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In conjunction with the solo exhibitions of Maddy Rosenberg and Stephane Dumas this month at Safe-T-Gallery, please join us for an evening of readings by Tom LaFarge, Wendy Walker, Jessie Stead and Bethany Wright this Thursday, May 4th, at 7 PM.

Tom La Farge, in keeping with the architectural visions of Rosenberg’s paintings will be reading an excerpt from his most recent novel, The Broken House, describing the Roohaneeya Theater, an invented space in a composite world where a poet has gone to see a play encased by the theater itself and the sightlines it offers.

Wendy Walker will continue on an architectural theme as she reads a selection from A Story out of Omarie about an11th century French woman who is abandoned at sea by her family, is subsequently given to the ruler of a North African kingdom, and her personal experience of the surrounding Islamic architecture.

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Maddy Rosenberg
Speculative Ruins

April 13 to May 13, 2006
Opening Reception Thursday April 13, 6 to 8 PM
Poetry and Prose Reading Thursday May 4, 7 PM

The small, intense and beautifully mysterious paintings of Maddy Rosenberg will be on display at Safe-T-Gallery from April 13 through May 13, 2006 in a show entitled “Speculative Ruins.”

Working at a scale that moves the viewer into an intimate zone only a few inches from the paint, Maddy Rosenberg presents scenes that challenge traditional senses of order, scale and logic. With a precise line, these small paintings evoke a rather intent world of disjunctive architectural ruins, augmented by classical and medieval voices. The imagery utilizes pre-Renaissance perspectives, but her color and overall layout are pure early 21st century. And the overall presentation, small intense blocks of color against the white gallery walls, is positively Juddian in its cogency, only smaller.

A profile of me written by Susan Rowland appears in the current BAC News. For those you not on the Brooklyn Arts Council’s mailing list, you can see a copy of the piece on their website:
www.brooklynartscouncil.org/upload/winter2006.pdf
(Scroll down to page 7, Artist Profile, right hand side)

I continue to have work (a painting and most of a shelf for artist’s books and catalogues) in the year long exhibition Travel at Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn. If you are in New York and haven’t checked out this unique arts space yet, I’d advise you to take advantage of the ongoing events.
www.proteusgowanus.com