Louis Stern Gallery presents: Throughout a career spanning six decades, Los Angeles-based artist Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999) held an enduring fascination with the patterns and cycles which underpin the natural world and the universe beyond it.

Helen Lundeberg: Inner/Outer Space September 14–November 2, 2024 Opening Reception: September 14, 5-7pm Throughout a career spanning six decades, Los Angeles-based artist Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999) held an enduring fascination with the patterns and cycles which underpin the natural world and the universe beyond it. From her early botanical and zoological illustrations to the hard-edged abstract landscapes and planets she painted in her later career, Lundeberg traced shared conceptual and structural concerns across terrestrial and cosmic orders of magnitude. Relying as much on calculated formal composition as on the subjective engagement of the viewer, her work straddles the permeable borders between observation and memory, perception and imagination, and physical and psychological space.  Lundeberg began to explore the possibility of a career in the arts against a backdrop of significant and rapid scientific development centered around her hometown of Pasadena, CA. Research performed at the California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Mount Wilson Observatory would fundamentally and irrevocably shift humanity’s understanding of the nature of physical matter and the Earth’s relative scale within the cosmos. Lundeberg imagined at first that she might become a scientific illustrator, after courses she took in astronomy and zoology initiated a lifelong interest in recording the appearance and behavior of living things and cosmic phenomena. This academic preoccupation found its creative counterpart when she began studying fine art under Lorser Feitelson in 1930. Feitelson instructed Lundeberg in the principles of formal pictorial composition in drawing and painting, mirroring her fascination with the organization of patterns in nature. Armed with this knowledge, Lundeberg found that she had the means to apply her technical skills and analytical mind to the creation of artworks with meaningful subjective content. Feitelson and Lundeberg co-founded the Post-Surrealist movement in 1934. Rejecting the European Surrealists’ focus on automatism and the unconscious, they promoted the imposition of deliberate formal structure onto symbolic imagery to induce a conscious introspective experience in the viewer. This artistic approach encouraged Lundeberg to explore intellectual and metaphysical themes that had long engaged her. Juxtaposed studies of seed pods and human embryos provoke contemplation of analogous form and function amongst seemingly unrelated organisms. An interior scene of a spherical object on a table dissolves into a vast night sky illuminated by a glowing moon, suggesting adjacent views of the same object expressed at telescoping levels of magnification. These vignettes visually mirror the murky boundaries between the physical world and psychological experience, focusing the role of human perception in constructing meaning from observed reality.  In 1950, Lundeberg began to shift toward the geometric abstract style that would characterize the rest of her career. She pursued the subjective content of these works through dreamlike references to landscape, architecture, and planetary bodies expressed in calculated arrangements of hard-edged color. Lundeberg’s 1960s Planet paintings conjure fantastical alien worlds, swirling with brilliant colors and dissected to reveal their labyrinthine cores. Her cosmic inventions, created at the height of the Space Race, represent figments of humanity’s imagined future amongst the stars. Lundeberg’s abstractions of terrestrial environments condense mountains, dunes, and shorelines to their most essential forms, enhanced or modified by considered color choices to generate a particular sensory atmosphere or mood. These constructions, not painted directly from life but fabricated from Lundeberg’s accumulated observations of natural patterns, are resolved through the synthesis of perception, memory, and an instinctive visual understanding shared by artist and viewer.                                                                                                       Louis Stern Fine Arts is the exclusive representative of the Estate of Helen Lundeberg.   Louis Stern Fine Arts is part of PST ART as a Gallery Program Participant. Returning in September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art View Press Release Louis Stern Fine Arts 9002 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA  90069 Contact 310-276-0147 info@louissternfinearts.com  www.louissternfinearts.com #louissternfinearts#fineartmagazine#fineartfun

woodstock arts festival 2014

Woodstock Arts Festival 2014

 

 

 Call to Artists

What: Fine Art and Wine Festival 

 

Where: Historic Village Green, Woodstock, VT

When: Saturday & Sunday 

          September 6th - 7th, 2014

          Saturday: 10AM - 5PM

          Sunday: 10AM - 4PM

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kashya hildebrand gallery london

Detail, Layer Drawing - Cloud Fog, inkjet print on film, 100 x 100 x 2200 cm

Private Preview – Thursday, 24 April, 2014, 6-9pm
Nobuhiro Nakanishi
Reticulated Time
25 April – 14 June 2014
Exhibition Preview 
Press Release
Image Sheet

Lisa Ross at the Brunei Gallery, London 
Living Shrines: Uyghur Manifestations of Faith, Saints and Islam in Western China
Until 21 June 

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Enjoy seeing The "Book of Judith" with Ellen Frank Wednesday June 26 Join Ellen at 12:30 or 5:00 pm

 Enjoy seeing The "Book of Judith" 

with Ellen Frank 

Wednesday June 26 

Join Ellen at 12:30 or 5:00 pm

Pomegranate & thistle  

   

As Subject and Object

Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts

MOBIA 

Museum of Biblical Art

1865 Broadway (at 61st Street)

New York City

Tuesday - Sunday: 10am - 6pm;  Thursday: 10am - 8pm  

 "Among the most visually striking works in 'As Subject and Object' are a series of studies for and finished pages from 'Hanukkah Illuminated: A Book of Days' by California-born, Long Island-based Ellen Frank and her studio, Ellen Frank Illumination Arts.  Using micrography to create recognizable figures and gold leaf to suggest hand-painted manuscripts, Frank presents finely rendered elements -- birds, soldiers on horseback, architectural elements, a cosmographic rendering -- to illuminate the story of the Israelites' victory over the Seleucid Empire and the miracle of the lamp oil." 

-- MOBIA exhibition materials  

For MOBIA information:

212.408.1500 

Link to exhibition

Ellen Frank Illumination Arts Foundation, Inc.

501 (C) (3) organization devoted to peace through the arts

  631.329.0530  73 Squaw Road, East Hampton, NY 11937

http://www.efiaf.org

  

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Looks like great Fun: The Oxford Art Fair

The Oxford Art Fair Sat 27th & Sun 28th July, 2013 at The Fishes, North Hinksey, Oxford, OX2 0NA The Oxford Art Fair returns for an inspiring day out! The Fishes is once again playing host to The Oxford Air Fair next month, which is set to transform the one acre garden into the city’s largest outdoor contemporary art gallery when it takes place on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th July. As well a unique opportunity to browse for art, the event brings two great days of music and family entertainment to Oxford, for everyone to enjoy this summer. Invest in Art! UK Artist? Apply online to exhibit www.theoxfordartfair.com (Applications closing soon, limited availability, selection process) Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Forward this to a Friend #fineartmagazine

The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Monday, June 24th at 8:30 pm, REscption for Renowned Italian artist Marco Nereo Rotelli

On the occasion of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States,

The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Silvio Marchetti is pleased to cordially invite you to a private reception in honor of the site-specific installation

  

Divina natura

(Divine Nature)

  

featuring a spectacular light installation illuminating the facades of the Field Museum by Italian artist Marco Nereo Rotelli

Monday, June 24th at 8:30 pm 

Field Museum of Chicago - Northeast Terrace

1400 S Lake Shore Drive

  

curated by Kate Zeller readings by Thomas Haskell Simpson, Italian poet Giuseppe Conte

  

and Chicago poets Ana Castillo, Osama Esber, Reginald Gibbons, Arica Hilton, Elise Paschen, Lia Simou, Chana Zelig, curated by Arica Hilton

  

Soprano: Karolina Kvorakova

  

Soundtrack: Adrian Leverkhun and Thomas Masters

  

The light installation of the Field Museum's north facade will begin at 9:30pm

Join us for a glass of wine and views of the city before the lighting installation event begins at dusk

To reserve your seat at this spectacular show,

please click here.

  Renowned Italian artist Marco Nereo Rotelli will create an immense light installation that will be projected against the majestic façade of one of the city of Chicago's most renowned and visible monuments, the Field Museum of Natural History. Inspired by the museum's encyclopedic collection of artifacts from global human culture across millenia, from geological history and the natural world, Rotelli has turned to Dante's epic meditation on Nature and History in search of a comprehensive poetic vision of transcendent unity. Giant white fabric curtains hung between the museum's neoclassical columns will become screens reflecting floating, shifting images drawn from Dante's vast allegorical repertory of astrology, numerology, philosophy, theology and history.

In an array of different languages, poets will read verses, commissioned for the event, designed to weave the tensions and crises of our own moment into Dante's great harmonic tapestry, revealing the urgent relevance of a poem that speaks as much to the contemporary spirit as to that of the Middle Ages, and as much to the whole world as to Italy. Musicians will also perform music from different periods.

Visible to spectators from parks that surround the museum, from the city's legendary skyscrapers, from one of its most famous streets, from boats in the lake and even from the sky, the luminous installation will transform Dante's verse into a dazzling beacon beaming out across time and space, offering a unifying message of hope to everyone in this vibrant, various and terribly human city. Planned to correspond with the summer solstice, this hour-long, spectacular light, music and poetry event will begin at 9:30 p.m and will be preceeded by a private reception that starts at 8:30pm.

Reservations kindly requested by June 20th.

To reserve your complimentary seat for this spectacular show, please click here.

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