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THBMichal Shapiro, "Not Me"
About Seller
77 Bleecker Street, C2-18
New York, NY 10012
United States
CITYarts, Inc. is a nonprofit public arts and education organization recreated in 1989 by Executive and Creative Director Tsipi Ben-Haim after its predecessor, Cityarts Workshop, closed down in 1988. With a new name and a new mission, Tsipi Ben-Haim wanted the voices of our youth to be heard. She cr...Read more
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About Auction
TimedMay 10, 2022 - Jun 21, 2022
Our 33rd year of bringing contemporary works from artists such as Agnes Denes, Vik Muniz, Alec Soth, Christo & Jeanne Claude, and more! Sales will benefit CITYarts programs and projects in 2022. CITYarts tsipi@cityarts.org
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Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 2008, signed on Verso.
6 x 6 in.
Michal Shapiro is a visual artist whose work has been used most conspicuously in the TV series “Mad Men.†Her painting “Butternut†was used in Don Draper’s office at Sterling Cooper, and is practically iconic there. Other settings of her work can be seen in movies (“Away We Go,†“Trumboâ€), commercials and TV shows.
She attended Queens College to acquire academic skills in Art. At that time, the faculty of the QC art department was focused on figurative art; however professors Herbert Aach and Gerald Hahn were influential in her transition into abstraction. This solidified in the late 70’s through her exposure to the various painters she met in the then flourishing Soho scene, most prominently, Thornton Willis.
“My work is improvisational, rarely started with a planned image. The hard looking and decision making lead to things that consistently surprise me. I am always learning.â€
Michal Shapiro is also a musician, and world music journalist with a videoblog on artsjournal.com, her own YouTube channel, as well as her site worldmusicandculture.com and Vimeo.
Over the past three years, she has also worked as videographer in conjunction with Sonic Twist, the duo of Bruce Arnold (guitar) and Judi Silvano (voice). Responding to their impromptu sessions, she started to create more adventurous art-oriented videos. They can be found here on this site as well, under “Experimental videos.â€
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Buyers in the New York area can make arrangements to have works retrieved from the CITYarts offices or delivered when possible. Please contact gala@cityarts.org for all shipping arrangements. By placing your bids, you accept and acknowledge that we cannot compensate or refund, under any circumstances, for any damage occurring to frames during transit. CITYarts, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and all purchases/donations are tax deductible as allowed by law.
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