AN EXHIBITION OF FINE ART AT THE WORLD MONUMENTS FUND GALLERY
15 East 27th Street, NYC, NY
(between Madison and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan)

Exhibition Dates: July 3 - July 31, 2008.
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 1-6pm or BY APPOINTMENT

AMY KOOL and AMY COHEN BANKER are proud to present "Finding Beauty", an exhibition of oil paintings and collages sponsored by The World Monuments Fund/ Common Ground Gallery.
Opening reception will take place Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 5-8 p.m. Original music composed by Nigel Dickey and Veinmelster Productions site specifically for the exhibition.

AMY KOOL's paintings are jewel-like mosaics painted with iridescent colors on canvas, not unlike intricately woven tapestries evoking the past and present and her collages are reminiscent of illuminated manuscripts created with colorful found objects, gold leaf and antique Japanese tea leaves.

Amy Kool , Collage Painting 7, 2008.	Amy Cohen banker, Beauty and Love, 2008.

Amy Cohen Banker makes colorful/colorless metaphors that are carved out, into shapes, forms (synthetic realism), merged portrait/landscapes, layers of meaning and memory revealed to viewer through process of time, lyrical movements, sumi-e, palimpsets, hands on painting inspired by nature, music, poetry.

The Common Ground Gallery is part of the exquisitely restored Prince George Ballrooom, a historic legacy of Beaux Art architecture, which was redesigned by the architectural firm Beyer, Blinder and Belle, who lovingly restored it to its original landmark splendor. The artists will exhibit their best and most beautiful paintings as they ask the question "What is Beauty"?They have found the answer downtown in their studios located in the financial district, four blocks from Ground Zero. For this exhibition, they are bringing their visual answers for you to ponder uptown.

Amy Kool, Amy Cohen Banker, Nigel Dickie will create an installation of art and music that defines it VISUALLY for current times and terms. It is a presentation of narrative and decorative art in a special show of beautiful, and sublime work inspired by New York City.

For years, beauty in art has been considered obsolete, redundant, common. The artists have their own personal beliefs that in these trying times it is relevant and necessary to bring beauty back into the equation of post=post=modern art 2008-2009 and beyond. There is enough torture, heartbreak, terror,in the world they live in and they feel that they can rise above it by working with a different set of values to create "beautiful true" objects on canvas that the audience can experience, be inspired by, and that can uplift their spirits and heighten their awareness further.

- Emerson  wrote a poem "Ode to Beauty". Wallace Stevens wrote "beauty is momentary in the mind- the fitful tracing of a portal; but in the flesh iit is immortal.

- Keats said “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know".

- Robert Schumann said ... beauty is either natural or poetic. Kant philosophized about beauty. Heidegger explained beauty.  Burkhardt exposed divine and sacred art.

For further information please call 1-212-343-1676 or visit us at www.amycohenbanker.com and http://www.amykool.com , or send us an email at: amycohenbanker@earthlink.net ; Akoolcat@aol.com . Audio-visual productions and sound support by Nigel Dickey; peoplesfriend@comcast.net .

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