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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
Series Event
Linda Stillman and Geoffrey Young
Saturday May 1, 2010
2:30 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
www.nypl.org
(directions)
Elevators access the
6th floor after 2p.m.
All events are
FREE
and subject to last minute change or
cancellation.
Geoffrey Young,
poet, curator, and professor of art criticism, joins artist Linda
Stillman in a presentation of her work and a discussion of the Art Wall on
Third exhibition of her photographs, Found New York. They will also
talk about how Stillman’s work relates to ideas of time and memory.
Linda Stillman is an artist working in photography, painting, collage and installation.
Her work focuses on nature, time and memory, often using everyday objects and
detritus. She is a graduate of the
University
of
Pennsylvania
and the
School
of
Visual Arts. She received her MFA
from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been included in many
exhibitions locally and around the country. Currently, one of the photographs
from the
Found
series is in
Glitch Generation
exhibit at the
Brooklyn Arts Council in DUMBO. She was recently awarded a fellowship by the
Virginia
Center
for the Creative Arts. Her work
is held in numerous private collections. A native New Yorker, Linda currently
lives and works in
Manhattan
and in
Columbia County,
New
York
.
Geoffrey Young
has taught at
Columbia
University,
SUNY Albany,
University
of
California,
Berkeley
and
Vassar
College.
His small press, The Figures (1975-2005), published more than 125 books of poetry, fiction and art writing.
Several of his own poetry books, including
Cerulean
Embankments,
Lights Out, and
Fickle Sonnets, have been illustrated by
Carroll Dunham, James Siena, and Donald Baechler, respectively. Over the
past eighteen years he has curated more than sixty exhibitions of drawing and
painting. He lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Initiated in 2004,
the
Artist Dialogues
provide
a forum for appreciation, interpretation and understanding of contemporary art. Artists are
paired with critics, curators, historians, writers or other artists to converse about art
and the potential of new ideas.
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