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Poetry and art artfully displayed
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By Annette Marie Hyder
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Wednesday, 07 June 2006 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information, contact:
Ward-Nasse Gallery
178 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
212-925-6951
PAINTER GULGUN TURKER AND POET ANNETTE MARIE HYDER COLLABORATE IN NEW YORK CITY WARD-NASSE GALLERY EXHIBIT
June 1st, 2006, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK - Visions Of My World: The Poetry of Art, Gulgun Turker, artist, and Annette Marie Hyder, author and poet, collaborate in a month long exhibit starting June 3rd 2006 at the Ward-Nasse Gallery in Soho, New York City, New York.
Freedom, religion, drama and choice are artfully expressed through paintings paired with poems and symbolized by such images as angels in snowstorms and still ballerinas and such poems as The Strength of Stones" and "Marilyn Over the Rainbow".
Hyder says "With my poems I am telling "every woman" stories, stories told through the eyes of women as disparate as Marilyn Monroe and Mukhtar Mai but that every woman can identify with because of the theme of freedom that runs through them: freedom of religion and belief, artistic expression, speech and of opportunity. I want to celebrate the sheroe capacity within all women - everyday women as well as icons of strength and beauty. I want to make respect relatable and empowerment entertaining."
Turker says that "As an Artist, I would like the world to hear me talking with my feelings through the canvas. This is about being a woman, showing the "freedom" in me. No religion, culture or anything can take away my womanhood."
Gulgun Turker was classically trained in Turkey at the Istanbul University of Fine Arts and has had showings in Europe and the United States. Turker is considered by many to be the "Turkish Degas" because of her elegant depiction of delicate female figures in motion - most often dancers. The female figures in her paintings mold the space with their bodies. She uses techniques that create illusions of perspective and depth that are similar to the techniques that dancers use for creating illusions of space within physical movement. In motion or still, the portrayed female figures retain powerful presence and grace.
Annette Marie Hyder is a freelance journalist/editor, artist and author. She is the founder and curator of the international feminist project FACING FEMINISM: FEMINISTS I KNOW, Contributing Editor for POEMS NIEDERNGASSE and Editor for PNG'S PANCULTURAL EXPLORATION OF LOVE. She is on the editorial board of INTHEFRAY MAGAZINE and is the Respect Editor for EMPOWERMENT4WOMEN MAGAZINE. Her poetry has been translated, included in numerous anthologies and published in book form. Her book "The Consequence of Wings" has been praised by Larry Jaffe (Co-Founder of the United Nations' DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH POETRY) and reviewed by the United Kingdom's premiere arts magazine, AESTHETICA MAGAZINE. Her feminist cartoons appear in E4W MAGAZINE and her artwork has been featured as the cover artwork for the progressive women's literature magazine, WICKED ALICE MAGAZINE.
The Ward-Nasse Gallery has been a respected landmark in Soho for over 30 years. Dedicated to the presentation of the visual, spoken, and performing arts, all modes of contemporary art are exhibited, from traditionally executed works to more experimental art forms. Artists from across the country share walls with artists from Europe, Asia and South America.
For more information call 212-925-6951
annettehyder.com
artofgigi.com
wardnasse.org
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