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Art for Love, Water for Life
An
Art Salon & Auction in New York City
Benefiting
We, The World's Global Awareness & Action Campaign:
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Join us at Gilles
Larrain's Studio to watch artists create original works and celebrate
an important cause!
Event Date:
Saturday, February
7, 2009
2:00PM-7:00PM
Event Location:
Gilles Larrain
Studio
95 Grand Street
in Manhattan, New York
City
http://www.gilleslarrain.com/
Between Mercer and
Greene Street
Directions: Take
#6 train to Spring St.
Walk South to Grand and turn right.
Event Cost:
$20 donation at
the door
Participation in
silent auction of artwork is optional.
Refreshments including
wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served
RSVPs are necessary
- space is Limited! Please click
here to RSVP and indicate if you:
- Might participate
in auction
- Are a member
of the Press
- Are only interested
in attending the Salon and Party
Event Description:
As we approach
Valentine's Day 2009, New Yorkers will celebrate Love on the eve of significant
changes, as global water problems come to the forefront of our consciousness
and a new political administration takes the reins. The problems of the
21st century are both caused by, and solved with, our interdependence
and connectedness.
In order to raise
funds in support of the Global Water Awareness and Action Campaign of We,
The World, artists who create work in this collaborative spirit will gather
at the SoHo studio of legendary celebrity photographer Gilles Larrain
to create art during the event and share their creative process with
the public.
The event format
will consist of a "bohemian salon", wherein a community of artists
working in various media will collaborate with live models, inspiring
each other to create drawings, photographs, and music that emphasizes
the beauty of the human form and expresses ideas of connectedness and
community.
Artwork created
during the event will be displayed and a silent auction will be held with
a portion of all proceeds going to benefit We, The Worldıs Global Water
Awareness and
Action Campaign
(see below).
The studio of the
event's host, fine art celebrity photographer Gilles Larrain, is steeped
in the history of the SoHo art scene. Gilles' legendary intimate portraits
of John Lennon, Miles Davis, Salvador Dalí and other giants of the
international music and art world grace the walls of his studio, which
has played host to the best and brightest members of the SoHo artistic community
since its gritty heyday in the 1970s.
During this event,
artists and teachers including Lynn Matsuoka, Louda, Sarah Bieda, Hilary
Schmidt and Thomas Shelford will be drawing from live models using techniques
which emphasize the beauty of humanity, while guests enjoy wine, hors d'oeuvres
and beautiful live music. Artists' drawings of some of the attendees will
also be offered during the event.
This salon event
will be a truly unique opportunity for members of the public to enjoy
a front row seat to the creative process as they watch artwork being
made and contribute to a worthy cause. After the creative session,
the artists will be joining the party to discuss their work.
The silent auction
sale will be administered on-site and payments by check or credit card
will be accepted. Auction winners may take home the drawings. Invitees will
include art journalists, art collectors, and gallery owners.
About We, The
World (www.WeTheWorld.org):
We, The World is
a Global Collaboration for a Livable Future. Founded in 1998, We, The
World is a 501c3 non-profit organization that produces and promotes events
and other programs to increase public awareness and action about critical
societal issues such as violence, poverty and ecological damage.
In September 2004,
WTW launched 11 Days of Global Unity Sept 11-21, now an annual worldwide
promotion of peace, sustainability and transformation with more than
700 associated events in over 60 countries around the world.
Supporters of We, The World include Nobel Peace
Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Amnesty
International and many other visionary leaders and groups.
The Art Salon & Auction
Party will benefit We, The
World's Global Water Campaign to raise awareness and take action on water-related
issues:
- Water-Related
Poverty (over 1 billion people lack clean water)
- Climate Change
(from droughts to floods, it affects us all)
- Pollution of rivers
and oceans (impacting Species, the Environment and the Economy)
- Conflicts over
access to water (global demand for water will double in the next 20 years)
- Water, part of
the Global Commons, as a beautiful symbol of our Interdependence and
interconnectedness
The
Campaign will launch March 20-22, 2009.
About the Event Host, Gilles Larrain:
Gilles Larrain
was first a painter who studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris,
and then became one of the pioneers in kinetic art in the 1960's, using
air, smoke, light, water and neon tubes. Fascinated by the relationship
between painting and photography, he later became a fine art photographer
in Soho, where he realized among other works well-known album covers and
posters of Miles Davis, Sting and Billy Joel. Gilles has also photographed John
Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jerry Rubin and Salvador Dalí.
Captivated by the
flamenco aesthetic, Gilles has since become a great follower of this art,
even taking up the guitar. His camera has captured the soul of flamenco
in one of those rare artistic conjunctions where technical wisdom and experience
become melded with the most difficult to express emotions.
Photo of Gilles
Larrain
Contributing
Artists:
Portrait
by Lynn Matsuoka
http://www.hamptonsartist.com/
"Like Degas with his dancers, Lynn Matsuoka set out to depict the particular beauty of performers who devote their lives to an all-encompassing craft, capturing the nuances of the world they create in the process." - CNN. Says Lynn: "The human image, alive and expectant... is what inspires me."
Drawing by Louda
http://www.loudacollection.com/
Louda is a multi-faceted artist
who began her artistic activities at the early age of 6 at the Fine Arts
School for talented children in Russia. She moved from Moscow to Paris where
she spent 10 years designing textiles for major High Fashion houses like
Chanel, Dior, Lacroix and others. This double rail of fashion textile design
and fine art kept Louda on track to have a highly successful career.
Figure
sketch by Thomas Shelford (the Event Organizer)
http://www.shelfordart.com
Thomas Shelford
embarked upon a fine art career after years of working in New York City
as a professional web site designer and illustrator. His artwork emphasizes
skill and beauty, combining a classical sense of sculptural realism with
modernist compositional ideas. In creating his paintings and drawings
Thomas works exclusively from life, and describes his work as "classical
realism with guilty modernist pleasures".
Artist and professional muse
Sarah Bieda will be posing
http://www.sarahbieda.com
Sarah Bieda is a young artist who is currently taking the art world by storm with her intensely colorful, expressive large-scale figurative paintings. She graduated from Pratt Institute in NY and studied painting at Studio Arts Center International (SACI) in Florence, Italy. In addition, Sarah is an experienced fine art model.
Self Portrait by Hilary Schmidt (who will also be posing)
http://www.hilaryrobin.com
Hilary Robin Schmidt has been painting since she was 10 years old, studied
the figure at New York Academy of Art with Vincent Desiderio, Eric Fischl
and Wade Schuman. She also studied at The Art Students League, Rhode Island
School of Design, Hartford Art School and Richmond College in London, England.
She currently works as a painting assistant for contemporary artist, Jeff
Koons and works on her own figurative painting in New York City.
Also Appearing at the Salon:
Rick Ulfik
http://www.WeTheWorld.org/team-founder.htm
Rick is Founder and Board Chairman of We, The World a non-profit organization
that forms international networks of collaboration and produces and promotes
major events to increase public awareness and action regarding critical
societal issues. He is also an award-winning composer and musician. Rick
will speak about the work of We, The World and will perform on keyboards
at the Salon.