Sunday, October 14, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
MCA Stage: Martin Creed's Unconventional Ballet
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Abstract Impressionist Susan Marx at A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery in November
Abstract Impressionist Susan Marx Exhibits Paintings at the
A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, October 30 - November 24, 2012
Recent Works Painted in Montclair, New Jersey
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 8, 5:30 PM -7:30 PM
Gallery Address: 24 West 57 Street, Suite 605, New York, NY 10019
Gallery Hours: 11 AM - 5 PM, Tuesday through Saturday
Susan Marx - "Rose Garden" (2012), 30"x 24", acrylic on canvas
Abstract
Impressionist Susan Marx's devotion to startling jubilant color is
contagious. She is in love with color and with paint.
Inspired
by the French masters, Monet, Van Gogh and Abstract Expressionist Joan
Mitchell, Marx invigorates her canvases with colorful
dynamic brushstrokes. She approaches painting with the thoughtful
spontaneity of an Impressionist. Pastoral scenes are alive with
spirited energy. Marx's effervescent use of light pierces through her
canvasses, stunning us into sensual appreciation of our natural world.
Ardently devoted to painting en plein air, out
of doors, Marx's dedication to nature is lithe with personal emotions.
Sensuous shapes tempered with vigorous color, breathe life into Marx's
personal, dynamic compositions. "Color, the use of warm and cool colors
and their combinations are of extreme importance, as are my expressive
brushstrokes, my personal handwriting," explains Marx. "My painting is a
result of my radical amazement at the visual world and my need to turn
that visual experience into paint. Nature is my starting point, but not
my end result. I try to capture the essence of a scene. Its emotions
and color. And leave the rest to the viewer's imagination to bring him
itso the painting."
Susan
Marx is represented by and exhibits at the A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery,
24 West 57th Street, the Agora Gallery, 520 West 25th Street and the
Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, 531 West 25th Street in New York City. She
has also exhibited at the Fox Gallery, the Keane Mason Gallery and The
Emerging Collector in New York and in New Jersey at the Robin Hutchins
Gallery, the Korby Gallery, the Hait Gallery, Nitsa Fine Arts, the
Marino Gallery, The Art Gallery of South Orange, The Gaelen Gallery
East, The Tenth Muse, and The Right Angle. She exhibited in Paris at
the Musée des Duncan. In Israel, she showed her work at the Museum of
Printing Art in Safed and at the Artist's House in Jerusalem.
Marx's
paintings are is in private collections in the United States and
abroad. She lives in Orange, NJ and volunteers at the Montclair Art
Museum and the Newark Museum.
Susan Marx - "Garden Abstract" (2012), 30"x 24", acrylic on canvas
Susan Marx - "White Irises" (2012), 30"x 24", acrylic on canvas
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The Ellis Boston Antiques Show - October 18-21, 2012
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Call to Artists - 58th Talbot Street Art Fair
58th Talbot Street Art Fair
Call to Artists
WHAT: Fine Art and Fine Craft Event
WHERE: Indianapolis, IN
WHEN: June 8-9, 2013
Saturday, 10-6; Sunday 10-5
NOTEWORTHY:
*Ranked among the nations top festivals every year.
*Limited to 270 artists in juried fine art and fine craft
*Application and Entry fees, $25/$295. A few larger spaces available at extra cost.
*Over 50,000 in attendance
*Merit and Purchase Awards
*Friday set-up, drive to space for load in and load out.
*24 hour security
*Artist and RV parking
*Reduced hotel rates
The fair, sponsored by Talbot Street Art Fair, Inc. a non-profit organization, is held along Talbott Street between 16th and 20th Streets (North-South) and between Pennsylvania and Delaware Streets (East-West) in the historic Herron-Morton neighborhood on the near-northside of Indianapolis.
Talbot Street Art Fair is the oldest, juried show in Central Indiana and remains free to the public.
All of the fair's focus is on the artists. We do not have commercial booths or performing musicians. The fair has a dedicated following of patrons who show up rain or shine. We do extensive local and regional advertising that includes billboards, newspapers, magazines, online ads and radio and television interviews. Our purpose is an organized fair that runs smoothly and brings buying customers to our artists for successful sales.
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:
Deadline: January 21, 2013
Notification: March 15, 2013
Website: www.talbotstreet.org
Phone: 317-745-6479
FIT Hosts Lecture by British Photographer Martin Parr
FIT HOSTS LECTURE
BY BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHER MARTIN PARR
Free and Open to the Public
WHAT: British photographer Martin Parr is internationally known for his innovative imagery, his oblique approach to social documentary, and his input to photographic culture within the UK and abroad.<-- Photo from Martin Parr's Portfolio
Parr says of his work, “With photography, I like to create fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society’s natural prejudice and giving this a twist.”
In recent years, Parr has developed an interest in filmmaking, and has started to use his photography within different conventions, such as fashion and advertising. In 2002 the Barbican Art Gallery and the National Media Museum in England initiated a retrospective of Martin Parr’s work, which toured Europe for five years. He is a visiting professor at the University of Wales, Newport campus, and he is a full member of Magnum Photographic Corporation.
WHEN: Tuesday, October 16, 3:30 pm
WHERE: FIT, Katie Murphy Amphitheatre
Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
Call to Artists - Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff
Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff
Celebrating 52 Years of Artistic Excellence!
Call to Artists
WHAT: Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff, one of the nation's top fine art festivals
(Sunshine Artist Magazine #20 2012)
(Sunshine Artist Magazine #20 2012)
WHERE: Beautiful downtown St. Joseph, MI
WHEN: Saturday and Sunday
July 13-14, 2013
NOTEWORTHY:
*One-half century of artistic and sales excellence.
*Limited to 216 artists.
*Average sales (2012): $4,190.00, (source: Sunshine Artist Magazine) $3,700 (source: 136 respondents from 2012 artist survey).
*Jury/Booth Fees ($30/$275 or $300, depending on space size: 15x15 and 20x20); many with exposure on two sides.
*Estimated attendance: 70,000, drawn from all over the Midwest.
*Friday set-up; drive to space for load-in and load-out.
*Artist-in-Residence program; residents host artists in their homes.
*Excellent artist amenities, including artist-only parking, Saturday gourmet breakfast, booth sitters, electricity available to many booths, artists' hospitality room and much more.
*Friday night kick-off party with gourmet food, wine tasting and live music and more.
*Round table artists' discussion with committee and staff.
*Jury session open to artists and public to observe.
*For more details about the show, click HERE
The Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff celebrates 52 years of artistic excellence at Lake Bluff Park in 2013, overlooking Lake Michigan. The festival draws crowds from Chicago, northern Indiana, Grand Rapids and other nearby cities.
Comments from participating artists:
- "In this age when most art shows think they can "improve" their shows by bringing in carnivals and petting zoos, Krasl has not forgotten that it is about the artists and kept their focus on that."
- "The community support is overwhelmingly the best of any show I do. Out of doing 25+shows a year, this is the one that I look forward to. A big thank you to the pastry chef for the 'BEST' calories ever and the Boulevard Inn for the artist discounted rate."
- "I just wanted to thank you for having me in your show. The award I won was such an honor! I had a great show both in terms of sales and the fun factor. You and your staff of volunteers do such a great job with the show. It was such a pleasure being part of such a well run event. I also wanted to thank you for finding a host family for me to stay with while I was in St. Joseph. My host family was wonderful too. I look forward to next year"
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:
Deadline:
January 11, 2013
Application through
www.zapplication.orgJury Date:
February 1, 2013 (artists and public invited to observe)
Notification:
February 22, 2013
Booth Fee Due:
April 5, 2013
For more details and artist's prospectus, visit:
Email inquiries to:
Sara Shambarger, Director
Flowers Gallery Presents Nadav Kander - Yangtze - The Long River
Flowers Gallery Presents
NADAV KANDER:
Yangtze – The Long River
Chongqing VII (Washing Bike)
For additional images and inquiries contact: Danielle Grant | A&O PR
(P) 415.860.0767 | (E) danielle@aopublic.com
Opening Reception: October 18, 6 - 8pm
Exhibition Dates: October 19 - November 24, 2012 NEW YORK, August 13, 2012 — Flowers Gallery is pleased to announce the New York debut of Nadav Kander’s Prix Pictet award-winning photographic series, Yangtze — The Long River. For this body of work, Kander traveled the nearly 4,000-mile long Yangtze River, from mouth to source, photographing the landscape and the people living along its shores. Yangtze — The Long River is a body of work that captures the dramatic effects of a nation at the precipice of enormous industrial and economic change and considers the history and folklore of the waterway that runs through the blood of the people. The exhibition will run from October 19th through November 24th, with a reception for the artist on October 18th, from 6-8pm. Flowing for a distance of 3,988 miles, the Yangtze is the longest river in Asia and the third longest river in the world. Roughly bisecting the country of China from West to East, the edges of this watercourse are home to a population larger than America’s. One in every eighteen people on the planet lives along its shores. Over a period of three years, Nadav Kander made five trips to the banks of the Yangtze, traveling up-stream from mouth to source. Using the river as a metaphor for a world in flux, Kander attempted to relate and reflect the implications of modern-day China’s incomprehensible and seemingly unnatural pace of development. Kander’s China is a country both at the beginning of a new era and at odds with itself. With the accelerated clip at which China’s economy continues to grow, this body of work examines how progress can dramatically affect the way the physical world shapes our perception of reality and our understanding of ourselves. Kander says in a statement about this body of work: “China is a nation that appears to be severing its roots by destroying its past. Demolition and construction were everywhere on such a scale that I was unsure if what I was seeing was being built or destroyed, destroyed or built.” Viewers of this exhibition are taken on a meditative and meandering path beginning at the river’s coastal estuary, where thousands of ships leave and enter each day. Imagery of man-made evolutionary progress abounds: the renowned suicide bridges, coalmines and the largest dam in the world – The Three Gorges Dam. Further inland we encounter Chongqing - the fastest-growing urban center on the planet. In the upper areas of the Yangtze, towards its source on the Tibetan Plane, the dense architecture gives way to the mountains—a sparsely populated area where the stream, in its most glacial form, is mostly broken ice. The human figures in these pictures are colorful wisps, often overshadowed by the monochromatic elements of industrial infrastructure and a climate that appears muted by humid weather and pollution. In his statement about the work, Kander draws references to John Martin’s and Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings “…where humans are dwarfed against the might of nature and God” and J.M.W. Turner's paintings, “…where tiny figures are lost in the seething violence of nature suggesting the ultimate defeat of all endeavor, the fallacy of hope.” Kander continues, “I felt the smallness of man pitted against huge ideas, the insignificance of man compared to the state." These bright figures, so stunted in size by their encroaching habitats still manage to anchor Kander’s compositions, and provoke the viewer’s imagination about what the flow of life must be like at a time of accelerated progression. In speaking about his work, Kander relates a friend’s personal narrative: A Chinese friend I made whilst working on the project reiterated what many Chinese people feel: “Why do we have to destroy to develop?”...many of us can revisit where we were brought up and it will be much the same—it will remind us of our families and upbringing. In China that is virtually impossible. The scale of development has left most places unrecognizable. “Nothing is the same. We can’t revisit where we came from because it no longer exists.” Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1961, Nadav Kander currently lives and works in London. His work forms part of some of the major collections in the world. In 2009, Kander received the prestigious Prix Pictet photographic award for a selection of photographs from Yangtze – The Long River. He is a regular contributor to many international publications, including The New York Times Magazine, for whom he photographed ‘Obama’s People’, a portfolio of 54 portraits of the Obama administration. 529 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 + (1) 212-439-1700 www.flowersgallery.com |
Upcoming Exhibition - Shaka
Shaka
Human Behavior
Oil, foam and plaster on canvas
74 3/4 x 106 1/4 x 13 3/4 in |190 X 270 X 35 cm
Shaka
Street Allegory
Oil foam and plaster
118 x 236 1/4 x 23 1/2 in | 300 X 600 X 60 cm
Shaka
Exhibition: October 19 - November 9, 2012
Exhibition: October 19 - November 9, 2012
gallery nine5 is pleased to present a series of recent works by renowned French artist Shaka. Already an established name on the underground scene in Europe and South America, this will be the first time that Shaka will exhibit his bold style in North America.
Shaka focuses on portraiture and figures in movement to reveal the emotional workings behind the façade of everyday human interactions. His figures twist and turn in an energetic color palette, the movement of their bodies representing the struggle for individuality in social power politics. Heightening the internal conflicts of each figure, the paintings feature bas-relief details that pop out from the two-dimensional plane, underscoring the sense of escape and emancipation.
The exhibition centers on an impressive triptych titled Street Allegory. Constructed from oil and plaster, the piece is a composition of impassioned figures charging out of the picture plane to fight against dominant classes and social structures. The high contrast of the piece is amplified by the influence of red on an otherwise achromatic canvas. The figures appear to be a mob in pursuit of the viewer; their faces contorted in acute anxiety. The cohesion of the mob is just an illusion though, as we are tricked by the balance of the composition into believing we see a single group when in fact each member is fending for himself. The piece is a commentary on the mirage of community experienced through political constructs, while also a nod to the stereotypes of the street art movement, which has gained recent mainstream exposure. Dominant language relegates “street artist” to a single category ignoring the diversity in style, motivation, and creative ambition of each individual.
Shaka has been practicing his unique method of sculpting right on the canvas since 2007 in the heart of Paris’s burgeoning contemporary art scene. He mixes technical elements and classical influences with new-age styles like tattoo design and graffiti culture. Shaka’s wide net of inspiration allows him to infuse his work with a commanding presence. Besides the large-scale format that is emblematic of his style, his work is known for a pulsating menagerie of polygons, lines, and angles infused with radiating colors. These elements reflect the inner conflicts of each of Shaka’s subjects who are searching, presumably like us, for individuality, while simultaneously living within communities organized by social norms. In Human Behavior, for example, two figures try to balance on top of two hills of empty drawers. The structure is unstable and ultimately both figures will fall. Shaka has painted a physical manifestation of the inner instability of his subjects.
Shaka (Marchal Mithouard) was born in Evry, France in 1975. He graduated with a BFA in Fine Art from the Sorbonne, where he graduated with a Masters in Multimedia Arts as well. Shaka has exhibited his work in galleries (and on the streets) all over Europe including Paris, Brussels, Berlin, London, and Rio de Janeiro.
Gallery nine5
24 Spring Street New York, NY 10012
(212) 965-9995
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