Friday at 7:00 PM at Westwood Gallery, 568 Broadway at Prince Street, NYC Doors open at 6:00 PM. Admission is $ 7.00. Students, & seniors $ 3.00. Passholders, free.
Art and Ritual This panel features four artists whose artworks and philosophy have a sense of "ritual" in interpretive ways. Their imaginative approaches to making reveals something sincere and sacred, while the resulting artworks compel the audience to surrender to their visual gravity.
Participant: Alison Crocetta, artist Participant: Rie Hachiyanagi, artist Participant: Ran Hwang, artist Participant: Lynne Yamamoto, artist Organizer: Rie Hachiyanagi, artist
Molly Barnes Art Dealers Dishing Charlie Manzo was formerly with Pace Gallery, and is currently an art dealer at Gagosian Gallery. Rich Temperio is owner of Sideshow Gallery, one of the largest exhibition spaces in Williamsburg. His gallery remains committed to providing a forum for emerging as well as an impressive line up of well established artists in all media. Susan Eley Fine Arts is a salon style gallery situated on the Upper West Side of Manahttan in a townhouse. It offers an intimate and personal viewing experience, and focuses on contemporary art by emerging and mid-career artists. Vincent Vallerino Fine Arts Ltd offers a diverse selection of 19th and 20th century American and European paintings in an Upper Eastside townhouse which is reminiscent of the private Parisian salons where many of the works may have once hung. Molly Barnes is a well-known California art dealer, broadcast arts commentator, art critic and author.
Moderator: Molly Barnes, art dealer, writer, critic, radio host Participant: Charlie Manzo, Art Dealer at Gagosian Gallery Participant: Rich Temperio, Owner of Sideshow Gallery Participant: Susan Eley, Owner of Susan Eley Fine Arts Participant: Vincent Vallerino, Owner of Vincent Vallerino Fine Arts Organizer: Jacqueline Rada, artist
Science + the Spiritual in Art = Genetically Engineered Resurrection? Chris Twomey's DNA Art Chris Twomey's newest work will preserve her own DNA, so that it may be cloned at some time in the future after her death. Her cloned body would have no memory of its former life, but this new work asks, if her clone were raised as an amnesia victim, and encouraged to re-learn who she was by viewing the art she had made, is it possible she could be resurrected?
The ancient Egyptians believed the spirits of their dead would dwell in the art in their tombs, one day to be reunited with their re-animated mummies after a "journey of millions of years." Genetic engineers have recovered intact DNA from those ancient mummies.
Twomey's work will test if the time has come that genetic engineering science brings that journey to its conclusion, and allows the spiritual in art to restore her spirit to her genetically resurrected body. Her work will ask, is it possible to achieve physical & spiritual resurrection here on Earth by literally being born again by means of genetic engineering?
Moderator: Flash Light, digital sculptor, board member of Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) Participant: Arthur Danto, philosopher, author, former Art Critic for The Nation, & Prof. at Columbia U. Participant: Vernita N'Cognita, visual & performance artist, Dir. of Viridian Gallery, Pope of The Church of Art Participant: Chris Twomey, multi-media artist, filmmaker, curator, and writer Organizer: Vernita N'Cognita, former Executive Director of ATOA Organizer: Flash Light, IT Director of ATOA
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There is no audio or video recording permitted during ATOA panels without advance permission from the staff. Photographs may be taken, without the use of flash. You will be asked to turn off your equipment and leave if you ignore this rule. Video Tapes of our panels are available for purchase. Help support ATOA by buying tapes of the panels that interest you.
Copyright 2012, Artists Talk On Art, all rights reserved.
The end of our Spring 2012 season.
ATOA wishes to thank: The SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, The Lower Manhattan Community Council, The Bachman Foundation, and Weinick, Sanders and Leventhal, CPAs, for their generous support.
