Plus Fox

Please join us this Sunday for the opening reception of Pius Fox's - We Expected Something Better Than Before. 6-9pm. 57 Orchard Street. In a March 2014 article called “The other fairs”, in The New Centurion, Writer Brian P. Kelly had this to say about Fox’s art at Volta NY: “The abstractions of Pius Fox are, in a word, sublime. Worked quickly and with very little pre-planning, these paintings are incredibly energetic. Their surfaces are rich in detail, the speed of Fox’s work leaving a readable puzzle that tells the story of each piece’s creation. A young artist (born in 1983, he graduated from the University of the Arts in Berlin in 2010), he is brimming with talent and holds great promise for the future.” #fineartmagazine

Porter Contemporary presents Letters From Home

New York, NY. Porter Contemporary presents Letters From Home, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Jason Bryant opening with an artist reception on Thursday, April 10, 2014 from 6:30 - 8:30 PM. Letters from Home (2013), oil on canvas, 60" x 50" With the gallery walls pitch black, Letters from Home reflects Jason Bryant's vision of war through beautiful hyper-realistic black and white oil paintings of classic film imagery merged with iconic visceral skateboard graphics. These paintings capture a range of emotions by literally having the bold colorful painted graphics battle with the lavish classic film imagery on the canvas. The bright, explosive graphics wage war on the canvas with paintings of iconic images from such well-known films as "Suzy", "The Young Ones", and "Flesh and the Devil". Each painting becomes a metaphor for how vastly different pop cultures--film and skateboarding--work together creating these harmonious images that simultaneously show beauty, hope, loss, love, survival and hate ultimately creating a magnification of these emotions. The paintings in this exhibition use the lens of Hollywood and skateboarding culture as a foundation to explore our ideas of hope, longing, loss and how war magnifies these emotions and Real Love is Never Ambivalent (2013), oil on canvas, 36" x 30" affects us for generations to come. Letters From Home is Jason Bryant's fifth solo exhibition created for Porter Contemporary. Later in 2014, Rocky Mount Arts Center near where Bryant grew up in North Carolina will host his first museum retrospective. Letters From Home will be on view at Porter Contemporary April 10 through Saturday, May 24, 2014. An evening with Jason Bryant for an artist talk will be announced soon. Listing Information What: Letters From Home-New Paintings by Jason Bryant Exhibition Dates: April 10 - May 24, 2014 Press Preview: Thursday, April 10, 4:30 - 6:30 pm or by appointment Wednesday, April 9 Opening Reception with the Artist: Thursday, April 10, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Where:  Porter / Contemporary, 548 W. 28th Street, 3rd Floor, NYC Gallery Hours: Tues & Wed by appointment; Thurs 11 - 8 PM; Fri & Sat 11 - 6 PM General inquiries: info@portercontemporary.com Press Inquires: media@portercontemporary.com About Jason Bryant:  Jason Bryant, originally from Wilson, NC, currently lives and works in New York City. Bryant graduated from East Carolina University with a BFA and went on to the Maryland Institute College of Art for his MFA in painting. Bryant moved to New York City soon after and began work with such notable artists as Kehinde Wiley and Bjarne Melgaard. Heavily influenced by classic film, Bryant begins each painting by researching images from cinematic moments or magazine images of interest to fit various themes exploring loneliness, vulnerability and frailty. Bryant renders each image, at first as a pencil sketch on canvas without the use of projection and then by transforming the image through oil paint into a photorealistically and beautifully rendered film still. Bryant, a skateboarder himself, then incorporates signature skateboard graphics or paints in pixilated areas often cropping the eyes or framing the characters. Bryant's paintings have been exhibited across the United States, Europe, and Australia, are represented by galleries in New York, London, and the Gold Coast, and are collected worldwide. His work has been featured and covered in Juxtapoz Magazine, Thrasher (U.S. and France), NY Arts Magazine, American Artist, Ocean Home Magazine, and Time Out New York. About Porter Contemporary Launched in 2006, Porter Contemporary is dedicated to showcasing early and mid-career artists from around the world whose work embodies both skill and risk taking. The mission of Porter Contemporary continues to be based on founder Jessica L. Porter's vision of opening contemporary art collecting to a broader audience. The gallery has earned a dedicated following of new and established collectors who value art that pushes boundaries. In addition to presenting many distinctive exhibitions throughout the year, Porter Contemporary also provides art consultation services, collection management, art rentals and artwork installation. Porter Contemporary is located in New York's Chelsea district at 548 West 28th Street, just steps away from the beautiful High Line Park -- like the gallery, a place to experience art and life from a new perspective. # # #

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Nina Torres Fine Art

RSVP by March 18 to info@ninatorresfineart.com Phone 212. 537.6807 | 973.270.7774 | 305.395.3599 This invitation is non-transferable Gala Attire 1800 N. Bayshore Dr. Miami Florida 33132 Valet parking available RSVP: info@ninatorresfineart.com           LUXURY LIVING MIAMI #fineartmagazine

Mia Rosenthal a little bit every day closes Saturday, March 22

Mia Rosenthal a little bit every day closes Saturday, March 22 Catalog available on Amazon.com iPad, 2012, and iPad, 2014, ink, gouache and graphite on paper, 9 ½ x 7 inches Copyright © 2014 Gallery Joe, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have either expressed interest in our gallery and/or you are an art professional. Our mailing address is: Gallery Joe 302 Arch St. Philadelphia, PA 19106

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CARRIE MAE SMITH PAINTINGS AT MARCH

Starting Thursday, March 20, MARCH is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by painter Carrie Mae Smith, featuring culinary still lifes rendered in oil on panel and vellum. 

 

Exhibition details can be found below.  Please let me know if you would like the show list or high-resolution images.

 

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Jessica

 

 

 

 

 

 

CARRIE MAE SMITH PAINTINGS AT MARCH

 

 

San Francisco, CA – March 17, 2014 – MARCH is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by painter Carrie Mae Smith, featuring culinary still lifes rendered in oil on panel and vellum. The show opens March 20, 2014 and continues through May 30.

 

At once restrained and exuberant, Smith transforms compositions of comestibles, silverware, cutlery and plates into tableaus teeming with resonance and eloquence.  “Food is something we all have a relationship with,” said Carrie Mae Smith.  “My work examines and re-examines these familiar subjects,experimenting with composition, brushstrokes, light and shadow, inviting the viewer to fill in the blanks of both form and context.”

Inspired by Morandi’s simplified still lifes and Wayne Thiebaud’s iconic edibles, Smith’s fascination with food began at a young age while watching countless episodes of The French Chef and assisting her father in his butcher shop, and later developed during her time working as a chef on Martha’s Vineyard. 

This is Carrie Mae Smith’s second solo show at MARCH and the store prominently featured her work at FOG Fair.  Her work is included in major private collections.

     

 

Media Opportunities:

Interview with Carrie Mae Smith

Interview with MARCH owner and Paintings curator Sam Hamilton

High-resolution images available upon request

 

Event Information:

Carrie Mae Smith Paintings

Opens March 20 and will be on view through May 2014

 

MARCH

3075 Sacramento Street

San Francisco, CA

www.marchsf.com

 

 

ABOUT MARCH

Sam Hamilton’s MARCH provides exquisite items for the kitchen, pantry and table. Curated and collaborative collections include pottery from Victoria Morris, clothing from Matt Dick, pots from Brooklyn Copper Cookware, leather accents from Rene Holguin, bespoke butcher blocks by Union Studio, ceramics from Brickett Davda, and table linens from Boxwood Linens.  MARCH also presents iconic slow cookers from AGA, along with the MARCH Pantry label, which includes jams, vinegars and spices.  For more information, please visit:  www.marchsf.com.

 

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Art Dubai 2014

Art Dubai 2014 March 19-22 Hadieh Shafie, Transition, 2014, Ink, acrylic and paper with printed and hand-written Farsi text Eshgh “Love/Passion”, 60 x 40 x 6 in / 152.4 x 101.6 x 15.2 cm Visit us at Booth A28 Madinat Jumeirah Al Sufouh Road, Umm Suqeim Exit 39 (Interchange 4) from Sheikh Zayed Road Dubai, UAE VIP Preview: Wednesday, March 19, 4-9:30 pm For Fair Hours please visit: www.artdubai.ae Leila Heller Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the eighth edition of Art Dubai,March 19 – 22, 2014 at the Madinat Jumeirah, booth A28. The gallery will exhibit a selection of recent works by Middle Eastern and International artists: Shiva Ahmadi, Reza Aramesh, Gordon Cheung, Nir Hod, Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Farideh Lashai, Leila Pazooki and Hadieh Shafie. Among the highlights will be the new work Transition by the US-based artist Hadieh Shafie. Shafie's colorful and multidimensional works are comprised of thousands of strips of hand painted and rolled paper, each inscribed with the word eshgh (“Love/Passion”).  Transitioncombines techniques from Shafie’s Ketab and Telesm series in addition to rows of unrolled strips of paper, the inclusion of which reveals to the viewer the beginning stages of the artist’s process. The work marks a turning point in Shafie’s oeuvre, in which she explores deconstructing the elements in her work. British born Chinese artist Gordon Cheung will exhibit new works from his ongoing seriesTulipmania. Cheung's multi-media art portrays hallucinate visions that oscillate between the virtual and actual realities of our globalized world and its inevitable implosion. In Tulipmania, thickly painted technicolor tulips are placed against a background of newspaper stock listings. The series references a period in the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for tulip bulbs reached extraordinarily high levels and then collapsed. Generally considered the first recorded economic bubble, the term “tulip mania” is now often used to refer to any large economic bubble. Berlin-based multi-media artist Leila Pazooki will present a text-based neon tube installationDemocracy. In the work, the word “democracy” is phonetically written in mirrored Persian text. Pazooki explores a technique of physically breaking the neon tubes to induce separations in the sections of colored light. This multiplicity of color references the many voices and views regarding Democracy in her homeland and region, nevertheless focusing on the physicality of the “Persianophied” term itself, it is also a reflection on the Western constrained notions of democracy which are implicitly imposed upon Eastern governments. London-based multi-disciplinary artist Reza Aramesh will present a new sculpture and recent photograph. Aramesh‘s work utilizes traditional forms of media to restage and reframe widely circulated images of conflict from print media. Through this process, he reveals intrinsic chains of globalized power and violence, simultaneously portraying and commemorating unknown nameless victims of war. The subject of Aramesh’s new sculpture is sourced from online reportage of the Algerian massacre near the Abu Dharr al-Ghifari mosque. The installation will feature a lying down figure, carved in wood, and laid on a steel plinth.  Read more Catalogue image 1: Gordon Cheung, Darkest Before Dawn, 2013, Newspaper stock listings, acrylic, inkjet, newspaper-wood on canvas, 59 x 78.7 in / 150 x 200 cm image 2: Leila Pazooki, Democracy, 2014, Neon luminous glass tubes, 55.1 in / 140 cm image 3: Reza Aramesh, Action 135: May 8, 1945. 9:03 am.  City of Setif, Algeria, 2014, Hand-carved lime-wood, glass eyes and paint, 35.8 x 11 x 5.5 in / 91 x 28 x 14 cm Press Contact:  Ally Mintz,  Ally@leilahellergallery.com Laila Jabban, Jabban@leilahellergallery.com Book Launch of Reza Aramesh: 12 Midnight Art Dubai, Booth A28 Wednesday, March 19 5:30-6 pm Reza Aramesh The Whistle of the Souls, a play that never starts Proposal for a public sculpture March 17 - April 17 Opening Reception: March 17, 5 - 8:30 pm  Al Quoz Industrial Area 3 17-A Street Warehouse 18 Dubai, UAE Press release Solo Exhibition of Reza Aramesh from the Collection of Farhard Bakhtiar Opening: March 17, 2014 Villa 28, 47C Street Jumeira 01 Dubai, UAE Map Leila Heller Gallery 568 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (Tel) 212 249 7695 www.leilahellergallery.com info@leilahellergallery.com

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