Paul Calendrillo New York Art Gallery Closing Tomorrow, But Looking For New Roosevelt Island Space And Hoping To Re-Open Soon - You're Invited To Closing Reception April 29

Roosevelt Island resident Paul Calendrillo,

owner of the Paul Calendrillo New York Art Gallery,

reports the Gallery will be closing tomorrow but hopes to open in a new Roosevelt Island space soon.

According to Mr. Calendrillo:

We Are Moving

Gallery will close permanently on April 29th

Join us for our closing reception on Saturday

April 29th from 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Our run here at 507 Main St. has been financially rewarding and we have enjoyed introducing some of the most promising New York artists to Roosevelt Island. We sincerely appreciate your warm response to our artists and us.

Here are some interesting facts. Approximately 50% of our sales have been from “off the Island” clients. We have talked to hundreds of people, many of whom have never visited the Island and found it very convenient and beautiful once they came. Although the space has been vacated for some time, we had five businesses approach us to inquire renting the space on a longer-term basis and one did. This occurred from our first week in operation.

We developed a loyal following that came to every exhibition and even tourists stopped by to sign our guest book. We even included a few Island residents in one of our shows. For these reasons, we are pursuing new space on the Island. Check the local press coverage for news or sign our guest book and include your email address if you would like updates directly from us. Thanks again for all your support.

Paul and Marian Calendrillo

I spoke with Mr. Calendrillo last September about his plans for the Gallery.



The Calendrillo's did a great job with their Gallery. Hope they open in a new space soon.

A new tenant will be taking over the space.

You're Invited To Roosevelt Island's Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery Opening Reception For Diminutives Exhibit March 15 - Devoted To Small & Miniature Paintings, Photographs & Sculpture

You're invited to March 15 Opening Reception to Diminutives, the new art exhibit at Roosevelt Island's Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery. 

According to Mr. Callendrillo:

Diminutives
March 14th to April 1st
Opening Reception March 15th
 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery
507 Main St. New York, NY 10044

Paul Calendrillo New York proudly announces its first exhibition devoted to small and miniature paintings,

photographs

and sculpture.

We have selected an international group with a directive to let creativity flow in any direction without a central theme.  The idea is to build a fun, eclectic, affordable and surprising show. Among the artists exhibiting their work are:

• Christophe Avril - Roosevelt Island resident
• Tijana Bjelajac - Roosevelt Island resident
• Robert Buckley - Roosevelt Island resident
• Kevin Clamato
• Sean Donovan
• Asako Iwasawa
• Roberta Kleiman - Roosevelt Island resident
• Rick Krieger
• Linda Louis
• Owen Maseli
• Wayne Olsen - Roosevelt Island resident
• James Starace - Roosevelt Island resident
• Abigail Tulis
• Jennifer Young

Mr. Calendrillo is a Roosevelt Island resident too.

You're Invited To Roosevelt Island's Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery Opening Reception For Andre Eamiello's Exhibit Windows And Wall Tonight, February 15

You're invited to the opening reception tonight for Andre Eamiello exhibit Windows and Walls at the Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery.

According to Mr. Calendrillo:

Andre Eamiello
Windows and Walls
Opening Reception February 15th
6pm to 8pm
February 14th 2017 to March 11th 2017
Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery
507 Main St. New York, NY 10011

...you are the window through which you must see the world.
--Bernard Shaw

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
--Eugene O’Neill

We all hide behind walls. We erect them to protect us from the unforeseen, and in a very different sense, protect us from ourselves. They are structured, closed and sometimes made of stone. They satisfy our need for safety. But as an analogy for human experience, they are incomplete. We also need to explore, look outward into the expansiveness of existence, create, search for beauty and meaning and gaze through a window risking the unknown. No walls can ever be constructed without windows.

In Windows and Walls, artist, André Eamiello, visually explores the struggle between nature and artifice the personal and the universal, insular and expansive. Mounds of monochromatic compositions on panel and canvas are arranged alongside colorful oversized watercolors on paper. The installation evokes man made monuments amongst nature’s sublime.

Eamiello’s process is a fusion of dream state imagination and action painting. He utilizes earth ephemera with liquid watercolor techniques, and rubs charcoal on layers of textures to create an aesthetic that is both abstract and representational.

Paul Callendrillo New York Gallery hours at 507 Main Street, Roosevelt Island are:

Sunday Closed
Monday Closed
Tuesday 11:30am to 6:30pm
Wednesday 11:30am to 6:30pm
Thursday ​11:30am to 6:30pm
Friday 11:30am to 5:00pm
Saturday 11:30am to 5:00pm

Come to tonight's reception or just stop by anytime, check out the art and meet Roosevelt Island art gallery owner Paul Calendrillo.

Art And Technique Of Japanese Zen Painting Featured In New Exhibition At Roosevelt Island's Paul Calendrillo New York Art Gallery - You're Invited To Opening Reception Of Phillip Smallwood's The Art Of White Space Wednesday January 18

Roosevelt Island resident and new art gallery owner Paul Calendrillo invites you to the opening reception for artist Phillip Smallwood's The Art Of White Space exhibition

According to Mr. Calendrillo:

Philip Smallwood
The Art of White Space
January 17th 2017 to February 11th 2017
Opening Reception January 18th
6pm to 8pm
Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery
507 Main St. New York, NY 10044

Paul Calendrillo New York proudly presents the first gallery showing of Philip Smallwood's abstracts in the Sumi-e style of Zen painting. The art and technique of this Japanese Ink Painting is summarized the parable below:

A Chinese painter was once commissioned to paint the Emperor's favorite goat. The artist asked for the goat, that he might study it. After two years, the emperor, growing impatient, asked for the return of the goat; the artists obliged.

Then the Emperor asked about the painting. The artist confessed he had not yet made one, and taking an ink brush he drew eight nonchalant strokes, creating the most perfect goat in the annals of Chinese painting.

The ZEN artists believe that great economy of means is necessary to express the purity and simplicity of the eternal nature of the subject. Zen Art does not try to create the illusion of reality. It abandons true-life perspective, and works with artificial space relations that make one think beyond reality into the essence of reality. This concept of essence as opposed to illusion is basic ZEN Art in all phases.

Smallwood integrates this philosophy and technique with his incomparable skill as a watercolorist. Breaking with tradition, he abandons the horsehair brush and ink traditionally used in this work and crafts his own brushes and works in vivid watercolor. Smallwood uses great sensitivity when working in this medium without any preconceived visual content and has only one attempt to get things right. He begins with one stroke, and like Kandinsky, tunes in on every other stroke without contemplation. The length and intensity of every line are what matters. Images come from the freedom. They are born in the moment through the kinetic energy applied by the brush. Smallwood knows if it is right only after he views it.

The title of this exhibition, The Art of White Space, derives its name from the positive nature of the white space that gives birth and purpose to each line. White space is an equal player, much like in Taoist philosophy where perfection is at our first breath. The lotus petal and the art of Sumi-e serve as the backdrops for his unique approach to the genre.

Influenced by his older brother, Fredrick Smallwood, the artist developed a keen interest in visual art that developed into a second career. This artistic journey has taken him and his works across the country and abroad. Mr. Smallwood is the consummate observer, who uses his talents to give a resonance and reason to subjects and places that would normally be ignored. These images are rendered with a dignity and grace that is usually reserved for the upper echelons of society. Smallwood is the recipient of numerous accolades and awards from the most distinguished art societies and organizations nationally and internationally.

Gallery Hours:
Sunday Closed
Monday Closed
Tuesday 11:30am to 6:30pm
Wednesday 11:30am to 6:30pm
Thursday ​11:30am to 6:30pm
Friday 11:30am to 5:00pm
Saturday 11:30am to 5:00pm

You're Invited To Roosevelt Island's Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery Opening Reception For Backstory Exhibition By Artist Jennifer Young Wednesday December 7 - Check Out The New Gallery

Resident Paul Calendrillo recently opened a new art gallery at Roosevelt Island's 507 Main Street.

Mr. Callendrillo's latest gallery exhibition features the work of artist Jennifer Young.

Image From Paul Calendrillo

You're invited to the opening reception for Jennifer Young's exhibit, Backstory, December 7 at the Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery. According to Mr. Calendrillo:

Jennifer Young
Backstory
December 6th 2016 to January 7th 2017
Opening Reception December 7th
6pm to 8pm
Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery
507 Main St. New York, NY 10044

Jennifer Young Artist Statement

My life experiences and love for photography are the inspirations for these paintings. My paintings feature women in various settings. The images I create are often symbolic or metaphorical of intense emotions. I also love to find the beauty in the decrepit and run down, whether it’s a decaying building or a distressed woman. My artwork is my visual diary. I recall past events or emotions from my life and then think of images that portray them. Once I have an idea for the painting, I set up a photo shoot and recreate the scene that I imagined. I orchestrate the photo shoot by telling the model what to do and how to look. After perusing many photographs, I choose one and paint directly from it.

I work from my photographs because of my love for the medium and my desire to show detail and realism in my paintings. I have always felt that the camera is the closest thing to allowing the viewer to see what I see through my eyes. However, what the eye sees and what the photograph captures is limited. Unlike the camera, the mind has the ability to filter and focus on specific aspects of the picture. It is then my task to emphasize what I feel are the most important elements in my painting.

I paint with oils on stretched, acrylic-primed canvas. I consider composition while I am taking the photograph; I want the structure of the work to be interesting, to have some sort of unique quality. To accomplish this, I shoot from many different angles and viewpoints. The uniqueness of the photograph depends on the camera angle.

A lot of people have asked me over the last 10 years of these series why I paint such sad and depressing images. "Paint happy things!" is what some would say. But I never looked at it the way they did. People automatically think that any emotion that is considered a "negative emotion" is a bad thing. Emotions like sadness, heartache, loneliness, defeat, hopelessness, fear, and worry. But I don't see them that way. To me, they are neither positive nor negative. I see them as experiences, as lessons, as growth. What kind of person would you be if you had only experienced just one emotion in your life? If you had never experienced pain, sadness, or heartache? I think that those emotions -the "negative ones"- are essential for human existence. They are imperative for our growth, our experiences, our survival.

I still remember what one of my teachers once said to me during my senior year of art school, when this series began. "You're too sentimental." But once again, I didn't see that as a bad thing. Our memory system is an incredible thing. What we remember from our lives, why we remember, and how the autobiographical memory system affects our lives. Why wouldn't I be fascinated with what my mind remembers? Why wouldn't I cherish the lessons that I've learned in my life? Why wouldn't I be proud of what I've been through - the good and the bad? We are what we create. We go through many steps in life to become who we are and I have recorded some of mine on canvas.

One of the amazing things about humans is that we can find ways to relate to one another. Some of us have been through the same experiences, but they affect each of us differently. I would like people to look at my paintings and feel some emotion, or maybe even feel like they have felt the same way the person in my paintings do. When people feel empathy from someone, it gives them the opportunity to express their inner feelings and experiences with one another, which deepens the human connection. I want my artwork to be universal.

Here's a 2011 video of Ms Young describing her art.



More information on the Roosevelt Island Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery here and on artist Jennifer Young here.

I spoke with Mr. Calendrillo last September about his plans for the new Roosevelt Island Art Gallery.



and the impact his new art gallery may have on the revitalization of Main Street retail.



Paul Callendrillo New York Gallery hours at 507 Main Street, Roosevelt Island are:

Sunday Closed
Monday Closed
Tuesday 11:30am to 6:30pm
Wednesday 11:30am to 6:30pm
Thursday ​11:30am to 6:30pm
Friday 11:30am to 5:00pm
Saturday 11:30am to 5:00pm

Come to tomorrow night's reception or just stop by anytime, check out the art and meet Roosevelt Island art gallery owner Paul Calendrillo.

Will New Paul Calendrillo Art Gallery Help Revitalize Roosevelt Island's Main Street Retail? You're Invited To Blake Emory's Zebra Love Exhibition Opening Reception November 17

As previously reported, resident Paul Calendrillo recently opened a new art gallery at Roosevelt Island's 507 Main Street.

I spoke with Mr. Calendrillo last September about his plans for the new Roosevelt Island Art Gallery.



and the impact his new art gallery may have on the revitalization of Main Street retail.



Mr. Callendrillo's latest gallery exhibition features the work of artist Blake Emory.



According to Mr. Callendrillo:

Blake Emory

Illusions of Grandeur

November 17th to December 3rd

Opening Reception November 17th

Reception Sponsored by Emory Vodka

6pm to 8pm

Paul Calendrillo New York Gallery

507 Main St. New York, NY 10044

All art is illusionist by nature. A skilled hand can magically take a two-dimensional canvas and add a third dimension of depth or ascension. The fabric of our social construct is manipulated by desire for beauty and the use of color and shading can trick the eye into seeing something, that when viewed closely, doesn't exist.

Painter and sculptor, Blake Emory's newest work explores the notion that elegance and grandeur are themselves illusions. Returning to his signature Zebra Love

subject in which women's bodies are synthesized from a web of zebra stripes or where the hair of seductresses are thick waterfalls of black and white cascades, Emory now obfuscates their sensuous nature in this collection by integrating spinning pinwheels in his paintings and levitating sculptural elements in his stonework, successfully modifying an old cliché that beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, but mere trick of the mind.

Blake Emory was born to parents who lived for the arts. From a young age, Emory explored the depth of his own creativity. Realizing his potential, he explored many avenues to express his vision. His journey began in early childhood when he sold his first piece. A crayon drawing of a famous baseball player he had sold to his classmate in the third grade. By the fifth grade, Blake had started his first tee-shirt business, guided by his siblings. It did not take long for this group of talented youngsters to grow in numbers and start making waves. He counted up the few coins in his pocket and came up with a meager eight dollars. He walked to a local arts and crafts store and bought a bottle of black paint and two bottles of white. He carefully selected his brush and strolled to a thrift store where he found old vinyl records by the hundreds. He painted iconic rock stars on the vinyl and began selling them in the street, where the pieces sold out in a day.

Emory was at a point in his life where things were changing. He came across another artist that had been creating art in an old warehouse. They joined and began to journey on a creative path that would eventually inspire Emory to create his own vision, Zebra Love. Riding the wave of creativity, Emory traveled to Miami, where he began to manage a gallery. The gallery was a hit. Blake brought back Zebra Love and built a mobile gallery where his path crossed with a New Yorker that invited him to bring his Zebra Love Collection to a New York gallery. Living at the gallery, he created art day and night; he finally had a chance to sculpt in stone. The art was flowing heavy: paintings, sculptures, and now film. Zebra Love continues to spearhead the movement as Emory strives to break through in all mediums of art. He currently lives in New York with his wife and children.

Paul Callendrillo New York Gallery hours at 507 Main Street, Roosevelt Island are:

Sunday Closed
Monday Closed
Tuesday 11:30am to 6:30pm
Wednesday 11:30am to 6:30pm
Thursday ​11:30am to 6:30pm
Friday 11:30am to 5:00pm
Saturday 11:30am to 5:00pm

Here's more about Paul Callendrillo's Roosevelt Island art gallery.

Roosevelt Island Main Street Retail Update - New Ethnic Restaurant About To Sign A Lease, Pop Up Art Gallery A Success, 503 Main Street Cafe Gets Liquor License, Nisi (Trellis) Waiting For Fire Department Approval & More

The Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) Main Street Retail Advisory Committee (MSTRAC) met October 11 with Hudson Related representative Alexandra Kaplan and Cushman & Wakefield retail broker Michael Azarian for an update on Main Street leasing progress.

Image From Cushman & Wakefield Shops On Roosevelt Island's Main Street

RIRA's MSTRAC Chair Anne Kanninen provides the following summary of the meeting. According to Ms. Kanninen: 

Trellis (Nisi) is scheduled for fire department inspection to be able to start its operations. The waiting list is long, we were told, therefore impossible to say when the restaurant will open.

Urgent Care is looking for practitioners for the space which will require some negotiations and legal work before opening. At this point unclear when the place opens.

The PopUp Gallery has been very successful and this model of operation will be used for other business ideas in the future.

503 Main St. Cafe ( at the south end of Rivercross) has applied for liquor license to serve beer and wine on the premises. Their business model consists of offering coffee and breakfast in the morning, lunch in midday and beer/wine combined with light snacks during the evening hours. There will be no cooking in the premises, the food will be mainly salads, crepes and similar produce.

The owners are the same people who also own the Wholesome Food Factory and the model for this particular Cafe is “Carnegie Cup Cafe” on upper east side (88St.& Park Ave.) Since the Cafe is located in a residential building the opening hours will take that fact into consideration.

548 Main St. (the former bakery space) is/will be leased very soon for an ethnic restaurant. Since the lease was not yet signed when we had our meeting Azarian did not reveal to us what kind of ethnic food it will be. The food will be prepared in that space and there will be sit down tables despite the fact that the space is small.

To attract more businesses to the Main St., Hudson has started to improve the vacant spaces. Some of them have been painted white to create so called “white box effect” and you can see the effect for example the PopUp Gallery. These spaces include 507, 521, 544 and 563 Main St.

Both Kaplan and Azarian mentioned that Hudson has been generous and has provided allowances for the tenants in addition to other negotiations regarding rents and some infrastructure improvements on the space.

It appears that the Main St. is becoming more active.

Next meeting will be in December.

Hudson Related's Alexendra Kaplan adds:

Nisi is working on scheduling their fire department inspection (a date has not already been assigned)

As of 10/13 the café at 503 Main St. was approved for a liquor license by Community Board 8.

The new Art Gallery at 507 Main Street is owned by Roosevelt Island resident Paul Calendrillo.

I spoke with Mr. Calendrillo last September about his plans for the new Roosevelt Island Art Gallery.



and the impact his new art gallery may have on the revitalization of Main Street retail.



Mr Calendrillo's current Gallery exhibition features the work of artist Alexis Duque

Image Of Alexis Duque Work From Paul Calendrillo

through November 3.

Stop by Mr. Calendrillo's new gallery, check out the art and say hello. 

More information available at Mr. Calendrillo's web site.

Here's Cushman & Wakefield Roosevelt Island Shops On Main Street Brochure.



UPDATE 4:25 PM - A tipster adds regarding the liquor license for 503 Main Street Cafe:

The approval of the license on October 13 was only by the Street Life Committee of CB 8.The full board will vote Wednesday night and then State Liquor Authority must approve.