Ann Street Gallery

The posthumous work of celebrated Newburgh artist Gerardo Castro is on view through August 29 in “Catching Fire: resilient alchemies in a burning world”. @gcastroart

Garardo’s work will be introduced by Michael Gabor on August 16, 2:00-3:30PM, as part of a gallery walkthrough with curator @mcnulty_alison and three other exhibiting artists. As Gerardo’s life partner and co-founder and co-owner of Newburgh Art Supply @newburghartguy & Newburgh Open Studios @newburghopenstudios , Michael brings an intimate knowledge of Gerardo’s practice.

Gerardo wrote about two bodies of work represented in the exhibition:

“Fire Indigo
Indigo is associated in many cultures with magical and spiritual rituals – probably because of the processes of change it goes through which looks dull green in a vat, emerging into the air- transformed to a vivid blue. Enslaved Africans carried the knowledge of indigo cultivation to the United States, and in the 1700s, the profits from indigo outpaced those of sugar and cotton.

Through simple forms and a straightforward presentation I strive to present the viewer with a color so rich that they are entranced by “burnings” and examine all that lies within a color’s substance. Powerful and dignified, indigo conveys integrity and deep sincerity.

Spiritual Fire
Emanationism is a cosmological theory which asserts that all things “flow” from an underlying principle or reality, usually called the Absolute or Godhead. Any teachings which involve emanation are usually in opposition to “creation out of nothing” as emanation advocates that everything has always existed and has not been “created” from nothing.

We ignorantly believe in the adequacy and assumption that what we don’t see does not exist. If you create sharp divisions and cling to narrow definitions of subject and object, whatever you see will always appear in the context of those limitations.”

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Closer
Burning on paper
6 x 2’
2015

Presence
Burning on Arches oil paper, oil paint
6 x 2’
2016

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