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NEW JERSEY STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS
MARCH 2 - APRIL 13, 2013
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AN URBAN GALLERY for EMERGING ART
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city CITY WITHOUT WALLS GALLERY 6 Crawford Street, Newark, NJ 07102
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Patrons American Recovery and Reinvestment Act The Children’s Hospital of NJ at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center City of Newark Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Groundswell Community Mural Project Horizon Foundation for New Jersey Kessler Foundation La Casa de Don Pedro Metal Management Montgomery Street Urban Renewal Northeast, Inc. New Jersey Cultural Trust NJ State Council on the Arts Prudential Foundation Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway
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BENEFACTORS (Indiv.) Judith Brodsky, New Brunswick Stephen Burns, Maplewood Keith Green, Newark Dennis Hull, Secaucus
SPONSORS Lanette Beatty, Upper Saddle River Joaquin Matias, Newark Vickie J. Snoy, Keyport
CONTRIBUTORS Sonia Andrade, Union City
Milagros Collazo, Newark Crawford Street Partners Benjamin J. Dineen, Greater Newark Secaucus Conservancy Dan Frohwirth, Jersey City Ironbound Community Ian Fuller, Ozone Park Corporation Lois Goldman, Weehawken Newark Public Schools Anne Hartnett, South Orange Madeleine Kurtz, S. Orange Partnership in Eve Levy, Maplewood Philanthropy Vivian McDuffie, West Orange Pearson Education Isimeme Omogbai, Newark PSE&G Amanda Van Hoesen,
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Sustainers Jennifer Anderson, Monmouth Beach Caridad Aquilante, Little Falls Patricia Belfanti, New York Eva Bouzard-Hui, W. Caldwell Suzanne Burnette, W. Orange Michelle Butler, Florham Park Jean Ray Campbell, South Orange Victor Davson, Newark Larry Dell, Maplewood Eileen Della Volle, Brick Mark S. Desveaux, Hoboken Samuel G. Forlenza, Rutherford Continued: Inside Back Cover
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The Benny Andrews Foundation The Centre Daryl Cormier Crawford Street Partners FOCUS Hispanic Center for Community Development Marion Farina George Ulanet Company Ironbound Community Corporation Jerry’s Artist Outlet Hiroshi Kumagai La Casa de Don Pedro Lowenstein Sandler PC
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Paul Belfanti* Milagros Collazo Larry Dell* Benjamin J. Dineen Nunzio G. Esposito Ian S. Fuller Ann Hartnett Eve A. Levy Leslie R. Peters Vinayak Viswanathan Joseph A. Waks* Michael Wyetzner*
NJ Department of Transportation New Jersey Devils Newark Arts Council NJ Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Nonprofit Finance Fund Partnership in Philanthropy Pro Bono Partnership Prudential Center Rock Entertainment Management Spotlight on Girls Television & New Media Consortium Andrew Teheran Mike Tynio United Community Corporation Westside Park Community Center Urban League of Essex County Verona Industrial & Building Supply Company Yendor Productions
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Trustees
Nene Humphrey, Brooklyn Ben Jones, Jersey City Pat Kettenring, Summit Ben Ko, Brooklyn Connie Kocur, West Orange Gregory Lamorte, Florham Park Milton Medina, Newark Evelyn Murphy, Bradley Beach Susan Napack, South Orange Alyson Nash Linwood Oglesby, Maplewood Mary Puryear, East Orange Gregory Ratcliff, Kearny Michael Rees, North Bergen Allen and Bonnie Shefts, West Orange Colleen Thornton, Alexandria Joe Waks, Bayonne Joseph Waks, Caldwell Jacqueline Wickenheisser, Avon By The Sea
Friends vanOs , West Orange Marcus Aviles, Newark Gwendolyn Barnes, West Orange Paul Belfanti, Warwick Alan Bigelow, Buffalo Annie Chen, Sparta Imran Chowdhury, New York Bernice A. Conic, Newark Gina Cowins, Newark Michael Davis Nunzio Esposito, Wallington Tracey Femiano, Medford Mary Flahive, Rumson Anthony Johnson, New York Olabisi Kuye, Teaneck Robert Lobe, Long Island City William R. Mikesell, A.I.A., Newark Owen Mitchell Donald Moore, West Orange Jennifer Morris, Hoboken Jeremy Moss, Maplewood Marshall Okin, West Orange Leslie Peters, Newark Jeffrey Powell, Elmwood Park Joan Reutershan, Brooklyn Gail Rothschild, Brooklyn Ellen Sawicki, Wayne David Shaughnessy, Fords Roger Tucker III, Bradley Beach Vinayak Viswanathan, Long Island City Bill Westheimer, West Orange Brenda Young
Members Happiness Akaniro, Wyckoff Nissreen Almazouni, Wanaque Katelynn Altgilbers, Bordentown Timothy Applebee Aliza Augustine, West New York Marianne Barcellona, New York Josephine Barreiro, Springfield Aileen Bassis, Jersey City Cyn Bird, Emerson Vicki Blodnick, Hopatcong Barbara Brady, Jenkintown Timothy Brown, Newark Phillip Buehler, New York Cortney Burke, Phillipsburg Imran Chowdhury, New York Deborah Christmas, Newark RitaMarie Cimini, Caldwell Rachel Citrino, Philadelphia Santiago Cohen, Hoboken Nicholas Colbert, Waldwick Lisa Conrad, Newark Giselle Cuevas, Pequannock Dennis Dalelio, Highland Lakes Liz Demaree, South Orange
Kate Dowd, Newark Kathryn Eddy, Montclair Rodolfo Edwards, New York Diane Englander Andrea Epstein, Berkeley Heights John Erianne, Essex Fells Maggie Fehr, Princeton Dan Fenelon, Madison Leslie Ford, Montclair Mikel Frank, Maplewood Jonathan French, Washington Karen Friedland, Brooklyn Ritika Gandhi, Wayne Andrea Geller, Paramus Andrew Gilfillan, Bloomfield Steve Green, Newark Susan Greenspan, Suffern James Hamilton, West Orange Yoon Chung Han, El Cerrito Stan Harris, Wayne Alice Harrison, Morristown Ted Hayward, Chiayi County, Chiayi Jeanne Heifetz, Brooklyn Allison Hugh, South Orange Patricia Huizing, Flemington MLJ Johnson, Jersey City Arlene Kaczka, Newark Daniel Kaslow, Maplewood Ilona Kennedy, West Orange Marta Kepka, Lawrenceville Afieya Kipp, Irvington Bernard Klevickas, Long Island City Melissa Kurtz, Lodi Jody Lee, South Orange Jackson Lenochan, Orange Wendy Lewis, Union City Kim Love, Newark Joseph Lugara Nancy Mahl, Jersey City Michael Manning, Montclair Natalie Marino, Springfield Leigh Mathews, New York Jack McGovern, Voorhees Michael Messing, Short Hills Janie Milstein Uli Minoggio, New York Marshall Minshew, Newark Andrea Morganstern, Bridgewater Somina Mosaku Jennifer Anne Moses, Montclair Harthula Nevling, Union Adam Nowicki, Haledon Alice O’Neill, Providence Kathryn Okeson, Red Bank Istra Orlando Paula Overbay, Brooklyn Duda Penteado, Jersey City William Pfaffman, Brooklyn Ben Pranger, Maplewood Robert Richardson, Madison Patricia Ritchie, West Orange Stephen Romano, Lake Hopatcong Gregg Rosen, Jersey City Alexandra Rozenman, Allston Firas Saadeh, Edison Sharon Sayegh, East Brunswick Kat Schneck, Brooklyn Naomi Schwartz Joyce Silver Balam Soto, Hartford Leona Strassberg Steiner, Jersey City Perris Straughter, Newark Sharon Sullivan-Rubin, Montville Charlee Swanson, Montclair Toni Thomas, Newark Mollie Thonneson, Jersey City Yoko Toda, New York Angela Toomer, Montclair Cortney Torres, Phillipsburg Loura van der Meule, Jersey City David Vega, New York Yona Verwer, New York Balachander Vijayakumar Vinayak Viswanathan, New York Charles Westfall, Athens Davyd Whaley, West Hollywood Beth Whitney, Jersey City Noelle Williams, Newark Regina Wilson, Whitehouse Station Michael Wyetzner, New York Herzel Yerushalmi, Springfield Gary Zelko Jenny Zoe Casey, Tavares Susan Zwick, Summit
COVER: Judy Glasser, Duet, 2010, wood, acrylic, concrete, size variable. (Photograph by Deborah Winiarski).
Marianne Barcellona 4 I Am Here (Egyptian Portraits: Constellation, Scraped Blue Sunshine). Each panel 2,400 All three panels 7,000 I Am Here (On Pale Green and On Baby Blue) Each panel Both panels
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Yvette Cohen 4 Ara Pacis #12, #13: The Nightmare Within
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Ara pacis #7, #8, #9: The Conversation and the Eavesdropper 3200 Bill Dilworth 4 Atlanta Card Trick
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Untitled Diptych 1000 Rodolfo Edwards 4 Double Return 4500 Small Double Return 450 Judy Glasser 4 Duet 4,000 Bernard Klevickas 4 untitled (Six Pack) 3500 Gwyneth Leech 4 Cup Cascade (per cup) (20% discount on purchase of cup collection)
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Robert Lobe 4 Urban Messages 800 Williamsburg Wall 800 Janie Milstein 4 Reflections No. 6 4500 Red Slice 1200 Paula Overbay 4 Breathing 4000 Penelope’s Hankerchief
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Joan Reutershan 4 City Trees 101-106 (each) 200 Lili Sheer 4 Yarn 1 1500 NFS: Not for Sale. POR: Price on Request. Prices subject to change without notice.
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Acknowledgements: Shira Toren is an IsraeliAmerican artist who lives and works in New York City. In her own paintings she often uses Diptychs and Triptychs. This exhibition at CWOW is her curatorial debut. Toren reached out to artists in her community who inspire her with their explorations and share the passion for working in multiple units. Toren had put an emphasis on assembling a diverse group of artists of varying backgrounds as well as different work approaches, medias, and content to showcase the uniqueness of each featured artist.
CURATOR Shira Toren OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, March 2, 6 - 8 pm City Without Walls (CWOW) 6 Crawford Street, Newark, NJ 07102
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La Thoriel Badenhausen 4 Grey Drawing (ea. hair net/bag)
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DATES, LOCATION & TIMES March 2 – April 13, 2013 City Without Walls Wed - Sat, 12 - 6 pm ARTISTS La Thoriel Badenhausen Marianne Barcellona Yvette Cohen Bill Dilworth Rodolfo Edwards Judy Glasser Bernard Klevickas Gwyneth Leech Robert Lobe Janie Milstein Paula Overbay Joan Reutershan Lili Sheer CURATOR’S STATEMENT Dip·tych/ˈdiptik/: A painting consisting of two panels, traditionally hinged. The panels may fold together for protection when traveling, and then be unfolded when one’s destination has been reached. The word diptych comes from the Greek root ‘dis,’ meaning ‘two,’ and ‘ptykhe,’ meaning ‘fold,’ and was the name of the folding writing tablets used in Roman times. Two, three (triptych) or more panels usually at the same size. The concept of multiples in art dates back centuries. In ecclesiastical art, the religious content presented on the two panels was a matched set, such as: Christ and the Theotokos; Saints Peter and Paul; or the
(For more information on the curator and exhibition, see Acknowledgements, page 16)
Lili Sheer
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Special thanks to creative consultant Drew Van Diest for assisting me in the curation of the show.
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Annunciation with Archangel Gabriel on one side and the Virgin Mary on the other. In the fifteenth and sixteenth century, diptychs & triptychs were most popular among the Netherlands and European painters. They modified the concept of diptych for traditional subjects such as “Adam and Eve” and painted commissioned portraits of wealthy patrons in the same style: “husbands and their wives.” Modern artists have used the word diptych in the title of works consisting of two paintings that never actually connected, but intended to be hung close together as a pair, such as Andy Warhol’s famous Marilyn Diptych (1962). This exhibition examines recent works by artists produced in the New York and New Jersey area over the last three years. The thirteen artists on the roster all work in different medias but the show unites them under one concept, with each artist delivering his or her own unique interpretation of multiples. The canvas, paper, or other surface is often a point of departure. It is the artist who says, “One is not enough.” However, the usage of diverse innovative medias calls for an expansion of the term Diptych or Triptych beyond the traditional arrangement of side-byside panels. We are exploring the Diptych Triptychs and Multiples in a wide spectrum of medias, including video, sculpture, photography, recyclable objects, and biomorphic shaped canvases. The arrangement of these forms also varies from horizontal to vertical to tandem. In many cases there is a combination of more than one technique in creating a new genre. The division of the complete art allows each unit to justify its own existence and space, but also to create a stronger message when in conjunction with its other. Today’s artists working with Diptychs, Triptychs and Multiples use this format to assert a variety of ideas; some for imagery storytelling that continues from one panel to another; others to present two or three images that are closely related; and still others to accent contrasting ideas, creating stronger visceral conflict often expressed by color. However different the visual message of each piece, it presents a dialogue between the multiple units of its construction.
Lili Sheer, Thread 1 & 2, 2013, digital c-print, 6” x 35”.
Birthplace: Tel Aviv, Israel. Education: School of Visual Arts, NY, MPA Art Therapy, 2003. Art Students League, NY, Painting, 1983. Escuela National de Arte “Ernesto de La Carcova”, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Fine Arts, 1977. Exhibitions: Horace Richter Gallery, Jaffa, Israel, 2009. The Artists’ Museum, Venice, Italy, 2007. Pelz Center for Contemporary Israeli Art, Munich, Germany, 2007. Every time we relocate there is something that shatters us into pieces. It is the time and the transitional process of collecting the shattered pieces and bringing them back together which interest me the most. I have been dealing through several incarnations with the imagery of this work. The concept was awakened as I was going through old family albums from Poland. The first version of the work was created using the pictures that formed the THREAD. For the present version, I used a red THREAD that symbolizes the story that passes in the family through four generations.
I paint New York streetscapes. Generic buildings, crosswalks, sky, street trees, signs and vehicles are the typical subject matter of my paintings. Recently I have been focusing on images of New York City street trees. Their presentations as multiples is appropriate to them, because this format emphasized both their individuality, and their commonality.
Joan Reutershan
La Thoriel Badenhausen
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Birthplace: Springfield, NJ. Education: New York University, New York, NY, Ph.D., 1980. Exhibitions: The Painting Center, New York, NY, 2012. Port Washington Public Library, NY, 2011. Honors: North Spruce Farm Artist Residency, Pine Plains, NY, 2012.
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Joan Reutershan, City Trees 101-106, 2012-13, oil on paper, 6 paintings, 12” x 9” each.
La Thoriel Badenhausen, Picnic, 2013, wood, paint and mirrors, 10” x 18” x 9”.
Birthplace: Renville County, NY. Education: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, BA, 1967. Exhibitions: Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ, 2012. Denise Bilbro Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2012-13. Picnic: Four gaming jars each containing a mystery item form a family of four enjoying an outing among others similarly outfitted for relaxation. Grey Drawing: Hair nets form a varied, sensitive line drawing when presented here on a neutral “paper” wall. Others may view a single hair net as a drawing independent of the group. Still others may question the use of a woman’s hair covering as drawing material. Translucent waxed paper bags encourage the lines to “push and pull” as witnessed by the viewer.
In 2006 I served as the official photographer for Brown University’s archaeological excavations in Egypt. On visits to the Cairo Museum I found myself habitually transfixed by a particular group of small, exquisitely carved wooden figures that I’m told may have been created as containers for the souls of royal servants. Although almost 4,000 years old, they have timeless and immediate presences which speak of benevolence, heart, fragility, vulnerability and hope. I feel enormously connected to them, as though they are reflecting back to me a part of my essence as a human being.
Marianne Barcellona
The memory of the little Egyptian carvings is the reference and motivation for my I Am Here paintings. These portraits are usually slow to evolve, often taking days to weeks sometimes over years - of layering, painting, sanding, waiting, scraping, thinking they’re done, realizing they’re not done, starting the process again. Then unscheduled, a presence will finally appear in its own time with its own personality.
Paula Overbay
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Birthplace: Buffalo, NY. Education: Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. New York Studio School, New York, NY. Exhibitions: Global Art Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, 2012. Curate NYC, Online Exhibition at www.curatenyc.org, 2011. Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY, 2011. Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY, 2011. Honors: Chairperson and Alumni Representative, Board of Governors, The New York Studio of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, New York, NY, 2007-2010.
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Marianne Barcellona, I Am Here (Egyptian Portraits: Constellation, Scraped Blue, Sunshine), oil on canvas, 3 panels 12” x 12” each.
Paula Overbay, Breathing, acrylic on wood, 24” x 48”.
Birthplace: Vancover, Washington. Education: Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, MFA, 1980. Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, BFA, 1975. Exhibitions: The Gallery at 38 Cameron, Cambridge, MA, 2006. Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland OR, 2006. Elements Come Together, Times Square, 2006. While hiking on Mt. Hood earlier in my life I could get close to the cloud cover that was often low against the mountain range coming from the Pacific coast. They would often be gray and raining with mist and blurred edges and halos. The end of a shower meant the landscape would be washed clean with the air shimmering and surfaces drenched with color from sunlight. These two ideas: luminous color and airy surfaces have stayed with me. There is a translucent beauty in cells under a microscope in a lab. They pulse with life. They are struggling to move and grow. I think of dots as molecules-everything moves and changes; motion is constant; migration is always with us. The pulse of life.
The inspiration for my recent work is found in cityscapes and our emotional attachment to them. The shifting interplay of light, shadow, and color seen through the prism of mood and memory provides moments of surprise and wonder for me. I am intrigued by the reflections of buildings which often create distorted, mysterious, and eerie visions of great beauty.
Janie Milstein
I combine multiple canvases and other materials to convey the angular relationships between buildings, and paint and other flexible media to represent the ephemeral reflections. Reflections No 6 is a diptych, hinged as in the ancient form, but with the hinge attached to fold backward instead of forward. I made the fold stationary to reference the angularity of buildings and the reflections in them. The stationary fold preserves the angular relationship between the panels.
Yvette Cohen
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Birthplace: Trenton, TX. Education: University of Texas, Dallas, TX, BA English, 1976. Exhibitions: Saint Peter’s Church, New York, NY, 2012. PS Project Space, New York NY, 2012. Honors: Louise Hoguet Saurel Merit Scholarship, The Arts Students League, 2009.
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Janie Milstein, Reflections No 6, 2007, mixed media, 40” x 38” x 9”.
Yvette Cohen, Ara Pacis #12, #13, The Nightmare Within (diptych), 2009, oil paint, wood dowels on on shaped canvas, 23.5” x 39”.
Birthplace: Cairo, Egypt. Education: Concordia University, Montreal Quebec, Canada, BFA, 1976. Exhibitions: Janet Kurnatowsky Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2013. Corridor Gallery Brooklyn, NY, 2012. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 2012. Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2012. Honors: Edwin Abbey Mural Fellowship, National Academy of Art, New York, NY, 2010. I explore color and shape in its pure and simple essence unrelated to external representation. However, my work is driven by real places like beaches and landscapes. In these large open spaces I feel the monumentality of the world, infinite air and the density of time past. My paintings are geometric masses of color. They are oil paint and wood dowels on shaped canvas. They appear sculptural, yet mount flat on the wall. The space surrounding the pieces is activated and is as important as the individual shapes and volumes. Pieces seemingly defy gravity and appear to exist in boundless space.
From 1989 to 1999 I only made drawings. Most of these drawings were card or book sized. Some worked equally well upside down. In the Atlanta Card Trick drawings, done in the early to mid 2000’s, I combined and enlarged two flipped drawings into one to make a third. I showed a number of these shuffled “card trick” drawings in Atlanta in 2005. Untitled Diptych is a two-panel painting from an ongoing series of paintings I am doing in which marks are made from pushing drying paint with an index finger. This pair is from a suite of ten white-on-white paintings imagined for the four walls of a white-walled room. As tactile as they are compositional, I see them as paintings for the blind.
Robert Lobe Robert Lobe, Williamsburg Wall, 2012, archival pigment print, 20” x 26”.
Bill Dilworth
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Birthplace: Detroit, MI. Education: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI BFA, 1976.
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Bill Dilworth, Atlanta Card Trick, 2005, ink on paper, 30.5” x 42.5”.
Birthplace: Bridgeport, CT. Education: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, BA, 1972. Brown University, Providence, RI, MA, 1975. Exhibitions: Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY, 2012. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 2002. My color photographs are based on careful observation of street-level details to which people typically pay little attention. This close focus on the complex environment of New York and other great cities can reveal unexpected beauty, mystery and meaning. In each diptych I have paired photographs which resonate with each other on formal and emotional terms. Their relationship is not simple. One notes contrasts as well as connections, and meanings more ambiguous than clear.
My drawing surface of choice since 2008 is the paper take-out coffee cup. Its sturdy matte surface is a wonder and delight, taking beautifully the jet-black and the earthy colors of the Faber and Castell India ink brush pens that I favor. I save the cups from the hot drinks I buy and occasionally collect them from other artists with whom I meet for tea or coffee around town. I wash and dry them and record on the bottom the date, place and occasion, as well as the drink that was consumed, thus capturing the social moment just passed.
Gwyneth Leech
Rodolfo Edwards
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Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA. Education: Edinburgh College, Edinburgh Scotland, BFA Painting, 1984. Exhibitions: Sprint Flatiron Prow Artspace, New York City, NY, 2011-12. Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX, 2012. Honors: Time Based Media Award, Scottish Arts Council, UK, 1994.
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Gwyneth Leech, Cup Cascade, 2012 (installed in the Flatiron Prow, NYC, 2010-12), mixed media on upcylced paper coffee cups, size variable.
Rodolfo Edwards, Double Return (detail), 2012, mixed media collage and acrylic paint on canvas, 48” x 48” x 2”.
Birthplace: Santiago, Chile. Education: Pontificie Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Vaparaiso, Chile, Architecture and Urbanism, 2007. Exhibitions: Edgar Allan Poe Gallery, Bronx, NY, 2012. City Hall, Philadelphia, PA, 2012. Abrazo Gallery, Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY, 2012. Galeria Trece, Santiago, Chile, 2011. Honors: The Red Dot Award, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY, 2012. The Henry Matisse Estate Award Scholarship, The Arts Student League New York, NY, 2011. My work as an architect and a visual artist is always to strongly engage my desires to create a project in a space. I developed a series of works that are based on grids and line. I’m mixing architectural elements and urban landscapes in an abstract way, by reconstructing fragments of pictures and composing them into a larger, screen-like image.
I like the physical action of building. Without a preconceived plan, I assemble my salvaged wood, directed by what occurs in the relationship of the shapes. I need to see and feel the work in actual space. My sculpture is influenced by my visceral response to dance. This sensation allows me to feel the rhythm, balance, weight and shifts in movement during construction. Duet is a partnership between two forms. They lean towards each other, holding their balance through a gentle touch in the center.
Judy Glasser
Bernard Klevickas
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Birthplace: New York, NY. Education: Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, MA, 1973. Exhibitions: Gallery Korea, New York, NY, 2013. Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY, 2012. Honors: Nessa Cohen Grant, New York, NY, 2008.
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Judy Glasser, Duet, 2010, wood, acrylic, concrete, size variable. Photograph by Deborah Winiarski.
Bernard Klevickas, untitled (Six Pack), 2010, metal sculpture, 13” x 32” x 11”.
Birthplace: Gary, IN. Education: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, BFA, 1998. Exhibitions: Orchard Windows Gallery, New York, NY, 2012. Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, Dallas, TX, 2011. Honors: Leadership: Light the Way, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1998. Untitled (sixpack) is an arrangement of multiple pressings of the same undulating and flipped form (the bump is the reversed but the same sized depression.) Shaped from flat stainless steel sheet metal pressed under tons of hydraulic pressure into two mating forms, the sculpture was then arranged into 3 columns and two rows of rectangles of different lengths and powder coated with polished areas. Starwave is a construction of found plastic that has been upcycled into a tiled arrangement of rotated forms. Pop rivets hold together the material which was sourced from plastic water jugs.