As Surrealism celebrates its centennial in 2024, contemporary artists Jay Gidwitz,  Ela Zdunek and Kristin Kwan embody its enduring legacy through distinct approaches. Zdunek’s grayscale collages explore themes of transformation and identity, Kwan’s intricate oil paintings delve into mythology and the subconscious, and Gidwitz’s digital works merge traditional and modern techniques to examine psychological landscapes. Together, they push the boundaries of surrealism, showcasing its adaptability and relevance in contemporary art.

Famed Arts Documentarian Stephen Blauweis and his partner, Karen Berelowitz. The partners screen segments of their many art world documentaries and discuss their work.

Panel with Maria Paz as the moderator. 2 artists as panelists, one from the West and one from the East.

Video highlights from the party, speeches and awards ceremony of the Artists Talk On Art 50th Anniversary Gala, held on May 20th, 20024 at the SoHo Photo Gallery, 15 White Street in Tribeca (New York City) on May 20th, 2024. Features speeches by Douglas I. Sheer, Artists Talk On Art co-founder (in 1974), Chairman Emeritus and President as well as Helen Harrison, former Director of the Pollock-Krasner House as well as Gail Levin PhD, Distinguished Professor at CUNY Graduate Center and biographer of Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner and Judy Chicago and finally Liza Kirwin, PhD, Deputy Director Emerita, Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Recording run time 65 minutes. Sheer Also will make a brief introduction at the start of the screening.

Both Jennifer Dalton’s and William Powhida’s individual art practices have questioned artists’ relationships to the art market and larger culture for many years. They first collaborated in 2008 during the financial crisis, and developed the discussion-as-art-exhibition #Class and its successor art fair iteration #Rank in 2010 to address problems of access, hierarchies and power imbalances. In 2017 with the support of More Art they presented Month2Month, a month-long series of public performances and discussions on the topic of housing affordability that took place during short-term residencies in private apartments. At Zero Art Fair, the works are offered to visitors free of charge, with ownership transferring to the new collector via a signed contract over a 5 year period and the artist retaining rights regarding the value of the work. Both Dalton and Powhida’s individual artworks and their collaborations have often engaged in institutional critique; with Zero Art Fair they have created something new that addresses some of the issues they’ve critiqued.

A panel moderated by ATOA programming director, Maria Paz, showing clips and discussing her new documentary film "Radical Perception," on the life and work of the late centenarian artist Knox Martin. The panel features Paz, Olivia Korringha artist and daughter of Knox Martin and Doug Sheer, ATOA president.

Poet Gold and Suprina discuss their collaboration for Say My Name, a short-film co-directed by Gold and Paul Thompson

An ATOA 'Legacy' Replay of a November 3, 1995 recording that looks at successful artists aged 20 through 80 as they share insights about its effect on their careers.

Moderated by Donna Marxer, then executive director of ATOA, and featuring panelists: Rebecca Purdum, Alexis Rockman, Elizabeth Murray, Joe DiGiorgio, Dorothy Gillespie and David Slivka

NYU Gallatin Professor Lawrence Wheatman, moderates a panel with Susan Bowen and Naphtali Visser will show and discuss their digital panographic photographs.

Artists Elisa Pritzker and Nestor Madalengoitia discuss the influences of indigenous civilizations, in the Americas, have had on their contemporary art making.

Artists Robert Neffson and Richard Haas showing and discussing their respective stylistic differences on the same theme.

An opportunity for a non-curated group of mural and street artists to share their artwork.



The collection includes 1,500 artworks-including paintings, lithographs, sculpture and works on paper – from the historic Woodstock Art Colony that collector Arthur A. Anderson donated to the New York State Museum in 2017. This extraordinary collection, which represents a body of work that together shaped art and culture in New York and forms a history of national and international significance.

The Role of the Gallery in the Age of Social Media

Steven Siegel has been making large scale, sited sculpture since the 1980’s. He has installed dozens of pieces throughout Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia. His current work reflects an expansion of his studio practice into photography and film.

An opportunity for a non-curated group of landscape and street mural artists to share and discuss their artwork & studio practice.

Artist, painter, videographer, filmmaker Bill Rabinovitch, artist, NYU professor Barnaby Ruhe and artist and former ATOA executive director, Vernita Nemec discuss the 1980s "Whitney Counterweight"

An opportunity for a non-curated group of portrait artists to share and discuss their artwork & studio practice.

M. Annenberg, curator, Biophilia, In Excelsis

An open discussion on ageist and sexist constructs in the contemporary art world with artists Nicole Awai, Cheryl Donegan, Carla Gannis, Maria Elena Gonzalez and Claudia Hart.

Pandora's BoxX: a photographic portrait series documenting and celebrating the changing face and profound cultural influence of womxn artists and art practitioners (inclusive of trans; non-binary; gender-queer, and female individuals) over the past six decades.

a Legacy re-screening of a panel originally held and recorded in October 2019. The panel was moderated by ATOA president Doug Sheer and features panelists: Scott Van Campen, Ted Lawson, Babette Bloch and Carole Eisner. This panel discusses how to dramatically scale up your work to gain the added attention it deserves.

Art-enthusiast Eric Lens interviews Sabban on her multi-disciplinary creative practice and eclectic art-making style

Babs Reingold solo show “Under My Skin” at SPAACES Art Gallery in Sarasota FL. Join us for Babs’ Dialogue/Interview with Mark Ormond

American photographer Neal Slavin will be interviewed by Carrie Welch.

Moderator, Jennifer McGregor, Curator/Arts Planner with panelists: Anne Trauben, Founder/Gallery Director/Curator, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ; Shazzi Thomas, Director, Painting Center, NY, NY; Hanne Tierney, Founder/Gallery Director, Five Myles, Bklyn, NY; Jeannine Bardo, Founder/Artistic Director, Stand4 Gallery, Bklyn, NY

Lori Antonacci, Albert Depas, Vernita Nemec with Doug Sheer as Moderator.

Faith Ringgold and Nancy Azara in dialog, November 4, 2005, ATOA Legacy Recording

Kostabi is most known for his paintings of faceless figures which often comment on

contemporary political, social and psychological issues.

Artists as Curators with Issac Aden, Audrey Frank Anastasi, and Patrica Fabricant

Mothers of Invention:The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art

By Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Sue Scott

A Dialogue Between Two of the Authors