September 18, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: James Cornwell a/k/a JimC. or Lee Wind silentspace@mac.com / Tom Kay 845-679-2490 tom@ecomall.com
"Following Pollock" Action Painting Abstracts in Day-Glo at Silent
Space Gallery in Kingston
September 30th - October 31st, 2006
KINGSTON, NY - Silent Space Gallery in midtown Kingston, NY will host a
one man exhibit "Following Pollock" during October 2006. The featured
artist is Tom Zatar Kay, who throws paint in a style reminiscent of
Jackson Pollock, but with his own very unique flair, using day-glo
paints which transform when viewed in white or black light. The opening
reception is slated for Saturday evening October 7th at 5 PM.
Tom Zatar Kay, a local Woodstock resident, may be remembered for his
Halloween night performance art show in the window of the Fletcher
Gallery last year, which attracted crowds as he threw paint at
suspended, spinning canvases, dancing under black light to music
blasting out onto Mill Hill Road.
Zatar also raised a few eyebrows when he was one of the artists who was
invited to paint a wood chair for the "Please Be Seated" Fine Art Chair
Auction organized by The Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM)
this past spring. Art Auctioneer Barry Cherwin (Past President of the
New York City Auctioneers Association) remarked of Zatar's incredible
multi-colored chair, which was auctioned off that night, "Under black
light it will explode!... This is Jackson Poll0ck gone wild!"
Anyone who saw that psychedelic chair or watched Zatar's three-hour
Halloween night performance will not want to miss this exciting
exhibition where the Silent Space gallery will be transformed into a
black light experience, complete with multiple spinning canvases which
will have been created on-site. This exhibit is sure to be a
one-of-a-kind event, which will show off the creative spirit of Day-Glo
paints, as the works come to life in completely different ways
depending on whether they are viewed under normal white light or in
black light.
The multi-talented poet/artist/inventor Tom Zatar Kay is the co-founder
the popular web site EcoMall.com and is a former solar energy
consultant to Exxon Enterprises and is currently working on developing
his latest patent on MHD (Magnetohydrodynamics), a new way of turning
any heat source into electricity. He is also author of a book entitled
"Out of the Box."
Zatar has said of his experience creating his art, "Throwing paint is a
spiritual, ethereal, cathartic, kinetic experience for me. I enter a
hypnotic trance, a dynamic involvement in the creation - a unique,
spontaneous, and unrepeatable event. I become infused with the same
spirit I imagine Jackson Pollock tapped into, except I use Day-Glo
colors and reflect the energy of the times I live in....It is an
ongoing process and a journey that never ends, an unlimited, expanding
universe of magical serendipity (quantum theory at its best)."
Tom Zatar Kay's art work can be view on the Internet at
https://www.ecomall.com/zatar/
Silent Space Gallery, located at 596 Broadway across from the Ulster
Performing Arts Center in Kingston, seeks to host community art projects
in partnership with artists, schools and non-profit organizations. https://www.silentspacegallery.com/