Realist Artist Richard Mizdal at the Quogue Library Art Gallery

Artist reception Saturday, September 8th from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. (Including a talk on Photo Imaging) All are welcome.

Professor Richard Mizdal has created a new and unique fine art process that hybridizes the arts of painting, photography and computer.  His new works will be on exhibit along with explanatory signage and photo examples of actual processes of their creation.

These hybrids were developed in the black and white photo darkroom without a camera.  Photographic paper was painted on using many photo chemicals exposed at different times, developed and then scanned into the computer and subsequently colored.  The files were printed as archival giclees. The work combines the traditional hand process of painting with the contemporary harnessing of the computer's coloration capabilities.  The result is very exciting color and abstract design probably not achievable by conventional methods.  It is generally recognized by art authorities that hybridization of traditional and new art forms are in the creative forefront of fine arts today.

Also on exhibit are traditional black and white photographs that reveal Mr. Mizdal's broad knowledge and sensitivity to all forms of visual arts from abstract expression to traditional.

As Associate Professor for 19 years at Suffolk County Community College in Riverhead, he has taught 15 different fine arts and photo imaging courses.  He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and honors, among them the 2007 New York State Chancellor of Education Award for teaching excellence at the college level.

His work has been exhibited widely in New York, Washington D.C., the Hamptons and Florida, and is in several private collections.  His has lived and worked in Remsenberg for 27 years.

This exhibit will be on display from September 1st to 29th.

Art Gallery Committee Members Missy Lynch and Judy McDermott are Co-Chairs of this exhibit.