After-Hours at High Line Nine

508 West 28th Street,New York NY 10001

24 February, 2022

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Join the Women of Culture community for a special private gallery and performance night with High Line Nine and the Met Opera Ballet! On Thursday, February 24th join Women of Culture, a community designed to help professional women have more art-full & socially connected lives, for a very special private gallery night (our first of 2022!), featuring an exclusive, after-hours walk-through of featured galleries at High Line Nine, one of NYC’s most unique and exciting new gallery spaces — plus a private performance by The Dancers of the Met! With a vision of daring to reimagine, High Line Nine is an interdisciplinary and dynamic collection of nine skylit exhibition spaces located in Chelsea’s premier gallery district. It is a place where the city’s top cultural institutions are invited to present art in all its forms and stages—from rotating salient exhibits, to ongoing curated live performances, to artists creating live in the space. For just one night, this beautiful space will open its doors for the Women of Culture community, and we will have private access to 6 current exhibits: Kerry Irvine: Behind the Veil, FARAH MOHAMMAD at Nyama Fine Art, Wes Aderhold: Smile Pretty, Lucas Bononi at Sugarlift, The Pippins and Au Bout du Bois by Djivan Schapira. Following our walk-through of the galleries, take a seat and enjoy an exclusive, personal performance by the Dancers of the Met. This is a unique opportunity to experience the best of NYC’s contemporary fine art and dance world, up-close and personal! Wine, snacks and plenty of opportunities for networking with fellow art-full New Yorkers. *** Full Schedule: 6pm | Arrival 6:30pm | Opening remarks & guided walk-through of the galleries 7:30pm | Seated performance and Q&A with the Dancers of the Met 8pm | Close *** More information about the artist, performers & galleries: Kerry Irvine is an abstract expressionist painter living and working in New York City. Highly expressive, her work is infused with light, color, motion, and a bit of mysticism. In curating “Behind The Veil,” the artist pulled from her Roman Catholic upbringing and the influences of the patriarchal world, and the ways in which these forces push women toward the unattainable purity of Mary, the virgin mother. Djivan Schapira Design Studio: Djivan Schapira is a French-born artist and maker of collectible design based in Union City, New Jersey. His works, dubbed retro-contemporary, draw inspiration from growing up in the forest of the French countryside, his love for the space-race era, and experiences one can only gain from growing up in New York City. Djivan’s creative and technical abilities are in his DNA: the son of a master craftsman, Djivan developed his practice working for a decade as an apprentice under his father. “The Pippins: Dilemma in Color” is an exhibit featuring a collection of approximately 57 Pippin drawings with remarkable shading in color pencil and 21 corresponding poems by the late Charles Norton, each featuring a satirical character known as a Pippin. Lucas Bononi at Sugarlift: In a new body of work titled The Forest, Lucas Bononi invites a dialogue between human and nature. Paint slams the surface, creating a marbling effect of flesh and natural elements. Earth’s features emerge through figuration and abstraction, forcing a return to our core essence. A gentle river, or perhaps a teasing flame, intertwines with the subject, unveiling a crucial dimension of the human condition through his imagined forest. Wes Aderhold: In "Smile Pretty," Aderhold reassembles the fractured world through deeply personal paintings, drawing on his upbringing, reckoning with the past, and connecting with the difficult universalities of life. Dancers of the Met is an independent collective that formed in 2020 when a group of Met dancers came together to brainstorm creative ways to keep the Met Dancer community connected during the pandemic. Their mission is to expand accessibility of dance within opera, to promote the visibility of the company and to support and connect members of the Metropolitan Opera community. Dancers: Maria Phegan is one of the founding members of the Dancers of the Met(DotM), and is currently one of their Creative Directors. Ms.Phegan wason the leadership team for their 2021 Open Culture performances, andshe curated and produced their first livestream performance presented byArts ON AIR. Last fall, she was awarded a City Artist Corps Grant by TheNew York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), The NYC Department ofCultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Mediaand Entertainment (MOME) and the Queen’s Theatre. Hsin-Ping Chang, was born in Taiwan and moved to the U.S.in 1988. She received her B.F.A. in Dance from The JuilliardSchool. Hsin-Ping has been performing with TheMetropolitan Opera as a dance soloist in ‘Madama Butterfly’since 2006 created by Oscar winner Anthony Minghella andCarolyn Choa, and She has also been performing in‘Turandot’ by Franco Zeffirelli and Chiang Ching, ‘Parsifal’and ‘Der Fliegende Holländer’ by François Girard andCaryolyn Choa , ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Tony winner BartlettSher at The Met Opera. Women of Culture is a NYC and LA-based community designed to help anyone who identifies as a woman — regardless of their background, profession or age — bring more art, culture and connection into their lives. We do this through our art-full membership community, Sisterhood of Discovery(TM) women's circle, art-full discovery walks, weekend of culture getaways, and other carefully curated art & culture-based experiences, which can also be customized for private and corporate groups. Our mission to connect, inpsire and empower women through meaningful art-based experiences is at the core of everything that we do. At every Women of Culture experience, whether a one-off event, group trip or other event, all attendees will have the opportunity to: diiscover new art forms and artists; broaden their horizons; awaken their own innate curiosity and creativity, and connect with a tribe of like-minded art lovers and community-seekers. No art knowledge, talent or experince needed. Join us to dive into the rich and diverse NYC art scene, alone or with a friend. Either way, you are all but guaranteed to connect with some kindred spirits along the way. 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