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September thru November 2002
November 2002
- November 3 thru December 2, 2002 - The Grey Art Gallery at New York University located at 100 Washington Square East, NYC 10003. NYU Grey Art Gallery director Lynn Gumpert will be on hand for the gallery's new series of First Wednesday Salons - informal gatherings held on the first Wednesday of each month that the gallery is open to the public. Please join her and her guests in conversations about our current exhibition - Between Word and Image: Modern Iranian Visual Culture - which features modern Iranian paintings and sculpture of the 1960s and 70s, from the NYU Art Collection, documentary photographs by Abbas, and street posters from the 1979 Revolution.
- November 3 thru December 2, 2002 - Your Future in Your Dreams: Photographs by Nikki Johnson with a title taken from Chapter's 5 in a 1942 book called "Fortune Telling for Fun and Popularity" Y.F.I.Y.D. features images from photographer Nikki Johnson's work lensed over the last five years. It is a rogue's gallery of portraits of friends and strangers, still life, and street photography. The Brecht Forum at 122 West 27th Street, 10 Floor between 6th & 7th Avenues, NYC 10001 RECEPTION: Sunday Nov. 3rd from 2 to 5pm
- November 5 thru 16, 2002 - "Mark Lerer: New Work" at the New Century Artists Gallery, 530 West 25th between 10th and 11th Avenues, NYC. Mark Lerer's work is on view: drawings of subjects ranging from cityscapes to Rodin sculptures to the suffering people of Afghanistan to comicbook superheroes, done in the artist's distinctive pencil style. RECEPTION: Saturday, November 9th from 3 to 6pm.
- November 5 thru November 30, 2002 - Janet Glazer is showing Barcelona & The Pyreness at her sold photographic exhibition at New Century Artists, 530 W 25 St. RECEPTION: Saturday Nov 9 from 3-6pm.
- November 5 , 2002 - Jonathan Santlofer at the Whitney Museum of American Art, at 945 Madison at East 75th Street, NYC. Artist and author Jonathan Santlofer reads from his first novel, The Death of an Artist (Harper Collins, 2002), a literary thriller set in the contemporary art world. The reading is accompanied by a slide presentation of the artworks that influenced his novel. Santlofer has received 2 grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, has been a Visiting Artist at the Vermont Studio Center, a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Yaddo. Public Program. READING: Tuesday, November 5 from 5 to 8pm..
- November 6 thru December 6, 2002 - Amy Cohen Banker is showing her paintings Cross-Section of Abstract Portraits and Still Lifes, in oil and mixed media, at La Vuelta, located at 10-43 44th Drive, Long Island City. Tel: 718-361-1858. RECEPTION: Saturday, November 16 from 6-10pm.
- November 7 thru December 7, 2002 - Don Perlis is showing Interiors & Exteriors, his most recent paintings, at Denise Bibro Fine Art, located at 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea, NYC. RECEPTION: Thursday, November 7 from 6-8pm.
- November 7 thru November 10, 2002 - The 12th Annual Print Fair featuring 87 Print Dealers will be held at the 7th Regiment Armory, at Park Avenue at 67th Street, NYC. EVENT: Thursday November 7 thru November 10, 2002. PREVIEW: November 6 from 5 to 9pm.
- November 7 thru December 22, 2003 - The Burston Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of emerging artist John Monteith. This artist has been generating a buzz in New York and Paris through a recent article about his work in DOJO Magazine. The show is entitled John Monteith Paintings 2000 - 2002. The gallery is located at 1092 Queen Street in West Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H9 RECEPTION: Thursday November 7 from 7 to 11pm.
- November 8 thru November 30, 2002 - Muriel Rodolosse is showing her peinture, photographie, video at Galerie Guislain - Etats d' Art, located at 35, Rue Guenegaud 75006 Paris. galerie.guislain@ wanadoo.fr RECEPTION: November 7 at 8pm (18h).
- November 9 thru December 8, 2003 - The Rockaway Artists Alliance presents The Russians are Here, a the Rockaway Arts Center, Fort Tilden, Rockaway, Queens. The Russians Are Here showcases the diverse artistry of 10 Russian members exploring the similar motives and impulses that bind and shape the artistic expressions of these compatriots who have chosen the U.S.A. as their home. Though varied, one is able to discern through much of this work, the highly poetic and intelligent; the iconographic; the weaving of symbols and figures of mythology and religion. Whether subtly or boldly, the impulse of freedom frequently flows through these works ñ either as an undercurrent or as a surging river. The Russians Are Here explores the Russian artistic experience in this country through the work of 10 artists. Nourished by both common and distinct roots and flourishing in the freedom of this country. Participating artists: Julia Koslyansky, Helen Lurye, Robin Pogrebitskiy, Alexander Richter, Dmitry Romanofsky, Izabella Slobodoff, Gita Vavelenkova, Yuri Yurov, Eugene Zanis, Victor Zinuhov. RECEPTION: Sunday, November 10, 1-3 pm at Studio 6 Gallery, Fort Tilden, Rockaway, Queens.
- November 10 2002 - Russian American Writers read and talk about the immigrant experience From Russia With Love - Reading at a Lower East Side Landmark. The Eldridge Street Project is located at 12 Eldridge Street, east of the Bowery, between Canal and Division Streets. Turovsky is the editor of Balaklava, an online journal of contemporary Russian poetry in translation. The Reading: The mother land. The new land. The tsoris. The absurdities of the intersections of two worlds and that particular tension between pre-revolutionary Russia, where so many Jewish immigrants hailed, and New York. The romance of Russia, from its religious communities to its socialist revolutionaries, lingers in contemporary imaginings of the Russian immigrant experience. Event: Sunday November 10 at 2pm
- November 9 thru December 21, 2002 - Safe-T-Gallery presents Half-Asian by Benjamin Sloat and Steve Aishman, an exploration of mutable identity. How do men and women who are personal bridges between formerly disparate groups of peoples represent themselves? Can you change how Asian or how European or African you look by changing the backdrop of a photograph, or your accessories, hairstyle or state of mind? These 2 men photographed more than 100 half-Asian people. New Yorkers who are themselves half-Asian can become part of this series during portrait sessions to be held at the Safe-T-Gallery. Hours: Friday and Saturday 1 to 6. Safe-T-Gallery is located at 134 Bayard St. near Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, between Manhattan and Graham Avenue.
- Friday, November 15, 2003 - Gallery Talk by Linda Cummings and Nancy Olson MD, entitled Looking In/Looking Out: Psychoanalysis and Photography, at Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art - PSCA at 86 Walker St, NYC 10013. Event: Friday, November 15, at 7pm.
- November 21 thru January 11, 2003 - The New York Studio School, at 8 West 8th Street, NYC 10011, presents Vincent Barre - recent sculpture and a monumental wall drawing by the French abstract artist, curated by Karen Wilkin. Hours: Mon-Sat from 10-6pm.
- November 22 thru December 4, 2002 - Joy Gilinsky Monte will have her first one-woman show, Mythguidedat the Marquis Gallery in Manhattan's National Arts Club, 15 Grammercy Park South, NYC. Monte's paintings, informed by personal and universal myth, represent her passion, angst and whimsy. They incorporate issues of confrontation, self-realization and empowerment in a woman's voice on a journey of discovery. The tension between dark and light is vibrantly played out in such works as, Bubble Wanda & the 2 faced water weasel trapped inside a fish bowl of primordial ooze, not feeling Soft & fuzzy today and her popular, Inviting my demons to tea. RECEPTION: November 22 from 6-8 p.m.
