RUBY RUMIÉ HÁLITO DIVINO - DIVINE BREATH

NOHRA HAIME GALLERY  RUBY RUMIÉ HÁLITO DIVINO - DIVINE BREATH    September 10 - October 18, 2014    RUBY RUMIÉ: CROWNED CUPULA, 2014 1,300 figures in zamac with gold semi-matte patina, steel and acrylic base, 11.81 x 30.71 in. diam.  30 x 78 cm. diam.    HÁLITO DIVINO - DIVINE BREATH, Ruby Rumié's newest project, will be on view at Nohra Haime Gallery from September 10 to October 18, 2014.   The exhibition is a result of a workshop conducted in 2013 in the neighborhood of Getsemani, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, where the artist is originally from. The project focuses on the experiences of 100 women between the ages of 18 and 72, who have been victims of domestic violence.  HÁLITO DIVINO - DIVINE BREATH uses pain and trauma to create and express, restore and heal. At the beginning of the workshop, each participant chose one of 100 white pots arranged for them. They then exhaled their pain inside the pot, as an intimate and individual exercise that culminated the experience of breath as a force of life. At the end, the pots were sealed and marked with the initials of each participant, a symbolic gesture to encapsulate their pain. Each of them was given the figure of a woman, cast using the ancestral lost-wax technique, as an amulet, a token symbolizing her participation. The exhibition reflects the three phases of the project: photographs of the white pots used in the workshop, black pots representing a stage of mourning, and 32 pots of different sizes crowned by delicate gold metalwork resembling the amulets the women received as a symbol of their rebirth.  Ruby Rumié has continued her questioning of the artist's commitment to society, putting herself in a position where she deeply assimilates the information given by her interviewees, and looking for a creative way of managing social and psychological issues. The whole experience included interdisciplinary round tables that dealt with this issue. Born in Cartagena de Indias, Ruby Rumié studied in the School of Fine Arts of Cartagena de Indias. She has held major exhibitions in Colombia: Bogotá, Barranquilla, Cartagena; Santiago de Chile; Miami; New York; Washington D.C.; Rouen; Paris. Rumié recently participated in the international section of the First Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cartagena de Indias. She currently lives and works in Cartagena, Colombia and Santiago, Chile. DATES: September 10 - October 18, 2014 RECEPTION: Tuesday, September 9th from 6 - 8 p.m. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Eva Rick at gallery@nohrahaimegallery.com or 212-888-3550   #fineartmagazine   NOHRA  HAIME  GALLERY 730 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, NY  10019 212-888-3550   FAX 212-888-7869 gallery@nohrahaimegallery.com

Captains, Mates, + Widows Portraits by Sabina Streeter Curated by Dan Rizzie | Sound Installation by Carlos Lama AUGUST 29 - SEPTEMBER 14 Opening Reception: Friday, August 29th 6:00 - 8:00pm Sabina Streeter brings the storied era of the Sag Harbor whaling history to life in her show "Captains, Mates, and Widows" on view at the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, August 29 through September 14, 2014. Sabina Streeter's portraits in charcoal and mixed media feature the mid-19th Century whaling captains who reigned as the financial, political and cultural leaders of most of the eastern seaboard in their day. Along with Nantucket and New Bedford, Sag Harbor was one of the three capitals of the whaling industry during the peak years between 1829 and 1847. A Whale of a Party A Benefit for the Museum | Harborfest Weekend Friday, September 12th 5:00pm - 8:00pm GET TICKETS HERE or by calling the Museum at (631) 725-0770 or stopping by in person. We're located at 200 Main Street, Sag Harbor NY, 11963. Summer is almost over and we're going out like a whale! Join us at the Museum for a family friendly night of celebration and good fun! Cromer's will be providing their famous fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, salads, and dessert all night long with music by DJ Carlos Lama! There will also be Driftwood Ale from Montauk Brewing Co. and wine from Water Street Wines & Spirits. Let's eat, drink and dance in the shadow of the gorgeous Benjamin Huntting house! Proceeds from tickets sales go directly to the Museum's capital campaign for restoration. MUSEUM CALENDAR "Captains Row" | Sag Harbor Sidewalks August 30th 3:00pm - 4:00pm GET TICKETS This walking tour will relive some of the maritime history of Sag Harbor and its colorful whaling captains and crew. The focus of the tour will be the stately homes of some of Sag Harbor's most successful whaling captains in advance of the Whaling Museum's captains house tour in September. Whaling Captains House Tour Cocktail Party Saturday, September 13th Hosted by Kathie Russo at her home in North Haven. Tickets will be going on sale soon. All proceeds will go directly to the Museum's capital campaign for restoration. City Square/Piazza Installation by Peter Solow Friday, September 19th #fineartmagazine

DAWN

ROSE MCGOWAN'S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

 

DAWN

 

TO HAVE OSCAR © QUALIFYING RUN IN LOS ANGELES

 

"Best be described as Douglas Sirk-meets-David Lynch" - Chris O'Falt, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"Provocative...slowly seductive" - Betsy Sharkey, LA TIMES

Read The Hollywood Reporter Exclusive HERE!

 

(New York | August 27th, 2014)  RSA/Black Dog Films announced today that after the critically acclaimed world premiere at Sundance Film Festival, the taut directorial debut from Rose McGowan, DAWN, will have an Oscar © qualifying run in Los Angeles at the Downtown Independent startingSeptember 19th.  As mentioned in The Hollywood Reporter, which you can see here, throughout the week the short film will be accompanied by seven features, one per night, curated by McGowan at the first annual "Dawn Festival".

"I'm curating a festival of directors that have given their lead women a strong voice.  These stories could have been told with men in the title characters, but these directors showed us what happens when you break stereotypes.  They have inspired me as a woman, as a director and as a person", said Rose.

 

Realizing that her passion lies in filmmaking, Rose McGowan's breakthrough directorial debut, DAWN, is a disturbing tale of a young girl's budding sexuality and one's desire to experience the unknown.  Dawn (Tara Barr) is a quiet young teenager living in Kennedy era America who longs for something or someone to free her from her sheltered life. When she strikes up an innocent flirtation with the boy who works at her local gas station (Reiley McClendon), she thinks that he is perhaps the answer to her teenage dreams. Though when she invites the boy and his friends into her otherwise cloistered world, she gets a lot more than she bargained for.  

 

Carefully chosen by McGowan, the films that will accompany DAWN feature iconic performances by actresses that prove rich, complex and layered roles can and should be written for and by women.  The following films will screen with Rose McGowan and special guests in attendance:

 

 

SAFE - "Todd Haynes directed Julianne Moore in a haunting study of a woman's life."

THELMA & LOUISE - "Ridley Scott directed two substantial actresses in two substantial, inspiring roles."

HAROLD AND MAUDE - "Hal Ashby directed Ruth Gordon.  Two creatives on a creative journey."

SIXTEEN CANDLES - "John Hughes directed Molly Ringwald.  He made a teen's hopes and hurts real."

ROSEMARY'S BABY - "Roman Polanski directed Mia Farrow in a virtuoso breakdown performance."

SILKWOOD - "Mike Nichols directed Meryl Streep and Cher.  They showed us women can change the world by finding their voice."

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - "Jonathan Demme directed Jodie Foster.  She showed us what a person can do when they go forward despite their fear."

For Screening Link and Interview Requests with Rose McGowan, Please Contact Nathaniel@Brigademarketing.com

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Texas Contemporary Art Fair Prepares for Fourth Season

Texas Contemporary Art Fair Prepares for Fourth Season New and Returning Galleries Special Programs and New Partnerships Expanded Regional Reach September 4-7, 2014

August 22, 2014 – Houston, TX – Art Market Productions is excited to announce the return of the Texas Contemporary Art Fair for its fourth year at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center from September 4 – 7, 2014. This year's fair will continue to bring the best in contemporary and modern art by Texas-based galleries, as well as visiting galleries from around the country. In addition to the world-class art on display, we are delighted to introduce new partnerships that will make this year's fair an enhanced artistic and collecting experience. Texas Contemporary is pleased to announce our continued partnership with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) as the 2014 beneficiary of the Opening Night Preview event. This year, to the pleasure of gallerists and art enthusiasts alike, CAMH board members J.B. Fairbanks, William Goldberg, Yvette & Scott Hill and Judie Oudt will serve as honorary chairs of the Opening Night Preview event. Last year this event garnered $25,000 for the museum. Drawing on their market knowledge, the success of their Miami Project 2013 and their network of national resources and advisors, Art Market Productions’ founders Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause are thrilled contribute to Texas’ growing art culture with Texas Contemporary’s return to Houston. We hope that Texas Contemporary’s return will once again help ignite interest from both active and new collectors. This year’s exciting range of galleries include Texas’ Inman Gallery, Barbara Davis Gallery, Moody Gallery, McClain Gallery, Devin Borden Gallery, David Shelton Gallery, Art Palace, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Zoya Tommy Contemporary and THE MISSION. New York's Morgan Lehman, Mixed Greens, Fredericks & Freiser, Other Criteria and the veteran ACA Gallery will exhibit alongside West Coast galleries like Catharine Clark Gallery,Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Kopeikin Gallery and Edward Cella Art + Architecture. We are proud to showcase a solo presentation of 2014 MFAH Core Fellow artist Rodrigo Valenzuela, presented by Portland's Upfor Gallery, as well as a special presentation of the work of Dan Tague by Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. As always, our cultural partners are an essential part of our fair programming. This year Houston’s own FotoFestwill showcase works in their curated booth. CAMH curator Dean Daderko will collaborate with artists Debra Barrera, Nathaniel Donnett, and Carrie Marie Schneider to curate their space. For the past three years, Rice University Art Gallery has put together an exciting booth and we look forward to seeing what they will bring to this year’s show. Having these partners exhibit alongside our art dealers is part of what makes Texas Contemporary a uniquely Houston event. We are very excited to showcase a full schedule of curated programs and events throughout the duration of the fair. Texas Contemporary will feature a timely series of presentations created in collaboration with our participating galleries, artists and cultural partners. Curated by Houston’s own Glasstire Magazine, the lecture series will feature a conversation with Hugh Forrest, Director of South by Southwest Interactive Festival and a discussion on the Art of Design with Ligne Roset VP Antoine Roset. VIP guests will be welcomed to Texas Contemporary with a lounge designed by MaRS, Mayfield and Ragni Studio and furnished by Ligne Roset. We are thrilled to have MaRS bring a visionary, exciting and exclusive design to the VIP lounge for its fourth year in a row. We are grateful to our sponsors, The Wall Street Journaland Perrier for helping us create the most exciting and visible event possible for the Houston market. Both organizations are widely known for their commitments and outreach to the artistic community. We are extremely pleased to count them among our sponsors. Our VIP event series will begin with a kickoff party on Wednesday, September 3rd at the CAMH and is sponsored by Kinzelman Art Consulting. Kinzelman Art Consulting has been an integral part of the success ofTexas Contemporary since its conception. It will be followed by a Friday-night bash at the stunning estate ofLucinda and Javier Loya and a Saturday night cocktail reception at the home of Houston collector Marc Melcher. We will also offer an exclusive opportunity to view the Turrell Skyspace at sunset, as well as a number of private tours and receptions at some of Houston’s most important art collections. Texas Contemporary prides itself on our continued engagement with the Houston arts scene through our year-round series of Access Contemporary events. Access Contemporary offers Houston art lovers the opportunity to engage in the city’s numerous arts institutions and gain an insider’s look into the world of contemporary art. Our free events take place at Houston’s world-class museums and exciting local galleries. For more information about Access Contemporary’s past and future events, please visit: www.txcontemporary.com/access/ In an effort to integrate our fair into the landscape of Texas’ art institutions and give back to the artistic community, we have developed an innovative charity auction program. Beginning on Thursday, August 21st the auction platform powered by Paddle8 will go live, allowing for online bidding. The artworks up for auction will be on display at the fair until the auction closes on Sunday, September 7th at 6:00pm CT. 100% of the proceeds from each piece will be donated to their corresponding beneficiary. This years beneficiaries are Fresh Arts,Hermann Park Conservancy, Lawndale Art Center and Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. For information on all the donated pieces, please visit: txcontemporary.com/projects-events/the-texas-contemporary-charity-auction/ 2014 Texas Contemporary Highlights THURSDAY / September 4, 2014:  Benefit Preview Reception: 6:00pm-7:30pm This event benefits the CAMH and will provide collectors and art enthusiasts a first opportunity to meet dealers and view gallery presentations. Tickets are available to purchase for $100 on our website. VIP Party: 7:30pm-10:00pm The evening continues with the Opening Night party, where VIP cardholders can enjoy early access to gallery collections and help celebrate the launch of the fair. FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY / September 5th, 6th, 7th, 2014:  General Fair Hours Friday, September 5, 2014 - 11am to 7pm Saturday, September 6, 2014 - 11am to 7pm Sunday, September 7, 2014 – 12pm to 6pm 2014 GALLERY LIST ACA Galleries – New York, NY Anya Tish Gallery – Houston, TX Art Palace – Houston, TX Aureus Contemporary – Wakefield, RI Barbara Davis Gallery – Houston, TX Birnam Wood Galleries – New York, NY Contemporary Arts Museum Houston – Houston, TX Catherine Clark Gallery – San Francisco, CA Center Street Studio – Milton Village, MA Cris Worley Fine Arts – Dallas, TX DARKE Gallery – Houston, TX David Shelton Gallery – Houston, TX Devin Borden Gallery – Houston, TX Diana Lowenstein Gallery – Miami, FL DUTTON – New York, NY Edward Cella Art+Architecture – Los Angeles, CA FotoFest Exhibitions – Houston, TX Forum Gallery – New York, NY Fredericks & Freiser – New York, NY Galerie Richard – New York, NY & Paris, France Gallery Sonja Roesch – Houston, TX Halsted Gallery – Franklin, MI Inman Gallery – Houston, TX Jerald Melberg Gallery – Charlotte, NC Jonathan Ferrara Gallery – New Orleans, LA Kathryn Markel Fine Arts – New York, NY Kirk Hopper Fine Art – Dallas, TX Klowden Mann – Culver City, CA Kopeikin Gallery – Los Angeles, CA Laura Rathe Fine Art – Houston, TX McClain Gallery – Houston, TX Mindy Solomon Gallery – Miami, FL Mixed Greens – New York, NY Moody Gallery – Houston, TX Morgan Lehman Gallery – New York, NY Octavia Art Gallery – Houston, TX Other Criteria – New York, NY Randall Scott Projects – Washington, D.C. RH Contemporary Art – Houston, TX Rice University Art Gallery – Houston, TX Richard Levy Gallery – Albuquerque, NM Rosamund Felsen Gallery – Santa Monica, CA Samuel Owen Gallery – Greenwich, CT Sicardi Gallery – Houston, TX Tally Beck Contemporary – New York, NY THE MISSION – Houston, TX The Public Trust – Dallas, TX Timothy Yarger Fine Art – Beverly Hills, CA Upfor Gallery – Portland, OR William Campbell Contemporary Art – Fort Worth, TX Women & Their Work – Austin, TX Yvonamor Palix Fine Arts – Houston, TX Zoya Tommy Contemporary – Houston, TX Purchase Tickets: VIP Preview: $100 (all proceeds benefit CAMH) Multi-day Pass: $35 - Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1-day Pass: $25 - Friday, Saturday or Sunday www.txcontemporary.com/tickets For more information, images, or press passes please contact: Jeff Chu | press@artmarketproductions.com 212-518-6912 About Texas Contemporary Art Fair: The Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston’s premier contemporary and modern art fair, will feature highly reputable galleries from around the globe bringing some of the world’s most intriguing artists and galleries to Houston. In showcasing historically important work alongside relevant contemporary pieces and projects, Texas Contemporary creates an ideal context for the discovery, exploration, and acquisition of art. About Art Market Productions: Art Market Productions is a Williamsburg, Brooklyn based production firm owned and operated by Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause. Working in concert with a talented and passionate network of dealers, curators and arts professionals, Art Market Productions is proud to present forward thinking, progressive, and successful events across the country. For more information visit: artmarketproductions.com. Art Market Productions Upcoming Fairs:  Miami Project  December 2-7, 2014 – Midtown Miami Art Market San Francisco April 30 - May 3, 2015 – Fort Mason Center Art Market Hamptons July 9-12, 2015 – Bridgehampton #fineartmagazine .

Igor Ilchuk

Igor Ilchuk

- Color Dreams -

 

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4th, 6 - 8pm 

Walter Wickiser Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Igor Ilchuk, from September 4th to October 1st, 2014. 

For further information please contact the gallery at (212) 941 - 1817, Tuesday through Saturday, 11am - 6 pm.

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Lisa Sette Gallery

LUIS GONZÁLEZ PALMA RETROSPECTIVE OPENS INAUGURAL SEASON OF LISA SETTE GALLERY MIDTOWN —

Luis González Palma An Intimate Complicity: Luis González Palma’s 20 Years of Looking Beyond Exhibit October 18 - December 31, 2014 Opening Reception Saturday October 18th from 7:00-9:00pm I am deeply interested in how images are articulated in our minds, as what we call reality. My works are an interpretation of that reality, a reality full of stories, memories, crossed paths... They are remnants, left over from a fragmented world and dreamed into being. —Luis González Palma Lisa Sette Gallery is proud to present a 20 year retrospective of the works of Luis González Palma commemorating the season opening of the gallery’s expansive new space, and its recently-announced exclusive North American representation of González Palma. A Guatamalan photographer who has been exhibiting internationally for nearly three decades, González Palma’s photo-collaged portraits superimpose Latin American and European spiritual and artistic traditions, and mine the complex relationship between the observer and observed in contemporary photography. González Palma employs a range of exotic photographic techniques to achieve his works’ startling, aqueous effect: gelatin silver processing, gold leaf and resin inclusions, Kodalith prints, or, in recent works, inserting stark blades of acrylic paint that cleave the images’ otherwise serene aspects. González Palma is known for leaving true the whites of his models eyes, which glint eerily from a sea of dusky sepia. Many of González Palma’s works are portraits of performers who are of Mayan descent, as is the artist himself. They peer out at the viewer with a frank, numinous, and strangely impassive mien, foregrounded against a constellation of symbol and metaphor—an Elizabethan ruff, for example, or a set of statuary wings. González Palma’s intention is to create a subconscious connection between model, artist and viewer, bringing each together in the fraught, sensuous moment of looking: I think the photographer does not give dignity to the models, but dignity exists within them, and the photographer can become a link, allowing for a complex relationship between the model image (not the model) and the public. There’s a great collaboration, an intimate complicity, between photographer and model—it is necessary to generate an intensity that is not seen but rather “felt” in the image. Möbius, González Palma’s latest body of work, juxtaposes the early 1900’s concretist/rationalist movement in Latin American art with the midcentury streak of intense nostalgia—also known as magical realism. To do so, González Palma intersects his romantic, sepia-toned portraits with striking geometrical arrangements in primary acrylics. My aim with “Möbius” is to create works that allow for a new dialogue between my photographs, usually portraits loaded with emotion and subjective intensity, with abstract geometric painting elements referencing Latin American concretism… providing a rereading of the visual history of ideas from this side of the world, from its history and its contradictions.     Staged in Lisa Sette Gallery’s stunning new Al Beadle-designed desert-modernist space, a subterranean gem in midtown Phoenix, and echoing some of the gallery’s ongoing concerns with the timeless aesthetics of emotion, romance and danger as they are experienced in contemporary life, An Intimate Complicity promises to be a fitting fall-season inauguration of the gallery’s impressive new location, and an unflinching plunge into the dreams and history of the New World. To request high resolution images, please contact us at (480) 990-7342 or use the email Ashley Rice at sette@lisasettegallery.com. Throughout three trailblazing decades, Lisa Sette has remained committed to discovering and exposing original, intriguing forms of expression. Lisa Sette Gallery exhibits painting, sculpture, photography, installation and performance pieces from an impressive roster of emerging and established artists, as well as maintaining a clientele of local and international collectors devoted to its founder’s adventurous curatorial vision. #fineartmagazine