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M i d - M a n h a t t a n L i b r a r y
Presents
Writing an Artist's Statement:
Identity and Form
Monday June 5th, 2006
6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor
Mid-Manhattan Library
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0871
Elevators access the 6th floor after 6p.m.
During a lively discussion, including an active question-and-answer session, John Zinsser will introduce examples of artist's statements, press releases and related texts. These serve to open the larger question of how a sense of personal identity can be defined through a piece of short prose.
The initial message is pragmatic: the essential information required, and how to present it for clarity. Philosophical issues naturally arise, as verbal descriptions are used to allude to visual experience. The results can be serious or felicitous. The important thing is to break through to a reader with good sense and originality.
John Zinsser, a popular New School lecturer and co-founder of Journal of Contemporary Art, is an internationally exhibiting abstract painter. He has worked broadly in the art field as a writer, editor and public speaker. Some of his most recent solo exhibitions were held at Stark Gallery in New York, Galerie Von Lintel in New York, Galerie S65 in Cologne, Germany and Roger Ramsay Gallery in Chicago.
All events are subject to last minute change or cancellation.