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

15 Friday Sep 2017

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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.

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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

15 Friday Sep 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:

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Sixteen Americans exhibition: 

Click here to view the catalogue

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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

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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

10 Thursday Mar 2016

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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


Becca Lowry

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“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

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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


 Tom Burckhardt

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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.”

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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


Ruth Hiller

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“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.”

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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

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