The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Fred Adell

Dates: Through July 28, 2012
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-3:30pm (Closed Monday-Wednesday)
Information: 518 263 2060

Meet Fred Adell, an artist. He's one in a million who has literally never been out of the city (that would be Queens), and now for the first time he's agreed to come out to the "boondocks" to dock with full-blown nature without bars in the Catskill Mountains.

Starting on June 16, The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery will present its latest exhibit titled It's My Nature!, a refreshingly wonderful presentation of the nature of wildlife through the special eyes of Fred Adell. Black bears casually meander across Main Street in downtown Hunter on their way to imbibe the cool clear waters of the Schoharie Creek -- at first glance a very different scene from Mr. Adell's New York City apartment block. But the flow of the Schoharie seems to mimic the artistic thirst of the tireless Mr. Adell who, like his home city, never seems to sleep, working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment while he paints his Nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting back on the origins of his art in the city where he was born and raised. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!" Fred must have been making exuberant Lego creations, and the creations he constructs today bear the same hallmarks of boundless enthusiasm and joy.

Continuing about his past he says, "By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching ... from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History...." Here Fred lays an interesting question before the Art World: "[C]ould that be considered a form of 'still life'? Animals in their panoramic dioramas, many of them I feel are masterpieces !" Mounted specimens and panoramic dioramas as still life...this reveals some of the sensitive originality of an artist who has been painting his inner vision of the wild all his life from within the asphalt jungles of New York City. In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

His sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

Fred in person is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to this remarkable debut. Fred Adell has come out of the shelter of the city to burst full-blown on the art scene up here in the Catskills, engaging our curiosity as the wonder steals over us at the effortless acceptance of Fred's face-to-face experience depicting his Nature.

With Grammy Award-winning Taiko Master, Koji Nakamura

Date: Sunday, July 1, 2012
Time: 1:00 pm
FREE Concert
This concert is funded in part by the Windham Chapter of the Catskill Mountain Foundation.
Location: Windham Civic Center, Main Street, Windham
More Information: Call 518 263 2063

Believing that art can touch every human being, despite differences in language, customs, race and religion, these traditional Japapnese drummers form a bridge between people by means of a pure and primal sound that is beyond words. A truly visceral experience!

Date: Saturday, July 7, 2012
Time: 8:00 pm
Tickets purchased ahead: $23; $18 seniors; $7 students
Tickets purchased at the door: $27; $21 seniors; $7 students
Reception in the Piano Performance Museum following the concert
This concert is generously supported by the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation in celebration of the life of Danièle Doctorow. Additional support is provided by The Hegardt Foundation
Location: Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7971 Main Street, Route 23A, Village of Hunter
More Information/Tickets: Call 518 263 2063

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Featuring performances by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, guitar, fiddle, bass and vocals; Michael Merenda, banjo; Dale Paul Woodiel, fiddle & program artistic advisor; Ira Bernstein, solo percussive dancer
Perspectives Ensemble: Sato Moughalian, Artistic Director & flute; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Monica Ellis, bassoon; Stephen Gosling, piano; Cornelius Dufallo, violin; Nardo Poy, viola; Wendy Sutter, cello

Aaron Copland's 1944 ballet for Martha Graham has become an emblem of pioneer life in the Eastern mountain ranges and the American frontier. But like so much art that has been burnished through the passage of time, this great work was actually a synthesis of influences: European composers of the early 20th century, and very notably, the traditional country music of England and Scotland as well as Shaker hymns and African-derived songs. It is these latter, popular influences which deeply and directly influenced the style and music of Appalachian Spring and which this concert explores in this 75 minute program. Copland's genius was to meld all these musical strands, and to create from them a new and immediately recognizable whole; one that would come to represent our country in music.

Perspectives Ensemble performs Appalachian Spring in its original version for 13 players, and is joined by celebrated guest artists to perform the traditional music and dance that inspired it. Ira Shapiro is one of the world's most acclaimed solo step percussive dancers. Dale Paul Woodiel, Jr. is renowned for his vibrant and historically-informed fiddling, headlining programs at the Caramoor and Bard Festivals, and a three-time New England Fiddle Contest champion. Jay and Molly are musicians of enormous talent who draw their repertoire and inspiration from a wide range of American musical styles: 19th-century classics, lively Appalachian, Cajun, and Celtic fiddle tunes and favorites from the golden age of country and swing, along with their own songs, fiddle tunes, and orchestral compositions.

Founded in 1993, Perspectives Ensemble creates musical events that present the works of composers in cultural or historical context. Its programs offer interpretations informed by the influences prevailing upon composers at the time of composition.

"[Performances by the Perspectives Ensemble are] ... first-rate ... exquisite ... full of electricity ... superb."
-- The New York Times

"Jay and Molly make music that is simple and overwhelming ... joyful and full of feeling ... an apotheosis of American traditional music."
-- Garrison Keillor, host and creator of A Prairie Home Companion

The Catskill Mountain Foundation invites you to attend our 2012 Annual Benefit

at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Route 23A, Tannersville

Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.

Cocktail Supper and Auction

Click Here for a Sneak Peek of Items Available at Our Silent Auction! (PDF, 115KB)

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Cocktail supper generously provided by the following local Mountain Top restaurants:

Astor House
Brandywine Restaurant
Chalet Fondue-Nunzio's Pizzeria
CMF Natural Agriculture Farm
Cosmic Charlie's
Curran's Restaurant
Fresh Harvest Café/Chef Michael Cotrone
Ladoria Ristorante at the Villa Vosilla
Last Chance Antiques & Cheese Café
Maggie's Krooked Café
Messina's Italian Restaurant
Mill Rock Restaurant
Neapolis Restaurant
Pancho Villa's Mexican Restaurant
Platte Clove Community
Rock'n Mexicana
Tannersville General Store
Van Winkle's Restaurant
Vesuvio Restaurant
Village Bistro
Village Market
Washington Irving Inn

Featuring a showcase performance by Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, in collaboration with American Virtuosi, in collaboration with Kenneth Hamrick, Artistic Director, Piano Performance Museum

The CMF’s annual benefit raises funds that enable us to present year-round programming in music, theater, dance and literature, to offer educational programs in the arts that transform the lives of youth in our community, and to host arts residencies at our facilities.

Please join us in our vision to enrich our community through the arts.

This year, we would like to honor two individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the arts on the Mountain Top.

Linda Nicholls, Founder and Artistic Director of the Greene Room Players, who has been delighting the Mountaintop community with her wonderful productions for over 20 years;

and

Elena Patterson, who has worked as an artist to transform the Village of Tannersville, with the Village as her canvas.

We hope we can count on your support!

For more information, contact Toni Perretti at perrettit@catskillmtn.org or 518 263 2001

Date: Saturday, July 14
Time: 1 pm
Location: Village Square Bookstore & Literary Arts Center, Hunter Village Square, 7950 Main Street, Village of Hunter
Bookstore Hours: Thursday-Saturday 10 am-5 pm; Sunday 11 am-4 pm
More Information: 518 263 2050
This event is FREE

Eight hours on a rainy Sunday in August.

\That's how long it took Tropical Storm Irene to destroy hundreds of houses and businesses and leave hundreds homeless.

Now Craig Brandon, Nicole Garman and the Catskills' own award-winning journalist, Mike Ryan have written a book, Good Night, Irene, containing stories and photos about the tropical storm that surprised everyone and devastated Vermont, the Catskills, and the Berkshires with a rain cloud that just wouldn't quit.

"It was a strange pew to be sitting in on a summer day in August."

That's the opening line of Windham Journal staff writer Michael Ryan's chapter about Prattsville, NY and the unforgettable day that Tropical Storm Irene hit the Northern Catskills. With three writers and a dozen photographers covering three states, Good Night, Irene is the only book to describe the full extent of the disaster, including detailed reporting on hard-hit towns. It's a valuable historic souvenir of the storm to preserve for your children and your children's children. If you lived through Irene or want to know the full extent of the tragedy, you'll want to read this book.

Available now at the Village Square Bookstore, $24.95 paperback.

Join author Mike Ryan at the Village Square Bookstore on Saturday, July 14 at 1 pm to hear about his journalistic experiences covering Tropical Storm Irene.

From The Royal Ballet, London

Date: Sunday, July 15 at 2:15 pm
Running Time: 2 hours, 50 minutes plus one intermission
Tickets: $20
Location: Mountain Cinema in the Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7971 Main Street, Rte. 23A, Village of Hunter, NY
Information: 518-263-4702

First staged in St Petersburg in 1890, The Sleeping Beauty is the pinnacle of classical ballet: a perfect marriage of Petipa's choreography and Tchaikovsky's music and a glorious challenge for every dancer onstage. It is also The Royal Ballet's signature work. To mark the Company's 75th birthday in 2006, Monica Mason and Christopher Newton revitalized its landmark 1946 production, which re-established Petipa's choreography to a scenario and staging developed by Ninette de Valois herself. With Oliver Messel's gorgeous original designs wonderfully re-imagined by Peter Farmer, and additional choreography by Anthony Dowell, Christopher Wheeldon and Frederick Ashton, today's Sleeping Beauty not only captures the mood of the original but shows that this is very much a living work for The Royal Ballet, growing and changing with the Company while celebrating its past.

Lunch and Learn: Slide/Lecture Presentation

Date: Saturday, July 21, 2012
Time: 2-3 pm
Location: Doctorow Center for the Arts, Screen 2, 7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter
Cost: $15, includes lunch and lecture
More Information: 518 263 2050

Lecture by Carolyn Bennett, Director, Village Square Bookstore & Literary Arts Center

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The notion of the "Wild, Wild West" appeals to people in all parts of the world. Before the West was wild, however, it was being created in the mind of one of the Catskill Region's favorite sons, Ned Buntline, the most prolific dime novelist of the 19th century. Buntline wrote about Buffalo Bill and was the inventor of the Buntline Special. Another writer, this time a woman, Ann Stephens, started it all by writing the first dime novel, set in Catskill, NY.

Lunch and Learn: Slide/Lecture Presentation

Date: Saturday, July 21, 2012
Time: 2-3 pm
Location: Doctorow Center for the Arts, Screen 2, 7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter
Cost: $15, includes lunch and lecture
More Information: 518 263 2050

Lecture by Carolyn Bennett, Director, Village Square Bookstore & Literary Arts Center

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The notion of the "Wild, Wild West" appeals to people in all parts of the world. Before the West was wild, however, it was being created in the mind of one of the Catskill Region's favorite sons, Ned Buntline, the most prolific dime novelist of the 19th century. Buntline wrote about Buffalo Bill and was the inventor of the Buntline Special. Another writer, this time a woman, Ann Stephens, started it all by writing the first dime novel, set in Catskill, NY.

Date: Saturday, July 28, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm
Tickets: $10 adults/seniors/students
Location: Orpheum Performing Arts Center, Main Street, Route 23A, Village of Tannersville
More Information/Tickets: Call 518 263 2063

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Over the course of two weeks in July, local children ages 9-13 will have an opportunity to experience dance as part of the 5th annual Mountaintop Summer Residency program led by the National Dance Institute. As a grand finale for this program, the students will perform in a delightful, fully-staged production accompanied by the NDI Celebration Team of young dancers from New York City. The Catskill Mountain Foundation is proud to host this residency for our Mountain Top Community.

National Dance Institute Summer Residency is supported in part by Stewart's Shops, Ulster Savings Bank, The Greene County Youth and All Souls Church.

Romantic Masterworks for Violin and Piano

Date: Saturday, July 28, 2012
Time: 8:00 pm
Tickets purchased ahead: $23; $18 seniors; $7 students
Tickets purchased at the door: $27; $21 seniors; $7 students
Reception in the Piano Performance Museum following the concert
This concert is supported in part by the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation.
Location: Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7971 Main Street, Route 23A, Village of Hunter
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Alejandro Mendoza, violin
Soyeon Park, piano
Gerardo Teissonnière, piano

Alejandro Mendoza and Soyeon Park will perform works by Felix Mendelssohn-Barthody and Fritz Kreisler, and Gerardo Teissonnière will perform works by Schumann and Liszt. Soyeon Park will also perform works by Chopin.

Amati Music Festival returns to Hunter and is a celebrated international music festival featuring guest artists and extraordinary young musicians from around the world. Each residency features faculty, guest artist and student concerts, master classes, lectures and other events open to the general public.

Alejandro Mendoza
Violinist Alejandro Mendoza has toured North America, South America and Asia performing both as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras. He has been greeted with standing ovations from audiences around the world and has received critical acclaim from the press as well. The New York Press has called him "an outstanding soloist" and the Ann Arbor News (MI) wrote, "Alejandro Mendoza's playing of the violin ... is enough to start the bravos pouring from the gallery." In South America, the Venezuelan media raved about his performances with such superlatives as "sweetest tone" and "impeccable technique". More recently, the El Paso Herald Post wrote Alejandro Mendoza "digs into a piece with maximum effect," "giving off light and airy insights and a downright robust and racy ending." "Mendoza maneuvered his violin through all the difficult plucks, chips and rolls with quick, abrupt movements and a soulful cry at the end." Alejandro Mendoza has also been heard in Japan, where his sold out concerts in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya led to return engagements to many Japanese cities. In the U.S., Mr. Mendoza has recorded a CD with pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa. This recording includes sonatas by César Franck and Saint-Saëns and is available under the Jericho Label.

Alejandro Mendoza has also obtained recognition as a violin instructor. He currently teaches at the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division in New York City, Columbia University, gives Master Classes around the U.S., and is frequently asked to adjudicate violin competitions around the U.S. and abroad. His teaching career began while he was still a student at the Juilliard School, when he was chosen by the renowned violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay to work with her as a teaching fellow at Juilliard and as a faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Mendoza was also exposed to the great teaching tradition of the late Ivan Galamian when he attended the Meadowmount School of Music. In 1997 Mr. Mendoza founded the Amati Conservatory; a music school for dedicated young music students located in Tenafly, New Jersey and is the current president and member of the violin faculty.

Mr. Mendoza makes annual tours in South America and Asia, where he appears as soloist in concerts and gives Master Classes at conservatories and universities.

Soyeon Park
Soyeon Park has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Romania, Italy, Czech Republic, China and Korea. She appeared on the stages of the La Villa d'Este in Tivoli, Italy; Auditorium Camera di Commercio and Cattedrale di Giarre in Sicily, Italy; Brevnov Monastery and Bertramka (the Mozart Museum) in Prague; Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest; The Bravo Club in Beijing, China; Banff Center Concert Hall in Alberta, Canada; Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City; University of Florida in Gainesville; Texas Christian University in Fort Worth; Steinway Hall; The Yamaha Salon; The Kosciuszko Foundation; and Weill Hall at the Carnegie Hall in New York.

As a young artist, she won many awards from various competitions and auditions including ARTS (Arts Recognition and Talent Search) by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, The Prague International Piano Festival Competition, Heida Hermann International Competition, Wideman Piano Competition and the Corpus Christi International Competition. Soyeon has participated in master classes with many renowned pianists, including Alexander Kobrin, Julian Martin, Robert McDonald, Ann Schein, Ian Hobson, Jerome Lowenthal, Tamas Vasary, Ivan Moravec, and Menahem Pressler.

Soyeon has been enthusiastically teaching piano for more than ten years. Recently, she served as an associate faculty member at the Center for Musical Excellence, and taught master classes at International Piano Academy in Beijing and the New York Piano Festival.

Soyeon received her Bachelor and Master Degrees from Manhattan School of Music and is a Teaching Fellow in the Doctoral program. She is recipient of the Svend Svendsen and Margarethe Svendsen Scholarship and the President's Award. Soyeon is honored to study under the tutelage of renowned pianist and pedagogue, Zenon Fishbein.

Gerardo Teissonnière
Regarded by international critics and audiences alike as an artist of extraordinary musicianship and rare sensibility since his acclaimed solo recital debut at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., American pianist Gerardo Teissonnière brings to the concert stage an exciting amalgam of the diverse and important musical traditions he represents, performing in major concert series and venues throughout the world. From the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado to the Amati Music Festival in New York and Beijing, among others, Mr. Teissonnière has appeared in solo recitals, as soloist with orchestras and with leading duo-piano and chamber music ensembles, as well as in radio and television broadcasts in the United States and abroad.

During the worldwide Schubert Bicentennial celebrations, Mr. Teissonnière presented a series of critically acclaimed solo recitals dedicated to the works of the Viennese composer. Highly regarded since for his interpretations of the classical repertoire, he has also presented both local, regional and American premiere performances of music by composers such as Pablo Casals, Aaron Copland, Alberto Ginastera, Osvaldo Golijov, Lowell Liebermann, Darius Milhaud, Arvo Pärt and Robert Schumann.

Highlights of recent concert seasons include solo recitals of the Mozart piano sonatas, all-Chopin concerts in Poland, chamber music concerts in Latin America featuring première performances of the Sonata for Violin and Piano by Pablo Casals, and a return engagement with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra in subscription concert performances the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto. Upcoming performances include appearances at Steinway Hall in New York City and at at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing in solo work by Schubert, Schumann and Liszt.

Gerardo Teissonnière began his musical training at an early age in San Juan under the guidance of Cecilia Talavera and Luz Hutchinson. He continued studies at the Conservatory with Jesús Maria Sanromá, disciple of Artur Schnabel and Alfred Cortot, and made his debut as soloist with the Puerto Rico Symphony while still a student as a laureate in the first Jesús Maria Sanromá Piano Competition. At the invitation of music director Jorge Mester, Mr. Teissonnière performed at the Aspen Music Festival where he studied with Jeaneane Dowis, former assistant to the legendary Rosina Lhévinne at the Juilliard School, and with Samuel Lipman. He appeared in solo recitals and as a founding member of an internationally acclaimed duo piano team while studying with Vitya Vronsky Babin at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he completed his professional studies and received the Arthur Loesser Memorial Award in Performance. He then traveled to Europe to pursue advanced work with Dmitri Bashkirov and Joaquín Achúcarro.

Also recognized as one of the most esteemed and sought-after piano pedagogues in the United States today, Mr. Teissonnière combines an active performance schedule with faculty appointments at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University, and serves as Artistic Director of the Piano Department and Artist-in-Residence at the Amati Music Festival in New York. He is the recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award from the Cleveland Institute of Music in recognition of his outstanding accomplishment in the field of piano performance and pedagogy, the Judson Smart Living Award in Education, and has been nominated for the Ohio Arts Council's Governor's Award for the Arts.

As a teacher, Mr. Teissonnière is in great demand for his work with young musicians and his students continue to gather acclaim performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Severance Hall, and National Public Radio's From the Top as well as in summer music festivals throughout the world, winning top prizes in numerous national and international competitions. Gerardo Teissonnière is an exclusive Steinway Artist and is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and Who's Who in the World.

Date: Saturday, July 28, 2012
Time: 2:00 pm
This concert is FREE!
Location: Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7971 Main Street, Route 23A, Village of Hunter
More Information: Call 518 263 2063

Extraordinary young artists from around the United States will perform piano works by Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, and Ravel in a free public afternoon concert at the acoustically brilliant Evelyn Weisberg Hall. Under the artistic direction of renowned piano pedagogue, Gerardo Teissonnière, these performers will enthrall you with their musicality and dazzle you with their technical prowess.

Alejandro Mendoza, Founder and Director
Eva Lerner-Lam, Executive Director
Amati Music Festival 2012

From the Teatro Region di Torino

Date: Sunday, July 29 at 2:15 pm
Running Time: 2 hours, 27 minutes plus one intermission
Tickets: $20
Location: Mountain Cinema in the Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7971 Main Street, Rte. 23A, Village of Hunter, NY
Information: 518-263-4702
In Russian with English subtitles

Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is considered the most important Russian opera ever written. Mussorgsky rejected Western conventions in classical music, instead forging a uniquely Russian style that gives Boris Godunov its arresting and unforgettable sound.