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Hey Audrey! I will be your cheerleader if you like. I don't think New York city has ever had another art entity like Audart. Those were the hottest, most pulsating, energy-filled, demented evenings I can ever remember. The Warhol Show opening blew my mind. Like a trip to a faraway planet. Billy Name walking around in his totally wierd duds and this bartender dressed from head to toe in black vinyl S&M. Listening to the Blondie songs pumping though the space and then literally bumping right into her! Crazy times. (Audrey you gave me a stack of used Warhol invites. I still have them!) I thank you for them. Robin Sciorria __________________
The art I remember
best during the Audart
Gallery days were the Kenta Furusho sculptures, all set
up in a circle in a large room. That was Audart's first
exhibition ever. I visited the gallery often
just to stand amid Kenta's sculptures of children - they were
magical. I regret never attending an
actual opening night but
one thing was evident from the visits I made during the day
just to view the art on exhibit and that was Audrey Regan's creative
karma. One show would be up, the next
show would be underway and Audrey would already be throwing out
ideas for the exhibition beyond
that. She told
me that once the press releases were issued, there was no backing down
and that there was no greater high than looking at new art works.
The space was very huge with many rooms, each
of them different so it was an amazing feat to keep them filled with
art at all times and to do it with
such imagination and non-stop energy. It was good for my soul to
spend time at Audart.
I miss the place.
Carole Newbigging __________________
I I worked on
Rector Street from 1996
through 1999. I often shopped in the store in front of your
gallery and I would see
the most alluring signs,
inviting people to walk through the doorway into your gallery. I
kept putting
it off. I don't know why. Oneday, my husband came downtown to
take
me to lunch and we decided to visit the Audart Gallery
together. And that was it for us. We were hooked. We
attended the "Salute to Broad Street" opening
and every opening thereafter. It must have been a hundred
degrees in the gallery on the night of Salute to Broad
Street. And all the corks on the wine bottles were
breaking!
But what a great evening just the same. I
brought all my co-workers with me to those openings and they, in turn,
invited their friends and family. We would arrive early and
get seated in one of the rooms at the back of the gallery and
just watch those hundreds and hundreds of people
come in all through the night. The art was always provocative and
interesting. The music was the best.
By ten o'clock or so, what had started as an art opening became the
hottest most amazing party. I miss Audart. I miss
the energy of the place. All those amazing rooms of
art. I won't forget it. You can use this email if you
like. I know
a lot of other people who work downtown who share my feelings about the
incredible Audart Gallery. 60 Broad Street
has never been the same since you all left. Take care, Jill Goss
I
am so glad you are continuing the gallery in cyberspace, and perhaps
someday
in real space. I miss Audart so much, because it
was
so much like a family - it was an ongoing "happening" . It
was
someplace that did what most galleries would feel to be
impossible.
Todays world is so apocalyptic, that one wonders what will happen
to New York, the US, and consequently the arts if this
war
happens. It is good to see good things developing
in
this very depressing scene. My visit to Senegal
was wonderful because I found a spot on the earth where people
get
along: Muslims, Christians, Jews; black &
white; Africans with each other, with Europeans, with Americans.
I
was astonished! I can't wait to return. Best
wishes
for a successful New Year. Jacqueline Taylor Basker
__________________New York city for Goldman Sachs. There must have been ten thousand people packed into the gallery that night and I never thought I'd see those glasses again. The following week when I went in on my lunch hour to look at the Warhol art, there were my glasses on Audrey's desk. I thought, this has to be a miracle! Anyway, we loved you guys. You really knew how to put a great art exhibit together and you did it so many times and each time was like a trip to another world. All the best. Claire Simpson, Brooklyn, NY Well, what a shock to get a phone call from Audrey
Regan!
A delightful surprise reallly. The only negative thing is that Audart isn't coming back
downtown
to open another gallery. That
would be nice! I had a lot of fun there. I
only went to one big opening night but I was there a lot on my lunch times and saw the beautiful Melanie Rey's
theater piece three times.
God
bless you Audart. |