Whitman on Hudson
A Gathering of Comrades
In conjunction with Eric Rhein’s art exhibition Transmutation, come and experience the spirit of Whitman’s love of comrades through a gathering of readers of the sensual and loving Calamus poems from Leaves of Grass. Rhythm circle to follow.
Saturday March 19th, Reading & Drumming: 3:00 PM
Saturday March 19th, Reading & Drumming: 3:00 PM
BoxoFFICE
421 Hudson Street, Suite 701
421 Hudson Street, Suite 701
(two blocks above Houston, at Leroy)
Gallery open: 1:00 – 6:00 PM
About Eric’s artwork:
In “Transmutation” Eric Rhein weaves personal stories, experiences, and mysticism together into artworks that reflect the powerful connections between man, nature, and the spiritual world.
Vintage male nudes, in classical poses, are transformed into “Faerie Men” through the adornment of recycled jewelry. Wire drawings inspired by an afternoon encounter with a deer, whom Eric calls “Silver Buck”, combine male nudes with the heads of deer, reflecting Cernunnos, the Celtic God of nature.
These assemblages, photographs and wire drawings merge male nudes with the features of animals, insects and plant life. At the center are a series of transformative self-portrait assemblages, incorporating found objects, and bronze and silver castings of twigs and leaves, with photographs taken in the sacred pine forest between Cherry Grove and The Pines, on Fire Island. The works conjure the four directions through their titles, North, South, East and West, and evoke figures from Celtic and Egyptian mythology.
New York Times critic, Holland Cotter once wrote that in Rhein’s work “the combination of art and craft, delicacy and resiliency, feminine and masculine, is exquisitely wrought and is, as it should be, seductive but disturbing.”
The exhibit runs from February 12th through April 9th, 2011
Regular Exhibition Hours: Saturdays 1-6PM, and by appointment:
Regular Exhibition Hours: Saturdays 1-6PM, and by appointment:
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