Earth Speaks V: A Juried Exhibition on the Environmental Crisis

The Earth Speaks V: A Juried Exhibition on the Environmental Crisis, is on exhibit in The Dunning Gallery at NCC Monroe from April 6-May 23, 2019. The Earth Speaks is an artist’s means of capturing their concern regarding the climate crisis and how it is affects our planet, as well as an opportunity to offer possible solutions.

Forty artists submitted 70 pieces to be juried. 50 works were selected to be included in the show from artists residing in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

Awards were granted in the following categories to those encapsulating the environmental crisis theme:

Juror’s Choice Award
Jelly Nation – Marsha Borden, Guilford, CT

Juror, Harry C Tabak

Tabak’s early work reflects his bond to nature through his landscape paintings. Social commentary followed with an emphasis on environmental issues for nearly two decades. These works were the subject of numerous exhibitions at the Dorsky Galleries in NYC (80’s) and museums. The Wichita Art Museum sponsored a traveling exhibition titled “The Radwaste and Stonehenge Books” a series of sculptural ‘books’ in a collaboration with artist Nava Atlas. The series then traveled to several other museums sponsored by the Art Gallery at SUNY New Paltz (now the Dorsky Museum).

Tabak began to explore sculpture as a medium in 2001 utilizing found natural materials. These became the basis for his current experiments often describes as ‘three dimensional drawings’. These are compositions utilizing wood, stone, glass, discarded broken materials, as well as metallic objects. Mr. Tabak studied Painting and Sculpture at The Art Students League of NY; Brooklyn College. Learn more about Tabak here…