Exhibitions at NYPL

Born in South Korea, Grace Ko (Won H. Bu) is a prominent and highly respected landscape painter who received her training at The Art Students League of New York in 2000. 

Her oil on canvas paintings portray realistic pictures of nature as inspired by her travels throughout Europe, Korea and the United States.

From her diary, Love is Nature, Grace Ko writes,

“Nature is Love. Nature is the Masterpiece.

What a precious gift it is to paint every day!

How I wish to convey the mighty Mother Nature

to my humble canvas.”

ECHOS, RAINBOWS AND DREAMS is an exhibit of ten of Elizabeth Bram’s paintings.The artwork is bursting with color and life and is displayed within the intimate environment of the New York Public Library’s Mulberry Street Branch (10 Jersey Street, one flight down in the children’s room). Ms. Bram’s published children’s books will also be on display. Elizabeth Bram has painted all her life in her own unique, colorful, stream-ofconsciousness way. She started as a child drawing on the walls of her family’s house and on her parents’ books. She once created a collage on the driveway of the house using the ingredients for dinner that night. With Ms. Bram’s freedom to be creative fully supported at home, she went on to develop her own style of art which she calls “art as meditation.” She has independently toured her paintings in Europe, Canada and all across the United States. She translated the titles of her works into French for a show at La Maison de La Ville in 

I have always been drawn to graffiti, once painted in secret and in dark, remote places. In the 80s and 90s, this style of aerosol can painting had morphed into urban street art and had changed from a frowned-upon art form into a desirable one sanctioned by cities and municipalities such as Montreal, Canada, Asheville, NC and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It had become art that no longer needed to hide. Urban street art is now found all over the world. I have photographed graffiti in London, Barcelona, Brussels, Bruges, Paris, Venice, Athens, and Switzerland, as well as in New York City, Denver, CO, Cambridge, MD and Matlachat, FL.

Come and enjoy this exhibition and know that I will continue my quest for this unique and wonderful expression of the human spirit known as GRAFFITI.

The New York Public Library’s Harry Belafonte 115th Street branch will host the exhibition Infinite Archive: NYPL, from Thursday, April 5, 2018 through Tuesday, September 4, 2018 on the second floor of the  Library at 203 West 115th Street. The exhibition introduces a diverse group of 30 artists, each responding to a book, poem, periodical or other archival material from The New York Public Library’s vast collection. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 5th from 5:00-6:30 pm.

The art collective, Infinite Archive, curated the exhibition to include artists working across a wide spectrum of media. The pieces range from paintings, prints, photography, assemblage as well as wood, metal and ceramic sculpture in response to fiction, non-fiction, periodicals, and prints in the NYPL’s collection. The breadth of artwork reflects the broad nature of the Library’s holdings.

Responding directly to literary works, each artwork presents a complex dialogue 

Mike Jacobs is a New York-based artist. Born and raised in an urban setting, he began drawing in his early 20's after a family friend handed him a technical pen. "While I took art in high school, it didn't really speak to me, but that pen opened a door. It just felt right in my hand, and I began to draw, letting the pen guide me."

From that time on, he set out to teach himself to draw and later paint, depending on a newly discovered visual imagination, which blossomed as his experiments with color, form, composition, and style evolved. Confident of finding his way, Jacobs found inspiration in artists who spoke to his unconscious, liberating the images in his head. His current materials incorporate colored pencils, gel pens and acrylic paint markers on black board. His motifs include scenes from the worlds of music, sports, nature, and personal preoccupations.

"I am self-taught, but hardly an 'outsider.' I live in New York City; my visual heroes are Stuart Davis