East End Arts hosting show at Rosalie Dimon Gallery, May 2

East End Arts is pleased to announce the exciting new art show at the Rosalie Dimon Gallery, at the Jamesport Manor Inn (located at 370 Manor Lane in Jamesport, NY) featuring East End Arts members: abstract artist Anahi DeCanio of Huntington and printmaker Michael Maas of East Patchogue. The show opens on Friday, May 2, 2014 and will be up for viewing until July 30, 2014. An Artists’ Reception will be held on Sunday, June 1 from 3 PM to 5 PM at the Rosalie Dimon Gallery, where the public will have the opportunity to meet the artists. Local wines and artisan cheeses will be served. The public is invited to this free event.

Known for skillfully excavating earlier layers to the surface of her highly textured, luminously colored large acrylic paintings, Anahi DeCanio’s art remains as compelling at close range as it is at a distance. Her masterful alternating of opaque and transparent pigments add to the rich complexity of what may seem at first glance a simple abstract. Anahi DeCanio is a multi-disciplinary artist in mixed media, photography, installations, collage, and assemblage. Her work is part of private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe and Latin America. She has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibits across the United States and Europe and has won several awards in national juried competitions. Her work has been published in many publications, including TIME, and is part of several TV and motion picture productions. Venues where her work has been featured include Boca Raton Museum, Palm BeachInternational Airport, Art Basel Miami, and Guild Hall East Hampton.

Printmaker Michael Georg Maas has spent most of his life on Long Island. He descends from some of the very earliest Europeans to settle on the East Endas well as German immigrants who arrived at the end of the 19th century. This could be why he is attracted to fine traditional drawing and printmaking techniques as well as the rawness of the German Expressionists. Having received his Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in 1972, he moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy School of Fine Arts. He later enrolled at Pratt Institute where he studied with noted Abstract Expressionist Sculptor, Calvin Albert, eventually receiving the Master of Fine Arts degree (with distinction). Returning to Long Island, his work has been exhibited in many galleries and libraries, as well as Briarcliffe College. The recipient of many awards in several media, he continues to develop his printmaking skills, navigating between realism and abstraction. Drawing provides the ultimate channel through which these two disparate styles might collide, resulting in work that is seldom easily classified.

More Information about the Rosalie Dimon Gallery
Exhibits at the Rosalie Dimon Gallery are a joint effort by East End Arts and the Jamesport Manor Inn to introduce exceptional artists and their work to theEast End communities. East End Arts members who wish to be considered for exhibits at the Jamesport Manor Inn should have updated representations of work in the East End Arts Artist Registry at the East End Arts Gallery, located at 133 East Main Street, Riverhead, NY. The artists selected for East End Arts’ off-site gallery shows are chosen by committee.

For more information, contact Jane Kirkwood, East End Arts Gallery Director: 631-727-0900 or gallery@eastendarts.org; or visit www.eastendarts.org.

Exhibit is open for viewing during the Jamesport Manor Inn’s open hours. For more information call 631-722-0500 or visit www.JamesportManorInn.com.