Congratulations to gallery artist
Philemona Williamson, a 2022 winner among the following
recipients of the Anonymous Was a Woman grants.
The grantees include Dr. Micha Cárdenas, 45,
California–Installation/Sculpture/AR, Syd Carpenter, 69,
Pennsylvania–Sculpture, Yreina D. Cervántez, 69, California–
Painting/Drawing, Murals, Donna Conlon, 56,
Panama–Interdisciplinary, Abigail DeVille, 41, New
Jersey-Installation/Sculpture, Painting, Set Design; Leslie Hewitt,
45, New York–Photography/Sculpture, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, 50,
Puerto Rico–Film/Video (moving Image), Mary Lovelace O’Neal, 80,
California-Painting/Mixed Media, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 82,
New Mexico–Painting/Printmaking, Wendy Red Star, 41,
Oregon–Photography, Painting/Drawing, Mira Schor, 72, New
York–Painting; Coreen Simpson, 80, New York – Photography/Design,
Ka-Man-Tse, 41, New York–Photography/Design, and Shirley
Woodson, 86, Michigan-Painting.
October 2022, gallery artist Su
Kwak's "Sky Pass," 2007, watercolor on cut papers mounted on canvas,
24 x 30 inches, is gifted from the private collection of the founders of
the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the late Wilhelmina Cole
Holladay and Wallace F. Holladay, to the Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, DC.
Gallery artist Bruce Dorfman
is included with two works in this ground-breaking group exhibition,
Tensile Strength that displays a selection of works from the
Kemper's Museum Permanent Collection. This exhibition arrives at a
moment of deep social tension and infrastructural adversity in the
United States. Tensile Strength marks our current state of
fragility by focusing on the impermanent but lasting materials within
our everyday lives. These materials, which often serve as apt
representations of our lived experiences, wear and break under duress,
but nonetheless persist through steady care, collection, and
reinvention.
Tensile Strength is curated by Krista Alba. It opened November 4,
2022 and closes February 12, 2023.
ARRIVING AT BYRDCLIFFE,
WOODSTOCK, NY
October 8 – November 20, 2022
Co-curators,Henry T. Ford and Bruce Weber
An exhibition on the great history, nature, and legacy of the Byrdcliffe
arts and craft colony, Arriving At Byrdcliffe will highlight the
presence,activities and fascinating lives of many of the key residents,
visitors,students and builders of Byrdcliffe over the course of more
than a hundred years. The title, Arriving At Byrdcliffe,
has a double meaning – both“physically arriving,” and “artistically
arriving.” Among selected artists, Bruce Dorfman, Bob Dylan,
Philip Guston, Herman Cherry and Milton Avery. Dorfman and Dylan.as
close friends were frequently working together in Dorfman’s studio.
Dorfman’s large work Cameo, an early mixed-media,
transitional work, created in 1969, was selected for this exhibition.
Gallery artist John L. Moore is
included in the group exhibition, Given Time, curated by Molly
Sullivan, at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation. The
exhibition is on view from September 8, 2022- February 25,2023. A
catalogue accompanies the show. The foundation is located at 87
Eldridge Street, New York.
On June 6, Case Western Reserve
University purchased two paintings by gallery artist John L. Moore,
(Blue and Orange, 2008,oil on canvas, 80x67 inches and River,
Red, 2003, oil on canvas, 80x67 inches) for their permanent
collection. See one of the images
here.
Listen With Your Eyes, the
well-spotlighted painting by the late Moe Brooker will be loaned
for inclusion in the upcoming three-year exhibition at the U.S. Embassy
residence in Ottawa, Canada. Philadelphian David L. Cohen, the U.
S. Ambassador to Canada, who is well acquainted with the work of Mr.
Brooker, desired to include his work among works of artists from his
home state region for the embassy residence exhibition. The Art in
Embassies program was founded in 1963 with the mission of creating
exhibitions of original art by U.S. artists for display in the public
rooms of U.S. diplomatic residences worldwide. The residences
serve as centers for official state functions, and each exhibition
becomes a part of the ambassador’s cultural mission. See image
here.
Gallery artists John L. Moore
and Elizabeth Catlett are included in the Polonsky exhibition
"Treasures of The New York Public Library," that showcases some of the
most extraordinary items from the 6 million in their collection.
The treasures in this exhibition tell the stories of people, places and
moments spanning 4,000 years—from the emergence of the written word
through to the present day. John L. Moore’s image is titled
Liberty and Justice, 1986, diptych, mixed media on canvas, 29 x 26
inches. See image
here.
Elizabeth Catlett’s image is titled Political Prisoner,
1971, polychromed cedar, 71.25 x 36 x 15 inches. See image
here.
Gallery artist Claudia DeMonte
is included in the Yale University Museum of Art exhibition, curated
by John Stuart Gordon of the American Decorative Arts Department.
The image is an ink on paper, 1995, 11 x 14 inches, designed for a
dinner plate, Lemon Pattern. See image
here.
On June 14, gallery artist Sana
Musasama was featured in the New York Times Style Magazine, "On
Artists to Watch, and Maybe Even Collect." The writer Noor Brara
asked 16 established names from all over the world about a young or
under-appreciated artist whose work resonated with them to suggest a
fellow talent they feel should be better known. The artist Nari
Ward suggested Sana an amazing colleague of his at Hunter College who
has been doing great and exciting work for years. He spoke about
why her talent deserve more attention than they’re getting. Nari
says, "I love her regard for clay." Her work is connected to
social justice--it's what's driving her vision. Sana's interest in
the world is global.
On Saturday, December 4, a
stunning evening of music and the visual arts will be presented by the
Frost Symphony Orchestra (Miami) under the renowned conductor Gerard
Schwartz. The concert is co-presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center
and the Lowe Art Museum.
Composed in 1874 and orchestrated
by Maurice Ravel in 1922, Pictures at an Exhibition was inspired by a
posthumous show of more than 400 paintings and drawings by Modest
Mussorgsky’s close friend, architect and artist Viktor Hartmann, who
died in 1873.
In this current dynamic
presentation, each of the work’s ten movements and five “promenades”
will be paired with projected commissioned images created by leading
contemporary artists, among them gallery artist, Claudia DeMonte,
Ed McGowin, Michele Oka Donor, Arthur Simms and Maria Magdalena
Compos-Pons. See
image
here.
On September 11, gallery artist
Charles Martin was interviewed and a group of his photographs were
shown in the digital magazine Parêntese that is edited by Professor Luis
Augusto Fischer of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto
Alegre, Brazil. The discussion included literature, photography, culture
in general and education. See image
here.
On July 7, The Kemper Museum of
Contemporary Art acquired three large works of gallery artist Bruce
Dorfman for their permanent collection. See one of the
images here.
Gallery artist Julio Valdez
is included in the invitational exhibition Inside Outside, Upside
Down, organized by The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
This ground-breaking show is part of the museum's centennial exhibition,
Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century that
builds on the legacy of founder Duncan Phillips and his commitment to
presenting acquiring and promoting the work of artist of the DC region.
This exhibition features dynamic works across media by 64 local artists
that makes vivid the turmoil, strength and resiliency of the human
spirit in the face of the past year's global covid-19 pandemic and
social upheaval. The exhibition closes September 12, 2021. See image
here.
On July 10, exhibition curator Tom
Wolf will interview gallery artist, Bruce Dorfman and Mary Frank
who are featured in the current show honoring the 100th anniversary of
the Woodstock Art Association & Museum. Bruce Dorfman lived in
Byrdcliff'e while making his art in the 1960's. Mary Frank came
from a Woodstock family and has been active there since the 1970's.
The artists will reminisce about their years living as artists in
Woodstock and will discuss their works that are currently on view in the
Centennial exhibition at the Woodstock Art Association & Museum.
New Yorkers, the
captivating book by Sally Davies, author and photographer brings
together over seventy intimate portraits of people in their apartments,
lofts and studios who deem New York is the only place to live. and who
have no desire to leave. Gallery artist Claudia DeMonte,
known for her mixed media exploration of “contemporary women roles” and
Ed McGowin, sculptor and mixed media painter are featured in the book.
Davies reveals the eccentricity, creativity, diversity and humanity at
the heart of this great city. As Frank Sinatra said, New York, New
York, is a helluva town. See image
here.
An innovative art concept
featuring the works from renowned collector and philanthropist Agnes
Gund will debut on April 13, 2021. The art card game will feature
works draw from a wide range of artists, from world famous (Jasper
Johns, Romare Bearden, Picasso, Warhol, Louise Bourgeois to new stars
(Sarah Sze, Nick Cave, Cecily Brown, Teresita Fernandez). Over
half are made by women artists, including gallery artist Claudia
DeMonte and a third by artists of color. It’s a beautiful game
to play with family and friends, challenging their imagination and art
savviness. In the words of Agnes Gund, art is a right, not a
privilege.” See Image
here.
Points of Contact is set to
be a landmark exhibition that will re-contextualize gallery artist
Elizabeth Catlett’s work in relation to contemporary art. The
exhibition will present sculptures, key prints and ephemera by Catlett,
which will be shown in dialog with contemporary art by both African
American and Mexican artists. The representation of artists of
Mexican origin will pay homage to the 66 years Catlett lived in and
worked in Mexico, a move that was integral to the development of
Catlett’s political ideology and visual practice. The exhibition
will open October 2021 and run through January 2022 at the Walter O.
Evans Center for African American Studies at The Savannah College of Art
and Design, Atlanta, GA.
Gallery artist James Little
is included in the upcoming exhibition The Dirty South: Contemporary
Art, Material Culture and e Sonic Impulse, organized by the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. This ground-breaking exhibition
opens May 2 and closes September 6. It is curated by Valerie
Cassel Oliver, VMFA’s Sidney and Francess Lewis Family Curator of Modern
and Contemporary Art and will travel to the Crystal Bridges Museum of
American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The exhibition investigates
the impulses of early 20th-century Black Culture. Cassel Oliver is
also the editor of the illustrated catalogue, which will function as an
essential reader on Black material and sonic culture and demonstrate its
impact on contemporary art from the 1950s to the present. It will
also feature an anthology of critical essays by scholars such as Fred
Moten, Anthony Pinn, Regina Bradley, Rhea Combs, and Guthrie Ramsey.
The illustrated catalogue will document works in the exhibition as well
as artists’ biographies and a chronology of iconic moments that have
shaped the Black presence in the South.
On January 13, 2021, the Baltimore
Museum of Art purchased Fantasy for a January Day, 1971, acrylic on
canvas, 50 x 56 inches by artist Kay WalkingStick for their permanent
collection. See image
here.
On November 2, 2020, the
Muscarelle Museum of Art/William and Mary purchased Winter Sun, 2017,
oil on wood panel, 30 x 60 inches by gallery artist Kay WalkingStick
for their permanent collection. See image
here.
On November 13- 15, Where I
Have To Go, had its world (virtual) premiere at the Big Apple Film
Festival in New York. It is a portrait of gallery artist Stan
Brodsky working until the age of 94. His daughter, the
filmmaker Alexandra Brodsky captures a formidable example of an artist
committed to his work regardless of accolades or disappointments.
'The film explores his life, his personal joys and tragedies transformed
and made into art influenced by him over the years.” Brodsky, a
master abstract expressionist, studied photojournalism and fine art
before receiving a doctorate in art education from Columbia University
in 1959. Most of his teaching years were spent at Long Island
University’s C.W. Post Campus in Brookville, and a collection of his
notes and sketches from 1951 to 2004 can be found at the Smithsonian
Institution.
On September 29, 2020, the
Krannert Art Museum/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign purchased
Loss, 1989, acrylic and saponified wax on canvas (left) and oil on
canvas (right), 36 x 72 inches by gallery artist Kay WalkingStick
for their permanent collection. See image
here.
On September
17, 2020, the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts purchased JuJu Boogie- Woogie, 2012, oil and
wax on canvas, 72.50 x 95.50 inches by gallery artist James Little
for their permanent collection. See image
here.
Lubaya’s Quiet Roar, a
children’s book debuts October 6 with paintings by gallery artist
Philemona Williamson and authored by Newberry Honor winner Marilyn
Nelson. Williamson uses the power of color to rouse the psyche in
contemplation of her narratives. Her lush palette intensifies the
interaction of figures caught in an uncertain struggle. Williamson
passionately explores the innocence and wonder of pubescent youth and
how the magic of art made a difference in the way she viewed herself in
her community and the world. See image
here.
Gallery artist Claudia DeMonte
is included in the exhibition Excerpts that brings together
artworks from all the different collections held at the Marjorie Barrick
Museum of Art, including the internationally renowned Dorothy and
Herbert Vogel Collection and works originally collected by the Las Vegas
Art Museum. This is the first time a single major exhibition will
feature works from every area of the Barrick in dialogue with one
another. The exhibition opens August 17 to December 18, 2020.
Excerpts is a glimpse into the profound potential of public art
collections, a curation that aims to provide the city with a context for
the art we are making today and the art we will make in the future.
On July 21, gallery artist
Bruce Dorfman was interviewed by archivist Marie Penny for the
Norton Museum of Art, FL, oral history project describing his tenure as
their school’s Guest Artist in Residence, 1962–64.
On June 8, the life and art of
gallery artist Carmen Cicero was featured in the film,
Eternity’s Sunrise that was accepted as part of this year’s Fine
Arts Film Festival.
The festival is curated and hosted by The Venice Institute of
Contemporary Art. The filmmaker is Codi Barbini. The festival is
dedicated to presenting the finest new films about art in the western
capital of the art world – and now globally – to highlight the world art
community. The films — narratives, documentaries, experimental,
and hybrid genres — tell stories about how art is made, how artists
survive, how they think and work, and what makes creativity our most
important skill, and our best hope for humankind.
On April 23, gallery artist Kay
WalkingStick was elected to membership in the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences which is located in Cambridge, MA. The
Academy was founded in 1780, and is one of the oldest learned societies
in the United States. The Academy members are world leaders in the
arts and sciences, business, philanthropy, and public affairs.
They are based across the United States and around the world.
These
elected members join with other experts to explore challenges facing
society, identify solutions, and promote nonpartisan recommendations
that advance the public good.
On April 2, the Brauer Museum of
Art at Valparaiso University in Indiana acquired Cosmic Light #40,
2015, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches by gallery artist Su Kwak
for their permanent collection. See image
here.
On Friday, March 20, gallery
artist James Little was featured in The New York Times
column, "Show Us Your Wall,” by Hilarie Sheets. The article
appeared on page C9. As Little says, “coming from a very
segregated background in Tennessee, I felt that abstraction reflected
the best expression of self-determination and free will. I have an
affinity for design, structure and optimism. These qualities apply
to both the paintings I collects and my own works, which are
characterized by hard-edged geometry and shifting colors, with
compositions strongly informed by jazz.”
On April 2, 2020, gallery artist
Kay WalkingStick will be honored at the New York Foundation for
the Arts Hall of Fame Benefit. The New York Foundation for the
Arts recognizes visual, literary and performing artists who have had a
profound impact on the arts through their creative work and patrons of
the arts who have championed the value of the arts in the world around
us. Past New York Foundation Hall of Fame inductees include Ida Applebroog, Sanford Biggers, Lynn Nottage, Carolee Schneemann, Anna
Deavere Smith, Andres Serrano, and Min Jin Lee.
The painting Wapanoag Coast
Var. II by gallery artist Kay WalkingStick will be on display
for the next two years in the U.S. Embassy in Ankara during Ambassador
David Satterfield’s tenure. The painting is a tribute to three
early tribes who inhabited this seacoast – the Wapanoag, the
Narragansett and the Pequot. It was their Heart-Land. It
serves as a reminder of who first lived here but also how sacred this
land remains. The image can be seen
here.
On November 25, 2019, the Williams
College Museum of Art purchased Sun Dance, 1983, acrylic and wax over
double-layered canvas, 36 x 36 inches by gallery artist Kay WalkingStick
for their permanent collection. See image
here.
On
October 21, 2019, Jill Krementz’s Photo Journal covered the opening of
the “new” MoMA.
“Chuck Martin
is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer whose work has been exhibited
at SoHo’s June Kelly Gallery. Mr. Martin, also a professor of literature
at Queens College, studied many years ago with Bill Zinsser, revered by
us both.”
Elizabeth Catlett Sculpture Sells for $389,000 at
New York Auction, New Record for the Trailblazing Artist
On Tuesday, October 8, at Swann Auction Galleries in New York, Catlett’s
Seated
Woman (1962) sold for $389,000, breaking the late artist’s previous
auction record of $288,000. That number was reached way back in 2009
when Swann sold her painted and carved cedar sculpture titled Homage
to my young black sisters (1968). Nigel Freeman, the director of
African-American Fine Art at Swann Galleries, said in a statement,
“Elizabeth Catlett was especially deserving of a new record, and Seated Woman was the perfect work to do it, embodying all the
wonderful qualities found in her wood sculpture.” Her works can be
found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and other institutions.
On October 2, 2019, Gallerist
June Kelly was awarded the 2019 Visionary Woman Award from Moore
College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. The award was given for
exemplary leadership for paving the way for Moore’s emerging artists to
become “visionary women.”
Four
silkscreen prints by gallery artist Nola Zirin have been chosen by
curator Laura G. Einstein as part of the Mezzanine Gallery of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. The master printer is Gary
Lichtenstein of Lichtenstein Editions. In 1970, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art celebrated its centennial with commemorative
limited-edition prints by Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Joseph
Albers. The end of that decade saw the opening of the refurbished
multi-level Met Mezzanine Gallery that visitors know today. The
gallery offers wide appeal to connoisseurs and collectors. The
prints are for sale.
See
one image here.
Gallery
artists Elizabeth Catlett and Kay WalkingStick are
included in the exhibition, NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to
Today that opened at Phillips New York, 450 Park Avenue on June 19.
The exhibition was organized by Phillips’ Senior Advisor and Director
Emeritus of the Brooklyn Museum, Arnold Lehman.
This
exhibition is an attempt to look at recent art history through the
exceptional works made by American women artists from 1945 to today, and
will remain on view through August 3. 2019.
3 paintings by
gallery artist Kay WalkingStick are featured in Landscape
Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism with essay by
Barry Schwabsky and edited by Todd Bradway. It is a global survey
of landscape painting in the 21st century. The book is beautifully
illustrated. The publisher is Thames & Hudson Ltd., New York.
See image
here.
Gallery artist
Julio Valdez will be one of the artists officially representing
the Dominican Republic at the Venice Biennale, 58th International Art
Exhibition that opens Friday, May 11, 2019. The exhibition will
remain on view through Sunday, November 24, 2019. The venue is
Palazzo Albrizzi Capello and the title of the exhibition is Nature and
Biodiversity in the Dominican Republic. The artist will have one
large painting in the exhibition. See image
here.
Gallery artist
Rebecca Welz has been invited to teach a two-week international
design workshop at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts from February
25 to March 8, 2019. Rebecca, a professor at Pratt Institute will
have 30 design sophomores for the workshop. She will also give a
talk on her work and projects in Antigua and Guatemala. Shanghai
Institute of Visual Arts was founded in 2005 and is the only
comprehensive visual art college in Shanghai, China. It has more
than 300 full-time teachers and 4,000 students.
Gallery artist
Karin Batten has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the sole
purpose of providing assistance to individual visual artists of
established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one
of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of fellow
painter Jackson Pollock.
Philemona
Williamson: Selected Works by gallery artist Philemona Williamson
opens at Drumthwacket, the official New Jersey governor’s residence and
a nationally landmarked historic site in Princeton, New Jersey.
The opening is January 23 and the paintings will remain on view through May
1, 2019. Robyn Brenner Executive Director of the Drumthwacket
Foundation is curator of the exhibition. The Drumthwacket
Foundation offers cultural and educational programs that recognize the
rich diversity of New Jersey’s communities and residents. A
brochure accompanies the exhibition.
On December
18, 2018, the Birmingham Museum of Art purchased Over Lolo Pass,
2003, charcoal, gouache and encaustic on paper, 25 x 50 inches by
gallery artist Kay WalkingStick for their permanent collection.
See image
here.
Gallery artist
Claudia DeMonte and her artist husband Ed McGowin have donated
over 100 works of art by self-taught artists to the Mississippi Museum
of Art. The works come from their personal collection of
sculptures, paintings, and assemblages, including works by Bill Traylor,
Howard Finster, Lonnie Holley, James Harold Jennings, Mose Tolliver, and
others. Over a period of 25 years, Claudia and Ed drove thousands
of miles, around the backroads of the United States — particularly in
the American South — in their desire to meet folk artists. They
were interested in the creative process as it relates to self-taught
artists. With few exceptions, they met most of the artists whose
work they acquired and they feel that the collection contains
extraordinary examples of this group of works. It is not a survey
of folk art but the result of a personal quest to understand art-making
that these artists embodied.
On November
27, 2018, the Minneapolis Institute of Art purchased the painting Venere Alpina, 1997, oil on canvas, diptych, 32 x 64 inches by
gallery artist Kay WalkingStick for their permanent collection. See image
here.
Gallery artist
Kay WalkingStick is included in the upcoming exhibition Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s that will open at the
Whitney Museum of American Art in March 2019. Drawn entirely from
the Whitney’s collection, the exhibition includes important recent
acquisitions by Kay WalkingStick and Emma Amos, as well as works by
Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Marcia Hafif, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris
Louis, and Bob Thompson. The title of the exhibition is taken from
a quote by Thompson, who shortly before his death in 1966 said, “I paint
many paintings that tell me slowly that I have something inside of me
that is just bursting, twisting, sticking, spilling over to get out.
Out into souls and mouths and eyes that have never seen before.”
Spilling Over demonstrates why and how painting could still matter for
artists who wanted to see anew. The exhibition is organized by
David Breslin, DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the Collection,
with Margaret Kross, curatorial assistant.
The exhibition
Inclusive Moments-Selected Works by gallery artist Bruce
Dorfman highlights the formative periods in the artist remarkable
career, which has spanned more than five decades. The exhibition
is at the Art Students League of New York and runs through January 5,
2019. Dorfman studied at the Art Students League with Yasuo
Kuniyoshi, Arnold Blanch and Charles H. Alston. He is a graduate
of the University of Iowa, where he studied with Stuart Edie, Mauricio
Lasansky and art historian Roy Seiber.
Gallery artist
Bruce Dorfman was included in the exhibition The Masters: Art
Students League Instructors and Their Students that celebrated the
contribution of the Art Students League teachers and students from the
late nineteenth century through the present. The League’s (Phyllis
Harriman Mason Gallery) presented works from the last years of the
twentieth century through today. These included past and present
teachers Bruce Dorfman (student of Yasuo Kuniyoshi), Naomi Campbell
(student of Nelson Shanks), Bob Cenedella (student of George Grosz),
Stephen Greene (student of Morris Kantor), Ronnie Landfield (student of
Stephen Greene), Pat Lipsky (student of Charles Alston), Knox Martin
(student of Morris Kantor), Cornelia Foss, Richard Pousette-Dart), Zhang
Hongtu (student of Richard Pousette-Dart), Abby Leigh (student of Will
Barnet), and Susan Weil (student of Morris Kantor). The exhibition
opened November 1 and continued through December 1, 2018.
On June 13,
2018, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts purchased the painting Tender
Breeze, 2008 oil on linen, 48 x 60 inches by gallery artist Philemona Williamson for their permanent collection. See image
here.
Gallery artist
Kay WalkingStick was elected to membership in the National
Academy of Design in New York City. The Academy was established in
1825 and has honored more than 2,300 of the leading artists and
architects in the country. It is a professional honorary member
organization that represents some of the most distinguished
practitioners in their respective fields. The National
Academicians are professional artists and architects who are elected to
membership by their peers annually.
Gallery artist
LeRoy Henderson is featured in "Lens: Photographing Ordinary Life
in Passing," by Antwaun Sargent of The New York Times. As
Henderson says, "I have dedicated myself to showing the range of
experiences of ordinary people, where the everyday is frozen in
black-and-white, as the dramas of race, religion, social change and a
day’s work play out in the frames. The article can be read
here.
Gallery artist
Kay WalkingStick is the recipient of the 2018 Murray Reich
Distinguished Artist Award which is presented by the New York
Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). The award is given to provide
resources to mature and established visual artists with a long history
of creative practice. This award comes with a prize of $12,000.00.
Art critic
Holland Cotter of The New York Times writes that “Kay
WalkingStick: An American Artist,” now on view at the Montclair Art
Museum until June 17, is more than a look at a life of labor. It’s
also a record of contingent lives, cultural changes and a political
passage in time. Yet what powers the chronologically arranged
show, first and last, is the personal: the sense it gives of one worker
growing, changing, faltering, then growing and changing more. The
review can be read
here.
On May 1,
2018, The Whitney Museum of American Art purchased the painting April
Contemplating May, 1972, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 inches by
gallery artist Kay WalkingStick for their permanent collection.
See image
here.
The exhibition
Slants and White Paintings by gallery artist James Little
is reviewed in the May issue of FROM THE MAYOR’S DOORSTEP. Art
critic Piri Halasz writes that “His current show of 12 paintings has six
“white paintings” and six “slants.” All were obviously very
complex in concept, yet work out being to amazingly simple in effect and
more rather than less rewarding to contemplate.” The review can be
read here.
The exhibition
Slants and White Paintings by gallery artist James Little
is reviewed in the May issue of The New Criterion. Critic James
Panero writes that “There is nothing embalmed in James Little’s use of
wax. A master of the volatile medium of encaustic, Little creates
living, breathing abstractions of oil and wax on canvas." The
review can be read
here.
Gallery artist
LeRoy Henderson is featured in New York Today: Documenting
Protest by Derek M. Norman of the New York Times. The article
chronicles Henderson career as a protest documentarian. As
Henderson says, “There’s a double-duty,” I attend demonstrations as both
a citizen and a documentarian, “because you’re there and want to be a
part of these things, but you need to be selective in what you shoot.”
Presenting a stark reminder of how the past repeats itself, Henderson
says, “we can’t see the future but with photographic images we can
certainly see the past. The article can be read
here.
Gallery artist
Bruce Dorfman was included in the “Artistic Vanguard: The 1960s and the
Art Students League exhibition that opened January 11 and runs through
January 19. The exhibition at the Art Students League coincided
with Carnegie Hall’s music festival The 60s: The Years that Changed
America, January 14-March 24, 2018.
The 1960s was in many respects a watershed decade for American painting.
The innovations of the Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock,
Barnet Newman, and Mark Rothko, which captured international attention
during the 1950s, propelled the next generation of abstract painters in
a variety of different directions.
While Art Student League instructors such as Charles Alston, Richard
Pousette-Dart, and Theodoros Stamos continued experimenting with
elements of Abstract Expressionism, younger artists such as Bruce Dorfman, Helen Frankenthaler, Peter Golfinopoulos, Stephen Greene, Paul
Jenkins, Ronnie Landfield, Larry Poons, and Peter Reginato, was engaged
with alternative movements including color field painting, lyrical
abstraction, pop art and assemblage. This exhibition examines the
contributions of League artists to new developments in American painting
during this pivotal period. See image
here.
The painting,
Double Exposure, 2008, oil and wax on canvas, 39 x 50 inches by
gallery artist James Little is featured on the cover of the Saint
Louis Art Museum Winter 2018 Bulletin. The painting is included in the
recent major gift of 81 works by New Jersey collector Ronald Ollie and
his wife Monique Ollie. The collection is in memory of his parents
Thelma and Bert Ollie. The image can be seen
here.
On November
29, 2017, The Montclair Art Museum purchased the painting Shore Road,
Magnolia, Mass, 1989, oil on linen, 60 x 48 inches by gallery artist
Philemona Williamson for their permanent collection. See image
here.
Gallery artist
Colin Chase is one of this year’s recipients of the 2017 Joan
Mitchell Foundation Grant Award to Painters and Sculptors. Established
by the foundation’s namesake in 1993, the grants are awarded annually to
under-recognized artists working in the United States through a
nomination and subsequent jury vote. In a statement, Christa
Blatchford, the foundation’s CEO said, “In a time when artists’ voices
are so crucial for the health of our society, but unrestricted grant
funding is so scarce, the Foundation’s Painters & Sculptors Grants
provide essential resources to a wide spectrum of today’s working
artists.”
On October 5,
2017, The Newark Museum purchased the painting Me and My Neon Box,
1971, acrylic on canvas, 54 x 60 inches by gallery artist Kay
WalkingStick for their permanent collection. See image
here.
Gallery artist
Philemona Williamson is having her first major museum solo
exhibition, Philemona Williamson: Metaphorical Narratives at the
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey from September 15, 2017 through January
6, 2018. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition. with an essay by the
chief curator Gail Stavitsky.
The painting
Me and My Neon Box, 1971, acrylic on canvas, 54 x 60 inches by
gallery artist Kay WalkingStick is featured in the article, “Art
Warriors and Wooden Indians,” in the October 2017 issue of Art in
America. The article was written by Kathleen Ash-Milby, associate
curator at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, pp.
58-63. The image can be seen
here.
The exhibition
Orbs and Angles (May 2017) by gallery artist Nola Zirin is
reviewed in the September issue of Whitehot, an online magazine.
Critic Jill Conner writes, "Zirin’s paintings countered the assumption
that abstract art is both static and stationary. Her
investigations of prism-like surfaces reflect the tension that lies
between space and time. These new compositions do not play so much with
depth but, instead, present weighty, monumental atmospheres that are
expressed through the artist’s delineation of color. As seen in
her previous exhibition titled “Stardust,” the paintings on view in
“Orbs and Angles” continued to show Zirin’s characteristic layering
technique. The review can be read
here.
The Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts has acquired a masterpiece by Hughie Lee-Smith
(1915-1999) titled Absence of Gaiety, ca. 1962, oil on canvas, 34
¼ x 50 ½ inches for their permanent collection. It is a classic
Lee-Smith that is haunting, staying long in the mind’s eye. See image
here.
The
Smithsonian’s touring retrospective “Kay WalkingStick: An American
Artist,” was featured in Sunday’s New York Times, Arts&Leisure, The
New Season/Art: For the Fall and Beyond.
By HOLLAND
COTTER SEPT. 10, 2017, page 88
This fall will
offer the last chance to catch “Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist,”
the superb touring retrospective of the painter who has put her Cherokee
identity at the center of her art, and made that identity specific and
capacious. The last stop on its tour is the Montclair Art Museum (Feb.
3–June 17).
By WILL
HEINRICH SEPT. 10, 2017, page 104
KAY
WALKINGSTICK: AN AMERICAN ARTIST Montclair is your last chance to
catch a touring retrospective of the dreamy, mural-like landscapes of
the 20th-century Cherokee painter Kay WalkingStick. Feb. 3–June 17,
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J.,
montclairartmuseum.org.
The
Taoxichuang Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Art has acquired
the painting "Forest," 2016, oil and glitter on canvas, 60 x 40 inches
by gallery artist Nola Zirin for their permanent collection.
Zirin was included in the group exhibition, Sculpture
Dimensions--Sino-USA Art Exchange Exhibition that opened June 5 and
ran through July 30, 2017 in Jingdezhen, China. It was curated by
Lily Zhang Candler, Wang Chunchen and Richard Vine. The image can
be seen
here.
On Thursday,
June 15, 2017, a private dinner celebrating the 90th birthday of former
Mayor David Dinkins was hosted at the June Kelly Gallery as a
fundraiser for ABC (Association to Benefit Children and Families).
Guests included New York’s legendary congressman Charles Rangel, Howard
Rubenstein, Ed Lewis, Cecily Tyson, fashion designer B. Michael, members
of the board and photographer Nicole Buchenholz whose works were
displayed. All proceeds from sale of the photographs benefited the
organization. See photo
here.
The Art &
Architecture Collection of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of
Art, Prints and Photographs of the New York Public Library has requested
all of the gallery’s materials (catalogues, press releases and
invitations) to build a compendium of gallery ephemera.
A detail of somewhere listening : Company B, 365th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division,
A. E. F. 1918-1919, 2014, charcoal pencil on Arches paper, mounted
on board, installation of 212 panels measuring 28 x 294 inches by
gallery artist Debra Priestly was highlighted in The New York
Times on page C23, Friday, May 26, 2017. The exhibition, World
War I, Beyond the Trenches can be seen at The New York Historical
Society from May 26 to September 3, 2017. The image can be seen
here.
Gallery artist
Nola Zirin is included in the group exhibition, Sculpture
Dimensions--Sino-USA Art Exchange Exhibition that opens June 5 and
runs through July 30, 2017 in Jingdezhen, China. The exhibition
features works by seven American artists (Yaacov Agam, Serena Bocchino,
Chakaia Booker, Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, Nancy Spero and Nola
Zirin) and eight Chinese artists (Mu Boyan, Jin Feng, Cao Hui, Xiao Li,
Sun Lu, Xiu Xiaonan, Li Zhan and Huang Zhen). The exhibition is
organized by the Taoxichuang Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine
Art, the Sculpture Department of China Central Academy of Fine Art and
Guarsh Art New York. It is curated by Lily Zhang Candler, Wang
Chunchen and Richard Vine with essays by Jonathan Goodman and Lv Pin-chang.
See Zirin’s image
here.
The
Bruce Dorfman: Past Present catalogue, designed by Karen Bright
has won the “Gold Hermes International Creative Award.” The
catalogue in a limited edition, numbered and signed was published on the
occasion of the artist’s recent exhibition at Monmouth University,
September – December 2016. The Hermes Creative Awards is an
international competition for creative professionals involved in the
concept, writing and design of traditional materials and programs, and
emerging technologies.
Where We
Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900 -1960 opens
April 28, 2017. The exhibition features work by gallery artist Elizabeth Catlett, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Jacob Lawrence,
Isamu Noguchi, Georgia O’Keeffe, and many others. The exhibition
focuses upon a tumultuous period in the history of the United States
when life in the country changed drastically due to war, economic
collapse, and demands for civil rights. Artists responded in complex and
diverse ways, and the exhibition honors their efforts to put forward new
ways of presenting the self and American life. It is organized by
David Breslin, DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the Collection,
with Jennie Goldstein, assistant curator, and Margaret Kross, curatorial
assistant.
The Art in
Embassies program has purchased the painting The Difference between
Then and Now, 2010, oil and wax on canvas, 72 x 94 inches by gallery
artist James Little for the N’Djamena collection in Chad, Central Africa.
The Art in Embassies program was established within the United States
Department of States in 1964 by President John F Kennedy and his wife
Jacqueline Kennedy, and has played a leading role in fostering public
diplomacy through the visual arts. The installation can be seen
here.
The University
of Iowa has purchased Totem, 2007, black marble, 31 ¾ x 8 x 7 ¼
inches by gallery artist Elizabeth Catlett for its Elizabeth
Catlett Residence Hall. It will be installed the fall 2017.
In 1940, Elizabeth Catlett became one of the first three MFA graduates
from the University of Iowa and was the first African American woman to
receive the degree. The image can be seen
here.
The
exhibition, Creative Flux: Recent Paintings, by gallery artist Sandra Lerner opens at the Gutman Gallery, Harvard Graduate School
of Education, Cambridge, MA on April 1 and will remain on view through
May 4, 2017.
somewhere
listening: Company B, 365th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division, A. E. F.
1918-1919, 2014, charcoal pencil on Arches paper, mounted on board,
212 panels measuring 28 x 294 inches by gallery artist Debra Priestly was
purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for their
permanent collection. The installation was exhibited in her 2014
exhibition at the gallery. The image can be seen
here.
The exhibition
Woven in Time by gallery artist Joan Giordano is reviewed
in the March 2017 issue of Sculpture Magazine. The reviewer Thalia
Vrachopoulos writes, "since Giordano's works are unbridled by convention
in their use of materials, her message comes through forcefully,
embedded into multilayered palimpsests of form and content, history and
contemporaneity." The review can be read
here.
Gallery artist
Rebecca Welz is included in the exhibition The New Mimesis
that opened February 10 and runs through April 16, 2017. The
collaborative exhibition was organized by Nurture Nature Center and
SciArt Center and features 17 artists whose works focuses on the visual
expression of the theme of Biomimicry. It was curated by Julia
Brennan and Julia Bontaine of the SciArt Center in Easton, PA. See image
here.
Gallery artist
Philemona Williamson is included in the exhibition, Converging
Voices: Gender and Identity, that opens May 2 and runs through
December 15, 2017. The exhibition curated by Karen T. Albert,
Hofstra University Museum deputy director and chief curator, focuses on
issues of gender and identity, reflecting an international scope and
featuring artists such as the Guerrilla Girls, Carrie Mae Weems, Marian
Ghani, Yee l-Lann and others. The exhibition is in association
with the 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and
Sexualities to be held at Hofstra University June 1-4, 2017. See
image here.
The
exhibition, "The Beautiful Somewhere: The Art of Philemona Williamson,"
opens at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on January 26 and will
be on view through April 24, 2017. Guest curator is Dr. Arturo
Lindsay, former Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of
Art and Art History at Spelman College. A brochure accompanies the
exhibition.
The
retrospective Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist has been
chosen by “Hyperallegic” as one of the Best 2016 Top 15 exhibitions
Across the United States. The article can be read
here.
Newsroom,
Other Stories and Soto Voce by gallery artist Joan Giordano has been
selected by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Greece for their
permanent collection. See an image
here.
Gallery artist
Bruce Dorfman has received an individual grant from the Pollock-Krasner
Foundation for 2017.
"Four
Directions/Stillness," 1994, acrylic, wax and oil on canvas, 32.25 x
72.75 by gallery artist Kay WalkingStick has been purchased by the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts for their permanent collection.
The Beinecke
Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University has purchased 12 of
gallery artist Sarah Plimpton’s artist's books that were produced at the Grenfell
Press in New York City. Sarah has work at Grenfell Press since
1993. The library is the largest building in the world dedicated
to the containment and preservation of rare books, manuscripts,
documents and artist’s books.
Gallery artist
Sandra Lerner is the subject of an in-depth article, The
Particle and the Wave: Sandra Lerner's Metaphysical Landscapes, Taoism,
and the Calligraphic Impulse in the fall/winter 2016 issue of the
“Woman’s Art Journal.” The article was written by Aliza Edelman
and published under the auspices of Rutgers University’s department of
Art History. The editors are Joan Marter and Margaret Barlow.
The
Woman’s Art Journal is a feminist art history journal that
focuses on women in the visual arts and serves as a forum for critical
analysis of contemporary art issues as they relate to the women’s art
movement and art worldwide. The article can be read
here.
The University
of Iowa, the Board of Regents and the State of Iowa have approved the
naming of a new residence hall in honor of Gallery artist Elizabeth
Catlett, an alumna of the school. The opening of the Elizabeth
Catlett Hall is 2017. In 1940, Elizabeth Catlett became one of the
first three MFA graduates from the University of Iowa and was the first
African American woman to receive the degree.
She would become one of the most important American sculptors and
printmakers of the 20th century.
Seasons,
a work by Gallery artist Philemona Williamson is being showcased
along with the poetry of Marilyn Nelson, A Strange Beautiful Woman,
as part of this year’s Metropolitan Transit Authority’s 2016 Poetry in
Motion subway series beginning in August. See image
here.
Gallery artist
Bruce Dorfman will have a retrospective exhibition titled PAST
PRESENT Paintings and Drawings in Combined Media at Monmouth
University, West Long Branch, New Jersey. It opens September 6 and
will be on view through December 18, 2016. A catalogue accompanies
the exhibition.
Gallery artist
LeRoy Henderson, a native of Richmond, Virginia is the subject of
an in-depth article, Life Through the Lens, written by Samantha
Willis in the July 10th issue of the "Richmond Magazine." Willis
writes, Henderson’s images provoke, inspire and reflect who we really
are. The article can be read
here.
Gallery artist
Bruce Dorfman is included in the exhibition, Ways and Means: a
new look at process and materials in art. The exhibition was
organized by Norte Maar and curated by Jason Andrew. The
exhibition also includes works by Chakaia Booker, Robert Moskowitz,
Dorothea Rockburne, Richard Serra and others. It opens July 18 at
1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery and runs through October 7, 2016.
A review of the exhibition by James Panero of The New Criterion can be
read here.
Gallery
artist Debra Priestly’s installation, somewhere listening:
Company B, 365th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division, A. E. F. 1918-1919,
2014, charcoal pencil on Arches paper, mounted on board, 212 panels,
measuring 28 x 294 inches, is included in the landmark exhibition "World
War I and American Art” at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia. This exhibition will be on view from November 4,
2016 through April 9, 2017. It will travel to the New York
Historical Society (May-September 2017) and the Frist Center for the
Visual Arts (October 2017-January 2018). The exhibition is
organized by PAFA and team curated by Dr. Robert Cozzolino, PAFA’s
senior curator and curator of Modern Art; Dr. Anne Knutson, an
independent scholar and curator; and Dr. David Lubin, the Charlotte C.
Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. It is the first
major museum exhibition to revisit this unprecedented global event
through the eyes of American artists. See image
here.
Gallery artist
Kay WalkingStick and others were highlighted in The New York
Times for their varied messages to the graduates of the class of 2016.
The statements can be read
here.
Gallery Artist
Rebecca Welz will show several of her sculptures in a group show
titled Sally’s Party at the Cherry Stone Gallery in Wellfleet,
MA. The exhibition also includes works by Berenice Abbott, Eugene
Atget, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell and others. It opens July
19 and runs through September 13, 2016.
Gallery artist
James Little is included in the exhibition, “Lumières Du Monde”
(Light of the World), at the Museum of Stained Glass, Chartres, France,
an exhibition of 300 18 x 18 inch stained glass windows created by 280
artists from five continents who were invited to submit work. The
exhibition is on view from April 23, 2016, through October 28, 2017, and
was organized by the Centre International du Vitrail, de las Compagnie
de Saint Gobain in collaboration with des Ateliers Glasmalerei Peters,
Paderborn, Germany. A 600-page book on contemporary stained glass,
“World Enlightenment” will accompany the exhibition. See image
here.
Gallery artist
Carmen Cicero has won the coveted Jacob Lawrence Award for
outstanding achievement in the visual arts from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. He is also an exhibitor in The Academy’s
Invitational Visual Arts exhibition at 633 West 155th Street. The
exhibition continues through July 10.
Gallery artist
Kay WalkingStick will give the commencement address and will
receive an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute’s 126th
Commencement Ceremony at Radio City Music Hall on May 17, 2016.
WalkingStick, who is a Pratt graduate, is currently exhibiting seven of
her recent paintings in the office of Pratt President Dr. Thomas Schutte
through May 17.
The exhibition
of new paintings by Gallery artist Sarah Plimpton is reviewed in
the February issue of the Brooklyn Rail. Critic Mary Ann Caws
writes that, what is certain about these paintings is the way each of
them solicits a different reaction from the onlooker: you cannot help
but feel involved in the space, in its dark surrounding, and in what
makes its way through. And, no less, your way, if you commit
yourself to this black light. “I will be there,” says the artist.
Yes, she will. The review can be read
here.
Gallery artist
Kay WalkingStick has been invited to speak at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art on March 18 as part of the opening festivities to mark the
museum’s historic expansion into the Met Breuer, formerly the Whitney
Museum of American Art on Madison Avenue and 75th Street.
WalkingStick will give two nine-minute talks in the museum’s American
Wing on Fifth Avenue, the first at 6 p.m., and the second at 6:30 p.m.
A drawing by
Gallery Artist Nola Zirin, Architectural Fragments, 1993,
mixed media on blue-toned Italian paper, 30 x 22 inches, is included in
the exhibition entitled “You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists,” at the
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York. The exhibition is
drawn exclusively from the Museum’s Permanent Collection in celebration
of their 95th anniversary. It opened December 5, 2015 and runs
through April 3, 2016.
The Art
Dealers Association of America features Gallery Artist Kay WalkingStick's exhibition on their blog,
Inside Stories. It can
be read
here.
Art critic
Kriston Capps of the Washington City Paper writes that “Kay
WalkingStick: An American Artist,” now on view at the National Museum of
the American Indian, manages to fully explore the artist’s identity as a
painter while focusing fully on her art. The review can be read
here.
A major
retrospective exhibition entitled “Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist”
opened at the National Museum of American Indian in Washington, DC, on
November 7, 2015. It will be on view through September 18, 2016 and
travel to other venues, including The Heard Museum (October 13,
2016-January 8, 2017), Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio (Feb 9,
2017–May 7, 2017), Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (June 17-September 10,
2017), Gilcrease Art Museum (October 5, 2017-January 7, 2018) and
Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey (Feb. 3–June 17, 2018). A review
of the retrospective by art critic Philip Kennicott appeared in The
Washington Post and can be read
here.
Three works,
Newsroom, Other Stories and Soto Voce by Gallery Artist
Joan Giordano are included in the exhibition, “Whispers” at the
Museum of Contemporary of Crete, Greece. The exhibition is curated
by Maria Marangou. It opens October 30, 2015 and runs through
February 20, 2016.
Two works from
2000 in gouache, ink and watercolor on Rives paper in homage to Marsden
Hartley by Gallery Artist Frances Hynes are included in an
exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art entitled "Maine Collected:
Contemporary Selections from the Permanent Collection." It opened
on June 12, 2015, and runs through March 26, 2016.
An exhibition
that includes paintings by Gallery Artist Bruce Dorfman will be
shown this summer at the Convento de Sto. Antonio at Loule,
Portugal. They are paintings he created in 1993 when he served as
an invited guest artist. They are now part of the museum’s
collection. The exhibition, entitled Escola International de
Arte Loule: 1993-1997, opens August 13 and continues through
September 30, 2015.
Critic Roberta
Smith of The New York Times writes in a review (April 3) that the
relatively small painting “Man With Mask” (1987) by Gallery artist Carmen Cicero at the June Kelly Gallery “is in many ways a perfect
painting that some museum should add to its Cicero holdings.” The
Times’ review can be read
here.
The exhibition
of new paintings by Gallery artist Julio Valdez is reviewed in
the February issue of ARTNEWS. Critic Stefanie Waldek writes that,
while the water depicted in each work "energetically danced in dazzling
light, there was a subtle sense of isolation and uncertainty
throughout--the sensation one has when experiencing the vastness of the
ocean and the mystery of that lies in the deep. The review can be
read
here.
Gallery artist
James Little has won a major commission from the Metropolitan
Transit Authority (MTA) for his design proposal for the new
Brooklyn-bound platform at Jamaica Station. The platform will
serve those traveling from Jamaica, Queens, to Barclays Center in
Brooklyn. Little’s proposal consists of 33 vertical windows, each
17 feet tall and 5 feet wide, and each with a multi-colored geometric
design that he will create. They will be fabricated in Paderborn,
Germany. The commission is expected to be completed in late 2016
or early 2017.
Gallery
artists Stan Brodsky and Bruce Dorfman, distinguished
graduates of the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History are
showing their paintings and works on paper in a group exhibition at the
Figge Art Museum in Davenport from January 31 through June 21, 2015.
The title of the exhibition is Eye On UI.
Cow and
Window, 1983, oil on linen, 74 x 61 inches and Chatham Barns II,
1981, oil on linen, 40 x 50 inches by Frances Hynes have been
selected by the Albany Institute of History and Art for their permanent
collection.
Critic David
Ebony calls Lisa Mackie's exhibition at the June Kelly Gallery
one of the "top 10 New York gallery shows for September" in ArtNet News
as she allows "her imagination to run free in a wide array of abstract
and figurative compositions." It's a personal exploration of
nature, he continues, in which she uses "an impressive range of mediums
and materials, from acrylic-on-silk paintings to resin sculptures, to
photography and video projections." Ebony says it is a "convincing
mediation on nature and a well-realized homage to all its crazy beauty."
(Other shows in David Ebony’s Top Ten are Roman Opalka at Dominique Lévy,
Paul Graham at Pace, Nick Cave at Jack Shainman, Roxy Paine at Marianne
Boesky, Monika Sosnowska at Hauser & Wirth, Morris Louis at Mnuchin,
Derrick Adams at Tilton, Nicholas Krushenick at Garth Greenan, Prune
Nourry at China Institute.) The Mackie review can be read
here.
Two paintings
by Gallery artist Bruce Dorfman have been chosen to be part of a
larger exhibition of art by the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei that
will be shown at the Art Students League in New York October 20 to
November 9. Entitled Making/Breaking Traditions: Teachers of Ai
Weiwei, the exhibition will also include works by Richard Pousette-Dart
and Knox Martin who with Dorfman were Weiwei’s artist-instructors when
he studied at the school in the 1980s.
The exhibition
of photographs by Gallery artist Alex Harsley is reviewed in the
Wall Street Journal of July 12-13, 2014.. The critic, William
Meyers, writes that "the snapshotlike pictures taken between 1970 and
2012 on the Lower East Side have the sense of history of a family photo
album, and much the same sense of nostalgia." The review can be
read here.
The exhibition
of welded-steel sculptures by Gallery artist Rebecca Welz is
reviewed in the June issue of ARTnews. The critic, Stephanie Strasnick
writes "Welz re-created the majestic creatures and plant life she
encountered on her scuba-diving trips--and the results were
spectacular." The review can be read
here.
Rufus Reid,
an internationally known jazz bass player, is highlighted in the June
issue of ARTnews for a suite of five songs he composed based on the work
of the late sculptor Elizabeth Catlett. The article can be read
here.
A painting by
Gallery artist Stan Brodsky has been selected for an exhibition
of modern and contemporary art at the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph
College in Lynchburg, Virginia, from the museum’s permanent collection.
The painting is an oil and paintstick on canvas from 2007 entitled Tuscan Series No. 7 and measures 60 inches by 48 inches. Other
artists whose work is represented in the exhibition with Brodsky include
Louise Bourgeois, Red Grooms, Elizabeth Murray and Andrew Wyeth.
The exhibition will continue through August 24. The image can be seen
here.
The Yale University Art Gallery has
acquired a masterpiece by Horace
Pippin entitled Saturday Night
Bath,where
it is now on public view with other great American art that was created
during the first 50 years of the 20th century. The painting sold
through the June Kelly Gallery, is a classic Pippin domestic scene of a
mother bathing her young child in a washtub beside a woodstove in her
rural kitchen. The painting, from 1945, is an oil on canvas that
measures 25.25 x 30.25 inches. In 1947, critic Alain Locke described
Pippin as “a real and rare genius, combining folk quality with artistic
maturity so uniquely as almost to defy classification.”
Gallery artist
Kay WalkingStick won the 2014 Alumni Achievement Award
at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Benefit on June 6 at
Carnegie Hall in New York City. In 1947, WalkingStick received her
Scholastic Gold Key for art as a student at Theodore Roosevelt Junior
High School in Syracuse. Past Alumni Achievement Award recipients
include John Baldessari, Ken Burns, Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, Robert
Redford, Mozelle Thompson and Andy Warhol.
A large
painting by gallery artist Carmen Cicero from 1959 is now on view
at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in the Netherlands. The painting
was part of the group exhibition, Art of Another Kind: International
Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960, that was organized by the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The exhibition in
the Netherlands continues through August 31. The image can be seen
here.
A painting, Sweet Dreams from 2010, by gallery artist
Philemona Williamson
is included in a retrospective exhibition entitled “Aljira at 30: Dreams
and Reality” at the New Jersey State Museum. It celebrates the 30th
anniversary of the opening of Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art.
The exhibition includes works by 41 artists and was co-curated by
Margaret M. O’Reilly and Carl Hazelwood. The exhibition continues
through September 28. The image can be seen
here.
The
Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC,
recently acquired a painting by gallery artist Kay WalkingStick.
Entitled New Mexico Desert with Navajo rug pattern, it is oil on
wood panel from 2011 that measures 40 x 80 inches. The painting
was acquired through the gallery. The image can be seen
here.
The Sheldon
Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska, recently acquired a drawing by
gallery artist Sky Pape. Entitled Unison, it is Sumi
ink on Kozo paper from 2000 that measures 51.75 x 30.50 inches. The
drawing was acquired through the gallery. The image can be seen
here.
Gallery artist
Moe Brooker has won a commission from the Metropolitan Transit
Authority to create 12 laminated glass windows for the MTA's Intermodal
Transit facility now under construction in Wyandanch. The windows
-- reminiscent of his signature clusters of abstract shapes -- will be
fabricated in Munich, Germany, and installed in November.
The project has been completed.
See
photograph.
Nola
Zirin’s paintings in a recent exhibition at the June Kelly Gallery
introduce a “unique, visual dynamism into the genre of abstraction while
still reflecting the artist’s signature layering process,” writes critic
Jill Conner in on-verge, an on-line publication devoted to “alternative
art criticism.” Zirin “transforms time in each piece,” Conner
says, “shifting it from the typical angst-filled moment to something
other, a sparkling mystery.” The review can be read
here.
Sky Pape
has created an “elegant exhibition” of works on paper for the June Kelly
Gallery, that is reviewed in the February issue of ARTnews magazine. The
pieces are examples of “expressive and lively art making, somehow
celebratory yet born of a certain solemnity,” writes critic Doug
McClemont. The review can be found
here.
A large
colorful painting by gallery artist Nola Zirin is highlighted in
an article in the December 2013 issue of Architectural Digest. The
article is focused on a recently renovated, 20,000-square-foot duplex
apartment at the top of a Manhattan high-rise. The painting is an
untitled oil on canvas from 2007 and measures 144 inches by 120 inches.
It can be seen
here.
The exhibition
of Moe Brooker’s paintings from June of 2013 at the June Kelly
Gallery is reviewed by
critic A. M. Weaver in the December issue of Art in America magazine.
The review can be read
here.
In an earlier
review of the same Brooker exhibition from the September issue of ARTnews magazine, critic Stephanie Strasnick writes that several pieces
with their energy and musicality recall Kandinsky’s work, while the
gently blended blocks of color in others suggest the influence of
Rothko. The exhibition ranges “in intensity, volume and rhythm, much as
the music it alludes to does,” Strasnick says. The review can be read
here.
IN NEW YORK
magazine, published monthly primarily for visitors to the city, gave a
very positive preview of the Brooker exhibition at
the June Kelly Gallery. All of the paintings, writes senior
editor, Troy Segal, “possess the controlled exuberance of a skilled
musician’s improvisation” with their “fireworks-like bursts of color.” Brooker acknowledges bebop as a major influence and says “spontaneity is a part of my process.” The magazine’s review
can be read
here.
Gallery artist
Carmen Cicero and his career are the subject of a new book,
entitled “The Art of Carmen Cicero,” by Phyllis Braff, the former art
critic for The New York Times. Writers Deborah Forman and Bill
Evaul were also contributors. The 192-page hard-cover book, just
published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd., contains more than 300
illustrations of paintings, watercolors, collages and other pieces that
represent Cicero’s life work. His expressionist art has been
variously described as “mysterious,” “surreal,” “fantasy,” and
“visionary,” art that creates strange and enigmatic images that linger
in the mind.
In James
Little’s new paintings, writes Holland Cotter in a review in The New
York Times, “panels of thin vertical strips are like curtains parting to
reveal a center-stage dance of optically charged zigs and zags. … Jazzy
but stately is the mood” and “the colors subtler and richer.” You can
read the review
here.
The art critic
of the magazine The New Criterion gave a warm review to the latest
exhibition of large abstract paintings by James Little at the
June Kelly Gallery. The critic, James Pinero, who is also the magazine’s
managing editor, cited an essay in the exhibition invitation by art
historian Karen Wilkin that praised the paintings’ “ravishing
physicality” and said Little’s orchestrations of geometry and chroma
“delight our eyes and stir our emotions and intellect.” Pinero
also described in significant detail the painstaking process Little uses
to produce the work. You may read the review
here.
Critic Holland
Cotter of The New York Times calls the Kay WalkingStick
exhibition at the June Kelly Gallery “one of the most beautiful ever by
this artist” in a review under the heading “Last Chance.” Cotter’s
review can be read
here.
Joan
Giordano’s exhibition at the gallery received positive comments from
two major publications – The Wall Street Journal and Art in America
magazine. In a review in the Journal, critic Peter Plagens wrote
that her constructions, which use newspapers from around the world as
major elements, are “handsome works that hang on the wall like a
Samurai's divested armor” and may well serve as “as well-designed
mementos of a bygone medium.” (The review can be read
here.) In
Art in America, the editors selected the exhibition as one of a few
“thought-provoking, clever and memorable shows that stand out in a
crowded field” that they “can't stop talking about.” Her
constructions using newspapers, they write, are “chromatically
harmonious paper constructions,…an homage to the beleaguered print
medium.” Newspapers, they write, “are poignantly commemorated
along with the ephemerality of news itself.” (See the comment
here.)
A painting by gallery
artist Karin Batten has been chosen for the permanent collection
of the projected National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World
Trade Center site. The piece, St. Paul's Chapel, 2002, is
an oilstick on paper mounted on canvas measuring 60 by 36 inches.
Batten's studio was on 91st floor of the North Tower. The painting
was also used in a new feature film, "Clear Blue Tuesday," about the
9/11 attacks.
A 166-page, coffee-table
monograph, Julio Valdez, has been published by FTC Group, New
York, with color plates, a foreword by Guillermo D. Clamens,
introduction by gallery artist Julio Valdez and an essay by
Federica Palomero.
For more information on the Julio Valdez book, please click
http://www.latinamericanmasters.com/english/publications.html
Gallery artist Claudia
DeMonte is the subject of a 112-page monograph entitled Claudia
DeMonte, with a foreword by Agnes Gund and an essay by Eleanor
Heartney. The book, the first retrospective look at DeMonte's
career and published by Pomegranate, contains approximately 120 color
and black and white reproductions of her work. Autographed copies
of the book are available at the gallery for $30.00 each plus shipping
and handling.
See
cover here.
Gallery artist Su-Li
Hung has created a 138-page book entitled Hama San that
highlights significant events in the area of Taiwan where she grew up.
Hung has written four short stories and three essays and illustrated
them with woodcuts and pencil drawings. The book has been
published in Chinese by Chung-Hwi Publishing Company, Kaohsing City,
Taiwan. The cover of the book can be seen
here.
A book of poems and
woodcuts by Su-Li Hung has also been published in Taiwan. Entitled
"Trees of Takao," the book contains 66 poems that are illustrated by 55
color woodcuts. Eleven of the poems have been translated into English by
Tommy McClellan. (Click here
to see one of her woodcuts, “Palm Leaf.”)
A number of large public
murals that were created by gallery artist Karin Batten or on
which she was a collaborator are among those highlighted in a new book,
On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York
City, by Janet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissman and just published by
the University Press of Mississippi in Jackson.
Broadside Print Projects, an
organization that supports projects involving artists and poets and writers,
has brought together artist Nola Zirin and former U.S. poet laureate
Robert Pinsky to create a special portfolio based on Zirin’s paintings and a
poem by Pinsky.
A 138-page, hard-cover
monograph, Mark Alsterlind: Perspectives has just been published by
Lucie Éditions, with color plates, an introduction by Yannick Breton, an
essay by Jean Golzink and a Q-and-A interview of Alsterlind by Pierre
Manuel.
