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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

LESLIE SACKS FINE ART

CORRECTION: The opening reception for Shane Guffogg: Pastels is
Saturday, January 11, 2014 from 5 - 7 PM.
Apologies for our mistake in today's prior email.

LESLIE SACKS FINE ART
Brentwood

Shane Guffogg, Lumen Lapsus II, #30, 2013, pastel on paper

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Wishing you a joyous holiday season
and all the best for the New Year

We look forward to seeing you on
Saturday, January 11, 2014 from 5 - 7 PM
for the opening of
Shane Guffogg: Pastels

LESLIE SACKS FINE ART
Brentwood

11640 San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90049 (map)
(310) 820-9448 info@lesliesacks.com
www.lesliesacks.com

Always seeking to purchase prints and works on paper by Francis, Hirst,
Hockney, Johns, Lichtenstein, Picasso, Ruscha, Serra, Thiebaud and Warhol.

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Monday, December 23, 2013

John Dilg This Land is Your Land



John Dilg This Land is Your Land Boston, MA – Steven Zevitas Gallery is pleased to present This Land is Your Land, an exhibition of recent paintings by Iowa-based artist, John Dilg. The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, December 13 through Saturday, February 1, 2014, with an opening receptionFriday, January 3, 2014. On View: December 13, 2013 - February 1, 2014 Opening Reception: Friday, January 3, 2014, 5:30 – 8 PM Over the past several years a number of deserving mature artists have gained wider recognition. In some cases the lack of initial attention had to do with media and/or subject matter not attuned the times in which these artists emerged. For others, geography has been an obstacle. John Dilg is one such artist. Having spent the majority of his career in Iowa City, far away from the hubbub of large urban art scenes, Dilg’s work is only now starting to be appreciated by a wider audience. Dilg’s paintings are intimate in scale, delicately brushed and chromatically restrained. As the show’s title suggests, his imagery is drawn from the American landscape. In some cases figures or animals are included, but they are often left unpopulated. Dilg is more interested in archetypal forms than specificity of place, and his paintings brim with highly personal markers and emblems. There is an extraordinary economy to his paintings that belies the scale that they are able to achieve in the viewer’s mind. The show’s title carries a double meaning. The “land” that Dilg is most interested in exploring is not that which exists outside of us, rather, that which is within each of us. He is deeply interested in how the contemporary landscape, and in a more general sense place, inform our individual and collective realities, and so form a bridge between nature and the unconscious. As Dilg has stated: My chief pleasure is to make idiosyncratic constructs, personal souvenirs of something seen before; in this, they are allied to our virtual world, since all souve- nirs take their life from that which no longer actually exists. Dilg received a BFA in Painting and Filmmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has taught at the University of Iowa, where he is currently a Profes- sor of Painting and Drawing, since the mid-1970s. Dilg is the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to India, a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow- ship, and three Residency Fellowships at the Yaddo Foundation. His extensive exhibition record includes recent one-man shows at Luise Ross Gallery in New York City and Schmidt Contemporary Art in St. Louis. Group exhibitions include shows at Sikkema, Jenkins & Co. and Andrea Rosen Gallery, both in New York City. This is the artist’s first exhibition at Steven Zevitas Gallery. The artist will be in attendance for an opening reception on Friday, January 3rd from 5:30 – 8:00 PM. For additional information, please contact Steven Zevitas at 617.778.5265 (ext. 22). Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11AM – 5 PM.

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We are pleased to announce that we now represent Aaron Wexler. Wexler received his B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art and M.F.A. from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally, and is collected by many prominent public and private collections, including the West Collection, the Saatchi Collection, the New Britain Museum, and the International Collage Center. Aaron Wexler lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Image: Aaron Wexler, Master Gain (2011), Acrylic And Paper Collage On Panel, 72h x 60w in

Current Exhibition:

Nicole Cohen: Domestic Concerns

December 12, 2013 - January 25, 2014

Upcoming Exhibition:

Frohawk Two Feathers: The Battle of Manhattan

January 30 - March 1, 2014

*The gallery will be closed December 22, 2013 - January 1, 2014. We wish everyone a happy holiday season!

535 West 22nd Street

New York, NY 10011

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Leslie Parke

"Light on Branches", 38 inches x 48 inches, oil on canvas.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Walt Whitman

Leslie Parke, a painter from upstate New York, is a recipient of the Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Grant for Individual Support, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest grant as artist- in-residence at the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France, and the George Sugarman Foundation Grant, among others. Her exhibits include the Williams College Museum of Art, the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas, the Fernbank Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Parke has a BA and MA from Bennington College. Her work is in numerous corporate and private collections.

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Friday, December 20, 2013

Season’s Greetings from Kashya Hildebrand

As 2013 draws to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support over the past year. We have an exciting roster of exhibitions lined up for our new London gallery in Fitzrovia and will have our first inaugural exhibition in our London project space. Our Zurich gallery will mark its final exhibition with acclaimed Japanese sculptor Akiko Sato.

Both galleries will be closed as of December 23rd and will reopen on January 6th. For any enquiries during this period please contact kashya@kashyahildebrand.org or for press queries contact anna@kashyahildebrand.org

Coming up in January 2014:

Akiko Sato, Timeship, 2013, Rosa Portugallo marble, 37 x 60 x 37 cm

ZURICH
Akiko Sato
Touching Time
8 January - 21 February 2014
Exhibition Preview

Marking the Zurich gallery’s final exhibition, the Japanese sculptor Akiko Sato has dedicated the last twenty years to an in-depth exploration of the manifold notions and concepts of time. Her sculptures in marble, granite, alabaster or onyx give tangible forms to these abstract concepts. Viewing the sculptures from all sides and exploring their forms and surfaces by touch triggers forgotten memories and experiences. In her works a linear understanding of time is replaced by a completely open approach to past, present and future where apparent symmetries are broken by juxtapositions and intervals of time and space. The metamorphosis from sand to stone and eventually back to dust is a constant reminder of the ephemerality of time.

Marwan Sahmarani, Untitled, 2013, Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm

LONDON
Marwan Sahmarani
Black Moon
9 January - 24 February 2014
Exhibition Preview

In Black Moon, we see Sahmarani’s renewed focus on the medium of oil paint itself. "I've been working with oil for twenty years," says Sahmarani, "and it is only in the last two years that I feel I have really had a breakthrough." From simple compositions of defined lines and graphic figures, Sahmarani’s paintings have transformed. A looser brush stroke dissolves into a symphony of colour not unlike those found in his new home by the Mediterranean. Over the years, defined figures and human shapes have dissipated to make way for freer forms and a bolder application of colour. The smooth, flat surface on his canvas has given way to swathes of thick impasto, the texture of his painting taking physical form as a tangible being, with abstract patterns and heavy brush strokes revealing the images lying within.

Lisa Ross Unrevealed, Site 3 (Ladder on Horizon), 2009, archival pigment prints on cotton paper, 71 x 107 cm

LONDON – PROJECT SPACE
Lisa Ross
Behind the Dunes
9 January – 31 January 2014
Exhibition Preview

Marking the first show in the gallery’s new Project Space, Behind the Dunes draws its inspiration from a 10-year project on which artist Lisa Ross worked in and around the Taklamakan Desert of China’s far northwest. Here Ross reveals a little known religious tradition in Xinjiang China with its desert shrines to Sufi saints and Muslim pilgrimage sites. Ross discovered wind-battered markers, personal prayers and devotional shrines composed of branches, ladders, cloth and amulets. Her photographs are unassuming and quiet; people are never present and the objects she captures – stone on sand, cloth on stone, the skeleton of a dried animal – have an incandescent glow, as if lit by another sun. Unveiled in Ross’s photographic works is the meditative and spiritual power of landscape, as well as a sense of the sacred with which it is imbued.

The Project Space will feature a selection of Ross’s photographs, while copies of her new book, Living Shrines of Uyghur China, will be available for signing by the artist.

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