Writer's Brush September 11, 2007

Tue – Sat 11 – 6 PM
Anita Shapolsky Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition devoted to visual art by writers, mounted in conjunction with the publication of a new book by Donald Friedman, entitled /The Writer’s Brush/, with introductory essays by William Gass and John Updike (Mid-List Publishers, distributed by Random House). The exhibition will contain work by more than 100 contributors, ranging from the mid-nineteenth-century until the present day and representing a diversity of styles and subjects.

Walter Abish, Rafael Alberti, Roberta Allen, A. R. Ammons, Jean Arp, John Ashbery, Enid Bagnold, Amiri Baraka, Djuna Barnes, Julian Beck, Andrei Bely, Ted Berrigan, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, Joe Brainard, Breyten Breytenbach, Charles Bukowski, Gellett Burgess, David Burliuk, William Burroughs, Josef Capek, R.V. Cassill, Tom Clark, Daniel Clowes, Jean Cocteau, Norma Cole, Douglas Coupland, Morris Cox, Jim Crace, E.E. Cummings, Henry Darger, Annie Dillard, J.P. Donleavy, John Dos Passos, Rikki Ducornet, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Durrell, Russell Edson, Kenward Elmslie, Jules Feiffer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jacopo Fijman, Charles Henri Ford, Gao Xingjian, Federico Garcia Lorca, Kahlil Gibran, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Glück, Guenter Grass, Alasdair Gray, Nikolai Gumilov, Allan Gurganus, Brion Gysin, Hermann Hesse, Jack Hirschman, Susan Howe, Georges Hugnet, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Tama Janowitz, Ted Joans, Charles Johnson, Donald Justice, Anna Kavan, Weldon Kees, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alfred Kubin, D.H. Lawrence, Jonathan Lethem, Wyndham Lewis, Mina Loy, Lucebert, Jackson Mac Low, Clarence Major, Robert Marshall, Leonard Michaels, Henri Michaux, Henry Miller, Susan Minot, Walter Mosley, Vladimir Nabokov, Victor Nekrasov, Hugh Nissensen, Clifford Odets, Kenneth Patchen, Mervyn Peake, Sylvia Plath, Beatrix Potter, Annie Proulx, James Purdy, Alexei Remizov, Kenneth Rexroth, MacLaren Ross, Peter Sacks, William Saroyan, Mira Schor, Maurice Sendak, Leslie Marmon Silko, Charles Simic, Patti Smith, William Jay Smith, Iris Smyles, Ralph Steadman, Mark Strand, Igor Terentiev, James Thurber, Ruthven Todd, Frederic Tuten, Josef Vachal, Janwillem Vandewetering, Cecilia Vicuna, Kurt Vonnegut, Andrei Voznesensky, Derek Walcott, Keith Waldrop, Rosanna Warren, Lewis Warsh, Denton Welch, Marjorie Welish, Richard Wilbur, Tennesee Williams, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Tom Wolfe, W.B. Yeats, Kirill Zdanevich and Zuern

Official Website: http://www.anitashapolskygallery.com/images/press_release_writers_brush.pdf