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BACKLASH On Women’s Basic Rights & Freedoms
An exhibition addressing the current political climate towards women
| JULY 17- AUGUST 11, 2012 |
THURSDAY JULY 19TH, 6-8PM :
Opening Reception
with a performance by GO! Push Pops
SATURDAY JULY 28TH, 2PM
The Snatchel Project: Craft time with an agenda!

In response to the increasing tension against providing
women with basic healthcare needs and the ensuing
media restorm, which demonizes women, Soho20
Gallery Chelsea is hosting a venue for outrage.
Backlash is in response to this ‘war on women’s basic
rights and freedoms.’ This non-juried exhibition is open to
both men and women artists working in all media.

Love’s Labors at Trustman Art Gallery opens tonight! March 29, 5- 7 p.m.

Loves Labors

GODDESS ON EARTH

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF CONTEMPORARY WOMEN

Churchill Goddess PR

Photos by Lisa Levart and panel discussion with Dana Balicki, Jennie Chien and Kamara Thomas. Thursday, April 12th, 7 – 9 pm

SOHO20 Chelsea gallery presents Goddess on Earth, a look at the photographic portraits of women by Lisa Levart followed by a panel discussion with Dana Balicki, Jennie Chien and Kamara Thomas. Lisa Levart is an award winning photographer whose first book Goddess on Earth: Portraits of the Divine Feminine was released in October, 2011. Her work has been featured in exhibitions worldwide including The Alternative Museum, The Burden Gallery and Art In General of New York City, The Kiek de Kok Photography Museum, Talin, Estonia and Gallery Verita, Tokyo, Japan. Her images have appeared in numerous publications including Architectural Digest, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Oprah Magazine. Dana Balicki is a creative producer, media specialist, and organizer with a passion for telling stories centering on today’s critical issues of peace, social justice, human rights, environmental justice and corporate accountability. With over ten years experience in campaign strategizing, event producing, and media relations, she uses her skills as a strategic communicator to connect with audiences and build vibrant movements. Jennie Chien is a sculptor who works with clay, bronze and other materials and exhibits in galleries and art spaces in the tri-state area. In 2009 she won an Individual Artists Grants in Rockland County and the County Executive Award for Visual Artists. She was awarded NYFA SOS grants in 2007 and 2009. Kamara Thomas is a storyteller and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. For the past ten years she has recorded and performed solo and with bands, and toured internationally as singer/bassist in the rock band Earl Greyhound. Her work BULGARIA, a dark fairy-tale examining rock-n-roll mythology, has had workshop presentations at Cake Shop, The Living Room, and Galapagos. Her debut full-length solo album, “The Holler”, is due for release in Autumn 2012. Kamara graduated from The College of William and Mary in 1996, with a BA in Theatre and Speech.

The Billboard Art project is a nonprofit organization that acquires digital billboards normally used for advertising and repurposes them as roadside galleries. Projects are held in cities all over the country.

Francine LeClercq participated for the Chicago Billboard venue.

http://www.billboardartproject.org

Gifting Abstraction, curated by Mariángeles Soto-Díaz, is part of Abstraction at Work, a series dedicated to rethinking abstraction’s functions through projects ranging from installations to curatorial experiments.

Gifting Abstraction establishes an intimate economy within Soho20Chelsea gallery in which abstract objects have not yet turned into objectified commodities. The gift economy paradigm recognizes that there is value outside market forces, and that the gift renders forces and riches of its own. One of the perplexing aspects of the gift is that while its effect cannot be quantified, its intention is generally palpable: at its best, the gift generates a sense of interconnectedness. In this exhibition, artists’ labor stretches beyond the works themselves, as connective lines are symbolically rendered through the gifting process onto a relational dimension.

Throughout the course of the exhibition the artists participating in the show will come to the gallery and select one work by another participating artist.  They will trace the work they have chosen and then move the piece to the adjacent wall.  The names and selections will be recorded in a log in the gallery along with correspondence to each artist from the “giftee”.  Check the blog for documentation of the process as well as images from the exhibition and opening reception.

SOHO20 Membership Fellow Francine LeClerq just finished an exhibition in Turku, Finland. Francine had her first solo exhibition at SOHO20, and has since exhibited across the world.

She works primarily in painting, and is a also practicing architect in New York City.

Karen Azoulay presented Carnation Thunder, a “conceptual dinner party,” at Soho20 in November 2010 as part of Savoir Faire. C Magazine reviews the banquet performance in its recent Summer 2011 edition, which focuses on food and culinary exhibitions. A pdf of the review is here:

Carnation Thunder

Savoir Faire is a performance art series, featuring women artists, that Soho20 puts on annually. More information on Carnation Thunder and the rest of Savoir Faire is on our website.

Photographs by David Kimelman.

One of SOHO20′s member artists, Elizabeth Bisbing, is featured in “The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces,” currently up at the University of Kentucky Art Museum. The show is in its second week, and runs through October 9.

For more on Elizabeth, check out her website.

Suzanne Stroebe and Gina Miccinilli have been named Soho20′s Fellowship Members for 2011. Fellows receive the benefits of full membership from 2011-2013, free of financial obligation, as well as both solo and group exhibitions, representation by the gallery, and opportunities for artist-led events.

Suzanne Stroebe lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and received her MFA at Parsons the New School for Design in 2009. She has exhibited throughout New York, and her recent Feminist Tea Party exhibition showed at the NYFA Gallery in Brooklyn, and is discussed on its website.

Gina Miccinilli was born and raised in Mahwah, NJ, though spent most of her summers in Italy. She earned an MFA at William Patterson University, where she now teaches sculpture. Her work explores our relationship with the natural world – even those parts of which we have yet to understand scientifically.