#2007-08: May 11, 2007 ARTISTS, WRITERS, FROM PLATTE CLOVE AT THE ERPF GALLERY: 10th Annual Platte Clove Artists-in-Residence Exhibition, May 19 - July 21, 2007 You are cordially invited to the opening reception of the 10th Annual Platte Clove Artists-in-Residence Exhibition on Saturday, May 19, 2007, from 5-7 pm at the Catskill Center’s Erpf Gallery on Rt. 28 in Arkville. This year’s opening will include paintings, watercolors, drawings, photographs, an installation sculpture and a music piece. Artists who participated in the program are Mary Cole, Kristin Flynn, David Geer, Lliam Greguez, Rebecca Herman and Mark Shoffner, Emily Noelle Lambert, and Susan Miiller. At 6:00 pm we will be having music performed by Lliam Greguez. The Catskill Center’s 208-acre nature preserve is the site of the Platte Clove Residency Program. The program provides artists with a rustic retreat location in the historic Plattekill Clove in Greene County, connecting the Indian Head Wilderness area with the Kaaterskill Wild Forest, just above Plattekill falls. Since the beginning of the American Landscape Movement in the mid-1800s, when Thomas Cole and his contemporaries first began painting the Catskill Mountains, the region near the Kaaterskill and Plattekill Cloves has remained a special place for artists. Marie Cole, a painter from Germantown whose work is rooted in the plein-air tradition, will present canvasses that explore water as meditative tranquility. Kristin Flynn, from High Falls, loves the stillness of the woods and will be showing drawings in charcoal of bird nests, branches, and the presence of death in nature. David Geer, from Unadilla, has done field studies of trees around the Platte Clove cabin capturing in one of them the figure of a woman emerging from a tree trunk. Lliam Greguez, from Manhattan, is a photographer, songwriter and composer who plays a 12-string baritone guitar. His photos will present close ups of water abstractions in conjunction with sounds of the Northeast Catskill Mountains. Susan Miiller, painter and professor from New Paltz, reinvents the landscape with her nature scenes. The shape of her pieces are unencumbered by distracting details. Rebecca Herman & Mark Shoffner, from Long Island City, are multi-media artists whose work focuses in the creation of site-specific sculptures in various locations. Primitive animal traps inspired their hanging trap. These cages are made on a human scale as if they are about to trap humans. Emily Noelle Lambert, from Brooklyn, will exhibit drawings and paintings with the fresh simplicity of lines. There is a delicacy in the presentation of her narrative as a way of keeping a diary with an economy of pictorial language. The work of the Platte Clove Artists-in-Residence will be on exhibit at the Erpf Gallery through July 21, 2007. The public is invited to the opening reception on Saturday, May 19th, 5-7pm and attendance is free. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9-5, and Saturdays from 12-4. Please visit our website at: www.catskillcenter.org.