I wanted to wish David Lahm and everyone in New York this weekend a
wonderful time. Wish so much I could be there. Please send reports,
photos, MP3 downloads and the usual ;-) Here's something from the CSN list
that may interest some of you N.Y. partiers while in town:
> Music Legend Graham Nash Will Show His Photographic Work At Brooklyn's
> Acclaimed Howard Schickler Gallery
>
> May 24th Opening Will Debut Nash's 'New York Portfolio'
>
> BROOKLYN, N.Y., May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Rock 'n Roll Hall of Famer and
Artist
> Graham Nash is most well known for his phenomenal music career, both as a
> founding member of The Hollies, Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby,
Stills,
> Nash and Young, and as a solo artist. He has been involved with some of
the
> most important, influential -- and best -- music and humanitarian events
of
> the last four decades. Graham Nash is an equally gifted fine art
> photographer, and his "New York Portfolio" has its inaugural exhibition at
> Howard Schickler Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, opening May 24, 2001 from
> 7-9PM. The show will run through July 20.
>
> Nash's "New York Portfolio," which encompasses twelve immediately striking
> black and white images, will be both hung and displayed in portfolio
format
> at the Schickler gallery. The photographs are all 16" x 11" Iris Prints
on
> Somerset Velvet paper by Nash Editions of Manhattan Beach, CA, the
> state-of-the-art digital Photographic printing company that Mr. Nash
recently
> launched with partner Mac Holbert.
>
> Of his Gotham-themed "New York Portfolio" Nash says, "New York City is a
> wonderful place of chaotic extremes. You can find the deepest peace,
> overwhelming beauty, and the ugliness of the human experience gathered in
the
> same moment. My work relates to that unrelenting quality of urban
> eccentricity."
>
> The elegant portfolio includes amongst its dozen images ones entitled
> "Subway," "Jack at MOMA," "Baseball," "Horse," and "TV Self Portrait."
While
> the immensely engaging photographs may share some of the
straightforwardness
> indicated by their titles, they are at the same time full of all the
mystery
> and complexity of New York itself. Curator Dennis High of the Center for
> Photographic Art writes in his introduction to the portfolio: "We are
caught
> in the glare of neon by an artist who creates from the menu of the street.
> He does not favor the object nor the person, they are all part of the
visual
> composite, a chine colle of light and composition that constructs the
> statement of -- The City."
>
> Simultaneously showing at Schickler with "New York Portfolio" are the Nash
> Edition Iris Prints of Robert Weingarten's exquisite landscapes. Both
> artists will be present at the May 24th opening. Originally founded in
1975,
> Howard Schickler Gallery moved in 2000 to Brooklyn's "D.U.M.B.O."
waterfront
> area directly under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, an emerging
artists'
> enclave with warehouses dating back to the Civil War era. They are known
for
> their specialization in photographic images.
