Leslie Bender, Karen Shasha, September/October 2023

Green Kill is honored to announce the exhibition of Leslie Bender and Karen Shasha, September and October of 2023.

Green Kill

Aug 7, 2023

Green Kill is honored to announce the exhibition of Leslie Bender and Karen Shasha, September and October of 2023.

The opening party is Saturday, September 2, 2023, 5-7 PM. The exhibition runs from Saturday, September 2 until until Saturday, October 28, 2023.

Exhibition hours are from 3-5:30 PM, Tuesday through Saturday. You may make special appointments by calling 347-689-2323. ( Green Kill now has a Google Nest Doorbell on the side of the door to the left of the Gallery. If you come and for some reason the door to the gallery is locked or the curtains are drawn, which sometimes the case when live stream equipment in the main gallery space, simply ring the doorbell. The ring goes right to the phone of the administrator. You should receive a response promptly in most cases. )

Leslie Bender

“This series of artworks honors the final stages of my monumentally deep journey through my own underworld. Two epic works begun 13 years ago elucidate the journey metaphorically as voyage down the Hudson River to the Verrazzano Bay. These two pieces parenthesize the other artworks in the exhibit, which trace rage and anger as it wends its way towards coruscations of eternal light. Love, illumination and freedom are illuminated through woodland scenes, flying figures, and bursts of soft color as my new chapter unfolds.

Concurrently, I have just moved back to Woodstock, my “briar patch” (Brer Rabbit), returning to the community who welcomed me as an artist so warmly 33 years ago.”

Full Exhibition

Karen Shasha, Story Thresholds

I think of these works as presenting thresholds of stories. The very first began with a photo of a store window in the empty streets of Soho at the beginning of the pandemic. Within days it looked nothing like what I first photographed, whether it was the lighting on the street or the store itself I’m not sure. In order to ground where this piece was coming from, a sense of waiting for something I wasn’t sure I could believe in, the title became, Once Inhabited.

Once Inhabited - 2021

The photos I use are among so many I have worked with for so long that they have begun to have significance as a kind of visual language. Elements of them sometimes return in more than one work in different combinations and interconnections

Echos 2023

Don’ Look Back 2023

The elements build up to completion with an associative concern for what connects them. In the end, these works exist as an invitation to conversation.

Origami Clothes 2023

Karen Shasha – July 2023