Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art - Current Exhibitions

LAST CHANCE:
December 30-31, 11- 5 pm

GALLERY CLOSED:
December 24- 27, 2008
January 1-3, 2009
(call for appointment)

Friends
An Invitational Group Show
Gallery Artists & Friends
December 3 - January 3, 2009
Opening Reception: Wednesday, December 3, 6-8 pm

Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts is proud to announce an exhibition of over 42 works by artists who are long time friends and associates of the gallery and their artist friends. While discussing our new show with Edward Albee, a friend of the gallery and a neighbor, I worried that I did not know what to call it. *"Call it Friends" replied Mr. Albee, and "Friends" it is.

We are all witnessing many changes in our day to day lives and finding adjustment a necessity. At our gallery we too feel the need to change. The concept of creating an exhibition that would have an air of hope and celebration, a shift from our normal solo show format and bring in artists that we don't know and have never shown before seemed a suitable challenge and change for us for this month of December, 2008.

We selected artists that we are currently involved with either as their gallery or publisher and invited them to show and to invite a friend to show with them. The result is a very lively mix of sculpture, painting, photography, digital art and drawing from artists covering six decades in age. The artists chose friends, partners, teachers, students and colleagues.

There was no theme given, we suggested only a format not larger than 30 inches square and that the artists invite someone they really like as a friend and admire artistically. The show has coherence despite the 42 odd different works and artists. We are thrilled that this show serves as a demonstration of hope and embraces life in all its aspects.

Our participating artists and their friends
Susan Amons and Diane Bowie Zaitlin
Katherine Bowling and Andrew Nash
Katherine Bradford and Natasha Meyers
Lisa Breslow and Nancy Rubens
Catherine Courtenaye and Devin Dougherty
Gregory Crane and Mu Pan
Valentina DuBasky and Catherine Ramey
Carter Hodgkin and Sharon Lawless
Agnes Jacobs and Cecily Firestein
Robert Janz and Jennifer Kotter
Cindy Kane and Holly Sumner
Marc Katano and Nicole Katano
Judith Linhares and Jessica Weiss
Judith Miller and Ruth Leonard
Margaret Neill and Susan Schroeder
Cheryl Pelavin and Maris Beckerman
Brian Pilliod and Jeremy Wagner
Harriet Shorr and Barbara Kassel
Auguste Rhonda Tymeson and Diana Jensen
Mary Jo Vath and Tomomi Tanikawa
Susan Wanklyn and Jill Levine

GALLERY ARTISTS FRIENDS

Exhibition Images

Katherine Bradford

Katherine Bowling	Andrew Nash
Lisa Breslow	Nancy Rubens

Judith Linhares	Jessica Weiss
Judith Miller	Ruth Leonard

Tomomi Tanikawa