Date/Time
Date - March 24, 2017
6:30 pm until 9:30 pm
Location
Flinn Gallery at the Greenwich Library
101 West Putnam Avenue
Greenwich, Connecticut, 06830
James Grashow, Great Monkey Project, corrugated board, 2006; photo credit: Robert Grant
Please join me for a visit to the Flinn Gallery to view the newly opened Corrugated World: The Art of James Grashow. The extended hours at the Gallery will be followed by the Friends Friday Film in Greenwich Library’s Cole Auditorium, The Cardboard Bernini, a documentary about James Grashow’s work. The film begins at 8:00 pm, admission is free.
The Gallery will be open extended hours, from 6 – 8 pm, I recommend about an hour to see the show, please arrive between 6:30 and 7pm. Those who are also going to the movie should head down for seating at 7:45pm.
For those who would like to attend the Opening Reception instead of/in addition to the Art Lounge and film, it is on Thursday, March 16th from 6 – 8pm. I will be at both events, but only present (pouring wine) for the first hour of the opening reception.
If interested, RSVP to Laura. These are public events, guests are welcome!
From the website: flinngallery.com
American artist James Grashow’s extraordinary corrugated board sculptures, along with his intricate woodcut prints, are to be featured in Corrugated World: The Art of James Grashow, a solo show at the Flinn Gallery.
Grashow, who earned both BFA and MFA degrees from Pratt Institute in New York City and has lived in Connecticut for 40 years, has exhibited widely at museums and galleries, including the DeCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, MassMOCA, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and New Britain Museum of American Art.
Art dealer Allan Stone began representing Grashow in 1965, and Stone’s daughter, filmmaker Olympia Stone, made Grashow the subject of her documentary film, The Cardboard Bernini (2012). The film documents the creation, and calculated destruction, of Grashow’s largest project, a cardboard replica of Bernini’s great fountain in Rome. The documentary, which provides viewers with extraordinary insight into Grashow’s hopes, fears, inspiration and creative process.
Artist James Grashow will be present for the Art Lounge at the Gallery, the film and Q&A afterwards.
The Cardboard Bernini Trailer from Olympia Stone on Vimeo.
James Grashow, Black and White Houseplant; paper, wood and acrylic paint; 2016. 32″ tall x 10″ x 10″
For more insight into James Grashow’s work, here is an article from The New York Times:
An Artwork Turns to Mush, All According to Plan by William Grimes, May 13, 2013
Flinn Gallery, 2nd Floor Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut