Carnal Knowledge: Robert Bunkin and Jenny Tango

Both artists work representationally, especially with the figure. Carnal Knowledge celebrates their 42 years together.

Jenny Tango attended Cooper Union, NYU Institute of Fine Art, and Brooklyn College. She has been painting and drawing since 1946.
Robert Bunkin studied at Brooklyn College, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and the Laboratorio per Affresco, Vainella, Italy.

Robert Bunkin and Jenny Tango have been together since 1973. The couple recently moved into Westbeth after being on the waiting list for 20 years.

A FORUM WITH 5 FIGURATIVE PAINTERS Sunday March 28th from 3 – 5 pm

Moderated by Robert Bunkin
Participants: Warren Lyons, Jenny Tango, Karen Kaapcke, Elise Dodeles

Admission is free.

Poetry Reading by Joan Larkin Saturday, April 4, 2015 3-5 PM
Author of Blue Hanuman

Larkin’s fifth book of poems, Blue Hanuman, was published in 2014 by Hanging Loose Press. Among her previous collections, My Body: New and Selected Poems received the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award. Others include Lambda award-winning Cold River, which served as the basis for her play The AIDS Passion; Sor Juana’s Love Poems, translated with Jaime Manrique; and the Argos hand-sewn chapbook Legs Tipped with Small Claws. Joan was an activist publisher during the feminist literary explosion of the 1970s and ’80s, coeditor of several anthologies of poetry and prose, and author of two books in the Hazelden recovery series. A teacher for many years, she is currently writer–in-residence at Smith College. Her honors include the Shelley Memorial Award, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and grants from the National Endowment and New York Foundation for the Arts.

“Joan Larkin’s high-wire poetic acts unite both electric tension and steadfast balance. Deft, probing language surges in these poems, to the music of free verse, metric invention, high rhetoric, & demotic wit. She needs all these, to reach the full range of felt life she intends for us.” 
 —Marie Ponsot

Admission is free. Books will be available for purchase.

At Westbeth Gallery. FREE