Gretl Bauer and Beth Cartland
May 24 - June 17, 2017

"Group Show"

Project Space - Women's Caucus for Art/DC Chapter
"Elements of Surprise" ​​




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Pamela Bennett Ader
April 26 - May 20, 2017

"Bulldozers Are Truth"

Pamela Flynn, Harriet Sobie Goldstein, Leonardo Lanzolla
March 29 — April 22, 2017

"Group Show"

​Project Space - Park McGinty (Estate)

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Joseph O'Neill
March 1 — 25, 2017

"Urban Abstract"

​Project Space - Park McGinty (Estate)

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Associate Artists 2017
February 1 — 25, 2017

Joni Gruber, Dongze Huo, Young Ji Kim, Cedric van Eenoo

​Project Space - Park McGinty (Estate)

The Evolving Phoenix
Continuing a legacy from 1958
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Fellowship Exhibition
​January 4 - 28, 2017

Project Space - Park McGinty (Estate)



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Holiday Benefit Exhibition

November 30 - December 22, 2016
"Give the Gift of Art"


Project Space - Park McGinty (Estate)



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Pamela Bennett Ader, Cecily Barth Firestein, Laura Westby

November 2 - 26, 2016
"Group Show"


Project Space - Park McGinty (Estate)



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Richard Des Jardins, Katherine Evans, Star Li

October 5 - 29, 2016
"Group Show"


Project Space - Marie-Louise McHugh



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William Butcher, Jill Abele Butcher, 
​Aubrey A. Feliciano, William C. Butcher III

September 7 - October 1, 2016
"A Generational Vision:  The Artistic Legacy of the Butcher Family"

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​Pamela Flynn and Group Show

​May 25 - June 18, 2016
"The Impending After"


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William Butcher, Beth Cartland, Richard Des Jardins

​April 27 - May 21, 2016
​"Group Show"


Project Space - Ellen Silberlicht






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Cecily Barth Firestein

March 30 - April 23, 2016
"Birds of a Feather"

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Laura Westby and Group Show

March 2 - 26, 2016
"Reverse Fields"
Elise Ansel and Joseph G. Brown

Associate Artists 2016

February 3 - 27, 2016
Joni Gruber, Dongze Huo, David Weinberg, Young Ja Yoon

What's Right, What's Left: Democracy in America

January 7 - 30, 2016
Juried Exhibition

Phoenix Gallery Extravaganza

December 2 - 22, 2015
12" x 12" at $140

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Pamela Bennett Ader

November 4 - 28, 2015
"Legal Vows"

Harriet Sobie Goldstein

October 7 - 31, 2015
"Series in Gold"

Winn Rea and Lisa Hock

September 9 - October 3, 2015
"Topo Shift 2"
"Indigo Nights"

Contemporary Visions

July 7 - 12, 2015
An exhibition by World Fine Art Agency Artists

SALUTE in the City

June 24 - July 1, 2015
"SALUTE to Women in the Arts"

Beth Cartland and Group Show

May 27 - June 20, 2015
"Undercover"
Cecily Barth Firestein, Pamela Flynn, Laura Westby

Leehyun Kim and Group Show

April 29 - May 23, 2015
"hoW aM I - ?"
Pamela Bennett Ader, Myra Eastman,
Harriett Sobie Goldstein, Winn Rea

Laufey Vilhjalmsdottir Bustany and Mary Alice Copp

April 1 - 25, 2015
"Wild Flowers"
"Disequilibrium"

Sydney Drum
Associate Artists 2015

March 4 - 28, 2015
"Digital Painting"
Jessica Gondek, John Hampshire, David Weinberg,
Young Ja Yoon

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Elise Ansel

February 4 - 28, 2015
"Palimpsest"

Gretl Bauer and Christa Toole

January 7 - 31, 2015
"White"
"Echo"

November 26 - December 20, 2014
Phoenix Gallery Artists
Pamela Bennett Ader, Elise Ansel, Gretl Bauer, Joseph G. Brown, Beth Cartland, Mary Alice Copp, Sydney Drum, Cecily Barth Firestein, Pamela Flynn, Harriet Sobie Goldstein, Jessica Gondek, John Hampshire, Ellie Kim, James Mullen, Winn Rea, Christa Toole, Louise Weinberg, Laura Westby

"Here We Are"
The Phoenix Gallery is celebrating its new home at 548 West 28th Street, Suite 528, New York, NY. Established in 1958, the Phoenix Gallery continues its tradition of exhibiting the finest work created by artists of all disciplines. Please join us in our celebration - which ushers in this holiday season, and the many exciting seasons that lie ahead.

October 29 - November 22, 2014
Joseph Brown
"Resuscitation...Respiration..."
In 1967, while a Master of Fine Arts student at the University of Minnesota, I was making a series of clay boxes which often blew up or cracked in my gas kiln. I decided to make a latex mold of one of the pieces so that if there were problems in the firing, I could easily duplicate them. I discovered that I actually liked the inverted latex mold better than the clay pieces. To enable the latex form to keep its shape, I would stuff it with various materials. Not being satisfied with the results, I tried to inflate it to see if that worked better. In the process of blowing it up, I discovered that I liked the process of its being inflated and deflated. It had become a breathing piece. I found that a squirrel cage fan worked well for blowing air into the piece and a small clock motor with an attached piece of cutout tile worked to partially block the air, thus allowing some of the air to escape the piece. An incandescent bulb, supplied illumination. Mounting the latex piece on a stand in which to conceal the motors, wiring and bulb, resulted in what appeared to be a self contained, lighted and breathing sculpture.
The latex sculptures in this show are an expanded and updated version of one of those original pieces. The incandescent bulbs have been replaced with LED lights, "muffin fans", of the type used in today's computers, have replaced the squirrel cage fans. The small motors with the cut rotating tiles, to control the flow of air, have been replaced with microcontroller boards and relays which I have programed using my computer.

Louise Weinberg
"Games Fish Play"
My work addresses the issue of containment -- the very human desire for the safety of enclosure and structure vs. the terror of possible entrapment. The images of containers in my abstract paintings -- spheres, eggs, buildings, grids, bowls, bottles, jugs -- have all implied that containers can protect, imprison or do both. The Fish Series began in 2013, the year I became the grandmother of two grandsons, one born very prematurely and at great risk. Abstract images gave way to a desire to paint more realistically. One day a fish unexpectedly jumped into one of my paintings, and I was compelled to discover and understand its meaning, especially because I usually find fish repulsive.
I learned that the fish is sacred in many cultures, that it represents fertility, femininity, creativity, good luck, prophecy and wisdom, change and transformation. Water suggests the womb and the unconscious mind. Feeling compelled and repelled at the same time, I, nevertheless, decided that a door had just opened, so I accepted the invitation to step over its threshold into a new realm. I have continued to paint the fish in various dreamlike interior spaces. I hope the viewers of this series will make up their own narratives about what is going on inside of them.

May 28 - June 21, 2014
James Mullen
"Transcontinental"
Patty Neal
"Water/Sky and In Between"


April 30 - May 24, 2014
Pamela Flynn
"Forget-Me-Not"
One knows that life is tenuous. Death is always the end product of life. To live is to die. All ponderings on death are done by the living. All fear of death is felt by the living. Death is what makes life precious.
This series of images, Forget-Me-Not, allows the viewer to slip into the memories of someone who has died and who has left an empty place in the viewer's life. Memories are what the living have of the dead. Memories are what enrich the lives of the living. These images are an exploration into empty spaces, empty spaces to be filled with memories. The images range in mood which reflects the nature of memories.
This series evolved from the gun violence series Considering Harm. Considering the death of an individual leaves one to ponder the loss, the empty space that this individual has left for others-the living. The loss, the empty space, is what marks the death of the individual.  www.pamelaflynnart.com




Pamela Bennett Ader, Elise Ansel, Gretl Bauer, Mary Alice Copp, Joan Harmon, Pat Hickman, Christa Toole,
Louise Weinberg
"syn.the.sis"









April 2 - 26, 2014
Cecily Barth Firestein
"Combined Media on Paper"
Conrad Firestein
"Faded Glories" Floral Portraits
For their April exhibitions, Phoenix Gallery has brought two artistic mediums and two Firesteins together.
Cecily Barth Firestein has been a member of the gallery for over 50 years and her latest exhibition of paintings, Combined Media On Paper, arranges complex structures and vivid colors, constructing abstract scenes. These collages are both playful and yet thoughtfully detailed, capturing Firestein's number one ongoing experimentation with art as it unfolds on paper.

In Faded Glories, her son Conrad Firestein’s exhibition debut, floral portraits explore the natural beauty of flowers as they wilt. Firestein the Younger rescued these flowers from being thrown away to photograph and expose their luscious pinks, varying shades of yellow, and ultimately, the bright charm still left in these forgotten petals.
The Firesteins appreciate that excitement and inspiration lie within the details; either combining mediums that heighten the senses or exploring the cascading transition in something old to produce something new.

March 6 - 29, 2014
Harriet Sobie Goldstein
"Pets and Their People"
Leslie Carabas
"Conversations Around Aging: The Band-Aid Series"
The medical arena is one of the major topics of conversation in a group of seniors. Loss is the primary theme: loss of mobility, agility and strength, loss of loved ones, loss of freedom of movement, loss of mental acuity. In her latest work, Leslie Carabas uses various layers of textile arts—hand-dyed fabrics, texture and drawing achieved through quilting—as well as the patterns she has created with band-aids. These materials help us to consider both the wealth of a life that has been lived for many decades and the concerns that impact that life daily.
Leslie is a California based abstract artist who has shown throughout the USA, Asia and Europe.  www.lesliecarabas.com.



February 5 - March 1, 2014
Laura Westby
"Congruent Spaces"
These works present spaces that are similar in inertia, but they may not be visually the same. They are meant to interact and create a dialogue that evokes a visual response and have a special impact.     www.laurawestby.com

Associate Artists 2014
Emily Dvorin
I call myself a "sculptural basket maker". I am known for my innovative, "trans ordinary" vessels, challenging the original definition of basketry, exploring contemporary interpretations of this traditional craft and utilizing non-traditional materials. I transform the ordinary through the process of manipulation, construction, alteration, repetition of singular elements, coiling, weaving and assembling to create dense arrangements of common, urban objects. I sculpt with fiber and interact with material, pattern, color, design, shape and texture. My use of re-purposed, re-contextualized materials is my commentary on overconsumption of commercial goods, societal excess and throwaway consumerism. My work references everyday life and our relationship with our urban environment. I use the vessel form with an emotional and personal visual vocabulary to speak about life's issues. Color and texture, whimsy, exuberance, optimism, and a sometimes-edgy approach, always enter into my work.    www.emilydvorin.com

Jessica Gondek
"Ecstatic Technology: Enterprising Series"
The Enterprising series are works inspired by domestic utilitarian sources. My process begins with digital manipulations from vintage advertisements for fashionable consumer gadgets for the home found in The Enterprising Housekeeper, a catalogue and recipe book, published in 1902. The digitally printed elements I create are generated in cyan to recall blueprints or plans. The digital prints create a foundation for the modification of the context of these household objects. The drawing medium in particular allows for both transparency and mutability between layers of information. The mechanical forms within these compositions are simultaneously transformed asserting an animated physical presence and an internal narrative.
www.jessicagondek.com

John Hampshire
My current work can be broken into two categories- composite tornado weather scapes and portraits. The weatherscapes, many of which are titled "labyrinths," are based from multiple, appropriated storm images and imagination. In the act of making these, I bend, distort, combine and invent imagery, thus constructing a completely new image. The term labyrinth refers to the structure and process through which these drawings are created. The portraits, which I started in February as a relief from the intricacies of the process for the storm drawings, are a bit different in nature. The storms are ephemeral and fleeting, implying past and pending change. The portraits are tangible subjects that are recognizable to the point of allowing an immense amount of abstraction.
In both subjects, I am interested in delicate and dramatic changes of light, whether across form or through space. Contrasting these transitory qualities is the definite and assertive presence of marks which both define and interfere with the implied image. Whether in paint or ink, I apply material to a surface with little or no manipulation. The process is something I want to remain apparent to the viewer. I want the start, middle and end of the works' creations to be visible simultaneously.   www.johnhampshire.weebly.com

Young Ja Yoon
As an Artist I express in a concise way the complexity of nature and its spirit. At this time I have finally discovered the true beauty of my art. Therefore, I have drawn this subject matter.
I'm ready to Fly......Waiting.....Oblivion.....Revival

January 8 - February 1, 2014
Winn Rea
"Flow: Process Drawings and Video From the Field"
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." John Muir

The act of making dictates the form of each of the works in, FLOW: Process Drawings and Videos from the Field. Tantric orbs and loops populate small drawings on paper. Color, here,, is limited to the range of pigment found in leaves that are bunched and rolled into drawing tools. Wavering light and pulsing focus animate a shallow depth of field in process videos made in tandem with the drawings, punctuated by a rhythmic flow of sound. These intimate works, created in the field, are residue of a fugitive state of being or awareness.
www.winnrea.com

Jung Rhee Shim
"The Image of Time - The Light of Being"
In her continuous search for the nature of Being, Shim Jung Rhee has explored various possibilities in which man, nature, and technology can encounter and interact as essential elements to form a unified world. She addresses the concept of time referring to human mortality and a yearning for eternity. The strife between human desire to avoid mortality and the assertive decision to face it comes into focus in her recent work employing mirror images. The images of simple nature, objects, and surroundings compel the viewer to return to the simplicity of nature while restoring our spiritual home, lost in the course of the development of modern technology. Jung Rhee Shim lives and works in Korea where she is a Professor of Painting at the Hong-lk University in Seoul.

November 27 - December 21, 2013
Beth Cartland
"Dialogue with Shape & Color"
Beth Cartland's exhibit reflects her evolving conversation with each painting. Colors dance, lines and shapes jump from the canvas, and energy is evident in every stroke. Her vivid, dynamic work instills mood, atmosphere and emotions ranging from joy to serenity. Cartland integrates various media including oil pastels, charcoal, acrylic and oil paints applied with brush, palette, knife and fingers.

Beth has exhibited throughout the United States, in Venezuela and with the International Women's Conference in Beijing, China. Her work was also shown in the Embassies of Croatia and Pakistan through the State Department's Art in Embassies program.

Joseph Brown, Laufey Vilhjalmsdottir Bustany, Mark Dorf, Leehun Kim, Patty Neal, Alia Pialtos

October 30 - November 23, 2013
Sydney Drum
"Digital/Painting"
 This exhibition features nine large paintings using oil and digital media on linen. These works explore the intersections of painting, digital media, and photography. Some elements are hand-painted (a labor-intensive, low-tech method); others use digital technology to explore how it has changed the way we view the world around us (an emphatically high-tech process). The well known critic, Gerrit Henry, in an Art in America review of Drum's work, wrote that Drum mixes up all kinds of esthetic impulses, and handles color with unswerving confidence. Michael Amy, another New York critic, noted that Drum confronts tradition and innovation at all once. Drum has extensively exhibited in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, as well as in Asia. Her work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.  www.sydneydrum.com

October 2 - 26, 2013
Hee Hyoun Chung
"Pairing Up, Pairing Down"
Inspiration comes from the essence of poetry - the best words in the best order - and my love for words. Abstract painting and poetry use similar elements of composition - repetition, variation, space, and tones - to express an emotion and idea. Metaphors and allusions conveyed through a poem's reductive use of words are all the more moving. My hope is to create silent poems on the canvases. The titles are taken from poems of E. E. Cummings, Ted Hughes, and Pablo Neruda.
www.heehyounchung.com

September 7 - 28, 2013
Stories We Tell
Women's Caucus for Arts Featured Artists
Juror: Jessica Porter, Owner Porter Contemporary, NYC
Exhibition Director: Karen Gutfreund

Francesca Fiore
"Hair"
Hair is a performance that explores intimacy among women through the physical act of cutting hair and the sense of trust and closeness it imbues. Using the delicate framework of a personal memory, and accompanied by the women with whom I have felt a strong feminine connection, I will attempt to conjure the childhood experience of attending a small hair salon with my mother, and my ritual of building nests from the clippings of her hair.  Based in a familial history with Alzheimer's and ritualistic traditions, my work seeks to navigate the complicated space of memory within the clutter of contemporary life. The live performance of Hair will take place during the reception on September 7th, and the sculptural remnants will remain for the duration of the exhibition.

August 8, 2013
"American Indian Community House"
Organized by Joan Harmon

June 19 - July 13, 2013
Elise Ansel
"Correspondence"
I create abstract paintings that are derived from Renaissance and Baroque depictions of bacchanals and figures in the landscape. I use paint as a vehicle for feeling or sensation rather than as a means of illustration. My method is inspired by Cezanne's idea of "le petit sensation," of using each brush stroke to communicate a sensation that is both optical and emotional. The paintings begin with a specific pictorial point of departure but then resolve into abstraction as the representational content is balanced and ultimately eclipsed by my focus upon color, composition and the materiality of the paint. Linear, rational readings are interrupted and replaced with a capacious awareness of the sensuous possibilities of paint. The paintings reference the potential for transformation and are a meditation on the role of beauty.
Find more www.eliseansel.com




2013 Fellowship Award Winner Exhibition
James Mullen
Juror: Carl Hazlewood
I am particularly concerned with the particularities of light and the ability it has to make the ordinary exceptional, and how it can impact our understanding of place.
My most recent work explores some of these ideas through the conceit of the window or threshold, as well as through the relationship between photography and painting. I have begun to more fully examine the role photography plays in our understanding of experience, and some of the associations that we assign to it. My interest is focused on the areas of transition between spaces, ideas, methodologies and media. Where these things interface fascinates me, and drives my curiosity to examine the world around me more fully, seeking a deeper understand of my experiences.
Find more www.jamesmullen.net





May 22 - June 15, 2013
Harriet Sobie Goldstein
"Reaction to Violence"
"These paintings are my reaction to the uncertainty evident in the world. Some reflect the agitation and sadness that events like the recent spate of gun violence engenders in all of us. Others reflect the calm we all seek."
Harriet Sobie Goldstein

Harriet Sobie Goldstein, a professional artist, is currently focusing her work on abstract paintings. She completed her undergraduate degree at Hunter College with a major in Fine Arts. Ms. Goldstein then continued her studies in painting and printmaking at a number of schools in New York City and New Jersey. During her career while teaching in the New York City Public School System, she taught her fellow teachers how to infuse art into the curriculum. At present, Ms. Goldstein serves on the Executive Board of Salute to Women in the Arts, a New Jersey-based arts organization and the Phoenix Gallery. Find more www.Harrietsobiegoldstein.info

Beth Cartland, Mary Alice Copp, Sydney Drum, Cecily Barth Firestein, Pamela Flynn

April 24 - May 18, 2013
Joan Harmon
"Aftermath"
The inspiration for "Aftermath" is that moment after a storm when all is quiet in the wake of extreme violence. Our manmade world is rearranged & rewoven with nature's forces and a new charged moment experienced. Another reference is an excerpt from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, "The Lee Shore" which seemed to resonate with the sculptural moment I envisioned. Here is a small portion of the excerpt I have included in the aural aspect of the sculpture...

"Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?"   www.joanharmon.com



Pat Hickman
"Afterthought"
I walk in the woods or down the sidewalk, seeing what's right there, or not, distracted. Either way, present or preoccupied, I may glimpse, out of the corner of my eye a shape or form or even an idea. It lets me play with what's suggested. Afterthoughts.   www.pathickman.com






Christa Toole
"Symbiosis"
Symbiosis is close and often long-term interaction between two or more different species.

Christa Toole's work explores the subjects of biology, science, energy and transformation. Using paint, thread, wax and other materials, her work transforms these materials into a fluid image. This body of work highlights the nature of shared existence, its complexities and harmonies. "Symbiosis" explores the relationship between objects or forms and what they share between them. Her work utilizes forms that speak to each other with shapes that connect across canvases. The images are reflective of biological forms that at once refer to the microscopic and can also represent the macro levels of space. The work simultaneously highlights those similarities and underscores the persistent yet intricate laws of the universe and nature. Energy is a constant in all levels and is shared across entities. Energy moves from one realm into another or one body or form to another; its properties may change but the force remains constant.

Christa Toole was chosen as a winner of the National Juried Competition curated by Tricia Yunjoo Paik, Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Modern Art at Phoenix Gallery in 2006. She has exhibited her work at many galleries in New York City and around the world including Phoenix Gallery, Cue Gallery, Artists Space, NurtureArt, Zone Chelsea, Galerie Scherer8 (Berlin, Germany), Palazzo Gotico (Piacenza, Italy), Phoenix Center for Contemporary Art and has participated in art fairs such as Fountain Art Fair during Armory week in NYC and Fountain Art Fair in Miami during Art Basel.  Artistsnyc.com

March 27 - April 20, 2013
Joseph G. Brown
"Heads & Bodies: 24 x 32"
This exhibition is of recent paintings by Joseph G. Brown using acrylic and pastel on wood. The paintings are all approximately 24 by 32 inches and are figurative representations of heads and parts of heads. The heads are enlarged to fill the panels or are enlarged so that they are only partly represented on the panels.

Joseph G. Brown lives and works in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His work has been in clay, bronze, latex and painting. Brown studied at the University of Minnesota and in England and his work is represented at the Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, among other venues along with presence in numerous private collections.

Pamela Bennett Ader
"Nest" Mixed Media Sculptures
We hear a great deal about how we, as humans, are destroying the planet, rendering the extinction of various species. And, while our politicians argue as to the viability of global warming we try to remember to recycle our refuse. But is it naive not to acknowledge that our weather is different, storms are raging and climates are changing, and as a result many of the inhabitants of this earth are being forced to establish new patterns. We need to protect our trees; I am worried about the birds. Since we are to blame for some of this natural havoc, I created nests for our feathered friends. There is a combination of both manmade and natural materials incorporating wooden objects that were once used in machinery before the advent of metals. I then placed these nests under a protective covering to remind you that they are both vulnerable and precious.  www.pamader-art.com

February 27 - March 23, 2013
Laufey Vilhjalmsdottir Bustany
"Seascapes"
Rhyme and rhythm continues to be my muse but this time in Seascapes I explore the waters of the Mediterranean to the North Atlantic. The new paintings in this exhibit take off from the series "What makes a color sing?" using the colors to tell a story. Here they are restrained in diamonds or triangles with windows open onto an illusionary space. The show also includes Seascapes from Greenland and Iceland and a new painting, "Floating Memories" inspired by a poem by Adonis.

Gretl Bauer
"New Works"
I spend much of my time fastening thread to wood and metal and stone. I weave it through paper and canvas. I watch as the work materializes beneath my fingers, frequently surprised by the way it wanders free of the original plan and leads itself into unexpected terrain. As the threads accumulate and grow dense, the boundaries between drawing and painting and sculpture often blur in an elusive way. The works become simple, fragile fragments emblematic of a certain place or memory or landscape. Gradually I have come to realize that my essential search is for a means to capture light, to pin down the very fact of light's incessant shift and flux, though it is as uncapturable as our own random and fleeting passage through time.







January 30 - February 23, 2013
Associate Artists 2013
Emily Dvorin, Jessica Gondek, John Hampshire,
Young Ja Yoon







"Bound"
Women's Caucus for Art Juried Exhibition
Juried by Cora Rosevear, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art
"Bound" featuring women artists and one performance group, represents multiple expressions of commentary on the interpretation of bound. This exhibition explores the concepts of bound and borders--be they internal, external, constructed, imagined, imposed, or embraced and how boundaries define and shape our identities, relationships, ideas and politics. This exhibition furthers the mission of the Women's Caucus for Art, which is to create community through art, education, and social activism.

January 3 - 26, 2013
Laura Westby
"And the Sea Shall Speak"
Laura Westby lives and works out of her art studio just a few miles outside of Manhattan.  An artist her entire life, she's exhibited numerous times in the city. As part of the New York art community and gallery scene, she works with galleries and many known artists who rely on her ingenuity, skills and her wonderful, authentic personality.
These genuine qualities shine innately from within her mostly abstract paintings. Her decisive yet delicate color palette and direct compositions evoke those peripheral American places that are somehow everywhere and nowhere but reassuringly familiar. The ordinary places that peacefully stir with an atmosphere that might remind us we're homeward bound. Her paint application possesses physical grace and a poetic gentleness.
The indomitable Laura also trains for and powers through, running the NYC marathon every year. A dynamic spirit and artist.

Jung Rhee Shim
"The Image of Time - The Light of Being"
In her continuous search for the nature of Being, Shim Jung Rhee has explored various possibilities in which man, nature, and technology can encounter and interact as essential elements to form a unified world. She addresses the concept of time referring to human mortality and a yearning for eternity. The strife between human desire to avoid mortality and assertive decision to face it comes into focus in her recent work employing mirror images. The images of simple nature, objects, and surroundings seem to urge the viewer to return the simplicity of nature in order to restore our spiritual home, lost in the course of the development of modern technology.
Jung Rhee Shim lives and works in Korea. She is a Professor of Art in the Painting Department at Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea.  www.huniv.hongik.ac.kr/~sh