Tickets
Members: $10
Non-Members: $20
Join Myrna Davis and April Gornik, co-curators of Yes, No, WOW: The Push Pin Studios Revolution for an exclusive look at the show from the curatorial perspective. Myrna and April will lead guests on a tour of the exhibition before inviting audiences to a discussion. Learn where the impetus and inspiration for the show came from, the perspectives they held during the selection process, and hear their reflections on the show as a whole. A Q&A with the speakers will follow the discussion.
As a former working member of the Push Pin Studios, Myrna holds a unique perspective as curator, knowing the inside history of the studio from a first-hand experience. As co-founder of The Church and an artist herself, April holds a unique perspective as curator, understanding how the pieces weave together to honor both Push Pin studios and The Church’s mission to honor Sag Harbor’s creative legacy to the greater art world. Together they treat audiences to a deeper dive into our final exhibition of 2024.
MYRNA DAVIS
Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Myrna Davis has collaborated with artists, architects and designers as a writer and editorial consultant on a wide variety of projects in publishing and the arts.
At Push Pin Studios 1960-1966, her roles included writing, editing, public relations, events, and fortuitously relocating the studio to a historic Beaux-Arts building that later became the longtime home of Milton Glaser Associates. She also worked at the Woman’s Home Companion, George Nelson Associates, and Columbia Records.
Davis wrote The Potato Book, with introduction by Truman Capote; and Bouquet: Twelve Flower Fables, with paintings by her husband, Paul Davis; and conceived The Arcadia Seasonal Mural and Cookbook, one of Time Magazine’s “10 Best Books of the Year.”
As managing partner of Paul Davis Studio, she has worked closely with clients in the U.S. and abroad. Davis is executive director emerita of The Art Directors Club in New York, and a graduate of Barnard College.
Myrna settled in Sag Harbor with Paul in 1966, and in 1972 co-chaired the Sag Harbor Preservation Commission organized by Nancy Willey which gained National Landmark status for the village.
She is currently working with Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn, serves on the advisory board of The Poster Museum in Manhattan, and is a board member of Save Sag Harbor.
APRIL GORNIK
Photo by David Benthal
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Artist April Gornik’s paintings and drawings of land, sky and sea are anchored in observed reality and a world synthesized, abstracted, remembered and imagined. They offer the viewer an opportunity to explore dichotomies between past and present, expanse and its circumscription, intimacy in immensity, stillness and the inexorable momentum of atmospheric change. Her canvases – roiling seas, brewing skies, mountains and endless plains – internalize and engage nature’s proscenium. In these captured moments, the natural world triumphs and the mirror of time stares back.
Her work may be found in the public collections of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY; Fort Worth Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; United States Embassy, Beijing, China; United States Embassy, Moscow, Russia; University Gallery, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others.