Catch the Foley Gallery for summer fun

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom       Love at First Sight.    2007, a one-night-only group exhibition at some upper floor architectural firm in DUMBO.  Thomas Allen was asked to be in the group show.  Having had the gallery for less than 3 years, I was excited to attend.  It was a quick visit...Tom wasn't there and I had a series of events that night.  And then I saw it, perched above some books on a long wall.   1000 Flowers Bloomed & A Black Leather Jacket.   55 inches high, 98 in length.  Cut paper is a personal passion and this was just exquisite.  But who was Casey Ruble?  No one seemed to know.  Frustrated, I left for the subway platform, but not before I saw this group of people outside, having cigarettes, talking art, leathered up...Casey among them.   Do You Wanna Do a Show Together?   Conversation, studio visit, conversation.  This all led to our first exhibition together, Except in Struggle.  For whatever reason, the piece I loved in DUMBO was not in our show.  But we sold it.  Twice.  It lives in Maryland now, quite content.   Present Tense   I am on my fourth exhibition with Casey.  The current, Red Summer, is up until June 23rd.  This group of 47 paintings was completed as part of a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.  Which brings me to why I love Casey.  It's the time I know she takes to work with the details, both in content and craft.  And she is just so lovely to work with!  And did I mention...there is a "limited to 100 copies" catalog to the exhibition with brilliant essays by Casey and Arlene Keizer available here?  Well, there is.   What Happened in 1919?!?   The exhibition looks at the bloody year of 1919 on its centennial anniversary.  1919 marked the deadliest period of white-on-black violence in U.S. history, with over thirty race riots — most started by white mobs — breaking out across the nation. The bloodshed led civil-rights activist James Weldon Johnson to dub the period the “Red Summer.”     Smithsonian Connection     1919 was also when the Smithsonian Institution began planning its National Portrait Gallery, whose mission has been to “acquire and display portraits of men and women who have made significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the people of the United States.” Yet all of the subjects in the museum’s works from 1919 are white, and the few with any connection to the racial tensions of the time came down on the wrong side of that history.   Who is Casey? Casey Ruble received her BA from Smith College in 1995 and her MFA from Hunter College in 2002. She is an Artist in Residence at Fordham University, where she teaches painting and drawing and curates exhibitions for the university galleries. Her work has been shown nationally and abroad, and she has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (2019, 2013), the Warhol Foundation through a residency at PARSEnola (2017), the Smithsonian Institution (2016), and the New Jersey State Council for the Humanities (2015). She resides in New Jersey in a village overlooking the Delaware River.   The Details   Open this weekend!   Red Summer is on view through June 23rd, 2019. Foley Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 – 5:30pm and Sunday from 12-5pm. To request images; please contact the gallery at info@foleygallery.com.   Walter Hampden (I), 12 x 12 inches, carbon ink on paper - Michael's favorite   #fineartmagazine

Want to see beautiful contemporary abstract landscapes Catch the Foley Gallery, Szilard Huszank, Feb.20-Mar.31st 2019 !!! Looks like a nice show to visit if your in NYC

Szilard Huszank gently down the stream February 20th - March 31st  Opening Reception: February 20th 6-8pm

Foley Gallery is pleased to present Gently Down the Stream, a solo exhibition featuring paintings by Szilard Huszank. This will be the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery and first in the United States. Small streams and waterfalls, felled trees and forests are the revered subjects in landscapes that Huszank explores with vibrant, near-psychedelic colors. The oils are spread thick in long cascading gestures, punctuated by tighter lines that define natural details of stones and branches; soft flowing water framed by more solid ground. The imagery suggests untouched, pristine landscapes far removed from the pace of an urban world. The colors and content invite us into a fresh atmosphere, forcing the eye to readjust with newly assigned colors to each changing landscape. “Szilard not only employs different techniques of applying paint but also makes particular use of the potential impact of color. Seemingly spatial pictorial passages are purposefully de-familiarized by means of an anti-naturalistic use of color and the sometime aggressively flickering color contrasts oppose spatial effects.” (Martin Hellmold) Szilard Huszank was born in 1980 in Miskolc, Hungary. He currently lives and works near Augsburg, Germany. He studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nuremberg, Germany. Solo exhibitions include galleries in Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg and Freiburg, Germany. Gently Down the Stream is on view through March 31st, 2019. Foley Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 – 5:30pm and Sunday from 12-5pm. To request images; please contact the gallery at info@foleygallery.com.

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Foley Gallery Subtext II: Meditations, by Wyatt GalleryMay 17th

Wyatt Gallery Subtext II: Meditations  May 17th - June 25th 2017 Reception: May 17th 6-8pm   Foley Gallery is pleased to present Subtext II: Meditations, a solo exhibition featuring works by Wyatt Gallery. This will be the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Meditations move the Subtext series towards a closer connection with the artist's spiritual practice of meditation by identifying opportunities for an urban-mindfulness experience. The photographs in this series are sourced from found advertising spaces throughout the New York City subway system. Years of glue, paper, scraping, painting, gluing...repeat, have left clues of the palimpsests that have been recorded for years if not decades. Gallery transforms these evolving abstractions into UV cured photographic plates, that reference the period of black paintings by Robert Rauschenberg in the 1950's or the French décollage art of the 1960's Nouveau Réalisme movement. The viewer is presented with a scene that may have only been visible for hours, maybe days - until the next advertisement is placed on top, transforming the space yet again. By leaving the walls as found, un-manipulated and uncropped, Subtext challenges the ability to let go of control and accept what is, while reminding the viewer that all is perfect in its imperfection and our inner scars create our true beauty. Meditations continue the dialogue of the original Subtext series by getting further in tune with Gallery's personal spiritual practice. Gazing into these spaces, Gallery finds reverence and tranquility. Wyatt uses photography to examine a sense of spirituality and resiliency found within spaces of emptiness, destruction, and loss. For a moment, we may find quiet contemplation and transcendence in a context where Subtext becomes more powerful than the rush around us.   Gallery received his BFA in photography at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1997. Currently the executive director of For Freedoms, he is the recipient of numerous honors and awards such as the Fulbright Fellowship, PDN 30, and ICP's Infinity Award. His photographs have been exhibited throughout the world and are in major private and public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Twitter, and American Express.   Subtext II: Meditations will remain on view through June 25th, 2017. Foley Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 - 6pm, Sunday 12:30 - 6pm. To request images; please contact the gallery at 212.244. 9081 or info@foleygallery.com.

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