EXHIBITION: 2008 National Affiliates Exhibition      DATES: June 17 -– July 12, 2008 RECEPTION: Thursday, June 19, 5-7 PM	ADDRESS: 511 West 25 Street, Suite 605, NYC HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday. 12 - 6 PM

SOHO20 Chelsea, a distinguished New York all-women's gallery since 1973, presents the annual exhibit of its “National Affiliates” Show beginning June 17. Please join the artists at the evening reception on Thursday June 19th, 5:00 - 7:00 pm. The show runs through July 12. SOHO20’s National Affiliates, a far-flung group of women artists, is drawn from all regions of this country and other national capitals and cultures. Its members represent a broad spectrum of artistic careers outside New York. They include artist-educators, academics, arts advocates, and artist-curators. Always individual in their approaches and agendas, their bond as established women artists gives focus to their annual exhibitions.  The national Affiliates group is dedicated to a collaborative exhibition process, supporting each other professionally, and providing structure, continuity, and feedback to stimulate innovative thinking about their work. Their model of cooperative artistic dialogue reaches out to women visual and conceptual artists around the world. In this exhibit, eleven artists from the United States and Japan explore the impact of gender on boundaries of self and relationships to community.  Their works comprise a wide stylistic range of digital media, sculpture and installation, photography, print, painting, drawing, fiber and mixed media.  Their personal descriptions reflect common concerns and a diversity of methods:

“Karen Baldner's recent drawings on handmade paper explore the space between absence and presence as an experience of potential and suspense.” “B. Amore, a sculptor using alternative photo processes, text and mixed media, will show work which explores memory and journey.” “Gail Hoffman's very small installations of plastic, bronze and video evoke a bemused sense of place in a world out of time.” “Elizabeth Michelman’s installation of ink works on paper, from her award-winning ‘First Person Series,’ multiplies the letter ‘I’ traced from a steel I-beam to construct a symbolic architecture of the self.”  “Ann Rowles, a mixed-media sculptor, will exhibit two crocheted works based on the experience of caring for her elderly mother.” “Georgia Strange shows invented sentinels that deal with each day's imperfection, from her “Guardian Series.” “Virginia Tyler makes installations that show the heavy work that girls in Ghana have to do if they do not get an education.” “Mary Whalen presents her current work photographing young wrestlers, utilizing 19th century printing techniques.” “Eve Whitaker's work this year comes from her Creaking Cart Series’ of graphite drawings, in response to the experience of caring for an elderly parent.” “Rosie G. Thompson, a mixed media sculptor from NC, will exhibit constructions dealing with reconciliation.”   For more information or visuals contact Gallery Director, Alessandra Duarte at SOHO20 Chelsea by email: soho20@verizon.net by phone 212.367.8994.

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