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New York, NY
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New York Foundation for the Arts
(NYFA) Leadership Council Member Carol Ross and Board
Members Marjorie Silverman and J. Whitney Stevens will host
an intimate tour of four artist studios on Long Island’s
East End on Friday, August 4, 2017. Led by Christina
Mossaides Strassfield, Museum Director/Chief Curator at
Guild Hall, the group will visit the studios of artists
Quentin Curry, Donald Lipski,
Arlene Slavin, and Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas.
The tour will conclude with a seated lunch at a private
residence in Bridgehampton with the artists, and will
benefit NYFA’s programs for artists throughout Long Island
and New York State. Past tours have featured artists
including
Alice Aycock, Mary Heilmann, Brian Hunt, Toni Ross, Joan
Semmel, and Joe Zucker.
The ticketed tour is open to the public, with advance RSVP
required. Those interested in attending may
click here to RSVP.
Quentin Curry
is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the boundaries
between different media while maintaining a passionate focus
on sophisticated surfaces. He lives with his family in the
Hamptons, where he maintains his studio. There is little
boundary between his art and life, as there is little
boundary between his sculptures and paintings. Curry’s
photos look like paintings, his paintings have an
object-like quality, and his sculptures register as objects
built out of paint. In his recent “Made Ready” series of
paintings, he explores the process of making canvas out of
paint. Working with man-made building materials, Curry
creates monolithic rock sculptures whose forms mimic organic
shapes seen in cave paintings. His work has been exhibited
in national group shows at Stephen Stux, New York; Kavi
Gupta, Chicago; and Tripoli Gallery, Southampton; as well as
in solo exhibitions at Stellan Holm Gallery, New York and
Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles.
Donald Lipski
is a sculptor who is best known for his installation work
and large-scale public works. He received a NYSCA/NYFA
Artist Fellowship in Sculpture in 1986.
New York Times
critic Michael Kimmelman has said that Lipski is an heir to
the Surrealistic tradition, a sculpture who possesses a
“knack at composing fantastical stories from unexpected
combinations of materials.” Some of his most recognizable
works include
The Yearling,
outside the Denver Public Library (originally exhibited by
The Public Art Fund at Doris Freedman Plaza in Central Park
in 1997),
Sirshasana,
hanging in Grand Central Market in Grand Central Terminal,
and
F.I.S.H.
at the San Antonio River Walk in Texas. His work is in the
permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The
Menil Collection, and dozens of other museums. He has
received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an award from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, and The Rome Prize of The
American Academy in Rome among other honors.
Arlene Slavin
is a sculptor, painter, and printmaker who also creates
large-scale art commissions. Her work has been exhibited in
the Whitney Biennial and is included in the collections of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Cincinnati
Art Museum, Guild Hall, and others. Those in the New York
City area can currently see a selection of sculptures from
her “Intersections” series installed on Bronx Museum of the
Arts’ terrace through June 25, 2017. The work plays off the
principle of the sundial, and features crisscrossed,
translucent colored webs that remain stable while its shadow
is in perpetual change.
Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas
is an internationally-acclaimed sculptor whose work has been
exhibited in one-person shows in New York City and the
Hamptons as well as in group exhibitions in the United
States and Europe. Known for her monumental sculptures in
fabricated metal and cast bronze, stainless steel, and
steel, Strong-Cuevas creates the models for her large-scale
works at her studio and works with fabricators who realize
the final design. Each of Strong-Cuevas’s sculptures is a
meditation on the human face, drawn from thoughts on
physics, the universe, and spirituality. Outdoor projects
are her specialty; three of her aluminum sculptures can
presently be seen at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New
Jersey and a bronze Obelisk is on view at Bruce Museum in
Greenwich, Connecticut.
Christina Mossaides Strassfield
has deep knowledge of Guild Hall’s permanent collection,
comprising more than 2,000 works of art. The museum, which
presents world-class art exhibitions by
internationally-renowned visual artists and emerging
regional artists, often collaborates with artists of eastern
Long Island to encourage local talent. Since joining Guild
Hall in 1987, Mossaides Strassfield has curated numerous
exhibitions and has contributed essays for many of the
accompanying catalogs.
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