Saturday, October 23rd, 3:00 — 4:45 PM
Tea and Tour : 3:00 - 3:30 PM
Panel Discussion: 3:30 - 4:30 PM
Q&A Session: 4:30- 4:45 PM
We are thrilled to announce the return of our popular in-person salon series at Equity Gallery with a Tea and Tour of our latest exhibition, III! Participating artists Christopher Stout, Allen Hansen, and Miguel Otero Fuentes will tour guests around the three-person group show, followed by a panel and Q&A session hosted by artist, curator, graphic designer, and Equity Trustee Patricia Fabricant. Tea and refreshments will be served in Equity Gallery’s Courtyard space.
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ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS:
Patricia Fabricant is a painter, curator, and award-winning book designer, born in New York City. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and studied painting in Florence Italy. Her abstract and figurative paintings have been exhibited widely at such galleries as M David & Co, Front Room, SFA Projects, Equity Gallery, Morgan Lehman, the Painting Center, and 490 Atlantic. Her curatorial practice includes two editions of the benefit group show, Among Friends, Studio Mates at Front Room Gallery, and With the Grain, at Equity Gallery. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Allen Hansen was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He studied art at University of California, Irvine with Craig Kauffman whose attention to materiality was a strong influence. In the 1980s, he relocated to New York City, where he now currently lives and works. Recent exhibitions of Hansen include The Atmosphere of Nothingness/or 0 at Lichtundfire, NYC; Current | Undercurrent at Hamden Gallery, UMASS Amherst, MA;and Phantom Forest at Carter Burden Gallery, NYC.
Miguel Otero Fuentes is an architect and sculptor born in the summer of 1986 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2011, he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree of Environmental Design from the School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico. In 2014, he acquired a Masters Degree in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Architecture. At Georgia Tech, he was awarded the T.Gordon Little Fellowship and was the recipient of the 2013 Portman Prize of Architecture. Otero Fuentes currently works as a façade designer on a number of local and international projects and is continuously creating and developing his artform in his Brooklyn studio. His work is strongly influenced by and conceptually based in architecture. Through his sculpture, he creates concepts that experiment with material, dimension, number, light, space, and form.
Christopher Stout (pronouns: he/him/they) was born and raised in Maryland and lives and works in New York City. He/they is a Queer abstract reductive artist, living in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, and working from his artist studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Stout was also the founder and director of Art During the Occupation Gallery (2015-2018) in Bushwick, which was not affiliated with his/their personal art practice. Stout was also the founder of Bushwick Art Crit Group (2013-2016), Bushwick NYC's artist lecture and exhibition series. Stout has accomplished around 200 gallery performance/exhibitions, with 19 solos and 18 completed bodies of work. In addition, Stout holds collectors and work in 23 of the continental 48 states. Christopher relocated to New York from "the long winding road" of San Francisco in spring of 2007. In addition to his/their painting, photography, and performance-based art, Christopher was also the Visual Program Director at Blue Room Gallery, one of the city's largest not-for-profit contemporary art spaces, and was a founding member and lead staff writer for San Francisco Art Magazine. Christopher Stout actively donates his/their art to support New York City not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with Queer and visual arts empowering mission statements, including the Ali Forney Center, Equity Gallery, and Visual AIDS.