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Intimate East End Studio Tour and Luncheon
To Benefit the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
Long Island, NY - Marjorie
Silverman, J. Whitney Stevens and Carol Ross will host an
intimate tour of artist studios on Long Island’s East End to
benefit the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) on
Friday, August 5, 2016. Led by Christina Mossaides
Strassfield, Museum Director/Chief Curator at Guild Hall,
the group will visit the studios of artists Mary Ellen
Bartley, Mia Fonssagrives-Solow, Toni Ross, and Claire
Watson. The tour meets at 9:00 AM and will conclude with a
seated lunch at 1:00 PM at a private residence in
Bridgehampton catered by celebrity chef Gabe Kennedy.
Tickets start at $250 and ticket sales from the event will
support NYFA’s programs for artists throughout Long Island
and New York State, include Artists’ Fellowships grants,
in-depth professional development boot camps, and online
resources.
This is the fourth East End Studio Tour to benefit NYFA;
previous tours have featured artists Alice Aycock, Sally
Egbert, Audrey Flack, Connie Fox, Christopher French, Mary
Heilmann, Bryan Hunt, Joel Perlman, Joan Semmel, Nina
Yankowitz and Barry
Holden, and Joe Zucker many of whom will be attending on
August 5th.
Mary Ellen Bartley is
an American artist known for her photographs that explore
the tactile and formal qualities of the printed book and its
potential for abstraction. Her work has been widely
exhibited, including in solo shows at Yancey Richardson
Gallery and The Drawing Room in New York and at Guild Hall
in East Hampton, New York, among others. Exhibitions
exploring themes of the book and objects caught in
transition from the analog to the digital realm, such as Well
Read: Visual Explorations of the Book at Photographic
Center Northwest in Seattle and Out of Print at the
Bakersfield Museum of Art in California, along with The
Thing Itself at Yancey Richardson Gallery, have featured
several of Bartley’s series.
Mia Fonssagrives-Solow is
an internationally celebrated artist and designer. As the
daughter of renowned photographer Fernand Fonssagrives and
iconic super model Lisa Fonssagrives, as well as the
step-daughter of fashion photographer Irving Penn, Fonssagrives-Solow
was born into and molded by a world of art and design. She
continues to build upon this legacy as a renowned sculptor,
painter and designer of fine jewelry. Fonssagrives-Solow has
exhibited work throughout the U.S. and Paris and has graced
the pages of many lauded publications, such as W, Elle,
InStyle, Harper's Bazaar and Artnet. Her
sculpture and jewelry can currently be found in locations
around the world, including Louisa Guinness Gallery, London;
Gagosian Gallery, NYC; Steven Kasher, NYC; Eric Firestone,
East Hampton and The Maeght Gallery, Paris.
Born and raised in New York City, Toni
Ross attended Wesleyan University where she studied
ceramics and the arts, graduating with a BA in Film Studies.
Her lifetime interest in the visual arts took her to Italy
where she absorbed the great traditions of the Renaissance
and the Middle Ages while painting and sketching in museums,
piazzas and the countryside. Since then, her practice has
evolved to include works in sculpture, drawing and painting;
her focus on stoneware dates to 1997. She has had solo
exhibitions in The Drawing Room, Celadon Gallery, Galerie
Dutko, and Ricco Maresca Gallery among others.
Claire Watson received
a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA
from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Rome and
Philadelphia. Her work has been shown in New York at Islip
Art Museum; the Anthony Giordano Gallery at Dowling College,
Oakdale; Art in General, NYC; and the Lehman College Art
Gallery in the Bronx. It has also been exhibited at Baxter
Gallery, Maine College of Art in Portland; the Steven Wirtz
Gallery in San Francisco; and at Johnson Gallery, Middlebury
College, Vermont. She received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grant in 1990-1991, and is a 2007 Fellow in Sculpture from
the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Chef Gabe Kennedy is
the winner of ABC’s primetime show The Taste where he
was deemed America’s best undiscovered cook by Anthony
Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Marcus Samuelsson and Ludo
Lefebvre. He is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of
Hotel Administration and The Culinary Institute of America
where he finished first in his class. He has worked at
Bouley, Eleven Madison Park, Cru, and Blue Hill at Stone
Barnes. He currently works as a private chef and runs a
catering and events company.
The New York Foundation
for the Arts (NYFA) was founded in 1971 to empower
artists at critical stages in their creative lives. Each
year NYFA awards $650,000 in cash grants to individual
artists in all artistic disciplines. NYFA’s fiscal
sponsorship program is one of the oldest and most reputable
in the country and helps artists and organizations raise and
manage an average of $4 million annually. NYFA’s Learning
programs provide thousands of artists with professional
development training and support, and NYFA’s website,
NYFA.org, received over 1.2 million visitors last year and
has information about more than 12,000 opportunities and
resources available to artists in all disciplines.
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