The Museum of Russian Art Saturday, March 1, 2014, 4:00 - 6:00 PM

The Museum of Russian Art           Saturday, March 1, 2014,   4:00 - 6:00 PM    80 Grand St. Jersey City, NJ 07302   (near Exchange Place Path train Subway station)    For directions, click here. Nonconformist Diaspora: Unofficial Soviet Art in the United States MORA presents    Anna Gurfinkel, lecture "Nonconformist Diaspora: The 1974 Bulldozer Exhibition" Screening of clips from the BBC Documentary "The Art of Russia" Panel Discussion "Societal Implications of Unofficial Soviet Art in the United States" Opening Reception  Art Exibition and Photography by Nina Alovert and Natasha Sharymova   The purpose of this project is to increase awareness of issues of immigration, censorship in the arts and radical socio-political movements spurred by repressive governmental institutions on example of former USSR. All participants will have outstanding knowledge or personal experience with Communist Russia of 20th century and seeking refuge for creative and expressive purposes in the United States. The focus of these programs will be on the struggle of expression amidst the repressive confines of the USSR.   This program was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. MORA / Museum of Russian Art 80 Grand St. Jersey City, NJ 07302 (near Exchange Place Path train Subway station) For directions, click here. For more information contact Margo Grant: (917) 449-2842 or visit our website: www.moramuseum.org #fineartmagazine

Speakeasy Art Gallery presents: Anthony "Weird Eye" One : Something Wild March 7 - 30 Please join us for the opening reception: Friday, March 7, 6-9pm Anthony "Weird Eye" One (DeBenedictis) is a painter, a muralist and a street artist, working out ofAtlantic Highlands, New Jersey and originally from Newark. Anthony has become known over the years for painting large box-shaped characters on walls, inside abandoned buildings and pretty much everywhere he was able to. Also, for many years, he has been putting up homemade tiny wood panels with creepy & funny faces drawn on them, usually brightly painted. They can be found almost anywhere on the East Coast, high up on buildings, on signs, even stuck to trees deep in the woods near a trail, and sometimes on trucks and trains. One of Anthony's favorite creative outlets is being outside painting murals, both commissions and at his own "secret" walls, and usually from April until the end of November, he splits his time between painting murals & working in his studio. For many years, Anthony's fine art has focused on abstract patterns & illustration, usually around the characters he painted on walls. So about a year ago, he decided it was time for a change, and slowly shifted away from those box-shaped characters and focused more on "real" objects like animals and a mix of pop-culture, in addition to patterns which have become more intricate and organic. Additionally, his illustration style has become more detailed and a bit rugged much like the jaggedness of tree branches. His murals are also more focused on organic "flowing" patterns and textures as well. Backgrounds & negative space in his art are similar to what you may see in Jackson Pollock paintings, except Anthony splatters the paint in a way to show "movement and motion". Most of Anthony's fine art is painted & illustrated on both paper and his own homemade wood panels, and he uses a mix of spray paint, acrylics, gouache and homemade inks that he makes in his studio. Anthony weird*eye*one's new body of work, "Something Wild" focuses on all things beautiful & scary that you may find in the outside world, where he spends most of his time, both hanging out and painting. #fineartmagazine

Kashya Hildebrand Gallery

ZF green dance with blue purple copper 11 2013-2 2014, 3 views, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 160 x 160 cm

Private Preview – Wednesday, 26 February, 2014, 6-8pm
Robert Schaberl
Spectrum of Light
27 February – 29 March 2014
Exhibition Preview
Press Release
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Spectrum of Light marks Austrian painter Robert Schaberl’s first show in London, and features a selection of new works. At the centre of the artist’s practice is an alchemical investigation of colour and the way in which it behaves. He pushes the boundaries of our knowledge about the properties of colour and its interaction with light, and, ultimately, the viewer. Without light there is no colour, yet here, Schaberl reminds us of the importance of the viewer and their perspective. The sophistication and complexity of the work suggests that the viewer plays an integral role in its interpretation. Schaberl’s interest in colour – and its subsequent interplay with light – stems from a long-term fascination with movement. Schaberl works with Iriodin – an industrial pearl lustre pigment used in everything from car manufacturing to the cosmetics industry. By combining it with paint pigments, he creates a subtle yet infinite spectrum of colour, allowing the viewer a variety of perspectives. In doing so, he seeks to create a moment in time between the artwork and the viewer, a connection during which the painting reveals itself within a spectrum of dancing, refracting light.


Final Week for Current Exhibitions:

LONDON
Marwan Sahmarani
Black Moon
10 January - 23 February 2014
Exhibition View
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In Black Moon, we see Sahmarani’s renewed focus on the medium of oil paint itself. The landscapes of Spain are brought into dialogue with the political climate of Lebanon through canvas and oil paint. What also unites these two bodies of work is an expressive and two-fold exploration of violence: the violence of nature and its man-made counterpart. The canvases on oil depict freer forms and use thick impasto amassing textures, which reveal abstract images and patterns through the application of heavier brush strokes and bolder and more integrated colours.

LONDON – PROJECT SPACE
Lisa Ross
Behind the Dunes
Extended until 23 February
Exhibition View
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Marking the first show in the gallery’s new Project Space, Behind the Dunes draws its inspiration from a 10-year project on which artist Lisa Ross worked in and around the Taklamakan Desert of China’s far northwest. Here Ross reveals a little known religious tradition in Xinjiang China with its desert shrines to Sufi saints and Muslim pilgrimage sites. Copies of her new book, Living Shrines of Uyghur China, are also available at the gallery.


Upcoming Exhibitions:

LONDON
Nobuhiro Nakanishi: Reticulated Time
2 April-10 May 2014


Upcoming Art Fairs:

Art London, 28 February – 2 March 2014
Art Dubai, 19 – 22 March 2014

REGINA SAURA: Through The Forest

REGINA SAURA: Through The Forest

March 6 - 31, 2014

Opening reception:

Saturday, March 8, 5:00-7:00 PM

February 19, 2014 – Campton Gallery is pleased to present Through The Forest, a large-scale installation of 15 mixed-media paintings by Regina Saura, stretched to form a single 85-foot canvas mural. The immersive tableau was custom designed by Saura to fit the Soho gallery space. The landscape installation also includes lettering and flourishes painted directly on the walls.  

Through The Forest has been in progress for more than a year, which the artist began in her countryside studio in Catalonia, surrounded by the Mediterranean coastal grove that served as inspiration. Saura executes natural colors and forms that are both exuberant and subtle, juxtaposing muted earth tones with bold brushstrokes. Her sophisticated composition and balance of shape and line are the true hallmark of a master landscape painter who has come into her own. Using oil paint, scraping, silkscreen, lithography and collage, the artist presents a mural of staggering proportion that begs repeated viewings.

Regina Saura (b.1955, Barcelona) is a mixed-media artist who has been exhibiting internationally since 1984. Her interpretive landscape and still-life works are shown in solo gallery exhibitions throughout Europe, US and Japan. She receives numerous public commissions, including a permanent mural in L’Illa Diagonal in Barcelona.

Exhibition dates and hours:

Thursday, March 6

Late hours: 11 am - 8 pm

Friday, March 7 through Monday, March 31

Regular hours: Monday - Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm; Sunday, 12 pm - 6 pm

Opening reception:

Saturday, March 8, 5 - 7 pm

Artist in attendance

For more information visit www.camptongallery.com

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OBRAS DE ROSA BRUN en el stand de Pilar Serra

OBRAS DE ROSA BRUN                                   en el stand de Pilar Serra                                           ARCO 2014, Madrid #fineartmagazine

NOHRA HAIMEGALLERY

NOHRA HAIMEGALLERY  HUGO TILLMAN BETWIXT AND BETWEEN  Reception for the artist: Wednesday, February 19th from 6 to 8 p.m.    LUNGS, 2014, C Print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 50 in.  101.6 x 127 cm. February 19 - March 29, 2014

NOHRA  HAIME  GALLERY 730 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10019 212-888-3550  FAX 212-888-7869 gallery@nohrahaimegallery.com #fineartmagazine

Rosa Brun

nina menocal projects www.ninamenocal.com gobernador rafael rebollar #56 col. san miguel chapultepec, mexico city 11850

Merrill Steiger

Merrill Steiger 

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Opening Reception: Thursday, March 6th, 6 - 8 pm

Walter Wickiser Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Merrill Steiger, from March 1st to March 29th, 2014. 

An opening reception for Merrill Steiger, will be held on Thursday, March 6th, from 6 - 8 pm. For further information please contact the gallery at (212) 941 - 1817, Tuesday through Saturday, 11am - 6 pm.

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"I Am Syria" Exhibition

"I Am Syria" Exhibition  Rogue Foundation's art project with Syrian Children Opening Benefit Reception,  Thursday March 20 Rogue Space | Chelsea 508 W 26th St, 9th fl Continuing its mission working with children in conflict zones, Rogue Foundation completed an art project with Syrian refugee children in camps close to the Lebanese border in November. An exhibition of the children's paintings will be held at Rogue Space | Chelsea March 20-24 with all proceeds from art sales being returned to fund a program of trauma support for children who have been affected by the conflict.   The children are survivors from a siege by government troops that leveled the city of Qusayr, 10 Km from the Lebanese border.  In addition to the casualties inflicted by the bombing, even more refugees were killed at they fled towards neighboring Lebanon, snipered continuously from the air and by ground troops. Long Journey The 10km journey to the border took 8 days, mostly by cover of dark, as refugees crawled through underbrush to avoid detection.  Few families survived without at least one fatality.  On arrival in Lebanon, families were then arrested and imprisoned by Lebanese authorities and held for weeks in overcrowded prisons before being released to build their own camps.  They are not recognized as refugees by Lebanon where they now number over a million in a country with a population of 3 million.  The conflict in Syria is now being recognized as the worst genocide of the 21st century since fighting began in Syria, April 2011. The key image of the show is a 12 foot long canvas depicting the children's footprints in paint, more dense at the beginning and thinning towards the end to reflect the loss of lives incurred in their migration.      The children were asked to paint memories of their life in Syria and of the life they hoped to live in Lebanon. You are invited to an exhibition of their work.  Paintngs and drawings are priced between $100-$200 and all funds are returned directly to the children to further their education.      Rogue Foundation is socially conscious organization founded by Rogue Space | Chelsea gallery owner and documentary filmmaker Kevin O'Hanlon.  Its goal is to empower children in conflict zones and challenged environments around the world through creativity and creative solution finding.    Expanding on the "I Am Haiti" and "I Am Afghanistan" projects, the "I Am Syria" is a collaboration with and is in support of the NGO Relief and Reconciliation for Syria.      Rogue Foundation's mission is to empower children in conflict zones around the world by giving them the tools and encouragement to create art and, by extension, to seek creative solutions to their challenges.  Previous projects took art supplies and teachers to work with children in Haiti after the 2011 earthquake, with children living in homeless shelters in New York and in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Projects are forthcoming in Egypt, Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Bangladesh.  Established by filmmaker and Rogue Space | Chelsea gallery owner Kevin O'Hanlon, Rogue Foundation is supported by shows and events at Rogue Space | Chelsea, a gallery in the heart of New York's Chelsea gallery district.   For further information please contact: Kevin O'Hanlon info@RogueFoundation.org  +1 212-751-2210 roguefoundation.org  Drawing Hope Documentary Series Promo Drawing Hope is a new documentary series from documentary filmmaker Kevin OHanlon focusing on creativity as a positive response in some of the world's most challenging environments. The series introduces us to political climates around the world through the daily personal experience of a selected creative. Each episode reveals their creative inclinations and processes and how they are shaped by the conflict they witness. Creative resilience is constantly reinforced as a message that hope endures.The series intends to illuminate the politics of conflict from a grassroots, personal perspective and cultivate an awareness that in the midst of great upheaval and challenge there is also a constant stream of creative innovation which empowers us and future generations. Upcoming projects take place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Burma, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.       #fineartmagazine

Merrill Steiger

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