The Deep End: Anita Trombetta
Major: BFA Painting and B.S. Spanish Year: Fifth Inspirations: Traveling, food, music, language “My paintings reference food and the body to evoke desires such as […]
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Bouncing to Their Own Beat
New Paltz prides itself as a center for different kinds of art. Bounce Method, a new band sweeping over the town’s music scene, takes this idea further by incorporating multiple genres and backgrounds to create a unique sound. Third-year media management major Luke DiCola (vocals/guitar), fourth-year contemporary music major Guy Piaquadio (bass), third-year jazz performance theory & composition major Matthew Hunter (vocals/guitar) and third-year pre-finance major Jason Greenspan (drums) make up the four-piece group and each add a unique flavor of music to their band, setting them apart from many others. While the band said merging their different styles is the hallmark of their ensemble, they also expressed a difficulty in finding a middle ground. “There’s a hard line to cross between friends and bandmates,” DiCola […]
An Affinity for Infinity
Artist Ezra Silverman is fascinated with infinity. His metal series “Elements,” which just completed a one-year exhibit at Cafeteria in New Paltz, offers endless possibilities of interpretation. Silverman’s various-sized sheets of metal are scattered with holes, creating shapes of whatever the eye wants to see, from an elephant to the night sky. “I see them like the biggest objects, like the universe, stars, galaxies and I see them as microscopic images of cells, the structures and plants and humans, all sorts of things. And then I see them on our scale too,” said Silverman. The St. Louis, Miss. raised welder moved to Ulster County in 2005 after studying metal at Purchase College. He said […]