The West Kortright Centre’s third exhibition of the season presents “Part of the Story,” new work by Walter Gurbo. There is an artist’s reception in the Roberts Room Gallery on Friday, August 5, from 5 to 7PM sponsored by Brewery Ommegang. The exhibit runs from August 3 to August 30.
Walter Gurbo, painter, sculpture, illustrator, muralist, set designer, set-painter, and most recently filmmaker, knows how to reshape and transform any medium he can get his hands on. His most recent series of paintings have been said to “reinvent the still life.” All of Gurbo’s work typically has a thought-provoking humor, evident even in his most abstract work.
Gurbo is probably best known for his 12 years of weekly surrealistic drawings known as the “Drawing Room” on the back cover of NY’s Village Voice. A just released book “All The Art That’s Fit To Print (& Some That Wasn’t)” by Jerelle Kraus (Columbia Univ. Press) includes a drawing series from Walter’s New York Times days where he contributed more than 300 drawings. Twice a year he returns to NYC’s East Village “Theater For The New City” where he does the sets for their Street Theater and again for Halloween where he does murals for the Grand Ball Room –a 20-year tradition Walter enjoys. Gurbo recently returned from Japan where he had a very successful one-man exhibition at Hishio Museum in Katsuyama.
Originally from NYC, and a graduate of The High School of Art and Design and Pratt Institute, he has called upstate home for the last12 years. Living now in a converted factory loft, he has recently established a huge exhibition space “Art Central New York” in New Berlin N.Y.
For more information, call (607) 278-5454, visit www.westkc.org, or write to The West Kortright Center, 49 W. Kortright Church Road, East Meredith NY, 13757. The Centre is located midway between Oneonta, Delhi, and Stamford. Follow signs from state Route 23 in Davenport Center or state Route 10 east of Delhi. Exact travel directions can be printed from www.westkc.org.
The West Kortright Centre is funded in part by its members, donors to the 2011 Program Fund Drive, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Arthur, Dewar, O’Connor, and Robinson-Broadhurst foundations. The Centre is an active member of New York State Multi-Arts Centers Consortium, which receives funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.
