Mark of Elegance Tours

 MARK OF ELEGANCE TOURS

 

Youth and Beauty: 

Art of the American Twenties

Bus Tour to the Brooklyn Museum

November 10

This exhibition brings together for the first time the work of 68 painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored a new mode of modern realism in the years bounded by the aftermath of the Great War and the onset of the Great Depression.  

140 works by artists including Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Demuth, Edward Hopper, Gaston Lachaise, Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Weston. 

 A beautiful show not to be missed. 

 Departs 9:30 from the Art League.   

Coffee and bagels en route.  

Return for home at 3:00.

This event is presented in collaboration with Mark of Elegance Bus Transportation.

To register call (631) 462-5400 x222 or click here.

Victoria Palermo

Victoria Palermo
RAUM

On Thursday November 10th, there will be a solo exhibition by Victoria Palermo in the Main Galleries. The Carriage House will be closed for the winter season. The work will be on display through December 4th with a reception for the artist on Saturday November 12th from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m.

I am one of those people who occasionally succumbs to "Stendhal's Syndrome" -that is I swoon, literally experience vertigo, in front of a work of art... at times in front of a painting, especially a Rothko. In this work, I try to wedge myself into that abstract paint space, make it three-dimensional, walk around in it, and see through to the other side.

The layers of translucent colors here are recombinant, varying with the viewer's vantage point. That means you, the viewer, may participate in the work, mixing color and determining composition through your position outside the construction. I acknowledge the visual associations with the machined aesthetic and geometrical shapes of the Bauhaus and De Stilj, but form rejects function in my pieces. Their architectonic ambition is compromised by gravity--they are made of rubber, and closer inspection reveals their handmade origins. The works defy practicality--more like miniature Victorian follies in spirit perhaps--inviting a sense of fantasy to imagine dwelling inside.

         Victoria Palermo
         2011


"Victoria Palermo's diminutive architectural structures made of silicone rubber engage the senses and the intellect. Constructions that fuse a modernist appearance and ideology with an aesthetic of play found in their small size, bright colors, and illogical spaces, the work engenders a sense of pure pleasure and fun."

          --Katie Hauser
         Associate Professor, Art History
         Skidmore College

Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday, 11:00 till 5:00 p.m. For further information about the gallery, the artists and upcoming exhibition, visit

www.johndavisgallery.com

or contact John Davis directly at 518.828.5907 or via e-mail: art@johndavisgallery.com.

Art After Dark

YOU are invited...  to the next 

Art After Dark

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

7 - 9PM

In the Art League's Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery

  

Demonstrating Artist:

Denis Ponsot 

  

Denis, a well-known watercolorist, will demonstrate his award-winning technique.  He is an NYC-grown artist with over 35 years of experience in the field. He currently teaches adult classes in Watercolor painting at the School of Visual Arts, the Art League of Long Island and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan.  

Participating Artists for November:

Lisa Berley
Robert Bloom
Maria Dabo-Peranic
Cori Foster
Rochelle LePa
Patricia Mardis Bell
Victor Matarasso
Karen Anne O'Donnell
Barbara Selva  

 

Co Chairs

Roberta Erlagen & Linda Louis

  

Visit www.artafterdark-li.org for upcoming dates and a slideshow of September's event.

Osram Art Projects - Seven Screens

OSRAM ART PROJECTS – SEVEN SCREENS

Herlinde Koelbl:
You have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it
9 November 2011 – 15 May 2012

Video installation on LED-screens

Photo: Herlinde Koelbl,

© OSRAM ART PROJECTS/Herlinde Koelbl

Opening: Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 7.00 pm
Talks by Martin Goetzeler, COO of OSRAM AG and Dr. Christian Schoen, curator.
www.osram.com/art

The tenth project for the SEVEN SCREENS, which is to celebrate the 5^th anniversary of the public art platform, is dedicated to the human being. Herlinde Koelbl’s central theme is the importance of seeing. Everything begins with a look at the world and a look at one’s self: recognizing, perceiving, seeing, communicating. Her installation „You have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it“ returns us to the origin of perception and the meaning of light, which provides the basis for the SEVEN  SCREENS. The title of her installation was inspired by Solomon's Song of Songs.

Herlinde Koelbl (*1939 in Lindau) is one of Germany's most prominent photographers and documentary filmmakers. She did not begin her career in photography until she was thirty-seven, and has worked for numerous newspapers and magazines, including Stern, Die Zeit, and the New York Times. Koelbl has presented her work in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, for example in the United States, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and China. Most recently, she had extensive solo exhibitions at the Villa Stuck in Munich (2008), the Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin (2009), the Stadtmuseum Graz (2010), and the Stadtmuseum in Munich (2011). She has received numerous awards, including the Leica Medal of Excellence (1987), the Epica Award and Kodak Pro Prize (1992), the Golden Camera (2000), Dr. Erich Salomon Prize 2001, the Federal Cross of Merit (2009), and the Lindau Cultural Award (2010).

6^th International Arte Laguna Prize

deadline 11.11.11 | final exhibition | arsenale | venice| italy

Until the 11th of November 2011 contemporary visual artists from all over the world can apply to the 6th International ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE, divided into 5 sections: painting, sculpture, photographic art, videoart and performance, and the brand new virtual art, dedicated to artworks entirely created using pc softwares and smartphones apps. Topics and techniques can be chosen freely.

Since 2006 the Arte Laguna Prize is focused on supporting emerging and already well-known artists and, thanks to collaborations with local and international partners, it is able to give them a network of opportunities.

The opportunities for the artists of this edition:

5 money Prizes of 7.000,00 EUR for the winner artists, one for each section

6 Art Residencies:  Loft Miramarmi - Italy, Carlo Zauli Museum - Italy, Glass School Abate Zanetti - Venice, Art Stays - Slovenia, iaab – Basel, Technymon India ARTresidency – India

2 Business for Art: STILE Original Design offers a money prize of  8.000,00 EUR and will develop an art project with the selected artist and another project will develop with the jewelery company FOPE of Vicenza

2 International Festivals: participation in Open in Venice and Tina B in Prague

26 Personal Exhibitions in International Art Galleries
The Prize Arte Laguna has created a network of international galleries to introduce the artists to the market of Contemporary Art. Each gallery will select an artist for creating a solo exhibition

Furthermore, a collective exhibition at the Arsenale of Venice will be set up for the 110 finalists, chosen by theinternational jurors:
Igor Zanti - Art Critic and the Arte Laguna Prize's curator, Alessio Antoniolli - Director Gasworks of London; Chiara Barbieri - Publications Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Gabriella Belli - Director MART of Trento and Rovereto; Ilaria Bonacossa - Freelance Curator; Soledad Gutierrez - Curator at MACBA Barcelona; Kanchi Metha - Curator Indian Pavillon Prague Biennale; Ludovico Pratesi - Director Centro Arti Visive Pescheria of Pesaro; Maria Savarese - Freelance Curator; Ralf Schmitt - Director Preview Berlin; Alma Zevi - Art Critic.

During the years, the winners of the Arte Laguna Prize had exhibitions in Venice, Wien, Prague and more than 20.000 viewers visited their shows.

Complete announcement >>>

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The Morrison Hotel Gallery Presents - Neal Preston

(c) Neal Preston

The Morrison Hotel Gallery

Presents

NEAL PRESTON

October 27, 2011, New York, NY - The Morrison Hotel Gallery in Soho is excited to present an exhibition of photography from the prolific Neal Preston. The exhibit will be open to the public beginning Friday, November 11th and Neal will be appearing at the gallery on Saturday, November 12th from 1 to 5 PM, which will be open to the public.  

 

This notable exhibition will feature classic photographs and also never-before-seen images from 40-year-old negatives that may not have otherwise been useable, but were salvaged using modern-day technology. Some of the photos even Neal himself had not yet seen - including The Doors, Janis Joplin and the MC5.

With a career that began in high school and continues to this day, Neal Preston's photographs have appeared in every conceivable media outlet - on the covers and pages of world-class magazines (People - as a major contributing photographer from 1979-2007, Time, Rolling Stone), in newspapers, books on TV, and  in countless record, CD and DVD covers. Through his longtime friendship with acclaimed director Cameron Crowe, Neal has provided photography and inspiration for such films as "Almost Famous", "Vanilla Sky" and the soon-to-be-released "We Bought A Zoo." His archive, a body of work spanning almost 4 decades, is regarded as one of the music industry's most extensive and significant photo collections.   

Preston has toured the world with the who's-who of rock royalty - Led Zeppelin, The Who, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen, Heart, Billy Joel and more.  

Also a gifted sports photographer, Neal has covered six Olympic Games, from the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia to the 2006 Winter Games in Torino, Italy.  He has photographed major sporting events as varied as the World Series, NBA and NFL playoff games, World Cup soccer matches, and the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Preston has been honored with a permanent exhibit at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and his images have also been on display at the Smithsonian, Yankee Stadium, Wembley Stadium, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.   

Of his second-ever New York showing at The Morrison Hotel Gallery, Preston says, "For this show, I'm busting out some of the 'greatest hits' along with some previously unseen gems that I've mined from my archives - most of them shot when I was still in high school. I want people to feel like they've uncovered a kind of cool rock-and-roll time capsule, which is exactly how I felt when I was bringing some of these photos back to life."

Having just celebrated it's 10th Anniversary, The Morrison Hotel Gallery was founded in 2001 by Peter Blachley, a former record company executive, producer Rich Horowitz, a former independent record store owner, and Henry Diltz, a legendary music photographer. The gallery has since grown to become a major brand in fine art music photography and is respected amongst peers and artists alike.  

Haight Art and Music Exhibitions

American Red Cross Benefit

Dieter Roelstraete

DIETER ROELSTRAETE Named New Manilow Senior Curator at MCA Chicago

Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, announced today that Dieter Roelstraete has been appointed the new Manilow Senior Curator at the MCA. Roelstraete is currently the Curator of MuHKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst) in Antwerp, Belgium, where he has organized large-scale group exhibitions and monographic shows. He will assume his new responsibilities at the MCA in February 2012. "Dieter is a wildly productive and extraordinarily smart curator who has addressed a wide range of art -- geographically, generationally, materially -- in his writings and exhibitions over the past several years, says Darling. "We felt his range of knowledge and broad curiosity would be perfect for the MCA in our attempt to cast as wide a net as possible in seeking out the most compelling art from around the world. Importantly, I first started hearing about him from artists who found in him a sympathetic and intelligent translator of their projects, and that kind of endorsement is very important to us. He brings with him an international network of colleagues and collaborators which will extend the MCA's reach far beyond Chicago; but at the end of the day, he is also a really charming person who we are all very much looking forward to working with." Originally trained as a philosopher at the University of Ghent, Belgian-born Roelstraete has worked at the MuHKA since 2003. His curatorial projects there include Emotion Pictures (2005); Intertidal, a survey show of contemporary art from Vancouver (2005); The Order of Things (2008); Auguste Orts: Correspondence (2010); Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner - A Syntax of Dependency (2011); A Rua: The Spirit of Rio de Janeiro (2011) and the collaborative projects Academy: Learning from Art (2006); The Projection Project (2007); and All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (2009). He is currently preparing a retrospective of Chantal Akerman, opening at MuHKA in February 2012.    In 2005, Roelstraete co-curated Honoré d'O: The Quest in the Belgian pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. He has also organized solo exhibitions of Roy Arden (Vancouver Art Gallery, 2007), Steven Shearer (De Appel, Amsterdam, 2007), and Zin Taylor (Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, 2011), as well as small-scale group shows in galleries and institutions in Belgium and Germany.    Roelstraete is an editor of Afterall and a contributing editor to A Prior Magazine, and has published extensively on contemporary art and philosophical issues in numerous catalogues and journals including Artforum, Frieze, and Mousse Magazine. He is one of the founders of the journal FR David and a tutor at De Appel in Amsterdam. In 2010, his book Richard Long: A Line Made By Walking was published by Afterall Books/The MIT Press, and a volume of his poetry will be published by ROMA in May 2012. He lives in Berlin with his wife Monika Szewczyk.

1st Photo Week at 5 Pieces Gallery

1st Photo Week at 5 Pieces Gallery 10/31/11 - 11/07/11

We would like to invite you kindly to visit our gallery site during the 1st Photo Week of the 5 Pieces Gallery and enjoy the wide selection of internationally known photographers. In addition we would like to offer you as a valued client all photographs with a discount of 10% (code photoweek) for a limited time.

Selected works

LACDA 'Snap to Grid' Open Call, Every Entry Shown!!

 

LACDA ‘Snap to Grid’ Open Call, every entry shown!

 

December 8 -December 30, 2011
Opening Reception Thursday December 8, 7-9pm
(in conjunction with the Downtown Art Walk, at our new 4,000 square foot gallery)

 

Show your work in our un-juried exhibit featuring digital art and photography. All entries will be printed (8.5″x11″ on heavyweight paper) and shown in our gallery arranged in a grid. Entrants submit JPEG files of original work. Multiple entries are permitted. Separate registration required for each image. Exhibit is limited to space available, early entry is advised.

 

All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Digital video stills and screen shots of web/new media are acceptable. Documentation shots of digital installation and digital sculpture are acceptable.

 

Special consideration is given to “Snap to Grid” artists for inclusion in future exhibits. Entrants to our calls for submissions form the pool of artists from which we select the majority of our exhibitors. There have been a large number of “Snap to Grid” participants who have been included in group exhibits, as well as a number of solo shows. Proceeds for “Snap to Grid” benefit these gallery programs and keep LACDA thriving. Exhibit your work, build your resume, and support our gallery. Everybody wins!

 

Location:
This call is international, open to all geographical locations.

 

Show Dates:
December 8-30, 2011

 

Deadline for entries:
December 1, 2011

 

Opening Reception:
Thursday December 8, 7-9pm
(in conjunction with Downtown Artwalk)

 

Entry Fee:
Registration fee is $32US.

 

How your images will be printed and exhibited:
Entries will be printed (8.5″x11″ on heavyweight paper) and shown in our gallery arranged in a grid.
Every entry is shown.

 

Submission Rules:
Registration and submission are done online only. JPEG file uploads are the only accepted submissions under 5mb each, and can only be uploaded after registration and payment of Snap to Grid entry fee ($32US per image). Please do not send materials to LACDA. All materials sent to LACDA will not be viewed and cannot be returned.

 

Multiple Entries:
Multiple entries are permitted. $32 registration fee for each additional image. Separate registration required for each image.

 

Two easy steps to exhibit your work at LACDA…
1) Enter as many images as you like here (one registration fee for each image):

 

click here for registration 

 

2) You will automatically be redirected to our upload page or
you may upload images here at any time:http://lacda.com/upload.html

 

Gallery Statement:
Every year for 50 years the L.A. Municipal Gallery has held its “Open Call” exhibit where any artist can show up with their art and an entry fee (to benefit gallery programs) and the piece is shown. The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art decided to launch an international experiment of the same nature where the artists upload images that are printed and hung by the gallery. The hundreds of works are displayed in a grid like installation (reminiscent of postcard art shows of the 1980′s) where every work submitted is exhibited.

 

The usual (less than democratic) selection process where only the precious few are chosen is turned on its head in a curatorial anarchy where everyone gets to participate and the viewer is literally left to be the judge. The show represents a snapshot of a current moment in art history when digital imaging has reached the hands of the many, an age where culture belongs to the “mobblogers” around the globe. From Thailand to Texas, amateur to academic, beautiful to banal and beyond the monumental quantity and variety of “Snap to Grid” becomes an aesthetic experience where each individual piece adds to an agglomerative effect that has a life of its own.

 

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
102 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
www.lacda.com

212Gallery - Max Vadukul

212GALLERY

212GALLERY artist Max Vadukul collaborates on photos with preeminent Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei in China, for W magazine’s Art issue

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212GALLERY’s own Max Vadukul recently collaborated with Ai Weiwei, the “most powerful person in the world of art,” according to Art Review magazine.

Mr. Ai created a story line for a series of photos that were shot on location in New York, by the photographer Max Vadukul as Mr. Ai looked on, art directing via Skype on a laptop computer from his home in China.

The photos will appear in W magazine’s November issue, the sixth annual one devoted to art. W’s editor, Stefano Tonchi, approached Mr. Ai, the outspoken Chinese artist and dissident, to do the cover not long after he was released from detention. Mr. Ai, was detained by Chinese authorities in the spring, was released under close surveillance in June.

“There is nothing quite like it,” said Vadukul, who had his first U.S. solo exhibition at 212GALLERY last March.

“He has an extraordinary vision,” said Vadukul. “He sees something that nobody else sees. That’s why he’s such an acclaimed artist. I’m mindful that I’m creating his vision. W is known for creating fine art work and then if you bring in a photographer known for his art reportage work- it’s exciting. This is the one assignment which will never be repeated again.”

Not only did Mr. Ai agree to do the cover, but a schema for a series of photos reminiscent of photos he took of the Tompkins Square riots in the 1980s, when he lived in New York.  “We left it open to him to create an original work,” said Diane Solway, W magazine’s senior editor.

The resulting scene takes place at Rikers Island. They refer to Mr. Ai’s own confinement, which China’s government has forbidden him from discussing.

For Mr. Vadukul the challenge was in translating Mr. Ai’s aesthetic for W’s fashion readership.

In an October 12th, New York Times article about the collaboration, Mr. Ai specified that he wanted street clothes, in the cover photo, shot in Flushing, Queens. The model, instead, is wearing an outfit by Alexander Wang. Mr. Vadukul made some suggestions — like shooting in black and white, which he said Mr. Ai agreed with — but he was mindful that he was there to execute another person’s vision.

“I would show him the images live on the screen,” explained Vadukul. “We had skype set up in this prison. I was showing him where I’m going to shoot, frame by frame, getting him involved in the process. I felt like I was giving his vision a lot of feeling.”

“It was very surreal,” said Ms. Solway. “We could see him on the screen, scrolling through the images.”

“This is his story,” said Vadukul. “I’m doing what he’s expecting. For me, the excitement has been, firstly, to have the chance to collaborate with an artist of his stature, then to hear him actually give a very strong direction.”

“Art is traditonally most effective when it makes a social comment and he’s certainly succeeded in doing that,” said Vadukul.  “He is the big big kahuna out there.”

 

*Corrections for New York Times article.

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BIO
Max Vadukul was born in Nairobi, Kenya and currently works and resides in New York City. Best known for black and white and portrait photography, Vadukul follows in the tradition of “art reportage” photography, which he describes as “taking reality and making it into art.”

In the 1990’s he established himself with a large body of work for French Vogue – a large portion of which was created with his wife, the eminent fashion editor Nicoletta Santoro, with whom he has collaborated for years. He has produced three books, is a film director, and recently created a series of dance and music videos for Yoji Yamamoto’s “Coming Soon” clothing line campaign. He has also branded his trademark style on campaigns for Chloe, Commes Des Garcons, Armani, Emanuel Ungaro, Sandro, and HBO's "Six Feet Under."

Vadukul shoots regularly for W Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue China, and others. He has long standing relationships with such magazines as  French Vogue, Italian Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue and The New Yorker, where  from 1996 to 2000, he was staff photographer, a title previously occupied by Richard Avedon.

212GALLERY features innovative, established and emerging international artists working across media including, photography, painting, sculpture and mixed media.

Gallery Hours are Monday through Saturday 10-7 and Sunday 10-6.
212GALLERY 525 East Cooper Avenue, next to Ralph Lauren
Please call 970-925-7117 for further details.

Fifteenth Annual Boston International Fine Art Show

SHOW INFORMATION  |  EXHIBITORS  |  GALA PREVIEW  |  INFO & MAP

THE ONLY SHOW AND SALE OF ITS KIND IN NEW ENGLAND!  GALA PREVIEWThursday, November 17, 5:30-8:30pm To benefit The Greater Boston Food BankTickets: $100 & $250 To order tickets, please visit www.GBFB.org or call the show office at 617-363-0405 WEEKEND SHOW & SALE Fri 1-9, Sat 11-8, Sun 11-5 Admission $15, under 12 free. Cafe at the show.  Valet parking available. Complimentary catalog and readmission. The Cyclorama Boston Center for the Arts 539 Tremont Street, Boston For information: 617-363-0405 www.FineArtBoston.com

SPECIAL PROGRAMS - free with show admission

Friday, November 18, 6:30pm - Art Collecting: A Passion, An Investment, or Both?
Is art a luxury brand, as sensitive to the stock markets as high-end fashion?  Or does it represent a safe investment in troubled times, much like gold?  Join our panel of experts including Christopher D. Perry, Senior Vice President and Senior Fiduciary Officer, Northern Trust (Boston); Lou Salerno, Questroyal Gallery (New York); and Julie Sherlock, Assistant Vice President, ACE Private Risk Services (New York)

Saturday, November 19, 3:00pm - Shaping the Present: Realist Art Then and Now
For years, people have been saying realist art is coming back.  Judging from its growing visibility and the mushrooming of realist art schools nationwide, it's more accurate to say it's here.  Join us for this intriguing panel, animated by two national editors and popular BIFAS presenters:  Joshua Rose of American Art Collector and Peter Trippi of Fine Art Connoisseur.

Additional information on special programs is available at www.FineArtBoston.com