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M i d - M a n h a t t a n L i b r a r y

Presents

"An Artist Dialogue"

Olive Ayhens and Mario Naves

Monday May 21, 2007

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

http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/mml/art/artwall.html

Olive Ayhens will present a collection of slides showing her earlier work, a selection of paintings from "Connected" series and her new work. She will discuss her vision of painting through time and her 3rd Floor exhibition "Rivers of Light" with Mario Naves.

Olive Ayhens, a painter originally from San Francisco, has lived in New York since 1996.  She received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute.  She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pollock-Krasner Fellowships, an Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Grant and a Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space Grant. She has been awarded several artist residencies including Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, LMCC World Views, Fundacion Valparaiso, Saalzburg Kunstlerhaus, and Djerassi.  Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States with exhibitions held at Gary Tatintsian Gallery, NYC; Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC; Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC and at the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Her work has been reviewed in many publications including Art News, Art Papers, Art in America, New York Times, Village Voice, and San Francisco Chronicle.  She has taught drawing and painting classes at the university level throughout the U. S.

Mario Naves is an artist who writes about art.  His writings have been published in ARTS Magazine, Smithsonian, The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion and Slate.  His weekly column "Currently Hanging" has appeared in The New York Observer since 1999.  His works-on-paper is represented by Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York.

Elevators access the 6th floor after 6p.m.

All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.