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General Ticket: $10
Members: $5
Do you enjoy digging deeper and learning about the history and concepts of art? The Church’s Executive Director, Sheri Pasquarella, and the photographer Ben Hassett invite you to join them as they build a dialogue around ten photographs that date from the advent of photography through today. Pasquarella and Hassett will each present five photographs — which will only be revealed as the event unfolds. The pair will then spontaneously examine, discuss, and appreciate the ten photographs 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 photographs do you think will be revealed?
This program is a part of the exhibition Here & There: The First Churchennial, which presents arts and works from the artist in residency at The Church from 2021 – 2024.
ABOUT BEN HASSETT
British artist Ben Hassett explores themes found throughout the history of Photography. He carefully examines Photography’s significant and recurrent subject matter (the portrait, the still life, the nude, the landscape, the floral study) in an effort to reevaluate and challenge convention. In parallel to his photographic art practice, Hassett collaborates with editorial and advertising clients as a commercial photographer and motion pictures director.
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.