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Wednesday, February 27, 2019
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Grand Opening of NYA Gallery, March 7th 6-9PM, 2019,
NYA
Armory Art Week
Tribeca Art + Culture Night
3 level art center | artist studios | 6 galleries | art storage
100 artists | music | wine tasting
GRAND OPENING EVENT
Thursday, March 7, 2019 (6-9pm)
7 Franklin Place, New York, NY 10013
Artists Featured: Keith Kattner at
NYA Gallery Opening
On March 7, 2019, Shane Townley and his team will expand NYA Gallery to 7 Franklin Place, a multi-purpose cultural institution conceived as a significant site for artistic expression in Tribeca. The new venue will comprise 9,000 square feet across 3 floors for artistic production, collaboration, and exhibition with a robust schedule of public programming slated for later this year. The gallery will feature 1,000 square feet of stunning exhibition space on the ground level, 22 artist studios, and an extensive 1,500square-foot fine art storage facility for framing, crating, and shipping. The historic opening will coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Armory Show as well as Tribeca Arts & Culture Night. A group exhibition featuring select gallery artists will accompany the opening and reception from 6-9pm.
One of the artists that will be featured in the opening group show is Dr. Keith Kattner. After a fulfilling career as a neurosurgeon in Illinois, Kattner turned his time and talents toward the cultivation of a studio practice rooted in the vaunted academic conventions and techniques of oil painting in the Western tradition. Since 2010 he has devoted himself to completing studies after respected landscape masters, taking hikes and executing preparatory drawings, and developing a personal artistic style that incorporates approaches and themes of past masters, such as Nicholas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, J.M.W. Turner, and the Hudson River School painters.
His balanced compositions contain strategically layered planes that lead the viewer deeper into each scene. Figures have a strong linear quality and are positioned in the foreground, which contrasts with the hazy atmospheric effects typically seen in the distance. Kattner’s emulation and adoption of this highly precise manner of figural rendering is partially due to his specialized training as a surgeon. Soft light is diffused throughout each narrative, creating a strong sense of placidity. In many instances, his works recall idyllic bathing scenes that were a common subject for academic painters in the nineteenth century. Kattner’s picturesque paintings thoughtfully explore themes related to the history of civilizations, infrastructure, ancient mythologies, labors related to the cycles of the seasons, and the fraught relationship between the natural and built environments. www.keithkattnerartist.com
Artists Featured: Evan Sebastian Lagache at
NYA Gallery Opening
On March 7, 2019, NYA Gallery’s inaugural exhibition in its new venue at 7 Franklin place will feature an impressive cadre of artists working across a variety of media and styles. One of the artists that will be featured is Evan Sebastian Lagache, a self-described abstract-futuristic artist working in acrylic, oil, ink, and graphite to produce evocative works formally tied to the legacy of the avant-garde in the 20th century. His art is in part a response to the urban environment and explores themes that touch upon humanity’s relationship to technology, nature, and the cosmos.
Lagache makes use of striking organic forms reminiscent of geological formations and processes, as seen in works such as Mother Natures Mother Board and Eclipse. The amorphous forms in these works invite interrogation and interpretation from the viewer. The emerging artist captures the raw, extrusive forces of tectonic transformations primarily through colorful forms and textures, which seemingly deliquesce before gallery-goers. Lagache’s paintings are quite haptic, containing thick accretions of paint akin to sedimentation or debris, emphasizing the materiality of painting. The artist’s manipulation of paint might be understood as a metaphor for violent physiographical activity, underscoring how painting is a generative, life-giving, and bodily act. Along these same lines, Lagache appropriates the larger-than-life mentality of many 20th-century modernists in his painting approach, making his practice an intimate exchange between body and canvas.
To see and experience Lagache’s remarkable canvases in person, be sure to attend the grand opening of NYA Gallery on Thursday, March 7, 2019, 6-9pm. You can RSVP for the exhibition reception at edentpr@gmail.com. www.evanlagache.com
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From the Haines Gallery news that Kota Ezawa is in the the Whitney Biennial 2019 May 17-September 22, 2019
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