A zipper is commonly a popular gadget that joins two sides of fabric, leather and
numerous other materials. It’s utilized in the
fashion industry, accessories and many other everyday items.
Zippers increase or decrease the size of an opening to allow or restrict the
access of objects, join or separate two ends, attach or detach separable parts,
and connect / disconnect things.
Personally, I see zippers as very intriguing devices. They produce in me
a sense of wonder and discovery. The images from the Zipped Collection come up to my mind unexpectedly and
enigmatically. They seem to be translating my point of view about the stages in
life, the daring to quietly observe what it is and what it could be. The
audacity needed to be closing or opening new situations. They provoke in me the
ability to examine how the parts are sustained when they are together or
recognize when they need to be taken apart. I figuratively associate them with
the present and future of our civilization current matters.
Brian K.
Mahoney, Chronogram Magazine editor writes:"Born
in Argentina, Elisa Pritzker has made the Hudson Valley her home for over 20
years, and has helped to shape the evolution of the regional arts scene in that
time, first with the Highland Cultural Center, a multidisciplinary arts
organization, then through the Pritzker Gallery at Casa del Arte, and through
her own work. Pritzker has received two Congressional Service Awards from Rep.
Maurice Hinchey in recognition of her contribution to the cultural community.
An artist at home in a variety of media, Pritzker has exhibited across the US
and the globe. The Gothic Art Paper, from her "Lonely Hearts Club"
series, will be shown at the Art Complex in Tokyo later this year. In May,
Pritzker will exhibit a solo show on environmental themes, "Project Fresh
Green," at the Mill Street Loft in Poughkeepsie…” February 2009
BIO: Her lifetime work is available for study through a
permanent file kept at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington,
DC, at MoLAA —Museum of Latin American Art's Artist Registry in Long Beach, CA
and at the Museo del Barrio in NYC. She has exhibited in Museums, Art Fairs and
Galleries in the USA
and beyond, like MoMA, the Dorsky Museum, Franklin
54-NYC and the Museo Castagnino in Argentina.
In 2003/2004, she has been selected as the US
Artist representative to participate in THE PYRAMIDS OF NAXOS environmental
project in Greece in relation to the Olympic Games. In 2004, she was awarded a
grant from the Puffin Foundation LTD for her project called A Paradox of
Society: Garbage to You, Money to Them and participated in a group exhibit
at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn NY.
Some 2005 art activities included: It's all
about the money...but what about love? solo exhibit at the Franklin
54 Gallery in NYCin May. A group exhibit at the Dorsky Museum of
Contemporary Art, in New Paltz NY in July, participation at the Kingston
Sculpture Biennial, Kingston NY from July through October and an exhibit at
Galeria del Angel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2006 Highlights:
Franklin 54 Gallery, New York NY; Go North Gallery,
Beacon NY; Haven Arts Gallery, Bronx NY; James Cox Gallery, Woodstock NY; and
Art Gotham Gallery, New York NY.
2007 Highlights:
Affordable
Art Fair in NYC / Franklin 54 Gallery, Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon NY, No East No West Solo Installation, Donskoj
Gallery, Kingston NY, Two person exhibit, The Bruynswick Studio & Gallery,
Two person exhibit, Veronamerica, ASK & Coffey Galleries, Kingston NY,
Italy-USA Exchange, Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone
Ridge NY, Ecological Integrity/On The
Brink and Franklin 54 Gallery, New York NY, Mostly White.
2008 Highlights:
Gallery
705, Stroudsburg, PA; Barrett Clay Works Gallery, Solo Exhibition/Installation; Affordable
Art Fair Franklin 54 Gallery, New York NY; 9th Biennial Sculpture,
Bellevue WA; Barrett Galleries, Poughkeepsie NY, Latin American Views and Affordable Art Fair in London / Vernissage
London Inc UK.
2009 Highlights:
Pool Art
Fair, NYC; Project: Fresh Green-Solo installation-on-site & virtual at Mill
Street Loft, Poughkeepsie NY, the Art Complex inTokyo and The Easels at
Franklin 54 Gallery in Chelsea NYC.
2010 Highlights:
NartureArt, Brooklyn NY; Space 37, Jackson Heights
Queens NY; ZIPPED upcoming Solo Exhibit at
Franklin 54 Gallery in September/October.
Franklin
54 Gallery+Projects in NYC exhibits her art since 2004. Her work is collected nationally
and internationally.
“Elisa Pritzker is a sensitive, creative and bold artist. Her
mini-sculptures are a wonder of plastic beauty and lineal harmony. Her
paintings are of excellent quality. Symbolism ancestral magic and history are
combined in the service of the arts” Josep Mascaro Pasarius, from the newspaper Baleares
(Mallorca-Spain) at the opening of an art exhibition
