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Newsletter
For Immediate Release November 2011
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� 2011 Walter Weissman "Broken Balance" Wood painted aluminum and glass. 79 3/4" x 48" x 17"
(Photo by the artist. All Rights Reserved.)
The Parrish Art Museum / East End Stories
includes Walter Weissman on its website.
East End Stories, presented by the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. explores the enduring presence of artists on Eastern Long Island.
Launched in 2008 by the Museum, it aims to document and increase awareness of the dynamic history of visual artists on the East End of Long Island. This web site provides access to biographical information, art historical narratives, photographs, and maps that enable visitors to explore the lives of hundreds of artists who have lived on or visited Long Island from the 1820s to the present.
The website's range of artists include: William Merritt Chase, Willem de kooning, Jackson Pollock, Frederick Stuart Chase, Franz Kline, Ilya Bolotowsky, Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon and Marcel Duchamp among some 600 artists' stories.
An excerpt from his story reads: " Through out his career he has moved effortlessly between the two mediums of sculpture and photography. As an internationally syndicated photographer for such photo agencies as Corbis, he has created numerous portraits of renowned personalities and artists that live and work on the East End. "Portraying Artists: Photographs by Walter Weissman" is a current photographic portraits project including Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Eric Fischl, Ross Bleckner, Elaine de Kooning and Chuck Close among others, which were mostly created on Eastern Long Island. These photographs exist as fine art portraiture while documenting the history and cultural heritage of the East End.
His sculptural vocabulary is rooted in post minimal, conceptual, and process art. Utilizing steel, iron, rubber, stone, rope, petroleum jelly, wood, and glass he explores issues of materiality, gravity, structuralism, and architectonic space. He has created large-scale outdoor installations that are a cross between architecture and sculpture at a number of universities. His large horizontal floor pieces have been shown in galleries and public spaces along with his site-specific environments that have been exhibited at alternative spaces such as P.S.1, now part of MOMA."
Here is the link to read the entire story:
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The photo portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Chuck Close, Ross Bleckner, Elaine de Kooning, Larry Rivers, Dennis Oppenheim, Donald Sultan, Dan Flavin, Eric Fischl, Calvin Klein, Arman, Billy Joel, Betty Friedan and Edward Albee along with Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, Joseph Kosuth, Gilbert & George, James Rosenquist and William Wegman among others are part of an exhibition and catalog project.
This collection of photographs is part of the collective heritage and cultural history that tells a story about the artistic creativity of the New York art world - and it's relationship to Eastern Long Island as a major cultural hub - during the last quarter of the twentieth-century. It is a collection of photographs, created during a 20 plus year time span that reveals a narrative encompassing the many artists and art movements of this influential era having international impact.
As a museum director states "...this...collection...is the first time these images will be made available to the public as a group...The photos are wonderful works of art as well as being a historical record of the enduring artist community."
"Portraying Artists: Photographs by Walter Weissman" is a fiscally sponsored project of Artspire, a program of The New York Foundation For The Arts (NYFA).
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Exhibition:
The artist will be exhibiting drawings at:
WESTBETH GALLERY Holiday Group Show: Part I 55 Bethune Street, New York, NY 10014
westhbethevents@gmail.com 212-989-4650
Nov. 19 - Dec. 4, 2011
Reception: Nov. 19, 2011 5-8pm
Gallery Hours: Thur-Sun 1-6pm
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Contact: Walter Weissman Studio
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All images of and work herein � 2011 Walter Weissman. Walter Weissman Studio
All images are copyrighted with All Rights Reserved.
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