Under the Apple Tree: Elisa Lendvay & Becky Yazdan with works by Judith Simonian and Michael Angelis

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Under the Apple Tree: Elisa Lendvay & Becky Yazdan with works by Judith Simian and Michael Angelis

September 9, 2017 – October 7, 2017

Artists Talk is Saturday, October 7th, 2PM

Fred Giampietro Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Elisa Lendvay and Becky Yazdan, with works by Judith Simian and Michael Angelis.

 

“The Apple Tree can be seen as a sanctuary or a shelter, or it can be seen as beautiful temptation, offering poisonous fruit. In Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, the apple tree exists to make the boy happy, offering fruit to eat, branches to swing on and lumber to build a house. The boy returns as a tired old man and the tree, having sacrificed everything, has nothing left but a stump for him to sit on.”

“And the tree was happy…but not really.” – Yazdan

In a recent statement, Yazdan describes her new work, “This particular body of work focuses on transitions and change and the violence and inevitable resistance that come along with it. In order for the caterpillar to turn into the butterfly it must digest itself with its own enzymes. For one to move forward, things must be left behind — how do you decide what stays and what goes? Do you keep the baby or does it get thrown out with the bath water?”

New York based artist, Becky Yazdan received her MFA from the NY Studio School, studying with Bill Jensen and Graham Nickson. She received her Bachelors of Fine Art from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Yazdan’s work has been exhibited throughout the East Coast and New York and she has received many prestigious awards including the Emma Strain Award, Top 100 Artists by GLAAD, and the Hohenberg Travel Award.

Click here to view available works by Yazdan

Lendvay’s explorations in making form, color and enigmatic objects move between sculpture, painting and drawing. They present interplays among internal vision, observation of nature, and corporality to generate moments of perception, truth, and whimsey. Diverse materials are employed to consider how unlike elements can merge into something other and new. She explores the physicality of making and matter with a sense of play and discovery in the process.

Elisa Lendvay’s recent solo exhibitions have been at Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY and Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT, and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She recently moved from NYC to a farmhouse in the Hudson Valley, NY. Lendvay holds an MFA in Sculpture from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and Bennington College. Lendvay has been awarded honors from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, the Dallas Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, and the Marie Walsh Art Foundation. She is teaching at Marist College and is a visiting faculty member at Bennington for fall 2017.

Click here to view available works by Lendvay

Judith Simonian lives and works in New York City. She was born in Los Angeles, California and received her M.A. and B.A. from California State University, Northridge. She was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2014. Simonian’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States. Her work has been included in many public collections including the Broad Art Foundation in Paris, France, UCLA/Hammer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the Fresno Museum of Art, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, WI.

Click here to view available works by Simonian

 

Michael Angelis lives and works in New Haven, CT. He obtained a BFA of sorts from SUNY Purchase in 2001, and a Masters of Art Education from Teachers College in 2005. He teaches high school and dabbles in printmaking and oil painting.

 

Click here to view available works by Michael Angelis

 

 

 

Richard Lytle: A Retrospective at Fairfield University Art Museum Sep. 14, 2017 – Feb. 3, 2017

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What an amazing exhibition. Please make a point to see Richard Lytle: A Retrospective at Fairfield University Art Museum – Walsh Gallery. The exhibition is now open and runs through February 3, 2018. An artist’s talk will take place on Tuesday, September 19th at 5pm. Richard also has incredible exterior architectural reliefs (1964-5) located on the Barone Campus Student Center. Included in the exhibition is an early work loaned by the Yale University Art Gallery and a piece that was included in the Sixteen Americans exhibition at MOMA

 

 

Barone Student Center at Fairfield Universtiy:

 

Sixteen Americans exhibition: 

Click here to view the catalogue

Richard Lytle, Possessed, 1959, oil on canvas, 98″ x 79″

Yale University Art Gallery Loan:

Click here to see the Museum’s collection of Lytle’s work

Richard Lytle, Arrival, 1962, oil on canvas, 72.25″ x 84.125″

Gorky’s Granddaughter Interview with Richard Lytle – Feb 2014

 

Tom Burckhardt, Becca Lowry, and Ruth Hiller

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Works by Tom Burckhardt, Becca Lowry, and Ruth Hiller

Open now through April 2, 2016

FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery 1064 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

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Becca Lowry

“These pieces are built to protect. They are shields, force fields, and talismans, each custom-made to safeguard against a particular threat: One will ward off an impending storm, another will scatter daemons, a third will hold tight to your heart while you do something ridiculously, recklessly brave. These shields tend not to be combative – the pointy edges are more like the decorative fringe of a rug than they are the point of a spear. I think, instead, they’re meant to hold a person up, to bolster strength and resolution in a moment of great uncertainty. And then, when the coast is most certainly clear, they are meant to be hung, quietly, carefully, back on the wall.” – Becca Lowry

Lowry received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Smith College in North Hampton, MA. Becca’s work has been exhibited throughout New England and can be found in many prestigious private collections. Lowry’s work will be exhibited at this years VOLTA NY, March 2 – 6th.

Click here to watch the Gorky’s Granddaughter’s 2014 interview with Becca

Click here to view Becca’s most recent work

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 Tom Burckhardt

In a recent statement, Tom Burckhardt describes his work, “At my core I am an abstractionist, but one who has some inherent distrust of its historical elitism and lack of humor. I think I have always tried to find ways to infuse it with a sense of it’s own absurdity, and poke some fun at it while showing my affection for it’s strength and ambition. I’ve also felt the need to resist a sense of purism and find ways of including elements of figuration, although often bleeding them of their literal realism to find an accommodation of the two spheres. In my “Cast” paintings I’m interested in creating a kind of false beginning, for the paintings with the support being fashioned as a faux sculpture. Once the inherent “quality” of paintings is reduced I feel the space has been cleared for me to invest my personal sense of integrity and attitude into the works. In these pieces I have cast all of the supports in plastic. I consider this good-natured humiliation a great place to start, almost like embedding doubt in the physical material of the support, and from this point the paintings proceed in a very abstract-intuitive way.”

 

Burckhardt received his BFA from the State University of New York in addition to attending Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Tom has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and has been awarded many prestigious awards including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, the Guggenheim Foundation Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and many more. Burckhardt’s most recent exhibitions have been featured in The New York Times and Hyperalergic.

Click here to watch the Gorky’s Granddaughter’s 2012 interview with Tom

Click here to view Tom’s work on exhibit at FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery

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Ruth Hiller

“I am obsessed with mass production, technology and industry. How do I reconcile these things that overwhelm and excite me?

Living in nature, as well as in an urban environment, have compelled me to create work that appears plastic, tactile and machine made with hints of my surroundings. The visual conversation between the paint and forms culminates in my softly linear objects– evocative of industry and nature.”

Ruth Hiller received her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CT. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States. Hiller has been awarded residencies and many prestigious awards.

Click here to view Ruth’s work on exhibit at FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery

Becca Lowry at VOLTA NY 2016

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Becca Lowry will be exhibiting with FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery at VOLTA NY 2016

Becca Lowry received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a certificate in African Studies from Smith College in North Hampton, MA. Becca’s work has been exhibited throughout New England and can be found in many prestigious private collections. Lowry’s work will be exhibited at VOLTA NY 2016 and in an exhibition with Tom Burckhardt at FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery, February 27 – April 2, 2016.

 

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VOLTA NY, MARCH 2–6, 2016

PIER 90, WEST 50TH STREET AT 12TH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY 10036

PUBLIC HOURS

THURSDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 3 – 5

12 – 8 pm

SUNDAY, MARCH 6

12 – 6 pm

For more information about VOLTA please click here

Click here for more information on Becca’s upcoming exhibition with Tom Burckhardt

Boothe, Jukkala, and Angelis

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Power Boothe

Five Points Gallery – Torrington, CT

FEB 11 – MAR 12, 2016

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Michael Angelis

No. Six Depot – West Stockbridge, MA

FEB 6 – MAR 1, 2016

Real Art Ways – Hartford, CT

FEB 18 – APR 21, 2016

Opening Reception is on Thursday, February 18th during Creative Cocktail Hour

Mike Angelis

Multiple Impressions

Curated by John O’Donnell

Multiple Impressions is an exhibition of 23 artists who make prints using a variety of printmaking processes, ranging from traditional (intaglio, relief, lithography, and screen printing) to experimental (textile, sculpture, and installation). Their works address a variety of topics concerning design, representation, and abstraction. Some artists in this exhibition are painters who make prints, while others are designers who use printmaking to execute ideas.

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Clint Jukkala

Brian Morris Gallery – NYC

HeadSpace

FEB 26 – APR 1, 2016

Curated by Kim Uchiyama

HYPERALLERGIC – OAF NY 2016 – FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery

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Great Article on the Outsider Art Fair NY 2016 by Hyperallergic’s Clair Voon!

GALLERIES

The Personal Passions and Detailed Devotions of the Outsider Art Fair

• by Claire Voon on January 22, 2016

Now in its 24th edition, the Outsider Art Fair has found a new home this year at the Metropolitan Pavilion, currently filled with the fair’s largest number of exhibitors yet. Of the 64 galleries participating from seven different countries, 24 are first-time exhibitors, with a large number of dealers who represent self-taught artists arriving from the nearby Lower East Side. The resulting presentation is incredibly diverse and sprawling. Most booths feature walls hung with artworks and shelves or pedestals covered with curios; you won’t find any sleek light boxes, digital screens, or colossal sculptures that make for easy Instagram fodder here. Rather, the fair is dominated by works that suggest a dedication to handicraft or an intimate fixation on a subject. This attention to detail — tantamount to a reverence — is what makes much of the fair’s art so intriguing and, simply, great.

The materials these artists use to realize their visions tend to be simple, mostly everyday items, manipulated and transformed with devotion. Many artists just engaged with what was available to them: pages ripped from notebooks, recycled paper, paper bags, fabric scraps, bits of wood, found objects. These materials suggest a shared disregard for glamour and an eagerness or need for personal expression.

Cardboard panels serve as the backing for two colorful paintings by the self-taught artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, on display at Andrew Edlin; what was once discarded is revived with dynamic, fluid landscapes. Wire-bound and taped sculptures stand like miniature industrial mummies at Fleisher/Ollman gallery, their unconventional bindings wound tight around items like coins and bolts, concealing the small objects like precious treasures. Made by an unknown artist dubbed “Philadelphia Wireman,” the group of six sculptures is part of about 1,200 in existence, abandoned and found in 1982 — a physical remnant attesting to a ritual of creation that was deeply significant to someone. I was reminded of these wrappings when I saw the colorful cocoon works of Tony Pedemonte, on view at Cavin-Morris, that are also made of whatever material he has available, from wood fragments to bicycle wheels. These sculptures by the Creative Growth artist are incredibly charged, disarming in their resemblance to a spider’s dying prey but beguiling in their suggested warmth and vibrancy. (Curiously, they also resemble very closely the works of the late Judith Scott, also represented by Creative Growth.)

More explicitly menacing is Galerie Anne de Villepoix’s series of drawings on tracing paper by Annette Barcelo, who has a story for those searching for the stereotypical narrative of the psychologically troubled outsider artist. A 73-year-old Swiss native, Barcelo claims to be haunted by demons and uses markers to draw vignettes of the peculiar beasts, each one carefully bordered by a thick line of color, as though she were attempting to contain these visions in her art. A series I found just as puzzling but much more compelling is a crowd of painted clay sculptures by Susan Gerard at Fred Giampietro Gallery. Easy to overlook because of their small scale, they stand as an expression of bizarre human interactions and deserve prolonged examination. The figurines — for whatever reason almost all male — are carrying out medical treatments, but others are also being harmed, forming an eerie collection. The self-taught Gerard is a physical therapist, and I wondered if her visualization of these themes was a way to find relief from constantly working with the pain of others.

One unique aspect of the Outsider Art Fair is that not all the art on view was initially intended as art. Perhaps the most delightful surprise is a series of largely anonymous 18th–21st-century drawings from India on view at newcomer Magic Markings. Likely created by monks or religious leaders who reused paper scraps such as old ledgers, the illustrations include diagrams of planetary positions and intricate patterns used as meditation devices. The inclusion of artifacts that showcase the spiritual beliefs of a non-Western community is refreshing, and also exemplifies the ever-broadening definition of outsider art.

Much more recently, the Memphis-born Hawkins Bolden, blind since the age of eight, constructed metal “scarecrows” out of objects he collected around his neighborhood, in an effort to keep birds away from his garden. Out of his practical pursuit emerged a group of whimsical metalworks tasked with keeping watch over and rejecting the outside world. Humanoid because of their strategically arranged holes that look like eyes, the sculptures occupy the entire space of Shrine’s booth, standing on and around a patch of grass. Facing these rusting sentries, one has a sense of Bolden’s resolve to bar unwanted visitors; stepping into the booth seems like it would be an act of transgression, of flouting one man’s fervent pursuit of his own secured space.

Many of these artists aren’t household names, but as figures like Henry Darger prove, outsider art isn’t always so “outsider.” This year marked the passing of two well-known artists of the genre: Paul Laffoley and Ionel Talpazan. While the former’s works are absent at the fair, organizers pay tribute to the latter, who died last September and was known for his long-term obsession with depicting UFOs. Near the fair’s entrance is a memorial exhibition that features an array of Talpazan’s enigmatic spaceship paintings and plaster sculptures that balance on their bases like enlarged children’s spinning tops. Seeing years of his cosmic art together underscores his relentless devotion to exploring unsolved mysteries of the universe. This gathering of Talpazan’s lifework nods to the personal nature of outsider art that makes it especially appealing and that shines at this fair: the need to create primarily for the self, no matter how otherworldly the focus.

Painted clay sculptures by Susan Gerard at Fred Giampietro Gallery

Tony Pedemonte, “Untitled” (2015) at Cavin-Morris Gallery

Hawkins Bolden’s scarecrows at Shrine

Memorial exhibition to Ionel Talpazan

Indian drawings from the 18th–21st centuries at Magic Markings

Works by Uman at Galerie Anne de Villepoix

Daniel Martin Diaz, “Collective consciousness” (2015) at American Primitive Gallery

Sculptures by Lonnie Holley and Joe Minter at James Fuentes

Jana Paleckova at Fred Giampietro Gallery

Works by Linda Marathuwarr and Judy Manany at Rebecca Hossack

Fabric and button sculptures by Momoka Imura at Yukiko Koide Presents

Felipe Jesus Consalvos, “Untitled (White Eagle, Violin and Case)” (c. 1920–50) at Fleisher/Ollman

Paper works by Hidehito Matsubara at YOD Gallery

Collages and assemblages by Peter Thomashow at Marion Harris

Various erotic dolls by Les Frères Lessard at Polysémie

L’Inlassable Gallery

Works from South America at Mariposa Unusual Art

Gilley’s Gallery

Outsider Art Fair 2016 continues at the Metropolitan Pavilion (125 W 18th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) through January 24.

New Geometry open now through February 20th

We hope that everyone is somewhere safe and warm during this incredible blizzard! The gallery is closed today due to the storm, but we will reopen on Monday at 11am.

If you have not yet viewed our exhibition titled, “New Geometry” be sure to come by the Gallery before February 20th to view incredible works by artists Power Boothe, Anoka Faruqee, Will Lustenader, Gary Stephan, Robert Storr, Blinn Jacobs, Celia Johnson, Don Voisine, and Karen Schiff!

Keeting in California & Boothe in NY

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NYC – Power Boothe

OPENING RECEPTION IS TONIGHT, January 19th, 6-8pm

The Onward of Art: American Abstract Artists 80th Anniversary Exhibition 

January 18 – March 25, 2016

1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery
Between 51st and 52nd Streets, N.Y., N.Y.

The exhibition is a showcase not only of the vitality and relevance of American Abstract Artists in the twenty-first century, but of the continued relevance and vitality of art that communicates directly through the eyes, reaching our intellects and our emotions without words.
— Karen Wilkin, Curator

Participating Artists:
Alice Adams, Steven Alexander, Martin Ball, Siri Berg, Emily Berger, Susan Bonfils, Power Boothe, Naomi Boretz, Sharon Brant, Henry Brown, Marvin Brown, Mark Dagley, Gabriele Evertz, Heidi Glück, Gail Gregg, James Gross, Lynne Harlow, Mara Held, Daniel G. Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Phillis Ideal, Julian Jackson, Roger Jorgensen, James Juszczyk, Cecily Kahn, Marthe Keller, Iona Kleinhaut, Victor Kord, Irene Lawrence, Jane Logemann, David Mackenzie, Stephen Maine, Katinka Mann, Nancy Manter, Joanne Mattera, Creighton Michael, Manfred Mohr, Judith Murray, John Obuck, Jim Osman, Corey Postiglione, Lucio Pozzi, Raquel Rabinovich, Dorothea Rockburne, Ce Roser, Irene Rousseau, David Row, Anne Russinof, Cordy Ryman, Lorenza Sannai, Mary Schiliro, Claire Seidl, Edward Shalala, Susan Smith, Richard Timperio, Li Trincere, Kim Uchiyama, Vera Vasek, Don Voisine, Stephen Westfall, Jeanne Wilkinson, Mark Williams, Thornton Willis, Kes Zapkus, Nola Zirin

Historical Works by :
Herbert Ferber, Balcomb Greene, Gertrude Greene, Harry Holtzman, Alice Trumbull Mason, Piet Mondrian, Ad Reinhardt, Esphyr Slobodkina, Jack Tworkov, Charmion von Wiegand

Click here to learn more about the exhibition

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California – Zachary Keeting 

Sibling Rivalries at the Torrance Art Museum in CA

January 16 – March 12, 2016

The Torrance Art Museum is pleased to present Sibling Rivalries, a group exhibition of work by artists based in New York City and Los Angeles. The exhibition comprises the work of fourteen New York artists paired with the work of fourteen Los Angeles artists.

The curators, Max Presneill and Ashley Garrett, decided to approach emerging and experimental art spaces in the New York area and asked them to nominate fourteen emerging New York artists. These fourteen New Yorkers then chose fourteen corresponding Los Angeles artists whose work spoke to, inspired and/or informed their own practices

Taking as its point of departure the historic competition between the East and West coasts, Sibling Rivalries transforms the traditional, ‘competitive’ understanding of the term. In this exhibition, ‘rivalry’ expands to encompass a dynamic interaction between art practices occurring in the two primary art and culture production centers of the United States. This exhibition sees the dynamic tension of East Coast, West Coast rivalry as a productive form capable of illuminating contrasting approaches to mutual concerns.

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Power Boothe, Clint Jukkala, Celia Johnson, Becky Yazdan, Loren Myhre, Enrico Riley, & Bernard Chaet

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Power Boothe

Clement & Schneider Bonn (Bonn, Germany), Ten Ways, September 27 – November 21, 2015

Power Boothe, John Goodyear, Lynne Harlow, Daniel G. Hill, James Juszczyk, Joanne Mattera, Lorenza Sannai, Susan Smith, Don Voisine, Stephen Westfall

The exhibition “Ten Ways” centers ten “American Abstract Artists”, who deal with the topic of geometry in their works. Originally curated by Lorenza Sannai for the Milan based art location “Derbylius”, a second-hand art bookshop and gallery, the exhibition presents a work on the wall of each artist together with the respective art books, especially made for this exhibition.

Uconn Health Center (Farmington, CT), Power Boothe New Work, December 7, 2015 – March 3, 2016

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Clint Jukkala

Edward Thorp Gallery (New York, NY), Receptive Fields, October 29 – December 6, 2015

Works by Farrell Brickhouse, Ariel Dill, Sarah Faux, Clint Jukkala, and Jess Willa Wheaton

Pagus (Norristown, PA), Walk the Line, open now through November 13, 2015

PAGUS is pleased to present Walk The Line, a group exhibition of paintings by Mark Brosseau, Clint Jukkala, Lucy Mink, Brooke Moyse, and Enrico Riley, on view in the Project Space.

The exhibition brings together the work of these five artists, all of whom navigate an edge on which abstraction and illusionism press tightly up against one another, inter-weave, and vie for pole position. We see geometry, both angular and softened, building compositional puzzles, sometimes suggesting landscape, sometimes the figure, sometimes both, but never quite locking together to create the stable, manageable logic of these real forms in space. Color functions in a similar way: we know these hues from nature, how they down-shift by a few degrees in a passing shadow, how their chromas shoot into unbearable heights as they are blasted by an unrelenting sun, how late afternoon light shrinks into a single ember before being swallowed by the deep greys and greens of night; and yet, these assembled palettes are pushed just beyond the fence within which the order of observable and time-specific nature is present. Surfaces congeal, vibrate with textured marks, and find moments of sleek, brushless uniformity. And while each artist asserts his/her voice quite differently with a vocabulary of color, surface, and form, a deep love of this particular language of painting, its light, its juice, its range of heft and transparency, infuses each rectangular world presented.

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Celia Johnson

Silo Gallery (New Milford, CT), Wonderment, October 21, 2015 – January 2, 2016

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Becky Yazdan

Main Street Arts (Clifton Springs, NY), Small Works 2015,  November 7 – December 29, 2015

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Loren Myhre

Flordia State College (Jacksonville, FL), Loren Myhre, October 27th – November 17th, 2015

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Enrico Riley

The New Hampshire Institute for the Arts the Sharon Art Center Campus (Peterborough, NH), The Abstract Body, open now through October 31st

Pagus (Norristown, PA), Walk the Line, open now through November 13, 2015

PAGUS is pleased to present Walk The Line, a group exhibition of paintings by Mark Brosseau, Clint Jukkala, Lucy Mink, Brooke Moyse, and Enrico Riley, on view in the Project Space.

The exhibition brings together the work of these five artists, all of whom navigate an edge on which abstraction and illusionism press tightly up against one another, inter-weave, and vie for pole position. We see geometry, both angular and softened, building compositional puzzles, sometimes suggesting landscape, sometimes the figure, sometimes both, but never quite locking together to create the stable, manageable logic of these real forms in space. Color functions in a similar way: we know these hues from nature, how they down-shift by a few degrees in a passing shadow, how their chromas shoot into unbearable heights as they are blasted by an unrelenting sun, how late afternoon light shrinks into a single ember before being swallowed by the deep greys and greens of night; and yet, these assembled palettes are pushed just beyond the fence within which the order of observable and time-specific nature is present. Surfaces congeal, vibrate with textured marks, and find moments of sleek, brushless uniformity. And while each artist asserts his/her voice quite differently with a vocabulary of color, surface, and form, a deep love of this particular language of painting, its light, its juice, its range of heft and transparency, infuses each rectangular world presented.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Selections from the Permanent Collection

In honor of Black History month, VMFA will showcase both visual and performing African American artists. Maggie Ingram and the Ingramettes will perform on Feb. 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. for the First Fridays program at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Since the 1940’s VMFA has sought works by African-American artists for the 19th, 20th, and 21st century collections. Some of these works are featured in the permanent galleries as well as in Fusion: Art of the 21st Century.

“The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is dedicated to representing African-American artists throughout the entire year,” Director Alex Nyerges said. “We are honored to join in the nation’s celebration of African-American history and the cultural arts.”

Known as the “Gospel Queen” of Richmond, Maggie Ingram and her family have performed at the Kennedy Center, the National Folk Festival, and the Richmond Folk Festival.  The group has received numerous awards including the Virginia Heritage Award (2009) for a lifetime of excellence in the folk and traditional arts.  The Ingramettes are partially comprised of three generations of the Ingram family.  Maggie, 84, is joined on vocals by her daughter Almeta, her granddaughter Cheryl Beaver, and their close family friend Valerie Stewart.  This year marks the Ingramettes’ 59th and Maggie’s 65th year in gospel music.

Collections
VMFA has strived to increase the representation of African-American artists in its permanent collection, with more than 135 works, acquired during every decade since the 1940s.

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Bernard Chaet

The Yale Club (New York, NY), A Creative Heritage: An Inaugural Loan of Modern Paintings by Yale Artists from the Yale University Art Gallery, October 14, 2015 – October 2016

CWOS 2015 FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery Artists

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It’s October and that means that it is New Haven’s CWOS month! We are thrilled that a  few of our Artists will be participating in various weekends. Please see details below.

Congratulations to Jilaine Jones as she will be one of three artists featured on Carol Warner’s curatorial tour. Please click here to learn how you can join in on the tour.

Congratulations to Michael Angelis as he has been selected to participate in the Steam Roller Printing Project. Click Here for more details.

Important Dates

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October 17 – 18 Transport Weekend

October 17 (169 East Street, New Haven, CT 06511)

Visit Michael Angelis‘ studio located at 169 East St. Tour his studio, view his work in person, and talk shop Saturday, October 17th from 11-6.

Click here to learn more about Michael

October 18 (Westville Center)

Visit Michael Angelis in Westville from 12-7. Michael has been selected to participate in the steamroller printmaking event

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October 24-25 Erector Square Weekend 12-6pm

Location: 315 Peck Street, New Haven, CT 06513

Visit Artists Jilaine Jones and Zachary Keeting on Saturday and Sunday from 12-6pm

On Sunday, October 25 @ 1pm join Carol Warner’s Curatorial Tour that features sculptor Jilaine Jones

Click here to learn more about Jilaine

Click here to learn more about Zachary