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Sylvia and Edward
Agostini, Rosalyn
Engelman, Edward Rubin,
Peter Poley, Laura
Kruger, Irwin Engelman,
Marilyn Newman.
Photo by: Cutty McGill
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The Opening of Soul
Memories
An Exhibition of
Paintings by
Rosalyn A. Engelman at The National Arts Club
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On one of the coldest night of the year, friends, art lovers
and members filled the legendary National Arts Club for the
opening of abstract artist Rosalyn A. Engelman’s
Soul Memories. The exhibition, on display through
February 13th, brings new works as well as canvases lent by
local collectors together for the first time. In the crowd
were the artist’s husband Irwin Engelman; The Bruce
Museum Circle’s Michel Cox Witmer; Museum of Arts and
Design President Lewis Kruger and his wife Hebrew
Union College Museum Curator Laura Kruger; Baruch
College’s President Kathleen Waldron and Deans
John Elliot and Jeffrey Peck; Wally Findlay
Galleries’ Patricia Attoe; I-20 Gallery’s Alice
Judelson; De Lorenzo Gallery’s Sarah Hill;
interior designers Geoffrey Bradfield, Harry
Heissmann, Tom Cashin, Robert Lindgren
and Roric Tobin; artists Colette, Tina
Louise, Marcia Raff and Michelle Marie; Lord
Colin Campbell; Renee and Carl Landegger;
Gillian and Sylvester Miniter; Lauren Thierry
Watkins; Swifty’s Executive Chef Stephen Attoe;
Sharon Bush; R. Couri Hay; Michèle Gerber
Klein; Dr. Laura Philips and fashion designers
Maggie Norris and Kelvin Nugroho.
Included in the show was a white, gold and silver canvas
lent by a collector from the celebrated series Echo
Sonata, based on the art and poetry of Kõetsu, a 17th
century Japanese artist. In 2005, Gallery & Studio
magazine’s Ed McCormack called the series, “a
career-crowning achievement.”
There were also several colorful canvases from the series
Poems of Provence. In the words of the artist:
“These paintings mirror the passage of time. They are
painted to music, and the brushstrokes have their tempo.
Often incandescent hues flicker and shine as stasis and
motion co-exist as the viewer moves.”
“Rosalyn Engelman fills our need to be sensitized,” said The
National Arts Club President Aldon James in welcoming
remarks.
Included at the National Arts Club is the installation
Dry Tears. The centerpiece is The Three Graces,
sculptures of women representing Europe, Asia and Africa who
are chained together, a symbolic rendering of how all people
suffer separately and together. “Pain is a universal
language,” Mrs. Engelman says.
Others at the event were artnet’s Brian McConville,
art writer Edward Rubin, The Wall Street Journal’s
Carol Kelly, Dr. Dino Riviera, High Voltage,
John Wegorzewski, Mimi Strong, Jon and
Hudson Heinemann, Roy Kean, Amy Rosi,
Peter Rosenthal, Antoinette Quarshie,
Dennis Karr, Iris Rossi, Nat and Joan
Hirsch, Jason Ashlock, Michelle Gallagher,
Christopher Hawkins, Christine Schott, Stanislav
Sokolov, Blaine Caravaggi, Jim Ferentino, John
Paterakis, Lee Fryd, Dr. John de Guzman, Marcy
MacDonald, Thomas Knapp, Mogulette’s Carmina
Perez, Shane Parouse, Katya Debear,
Sylvia and Edward Agostini, Laurel Wilson,
Peter Poley, Irene and Sy Cohen, Dr.
Maurice Kuntz, Marilyn Newman, Dr. Jajou,
Marcia and John Shyer and members of the
artist’s family including Madeline and Scott Cohen
(CEO of Dime Store Media) and Dr. Fred, Elana
and Nathan Lado.
A native New Yorker, Engelman has been creating all her
life. She received her BA in the art program at CCNY. She
earned a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies and Asian Art
from the University of Rochester. In 2008, Ms. Engelman had
the distinction of simultaneous solo exhibitions in New York
City at Gallery 440, on Lafayette Street, and at the Hebrew
Union College Museum. Earlier in the year, she exhibited at
the Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi. She
participated in the 2007 Florence Biennale and has
been invited to return for the 2009 Biennale.
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