21 May 2007
ALICE NEEL a documentary
Artprojx & Victoria Miro special presentation
ALICE NEEL
a documentary by Andrew Neel
Produced by SeeThink Productions
Monday 21 May 2007
6.15pm
Introduction by Andrew and Hartley Neel
6.30 - 8.30pm Screening
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place
London WC2
Box Office: 020 7494 3654 (open 1-9pm)
www.princecharlescinema.com
Tickets £10
half-price for artists and students
Promoted by David Gryn - Artprojx
Contact/infoevents@artprojx.com
+44 (0)7711 127 848
Artist and Gallery information www.victoria-miro.com
Contact Kathy Stephenson +44 (0)20 7549 0422
Film info www.aliceneelfilm.com
Seethink Productions www.seethink.com
All press enquiries:
Kathy Stephenson +44 (0)20 7336 8109
Bryony McLennan + 44 (0) 207 549 0490
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Artprojx & Victoria Miro special presentation
ALICE NEEL
a documentary by Andrew Neel
Produced by SeeThink Productions
Monday 21 May 2007
6.30 - 8.30pm
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema
Abdul Rahman, 1964 © The Estate of Alice Neel
In ALICE NEEL, director Andrew Neel, Alice Neel’s grandson, puts together the pieces of the painter's life using intimate one-on-one interviews with Neel’s surviving family and personal archival video. The documentary explores the artist’s tumultuous life, legacy and determination to paint her era. The film features interviews with artists Chuck Close and Marlene Dumas, Robert Storr, Dean, Yale School of Art, and Neel’s children.
Portrait painter Alice Neel (1900-1984) was a self-described collector of souls who recorded her sitters on canvas through six decades of the 20th century, among her subjects were Andy Warhol, Bella Abzug, Allen Ginsberg and Annie Sprinkle. Neel always sought the "authentic," moving from Greenwich Village to Spanish Harlem just as the Village was gaining reputation in the art scene. She sacrificed almost everything for her art, delving so far into the psyches of her sitters she would almost lose herself. Yet Neel was also a dedicated mother, raising two sons in the bohemian world she inhabited.
ALICE NEEL premiered at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. Director Andrew Neel’s previous film DARKON, which he co-directed with Luke Meyer, premiered at last year’s SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award. ALICE NEEL is a SeeThink production. The film opened in New York on Friday, April 20th at the Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street between 5th Avenue and University Place).
ALICE NEEL has not been rated by the MPAA. Running time is 82 minutes.
An exhibition, Alice Neel: The Cycle of Life opens at Victoria Miro on 23 May until 21 July 2007.
This is the second presentation of work by Alice Neel in Europe and is the first public exhibition in Victoria Miro's new exhibition space at 14 Wharf Road.
Exhibition presented by Victoria Miro in association with Jeremy Lewison Ltd.
All press enquiries:
Kathy Stephenson +44 (0)20 7336 8109
Bryony McLennan + 44 (0) 207 549 0490
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