Contemporary Art: New York City: Cheryl McGinnis Gallery

Hypergraphia - Gwyneth Leech, The Cup Drawings

Press, Blogs, Videos, Reviews

Hypergraphia at the Sprint Flatiron Prow Art Space is seen by roughly 500,000 people each week. Here is a small, select sample of the articles, blogs, videos and photo blogs. We thank all of those who took the time to send us their thoughts and images. The exhibit will continue through to February 18. We will continue to add to this page.

	The New York Times “An Art Exhibit That’s Good to the Last Drop" David W. Dunlop reviews Hypergraphia at the Sprint Flatiron Prow Art Space. February 14, 2012 Click here to read more.
	The Huffington Post “Used coffee cup art in NYC." Elizabeth Seward takes a look at Hypergraphia at the Flatiron Prow Art Space. Click here to read more.
	James Panero, Supreme Fiction “A Studio Visit with Gwyneth Leech” Hypergraphia Prow Art Space New Criterion contributor, James Panero, reviews Hypergraphia for his website. Click here to read more.
	nyc-site.com “Tutta la forza dell’arte in un bicchiere” Italian travel site, nyc-site.com takes a comprehensive look at Hypergraphia. Click here to read more.
	Toni On New York! “Video” Newswoman Toni Senecal interviews curator Cheryl McGinnis and artist Gwyenth Leech about their concept, and experience in Hypergraphia at the Sprint Flatiron Prow Art Space Click here to read more.
	Haberarts: December, 2011 “Small Mercies” John Haber remembers the year that was 2011 with a look at Hypergraphia. Click here to read more.
	Psychology Today: December 2011 “Do what you Love, Money Follows: The Coffee Cup Artist” Dr. Susan Biali, M.D. Looks at Hypergraphia at the Flatiron. December 2011 Click here to read more.
	Visão Vida & Viagens: January 2012 “Um ‘mobil na esquina.” Lisbon, Portugal weekly newspaper’s travel supplement looks at Hypergraphia at the Flatiron. “Um ‘mobil na esquina.” Click here to read more.
	Hand / Eye Magazine: December 8, 2011 Hypergraphia: The Cup Drawings-Studio in the Prow Tina Seligman interviews the artist, Gwyneth Leech and curator, Cheryl McGinnis Click here to read more.
	Life Magazine: October 2011 ‎“Our Cups Runneth Artsy” Zoran Milch Life looks at Hypergraphia from inside the Flatiron Prow Art Space. Click here to read more.
	National Geographics: December 2011 ‎“An Exhibition and Reflections,” Colleen Fitzgerald The photographer submits her photo of Hypergraphia to the magazine’s photo contest. Click here to read more.
	Wall Street Journal: Friday, December 2, 2011 ‎Adding Spice in ‘NoMad’ Laura Kusisto The writer looks at the Flatiron as an area of change. Hypergraphia viewed as a welcome addition. Click here to read more.
	Wall Street Journal: Sunday, November 27, 2011 Gadgets - WSJ.com: Paper Cup Installations - Hypergraphia by Gwyneth Leech ‎(TrendHunter.com) The art installation titled Hypergraphia by Gwyneth Leech has given used paper cups a second lease on life. This time around, they serve a more artistic purpose rather than a solely practical one." Click here to read more.
	PSFK Artist Spends Hours in Store Window Drawing on Coffee Cups By Liz Walsh November 1, 2011 "The simplicity of this project and its message–that everyday objects have multiple uses, and should be repurposed–creates a playful and lively yet calming center for one of the city’s busier atmospheres. Amidst all the traffic, passersby have the opportunity to experience a thought-provoking artistic intervention." Click here to read more.

Word Salad and Social Media
Lessons form Social Media

Nick Martin
November 2, 2011

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Real Estate Arts

Meet Artist Gwyneth Leech
November 4, 2011

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Arts Observer

For Artist Gwyneth Leech, Coffee Cups Are the Perfect Medium
Arts Observer
October 16, 2011

The Soho

Art by the Cupful
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

"One of my favorite things about walking around in New York is happening upon unexpected and unusual loveliness, and that's just what I got as I passed the Flatiron Building the other night. The glassed-in artspace there is currently housing an installation called Hypergraphia. It's paper cups covered in beautiful drawings, strung from the ceiling, just waiting to be admired from the street. The work is by artist Gwyneth Leech who creates a unique and intricate design on every cup. It's really some of the happiest, most approachable artwork I've ever come across."

Green Diary

Art from Office Waste
Radchika S. Saxena
November 14, 2011

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Haber Arts

3.18.11 - "Color as Obsession" by Jon Haber

"Many shows begin with a studio visit, in that moment when a dealer says, I want that in my gallery. With Gwyneth Leech, however, that was not just her work. It includes her colors, her studio detritus, her habits, her obsessions, and for that matter the artist. In the process, however, all of them have changed. They have become an installation."

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Joanne Mattera

3.23.2011 - "Arrangement in Gray and Cups", by Joanne Mattera

Hypergraphia is right. Designs flow out of the artist’s pen like the house blend out of a deli spigot at breakfast. Leech is prolific. The results suggest Italian pottery, Greek vases, paisley prints, tattoos, cuneiform script and more—a range of contemporary abstraction. And, if I may say so, the installation is really fun. It’s interactive in that people on the street stop to look at the cascade of cups, then spying Leech in the corner, painting, call their friends over to come and look. “She musta drunk $900 worth of coffee,” said one hip-hop homie to another (I’m guessing more), as they paused to take in the range of graphic expression. But others are drawn in by the artist drawing. Those of us “in the life” forget just how fascinating it is to watch someone make something out nothing, or in this instance, a white paper cup.

Pennsylvania Gazette

July/August 2011 - Profile by Molly Petrilla

"Inside her 13th-floor studio in the heart of the Fashion District, Leech shows me some of her favorite cups. They’re as diverse as you might imagine: cityscapes based on her soaring studio view; vines and other mesmerizing plantlike patterns; abstract shapes and designs of all sorts; a bright springtime landscape from her sister’s place in upstate New York. “For whatever reason, [the cups] are a useful form for me,” she says. “Shakespeare wrote sonnets. Bach wrote fugues. I draw on used paper coffee cups.”

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Hand / Eye Magazine

Full Brew & View
By Sarah Buttenwieser | July 22, 2010

"As you speak with Leech and get to know her work, you realize Full Brew encapsulates the essence not of all her work but of how she approaches art-making—and her life as artist, mother, daughter, New Yorker, friend, sister. A few things matter most up front. They don’t compete. They all coexist. Leech cares about the place where she lives, the people in it, the landscape, and the way she sees and responds to all of it. Her work—including short videos about artists and dancers she’s gotten to know, paintings of diverse families, images of familiar landscapes viewed from different vantage points, photographs of playgrounds and parks—weaves together her world and her intimate, seamless responses"