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Gallery Talk: Art is Personal with Anne Sherwood Pundyk & Jill Brienza
April 27 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Art is Personal: A Conversation with artist & writer Anne Sherwood Pundyk and art producer, curator & writer Jill Brienza
Anne and Jill will delve into their common belief in the personal impact of art. In her 30 years as a producer, curator and writer, Jill has always supported the artists’ perspective. “When I [work with] an artist, I want them to really push the limits,” she said early in her career. Anne and Jill have grown a friendship around experiencing art on a direct, subjective level. Jill’s projects have taken her around the world, while she has maintained her long-time roots on Shelter Island. Their mutual connection to the North Fork over the last 10 years has allowed an intimate exchange about the intersection of artmaking, the artworld, and our current-day challenges.
Doors open at 12:30PM
11 West Gallery [11 W. Main St., Riverhead]
Space is limited. Please reserve ahead.
About Anne – An artist and writer, Anne Sherwood Pundyk brings together the traditions of abstract art, textiles and storytelling. Activated by color, her unstretched paintings are constructed from stained, cropped and sewn sections of drop cloth canvas. Elements of her studio work link directly to her photographs, artist’s books, writing and performance pieces. Based in New York, Pundyk has engaged in her art making, exhibiting and art writing over the last 35 years. She relocated her studio to the North Fork ten years ago. Curator Helen A. Harrison observed, “…[Pundyk’s] work suggests that understanding requires another interpretive tool, or perhaps a personal surrender to a deeper, less accessible, level of cognition.” The move has been the catalyst for a fundamental re-centering of her art around adapting everyday forms with an eye toward questioning convention. annesherwoodpundyk.com @anne.sherwood.pundyk
About Jill – Jill Brienza is a curator, producer and writer based in New York City and Shelter Island, NY. Brienza is widely considered the pre-eminent expert on the work of Alan Shields and curated Alan Shields: A Survey, a traveling museum exhibition of Shields’ work, among other exhibitions and special projects. She has written on contemporary art for such publications as Flash Art and Art Basel Magazine. Brienza has worked with corporate clients on the development of art-related. For over ten years, Brienza was the director of an acclaimed contemporary art gallery in midtown Manhattan presenting a multidisciplinary program that showcased works by artists such as Peter Fend, architect Ken Smith and playwright/performer Sarah Jones. She serves as Co-chair of Hunter College’s Art Advisory Board. For Hunter, she curated Robert Longo’s American Bridge Project, a large scale public art exhibion. She is the long-time Chair of the Stephen Petronio Dance Company, and has previously been on the boards of Creative Time and Independent Curators International.
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East End Arts presents ‘Beauty Out of Bounds’, a solo exhibition with Anne Sherwood Pundyk, running from March 23 – May 5, 2024 simultaneously in two galleries:
EEA Art Gallery [133 E. Main St., Riverhead] & 11 West Gallery [11 W. Main St., Peconic Crossing, Riverhead]
