Incredibly Versatile Woman Receives Award!!!!!!!

I recently gave the SL 6 Gold Star Award to a person who preferred to remain anonymous.

Y received her award for being an incredibly versatile woman. Y is a very kind and special person who has done many things throughout her life.

The list is long…….

She’s a mother, wife, wonderful quilt maker, gardening enthusiast, nature lover, excellent cook, and good athlete.

Y grows vegetables and flowers, built a stonewall, watches birds, sings in the church choir, helped me with my new media ideas, studies a foreign language and can have an intelligent conversation about cement.

In her family owned business she worked as an accountant, salesperson and assembled heavy equipment. She also worked as a language teacher and coach. Y’s now retired, enjoying her free time.

Derek Stroup Award Ceremony

Making of Derek Stroup's Award

****** DEREK STROUP'S ART WINS SL 6 GOLD STAR AWARD ******

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OPENING FRIDAY, 11/16/07

Dear Friends, Acquaintances and Colleagues,

******I am happy to announce DEREK STROUP has just received the STEVE LEHMAN 6 GOLD STAR AWARD for doing EXTREMELY COOL ART and liking my 6 GOLD STAR AWARD idea. He is the one who suggested I keep giving out the awards.

I met Derek this summer at a reunion. We are "laoxiang" (this is a Chinese expression that means coming from the same place....). It's interesting for me because we are both visual artists and grew up within a mile of one another in CT. I'm several years older so we didn't know each other when we were younger but we have several things in common.

Please come to the opening reception of Derek Stroup's new work EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY at A. M. Richard Fine Art. The space is a cool apartment gallery in a Brooklyn neighborhood.

DEREK STROUP
EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY
Installation and Works on Paper

On View November 16th-December 16th, 2007
Opening reception
Friday November 16th, 2007, 6-9pm

Gallery Hours: Weekends, 1-6pm
Weekdays by appointment
Tel: (917) 570-1476 e-mail: gallery@amrichardfineart.com
www.amrichardfineart.com

A.M. RICHARD FINE ART
328 Berry Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11211

For a sampling of his art, please check out his websites www.derekstroup.com
www.ropeswingmanifesto.com.

PRESS RELEASE

For immediate release:

A.M. Richard Fine Art is pleased to announce:
EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY a site-specific installation by DEREK STROUP.
November 16th 2007-December 16th, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday November 16th -6-9pm
Gallery Hours: weekdays by appointment • weekends 1-6 pm
Gallery Contact: A.M. Richard (917) 570-1476 or gallery@amrichardfineart.com

EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY, is a large scale installation by conceptual artist
Derek Stroup. The installation will occupy the main space of the gallery and
continue into an adjoining room. An exhibition of small works on paper - also by
Mr. Stroup - each measuring 6” x 9”, numbering 60, entitled, Unrented Billboards,
will be presented in the project space of the gallery. This is the first time they are
publicly exhibited.

DEREK STROUP is an artist presently consumed with investigating the experience
of language, the communication of information, and the visual perception of
the common conduit of intelligible data.

The sculpture, EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY, is conceived on a monumental scale.
Each letter, approximately 24 inches in height, is cut from plywood, painted red
and subsequently hinged with wire to the next letter forming the word of the
sentence. Completed the sentence measures 18 feet long. Each letter is hinged
to gently move. The sentence, visible from all angles is akin to a roller coaster
configuration. Words snake, hang and sprout from the confinement and
restriction of the gallery space. The experience of reading, traditionally a passive
moment in time, is challenged by the architecture of the installation. Ultimately,
the artist is asking the spectator to be physically engaged with the act of
consuming information. He is deconstructing language for the viewer to better
experience its codified significance.

EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY, is one from a series of sculptures the artist has been
working on since 2006. Mr. Stroup is the author of Field Guide (2002), Rope Swing
Manifesto (2004) and Candy (2006). A selection of Mr. Stroup’s books will be
available at the gallery. Mr. Stroup’s books are also available at Printed Matter,
Inc. (195 Tenth Avenue New York, NY 10011). The online version of Rope Swing
Manifesto can be viewed at www.ropeswingmanifesto.com.

This is Mr. Stroup’s first solo exhibition at the A.M. Richard gallery.