STUDIO HILL GALLERY STAGES MULTI-MEDIA EVENT CELEBRATING
ENDURING IMPACT OF NYC’S EAST VILLAGE ART SCENE
“We Are Here Now Hidden in Plain Sight 1978-2023”
Five-Week Convergence of Visual Art, Photography, Film, Poetry, Music & Fashion Debuts at
Woodbury’s Newest Gallery May 6 – June 3
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March 7, 2023: Woodbury CT – Some of the finest visual, sonic, and spoken word art to emerge from New York’s Lower East Side is coming to Connecticut with the debut of “We Are Here Now, Hidden in Plain Sight 1978-2023,” a dynamic multi-media exhibit opening May 6 at Studio Hill Gallery, Woodbury’s newest destination.

Curated and hosted by filmmaker Nancy August, this show celebrates the boundless creativity birthed in one of the most important districts in the history of American arts and culture: the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It will feature painting, sculpture, photography, film, and fashion as well as live musical performances and poetry readings over five weeks – work representing the creativity of 20 diverse artists. The event at Studio Hill Gallery is the debut of this exhibit, which is slated to travel to New York City and other destinations beginning in the fall of 2023. A current Connecticut resident who lived on the Lower East Side for two decades, Ms. August is presently at work on a feature-length documentary about this fertile art scene, both with the stars that emerged in the ‘70s to those who still live and work in the neighborhood today.

Emblematic of the counterculture, radical political and social constructs and boundary traversing free thought, New York City’s hallowed East Village built its unique aura as an eclectic hub of creativity which affected a global reach that continues to reverberate. A veritable valley in the Manhattan skyline, the neighborhood (east of the Bowery and 3rd Avenue, between 14th Street on the north and Houston Street on the south) was home to icons of artistic innovation spanning Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsburg, Lou Reed, Cindy Sherman, Jim Carroll, Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, Sam Shepard, The Ramones, Blondie, and Sonic Youth. Some of the best of these that stayed and continue to live in the neighborhood are included in this exhibition.

In October 2023, the show moves to the Lower East Side.
Contact: Nancy August (914) 772-3342/nancy@summergirlmedia.net