On view: May 7 through May 13, 2011, by
appointment
Exclusive reception for the pioneer
artists and the press:
May 6, 2011 - 6/9
PM
Please
RSVP
Salomon Arts Gallery presents
"Celebrating Pioneer Artists of TriBeCa" an exhibit featuring paintings,
sculpture, and photographs created by 28 pioneer artists who have been working
and living continuously in Tribeca since before 1980. Featured artists include
Lynn and Robert Bianchi, Harry Bogdos, Lynda Caspe, Pamela Casper, Adger Cowans,
Donna Dennis, Guiliano Fiorenzoli, Roland Gebhardt, Jean Holabird, Rand Hardy,
Noel Jefferson,Ronnie Landfield, Michael
Langenstein, Brooke Larsen, Dennis Masback, Noga and Jean-Claude Menashe,
Carolyn Oberst, Salvador Rosillo, Joni Scully, Catherine Skopic, Merle Temkin,
Jeff Way, John Willenbecher. A special
performance presentation by pioneer artists Robert Harding and Dori Levine will
take place at the opening reception on May 6th.
This will be the first of several exhibitions
at Salomon Arts Gallery featuring pioneer artists of TriBeCa.
The exhibition celebrates the invaluable contribution
these artists have made to Tribeca, transforming it from an area of abandoned
factories and former industrial sites in the 1960's and 70's into one of the
most vibrant and desirable areas of New York City. In the
process these artists ushered in a new urban life style - loft living - an urban
phenomenon that has been replicated throughout the United States and the
world.
The exhibition is produced in coordination with
the documentary "Tribeca: Looking at Gentrification from the Artists'
Perspective", produced by Gigi Salomon. The documentary is an ongoing series of
interviews of one hundred and fifty Tribeca artists who discuss their
experiences in Tribeca and relate how the neighborhood, their live/work spaces
and the artist's community affected their art. As current
real estate development and political forces threaten to push these pioneer
artists from the spaces where they have been living and working for decades, the
documentary serves as an opportunity to bring Tribeca artists together to
continue the dialog about change and their future in Tribeca and raises
the question of what the effect will be on the future of Manhattan as a magnet
for the artist
community.
