FAME presents sculptor Lenny Kislin
What does Lenny Kislin have to do with Gloria Vanderbilt?
The 2007 season of networking evenings called FAME --Fabulous Art
Monday Evenings--
continues with a a presentation by sculptor Lenny Kislin in conjunction
with a solo show
at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM). The presentation
will be
on Monday May 21 at 6:30 PM at the Woodstock Artists Association and
Museum.
The WAAM is located at 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498,
www.woodstockart.org.
There is a $6 donation that includes refreshments.
What does Lenny Kislin have to do with Gloria Vanderbilt? Well she
collects his work as does Smith&Wollensky Restaurants who have bought
over a hundred of his assemblages to decorate their eating
establishments
throughout the country. Locals love his work on their walls too; you
can find them at
the Varga gallery or The WAAM.
Lenny is a noted assemblage artist who approaches his work with a
reverence
for each antique object he uses to compose unified pieces of art.
"It is the way in which I associate them with each other that brings
about the power
of a completed sculpture." His sensibility stems from growing up in NYC.
³I was born in the southeast Bronx and as a youth, worked at my
parentıs pet shop,
which led me to vow never to own a caged animal. When I wasn't in the
pet shop I
was on the rough city streets. There were real occasions when I was in
danger and
I spent my youth feeling frightened and insecure. This led me somehow
to reach inward
to a life of creativity. It seemed that my need to make order out of
chaos eventually
produced a compulsive, non-apologetic assemblage artist. My business as
an antique
dealer afforded me the op****tunity to find fabulous objects that I
stored away. These
provided me with a deep reservoir of material with which I began to
make my own sculptures.
I think of my work as three-dimensional Collages made of cut-up time
and space.
Lenny will talk about his life and his ideas on art.
FAME is an ongoing series coordinated by a WAAM committee formed by
Prue See,
WAAM Gallery Manager, Staats Fasoldt, Lois Linet, Carol Pepper Cooper,
and Elisa Pritzker.
For more information contact Prue See at WAAM at 845-679-2940 or at
prue@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ulster.net/~staats/index.html
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