Blue Mountain Gallery Opens New Exhibit 11/30

Evolution of a Gallery
GREEN MOUNTAIN TO BLUE MOUNTAIN 1968-2010

November 30 - December 30, 2010
Reception: Thursday December 2, 5-8 pm

This landmark exhibition includes works by many illustrious artists including Gretna Campbell, Paul Georges, Lois Dodd, Robert De Niro, Sr, Rudy Burckhardt, and Robert Henry. Altogether 80 artists are represented who at one time were affiliated with Green Mountain Gallery, Blue Mountain Gallery, or both. Lucien Day opened Green Mountain Gallery on Perry Street in 1968 and it evolved into an artist's cooperative as the Blue Mountain Gallery, now at its home in Chelsea.

The full color catalogue is available on line at www.bluemountaingallery.org or directly at
http://bluemountaingallery.org/assets/2010_BMG_Catalogue.pdf. In it, the artists write very personally about their memories of the people and events in this gallery's long and lively history.

To celebrate this special event, there is a panel discussion , The Power of the Co-Op Model, on Thursday, December 9, 7 -8:30, and a concert by the First Street Woodwind Quintet, Saturday December 18, 2-4 pm.

Also available at the gallery, documentation of forty years of exhibitions, announcements, and photographs as well as papers from Lucien Day's memoirs and from the formation of Blue Mountain Gallery.

Blue Mountain Gallery
530 West 25th St. 4th Floor 646-486-4730
C and E trains to 23rd Street., exit at 25th Street exit and walk 2 1/2 blocks towards 11th Avenue

All events are free and open to the public.