NYAB Event - Peggy Cyphers and Ford Crull Exhibition

Peggy Cyphers and Ford Crull Exhibition

Roger Smith Hotel

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Peggy Cyphers is a painter, professor of art and art writer, who has shown her work in the U.S. and Europe since 1984. . Selected one person exhibitions include New York Academy of Sciences, Rhode Island College, William Patterson College, Galerie Asbeck (Copenhagen), and Kleinert James Art Center (Woodstock,NY). Recent grants and honors for her painting include the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant (2012), and Pratt Institute Faculty Fund Award (2011,2001). Cyphers has been a resident artist at International Studio Program NYC, ArtOmi, Yaddo, Triangle Artists Workshop and the Clocktower/P.S.1. Peggy Cyphers is a tenured Adjunct Professor at the Pratt Institute.

Ford Crull was raised in Seattle, where he graduated from the University of Washington. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, Dayton Art Institute, and the Brooklyn Museum. His paintings were included in the important 1989 Moscow exhibition, “Painting After the Death of Painting,” curated by Donald Kuspit. Recent exhibitions have included shows in London, Milan, Italy, amd Seattle.

Anthony Haden-Guest is a writer, reporter, cartoonist and sporadic performer, Way back he got a New York Emmy for writing and narrating a documentary about a Eurotrash in New York and is still waiting for that phone call from Big TV. He was born in Paris, grew up in London, lives in New York. He has covered war, crime and the orders and disorders of the Celebrity Culture, but now focuses on the art world. His books include True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World and The Last Party, a book about New York’s nightlife in the years when it had one. He has published two books of cartoons and dark light verse, The Chronicles of Now and In The Mean Time and his lyrics have just morphed into folk noir on Rudely Interrupted, an album he made with Lorraine Leckie, which he urges you to get.