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OUTINGS
Stories Told In Neckties and Paint

Carl MacGowan

September 15, 2002

WHAT: "Mnemonic: a 9/11 Memorial Exhibition," at Atrium Gallery, Long Island City.

WHY: When Manhattan artist Elizabeth Riley was collecting neckties last year for an installation she was planning, a colleague's husband sent an e-mail explaining the origins of the ties he donated. The message was dated Sept. 9, 2001. Two days later, the man died on American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon.

Riley's collage, including a copy of the e-mail, is part of an exhibit designed to help people remember something that is impossible to forget. Artists from across the country and around the world submitted photographs, paintings, drawings and other works, which are displayed as digital prints.

Curator Louise Weinberg said the creations can elicit emotional responses. "The works became more and more personal as the deadline drew nearer, making this show powerful and beautiful," she said.

Naomee Guest of Somers, N.Y., whose mixed media work "Once Upon a September Day" is in the exhibit, expressed her feelings in shades of gray. "The corrugated buildings, the three-dimensional American flag and all of my released emotions are wrapped with bits and pieces of folded veiling," she said.

Roxana Alger Geffen of Long Island City, whose father died in the World Trade Center, submitted a painting of his funeral. "I have spent the last year sorting out my private griefs, but also thinking about the experiences I have shared with others: my family, New Yorkers, Americans," she said.

WHEN AND WHERE: Through Nov. 11, at the Atrium Gallery, LaGuardia Community College, 31-10 Thomson Ave., Long Island City.

HOW MUCH: Free. All prints are available for $50; proceeds will be donated to the New York Times' 9/11 Neediest Cases Fund.

GETTING THERE: Take the No. 7 train to 33rd Street and walk two blocks west to the college.

MORE QUESTIONS: www.licweb.com/mnemonic.

Copyright © 2002, Newsday, Inc.



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