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

An Artist Dialogue

  Deirdre Donohue and Bernard Yenelouis
 

Monday March 16, 2009
6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor
 
Mid-Manhattan Library
The New York Public Library
40 th   Street and 5 th   Avenue
New York , NY 10016
212-340-0871

 
Elevators access the 6th floor after 6p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation

Deirdre Donohue will show images of her work in a variety of media, and converse with curator, educator and artist Bernard Yenelouis about her Art Wall on Third exhibit Sevdah and the myriad influences on her art from cinema, to libraries and archives.

Deirdre Donohue is the Stephanie Shuman Librarian of the International Center of Photography and an artist. She studied fine arts and art history at S.U.N.Y. New Paltz (B.A. 1985), and has studied at the New School , the Center for Book Arts, Art Student League and ICP. She has exhibited her work in annual staff exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1985-2000), the Queens College Art Center (2004), and in an exhibition titled Move at the Knitting Factory (2003). Her cell phone videos have been screened in Rome , and her work was most recently seen in the International Center of Photography’s staff exhibition in 2006. She teaches at Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science and ICP.

Bernard Yenelouis is an educator, curator and an artist. A faculty member at School of International Center of Photography since 1998, he has served as a grants  panelist for CEC Artslink in 2005 and 2008, a Fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 1999 and 2001, and has had his writings published in   Bomb, The Art Book, and Artwurl. His work has been exhibited at Luxe Gallery, Monya Rowe Gallery, Camera Club of New York, Momenta Art, Bridge Art Fair Miami and Art 101. His second solo exhibition at Kristi Engle Gallery in Los Angeles is scheduled for 2010. He is the curator of Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Illusion & Disappearance in Photography exhibition opening at Camera Club of New York in March 2009.