MANIFESTATIONS III: FORM & FUNCTION:
An Exhibition of Functional & Wearable Art

December 9, 2003 – January 31, 2004
Opening Reception: Tuesday, December 9, 6-8pm

Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea, New York City, is pleased to announce its third exhibition of functional and wearable fine art titled, Manifestations III: Form & Function. The exhibition will be on view from December 9, 2003 – January 31, 2004.

Throughout time, the worlds of fine art and functional art have been interconnected. Nevertheless, for the most part, they have been formally exhibited separately. Until recently most fine art venues shied away from exhibiting useful, yet finely crafted objects. In current years, particularly the last fifty, the art community, art collectors and art goers have accepted and assimilated the concept of art and function being exhibited in formal venues such as museum and gallery exhibitions. Many prestigious museums including The Metropolitan Museum, The Guggenheim and The Museum of Modern Art, in New York, have curated exhibitions of functional design and architecture.

This exhibition includes artists located throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Far East. Among the works on view will be beautifully designed and crafted benches, lamps, and tables, various styles and designs in ceramic and stoneware as well as quilts, jewelry, masks, handbags, dresses, coats, scarves and much more… The exhibiting artists include:

Daneen Augello, Poala Bari, Justyna Benton, Jim Biglan, Kiri Birmack, Ligia Bouton, Deborah Brand, Leonard Cave, David Corcoran, Karen Cohen, Elizabeth Conlon, Jeremy Comins, Michael Creed, Sarah Davis, Bruce Dehnert, Joe DiGiacomo, Marisa DiPoala, Julia Duncan, Aaron Dunham, Vivian Ebright, Jennifer Farrell, Lisa Feldman, Michelle Fifis, Laura Freed, Walter Fydryck, Amanda Gale, Elissa Graff, Eve Hoyt, Mi-Sook Hur, Christine Kane, Arrik Kim, Linda Krause, Noriko Kuresumi, Mark LaScola, Michael Lorsung, David Luke, Latifa Medjdoub, Leonor Mendoza, Richard Metz, Makiko Miyamoto, Madoka Moore, Chikako Mori, Paulette Myers, Selina Narov, Suzanne Neusner, Mako Nishimori, Michele Oppliger, Keren Peled-Chew, Natalya Pinchuk, Andrea Pooler, Susan Reckford, Susan Jo Rochlin, Lindy Shuttleworth, Kelly Song, Irene Sperber, Joseph Stauber, Scott Strickstein, Lynn Szymanski, Yoshimi Tanaka, Joshua Tonsfeldt, Peter Vogel, Tom Whitton, Arlene Wilson, Liang-Chung Yen.