Joseph Squillante’s Horizon 11, August 2001, is a black and white photograph of theNew York City twin towers from across the Hudson. Squillante spent close to half a centurytraveling the length of the Hudson River starting in the Adirondacks and ending at the mouth ofthe New York Harbor. He found most of his inspiration in…
Affine Nelson, The Researchers Wall, 2018, From the Museum of Biological Diversity, the Ohio State University, Color prints, with giant push pins. The Researcher’s Wall is a photographic installation created by Affine Nelson. The installation features agrid of nine life-sized color prints of bird specimens from the Ohio State University’s Museum ofBiological Diversity. The specimens…
Tuck High Company, found at the City of Neighborhoods exhibition at the New York State Museum (222 Madison Ave, Albany, NY 12230) is a recreation of a store that was once on 24 Mott Street in Chinatown of the lower east side of Manhattan. Many Chinese immigrants came to the United States during the 1850s…
Donald Judd’s Untitled, 1968, is a stainless steel and amber Plexiglass, floor to ceiling sculpture built into Erastus Corning Tower in Albany, New York. This stack was created by using ten identical square building blocks with translucent centers. They are evenly spaced apart from top to bottom. The amber plexiglass gives off this orange glow.…
Untitled by Donald Judd from 1968 is made from stainless steel and amber plexiglass boxes. It consists of ten of these boxes mounted separately on a wall, one on top of the other. It would almost appear that these ten boxes are floating above the ground. It is a minimalist piece that seems to glow…
The painting Via Ochre by Kenneth Noland, acrylic on canvas, is composed of horizontal lines that are white, honey yellow, fire yellow, tangerine orange, and light blue. All the lines are different widths. The painting starts with the white and yellow honey lines, then it transitions into the fire yellow and then lastly the tangerine…
Located at the Albany Institute of History and Artis a landscape painting titled Pollepel’s Island (View of the Hudson near Newburgh) by artist George Henry Boughton, 1858. This painting is an oil on canvas. The artist used loose brush strokes and an impasto style. The brush strokes and the texture of the paint is visible to the eye.…
The Empire State Plaza is home to a wide collection of art, including the buildings of the plaza itself. The architecture of the plaza began construction in 1959 and is a true representation of the brutalist style in architecture. This project was mainly under the supervision of Architect Wallace Harrison from the firm Harrison and…
Grand Spectra by Richard Anuszkiewicz is available for viewing at The Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, New York. This piece of art is a has six by six rows of different colored boxes. They are perfectly symmetrical boxes, that have a perfect center point in the middle of the middle four boxes. The…
Return 2 Earth by Alisa Sikelianos-Carter is presently hanging in the Opalka Gallery. Standing tall at 121” x 83 3/4”, this detailed piece is mixed media. It’s composed of Ink, gouache, acrylic, powder pigment, micaceous oxide, copper leaf, gold leaf, silver leaf, liquid gold leaf, interference pigment, glitter, gold coarse mica, and collage on paper.…