BluSeed Studios hosts joint artist exhibit ‘Mixed Messages’
SARANAC LAKE – BluSeed Studios will host an opening tonight for “Mixed Messages,” featuring the abstract works of Anastasia Osolin and John Cullen, from 5 to 7 p.m.
The exhibit runs through Oct. 29.
Originally from the Washington DC area, Anastasia Osolin has a B.F.A. in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she studied painting, and fell in love with the dada and surrealist art movements, especially the work of Joseph Cornell and Remedios Varo.
Osolin’s lifelong devotion to her other great love-books-led to an apprenticeship in bookbinding and restoration with Robert Colver of Ram’s Head Bindery in Durham, North Carolina, where she learned a variety of conservation techniques.
John Cullen is a professional fine artist and educator. After a stint in the Army he attended The San Francisco Institute of Art, followed with the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, graduating in 1966 with a diploma in Fine Art. Afterwards he pursued a B.S. in Art Education at New York University, and then Pratt Institute, achieving his M.S. in Art Education and Painting in 1970. While at Pratt he studied with Ralph Wickiser, Joachem Seidl and George Peters, who was his advisor.
In addition to a variety of teaching positions, Cullen taught art in the Syracuse Public Schools from 1976 until 1995, when he retired.