Tuesday, February 7, 2012

PRESS RELEASE: Anne Sherwood Pundyk's "Rapunzel in the Library" Installation


ANNE SHERWOOD PUNDYK'S "RAPUNZEL IN THE LIBRARY" INSTALLATION
at QUEENS COLLEGE ART CENTER

Hair as symbol of self-assertion

FLUSHING, NY, February 7, 2012 -- Queens College Art Center presents, “Rapunzel in the Library,” a site-specific, retrospective installation by New York painter, Anne Sherwood Pundyk.

The show includes a selective, interconnected placement of her paintings, My Atlas artist’s books and painting-based video artworks from 1983 to 2012. Core to Pundyk’s work is an explicit revelation of process. “Untangling the connections between my materials and sources suggests a model for escape from one’s own received ideas,” Pundyk says.

Pundyk has recently shown her work at Fordham University; Susan Eley Fine Art; The Philoctetes Center; Sideshow Gallery, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Art Miami; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA; and she writes regularly for The Brooklyn Rail. In April 2011, her painting-based video, “My Atlas: Lindsay/A Report to An Academy,” was given the Bronze Award at Artillery Magazine’s National Open Call Screening at The Standard Hotel, Hollywood, CA.


This solo installation will introduce a collaborative group residency, also on the theme of Rapunzel, with its own exhibition and performance on April 4th.  “Rapunzel’s hair is her means of self assertion and becomes a vehicle for deeper understanding,” Pundyk says.  A preview of the group show can be seen here



Anne Sherwood Pundyk "Rapunzel in the Library" Installation Exhibition Dates:
Closing reception: February 22, 2012, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition dates, February 17 to March 1, 2012


(part of the Selma and Max Kupferberg Center for the Arts)
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Level Six Queens College,
                                    65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY
                                    (718) 997-3770
Gallery Hours:          
Monday to Thursday, 9am–8 pm; Friday, 9 am–5 pm; closed weekends and holidays. Free and open to the public.
  
Contact: Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Phone: (917) 612-1863
Email: annepundyk@yahoo.com




Rapunzel in the Library, Retrospective Installation Images, February 27, 2012


Anne Sherwood Pundyk, selected paintings 1983 – 2012


Anne Sherwood Pundyk, 2012 “My Atlas,” repurposed nautical atlas

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