ARTalk: Crossing Artistic Disciplines, Performing the Visual with Adelka Polak and Justin Perlman
Sunday, December 6, at 2 p.m. at the Ridgefield Library
Sculptor Justin Perlman and Performance Artist/Dancer Adelka Polak will present an ARTalk about their work as individual artists and the intersection of their work together as collaborators. They will demonstrate how they have influenced and inspired each other's solo work by illustrating their collaborations with specific imagery. Polak will also present a short mask performance piece with a mask created by Perlman.
Adelka Polak is the founder and Artistic Director of SOVA Dance and Puppet Theater. She is a dancer, puppeteer, mask-performer and movement director whose work has been performed at Lincoln Center Outdoors, LaMama, E.T.C. and with the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater of NYC. She works at Western Connecticut State University's Theater Department and teaches Contemporary/Improvisational Dance at the Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance.
Justin Daniel Perlman is an award-winning professional sculptor whose work is held in numerous private collections. His sculpture is also on permanent display in the John Ielpi Memorial Park in Great Neck, Long Island. Recently, the Audubon Artists Inc. of New York awarded Perlman the Gold medal of Honor for his sculpture Sisyphus, and he is also a recipient of the Marquis Who's Who in American Art award for his sculpture Recollections of Grace, which included listing in that publication. He has apprenticed in stone carving, metal work, bronze casting and other media in the U.S. abroad.
Please register.
ARTalks, sponsored by the Ridgefield Library and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, is a series dedicated to exploring the creative process which focuses on the arts, architecture and design.
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