Please join us at the Wagner College Gallery for an exhibition of drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture and metal work by Sage Reynolds.
The show, entitled “Sage Reynolds: A Life with Paper, Paint and Metal,” will run from Tuesday, Sept.4 through Saturday, Sept. 29.
The exhibition will include an artist’s reception in the gallery on Tuesday, Sept. 18 from 6 to 9 p.m.
Both the reception and the exhibition are free and open to the public.
The gallery is located in the Union Building on the Wagner College campus at 631 Howard Ave., Staten Island.
The Wagner College Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended hours on Thursday until 9 p.m.
“Sage Reynolds: A Life with Paper, Paint and Metal” is a selective retrospective of Reynolds’s work in a number of media spanning about five decades. The media include graphite drawings, paintings in gouache and watercolor, linoleum prints in black and white as well as color, painted wooden sculpture, and metalwork in silver and copper. About a third of the works is from the artist’s collection and has never been on public display before this showing in the Wagner College Gallery.
Aside from a cluster of stormy graphite drawings, the exhibit’s main attractions are two large paper tapestries, a medium in which the artist worked in the late 1970s using hand-painted papers that were part of his earlier career as a bookbinder. Also of special interest is a vitrine containing elegant tableware and hand-raised wine cups decorated with chased animals and geometric forms.
Reynolds’s work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as private and corporate collections on both sides of the Atlantic. His paper tapestries have been exhibited at the Staten Island Museum, and his metalwork is sold in the Jewish Museum in Manhattan.
Visit the artist’s website to see his work at sagereynolds.com.
This exhibit is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The program is administered by Staten Island Arts.