Call to Artists, Two Great Shows on the Green

 
Two Great Shows on the Green!

Call to Artists

WHAT: Two fine art festivals in the nation's premier summer vacation location.

WHERE: The Village Green, Montauk, NY

WHEN: Memorial Day Festival           
           Friday, Saturday and Sunday
           May 24, 25 and 26, 2013

           Art Show on the Green
           Friday, Saturday and Sunday
           August 16, 17 and 18, 2013

NOTEWORTHY: 

*Limited to 95 spaces due to the size of the green. 

*Great, high traffic venue during the summer's busiest weekends. 

*Prior Day Tent Setup (both events); Morning Art Setup (6 a.m. - noon, both events). Drive to booth for setup and teardown.  

*No jury fee.  

*Booth Fee: $350; limited double spaces available at $700.

*Professional security Friday and Saturday 6 p.m - 6 a.m. 

*Intensive magazine, newspaper and radio advertising throughout the Hamptons. 

*Extremely upscale community of both residents and visitors. 

*For more details about the shows, click HERE

Known as the "Playground of the Rich", the Hamptons on New York's Long Island have long been a mecca for art and artists.  A perennial favorite among the area's wealthy residents, second home owners and summer vacationers, the Montauk Artists' Association's Show on the Green, held every August on Montauk's fabulous Village Green, was joined in 2011 by a newer, but equally popular event at the same location: the Memorial Day Weekend Art Show. 

These festivals include only fine art; no crafts, production work or buy-sell are permitted. The limited booth space insures high artistic quality, excellent booth exposure and many sales opportunities to showgoers.  Artists experience annual visits by Hamptons residents and visitors who regularly attend. Amenities include close free parking, easy setup and teardown, supportive staff and volunteers. Very strong community support.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:  

Deadlines: 

 

Memorial Day Weekend Show 

March 15, 2013

August Show on the Green 

May 15, 2013  

For more details, artist's prospectus, and application, visit: 

http://www.montaukartistsassociation.org
 

Email inquiries to: 

montaukart@aol.com

You may also contact by telephone:
Anne Weissman
Event Director
To April 15: 772-879-1236
After April 15: 631-668-5336

Pamela J. Wallace
Industrial Weeds

On Thursday, February 28th, there will be a solo exhibition of new work by Pamela J. Wallace.  The work will be on display through March 24th with a reception for the artist on Saturday, March 2nd from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m.

My work evolves from my observation of organizational systems and from a need to make objects with my hands. I look at things like musical instruments, trays of parts in an assembly line, specimens in a natural history museum, or plant life and vegetation. In addition to this I seek out obsolete industrial structures and look at the way nature re-asserts itself with rough weeds growing through cracks in concrete, and the rust and decay of time.   

Working with a continuum of objects, I create systems of patterns that are often mapped out like constellations. Shapes and objects are distributed throughout my work to mimic non-linear geometries where order comes and goes and the smallest detail is essential. I combine organic ephemeral materials like paper, thread, fabric and wax with hard durable industrial materials such as iron and concrete. Concerned with the smallest connections I show evidence of my own hand in a pencil mark or a stray cut, as a record of actions taken to make my forms. Close inspection reveals unexpected details such as iron spoon forms capturing empty space, plant fibers encased in sewn plastic bags, or circles held tight to the wall by the tips of pins.

            Pamela J. Wallace
            2013

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

www.johndavisgallery.com

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

CONNERSMITH. at The Armory Show March 6-10, FOCUS USA

Lincoln Schatz, The Network. 2012, pigment print, 25 x 40, ed: 7

THE ARMORY SHOW March 7-10, 2013 New York, NY Pier 94, booth 902 > Focus: USA LINCOLN SCHATZ: The Network digital portraits, American Innovators to preview: CLICK HERE ::::::::::::::::::::::: > Armory: FILM JANET BIGGS Sunday, March 10th: 5-6:30pm screening: "Fade to White" with NYC premier of "A Step on the Sun" to preview: CLICK HERE CONNERSMITH. 1358 Florida Ave. NE Washington, DC 20002 v: 202-588-8750 info@connersmith.us.com www.connersmith.us.com   Join us on Facebook

THE ARMORY SHOW 
March 7-10, Pier 94, New York, NY

Focus USA ::::: LINCOLN SCHATZ: The Network ::::: booth 902

to preview: CLICK HERE

CONNERSMITH is very pleased to present a solo exhibition of Lincoln Schatz’s ”The Network” at The Armory Show 2013, FOCUS USA, curated by Eric Shiner. Innovative and uniquely American, “The Network” presents a composite portrait of power and innovation in Washington, DC through generative digital art and photographs.

Using three video cameras, Schatz recorded his interviews with 89 policy makers and cultural operatives to create a ever-changing digital conversation. Drawing inspiration from Richard Avedon’s political portrait photographs, Schatz updates an art historical continuum that began with Raphael’s sixteenth-century painting of Baldassare Castiglione as an eloquent embodiment of the Urbino court. Schatz blends artistry with technology, surpassing the Renaissance ideal of portraiture as a “speaking likeness” by giving full expression to the individual stories of his high profile sitters, who include Steve Case, Vernon Jordon, Rocco Landesman, Sandra Day O’Connor, Nancy Pelosi, John Podesta, and Eric Cantor.

After translating the raw video footage into analog format, the artist wrote digital code that accesses meta-tagged topics in all 89 interviews so as to present constantly changing sequences of sitters and concepts. Transitioning seamlessly from one speaker to another, the work continually generates a provocative nexus of contemporary ideas. In the gallery installation, Schatz brings the original context of these performative conversations to life, creating an immersive experience for his audience, whose personal perspectives will generate new relational meanings of the art.

“The Network “ is in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

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Armory Film: Janet Biggs
Sunday, March 10th: 5-6:30pm

screening: "Fade to White" with NYC premier of "A Step on the Sun"

to preview: CLICK HERE

These two films by Janet Biggs were shot in near opposite, yet equally inhospitable, locations: the frozen wasteland of the Arctic Circle and the hellish sulfur mine deep inside an active volcano in Indonesia. Fade to White was shot while Biggs was traveling aboard an ice-class, 2-masted schooner, built in 1910, and focuses on a crew member as he navigated the ship through iceberg -filled seas, and paddled a kayak past glacier walls and polar bears. In A Step On the Sun, the artist focuses on hardships overcome by a sulfur miner in the Ijen volcano. Amid clouds of toxic sulfur dioxide gas, he carries heavy loads up a steep, rocky path from the crater floor to the rim, then to a distant weigh-station. curated by Moving-Image.

For further information: info@connersmith.us.com or 202 588 8750. 

The Armory Show 2012 Time Lapse Video

Opening March 28th - Judith Belzer: Edgelands/THE STUDY: Bret Slater

Judith Belzer, Edgelands #30 (2013), Oil On Canvas, 56h x 56w in (Left) Judith Belzer, Edgelands #12 (2012) Oil On Canvas, 10h x 10w in  (Right)  Edgelands #13 (2012) Oil On Canvas, 10h x 10w in Judith Belzer, Edgelands #8 (2012) Oil On Canvas, 40h x 40w in JUDITH BELZER  EDGELANDS Morgan Lehman is pleased to present Edgelands, Judith Belzer's second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition opens on March 28th, with a reception for the artist from 6-8pm, and will be on view through April 27th. In a statement about the work, Belzer writes: My new paintings explore the complex relationships between nature and culture through the lens of the landscapes we have created. The current series investigates the edge lands where the built environment and the natural landscape converge, clash and interlace. The engagements that occur along these boundaries are dynamic, unpredictable and sometimes chaotic. Using a broad painting language of mark-making and a kind of bent, vertiginous perspective (often from an overhead angle), the paintings evoke a visceral sense of what it feels like to live in a landscape in the process of being transformed by our own industriousness. Working in the San Francisco Bay Area, Belzer makes good use of what she sees everyday: a fabricated landscape built into, upon and around a natural one. The paintings reflect the tension of this relationship and the uncertainty we feel about the industrial conquest of the natural landscape. As in Belzer's last series, where she examined the patterning of wood and its grain up close, Edgelands explores our relationship with nature through a calculated abstraction. Pulling in and out of focus, Belzer simultaneously offers a flattened study of cellular patterns and a volumetric aerial view of developed and activated terrain. The resulting landscapes are at once dystopic and thrilling in their energy and movement. Judith Belzer studied painting at the New York Studio School. Her work has been exhibited widely across the country including solo exhibitions at George Lawson Gallery (San Francisco and Culver City), Valerie Carberry Gallery (Chicago), dosa 818 (Los Angeles) and the Sonoma County Museum. Originally from Chicago, Belzer currently lives in Berkeley, California. This spring, concurrent with the gallery exhibition, Belzer's work will be included in two museum group shows in New York: Against the Grain at the Museum of Arts and Design and Drawn to Nature at Wave Hill. For more information, please visit morganlehmangallery.com, or contact the gallery at 212.268.6699.   Bret Slater, Black Soap (2013) Acrylic on Linen, 7.25h x 5.5w x 1.25d in BRET SLATER Artist statement: I see each painting as an inanimate being with a living soul. In the way that a painting is literally a time-capsule, my paintings embody not only completeness in their individuality but literally in the process of their making encapsulate souls of their own. My work is simple but nuanced, sophisticated as well as clumsy. Bret Slater's work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Thomas Robertello Gallery (Chicago), Marty Walker Gallery (Dallas), and Elaine Levy Project (Brussels). His work has been featured in Modern Painters and New American Paintings, and is part of significant private and public collections, including the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Dallas Museum of Art. He currently lives and works in Dallas, TX.  Current Exhibitions: Kysa Johnson: Empire Loop THE STUDY Project Space: Firelei Baez February 21 - March 23, 2013    Upcoming Exhibitions: Judith Belzer: Edgelands THE STUDY Project Space: Bret Slater March 28 - April 27, 2013    The Armory Show: Kysa Johnson March 7 - 10, 2013 Booth 532 | Pier 94 | New York City 535 West 22nd Street New York, NY 10011 email: art@morganlehmangallery.com phone: 212.268.6699 fax: 212.268.6766 web: morganlehmangallery.com

The Armory Party

Tickets are available for The Armory Party! Annually, the Museum of Modern Art hosts The Armory Party, a benefit event with live music and DJs celebrating the opening of The Armory Show. The evening reception, along with the daytime Early Access Preview at The Armory Show, benefits exhibition programming for The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1. On March 6, 2013, the acclaimed musician Solange will perform live at The Armory Party in MoMA's Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. VIP Access: 8:00PM–12:00AM General Admission: 9:00PM–12:00AM featuring a special musical performance If you have further questions, please contact the Department of Special Programming and Events at (212) 708-9680 or e-mail specialevents@moma.org. Tickets available here.

The Armory Show 7 West 34th Street, Suite 1027 New York, NY 10001

Call to Artists - Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival

Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival 

Call to Artists

WHAT: 40th Annual Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival  

WHERE: Burlington Park, Downtown Hinsdale, IL  

     

WHEN:    June 8 & 9, 2013
              Saturday & Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

A jewel in the western suburbs of Chicago!Located in the heart of historic downtown Hinsdale, the Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival has been a cherished tradition for over 39 years. The show hosts 130 artists throughout the shady trees of Burlington Park. Returning artists treasure Hinsdale's dynamically upscale neighborhood, along with a high class shopping district just south of the park.  Hinsdale's show, year after year, is a favorite for the art elite of Chicago. 

           

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:  

Applications available at: www.hinsdalechamber.com 

Deadline: Postmarked March 9, 2013

Application Fee: $30.00

Booth Fee: $250.00

Notification: April 30, 2013

Email questions to: info@hinsdalechamber.com

Or call: 630-323-3952

2/17/13 SALON EXHIBITION / Art Sale Closing Reception to Benefit the Museum of Russian Art (MoRA)

INVITES YOU TO THE CLOSING RECEPTION OF SALON EXHIBITION and ART SALE   for the Benefit of the Museum of Russian Art (MORA)   Sunday, February 17, 2013, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The doors open at 12:00 Noon! ARTWORKS WILL BE ON VIEW daily (except Monday) through Sunday, February 17, 2013,  4 p.m. - 7 p.m. High-quality art priced to sell  all works priced from $50 to $500 MORA/Museum of Russian Art  80 Grand St. Jersey City, NJ 07302 (near Exchange Place Path train Subway station) For directions, click here. For additional information email: aonthehudson@gmail.com or call: 201-451-4862

Call to Artists - Covington Art Fair

Covington Art Fair  

 
Call to Artists

WHAT:  Premier Fine Art Show in Fort Wayne Area

WHERE: Covington Shopping Plaza, Fort Wayne, IN

WHEN:  Saturday and Sunday 

            June 22 & 23, 2013

NOTEWORTHY:

*Art Fair Source Book Top 100 Ranked Fine Art Festival, 2010.

*Limited to 100 juried fine artists in 10 categories.

*Loyal, long-term repeat customer base.

*Jury/Booth Fees ($25/$175); double booths are available at $350.

*Friday setup; drive/park at space for load-in and load-out.

*24-hour security; booth sitters; all-day private artist hospitality center.

*For more details about the show, click HERE

The Covington Art Fair has grown into one of the best fine art fairs in the region.  In its 21st consecutive year of operation, the festival features a unique variety of local, regional and national artists.  Set in one of the area's most unique shopping destinations, Covington Plaza, the event augments the artists' displays with fine dining and great specialty shops that are a magnet for upscale customers.

Jazz music accompanies the high-quality art.  Thousands of attendees exude a spirit of excitement and camarderie with the exhibiting artists.  Artist hospitality is unmatched, making every artist feel welcome.  And as a special benefit, artists park right at their booths!

NOW ACCEPTING INQUIRIES.

APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE JANUARY 20, 2012

Deadline:  

February 28, 2013

Notification: 

April 5, 2013

Booth Fee Due: 

May 17, 2013

For more details, artist's prospectus, and to apply, visit: 

www.asheragency.com

Email inquiries to: 

glendas@asheragency.com

You may also contact by telephone: 

Glenda Stoppenhagen 

800-900-7031 

260-424-3373

[It's LIQUID News] Chiara Scarpitti

.design news	February 13, 2013
Chiara Scarpitti   The symbol word originally means to throw together, but also unite, put together. The symbol in the jewel isher essence. “The symbolic moves itself in the unpredictable feeling, in the natural instinct. The irrationality and the mysticism is a concept that encompasses ancestral all peoples by ever”. The symbol evokes feelings of things in unpredictable ways. Its presence in the jewel is in a dialectical relationship with that elementpoetic and visionary, and becames concrete action in the reality of all days. The assumption is that the fascinating and mysterious world of natural geometric forms, dominated by images, lines, dots, numbers and enigmatic formulas, is particularly suitable for the design of a contemporary jewelry. This stimulating survey of the forms in the universe often leads us in front of ancient myths, who magical powers attract still now.   The design approach is alchemic. The starting point of alchemy is the unity of matter: matter is one, but can take myriad forms and be combined in many others inexhaustible ways. From raw material borns also the work of a designer. Both a designer that an alchemist work with the idea of “practice trasmutatoria”. For both, values are given specifically to the mass, space, light and shadow, and is active the participation of the body to these physical elements. Both live and think the object of their search. Oriented research, however, to the “recovery of manual dexterity, to the practical experiment, to the verify in the laboratory”. The haute couture tailoring techniques, along with inkjet prints on silk combine the industrial chemical cut steel to create a new type of jewellery between design and craftsmanship, unicity and seriality. There’s an attempt to return with an aura of mystery and magic in who wears this jewel. Reactions between jewelry and body, between jewelry and another, between jewelry and the space around him, “Reaction Poétique”.   Chiara Scarpitti is a designer, specialized in contemporary jewellery. Her works are spread over different levels of the contemporary, on new design methodologies, using the most innovative and experimental production techniques between industry and craft.   more. www.chiarascarpitti.com | info: info@chiarascarpitti.com

Call to Artists - Fine Art Show & Four Rivers Craft Show

37th SMOKY HILL RIVER FESTIVAL  

Celebrating Artists, Celebrating Excellence!  

Call To Artists

Fine Art Show, June 8 & 9  

Four Rivers Craft Show, June 7, 8 & 9 

What: 37th Smoky Hill River Festival

    Presented by Salina Arts & Humanities   

Where: Oakdale Park, Salina, KS (730 Oakdale Drive) 

When: Four Rivers Craft Show, June 7, 8 & 9 

           Fine Art Show, June 8 & 9 

Noteworthy:   

• Over half-a-million dollars in sales annually, with record high sales the past three years!  
• Ranked in the top 100 art fairs in the country and one of the finest in the central midwest. Kansas' finest!
• 90 exhibitors in the Fine Art Show
• 50 exhibitors in the Four Rivers Craft Show
• Very high quality juried shows - long standing tradition of excellence
• Knowledgeable patrons and a sophisticated buying audience  
• Weekend attendance of 75,000 drawing patrons from the region and across the country
• $130,000+ Art Patron Program - Fine Art Show
• $9500 cash Jurors' Merit & Purchase Awards - Fine Art Show
• $1800 cash Jurors' Merit Awards - Four Rivers Craft Show
• Outstanding organization 
• Reasonable booth fees and jury fee
• Exceptional show layout
• Access to discounted lodging
• 24 hour security 
• Great artist amenities: booth sitters, water/tea/coffee brought to booth, assistance with unload and loading, Artists' Reception, Artists' Breakfast, free reserved parking within the event for inventory access
• Presented with an arts-based mission by the acclaimed Salina Arts & Humanities 
• Both show applications are easily accessed online at www.zapplication.org, or the Festival website, www.riverfestival.com if opting to submit by mail. 

   

An Arts Festival Like None Other! 

The first breath of summer marks the arrival of the highly anticipated and award winning Smoky Hill River Festival, one of the top festivals in the Central United States and Kansas' finest! The dynamic cultural life of Salina has been celebrated at the Festival for now approaching 37 years, drawing people together to commemorate this place - through art, artistry and artists - and through the joy of marking time with one another. Sponsored by the Salina Arts & Humanities, the Festival honors its Mission -(to change lives and build community through the power of the arts). The mission becomes reality it its evident commitment to quality, education, and exchange.

The Festival presents a sophisticated palette of events: exceptional fine art and contemporary craft, art installations, superb entertainment, and interactive arts experiences for all ages. Salina is widely acknowledged as an Outstanding Arts Community...where recognition at national levels is a frequent occurrence within its remarkable array of established cultural organizations and offerings...where art and culture are a $23 million industry annually. A model in its rich cultural landscape, Salina is a vibrant example of a community that grows, thrives and reaches for the future, through the arts.

Community ownership is exemplified in the commitment of over 2,000 enthusiastic volunteers and an extensive base of financial support. 75,000 attendees enjoy the artistic excellence and outstanding hospitality which continue to define the event. Outstanding artist amenities, a highly successful Art Patron Program and a knowledgeable and enthusiastic buying audience set the tone for a quality exhibiting experience

We welcome your application to the Fine Art Show (90 exhibitors) and Four Rivers Craft Show (50 exhibitors). These two outstanding venues are highly acclaimed among artists for incredible organization, quality of exhibition, artist hospitality, sales promotion, and community support. The Festival has earned a stellar reputation as an award winning and well juried visual arts venue. Both shows are recognized by many artists' resource publications online and in print, including ArtFair SourceBook, The Crafts Report, and Sunshine Artist, with extensive statewide and regional marketing.

Experience a "pleasant surprise" - the unmistakable spirit of the Smoky Hill River Festival - An Arts Festival Like None Other!

THE FESTIVAL MISSION: (To celebrate the arts and this community through a festival accessible to anyone - physically, psychologically, and economically)

DEADLINE:  February 15, 2013

NOTIFICATION:  March 13, 2013

BOOTH FEE DUE:  April 15, 2013

APPLICATIONS:

www.riverfestival.com 

     www.zapplication.org 

CONTACT:

Karla Prickett, Visual Arts Director

karla.prickett@salina.org 

785-309-5770 ext. 2306

Call to Artists - Kings Drive Art Walk

Festival in the Park
presents:

Kings Drive Art Walk

Call to Artists

WHAT: Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Festival

   

WHERE: Little Sugar Creek Greenway, Charlotte, NC

WHEN: Saturday and Sunday

           April 27 - 28, 2013

           Saturday: 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Sunday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
          

NOTEWORTHY: 

*Third Annual Fine Art and Fine Craft Juried Festival. 

*Limited to 75 fine and emerging artists in total. 

*Jury/Booth Fees: $25/$250; electricity available for an additional $25.    

*Artists' amenities include free parking and 24-hour security. 

*All booth locations along a greenway; no "hidden" spaces. 

*Strong community support. 

*Short dolly-in for setup and teardown. 

*For more details about the show, click HERE 

 
Since the fall of 1964, Festival in the Park has brought Charlotteans from all walks of life together to enjoy arts, crafts, music and family entertainment. With the mission of bringing the community together by celebrating the arts, the Festival Board is excited to broaden its reach and to announce the third year of its spring fine arts event, the Kings Drive Art Walk.

We invite you to participate in our spring event which will be held along the Sugar Creek Greenway, a newly reclaimed natural waterway between East Morehead Street and Pearle Street Bridget along Kings Drive. With a focus on fine and emerging artists, our new spring festival on this beautiful and easily accessible venue will become an annual fine arts outing!

Most importantly, the King's Drive section of the Sugar Creek Greenway is adjacent to some of Charlotte's most prestigious and affluent neighborhoods - with homeowners who appreciate and can afford fine are. We intend to target these neighborhoods with appropriate promotional materials.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:  

Deadlines:

March 1, 2013 

Notification: 

March 20, 2013 

For more details, artist's prospectus, and to apply, visit: 

http://www.festivalinthepark.org/kingsdrive.asp

Joshua Neustein, Jacob El Hanani, Roland Flexner at Steven Zevitas

Joshua Neustein, Jacob El Hanani, Roland Flexner  StrokeTraceBlow February 7th - March 9th, 2013 Reception: Friday, March 1st, 5:30 pm Steven Zevitas Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of three mature artists who have influenced the direction of drawing and contributed to the acceleration of the discourse surrounding drawing over the past decade. They have each founded notable points of interest or milestones for emerging artists. The show’s title, StrokeTraceBlow, describes the physical activities, the methods of these artists’ studio practice. Joshua Neustein (pronounced noy-sh-tine), Jacob El Hanani and Roland Flexner have developed highly personal bodies of work, but share a discourse. There is a critical link between the facture of their work and its content; or, put differently, each produces work whose “meaning” is immanent and derives largely from the way in which it was created. Neustein’s Carbon Copy Drawings address a number of issues, but carry a particular resonance right now in how they bridge the gap between two and three- dimensional practice. The incised, torn, and folded markings are not on but in the surface, creating a new relationship between figure and ground. Carbon black surfaces trace markings from one surface and transmit them to another, mapping a network of provisional forms. The cut, gouged and reversed grease sheets iterate drawing in an expanded field. As Barry Schwabasky wrote: “The “Carbon Copy Drawings” can be seen as a remarkably sustained and far reaching investigation of the nature of gesture in its most controlled, intimate, at times almost microscopic scale...based on his own experience as an artist of heroic scale, Neustein’s little works demonstrate that diminutive gesture can point with clarity and force far beyond the immediate situation of its making, to the weightiest and most urgently public questions.” click on image for preview of exhibition Neustein’s prolific career embraces a range of media, including environmental installations, that was first exhibited in this country at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts in a show called Earth Air Fire Water. Neustein’s notable exhibitions include solo shows at UNTITLED in New York 2012, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem 2012, Land Art at L.A.MOCA 2012 and Haus Der Kunst in Munich, Germany 2013, the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011, the Royal Museum in Ontario, Canada 2009, the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY 1992, and the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, MA 1998. “The Possessed Library,” a building sized project, was featured at the Venice Biennale in 1995. El Hanani makes extraordinarily intricate works on paper, built up from thousands of constituent ink strokes, and he is a pioneer of the now widespread phenomena of obsessive mark making and labor-intensive imagery. As of late, a new lyrical energy has entered El Hanani’s work. While the images he produces are still resolutely abstract, the artist has expanded his vocabulary of forms and allowed subtle references to the landscape to emerge. In an interview the artist remarked

“We cannot achieve everything. If I am known as the artist who brought drawing to its most minute element, I’ll be happy.”
El Hanani has been exhibiting internationally since the mid-1970s, including solo exhibitions at Nicole Klagsbrun in New York, Gallery Joe in Philadelphia, and Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles. His work is in more than two-dozen museum collections, including those of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Flexner is involved, not so much with process, as with the technique of frottage in the tradition of surrealism. He brings forward the artistic visual culture of French Tachisme. The images suggest dreamlike, or manic lunar landscapes. Flexner’s works blur the line between illusionistic landscape and pure abstraction. Working with ink, he uses his breath, chance and gravity as his primary tools. Shane McAdams describes his methods:
“Flexner’s affinity for the finer qualities of sumi ink took him to Kyoto, Japan to study... “Prolonged interaction” here is relative, and “afterplay” is more precise than foreplay. While still wet on the surface of the paper, Flexner reworks each piece. The window of opportunity is narrow as the ink dries in minutes.”
Flexner’s recent exhibitions include shows at D’Amelio Gallery in New York, Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris, and Galeria Massimo Carlo in Milan. Flexner’s work was included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum.
For additional information, please contact Steven Zevitas at 617.778.5265 (ext. 22). Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11AM – 5 PM.