#2008-11: May 8, 2008 ARTISTS, WRITERS, FROM PLATTE CLOVE AT THE ERPF GALLERY 11th Annual Platte Clove Artists-in-Residence Exhibition, May 17 - July 31, 2008 You are cordially invited to the opening reception of the 11th Annual Platte Clove Artists-in-Residence Exhibition on Saturday, May 17, 2008, from 5-7 pm at the Catskill Center’s Erpf Gallery on Rt. 28 in Arkville. This year’s opening will include paintings, collages, drawings, photographs, and installations. Artists who participated in the program are Terry Bradshaw, Christian Carson, Hannah Cole, Ascha Drake, James Gurney, Peter Krebs, Tom Lavazzi, Susan Mayr, Lindsay Packer and Dorothy Robinson. At 6:00 pm we will be having readings by Tom Lavazzi and Terry Bradshaw. 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. Terry Bradshaw, a writer from Stanford, has done an installation with words and objects. She writes for a variety of periodicals and magazines in the area; Christian Carson, a painter from Brockport, will be showing works on paper depicting compositions of tree leaves; Hannah Cole, a painter and photograph from Cambridge, MA, will be showing prints with pin holes with reference to "slept for twenty years"; Asha Drake from Brooklyn is a painter and teacher who will be exhibiting paintings with textured layers of the silhouettes of birds and trees; James Gurney, painter and author of Dinotopia was selected best artist by the Hudson Valley Magazine award in 2006 and will be showing two oil studies of the region of Plattekill Falls; Peter Krebs will present black and white and color studies of trees; Tom Lavazzi from Andes will be reading excerpts of his 35-page poem, "The Clove"; Susan Mayr, painter will show beautifully evocative tree landscapes; Dorothy Robinson paints waterfall abstractions; and Linday Packer will be presenting collages and drawings using human and animal characters. The work of the Platte Clove Artists-in-Residence will be on exhibit at the Erpf Gallery through July 31, 2008. The public is invited to the opening reception on Saturday, May 17th, 5-7pm. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9-5, and Saturdays from 12-4. Please visit our website at: www.catskillcenter.org.