Give It To Me Good: Cristina BanBan, Keiran Brennan Hinton, Coady Brown and Anthony Cudahy

Exhibition Opening
Sunday, November 17 @ 6 - 8pm
Owner/ Director Quang Bao 50th Birthday Party
Cava + Cake

Exhibition Dates: November 17- December 22, 2019

For sales inquiries, please contact:
Madeline Ehrlich 
madeline@1969gallery.com


When I was twelve years old, I wanted to be 50. I admired my uncles. They told funny stories, dressed nice, danced well, drank a lot, and loved women. I like to think I inherited four out of their five charms. 

I don’t know how I feel about reaching the half-century mark; I only know I don’t know is not a feeling. I spent time thinking about how to mark this special occasion— every gay deserves his 50th— and found the answer in front of me. 

1969 Gallery marks the 50th birthday of owner/director Quang Bao with Give It To Me Good, a group exhibition of paintings and works on paper by 1969’s roster of represented artists— Cristina BanBan, Keiran Brennan Hinton, Coady Brown, and Anthony Cudahy. 

“The exhibition title cuts both ways,” Bao said. “Asking my four artists to make A+ paintings prompted by my rite of passage is asking them to show how much they love and appreciate me. Rarely can a person pass such a test but I love these four artists and their new works, altogether on the walls of the Gallery to make the exhibit into an occasion."

Cristina BanBan, Buenaventura, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 71 x 59 inches

I Love You, But I Will Always Leave
Curated by Lynn S. Battaglia

Participating artists: Van Hanos, Elizabeth Glaessner, Azikiwe Mohammed, Jeannine Han,
Jason Mones, Brooke Werhane Maples, Andy Cross and Sarah Alice Moran

Exhibition Opening:
Sunday, November 17 @ 6 - 8pm

Exhibition Dates: November 17- December 22, 2019

For sales inquiries, please contact:
Madeline Ehrlich 
madeline@1969gallery.com

This exhibition is a visit. Revisiting the city that has influenced and shaped her understanding of art - a homage to artists that have become friends, people she admires. For this exhibition Lynn S. Battaglia invited eight of her favorite New York artists to come together in a space on the Lower East Side.

This exhibition is her love letter to this city whose community of artists is ever so present and which influenced and continues to influence artistic practices like no other. The city and it’s artists are in constant flux: Were were all there in this same city at this one time and we all keep on moving away from it and are drawn back by it. For a short moment in time, it will all line up like we are all meant to be:

I love you, but I will always leave.

Lynn S. Battaglia is a Swiss curator, currently living and working in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
She is co-founder and curator of the inclusive feminist movement ‘She Performs’. She has worked
in galleries around the world and curated several exhibitions internationally.