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Nora York is a singer/composer/artist deemed "an ingenious, radical, extravagant talent" by The New Yorker. Jerry Kearns is a painter/writer called whose December 07 show was described in the HoustonPress as "capturing the confusion and conflict, as well as the absurdities and paradoxes of out time. Kearns creates works dynamic,funny and troubling. Together they present their collaborative and singular works.
NORA YORK CV: Yorks CD WHAT I WANT Say yes fall 06 has tracks that are featured on HBO Film's Methdonia as well as Doris Dorrie's new film The Fisherman's and his Wife (soundtrack on Virgin). York won a New York State Council on the Arts Composers Commission for a song cycle called Breaking Tradition. Her "I Dreamed I Saw: Music of Stephen Foster and Jimi Hendrix" was a New Sounds Live concert at Merkin Hall in NYC. York collaborated with Artist Nancy Spero to make a live Franklin Furnace web cast called FOXFIRE. Her web radio show with soldiers recently returned from called Iraq Papa's Got A Brand New Baghdad is in archive (love crazy) @wps1.org. She continues to develop POWER/PLAY an original set of compositions and 1960s set-piece conflations held together by remixed verses of Bob Dylan's declarative tome "Master's of War." York's newest project FURTIVA LAGRIMA (secret tear) combines Italian operatic aria with her own compositions. York teaches Creative Voice at New York University.
JERRY KEARNS CV: Jerry Kearns was born in West Virginia. He spent his formative years in California, graduating with an MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 1968. In that same year, he won the Rome Prize for Sculpture.
Moving to NYC in 1976, Kearns began working as a cultural activist and artist with the Artist Meeting for Cultural Change (AMCC) and The Red Herring Collective. In the late 70s, Kearns worked as a street photographer with two civil rights groups, The Black United Front of Brooklyn and The Committee Against Fort Apache in the Bronx. In October 1981, Lippard and Kearns reported on these activities in their Artforum article, "Cashing a Wolf Ticket."
A 1985 a solo exhibition launched Kearns' painting career. Since then he has produced 25 one-person exhibitions; his prints and paintings are represented in 33 museum and public collections, including The New York Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Nationale Galerie, Berlin, The IVAM Centre, Valencia, Spain, and The Western Gallery of Art, Perth, Australia.