How its New York: Irish Arts Center’s multidisciplinary mission includes providing gallery space in Hell’s Kitchen for Irish and Irish American artists.
How its Irish: Kate Arslanian is an Irish artist who spends time between her hometown on the North and South border at Crossmaglen, County Armagh and Paris, France. Not too shabby!
We haven’t done a whole lot on visual arts and would love to do more. If you’re a blogger whose beat this is, please contact us at newyorkirisharts@gmail.com! It would be great to get in some reviews and interviews!
Federna, 2011; on canvas w oil paints |
Free and open to the public
January 26 | 6:30 pm
Reserve through the Irish Arts Center or 866-811-4111
Irish Arts Center Gallery
553 West 51st Street
New York City
On view January 26 – April 18
Kate Arslanian was born in Crossmaglen, County Armagh and this unique part of Ireland is the center of everything she paints. BORDERLANDS is an instinctive, moving and nostalgic series of abstract works, reflecting on the breathtaking countryside of the northern and southern borders: Armagh, Louth and Monaghan.
BORDERLANDS will travel to Iontas Arts Center in Castleblayney, County Monaghan in May, Strule Arts Center in Omagh, County Tyrone in July and at ACOSS in Yerevan, Armenia in September.
Gallery hours by appointment
Monday – Friday | 10 am – 6 pm
Please call 212-757-3318
This program is supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, and by Culture Ireland, a government agency dedicated to promoting Irish arts worldwide.