Like the Spice Gallery presents “Layer Current”

Dec. 8th – 18th, 2011, Opening Reception: December 8th, 6-9PM

Like the Spice Gallery: 224 Roebling Street
(between South 2nd and South 3rd) Brooklyn, NY 11211

Buesiness & Pleasure 9

This exhibition is a part of Curate NYC.  Curate NYC is a juried exhibition and online platform that exists to heighten exposure and opportunities for New York City visual artists.  My work “Business & Pleasure 9″ will be in the group exhibition “Layer Current” at Like the Spice Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn December 8th -18th, 2011.
The Artists and works exhibiting can be viewed by following these links:

Women of the Uncommon Cloth

Ormond Memorial Art Museum

December 9th, 2011 – January 15th, 2012

Artists: Christina Massey, Patricia A. Montgomery & Eun-Kyung Suh

Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens
78 E. Granada Blvd.
Ormond Beach, Florida 32176-6534
ph (386) 676-3347

“Women of the Uncommon Cloth” featuring the fiber-related artwork of three artists will be on exhibit at the Ormond Memorial Art Museum from December 9 – January 15, 2012.

Museum closed: Saturday, Dec. 10, Dec. 25 & 26 & Jan. 1 & 2

Regular Hours: Mon. – Fri., 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Sat. & Sun. 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.  

$2.00 suggested donation. 

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This unique show will feature the work of contemporary quilter, Patricia Montgomery, mixed media artist, Christina Massey and installation work by Eun-Kyung-Suh.

Brooklyn native, Christina Massey discusses her “Business and Pleasure” series, “During the winter of 2008-2009 I was laid-off of my job due to the economic Recession.  With mixed emotions of hurt and rejection from the loss of the job, I also felt relief from a commitment to a job I didn’t want.  Losing my job during that time gave me a place in History, and I felt connected to all the millions of people in the same position as me and sought to create a series of work that focused on these mixed emotions.

Using collared shirts and khaki pants donated from bank employees, I hand stitched together sections of my own past “failed” work that had been torn and cut up with scraps of new canvas.  This organic, quilt-like surface is stretched over a frame and painted with acrylic and oil paints.

Physically fragments of new and old, success and failure, business and pleasure these works are bits & pieces of my past and present, likes and dislikes, a merger of corporate requirements and the livelihood of being an Artist.”

Patricia Montgomery from the San Francisco Bay area notes, “Syncopation series are abstract textiles that are characteristic of African American quilts. These characteristics include vivid color palettes, strong contrasting color combinations, asymmetrical and strip piecing. The design and development of this series is based on color, texture and rhythm.

These contemporary African American quilts provide a colorful celebration of the human spirit and community.”

Korean-born, Duluth-based textile installation artist Eun-Kyung Suh, received a M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA in the U.S.A. She has been focusing on a series of sculptural vessels as a metaphor for personal, family and cultural memory since 2008. These sculptural vessels are created out of diaphanous textiles, using a design originally inspired by Bojagi, one of traditional art forms in Korea. Bojagi is the wrapping cloth used to cover, store or carry everything from precious ritual objects to everyday clothes and common household belongings.

Painting With Pictures 2

A Group Exhibition curated by David Gibson

ARTJAIL, 50 Eldridge Street, 6th Floor, NYC, www.artjail.com, 646-666-8550

April 7th – May 7th, 2011, Opening Reception Thursday, April 7th 7-10PM

Come Undone at Artjail 2011

Featured Artists:

Margie Black, Sarah Bliss, Marcy Brafman, Amanda Bowder, Elisabeth Condon, Vince Contarino, Beata Drodz, Gabert Farrar, Sophia Flood, Alicia Gibson, Chambliss Giobbi, Rachael Gorchov, Susan Hamburger, Deb Karpman, Yuliya Lanina, Liz-N-Val, Paul Loughney, Cybele Lyle, Norma Markley, Christina Massey, Joel Morrison, Mary Murphy, Guy Nelson, Jeremy Olson, Steve Page, Leemour Pelli, Lilliana Pereira, Mary Pinto, Mark Power, Grace Roseli, Hagar Sadan, Pierre St-Jacques, Meghann Snow, Claudia Sperry, Ginna Triplett

Verge Art Brooklyn 2011

Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 3 – 5 March, Noon – 10 pm, Sunday, 6 March, Noon – 6 pm
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Thursday, 3 March, 2011, 10:00 pm – 4 am

::ADMISSION TO ALL VERGE ART BROOKLYN EXHIBITION LOCATIONS IS FREE::

ABOUT VERGE ART BROOKLYN
An art fair without precedent, Art Brooklyn is the first fair of its kind to be held in Brooklyn, NY. The intention of the fair is to promote and support Brooklyn as a cultural bellwether of artistic endeavor that influences artistic practice the world over. Open to artists and galleries alike at all levels of practice, Art Brooklyn recovers the standard of an art fair as a platform for presenting the best work by living artists.

Business & Pleasure 3 in Tomorrow Stars, 20 Jay Street, Third Floor

TOMORROW’S ART TODAY: THE INAUGURAL ART BROOKLYN
Coming Thursday, March 3, Verge Art Brooklyn invites you to experience a paradigm shift in art fairs as we know them, a show that recovers the standard of an art fair as a platform for presenting the best work by living artists. Art Brooklyn throws open the doors for attendees to a whole new universe of artists, music, art, and community. Verge Art Brooklyn is proud to announce a list of exhibitors that includes gallery exhibitors, resident DUMBO galleries and Brooklyn Art Now participants for a combined total of over seventy gallery exhibitors at nine locations, nearly forty participants for “Material Issue: Artist’s Projects Spaces” and fifty artists for “Tomorrow Stars: The Art Brooklyn Open Call Exhibition.” Chosen by a distinguished panel of jurors, “Tomorrow Stars” represents the brightest and best Brooklyn has to offer, as selected by Courtney Wendroff of the Brooklyn Arts Council, artist and former president of the NYC chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers Stephen Mallon, blogger and art critic Steve Kaplan, and Danny Simmons, chairman of the NYC chapter of the National Conference of Artists. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to own the work of tomorrow’s stars today!

TOMORROW STARS: THE ART BROOKLYN ARTIST’S OPEN CALL EXHIBITION
20 Jay Street, Third Floor Jean Marie Grenier, “Dual Forms In Flux,” Brooklyn, NY, Eric Graham, “Reclamation,” Dallas, TX, Kwabena Slaughter, “Chitra In the Woods,” Brooklyn, NY, Mu Pan, “The Book of Mountain and Sea 3,” Brooklyn, NY, Ethan Ryman, “Highline Convergence 4,” New York, NY, Janice Gewirtz, “Rome Facade,” Mountain Lakes, NJ, Gabriela Herman, ” Crushable,” Brooklyn, NY, Tom Graham, “The Artist,” Brooklyn, NY, Davina Feinberg, “Baby #3 From the Series ‘Enameled’,” Brooklyn, NY, Laura Lee-Georgescu, “Soldier With Children,” Brooklyn, NY, Margaret Wiatrowski, “Untitled #10,” New York, NY, Leslie Kerby, “Poppies, Politics and Patterns IV,” Brooklyn, NY, Roni Downey, “Brown Rectangle With Two Holes,” New York, NY, Gregory Jiritano, “Untitled #5,” Brooklyn, NY, Luca Bariola, “Untitled,” New York, NY, Lisa Levy, “”Dr. Lisa’s Ego Challenge,” New York, NY, Chiezo Amagai, “Musicman 3,” Yokosuka, Japan, Christina Massey, “Business and Pleasure 3,” Brooklyn, NY, Christina Graham, “F/W11: Analogue,” Brooklyn, NY, Neill Fearnley, “Ithaca, NY (1968),” Byfield, MA, Chang Nam Lee, ” A Box on the Wooden Floor,” Elmhurst, NY, Christopher Rose, “Traffic Accident,” Brooklyn, NY, Agata Olek and Dev Harman, “Suffolk Deluxe Electric Bicycle 1,” Brooklyn, NY, Bryce Hammond, “15 Once,” New Smyrna Beach, FL, Rachel Alliston, “Borrowed Spaces,” New York, NY, Karen Holt, “MTA Railroads,” Brooklyn, NY, Melissa Sunny Armstrong, “Sweet Senecence,” Brooklyn, NY, Jess Levey, “”Gabi. Cherry Lane Music Co, from “After the Crash,” Brooklyn, NY, Eric Mavko, “Untitled,” Brooklyn, NY, Brian Fekete, “Serotonin Serenade,” Brooklyn, NY, Francesco Vizzini, “Basement #8263,” Brooklyn, NY, Dolly Faibyshev, “Woman in Orange With Boxer,” New York, NY, Nobutaka Aozaki, “Children of Duchamp #5,” New York, NY, Scott Goss, “Forgotten Somewhere,” Cleveland, OH, Ryan Magyar, “Untitled 32,” Brooklyn, NY, Sue Rissberger,”Room in Sachang-ri,” Brooklyn, NY, Ahron D. Weiner, “The Flood,” Brooklyn, NY, John Westmark, “Jolly Molly,” Gainesville, FL, Marta Kochanek, “Deliverance of Body and Soul,” Coventry, UK, Amanda Marchand, “Untitled, from ‘This Enormous Everything’,” Brooklyn, NY, Peter Teraberry, “The Creep Behind the Wall,” Brooklyn, NY, Pablo Cristi, “Belmont Ruins,” Berkeley, CA, Lisa Foster, “Given, Taken, Lost,” Longmeadow, MA, Camille Eskell, “Tattooed Lady: Strange Fruit,” New Canaan, CT, Ashley Simone, “Factory 1,” New York, NY, Frid Branham, “Seafoam,” Brooklyn, NY, K Levni Sinanoglu, “Still Life With Ramp,” Stratford, CT, Kathy Levine, “Crosecitree,”Brooklyn, NY, Sami Ben Larbi, “North By Northwest (Erased and Reshot),” Berlin, Germany, Brian Moriarty, “Khtskonk,” Weehawken, NJ.

GALLERY EXHIBITORS
81 Front Street, Ground Floor / One Main Street, Ground Floor ANTIDOTE, Brooklyn, NY, Albrecht Art Enterprise, New York, NY, Art Project International G77 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, G2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, MoCADA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY, Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL, Stilllife Gallery, New York, NY, Fine Art Consultancy, London, UK, Arch 402, London, UK, A.R.T. Module R, Brooklyn, NY, Mayjune Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, Brooklyn Art Project, Brooklyn, NY, and others TBA.

BROOKLYN ART NOW: 2011 SURVEY EXHIBITION CURATED BY LOREN MUNK/JAMES KALM
111 Front Street, Second Floor Tabla Rasa Gallery: selected artist(s) and work, Audrey Anastasi, “Spoken Birch.” BAC Gallery selected artist(s) work, Alexander Rahul, “Golden Chamber”, Greg Lindquist, “ntitled.” Like The Spice Gallery selected artist(s) and work, Jenny Morgan and David Mramor, “View Quan Yinha.” Micro Museum: Selected artist(s) and work, Kathleen and William Laziza “THE KISSING INSTALLATION 2.0.” Open Source Gallery: selected artist(s) and work, Peter Feigenbaum, ”02″, Katerina Marcelja “02.” Camel Art Space: selected artist(s) and work, Rob de Oude, “Hither fro Yonder”, Carl Gunhouse, “Development Nashville, TN.” MoCADA: selected artist(s) and work, Jeff Sims, “Straddle 72.” WORK Gallery: selected artist(s) and work, Eric Ayotte, “Protest Painting”, Karin Stothart, “Ileostomy Drainage.” Central Booking: selected artist(s) and work. Despo Magoni, “The Thousand and One Nights series”, Lothar Osterburg, “Zion Homestead.” BRIC Rotunda Gallery: selected artist(s) and work, Jeesoo Lee, “Darkening Blue”, Pinar Yolaçan, “Untitled (from Mother Goddess series), Lael Marshall, “Compact Florescent.” Famous Accountants: selected artist(s) and work, Meg Hitchcock, “Nausea, The Sunyatasaptati (Seventy Verses on Emptiness) by Nagarjuna, from Neasea by Jean-Paul Sartre”, Ben Godward, “Shhh! I live here.” Spring Gallery: selected artist(s) and work Charles Lahti, “First Eyes on Jura.” Front Room Gallery: selected artist(s) and work, Tom Broadbent, “Floating Camouflaged Pants” Manhattan Bridge Tunnel proposal, Stephen Mallon, “Virginia Placement”, Patricia Smith, “Mapped Location of Pronounced Situation Density.” Janet Kurnatowski: selected artits(s) and work, Craig Olson, “Murcury in the Philosopher’s Egg (Oh! Hospitable Jupiter! And the Trust)”, Ben La Rocco, “Minerva’s Pallette.” English Kills Gallery: selected artist(s) and work, Don Pablo Pedro, “jpg #1″, Andrew Hurst, “EOS Digital Rebel ETi.” 440 Gallery: selected artist(s) and work, Tom Bovo, “BOVO_TOM_02″, Richard Eagan “EAGAN_RICHARD_01.” LUMENHOUSE: selected artist(s) and work, Jeremiah Teipen, ” Untitled, digital video with screen and player.” Side Show Gallery: selected artist(s) and work, Shari Mendelson, “Bumpy Blue-Green Vessel”, James O. Clark, “Orestes 2006.” Parker’s Box: selected artist(s) and work, Steven Brower, “Child Astronaut Test Suit 1999-2000″, Joshua Stern, “Untitled V” Patrick Martinez “Jesus video.” In addition, a list of Special Projects for Brooklyn Art Now is forthcoming.

RESIDENT DUMBO GALLERIES & ART ORGANIZATIONS
111 Front Street Amos Eno Gallery, “On the Road Again,” group exhibition. A.I.R. Gallery, “A.I.R. Gallery 9th Biennial Exhibition, curated by Alexandra Schwartz.” Central Booking, “Measure for Measure,” group exhibition. Giacobetti Paul Gallery, “Passages Remembered”: new paintings by FILIZ emma SOYAK. Klompching Gallery, “Art Fair,” group exhibition. Bose Pacia, “Conundrum,” group exhibition. Dumbo Arts Center, Group Exhibition, “Information Economy.” Janus Stone, “Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable From Magic.” Rachel Mason Performance, “Code Flight ,” March 6, time TBA. 68 Jay Street Mighty Tanaka, “Matt Sewell,” live mural demonstration and gallery artists. 67 Front Street LAND/LETC Gallery, “LANDline,” group exhibition. 92 Plymouth Street Smack Mellon, David Henderson, “A History of Aviation – Part 2″ and Shannon Plumb, “The Window Series,” “Smack Mellon Spring Open Studios” with artists Nicole Awai, Maria Buyondo, Ivan Monforte, Jeanine Oleson, Kwabena Slaughter, Seth Wulsin and Rona Yefman.

MATERIAL ISSUE: ART BROOKLYN ARTIST’S PROJECT SPACES
55 Washington Street, Fourth Floor / 20 Jay Street, Fourth Floor Ugur Kunst, Smithtown, NY, Touko Okamura, Tokyo, Japan, David Juter, Brooklyn, NY, Serge Strosberg, New York, NY, Ines Sun, Brooklyn, NY, Chiezo, Yokosuka, Japan, Midori Okuyama, Brooklyn, NY, Javier Jimenez, Rockford, IL, Sarasin Chatwichitkoon, Astoria, NY, Patrick Duffy, Brooklyn, NY, Paul Campbell, Brooklyn, NY, Willy Palanza, Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Treasury, Brooklyn, NY, Dan Wonderly, Brooklyn, NY, Jerold Ehrlich, Saunderstown, RI, Richard Silver, New York, NY, Ilisa Katz Rissman, Brooklyn, NY, Christopher Chambers, Brooklyn, NY, Kirk Bauer, Brooklyn, NY, Bud McNichol, Livingston, NJ, Ivan Goodman, Brooklyn, NY, Jill Ricci, Neptune City, NJ, Kiyoshi Ike, Brooklyn, NY, Sukanya Cherdrungsi, New York, NY, Dwight Baird, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Chin Chih Yang, Queens, NY, Karina Natis and Chloe Cheau, Queens, NY, Erica Stoller, Rye, NY, Sigal de Mayo, Brooklyn, NY, Anna Stein, Paris, France, Judy Baier, Bronx, NY, Michael Stefanovich, Ridgewood, NY, Nomi Lubin, Brooklyn, NY.

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Installation in Group Show at Therese A. Maloney Gallery

Visual Phrasing curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph. D.

January 20th – April 17th, 2011, Opening Reception January 20th, 4:30 – 7:00 PM, Artists’ Panel 7-8:00 PM

Annunciation Center, The College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, NJ 07960

Come Undone by Christina Massey

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Visual Phrasing will open in the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery on Thursday, January 20, 2011, with a reception for the artists from 4:30 to 7 p.m.  Prior to the opening, Industry of the Ordinary, a two-person conceptual collective from Chicago, will work with the regional community, Internet audience, and campus to create a word and image-based piece developed through their discussions with the campus community and the public. This piece will premiere at the opening of Visual Phrasing.

During the Gallery installation process of this project and at the opening reception, audiences can discuss the inspiration of the phrase informally with some of the visual artists such as Danica Phelps, Debra Ramsay, Industry of the Ordinary, Bill Davis, Christina Massey, Joseph Farbrook, Karen Shaw, and Ken Weathersby.

Immediately following the artists’ reception at 7 p.m. on January 20, 2011, an innovative, contemporary dance performance will be presented in Dolan Performance Hall. Phrase into Motion will explore the theme in movement.

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Other Events During the shows Exhibition:

A new music concert, From Phrase to Music, will be performed on Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at 7 p.m. in Dolan Performance Hall. Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan will explore the physical and sculptural nature of sound in their contemporary compositions.

On March 28, 2011, Mark Doty will present a reading and discussion on The Phrase in Poetry, which is sponsored by the CSE Poet and Writers Fund. He is the only American poet to receive the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is also the recipient of the National Book Critics Award. Doty is recognized as one of the most accomplished poets in America with his syntactically complex and aesthetically profound free verse poems. His writing translates the art of visual appearance into words.

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Gallery Hours:

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 2:00 – 7:00 PM, Monday & Saturday, 2:00 – 5:00 PM

Closed Friday & Sunday and College Holidays

Tel: 973-290-4314 / artgallery@cse.edu / www.maloneyartgallery.org

An Art Community, Solo Exhibition, Reno, NV

December 13th, 2010 – January 28th, 2011

The McKinley Arts & Culture Center of the City of Reno will be featuring a solo exhibition titled An Art Community by Christina Massey.

The McKinley West Gallery, 925 Riverside Drive, Reno, NV 89503

Brooklyn: An art Community, Red Hook

Gallery Hours: 8AM -5PM Monday – Friday

Admission: Free

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An Art Community

Inspired by the irony of the “art community” where a supportive, nurturing environment is supposed to exist within a fiercely competitive world of Art, these works mingle the complex issues of gentrification, community and race with that of the marketability of an artistic environment and the effect and place that Artists play within those communities.

The works are created by weaving cuttings and scraps of multiple paintings and/or prints that had originally been created to exist on their own.  Each piece has been named after a neighborhood of Brooklyn and generally represents the ethnic make up of those communities at this moment in time.   True to the ethnic make up of most communities however, no one piece is made of entirely one canvas, and the interwoven structure of the scraps of paintings would collapse with out the support of the others.

An Art Community connects people, by comparing their similarities in the situations of gentrification, race and community.  By the work being simultaneously specific and literal as well as abstract and conceptual, An Art Community challenges the notions of permanence, connections and identification from place.

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Digital Prints are available on ArtSlant of works exhibited in the show.  Multiple sizes are available.

The McKinley Arts & Cultural Center:

The former McKinley Park School was constructed in 1910 and renovated in 1999. The ornate design and architecture of the interior is unique for indoor weddings and receptions. Now known as the McKinley Arts & Culture Center, it occupies an important place within the Truckee River Arts and Culture District in the City of Reno.

This historic building boasts two gallery spaces, arts and crafts workshops, the City of Reno Arts, Culture and Events Division, and provides rental office space for local non-profit arts organizations. An auditorium and boardroom are available for rental by tenants and outside cultural groups for rehearsals and performances.

Location/Parking:  McKinley Arts & Culture Center is located at 925 Riverside Drive and occupies one city block bounded by Riverside Drive, Vine Street, Jones Street and Keystone Avenue.

The west wing of McKinley houses the Reno Philharmonic and the Reno Chamber Orchestra; the east wing houses the City of Reno Arts, Culture and Events Division, Masterworks Chorale, The Reno Film Festival and the boardroom.  The Auditorium is in the north wing and the basement houses office space for the Note-Ables, Youth Artworks, TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada, Wing and A Prayer Dance Company, Reno Pops Orchestra and an art classroom, as well as a ceramic workshop and kilns.

The main entrance is off Riverside drive, with the parking entrance on Jones Street. The parking lot accommodates 103 vehicles plus 5 van accessible handicap spaces for a total of 108 parking spaces.

BETA Spaces 2010

Sunday, November 14th, 12-7PM

BETA Spaces (Bushwick Exhibition Triangle of Alternative Spaces) is a free one-day festival conceptualized and thematic group exhibitions. The festival focuses on curatorial experimentation and collaboration. There will be over 50 shows, including the work of over 250 individual artists, in spaces ranging from galleries to studios to apartments to mobile trucks to Smartphone apps!

My work Brooklyn: An Art Community, Bushwick will be featured in the show “Home Sweet?” curated by Nalani L Williams / NLW Arts.

Brooklyn: An Art Community, Bushwick

Home Sweet? questions the romantic idea of the home by digging through the surface to reveal what lies beneath. This exhibition examines the concept of “Home” in several ways: Home as the hidden relationship one has with their personal space, Home as body with flesh and organs, Home as a psychological space, and the symbolism of the body as architecture.

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Curate NYC – Multi-Venue Juried Exhibition for NYC Emerging Artists

Sponsored by NYCEDC and Full Spectrum from October 21-31, 2010, CURATE NYC will exhibit 5×6″ postcard reproductions of images by 150 artists selected from almost 1200 entries at three shows:

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Double Shift

Rush Arts Gallery & Resource Center

Exhibition Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 12:00-6:00 p.m.
Opening: Thursday, October 21, 5:30-9:00 p.m.

526 West 26th Street
[Between 10th & 11th Avenues, in Chelsea]
New York, NY 10001-5521

C/E train to 23rd Street

A program of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.

Essex Street Market

Exhibition Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 12:00-6:00 p.m

120 Essex Street
[at Delancey Street, on the Lower East Side]
New York, NY 10002

J & Z trains to Essex Street
F & M trains to Delancey Street

An NYCEDC-managed property.

Curate NYC Pop-Up Wall
Traveling on weekends between two locations:

La Marqueta Open Plaza

Saturdays, October 23 & 30
Exhibition Hours: 12:00-6:00 p.m.*

1607 Park Avenue
[between E. 115th & 116th Streets, in East Harlem]
New York, NY 10029

6 train to 116th Street
5 train to 125th Street

An NYCEDC-managed property.

St. George Yankees Minor League Stadium

Sundays, October 24 & 31
Exhibition Hours: 12:00-6:00 p.m.*

75 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10314

Short walk from Staten Island Ferry Terminal.

An NYCEDC-managed property.

The Friends of Barnes Foundation

Friends of the Barnes Foundation is a citizens’ group dedicated to educating the public about the unique legacy and mission of the Barnes Foundation, and to supporting efforts to maintain the permanent collection and the educational programs in their original home.

The Friends believe that the proposed relocation of the Foundation would do irreparable harm, and that its present financial difficulties can be solved, its integrity preserved, and the public interest served, by available alternatives.

To find workable solutions, Friends of the Barnes Foundation members did extensive research, met with local public officials, neighbors of the Foundation, educators, and museum consultants. This resulted in a proposal for positive change at the Barnes Foundation that recommends increased access to visitors and increased revenues to support a secure financial base for the institution.

Artists for the Barnes: Christina Massey

Christina Massey has generously donated several works to the Friends of the Barnes for our legal campaign. Hailing from Brooklyn she exhibits widely in New York and Chicago. Re-using her own past work to create new pieces, she cuts, tears and recycles them into new works, which may again be reused into other work.

She has chosen to donate the series titled BUSINESS AND PLEASURE as it seems to fit with the situation the Barnes finds itself torn by.

Business & Pleasure 4

“Business & Pleasure 4″ – 20″ W x 20″ H – 2010 – Acrylic and Oil on Canvas with Collared Shirt – $1800

Business & Pleasure 7

“Business & Pleasure 7″ – 38″ W x 38″ H – 2010 – Acrylic and Oil on Canvas with Collared Shirt and Khakis – $4400

Please visit the site for more details

Email:  barnesfriends@comcast.net
Write: Post Office Box 35
Merion Station, PA  19066

Group Exhibition in St. Louis

As a part of the exhibit Globe Shaped at The St. Louis Artists’ Guild, I will have a work in the group exhibition Shifts in Perspective: Migrating Viewpoints.

Brooklyn: An Art Community, Prospect Heights

June 25 – Aug. 20, 2010
Opening Reception from 6-8 p.m., June 25, 2010

The Artists Guild, Two Oak Knoll Park, St. Louis, MO 63105 / 314-727-6266 / http://www.stlouisartistsguild.org/new/

Open Tues. – Sun., Noon – 4 p.m. / Closed Mondays & Holidays
Free and open to the public.
The exhibition series Globe Shaped brings five exhibitions together that explore the definition of diversity and how varying perspectives impact our decisions both as artists and people. The exhibit runs from June 25 through August 20, 2010 with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, June 25, 2010.

Shifts in Perspective: Migrating Viewpoints
A collaboration between Belas Artes founder Cileia Miranda Yuen, Shifts in Perspective: Migrating Viewpoints highlights the impact and effects that migration from one culture, or area, to another has had on one’s sense of identity, perception and emotion. Whether one’s movement is voluntary or involuntary, the experience is emotional and ultimately life-changing. The 15 artists selected by juror Cileia Miranda Yuen are international, national, regional and local and include Henryk Ptasiewicz of England, Marena Sierra of Columbia, Gabriela Toujas of Argentina, Grace Hong of St. Louis, Mo., Anne Wedler of Alabama, Monique Belitz of New Mexico and Christina Massey of New York.

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