The public is invited to watch Alexis Brock and Scott Seaboldt work on their masterpieces weekly on Wednesdays from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM starting March 16th.
The paint will fly downtown during March and April as Alexandra Rutsch Brock and Scott Seaboldt square off for a formidable duel. These very popular New Rochelle art teachers will stand fully armed with brushes, ten paces apart, and partake in a passionate creative battle.
Of course, it’s all in the spirit of good downtown fun.
These two talented New Rochelle artists will be the stars of the next BID’s Windows on Art—306 occurring at 306 Huguenot Street. Alexi and Scott are arming up with canvas and art supplies to tackle their individual “dueling” arts project, a mere ten paces apart. The cadmium yellow and vermillion red oil paints will fly as these two greats go head to head with lots of zealous laughter while they each create imaginative arts installations in full public view.
The artists will work on their installations over a two month period in the substantial windows of 306 Huguenot Street, which they will make famous (directly opposite our other famous downtown windows, the Tiffany windows at Trinity Church). The public is invited to walk by and watch as they do battle and their artistic pieces unfold, or to view the works in progress anytime you are downtown. The evolving artworks will be lighted for easy viewing, day and night.
Alexi and Scott will be working on their masterpieces weekly on Wednesdays from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM starting March 16th. If you can’t visit, check their weekly progress and to learn about special happenings and receptions with the artists at NewRochelleDowntown.com.
Alexandra Rutsch Brock, a native New Rochellean, has been an art teacher at New Rochelle High School for twenty years. She received her BFA in Fine Art & Art Education from School of Visual Arts, NYC and her MS in Studio Art from College of New Rochelle and studied in Urbino, Italy with the School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited in Westchester, New York City, Connecticut, Florida and Arkansas. She has curated extensively in Westchester and for six years was curator of Studio 12N at Resolution Digital in New York City. She currently serves on the Gallery Boards of the Pelham Art Center and the New Rochelle Museum of Arts & Culture. She and her husband Steve, also an artist and educator, and their son Max, are popular New Rochelle residents. To see more of her work, visit Alexi’s web site by Clicking Here.
Scott Seaboldt is an art teacher at the New Rochelle High School and has also taught at Parsons the New School for Design, New School University in New York. He received his BFA from Roger Williams University, his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and he has attended Parsons the New School for Design, New School University and Teachers College, Columbia University. He has exhibited in Westchester, New York City and San Francisco galleries. He is co-founder of AS220 in Providence RI and a curator of the biennial Ides of March exhibition at ABC No Rio in New York City. He is active with the New Rochelle Arts Council, recently co-curating their 2011 juried exhibit, and is an avid bicyclist. He and his wife Stacey are involved New Rochelle residents. Learn more about Scott and his work by visiting his Website.
The BID Windows on Art program, created with the encouragement of the New Rochelle Municipal Arts Commission, builds on a City law advocated by the BID to persuade property owners with vacant storefronts to either decorate their windows or, to showcase art, and in the case of Dueling Artists, artists, until the storefronts can be rented. Storefront rentals are a Downtown priority. BID Windows on Art—306 is made possible through the loan of space by downtown property owners Gary Garafola and Susan Friedman. People can also stop by Windows on Art—249, at 249 North Avenue to see the BID’s first Windows on Art installation, a gallery of work, the “Isnik Blue” paintings by Argentine-American Maria Foladori Weiss, a gifted painter and photographer born in Buenos Aries, who with her husband, planner and public arts manger Glenn Weiss, now lives and works on Main Street in downtown New Rochelle.
If you are a downtown property owner with secured vacant storefront space in good condition and want to participate in the BID Windows on Art Program, or an artist looking to rent downtown work studios, please contact Ralph DiBart ralphdibart@rcn.com or at 914-960-1460 or 212-866-0191.