Pgartventure is pleased to announce the first exhibition of Erica Lansner, Alex Girshin and Ge Feng in the entrance lobbies of 547 w.27 th street and 548 w.28 th street in New York City . Please visit during the run of the exhibit from September 1 to October 1, 2008

Erica Lansner
Ivory Coast, Africa, 1993

Best known for her portraiture and portrayals of everyday life around the world, Erica Lansner brings to all her works a vision that is intimate, emotional and sympathetic. An award winning journalist, she has traveled to more than thirty-five countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa on assignment for leading international magazines and corporations.

Lansner’s work has appeared in numerous publications including Newsweek, US News & World Report, Business Week, Sports Illustrated, Der Stern, The New York Times and Travel Holiday. During several trips to China, she documented the evolving relationship between modernization and ancient culture and won a Picture of the Year Award in 1994. The same year, Life magazine featured her photo of the Hebron Massacre in Israel. She syndicates her work through the Black Star Photo Agency and Getty Images.

Lansner was born in New York City and graduated with a degree in Art History from Vassar College. She spent seven years working at CBS in New York and Rome before becoming a photographer. She lives in New York City.

Ge Feng,
Hand 15, 2007

For Feng, Art History is universal. He does not consider its chronology. It is right there in front of him and he dips into it as he wishes.

Ge Feng paints what surrounds him. He brings a new dimension to the ordinary. His paintings are pictorial links between Orient and Occident.

“The body controls the mind which in turns controls the body. I try to control my painting, which controls me. I look for something between a known space and the unknown. I dance within this space which contains me, I am in it. Ge Feng was born in 1975 in China. He holds an MFA from Jilin, China and an MFA From Marseille School of Arts, France

Alex Girshin paints figurative scenarios within synthesized environments, lately experimenting with construction materials such as Styrofoam and gravel. His paintings present snippets of various stories, not necessarily fictional. “In my most recent painting My Friend Blows Bubbles, and so’s my Dog, in both the top, or dog and bottom, or ground, the top layer of paint has been removed and the Styrofoam melted to give variation to the surface. The ground is a negative burst. The dog, at the top, has a similar effect as a black hole in cosmic space. The two girls and the “Long Island Beach” development behind them represent the flux floating atop the cosmos.” Alexander Girshin was born in 1974 in Odessa , Ukraine . In 1976, seeking political asylum, he and his family immigrated to Brooklyn, N.Y. through a Jewish benefactor organization. He is currently a student at Purchase school of Art & Design.

For more information, please contact Pascale Goldenstein at 646.591.71.40 or Pascale@pgartventure.com