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Artist Opening for Petroleum Paradox at Denise Bibro Fine Art
Please Join Us!
Thursday, May 24 6-8 p.m.
529 West 20th Street, NYC.
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Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to host the Women's Caucus for Art exhibition Petroleum Paradox: For Better or For Worse?, juried by Eleanor Heartney, on view May 24 through June 23, 2012. Opens Thursday, May 24 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at 529 West 20th Street, NYC.
Co-President
for New York WCA, Marcia Annenberg, states: "this exhibit seeks to
raise awareness of the imminent danger of uncontrolled climate change,
caused by an excessive dependency on fossil fuels... It is our
generation that has been called to this task." To paraphrase Eleanor
Heartney, "... the
thoughtful works that comprise this exhibit present questions, such as
'How do we balance economic development, environmental protection, and
geopolitical stability in an ever more precarious world? What are we
willing to give up today to avoid catastrophe tomorrow? Where should we
commit our resources? How should we define our social and economic
priorities?'" The variety of perspectives of the artists involved
employ photography, video, painting, and sculpture. These artists
reinforce the paradox at the center of our environmental predicament.
Heartney notes, human creativity and innovation are at the root of our
difficulties, but they are also the source of our potential salvation.
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Artists in the exhibition:
Elaine Alibrandi, Scott,Anderson, Marcia Annenberg, Krisanne Baker,
Ulla Barr, Kristen Baumlier, Cheryl Bookout, Paul Bouchard, Tracy
Brown, Lois Bryant, Allegra Burke, Donna Catanzaro, Rachel Clark, Janet
Culbertson, Michael D'Antuono, Derek Decker, Sherri Denault and Margie
Glass Sula, Liz Dodson, Alice Dubiel, Sally Edelstein, Johnny
Everyman, Trish Foschi, Pam Foss, Terri Garland, Catherine Gilbert,
Carla Goldberg, Maeve Grogan, Livia Gus, Karen Gutfreund, Andrew
Hamill, Aimee Hertog, Suzanne Hodes, Roxane Hollosi, Shelah Horvitz,
Patti Jordan, Robin M Jordan, Vesna Jovanovic, Noreen Larinde, Amy
Larsen, Molly Magai, Paho Mann, Brandi Merolla, Barbara Milman, Mitzi
Mize, Andrea Morganstern, Sandra Mueller, Rosa Naparstek, Patty Neal,
Rob Neilson, Lynnda Pardoe, Bonnie Peterson, Sara Petitt, Roxanne
Phillips, Stefani Rossi, Soledad Salame, Loredana Sangiuliano, Samuel
Scharf, Debbie Schore, Manju Shandler, Lynnette Shelley, Katherine
Sifers, Simone Spicer, Greg Stange, Deborah Mills Thackrey, Linnea
Tober, Lucy Traeger, Michelle Waters, Margi Weir, Jenifer Wightman,
Roscoe Wilson, Helen Zajkowski, Patrcia Zalisko.
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Notes from Karen Gutfreund, Exhibition Director:
Art can be a powerful, productive force and instrumental in sparking
change or critical thinking. The Women's Caucus for Art is committed to
supporting local, national, and global art activism. Art can produce a
visceral response and can provoke, inspire, or disturb, and opens your
eyes to worlds other than your own. While the artist may not consider
themselves to be a revolutionary, by bringing to light issues and
concerns, art can effect change. We need of works that help us to
understand what is happening in our
society, who we are, where we come from and where we're going.
With Petroleum Paradox: For Better or For Worse, we asked for works
that stir emotions, discussion and debate about our petroleum-dependent
world. Examples include, but were not limited to, works that address
the impact of collecting, processing and delivering fossil fuel on the
environment; global warming; the power of big oil companies to control
countries and governments; an imagined life without fossil fuel; and
life forms that were the origins of fossil fuel. The discovery of oil,
in 1859, in Pennsylvania, transformed our way of life; we are enveloped
by petroleum products-from the shoes we wear, to the materials our
clothes are made of, to the way we heat our houses, to our modes of
transportation. Oil dependency pollutes the environment causing
respiratory illness, endangers wildlife, and necessitates the large
scale loss of life as we search to secure sources of oil overseas. How
do we initiate change with this rush to grab dwindling non-renewable
energy assets, instead of focusing on renewable energy and the
prevention of global warming? This exhibition manifests the artists
response to the Petroleum Paradox and what is happening in our oil
dependent society and world.
Eleanor Heartney, Contributing Editor, Art in America and Artpress,
chose 72 artists for Petroleum Paradox with 31 works in the gallery at
Denise Bibro Fine Art and an additional 43 featured in the catalog.
This show is in collaboration with Denise Bibro of Denise Bibro Fine
Art. We are honored to work with these artists and to showcase their
work. We believe in the power of artists to
create, connect, and change the world.
We hope that you will join us in our celebration of 40 years of women and the arts!
Regards,
Karen Gutfreund
Vice President and National Exhibitions Director
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Across the Divide
will encompass the vast array of contemporary ceramics in the
sculptural and installation genres. This exhibit uses the Continental
Divide as a metaphor for the artist working in clay that has separated
them from traditional techniques and stereotypes within the medium.
Participating artists were encouraged to submit work that pushes
traditional boundaries of the ceramic medium in its treatment of
material and subject.
Juror
