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General Ticket: $10
Members: $5
Do you enjoy digging deeper and uncovering meaning in art? The Church’s Executive Director, Sheri Pasquarella, and the artist Wayne Gonzales invite you to join them as they build a dialogue around ten specially selected paintings that date from distant centuries past through the contemporary era. Pasquarella and Gonzales will present one-another with five paintings — which will only be revealed as the event unfolds. The pair will then spontaneously examine, discuss, and appreciate the ten paintings individually, engaging the audience with a fun conversation designed for art-appreciators of all levels of experience, whether new to art criticism or aficionados. Join the conversation! What paintings do you think will be revealed? (Insider tip: It will not be Self Portrait by Vincent van Gogh!)
ABOUT WAYNE GONZALES
An artist who lives and works in New York City, Gonzales has had solo exhibitions at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain; the New Orleans Museum of Art; and Le Consortium in Dijon, France, as well as more than 30 one-person gallery shows internationally. His work was also included in America. Between Dreams and Reality at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec in Québec, Canada; Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy at the Met Breuer in New York; Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century at the First Museum in Nashville, Tennessee; Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, the New Orleans triennial in Louisianna; America Is Hard to See at the Whitney Museum in New York; and Dark Matter at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.
ABOUT SHERI PASQUARELLA
Before joining The Church, Sheri hosted a popular weekly program, SLP The Class, an engaging platform for understanding contemporary art. For 17 years, she owned and operated SLP, LLC, a NYC-based consultancy with service categories across the contemporary-art ecosystem, including a popular art advisory for museum board members and legacy collectors. From 1998 to 2002 she was an Associate Director of Marlborough Gallery, N.Y. and from 2002 to 2005 was Director of Gorney Bravin + Lee gallery; during these times, she edited more than ten fine-art monographs on artists that included RB Kitaj, Alexis Rockman, and Ad Reinhardt. In 2002, she conceived and co-founded the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), a global 501c6 organization of which she is President Emerita. From 2003 to 2012 she was Adjunct Faculty in the Art Market M.A. Program at SUNY FIT and delivered lectures on her research in the American art market and its culture at Yale University, Columbia University, and others. She holds a B.A. (Art History and Criticism) and a B.S. (Biology) from SUNY Stony Brook; did post-baccalaureate course work at Reid Hall, Paris; and in 2022 earned a certification in CORe Business Fundamentals from Harvard Business School online.