"I LOVE NEW YORK" at NANCY HOFFMAN GALLERY

October 17 - December 1, 2001

Nancy Hoffman Gallery at 429 West Broadway in SoHo will host an exhibition from October 17 to December 1 entitled "I LOVE NEW YORK."

Like other New York galleries participating in the citywide effort, proceeds from exhibition sales will be donated to New York City recovery charities.

All gallery artists responded to the phone call concerning this exhibition with enthusiasm for the event and a positive desire to participate and to contribute. Several of the artists did not have the time to create a new work, but agreed to give a work they had already created; others had works in progress that they steered in a different direction to suit the cause. The collective spirit and energy for healing after the World Trade towers tragedy will be felt in the presence of the works themselves. Art that is life enhancing and life affirming is a visual prayer and a stimulus for recovery. It is to this recovery that the exhibition at Nancy Hoffman Gallery will speak.

Included in the exhibition will be works by all gallery artists, some created specifically for the event such as Carolyn Brady's Poppies and Bagels/New York, including that culinary delectable associated with this town, the bagel, and weeping poppies embracing the circular edible; as well as Gregory Halili's image of Manhattan, an intimate scale watercolor, a love letter to Manhattan.

Gallery artists: Nicolas Africano, Ilan Averbuch, David Bierk, Carolyn Brady, Howard Buchwald, Mark Calderon, Rupert Deese, Mark Depman, Don Eddy, Rafael Ferrer, Viola Frey, Juan Gonzalez, Michael Gregory, Gregory Halili, Rohan Harris, Lynn McCarty, Lucy Mackenzie, Susan Norrie, John Okulick, Frank Owen, Peter Plagens, Richard Purdy, Joseph Raffael, Bill Richards, Yuko Shiraishi.