Joyce Kubat is the Top Honors recipient of the 79th Artist Members Exhibition (2017). Kubat was selected by guest awards juror, Ruba Katrib, who was curator at the Sculpture Center and now curator at MoMA PS1.
In this exhibition Kubat assembles her people, a body of work which she has been developing since 2002. Her media has remained the same and Kubat lets the process lead the way in her deeply psychological figurative works. From pastels applied to damp paper creating a liquid soft skin with deep velvet pigments, to fluid pink inks that have the extraordinary transparency of flesh, these materials have led her to convey an emotionally raw narrative of human anatomy.
The figure has always been my focus, and over the years it’s become a psychological focus, a not-always-easy-to-view focus… Art with only surface excitement seems empty. For me it has to have a serious and profound underpinning, always poignant, often humorous, relating in some way to the universal humanity common to all of us. – Joyce Kubat
Kubat holds a BS in Psychology from Michigan State University and continued her studies in New York City at both Brooklyn College and Art Students League of New York. She lives and works in Huntington, NY and has exhibited throughout Long Island, New York City, Italy, and elsewhere.
Join artist Carly Haffner for a night of discussion, painting, and drinks.
With her current Guild Hall exhibit, Carly Haffner: In the Woods, Carly will share the process and photographs that initiate and inspire her paintings. The focus then quickly turns to an open creative studio, where we all create our own landscapes inspired by Carly’s work.
All who register are encouraged to bring their own desired materials (paints, paper, canvases, brushes, etc.).
This month at Guild Hall Game Night we will be playing Mental Blocks.
Mental Blocks is cooperative puzzle solving game where players work together to build a common structure out of foam blocks. For every puzzle, each player receives a card depicting one perspective of the finished structure. Players must work together using their limited information to solve the puzzle before the timer runs out. After a couple rounds, we will try the “hidden traitor variant,” where a player who knows the puzzle’s solution is actively trying to sabotage the team without being found out. Mental Blocks is an incredibly simple concept that has everyone playing with blocks, stretching their minds, and working together.
Out with the old, in with the new!
In the past couple decades, game designers have been creating fascinating, immersive table-top games that make Monopoly seem like it was designed in 1905. Game night no longer means suffering through hours of rolling dice in Monopoly or Risk. Today’s newest non-digital board and card games cultivate creativity, problem solving, social skills, and dexterity through clever game design. Join Guild Hall and Game Master Noah Salaway in embracing the tabletop revolution as we play some of the best modern board games on the market the last Monday of each month. Take a break from the digital age and join us at the table! Ages 16 and up only.
Puccini’s Turandot is a classic example of the height of the Italian romantic style – through-composed opera with lush orchestral textures, demanding larger voices to declaim highly emotional themes. Most of Puccini’s operas are truly verismo operas in their conception, like La bohème and Tosca, recounting in ‘real time’ tales of love and sometimes violence rather than the mythological and real kings and queens or counts and countesses of the earlier operas. Turandot breaks the mold and is based on a Persian myth which Puccini sets in China. Here Puccini fits the ancient tale of the Princess Turandot in the operatic sound-world that he helped propel. Join pianist Derrick Goff and tenor Cameron Schutza as we explore how to listen to this changing operatic style.
Please join us for the Season Opener Breakfast Reception at 11:30am in the Wasserstein Gallery prior to the lecture-recital at 12pm.
Taking inspiration from the landscape and materials around us, Laurie Lambrecht invites you to consider where we are through the art of weaving. Using found materials such as driftwood, beach finds, old picture frames and recycled fabrics, Laurie shares her process of creating looms and site-inspired weaving. Open to everyone. No experience necessary.
Come with the materials you find, leave with a loom, work in process or finished piece, and inspiration aplenty!
The 3rd Annual Visionaries Benefit Luncheon will take place on Friday, November 15 at 11:30am at THE POOL in the landmark Seagram Building in NYC. Visionaries brings together three artistic disruptors and innovators in art, lifestyle, and design, for a conversation moderated by Executive Director Andrea Grover. Shantell Martin, Sunny Khalsa, and Marguerite Zabar Mariscal will share their incredible visions and journeys.
Premiere Sponsor: Akris
VIEW THIS YEAR’S INVITATION: 2019 VISIONARIES BENEFIT LUNCHEON
