NYC Images At Track 16 Gallery

RAWA Holds Benefit There Tonight

   Gilles Peress, Alice Rose George and Charles Traub assembled “Here Is New York: Images from the Frontline of History: A Democracy of Photographs” by inviting anyone – amateur or professional – who had images connected to the World Trade Center disaster to submit them for an exhibition in Soho.
   “Here Is New York” has traveled from downtown New York to Santa Monica and is now at Track 16 Gallery in Bergamot Station.
   Emulating the spirit of that exhibition, Track 16 Gallery is inviting the Los Angeles community “to bring images that will be included on a wall titled ‘L.A, Responds,’ in keeping with ‘Here Is New York’s’ democratic and populist nature, which we feel is not only appropriate to what has happened but intrinsic to its understanding. We are setting only the following limitation on submissions, all pictures must relate to the events of 9/11/2001, in the broadest and yet most intimate sense.”
   Simultaneously showing at Track 16 are three other exhibitions: “View With a Grain of Sand: Images of RAWA’s Projects in the Lives of Afghan Refugeed;” “Overflowing,” Lids Abdullah, Gita Khashabi and Amitis Motevalli,” and “When Two Bulls Fight, The Leg of the Calf Is Broken,” an instsllation by Fazal Sheikh.
   The exhibitions will run through December 8.
   Tonight at 7 p.m. Track 16, RAWA and the Afghan Women’s Mission will present “the algebra of infinite injustice,” an evening of art, music and words, to raise money to reopen its Malalai Hospital. The suggested donation is $100.
   RAWA was formed in Kabul in 1977 as a means of promoting women’s rights through non-violent action. Since then, it has evolved and now runs schools, orphanages, mobile health care units, self-help and adult literacy classes. It also provides emergency relief in refugee camps.