Korongo: Through June 5: Scattered Art by Phil "Flipper" Godenschwager

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Through June 5: Scattered Art by Phil "Flipper" Godenschwager

It's been a busy week at Korongo, with many visitors popping in since the opening of Phil's show last Friday (see below). This Saturday (May 7), the gallery is hosting a special event: A public reading from 2 to 3:30 pm of "Farm Girls": short pieces by women young and old about life on the family farm—how it was and how it is. All are welcome. The gallery is open from 11 to 7, as usual. Above: Author Jean Merrill at the opening of Phil's show; on the wall are Jack Rowell's photographs of Phil's chapel windows at the veterans cemetery in Randolph Center. The above photograph is also by Jack. So: Phil by Jack, by Jack. To visit Phil's website, click here.

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The Randolph Herald on Korongo

From Herald writer Dian Parker: "Living in the East Village in Manhattan in the late '60s and all through the '70s, I’d often hang out with artists at a street café and we’d talk about our work incessantly. Bongo drummers lined Second Avenue and the small alcove of my eighth-floor walk up was often a place for bums to sleep. Artists opened their apartments as tiny makeshift art galleries. On one wall hung a tie-dyed sheet and on the floor a double mattress. Not much else except art. And more art. It was everywhere, some of it not very good, but it was an outpouring nonetheless; a place to be seen. We never thought the East Village would become what it is now, one of the hip places to live in Manhattan, still filled with art, only much more expensive.

"Along comes the Korongo Gallery to Randolph, and we have promise again of a beginning that could very well burgeon into something hip and wonderful, a place for artists and writers to display and read their work, congregate and hang out. At the opening on March 17 there was a feeling of excitement and expectation that we might just be on the verge of a new happening, right here in downtown Randolph. The gallery was packed. Patrick Texier, the owner, schmoozed with the folks and Laurie Sverdlove Goldman, the painter, and talked about her work which hung on three of the walls. Jack Rowell took photographs and everyone was smiling and milling about. The food was delicious. This was a real opening in a new little gallery that has a big and bright future." To continue reading Dian's article on the Herald website, click here.