What: A Public Discussion: Selected Topics in Video and Contemporary Art When: Sunday, January 24th at 3 pm
Where: The Grand Banking Room of ArtsWestchester’s Arts Exchange, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains
A multi-media exhibition at The Arts Exchange entitled, Morgana Plains, from silver to gold, features five separate multimedia installations by Amsterdam-based artist Wineke Gartz. Please join us for a panel discussion with Wineke Gartz (an Amsterdam-based multimedia artist), Paul Clay (video artist and original set designer of the musical Rent), and Anna Gritz (Program Director of Apex Art and writer for the widely respected art magazine frieze). The panel will be moderated by Dr. Livia Straus, President, of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art.
This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited, those wishing to attend are encouraged to rsvp at jormond@artswestchester.org
About the Panelists:
The panel will be moderated by Dr. Livia Straus, the Director of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art.
Panelists Include:
Anna Gritz: is a New York based curator, researcher and art critic who serves as the Programs Director at apexart. She holds an MA in History of Art from the University of Cologne, Germany, and a MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her recent curatorial projects include Self-Storage (Curatorial Industries, San Francisco), Alaska: The White Alice Communication System (Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco), Learning to Love You More (MU, Eindhoven), and un-familiar spaces (Playspace Gallery, San Francisco). She is a contributor to various publications and exhibition catalogues, including frieze, Monopol, and Golden Guns Publications.
Wineke Gartz: An Amsterdam-based multi-media artist, whose exhibition Morgana, Plains, from silver to gold is presently on view at The Arts Exchange. Ms. Gartz has exhibited her work at venues throughout the world including France, Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Mexico and the United States. Among her credits, she was part of a year-long residency at the prestigious Rijksacademy in the Netherlands. Her recent installations have emphasized the use of video, slides, drawings and glass to achieve the effect of multiple layers of meaning.
Paul Clay: Paul Clay is a visual artist and curator who works in a wide variety of media. He designed the set for the Pulitzer prize winning Broadway Musical Rent, 1997. His honors include a "Municipal Arts Society Times Square Spectacular" Award from Tibor Kalman for his redesign of the marquee and exterior of the Nederlander theater He is the founder of Fictive (www.fictive.net), and is chair of the Artists Alliance Inc. - a collective of 65 artists based in New York's Lower East Side. He is also Gallery Director for CUCHIFRITOS - AAI's not for profit art gallery/project space - located inside New York City's Essex Street Food Market.
Dr. Livia Straus: Dr. Livia Straus, along with her husband Dr. Marc Straus, are the founders of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) in Peekskill, New York. Writer Ben Gennochio of The New York Times has described the HVCCA as “the most dynamic contemporary art site in Westchester County.” The HVCCA’s current exhibition entitled Double Dutch is on view through July 26th, 2010 and features contemporary Dutch installation art by sixteen artists.
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