M i d - M a n h a t t
a n L i b r a r y
Presents
An Artist Dialogue
Lydia Venieri and Douglas Maxwell
Monday May 18, 2009
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.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or
cancellation.
Lydia Venieri will show images
of her work in a variety of media, and will give a presentation on her photography
project See No Evil created in 2007-2009. Douglas Maxwell will join Ms.
Venieri for a discussion of her work, the influences on her art and how her
work is perceived in public spaces.
Born in Athens
into a family of architects, Lydia Venieri studied in Paris. She attended the École Nationale Supérieure
des Beaux-Arts and studied painting with Michel Yankel, sculpture with César,
and lithography at atelier Hadad. At the age of twenty-two she had her first solo
show at Gallery Samy Kinge. In 1987 for the tenth anniversary of the Pompidou Center, she was invited to exhibit an
installation of forty sculptures which represented a court of miracles with
allegorical scenes. Since then her work has been shown in many exhibitions
through out Europe. In 1999 she settled in New York where her art
moved into a new domain. In 2002 she completed the first part of her trilogy,
Hibernation followed by For Ever After, The Last Conflict, and War
Games which were exhibited in New York, Paris and Athens.
In 2001 she won the Medal for Sculpture by the Academie Francais de Paris for
sculpture, and in 2004 she was commissioned by the Athens Olympic Committee to
create two large paintings. Her work is represented by Stux Gallery in New York and Gallery Terra in Tokyo.
Douglas Maxwell
is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Arts at New York University
where he teaches contemporary art. He is an independent curator and art critic,
and has published often on contemporary art. He is also a Licensed
Psychoanalyst in New York
State, and a nationally
certified psychoanalyst. He is a member of numerous organizations, and is the
President of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE). He is
also the Arts Editor of The Psychoanalytic Review.
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