Sari Dienes, Addie Herder and Stella Snead Exhibition
Pavel Zoubok Gallery
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PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY invites you to solo exhibitions by SARI DIENES (1898-1992), ADDIE HERDER (1920-2009) and STELLA SNEAD (1910-2006), three fiercely independent mixed-media artists whose distinctive creative paths overlapped in the storied Sherwood Studios during the 1950s and 1960s.
Everything has mind, spirit, intelligence: I honor these in everything and do not separate myself as a human being from them. – Sari Dienes
The Spirit Lives in Everything begins with SARI DIENES’ formative Surrealist period of the 1930s and 1940s and traces her evolution through the 1960s, when she rejected her formal training to begin experimenting with new materials and techniques. The shift in her practice from painting and drawing towards “rubbings” layering urban textures, assemblages of found objects and all-over abstraction can be firmly located in the Sherwood Studios at 58 West 57th Street, a home to artists and writers since the nineteenth century. Upon taking up residency there in 1945, Dienes met and began a lifelong friendship with composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. She quickly established herself in the epicenter of the art world during the 1950s, influencing artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko and Ray Johnson. Though widely exhibited during her lifetime, Dienes’ legacy is dominated by her powerful monoprints of subway grates and manhole covers. This exhibition articulates a formal sensibility that permeated all she created, tracking the development of that body of work from her early drawings through to exuberant explorations in mixed media.
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Schedule
from November 20, 2014 to December 20, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-11-20 from 18:00 to 20:00