The Crazy Monkey Gallery
According to Yelp the Crazy Monkey Gallery is permanently closed.
The content below is from the site's 2009 -2014 archived pages offering a small sample of what the gallery offered.
P.O. Box 2147 Amagansett, New York 11930
Telephone: 917-526-2767
We are open from Thursday to Monday, 11 - 5pm
We are located at the western end of Amagansett Village off the small parking lot next to the Computer Store and One-Stop Pet Shop. Look for our sign above the Gallery.
An aside: I first discovered the Crazy Monkey Gallery when I was visiting an artist friend in Amagansett. It was a memorable day because it was on that day that I lost my backpack, including my drivers license, wallet, phone, and a lot of other personal stuff. At the gallery, the one thing I missed was my glasses, since I am a bit near sighted. Another visitor at the gallery noticed my frantic search for my glasses and told me about a great resource for glasses that she found online. I used her phone to check out the site and found it had the best source of glasses info I could locate. Unfortunately, I was far from home, and staying with my friend, but it turns out that overnight shipping can work miracles if you have access to your latest prescriptions - I just called my eye doc and had them send it to the site. I had my eyesight back the next day and was able to enjoy the gallery with a clear eye. Took my much longer to get a replacement for my credit cards and phone. The Crazy Monkey Gallery was a great local resource for inspiration and general art appreciation. I was saddened to recently learn that the gallery has shut its doors. Margie Wolks
Artists
Lance Corey |
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Art is my weapon of choice. Being Irish, Iroquois, and French Canadian: My values, my life-long love of history and learning; my politics, and my willingness to speak truth to power… these inform my art. A child of Merrick, LI; A graduate of Mepham High School; Running track and body surfing, playing baseball, ice hockey, rugby and boxing; Having been a Lifeguard and a broiler-man; artists’ model, bouncer, housecleaner/painter; gas station attendant and real estate agent; chauffer, butler and sewer man; Earning degrees in Communication Arts from Notre Dame ’71, Philosophy and Theology from Truman State ’76, and History and International Relations from Long Island University ’94; Winning Fulbright Scholarships to study in Egypt in ’88 and China in ’93; Teaching World History and Geography in NYC for 22 years; Taking 3 NYC students to live with the Maasai in Kenya for 2 weeks in 1990; Returning to Kenya to record their folk music and songs a month later…these all play a part. When I am asked in what style I paint, I say “It is my own!" I am not interested in refining my techniques but in painting from my gut, from my heart, and from my mind. It is my vocabulary giving form to my life experiences and insights. Primitive, raw, unschooled, self-taught but with purpose: To use my art as a weapon; to provoke and challenge my audience to think; To touch the common nerve that binds us all by exposing all for all to see and ponder. In looking into my art others will see themselves and they’ll see me: My demons, passions and missions in life are apparent in my art. I sold my first abstract painting of a New York City skyline for $10 when I was ten. By age 11 I was copying Rouault and Modigliani from photos my mother cut out from magazines like Better Homes & Gardens. I’ve been influenced by the Impressionists, the Post-Impressionists, the Fauvists, Matisse, Picasso, Jackson Pollock and the many other Abstract Expressionists. They opened the door for my Neo-Primitivism. I’ve been called an intellectual artist. One thing people say about my art is that my art has something to say. My paintings can be found in Norway and Spain and a few scattered here and there in the US. I sent 5 paintings to the infamous American Painters in Paris Exhibition of 1975-76, and I have spent the past 37+ years trying to get justice for the hundreds of artists victimized in that fraud. A Firehouse Gallery Purchase Award selected by Esteban Vicente put one of my Paris paintings in the VP’s office at Nassau Community College in 1976. I showed on the streets of Greenwich Village and Bridgehampton in 1977. A WLIW-TV auction benefited from the 1982 sale of my piece Song for Ulla. CUNY showed The Prisoner in their 1984 Art Against Apartheid Exhibition. I performed Guerilla Art in 1980, 1989, 2001, and 2002 at the Cultural Services Building of the French Embassy on 5th Avenue in NYC (across from the Met) to acknowledge the involvement of the French Government in the aforementioned Paris Exhibition. Future performances are being planned. I started exhibiting my paintings and drawings again in 2009. |
June Kaplan |
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Dreamscapes reflect a direct passage into my turbulent emotional nature. The acceptance of life as a gift, to sense the world as i wish to see it are thematic in my work. My paintings evolve to a place i imagine-bringing order through abstraction. The mind is a wonderful tool to paint-pictures translate with trial and error-the best effects are from the unexpected so i give the line some play to catch something startling or gentle trying not to overwork it where the glimmer goes away. My life as in my paintings becomes an experimental expression of love and liberty.
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We open a new exhibition every month with 1-3 featured artists Please check back regularly- or better yet stop by the Gallery - to see what's new. Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul (A)|July (B)|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec
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September 2013Opening Reception August 29th - September 29th |
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October 2013Opening Reception Saturday October 5th 5-7pm Featuring June Kaplan Lance Corey with Andrea McCafferty Daniel Schoenheimer Jana Hayden Barbara Bilotta Ellyn Tucker Mark Zimmerman Bobbie Braun Beth O'Donnell Melissa Hins Anna Franklin October 3rd - October 27th |
November 2013
Opening Reception Saturday November 2nd 5-7pm Featuring Jim and Jana Hayden Guest Artist Lenore Bailey with Andrea McCafferty Daniel Schoenheimer Barbara Bilotta June Kaplan Bob Tucker Mark Zimmerman Bobbie Braun Lance Corey Beth O'Donnell Melissa Hins Beth Barry Dinae Marx Sheila Rotner November 1st - December 1st |
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December 2013 Small Works Show Opening Reception Saturday December 7th 5-7pm Featuring Joyce Silver with Andrea McCafferty Daniel Schoenheimer Jana Hayden Jim Hayden Barbara Bilotta June Kaplan Ellyn Tucker Bob Tucker Mark Zimmerman Bobbie Braun Lance Corey Beth O'Donnell Melissa Hin Anna Franklin December 6th - December 29th |
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January 2014
Opening Reception Saturday 5-7pm Fourth Annual Salon des Refuses Nudes Gallery Members and Guest Artists Viewer Discretion Advised Some work is unsuitable for under 18's |
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February 2013
Febraury 2014 Art Competition you be the judge... Our members will each hang a piece of their artwork and the public is invited to come in and vote for: Best in Show... Most Original... Most Thought Provoking... |
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March 2014 |
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April 2014
Opening Reception Saturday 5-7pm Featuring TBA |
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May 2014
Opening Reception Saturday 5-7pm Featuring TBA |
NOTE: Beginning May 22nd Gallery hours will be |
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June 2014 |
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July (A) 2014 |
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August 2014 |
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