BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//EVDB//www.eventful.com//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Carri Skozcek: Attitudes and Magnitude in New York City a t Ch'i: Contemporary Fine Art - Eventful BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090108T000000 DTEND:20090209T000000 DTSTAMP:20081123T225702Z SUMMARY:Carri Skozcek: Attitudes and Magnitude DESCRIPTION: Public Reception: January 9th 6 - 9 PM Brooklyn\, New Y ork\, Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art is proud to present Attitudes and Mag nitude\, Carri Skozcek's second solo show at Ch'i Contemporary Fine Ar t. Join us on Friday\, January 9th from 6 - 9 PM for a public receptio n with the artist at the gallery's Williamsburg location of 293 Grand Street between Roebling and Havemeyer. The public is invited to attend this event and visit the gallery during regular hours: Wed - Sun 11 A M - 7 PM\, and Mon. 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. For more information contact th e gallery at 718 218 8939. Attitudes and Magnitude features portraitu re in the form of paintings and linocuts. Using her signature style of pressed powdered paints\, Skoczek's "Babes" as she calls them are cho ck full of panache in their iridescent splendor. With their transfixin g gazes\, these women stand strong adorned by the threads they wear\, yet recalled by the attitude they emanate. Juxtaposed with these fashi onistas are a series of linocuts where the artist pays homage to the p owerful matriarchs of the art world including Louise Bourgeois\, Louis e Nevelson\, Frida Kahlo\, Georgia O'Keefe\, and Pat Oleszko. Attitude s and Magnitude contrasts the anonymity of these young brazen female f igures with the identifiable clout of these established personas tying them together with the commanding presence each one resonates. Artist Bio Carri is a painter\, printmaker\, costume designer and voodoo dol l maker. She has exhibited extensively for the last 23 years in Denver \, CO\; Milwaukee\, WI\; Santa Fe\, NM\; Chicago\, IL\; New Orleans\, LA\; Greece\, Jamaica and New York City. She received a Wisconsin Arts Board Painting Fellowship in 1986. Additionally\, she was the residen t costume designer for Theater X in Milwaukee for 12 years. Carri trav eled in the Caribbean working on costumes for Carnival in Trinidad and Junkanoo in the Bahamas. She is also the curator of the annual Mermai d Show and a award winning participant in the Coney Island USA Mermaid Parade. Carri studied drawing and printmaking at the University of Wi sconsin-Eau Claire and graduated from the Rocky Mountain College of Ar t & Design in Denver\, CO. In 2008\, she was selected for a two-person exhibition at The Portrait Society in Milwaukee titled "Pin-Ups: Sixt y Years of Feminine Posturing".About Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art Ch'i C ontemporary Fine Art\, established in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn in 1999 and directed by Tracy Causey-Jeffery is committed to exhibiting vibran t contemporary art by living artists: both mid-career and emerging. Ch 'i exhibits works in two distinct styles: abstract textural or fragmen ted figurative. Ch'i hosts 11-15 exhibitions annually with their artis ts coming from across America\, Asia\, Europe and South America. In ad dition to its own exhibitions\, Ch'i participates annually in at least 3 international fairs. In 2007\, the gallery participated in Fountain NY and the Bridge Art Fairs in Chicago\, London\, and Miami. In 2008\ , Chi participated in the first Bridge New York art fair and will exhi bit in this year's Bridge Wynwood Fair and the inaugural Art Asia Fair \, both in Miami. Additionally\, Ch'i and its artists have been publis hed in Art World News\, NY Arts Magazine\, Art Forum\, Art News\, Bloc k Magazine\, New York Times\, The Village Voice\, New York Sun\, LA Ti mes\, Korea Times and Art and Antiques among others. Gallery artists a re included in the permanent collections of Cantor Fitzgerald\, The Mu see Elysée\, The Museum of the City of New York\, MOMA\, the Whitney M useum\, Exxon Energy\, Hong Kong Museum of Art\, the Bank of China\, t he Kohler Company\, The New York Public Library\, The University of Ma ryland\, Healthlink\, the Kimbell Museum\, the National Gallery of Aus tralia\, The Houston Museum and the Klutznick National Jewish Museum a mong others. Ch'i director\, Tracy Causey-Jeffery received her masters in art history from the University of London after interning at Sothe by's auction house in New York City. Prior to opening Ch'i\, she owned and operated The Finer Side Galleries in Maryland and Washington\, D. C. for 7 years. \n LOCATION:Ch'i: Contemporary Fine Art @ 293 Grand StreetWilliamsburg, B rooklyn, New York 11211 United States SEQUENCE:1227481022 UID:E0-001-017459122-6 URL:http://eventful.com/E0-001-017459122-6 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR