NEW YORK
Salon Zürcher, 24th Edition
The 11 Women of Spirit, Part 3
May 3 - 9, 2021
Opening: May 3, 6 - 8 PM

Susan Bee
Cathy Diamond
Laurie Fendrich
Lucero Gonzalez Jameson
Margaret Jolly
Gwyneth Leech
Nicole Parcher  
Dee Shapiro
Angela Valeria
Anne De Villemejane
Betsy Weis

Click here to read The New York Times review by Martha Schwendener.

The 24th Edition of SALON ZÜRCHER, a satellite fair of Frieze Art Fair in New York, invites a distinguished group of 11 women artists to show their work in the Zürcher Gallery space on Bleecker Street in Manhattan. Femmes d’esprit was an 18th-century French term that referred to independently-minded female painters, writers, and intellectuals, routinely under-recognized by their male contemporaries and publics. In keeping with the spirit of artistic salons, 11 Women of Spirit involves the presence of the 11 artists. Salon Zürcher offers collectors an intimate alternative to the large-scale, super-store style art fairs. Here, visitors have the rare chance to speak directly with the artists. Between our two locations, Zürcher New York / Paris has hosted 23 fairs. Zürcher Gallery is located in the East Village, within walking distance of the New Museum, the Lower East Side, and TriBeCa gallery districts. This is Part 3 of The 11 Women of Spirit, following the first edition in March 2020 and the second in September 2020.

To give everyone an opportunity to experience 11 Women of Spirit, the gallery will be collaborating with a curator to produce a video tour, which will be published on YouTube and will present an online viewing room of select works by the 11 women at galeriezurcher.com/ovr 

FAIR HOURS
Monday, May 3: OPENING, 6 - 8 PM (capacity limited to 20 visitors)
Tuesday, May 4 - Saturday, May 8: 12 - 8 PM
Sunday, May 9: 12 - 5 PM

Entry to Salon Zürcher is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, No Appointments Necessary.
All visitors are required to wear a face covering, regardless of vaccination status. 
Visitors are expected to respect social distance guidelines in the space. 

Susan Bee is an artist living in Brooklyn. She has had nine solo shows at A.I.R. Gallery in NYC. She has had solo shows at many other venues and her work has been in numerous group shows. Bee has published eighteen artists’ books and has collaborated with poets including: Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, and Jerome Rothenberg. Bee was the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G from 1986-2016. Her artist’s book archive and the M/E/A/N/I/N/G archive are at Yale. 
Bee’s artwork is in many public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum, Reed College, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Getty Museum, and Victoria & Albert Museum. Her work has been reviewed in: Art in America, New York Times, New Yorker, ArtNews, Brooklyn Rail, Artcritical, ArtSlant, Forward, Huffington Post, Art Papers, and Hyperallergic. 
Bee has given presentations at the Whitney, Reina Sofia, Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, Queens Museum, NYPL, Pratt, SVA, M.I.T., University of Pennsylvania, and in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Portugal, Spain, Israel, Cuba, New Zealand, Korea, and China. She has a BA from Barnard College and a MA in Art from Hunter College. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2014 and has had fellowships at MacDowell, VCCA, and Yaddo. 

Cathy Diamond is a painter and curator based in Queens, New York. Her abstract paintings and works on paper bring together hybrid forms suggestive of trees, plants, insects and figures simultaneously. Different gestures of yearning, leaning, flying, drooping found in nature are used to create a latent figurative narrative. During the Pandemic, Diamond conducted an interview for Artspiel called Artists on Coping, and participated in a video Artists Talk with Gallery Gary Giordano. She began exhibiting with Flatfile Online Gallery and was chosen for Jason McCoy Gallery’s Drawing Challenge IV and XIX. Upcoming exhibits include Women of Spirit Part 3 at Zurcher Gallery and Earth Matters, her curatorial project for Green Door Gallery in Brooklyn.
Selected recent exhibits before the Pandemic include Magnum Opus, at 490 Atlantic Gallery, Unextinguished: The Episodic Landscape, at SRO Gallery, and Ideation, at the Susquehanna Museum of Art, in Harrisburg, PA. She curated Out There, at Supermoon Art Space, in Ridgewood, Queens, and Take your Pulse, at Joyce Goldstein Gallery, in Chatham, New York. Solo shows include Andre Zarre Gallery, Valentine Gallery and the Painting Center in NYC and Art House in Jersey City, NJ. Her work has traveled to international print fairs with Oehme Graphics. Diamond has received several Residency Fellowships and a grant from Artists Inc.

Laurie Fendrich is an abstract painter who is Professor Emerita of Fine Arts at Hofstra University and a 2016 recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York and nationally. In 2010, her paintings and drawings were the subject of a twenty-year retrospective, accompanied by a 90-page catalog with an essay by Mark Stevens, at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. Her work has been reviewed in such publications as The New York Times, Artforum, ARTnews, Art in America, ARTS Magazine, and The Partisan Review. In addition, she is the author of several essays on the role of art and artists in society, published in The Chronicle Review and other venues, along with art reviews and essays about painting  appearing in the art blogs artcritical.com and Two Coats of Paint.

Lucero Gonzalez Jameson was born in Mexico City and now lives and works in New York City, where she moved in the early 1980s. While raising a young family in Mexico City, psychology fascinated her for years.  When this pursuit ran its course, she turned her attention to philosophy, where a lifelong passion gripped her.  She understood that life is tragic, that questions pertaining to humanity as a whole are a cause of concern for the individual beyond his or her own grievances. Lucero’s curiosity turned toward the inquiry abiding in that “no-mans-land” between theology and science, whose core questions invoke metaphysics and the human condition.  Lucero studied at La Esmeralda, the Academy where muralists Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros all began. A turning point came when she studied with Robin Bond, a British artist teaching at Tacubaya in Mexico City. It was then that she felt truly at ease.  Bond had been the assistant to A. S.Neil, founder of Sumerhill-- a radical school established 1921 in Britain. Lucero poured forth what Bond sought: the beauty of a free stroke, an unmediated action—spontaneity-- genuine, rooted creativity. From then on she has dedicated her life to painting, creating luminous canvases that explore the human condition. 
Born in New Zealand, I attended Elam School of Fine Arts at University of Auckland, then completed the Masters of Art at UNSW College of Fine Art in Sydney.  I exhibited at the Bowen Gallery in Wellington, illustrated for Learning Media in New Zealand and the Docklands Development Corporation in London. I am currently based in New York and am working full-time as an artist. I have an extensive collection of plastic artifacts gathered from rivers, seashore, packaging and the kitchen. The process of discovery, and disposal of these artifacts is the driving force behind my work.

Margaret Jolly Born in New Zealand, I attended Elam School of Fine Arts at University of Auckland, then completed the Masters of Art at UNSW College of Fine Art in Sydney.  I exhibited at the Bowen Gallery in Wellington, illustrated for Learning Media in New Zealand and the Docklands Development Corporation in London. I am currently based in New York and am working full-time as an artist. I have an extensive collection of plastic artifacts gathered from rivers, seashore, packaging and the kitchen. The process of discovery, and disposal of these artifacts is the driving force behind my work.

Gwyneth Leech is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Her artwork has been featured in the New York Times, the Village Voice, international print media and on NY1 News. She is the subject of a multi-award winning short documentary, The Monolith, by New York filmmaker, Angelo Guglielmo. In November 2019, her construction paintings were featured on 1700 video kiosks across all five boroughs as part of Link NYC’s “Art on Link” public art project. Gwyneth Leech holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and a BFA and Post Graduate Diploma from Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK. Her paintings have been exhibited across the United States and Great Britain in galleries including Susan Teller Gallery and the Flatiron Prow Artspace in NYC, Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington MA and in museums including the Pearl Fincher Museum of Art in Houston, TX and the Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum in Scotland. The recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Hell’s Kitchen Foundation Grant, several Scottish Arts Council awards, and a Thouron British/American Exchange Fellowship, Leech’s artwork resides in private and public collections. Recent corporate acquisitions include Brookfield, Cimolai, Despé Italia, Metropolitan Walters, NYC Constructors/Banker Steel, Sciame LLC, SL Green Realty and Stonebridge Inc.

Nicole Parcher is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Recent exhibitions include Art Apart, East Hampton, New York 2020, Introductions 2018, at Trestle Gallery Brooklyn, New York, Invitational, at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York 2014, Four Women at Ille Arts in Amagansett, New York in 2013, and a solo show at The Gerald Peters Gallery in New York City in 2011. Ms. Parcher has shown and lectured about her work at The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York in 2002 and has participated in The Works on Paper Art Fair, the Cutlog Art Fair, and the Affordable Art Fair. Nicole has been showing her work on a regular basis in New York City since 1996 and has participated in many group exhibitions. Ms. Parcher’s work has been reviewed twice in the New York Times and on the New Yorker Short List. Nicole was awarded the Zeta Orionis Fellowship in 2016 at The Vermont Studio Center and had the honor of being awarded a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2002. Ms. Parcher has a BA from Skidmore College and is an Alumni of SACI in Florence, Italy.

Dee Shapiro I grew up in Brooklyn, moved to Queens where I graduated with a BA and MS from Queens College. After two years in Kentucky with two children, I settled on Long Island where I was director and curator of the Great Neck Community Art Center. I was also a member of the Criss-Cross Collective and exhibited with them in Colorado, Mexico and New York. I had been teaching studio art and art history at Empire State College as an Adjunct since early 1970 as well as privately.
As part of the formation of Central Hall Gallery on Long Island I was subsequently invited to show at AIR gallery in New York City. Shortly after that I joined the Andre Zarre Gallery where I participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the long duration of the Gallery with many iterations of bodies of work. 
Currently I am exhibiting at the David Richard Gallery in Harlem, Bernay Fine Art in Massachusetts, in May, Ro2 Gallery in Dallas, Texas and Bard College in June. I have been a Yaddo Fellow in 2017 and 2019. My curatorial work has been on Long Island, and as a Board member at the National Arts Club.  

Angela Valeria grew up in Brighton Beach in sight of the vast horizon of the Atlantic Ocean and the carnival atmosphere of Coney Island, surrounded by the supportive tribe of a huge Italian immigrant family. She received her BFA at Hunter College, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and Bologna. Among Valeria’s deepest influences are Abstract Expressionism, Jazz, the Civil Rights Movement, Women’s Liberation, the Renaissance, Surrealism, and Fellini. 
Valeria has exhibited extensively in the US and Europe, and has been included in many publications. Select solo exhibitions include Carter Burden Gallery (New York, 2014, 2016, 2017), Galleria Iaccheo (Naples, 2014), A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery (New York, 2010), Vitrine Hortense Stael (Paris, 1990, 1991), Gallery Onetwentyeight (New York, 1989), ArtCo International (Madrid, 1986), and Museo Civico (Bologna, 1970). Her work is held by public collections, including the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. Alongside her personal artistic practice, Valeria has also spent much of her life teaching art to a wide range of students, at Parsons School of Design, Empire State College, and Hunter College.

Established French sculptor and painter,  Anne de Villeméjane, was born in Paris and now lives in New York. Anne’s ethereal figures are both fragile and powerful at the same time. Her work reflects the expression of human nature, evoking strong emotions. Anne’s restless sense of adventure leads her to experiment with various raw materials. She uses a mix of media, including bronze and crystal, cement and metal, plaster, Acrylic and resin to create intriguing works of Art. Moving to Boston in 1999 after a successful business career in Europe, Anne embraced her childhood passion for Art and transitioned to being a professional artist. She therefore studied extensively at various Art schools including the Massachusetts College of Art, the Museum School of Boston, Harvard College and de Cordova Museum. She is now represented in a number of galleries internationally. In 2014, Anne was commissioned to create the audience award for the New York Film Festival “In French with English Subtitles”. In 2019, Anne has been coopted as a member of the National League of American Pen Women.
Selected exhibitions: Mark Hachem Gallery-Beirut, Lebanon –SOLO show (2013), Mark Hachem Gallery-Paris, place des Vosges –SOLO show (2012), BELSKIE museum-NJ- (2019), Art Market Hamptons- Emmanuelle G Gallery (2019), Gallery des Artistes –PA/USA (2019), JPHT Gallery –Paris (2019), Texas Contemporary-_Emmanuelle G Gallery (2018), Vivendi gallery-Paris (2018), Art Market Hamptons-Emmanuelle G gallery and Gallery M (2018), Scope New York-S Artspace Gallery (2018), Dialogue exhibition-NYC-Artemisia Gallery (2017), Art Market San Francisco-Michele Mariaud Gallery (2017), Art Southampton-Gallery M (2016), Art Palm beach-Mark Hachem Gallery (2016), Art Southampton-Mark Hachem Gallery (2015), Art Hamptons-Gallery M (2015), Art Wynwood Miami –Mark Hachem Gallery (2015), SOFA Chicago-Modus Gallery (2015), Art Aspen –M Gallery (2014).

Visual artist Betsy Weis is based in New York City, but her work takes her to natural landscapes near and far in order to photograph weather, light, and other fundamental elements in nature.  She has spent time in residency programs in Finland as well as Saginaw, Michigan and exhibits her work in New York, California, and Europe. Her most recent solo exhibitions were at Russell Janis in Brooklyn, NY, in March 2020, and The Collector’s Atelier, KLV Art Projects, in Vienna, Austria in February 2020, and, now at Salon Zürcher in a group show, 11 Women of Spirit Part 3.