Next Generation Philanthropy Community Outreach Network: Meet The ArtWorks ADL Artists!

Join the Next Generation Philanthropy Community’s Outreach Network as they welcome ArtWorks ADL Artists Crystal Gregory, Alexa Williams and Catherine Howe for a special talk back discussion on their submissions to this years event.

About The Artists:

Crystal Gregory

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Crystal Gregory creates by hand the lace and woven structures that are the foundation of her work. In her cyanotypes, she captures images of these textiles using a process inspired by a nineteenth-century photographic technique. Drawing on the history of domestic textile production, Gregory is interested in the relationship between public and private, feminine and masculine, and handmade and industrial. These dichotomies are both defined and disrupted in her work. Gregory received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago where she was the recipient of a merit scholarship. She also received The Leonore Annenberg Fellowship and was an Artist­in­Residence at The Gerrit Rietveld Academie of Art. Gregory shows frequently in New York, including recent exhibitions at PS 122 Gallery, Kathryn Markel Gallery, First Street Gallery, Giacobetti Paul Gallery, and Artists Space.

Catherine Howe

Lush and densely layered, Catherine Howe's paintings overflow with bold gesture and energy. Drawing on seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes, fruit, flowers, and vases emerge from her expressionistic brushwork, balancing abstraction and representation. The free and expressive style in which Howe paints reflects her belief in the social responsibility of artists. Now based in Manhattan, Howe received her MFA from SUNY Buffalo. The many publications that have reviewed her work include Art in America, Artforum, Art Critical, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times. Howe has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe since the late 1980s, including shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., MoMA PS 1 in New York, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.

Alexa Williams

Alexa Williams’ paintings reference a sense of place and the tension between control and happenstance. Although she has worked in diverse media, her current use of industrial materials, including cement, construction chalk, spray paint, and graphite, reflects her New York surroundings. Her landscape imagery is composed in the materials of urban life to expose tenderness in a durable and bold world. Native New Yorker and Brooklyn resident, Williams first began to create landscapes while living in Spain. She exhibits frequently in New York, including recent shows at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Gallery Brooklyn, and Giacobetti-Paul Gallery.

About ArtWorks ADL:

ArtWorks ADL is the premier art exhibition, fundraiser and silent auction highlighting the mission and impact of the Anti-Defamation League – to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure the justice and fair treatment to all. As ADL enters its second century, we invite supporters of all generations to ‘paint a new picture’ of ADL’s mission through the universality of art. ArtWorks ADL will take place on June 4th at Skylight Modern Gallery in Chelsea. For tickets and more information visit Newyork.adl.org/events.