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Made possible in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Community Arts Partnership.

06/11/2026

State of the Art Gallery
Photo Show Look Club
Sunday 2-3 PM

The juried photography show Gallery Night was abuzz with the participating photographers and the many admirers from Itha...
06/05/2026

The juried photography show Gallery Night was abuzz with the participating photographers and the many admirers from Ithaca. Take some time to visit the gallery to enjoy an excellent selection of photographs! Open Thursday-Sunday, 12-5.

06/05/2026

Congrats to all the photographers in the show and especially to the following:

State of the Art Gallery, Photography

First Prize: $200
Thomas Kredo: Scrum
The term “Scrum” comes from rugby. The players pile up on each other to try regain control of the ball. It looks like a sweaty battle. This photo frightened me with its intensity, but also seemed a metaphor for these fraught times. When I searched the word “scrum”, I found that it also refers to “scrum software designed to facilitate Agile project management”. Does it solve sweaty problems? An intense photo taught me several new concepts!

Second Prize: $200
Gwen E Bullock: Memorial Series 1.
This poignant photo, small in size, subdued in hue, tugged at my heart. A child’s dress, suspended from the clothes line, with the title implying a memory of childhood, a loss of innocence.

Third Prize: $200
Jennifer Rubacky: The Glass Between Us
This complex photo forces the viewer to look closely, finding ever more details to imply a narrative: the man in the interior, working on his laptop with a book next to him titled: “Matriarch”, while on the outside of the building a very young person is pushing a stroller, presumably with a baby in it. The other man in the coffee shop has a Luis Vuitton bag (for himself? Or for an important friend?) behind his laptop on his table. The street is a cacophony of signs, vehicles, bicycles, rushing people. Is this beginning of a film?

Honorable Mention: $100
Sarah Clapp: Coffin
This photo is a puzzle. The elegant couple, with food on plates, standing in a spacious barn, and in the background, a coffin? Is the photographer implying that the couple is nearing the end of their life? Why would there be a coffin, maybe more than one, in a barn? The warm tones of the image are not frightening, yet the story is never clarified.

Honorable Mention: $100
Justin Zoll: Magnesium Nitrate Hexahydrate #1
This magnificent image blasts the viewer with color and shapes. Utterly jagged, kaleidoscope of colors, the viewer turns to the wall label for clarification: Nagnesium Nitrate Hexahydrate. The photographer shows us what we cannot see without extreme magnification.

Honorable Mention: $100
Terrence Fitzgerald: Actias Luna Mating Luna Moths $100
Here is another image that teaches us something that we cannot know or understand without exaggerated magnification. The coupling moths are exquisite in detail, hue, and composition. For me, Luna Moths used to be a familiar sight of summer nights, now they seem rare.

Honorable Mention: $100
Ann Auld: Natural Vessel Diptych $100
This cyanotype diptych combines two images on cloth: on the left is a rib cage/lung and on the right is an enigmatic diagram. The image on the right is labeled: Porifera
This word again sent me to the internet: “Porifera is a biological phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals that includes sea sponges. They are among the most primitive multicellular animals on earth.” Now I am left to wonder why the artist put these two images side by side. I liked that she stitched the two images to the paper.

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06/02/2026

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The annual juried photo show opened today. Gallery Night iso June 5th, 5-7 PM. Here is a sample of the show while I sit ...
05/28/2026

The annual juried photo show opened today. Gallery Night iso June 5th, 5-7 PM. Here is a sample of the show while I sit at the desk.

The show closes on Sunday the 24th and the juried photography show will them be hung. Come visit!Some photos from the Sa...
05/20/2026

The show closes on Sunday the 24th and the juried photography show will them be hung. Come visit!

Some photos from the Salon.

Art Celebration and Sale!!!May 30th & 31st 2026 11AM-3PM203 Pine Tree RoadIthacaCome and join us for 1 weekend only and ...
05/18/2026

Art Celebration and Sale!!!

May 30th & 31st 2026 11AM-3PM
203 Pine Tree Road
Ithaca

Come and join us for 1 weekend only and celebrate the art of Stan and Mary Ann Bowman at their fabulous studio on Pine Tree Road! We are looking to find good homes for all their wonderful art. Stan was a photographer and a pioneer of digital art since the late 1980s. He was a professor in the Art Department at Cornell from 1972 until retirement in 1997. Mary Ann's work traverses a range of fanciful exotic mixed media creatures and scenes. Her background in ceramics influences the range of works.

There will also be a wide range of art and craft related books available, as well as art supplies.

Everything is priced to sell. Please bring all your art loving friends. And tell them to bring a truck! You'll want so much stuff.

Note - there is limited parking, but there is a parking lot for the East Ithaca trail around the corner on Snyder Hill Road.

Greg Bowmam

Here are some sample walls of the show Black and White and...and the Salon. Come visit this sunny weekend!
05/14/2026

Here are some sample walls of the show Black and White and...and the Salon. Come visit this sunny weekend!

Gallery Night on Friday celebrated the new show featuring Ileen Kaplan and David Watkins, "Black and White and..."in the...
05/02/2026

Gallery Night on Friday celebrated the new show featuring Ileen Kaplan and David Watkins, "Black and White and..."in the front gallery. Other members are featured in the Salon.

Address

120 W State Street/Martin Luther King Jr St
Ithaca, NY
14850

Opening Hours

Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 5pm

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