The Fashion Center Presents: Gallery 8 - A Juried Art Exhibition
Gallery 8 is a “pop-up” gallery showing a selection of artwork from artists who live or work in the Fashion District. The gallery will also feature daily offerings of in-store artist talks, performances and other events. Admission is free and open to the public.
Duration: Friday, October 9 - Saturday, October 17; Hours: 11 am - 8 pm
Location: Eighth Avenue (@41st Street) in the Port Authority Bus Terminal (Ground Floor)
Giverny 22 by William T. Hillman
Gallery 8 Schedule of Events
Up All Night Sleeping
Thursday, Oct. 8 - Friday, Oct. 16, Ongoing
Up All Night Sleeping is a participatory installation by Tara Parsons. Interested in our collective dream life, and in creating an actual and visual record of it, the artist invites visitors to lie in the bed and dream away. Dreams can be written on ribbons and attached to the canopy of the bed.
Artist Talks
Several featured artists will be present on each day of the Gallery 8 exhibition to discuss their artwork.
Friday, October 9
11am - 1 pm: Meet Margaret Zox Brown, painter
2 - 4 pm: Meet Mitchell Schorr, painter
6 - 8 pm: Meet Julie Mardin, photographer and animator
Balcony by Margaret Zox Brown
Saturday, October 10
1 - 3 pm: Meet Maki Ueno, photographer
3 - 5 pm: Meet Leif Huron Lafferty-Gebauer, photographer and filmmaker
5 - 7 pm: Meet Kiriko Shirobayashi, photographer
Sunday, October 11
12 - 2 pm: Meet Meng Ling Hsieh, photographer
Monday, October 12
12 - 2 pm: Meet Maggy Ames, potter
3 - 5 pm: Meet Marla Mossman, photographer
6 - 8 pm: Meet Diane Drescher
Tuesday, October 13
11 am - 1 pm: Meet Rifka Milder, painter
1 - 3 pm: Meet Cecile Brunswick, painter
3 - 5 pm: Photographer and video artist, Cara Judea Alhadeff will present excerpts of her new self-portraits video series titled, Tongue and Trigger, and discuss how sexuality and vulnerability inform both her production process and the final installation pieces.
3 - 5 pm: Meet Emile Hyperion Dubuisson, photographer
5 - 7 pm: Meet Anders Goldfarb, photographer
6 - 7 pm: Artist talk with painter Mike Filan. The artist will provide a presentation of his work and discuss his process.
Wednesday, October 14
12 - 2 pm: Meet Deborah Freedman, printmaker
2 - 4 pm: Meet Ashton Worthington, photographer
5 - 7 pm: Accompanied by a video backdrop, Ali Hossaini will perform excerpts from his installation Epiphany: The Cycle of Life live on the didgeridoo. Original compositions by Quentin Chiapetta.
Thursday, October 15
11am - 1 pm: Meet Emily Pearlman, potter
2 - 4 pm: Learn about the papermaking process from a Dieu Donné expert
4 - 6 pm: Meet Joo Hyun Kang, mixed media artist
6 - 8 pm: Meet Kenneth Kencaid, photographer
Friday, October 16
12 - 2 pm: Meet Carissa Pelleteri, photographer
Saturday, October 17
No programming; Gallery open during normal hours (11am - 8pm)
Gallery 8 Featured Artists
Cara Jude Alhadeff (Camera Club of New York)
Emile Hyperion Dubuisson (Camera Club of New York)
Deborah Freedman (VanDeb Editions)
Anders Goldfarb (Camera Club of New York)
William T. Hillman (Affirmation Arts, Ltd.)
Eric Holzman (VanDeb Editions)
Ali Hossaini (A Taste of Art)
Meng Ling Hsieh (Camera Club of New York)
Joo Hyun Kang
Kenneth Kencaid (Camera Club of New York)
Rifka Milder
Mark Mullin (VanDeb Editions)
Mel Pekarsky (VanDeb Editions)
Carissa Pelleteri (Camera Club of New York)
Kate Sheperd (Dieu Donné)
Kiriko Shirobayashi (Camera Club of New York)
William Steiger (Dieu Donné)
Anita Thacher (VanDeb Editions)
Maki Ueno (Camera Club of New York)
Lorraine Williams (VanDeb Editions)
Curator’s Statement
For its inaugural exhibition, the Fashion Center presents Gallery 8, an eclectic grouping of multi-disciplinary artists whose works reflect the diversity of creative practice held within the district itself. 40 animators, painters, photographers, printmakers, potters and sculptors come together to discuss abstract and tangible realities within the context of both personal and collective history. The distinctive curiosity harnessed in this exhibition is rooted in a new type of global citizenship that promotes travel, introspection, dialogue and meditation as inspirational forces behind visual production. Intrigued by the way their medium takes on the emotion behind said inspiration, many of these artists highlight gesture-be it the posturing of forms or the act of the art making itself- as the essence of their work. Patterns, rhythms and textures are derived from abstractions of what is truly visible and-though unique in the ways by which gesture is rendered-these works share the goal of promoting new visual languages and philosophies that challenge our conscious or unconscious dissociations. Often employing urban abstractions as the backdrop to work that navigates notions of otherness, this exhibition publicizes the personal and foregrounds a paradoxical “belongingness” as complex as the City we find ourselves in; while some works promote an ambiguity of time and space, others call on specific readings of the past, present and future. In each manifestation, the world as we know it is rendered with a lean towards the sublime.
–Nico Wheadon, Curatorial Director, Rush Arts Gallery & Resource Center
