Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Catch the Water keeper Alliance: Art For Water: Los Angeles: See a couple of Artists below.

Catch the Water keeper Alliance: Art For Water: Los Angeles


On behalf of Artist Chair Ed Ruscha and host Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., we would love for you to join us at Art for Water: Los Angeles benefitting Waterkeeper Alliance on September 25 at Kayne Griffin Corcoran! This special evening will feature a benefit auction of artwork by Marina Abramovic, Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono, Catherine Opie, Laurie Simmons, and many others; music by Guest DJ Shepard Fairey; and a fun evening with friends in support of Waterkeeper's work to protect and defend clean water around the globe. Invitation follows.

See a couple of artists listed below. 


Upcoming Auction: Peace and Justice Woman by Shepard Fairey

This Shepard Fairey artwork, Peace and Justice Woman, is coming up at auction, at ART FOR WATER: LOS ANGELES
A benefit for Waterkeeper Alliance
on September 25, 2013.
 
Peace and Justice Woman by Shepard Fairey
 
 
 
 Shepard Fairey
TitlePeace and Justice Woman
Mediumsilkscreen and mixed media collage on paper
Year of Work2013
SizeHeight 36 in.; Width 48 in. / Height 91.4 cm.; Width 121.9 cm.
EditionAP
Misc.Signed
Sale ofART FOR WATER: LOS ANGELES
A benefit for Waterkeeper Alliance
: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 [Lot 00001]
ART FOR WATER: LOS ANGELES - An evening to benefit Waterkeeper Alliance hosted at Kayne Griffin Corcoran
Estimate8,500 - 8,500 USD
Auction Info.17 Battery Place
New York , New York 10004 USA


Click here to email auction house


This Jon Kessler artwork, Predator #2, is coming up at auction, at ART FOR WATER: LOS ANGELES
A benefit for Waterkeeper Alliance
on September 25, 2013. Find details below, browse more lots by Kessler, or see full cataloging and price information in the artnet Price Database.
 
 
Predator #2 by Jon Kessler
 
 
 
 Jon Kessler
TitlePredator #2
MediumDigital Archival Print, Cotton paper pupl with mixed media
Year of Work2009
SizeHeight 38.5 in.; Width 29 in. / Height 97.8 cm.; Width 73.7 cm.
Sale ofART FOR WATER: LOS ANGELES
A benefit for Waterkeeper Alliance
: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 [Lot 00004]
ART FOR WATER: LOS ANGELES - An evening to benefit Waterkeeper Alliance hosted at Kayne Griffin Corcoran
Estimate8,500 - 8,500 USD
Auction Info.17 Battery Place
New York , New York 10004 USA


Click here to email auction house
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Peter T. Tunney




Peter T. Tunney
The Peter Tunney Experience


73 Franklin St.
(Between Church St. & Broadway)
New York, NY 10013

220 NW 26th St. (Inside the Graffiti Park next to Joey's Restaurant)
Miami, FL 33127

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Catch the Water Keeper Alliance: Art For Water: Los Angeles


On behalf of Artist Chair Ed Ruscha and host Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., we would love for you to join us at Art for Water: Los Angeles benefitting Waterkeeper Alliance on September 25 at Kayne Griffin Corcoran! This special evening will feature a benefit auction of artwork by Marina Abramovic, Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono, Catherine Opie, Laurie Simmons, and many others; music by Guest DJ Shepard Fairey; and a fun evening with friends in support of Waterkeeper's work to protect and defend clean water around the globe. Invitation follows.

RSVP options:
• Click here to purchase tickets online 
• Fill out the attached RSVP card and email it back to us at waterkeeper@cwandco.com or fax to 646.390.8044
• Call us at 212.379.4024 ext. 105 and we will process your payment by phone
Click here to see the Art for Water: LA Auction Preview! We will be adding a few additional pieces before the event, and online bidding will begin next week. A PDF of the auction preview is also attached.


We hope to see you September 25!







































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Monday, September 16, 2013

Exhibition Opening: Matko Vekic - Ordinary People / Inner happenings



Exhibition Opening: Matko Vekic - Ordinary People / Inner happenings

The exhibited series of paintings by leading Croatian painter Matko Vekic is made up of unusual portraits, if we can call them that, entitled The Masks of God’s Image. The series comprises some portraits of human heads, some of which are literally hidden behind masks (diving masks, protective masks), faces hidden behind veils, sunglasses, or simply darkened. Behind the masks we can make out priests, doctors, soldiers, and the symbolism is further reinforced by the only clearly displayed face – that of the Mother of God.
Matko Vekic - Untitled 1

Matko Vekic - Untitled 1 (The Mask of God's Image Series)

Original painting
Oil and varnish on canvas
Signed by the artist
Size: 81 x 75 cm
Matko Vekic - Untitled 5

Matko Vekic - Untitled 2 (The Mask of God's Image Series)

Original painting
Oil and varnish on canvas
Signed by the artist
Size: 81 x 75 cm
Matko Vekic - Untitled 4

Matko Vekic - Untitled 3 (The Mask of God's Image Series)

Original painting
Oil and varnish on canvas
Signed by the artist
Size: 81 x 75 cm
Even though a criticism of society is constantly present in Vekić’s works, rarely does it have a sharp edge. He does not want to shock the viewer but rather through a gradual process of understanding that what is shown to compel the viewer to think, on a kind of journey inward.
The overlapping of different worlds, the infusion and parallel existences of the artistic and the non-artistic, the inner and the outer, the human and the non-human are constant themes of Matko Vekić’s artistic exploration. Although he clearly remains committed to the traditional medium of painting, he does not perceive it as something hermetic and set apart from contemporaneity and the impact of other media.
Regardless of the themes and motifs that are in Vekić’s focus at a given moment, what is common to all his works is the fact that they are exceptionally strong artistic works in terms of technique. Vekić is an artist whose mastery over the space of the painting is absolute, freely building his expression through the use of rollers, stencils, while emphasizing the materiality of the painting process. That is why, however much the theme of his work is serious, the excitement and joy of the creation itself is always visible.
Matko Vekic - Untitled 8

Matko Vekic - Untitled 4 (The Mask of God's Image Series)

Original painting
Oil and varnish on canvas
Signed by the artist
Size: 81 x 75 cm
Matko Vekic - Untitled 9

Matko Vekic - Untitled 5 (The Mask of God's Image Series)

Original painting
Oil and varnish on canvas
Signed by the artist
Size: 81 x 75 cm
Matko Vekic - Untitled 7

Matko Vekic - Untitled 6 (The Mask of God's Image Series)

Original painting
Oil and varnish on canvas
Signed by the artist
Size: 81 x 75 cm

About the artist:

Matko Vekic was born 1970 in Zagreb. He graduated painting from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 1995. From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a teacher of drawing and painting at the Zagreb School of Applied Arts and Design. From 1999 to 2003 he worked at the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg (University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina), first as a part- time assisting lecturer of painting, and later on as a senior- lecturer. Since 2007 he has been a senior lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He is a member of Croatian Association of Visual Artists and lives in Zagreb.
Matko Vekic - Untitled 6

Matko Vekic - Untitled 7 (The Mask of God's Image Series)

Original painting
Oil and varnish on canvas
Signed by the artist
Size: 81 x 75 cm
Matko Vekic - Untitled 3

Matko Vekic - Untitled 8 (The Mask of God's Image Series)

Original painting
Oil and varnish on canvas
Signed by the artist
Size: 81 x 75 cm
Matko Vekic - Untitled 2

Matko Vekic - Untitled 9 (The Mask of God's Image Series)

Original painting
Oil and varnish on canvas
Signed by the artist
Size: 81 x 75 cm

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013
Rijeka, Galerija Kortil, Magnetsko brema vremena / The Magnetic Burden of Time
Poreč, Galerija Zuccato
2012
Zagreb, Galerija Kranjčar, Solo show
2010
Zagreb, HDLU Galerija Bačva, The cruelty of the circle
Vicenza, Yvonneartecontemporanea, La gravita del tempo
2008
Zagreb, Gliptoteka HAZU, Symbol, sign, emblem, ornament and crime
Rab, Galerija Knežev dvor, TV choice
Zagreb, Mapa serigrafija Cages, Galerija Canvas
2007
Labin, Gradska galerija Labin
Osijek, Galerija Kazamat Osijek

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013
Leipzig, One-sided Story
2012
Zagreb, Lauba, Finalisti 2012.
Zagreb, HAZU, XI.trijenale hrvatskog kiparstva
Zagreb, Kabinet grafike HAZU, 4. Hrvatski trijenale grafike
2011
Zagreb, HDLU, 1. Biennale of painting
Split, Galerija umjetnina, stalni postav
2010
Cairo, 12th Cairo Int. Biennale
Berlin, Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art, Galerija Marisall
Vicenza, Yvonneartecontemporanea, Selection 2010.
Zagreb, HDLU, 45. Zagrebački salon
Istambul, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Trans-Form in Art Education
Sofija, Trans-Form in Art Education
2009
Venezia, 53. Int. Biennale, Dead in Venice or life trough 12 images
Zagreb, Kabinet grafike HAZU, 3. Hrvatski trijenale grafike
Zagreb, festival suvremene umjetnosti MAX ART FEST
Metković, Otisci utisci, 100 grafičara Hrvatske i Bosne i Hercegovine
2008
Zagreb, Gliptoteka HAZU, 4. trijenale hrvatskog crteža
Zagreb, festival suvremene umjetnosti MAX ART FEST
Zagreb, HPB Grand Prix za slikarstvo 2008.
2006
Cairo,10th Cairo Int. Biennale
Graz, Künstlerhaus, "Format"
5 Pieces Gallery is pleased to show these new works by outstanding Croatian artist Matko Vekic. The exhibition will run at www.5piecesgallery.com from today to October 15 2013. 10% off for 5 Pieces Gallery members.

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The Fifth Edition of Armory Focus Will Showcase the Strength and Diversity of Contemporary Art in China



The Armory Show


Philip Tinari, Director of The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Appointed Curator of Armory Focus: China
The Fifth Edition of Armory Focus Will Showcase the Strength and Diversity of Contemporary Art in China
NEW YORK Armory Focus, the curated section of The Armory Show, highlights the gallery and artistic landscape of a chosen geographic region. For the 2014 edition of the Fair, Philip Tinari, Director of The Ullens Center for Contemporary ArtBeijing, will curate Armory Focus: China, shining new light on the country’s contemporary cultural practice. In recognition of the dynamism of the Chinese art scene, The Armory Show will present an exciting selection of contemporary Chinese galleries, providing a forum for an ever-expanding international conversation at the fair.
On lending his curatorial vision to the project Philip Tinari notes that, “China is central to the makeup of the world system today in ways that are well understood on the level of geopolitics but have not yet been fully elaborated in the realm of culture. The wave of national surveys—the so-called "China Shows"—that introduced the first generation of Chinese artists to New York has come and gone, leaving even a decade later an aftertaste of gaudy, symbolic, often derivative work. This persistent memory clouds efforts by individual actors to illuminate the dynamism, seriousness, and originality of the Chinese art scene and system today. This section aims to change that.”
Noah Horowitz, Executive Director of The Armory Show states, “Just as Focus: China hopes to showcase the strength and diversity of players who now make up the country’s cultural scene it also seeks to complicate and destabilize prevailing Western notions about its artistic situation. The project ultimately aims to demonstrate that China is not just a site for great new art, but a place where current art world models are being made and remade, and where serious collecting is happening at an ever larger scale. We are honored to collaborate with such a visionary curator as Philip on this project and look forward to presenting the results of his extensive efforts at the fair next March.”
Aiming to showcase the diversity of both artistic production and the art system in China, the section will include curated presentations by some twenty artists coming from diverse generational and regional backgrounds, ranging from the "Stars" generation of the late 1970s through the booming post-Mao generation born after 1975. A program of talks will elaborate some of the key issues for contemporary art in China today, from the development of the institutional infrastructure to the ongoing diversification of the Chinese market.
The Armory Show is New York’s leading fair for modern and contemporary art. A seminal event in the annual New York arts calendar, the fair spearheads Armory Arts Week, a city-wide program of cultural events and exhibitions.  The Armory Show 2014 will again feature an acclaimed VIP program, a lively opening night party at the Museum of Modern Art and the engaging Open Forum discussion series. Next year’s fair will also coincide with the opening of the 2014 Whitney Biennial in early March, further enhancing the line-up of Armory Arts Week events planned in partnership with New York’s cultural institutions, and attracting a wide scope of international collectors, curators, scholars, and press.
NOTES TO EDITOR
About the Armory Focus Curator
Philip Tinari is director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. There he oversees an exhibition program devoted to established figures and rising talents both Chinese and international, aimed at UCCA's annual public of more than half a million visitors. Prior to joining UCCA he was editor-in-chief of LEAP, the international art magazine of contemporary China, which he founded and ran from 2009 to 2011. He has worked as China representative for Art Basel, contributing editor to Artforum, and lecturer in art criticism at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Tinari, who speaks fluent Mandarin, holds degrees from Duke and Harvard, and was a Fulbright fellow at Peking University.
About The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA)
The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art is an independent, not-for-profit art center serving a global Beijing public. Located at the heart of Beijing's 798 Art District, it was founded by the Belgian collectors Guy and Myriam Ullens and opened in November 2007. Through a diverse array of exhibitions with artists Chinese and international, established and emerging, as well as a wide range of public programs, UCCA aims to promote the continued development of the Chinese art scene, foster international exchange, and showcase the latest in art and culture to hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
The History of Armory Focus
Armory Focus was initiated in 2010 to highlight the contemporary gallery and artistic landscape from a specific geographic region. This unique section of the fair has quickly become one of the defining features of The Armory Show, presenting a survey of a region’s contemporary cultural practices as framed by a singular curatorial vision.
Armory Focus booths are located in a dedicated section on Pier 94 and associated projects will be presented throughout the fair. Talks and lectures will also be organized around topics pertinent to Armory Focus: China as part of The Armory Show’s popular Open Forum program of panels.
Armory Focus 2013: USA featured the following galleries: Churner and Churner, New York; CONNERSMITH, Washington DC; DODGEgallery, New York; Gagosian Gallery, New York; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach; The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York; Higher Pictures, New York / On Stellar Rays, New York; Invisible-Exports, New York; Magnan Metz, New York; Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco; Aisho Miura, Tokyo;  moniquemeloche, Chicago; Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco; Samson Projects, Boston; Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles.
Armory Focus 2012: Nordic Countries featured the following galleries: Galerie Anhava, Helsinki; Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen; Beaver Projects, Copenhagen; Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm; Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen; Crystal, Stockholm; D.O.R., Oslo;  Dortmund Bodega, Oslo; ELASTIC, Malmö; Fruit & Flower Deli, Stockholm;  i8, Reykjavik; IMO; Copenhagen; Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm; Christian Larsen, Stockholm; NOPlace, Oslo; Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen; David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen; Galleri Christian Torp, Oslo; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen.
Armory Focus 2011: Latin America featured the following galleries: A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro; Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago; Arroniz, Baro Gallery, Mexico City; Caja Blanca, Mexico City; Casa Triângulo, São Paulo; Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogotá; Lucia De La Puente, Lima; Faría Fábregas Galería, Caracas; Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Galeria Leme, São Paulo; Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires; Galeria Laura Marsiaj, São Paulo; Mendes Wood, São Paulo; Nueveochenta, Bogotá; Revolver Galeria, Lima; Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo and Vermelho, São Paulo.
Armory Focus 2010: Berlin featured the following galleries: Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Buchmann Galerie, carlier|gebauer, COMA, Galerie Crone, Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender, Johnen Gallery, KLEMM'S, Johann König, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Loock Galerie, Christian Nagel, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Produzentengalerie: ph-projects, Reception, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Esther Schipper, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Wentrup, Galerie Barbara Wien.
The Armory Show
The Armory Show, a leading international contemporary and modern art fair and one of the most important annual art events in New York, takes place every March on Piers 92 & 94 in central Manhattan. The Armory Show is devoted to showcasing the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its fifteen years the fair has become an international institution, combining a selection of the world's leading galleries with an exceptional program of arts events and exhibitions throughout New York during the celebrated Armory Arts Week.
2014 Fair Show Dates
March 6-9, 2014
Piers 92 & 94
Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street
New York City
Opening Hours
Wednesday, March 5th – VIP Preview for invited guests
Thursday, March 6 - Sunday, March 9, noon to 7 pm
Press Contact
Allison Rodman
Communications Manager
The Armory Show
(646) 616-7433
a.rodman@thearmoryshow.com

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THE HAGUE - GALLERY AP87 is proud to present PEACE UNLIMITED, a solo exhibition by internationally known artist Yigit Yazici, from September 18 to October 18, 2013.

GALLERY AP87
Yigit Yazici: PEACE UNLIMITED
September 18 – October 18, 2013


Opening reception: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 | 6pm (The artist will be present.)
GALLERY AP87 | Anna Paulownastraat 87 | The Hague, Netherlands
THE HAGUE - GALLERY AP87 is proud to present PEACE UNLIMITED, a solo exhibition by internationally known artist Yigit Yazici, from September 18 to October 18, 2013.

The show will feature ten paintings inspired by the artist’s personal journey to finding internal peace through the process of free association. Yazici emphasizes that an individual can only attain peace by knowing oneself and to understand oneself, you must be unconstrained and let yourself go through art. The symbols and brave colors found in Yazici’s paintings reflect his tenderness, his world, and inner peace.

PEACE UNLIMITED will coincide with events held by PEACE ONE DAY, a global organization that aims to support and promote world peace, with an opening reception on September 18th, 2013 starting at6:00 pm. In conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery will host an artist talk.

Yigit Yazici was born in 1969 in Bursa, Turkey. He studied painting and graduated from the faculty of Fine Arts in Mimar Sinan University in 1992. Since then he has taken part in over 70 exhibitions in Turkey, New York, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, Thailand and Switzerland, among other countries around the world. PEACE UNLIMITED will be Yazici’s first solo exhibition in Holland.

For more information about the artist and to see his other projects, please visit: www.yigityazici.com

Contact: Idil Tasbasli Yazici
pepelolipop@gmail.com
www.istanbulunlimited.com

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Mark Klett - Response To History: A 30 Year Retrospective September 12, 2013

Lisa Sette Gallery
 September 12, 2013
Mark Klett Response To History: A 30 Year Retrospective


Binh Danh - Yosemite
Mark Klett and Binh Danh
Top: Mark KlettContemplating the View at Muley Point, Utah, 5/13/94, 1994, gelatin silver print, 16" x 20", edition of 50
Bottom: Binh DanhBridalveil Fall, Yosemite, CA, May 04, 2012, Daguerreotype (in camera exposure), 6 1/2" x 8 1/2", unique


Exhibition Dates: November 7th - December 28th, 2013


Opening Reception with Mark Klett and Binh Danh
Thursday, November 7th, 2013 from 7 - 9pm


Lisa Sette Gallery presents two Arizona-based photographers whose works explore the sublime landscapes of the American West and the individual human narratives playing out within them.

A decades-long resident of Arizona, Mark Klett first came to the state as a geological researcher. He stayed on as a photographer, and for over three decades has documented the demanding environments and idiosyncrasies of life in the Southwest. Since his artistic project began in the 1970’s, Klett has received Guggenheim, NEA, and Governor’s Arts Awards, among many other accolades, and yet perhaps nothing is so indicative of his singular craft and aesthetic intention as his wide-ranging body of work, a selection of which will be included in an upcoming retrospective at Lisa Sette Gallery. From black and white photographs of discrete desert scenes, both alien and lovely, to the collage-like constructions of his “rephotographic panoramas” of the Grand Canyon, Klett’s works present the complicated attraction of the Western frontier and its enduring capacity for both inspiration and isolation.

Klett’s images are consummate depictions of the untamable, immeasurable Western horizon as it intersects with our human imagination and intervention. Often, Klett and his collaborators, chiefly Byron Wolfe, combine archival imagery, such as postcards or guidebooks, with new and original photographs, expanding well-known scenes of grandeur to even grander proportions, and compelling his viewers to risk massive and exhilarating perspectives. Humans become minor details in these scenes, silhouetted presences on the precipice of incomprehensibly vast landscapes. From this precarious vantage point, we may observe the inexorable series of deep-time geological changes and human involvements that define the American West.

As a child, Binh Danh examined photographs of National Parks as a way of escaping the boredom of working in his father’s television repair shop. Yet he had never visited his home state’s own inaugural park until he embarked on the series of exquisite daguerreotype images that make up the photographer’s Yosemite series. Danh, who grew up in suburban California after his family fled the turmoil in Vietnam in the 1970s, has commented that until recently, “Yosemite, like the Vietnam war, only existed in my imagination because I only saw the landscape in photographs.”

Lately that dream-like landscape has been threatened by wildfires and Binh Danh’s unique daguerreotypes remind us of the precious quality of a pristine wilderness that can be lost at any moment.

Danh is well known for his rigorous photographic experimentation, having previously innovated a method of printing images on living leaves in order to create a botanical archive of victims of the atrocities in Vietnam and Cambodia. Similarly, creation of the Yosemite series involved outfitting a specialized van for the on-site creation of large-scale daguerreotypes and spending many seasons camping and working from within the park.

An in-camera exposure that is chemically etched on silver-coated copper plates, the daguerreotype is a difficult and early photographic process resulting in photographic objects with mirror-like reflective surfaces. Danh’s images of well-known sites, such as Bridalveil Fall, are both transportingly gorgeous and eerily mutable, as we see our own faces, and the faces of people around us, reflected in their sublime surfaces. In Danh’s re-envisioning, these much-photographed scenes of American splendor become unique, individual representations of the multitude of experiences of the American West, from the vistas of Yosemite to the suburban daydreams of a young immigrant artist.
Lisa Sette Gallery maintains a very active exhibition schedule, mounting approximately 10 exhibitions a year ranging in theme and genre.  For nearly 30 years, the gallery has been committed to showcasing a range of contemporary photography, sculpture, painting, installation and performance art. 
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Susan Marx exhibits paintings of Israel at the A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, 24 West 57 Street

Abstract Impressionist Susan Marx - The Israel Paintings
Paintings of Jerusalem and the Negev Desert
A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery
 24 West 57 Street, 6th floor, New York, NY 10019
October 1 – October 26, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 11:00 am – 5 pm.
 Opening reception, Thursday, October 10, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
 
Susan Marx exhibits paintings of Israel at the A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, 24 West 57 Street, 6th floor, New York, NY 10019,October 1 -26, 2013. Opening Reception October 10.
On exhibit will be six paintings, scenes of Jerusalem and the Negev, painted en plein air, on site in Israel this past summer, July 2013. 
Marx is an Abstract Impressionist.  Her art comes from her radical amazement at the visual world around her, and her need to turn that visual experience into paint.  Israel is a place of great meaning for her.   The emotion of being in Israel comes through on each canvas.  They are a passionate depiction of Jerusalem and the Negev. The canvases are colorful emotional interpretations with paint-filled brushstrokes of a land that she loves.   
Speaking about her work, Marx says:  “I love color.  I see color everywhere.  I am drawn to a specific spot and look and look and look.  I load up my palette, pick up a brush, holding it as a conductor would hold his baton, and begin.  At that point, I don’t speak to the canvas, instead the canvas speaks to me.  I smell the air and the landscape in front of me.  I am transported.  I paint but lose the concept of time.  Fast, faster, passionately painting, furiously painting.  I cannot get the colors down fast enough.   Then suddenly I need air.   I stop and step back to look at my canvas one last time.  The painting is done. 
 
“I try to capture the essence in my painting, the color and the emotion, and leave the rest to the viewer’s imagination, to bring him into the painting.
“Someone once said I work to the muse of Monet, Van Gogh and Joan Mitchell; I was thrilled.  They helped guide me to develop my own personal visual expression and style to share with the world.”
Susan Marx is represented by and exhibits at the A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, the Agora Gallery, 520 West 25th Street and the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, 531 West 25th Street in New York City.  She has also exhibited at the Fox Gallery, the Keane Mason Gallery and The Emerging Collector in New York and in New Jersey at the Robin Hutchins Gallery, the Korby Gallery, the Hait Gallery, Nitsa Fine Arts, the Marino Gallery, The Art Gallery of South Orange, The Gaelen Gallery East, The Tenth Muse, and The Right Angle.  She exhibited in Paris at the Musée des Duncan.  In Israel, she showed her work at the Museum of Printing Art in Safed and at the Artist's House in Jerusalem. 
Marx's paintings are is in private collections in the United States and abroad. She lives in Orange, NJ and volunteers at the Montclair Art Museum and the Newark Museum.

Artist’s website: www.susanmarxartist.com

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