Monday, January 29th, 2024
7:00PM-8:30PM
Jeannine Bardo, Soliphilia II, 2016, graphite, wax, encaustic, powdered pigment, chalk, acrylic on Tyvek,
8 x 8 ft.
Panelist’s
Jeannine Bardo is the founder and artistic director of Stand4 Gallery and Community Arts Center. She is a Brooklyn-born artist, curator, and art educator. Bardo received her BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts, and has completed both a Masters in Art Education and a Masters in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College. She is a multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on humanity’s connections to the natural world.
Bardo has over ten years of experience as a curator in both the public and private realms. She collaborated on a DCLA NYC Public Artwork titled Ark for the Arts that focused on climate change and resiliency in the community of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Bardo is a Co-founder of BioBAT Art Space, where she co-curated its inaugural exhibition in January 2019.
In the Spring of 2023, she directed the public art exhibition Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens, curated by Jennifer McGregor. Stand4 Gallery was a recipient of a 2023 Brooklyn Arts Council, BAF grant for this project. This interactive, public, community art exhibition featured over twenty artists from the New York area and consisted of nature walks, poetry events, artist talks, and community interventions in the gallery and various locations throughout the Bay Ridge community, including a film screening at the local movie theater featuring works by local documentary filmmakers.
Bardo is a lifelong resident of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and a believer in community and collaboration.
Shazzi Thomas received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bard College in 2004. Her paintings have been exhibited at Longwood Art Gallery, Broome Street Gallery, Eleven Ten Gallery, Brooklyn Artists Gym, and The Painting Center in New York City. An abstract painter, her work addresses the inter-relationship between design and chaos, and also the parallels between our external and internal environments. In addition, Thomas has curated numerous exhibitions at Broome Street Gallery in Soho.
In 2008, she gave a lecture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on the artist Georgia O'Keefe in conjunction with the exhibition Through Our Eyes: Wuppertal/New York. Most recently, she gave a lecture at The Maryland Institute College of Art addressing making your own luck in the art world and managing a non-profit organization. She curated the exhibitions Cultivate Your Own Garden, About Face, I Am My Best Work, and One in a Year at The Painting Center. She curated the NYAE 2020 Members Invitational at Equity Gallery, another exhibition titled Far & Wide in 2023 at the Woodstock Artists Association, as well Opposing Forces at the Katonah Museum Artists' Association. She also curated the 2023 exhibition, On the Surface, at Studio Montclair in Montclair, NJ.
Thomas served as a juror for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, as well as for the Golden Educators Residency. She was also guest juror for the 11th Biennial Alexander Rutsch Award in 2021, which offers a solo exhibition for painting. In 2022, Thomas was offered the opportunity to nominate an artist for the prestigious Heinz Award. She has held the title of the Director of The Painting Center for 18 years. Thomas is currently serving as the Co-President of the Drawing Rooms. She also works as an assistant at Michelman Fine Art.
Anne Trauben was born in Brooklyn, NY. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice consists of drawing, collage, sculpture, and installation. Trauben received her BA in Studio Art (Concentration in Ceramics) from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and an MFA in Ceramics from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Trauben lives in the NY Metropolitan Area and maintains a studio in Jersey City, NJ. In 2013, she became one of the founding artists of Drawing Rooms, a nonprofit art gallery and center also located in Jersey City. Trauben has served Drawing Rooms as its Gallery Director and Curator since 2014.
Moderator
Jennifer McGregor’s practice combines curating and arts planning with ongoing creative projects based on her archive and experiences. Her place-based curating focuses on ecological, historical, and cultural concerns, for example Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens in collaboration with Jeannine Bardo at Stand4 Gallery and Community Center in 2023. Through McGregor Consulting she works nationally on public art plans, artwork commissions, and exhibitions to activate public spaces and create opportunities for artists to engage diverse audiences. Previously she conceived arts and cultural programming at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, by connecting to the environment through adventurous exhibitions and performances that explore nature, culture, and site. She established her expertise in public realm as the first director of New York City’s Percent for Art Program from 1983-1990. She received her BA in Art from Brown University and studied art history at The Graduate School and University Center/CUNY.