 |
|
|
 |
|
|
| Jake Berthot: The Artist/The Artist with the Model (10.31-12.4.07) |
 |
|
| Tickets/Registration: 212.415.5500 |
|
| Media Contact: Lauren Phillips, 212.415.5402, email |
|
| JAKE BERTHOT: THE ARTIST/THE ARTIST WITH THE MODEL |
|
| Right-handed artist displays left-handed works for the first time in New York City |
|
|
|
OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, October 31, 5:00 - 6:45 pm
Free and Open to the Public
EXHIBIT DATES: Thursday, November 1 - Tuesday, December 4
|
|
Presented by the 92nd Street Y School of the Arts
FOR GALLERY SCHEDULE, PLEASE CALL 212-415-5749
The 92nd Street Y Weill Art Gallery is also open to those attending regularly scheduled events in the adjacent Kaufmann Concert Hall.
|
|
| New York, NY, October, 20, 2007—The 92nd Street Y continues its 2007-2008 exhibition season with Jake Berthot: The Artist/The Artist with the Model, a collection of ink drawings that are being displayed in New York City for the first time. |
|
|
Berthot, a right-handed artist known for his commitment to abstract painting and for his more recent landscape paintings, created many of the 30 drawings featured in this exhibit with his left hand while recuperating from a serious hand injury. In the wake of his injury, Berthot conjured images of other artists doing the work he so desperately wished he could do, bringing them into his studio as imaginary visitors, companions, and muses. He then rendered these imagined artists, describing the resulting drawings as private "inventions" of illusion and of necessity. The project served as a way for Berthot to reexamine his creative process as he undertook the task of learning to draw with his left hand.
|
|
Unlike the sketches in this exhibit, the majority of Berthot's works reflect his relationship with nature. A largely self-taught artist, Berthot studied briefly at both the New School for Social Research and Pratt Institute in the 1960s. But by the late 1990s, he had taught at some of America's premier art schools, including Cooper Union, Skowhegan, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the School of Visual Art. Berthot's work has been displayed in galleries and museums around the world in both solo and group exhibitions, most recently at the Kleinert/James Art Gallery in Woodstock, NY, the Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York City, and at the Museum of Modern Art.
|
|
Berthot returns to the 92nd Street Y in January as an Artist-in-Residence at the Y's Art Center to teach a one-week instensive course on painting.
|
|
|
| ABOUT THE 92nd STREET Y |
|
The 92nd Street Y School of the Arts, the Y's education division, offers adults and children an opportunity to develop new skills within a supportive but challenging environment. The School of Music (estab. 1917) and the Art Center (estab. 1930) offer classes for beginners, amateurs and professional artists in virtually every style and medium. Supplementing the classroom learning are special programs like artist residencies, master classes and lecture series. What is now the Harkness Dance Center (estab. 1935) played a central role in the development of the American modern dance movement, while the Educational Outreach program brings art, music, dance and theater into the lives of 7,000 economically disadvantaged New York City public elementary school children. A gallery program presents art and photography exhibits on a variety of contemporary topics.
|
|
Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds. The 92nd Street Y's mission is to enrich the lives of the over 300,000 people who visit each year — both in person and through the Y's satellite, television, radio and Internet broadcasts. The organization offers comprehensive performing arts, film and spoken word events; courses in the humanities, the arts, personal development and Jewish culture; activities and workshops for children, teenagers and parents; and health and fitness programs for people of every age. Committed to making its programs available to everyone, the 92nd Street Y awards nearly $1 million in scholarships annually and reaches out to 8,000 public school children through fully-subsidized arts education programs. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
© 2008 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association
All Rights Reserved. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
