PAST COFFEE TALK
‘Femina Luminous’ Artist Talk and Weaving Demonstration
Naomi Ben-Shahar
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PAST COFFEE TALK
‘Femina Luminous’ Artist Talk and Weaving Demonstration
Naomi Ben-Shahar
Please join us on Saturday June 3rd at 1 PM for a participatory conversation and weaving demonstration with Naomi Ben-Shahar, one of Baxter St’s 2023 Mid-Career artists, on the occasion of her solo exhibition, Femina Luminous. Femina Luminous consists of photo constructions and collages featuring handmade weavings, large format photographs, and paintings that seek to complicate the uniformity and flatness associated with the consumption of photography in our image-saturated era, and create eco-feminist, tactile and sustainable interactions.
Femina Luminous will be on view through June 24th, 2023 in Baxter St’s Project Space at 128 Baxter St.
The Mid-career, Lens-based Artists Initiative is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
Naomi Ben-Shahar is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator living and working in New York.
She has benefited from local and international support, including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY Foundation for the Arts, Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Germany, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Her work was shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NY; the International Video Festival in Casablanca; Feature, Inc., White Columns, Invisible-Exports, and Gorney, Bravin, Lee galleries in NY; FA Projects in London; Edith Russ Site for Media Arts in Germany; Art and Process in Paris; Torch Gallery in Amsterdam; Camera Works in San Francisco; BY Art Projects in Tel Aviv, Guild Hall in East Hampton, among others. Ms Ben-Shahar began her art career as a painter. Her first exhibition featured large scale oil paintings of draped fabrics illuminated by high contrast light and shadows, which anticipated her long interest in light and textile. During her MFA studies in NY, Ms Ben-Shahar shifted the focus of her work to photography and video. For three decades, alongside her own art practice, she made a living as a photo researcher/editor. Her intention from the start was to explore the photo field deeply, from as many perspectives as possible. One of her first research projects was photo researching the books “History of Women Photographers” and “A World History of Photography,” both by Naomi Rosenblum. She was then an image editor of Cabinet magazine, and the New Yorker and curated exhibitions for the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center.