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EVENTS CALENDAR
More NYC Australian events can be found at:
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DENISE GREEN AM: WONDER AND EVANESCENCE:
An exhibition of paintings and works on paper
OPENING RECEPTION: Thurs, Feb 11, 6-8pm
Exhibition: Feb 11 - Mar 6
Sundaram Tagore Gallery
547 W 27th St
www.sundaramtagore.com
For her first solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, renowned Australian-American artist Denise Green, who studied under Mark Rothko & Robert Motherwell, applies Indian & Aboriginal philosophy to modernist technique, composing deeply personal works. Disembodied objects such as cut roses, fan-like shapes & stone fragments hover in the center of her paintings. Yet the objects are not to be read literally, nor do they bear specific meaning. Rather they are derived from a bank of personal and cultural imagery. Her paintings collapse boundaries between the interior spiritual world and the physical material world. Multivalent and challenging, Green’s work gives new meaning to the notion of globalization in art.
Born in Australia, Green arrived in NYC in 1969. Her first major exhibition New Image Painting at the Whitney Museum in 1978 launched her into the New York art world. Denise Green has had more than 90 solo exhibitions & her work has been the subject of nine museum retrospectives over the last decade including PS1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA in NY (1999), the Art Gallery of NSW (2001) & Museum Kurhaus Kleve in Germany (2006). Her paintings are in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the Albertina Museum, Vienna. In 2007 she was awarded the Order of Australia.
This exhibition is accompanied by a publication by the artist titled Metonymy in Contemporary Art: A New Paradigm.
WINTER OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY PARTY AT THE AUSTRALIAN
Friday, 12 Feb
6pm
The Australian Bar & Restaurant
20 West 38th St
- Free Drink on entry
- A "Steven Bradbury (our luckiest Olympian) Lucky Door Prize"!
- Prize for most best dressed (either patriotically or snow themed)!
- $6 Snowy Mountain Martinis All Night!
Sound and pictures on all the TVS, get your friends together - all nations welcome!
NY MAGPIES AUSSIE RULES: 2010 Season Launch
Thurs, 18 Feb - 8pm
The Australian Bar & Restaurant
20 West 38th St
First training session starts on March 16, 2010, no prior experience necessary.
Looking to fill spots in our men’s and women’s teams.
For more information contact: recruitment@nyfooty.com
or coach@nyfooty.com or visit our website at www.nyfooty.com
ART EXHIBIT
Tues, Feb 23
6–8pm
Australian Consulate General
150 E 42nd St, 34th floor
(btwn Lexington & Third Aves)
RSVP Essential: prashanti.kanagasabai@austrade.gov.au
The Australian Trade Commission invites you to attend an exhibition featuring three Australian artists - Geoff Dyer, Anthony Holzner & Chen Ping - inaugurated by the Australian Consul General, Phillip H. Scanlan, AM.
Geoff Dyer - Dyer’s work is well known and respected nationally and internationally – particularly his distinctive, evocative oils of Tasmania’s natural and wild landscapes. He won the acclaimed Archibald Prize in 2003 with a powerful portrait of the Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan, and has been a selected finalist nine times since 1993. His work has also been a selected finalist in the Australian Gallery of New South Wales’ Wynne and Sulman Prizes on numerous occasions.
Ping Chen - However wild and expressionistic his painting becomes, Ping’s Chinese academic training is never far beneath the surface. Further studies at the Tasmanian University School of Art in Australia helped him to put his mastery of traditional techniques into a wider perspective and to fuse the influences of the artists he admired (Rembrandt, Degas,Francis Bacon and others), with contemporary theories. Ping's most recent works are integrating Western figurative and pictorial structures with the spirit of Eastern space and mark making. The freedom of using empty space in composition is derived from Chinese Taoist philosophy and traditional ink painting.
Anton Holzner - After some fifty years of painting, Anton Holzner’s oeuvre is one of enviable quality and authority, reflecting both his experience of the Australian landscape, its geology, spaciousness, vegetation, and of the human form. His expressive painting style may attract us in the first place, but it is the suggestion of human form or landscape that sustains our interest. He sees the Australia of the desert, the vast open spaces … that primeval quality … which gave him enormous insight, forming his character as a painter.
MARCO LUCCIO: International Cities
DEBRA LUCCIO: Images of Dance
Opening Reception: 18 March
Exhibition: 18-28 March
ALL ABOUT ME: Dame Edna
Preview: 22 Feb
Opening: 18 March
Henry Miller's Theatre
124 West 43rd Street
Celebrated cabaret singer Michael Feinstein and comic legend Dame Edna Everage present a singular and spectacular evening of musical entertainment.
PRESENTATION BY MICHAEL GUNN, National Gallery of Australia
Wed, 31 March
6-8pm
Australian Consulate
150 East 42nd St, 34th Floor
RSVP by 30 Mar Essential (capacity limited):
(212) 351 6550
Australian Consul General, Phillip H. Scanlan, AM, and the American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia, invite you to an illustrated talk by Dr Michael Gunn of the National Gallery of Australia.
Some of the most evocative sacred works of Pacific art were originally collected as “gods” or “heathen idols” when Polynesian peoples were converted to Christianity in the 18th & 19th centuries. These include the powerful & iconic Ku figures from Hawai’i; subtle and delicate female figures carved from whale’s teeth in Tonga; goddesses from Nukuoro.
The Polynesian concept most often translated as ‘gods’ is atua, which refers to various life-forces that Polynesians understand to exist outside a living body. A number of different types of objects were used to represent, contain, or interact with atua. Some said to be ‘gods’ were in fact ancestor figures. Others were found in caves and had been used as containers for disembodied life-forces, some were probably used for sorcery.
The National Gallery of Australia is developing a major exhibition of Polynesian art which will explore the nature of Polynesian gods and their relationship to the iconic works of art which have come to represent Polynesia. Michael Gunn, the curator for this exhibition, will give an illustrated talk about the development of this exciting exhibition.
AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM TODAY
Wed, 5 May
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue (at 70th St)
6.30pm - Reception Follows
Admission: $11
Students/Seniors: $9
Asia Society Members: $7
Featuring the latest and hottest award-winning short films from Australia.
ABORIGINAL VOICES: Celebrating the New Australian Literature