Our 14th Annual Art For Life is fast approaching…

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With our 14th Annual Art For Life fast approaching we take a look at last years 13th Annual Art For Life, a record breaking year, and look forward to sharing more details in the coming weeks…save the date, July 27th, 2013!!!Stay tuned in!!!

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On Saturday, July 28th, 2012, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation celebrated the Thirteenth Annual ART FOR LIFE East Hampton Benefit at Russell Simmons’ private East Hampton estate. With over 800 guests, a record-breaking $2.1 million was raised to provide New York City youth with arts access, exposure and education.

Rush welcomed Bombay Sapphire and Tyler Perry Studios as Gold Sponsors and Target as a Silver Sponsor. Sutra Productions returned as a Décor Sponsor.

ART FOR LIFE 2012 was hosted by CNN’s  Soledad O’Brien and featured special performances by Billboard’s “Artist to Watch” Diggy Simmons, Grammy award-winning artist Melanie Fiona, the timeless Salt-N-Pepa, and the iconic multi-platinum Grammy award-winning artist Anita Baker. The evening honored recording artists Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, Betsy Z. Cohen CEO,Bancorp Inc., Tamia and Grant Hill The Grant Hill Foundation, and Marc J. Leder, Co-CEO, Sun Capital Partners Inc.

It was a night to remember with our honorable guests and supports arriving in style and having the time of their lives while changing and uplifting the lives and creativity of thousands of Rush Kids!

The Thirtheenth Anniversary ART FOR LIFE celebrated “Living In Color” Infusing orange, aqua, chartreuse, and fuchsia, the bright theme lit up the East Hampton night. The event was once again brought to life by Sutra Productions’ talented design team who created an amazing world of imagination with their décor and live performance characters.

For the fourth year, Charity Buzz took the luxury auction online raising over $230k!

Bombay Sapphire and Target’s support throughout the years has been invaluable!!!

Each year we have the support of many, and the following two inspirational figures we have no words to describe our gratitude towards.

Soledad O’Brien, Art For Life’s host and Star Jones, our Rush Kid Auctioneer, we cannot do this without you!

Art For Life honorees Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey, Betsy Z. Cohen, Tamia and Grant Hill, and Marc Leder accepted their honoree portraits created by our very own Rush Kids! Your commitments to our communities and others will never go unnoticed!

Our support was and is endless…

Art For Life 2012 was taken over by DJ M.O.S and performances by Melanie Fiona, Diggy Simmons, Salt-N-Pepa…

and of course the timeless Anita Baker delivering an epic performance!

With your support we will continue our work to inspire and save lives of thousands of youth and emerging artists through the power of art!

“Art saves lives, its that simple”- Russell Simmons

Rockstar Rush Toddler!

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Tuesday Toddlers jumped (literally) right back into the swing of making rocks at yesterday’s class.  Last week, each formed a paper-mache rock and left them at Corridor (guarded by Sameeh) to dry – and they were each overly anxious to get down to the business of rock painting THIS week.  Strong solid colors first and then drips, dots, stripes and splashes for the patterned designs.  Roma’s looked like a lava rock and others looked like they were from a salt water coral reef.

Mick and Ami were geologists for a day!

Here’s the Toddler Line Up – including Lena’s big brother Jacob (a Rush Kid)!

Rush Teens Connect with the LearningBank

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Rush Teaching Artist Patrick Rowe is a member of a really interesting group called LearningBank. The idea is that artists share their expertise, by giving time teaching your own skills, you are able to then take classes held by others.

LearningBank held an all day series during the Pratt MFA Thesis Event last week and Patrick asked if we would like to get a Rush Teen involved.

We of course, were thrilled to be part of this exciting process!   During an after-school time slot, Rush Teen Ajani did a superb job teaching a LearningBank class.

Here are some pictures from her class:
Notice that she had them actively engaged in a critique at the end!

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Yet another example of Rush students making connections to the greater art community!

Artist Talk Book Signing and Openings RUSH Arts Gallery May 16th

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ARTIST TALK SATURDAY MAY 4th 4-6pm

Dimensions Variable UPDATED

Dimensions Variable: Multiracial Identity features artists Firelei Báez, Yael Ben-Zion, Cecile Chong, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Nicky Enright, Lorra Jackson, Sara Jimenez, Redell & Jimenez, and Saya Woolfalk, whose work expresses various aspects of their diverse, yet highly individual backgrounds. It opens on April 4, 2013, 6-8pm at Rush Arts Gallery at 526 W. 26th Street, Suite 311, in Chelsea. Curated by Gabriel de Guzman, the exhibition challenges a monolithic view of race and examines contemporary issues of identity, hybridism, and racial ambiguity. Several artists in the show directly tackle issues that relate to race and cultural awareness. Others deal with these issues subtly by acknowledging the spread of multiculturalism in our global society and the ways in which race and ethnicity are fluid and depend on perception and context.

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BOOK SIGNING AT CORRIDOR GALLERY SATURDAY MAY 4th 3-6pm
May 4th book release
TWO SHOWS OPENING MAY 16TH 6-8pm

Physically Practiced

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Physically Practiced – May 16th – June 1st 2013

Physically Practiced will be opening at RUSH Arts Gallery in the main exhibition space curated by Charlotte Mouquin, which includes artists Samson Contompasis, Musa Hixson, John Lee, and Jonathan Villoch (Depoe). Physically Practiced draws together b-boying and martial arts with earth art, meditation, pop portraits, and street art. The opening Reception will be on Thursday May 16th from 6-8pm at Rush Arts Gallery 526 W 26th St Suite 311, New York, NY. There will be a closing reception with performance Artist MarIo [Or Am I] Platypus on Saturday, June 1st from 3-5pm.

In Physically Practiced Parsons MFA candidate John Lee incorporates B-boying and Taekwondo into his art making practice. His performance pieces are captured on video as he creates drawings and painting by moving his physical form through space. Lee’s philosophy “movement is the most profound proof of existence in time and space” is exemplified through his dances with molten glass, taekwondo destruction form of painting, and the meditation of his body as a physical moving shape creating drawings captured on video. Musa Hixson a Brooklyn based installation artist and sculptor is inspired through practiced meditation on materials. Hixson states, “I am not attempting to turn materials into some ‘thing’ I help the soul of the material reveal itself.” Installed at Rush Arts Gallery for the first time is an enlarged Soul Tablet titled Illuminated Song, which consist of wood, earth, writing and weaving connecting the viewer to space, earth, time and movement. This meditation is mirrored in the floor sculpture Vision Pod 2.

On display Samson Contompasis has large scale paintings from two series including Creating the Icon and The Art of Violence. Creating the Icon examines the way an iconic portrait is created through reducing images to bare essentials, instead of using pop icons Contompasis is creating his own through portraits of real women in his life. By commemorating the women around him Contompasis is also raising awareness of women’s rights. He is planning to create a total of 500 portraits. Some of the portraits from the Creating the Icon series overlap with another project Contompasis has developed The Art of Violence, which combines the violence of fighting with the creation of action painting abstraction. Debuting at Rush Arts Gallery will be the trailer of this intense physical project. Creating the Icon began through collaboration by breaking down a 12 x 20 foot mural at The Marketplace Gallery in Albany, NY by street painter and muralist Jonathan Villoch also know as Depoe. Villoch uses abstraction and bold colors to create a pictographic language telling stories of his surroundings to create large-scale murals. Villoch is also an avid printmaker; the murals begin with notes taken in etchings, woodcuts, and silkscreen. At Rush Arts Gallery he will be creating a wall painting, as well as showing a video documenting his practices.

For Inquiries contact Charlotte Mouquin, charlotte.mouquin@gmail.com

845-480-1258

Zoetic

Zoetic – May 16th – June 1st 2013

Zoetic, a solo exhibition with artist Drew Testa curated by Charlotte Mouquin, will be opening at RUSH Arts Gallery project space on Thursday, May 16th from 6-8pm at Rush Arts Gallery, 526 W 26th St Suite 311, New York, NY. There will be a closing reception with performance Artist Marious [Or Am I] Platypus on Saturday, June 1st from 3-5pm.

Testa’s tactile biomorphic sculptures are created of knitted yarn, masonite, and insulation foam which live both on and off the wall. These breathing forms swirl in the Rush Arts Gallery Project Sapce forming a living forest of textiles. Inspired by the vastness of the universe and the smallness of single organisms, these shapes warp perceptions of scale. One form seems to grow out of another as if taking on a life of it’s own, hence Zoetic. The sculptures are born out of meticulous, meditative, and obsessive knitting come to life with the addition of various types of foam.

Tessta hails from the Capital Region of New York State with a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College and a MS in Art Education from the College of St. Rose. Testa is one of the selected artists from the Rush Arts Gallery and Corridor Gallery submission process, which is free and open to all artists.

Zoetic, the Chelsea debut for Testa, combines wall sculptures, aerial sculptures, and floor pieces, which come together to create an entire living environment. The closing reception on Saturday June 1st 3-5pm,will also feature the character performance artist Marious [Or Am I] Platypus who will be reacting conceptually to the living walls of the Rush Arts Gallery Project Space in Zoetic.

For Inquiries contact Charlotte Mouquin charlotte.mouquin@gmail.com 845-480-1258

Gallery Hours
Rush Arts Gallery

Wed. – Sat. 12 – 6pm

526 W 26th St, Suite 311

New York, NY 10001
PLEASE NOTE THE 526 W 26th ST Elevator is not working since Hurricane Sandy
Elevators are available at the 508 and 516 W 26th St Entrance

Corridor Gallery
Fri. – Sat. 12-6pm
334 Grand Ave,
Brooklyn, NY

Rush Arts Gallery + Corridor Gallery are core programs of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, a 501 © 3 organization founded in 1995 by brothers Russell, Danny and Joseph “Rev. Run” Simmons.  Rush Arts Gallery is dedicated to providing exhibition opportunities to an emerging artistic community and exposes disadvantaged urban youth to contemporary arts and culture through educational programming initiatives.

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RUSH Arts Gallery and Corridor Gallery Accepts Artist Submissions and Curatorial Proposals until April 15

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Attention Artists and Curators!

Rush Gallery and Corridor Gallery exhibition program seeks to facilitate a contemporary dialogue between new audiences and emerging artists, curators and writers through thematically structured group exhibitions. A team of artists and curators reviews submissions annually.

The gallery offers an excellent opportunity for independent curators to realize their projects in an established venue that makes innovative contributions to the contemporary art world. Please follow the directions on our website www.rushartsgallery.org.

Check out the New Video’s of the Exhibitions at Corridor Gallery

Silafando A Gift to You on My Journey, at Corridor Gallery

COLLIDEscope at Corridor Gallery with RUSH Arts Gallery and Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation


Dimensions Variable: Multiracial Identity features artists Firelei Báez, Yael Ben-Zion, Cecile Chong, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Nicky Enright, Lorra Jackson, Sara Jimenez, Redell & Jimenez, and Saya Woolfalk, whose work expresses various aspects of their diverse, yet highly individual backgrounds. It opens on April 4, 2013, 6-8pm at Rush Arts Gallery at 526 W. 26th Street, Suite 311, in Chelsea. Curated by Gabriel de Guzman, the exhibition challenges a monolithic view of race and examines contemporary issues of identity, hybridism, and racial ambiguity. Several artists in the show directly tackle issues that relate to race and cultural awareness. Others deal with these issues subtly by acknowledging the spread of multiculturalism in our global society and the ways in which race and ethnicity are fluid and depend on perception and context.

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April 13th Artist Summit with Danny Simmons

On View at CORRIDOR GALLERY

COLLIDEscope: The Birth, Metamorphosis and Evolution of the Abstract Actual prepare to take its viewer on an intimately stimulating journey on how isolated abstract ideals converge on a collision course to form the concrete tangible. Emerging from their cosmic infancy and changing forms as they begin their juxtaposed flight with one another through spatial reality, the abstract is ever evolving until it reaches the precipice of maturation. At that point, an abstract kaleidoscopic rainbow of acrylic, organic shapes, paper mache, black ink, fragmented patterns, x-ray film and even window soot collide to provide new and converged absolutions to complex philosophical issues that we face today.

On View at Corridor Gallery

SILAFANDO – A gift to you for my journey – Portraits of village alkalos (chiefs) and elders made while on a 930 km circumnavigation of The Republic of The Gambia,West Africa by foot.

A Solo Exhibition of Jason Florio
‘Al Haji Harouna Tonkara – Suduwole village – the Gambia

Gallery Hours:
Rush Arts Gallery
Wed. – Sat. 12 – 6pm
526 W 26th St, Suite 311
New York, NY 10001
PLEASE NOTE THE 526 W 26th ST Elevator is not working since Hurricane Sandy
Elevators are available at the 508 and 516 W 26th St Entrance

Corridor Gallery
Fri. – Sat. 12-6pm
334 Grand Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

Rush Arts Gallery + Corridor Gallery are core programs of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, a 501 © 3 organization founded in 1995 by brothers Russell, Danny and Joseph “Rev. Run” Simmons. Rush Arts Gallery is dedicated to providing exhibition opportunities to an emerging artistic community and exposes disadvantaged urban youth to contemporary arts and culture through educational programming initiatives.

March Openings at Rush Arts Gallery and Corridor Gallery

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ONE NIGHT EVENT AT RUSH ARTS

Visually Speaking
An Announcement of Art
By Jaison Spain & Jah C of the Blackness
Craft Ale Compliments of SmuttyNose Brewery
March 21st 6-8pm
COMING TO CORRIDOR GALLERY PROJECT SPACE MARCH 24th
OPENING RECEPTION 4-6pm

SILAFANDO   – A gift to you for my journey  –   Portraits of village alkalos (chiefs) and elders made while on a 930 km circumnavigation of The Republic of The Gambia,West Africa by foot.

A Solo Exhibition of Jason Florio


Don’t Miss Rush Arts Gallery at Fountain Art Fair

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RUSH ARTS GALLERY will be Exhibiting at FOUNTAIN Art Fair

March 8th-10th
In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the 1913 Armory Show Rush Arts Gallery will be bringing the work of 5 artists to Fountain Art Fair located at 68 Lexington Ave at 25th St. The work of Sophia Dawson, John Lee, Christina Massey, Gabriel Pacheco, and SOL SAX includes painting, drawing, sculpture, action and video. Please join us for this exciting Exhibition! Find Out More information here: http://www.fountainartfair.com/visitor-info

John Lee Painting in Action coming to Fountain with RUSH Arts Gallery.

Jennifer CRUTE Comes to Corridor Gallery March 16th

Gallery Hour:

Rush Arts Gallery
Wed. – Sat. 12 – 6pm
526 W 26th St, Suite 311
New York, NY 10001
PLEASE NOTE: THE 526 W 26th ST Elevator is not working since Hurricane SandyElevators are available at the 508 and 516 W 26th St Entrance

Corridor Gallery
Fri. – Sat. 12-6pm
334 Grand Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

Artist and Curatorial Submissions Open February 15

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Gallery Submissions

Rush Gallery and Corridor Gallery exhibition program seeks to facilitate a contemporary dialogue between new audiences and emerging artists, curators and writers through thematically structured group exhibitions.  A team of artists and curators reviews submissions annually.

Submissions are accepted Feb. 15th – April 15th all artists chosen by the review board will be notified by the end of June.

The gallery offers an excellent opportunity for independent curators to realize their projects in an established venue that makes innovative contributions to the contemporary art world.  Please submit the following information in one, multi-page PDF via email.  Please indicate Artist Submission or Curatorial Submission in the subject of the email.  Please title the attachment in the following way:

NAME.artistsub.month.year.pdf

or

NAME.curatorialsub.month.year.pdf

eg. – JONES.ArtistSub.jan.2011.pdf or SMITH.Cuatorialsub.jan.2011.pdf

Each PDF should contain the following:

Artist Submission: (Rush Gallery & Project Space, Corridor Gallery & Project Space)

- Artist Resume

- Artist Statement

- 4-6 images which include the medium, title, and dimensions

Curatorial Submissions: (Rush Gallery & Project Space, Corridor Gallery & Project Space)

- Curatorial Resume including past exhibitions

- Curatorial Statement about proposed exhibit and what venue it is intended for.

- Images of Art which include Artist, Medium, Title, Dimensions

- Artist Bio / Exhibition History synopsis of each artist included

Direct your submission to Charlotte Mouquin – charlotte@rushartsgallery.org