Brooklyn, New York, Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art is pleased to announce two solo shows at the gallery in April, Divine Yearning, carved wood sculptures by Sy Gresser and Druid Dreams of the Danaka: Paintings and Drawings by Alice Zinnes. Join us on Thursday, April 16th from 6 ?9 PM for a public reception with the artist at the gallery's Williamsburg location of 293 Grand Street between Roebling and Havemeyer. This will be Sy Gresser's fourth solo show at the gallery and Alice Zinnes' debut exhibition at Ch'i. The public is invited to attend this event and visit the gallery.

Alice Zinnes' oil paintings, large charcoal drawings and intimate watercolors contain the spirit of the storyteller in the guise of the abstract adventurer. Provoked to visual explosions by the great Indian epic, The Ramayana, and by Celtic mythologies - they are not illustrations or literal translations, instead they are transformations from myths to mysterious worlds where the boundaries between underworld and waking earth are traversable, terror coexists with joy, and loss must always yield to renewal. Alice Zinnes has been exhibiting her work for over 30 years, including a 25-year retrospective at The Art Center at Queens College. In addition to six solo shows in New York City, Zinnes has also had one person shows at Dartmouth and Swarthmore Colleges, and at the Simon gallery in Morristown, New Jersey. She has been reviewed in the New York Times, New York Newsday, New York Arts Magazine, Art New England, and the Queens Tribune; as well as interviewed on the NPR-affiliated radio station WJFF. Zinnes work is in many public and private collections: in New York City it is at the First Albany Corporation, Frederick Harris, Inc, Alliance Capital, Kaye Insurance, Inc.; in New Jersey it is at Schein Pharmaceuticals; and in Philadelphia it is in the collection of Wolf Block & Solis-Cohen. Alice Zinnes received her BA from Swarthmore College, a Certificate of Merit from the New York Studio School, her MFA from Queens College, CUNY, and attended the Skowhegan School on a full merit scholarship.