ARTFOCUS TORONTO ONLINE ART MAGAZINE
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 "CROSSING DELANCEY"
A SERIES OF LOWER EAST SIDE IMAGES
FROM HOUSTON TO DELANCEY STREETS.

The series was shown in June and July of 2008 at the EARTH MATTERS Café/Gallery, 177 Ludlow St., New York City in June and July of 2008 and now been moved to the Orensanz Foundation. For more information on the Orensanz Foundation go to: http://www.orensanz.org/

The epicenter of Pat Fleisher's exploration has been the Angel Orensanz Foundation on Norfolk Street where directors Angel and Al Orensanz suggested the East to West walkabouts that resulted in these gritty and dynamic photo impressions of the "hood".

Fleisher's long standing fascination with New York was recorded in a review of her NY photo show in Montreal in 2002, published in "Vie des Arts." And a photo of a Norfolk St. snowscape published in the Skowegan School of Art Alumni Newsletter in 2003. She was then invited to exhibit a group of East Village New York images for the opening of the FEVA gallery in the 14th St. Y in New York, May 18-June 30, 2005 and @ Arts Caracas 2005 in Caracas, Venezuela, May 5-8, 2005.

Statement by Al Orensanz Phd

" This exhibition has been slated for Earth Matters on Ludlow Street because the venue and the art on display mirror each other fabulously. This show could have well be installed at Clayton Patterson Art Gallery on Essex Street or at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on Norfolk Street. But Al and Angel Orensanz and Clayton Patterson and Antonio Zito agreed that Pat Fleisher's art would pulsate perfectly at Earth Matters on Ludlow Street. For one, Ludlow Street is the epicenter of old and ultra chic New York, like no other street of today's NY.

"Ludlow Street now is like a cross of Via San Marco in Venice and Via Condotti in Rome" stated Al Orensanz during the installation of Pat Fleisher's show at Earth Matters."

"Nothing by far, is in New York right now, including Chelsea, the Hudson Piers, Harlem and Williamsburg together" continued Al Orensanz "sizzles in New York like Ludlow Street. The skyscrapers in construction and the tenements, the night life spots and the bodegas, the French cuisine and the pizza parlors.welcome to the Blaue Engel of Berlin in the 1930's and the hesitant subprime bankers and high powered internet designers of the 2008 New York. Welcome to Ludlow Street. Welcome to Earth Matters, a pioneer of the organic and the alternative. Welcome to the photos of Pat Fleisher, the seer that captures all that !"

ABC Bar [Cover] Although the title of this piece is "Crossing Delancey" being the theme of the series, the actual location is Houston Street.

Phantom Bus Flea Market

By Pat Fleisher