Stuart Lucas, Confiture du Jour

The Art Students League opens 2021 with a feast in the form of a new group exhibition: “At The Table.” The artists set “the table” with diverse interpretations on the theme; some artists approach the table by creating thoughtful compositions of food-based still lives, a tradition with a long history from Dutch Baroque Masters to Wayne Thiebaud’s pop desserts. Other artists set the table with abstractions and reinventions, addressing the personal and shared issues that “the table” can bring up. Who is “at the table,” and why? What is being served? This wide range of works responds, examining the abundance of emotion at any table - empty, or full. 

"At The Table" 

January 21 - March 19

One Brooklyn Bridge Park 

(360 Furman Street, Brooklyn, NY, waterfront side between Piers 5 and 6) 

Featured Artists Include: Suzanne Altman, Fran Del Re, Debra Scotti Garland

Sharon Grotevant, Stewart Lucas, Mary P. Murphy, Mayumi Nakao, Marykate O'Neil 

Sonia Schories, Barbara Shelly, Sasha Silverstein, Yuri Tayshete, Rosemarie Turk 

Jennifer Vogt, Joyce Weidenaar, Susan E. Wolfe

Instructor Review Committee: Oscar Garcia & Karen O’Neil

Joyce Weidenaar, Honeypot

About ChaShaMa: 

For over two decades, ChaShaMa has played a central role in sustaining New York's vibrant artistic community and increasing access to the arts for all. ChaShaMa supports artists by partnering with property owners to transform unused real estate into space to create and present work and provides free art classes for NYC communities. Annually ChaShaMa operates 137 subsidized studios, presents 200 free exhibitions and performances, and provides 300 free art classes for 3,500+ participants in the Bronx, Washington Heights, and Sunset Park, and awards $9 million worth of real estate to artists. www.chashama.org

About The Art Students League of New York: 

The League was founded in 1875 by students breaking away from the National Academy of Design. That independent spirit remains at The League today, where students pursue their work unconstrained by dogma, politics, or burdensome tuition. We educate students in the language and process of making art in an environment where anyone who wishes to pursue arts education can realize their full potential. The League fulfills this mission by offering affordable, high-quality education and instruction in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and assemblage. Artists who have studied at the League include Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, James Rosenquist, and Ai-Weiwei, among others. www.theartstudentsleague.org