Dalton Portella

Dalton Portella

Biography
Dalton Portella b.1958 Miami, Florida of Brazilian parents, has been drawing and painting since he was a child. When he was 12 his mother took him and his three sisters to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to live near her family after separating from his father, a violent alcoholic. At 17 he was emancipated and moved to California at 18 to study art at USIU. At 20 he moved to NYC and enrolled in Parsons school of Design, studying at night while working during the day. He was forced to drop out due to a loss of financial aid and pursued a career in commercial art, retouching photos on film while drawing and painting daily.

In the 1980s, with the invention of the Quantel Paintbox, Dalton was one of the first artists to pioneer digital photo manipulation and art. He became a freelance artist for Miramax movie posters, helping to create some of their most iconic posters, Pulp Fiction, Swingers, Shakespeare In Love, Kill Bill, and Frida to name a few.

He always felt his primary purpose was to create and left the commercial industry to pursue his fine art. In 2001 he moved to Montauk, NY where he lives and creates across a wide range of mediums, exhibiting extensively.


Clifford Ross (8pm-MIDNIGHT)

Clifford Ross (8pm - Midnight)

Harmonium Mountain – Wainscott Edition, 2020
Rear Video Projection on frosted glass
7 X 16 feet

Artist Statement
My goal with NIGHTTIME VIDEO INSTALLATION (8pm-Midnight) is to celebrate nature through color. The first exhibited version in 2010 at the Site Santa Fe Biennial included an original score by Philip Glass.

Clifford Ross
Harmonium Mountain – Wainscott Edition, 2020
Rear Video Projection on frosted glass
7 X 16 feet

Clifford Ross
Harmonium Mountain – Wainscott Edition, 2020
Rear Video Projection on frosted glass
7 X 16 feet

Biography
Multi-media artist Clifford Ross, well known for his photographs of hurricane waves shot at Georgica Beach in East Hampton, has exhibited in many leading international museums including the Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and J. Paul Getty Museum. His dramatic 2017 outdoor video installation of Digital Waves at the Parrish Art Museum is well remembered by residents and visitors to the East End.


Monica Banks

Monica Banks

Brains In Our Arms, 2020
Miles of fine copper wire
Site-specific installation for Drive-By-Art Show
Dimensions variable

Artist Statement: Brains In Our Arms
Long misunderstood, underestimated and feared, the octopus is now known to be a highly intelligent problem solver who uses tools to build his own environment and play games. Typically a loner, his exceptional eyesight makes him highly sensitive to his surroundings and he can change shape dramatically to fit through a space the size of his eye or change the color and texture of his skin to communicate with others or hide from predators. In addition to the one in his large head, the octopus has a brain in each of his dexterous and curious arms. Essentially, the artist in Covid-19 isolation is a land octopus.

Monica Banks
Brains In Our Arms, 2020
Miles of fine copper wire
Site-specific installation for Drive-By-Art Show
Dimensions variable

Monica Banks
Brains In Our Arms, 2020
Miles of fine copper wire
Site-specific installation for Drive-By-Art Show
Dimensions variable

Biography
Monica Banks is a sculptor who has been creating public works, site-specific installations, and showing work in museums, galleries, and other venues for 30 years. She created “Faces: Times Square,” a block-long sculpture which stood in Times Square from 1996-2009, for which she won an award from The Public Design Commission of the City of New York. Her permanent public works are located in the Bronx, Binghamton NY, Charlotte NC, and West Nyack NY. She has done site-specific installations at The Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum, The Rockland County Center for the Arts, The American Craft Museum, Spring Break Art Show, and other venues. Permanent collections holding her work include Parrish Art Museum, The University Museum of Contemporary Art at University of Mass. Amherst, Islip Art Museum, and Daura Gallery at Lynchburg College.

Banks started her current body of work in 2014. This work has been covered by The New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, East Hampton Star, Sag Harbor Express, and Hamptons Art Hub, among other publications, and has won awards from Jocelyn Miller, assistant curator at MOMA PS1; Benjamin Genocchio; Marla Prather while curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC; and the curators at the Heckscher Museum of Art. In 2016, Jorge Pardo selected her work to be shown alongside his own work at the Parrish Art Museum, “Artists Choose Artists.” She has had solo or dual shows at Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor every year since 2015.