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DON'T FORGETTO CHECK ourFACEBOOKpage EVERYDAY FOR dailyUPDATESON WHAT'SHAPPENINGIN THEHUDSONVALLEY...MUSICARTTHEATREmay/art highlights5/7 through June- DEREK ERDMAN soloexhibition, at One Mile Gallery, Kingston—It’sreally quite the modern cyber-cottage industrygoing on here. For a mere $17 you can have RapMaster Maurice hit your victim with a “vigilanterap phone call.” For $15—per head, mind you—youcan have a photograph hand-drawn into a cartoonportrait by the artist. Also for $15: a Burger Bomb,a hamburger sent through the mail: kersplat. DerekErdman clearly has a twisted sense of humor anda distinctively skewed style. From his website:“Over the last decade Erdman has developedan increasingly efficient method for producingbatches of art that he can make quickly, duplicateeasily, and sell cheaply. According to this methodhis energy is concentrated in the plan (selecting source materials fromwhich he will ‘borrow’ imagery), and the execution of each piecebecomes semi-automatic, a series of choreographed tasks that he cancarry out much like an assembly liner or a tap dancer might performhis job. The subjects of his paintings—second-tier celebrities, flash-inthe-pancurrent events, obsolete advertisements—are almost alwaysborrowed from the moving spotlight of popular attention, and so thepieces themselves take on the form of commercial debris, relics ofthe recent surface-past.” Erdman has deftly appropriated the Factoryethos of Warhol, and applied it to the internet, where he providesa wide variety of (sometimes just barely) artistic services, such asthose above, and much more. The Bumbys perform for the openingreception (Sa 5/7). One Mile Gallery, 475 Abeel St., Kingston,www.onemilegallery.com, 845.338.2035. Sa 12-5 PM, Su 12-4 PMor by appt.5/14 through 6/5- “AQUAMARINE”, new works by CARLAGOLDBERG, at Bau Gallery, Beacon—One of the more prominentstops on Beacon’s Second Saturdays (for Arts Along the Hudson),Beacon Artist Union’s Bau Gallery features the work of eight regionalartists—Tom Holmes, Gary Jacketti, Carol Flaitz, Michael Gaydos, CarlaGoldberg, Kirsten Olsen, Grey Zeien, and Lisa Zukowski—on a semiregularbasis, with occasional guest and exchange artists. This monththe featured artist is Goldberg, who takes the subject of “Aquamarine”to its full potential, using paint, ink, and resin on plexiglass to achieveliquid and reflective possibilities. From her press release: “When I wasa little kid…I was endlessly fascinated by the cool aqua colors and weirdpatterns of light dancing on the surface and just below, bouncing offthe bottom of the pool walls. I've always been drawn to bodies of waterand shimmering, moving light. That was the essence of water for megrowing up in the deserts of Palm Springs, California. I had no ideaI would end up living near the Hudson River. I remember the day Ifirst saw the Hudson and was thunderstruck by how beautiful it wasand realized I wanted to live by this real body of water. I found myselfobsessed. ‘Aquamarine’ plays with the idea of light and shadow, frozenwater and thawing, raining and dripping and hinting of summer's coolaqua ease. They are a play of water surface, of deep shadow, of lightdancing, of memories of reflection and time spent happily spacing out40 | rollmagazine.com