COLETTE UNVEILS NEW WORKS AND MULTI MEDIA: VIDEOS & WINDOWS AT destination NY

PRIVATE RECEPTION FEBRUARY 8, 2010 - 6 to 8pm

destination - 32-36 Little West 12th Street (just west of 9th Ave)

WHAT
A wine reception to view the new works by Colette.

Colette will design the windows around the famous Colette mannequin that has been displayed in the Guggenheim Museum. “The Last Days of Pearl Street," A short-film by Colette about the demolition of Maison Lumiére, her legendary downtown Manhattan atelier will be shown along with paintings and images relating to the destruction.Colette the artist and darling of the downtown art scene, friend to Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Richard Prince among many, has had success after success in Europe and Asia.  Now she returns to exhibitions in New York City with a one, two punch.  We at Whom You Know were pleased as punch to meet Colette and we look forward to featuring her more!

First, in February, Colette unveils a new stage in her amazing career.  Known for her baroque aesthetic, she will exhibit her metaphysical portraits of friends and colleagues including Bill Murray, Susan Sarandon, Katharina Otto Bernstein at the ubber hip downtown fashion and Art Space destination NY: 32-36 Little West 12th Street.  This is in keeping with Colette’s tradition of exhibiting art in unexpected places.

Second, in April, she will have a selective history exhibition (1970’-‘til now) at the Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Chelsea, 533 West 23rd Street, New York, NY.  You will see some of the works that brought her so much attention and attracted hordes of artists, politicians and socialites to her legendary atelier at 213 Pearl Street.

You may remember 213 Pearl Street was New York’s first World trade center.  Built in 1832-32, the landmark building was condemned by the City and Colette’s historic atelier destroyed.  It saddens us when we hear that such buildings are not preserved and we hope every effort will be made in the future in Manhattan to keep important parts of history.  A short video Colette made of the destruction of the Pearl Street landmark will be screened at destination NY.   Among the guests Peachy Deegan enjoyed meeting included:
Julie Sharbutt
Mia Morgan
Jake Bright
David Noh
James Horner
Roy Kean






 

WHO
Invited Guests include:
Irving Sandler, author David Dalton, film makers Paul Tschinkel,
Janna Bullock; R. Couri Hay; Mia Morgan; Charlie Ahearn and John Hernhart;
Sylvia Miles; James McLaren; Patrick McMullan; ArtNet’s Bryan McConville and
Walter Robinson; Henry Buhl; Jennifer Bradford Davis; Jake Bright; High
Voltage; Jaid Barrymore; Geoffrey Bradfield; Somers & Jonathan Farkas;
Sharon Bush; Anthony Haden Guest; Maggie Norris; Alexandra Anderson & Jock
Spivy; Christine Schott; Mark Langrish; Gillian & Sylvester Miniter; April
Barton; Helene Verin; Elizabeth Cannon; Ed Rubin; Hubert Newman; Anita
Sarko; Eleonor Heartney; Phyllis Braaf, Richard Vines, David Noh, Dennis
Elliot; Dakota Jackson . . .

Invited Artists include:
Dennis Oppenheim, David La Chapelle, Jeff Koons, Donald Baechler, Kevin
Baker, Anton Perich, Philip Pearlstein, Taro Suzuki, Michael Clark, Andre
Enard, Marcia Resnick, Ann McCoy, . .  .  .

Invited Curators, Gallerists, Consultants and Museum personnel include:
Alanna Heiss, Michel Cox Witmer, GEN ART’s Keri Ingvarrson, Nathan
Bernstein,Vivian Horan, Pavel Zoubok, Stephanie Borynack Clark, Alice & Paul
Judelson, Island Weiss, Joyce Pomerantz Schwartz, Thomas Knapp, MoMA’s
Olivia Langston and Jenny Schlezka .  .  .

Subjects of the Metaphysical Portraits include:
Jeff Koons, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Martha Stewart, Jim
Jarmusch, Gabriel Byrne, Blondie, Bill Murray, Katharina Otto Bernstein,
Anthony Haden Guest, Rufus Wainwright, Sylvia Miles, Michelle Marie and Jon
Heinemann, Donald Baechler, Kevin Baker, Sylvia Miles, R. Couri Hay and the
artist herself.

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