Saturday night Nicole Fiacco held a double celebration at her eponymous gallery: the inauguration of her soaring new space at 336 Warren Street and an artist's reception for Karen Halverson, a photographer whose work is in the collections of the Getty and Smithsonian, among other museums. Art-scene cognoscenti, friends of Karen, friends of Nicole, and seeming scores of Fiaccos turned out to see Halverson's landscapes of an eerily sullied American west. Adding to the pervasive sense of good will was the presence of actor Steve Gilborn, Halverson's husband, on the mend from recent surgery.
Actor Steve Gilborn, Cindy Puccio, Karen Halverson, and sculptor Linda Horn
Photographer Jeff Brouws and Erin Faltin; artist Laetitia Hussain and community activist Sam Pratt
Photographer Lynn Davis, her husband writer Rudy Wurlitzer, with Time and Space Limited's Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce
Photographer Paul Lange and Jennifer Lange; Tom Swope and Kory Fretto
Painter/photographer Mona Mark, Karen Halverson, and architect Ben Puccio; Carolyn Lawrence and Karen Nicholson
Paula Superti, Roscoe, and Nicole Fiacco; Peggy Lampman and Ian Nitschke
Artists Holly Hughes and Nancy Van Deren; Tom Froesa and Leonardo Sieri
Sisters Nicole, Jamie and Sara Fiacco
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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