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Join ATOA on Monday, April 27th at 7pm EST on Zoom for a dialogue between artist Bean Finneran & curator Michael Klein.

Bean Finneran constructs sculptures with a simple elemental form, a hand rolled curve made from low fire clay. The sculptures are abstract…rings, cones, lines, and ovals that evoke the natural world. The geometry of a curve weaves, allowing construction and holding the forms together. The sculptures are always transitory, built in space for a given amount of time and then de-assembled. The same curves can be reconstructed, transformed in another location and another form with more curves or less curves or composed with added colors.

For 25 years, she worked with a visual avant-garde theater company, SOON 3. When touring, they had to figure out how to set up a performance in every new space, so she became comfortable and excited with the process of arriving in a space to compose and set up a sculptural landscape particular to that space. Finneran continues to make individual sculptures and landscapes of sculptures altering shapes and colors using the curves she already has, overpainting, or changing the texture of the sculpture by changing the diameter of the curves.

Michael Klein's expertise is as a private art dealer and freelance, independent curator for individuals, institutions and arts organizations. Today Michael Klein Arts works with a diverse group of artists, estates, galleries and non-profit institutions providing management, curatorial and other consulting services. At the same time the company services institutional as well as private collectors with an eye to developing collections of emerging, mid-career and established artists.The company also organizes traveling exhibitions both in the United States and abroad.

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Join ATOA on Monday, March 30th at 7 pm EST on Zoom for a talk from Wendy Smith and Ginnie Gardiner to discuss Gardiner’s recently published book “Ginnie Gardiner: Change and Continuity,” which focuses on her series of artworks created from 2018 to present. The talk will also contains a chronology where they will discuss the earlier phases of Gardiner’s work. Participants viewing the presentation will be provided with a link to view the online catalog, as well.

Ginnie Gardiner has built a distinguished career spanning four decades, featuring numerous solo and group exhibitions. Gardiner graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1974. From 1978 to 2005 she lived in New York City. In 2005 she moved upstate to the Village of Catskill.

Wendy Smith writes about literature and the arts for a variety of publications, including the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and American Theatre magazine. She is a contributing editor at the American Scholar, which has published more than a dozen of her essays. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Red Bull Theater in New York City. She is the author of “Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940.”

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Postponed!

POSTPONED - Join ATOA on Monday, March 23rd at 1pm EST on Zoom for a talk from Artist Sam Lock in Dialogue with Curator Michael Klein.

Born in 1973 in London, Sam Lock now lives and works near Brighton with his spacious studio in a converted industrial unit further up the coast. Lock studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1997 with MAs in both Fine Art and Art History. During his training, he won a scholarship to travel to Rome to explore the relationship between history, archaeology, and the processes of painting, a preoccupation which still forms the conceptual basis that underpins his practice.

Michael Klein's expertise is as a private art dealer and freelance, independent curator for individuals, institutions, and arts organizations. Today Michael Klein Arts works with a diverse group of artists, estates, galleries, and non-profit institutions providing management, curatorial, and other consulting services. At the same time, the company services institutional as well as private collectors with an eye to developing collections of emerging, mid-career, and established artists. The company also organizes traveling exhibitions both in the United States and abroad.

Visit our website in bio to find the link and register.