Monday, February 28, 2022 – A TRUE ISLANDER THAT WAS NOT STOPPED BY THE WORD NO, ONLY PAUSED

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MONDAY,  FEBRUARY 28, 2022

609th Issue

REMEMBERING ARLINE JACOBY

Photo by Judith Berdy
One evening there was a meeting at the RIVAA Gallery and Arline came in fresh from an event, I snapped this photo of her next to this artwork, She loved it and used it many times.

Arline Jacoby

Multimedia is my creative language, channeled through painting, sculpting, photography, and printmaking.  My work is personal, ranging from classic drawings to timely conceptual themes, such as the Holocaust, verbal abuse, global climate change, obesity, and sexuality. Playful, personal or political, the work touches upon themes of life, death, love, peace, and war.

I strive to provide artistic quality beyond aesthetics, into the realm of contemplation.  At my ultimate imaginative depth, my eyes and mind excite one another to achieve complete creative fulfillment.  It is essential to uplift my soul, delight my eye, awaken my ear, and speak to my heart, creating an enriching environment every day.

My personal artistic process was developed at the Tyler School of Fine Arts at Temple University and at Adelphi University, where I earned my Master’s degree and membership into the Kappa Pi honor society.  I went on to work in the marble yards and foundries at Petrasanta, Italy.   I taught at Queens College, Hofstra University, C.W. Post College, Adelphi, and West Hempstead High School, where I was head of the sculpture department for 20 years.  I also served as Vice President of the Long Island Art Teachers Association and the President of Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association.

I was awarded a Certificate of Excellence in marble sculpture and won sculpture awards at C.W. Post College and St. John’s University.  At a Nassau County-wide exhibit, my monoprints received awards.

To rally the artistic community upon Roosevelt Island has been my dream, and to watch RIVAA Gallery thrive is as beautiful as the art itself. It has ever been my vision that RIVAA will become a major artistic pushpin on the NYC map.

I am an exhibiting artist at RIVAA Gallery and Eveline Luppi Gallery in Wickford, Rhode Island, and have many pieces in private collections around the country.

Last Chance: A Kaleidoscope Of Color On Roosevelt Island

By SANDEE BRA WARSKY 

from THE JEWISH WEEK

Painted glass panels with splashes of vivid color in the Main Street windows of the RIVAA Gallery hint at the treasures inside.

Arline Jacoby’s exhibition, “Color Outside the Line,” features oil paintings, acrylics, collage, sculpture, monoprints, tile work, and a slideshow of photographs of moments of color – the view of Manhattan from her window, a tangle of seaweed and other plants, a rainbow and more. Hanging strips of brightly painted canvas in a corner of the space – where visitor tend to congregate — create what feels to the artist like a chuppah, or wedding canopy.

Arline’s daughters and niece celebrate her 90th birthday at a party at Gallery RIVAA in September, 2019.

Women who made strides were Ethel Romm., Helen Roht  and Arline all whom  proudly went  forth with great careers before it was easy to do.

The Blintz Club was a gathering of friends usually at Helen Roht’s home where friendship and food mixed so well. Linda Pickett, an original islander, Helen Roht, Maxine Sealy were members along with Arlene. I, being the kid was the serve to the group’s refreshments on Sunday afternoon get-togethers.

Nothing would stop ArlIne from being creative, here at a beading class at the CBN Senior Center.

At the RI Jewish Congregation, ArlIne has been a continual member and celebrating all events from wonderful Passover Seders to our annual Succah. One year she decided to paint the dull gray walls of the Cultural Center with a wonderful grape design to make the utilitarian space so special for our Passover Seder!

ArlIne’s garden brought her joy and a bounty of produce.  Fellow gardeners were cajoled into helping her till the soil on many occasions

I first met Arline when she was living in Westview.  I remember her donating a Chanukah menorah to the very young RIJC.  The menorah fit in a window.  Why in the window? Her response was that she wanted to show the people who saw it, was that Jewish people lived here.

Arline has been in my RI life forever. Her presence was something interesting. Whether needing help with a chore or participating a community event Ariine was there.  Who else would start RIVAA and get RIOC to donate the storefront? Arline did! She managed to get the RIOC President  Robert Ryan to make it happen.

We all have Arline stories . She would call me at 8 p.m. to come to dinner. I would go to her wonderfully cluttered apartment, galley, studio and workspace.  Her ceramic pears were in a bowl on the coffee table
with all kinds of wonderful artworks of her making scattered all over the apartment. She had rescued glass panels and painted them and now adding a prism of color to the room.  Very hard to walk around the room so full of her lives works.

Aline added a glimmer of light to all our lives and she will be missed.

MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

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WEEKEND PHOTO OF THE DAY

The 200-foot tall Highbridge Water Tower in Washington Heights stands on a bluff above the High Bridge and Harlem

CLARA BELLA, SUSAN RODETIS, ARON EISENPREISS, HARA REISER, LAURA HUSSEY, ANDY SPARBERG  all got it right!!!

Text by Judith Berdy
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