On
January 16, 2009, friends, art lovers and members
filled the legendary National Arts Club in New York for the opening
of abstract artist Rosalyn A. Engelman's Soul Memories. The
exhibition, on display through February 13th, brings new works as well
as canvases lent by local collectors together for the first time. In
the crowd were the artist's husband Irwin Engelman; The Bruce
Museum Circle's Michel Cox Witmer; Museum of Arts and Design
president Lewis Kruger and his wife Hebrew Union College Museum curator
Laura Kruger; Baruch College's president Kathleen Waldron and
Deans John Elliot and Jeffrey Peck; Wally Findlay Galleries' Patricia
Attoe; I-20 Gallery's Alice Judelson; De Lorenzo Gallery's
Sarah Hill; interior designers Geoffrey Bradfield, Harry Heissmann,
Tom Cashin, Robert Lindgren and Roric Tobin; artists Colette, Tina
Louise, Marcia Raff and Michelle Marie; Lord Colin Campbell; Renee
Landegger and Carl Landegger; Gillian Miniter and Sylvester Miniter;
Lauren Thierry Watkins; Swifty's executive chef Stephen Attoe;
Sharon Bush; R. Couri Hay; Michèle Gerber Klein; , John Wegorzewski
and fashion designers Maggie Norris and Kelvin Nugroho.
Others at the event were artnet's Brian McConville, art writer
Edward Rubin, The Wall Street Journal's Carol Kelly, The Forward's
Masha and Karen Leon, Dr. Dino Rivero, High Voltage Mimi Strong, Jon
and Hudson Heinemann, Roy Kean, Amy Rosi, Peter Rosenthal, Antoinette
Quarshie, Dennis Karr, Iris Rossi, Nat and Joan Hirsch, Jason Ashlock,
Michelle Gallagher, Christopher Hawkins, Christine Schott, Stanislav
Sokolov, Blaine Caravaggi, Jim Ferentino, Dr. Laura Philips, John Paterakis,
Lee Fryd, Dr. John de Guzman, Marcy MacDonald, Thomas Knapp, Mogulette's Carmina
Perez, Shane Parouse, Katya Debear, Sylvia and Edward Agostini, Laurel
Wilson, Peter Poley, Irene and Sy Cohen, Dr. Maurice Kuntz, Marilyn
Newman, Dr. Jajou, Marcia and John Shyer and members of the artist's
family including Madeline and Scott Cohen (CEO of Dime Store Media)
and Dr. Fred, Elana and Nathan Lado.
