Wordpiece & Night and Day
Ongoing exhibitions open on October 11, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday October 11, 3-6pm
with live jazz by Heleen Schuttevaêr/Adam Niewood Quartet
www.heleenschuttevaer.nl / www.niewood.com
Gallery hours: by appointment only
E-mail: hollandtunnelart@yahoo.com
Website: www.hollandtunnelart.net
Tel/Fax: 718 384-5738
Holland Tunnel is pleased to present Wordpiece, an installation featuring the collaborative work of poet/novelist/translator Serge Gavronsky and Boston-based artist/teacher Constance Lane. Utilizing an elaborate framework of complex surfaces created by Ms Lane, Gavronsky creates a unique word environment with the aid of brushes, markers, and even his hands. Boldly writing across drawings and paintings by Ms Lane, Gavronsky successfully merges the worlds of art and language. The viewer is invited to decipher the individual letters and text that surround them and in Gavronsky’s own words: “thus letters espouse acrylic surfaces, mark them with apparently invisible meanings, signs in non-recognizable shapes, gesturally motivated ideaograms or if you wish, hieroglyphics - splintered, filled with visual significance, receiving receptive eyes, along the curved shapes of color.”
In conjunction with this special exhibition, Stairmasters proudly presents
Night and Day, a group show featuring the works of: Angiola Churchill, Susan Daboll, Francoise van Dijk, Tracy Heneberger, Shelley Himmelstein, Fran Kornfeld, Paulien Lethen, Alexandra Limpert, Bix Lye, Ernest Marciano, Tony Martin, Susan Mayr, Jan Mulder, Jan Nijland, Jan van der Ploeg, Jacques Roch, Tony Roch, Michiel Sanders, Margot Schmitt, Carri Skoczek, Andrea Spiros, Hugh Townley, Hans van Uden, Lynn Umlauf, Joy Walker, Alice Meyer Wallace, Larry Webb, and Thornton Willis.
After ten years of presenting works of local and international artists on a regular monthly schedule, Holland Tunnel re-opens its doors to a schedule of select events. It will continue to present exhibitions and performances of interest, but on a more limited basis. Founded in 1997 by Dutch-born artist Paulien Lethen, the gallery has been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum, and other leading publications. Since the year 2000, Holland Tunnel has had an extension on the Greek Isle of Paros and features international art and live jazz performances every summer.
Holland Tunnel is located at 61 South 3rd Street between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Stairmasters is located in a brownstone at 59 South 3rd St.
Accessible by car just over the Williamsburg Bridge; the M or J train to Marcy Avenue
and the L train to Bedford Avenue
For more information, please contact Paulien Lethen at 718 384-5738
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