Phillips Dropshop Announces First Bronze Sculpture by Emily Mae Smith, Gazer

Phillips Dropshop Announces First Bronze Sculpture by Emily Mae Smith, Gazer   To be Exclusively Released on 10 October at 10am   Close up of Gazer   NEW YORK – 3 OCTOBER 2023 – Phillips’ October Drop features Emily Mae Smith’s first bronze sculpture, Gazer. The Drop will take place on 10 October on dropshop.phillips.com at 10am. Known for her virtuosic paintings featuring surreal images, art historical references, and wry commentary, Gazer takes inspiration from many of the same subjects as her paintings, ranging in influence from the Arts and Crafts movement to surrealism. Gazer is a sculpture representing a traditionally useful, yet humble tool – a broom, relieved of their labor duties, and elevated to a moment of leisure and self-reflection having emerged in this new setting.   Emily Mae Smith said, “I have always painted about the potential of objects. This is why I often say my work is most related to still life. It was only a matter of time until one of my subjects emerged in three dimensions. Gazer revisits a beloved theme from my oeuvre – a broom with a mirror. This subject first appears in my work in a 2015 painting titled The Mirror and appears again in my 2020 painting Cassiopeia, the model for this sculpture. Mirrors, portals, and windows recur in my work to speak about subjects such as the gaze, voyeurism, objectification, power, and agency. This broom with the mirror symbolizes a powerful transformation – a common tool gazes at themself in an act of self-love and recognition of possibility beyond the intentions of their maker.   With this sculpture I wanted to work in a material as enduring and historic as oil painting, thus Gazer is bronze; a storied, weighty medium able to hold a myriad of patinas. My utmost respect and gratitude go to the master craftspeople at the foundry who have spent many hours with me and are painstakingly executing each of these bronze works through the magic of metallurgy. Gazer invites the viewer on a journey through the art historical cannon in the timeless interplay of form and symbolism as seen from the Arts & Crafts movement to the Surrealists to new millennium imagists like myself.”   ABOUT THE ARTIST Emily Mae Smith’s slyly humorous and riveting compositions nod to art historical movements such as Symbolism and Art Nouveau, with a distinctly 21st century spin. Her genre-defying work operates through a lexicon of signs and symbols to address timely subjects including gender, class, and violence. Smith tackles art history’s patriarchal myths and creates from a feminist perspective. Emily Mae Smith is represented by Petzel, Perrotin, Rodolphe Janssen, and Contemporary Fine Arts.   Smith has had solo shows at Pond Society (2023); Petzel, NY (2022); Perrotin, Paris (2021); Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (2021); Savannah College of Art and Design (2020); Marion Art Gallery, Rockefeller Arts Center (2020), among others. Select, recent group exhibitions include: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2022); The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (2022); 58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale (2021); Columbus Museum of Art (2021). Smith’s work is included in collections such as The Brooklyn Museum; Columbus Museum of Art; The Consortium Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; MOCA Los Angeles; Museum Brandhorst; Pond Society; Powerlong Art Museum; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.

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THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM ANNOUNCES A LOVE SUPREME January 20 – April 28, 2024

THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM ANNOUNCES

A LOVE SUPREME

January 20 – April 28, 2024

 

(October 2, 2023 - CHICAGO) The Elmhurst Art Museum is proud to announce A Love Supreme, a solo exhibition by Norman Teague inspired by legendary jazz musician John Coltrane, with an adjoining intervention in Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House by Chicago-based BIPOC designers. Teague uses Coltrane’s album “A Love Supreme” as a personal, cultural, and spiritual touchstone to consider design influences from his life-long home in Chicago, exploring how the power of bold improvisational jazz and unapologetic Black aesthetics have expanded the minds and inspired creative communities of color. Celebrating BIPOC designers and a variety of cultural influences in Chicago at a time when the country is reckoning with racial inequities in representation across industries and disciplines, A Love Supreme takes place at the Elmhurst Art Museum from January 20 to April 28, 2024.

 

In A Love Supreme, the main galleries will feature new works with African-influenced objects. The solo exhibition culminates in Teague’s version of a large-scale African round house containing multiple organically designed objects that nod to his Midwest influences, like the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the Wall of Respect, and sculptor Martin Puryear.

 

In the McCormick House, Teague asks, “What is your Coltrane story? Who awakened you personally and artistically?” Work in the McCormick House will include furniture, blown glass, and custom leather pieces that transform the house from the picture of upper-class, white suburban living to a space celebrating alternative aesthetics, including acknowledgments of overlooked historical figures from Chicago reimagined through an alternative lens by BIPOC architects, designers, and artists.

 

“I believe there is a quest for craft from the imaginations of Black America that needs to be heard, seen, and felt as safe, desired, and beautiful. And it can only come from us. This turning point of awareness in American history will only get greater as time goes on—and design history will follow,” says Teague.

 

Teague and his collaborators will draw on their own history and cultural inspirations, including designers such as Chuck Harrison, sculptor Martin Puryear, and Emory Douglas. Throughout the exhibit, Teague mines the empowering musical legacy of the Civil Rights Era, acknowledges overlooked historical BIPOC figures, and creates opportunity for today’s generation to acknowledge and reclaim the historical absence of Black design history in America. A Love Supreme seeks to provide a new narrative about the bold, bright, and vast number of designers who are the future of American design.

 

In line with his highly collaborative practice, Teague in A Love Supreme will uplift other creatives while expressing joy through design, musical performances, public talks, and other creative expressions by designers and artists. Jazz and jazz-influenced performances throughout the run of the exhibition will further underline the influence of avant-garde music on Chicago design. 

 

A Love Supreme is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities. It is sponsored by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. A Love Supreme is supported in part by a grant from the League of Chicago Theatres and ComEd.

 

A Love Supreme: McCormick House Reimagined is co-curated by Norman Teague and Rose Camara. This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Chipstone Foundation.

 

ABOUT THE ELMHURST ART MUSEUM

The Elmhurst Art Museum is located at 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue in Elmhurst (IL), 25 minutes from downtown Chicago by car or public transportation (Metra). On the museum’s campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public.

The Museum is open Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Regular admission prices are $18 for adults (ages 18+), $15 for seniors, $10 for students, and $5 for children. For more information, please call 630.834.0202 or visit elmhurstartmuseum.org.

Image: Norman Teague, Installation view of “Objects for Change,” Art Center Highland Park, 2022. Courtesy the artist

Three-Artist Exhibition Bound by Nature

 Featuring: 

Dena Seiferling, Lisa Ericson, and Yulia Pustoshkina

L-R: “Bear and Mouse Music Box” by Dena Seiferling, “Territorial” by Lisa Ericson, and “Hunters' Pact” by Yulia Pustoshkina

Click here to download a sample of exhibit images     OPENING RECEPTION October 7, 2023 | 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm   ON VIEW October 7 – November 11, 2023   COREY HELFORD GALLERY 571 S. Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA 90033 Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm (310) 287-2340     On Saturday, October 7th, downtown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) will proudly unveil a three-artist show, titled Bound by Nature, featuring new works by Canadian illustrator and author Dena Seiferling, Portland-based hyperrealist naturepainter Lisa Ericson, and Russian born/Sydney-based painter Yulia Pustoshkina.    Regarding her new series, titled Small Creatures Big Feelings, Dena Seiferling shares:“This collection consists of a variety of imagery/sculpture work brought to life through self-reflection and an effort to use subject matter that inspires a bright side to dark emotions. The narratives are about finding ways to be hopeful and holding onto purpose in a climate of uncertainty. I wanted to highlight the empowerment in acknowledging parts of ourselves, or experiences that we are a little afraid of, through the animals I chose to feature.” Adding, “In this series, I embraced the slow-paced and time-intensive nature of needle-felting to focus on smaller sculptures meant to be viewed up close. In addition to using vintage or antique objects to create context for my sculptures with, I wanted to incorporate movement into several of the sculptures which involved a collaboration with my dad to build small crank devices to move parts of the sculptures.”   Seiferling is a highly acclaimed picture book author, illustrator, and needle-felt artist who graduated with a B.F.A. and Visual Communications Degree from the Alberta University of the Arts, where she now works as an educator. She is the illustrator of Night Lunch, written by Eric Fan, which was awarded a 2022 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Picture Book of the Year award. The Language of Flowers marked her debut as both author and illustrator.

“One Bat” and “Aster, Marigold, and Lavender (in detail)” by Dena Seiferling     Artist, illustrator, and designer Lisa Ericson blends her hyperrealist painting style with a vivid imagination, resulting in fantastical combinations of plants and animals. Regarding her new works, titled Doom & Bloom, Ericson shares: “The subjects in these pieces are survivors rising from the smallest of habitable spaces…or the last of their kind, barely holding on…again in the darkness. Exploring themes of deforestation, dwindling habitats, and the ravages of climate change on the natural world, all of these pieces live in the tension between darkness and light, hope and despair, doom and bloom. Which will win, we don’t yet know. We’re all on the precipice together.” She adds, “My ideas are often science-inspired, but with a surreal twist. I may read or hear about a scientific or environmental phenomenon and it provides a kernel of inspiration which can lead to a painting or an entire series. I use the black background to create the drama of the spotlight on my chosen subject. It singles them out, exposes their every tiny detail, and creates a void of the unknown around them. In that way, each piece becomes an intimate portrait. I think of the animals in my paintings as simultaneously representing the natural world and also reflecting our own human struggle and emotion. I like to draw parallels between the two.” “Edge of Night” and “Extinguish” by Lisa Ericson     Yulia Pustoshkina’s latest series of oil paintings, titled Meowzers, features feline family characters, and the inspiration for this choice of subject matter came from the artist's travels through Egypt and Japan. Despite the vast cultural differences between these two countries, both celebrate the nature of the cat animal. Cats are known for their enigmatic behavior, independence, and having a mind of their own. Pustoshkina's characters exhibit anthropomorphic characteristics, and the scene compositions suggest a story that allows the viewer to sense what is unfolding and pick up on the mood of the painting. The artist's signature style is infused with a flair of humor and the main objective of these artworks is to promote kindness and acceptance of all living creatures.   Pustoshkina's artistic style is naturally influenced by her Russian background. Her current painting technique is a result of extensive practice in working with miniature paintings, which are common in folklore depictions. She has managed to carry out high detailization of imagery onto large canvases as well and has come up with her own title for her artistic style, Folkloric Surrealism. The artist's anthropomorphic characters exhibit facial expressions and the viewer can pick up on the mood of the painting. The compositions add to the story that unfolds. The artist prefers that the viewer decides for themselves the interpretation of each artwork. Most often, her characters are on the go somewhere, which probably explains her own love for travel, where she picks up new inspirations for her work. Her main objective is for her paintings to bring joy and promote kindness and acceptance of all living creatures.  “Tiger of the Year” by Yulia Pustoshkina     Open to the public and free of charge, Bound by Nature is set to debut on Saturday, October 7th from 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm in CHG’s Gallery 3. Opening the same night in the Main Gallery will be a solo show by the award-winning, international renowned German artist duo Mark Landwehr and Sven Waschk [coarse], titled Because I Wanted You To Know, and a solo show by Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu, titled Parallelization Era. Plus, the gallery’s second installment of their Literartistry group show, Literartistry: Art Inspired by the Written Word will be premiering in Gallery 2. All shows will be on view through November 11th.   About Corey Helford Gallery: Established in 2006 by Jan Corey Helford and her husband, television producer/creator Bruce Helford (The Conners, Lopez vs. Lopez, Anger Management, The Drew Carey Show, and George Lopez), Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) has since evolved into one of the premier galleries of New Contemporary art. Its goal as an institution is to support the growth of artists, from the young and emerging, to the well-known and internationally established. CHG represents a diverse collection of international artists, primarily influenced by today's pop culture and collectively encompassing style genres such as New Figurative Art, Pop Surrealism, Neo Pop, Graffiti, and Street Art. Located in downtown Los Angeles (571 S. Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA 90033) in a robust 12,000 square-foot building, CHG presents new exhibitions approximately every six weeks. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm. For more info and an upcoming exhibition schedule, visit CoreyHelfordGallery.com and follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. For available prints from CHG, visit CHGPrints.com.   ###   For media inquiries, contact Chummy Press: Aaron Feterl | aaron@chummypress.com

Fremin Gallery Exhibits: Black For More, Nemi Jantzen, Jake Michael Singer. The show will run from October 12th to November 12th

Fremin Gallery  is delighted to present "BACK FOR MORE", a new exhibition featuring the works of NEMO JANTZEN and JAKE MICHAEL SINGER. (The show will run from October 12th to November 12th with an opening reception on Thursday, October 12th from 6 to 8pm). RSVP at info@fremingallery.com

NEMO JANTZEN "Camouflage" 55" x 59" Nails - One Thread

Nemo Jantzen is a visionary artist who has redefined the boundaries of creativity by embracing unconventional mediums - nails and a single thread and glass domes with photography. Those unique approach to art has captivated audiences worldwide, weaving intricate stories through his remarkable works of art. As he delved deeper into his artistry, Jantzen realized that the combination of nails and thread could produce astonishing textures and depth. He saw how each nail could be strategically placed to create a subtle or striking effect, and how a single thread could connect them all, like a lifeline to her creative vision. The work challenges traditional notions of art. His pieces transcend the two-dimensional canvas, taking on a three-dimensional form that left viewers in awe. Using nails and glass domes to build intricate structures, and the thread to weave together narratives that left an indelible mark on the hearts of those who experienced the art.

NEMO JANTZEN "Heat Wave" (White Edition) 62" x 65" Photographs - Glass spheres

Jantzen artistic journey is a testament to the power of imagination and innovation. Through his mastery of unusual mediums, he crafted a body of work that continues to inspire and challenge the boundaries of art. His legacy serves as a reminder that art knows no bounds, and that true creativity can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

The artist in the studio

Jake Michael Singer (b. 1991) experiments with a broad range of disciplines from photography to works on paper, and commands an exquisite mastery of sculpture. Drawing inspiration from the emergent behavior of flocking birds, where the individual is subsumed in the whole, and meditating on the timeless monumentality of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, his Murmurations series speaks to our time. Meticulously constructed, usingup to sixteen thousand meters of marine grade stainless steel for a single sculpture, the Murmurations series establishes his position as one of the leading young sculptors from Africa.

JAKE MICHAEL SINGER "Fresh Murmur" 37" x 27" x 27" Stainless Steel

Singer completed his bachelor’s at Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2013, after deepening his learning over the course of 2012 at Central Saint Martins in London. He was recognized by the Eduardo Villa Foundation Grant both in 2016 and 2017, the youngest sculptor yet awarded this. His work features in private collections in South Africa, Germany, Greece, Canada, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has further completed two large-scale public sculptures in Johannesburg: Dawn Chorus, part of the RMB Collection in the Think Precinct, and Roarke’s Evacuation Plan, a landmark on the Jo’burg skyline. In 2020. His work has been exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA, and his large installation, all the Birds Flew with a Harsh Scream (Marmara), 2020, was featured in Iziko Museum’s most recent exhibition Matereality. It is now currently on exhibition at the Norval Foundation. In October 2021, Singer completed Bennu Stassis, a site-specific installation in a former Hamman in Istanbul dating from 1477.

The artist in the studio

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