYC, Rochester, Albany, Utica,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Memphis and Knoxville,
Tennessee, Duxbury and Pittsfied. He has also exhibited in Japan
and Europe. His work is represented in private and public
collections in the US, Japan and Europe. Slade’s work has
included the use of many different media including found objects
, wood, paper, stone, bronze and glass, producing works ranging
in size from small objects to large indoor and outdoor
installations. His primary focus has been exploring the
relationship between humans and the natural world, often using
objects from nature, such as sticks, branches and seedpods, cast
in bronze.
The mission of the Albany Center Gallery is to promote and
exhibit contemporary visual art produced by emerging and
established artists living primarily in the Capital Region. The
gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5:00pm. The
gallery is located at 39 Columbia Street, Albany, New York,
12207.
