Poetry Reading:
Sheila Lanham and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
June 14, 2007 at 9 PM
The Painting Center is pleased to present a poetry reading with Sheila Lanham and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. The Reading follows a Panel Discussion: The Collage Aesthetic in Painting 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Sheila Lanham is a poet and an artist. She was born in Baltimore and was an early member of the Maryland Writers Council in the 1970s. She later studied with Gilbert Sorrentino at the New School. She holds a BFA in Painting. She was co-editor of The Pearl, a Baltimore Literary Journal 1976-80. Her poems have been published in A Gathering of Voices, An Anthology of Baltimore Poets, Dolphin Moon Press, Baltimore Blues and Greens, a chapbook and various ezines, including Exquisite Corpse.
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is a poet, publisher, critic and eco-activist. He studied with Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley and Allen Ginsberg and has an MFA in poetry. From 1986 until 2001 he published Cover Magazine. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and six anthologies. He is the author of ten books, the latest being The Name Poems from Sisyphus Press. He is the new editor of Van Gogh’s Ear.
Panel Discussion “Why Won’t Abstract Art Die?”
December 8 , 2004
Free Admission
Moderator: Joe Walentini, Artist, Editor and Publisher of Abstract Art Online
Panelists: Mario Naves, Artist and Critic for The New York Observer, The New Art Examiner, and The New Criterion, Stephen Rosenberg, Partner/Owner of the Rosenberg + Kaufman Gallery, Claire Seidl, Painter and Photographer, and Emily Berger, Painter and Curator of the current exhibit, Nature Abstracted
Nature Abstracted, curated by Emily Berger
November 30 - December 23, 2004
Paintings by: Cecilia Abs André, Brett Baker, Ken Barber, James Beaman, Valerie Bogdan, Claudia Bos, Farrell Brickhouse, Geoffrey Detrani, Lois Ellison, Jeanette Fintz, Julian Jackson, Marilyn Jolly, Iona Kleinhaut, Juri Morioka, Maria Napolitano, Margaret Neill, Raha Raissnia, Claire Seidl, Elizabeth Terhune, Marie Ucci, Marianne van Lent, Joseph Walentini, Betty Wilde-Biasiny
The Anxious Image, curated by David Sharp and Jimmy Wright
November 2 - November 27, 2004
Artists: Olive Ayhens, Roger Brown, Martha Diamond, Mark Jackson, Paul LaMantia, June Leaf, Bonnie Lucas, Maryan, Charles Parness, Peter Saul, Barbara Takenaga, Jeff Way, H.C. Westermann, Stephen Westfall
Catalog available [Email address: director #AT# thepaintingcenter.org - replace #AT# with @ ]
Tracey Jones, Selected Paintings from 2002/2003
September 7 - October 2, 2004
Tracey Jones, Abstract Paintings from the early 1980s (Project Room)
September 7 - October 2, 2004
Panel Discussion “The Use and Misuse of Description in Art”
February 12, 2004
Free Admission
Moderator: Geoffrey Dorfman
Panelists: Robert Berlind, Lois Dodd, Wolf Kahn, and Ying Li
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