FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Susan Galardi 631-283-2118 x122 [email protected] THE WRITINGS, PAINTINGS, AND GARDEN PHILOSOPHY OF ARTIST ROBERT DASH EXPLORED BY A DISTINGUISHED PANEL OF FRIENDS, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 11AM Poet Douglas Crase, Guggenheim Curator Alexandra Munroe, and New York Times Garden Writer Anne Raver Join Parrish Curator Alicia Longwell in a Roundtable Discussion Robert Dash and Douglas Crase at Madoo, 1979. Photograph by Frank Polach. WATER MILL, NY 3/26/2015—The painting, writings, and gardening concept of Robert Dash will be explored and discussed by a distinguished panel of authorities in their fields—all friends of the late artist who lived and worked in Sagaponack, New York, whose work is currently on view in Robert Dash: Theme and Variations at the Parrish Art Museum. Noted poet Douglas Crase; Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator, Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Anne Raver, New York Times garden writer will join Alicia Longwell, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education at the Parrish on Saturday, April 11 at 11am, for the program, Robert Dash: Theme and Variations—A Roundtable Discussion. “I can’t think of a more perfect assembly for this intimate conversation about the life and work of Robert Dash,” said Longwell, who first met the artist in the 1980s. “The world Bob created at Madoo is a living tribute to his gifts as artist, poet, writer, and gardener and I look forward to hearing from this splendid gathering of his friends.” Douglas Crace, a friend of Dash for nearly 40 years and a fellow poet, became a frequent guest at Madoo following his first visit to the residence and two-acre garden in 1973. Crace is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection, The Revisionist; a “commonplace” book, Amerifil.Txt; and the dual biography of a ‘50s arts couple, Dwight Ripley and Rupert Barneby, Both: A Portrait in Two Parts. He has published essays of his favorite poets, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Ashbery, Lorine Niedecker, and James Schuyler. Crace attended Princeton University and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Alexandra Munroe, Ph.D., a pioneering authority on modern and contemporary Asian art and transnational art studies, has a home on the East End, visited Madoo frequently, and had a long-standing affinity for Robert Dash’s total concept of art and the garden. A curator at the Guggenheim since 2006, Munroe has organized the award-winning and critically acclaimed Guggenheim exhibitions including Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (2011) and The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989 (2009); as well as the exhibitions and publications such as Art of Mu Xin (2002), YES YOKO ONO (2000). Monroe holds a BA from Sophia University, Tokyo, an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a Ph.D. in History from New York University. Her exhibitions and scholarly catalogues have received awards and recognition from the Association of American Art Museums, International Art Critics Association, College Art Association, Association of American Museum Curators, and other institutions. Anne Raver, a friend of Robert Dash and an admirer of his gardening philosophy since the 1990s, wrote about Madoo during her tenure as garden columnist at the New York Times (1991-2006). A frequent public speaker, Raver recently gave a talk at Madoo and has been a guest speaker at Harvard Graduate School of Design, International Conference on Global Warming, Chicago Botanic Garden, and Horticultural Society of New York, to name just a few. Raver is currently a regular contributor to the Times, as well as to The American Gardener, Town & Country, Travel & Leisure, and many others. The author of several books (including Deep in the Green) is the recipient of numerous awards including New York Times and Newsday Publisher’s Awards, Bradford Williams Medal, American Society of Landscape Architects, American Horticultural Society Writing Award, and many others. Robert Dash (1934–2013), born in New York City, became interested in the Abstract Expressionists as a student of ethnology and literature at the University of New Mexico. Upon graduation, he moved to New York where he worked as an editor and art critic, and, with no formal training, began painting. In 1967, Dash purchased the property in Sagaponack, New York, where he painted, designed his unique, personal garden, and wrote poetry as well as a bimonthly column, “Notes from Madoo,” for an East Hampton weekly newspaper. Dash’s paintings are in collections nationwide. The current exhibition of his work at the Parrish presents the final series of eleven paintings created by Dash in Sagaponack, plus eight works on paper that explore a single image of Sagg Main Street. Robert Dash: Theme & Variations is made possible, in part, by the generous support of The Alec Baldwin Foundation, Miguel and Vivian Barg, Charlotte Moss and Barry Friedberg, Leslie Rose Close, and Pingree and Donald Louchheim Robert Dash: Theme and Variations—A Roundtable Discussion Saturday, April 11, 11am • $10 | Free for Members, Children, and Students Includes Museum admission. Space is limited; advance reservations recommended. 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