February 5 – March 13, 2021
Juried Exhibition
Juror, Kristin Cuomo
Work Featured on home page \”Quantum Entanglement 35\” by Irene Clark
Our gallery is currently closed due to damage to our water line from the hotel construction next door. The exhibit will be on display in our Main Street Gallery, 213 Main St., Huntington NY 11743 and can be viewed through the windows beginning on or around February 13th.
Artists were invited to submit work inspired by the following statement. A paradox is defined as something that contradicts itself but is nevertheless true, something that should not exist but defies expectations. Huntington Arts Council is calling for artists to challenge themselves and push the boundaries with what is possible with their art. Pieces that seem impossible yet exist anyway, exploring themes of the impossible and the contradictory.
\”Reading the call for entries, I thought: Pushing boundaries, sitting with contradiction, defying expectation ? these are all niches in the human experience that artists regularly inhabit. Spaces where external and internal motivators set their intentions alight and sharpen their craft. I came to the entries expecting to be dazzled by paradigm, left wondering and thinking. This group of artists did not disappoint. The range of subject matter, media and form offers the viewer abundant fodder for the senses – and the mind.\” Said Kristin Cuomo, Juror about the submissions from the artists.
Participating artists include: Shain Bard, Darlene Blaurock Zintis Buzermanis, Irene Clark, Doris Diamond, Vicki Dollin, Samantha Dring, Terry Finch, Jan Guarino, Heather Heckel, Molly Hon, Adam Kane Macchia, Kate Kelly, Julianna Kirk, Leslie LaGuardia, Sarah Lybrand, Mary McGrane, Meagan Meehan, Priya Mendiratta, John Micheals, Eric Murphy, Howard Pohl, John Pulinat, Anne Rotondo, James Schultz, Meryl Shapiro, James Slezak, Nicholas Striga, Toxic/Nature Studios, Taylor Wang, Stephen Wyler, Isabel Yeo
For more information on the participating artists please click here.
About the Juror: Kristin Cuomo is the Senior Museum Educator at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook, NY. She develops and facilitates interpretive history and arts programming, with a focus on accessibility for all audiences. She curates the museum’s community exhibits, including annual student art shows and exhibits celebrating the work of artists from community partnerships. Prior to the museum, Kristin developed and taught arts programming for out of school time and community programs across Long Island; she also works as an arts manager. She holds a BA in The Arts and Community Programming and is an MA candidate in the Museum Studies program at City University of New York.

Apache Vista-War and Peace by Anne Rotondo 
Contrasto Negativo 24
by Stephen Wyler
Honorable Mention
Beneath the Star Lit Sky by Molly Hon
Bandwidth
by Toxic Nature Studios
Big Tree Little House
by Howard Pohl
Bottled Up by Isabel Yeo 
Crones Apprentice
by Julianna Kirk
Dance Of The Treasure Chest by Meagan Meehan 
Deer Cottage
by Heather Heckel
Honorable Mention
Divinity in the Rough
by Jan Guarino
Eavesdropping on a Delicate Conversation
by Kate Kelly
Falling and Rising
by Shain Bard
Greenery
by Zintis Buzermanis
I Want to Hold Your Handle by Vicki Dollin 
Matrix Arrival
by James Slezak
Inside Out
by Doris Diamond
Keep Out by Terry Finch 
Paradox -Genius or Insanity
by Leslie LaGuardia
Renovatio
by Taylor Wang
Quantum Entanglement 35 by Irene Clark 
My Scoliosis Surgery Journey
by Samantha Dring
Honorable Mention
No Bones About It
by John Micheals
Rembrandt\’s Bathsheba The Hellscape Abloom
by Sarah Lybrand
Paradox in Pursuit of Purpose by John Pulinat 
Snail Engine
by Heather Heckel
Best in Show
Memory 1976 by James Schultz
Spring in the Office Park #2 by Adam Macchia 
Still Life by Meryl Shapiro 
The Measureless Mind
by Priya Mendiratta
Torsion by Eric Murphy 
Waiting Till Next Year
by Doris Diamond
Trapped by Isabel Yeo 
Tables Are Turned
by Nicholas Striga
Waterfall -gently flowing – suspended in Time
by Mary McGrane
Womega
by Darlene Blaurock

Public funding provided by Suffolk County
With additional support from Main St. Benefactor Members
Beth and Charles Levinthal
Bette and Paul Schneiderman
