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Model's Artist: Art Exhibition & Short Film

Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center and

project Awe Present

THE MODEL’S ARTIST:

AN ART EXHIBITION & SHORT FILM

FEATURING THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN
RENOWNED ARTIST ZHENYA GERSHMAN & MODEL MARK SNYDER

LOS ANGELES,

April 16, 2015

—The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center and project Awe present THE MODEL’S ARTIST: An Art Exhibition & Short Film featuring artist Zhenya Gershman and model Mark Snyder. Over the past decade, internationally renowned figurative artist Zhenya Gershman and distinguished artist model Mark Snyder have been collaborating on a unique project – a living portrait changing over time. An exciting selection of these paintings will be on exhibit in the Center’s Advocate & Gochis Galleries from May 15 through June 13, 2015. The exhibit opens with a free reception and complementary screening of the Mainspring Pictures short film “The Model’s Artist,” directed by the Emmy-winning film Director Jake Gorst, in the Center’s 200-seat Renberg Theatre Friday, May 15, 2015, 7–9 p.m. (screening at 8 p.m.).  Following the screening, LGBT will recognize Mark Snyder with an Arts & Culture Lifetime Achievement Award.

In the words of executive producers Charles E. Miller and Tina Gulotta-Miller, “The artist and model relationship can be a deep one. Like two musicians improvising together, the two work in harmony, and the resulting art on canvas may often transcend the expectations of either.  Artist Zhenya Gershman and model Mark Snyder have such a relationship.”  

Artist ( Description ): 

About the Artist: Zhenya Gershman is an internationally renowned artist and art historian.  Her work is featured in such preeminent private and public collections as those of Donald Simon, Richard Weisman, Woody Allan, and Michael Dukakis. Zhenya participates in important international exhibitions, including Art Aspen, Art Miami, and Art Chicago.  She was chosen to create iconic portraits of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan for the MusiCares Grammy Foundation.  Zhenya is a recipient of numerous awards, including the ALEX Award in Visual Arts, presented nationally to honored scholars and artists. Her recent exhibition Larger Than Life was featured in various media including Entertainment Tonight, Extra, and the New York Post.  Zhenya is a co-founder of non-profit organization project Awe, dedicated to bringing art and magic together to offer a variety of unique programming to the community.

About the Model: Mark Snyder holds a place among the most influential classic artists’ models at work today. His contribution ranges from fine art portraiture, life drawing, sculpture, head studies, game art, character animation to anatomical analysis.  He is a regular model at Art Center College of Design, California Lutheran University, California Institute of the Arts, Walt Disney and DreamWorks Studios, Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum and University of Southern California, as well as private artist studios. Additionally, Mark is a model for life drawing classes at the Los Angeles LGBT Center and is proud to consider himself a part of the LGBT community.

Other Info: 

About the Los Angeles LGBT Center 
Since 1969 the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed and celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond. Today our health center, shelters, performance stages and classrooms serve more LGBT people than any other organization in the world. We are an unstoppable force in our community’s fight against bigotry and the struggle to build a better world—a world in which LGBT people can be healthy, equal and complete members of society. Learn more at www.lagaycenter.org.

The Advocate & Gochis Galleries are the home of visual arts at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center. Since their founding in 1998, the Galleries have developed a reputation for collaborative and progressive work that reaches the LGBT community and beyond. By examining a broad range of themes that explore the relationship between art, identity and culture, the Galleries provide a unique space dedicated to showcasing inventive exhibitions and promoting the works of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender artists and their allies. Net proceeds from all Tomlin/Wagner Center events are used to support all of the services and programs at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

 About project AWE
Project AWE (Aesthetics of Western Esotericism) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization on a mission to support and explore art of the past, present, and future. Using the esoteric "key", AWE provides new dimensions to understanding & experiencing cultural icons of Western European heritage. Project AWE engages via various media including: public lectures, workshops, conferences, tours, TV series, translation work, publications, art exhibitions, recitals, & performances. Learn more at projectAWE.org.

Venue ( Address ): 

Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Advocate & Gochis Galleries and Renberg Theatre

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza

1125 N. McCadden Place, Hollywood

 

(one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Blvd.)
FREE PARKING

 

project AWE , Los Angeles

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