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

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Abstract, Albers, ART, MOMA, NYC, Painting, Sixteen Americans - MOMA, Yale School of Art, Yale University Art Gallery

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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Abstract, ART, Becca Lowry, contemporary, FREDGIAMPIETROGALLERY, Painting, Ruth Hiller, Sculpture, Tom Burckhardt, Works on paper

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

New Geometry – open now through February 20th

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Abstract, Anoka Faruqee, Blinn Jacobs, Celia Johnson, Don Voisine, Gary Stephan, Karen Schiff, New Haven, Painting, Power Boothe, Robert Storr, Will Lustenader

We are thrilled to be exhibiting work by artists Power Boothe, Anoka Faruqee, Will Lustenader, Gary Stephan, Robert Storr, Blinn Jacobs, Celia Johnson, Don Voisine and Karen Schiff.

Check out the videos & press links below to learn more about a few of these artists:

Power Boothe

New York Times article from 1988

Anoka Faruqee

Anoka Faruqee on Gorky’s Granddaughter

Will Lustenader

Will Lustenader on Gorky’s Granddaughter

Gary Stephan

Gary Stephan on Gorky’s Granddaughter

Robert Storr

Conversation with Robert Storr – EYESTOWARDStheDOVE

Blinn Jacobs

Blinn Jacobs awarded a grant from CAC

Celia Johnson

Celia Johnson on BOOOOOOM

Don Voisine

Don Voisine in Hyperallergic

Karen Schiff

Karen Schiff on WordPress

Keeting in California & Boothe in NY

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Abstract, Geometric, Painting, Power Boothe, Zachary Keeting

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.

Click here to learn more about the exhibition

Celia Johnson – Encaustic

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We are thrilled to be working with artist Celia Johnson! Read below to learn more about her inspirations and working process. Examples of her work are on view now through October 17th, at FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery, 1064 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

“As a child, I carefully collected stones, leaves and scraps into neat bundles of vivid similarities, and hoarded muslin bags bursting with glossy jewel-like marbles. But above all I lived and breathed for my Colorforms with the geometric Paul Rand logo, far preferring them to crayons.

I was already hooked on saturated color and pure geometry.

Color as form and pattern, juxtaposed elements and their relational situations, these were interests that I wanted to explore as an art student, but it was challenging finding the right path. I was drawn to both design and painting, but I became increasingly conflicted over pursuing painting due to my lack of interest in generating representational or narrative imagery such as figures, scenes or familiar objects. I could not reconcile this reluctance and struggled in my inexperience to search for a painting problem to explore, engage and resolve.

Developing a personal language of abstraction and putting it to work had to be grown into for me as an artist. I began to find my way only when I realized that the subject of my work can in fact be the work in progress itself: its evolving shapes, forms and colors accumulating to articulate a document of myself at a given moment in time. With this realization in mind I began to conquer my doubt and move forward by creating controlled, small, intimate work in wax, oils, gouache and saturated silkscreen inks.

I like to organize visual structure, and I start the exploration by utilizing both analog and digital collage. Here I explore form in both deconstruction and recombination, in redundancy and repeat, testing the balance and tension within figure-ground relationships. Through this method I gradually construct my distinct form-in-form compositions of formal and chromatic components. These are built into layered, structured fields of color, and as I proceed, one composition suggests another.

I enjoy persuading liquid paints, inks and hot glowing wax into counterintuitively distinct, bound, or embedded fields of pure saturated color.” – Celia Johnson

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Click here to view more of Celia Johnson’s works

www.giampietrogallery.com/CeliaJohnson

Archive – Wonderful article written by Michael Valinsky about Clint Jukkala’s work at Volta NY 2015

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Abstract, Clint Jukkala, CT, FREDGIAMPIETROGALLERY, New Haven, Painting

Don’t miss your chance to see Clint Jukkala’s most recent work, on view now through October 17th at Fred.Giampietro Gallery, 1064 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

A Curious Play on Memory and Perception at Fred Giampietro Gallery’s VOLTA NY Presentation

At this year’s VOLTA NY Fred Giampietro Gallery offers a dynamic duo presentation featuring artists Jonathan Waters and Clint Jukkala, which will include a mixture of painting and sculpture, all centered around the theme of experience.

ARTSY EDITORIAL

MAR 4TH, 2015 12:33 AM

Each artist’s respective works initially appear to be antithetical, with one focusing on color and illusion and the other on structure and matter. However, both artists are interested in the ways in which we see things and how each perceived object can be seen from the perspective of a personal history. Jukkala’s work, while relying heavily on color to produce optical effects, employs amorphous shapes that are difficult to decipher. In his artist’s statement, he explains: “they tend to suggest eyes, goggles and periscopes—things to look through or things looking out.” It is precisely this idea of looking that makes Jukkala’s work so compelling; the viewer is never exactly sure what he or she is looking at, and is presented with the choice to mentally enter the scene or simply observe it. Like a landscape painting, Jukkala’s work asks the viewer to discern what the focal point of the piece is and provides many different options to choose from.

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  Clint Jukkala

  Sun Globe, 2014

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  Jonathan Waters

  Hornhead, 2015

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  Clint Jukkala

  Peculiar Velocity, 2014

On a similar note, Waters also produces works that consider the act of seeing, yet rather than relying on the viewer, as Jukkala’s works do, his works are born from his own experiences. Inspired by many years he spent living and working on a freight ship, Waters injects his works with references to nautical life. The resulting works, sharp, geometric sculptures and two-dimensional assemblages, incorporate elements of the hard-edged style and hints of 1970s-era minimalism. While exploring both paper and steel, and their respective textures, Waters develops a melancholic tone in his works, which the viewer experiences primarily through his use of color; this is where a dialogue between the two artists develop

• Jukkala’s more vibrant tones offer a balance to Waters’s darker ones, and both combine produce a conversation on relationships between viewer and artwork and color and form. On the one hand, Jukkala asks us to use our imagination and become submerged in the canvas in order to experience it, and on the other, Waters beckons us to move around his works and observe the fruits of his own experiences. Due to this intriguing pairing, Fred Giampietro’s VOLTA NY presentation promises a stimulating study that makes the viewer question the way we look at art.

—Michael Valinsky