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Karin Batten’s solo show
TURNING TIDE at June Kelly Gallery opening June 30

PEOPLE'S UMBRELLA 46'' x 58'' Mixed Media on canvas (acrylic, digital images, gel, rice paper, mica, crayon). Inspired by Costa Rica's largest leaves and plants on top of the volcanoes.

PEOPLE’S UMBRELLA
46” x 58”
Mixed Media on canvas (acrylic, digital images, gel, rice paper, mica, crayon). Inspired by Costa Rica’s largest leaves and plants on top of the volcanoes.

Where: June Kelly Gallery
166 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212 226 1660

Dates: June 30th – July 30th, 2016

Opening Reception: June 30th from 6pm – 8pm

Laura Klein in Broadway hit play, THE HUMANS – whose ensemble cast is called peerless in NY Times review – wins 4 TONY awards including Best Play.

Cast of The Humans at the Helen Hayes Theater. Laura (Lauren) Klein seated. Photo; Sara Krulwich NYTimes

Cast of The Humans at the Helen Hayes Theater. Laura (Lauren) Klein seated.
Photo; Sara Krulwich NYTimes

AWARDS UPDATE:
THE HUMANS received 4 TONY awards: Best play, Best scenic design, Featured actor (Reed Birney), Featured actress (Jayne Houdyshell). It was also nominated for best director, and best lighting.

Cast and producers on stage

Cast and producers on stage

Laura (Lauren) Klein on stage in silver jacket

Laura (Lauren) Klein on stage in silver jacket

It has received a Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a play

It has received a NY Drama Critic’s award for Best Play

It has received a Drama Desk Special Award for Best Ensemble

It received 4 Drama Desk nominations for Best Play, Best Director, Best lighting, Best sound.

The finest new play of the Broadway season so far — by a long shot — Mr. Karam’s drama has been beautifully transferred from Off Broadway, where it was presented by the Roundabout Theater Company last fall, with the production’s prized virtues intact: a peerless cast, whose members all inhabit their characters as if they’ve been living in their itchy skins forever.

Erik’s mother, called Momo (Lauren Klein), who is in a wheelchair and suffering from dementia. Although everyone showers tender care on her, Momo is having one of her “bad days,” as Erik puts it, only rousing from her near-slumber to mutter incomprehensibly. (Ms. Klein gives a remarkable performance, admirably free of showboating or sentiment.)

“The Humans” is a major discovery, a play as empathetic as it is clear-minded, as entertaining as it is honest. For all the darkness at its core — a darkness made literal in its ghostly conclusion — a bright light shines forth from it, the blazing luminescence of collective artistic achievement.

– NY Times Christopher Isherwood Review February 19, 2016
http://nyti.ms/1RbnsnP

Laura Klein

Laura Klein. Photo Christina Maile

The Humans

By Stephen Karam; directed by Joe Mantello; sets by David Zinn; costumes by Sarah Laux; lighting by Justin Townsend; sound by Fitz Patton; production stage manager, William Joseph Barnes; production manager, Aurora Productions; company manager, Christopher Taggart. A Roundabout Theater Company, Todd Haimes, artistic director; Harold Wolpert, managing director; Julia C. Levy, executive director; Sydney Beers, general manager; presented by Scott Rudin, Barry Diller, Roundabout Theater Company, Fox Theatricals, James L. Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, Roy Furman, Daryl Roth, Jon B. Platt, Eli Bush, Broadway Across America, Jack Lane, Barbara Whitman, Jay Alix and Una Jackman, Scott M. Delman, Sonia Friedman, Amanda Lipitz, Peter May, Stephanie P. McClelland, Lauren Stein and the Shubert Organization; Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner and John Johnson, executive producers. At the Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, 212-239-6200, telecharge­.com. Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes.

WITH: Cassie Beck (Aimee Blake), Reed Birney (Erik Blake), Jayne Houdyshell (Deirdre Blake), Lauren Klein (Fiona “Momo” Blake), Arian Moayed (Richard Saad) and Sarah Steele (Brigid Blake).

Gloria Miguel in MATERIAL WITNESS at La Mama in association with Spiderwoman Theater

GLORIA MIGUEL AND SPIDERWOMAN

Show Dates: May 12 – 15, 18, 22, 26-29, 2016
Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2pm

Location: LaMaMa
74A E4th St
NYC

Tickets:
$18; $13 students and seniors
Box Office 646 430 5374
Online Tickets: www.lamama,org

MATERIAL WITNESS Here you are free to tell your stories…
by Spiderwoman Theater and Aanmitaagizi and A Loose Change Production
Directed by Muriel Miguel

Written and Performed by
Cherish Violet Blood
Donna Couteau
Gloria Miguel
Penny Couchie
Ange Loft
Tanis Parenteau

MATERIAL WITNESS is part of La MaMa’s Safe Harbors Indigenous Arts/Theater Collective

Ken Golden and Valentina DuBasky
Carter Burden Gallery
May 19 – June 9, 2016

KEN GOLDEN AND VAL DUBASKY AT CARTER BURDEN

Participating Artists

Journeys: Barbara Arum and Valentina DuBasky
Structural Breakdown 3.0: Robert W Petrick
On the Wall: Ken Golden

Show Dates: May 19 – June 9, 2016

Location: Carter Burden Gallery
548 West 28th Street #534
B/w 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York

info: carterburdengallery.org
Marlena Vaccaro, Curator

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Friday 11am – 5 pm
Saturday 11am – 6pm

Jack Dowling featured in WestView News April 2016 series
West Village Original

photo David Plakke

photo David Plakke

Article by Michael D Minichuello
This month’s West Village Original is painter and writer John (Jack) Dowling, born in Woodbridge, New Jersey in 1931. After attending Cooper Union and teaching in Italy for a few years, he settled in New York to be a painter before eventually turning to writing. His stories have been published in the Hamilton Stone Review, the Barcelona Review, A&U Magazine, and American Writing. He has been a resident of WestBeth since 1971 and for fourteen of those years served as Director of the gallery there as well.

Jack Dowling spent the first two decades of his life in New York City as a painter. “There were centers of activity in the Village and I just quietly began to paint,” he says. “At some point I gave up painting abstractly because I wasn’t sure where that was going. One day, I picked up a snapshot of my parents on their wedding day and decided to make a painting from that. I developed that into a kind of semi-abstraction and got very involved in the sense of light, color, and shadow. That resulted in a whole series of paintings that had their initial source in photographs.”

What made him stop painting and take up writing? “It sounds like a sob story,” he says, laughing. “I had a large loft and I got involved in a court case trying to save it. It cost me money that I didn’t have, which sent me into the job market and diverted me from my painting. After three years, I lost the loft and I was homeless at 40!” He laughs. “But I got myself reorganized and into WestBeth in a ‘starter’ apartment. I was still working at the job that I had gotten to survive but I had also decided I didn’t want to paint anymore. In the meantime, I began to jot down various short observations and channel my creative energy in that direction.”

Does he find writing different than painting?……

Read rest of article here

More about Jack Dowling here

Kate Walter in interview about her book, “Looking for a Kiss” on LesBe Real Radio talk.

Air Date: March 3, 2016

Kate Walter author of the memoir Looking for a Kiss: A Chronicle of
Downtown Heartbreak and Healing hits home as she shares this captivating story with LesBe Real Team. Looking for a Kiss details the breakup of the author’s 26 year lesbian relationship and how she rebuilt her life emotionally and financially after being left broke and broken hearted. Her book has a hopeful message for anyone single after being in a long term relationship: you can heal your life and land up in a better place.
Kate’s essays and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times,
Newsday, New York Daily News, AM-NY, the Advocate, and many other outlets.
An award-winning writer who specializes in essays, memoir and creative
nonfiction, Kate teaches writing at CUNY and NYU. Kate has been living in
Manhattan since 1975 when she escaped across the river from New Jersey.

Check it out here: https://www.mixcloud.com/LesbeRealRadioTalk/kate-walter-author-looking-for-a-kiss/

And another interview here: https://westbeth.org/artist/kate-walter

More About Kate: www.katewalter.com

Produced By: LesBe Real Radio Talk – www.lesberealradio.com

Erica Fae directs and stars in new film TO KEEP THE LIGHT. See trailer here.

TO KEEP THE LIGHT trailer – feature by erica fae from Erica Fae on Vimeo.

for more info www.tokeepthelight.com
trailer edited by ramsey fendall

Maine, 1876. Tending the lighthouse on a remote island for her ailing husband, a woman confronts secrets buried in deep waters and navigates a hostile, new world.
Director: Erica Fae
Writer: Erica Fae
Stars: Jarlath Conroy, Erica Fae, Meagen Fay, Gabe Fazio, David Patrick Kelly, Antti Reini, Wass Stevens

Eunice Golden, Lorraine O Grady,
Hannah Wilke, Walter Weissman in
Concept, Performance, Documentation, Language Show at The Mitchell Algus Gallery Feb 20 – April 17, 2016

Neke Carson - Retrospective Vito Acconci - Seedbed Sonnebend 1972

Neke Carson – Retrospective Vito Acconci – Seedbed Sonnebend 1972

EUNICE GOLDEN Reorient Human Figure

EUNICE GOLDEN Reorient Human Figure

PARTICIPANTS

Martha Wilson,Vito Acconci, Willoughby Sharp, Hannah Wilke,
Eunice Golden, Neke Carson, Roberta Allen, Adrian Piper, Roger
Welch, Karen Shaw, Jeff Way, Hans Breder, Susan Bee, Marc H.
Miller, Gene Beery, Eleanor Antin, Walter Weissman, Lorraine
O’Grady, Peter Moore, Joan Jonas, Jaime Davidovich, Bettie
Ringma, Mac Adams, Kerry Schuss, Morgan O’Hara, Stefan Eins,
Tehching Hsieh, Jack Smith, Indra Tamang, Charles Henri Ford,
Lynn Hershman Leeson, Trisha Brown, Duff Schweninger, Jared
Bark, James Collins, Betty Tompkins, Arthur Cohen, Christopher
D’Arcangelo, Roy Colmer, Dennis Oppenheim, Marcia Resnick,
Gerald Hayes, Terry Berkowitz, Charles Gatewood, Christopher
Rauchenberg, Stuart Brisley, Lee Lozano, Gordon Matta-Clark,
Bill Beckley, E’wao Kagoshima, Robert C. Morgan, Colette,
Janice Guy, Carolee Schneemann

The Mitchell Algus Gallery presents Concept, Performance, Documentation, Language, a group show of work that employs photography, performance, surveillance, data acquisition and participatory intervention to make art that is narrative, analytical, speculative, critical and documentary.

With 50 artists, most of whom worked–and continue to work–in New York, Concept, Performance, Documentation, Language illustrates the shared interests and common endeavor that animated a loosely defined community of artists from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The exhibition is a meditation on what history gets written and, provided context and equanimity, how that perceived history can be comprehensively and cohesively revised. History is a process.

Interestingly, the current show parallels in part, Jeffrey Deitch’s first curatorial outing in 1975, Lives: Artists who deal with peoples’ lives (including their own) as the subject and/or medium of their work. Many of the participants in Lives were younger conceptual artists engaged in the openly aesthetic practice of vernacular sociology, behavioral psychology, and local ethnography. Unlike first-generation conceptualists such as Sol LeWitt, Joseph Kosuth or Lawrence Weiner whose work was rigorously formal and to a degree academic, these new artists set out to consider real life, their life, and produce some edifying, playful, acerbic, or confounding analysis and documentation of it. Many of the artists also began to broach trenchant questions of personal and group identity, igniting concerns that continue to preoccupy much recent art.

GALLERY (Exhibitions, Artists, Information)

Mitchell Algus Gallery
132 Delancey Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10002
212-844-0074
office@mitchellalgusgallery.com

bold – current or former Westbeth residents