Barbara Weiss – UNFINISHED BUSINESS

on exhibition @ the cell

OPENING : THURSDAY, December 1, 2011 6:30-8:30pm

Gallery Hours by appointment only

RSVP: info@thecelltheatre.org

Barbara Weiss’ recent work is the result of a confluence of influences; most notably her work as an acupuncturist and the Taoist philosophy and Five Element theory that serve as the foundation of Oriental Medicine.

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on exhibition @ the cell

OPENING : TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2011 7pm

Praying Hands

on view during performances and by appointment

OPENING RECEPTION: TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011 6-8pm

with a VIP preview and artist’s talk on March 27, 2011 at 1pm

Artist Justin Waldstein’s collection draws directly from life and found photos, capturing resonant moments of exhilaration and futility, as well as the beauty and fragility of the human form. His work utilizes explosive color and line to illuminate triumph, glory, energy, mortality and tragedy. The paintings on unstretched canvas are theatrical, reminiscent of discarded posters or torn shreds of sideshow banners. Throughout the collection, there is a hint of the renaissance tapestries of lost empires, and with a sculptural, organic surface, they hang as butchers’ hides displaying wrinkled images on tattooed flesh.

GALLERY OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, March 3, 2011 6:30pm

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ABOUT JUSTIN WALDSTEIN:

Justin Waldstein is a Brooklyn-based artist with a background in both fine and commercial art. A New York City native, he has exhibited his paintings, drawings and projections in galleries, performance spaces and theaters in New York and internationally. He has also worked as a designer, photographer and illustrator. As a student, Justin maintained a multi-disciplinary study of art, combining film, history, anthropology, religion, and Russian literature at Parsons School of Design, The New School for Social Research and Hunter College. He continues this varied approach to art in his current practice, which has recently expanded to include projections using drawings and photos in live performance. In 2008 he developed a projection piece, “Bazm-o-Razm,” in collaboration with singer-composer Susan Oetgen which premiered at the Brooklyn Museum. Justin has continued exploring this medium during a residency and performance at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in 2010. At the end of that year he created visuals composed of drawings and animation for artist Shaun Leonardo’s “Self Portrait,” which was performed at HERE Art Center in New York City.

Artist Jill Knox presents her collection, “Nigra Sum, Sucka!,” an exploration of what being black has meant for her, inspired by the works of other inspirational African American artists, political figures and free thinkers. Merging pop art with black history, Jill has created a body of work that gives voice to, and speaks for, others who share her unique African American experience.

GALLERY OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, February 17, 2011 6:30-10:30pm

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About JILL KNOX

Jill Knox loves claiming that she was born in New York City because growing up in the suburbs of Connecticut wasn’t very exciting. Luckily for her, being exposed to the arts was not a choice but a requirement in the house she grew up in. Having mother who sits on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and a father who sat on the board of American Ballet Theater at Lincoln Center and later chairing the Studio Museum in Harlem, its no wonder that she has embraced the arts in the way that she has.

Jill received her BA magna cum laude from NYU’s Gallatin School of individualize Study, focusing on Theater History and Sociology. After completing a thesis entitled “Theater that Challenges Social Structures from Ancient Greece to the Present” she went on to receive her MFA in Acting from the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium. There, she performed in a variety of roles, such as Bianca in both The Taming of the Shrew and Desdemona a Play about a Handkerchief and Doña Estrelita in Tony Kushner’s Hydriotaphia , which led to her being cast in Trinity Rep’s main stage production, “All the Kings Men”. Since graduation in 2008, Jill has performed in HAIR at the Hangar Theater and JUMP JIM CROW: How to Produce Your Own Minstrel Show for the Subjective Theater Company.

Jill filled her insomnia-ridden graduate school nights with paint-brushes and ladders, creating large murals on the walls of her loft in RI. This has led to developing a unique style that has been commissioned for weddings, birthdays, and anniversaries.

An exhibition of original art, as seen at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.

September 25 – October 15, 2010

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ART LIVE returns this year after its successful collaboration with Arteingenua of Italy for its inaugural debut.

This year ART LIVE welcomes Gallery 225, the cell and Haven Arts. ART LIVE is an annual celebration whose sole intention is to bring to public attention current issues presently being addressed by the Arts Community worldwide.

ART LIVE will officially get underway on September 3, 2009 with its launch at Chair and the Maiden Gallery at 6 to 8 pm.

The second installation will take place on 09 September 2009 at Gallery 225 at 6 to 8 pm.

the cell will feature works by Johann Pollak and Shari Belafonte for the month of September and house the internationally acclaimed performance group Dzieci for the month of October.

Haven Arts will present an array of international talents.

Please join us for what is to be the most significant global project of our time.

ART LIVE 2009, a better understanding of the world we live in through Art.

For more information on ART LIVE, visit them at www.artliveworld.com

ART LIVE returns this year after its successful collaboration with Arteingenua of Italy for its inaugural debut. 

 This year ART LIVE welcomes Gallery 225, the cell and Haven Arts. ART LIVE is an annual celebration whose sole intention is to bring to public attention current issues presently being addressed by the Arts Community worldwide. 

ART LIVE will officially get underway on September 3, 2009 with its launch at Chair and the Maiden Gallery at 6 to 8 pm. 

The second installation will take place on 09 September 2009 at Gallery 225 at 6 to 8 pm.  

the cell will feature works by Johann Pollak and Shari Belafonte for the month of September and house the internationally acclaimed performance group Dzieci for the month of October. 

Haven Arts will present an array of international talents. 

 
Please join us for what is to be the most significant global project of our time.

ART LIVE 2009, a better understanding of the world we live in through Art.

For more information on ART LIVE, visit them at www.artliveworld.com

Installation Photos by Garlia Cornelia Jones