Traveling or in Dusseldorf Germany at Galleri Lausberg Catch the Curator's Choice art by Thomas Keller, "Fragmented Icon" Opens February 19th. Looks like a great exhibition!!!!

LAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY & CONSULT

Thomas Kellner  96#13 Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Südseite 2, 2021, C-Print, 45,5 x 73,2 cm, Blatt-Nr. 4/12 + 3

Save The Date:            Curator's Choice Künstlergespräch mit Thomas Kellner im Rahmen der Fotoausstellung Fragmented Icons     Dienstag, 24.Februar 2026  19.00 Uhr      Anmeldungen erbeten bis Montag, 23.Februar:  info@galerie-lausberg.com   Ausstellungsdauer: 5.12.2025 - 8.3.2026

Thomas Kellner 40#21 New York, Flat Iron Building, 2003, BW-Print, 11,4 x 42 cm, Blatt-Nr. 6/10 + 3

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Open Art Opportunity: 22nd Port Warwick Art & Sclupture Festival in Vargina. Oct 10-11, 2026, deadline application 5/31/2026

22nd Port Warwick Art & Sculpture Festival (VA) October 10-11, 2026 Rolling Jury Process Final Application Deadline 5/31/26

Apply Here

Call to Artists WHAT: 22nd Annual Port Warwick Art & Sculpture Festival WHERE: William Styron Square, Newport News, Virginia WHEN: October 10-11, 2026 | Sat. 10am - 6pm | Sun. 10am - 5pm

NOTEWORTHY: Limited to 120 artists – rolling admission until the show is filled Notification within two weeks of application Cash awards in 14 categories Free program and artist listing Flat, affordable booth fee – no commission Emerging Artists Tent Artist gallery featured on the festival website Award-winning, upscale, pedestrian-oriented community Friday set-up Assistance with load-in and load-out Amazing volunteers Complimentary lunch provided both days VIP dinner with entertainment on Saturday night Champagne brunch during the Sunday awards ceremony 24-hour security Booth sitters available Extensive PR and marketing Festival poster selected from artists’ images Jury fee: $35 (non-refundable) Booth fees: $350 (single 10' x 10') | $650 (double)

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS on ZAPP® Final Application Deadline: May 31, 2026 Final Artist Notification: June 12, 2026 Booth Payment Due: June 12, 2026 Rolling Admission until the show is filled. Accepted artists who purchase their booth will be given placement priority. Visit our website: PortWarwickEvents.com Contact: Laura Fisher, Executive Director at Laura@PortWarwick.com  or call (757) 223-0284

This 22nd annual juried, fine arts festival is well known for exceptional treatment of the artists, many of whom return year after year. This outdoor venue is beautiful Styron Square in the heart of Port Warwick in Newport News and is often described as "walking through an outdoor art gallery!" We search for qualified artists throughout the country who continually challenge themselves to achieve a higher artistic level both in subject matter and technique. The Show is organized by the Port Warwick Foundation which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that encourages emerging artists and embraces culturally diverse artists to our Show. Live entertainment all weekend, ever-expanding family and children's activities, food trucks and conveniently located between Williamsburg and Virginia Beach make this the perfect addition to your Fall Virginia Tour! The Port Warwick Foundation is a public non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization with the purpose of organizing and managing regional arts and entertainment events. #portwarwickart&sclupture#sunstormfineartmagazine#sunstorfineartmagzine.con#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot#artfun#beseen

Looks like a good oppertunity! Huntington Arts Council call for Artists: 4 Exhibitions to review.

Artist Opportunities 4 Calls to Artists

Huntington Arts Council is excited to provide 4 different artist opportunities. Click on each image for additional information and to submit, or go to www.huntingonarts.org Please note that the Member's Showcase, Arts Cultural Magazine Cover Call and Solo Show are exclusively member opportunities. If you would like to become a member go to www.huntingtonarts.org/members/

For questions email Sarah McCann, SMcCann@huntingtonarts.org

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Philipps X Presents Alice Baber exhibition: Sacred Spaces in partnership with Jodie Klotz Fine Art on view at Phillips New York from 6-26 March, with a highlights preview open from 20-28 February.

PHILLIPS TO PRESENT ALICE BABER: SACRED SPACES, A LANDMARK SELLING EXHIBITION TRACING THE ARTIST’S VISION FROM 1959–1981

Presented in Partnership with Jody Klotz Fine Art 

 On view at Phillips New York from 6-26 March

 

Alice Baber

The Day the Jaguar Called the Wind (from Sacred Space Series), 1981

28 x 40 inches

NEW YORK – 9 FEBRUARY 2026 – PhillipsX is proud to announce Alice Baber: Sacred Spaces, a major selling exhibition dedicated to the pioneering American Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painter. Presented in partnership with Jody Klotz Fine Art, the exhibition will be on view at Phillips New York from 6-26 March, with a highlights preview open from 20-28 February. Featuring nearly 30 works spanning 1959 to 1981, the exhibition offers the most comprehensive market-facing presentation of Baber’s artistic evolution to date, coinciding with the publication of Gail Levin’s groundbreaking new biography, Alice Baber: An Artist’s Triumph Over Tragedy.

Covering more than two decades of Baber’s career, Alice Baber: Sacred Spaces presents exceptional examples of the artist’s early and mature styles, underscoring the full arc of her development before her life was tragically cut short at age 54 in 1982. The show includes rare early watercolors and oils from the early 1960s, seldom seen in the market and crucial to understanding Baber’s stylistic transformation. Collectors will also have the opportunity to see works such as the 1965 oil painting Bright Safe and the 1965 watercolor Yellow and Red Support, which closely relate to her major painting Noble Numbers (1964–65) in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Important early highlights from her career can also be seen, including Piper’s Message and Where They Meet, rarely exhibited and newly contextualized within Baber’s broader practice.

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Leonovich Gallery EXhibits John Zieman's "Weaponized Beauty", curated by , Elga Wimmer Febuary 20-March 7, 2026

Leonovich Gallery EXhibits John Zieman's "Weaponized Beauty", curated by , Elga Wimmer Febuary 20-March 7, 2026

John Zieman, SPTE (Serenely Precise Target Extraction), video still mounted on aluminum, 9” x 50”, 2026

JOHN ZIEMAN 

Weaponized Beauty

February 20 – March 7, 2026

Curated by Elga Wimmer

Leonovich Gallery is pleased to announce a show of video works and stills by New York-based artist John Zieman, Weaponized Beauty, from February 20 to March 7, with an opening reception, Thursday February 19, 6-8 pm.

John Zieman has been making video art since the late 1970’s, works that captured the zeitgeist of that experimental and psychedelic age, in their use of abstract imagery and special effects, edited to music. This predated the familiar aesthetics of MTV (Music Television), combining modern technology and popular music. 

Zieman composes all the music in his videos, including the lyrics, and takes on all directorial duties in every minutia, down to his hands on editing, leaving nothing to chance. 

This show takes its title from his video of the same name, Weaponized Beauty, 2012, whereby images are projected onto the gallery wall as a three-channel screening that juxtaposes pristine nature—at risk of extinction—with human habitat, arguably at risk of extinction as well. The two-channel video work OTOH (On The Other Hand), 2026, transports these concepts into our present time, juxtaposing animals in danger of extinction with otherworldly beautiful oceans and landscapes. 

Inspired by Musique Concrete, a practice of composing music using sounds from nature, rather than man made musical instruments, Zieman affects a sense of impending existential doom, environmental catastrophe. Earlier works tap into everyday stories, with a clin d’oeil to Film Noir. Over the years Zieman has collaborated with other notable video artists of the era, in particular, Nam Jun Paik and Dara Birnbaum. 

In his piece, TS3 (Time Suite 3), 2010, we see layered portraits of various protagonists, alone and sometimes as couples, whose bodies are covered with text written by Zieman, which appear as moving tattoos on skin. There is a certain melancholic undercurrent prevalent here, as the models exude a robotic like quality, in their stillness. When they move at all, it is in highly controlled, rhythmic gestures. 

The stills mounted in diptychs and triptychs on aluminum were taken from videos in the show, with text that appears like captions at the end of a movie. Except that here they serve as a final oracle, if you will, a thinly guised warning of what could be waiting around the corner.

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Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center Schedule this week Feb 9-14th, 2026

 

___________________________________________________________________________ Virtual Art Programs with  Joyce Raimondo, Education Coordinator _____________________________________________________________________________ Print it Out! Monday, February 9, 12:00pm - 1:15pm (EST) Discover etchings, lithographs and other prints by Pollock, Krasner, and modern artists. Then, Joyce Raimondo will demonstrate simple printmaking techniques that you can do without a press including collagraph and foam printing.   Supplies: water-based ink, brayer, tray to roll ink, several sheets of paper. Foam printing: sheet of styrofoam and pencil. For collagraph; cardboard sheet, textured items such as bubble wrap, corrugated cardboard, scissors, glue. If you do not have supplies, observe. Click Here to Register _____________________________________________________________________________ Chinese Brush Painting with Ursula Thomas Tuesday, February 10, 12:00pm - 1:15pm (EST) How do traditional Chinese brush painters capture the sublime in nature? How can meditation inspire art? Long Island East End artist, Ursula Thomas explains the philosophy of Chinese brush painting, followed by a hands-on demonstration of traditional ink painting techniques. Click Here to Register _____________________________________________________________________________ Artist Response to Climate Change Tuesday, February 10, 2:00pm - 3:00pm (EST) Explore how contemporary artists address issues of climate change in creative and constructive ways. Then create an artwork that expresses your own view on changes to global weather patterns and its consequences. Offered by the East Hampton Library Click Here to Register _____________________________________________________________________________ Dance Into Art Wednesday, February 11, 2:00pm - 3:00pm (EST) Explore how modern artists August Renoir, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, and others capture the dynamism of dance in painting and sculpture. Then paint or draw a dance that inspires you in the style of your choice. Offered by the Rush Public Library Click Here to Register _____________________________________________________________________________ What's My Line? Pencil Drawing Workshop Wednesday, February 11, 4:00pm - 5:00pm (EST) Following a presentation of Pollock’s early graphite drawings, we will explore basics of observational drawing and modeling with pencil. From cross hatching, blending, and highlighting, this workshop will teach you creative ways that you can use pencil to create light and shade. Supplies; several sheets of paper, pencil, sharpener, eraser. Offered by the Cragsmoor Free Library Click Here to Register _____________________________________________________________________________ Artist Response to Climate Change Thursday, February 12, 11:00am - 12:00pm (EST) Explore how contemporary artists address issues of climate change in creative and constructive ways. Then create an artwork that expresses your own view on changes to global weather patterns and its consequences. Offered by the Field Library Click Here to Register _____________________________________________________________________________ Breathe with Curators Hayley Ferber and Kristin Reed Thursday, February 12, 1:00pm - 2:00pm (EST) How does calmness foster creativity? Lee Krasner said, “With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light.”  In a world that feels increasingly overstimulated and demanding, the current exhibition Breathe at Westbeth Gallery in Manhattan offers a space for serenity. Join co-curators Hayley Ferber and Kristin Reed as they take us on a walkthrough of the exhibition. Featuring work by members of the New York Artists Circle, the exhibition explores  breath not only as a fundamental human necessity, but as an invitation to pause,  recenter and find calm. Click Here to Register _____________________________________________________________________________ Dynamic Duos Friday, February 13, 12:00pm - 1:00pm (EST) How do art couples support and challenge each other? Discover the lives and work of creative couples — Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and others. Then live on Zoom, tour the studios where Pollock and Krasner created their groundbreaking art. Click Here to Register _____________________________________________________________________________ Seeing Love Saturday, February 14, 1:00pm - 2:15pm (EST) A passionate embrace, a kiss, or the pain of loss. Explore the joys and sorrows of love through the eyes of great artists Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse and others. Then create an artwork that expresses your personal experience of love. Have paint or drawing supplies on hand. Click Here to Register _____________________________________________________________________________ Header Image: Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock

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