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Sunday, March 30, 2014
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LISA SETTE GALLERY LEADS CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF MIDTOWN PHOENIX
LISA SETTE GALLERY LEADS CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF MIDTOWN PHOENIX
LISA SETTE GALLERY LEADS CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF MIDTOWN PHOENIX: International contemporary art space Lisa Sette Gallery expands and relocates to Modernist gem in Midtown Phoenix.
In summer 2014, Lisa Sette Gallery, a regional bastion of experimental and adventurous contemporary art, will relocate to an architecturally significant Al Beadle-designed building in the burgeoning Midtown Phoenix area.
Sleek, low-slung and semi-subterranean, the building at East Catalina Drive was created by Beadle to mirror his adjacent personal office on 3rd Street: the structure embodies the form-focused and materials-conscious Modernism the architect is renowned for. For Lisa Sette Gallery, the new space—not only an architectural classic, but also a larger, more accessible venue—signifies Founder and President Lisa Sette’s fearless embrace of the city’s unique topography, as well as her ongoing commitment to furthering a sophisticated cultural vision that is unmatched in the regional art scene.
“After 28 years in Scottsdale we are doing what we do best—leading/forging new territory,” remarks Sette. “We are gravitating to an up-and-coming energy in Midtown Phoenix, and have found just the right architectural gem to house the Gallery.”
Lisa Sette Gallery’s move and expansion attests to its remarkable and enduring successes, while the new venue—renovated by modern architecture firm StarkJames, in collaboration with Lisa Sette—confirms Midtown as an area on the edge of an urban-living explosion. For cultural connoisseurs and Phoenix denizens, Lisa Sette Gallery’s new home is reason to celebrate, as the city comes into its own as an urban center, and Lisa Sette commits to many more years directing her acclaimed, innovative contemporary art space in the heart of Arizona.
The Beadle building on East Catalina Drive is uniquely situated to succeed as a gallery and exhibit space, both in its proximity to the light-rail line and burgeoning cultural infill of Midtown Phoenix, and in its fundamental design. Scott Jarson, Director of AZarchitecture, comments:
“The careful relocation of Lisa Sette Gallery speaks volumes to a new urbanism that is sweeping the core of our city, reconfirming what I call Desert Urbanism. More and more, people are discovering an honest and original Phoenix, one that existed long before suburban sprawl and strip malls.
I love the adaptive re-use of this space as a gallery. I can think of no higher compliment, and quite possibly no higher protection for the building. It’s interesting to think about Lisa’s sublime artistic vision in regards to this new space—much of the work she is known for evokes a strong and immediate emotional response, often a little sparse, warm, inviting, and textural… not unlike Beadle’s architecture.”
Working with StarkJames principle Wesley James, Sette sought to preserve much of the original Beadle structure, finding in its below-ground design an ideal way for visitors to enter her unique installation and exhibit spaces. Says James, “The existing entry sequence is one of stepping down a short flight of stairs, under a canopy, into the earth before entering the building. We saw this as a wonderful sequence and setting for an entry into a gallery space…moving down into the earth, leaving the mundane world behind.”
The largest departure from the building’s original state will be a fabric scrim wrapping the building, an idea that diverges from the original design but builds upon it conceptually, adding another layer to be moved through both spatially and visually. James remarks: “Shading the exterior is a response that we feel is appropriate for our environment… It also allows us to set the stage for what will be a beautiful transformation when the fabric is lit from the exterior for evening exhibition openings and special events.”
The Gallery’s impressive new home will allow Sette to carry on and expand upon a curatorial vision that is both locally relevant and globally cognizant, in a space that opens up new possibilities for Sette’s curatorial work at large, and for the intellectual and cultural life of downtown Phoenix.
Lisa Sette anticipates that “The new location will provide for intimate exhibition areas and greatly improved back of the house spaces”—ideal for hosting salons, artist events and diverse arts programming.
Throughout three trailblazing decades, Lisa Sette has remained committed to discovering and exposing original, intriguing forms of expression: Her gallery exhibits an impressive roster of emerging and established artists at leading events around the world, as well as maintaining a clientele of local and international collectors devoted to its founder’s adventurous curatorial vision. With an artist list that includes Arizona luminary James Turrell, desert favorite Mayme Kratz, Mexican born cultural maverick and Stanford professor Enrique Chagoya, interdisciplinary artists Julianne Swartz (NY) and Angela Ellsworth (AZ), contemporary Indian sculptor Siri Devi Khandavilli, and conceptual photographersFiona Pardington (New Zealand), and Luis Molina-Pantin (Venezuela), Lisa Sette has consistently sought out diverse artists working on the leading edge of aesthetic, social and conceptual investigation.
Lisa Sette Gallery offers the Arizona art world something of almost indefinable value: a sense of self. The gallery’s singular vision concerns a considered reaction to its context—in both time and geographical place. It presents an irony-free conception of contemporary art of the West that is both sophisticated and avant-garde. Rather than seeking to distance itself from what it means to live in a desert city, the Sette aesthetic encapsulates an understanding of this idiosyncratic existence; nearing the edge of the hemisphere— simultaneously beautiful, threatening, and precarious, and, as such, fertile creative ground for contemporary artwork.
Lisa Sette Gallery will open the 2014/2015 season with a June exhibit in the new space, after finalizing the 2013/2014 exhibition schedule on Scottsdale's Marshall Way. A celebration is planned at the beginning of next year to commemorate Lisa Sette Gallery’s 30 years of bringing adventurous, challenging, and delightful contemporary art to Phoenix and beyond.
Sleek, low-slung and semi-subterranean, the building at East Catalina Drive was created by Beadle to mirror his adjacent personal office on 3rd Street: the structure embodies the form-focused and materials-conscious Modernism the architect is renowned for. For Lisa Sette Gallery, the new space—not only an architectural classic, but also a larger, more accessible venue—signifies Founder and President Lisa Sette’s fearless embrace of the city’s unique topography, as well as her ongoing commitment to furthering a sophisticated cultural vision that is unmatched in the regional art scene.
“After 28 years in Scottsdale we are doing what we do best—leading/forging new territory,” remarks Sette. “We are gravitating to an up-and-coming energy in Midtown Phoenix, and have found just the right architectural gem to house the Gallery.”
Lisa Sette Gallery’s move and expansion attests to its remarkable and enduring successes, while the new venue—renovated by modern architecture firm StarkJames, in collaboration with Lisa Sette—confirms Midtown as an area on the edge of an urban-living explosion. For cultural connoisseurs and Phoenix denizens, Lisa Sette Gallery’s new home is reason to celebrate, as the city comes into its own as an urban center, and Lisa Sette commits to many more years directing her acclaimed, innovative contemporary art space in the heart of Arizona.
The Beadle building on East Catalina Drive is uniquely situated to succeed as a gallery and exhibit space, both in its proximity to the light-rail line and burgeoning cultural infill of Midtown Phoenix, and in its fundamental design. Scott Jarson, Director of AZarchitecture, comments:
“The careful relocation of Lisa Sette Gallery speaks volumes to a new urbanism that is sweeping the core of our city, reconfirming what I call Desert Urbanism. More and more, people are discovering an honest and original Phoenix, one that existed long before suburban sprawl and strip malls.
I love the adaptive re-use of this space as a gallery. I can think of no higher compliment, and quite possibly no higher protection for the building. It’s interesting to think about Lisa’s sublime artistic vision in regards to this new space—much of the work she is known for evokes a strong and immediate emotional response, often a little sparse, warm, inviting, and textural… not unlike Beadle’s architecture.”
Working with StarkJames principle Wesley James, Sette sought to preserve much of the original Beadle structure, finding in its below-ground design an ideal way for visitors to enter her unique installation and exhibit spaces. Says James, “The existing entry sequence is one of stepping down a short flight of stairs, under a canopy, into the earth before entering the building. We saw this as a wonderful sequence and setting for an entry into a gallery space…moving down into the earth, leaving the mundane world behind.”
The largest departure from the building’s original state will be a fabric scrim wrapping the building, an idea that diverges from the original design but builds upon it conceptually, adding another layer to be moved through both spatially and visually. James remarks: “Shading the exterior is a response that we feel is appropriate for our environment… It also allows us to set the stage for what will be a beautiful transformation when the fabric is lit from the exterior for evening exhibition openings and special events.”
The Gallery’s impressive new home will allow Sette to carry on and expand upon a curatorial vision that is both locally relevant and globally cognizant, in a space that opens up new possibilities for Sette’s curatorial work at large, and for the intellectual and cultural life of downtown Phoenix.
Lisa Sette anticipates that “The new location will provide for intimate exhibition areas and greatly improved back of the house spaces”—ideal for hosting salons, artist events and diverse arts programming.
Throughout three trailblazing decades, Lisa Sette has remained committed to discovering and exposing original, intriguing forms of expression: Her gallery exhibits an impressive roster of emerging and established artists at leading events around the world, as well as maintaining a clientele of local and international collectors devoted to its founder’s adventurous curatorial vision. With an artist list that includes Arizona luminary James Turrell, desert favorite Mayme Kratz, Mexican born cultural maverick and Stanford professor Enrique Chagoya, interdisciplinary artists Julianne Swartz (NY) and Angela Ellsworth (AZ), contemporary Indian sculptor Siri Devi Khandavilli, and conceptual photographersFiona Pardington (New Zealand), and Luis Molina-Pantin (Venezuela), Lisa Sette has consistently sought out diverse artists working on the leading edge of aesthetic, social and conceptual investigation.
Lisa Sette Gallery offers the Arizona art world something of almost indefinable value: a sense of self. The gallery’s singular vision concerns a considered reaction to its context—in both time and geographical place. It presents an irony-free conception of contemporary art of the West that is both sophisticated and avant-garde. Rather than seeking to distance itself from what it means to live in a desert city, the Sette aesthetic encapsulates an understanding of this idiosyncratic existence; nearing the edge of the hemisphere— simultaneously beautiful, threatening, and precarious, and, as such, fertile creative ground for contemporary artwork.
Lisa Sette Gallery will open the 2014/2015 season with a June exhibit in the new space, after finalizing the 2013/2014 exhibition schedule on Scottsdale's Marshall Way. A celebration is planned at the beginning of next year to commemorate Lisa Sette Gallery’s 30 years of bringing adventurous, challenging, and delightful contemporary art to Phoenix and beyond.
Lisa Sette Gallery maintains a very active exhibition schedule, mounting approximately 10 exhibitions a year ranging in theme and genre. For nearly 30 years, the gallery has been committed to showcasing a range of contemporary photography, sculpture, painting, installation and performance art.
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The unveiling of 24 new paintings by Mel Leipzig was the center of celebration at Gallery Henoch, last night, Thursday, March 27th. A crowd of several hundred admires lined the sidewalk to gain entry in order to mingled in the 2,700sqr foot gallery, meet the artist and view paintings measuring as long as twelve feet.
The two-dozen paintings (34 total canvases) were selected by Margaret M. O'Reilly, Curator of Fine Art at the New Jersey State Museum and represent a fraction of the actual work painted over the last four years, from 2010 - 2014. Leipzig paints people in their personal environments. His subjects might include a fry-cook in his kitchen, a tattoo piercer or a famous politician. Viewed in their own homes and offices, his subjects are surrounded by the stuff of their daily life. The exhibition runs through April 19that Gallery Henoch. Admission is free and open to the public.
This marks Leipzig's seventh solo exhibition at Gallery Henoch that has represented the artist for 30 years. Mel Leipzig was born in Brooklyn in 1935 and resides in Trenton, NJ where he was a professor of Painting and Art History at Mercer County Community College until 2013. He studied at the Cooper Union and at Yale, with Joseph Albers and Neil Welliver. The latter encouraged Leipzig at a time when abstraction dominated the visual arts.
Leipzig has had over 45 one-man shows at museums and art centers in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey. He has had multiple exhibits at the New Jersey State Museum. National Academy of Arts and Letters honored him in 2003. Shortly after he was elected into the National Academy in 2006. In 2013 PBS and NJN began airing a documentary about the artist titled MEL LEIPZIG: EVERYTHING IS PAINTABLE.
His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy Museum and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City. Additionally, New Jersey State Museum, Montclair Art Museum, the Morris Museum, the Noyes Museum, the Jane Voorhes Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers and the Jersey City Museum.
"His sense of Mysterious emotional tension in strongly characterized ordinary people makes him perhaps, the Chekhov of Trenton."
- Peter Schjeldahl, New York Times
Notable persons in attendance include: US Representative Rush Holt, artist Audrey Flack, NJM Curator of Fine Art Margaret O'Reilly, photographer of Warhol: John Naar, Star Ledger Editors: Dan Bischoff & Enrique Lavin, painters: Alex Kanevsky, Daniel Greene & Wendy Caporelli. Printmaker Judy Brodsky, and Michael Curtis, Art Critic Gerry Haggerty, Gallerist George Henoch Shechtman, Sheryl Fisher, Andrew Liss, Michael Childs, Irina Arnot, young artists from SVA, NY Studio School, the National Academy of Design, the Arts Students League, and Mercer County Community College also showed their support of the 78 year old painter.
MEL LEIPZIG: PAINTINGS 2010 - 2014, THRU APRIL 19, 2014 @
Gallery Henoch, 555 West 25th Street (between 10th & 11th Ave).
Subway: C or E to 23rd St. The event is free and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:30 am - 6:00 pm or by appointment.
For more information, please contact Andrew Liss at 917.305.0003.
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In recent years the artist has begun to make diptychs and triptychs of his subjects. Leipzig will paint multiple locations that reference the subject, giving the viewer greater insight into their world. In the portrait of RUSH HOLT AND MARGARET LANCEFIELD, a triptych, the center panel shows the politician & wife at home. The two outside panels show a pristinely organized New Jersey office counterweighted by a slightly chaotic desk in Washington, DC.
"His sense of Mysterious emotional tension in strongly characterized ordinary people makes him perhaps, the Chekhov of Trenton."
- Peter Schjeldahl, New York Times
..."One of the most individual American portrait painters of his generation. Indeed, he is among the very few artists of our current scene who seems to have the ability to say something new and interesting about the familiar and over familiar subject of informal portraiture."
- Victoria Donoho, The Philadelphia Enquirer
Gallery Henoch, 555 West 25th Street (between 10th & 11th Ave).
Subway: C or E to 23rd St. The event is free and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:30 am - 6:00 pm or by appointment.
For more information, please contact Andrew Liss at 917.305.0003.
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