VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Anya Tish Gallery presents On What? New Surfaces Exhibition.  Featuring Katja Loher – Weather Balloon, Dina and Maya Brodsky – NYC MetroCards, and Maxim Wakultschik - Hemispheres. On view November 19 - December 18, 2010. There will be an opening reception for the artist Katja Loher, Friday, November 19, 2010 from 6:30 until 9:00 pm.

Rising art world star Katja Loher, New York-based and Swiss-born, is one of a new generation of innovative video artists whose work creates an engaging dialogue between opposing themes of nature and technology by integrating futuristic style performance art and video into three-dimensional forms of sculpture. Loher’s recently completed video will be projected on a 6 ft weather balloon floating in the gallery’s midair.

She will be sharing the gallery space with Maya and Dina Brodsky, who have achieved recognition at a young age. Both are representational artists and both have worked, for this exhibition, using New York City Metro Transit cards for their canvases.

Also featured will be a series of works by Maxim Walkultschik, which are related to the Loher’s work by virtue of using a hemispherical surface for the image area and to the Brodsky pieces through his use of a painterly, figurative approach to image making.