Cooperstown NY—Art-lovers may make an appointment to see Samurai Baseball AND MORE: a fine-arts-look-at-baseball, any day except Saturdays, when the gallery has regular hours, 11-3. Simply text/call 315-941-9607 or email leartgarage@gmail.com, and wait for a time that works for you. The last day of the show is Saturday September 13, 11-3, Last Chance Last Glance. Visitors will enjoy a rich array of highly-original works by 15 artists: sculpture, paintings, pastels, photography, even elegant baseball-stamped silk scarves and works on paper. The exhibition is also on view Saturday Sept 6 and 13, which is the Last Chance Last Glance Day. The exhibition features a stunning ‘quilt’ of 14 limited-edition art posters, complete with on-message Japanese lettering, by Robert Seward, who lived in Japan for many years. There he championed the work of an American authority on Japanese baseball – Robert Whiting, author of The Samurai Way of Baseball, whom he frequently invited to lecture at the university. Other works in the show: Marcie Schwartzman, a bead-embellished textile banner with a stitched image of Suzuki and his signature upheld bat, hidden in plain sight; David Wilson, a baseball impaled on a samurai sword (katana); and a repurposed samurai action figure atop a found baseball/monument embossed with key samurai tenets; Ada Yonenaka (Chelsea/Bowerstown), works on paper with highly original and lively configurations of delightful imagery repeated in extraordinary patterns; Steph Marcus, 14 one-of-a-kind baseball cards made with sculpted modeling clay on board, featuring hall of famers…as cats!; Charlie Bremer (Otego NY), mesmerizing photorealist paintings where impossibly-luminous vintage bottles unexpectedly reveal startling baseball imagery; Cooperstown’s Ashley Norwood Cooper, a wild and enigmatic painting that will wow her many admirers; Carey Clark (NYC), a dreamy painting from her renown 1980s NYC subway series; the legendary farmer artist Lavern Kelley (Oneonta NY, d. 1998), several carved, hapless ‘Tinkerville Tomcat’ players; James Herman (Hartwick NY), two powerful paintings that comment on homeplate; Chuck Matteson (Cherry Valley NY) , a six-foot bat obelisk, a smaller curved bat for curve balls and an ‘American icons’ bronze of a cowboy and baseball ; Marilynn Gelfman Karp (NYC /Charlotteville), ‘ornithology’ and ‘archeology’ assemblages, such as a delicate nest reinforced with bird-retrieved baseball memorabilia; Mary Padgett (New Woodstock, NY), colorful pastel paintings of textiles that seamlessly and gloriously sport baseballs; and Jim Sullivan of NYC and Jefferson NY, a muted painting of a soulful dog and a baseball, called Woof. In the photography department, Katharine Kreisher, with her winning Playing on the Girls Team, a charming partially-hand-colored photograph of a gal in long dress batting a hydrangea out of the field, and Dennis Stahl, whose inscrutable black and white image of a bearded man holding out a baseball both generate more questions than answers. Wilson’ s video clips of astounding sword-brandishing “samurai baseball” action further enliven the visit, in the pop-up baseball art shop in the ‘MG Bay.’ In the pop-up shop and the Windowsill Gallery at the rear of the main gallery, enjoy a grab-and -go section:: Ada Yonenaka’s fabulous one-of-a-kind stamped baseball notecards, a limited number of out-of-print collectibles: Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball and a rare Ichiro Suzuki biography. Free public programs have accompanied the show, including artist demonstrations and workshops, and artsts’ panel discussions. For Images and info see FB/Instagram @ArtGarageCooperstown, email leartgarage@gmail.com , text/call 315-941-9607, or call 607-547-5327 during gallery hours (Saturdays 11-3) ###