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
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.
Celia Johnson
Silo Gallery (New Milford, CT), Wonderment, October 21, 2015 – January 2, 2016
Becky Yazdan
Main Street Arts (Clifton Springs, NY), Small Works 2015, November 7 – December 29, 2015
Loren Myhre
Flordia State College (Jacksonville, FL), Loren Myhre, October 27th – November 17th, 2015
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.
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
FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery 