The exhibition “Ageless” is based on a series of portraits inspired by elderly subjects, many of whom were acquainted with the artist. From the portraits of a Chinese woman to that of an American Indian, the prints explore “ageing” and “the long life” imbued with dignity.

Each print in the series is accompanied by a short story. These stories, set in the context of the intricate and labor-intensive process of a mezzotint, are apropos in that they seek to reveal the ageless beauty within the lives of our elderly friends and family.

Fausti’s recent exhibitions include a solo show at the Museum of Printmaking in Curitiba, Brazil. His works are broadly exhibited in national and international print exhibitions. After earning his BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute, he received his MFA from Rutgers University. Several institutions count his work among their permanent collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Please inquire with the front desk if interested in seeing a price list for the exhibition. Exhibition catalogues are also available per request.

Yossi Gutmann and Eva Grudin are at work on a book about the social, cultural and architectural history of once one of the grandest and oldest apartment buildings in Tel Aviv. Though it’s now condemned, Yossi Gutmann’s father, Kalman Gutmann, 96 years old, still lives there, the sole tenant. He refuses to leave his third floor (walk-up) apartment. He has a fixed-rent contract from 1934 and no one can pry him loose. The photographs in the exhibition record Kalman’s world - scenes from the
(Shuk Ha’Carmel) Carmel market next door, where he shops after-hours, pictures of the apartment itself and the building, in ruins, but still noble in its skeleton and details, and the eccentric watchmaker’s shop Kalman worked infor 70 years. The apartment and the shop are crammed full by a man who refuses to throw out anything. Even the tape on the apartment windows dates back to 1940, when the Italians bombed the British in Tel Aviv.

Yossi Gutmann, a photographer and professional violist, lives in Vienna, Austria, and is currently Professor of Viola at the Haydn Konservatorum. His photographs have been published in Gastronomica magazine, Hadassah magazine and exhibited in galleries in Israel and Austria. Eva Grudin, senior lecturer in the Art Department at Williams College, won’t say how long she has taught there: African art, the History of Ideas, Holocaust studies and, since 1984, the Art History 102 course. For the past ten years she has also been making art, collaboratively, with Yossi Gutmann (e.g. the collaborative, CounterAct (www.tocounteract.com).

To bring the flavors of the Tel Aviv market to life, Darra Goldstein will offer a guided tasting of some typical market foods from the Shuk Ha’Carmel, Israel’s oldest market. Through dishes like hummus, frikeh (smoked green wheat salad), and hilbe, a spicy Yemenite dip, she will introduce Israel’s rich culinary culture and discuss the Arab, African, Eastern European, Mediterranean, and Central Asian food traditions that have influenced it. Goldstein is the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Russian and Founding Editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. She has consulted
on food and culture for organizations from the Council of Europe to New York City’s own Russian Tea Room.

Varied and dynamic, CHARGE! featured work in a range of mediums that attempt to reinterpret and challenge familiarity and the commonplace. For these three artists, familiarity is a condition that causes the details of our everyday surroundings, relationships, and experiences to fade, causing familiar things to be overlooked and under-considered. Acha, Mendez, and Torres each place the familiar within new contexts to raise them from the periphery into our consciousness.

Acha, who will be presenting a combination of collograph prints and encaustic paintings, gravitates toward mediums that allow an intimate physical connection with the process. Repeatedly incising, cutting, and marking every inch of her surfaces, she works intuitively in the creation of organic, abstract spaces and forms that seem to be living and constantly in motion.

On the other hand, drawing from New York City’s history, architecture, textures, streets, and habits, Mendez strives to get to the essence of city life through a reduction and abstraction of its elements. To better understand the city’s many contrasts and contradictions, he looks to isolated, mundane architectural details.

Torres’ work is spurred by a sense of bewilderment and awe toward the subtle unfamiliarity in the everyday. The images she creates - through both photography and painting - are intuitively composed and part of a larger investigation.

Michael Cardacino is a contemporary artist working and living in the Springs hamlet of East Hampton, NY. His art is realized in sculpture, utilizing a wide range of materials, including stone, glass, metal and plastics, installations, works on paper and video.

Freedom and Justice For All features portraits of groups and individuals using popular culture and today’s media. When viewed, these images reveal the emotions generated by the continuous flow of thoughts. They create a psychological portrait. Cardacino organized the frozen frames of Monica Lewinsky that he photographed off his TV during a Barbara Walters interview into a large print of ninety successive images. Without any formal composition, the repetitive assembled images read like a road map of Monica’s mind, creating a portrait of the movement of thought itself.

Cardacino photographed in the same way former president Bill Clinton, interviewed by Jim Leher; Ken Starr, interviewed by Leslie Stahl; Hilary Clinton, and Linda Tripp, interviewed by Larry King. These were arranged in the same format as Monica’s print. The concatenation of all five “Portraits of Thought” in this series lures our senses, tending to create a Shakespearian portrait of a king, queen, consort, assassin, and inquisitor. Michael Cardacino’s work invites a conversation with viewers as it points to universal topics that are cause for suffering and conflict in the world.

The Williams Club is proud to present Faculty Show New York: Works by Mike Glier and Amy Podmore. The exhibition is presented alongside The Williams College Museum of Art’s annual Williams College Studio Art Faculty Exhibition featuring artists Mike Glier and Amy Podmore.

We are proud to display eight landscapes by Mike Glier, Professor of Art at Williams College. The works are from Latitude, a series within Mike Glier’s larger project Latitude, Longitude and Antipodes, which targets specific locations on the globe to create a series of plein air improvisational paintings. For Latitude, Glier stayed in one place (his own backyard) for an extended period to paint the changes of season as the earth shifts on its axis. In a race against time, Glier labored to create images of landscapes before accelerating environmental changes altered those landscapes forever, hoping his project will evoke a passion for the living world that will lead to improved environmental policy.

Amy Podmore animates the bizarre, ironic, and perplexing facets of life through her often humorous, yet poignant, work. Often, her art flip-flops between the absurd and the rational, the somber and the whimsical. The Williams Club is proud to present two of Podmore’s prints, alongside a wall sculpture. Podmore says, “I am intrigued by affable contradictions … the fact that two opposing ideas can be entertained simultaneously.”

The reception will include a booksigning of Mike Glier’s newest book, "Along A Long Line." The book follows Glier's artistic and ecological journey along the 70th Longitude.

The Williams Club is proud to present Edward Cornell '65: An Exhibition of Abstract Paintings in our downstairs gallery space. This show features a dozen abstractions in oil on canvas. They are richly colored, often geometrical, and exhibit a literary bent. The gallery is free and open to the public seven days a week from 8:00am-8:00pm.

The Williams Club is pleased to feature 63 quilts from local shop The City Quilter, all made while each quilter was living or working in the New York metro area.

All 63 quilts were juried, selected from 203 that were submitted. The chosen quilts reflect a wide range of quilting styles, from traditional designs to contemporary. Several of the quilts are expected to be for sale and revenue will be shared with the Club. This exhibit follows The City Quilter’s successful show in Winter, 2007, which commemorated the 10th anniversary of its classroom and shop.

Cathy Izzo, co-owner of The City Quilter, commented: “There are so few opportunities for the public to see quilts in New York City, and the vast range of quilting styles will surprise--and please--all the visitors. We expect a big response to a show that will help advance New Yorkers’ interest in quilting.” Cathy is a former CBS Television Network Programming Executive and wife of Dale Riehl ’72. The two own and manage the shop together.

A normally scheduled “Dear Jane” class will be taking place in the Garfield Room during the opening reception, and visitors from the reception will be encouraged to drop in to get a better understanding of what is involved in this particular kind of quilt-making.

Since it’s opening in February 1997, The City Quilter has served New York’s quilters and other fabric artists. The 2,500 square foot shop has more than 3,000 bolts of 100% cotton fabric and a wide selection of hand-dyed cotton fabric with the “urban quilter” in mind: sophisticated, contemporary and exotic.