News and Events

Love & Heartbreak

February 11 - April 1, 2012

Love & Heartbreak
group exhibition
Piermont Straus
Hours: Saturday & Sunday 11AM - 7PM
http://piermontstraus.com


 

Philip Pearlstein and Desirée Alvarez
Painter/Painted

Wednesday, February 22, 6:30PM

Painter/Painted
group exhibition
New York Studio School
8 West 8th Street (5th & 6th)
http://www.nyss.org/lectures/spring-2012/

Internationally recognized artist Philip Pearlstein will be in conversation with his model of 12 years, Desirée Alvarez, award winning poet, sculptor and painter. The dialogue will explore the nature of Pearlstein's work process and his intimate relationship to perception. Ms. Alvarez is the recipient of three Fellowship Awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the European Capital of Culture Award, and the American Academy Willard L. Metcalf Award.

Recent recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters (2008), Philip Pearlstein had his first one-person show at the Tanager Gallery, NY in 1955, and has since been the subject of over 140 solo exhibitions. New work by Pearlstein will be featured by the Betty Cuningham Gallery at the ADAA Art Show, opening March 6, 2012 at the Park Avenue Armory.

Lectures begin at 6:30, lectures are free and open to the public. Seating may be limited.


 

Bach at One

Monday, December 5, 2011 - 1 pm

Bach at One
On Monday, Dec. 5 at 1 pm I'm the invited poet at Bach at One at St. Paul's, Trinity Church (near World Trade Center site). I'll be reading during the interlude in the concert. It's an on-going series. More info at http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/music/bach


 

Exhibition and special book signing: Oceans, Rivers, & The Fish That Swim
Oceans, Rivers, and The Fish That Swim

September 17 - November 3
Hours: Saturday & Sunday 11AM - 7PM
or by appointment
Opening: Saturday, October 22

Artists: Desirée Alvarez, Linda Byrne, Rebecca Dowding, Robyn Ellenbogen, Melora Griffis, Jordana Scheer, RWJR, Laura Straus, Roger Straus III, Sandra Tremblay, Unknown Artist from Papua, New Guinea

Our Writer: Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish

Please join us for a glass of wine at our inaugural exhibition and book signing on Saturday, October 22 from 11AM - 7 PM

530 Piermont Avenue
Piermont, NY 10968
Tel: 845-459-3124
email: info(AT)piermontstraus.com
www.piermontstraus.com


 

2011 Poetry Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts

NYFA Poetry Fellowship:
Desirée Alvarez (New York)

http://www.nyfa.org/level4.asp?id=497&fid=1&sid=1&tid=15
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the nation's largest provider of funding, information and services to individual artists, awarded 115 NYFA Fellowships to 118 New York artists representing eight artistic disciplines.

This year's 105 NYFA Fellows - who were chosen from among over 3,692 applicants in five categories - including Crafts/Sculpture; Digital/Electronic Work; Nonfiction Literature; Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, and Poetry. The Fellows were selected by peer panels, which were assembled with representatives from each artistic discipline.


 

January 13 - March 13, 2011

Of Weeds and Wildness:
Nature in Black & White

Reception Thursday, February 10, 5 - 7pm
Nott Memorial, Mandeville Gallery
Union College, Schenectady, NY
http://union.edu/gallery

Curated by Sally Apfelbaum and Rachel Seligman

Robert Adams, Desiree Alvarez, Arnold Bittleman, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Harold Edgerton, Robert Gober, William Kentridge, Hedya Klein, Danny Lyon, Abelardo Morell, Margaret Moulton, Michelle Segre, James Siena, Kiki Smith, Charles Steckler, Kate Temple

Of Weeds and Wildness

Left: Lousie Bourgeois, Hairy Spider, 2001 drypoint on paper, 19" x 16". Right: Nott Memorial

Some coverage of the show:
Photo Set On Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bvcphoto/sets/72157626018783376/show/
The Times Union:
http://www.timesunion.com
All Over Albany:
http://alloveralbany.com

 

February 2011 ( on-going )

Site-specific installation of Book of Birds
On-going at Central Booking Gallery
111 Front Street
Gallery 210
Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO)
Thursday - Sunday, 12 - 6 pm
http://centralbookingnyc.com
347-731-6559
Book of Birds

studio view
Book of Birds, 2010
woodcut, etching and ink on fabric