Over the course of three months, Equity Gallery will offer its member artists the opportunity to present recent work in a critique format to a wider audience for comments and discussion.The crit series will take place in three separate sessions: Abstraction and Conceptual Art with Ben Pritchard and David Cohen (Session I), Figuration and Realism with Peter Trippi and Patricia Watwood (Session II), and Narrative Symbolism and Illustration with Matt Rota and Hyeseung Song (Session III). Six artists will present artworks through the course of an evening, followed by a brief audience Q&A at the end of the program.

We invite you to attend the first session of Crit Duos, lead by artist Ben Pritchard and editor of artcritical David Cohen and featuring Kazuko Kobayashi, Judith Mullen, Ana Delgado, Ginny Howsam Friedman, William Lawler, and Sylvia Skok.

ABOUT THE CRIT LEADERS

Ben Pritchard was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the New York Studio School from 1995-97. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2009. He has been working primarily in drawing, oil painting, and watercolors as well as community events in Brooklyn and Detroit since 2011.

David Cohen is editor and publisher of artcritical as well as a regular contributor. He is founder-moderator of The Review Panel, the critics' forum hosted by Brooklyn Public Library (formerly National Academy Museum, New York, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia) and podcast here at artcritical. He was Gallery Director at the New York Studio School from 2001-10 and art critic and contributing editor at the New York Sun from 2003-08. Born in London and educated at the University of Sussex and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, David wrote for leading newspapers and magazines in England and around the world before emigrating to the United States in 1999. His books include "Serban Savu" (Hatje Cantz verlag, 2011) and "Alex Katz Collages: A catalogue raisonné" (Colby College Museum of Art, 2005).