Power Dynamics and the Creative Process: Hunting for What’s Alive | Artist Ali Silverstein and Dominatrix Kasia Urbaniak

On November 16, Albertz Benda will host a conversation exploring the role of power dynamics in the creative process with artist Ali Silverstein and dominatrix Kasia Urbaniak within Silverstein’s current exhibition at the gallery.

Free, RSVP requested: [email protected]

About Ali Silverstein & Kasia Urbaniak

Ali Silverstein [American and British, b. 1980] studied visual art and comparative religion at Columbia University before attending the Slade School of Fine Art in London where she received her MFA in Painting.  Silverstein has been mining the world of BDSM, utilizing the power dynamics of domination and submission to guide her work. Using the act of painting to address issues of vulnerability and shame, Silverstein’s ultimate goal is ever-expanding freedom – a legitimizing of desire and a searching-out of the places that we don’t allow ourselves to go.

Kasia Urbaniak is a New York-based dominatrix who has spent the past 15 years researching power dynamics all over the world, including a study of Daoist alchemy in one of the oldest female-led monasteries in China, and has been a speaker at conferences, corporations, and academic institutions worldwide, including the Yale University school of management.  She has taught some of the world’s most powerful women how to expand their influence in all aspects of their lives.  In 2014, she opened her Academy to the public.

Albertz Benda 515 West 26th Street  New York NY 10001 212-244-2579











When: Wed., Nov. 16, 2016 at 7:00 pm

On November 16, Albertz Benda will host a conversation exploring the role of power dynamics in the creative process with artist Ali Silverstein and dominatrix Kasia Urbaniak within Silverstein’s current exhibition at the gallery.

Free, RSVP requested: [email protected]

About Ali Silverstein & Kasia Urbaniak

Ali Silverstein [American and British, b. 1980] studied visual art and comparative religion at Columbia University before attending the Slade School of Fine Art in London where she received her MFA in Painting.  Silverstein has been mining the world of BDSM, utilizing the power dynamics of domination and submission to guide her work. Using the act of painting to address issues of vulnerability and shame, Silverstein’s ultimate goal is ever-expanding freedom – a legitimizing of desire and a searching-out of the places that we don’t allow ourselves to go.

Kasia Urbaniak is a New York-based dominatrix who has spent the past 15 years researching power dynamics all over the world, including a study of Daoist alchemy in one of the oldest female-led monasteries in China, and has been a speaker at conferences, corporations, and academic institutions worldwide, including the Yale University school of management.  She has taught some of the world’s most powerful women how to expand their influence in all aspects of their lives.  In 2014, she opened her Academy to the public.

Albertz Benda 515 West 26th Street  New York NY 10001 212-244-2579

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