animal vegetable mineral

ANIMAL VEGETABLE MINERAL
Elizabeth Donsky

June 28 through July 10, 2011
Hours: 9am - 7pm

Opening reception June 30 from 6-9pm

chashama 266
266 West 37th Street
(between 7th and 8th Ave)
New York, NY 10018

chashama is delighted to announce Animal Vegetable Mineral, an evolving site-specific installation by Elizabeth Donsky at 266 West 37th Street in the Garment District.

Animal Vegetable Mineral references the infinitely changing natural world in large- and small-scale works on paper: inks, watercolors, oils, encaustics, and digital prints. Amidst the sequins, tulle, buttons, and beads in shops within the Garment District, in Animal Vegetable Mineral, a work-in-progress, more than one hundred hand-constructed drawings interact with digitally scanned images within the large-windowed storefront space, splitting, disintegrating, reworking, always eluding visual coalescence. ANIMAL VEGETABLE MINERAL plays with the irrevocably open-ended and the interrelationships between disparate works on paper to limn an animated drawn space.

Animal Vegetable Mineral is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

About the Artist:
Since her beginnings as a practicing artist, Elizabeth Donsky has concentrated on site-specific drawing installations. Her work has been shown throughout the US and she has most recently installed The Kuleshov Effect at the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum.  Elizabeth received a MA in Studies in the Arts and Humanities from New York University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has taught at Hofstra and Drexel Universities, and currently teaches drawing at the New York Institute of Technology.

http://www.elizabethdonsky.com/