The Garrison Art Center will hold its first opening of the new year on Saturday, January 22nd. In the GAC Gallery will be Reginald Case, who currently resides in Rhinebeck, New York and in the Anita Hart Balter Gallery will be Garrison artist Germaine Keller. A reception for both artists will be held on Saturday the 22nd from 2 to 5 pm. The exhibitions will remain on view through Sunday, February 20th.

Reginald Case will be exhibiting a series of Still Life paintings which were completed during the years 1968-1972 while he was teaching at Norfork State College in Virginia. These paintings are an attempt to transform the common table top arrangement of still life objects to a monumental scale with sculptural dimension using a mixture of oil and enamel paints with dry pigment. Case studied with Walter Murch at Boston University who endowed Case with a mystical presence to ordinary objects and provided the inspiration for seeing still life as a subject. This was also understood by Case in the quiet eloquence in the work of Giorgio Morandi.

Germaine Keller began constructing her River Score drawings while teaching drawing at Parson’s School of Design and New York University. In 1996, Keller visited the Ryoanji garden in Kyoto, where she deeply responded to the graceful and complex placement of the rock formations. On moving her studio to Garrison, New York, she recognized a corresponding imagery in the pilings on the Hudson River estuary flowing by her door on Garrison’s Landing. The pilings, in turn, found a correspondence with the vertical bars in the musical scores she was creating on the computer. She began photographing the pilings at different times of day, using the scanned photos to form the base of the multi-layered River Scores. This collage of the photos beautiful pilings and the elegance of the computer scores create very meaningful images. Keller has recently published a book titled, The Book of Scores, with text by Joseph Masheck, former editor of Artforum.

The galleries are open seven days a week, noon to five. For further information, call the office at 424-3960.