Items of Note

Mirror Mirror : Opens Tonight!

Yevgeniy Fiks and a great line-up of other artists getting lots of attention these days have been gathered into what promises to be a fabulous exhibition at Postmasters that opens tonight, April 2, 6-8 PM. From the gallery press release:

The portrait has been a staple of art going back to the Egyptians and the sculptural bust of Nefertiti. Then 3300 or so years later came Andy and Alice and Chuck and Cindy and Annie. What's next? The mind wanders and wonders about something new and relevant to the present moment that the genre can deliver. "Mirror, Mirror" is a group exhibition of nine artists engaged with contemporary portraiture in all media. The works in the show present a variety of approaches from realistic, exquisitely rendered paintings of the artist’s friends (Jenny Morgan) and traditional portraits of the members of American Communist Party (Yevgeniy Fiks) to bitingly satirical drawings (William Powhida), unsettling video self portraits (Kate Gilmore), photographs of three generations of artist's family in the rural Midwest (Chris Verene), video reenactments of people on Facebook who share the same name (Ursula Endlicher), portraits painted directly on top of the people they represent and then photographed to look like a painting (Alexa Meade), and metaphysical psychedelic portraits of people’s souls (Jason Robert Bell). Tamas Banovich, will contribute a work involving Chatroulette.

April 2 - May 8, 2010
Postmasters Gallery presents two exhibitions:
gallery 1
Mirror, Mirror
a show of portraits
Jason Robert Bell, Tamas Banovich, Ursula Endlicher, Yevgeniy Fiks, Kate Gilmore, Alexa Meade, Jenny Morgan, William Powhida, and Chris Verene.

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Save the Date!

Co-Chairs Caroline Rowley and Michael M. Thomas invite you to the Smack Mellon Kentucky Derby Party & Art Auction Benefit Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 4 pm

A $250 ticket guarantees an art work and also admits two people. Buy tickets online now or call 718.834.8761.

Bidding and Betting- Come and Win! Throughout the Derby-themed evening, everyone can enjoy delicious mint juleps and tasty home-style southern food. Guests bet on horses (which determines the order in which the art work is selected.) Betting Window opens at 4 and closes at 5:30.

Benefit Committee Luisa Caldwell ~ Mark Chiang ~ Baris Demirel ~ Chris Havens, Creative Real Estate Group ~ Elana Herzog ~ Kate Kerrigan ~ Rita MacDonald ~ Dustin Petrie ~ Marci MacGuffie ~ Tanya Rynd, Superfine ~ Christopher Trela ~ Jed Walentas, Two Trees Management Co. LLC ~ Edward Winkleman, Winkleman Gallery Special thanks to Bubby's and Brown-Foreman Corporation Board of Directors Michael Steinberg ~ Paul Yook ~ Katie Kannapell ~ Rebecca Graves ~ Marcia Levy ~ Jean Shin

Silent Auction Works by: Vito Acconci, Janet Biggs, Sebastiaan Bremer, Jane Dickson, Chris Doyle, David Ellis, Kate Gilmore, Maria Elena Gonzalez, Jerry Kearns, Shannon Plumb, Jean Shin, Eve Sussman, and Dan Zeller. Works by: Marina Adams, Bobby Neel Adams, Ann Agee, Amy Albracht, Claudine Anrather, Carey Ascenzo, Mike Asente, Melanie Ann Baker, Michael Ballou, Ron Baron, David Baskin, Kim Beck, Jane Benson, Jesse Bercowetz, Lea Bertucci, Gail Biederman, Sonya Blesofsky, Suzanne Bocanegra, George Boorujy, Lee Boroson, Mathieu Borysevicz, John Bowman, Michael Paul Britto, Jason Broadnax, Matt Bua, Joseph Burwell, Luisa Caldwell, Francis Cape, Mary Carlson, Michel Carluccio, Eduardo Cervantes, Cecile Chong, Christo and Jeanne Claude, Mirjana Ciric, Dawn Clements, Clumpism, Caroline Cox, Jennifer Dalton, Blane De St Croix, Maj Anya DeBear, Shoshana Dentz, Karen Dolmanisth, Ellen Driscoll, Peter Dudek, Maria Edwards, eteam, Julie Evans, Heide Fasnacht, Elizabeth Felicella, Amy Finkbeiner, Graciela Fuentes, Chitra Ganesh, Richard Garrison, Mariam Ghani, Charles Goldman, Deborah Grant, Kirsten Hassenfeld, Sharon Hayes, Pablo Helguera, Lili Herrera, Elana Herzog, Robert Hickman, Marietta Hoferer, Takahashi Horisaki, Simone Huelser, Janelle Iglesias, Yoko Inoue, Pablo Jansana, Karl Jensen, Bettina Johae, Jennie C. Jones, Gautam Kansara, Marie-Christine Katz, Wade Kavanaugh, Ashley Kesling, Fawad Khan, Jena Kim, Shin Il Kim, Narae Kim, Wendy Klemperer, Tom Kotik, Michael Kukla, Ken Landauer, Julie Langsam, Nick Lascot, Miyeon Lee, Simon Lee, Joan Linder, Andrea Loefke, LoVid, Monique Luchetti, Rita MacDonald, Marci MacGuffie, Stephen Maine, Joanna Malinowska, Julie Anne Mann, Deborah Masters, Esperanza Mayobre, Claire McConaughy, Summer McCorkle, Mery Lynn McCorkle, Emcee CM Master of None, Mitch Miller, Ledelle Moe, Carlos Motta, Rob Nadeau, Noah Nakell, Florence Neal, Victoria Neel, Kirsten Nelson, Alison Owen, Anne Peabody, Jessica Ann Peavy, Gelah Penn, Meridith Pingree, Letitia Quesenberry, Mike Quinn, Damon Rich, Andrew Scott Ross, Tanya Rynd, Jen Schwarting, Robert Seng, Ward Shelley, Drew Shiflett, Ann Shostrom, Diana Shpungiin, Chad Silver, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Skydog Projects, Kwabena Slaughter, Tracey Snelling, MiYoung Sohn, Stephen Sollins, Suzanne Song, Monika Sosnowski, Fernando Souto, Tim Spelios, Ilene Sunshine, Ari Tabei, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Robert Taplin, Mary Temple, Gabriela Vainsencher, Juana V. Valdez, Kai Vierstra, Jane Walentas, Michelle Weinstein, Alun Williams, Pawel Wojtasik, and Amy Yoes. Images of the available art work will be viewable online starting April 1.

Image Credit: 1947 Derby Winner Jet Pilot with Jockey Eric Guerin