Zoe’s artist talk

Opening night Snippet:

MaskYouLinity.

What makes someone a man or masculine? Throughout all cultures, men have been presented as warriors, intellectuals, and geographical guardians — powerful and prestigious, pointing fingers, grasping weaponry, making fists and standing on soapboxes. In light of #MeToo and the angry, patriarchal rhetoric resonating in the United States as well as the rest of the world, it is important to view another side of the masculine equation — an intimate take on what lies underneath this concept of masculinity.  

This portrait series is a reflective exploration into the minds of those that identify as masculine and what it means to them. These people show their hands as is — with scars, tattoos, jewelry, and other markings that lend themselves to a complex, unique narrative which only they know. The portraits work in tandem with raw, unfiltered words scrolling alongside them, offering insight into the lives of these documented few that would otherwise go unnoticed or unknown. 

Biography

Zoë Lintzeris was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1986. She received her BA in journalism and a minor in studio arts from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2008. As a minimalist artist, she employs photography and canvas as platforms for visual storytelling in the U.S. and abroad. Exploring the human condition and emotional psyche, her work focuses on love, loss and resistance in urban and rural environments. She specializes in monochrome photography and painting, using only natural light to create the work.  

She has exhibited in New York since 2015, including shows at PWRPLNT, Point Green Studios, ArtHelix Gallery and Clover’s Fine Art Gallery. “The MaskYouLinity Project’ is her third conceptual-documentary photo project, following “The Heartbroke Project” in 2018 and “The Ladies Project” in 2017. Her work has been highlighted on Feature Shoot and in the Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads, and is part of private collections throughout the U.S. 

She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.  

Curator Biography

Henone Girma is an Ethiopian-born curator and arts administrator, serving as the program’s coordinator at The Africa Center. Girma has worked as guest curator and has overseen programs and installations of exhibitions at a number of New York City and surrounding area institutions such as the Newark Museum where she was an Andrew W. Mellon Research Associate, Art in FLUX Harlem, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. Her work has also been published in the art anthology, “The Newark Museum Collection: Arts of Global Africa”. She holds an International Business degree with a minor in French from University of Texas at Arlington and an MA in Visual Arts Administration with a nonprofit concentration from New York University. 

56 Ludlow’s inaugural exhibition is: Catherine Owens’ SLIVER II, which comprises seven LED inlayed paintings that were commissioned for the lobby of The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. This is the only New York City installation of the SLIVER II before it is permanently installed in The Capitol Theatre later this year.

SLIVER II comprises a series of seven slender color field paintings with LED light reverse inlaid into a set of custom-made frames. A sequence of color changes creates a wash of light that spills out across the room, reflecting and transforming the paintings to suggest a 24-hour cycle. The wash of color across the space will create a slow-moving contemplative environment.

Catherine Owens’ use of traditional mark making art combined with technology creates a experiential space for the viewer and encourages them to remain a little longer.

About the artist:

Catherine Owens is an award-winning artist, living and working in New York City. Her work is largely installation based, originating from ideas that evolve through drawings, painting, sculpture, film, video, sound, LED Lighting, and 3D technology.

She has exhibited works at Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Kustera Projects, Brooklyn, New York, Ronald Feldman Gallery and Morris Healy Gallery, New York, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; and the Kerlin Gallery and The Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, Ireland.

In addition to Catherine Owens’ individual art practice, Owens is known for her collaborative work with the band U2. As creative director of screen imagery for animation, film and video, she created the key visual content for five of U2’s world tours from 1992 to 2010. Perhaps one of her most memorable and profound work was in designing the U2’s Super Bowl appearance after 9/11 where the names of the departed were projected on a scrim.

Catherine Owens directed and was a producer of the first digital 3D film, U23D made for IMAX theatrical release in 2008. Shot in South America, this award-winning film spearheaded a series of major technological breakthroughs in 3D filmmaking. The New York Times hailed U23D as “The first IMAX movie that deserves to be called a work of art.”

Other collaborative projects include directing visual content and animation for Kronos Quartet and for WU Man, Chinese Pipa musician.

Catherine Owens has presented many keynotes about The Interaction between Art and Technology. She has delivered speeches at the VR On The Lot at Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, The Art Of VR, Sotheby, New York, and InspireFest17, Dublin, Ireland.

For Information on the artist please contact:

Karen Pohlman at (413) 695 6541
Or email Info@catherineowens.net