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.

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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.

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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.

 

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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