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articles (in chronological order):
Hamptons Art Hub: September 17, 2011: Perspectives of Abstraction
Abstract art has a special place on the East End of Long Island. A range of abstraction was given its due in the exhibition, “Abstractions,” held at the deCordova Studio & Gallery.
The group show featured art by Eric Ernst, Barbara Bilotta, Colin Goldberg and Mike Maas. All are Long Island artists.
“It’s really a powerful show,” said Hector deCordova, the gallery director and an abstract artist. “Simultaneously, each individual artwork looks welcoming but they also relate to one another and create chance encounters with art.”
The exhibition was designed to make abstraction friendlier for those who find non-representational art unnerving. A talk held in August at Brecknock Hall in Greenport also helped quell uneasiness. Read article >
Suffolk Times: September 3, 2011: Life and Times: Artful approaches to a tough art market
In the art world, when the going gets tough, the tough get creative. Art dealers, the first to be affected during an economic downturn, know that now is the time to show resilience. During this particularly difficult recession, they’ve reinvented how they do business, hoping that art buyers will return in full force when jobs do.
“We’ve considered changing our way of operating,” says Hector deCordova, who runs deCordova Studio and Gallery in Greenport with his wife, Joyce. “We usually get a good mix of people — older folks and the 30- to 40-somethings. But this year they seem intimidated about walking into a large show, because they don’t intend to buy. Some act apologetically, as if walking in is an intrusion.” Read article >
Dan's Hamptons: July 7, 2011: Art Commentary
An effective combination of abstraction and figures makes up the season opener at Greenport’s deCordova Studio and Gallery. We must add that non-realistic styles prove effective as well. While Impressionism, Surrealism and Expressionism are present, the artists use them in subtle and sensitive ways. And there are surprises in store for the viewer when Gordon Gagliano and Hector deCordova offer us images we haven’t seen before.... Read
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Dan's Papers: September 17, 2010: "Quartet" at deCordova
A day-trip to North Fork's Greenport is a lovely experience, especially during the fall. Stops should include art venues, generally, and the de Cordova Gallery, specifically. Situated on Main Street amid quaint houses, this gallery has lots of character, thanks to its Victorian architecture and the loving care given by dealers Joyce and Hector deCordova.." Read
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Long Island Pulse Magazine: July 31, 2010: "5th Annual Artist VIP List: Hector deCordova"
"Long before becoming a pioneer in the Greenport art movement with his wife, deCordova was a well-established, self-made man and self-taught artist. The connection between earlier craftsmanship and later artistic efforts is organic: deCordova is drawn to nature’s materials tactually...." Read
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Dan's Papers: May 21, 2010: "Season Opener at deCordova Gallery"
"It's a special time to go to Greenport, mainly because it's spring, and we feel renewed. Another reason is the season opening of the deCordova Studio and Gallery. Again, we feel renewed. The exhibit is characteristically colorful and cheerful yet substantial, with many artists from last year. The gallery, which is also the home of the owner Hector deCordova, is as alive as the works displayed, with flowers blooming in the front yard. The showing of movies from the East End Student Film Project adds a distinctive note..." Read
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Dan's Papers: December 4, 2009: "Art Commentary: Part 1"
"Like South Fork art venues, the Greenport gallery scene has had many challenges. Yet North Fork gallery owners, many of whom have spaces that are relatively new, are a tenacious lot, committed to quality work in often unique settings.
One example is the deCordova Studio and Gallery on Main Street, set among charming houses from yesteryear. As we've noted in this column in the past, the residence/gallery presents an environment that is comfortable, warm and inviting with its hardwood floors, seating areas and subdued lighting.." Read
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Hamptons.com: May 22, 2009: "Historic Art Venues: Complementing the Space"
"While the North Fork has its own geographic traits, there are other aspects that distinguish it from the East End, especially historic structures, some of which have been converted into art galleries.
Take, for example, Greenport's deCordova Studio, owned by Hector deCordova. Here's an artist who's been on the South Fork for a long time but pulled up stakes a few years ago with his wife, Joyce, to move into a Victorian house on the North Fork. Built in 1905, the residence has its original spruce floors and molding, a metal stamp ceiling and lots of columns. It was a perfect place to hold the deCordova's collection of architectural objects. It was also a perfect venue for an art gallery..." Read
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Hamptons.com: Janurary 2, 2009: "Reflections On The East End Art Scene: 2008-2009: "Diamonds are forever, and so is fine art," says artist and Greenport gallery owner Hector deCordova, but while the diamond may be an extremely stable element (carbon), art is competing these days against a most unstable element - the economy. In an effort to assess the situation with an eye toward eliciting thoughts on how best the East End art community might position itself in the New Year, Hamptons.com asked a number of artists and gallery owners to comment on 2008 and make specific suggestions for 2009..." Read
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Hamptons.com: December 3, 2008: "Give A Gift, Get A Gift: Art For The Cause At deCordova Gallery In Greenport " No, Dorothy, we’re not in Kansas anymore but in Suffolk County.“ There’s no place like home for the holidays - if you have one,” is the motto of deCordova Gallery & Studio’s third holiday benefit for Maureen’s Haven (MH). An Eastern Suffolk County health and human services organization, MH provides safe and warm temporary housing for the homeless, from Nov. 1 to April 1. It also offers “HopeLine” assistance, including referrals, for those in imminent need. And need could not be more pronounced this year, notes MH Executive Director Peter Saros." Read
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Hamptons.com: August 27, 2008: "At DeCordova - A “Big” And Eclectic Show" The economy may be stalled but you shouldn’t be, if you’d like to own an important East End name, suggests Joyce deCordova. “This is a great time to buy art,” and to judge from the current exhibit at the deCordova Studio & Gallery, there’s a good selection to be made from the multiple works on view by six local painters and one sculptor. Considering the size of the pieces, the show is called, appropriately enough, “Big,” but why feature large works at a time of the shrinking dollar? “Because we could,” says Hector deCordova, with a mischievous smile. Joyce jumps in, noting that they love a challenge, and, as Hector added, “artists love to paint big." Read
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Hamptons.com: June 6, 2008: "Salud!” – deCordova
Gallery Toasts Hudson River HealthCare In Suffolk County" It’s not the usual arrangement between art events and charities,
but community minded Hector and Joyce deCordova convinced 13 community
minded, participating artists to “go easy on the prices,”
so that at least 30 percent could benefit Hudson River HealthCare, a
13 member,
statewide healthcare service for the underinsured and underserved that
recently opened a center on Front Street in Greenport. In “Salud,”
its opening show of the season, the gallery proves once again that it
can attract highquality artists, local and international painters, photographers,
sculptors and curate an exhibit that is diverse, intelligent and, as
the artists themselves noted, well lit... Read
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Hamptons.com: March 5, 2008: "Broad Strokes For Environment
And Community As Activist Artists Speak" No one style
encompasses the work of the many artists living on the East End –
it runs the gamut from sculpture to large scale landscapes to intimate
portraits. However, a desire to protect a unique way of life is a link
that joins many local artists, who, individually and in groups, support
local environmental causes, hold benefits for groups such as Maureen’s
Haven and The Retreat, and work to preserve the historic character of
local villages...“Many organizations tap artists for work they’re
always asking and artists are very generous,” said Hector deCordova,
past president of the Artists Alliance of East Hampton, who now has
a gallery in Greenport.. Read
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East
Hampton Press: December 12, 2007: Arts & Living "Artists of South Fork Begin to Look North" Over
the years, artists seeking to flee the more vulgar elements of civilization
that have inexorably crept onto the East End scattered pretty much to
the four winds in search of quiet and space for conteplative creativity....Among
those who have beaten a hasty retreat to those far more mellow envisions
is Hector deCordova, a significant figure in the local artist community
for many years, and the creative force behind the eponymous gallery
on Main Street in Greenport that is emblematic of the positive changes
underway for the North Fork art scene. Read
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Hamptons
Online: December 7, 2007: "DeCordova Studio &
Gallery Holds Holiday Show To Benefit Maureen’s Haven" Appropriately named “Give a Gift, Get a Gift,” and in time
for the holidays, the new exhibit at the DeCordova Gallery in Greenport
is hoping to repeat the success of its first collaboration last year
with Maureen’s Haven, looking to donate 30 percent of sales to
this unique Eastern Suffolk program for the homeless. The association
between the gallery and Maureen’s Haven (MH) owes its origin to
a suggestion by Joyce DeCordova, a former social work intern at MH,
that the Gallery sponsor a special art show each November that would
help fund social services at MH, among them providing homeless men and
women with transportation to safe, clean places to sleep typically houses
of worship, where they also receive hot meals throughout the winter
and feel a sense of dignity! Read
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Hamptons
Online: October 25, 2007: "Art for the Cure" The Southampton Artists Association opened their fall show, a visually
stunning exhibition, “Abstract & Surrealism” at the
Southampton Cultural Center on Friday evening. Over a dozen artists
contributed works large and small for a great display of local talent....Also
a big hit was artist Hector de Cordova’s homage
to the film “Tootsie”, an almost life size Dustin Hoffman
as Tootsie complete with the perfect birdie perch big hoop earrings! Read
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Suffolk
Times: October 18, 2007: "Art in the Heart of
the Village" After
four months, Greenport gallery owners are declaring their new gallery
walk a success.“I’m seeing lots of new faces,” said
Jennifer Benton, of Benton Nyce Gallery. Her colleagues agreed there’s
been new traffic and more sales. The Greenport Gallery walk involves
eight galleries on Main Street, South Street and First Street in Greenport
that offer a variety of art from local and international talent. Gallery
owners said they prepared for the walk months before it started by contributing
to a joint fund for ads and other costs, designing ads and a brochure,
deciding where to distribute those items, and developing their own individual
brands.
Other galleries reveal their
individual natures more in person than on paper. The South Street Gallery,
Benton Nyce Gallery and deCordova Studio and Gallery all describe their galleries as representing a variety of artists working
in different media, but a walk through each gallery last month left
a distinctly different impression of each. The Benton Nyce exhibit had
a whimsical quality, deCordova felt sophisticated but warm, South Street
Gallery was more starkly chic." Read
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Dan's
Papers: August 3, 2007: "This Will Knock Your
Smocks Off" According to the prestigious National Art
Education Association (www.naeareston. org), "Art is a language
of visual images that everyone must learn to read. In art classes, we
make visual images and we study images. Increasingly, these images affect
our needs, our daily behavior, our hopes, our opinions and our ultimate
ideals."
Hector deCordova,
artist and founder of The deCordova Studio and Gallery in Greenport,
comes from a strong art educational background as a former student of the High School of Music & Art, Parsons School of Design/Interior Architect and Art Students League.
Leaving behind a successful career in interior design, deCordova has devoted the past fifteen years
to painting. Aside from his personal artistic endeavors, deCordova shares his life's passion with
both children and adults as an art educator. Primarily instructing on the East End through BOCES, the
Parrish Art Museum and the Art Barge, deCordova commences his summer teachings for the Children's
Art Project. Read
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The
Independent: July 11, 2007: "One Hundred Years
of Art: an exhibit of the works of artists under 30 and artists over
70 years of age." Check that title-gallery owners Hector
and Joyce deCordova have acted on an imaginative and instructive idea-to
feature the art of older adults including 92-year old Norman Mercer,
seen here with one of his signature colorful, geometric, light-suffused
acrylic sculptures.... Read
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Dan's
Papers: July 6, 2007: "100 Years of Art"
at deCordova Studio and Gallery - It's refreshing to change
one's gallery-going routine from time to time, so that's why a trip
to Greenport, and especially to the new deCordova Studio and Gallery,
is salient. It's also important because artist/gallery owner/teacher Hector deCordova has had many years experience exercising both
a keen eye for visual excitement and an appreciation for diverse materials
and media. Read
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Suffolk
Times: June 7, 2007: "Home: Where the art is:
Show to give all to Habitat for Humanity" There's no place
like home ... if you have one," reads the e-invite sent out by
the artist Hector deCordova and his wife, Joyce, to "Habitats"
at deCordova Studio and Gallery in Greenport. In
support of Habitat for Humanity, Ms. deCordova said, proceeds from sales
go straight to the Peconic and Suffolk branches of the organization.
They build simple, decent and affordable housing in partnership with
people in need from the East End. "People want to know how to get
involved," she said. "People who want to donate can do so
at the gallery. They could also really use some volunteers." Read
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Dan's
Papers: June 1, 2007: "deCordova Studio &
Gallery Looks To Bring Awareness To Charity" Mother Teresa
said, "Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how
much love we put in that action." This statement can be applied
to the individuals involved with Habitat For Humanity. Habitat For Humanity
International is a nonprofit organization that seeks to eliminate poverty
housing and homelessness from the world, in the creation of decent shelter
through conscience and action. In hope to support and bring about awareness
regarding both Habitat For Humanity of Peconic and Suffolk, deCordova
Studio & Gallery presents a charitable exhibition, "Habitats,"
from May 26 through June 24, featuring diverse works of sixteen artists.
deCordova Studio & Gallery goes beyond the scope of celebrating
works of art and focuses to promote causes on the East End. Read
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Newsday.com: May 25, 2007: "To Do: Art show" If you're a looking for a little something to brighten the house, head
to deCordova Studio & Gallery, at 538 Main St. in Greenport, for
the opening on Saturday, 6 to 8 p.m., of "Habitats," an art
show to benefit Habitat for Humanity Suffolk and Habitat for Humanity
Peconic.... Read
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Suffolk
Times: December 7, 2006 (Section A): "Merry Markets:
Gift shopping for fun, and a few good causes" Holiday
shoppers can get unique gifts while investing in good causes this season
at local holiday marketplaces. The East End Arts Council’s Holiday
Market, the Oysterponds Historical Society’s Beach Plum Christmas
Shop, and deCordova Studio and Gallery in Greenport have gifts
ranging from $1 to $10,000 that support local artists, their own organizations,
and in the last case, Maureen’s Haven, a shelter for the homeless. Read
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Southhampton
Press: September 14, 2006 (page B5): "Patient's
Vital Signs Are Strong" .....The deCordova gallery was
opened by artist Hector deCordova, who relocated from Sag Harbor. The
gallery presents group shows of South Fork artists and others. Read
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Southampton
Press: August 17, 2006 (page B7): "The Public
Is Welcome at These Studio-Galleries" Gallery is the first
floor of a Victorian home. Exhibition space spans four separate rooms.
Gallery has a full lineup of changing exhibitions, featuring group shows. Read
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Dan’s
Papers August 11, 2006 (page 121): "Artist -Owned
Spaces: deCordova Studio & Gallery" Artists who are
opening their own gallery space are becoming less unusual these days...
Another example is Hector deCordova's studio, gallery (and home) in
Greenport which had its initial opening this past Saturday. Read
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Suffolk
Times August 3, 2006 (page 8A): Local artists Hap Bowditch,
Janet Culbertson and Bob Markell are three of the four artists currently
showing at a new gallery in Greenport, the DeCordova Studio and Gallery.
Hector deCordova, the owner and also an artist, is the fourth exhibitor.
The show, entitled "Ahoy Greenport," is a salute to the town
where Hector and his wife Joyce have recently relocated from the South
Fork.
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