Selective Affinities

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Selective Affinities 
A Panel  Discussion

In conjunction with the group exhibition  Multiple Partners–currently on view 
at  Pablo’s Birthday–the gallery and participating artists  present 
Selective Affinities, a panel discussion about  community, gender, and connectivities 
in the New York art world.  

Panelists:  Anat Ebgi, Phong Bui, Lea Rekow,  Michael Sellinger, Brian Sholis 
and Lilly Wei.
Moderated By:  Carla Gannis

When: Saturday, October 15, 2005, 4:00  pm

Where: Pablo's Birthday, 84 Franklin St, New York, NY  (between Church and 
Broadway)

Dialogue:  
The New York art world, arguably the most influential of many  international 
art centers, has taken harsh criticism recently for being  too market driven 
to represent the truly best in art. A mercenary and  soulless picture takes 
form, where money, conformity, and power obfuscate  conviction, originality, and 
integrity. It can be easy to overlook the  artists, writers, curators, and 
gallerists in New York whose contributions  help form a more inspiring and vital 
scenario. Many of these individuals  support the mutual success of their 
peers, sharing resources and  information; write insightful and judicious analysis; 
curate provocative  and challenging shows; and operate galleries and art 
spaces that provide  alternative perspectives to the status quo. 

Selective  Affinities brings together a diverse and distinguished group of  
art professionals. Panel members will share their perspectives on the  creative 
communities they are a part of, or see developing; gender  dialogues in 
contemporary art; and the currents they see connecting visual  culture together. A 
Q&A open to panelists and participating artists of  "Multiple Partners" will 
follow the panel discussion.  
Panelist Biographies:  
Anat Ebgi is an independent curator living and  working in New York. Anat has 
curated shows for non-profit spaces and  commercial galleries, most recently 
"If You’re Feeling Sinister" at the  Alona Kagan Gallery in Chelsea. She also 
is co-founder/producer of FRISBEE  Miami, New York and Los Angeles. She 
received her Bachelor of Arts from  Eugene Lang College, New School University in 
New York.  
Lea Rekow is the founding director of Gigantic  Artspace, and is active in 
all aspects of curating, publishing and  programming. She also works in film, 
video and interactive multimedia, and  for the last 12 years has lived and 
traveled in developing countries,  shooting film and still photography.  From this 
material she has  produced a number of ethnographic projects that have been 
shown  internationally, the most recent of which is a documentary based on the  
continuing civil war in Burma.  Lea was previously director of  Harmonic 
Ranch, a new media studio in TriBeCa, and director of media  programs at the Center 
for Peace and Human Security. She has also taught  video at Pratt Institute, 
performed with Emergency Broadcast Network, and  was a producer of new media 
for Simon and Schuster Interactive.  Lea  holds a Masters degree in film and 
digital media.  

Michael Sellinger is a producer of  -scope art fairs, a series of 
cutting-edge art and emerging  culture exhibitions. He also provides art advisory 
services to individual  and corporate clients. Michael has appeared on numerous 
panels and is a  frequent guest lecturer. He received an MBA from Columbia Business 
School  and has been collecting contemporary art for over 15 years. 
Brian Sholis has written for Artforum, where  he is Artforum.com Associate 
Editor, Afterall, and  Flash Art. He has contributed essays to catalogs and 
brochures  published by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Hammer 
 Museum in Los Angeles, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Musèe  
Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and has essays forthcoming in Parkett and in  books 
published by Taschen and Phaidon. He is an Adjunct Professor in the  Department 
of Art and Art Professions at New York University.  
Lilly Wei is a New  York City-based curator, essayist, and critic who has 
written regularly  for Art in America since 1982 and is a frequent contributor to 
 ARTnews and Art Asia Pacific among others. Her essays  have appeared in 
numerous exhibition catalogues and brochures on  contemporary art in a range of 
mediums. She serves on advisory panels and  review committees including the Pew 
Fellowship awards, and is a member of  several boards: International 
Association of Art Critics (AICA/USA), Art  in General, and Art Omi, an international 
artist residency program.  Additionally, she has been a guest lecturer and 
visiting critic at art  institutions nationally and internationally, including 
Maryland Art  Place's 20th Annual Critics' Residency Program. She received her MA 
in art  history from Columbia University.  
Carla  Gannis is the curator of the current exhibit "Multiple Partners" at  
Pablo’s Birthday. She is a 2005 NYFA grant recipient in Computer Arts and  an 
Aljira Emerge Fellow. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  
Multiple Partners, September 17-October 26, Pablo's  Birthday, New York, NY 
Artists include: Kristin Anderson, Jeff  Feld, Mike Rogers, Sandra Bermudez , 
David Baskin, Jason Hackenwerth, Sean  Mellyn, Carla Gannis, Michael 
Anderson, Graham Guerra, Alexander Reyna,  Elizabeth Huey, Joseph Hart, Wes Lang, Eric 
White, Barnaby Whitfield, Anna  Pedersen, Guillermo Creus, Dan Zeller , Gae 
Savannah, Doug Morris, and  Christopher Tanner
Gallery Hours: Sat - Sun, 11 -  6 pm and by appointment  

For  more information regarding "Selective Affinities: A Panel  Discussion," 
please contact Carla Gannis at 917.478.7080 or  email carla_mg at hotmail.com.  
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