Artist’s Reception for William Gill
at Carmen’s Cafe: 198 1st St, Troy, New York 12180
Meet South Troy photographer and bon vivant Will Gill. Ask him your most pressing questions abut life, art and why the world goes around.
Stop by Carmen’s (198 1st St, Troy, NY) and check out the photos of the crazy place that is South Troy. People. Trains. Fireworks… all of it!
Meet the artists, talk about their process.
Tapas and sangria samples!
Limited dinner menu plus full cash bar available
Bookmark our events calendar for news and updates about Carmen’s Cafe.
Does the name Susan B. Anthony ring a bell? And she came by it honestly!
Susan is from Brooklyn, and just loves Troy. So much that she’s writing a book about us— if by writing you mean taking pictures of everyday Trojans. And we’ve got a preview hanging on our walls. This is her photograph of our hero Abby Lublin, urban grower extraordinaire.
Meet her Saturday Feb. 21, from 5-8, when we throw our usual Grand Artist’s Reception. Dinner will be available, plus complimentary Cuban hors d’oeuvres.
What did YOU do for Christmas? Jim made drums for a numbew of people. Here’s the Fire Drum, made of cherry, blooddwood, and butcherblock oak.
See him for those extra special things, from furniture to sculpture to— yes, even counters and floors like Carmen’s.
Who makes all that delicious food? Chef Carmen, mostly.
That’s not to say she doesn’t have help, but mostly it’s her back there, bringing us authentic Cuban recipes she was taught by her Aunt Matilda. And a few things she’s picked up since then.
Here’s a picture I took of her the other day. You can tell she was dreaming about springtime.
Pretty strong dream. I hope it comes true soon!
Just open Weekends till we catch our breath:
Saturday & Sunday 9-4
Of course, we’ll still do a party if you call ahead!
Back to the full schedule:
Thursday 11-6
Friday 11-10
Saturday & Sunday 9-4
Free local delivery for orders over $15 on weekdays.
January Hours: Just open Weekends till we catch our breath: Saturday & Sunday 9-4
Of course, we’ll still do a party if you call ahead!
Thursday 11-6
Friday 11-10
Saturday & Sunday 9-4
Free local delivery for orders over $15 on weekdays
Does the name Susan B. Anthony ring a bell? And she came by it honestly!
Susan is from Brooklyn, and just loves Troy. So much that she’s writing a book about us — if by writing you mean taking pictures of everyday Trojans. And we’ve got a preview hanging on our walls. This is her photograph of our hero Abby Lublin, urban grower extraordinaire.
Meet her Saturday Feb. 21, from 5-8, when we throw our usual Grand Artist’s Reception. Dinner will be available, plus complimentary Cuban hors d’oeuvres.
Carmen’s Cafe will host an “Art Night” this Thursday, Oct. 30 featuring: a honeybee themed intersection artwork project, an art opening with complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a special dinner menu.
While community members create the chalk murals outside, Carmen’s Cafe will also host a tapas and sangria reception from 5 p.m. till 8 p.m. for artist Gary Masline. The restaurant will be open until 9 p.m.
Masline’s exhibit of 12 oil paintings is titled “Faces & Places.”
Based in East Greenbush, Masline’s paintings of oils on canvas have received awards from the Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibition, Albany Center Gallery, and the Arts Center of the Capital Region. In 2010, the Albany Institute of Art and History named him one of “Tomorrow’s Masters Today,” and in 2001 he won the Metroland readers’ poll for “Best Visual Artist.”
The paintings, on display at Carmen’s from Oct. 30 through the end of the year, use the colors and light of the American southwest, combining people and landscape images to create “stories on the walls.”
(Note: Contact Jim Lewis for publicity images of Masline’s artwork.)
SPECIAL MENU
Carmen’s guest chef, Ross Tuskey, will be preparing the following special menu for Thursday and Friday nights:
Tuskey is a culinary trained chef who prepares food for Carmen’s Cafe on music nights.
Week of Fri. Oct. 24 to Sun. Oct. 26
(Sorry, Closed Thursday–
See you Friday for Mundo Nuevo
¡Lunch!By which we mean, breakfast any time, PLUS our lunchtime menu! Which is why we are showing you a picture of French Toast with Fresh Fruit and Real Whipped Cream
Cubano Sandwich by popular demand— pork, ham & swiss w/ mustard & pickle on Cuban bread
Picadillo
Check out our full menu! Though for a real treat, come in and see what’s on our Specials Board
Beef Stew slow cooked in a tomato herb broth
Costillitas de Cerdo baby back spareribs, dry rubbed and s-l-o-w roasted
Pan Seared Tilapia w/ garlic-wine-cilantro sauce
Grilled Lamb Chops w/ rosemary glaze
Flamenco Stew
Craft BeerCheck out this list and help us grow it over time. Tell us what you love and we’ll keep adding!
Nine Pin Cider by Nine Pin Cider Works, Albany, NY
Leisure Time and Hoponius Union by Jack’s Abbey
Raspberry Ale by Dark Horse
Scotch Ale by Black Isle
Chocolate Satin Cake
Pear Apple Tart
New York Cheesecake
Flan
Mundo Nuevo 10/24
Elizabeth Kasius & Heard 11/21
The Nellies Victorian Stroll 12/7
Mundo Nuevo 12/19
Gary Masline Artist’s Reception 5 till 9
Open for Dinner! 5 to 9 Chef Ross is whipping up a special menu, we’ll pass out Tapas hors d’oeuvres and Sangria, and we’ll be serving dinner till 9!
after a visit to the mostest fantasticest bakery in the area, Carmen’s is carrying Rock Hill Breads. One taste won us over!
Try a Basket o’ Breads with our own whipped Strawberry Butter and a Cortado!
Oct 5th 2014 ~ 12-3pm Italian Community Center Troy NY 12180
Featuring many Troy restaurants, including your favorite, Carmen’s
What wonderful blend of savory and spicy will we bring this year? You’ll have to come and see! It’s all good, all for the homeless, AND you walk home with a handmade bowl, courtesy of area potters and volunteers.
A unique event to support the growing fight against the issue of hunger.
OCTOBER 5, 2014 ~ 12-3pm~ Italian Community Center ~1450 5th Avenue, Troy NY 12180
New Art Exhibit: Faces & Places, works by Gary MaslineShowing Thru 2014
Gary loves Santa Fe, and it shows.
You may have seen Gary’s work around the area, he’s widely known. We like the way his paintings start to tell a story, then leave the rest for you to figure out.
Look for an artist’s reception toward the end of the month.
Gary Masline is a post-modern realist working exclusively in oils. His paintings utilize the colors and light of the American Southwest, where he spent time as a youth, and often incorporate figurative images to create narrative.
Masline believes the Southwest is one of the Earth’s centers of spiritual energy, an energy which animates artistic awareness. Realizing that a painting can feign a reality neither the artist nor viewer has seen, he concludes that people can be profoundly affected by images of western landscapes which they may never have experienced, or by events which are alien to their actual experience, but which through imagination or memory reverberate nonetheless in the viewer’s unconscious.
In this regard, Masline expresses images that are emblematic or totemic, their symbols and gestures generating “stories” in the minds of viewers. He paints with the understanding that art is meant to be provocative, and his hope is to provoke a conversation with the viewer responding to his use of color, light and body language to establish image, illusion or icon.
Masline’s previous creative incarnation was as a screenwriter. He reasons that, if one thinks of painting as consisting of line or drawing, color, and story or narrative, his paintings reveal him making films…just one frame at a time, illuminating a moment of truth, whatever that may be for the viewer.
In conceiving a work, Masline frequently is influenced by the poses and postures of newspaper and magazine advertising, whose defined reality and bland presentation collides with his personal interpretations of body language and locale. He concurs with artist Gerhard Richter, who has worked from photographs and said “I am fascinated by the human, temporary, real, logical side of an occurrence which is simultaneously so unreal, so incomprehensible, and so atemporal. And I would like to represent it in such a way that this contradiction is preserved.” Masline’s other influences are painters Edward Hopper, Balthus, and Lucien Freud.
By which we mean, breakfast any time, PLUS our lunchtime menu!
—Which is why we are showing you a picture of French Toast with Fresh Fruit and Real Whipped Cream
Cubano Sandwich by popular demand— pork, ham & swiss w/ mustard & pickle on Cuban bread
Picadillo
Though for a real treat, come in and see what’s on our Specials Board.
Braised Beef Short Ribs w/ herbed garlic mashed potatoes
Pan Seared Salmon in garlic cream sauce over saffron rice
Pernil slow roasted pork shoulder over saffron rice w/ chimichurri sauce
Desserts: expanded offerings:Flan
Raspberry Chocolate Cake
Since she was a young girl, Francelise has collected fabrics. As an artist, she snips and sews collages— sometimes figural, sometimes abstract. Meet her this Thursday, Aug. 7, from 5-8 pm and discuss her work over Tapas and Sangria.
Yes, we’ve done it again, Carmen’s has scored another amazing artist and is showing some of her best and prettiest work. It’s the perfect time to take some home with you— at Carmen’s we don’t charge the artist a commission, so all proceeds go directly to Francelise.
First Time! Besides serving Tapas Samples, we’ll be serving Tapas Dinners! Limited selection, but if someone should, say, ask for an authentic Cubano Sandwich we’d be happy to oblige!
Collages, whether made of words, paper, objects or cloth, have always been my means of expression. In 1988, I first coined the term “Silkollages” to introduce my meditative concept in textile collages to interior designs. Then in 1992, I added “Ethnikollages” to re-activate cultural interests. My collages are either embroidered into miniature quilts, or framed into window boxes. When large and three-dimensional, they become hanging art quilts or soft installation pieces. Abstract or representational life forms as dancing shapes seem to multiply in my work. I draw them out of colorful cloth from Asia, Africa and Europe to visually create a blurring of boundaries between such cultures. As a collage maze is formed, the viewers are invited to enter it. If my playing on fabric brings the viewers to rethink the multiplicity expressed, an expansion of their own true awareness might occur. What I seek is an element of uncensored, emotional surprise, beyond multicultural reality. I am on a spiritual exploration, deepening my sense of what it really means to belong to the human race. It is about exploring that sense of oneness, born out of welcoming the difference we are.
Francelise Dawkins is a Parisian “textile collagist”, living in the U.S. for over two decades. She first studied Fiber Arts at the Art League School of Indianapolis before moving to NY, where she developed her meditative concept for interior designs in textile collages. She has since exhibited or taught at the American Craft Museum in NYC, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the NY State Museum in Albany, NY, and other renowned venues. One of her installations was part of the “Putt-Modernism” show at the Hyde Collection Museum in Glens Falls, NY. Writing about her art, she had essays published, such as the one on intuition in Margaret Blanchard’s book: “From the Listening Place”. She designed the art cover for Gisele Pineau’s French novel: “L’Espérance-Macadam”. Many of her pieces have been shown in magazines, on cable network TV and books, such as Carolyn Mazloomi’s contemporary art quilt book: “Spirit of the Cloth”. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of the American Quilter’s Society in Paducah, KY.
Francelise Dawkins Thru September
Fabric collages—so precise, so delicate, so detailed.
Save The Date: Thursday Aug 7 5-8 pm
When you buy art at Carmen’s, all proceeds go to the artist. We take no cut or commission.
Another snapshot of the deer
We took three days to catch up and cook great stuff
Seems like the whole neighborhood took pix of the doe and fawn.
This one by new neighbor Eric Floess. Amazing!
Breaking News: Basil Pickfest!
Bounteous basil buffet bounces billings at boffo bistro
Look for the specials below
Another amazing menu turns culinary world on its ear!
Get ready to rock your weekend at Carmen’s
Holy Basil, Batman!
Our favorite herb The wonderfully spicy fragrance of basil tells us that summer is really here. Some of the best meals I’ve had are a sun ripe tomato, some fresh mozarrella, and a sprig of basil.
We just picked four pounds of this wonderful gem, so look for organic garden fresh basil surprises on this weekend’s menu
Free Beverage!
We love it when you talk like this
The movie Chef has brought in more people… And we are showing our appreciation. For the next few weeks, bring in your ticket stub and we’ll give you a complimentary beverage with your Cubano.
Come in with Sophia Vergara, and the whole meal is on us.
What a taste!
Our own little blueberry patch is wow! flavor packed!! Soon we’ll be hiring pickers to bring in the harvest. It doesn’t get more local than this!
Craft Beer
Check out this list and help us grow it over the summer.
Tell us what you love and we’ll keep adding!
Nine Pin Cider by Nine Pin Ciderworks
Leisure Time and
Hoponius Union by Jack’s Abbey
Raspberry Ale by Dark Horse
Scotch Ale by Black Isle
Go Green
Take The Bus
New faster express service from CDTA
find out more about it at THe Atrium, Tuesday, July 8 from 6-8. Or at Albany Academy Thursday, same times.
Breakfast TreatsSweet Basil Pesto & Sundried Tomato Omelet
Wow, doesn’t that sound great?
Farm Fresh Peach Pancakes
Made with– what can we say? — Peaches!
Honey Goat Cheese French Toast
w/ blueberries. Love them blueberries!
What is Pesto?
We make so many, and often NOT with basil
While traditional pesto is made from basil, garlic, olive oil, pine nuts and Parmesan, it doesn’t have to be that way. The word comes from pestle, and means anything that’s pounded, as in, a green sauce for pasta, meat, fish or whatever.
Here at Carmen’s we often use arugula, mint, parsley, and cilantro in addition to basil.
Private Party for you & your friends!
The food is cooked, the tables are set, the guests are arriving, and you have hardly lifted a finger. Don’t worry, we’ll clean up afterwards.
Book Carmen’s for the night, and we’ll cook your favorite dishes better than you have ever tasted them.
Call Carmen
for details!
(518) 326-2064
What Ya Got Besides Cubanos?
Don’t think you’re gonna diss a sandwich named after a nation
Cubanos are fantastic.
S-l-o-o-o-w roasted pork shoulder, ham, Swiss, and pickle, grilled on an authentic Pan Cubano. Dee–lectable!
Caprese
fresh mozzarella, fresh basil (see above and left), red ripe tomatoes and extra virgin olive oil on sourdough bread.
Featured Artist: Francelise Dawkins
Thru September. Look for the reception at the end of July.
When you buy art at Carmen’s, all proceeds go to the artist
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