LEILA HELLER GALLERY, New York , and Dubai.

NEW YORK Neal Rock Pericardium December 8th to February 10th   Neal Rock is a Welsh-born artist currently living and working in Charlottesville, Virginia. In a visual art career spanning twenty years, Rock has explored the material and conceptual boundaries of painting as its limits have been informed and redefined by other forms of cultural production such as film, sculpture and architecture, amongst others. His work came of age in the early 2000s and pays homage to previous generations of artists such as Lynda Benglis, Fabian Marcaccio and Bernard Frize, who set a foundation for what Rock has explored through his painting practice. Underlying his work is a concern for painting as a time-based endeavor, one that encompasses both temporal and atemporal qualities – factoring differing notions of time into physical propositions in paint. As a monoglot who was socialized in an officially bilingual country, Rock is acutely aware of the role of language as that which contains performative acts of communication, opacity and protection. In this regard he has often titled his work with words no longer in everyday use, or by adjoining words from multiple languages as a means to discuss familiarity and estrangement in the material, corporeal aspects of his practice. He addresses human forms –  interrelational and entangled –  through a synthetic material that allows for abstraction and a perceptual immediacy. These accentuations have underpinned his work for over two decades and, in its current iteration, forms an oblique relationship to human bodies. Whilst the visceral and oblique might seem at odds with one another, Rock’s intention is to speak to this disjuncture stemming from his formative years, experiencing the Welsh language as optical, sculptural and perceptual rather than linguistic. As such, he understands estrangement as situated within the familiar – the immediacy of surfaces warped, becoming interior or sheathed membranes – a trope familiar within American ‘body horror’ films of the late 1970s and 1980s, to which his work remains indebted. READ MORE DUBAI Robert Wilson Video Portraits and La Traviata November 12th to January 13th   The only way to truly experience theater is to be physically on one side of the proscenium or be a part of the more participatory theater where the proscenium has been dispensed with all-together. Video, film and photography are offered as documents of a performance but rarely come close to the three dimensional experience; the sounds as they radiate through the theater, lighting as it wraps around a hand, the anticipation of the audience, the subtle gesture of the individual actor. Robert Wilson is one of the rare artists who works across artistic media without being buoyed by one method of making. The process of creation transcends a single medium and instead finds outlet within the archetype of an opera, the architecture of a building, the stains in a watercolor drawing, the design of a chair, the choreography of a dance, the rhythm of a sonnet, or the multiple dynamics revealed in a Video Portrait. READ MORE Darvish Fakhr Traveling Light November 12th to January 13th   “Finding a means to live together without violence or antagonism will take a form of imagination and invention" Edward Said said in 1978. Being half Iranian and growing up in America during the revolution, Fakhr faced abuse and shame he didn't understand as a child. Through his paintings, Fakhr processes these complicated emotions. In this collection, he illustrates the beauty of the multi-layered cultures he was constantly exposed to, by painting over his old work and layering them. Growing up in Boston he was taught a very traditional Western technique of oil painting. By superimposing Eastern philosophies through English and Farsi texts, he aims to celebrate the juxtaposition as a creative solution to an ongoing worldly conflict. In what he calls “gentle civic disruptions,” Darvish channels his influences and inspirations from Sufism to challenge our preconceived notions of culture and tolerance in performance work that strikes viewers with its surrealism, humor, and optimism. Though he is not a practicing Sufi, his work is meant to pay homage to the purity of Sufi mysticism, to the point where he describes himself as a "Sufi Skool Dropout". The guerrilla nature of such work is meant to disrupt the daily movement of our lives. READ MORE OPENING SOON | DUBAI Behrang Samadzagedan The Missing Witness January 18th Lorenzo Quinn Now and Forever January 18th Arash Nazari January 18th LEILA HELLER GALLERY DUBAI I-87, Alserkal Avenue PO Box 410683 Al Quoz 1, Dubai, UAE T: +971 4 321 6942 dubai@leilahellergallery.com        #liahellergallery#firnartmagazine#fienartwinter

Noah's Ark Art Gallery News

To the art-loving community The past two years have been challenging for all of us.  With the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic crisis in Lebanon, the explosion of the Beirut port, as well as the war in Armenia, the war in the Ukraine, and the international economic crisis that we are currently facing, have completely altered our realities, both in our personal lives and in the art world.  Nevertheless, despite the external circumstances, the Noah’s Ark Art Gallery plans to continue its work and mission. During the pandemic, Noah’s Ark artists continued to be present in Australia, first in Sydney and then in Mclaren Vale’s at the d’Arenberg Cube Modern Masters Marquee exhibition, that has been reopened since January 2, 2023, where the works are displayed alongside the Salvador Dali collection. We are currently in the midst of organizing an exhibition in our premises in Zalka later this year, as well as another event in Yerevan to follow. Both of these exhibitions are for charitable purposes. In the meantime, we invite you to visit our website, where we have revamped our collection and are offering unique pieces.  Noah's Ark Art Gallery (noahsark-gallery.com) Noah’s Ark Administration Copyright (C) 2023 Noah's Ark Art Gallery. All rights reserved. You are receiving this e-mail because you are included in the Noah's Ark Art Gallery Newsletter.  Our mailing address is: Noah's Ark Art Gallery Center Grand Park 2, Jawharji Street Zalka 26154103 Lebanon Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe

 

 

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Happy New Year!! Thank you so much for your support with our end of the year fundraiser! Thanks to all your donations- big and small- we can continue to give voice to new opera, singers, instrumentalists, training, and community! Wishing you a wonderful 2023, The American Opera Project

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We would be honored if you started your new year with us and joined on either January 8th (Manhattan) or January 10th (Brooklyn) for Cycle 11’s Six Scenes Program. Six Scenes is just one of many AOP programs made possible by your generous support. Tickets are $25. Sunday, January 8th, 2023 7:30 PM National Opera Center Rehearsal Hall 330 7th Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY, 10001

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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 7:30 PM South Oxford Space The Great Room 138 South Oxford Street  Brooklyn, NY, 11217

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Cycle 11 Composers and Librettists Jeesun Choi / Librettist Isabella Dawis / Librettist Troy Defour / Librettist Gabrielle Herbst / Composer J.E. Hernández / Composer Raquel Acevedo Klein / Composer Paul Pinto / Composer Tidtaya Sinutoke / Composer Ania Vu / Composer

Six Scenes Singers: Justine Aronson / Light Coloratura Soprano Emily Mwila / Lyric Soprano Max Potter / Mezzo-Soprano Aaren Rivard / Tenor Phillip Bullock / Baritone Kofi Hayford / Bass Six Scenes Music Directors: Mila Henry Kelly Horsted  Six Scenes Stage Directors: Matt Gray Kimille Howard

SCENE DESCRIPTIONS: SE LEVANTA – Raquel Acevedo Klein (composer and librettist) The relationship between a brother and sister living in two separate worlds is reshaped by a series of natural disasters and the cultural dissonance between the US mainland and Puerto Rico. MAZE – J.E. Hernández (composer) and Troy Defour (librettist) A chamber opera, Maze details an allegorical space where recovering substance addicts battle a relapse. LITTLE DUGONG AND HER SEAGRASS SONG – Tidtaya Sinutoke (composer) and Isabella Dawis (librettist) Off the coast of the island of Phuket in southern Thailand, a lost young dugong (a type of manatee) sings in search of her mother. When a monkey and an elephant arrive at the shore, frantically searching for a lost jade bracelet, the three animals must learn to put aside the destructive behaviors they’ve picked up from humans, and to find what they’re looking for together. THROUGH THE DOORS – Ania Vu (composer and librettist) A young girl Odessa and her father, an obsessive metronome-maker, live together remotely and peacefully. One day, a soldier arrives to deliver some news that will change the course of the characters' lives forever.  BRUNCH ANGELS – Gabrielle Herbst (composer and librettist) Brunch Angels is set in a New York City restaurant and shares the experience of three servers in a fancy, fast-paced atmosphere – the food and drink, the camaraderie and complications, and sometimes, the loss and grief felt while on the job. INFLUENCE – Paul Pinto (composer) and Jeesun Choi (librettist) When social media influencers Tommy and Sally reboot their account after a shocking fallout, their ex-partner Gorgo hijacks their livestream to jolt them out of their sponsored lifestyle. Please note that masks are required at all performances.

ABOUT COMPOSERS & THE VOICE: Steven Osgood / C&V Artistic Director Mila Henry / Head of Music Matt Gray / Head of Drama AOP's Composers & the Voice is a two-year, tuition-free fellowship for composers and librettists that provides experience writing for the voice and opera stage. The Composers & the Voice training program is a competitive biannual fellowship offered to composers, librettists, and composer/librettist teams. Created and led by Composers & the Voice Artistic Director Steven Osgood, the two-year fellowship includes a year of working with the company’s Resident Ensemble of Singers and professional instructors followed by a year of continued promotion and career development through AOP and its strategic partnerships. Since launching in 2002, C&V has fostered the development of over 75 composers & librettists. Find out more at https://www.aopopera.org/composers-voice.

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Hoffmann + Maler + Wallenberg is pleased to announce the exhibition of Yanyan Huang: Atlas

Abyss, 2022 Acrylic and ink on canvas 160 x 140 cm Yanyan Huang: Atlas Hoffmann + Maler + Wallenberg is pleased to announce the exhibition On view:  January 7–February 12, 2023 Hoffmann + Maler + Wallenberg Villa Poulido 9, Avenue Salonina, 06000 Nice This is the gallery’s first exhibition with Huang. The show features a large selection of paintings on paper and seven acrylic and ink paintings on canvas, all made in 2022. Atlas is the result of the artist’s three-month stay in Aix-en-Provence, France. Huang was born in China and grew up in the United States, and today operates in a long tradition of Western painters being influenced by Chinese ink painting and Oriental motifs more generally. She speaks of her practice as dancing with time—both the time it takes to make the work, and the long historical gap between the earliest Chinese calligraphy, made around three thousand years ago during the Shang dynasty, and US Abstract Expressionism, which emerged in the 1950s, both of which are abundantly evident as influences. And indeed, the work dances between ink and acrylic paint, between thick and delicate strokes and swirls, between peaceful gestures and expressive strokes of bright color soaring around the canvas. Huang lets her abstractions act as signifiers of her own subjectivity, which she braids together with contemporary influences as diverse as ceramics, fashion, and advertising. In its intertwining of the generic and the specific, the universal and the unique, the handmade and the disposable, Huang’s project becomes—in its uniquely abstract way—a portrait of selfhood today.

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