EFA OPEN STUDIOS 2023

DATES:
Thursday, October 12, 6 – 9 p.m. (opening night)
Friday, October 13, 6 – 9 p.m.
Saturday, October 14, 2 – 6 p.m.

LOCATION:
EFA Center
323 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018

EFA OPEN STUDIOS is an annual event that welcomes the public to visit the studios and galleries of the EFA building in Midtown Manhattan. It is an opportunity to see the most recent works by artists and to gain meaningful insight into their process of creation. We invite curators, collectors, dealers, artists, and art lovers to join in a meaningful dialog with our internationally recognized members. The EFA Studio Program is a vibrant and diverse community of over 70 artists working in a wide range of media and artistic sensibilities. All are professional artists with established studio practices and career honors. The EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and EFA Project Space will be open for tours.

We do not live under the same heavens as our ancestors when the sun, moon, and stars shone with the awesomeness of the gods. From the Renaissance

to modern times, the colonial impulse of the Western world sought to conquer the firmaments. Scientific revolutions corralled the celestial

into rational, knowable terms. If superstition and ignorance disappeared, so did wonder and humility.

Cheryl Molnar and Christian Vincent's immersive collages and paintings embody complex narratives about family, coming of age and other personal milestones, spanning parallel histories that encompass both the east and west coasts of the United States.

EFA Open Studios 2021

DATES:
Thursday, October 21st, 6 - 9pm (opening night)
Friday, October 22nd, 6 - 9pm
Saturday, October 23rd, 2 - 6pm

LOCATION:
EFA Center
323 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018

Timed entry ticket required upon entry

Reserve a Ticket

Vaccine proof and masks are required.
Unvaccinated children may attend if they wear a mask.
For groups, please email deric@efanyc.org in advance.

EFA OPEN STUDIOS is an annual event of the EFA Studio Program that invites the public to come explore and interact with our member artists in the intimate setting of their studios. It is an opportunity to see the most recent works by artists at the site of their origin and to gain meaningful insight into their process of creation. The EFA Studio Program is a vibrant and diverse community of over 70 artists working in a wide range of media and artistic sensibilities. All are professional artists with an established studio practice and recognized career. Rarely can curators, collectors, dealers, artists, and art lovers see so many internationally recognized artists working under one roof in Midtown Manhattan.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS (Floors 3 - 10):
Samira Abbassy | Fanny Allié | Keren Anavy | Noel W. Anderson | Shimon Attie | Allen T. Ball | Laura A. Barbata | Keren Benbenisty | Masha Biglow | Wafaa Bilal | Rhona Bitner | Martha Burgess | Mattia Casalegno | Patty Cateura | Cecile Chong | Elizabeth Colomba | Vicky Colombet | Michael Eade | Sally Egbert | Jonathan Ehrenberg | Odette England | Cui Fei | Jason File | Del Geist | Katya Grokhovsky | Mahmoud Hamadani | Pablo Helguera | Amy Hill | Janet Loren Hill | Adam Hurwitz | Akira Ikezoe | Edgar Jerins | Richard Jochum | Melissa Joseph | Kosuke Kawahara | Tamiko Kawata | Justin Kim | Yongjae Kim | Greg Kwiatek | Sarah Leahy | Hayoon Lee | Patricia Leighton | JC Lenochan | Dana Levy | Anina Major | Michael Mandiburg | Katinka Mann | Jeanette May | Cheryl Molnar | Amy Myers | Nazanin Noroozi | Morgan O’Hara | Whitney Oldenburg | Thomas Pihl | Simonette Quamina | Armita Raafat | Maria D. Rapicavoli | Javier Romero | Heather Bause Rubinstein | Alex Schweder | Susan Silas | Karina Skvirsky | Howard Smith | Suzanne Song | Xin Song | Steed Taylor | Dannielle Tegeder | A young Yu | Liselot van der Heijden | Carlos Vega | Marjorie Welish

2021 Cocktails + Benefit Auction

• Tuesday, October 12, 2021

• 6:30 PM 8:30 PM

• The Standard High Line 848 Washington Street New York, NY, 10014 United States (map)

C24 Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of our next exhibition, Sites Unseen, new works by Cheryl Molnar, on view at the Gallery from Saturday, January 9th through Thursday, March 25th. The artist will be present on January 9th from 2:00-6:00pm.

Cheryl Molnar’s multilayered collage-paintings invite us into a universe of imagined worlds on draft in the intoxicating brew of memory and observation informing her practice. A native Long Island, New Yorker, Molnar came of age in the wake of the prototype for American suburbia known as Levittown. This Orwellian invention, featuring row upon row of identical houses, laid out in reproducible grid patterns, is but one primary element explored in the vista vortex of many of her landscapes.

In her creations, Molnar also includes features remembered from a childhood visiting family on the west coast, transforming her work into an idiosyncratic record of American 20th century land development. Collaging localized images from places like Palm Springs and the North Fork of Long Island together with the wild overgrowth of natural vegetation that persists in spite of man’s attempts to domesticate it, she reconstructs an experience of what it means to connect to an environment in flux. Her site specific recollections and perceptions combine to form a veritable “plot-topia,” where discreet, urbane landscapes are mapped out in grid patterns, offering the illusion of perfection in bite-sized parcels.

In the context of today’s digital art, Molnar’s handcut constructions, though deploying modern technology and digital imagery, are relatively analog, as MySpace pages are to today’s state-of-the-art interactive blog platforms. In her space, Molnar collapses a traditional sense of location and time, offering instead a surreal juxtaposition of elements to confuse and confound the senses.

Underscoring her inquiry is a creative process deconstructed through its transparency. Beginning by digitally printing directly onto large wood panels, she then collages hand painted shapes and strips of paper and meticulously cut pieces of photographs to create oddly surreal yet serene landscapes. These interdimensional portals conjure both sight and sound as they ignite conscious as well as unconscious sense memories. Cheryl Molnar’s creations offer a kind of “site-geist” embodying the precarious balance between modern society’s enmeshed relationship with technology, our primal connection to nature, and the unchecked interplay between the two.

Sites Unseen will be on view at C24 Gallery at 560 West 24th St. from Saturday, January 9th through Thursday, March 25th. Our regular hours are Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm. Cheryl Molnar will be present at the Gallery on January 9th from 2:00-6:00pm.

Please note that we will be limiting the number of visitors to the Gallery at any one time. Masks are required for entry, and social distancing measures will be implemented.

If you would like to make a reservation for a viewing on a specific day and time, please contact: deborah@c24gallery.com

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For more images and information on all available works, please click HERE.

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PRESS:

Interlocutor

Duggal Visual Solutions