Friday, June 19, 2015

The Sky to the North

NEW BALSIC MOON TO THE WESTERN SKY

ED PASCHKE AND ZHOU BROTHERS”



THE ED PASCHKE ART CENTER AND ZHOU B ART CENTER 

PRESENTS A UNIQUE MULTI-VENUE EXHIBITION 
“JOURNEY TO ART:  ED PASCHKE AND ZHOU BROTHERS”

Sunday, June 21, 2015 
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. – Paschke in the Park Family Event The Ed Paschke Art Center will build on the success of last summer’s free, family friendly event and host an all day event featuring a public installation of the Zhou Brothers sculptural works in Jefferson Memorial Park (4822 N. Long Ave., Chicago, IL), adjacent to EPAC. The event will also be the public opening for “Journey to Art: Zhou Brothers.”


"Nothing like this has ever been done before, and the Zhou Brothers would never do anything like this for anyone but Ed,” said Vesna K. Stelcer, chair of the Ed Paschke Foundation. “The generosity and daring of this exchange is a testament to their relationship, and it perfectly embodies EPAC's inaugural year."
Image Credit: Ed Paschke, Red Boxer, 2004, Oil on linen, 50 inches x 60 inches.

About Ed Paschke 

Born June 22, 1939 and raised on the North side of Chicago, Ed Paschke's father's sketches and Disney animation drew him to art at an early age. He earned his BFA in 1961 and MFA in 1970, both from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). He established his reputation as a leading artist of his generation early on, and began showing at the Hyde Park Art Center with a rotating cast of artists. Soon dubbed the Chicago Imagists, they were recognized for their works highly finished surfaces and busy compositions. Ultimately, Paschke would go on to distinguish himself by using tabloids and photographs as source material, as well as by adding a social or political dimension to much of his work. Paschke died suddenly in his sleep from heart failure on November 24, 2004 at the age of 65. His work is in countless private collections throughout the world, as well as major museums both here and abroad, including The Art Institute and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, among others.

About the Ed Paschke Art Center

The Mission of the Ed Paschke Art Center is to preserve and provide public access to the work of the legendary Ed Paschke; to serve as an educational resource for youth, adults, artists and academics; and to function as an accessible platform for artists to showcase their work.


The Center has been funded through the generous support of The Rabb Family
Foundation and includes partnerships with the 3M Company, the School of the Art Institute and the Block Museum of Art.

About the Zhou Brothers 

Before leaving China in 1986, the Zhou Brothers had become nationally recognized contemporary artists with shows in the National Museum of Art, Beijing; the Museum of Art, Nanjing; the Shanghai Museum of Art; the Guiling Art Museum; and the Guanxi Art Museum in Naning. The Zhou Brothers then went to achieve international acclaim, opening shows in the United States and Europe. The Brothers work collaboratively on each piece they create, often communicating in a dream dialogue. In 1973 DaHuang and ShanZuo finished their first painting together, The Wave, and have created art in multiple media together since. In 1986, the Brothers moved to the United States and settled in the Bridgeport neighborhood where they retain a private residence and studio. The Zhou Brothers founded the Zhou B Art Center in 2004, hoping to create a platform in Bridgeport for artists and international dialogues.

About the Zhou B Art Center 
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The Zhou B Art Center was founded in 2004 by the internationally acclaimed Zhou Brothers. Located in Bridgeport, the Zhou B Art Center's mission is to promote and facilitate a cultural dialogue by organizing contemporary art exhibitions and programs of international scope. As a Center created by artists, for artists, the vision of the Center is to facilitate the exchange of contemporary art between Chicago and the international art community and promote the convergence of Eastern and Western art forms in the United States.

The Zhou B Art Center provides galleries, studio spaces, and a collaborative creative environment to a thriving community of talented artists. The primary purpose of the Zhou B Art Center is to nurture the creativity and growth of its nearly 50 resident artists. The Center is also home to some of the most thought-provoking and cutting edge exhibitions in the city. On the Third Friday of each month, the Center hosts a free exhibition and open studio event where families can explore its main exhibitions, galleries, and resident artists' studios. This event is the perfect opportunity for Chicagoans and tourists to support the local and international artists involved with the Zhou B Art Center.

Catch Scope Art Basel opens today

Monday, June 15, 2015

For those in the art game this is a must read: At Art Basel, a Powerful Jury Controls the Market, Graham Bowely, New York Times /614/ Via Flip






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A Warhol “fright wig” self-portrait sold at Art Basel last year for around $34 million.CreditHarold Cunningham/Getty Images
The hundreds of gallery owners who apply each year to secure a coveted booth at Art Basel, the Swiss art fair, spend weeks on their admission applications. They describe the evolution of their galleries, track the history of their exhibitions and list the biographies of their artists. Then there is the matter of the “mock booths,” intricate sketches, miniature models, even virtual tours, of their planned exhibition spaces, complete with tiny reproductions of the exact works they hope to exhibit.
All to impress the fair’s selection jury, six fellow dealers who have become among the most powerful gatekeepers — and tastemakers — in the art world.
“It is like the Olympics,” said the New York dealer Fergus McCaffrey, “or the European Champions League, and every good gallery and their artists wants desperately to compete.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/arts/design/at-art-basel-a-powerful-jury-controls-the-market.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-3&action=click&contentCollection=Arts&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&configSection=article&isLoggedIn=false&pgtype=Blogs

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

GUGGENHEIM PRESENTS MAJOR ALBERTO BURRI RETROSPECTIVE: October 9, 2015_January 6, 2016



GUGGENHEIM PRESENTS MAJOR ALBERTO BURRI RETROSPECTIVE

First Exhibition in the United States in Over 35 Years Devoted to the Italian Artist 

Exhibition:
Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting
Venue:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue, New York
Location:
Full rotunda
Dates:
October 9, 2015_January 6, 2016





(NEW YORK, NY–June 10, 2015)—From October 9, 2015, to January 6, 2016, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present a major retrospective—the first in the United States in more than thirty-five years and the most comprehensive in this country—devoted to the work of Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915–1995). Exploring the beauty and complexity of Burri’s process-based works, the exhibition positions the artist as a central protagonist of post–World War II art and revises traditional narratives of the cultural exchanges between the United States and Europe in the 1950s and ’60s. Burri broke with the gestural, painted surfaces of both American Abstract Expressionism and European Art Informel by manipulating unorthodox pigments and humble, prefabricated materials. A key figure in the transition from collage to assemblage, Burri barely used paint or brush, and instead worked his surfaces with stitching and combustion, among other signal processes. With his torn and mended burlap sacks, “hunchback” canvases, and melted industrial plastics, Burri often made allusions to skin and wounds, but in a purely abstract idiom. The tactile quality of his work anticipated Post-Minimalist and feminist art of the 1960s, while his red, black, and white “material monochromes” defied notions of purity and reductive form associated with American formalist modernism. Bringing together more than one hundred works, including many that have never before been seen outside of Italy, the exhibition demonstrates how Burri blurred the line between painting and sculptural relief and created a new kind of picture-object that directly influenced Neo-Dada, Process art, and Arte Povera. 

Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting is organized by Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Guest Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, with support from Megan Fontanella, Associate Curator, Collections and Provenance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the collaboration of Carol Stringari, Deputy Director and Chief Conservator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. 


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Garis & Hahn presents: Yale MFA Painting and Printmaking Graduates 2015 / July 1-August 8th


Garis & Hahn presents:
Yale MFA Painting and Printmaking Graduates 2015 


Sarah Faux, Untitled, 2015, oil on canvas, 56 x 50 inches

A Group Exhibition Curated by David Humphrey
Exhibition Dates: July 1-August 8, 2015
Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 1st | 6-8 p.m.

June 10, 2015 (New York, NY) – Garis & Hahn is pleased to present Yale MFA Painting and Printmaking MFA Graduates 2015, a group exhibition curated by Yale critic and professor, David Humphrey. The 21-person exhibition will present new painting, sculpture, and video works by: Henry Chapman, Maria Cornejo, Brandon Cox, Katherine Davis, Sarah Faux, Sean Fitzgerald, Marcela Florido, Danielle Friedman, Patrick Groth, Camille Hoffman, Fox Hysen, Marisa Manso, Johanna Povirk-Znoy, Luke Rogers, Tschabalala Self, Martha Tuttle, Samantha Vernon, David Walsh, William Warden, Kyle Williams and Luyi Xu. The gallery will host a reception at 263 Bowery on Wednesday, July 1st from 6 to 8 p.m.

Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA Graduates 2015 is unorthodox in presenting an entire MFA class in a New York City gallery exhibition upon graduation and a special opportunity for New York audiences to see a curated selection of work by this fresh group of artists emerging from the highly influential Yale MFA program. Curator David Humphrey further contextualizes the show, stating, “MFA programs are a rolling social experiment engaged in a conversation about what matters. No one can know how the two-year chemistry will play out, but it will surely be unpredictable and new art will happen.”

Abstract and abstracted figurative painting make up the majority of the work in the exhibition, with many of the artists mixing the two approaches in various ratios. Sarah Faux, who exhibited previously in Garis & Hahn’s Dying on Stage: New Painting in New York 2013 survey of New Casualism, visually articulates the boundaries between the abstract and figurative in her work. Through unfocused, re-arranged, and disembodied anthropomorphic constructions she examines the human body and the viewer’s psychic connection to it rendered in painting. Her newest Untitled paintings depict a mix of recognizable forms, but ultimately only give the impression of a body, making the paint itself and the artist’s gestures the primary subject.

Brandon Cox, who has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions in New York already, is known for a body of work that examines contemporary issues surrounding identity, racial, sexual and institutional politics. His mixed-media works selected for this exhibition include upwards of 10 materials used in one piece alone, including handmade paper, glitter, and linen in abstract compositions both earthen and urban, reminiscent of the late 1960s and early 1970s Italian Arte Povera movement. 

Tschabalala Self takes a similar approach, filtered through an individual's sense of identity within a community, referencing her own and other black female bodies to contextualize the iconography they represent within contemporary culture. The roughed out quality of her work makes garish Western culture’s voyeuristic tendencies toward the gendered and racialized body, and the duality of fetishization and censure directed at it. 

When considering how best to interpret this body of work selected from such a diverse and varied group of artists, Humphrey draws on an analogy of states of matter, with each student represented as a particle, “well separated and moving freely at high speeds when in a gas state, sliding past each other in a liquid state and tightly packed into a regular pattern, vibrating without movement when solid.”  For the occasion of this exhibition, these artists are packed together in one final solid state, just before they ultimately break out in their liquid or gaseous futures.

About Garis & Hahn
Garis & Hahn is a gallery-cum-Kunsthalle that mounts exhibitions focused on conceptual narratives and relevant conversations in contemporary art. By displaying an array of carefully curated artists, the gallery endeavors to provide accessibility, education, awareness, and a market to the art while engaging both the arts community and a broader general audience.

Location:
Garis & Hahn
263 Bowery
New York, NY 10002

Contact:
P. 212.228.8457
F. 917.720.9851

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 11-7*
*Starting July 1st through August 8th the gallery will be open Tuesday – Saturday, 11-6

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

ANNUAL WAREHOUSE SALE, Sag Harbor, 6/13th &14th Look like fun !

ANNUAL WAREHOUSE SALE







Paintings, Prints, Ceramics, and Photos  sale next Saturday and Sunday
 June 13th and 14th from 9am to 3pm
6 Bay Street Sag Harbor, NY

 located in the side garage of 6 bay streetKEYES ARTSWWW.JULIEKEYESARTS.COM917-509-1379

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

In the Taos area: The 11th Annual Gala Exhibition and Auction (on display from June 30 through August 28)

FREE TO ENTER

CALL FOR ARTISTS: Deadline May 30
JURIED EXHIBITION AND AUCTION


The Taos Art Museum at Fechin House is situated in the historic home that Russian painter Nicolai Fechin created and ornamented for his family from 1927 to 1933.

The 11th Annual Gala Exhibition and Auction (on display from June 30 through August 28) will showcase artists from across the US and abroad who find inspiration in Fechin’s legacy, Taos, and the creative traditions of the Southwest. 


Juror: Nedra Matteucci
Born in a small farming community in southeastern New Mexico, Nedra Matteuccihad a passion for art from an early age and learned about the art world by working in the gallery she now owns. At the time it was known as the Fenn Gallery. She opened her own gallery on Canyon Road in 1986 and two years later purchased the Fenn Gallery, renaming it Nedra Matteucci Galleries. Widely recognized for its outstanding standards of quality and professionalism, the gallery specializes in 19th and 20th-century American art, including artists of the American West and Taos Society Artists.

Who Should Apply
Artists who are inspired by the American Southwest and wish their artwork to be seen by a nationally recognized curator/juror.

Media
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Photography
  • Printmaking
  • Craft
  • Sculpture
Promotion
Accepted artwork will be promoted in the Museum’s press and Gala program literature and online, and sold in festive live and silent auctions at the Gala.

Terms and Conditions
  • No submission fee
  • Original artwork only
  • Maximum number of submissions per artist: 3
  • All art must be framed, dry, and exhibition-ready at time of submission
  • Artwork must not exceed 3’ in any dimension, or 50 pounds
  • All accepted artwork will be for sale
  • Minimum reserve price: up to 50% of retail value, maximum
  • Artist’s commission: up to 40% of sale price
  • Artist is responsible for return shipping costs for unsold artwork
  • Shipped artwork must be sent in reusable materials that will serve for return
  • Taos Art Museum reserves the right to reproduce accepted artwork
  • Term of payment: 30 days from end of event
  • Juror’s decisions are final, no late submissions, revisions, or changes.
Key Dates
  • In-person submission dates: Friday 5/29 and Saturday 5/30, 11 am – 5 pm
  • Deadline for electronic submissions: Saturday 5/30
  • Notification: Thursday 6/4 and Friday 6/5
  • Pick-up declined submissions: Thursday 6/11 and Friday 6/12, 11 am – 5 pm
  • Delivery deadline for accepted, shipped artwork: Tuesday 6/26
  • Pick-up unsold artwork: Friday 9/4 and Saturday 9/5, 11 am – 5 pm
  • Return of shipped artwork: week of 9/7
  • Please note: all artwork must be retrieved on pick-up dates.
  • Artwork not claimed by September 9 will become property of the Museum.
How to Submit
In person:
1. Download Entry Form in PDF or Word: See the website for form links.
2. Fill out two copies of Entry Form for each submission (one copy will serve as your receipt)
3. Bring forms and submissions to 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte on 5/29 or 5/30, 11 am – 5 pm

Online:
1. Download Entry Form in PDF or Word: See the website for form links.
2. Fill out one Entry Form for each submission
3. Provide one jpg image, no larger than 1 MB, for each submission (no details, please)
4. Attach Entry Form(s) and image(s) to one email with subject line “Gala Submission”
5. Send Gala Submission email to taosartmuseumgala@gmail.com