Deborah Kass is an artist whose work
examines the intersection of art history,
popular culture and the self. Her work
is in the collections of The Metropolitan
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Please Welcome our 2019 Judges for the AALDC
Atlantic Avenue Holiday Window Judging Competition
Our Atlantic Avenue Merchants Holiday Window Judging Competition is on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 6:30pm! Several
participating Atlantic Avenue businesses from 4th Avenue to Hicks Street will decorate their storefront windows for the holidays.
Our five judges will walk down the avenue to take a look at festive, holiday decorated windows. This year, Atlantic Avenue
Local Development Corporation (AALDC) is excited and honored to welcome five artists to judge our annual competition.
Please meet our 2019 Holiday Window Judges
Chris Piazza is an artist who
works in mixed media sculpture
and photographic collage. She
has also made films and participated
in theater as a performer,
costume designer and mask
maker. She’s best known for her
elaborate puppet figures that
stand inside equally elaborate
glass vitrines. Chris’s work has
been shown in numerous exhibitions
including Alan Stone Gallery,
The Selby Gallery, Ringling
School of Art and Design,
The New Museum, The Catskill Mountain
Foundation, Proteus Gowanus, Carrie
Haddad Gallery, solo exhibitions at
Tria Gallery and BAM to name a few.
Chris has received grants from The Ludwig
Vogelstein Foundation, The George
Sugarman Foundation and was awarded
a commission by The Brooklyn Academy
of Music to create a New Wave Festival
presentation to Pina Bausch. Chris currently
lives and works in a 19th century
carriage house in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn,
a building that she personally restored.
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Museum of Art, The Museum
of Modern Art, The Whitney
Museum of Art, The Solomon
Guggenheim Museum, The Jewish
Museum, The Museum of
Fine Art, Boston, The Cincinnati
Museum, The New Orleans
Museum, The National Portrait
Gallery, Smithsonian Institute,
Fogg/ Harvard Museum, as well
as other museums and private
collections.
Kass’s work has been shown
nationally and internationally
including at the Venice Biennale,
the Istanbul Biennale, and the Museum
Ludwig, Cologne. The Andy Warhol
Museum presented “Deborah Kass,
Before and Happily Ever After, Mid- Career
Retrospective” in 2012, with a catalogue
published by Rizzoli. Her monumental
sculpture OY/YO in Brooklyn
Bridge Park become an instant icon, and
is now installed in front of the Brooklyn
Museum.
In 2018 Kass was inducted into The
National Academy. In 2014 Kass was inducted
into the New York Foundation for
the Arts Hall of Fame. She was honored
with the Passionate Artist Award by the
Neuberger Museum in 2016 and was the
Cultural Honoree at the Jewish Museum
in 2017. She serves on the boards of the
Sharpe Walentas Studio Program and
the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts.
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Karen Gibbons is a creative
explorer--an artist, author, poet
and yogi. Karen has been showing
her work in New York City
and beyond for many years. She
graduated from Pratt Institute
with a degree in painting and
went on to earn her MFA from
Hunter College. She has since
raised a family; earned a second
masters, an MPS in art therapy
and all along tended to her
craft. Karen’s holistic therapy
practice blends yoga and art as
explained in her book, Integrating Art
Therapy and Yoga Therapy, Yoga, Art
and the Use of Intention. Karen also has a
book of poems and drawings co-authored
with Rebecca Aidlin, Goldfish and Pumpkin
Vines. She currently shows her work
regularly at 440 Gallery in Brooklyn.
She makes drawings and photographs as
well as mixed media work involving collage,
painting and sculpture. Several of
Karen’s pieces are being exhibited now
through January 11 at Ann Street Gallery
in Newburgh, NY, in a group show
called Animalia.
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