Yonkers Arts is pleased to host the next Arts Speak event featuring Satish Joshi at the Blue Door Gallery, Tuesday, December 10th at 6:30 PM. Known professionally as only Satish, This Arts Speak event highlights his life, career in the arts, and his long connection with Yonkers. Working in the mediums of painting, sculpture and printmaking, he is best known for achieving unique effects through experimental techniques. He pioneered a singular printmaking process, which he has continued to refine over the decades. Even his painting methods are unconventional; he mixes acrylic modeling paste, gesso and oils to achieve his signature three-dimensional effects on the canvas. While Satish has produced a variety of series in a range of materials over the years, his work is unified by an exploration of light, color, dimension, texture, and a reverence for the forms of the natural world. After completing a Degree with Honors in painting and printmaking at the New Delhi College of Art, Satish settled in New York. A passionate advocate for the arts in his community, he has inspired generations of young artists at Riverdale Country Day School where he was a member of the Visual Arts Department from 1974-2011. He is currently Artist-in-Residence at the School of the Holy Child in Rye and teaches adults at Pelham Art Center. Satish was a founding member of Art on Main Street in Yonkers and he served on the Board of Directors of Phoenix Gallery in New York City. Satish’s artwork has been featured at venues including Bronx Museum of Art in Bronx, NY; Columbia University in New York, NY; Queens Museum of Art in Queens, NY; Consulate General of India in New York, NY; Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; National Arts Center in New York, NY; Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY; College of St. Rose in Albany, NY; Lois Richards Gallery in Greenwich, CT; Patricia Judith Gallery in Boca Raton, FL; Clark Whitney Gallery in Lenox, MA; Rodger Lapelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; and Cygnus Gallery in San Diego, CA. This Art Speak event is one of many opportunities coming up to relish the career of the artist as Satish prepares for an expansive retrospective exhibition at Warburton Galerie Spring of 2020. Satish will celebrate his 50th anniversary in the United States with a retrospective exhibition of his paintings, prints and sculptures, along with never-before seen works, at Warburton Gallerie, March 8 – April 3, 2020. The Opening Reception will be held on Friday, March 13.
2019 Yonkers Arts - Arts Speak is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program (DEC), a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature and administered by ArtsWestchester.
The mission of Yonkers Arts is to develop a strong, effective, and cooperative network of artists, cultural organizations, and members of the community to promote and encourage the arts in the city of Yonkers.
When: Tuesday, December 10th 6:30 pm. Refreshment and social until speaking beginning at 7 pm.
Where: Blue Door Gallery at 13 Riverdale Ave; Yonkers, NY 10701
Contact for additional press inquiries: Ray Wilcox, Executive Director of Yonkers Arts / 917-549-8579 / rayw@yonkersarts.org