https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/entertainment/2020/02/27/samuel-dorsky-museum-art-acquires-local-artwork-new-paltz-exhibit/4870439002/ The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art acquires artwork for ‘Collecting Local: 12 Years of the Hudson Valley Artists Annual Purchase Award’ Linda Marston-Reid Published 8:00 a.m. ET Feb. 27, 2020 | Updated 3:04 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2020 One of the most important milestones in the career of an artist is to have their […]
Artwork by Curt Belshe and Lise Prown Our electoral system is under increasing pressure from special interest groups who try to shape and control who, where and how we vote, as well as who is allowed to vote. Voting district manipulation, voter roll purges, and voter ID laws make the very act of voting increasingly […]
Saunders Farm 2015 New World Yōkai By Curt Belshe and Lise Prown, 2015 Yōkai (妖怪, ghost, phantom, strange apparition) are a class of supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore. The word yōkai is made up of the kanji for “bewitching; attractive; calamity” and “apparition; mystery; suspicious”. Yōkai are also precursors of Pokemon and other creatures of […]
Curt Belshe and Lise Prown collaborate on an interactive augmented reality piece called A New Dialect. The work invites viewers to trigger Augmented Reality (AR) images by holding up different image cards in front of an iPad outfacing camera. The cards, printed with different text messages, call up AR images on the iPad, including text […]
Rooms with a View, Curated by Fred Wilson, Longwood Gallery, P.S. 39, Bronx Council For The Arts, Dec. 1987 participating artists and exhibition designers for this show. .
Curt Belshe & Lise Prown Signings All us around are signs, austere or complex, informational or contradictory, superstitious or factual, helpful or absurd – all demanding our attention and rewarding our gaze with some form of comprehension. The process of deriving meaning and assigning significance is key to these pieces which examine the […]
Lise Prown and Curt Belshe Signage installations in selected City of Peekskill street locations. September 12 thru November 2009
Digital Prints on Plastic Sheeting (2007) Belshe & Prown This work is comprised of one hundred weatherproof rectangular signs that will be suspended from several trees on a downtown street using carabiners. Using the conventions of street signage, both commercial and public, these signs will have a water related image. On the reverse side, the […]
COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS: SAUNDERS’ FARM PROJECT 2009 Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm 2009 – Our work “Wildlife Management Part 1: Charms” depicts New York wild life such as robins, squirrels, deer, ticks, mosquitoes and raccoons using a pixilated digital video game style of representation. These expressly “cute and cartoon-like charms will exist in extreme contrast to the surrounding natural […]
This exhibition explores the intersections of science, technology, engineering, math and creativity. Inspired by the STEM to STEAM dialogue in education, this exhibition presents artists using the interdisciplinary concepts of STEM to explore how science, technology and art overlap, interact, and innovate. Presenting imaginative possibilities that are poetic and pragmatic, aesthetic and forward-thinking, each of […]
Gallery Installation, Dorksy Museum of Art, 2010 Carrying a signage installation by Curt Belshe and Lise Prown The prevalence of guns in our country has a divisive political and social history that is now playing out on college campuses in a response to recent incidents of campus gun violence. A vocal new movement is now […]
Our model references the large underground oil spill in the northeast area of Greenpoint, between North Henry Street, Norman Avenue, and Newtown Creek, which has site of various petroleum industries for over 140 years. From early refineries processing whale oil to later petroleum based processing, the banks of Newtown Creek were, and are, an area […]
Featuring 23 Peekskill area artists celebrating the skateboard deck. Each artist creates a piece of art from a blank skateboard deck as well as showing a piece of their own, creating a unifying relationship between the exhibiting artists. The exhibit features the artists’ visions of urban life and includes sculpture, paintings, photographs and video installation. […]
Sign Project and Augmented Reality Installation The Farm Project 2011 Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm 853 Old Albany Post Road, Garrison NY 10524 A Sign Project about the Impact of Fracking on Landscape and Health A series of 3 signs and augmented reality models about the pending natural gas drilling in the nearby New York State Watershed. The […]
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Media: Digital Media, ipad and iphone, 14” x 14” x 1 To view the augmented reality artwork Mayan Maelstrom on your personal smart device: Scan one of the QR codes below or download the app “Layar”. Once it is installed, search for nearby art or search for the keyword art, mayan or maelstrom.
at The Wassaic Project 2012 wassaicproject.org This image of an old Locomotive on the existing train tracks that bisect the Hamlet of Wassaic recalls the history of the milk trains that ran along this train line bringing dairy products from upstate to New York City in the 19th and early part of the 20th century. Using […]
Lise Prown and Curt Belshe Signage installations in selected City of Peekskill street locations. September 12 thru November 2009
Much has been made over the approach of “the end of the calendar”, set to take place on December 21, 2012, at least from a Mayan perspective. We cannot accurately predict what’s going to happen, if anything at all, until that date finally arrives. Will we ease into a new 26,000 year celestial cycle effortlessly? […]
Silkscreen and Offset printing on Paper Tags (2007) Belshe & Prown This installation consists of nearly 600 paper tie tags printed with images of grasshoppers, locust and cicadas. These are paired with words that relate to these ubiquitous insects. The tags are used to create a visual swarm on tree branches, fences etc. These words […]
Solo Exhibition Curt Belshe & Lise Prown Feb. 2, 2009 – March 6, 2009 Westchester Gallery, Westchester Center for the Arts
A site-specific installation proposal for the Peekskill Project 2006 by Curt Belshe and Lise Prown. ___________________________________________ Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. John Webster (1580–1625), British dramatist. ___________________________________________ The genus Corvus (crows, ravens and jackdaws) is remarkable in many ways, and is notable for its historic ties to […]