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Premonitory Terrains — Virtual Artist Talk

“Questions Swirl Around” by Etty Yaniv, courtesy of Max Yawney

“Questions Swirl Around” by Etty Yaniv, courtesy of Max Yawney

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Join us on Zoom on Thursday, March 25th, 6:30 — 8:00 PM for a discussion about the latest exhibition at Equity Gallery, "Premonitory Terrains," a show comprising site-responsive three-dimensional installations and eclectic mixed media artworks.

The panel will be hosted by sculptor and arts journalist William Corwin and will feature participating artists and curators Nancy Baker and Etty Yaniv.

About the Panel:

Nancy Baker

Nancy Baker earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout the US, including ODETTA Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; Clemente Sotos Velez, NYC, Artists Equity, NYC; Mark Moore Gallery, CA; Winkleman Gallery, NYC; Pavel Zubock, NYC; Hunterdon Museum, NJ; Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; NC Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA; Heriard Cimino Gallery, NOLA; and next year will exhibit an installation at the Islamic Art Festival in Sharjah, UAE. She has received numerous awards, including two North Carolina Artists Fellowships, a Tennessee Individual Artist Fellowship, and an NEA Southern Arts Fellowship. She was awarded a commission with MTA Arts and Design for two train stations in Brooklyn, fabricated in stainless steel. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections including the International Collage Center, Bucknell, PA; US Embassy, Kiev, Ukraine; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC; Wellington Art Collection, Boston; Memorial Sloan Kettering.

William Corwin

Corwin is a sculptor and journalist from New York. He has exhibited at The Clocktower, LaMama and Geary galleries in New York, as well as galleries in London, Hamburg, Beijing and Taipei. He has written regularly for The Brooklyn Rail, Artpapers, Bomb, Artcritical, Raintaxi and Canvas and formerly for Frieze. Most recently he curated and wrote the catalog for Postwar Women at The Art Students League in New York, an exhibition of the school’s alumnae active between 1945-65, and 9th Street Club, and exhibition of Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Mercedes Matter, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner and Elaine Dekooning at Gazelli Art House in Mayfair. He is the editor of Formalism; Collected Essays of Saul Ostrow, to be published in 2020, and he will participate in the exhibition Anchor/Roots at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center in 2021.

Etty Yaniv

Etty Yaniv works on her art, art writing, and curatorial projects in Brooklyn. Her work includes immersive dimensional installations which merge photography, drawing, and painting. She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows at galleries and museums nationally and internationally, including The Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia, Newark Museum of Art, NJ, Monmouth Museum of Art, NJ, Torrance Art Museum, CA, AIR gallery, Brooklyn, Long Island University, Brooklyn, The Sheen Center, NYC, Purdue University, IN, Musée Héritage, St. Albert, CA, Zero1 Biennial in San Francisco, and Leipziger Baumwollspinnerie, Leipzig, Germany. She funded and runs Art Spiel, a fine art online publication. In 2018 she was awarded the Two Trees subsidized studio program in Dumbo. Yaniv holds BA in Psychology and English Literature from Tel Aviv University, BFA from Parsons School of Design, and MFA from SUNY Purchase.