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LOCAL HAITIAN ARTIST AT FENCE SHOW

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On Saturday, September 11, The Riders Mills Historical Society and the Columbia County Council on the Arts (CCCA) cosponsored an outdor art exhibition showcasing the work Columbia County and regional artists. The event featured 65 artists.

Among the artists represented was Jean-Marie Gabriel, Haitian born painter. Azouke Legba's Haitian music group performed informally. Author and illustrator, Jackie Rogers, signed and sold her fascinating childrens' books. Barry Jackson, the thrid generation to run Jackson's Old Chatham House, served up hotdogs, hamburgers and veggie-burgers to the hungry crowd.

Thomas Locker gave a talk on the history of the Hudson River Valley in the 18th century, the painters of the Hudson River School, and his work that celebrates its landscape and heritage. Jan Hanvik and Anna Cinquemani of the CCCA organized a sales table for the many lucky artists who sold their work.

Local businesses including the Old Chatham Country Store, Blass Communications, the Town of Chatham Highway Department and the Park Row Gallery, all pitched in to make the day a big success.

 

More on Jean-Marie Gabriel:

Born in 1959 in Port-au-Prince, Jean-Marie Gabriel is an accomplished painter, showing distinct promise of future growth by his creativity and inventiveness. While painting is his main interest, he has also been involved in the theatre.

Gabriel completed secondary studies through the Second Form at the Lycée of Pétion-Ville. From 1979 to 1981, he studied at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. In 1983, he was an actor with the National Popular Theatre, and in 1986 worked under Pierre Bernay at the Franco-Haitian Drama Centre. He has written one play entitled "Litany". Gabriel has also served as a radio speaker and has done radio advertising.

Jean-Marie Gabriel is an articulate, cultivated person, whose art belongs to the modern school, which he describes as "Ethno-Figurative Cubism". Since 1983, painting has been his principal artisitic occupation, and he intends to make his career as a painter. His style and subject matter show this influence of his famous uncle, the late Jac Gabriel, under whom he studied until the death of Jac Gabriel in 1989. His compositions are often done in one plane and vivid in color. He works in acrylic on canvas and hardboard.

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