PRACTICING ART
Thursday 24 July, 7 pm

Hosfelt Gallery is pleased to present “Practicing Art,” an interdisciplinary
conversation about how artists go about their daily work.

Behind the glamour and thrill of gallery openings, performances, and publication
parties lies the private world of the artist’s studio, the workshop and crucible
where the artwork is made. How do artists practice their art? Is a musician’s
practice different from a painter’s or a dancer’s? What is the relation between
practice and performance? What is the path from idea to expression? Throwing
open the studio doors, “Practicing Art” explores artists’ daily exchange between
imagination and material.

Participants include dancer and choreographer Douglas Dunn, artist Paul
Ramirez-Jonas, writer and musician Glenn Kurtz, and artist Emil Lukas among
others.

Douglas Dunn began presenting work in New York City in 1971. In 1976 he formed
Douglas Dunn & Dancers and began touring the US and Europe. In 1980 the
Paris Opera and the Autumn Festival invited him to set Stravinsky's Pulcinella on
the Paris Opera Ballet. He often collaborates with lighting designers, composers,
artists, poets, and video and film makers to present a multifaceted theatrical
image. DD&D is in the middle of Homestretch, a three-year project featuring New
Work, Revivals, & Salon Events at the Studio. February 26 - March 1, 2009, the
92nd Street Y will present DD&D in a revival of Pulcinella at the Ailey Citigroup
Theater in New York City.

Paul Ramírez-Jonas' selected solo exhibitions include The Jack S. Blanton Museum
of Art, Austin, Texas; a survey at Ikon Gallery (UK) and Cornerhouse (UK); LFL
Gallery (NYC); Roger Björkholmen (Sweden); and Postmasters Gallery (NYC).
Group exhibitions include the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig (Germany);
Shanghai Biennial; P.S.1 (NYC); Seoul Biennial (Korea); The Whitechapel (UK);
Irish Museum of Modern Art (Ireland); Künstlerhaus (Austria); Johannesburg
Biennale (South Africa); Exit Art (NYC); The New Museum (NYC). Upcoming
exhibitions include solo projects at the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,
Ridgefield, Connecticut and participation in the 2008 Sao Paulo Biennial. He has
built permanent public art projects in Cambridge, MA and a public sculpture for
the Hudson River Park, New York City.

Glenn Kurtz is the author of Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music, which the
New York Times called "A thoughtful and fluid meditation," and Newsday hailed
as "The book of a lifetime." Practicing has been featured on NPR's "Weekend
Edition" with Scott Simon, and will be released by Vintage in paperback this
August. Glenn graduated from the New England Conservatory-Tufts University
Double Degree Program and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford
University. He lives in New York City and is working on a novel.

Emil Lukas's art blurs the boundaries of painting and sculpture. He makes
evident every process and part that goes into his work, often using byproducts of
his studio practice and the natural environment as source material. Lukas has
received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts. His work can be found in numerous public and private
collections including The Norton Foundation, Santa Monica, CA; San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, California; Guerlain Foundation of Contemporary Art, Les
Mesnuls, France; and Panza Di Biumo Collection, Verasse, Italy.