In Memory Eternal: The Public Memorial for Daria Deshuk

The Museum at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York (Aril 3, 2017)— The Public Memorial for Daria Deshuk will take place on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 7 p.m. at Guild Hall in East Hampton, N.Y. Daria passed away on March 9, 2017. This event is in celebration of Daria Deshuk, a talented artist and teacher, and a long term resident of Bridgehampton.

Daria’s art will be on display and neighbors, family, and members of the arts community of the East End of Long Island and New York City will share their loving stories to reflect on her life and spirit. Daria’s family and friends invite the community to share in honoring Daria’s profound impact on all she knew, her talent, wit, generosity, and her sweet gentle spirit.

Daria Deshuk was born in 1956. Growing up in Queens, her father worked driving a NYC cab. Her mother passed way when she was 7. Moving to Manhattan and studying Art at Parson's School of Design she received her BFA in Painting in 1978. Daria found herself part of the exciting art scene in the early eighties living in the East Village, receiving a MFA in Painting from Hunter College. She was a member of P.S.122 Artist Space, working and exhibiting for 10 years. Daria met the artist Larry Rivers and at the age of 22, began what would be a companionship of 15 years. Their son Sam Deshuk Rivers was born in 1985. Daria lived with Sam in NYC and The Hamptons.

Daria described her body of artistic work as "Intensity, interaction, passion and meditation, the individual references, the collective and art is created. The artist as voyeur steals selectively from the public environment of Hampton beaches and New York City streets the images that define the American experience. Far beyond the standardized interpretation of reality provided by photography, painting allows me to capture the essence of human experience. Condensed into the stolen moment, my choices as an artist extend reality by leading the eye in the re-orchestration of light, space and the pure beauty of paint itself. My work is about creating snapshots of life. My chosen imagery takes reality and the depths of the viewers understanding of these stolen moments to a level of universal and subjective intimacy. With paint and brush I strive to capture the essence and atmosphere of the ordinary and mindless vignettes of daily life represented as unique moments in space and time. Life and Art, experienced through creation connects me to love and a spiritual experience of being. My understanding of the circle of life completes itself when I create a representational painting from a photograph."
Saturday April 22, 2017 7-9pm Reflections, slide show, art exhibit, and refreshments