ARTWALK NY 2019

Monday, November 18, 2019
Spring Studios
50 Varick St, NYC
6:30 PM Silent Auction | 8:00 PM Live Auction

Presented by

Artist Honoree
Katherine Bernhardt

Philanthropic Honoree
Michael Platt

Special Guest
Debi Mazar

Auctioneer
Aileen Agopian, Agopian Inc.

Music by
Mia Moretti
Elle Dee

ARTWALK NY brings together hundreds of artists, art-lovers and other compassionate New Yorkers to celebrate the role of “artist-as-activist,” to raise awareness about the crisis of mass homelessness, and to support programs that directly help homeless men, women, and children.

Tonight, more than 62,000 New Yorkers – including 22,000 children – will sleep in homeless shelters, while thousands more bed down on the streets. The Coalition for the Homeless provides emergency food and clothing, eviction prevention, crisis services, permanent housing, job training and special programs for kids to over 3,500 people a day. Since 1981, we have given more than one million homeless New Yorkers a way off the streets.

For more information email artwalkny@cfthomeless.org.

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Katherine Bernhardt – Artist Honoree

Katherine Bernhardt is a Brooklyn based painter, currently residing in Flatbush, Brooklyn. A graduate of both The Art Institute of Chicago and The School of Visual Arts in New York, Katherine has been active in the New York art scene for over twenty years. Katherine is currently represented by CANADA in New York.

As an artist, she has explored several different themes, including super models, swatch watches, Moroccan carpets, fabric based collages, and currently, patterning every day objects, attesting to the symbols of our modern culture. Katherine uses acrylic and spray paint to make her paintings and draws subject matter from objects of daily life, like runs to the corner deli, the fruit stand, the 99 cent store, and the Caribbean-African influence of the neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn.

As of recent, Katherine has had solo shows around the world, including MATE in Peru, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and The Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis. She is currently represented by CANADA in New York, Carl Freeman in London, and Xavier Hufkens in Brussels.

Michael Platt – Philanthropic Honoree

Michael Platt, also known as Mike, is co-founder and CEO of BlueCrest Capital Management. Prior to co-founding BlueCrest in 2000, Mike had been a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan in London since February 1998 with responsibility for relative value trading. He joined J.P. Morgan in September 1991 and in April 1992 assumed responsibility for developing its swaps business and then subsequently its options trading business. In April 1996 he became head of trading for all swaps products related to the 11 founder nations of the European single currency. He holds a BSc (Hons) from the London School of Economics.

Michael has become one of the most significant supporters of the Coalition through his innovative approach to funding charitable work.