Shlomit Dror moderating artists talk at Christian Duvernois Gallery

For the closing of the exhibition “A Paper Affair,” Christian Duvernois Gallery will hold an artists talk led by the New York-based curator, Shlomit Dror, who will facilitate a dialogue between two of the show’s artists: Clytie Alexander and Vicky Colombet. Alexander’s radiant collages are a playful take on the artist’s long-term interest in lines, surfaces, their edges and boundaries, motion and stillness and our perception of colors and their symbolic potentials. “A Dialogue” series of Colombet are mixed media works that juxtapose ink drawing and oil and pigment compositions, to reveal complex methods of delivering evocative landscape imagery. The talk will examine the artists’ diverse use of the paper material and their relation to this medium, and investigate the abstract nature their works conjure. Questions about the artists’ individual process, intuitive and controlled actions, as well as their similar approach to the works’ expansion beyond the surface, are elements which will also be explored in this conversation.

Shlomit Dror is a curator working in Greater New York. She has organized several group exhibitions including, “In Her Eyes: Women Behind and in Front of the Camera,” (Newark Museum, 2012), “F_ll in the Bl_nk” (NARS Foundation, 2013), “Ready or Not: 2014 New Jersey Arts Annual” (Newark Museum, 2014), “Seeing through Abstraction” (Residency Unlimited, 2015), “Story of a Story” (Smack Mellon, 2015) among others. Dror’s writing has been published through CUE Art Foundation’s Young Art Critics Mentoring Program and has been included in several exhibition catalogues and online publications. Previously, Dror held the position of the Consulting Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum, and for the past decade has worked in various institutions, including El Museo del Barrio, The Felix Torres Gonzales Foundation, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Inchoen Women Artists Biennale. She has served as a visiting critique at Residency Unlimited, The Wassaic Project, Wave Hill Visual Arts Program and the Elizabeth Foundation. She received an MA in Museum Studies from New York University and a BA in Art History and Latin American Studies from Bard College. She also took part in Independent Curators International’s (ICI) Curatorial Intensive program.