February 2010 Archives
Art and the Religious Sense, March 8
Art and the Religious Sense
Man’s aspiration toward beauty: A yearning for the ideal
Speakers:
Fr. Thierry DE ROUCY—Founder of Heart’s Home
Mr. Makoto FUJIMURA—Painter, founder of International Arts Movement
Dr. Francis GREENE— Art Historian
Mr. Etsuro SOTOO—Sculptor at the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
The discussion will be preceded by a piano concert by Hisako HISEKI
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 6:30 pm
The American Bible Society
1865 Broadway (corner of 61st Street), New York
Sponsored by
Crossroads Cultural Center / The American Bible Society / Hearts Home USA
Event free and open to the public
Crossroads Cultural Center
www.crossroadsculturalcenter .org
125 Maiden Lane, Suite 15E, New York, NY 10038. Tel: (347) 713-5146. E-mail: info@crossroadsculturalcenter.org
Douglas Witmer Opening Mar 4, Chelsea
March 4-27, 2010
Reception, Thursday March 4, 6-8pm
Blank Space Gallery
511 West 25th Street, Suite 204
New York, New York, 10001
www.blankspaceart.com
Blank Space Gallery is pleased to present Ring The Bells Anew, an exhibition of recent paintings by Douglas Witmer. This is the artist’s third solo show in New York, and his first with the gallery.
Over the past decade, Witmer has gained increasing attention for his uniquely distilled sensibility related to his paintings’ surface and color. His recent canvases feature one or two rectangles of solid color on top of and interacting with varied gray washes that cascade down the painting’s surface. Though reductive in their attitude and appearance, the resulting works are anything but “minimal.”
Contrary to first impressions, Witmer’s compositions are not planned or diagrammed. For the artist, painting is a process of inquiry; each piece is an individual result of decisions made intuitively and directly.
The critic and art historian Vittorio Colaizzi has written, “Witmer paints the inheritance of modernist abstraction, and perhaps, metaphorically, the more ecumenical spirituality of today, in the openness of his compositions, their perpetual almost-ness, and their refusal of closure or perfection.”
About the title for this exhibition the artist states, “I am trying to underscore the idea that my paintings embody new acts of declaration using long-existing means. Taken further, it communicates a hope in the continued relevance of abstract painting.”
Douglas Witmer holds a B.A. from Goshen College and an M.F.A. from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In New York his work has recently appeared at P.S.1/MoMA in the group exhibition “Minus Space,” as well as The Painting Center and M55 Art in Long Island City. Other recent venues include: Pharmaka in Los Angeles, Gallery Siano in Philadelphia, The University of Maryland, The University of Dayton in Ohio, Sydney Non-Objective in Australia, and Bus-Dori Project Space in Tokyo, Japan. He lives and works in Philadelphia.
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Music and the Iraq War
365 Fifth Avenue
Concerts & Conversations:
Music and the Iraq War
Wednesday, February 24, 7 pm
This special evening of performances and discussion explores the role of music in combat and in soldiers' other experiences in Iraq.
Participants feature:
Alex Ross, New Yorker music critic
Jonathan Pieslak, author of Sound Targets
Colby Buzzell, former Army SPC and best-selling author of My War: Killing Time in Iraq
Jason Sagebiel, guitarist, composer, and former Marine sergeant
Tickets $25, $10 students
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