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Date(s) - October 10, 2023
3:30 pm
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Let’s gather together as we usher in fall on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 3:30 p.m. at the Elena Zang Gallery for a viewing of our dear friend Mary Frank’s new show:
“Mary Frank: sleeping with my eyes wide open.”
Elena Zang Gallery
3671 NY S.R. 212, Shady/Woodstock, NY 12409
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
After we’ve quenched our thirst for artistic beauty at the private gallery viewing and communed with nature in the sculpture garden, we will gather at 5:00 p.m. for drinks and more conversation at the Tinker Street Tavern at the nearby Bearsville Complex.
Tinker Street Tavern
297 Tinker St, Woodstock, NY 12498
5:00 p.m.
No fee, but your RSVP is required. Please call or text Sheila (917-797-9087) to reserve your spot! We need a head count for the gallery by Monday, October 9, 2023.
Mary is still creating for us at 90! Let’s support her work and show up for this wonderful new exhibit! See you there!
Bio
Mary Frank was born in London in 1933 and moved to the United States at the age of seven. In the early 1950s she began carving wood sculpture, and studied with Hans Hoffman and Max Beckmann. In 1969, she began working on large, multi-part, figurative clay sculptures until the early ’80s.
Over the course of Frank’s career, she has worked in many mediums and materials, most notably with her monoprints, drawings, sculpture, painting, and photography. As described by art critic John Yau, Frank paints “elemental worlds largely inhabited by women (men, plants and animals) who are maenads, oracles, winged creatures and warriors–solitary and self-sustaining beings … (her) photographs of tableaus, which she assembles out of a variety of works she has made in different mediums, are all in pursuit of further defining the conditions of a mythic world.”
Mary Frank has been the subject of numerous solo museum and gallery exhibitions over the years. Hayden Herrera is the author of Mary Frank, a major survey of Mary Frank’s work that was published in 1990 by Abrams, NY. Shadows of Africa, a collaboration between the artist and poet Peter Matthiessen, was published by Abrams in 1992.