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"Renewal" HV Artists Group Exhibit at Wired Gallery, 5/29- 6/13/21

5/24/2021

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"L'dor V'dor" (from generation to generation), Mixed medium collage including snippets from  “Synagogues around the world” calendar and an altered image of Niki De Saint Phalle's sculpture, 9"x12", 2021

The two collages I'll be displaying, "L’dor v’dor" and "Reaching" began with watercolors painted by my mother, which I used as my starting points to reinterpret into my own visual journeys.   Through a spontaneous process of photo and paper cutting and intuitive mark making, the collages reflect on aspects of regeneration drawn from the various Jewish mystical and spiritual practices I’ve embraced this past year.  Included in "L’dor v’dor" is snippets from "Synagogues throughout the world" calendar and an altered image of Niki De Saint Phalle's sculpture. 

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Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists OPEN STUDIO ART TOUR 2019 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16th & 17th

10/29/2019

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Fingers Crossed, 12" x 12", Mixed medical materials and molded handmade paper (including oxygen tubes, plastic gloves, mesh, netting, string) mounted on non-biodegradable polystyrene.


I am excited to join ArtsPSWT Open Studios on Nov 16 & 17.  This is the first year of being a member and am honored to live and work among so many talented, committed, and caring artists.  

Please read on for the details...
and note, there is an opening event on Saturday, Nov 9th at Ossam Gallery

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 Park Slope / Windsor Terrace Artists 
 Autumn Open Studio Tour              
 November 16 and 17, noon to 6 PM  
    
 
You are invited to our annual Park Slope / Windsor Terrace Artists Open Studio. Dozens of open art studios and special exhibitions will be located within walking distance and in the beautiful blocks bordering Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

Open Studio Central at Ossam Gallery,
300 7th Street in the heart of Park Slope
Opening Party Saturday, November 9;  5 to 8 PM
  Regular Gallery Hours- 4 days during Open Studio and the preceding weekend
Saturday and Sunday November 9, 10, 16 and 17;  Noon to 6 PM

All participating artists work will be at Open Studio Central.
This is a great place to meet up with friends, family and other art lovers to plan your day. Information on each artist will be available at the gallery, as well as the maps showing studio locations and community sponsors offering special discounts to art walkers.

https://www.artspswt.com/2019-open-studio-map

For more information about the Park Slope / Windsor Terrace Artists Open Studio please email info@ArtsPSWT.com. Find out more about our artists and other details visit our website ArtsPSWT.com or find us on social media @ArtsPSWT.
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August 24th, 2019

8/24/2019

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Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday, August 28th, 6-8pm at Nighthawk in
Windsor Terrace, info below.
If you can't make it then, the work will be up until the end of September.

Here's a sneak peak of one of my pastels drawings on display:
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"Journey"
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Art Opening August 28th at Nitehawk!! Come join us for "5 Degrees of Summer" featuring 5 local artists, presenting a gradual progression from realism to abstraction. Artist Reception is Wednesday, August 28th, 6-8pm. The show is free and open to the public on the mezzanine level of the Nitehawk Theater at the border of Park Slope, Windsor Terrace & Prospect Park. If you can't make the opening, the show runs until the end of September. #artshow #parkslope #windsorterrace #artopening #brooklyn #nitehawkcinema @nitehawkcinema #ArtsPSWT #Artists ? #RayaDukhon #RobinGlassman #TomKeough #FotiniVurgaropulou #RichGarr

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Portrait of Water - mixed media sculpture & poem

4/18/2019

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Archaic eyes see
Waters explode.
Flooded tracks stops city
Commuters stranded
Nature’s fury strikes…
 
Gabriel dances in puddles
Angelic
with abandoned
Contentment
 
Time to go now
Dive into the waters
of the Caribbean
Melt away in the
cerulean sea.
Drift aimlessly
with fierce intention
Kissed with memory
water is life.
 




“Portraits of Water” was created using post consumer non- biodegradable formed polystyrene (Styrofoam) packing material as its base. The lightweight permanence of the material is encased to look heavy, sharply contrasting the ephemeral and transcendent qualities of water.

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NOLA Totem

4/3/2019

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NOLA Totem: Travelogue, Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath, 1995-2015
By Robin Glassman
 
On my Thanksgiving Birthday in 1995, my friend Marisa and I headed to New Orleans for a celebratory adventure.  This excursion took place with the knowledge that, if we waited, we would never be able to travel together again. Marisa suffered from Huntington’s Chorea and her condition was getting progressively worse.  We knew the fate of people who suffered from the disease that had killed her father and legendary songwriter Woody Guthrie.  Although our trip was riddled with ups and downs, the highlights shined brightly.  I will never forget the sheer exhilaration I felt watching Marisa hug a live oak tree (as seen on the log I am exhibiting) or the pleasure of listening to the music of the legendary Preservation Jazz Band music while sitting on the hard benches of the historic hall.  And as Marisa and I sat outside eating beignets at Café DuMonde, she told me about her new obsession with voodoo while being serenaded by a saxophone player on the Moon Walk.
 
How fortuitous!  The following year I was the one that would be too sick to travel and by the time I got back on my feet, Marisa’s disease was too far advanced to allow for another adventurous vacation.  So it was the memory of our 1995 trip to New Orleans that lived both in my mind and photo book until Hurricane Katrina hit ten years later.  
 
Having embraced the Crescent City’s rich culture and history, the devastating destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina hit me harder than I could have imagined.  The seed of NOLA Totem began as news of the inhumane treatment encountered by the victims fleeing their homes.  Magazine photos of the broken levees and other detritus covered the formed Styrofoam tower as the piece slowly materialized. .  Personal objects from our trip entered the time capsule linking the past with the present.   I remember going to see Marisa and I sitting outside her new rehab residence reminiscing about NOLA’s yummy foods and a Cajun band we fell in love with and crying as we talked about the stranded men, woman, children, and animals helplessly waiting to be rescued.
 
As the tenth anniversary arrived, The Nation magazine carefully uncovered the many messy details of the horrors of Katrina that the people of New Orleans and the surrounding areas still faced.  By that time Marisa had died but her memory had become strongly infused with my recently completed NOLA Totem sculpture. Adding a voodoo doll and the collaged log honors my beloved friend’s memory as well as the buried past of New Orleans.  II haven’t returned since then and hear that the tourist areas are back in full swing. But I wonder if the people in New Orleans and the surrounding parishes who were most impacted by Katrina have ever fully recovered.
 
Now thanks to the donor-funded nonprofit group Levees.org, the Flooded House Museum will open its doors.  It is truly unique among the city's monuments to Katrina's destruction. “There are markers at various sites, including some of the places where floodwalls gave way. But there's nothing like this re-creation by artists Aaron Angelo and Ken Conner. They were tasked with depicting what homeowners would have found once they were allowed back into the area in the months after the storm hit, once the water had receded and roads were cleared of debris.  Levees.org was founded soon after the storm by Sandy Rosenthal and her then-teenage son to educate the public about the causes of the catastrophe — chiefly the failures of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood walls that gave way in numerous locations.” (AP- “Sorrow revisited: Re-creating Katrina’s muck in New Orleans” by Kevin McGill and Stacey Plaisance)
 
NOLA Totem is made of:
 
Formed Polystyrene, wood board, and log painted with Acrylic, collaged with newspaper, magazine paper, plastic and sheer fabric, various paper, old paintings, NOLA vacation photographs.  Personal and collected ephemera include beads, mirror, glass, 1985 mini sculpture, New Orleans voodoo doll, alabaster shell piece, mother of pearl dove, Mardi Gras coin and mask, peacock feathers, handmade gravel


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