Master Minds, which debuts on Thursday, April 15. A MasterMind is a brilliant thinker with original ideas, explained Andrea McCafferty and Kat O Neill, The White Room Gallery Co-owners. Joe Stefanelli and Sasson Soffer are two world renowned artists who not only live up to that description but who have also shared a connection to East Hampton through Joe s studio paintings and Sasson s sculpture park.
The duo continued, Joe, originally from Philadelphia, was part of the New York School of abstract expressionists showing with Pollack and de Kooning. Sasson, originally from Baghdad, came to NY to study with sculptor Jose de Rivera and painter Mark Rothko. Sasson lived to 84, Joe to 96.