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The Monsoon Gallery Archives for 2005 We've gone through all the media surrounding the gallery and created an archival collection of articles and editorials about the gallery, its artists, and its employees. If there's something in particular that you were looking for and you don't see it here, then please don't hesitate to give us a call or send us an email and let us know. |
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Magazine: Lehigh Valley Marketplace - Allentown, PennsylvaniaDate: December, 2005 Artist: Ranjeet Pawar "December is Monsoon season" Art is everywhere in South Bethlehem these days. There are studios at the Banana Factory of course, as well as a bevy of quirky home craft stores selling colorful wares. There’s art in unexpected places too – a slew paintings leans in the storefront of a boarded up five-and-dime; there’s exhibit space in optometrist’s office. But until May of 2003, there was no fine art gallery. There was no place where local art connoisseurs could see, and buy, the work of regional, national and international fine artists. Looking back on it now, it seems a perfect opportunity, a fail-safe investment. However, when local art lover and entrepreneur Ranjeet Pawar first endeavored to make Monsoon Gallery a reality, success was far from guaranteed. “Too often people have become accustomed to thinking that just because something’s in Southside Bethlehem, or even just the Lehigh Valley it can’t be good,” Pawar says, explaining the public perception that has been one of his early challenges. He pauses and then adds, “That might have been true at one point, but now it’s just a fallacy.” Spending time in Monsoon will quickly cure anyone of the notion that there is no top-notch art to be found in our local area. Monsoon’s gallery floor holds breathtaking paintings, sculptures, pottery pieces, as well as some truly wonderful art in that category called “other.” Up to thirty artists have work on display at any given time, both those with ties to the area like Rigo Peralta, Eric Armusik, and Salma Arastu, as well as artists from all over the globe. When naming the home countries of artists whose work has been represented at Monsoon, it sounds like Pawar is reading an atlas.” “India, Lebanon, England, Israel, Romania, France, Mexico, Germany, the Dominican Republic…everywhere in the world,” he says. “And a lot of American artists who are very well known in other parts of the country that people in the Lehigh Valley may not be familiar with.” Valley residents may become very familiar with these artists soon, as Monsoon expands its visibility and scope (a “spinoff” gallery, Rain, opened in November) and Southside Bethlehem continues to flourish. “You can’t avoid the Southside anymore,” Pawar says with a laugh. “And you can’t avoid Monsoon.” | |
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