Ground Line Redefines How Women Artists Have Evolved
By Joe Bendik
Daniele Marin’s current exhibition, Ground Line, at Noho Gallery explores how women in art and society have evolved over time. By using iconic imagery along with the mundane, Marin recontextualizes these images to create nonlinear narratives. Doing this makes the historical information seem fresh. Marin also uses fabric in the acrylic paintings, creating texture and delineating space.
As Marin said, “The incorporation of fabric shifts the expectation about traditional feminine arts.” It also serves as an anchor point for the eye, a place of return.
Marin considers the painting surface a stage where different techniques communicate with each other. In fact, the paintings themselves seem to speak to each other. The color of each painting works within the bigger concept of the show. Marin is particularly interested in “the ground line,” the foundation for this exhibit, which is the horizontal plane on which objects sit. She weaves this into all of the works, establishing unity while referencing “still” images from the past, thereby reclaiming and redefining their roles as ‘feminine.’ The result is a new way of viewing traditional materials.
Marin was born in Paris but lives in the United States. She has an MFA from the Pratt Institute and has won two painting awards from the Visual Arts Center in New Jersey. She has been featured in Art in America and Woman’s Art Journal (Rutgers), among other publications. Some of her works are in the collection of the Newark Museum, the Montclair museum and Merrill Lynch, as well as private collections.
This show runs through Feb. 4. While visiting the exhibition, I had the eerie feeling of walking through a different state of being; somehow becoming a part of the ground line myself, as if I was inside the paintings.
Daniele Marvin: Ground Line
Noho Gallery, 530 W. 25th St., 4th Fl., 212-367-7063, www.danielemarin.com.
Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Cecil Fabulous
Beaton’s New York years revived
By Marsha McCreadie
One high aesthetic compliment is to call an artist ahead of his time. Yet, the real trick is to be both of your time and ahead of it. Cecil Beaton—photographer, illustrator, set and costume designer, even author—turned that trick, and nicely, too. Read more
The Bloody Apple
An exhibit of Weegee’s photographs proves that crime does pay
By Mark Peikert
In the pantheon of New Yorkers—Dorothy Parker, Andy Warhol, the Ramones—photographer Weegee may not be the first to spring to mind, but he may symbolize the contradictions of New York City better than anyone else. Driven, self-mythologizing and morbidly curious about the curiously morbid, Weegee spent a decade, from 1936 to 1947, chronicling the violence and urban beauty of life in the Big Apple. Read more
Perception is Key in New Park Avenue Installment
Park Avenue will soon take on a psychedelic vibe thanks to the upcoming installation of some trippy new sculptures. The Parks Department is planning to place 10 sculptures by artist Rafael Barrios in the median of the avenue from East 51st Street up to the Park Avenue Armory at East 67th Street. Read more
From Start to Finish
By Lisa Chen
Among the upholsterers, gilders and other artisans of the Upper East Side is the Isabel O’Neil Studio Workshop at 315 East 91st Street. Since 1955, the studio has offered weekly instruction in the art of painted finish to an eager and devoted following of students. The studio stresses that no prior art experience is needed to create the many beautiful finishes that O’Neil invented herself. We recently visited with Executive Director Beth Mahaffey and board member Elizabeth Paul to discuss O’Neil’s influence and the art of the painted finish.
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Mile of Fun at Museum Crawl
On Tuesday, June 14, nine of the city’s most treasured cultural institutions will open their doors for Museum Mile, an evening of free admissions and celebrated art that stretches from 82nd to 105th streets along Fifth Avenue. Allow yourself time to get distracted along the way by the myriad number of vendors, musicians, variety acts and family activities. Here are some suggestions on how to make the most of the three-and-a-half-hours of a traffic-free Fifth Ave.
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MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL
The 33rd Annual Museum Mile Festival will take place rain or shine Tuesday, June 14, 6–9 p.m. Festival attendees can walk the Mile between 82nd and 105th streets while visiting nine museums completely free. Some museums offer outdoor activities for children as well. Participating museums this year are El Museo del Barrio, The Museum of the City of New York, The Jewish Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, National Academy Museum & School, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Neue Galerie New York, Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Bohemian Rhapsody at Czech Center
What do the sweet sound of jazz, beautifully crafted glass art and a children’s playgroup all have in common? These are a few of the events taking place on a daily basis at the recently renovated Czech Center, located on 73rd Street between First and Second avenues.
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“For the Beauty of the Earth” Opening Reception
Gallery 35 is hosting an opening reception for its new exhibit “For the Beauty of the Earth” from 4 to 7 p.m. May 7 at its space, 30 E. 35th Street.
The exhibit gathers eight artists who honor and interpret the beauty of the earth in a variety of media.
Italian Cultural Institute Embraces the Now
What do you showcase when your country has been one of the leading arbitrators of politics, culture, architecture and science for the past 2,000 years?
