M i d - M a n h a t
t a n L i b r a r y
presents
An Artist Dialogue
Michael Kukla and
Florence
Neal
Saturday December 19,
2009
2:30 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
www.nypl.org
(
directions
)
Elevators access the
6th floor after 2p.m.
All events are
FREE
and subject to last minute change or
cancellation.
Michael
Kukla and Florence Neal will discuss
Shades
of Light
his site-specific
Art in the
Windows
installation at Mid-Manhattan Library. They will also talk about
his work, and development of his sculptures from the drawing process, as well
as Kukla’s graphic design contributions to Kentler International Drawing Space
and the mission of this thriving space dedicated to drawing and serving the
public.
Michael Kukla
born in
Prague
,
Czech Republic
, moved to the
US
with his family in 1971 as a small boy. He studied painting at Castleton State
College in
Vermont
where he received his BFA
in sculpture, and at Hochshule der Kuenste in
Berlin
,
Germany
.
His work has been exhibited in the US and Europe and was featured live on Czech
TV as the first American artist to exhibit in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia since the
end of world war II. His drawings are currently in the traveling exhibit
Density curated by Marilyn Simms of the Zimmerli, Museum, which will open at
the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, AK in March 2010. Among his many
commissions for sculpture, he was approached by Apple Computer to create marble
pedestals for the full line of Apple computers in 1992. Kukla is also a graphic
designer and the owner of Riveredge Design. His numerous
New York
clients include the venerated New
York Athletic Club, the University Club and the Ronald McDonald House.
Artist
Florence
Neal
has been Co-founder and Director of the Kentler International Drawing
Space, in Red Hook,
Brooklyn
since 1990. The
non-profit gallery is dedicated to bringing innovative drawings and works on
paper to public. The programs include 4 to 6 exhibitions a year of the work by
emerging and under-recognized artists, the Flatfiles with work by over
140 artists, and
K.I.D.S. Art Education. She initiated the exhibitions program at Brooklyn
Public Library as Exhibitions Coordinator from 2002-2004. She was curator of
The Art Lot
(2000-2003), juror for
Drawings on Alabama
(2006), and recently
juried
Brooklyn
for 440 Gallery. Her own drawings, prints and public art installations have
been exhibited in the
US
and abroad. Neal’s wind sculpture
Dance
of Life
is a public art commission for the
University
of
Alabama
in
Birmingham
. She has collaborated with writer
Wendy Walker on a number of print/text projects including
Screen Memories
at Brooklyn Public Library and
...a different forest
, a public art commission for Omaha Public
Library. She is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner fellowship and several
residencies including Fundación Valparaíso, Women’s Studio Workshop and
Hambidge
Center
for the Arts.
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