Heide Hatry
Luisa Valenzuela
Iris Smyles
Lydia Millet
14 MAY 2009 7 - 9 PM
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Heide Hatry is a German visual artist and curator. She studied painting, drawing, sculpture, printing, and photography at various art schools and art history at the University of Heidelberg. She ran a rare bookshop in Heidelberg for 17 years during which time she also taught at a private art school. Since moving to NYC in 2003, she has curated several exhibitions in Germany, Spain and the USA. These included: Skin at the Goethe Institut in New York, the Heidelberger Kunstverein and Galeria Tribeca in Madrid, Spain; Out of the Box at Elga Wimmer PCC in NYC; Carolee Schneemann, Early and Recent Work, A Survet at Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, MA; Meat After Meat Joy at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, NYC; and Kate Millett, Oppression and Pleasure at Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, MA. She has shown her own work at museums and galleries in those countries as well and edited more than a dozen books and art catalogues. Her book Skin was published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg in 2005 and Heads and Tales by Charta Art Books, Milan/New York in 2009.
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Luisa Valenzuela was born and currently resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She lived in Paris, Barcelona, and spent ten years in Manhattan (1979-1989) where she was Writer in Residence at Columbia University and later at NYU´s Writing Division. She is a frequent traveler to Mexico where she’s published by Fondo de Cultura Económica, amongst other houses. Most of her books have been translated into English: the short story collections Open Door, The Censors, Strange Things Happen Here, Other Weapons and Symmetries, and the novels Clara, He who Searches, The Lizard’s Tail, Black Novel (with Argentines) and Bedside Manners. Her most recent books are La Travesía (a novel), Peligrosas Palabras and Escritura y Secreto (essays), the memoirs Los deseos oscuros y los otros, cuadernos de New York and Acerca de Dios (o aleja). In 2008 two new collections of short stories appeared in Spain, Tres por Cinco and Juegos de villanos. She has just completed a new novel, El Mañana.
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Iris Smyles is a writer and artist whose work appears in print and on-line publications of wide variety. She has received several awards for writing including most recently The Doris Lippman Prize for fiction. She is founder and curator of Smyles & Fish, an on-line museum (www.smylesandfish.com) and creative think tank, and a guest lecturer in creative writing and literature at the City College of New York. Her column Second Base is published bimonthly on www.splicetoday.com. Her cartoon The Naked Woman is on-line and available in select bookstores.
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Zandy Hartig (reading Lydia Millet's satiric Madonna story)
Lydia Millet is the author of six novels, most recently How the Dead Dream (Counterpoint January 2008). Her fifth, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, was shortlisted for Britain's Arthur C. Clarke Prize, and an earlier novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. Also an essayist and critic, Millet lives with her husband and two young children in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, where she works as a writer and editor at the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity.
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