2024

AMONG FRIENDS 4 is a wrap! This year’s iteration took place at Metaphor Projects in Downtown Brooklyn, thanks to Rene Lynch and Julian Jackson for opening their space up to us. We had 265 artists this time and raised $9,000 for Planned Parenthood! We couldn’t do it without our team of volunteers!

Install shots plus our team of champions!

2023

PROCESS & DELIGHT: THE NEW P&D, Equity Gallery, Nov 9–Dec. 2. The Pattern and Decoration movement was born to counter male-centric minimalistic trends. Emerging in the 1970s, it foregrounded elaborate patterns interwoven with global influences and boldly challenged Eurocentric paradigms through its distinct voice, especially when interpreted through a feminist perspective. The "Process and Delight: The New P&D" exhibit illustrates this movement's enduring impact on contemporary art and pays homage to the tradition of the 1970s P&D movement. The contemporary artists showcased, informed by this tradition, are more than mere revivalists. Their layered surfaces carve out immersive worlds that reflect our zeitgeist—spaces that celebrate complexity in form and content through an unabashedly maximalist ethos—artworks abundant with detail, pattern, and repetition. Collectively, the voices in "Process and Delight" vibrantly celebrate the fusion of artistry, craft, technique, and the intertwining of beauty with excess.

2022

AMONG FRIENDS, Equity Gallery, May 5–22. Third edition of our popular show included 301 artists with the work hung in three rows! Equity Gallery was the perfect venue and the recipient of our charitable donation. So happy Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Beth Dary and I were able to hang this show and bring our tribe together once again!

2020

WITH THE GRAIN, Equity Gallery, November 5–28. Exploring the various ways artists incorporate wood grain into their work. Alyse Rosner, Natalia Nakazawa, Jenny Carpenter, and Susan Jennings all incorporate the grain as a compositional element. For painters such as Deanna Lee, Patricia Fabricant, Alicia Philley, Beth Reisman, and Ellen Hackl Fagan, the grain directly dictates the composition. In contrast, Jesse Lambert and Paul Gagner meticulously replicate wood grain as an integral part of their paintings. Cheryl Molnar, Al Goldberg and Frank Parga’s paintings allow the raw grain to serve as a backdrop to their compositions, whereas Jim Osman’s sculptures juxtapose the organic raw wood with sensitively painted colors and forms.

2019

AMONG FRIENDS / ENTRE AMIGOS, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, May 2–12. Co-organized with Alexandra Rutsch Brock and Beth Dary, the show consisted of 238 original 7 x 9-inch works by individual artists all zipped together into one continuous, exuberant whole. 10% of the price of each sale went to the Lower East Side Girls Club. Together we raised over $4,000 for the Club.

2018

STUDIO MATES, Front Room Gallery, December 5, 2018 – January 6, 2019. The show explored the creative dialogue between two artists sharing studio space. Artists: Mark Masyga and Christopher Lowry Johnson, Thomas Broadbent and Kelly Parr, Janice Caswell and Wendy Small, Patricia Fabricant and Amy Hill, Alex Gingrow and Jessie Henson. December 5–January 6. There was a closing reception including “Studio Couples Therapy” with Dr. Lisa Levy SP, on January 6 from 3 to 6. Additional works by the artists can be seen in Studio Mates Online.

AMONG FRIENDS, a group show co-organized with Beth Dary and Alexandra Rutsch Brock. Inspired by the Robert Rauschenberg artwork "Hiccups", seen last summer in the "Among Friends" exhibition at the MoMA, AMONG FRIENDS reflects and responds to the strength and illumination we find through art, friendship and community. The show consisted of 132 pieces of 9 x 7" handmade paper, each worked on by a different artist, zipped together into one continuous, exuberant piece. Each individual work was for sale for $250 with 10% going to Planned Parenthood. We sold 95, raising over $3000 for PP!