Art
Ejay Weiss Revolutionary Artist and Climate Crusader Is Revealed in Three Shows
“My work is the direct response to my treatment of the canvas as a quantum and unified field that works as a metaphor for the time-space continuum. Each painting is a journey into the nature of continuity and discontinuity; offering a simultaneous view of both the microcosm and macrocosm. Every stroke, runnel and spot of paint is a quantum moment which evolves into a completed painting. This is a Zen-like process for me.” -Ejay Weiss
On Friday, November 1st, co-producers and co-curators, Jill Conner and Robert Zash, will open the first Solo Show of revered New York Artist, Ejay Weiss’ vast canon of celebrated work at Gallery Five Ten (139 West 35th Street – between Sixth & Seventh Avenues – on the fifth floor) where it will run through Monday, November 18. 100 of his 2,997 works of art will be on display.
Ejay Weiss – Emergence, is being presented in cooperation with John Yavroyan, Executor of Mr. Weiss’ Estate, and will feature 100 paintings of Mr. Weiss’ 2,997 works of art; concentrating on the most acclaimed pieces from five of his major Series including Emergence, Eden, Rift, Bowl: Maximum Entropy #4 and Bowl: Maximum Entropy #5.
Ejay Weiss – Emergence will then be open to the public, Monday through Friday (1:00pm – 6:00pm) to November 18.
Ejay Weiss (June 19, 1942 – June 9, 2018) was born, raised and created art in New York City, the center of the Universe. It was the Earth’s relationship to that Universe that informed his art. Way ahead of his time, he was the first major artist to report to the Front Line in the original initiative against global warming, climate change and all things life-threating.
From 1960 to 1963 he studied architecture and painting with Sibyl Moholy-Nagy at the Pratt Institute. From 1963 to 1965 he studied painting at New York University.
In 1966 he began painting. His architectonic approach to the picture-plane built bridges to the future; some say other worlds. He painted multiple perspectives of the same subject at the same time. The spatial evolution of his paintings redefined the parameters of the art form. His beat was the euphoric paradoxes of existence.
Between 1992 and 2008 Mr. Weiss served as Artist-In-Residence and Design Coordinator at the Cabrini Hospice in New York. In 2005 he was the first artist to be invited to conduct a colloquium at Rutgers University’s Graduate Division of Global Affairs. In 2010, Rutgers invited him back to teach his ground-breaking course, “Art & Globalization: An Artist’s Perspective,” at their Political Science Department’s Graduate Division. He also delivered his Global Perspectives Lectures at The New School, the School of Visual Arts Museum Studies Program and for the MFA Program at Montclair State University.
Throughout his 54-year career, he received countless grants and honors including two nominations for the prestigious American Wing of International Art Critics Association Award. His work is in collections on five continents.
Ejay Weiss created with limitless boundaries and oracle-like clarity; borrowing heavily from every dimension and opportunity in the Earth’s library.
“In the Seascape paintings I evolved each shell specimen as if the canvas itself was the seabed. The forms emerged as a geological matrix, much the way tectonic forces move the continents across oceans.” -Ejay Weiss
Seascapes by Ejay Weiss will be at The Garment District Alliance’s
Unique Installation in the Kaufman Arcade Lobby, 132 West 36th Street
November 1st through December 31, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, all day.
Between 2008 and 2011 Ejay Weiss created a series of seascapes that present rocks, shells, and marine life resting on a seabed that is portrayed across 13 painted panels, on a monumental scale. As hues of ocean water swirl throughout the illusionistic space, viewers are looking up to gaze down upon a wave-cresting shoreline. The formless fluid substance of paint generates a gravitational momentum across the canvas, before settling and drying into its own geologic field. The spiral and circular forms represent the earth’s movement around the sun.
And in another part of the city, 9/11 Elegies: 2001-2011
The formal qualities that appear throughout his canon of work culminate in Mr. Weiss’ most monumental painting titled 9/11 Elegies: 2001-2011s. Based on the artist’s personal and profound experience as a witness to the destruction of the Twin Towers, 9/11 Elegies: 2001-2011 includes a chronological series of twelve paintings. The first three panels portray the initial destruction of the Twin Towers. The 5’-square (Footprint Panels) and the rectangular panel (the Redemption Panel) represent the following day. The next six (Ghost City) panels, completed in September 2002, reflect a year of clean-up and clearing of the WTC site, as well as our emotional environment at that time. The final three panels (the Resolution Triptych), were completed in 2011.
The paintings reside at the 9/11 National Memorial Museum.
Gay Pride, Bryant Park Picnic Performances, Movie Nights, Lincoln Center Summer for the City (Midsummer Night Swing), Juneteenth, New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks, Tribeca Film Festival, Free Outdoor Concerts, Museum Mile Festival, the Puerto Rican Day Parade and that’s just the beginning!
Until September 29 every summer in Times Square, NYC, TSQ LIVE showcases hundreds of artists, performers and cultural producers and this summer 80 free events hosting over a dozen incredible New York-based institutions and collectives, including Pioneer Works, NEW INC, Children’s Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Ailey Extension, New York Live Arts, OTA Entertainment, Soul Summit, Rash Bar, and Elsewhere.
6/1: Picnic Performances @ Bryant Park New York City Opera: La Bohème
6/2: Picnic Performances @ Bryant Park Jazzmobile: The Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra
6/2: Billy Joel @ MSG
6/3-4: Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit atUniversity Place, starting at East 13th Street and continuing south along the east side of Washington Square Park to West 3rd Street.
6/7 until September: Little Island Tony and Grammy Award winners in The Glade, late night djs, drag bingo, and dance parties in The Play Ground, weekly artmaking activities for all ages and Teen Night every Friday.
6/7 – 18: Tribeca Film Festival will take place movie theatres, rooftops and various venues throughout NYC, such as the new Pier 57, Beacon Theatre, the Angelika. The premiere of Let the Canary Sing with a performance by Cyndi Lauper or The Closing Gala: A Bronx Tale, followed by a conversation with director and star Robert De Niro, producer Jane Rosenthal, and writer and co-star Chazz Palminteri.
6/8 – 8/6: Shakespeare in the Park – Hamlet
6/8: Picnic Performances @ Bryant Park Contemporary Dance: Robin Dunn, The Lite
6/9: Picnic Performances @ Bryant Park Contemporary Dance: Dance Heginbotham, Jennifer Muller/The Works
6/9 – 11: @ Citi Field Governors Ball Music Festival – The contemporary music festival for music lovers by music lovers. With 60+ artists of all genres across 4 stages, there is something for everyone, including delicious restaurants, food trucks and menus.
6/9 – 18: River to River Festival The festival takes place in a variety of public venues that canvas all of Downtown New York – from Chambers Street down to the southern tip of Manhattan and across the island from river to river.
6/11: National Puerto Rican Day Parade Fifth Avenue, 44th to 79th Street
6/12: Bryant Park Movie Nights Almost Famous (2000)
6:13: Museum Mile Festival on Fifth Avenue from 84th Street to 109th Street: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Neue Galerie New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; The Jewish Museum; Museum of the City of New York; El Museo del Barrio; and The Africa Center.
6/14 – August: Dancing Under the Stars (formerly Midsummer Night Swing), free outdoor movies, dancing, singing, readings, celebrations, flamingos, disco ball, poetry, Mozart, concerts, crafts, Juneteenth and much more!
6/15: Picnic Performances @ Bryant Park Contemporary Dance: Terk Lewis + Kayla Farrish
6/16: Picnic Performances @ Bryant Park Contemporary Dance: Soles of Duende + Josh Johnson
6/17-25: Gay Pride The Rally, The March & Pride Island. The 2023 theme is “Strength in Solidarity” and Christina Aguilera is headlining NYC Pride Island on Sunday, June 25th at Brooklyn Army Terminal. The festivities begin with Family Night and the Rally and culminate with PrideFest & The March. Other events include Pride Island and the annual Dance on the Pier, following the parade wrapping up Pride Week in a grand fireworks display.
6/16 – 18: Juneteenth is a celebration of June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas, which declared the ending of slavery in the USA. The three day Juneteenth in NYC festival kicks off Friday with a virtual summit, Friday night is the Celebration of Black Kings, Saturday is Festival Community Day and the festival culminates Sunday with a Parade, Fashion Show, Food trucks Field Day and more. Monday, June 19th, is a national holiday, with government, banks and post offices closed. More Info: Junteenth NY
There are dozens more Juneteenth celebrations throughout all 5 Boroughs, including BBQs, the NYC Parks Department, Seneca Village, Broadway, Lincoln Center, concerts, shows, theater and more.
6/17: The Coney Island Mermaid Parade is the nation’s largest art parade where 3,000+ participants dress in hand-made costumes.
6/ 19: Bryant Park Movie Nights Amistad (1997)
6/23: Picnic Performances @ Bryant Park Emerging Music Festival: Psymon Spine, THUS LOVE, Katy Kirby
6/24: Picnic Performances @ Bryant Park Emerging Music Festival: Ky Vöss, Seramic, Miss Grit, Dead Tooth
6/26: Bryant Park Movie Nights Mean Girls (2004)
6/30: Picnic Performances @ Bryant Park Jalopy Theatre: Michael Daves Quartet ft. Tony Trishka, Yacouba Sissoko, Terrell King
6/30: Intrepid Museum Summer Movie Series: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Taylor Swift’s career-spanning costume exhibition just opened at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). On May 18, MAD Director Tim Rodgersand Board Chair Michele Cohen (with husband Marty) welcomed members and patrons for a preview of the exhibition before it opened to the public on the 20th. Guests included Susan and Larry Ach, Loreen Arbus, Christiana Baroni, Marian Burke, Patti and Michael Dweck, Alexander Hankin, Marsy Mittlemann, Netta Rosin, as well as MAD curators Elissa Auther, Barbara Paris Gifford, and Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy. Television cameras whirled in a music filled electric gallery.
(BFA Madison McGaw)
Taylor Swift: Storyteller is a career-spanning look at the artistic reinventions of the 12-time GRAMMY Award–winning artist who is one of the most prolific songwriters in history. The exhibition includes stage costumes from all her eras; the cheerleader and ballerina ensembles from the award-winning music video for “Shake It Off” (2014) to the sparkling ensemble from “Bejeweled” (2022). Concert attire by couture fashion houses including Cavalli, Gucci, Louboutin, Versace, YSL and more, are featured along with props, jewelry, ephemera, and projections of music videos. The exhibition runs through September 4, 2023. Timed tickets for the exhibition are available for $25 and include access to all Museum exhibitions. For more information, visit https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/taylor-swift-storyteller.
Alexander Hankin
Alexander Hankin, Barbara Tober
Amanda Ibrahim, Zachary Miller
Angelic Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Willow Holdorf
Barbara Paris Gifford, Angelic Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Willow Holdorf
Barbara Paris Gifford, Elissa Auther
Barbara Tober, Marian Burke
Ben Strauss, Marian Burke
Bruce White, Christina Clare Ewald
Isabel Lo, Lina Hares
Jeffrey Brosa, Andy Seid, Wendy Leiser
Jeffrey Quaritius
Joey Spieczny, Alexander Hankin, Zachary Miller, Justin Grabell
Larry Ach, Susan Ach
Tim Rodgers
Sasha Nixon, Robert Lugo
Patti Dweck, Michael Dweck
Michele Cohen, Marsy Mittlemann
Marsy Mittlemann, Netta Rosin
Lucig Kebranian
Last Thursday multidisciplinary, shamanic artist ETTE exposed the name of her predator and took back her life. The show was powerful, prolific and empowering. “Whistle Blower” was co-produced by Derek Warburton.
Now you can go inside the performance that exposed who raped ETTE and the action she took to take her life back.
Sexual Violence Affects Millions of Americans
Younger People Are at the Highest Risk of Sexual Violence
- Ages 12-34 are the highest risk years for rape and sexual assault.3
- Those age 65 and older are 92% less likely than 12-24 year olds to be a victim of rape or sexual assault, and 83% less likely than 25-49 year olds.4
On Thursday multidisciplinary, shamanic artist ETTE exposed the name of her predator and took back her life. The show was powerful, prolific and empowering. My guest Elisabeta, writer ElizaBeth Taylor and I, all felt privileged to be apart of an act so brave and true. Abuse victims should NEVER feel the way they are made to feel.
Before the main event we talked with ETTE about her abuse and how prevalent abuse is in our society.
Her co-host Derek Warburton also shared his story and why he co-produced this amazing night.
Did you know?
Before that happened T2C had a chance to see her art show entitled “Whistle Blower”.
ETTE’s art
Tomorrow the performance.
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