Alianza Dominicana Is Spamming Me With Details Of The Oscar Abreu Reception (En Ingles Y Espanol Tambien)
Minerva Guerreo of Alianza Dominicana has sent me 9 (now 12) unsolicited emails in the past two days about the August 11th special reception of Oscar Abreu's 'detachment of the ego' at the Alianza Art Gallery. If I get one more email about this I will be creating my own piece of "psycho-expressionism" whereby I detach Minerva's ego, and superego, and id.*
Minvera, whose address is mguerrero@alianzadom.org, emailed me yesterday the same August 7th press release to three separate email accounts. I don't know how she aquired one, let alone three, of my email addresses.
Two of the accounts I received the press release through I don't even log into anymore (they forward to another account), and none of them were the Harlem Fur account. If one of the accounts the press release was sent to was for Harlem Fur, I would have been more welcoming of the news. Customized wedding gown designer Cassandra Bromfield asked a while back if I would post about an upcoming bridal expo in Harlem, and I was more than happy to do so.
So last night I emailed Minerva from the email addresses the press release was sent to and asked to be removed from the list. I also let her know that not having an opt-out feature at the bottom is probably a violation of the Can Spam Act. I thought, 'well, that takes care of that.'
Today I received six more emails about the same event, once again to all three accounts. The first email was a general save the date email, and the second was the August 7th press release in Spanish with an August 8th date on it. Apparently it takes the Alianza Dominicana 24 hours to translate a page.
Anyway, as long as I have the event information, here it is:
detachment of the ego
Oscar Abreu
Friday, August 11, 2006,
6:30 to 9:00 in the evening
A L I A N Z A A R T G A L L E R Y
2410 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10033
RSVP: 212.740.1960 Ext 427
If you go and there is a guest registry, I suggest not providing a valid email address.
And, as long as I have the press release, there are excerpts after the jump in both English and Spanish.
*This is a joke using Oscar Abreu's self described style from the press release, which he calls "psycho-expressionism," and the name of the exhibit, "detachment of the ego." No matter now many emails I receive from Minerva, or anyone else, I would not cause, nor threaten to cause, harm to anyone.
Ingles
Alianza’s Art Gallery is proud to present the recent works of talented painter Oscar Abreu. The exhibit "detachment of the ego" will be presented at the gallery space of Alianza Dominicana.
The exhibit will be open to the public on Friday August 11, 2006 at six thirty in the evening, where there will be an opening reception. The exhibit will remain available to the public through August 20th. Moreover, this exhibition will be presented as well from September 8th through October 12th, 2006 at the Marwen Foundation in Chicago.
This is Abreu's 14th solo exhibit. Abreu has received wide critical acclaim in numerous shows in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Chicago. According to Dominican art critics, Abreu is considered the most important artist of his generation in the Dominican Republic.
Abreu began developing his highly distinctive style, which he calls "psycho-expressionism," 1994 while he was still studying in Chicago Illinois at the Marwen Foundation and expanded his studies by attending to the School of the Art Institute's Saturday program for talented students.
Spanish
Alianza Art Gallery se enorgullece en presentar la más reciente propuesta de Oscar Abreu con la exhibición titulada "detachment of the ego" en español “desprendimiento del ego,� la apertura de la muestra está pautada para este viernes, 11 de agosto a partir de la 6:30 de la noche en el espacio de exposiciones temporales de Alianza Art Gallery y permanecerá abierta al público hasta el 20 de Agosto.
Esta muestra consta de una sobria colección de pinturas, donde el artista manifiesta su vÃnculo con el humanismo más latente de nuestro tiempo y una antologÃa de los fenómenos emocionales que sustentan la naturaleza humana y el papel que juega la memoria en nuestra personalidad., mediante la configuración de un discurso plástico impregnado de un fuerte componente del expresionismo abstracto.
Abreu ha recibido el reconocimiento de la crÃtica por numerosas exposiciones presentadas en República Dominicana, Puerto Rico, Chicago, y new York, definiendo su posición como uno de los artistas más importantes de su generación.
Su más reciente exposición fue presentada el pasado Septiembre del 2005 en la galerÃa Prinardi en Puerto Rico y fue aclamada como un éxito total por la crÃtica especializada.
