NEW YORK
Salon Zürcher, 25th Edition
The 11 Women of Spirit, Part 4
September 6 - 12, 2021
Opens Monday, September 6, 6 - 8 PM

Rosaire Appel
Jeri Coppola
Brigitte Engler
Laurel Marx
Donna Moylan
Fran O’Neill
Janet Passehl
Marcy Rosenblat
Fran Shalom
Jackie Shatz
Rebecca Smith

The 25th Edition of SALON ZÜRCHER, a satellite fair of The Armory Show 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 participating artists. Salon Zürcher offers collectors an intimate alternative to the large-scale, superstore 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 24 fairs. The May 2021 edition of 11 Women of Spirit (Part 3) was featured in The New York Times with a special review by Martha Schwendener. Zürcher Gallery is located in the East Village, within walking distance of the New Museum, the Lower East Side, and TriBeCa gallery districts. 

To give everyone an opportunity to experience 11 Women of Spirit, the gallery will 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 

This will be Part 4 of The 11 Women of Spirit, which originally launched during the Armory Show 2020. For more information on previous editions, please visit our website.

FAIR HOURS

Monday, Sep 6, 2021: 6 - 8 PM
Tuesday, September 7 - Saturday, September 11, 2021: 12 - 8 PM
Sunday, September 12, 2021: 12 - 5 PM
Entry to Salon Zürcher is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, No Appointments Necessary.

All unvaccinated visitors are required to wear a mask.

Artists:

Rosaire Appel was born in New York City but grew up in semi-rural environments. Returning to the city at 20, she participated in poetry workshops and attended the New York Studio School when it first opened. She has no degrees or certificates. She wrote two experimental novels (published by FC2) before turning to darkroom photography in the late1980’s. As analog morphed to digital she began combining word and image in book forms. She has produced many prints and visual books, limited editions, unique as well as commercially printed.
​She has a long history with  asemic writing. Asemic writing is a kind of mark making that looks like writing but has no semantic value. It is ancient as well as contemporary. Her work is discussed in Peter Schwenger’s scholarly study “Asemic The Art of Writing” (2019). Her work has been included in Judith, women making visual poetry (just published), Scrivere Disegnando / When language Seeks it Other (Geneva), Sand (Berlin), and many literary journals. A solo show of her sound drawings took place at Scholes Street Studios in 2019 and selections were recently on view at The Resnick Passlof Foundation. An assortment of books and drawings were exhibited at No. 3 Reading Room in Beacon, NY, just as the pandemic took hold. Her work is included in local and international museums, libraries and private collections.

Jeri Coppola (b. Neptune NJ) currently lives and works in NYC and Cape Breton Nova Scotia.  After attending Mason Gross School of the Arts, she received her MFA from Bard College.  Her work is a combination of photography, sculpture and installation that focuses on memory in the body and landscape. Shows include Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace, The Buggy Factory, Brooklyn, NY, Auroras Gallery Sāo Paulo, Brazil and ICP NY.  The future includes a book with Understory Books and a work in Salon Zurcher’s 11 Women of Spirit in September 2021. \

Brigitte Engler (b.Paris, 1957) is a French-American artist who studied at the Beaux-Arts School in Paris and moved to New York in 1980 to study at the Whitney ISP. She worked as an art reporter for PAPER and organized art projects with artists and writers like Robin Winters, Sylvère Lotringer, Jonas Mekas and Pat Place. Additional information can be found on her website: www.brigitteengler.com

Laurel Marx has always been moved by newness and wonder. Her constant reimagining and observing of unexpected ways to compose one’s life has been an endless source of inspiration. In both her art and her life, it has been this inherent curiosity that has propelled movement forward. Laurel’s creative expression has taken many forms, but the bridge she found between art and career was graphic design. Woven into large collages, graphic elements were for Laurel both an anchor and a point for departure. She exhibited in frequent group shows, co-founded 22 Wooster Gallery, curated First Look: Ten Young Artists from Today’s Cuba under the auspices of the Center for Cuban Studies, and established an independent graphic design practice. Laurel’s art process shifted from the juxtaposition of images to the capturing of transient moments through photography. This has developed into her current body of work– a new, wondrous, and intuitive combination of both graphic design and photographic elements, what could almost be referred to as painting with photography. Solo shows include the Museu d’Sóller in Mallorca and Gallery 118 in Vermont, and group shows include Carter Burden Gallery, El Barrio’s Artspace, PS 109, and Equity Gallery in New York City.

Donna Moylan was born in Boston; moved to Rome, Italy at the age of 19; came back to the United States to live in New York City after 23 years in Italy, in 1992. Donna Moylan’s paintings have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Art Forum and Art in America. She has had over 25 solo exhibitions in Europe and in The United States, in New York City, Boston, MA, Houston, TX, Chatham, NY and Hudson, NY. Her work is included in many private collections and in the Whitney Museum of American Art, The New York Public Library, La Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia and in the Museo Civico di Siracusa. Currently, Donna Moylan lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and in Kinderhook, NY

An Australian-American, Fran O’Neill, was born in Wangaratta, Australia, and currently lives and works between Australia and Brooklyn, New York. O’Neill attended Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, earning a BFA and Post Graduate Degree. Her post-graduate work continued at the New York Studio School’s Certificate Program, and her MFA was completed at Brooklyn College. She has received a Joan Mitchell Foundation award. O’Neill’s solo exhibitions include at: Sears Peyton Gallery, NYC; Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; West End Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; David Schweitzer Contemporary, Bushwick, NY; Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; BMG Gallery, Adelaide, Australia; TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia; Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, John Davis Gallery, NY; New York Studio School, NY; and Sussex College, Hastings, UK. In 2016 her work was exhibited at MOCA in Jacksonville, FL in a group exhibition titled Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction, and most recently her work was included in Vital Presence, curated by David Cohen at 1GAPGallery, in Brooklyn. O’Neill’s work has been included in various group shows throughout the USA and in Australia. She has recently taught at the New York Studio School, Arts Students League and Pratt Institute.  Her work resides in private collections in the USA, Australia and UK, and in the permanent collection of MOCA Jacksonville, FL.

Janet Passehl’s drawings and cloth works have been exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The Tang Museum, Mass MoCA, Real Art Ways, Silvermine Gallery, The Drawing Center, ODETTA, and 57 West 57 Arts, as well as museums and galleries in Iceland, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany, and Australia. Her work is in several private collections. In a 2009 review of One More at Thomas Rehbein Gallery in Cologne, Geoge Imdahl claimed that Passehl’s ironed cloth work “turned the gallery into a church of high Minimalism”. Her work was included in the 2013 survey Art & Textile: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Subsequent shows with Thomas Rehbein Gallery include Schwarz, 2014, curated by the late Dr. Burkhard Brunn, and a two-person show with painter Howard Smith in 2019. Also in 2019, Passehl exhibited her poems in the forms of a hand-made book and an audio installation, in States and Senses in Sydney—her fourth exhibition in Australia. In summer 2021, her Poem for the Edicola was included as an audio installation in The Feuilleton: I Will Bear Witness, curated by Dr. Jo Melvin at MACRO, Rome, Italy.

Born in Chicago, Marcy Rosenblat currently lives and works in Brooklyn. She received her B.F.A. from Kansas City Art Institute and her M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Rawls Museum Arts, Virginia; Fordham University, New York; Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; and Salisbury University, Maryland. Most recently, during the pandemic, she had a solo online exhibition presented by Jason Mccoy Gallery, NY. Rosenblat received an artist’s grant from the Women’s Art Development Committee in 1998. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at The Fashion Institute of Technology. 

Fran Shalom has exhibited widely throughout the United States, including John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY, Kathryn Markel Gallery in NYC, the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge Mass, and the Newark Museum. She was awarded a Pollack Krasner Foundation Artist Grant in 2020 and a MacDowell Art Colony Fellowship Residency in 2016 and an Art Omni Residency in 2004.  Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Rose Art Museum in Massachusetts and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris She is represented by the Kathryn Markel Gallery in New York City.

Jackie Shatz (b. 1947 NYC, lives and works in Rockland County, N.Y) attended Bennington College and received a BFA in painting from Hunter College, and a MFA from Hunter College in sculpture. She won a NEA Individual Artist Fellowship in 1989-90, a Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant in 2018 and a Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant in 2020 and participated in a collaborative artist residency at the Kohler Art Center in 2001. Solo shows include Jerry Josefs Gallery,  Razor Gallery, Garrison Art Center and Carter Burden Gallery. Recent group shows: Claytopian at Plaxall Gallery LIC, Madness in Vegetables - The Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, Be Mine - LABspace, Hillsdale, N.Y. She has collaborated on installations at the Morris Museum in N.J., the project room at Wave Hill and on Governors Island with composer John Morton. Curatorial projects include: The Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Hampden Gallery (UMass Amherst), Green Door Gallery (Brooklyn),  Freedman Gallery, Albright College (Pennsylvania) and Henry Street Settlement. Upcoming show at LaiSun Keane Gallery, Boston, Mass. in September.

Rebecca Smith (b. 1954, Glens Falls, New York, lives and works in NYC and the Adirondacks) earned her BFA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976 and attended the New York Studio School 1976-7. First exhibiting in 1977, she has been making art since the late 1970s, in various media including painting, performance, sculpture and tape-drawing installations.  Her work is represented in many public collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Brooklyn Museum; Hyde Collection (Glens Falls, NY); Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College (Lynchburg, VA); Microsoft Collection; Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University (Hamilton, NY); Reading Museum, Pennsylvania; TarraWarra Museum of Art (Australia) and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. She received the Arts and Letters Award 2012, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.  Smith’s climate change activism inspired much of her practice in the last fifteen years and resulted in several exhibitions and projects.  More recently her interest in the potential of abstraction to unlock the complexities of other phenomena harks back to her earlier engagement  in forms of representation such as language, writing systems and string figures.  In addition to sculpture she maintains an ongoing body of work comprised of tape drawings on paper.