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Satellite Exhibition at Concord Art Associatio
In support of our photography program we are pleased to announce a satellite exhibition at the Concord Art Association entitled: Seeing is Believing. Curated by Dana Salvo the show features nine artists employing photography as a tool to trace the arc of different realities, memory and the various meanings associated with a sense of time, place or identity.
Artists included in the exhibition are: Thomas Birtwistle, John Chervinsky, Jim Dow, Andy Freeberg, Cynthia Greig, Pamela Ellis Hawkes, Dave Jordano, Oscar Palacio and Christopher Sims.
Seeing is Believing runs through August 12. The Concord Art Association is located at 37 Lexington Road, Concord, MA.
CAA hours are: Tuesday-Saturday 10am - 4:30pm; and Sunday Noon - 4pm.
Please visit the CAA website at: http://www.concordart.org/exhibitions/maingallery/10_06-08seeing_is_believing/open_seeingisbelieving.php
Shelley Reed in New York
Clark Gallery is honored to announce that Boston based artist Shelley Reed is taking New York by storm. Currently, her work is the is featured in an important exhibition curated by April Gornick at the Danese Gallery. The group exhibition, Other as Animal, also includes work in all media by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, Sally Gall, Diane Andrews Hall, Julie Heffernan, Catherine Howe, David Humphrey, Johan Simen, JIll Musnicki, John O'Reilly, Jean Pagliuso, Jane Rosen, Amy Ross, Shawn Spencer, Erik Swenson, Lucy Winton, and Daisy Youngblood. Ms. Reed's work is also the subject of a solo exhibition at Sears Peyton Gallery.
Central to Other as Animal is Ms. Reed's monumental oil on canvas, By the Pool (after Hondecoeter), 90 x 90 inches. Reed paints complex narratives rich in form, symbolism, and emotion. Referencing seventeenth century Dutch, French, and English paintings, Reed paints expressive mammals and birds harmoniously caught in fleeting moments of hostility, jealousy, and anxiety. Opulent arrangements of flowers spilling from urns and wrapped into garlands are complemented by a cornucopia of fruit laden tabletops. Reed contemporizes and makes these images her own by depicting the scenes in grisaille, rich in black, white, and gray tones. Choosing imagery that is visually dramatic and culturally relevant, Reed appropriates and reintroduces it to present themes of nature, power, aggression, and beauty, compelling issues to our contemporary culture.
Ms. Reed has been widely exhibited in museums throughout the country including the MFA, Boston, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago. She received the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2006, was awarded the Maud Morgan Prize from the MFA, Boston in 2005, and Berkshire Taconic Artists' Resource Trust Grant in 2005. Her work is included in many private and public collections.
Clark Gallery has an extensive inventory of Ms. Reed's work. Please visit www.clarkgallery.com for more information and to view additional images.
Kid's Art at Clark
Read about Kid's Art at Clark:
We are now offering monthly art workshops designed to inspire the imaginations of children between the ages of 7 and 15. With the current exhibition fueling our creative energies, we will make mixed media works reflecting each student’s unique interpretation. For more information and to register, please call the gallery at 781-259-8303, or email Kristen Zeiser at kristen@clarkgallery.com
Andy Freeberg Reviewed in Los Angeles Times
ON VIEW
Andy Freeberg's 'Guardians' at Kopeikin Gallery in West Hollywood
By David A. Keeps
His portraits capture the women guards who sit patiently next to great works of art of Russian museums.
They sit for long hours on sturdy, unforgiving chairs, wearing stoic expressions and sensible shoes. Beside them, on vividly colored walls, hang the art treasures of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Pushkin in Moscow. These babushkas are museum employees who, in dress and physical bearing, echo the art they protect in photographer Andy Freeberg's lush portrait series, "Guardians."
The show, a solo exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in West Hollywood, runs through Saturday.
"Andy's work is smart, funny and beautiful," says Christopher Rauschenberg, a board member of Photolucida, which published "Guardians" as a hardcover book. "Looking at the relationship between the art and the women who choose to work as guards, he addresses the meaning of culture, our relationship to our heritage and history and the role of art in preserving and enriching our lives across the generations."
There is also a more visceral side to the work, Rauschenberg adds. "Each of the images gives the feeling that one is watching a very satisfying play with no lines or action, but with great set design, casting and lighting."
The "Guardians" prints, many as large as 5 feet tall, have the pinpoint detail and rich color of portraits shot on film but were taken with available light and a hand-held 35-millimeter digital camera. "If I'd brought a large format camera, tripod and lights, they would have told me to get lost," Freeberg says.
Freeberg, a veteran photojournalist based in San Francisco, is making a stir in the fine art world. His subjects, the unsung staff at galleries and museums, appear in precisely composed and naturally lighted environments that have the dramatic feel of a set. Framed so as to draw you into the scene, Freeberg's often-deadpan slices of life raise questions about how we experience art.
In a 2006 series, "Sentry," an unnoticed Freeberg took candid shots of the imposing white cube reception areas at galleries in Chelsea, Manhattan's latest snooty art neighborhood. Looking closely behind these monolithic desks, one can just barely see the tops of employees' heads. "They were on their computers, connected to the whole world through technology, but they couldn't see real life -- me taking pictures -- in front of them," Freeberg says.
On a 2008 trip to St. Petersburg, Freeberg noticed that Russian museum guards wore their own clothes and sat close to the works on display. "You go to the museum to look at art, " he says, "but take half a step back and a living person becomes part of the experience, which fascinated me."
At the Hermitage, Freeberg recalls one guard who became a muse: "She was wearing a blue and white sweater and I thought, this is unbelievable, the pattern is almost the same as the tablecloth in the Matisse still life behind her." Another looked like Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring."
On two subsequent visits, he would discover the passion of these women, who earn around $200 a month and sometimes travel great distances to these jobs that give them great pleasure.
Through an interpreter, Freeberg gave his unposed subjects only one direction: Pay no attention to the man behind the camera.
"Life is interesting enough," says the photographer, who is drawn to the humor of human endeavors. "You don't have to stage it."
Andy Freeberg's Guardians is the subject of a solo exhibition at Clark Gallery through May 8.
Julia Zanes, Donald Saaf and the Bluebird Theater
The New Art Center in Newton is pleased to announce EXTRAORDINARY: Puppetry, Storytelling, & Spirit in its Main and Holzwasser Galleries. Visitors of all ages will be inspired by the extraordinary characters, puppets, worlds, and stories created from otherwise ordinary materials.
This exhibition features an interactive theatre marionette stage set by painters Donald Saaf and Julia Zanes performed by The Bluebird Theatre, a family puppet troupe with their two young sons, Isak and Olaf; Jeff Sias’s contemporary toy theatre along with miniature paper toy theatres and Indian shadow puppets from the Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry; mystical hand puppets and book illustrations by Ashley Bryan; larger-than-life paper-maché characters and printed graphics of the renowned Bread & Puppet Theatre.
Donald Saaf and Julia Zanes are painters living in Saxtons River, Vermont. Saaf’s paintings bring images of family and village town life alive, while Zanes’ work abounds with colorfully dense and layered fairytale-like scenes and images echoing abstracted, personal, dream-like narrations. As their paintings glow with color, texture, and pattern, so do their Bluebird Theatre performances which are written, designed, created, scored, and performed by the family in venues throughout New England. As if it has stepped out from one of their paintings, Saaf and Zanes will have a life-sized marionette stage set in the gallery, and their marionettes from past shows will also be on display. Visitors to the gallery will be able to use the stage set as a venue for performing work that is created in the interactive gallery spaces.
Please mark the date as The Bluebird Theatre will debut their performance entitled “From India to the Planet Mars” during the Puppet Festival Extravaganza on May 1 at the New Art Center.
EXTRAORDINARY Related Events:
Instant Puppet Pageant: Thursday, April 22, 6-7:30pm
Workshop for all ages with puppeteer Sara Peattie, Director of the Puppet Free Library, Boston. Come work with giant puppets to create an impromptu display and procession!
Puppet Festival Extravaganza: Saturday, May 1, 2-5pm
A day of fun for families and all featuring the Donald Saaf & Julia Zanes family Bluebird Theatre and other performances. Create & act with puppets, storytellers, and more!
A Short Entertaining History of Toy Theatre: Wednesday, May 12, 7-9pm
Presentation by Dr. John Bell, the singing professor, accompanied by Trudi Cohen on toy piano. Bell and Cohen are co-founders and current members of the NYC-based Great Small Works, a collective of artists who keep theatre at the heart of social life.
We have an extensive inventory of work by Juiia and Donald.
For more information on Extraordinary please visit www.newartcenter.org or call (617) 964-3424 to pre-register for any of these events.
Ilana Manolson in South Africa
Ilana Manolson is in Johanesburg, South Africa as a Visiting Artist in Residence at the Artists Proof Studio.
Founded by well-known printmaker Kim Berman and Nhlanhla Xaba, ARTIST PROOF STUDIO is a quality Art Education Centre that specializes in printmaking through a variety of diverse partnerships with creative young artists, established professional artists, community groups, patrons and funders. It was established in response to a call by Nelson Mandela to all South Africans to participate in the building of a new, democratic society that would promote reconciliation, cultural diversity, equality, and above all, a culture that celebrates human rights.
During the Residency, Ilana, along with colleagues Jane Goldman and Catherine Kernan, will be training Artist Proof graduate artists in specialized advanced printmaking techniques, as well as having an exhibition entitled Connected by Roots.
To learn more about Artist roof Studio please visit:
http://www.artistproofstudio.org.za/
We have an excellent inventory of Ilana’s work at the gallery.
Through the Virtual Looking Glass
Martha Jane Bradford is featured in the important exhibition Through the Virtual Looking Glass:
A Mixed Reality Exhibition of the Art of Virtual Worlds. The exhibition runs through April 30.
This April the Virtual Art Initiative and the Caerleon Sims in Second Life and OpenSim will host an exhibition of the art of virtual worlds in the real world at Harbor Gallery of the University of Massachusetts at Boston. The Boston exhibition is part of an unprecedented international collaboration which will exhibit the work of artists from more than twenty nations simultaneously in real world galleries in six countries: Italy, France, Holland, Germany, Brazil, and the USA.
Virtual Worlds are computer generated, immersive, three-dimensional environments that allow people from around the globe to interact with one another through "avatars" (digital bodies) and to shape their environments, both individually and collectively, by using graphical and programming tools.
In process of development since the 1980s, virtual worlds now have more than 12 million participants, and include such venues as Second Life, OpenSim, VastPark, Blue Mars, and World of Warcraft. Virtual worlds are like photography, cinema, video, and electronic music were in their early years
in that they provide the opportunity, in the form of a new technology, for radically innovative forms of aesthetic expression.
A "mixed reality" exhibition brings virtual art into real world spaces where it becomes accessible to wide audiences.
The Harbor Gallery exhibition will bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds through a variety of innovative methods, including digital projection of artworks from the virtual worlds Second Life and OpenSim with interfaces permitting real world audience interaction; images and machinimas (virtual world videos) shown on computer screens and in digital frames; prints of virtual artworks; physical sculptures and paintings inspired by virtual art, some with embedded electronic components; and musical performances occurring in the real world gallery space and streamed live into Second Life where they will be translated into avatar performances.
Participating New England Artists include Martha Jane Bradford, Bob Johnson, Mary Linley, Karina Mitchell, and Gary Zabel.
Grace DeGennaro at Saint Anselm College
Clark Gallery is honored to announce Grace DeGennaro is included in the important exhibition Mirare, at the Chapel Art Center at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH.
Mirare means to admire or behold. This exhibition brings together three contemporary New England artists whose abstract works resonate with the simple human impulse to wonder. In additon to Ms. DeGennaro, the exhibition includes Thomas Driscoll and Meg Brown Payson.
The artists inspire the sensible articulation of fantasy and reality, through carefully structured semblances of form and pattern. Collectively, the works create an opportunity for investigating the livelihood of the mind and heart, challenging the ways we appreciate, or derive meaning from, a work of art.
The gallery has an extesive inventory of Ms. DeGennaro's work.
Tabitha Vevers at AIB at Lesley University
Clark Gallery is honored to announce Tabitha Vevers was featured in the exhibition A Celebration of 5 Boston and Cambridge Artists at the Art Instititute of Boston at Lesley University, located at the University Hall Gallery, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge.
In addition to Ms. Vevers, the exhibition includes: Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, Rama Rejman, Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo and Christopher Watts.
Tabitha will be showing selections from two bodies of recent work: Eden and Value Added.
Tabitha Vevers received her B.A. from Yale University and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including grants from The George & Helen Segal Foundation, Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the University of Rhode Island Visual Arts Sea Grant.
Clark Gallery has an extensive inventory of Tabitha's work, please visit www.clarkgallery.com
John Chervinsky at Penn College of Art and Design
Clark Gallery is pleased to announce the photographs of John Chervinsky are featured in an exhibition at the Pennsylvania College
of Art and Design, entitled MARKING SPACE. The exhibition also includes Olivia Parker and Laura Letinsky. Each of the photographers
in MARKING SPACE capture a distinctive atmosphere within their work as they have created images which mark the spaces of everyday
life, that focus on overlooked moments and experiment with our perspective of the world.
For more information please visit http://www.pcad.edu/Gallery/CurrentExhibit.
Clark Gallery has an extensive inventory of John's photographs.
Linda Connor at Palm Springs Museum of Art
Clark Gallery is honored to announce, Odyssey, the important retrospective of Linda Connor's work is at the Palm Springs Museum of Art in California from 12.12.09 - 04.10.10. For information please visit the museum's website at: http://www.psmuseum.org/index.php
Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor
Imagery and technique are intimately linked in Connor's work. The photographer has always gravitated towards images that reveal "the essence of something, the apparition of a form or idea, rather than a particular fact." A large-format view camera allows her to achieve remarkable clarity; frequently using long exposures, the images can also present time and movement. Her prints are created by direct contact of the 8x10-inch negative onto printing-out paper, the image exposed and developed in her garden using sunlight. She then tones the prints with gold chloride. The results are extremely rich in detail and have a warmth and delicacy seldom found in standard photographic printing.
This remarkable exhibition of 96 photographs features work Connor produced from 1978 to 2008. During this time, Connor has sought out locales and traditions that convey the essence of time, faith, and place. Photography enables her to connect these concepts metaphorically to her subject matter. India, Indonesia, Turkey, Cambodia, Egypt, Tibet, Hawaii and the American Southwest are among the places she has photographed. Included in the exhibition are some of Connor's best-known images from the past three decades, along with more recent work that has had little public exposure. Accompanying the exhibition is Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor, a monograph published by Chronicle Books in 2008. The book (hardcover, $50.00) will be available in the Museum Store throughout the run of the exhibition.
"We are thrilled to showcase these outstanding photographs," said Daniell Cornell, Deputy Director for Art and Senior Curator for the Palm Springs Art Museum. "Her photographs will appeal to a wide spectrum of people, affording a highly individual look at a diversity of cultures and locales. The most captivating element of the exhibition, however, is the timeless sense that these images seem to evoke. By presenting the photographs in tightly edited sequences, Connor actively encourages viewers to make associations and discover metaphorical threads throughout the exhibition."
About the Exhibition
Connor was involved in many aspects of creating the exhibition, including image selection and sequencing. By grouping the prints and not describing them with individual labels, she intentionally seeks to dislodge the viewer's sense of such "facts" as linear time, concrete place, and document in favor of a greater and ultimately ineffable sense of power and truth inherent in the image. The Palm Springs Art Museum is the only West Coast venue for this traveling exhibition. As a special addition to the Palm Springs presentation, a new body of larger format work is included.
About the Artist
After studying with revered American photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, Connor became a distinguished teacher at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate students since 1969. Although her work has been widely exhibited and published, Odyssey is an especially comprehensive collection of work that spans thirty years of image making.
During the late 1990s Connor became the de facto artist in residence at the Lick Astronomical Observatory in San Jose, California. Here she explored a treasure trove of 19th/early 20th century glass negatives taken through what was, at the time, the world's largest telescope. She made prints using the sun printing process from some of those negatives, a number of which have been interwoven in her sequences to create a rich dialogue with her other images.
THE EXHIBITION TOUR IS ORGANIZED BY HAL FISCHER ASSOCIATES, SAN FRANCISCO.
THE PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM PRESENTATION IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY THE PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION COUNCIL, HELENE GALEN, MARILYN PEARL AND ALAN LOESBERG, AND DAVID KNAUS.
Clark Gallery has an excellent selection of Ms. Connor's photographs.
ARTHUR SIMMS at ART BASEL
An Associated Press review of New Caribbean Art at Art Basel, Miami, ran nationally, featuring the work of Arthur Simms. Arthur’s participation at Art Basel followed his stunning solo show at Clark Gallery in November.
THE GLOBAL CARIBBEAN at ART BASEL
Hundreds of hours of shiny black cassette tape pour through a toothy shark jaw suspended from the ceiling in an untitled artwork by Bahamian artist Blue Curry.
This is not the Caribbean art tourists expect to find on their hotel walls or in gift shops.
A new exhibit showcasing Curry and 22 other Caribbean-born contemporary artists intends to expand the imagery associated with the archipelago of tropical islands between Florida and South America.
"It's not folk art. It's not souvenirs," said Miami-based Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrie, curator of "The Global Caribbean" exhibit.
"It's real art based on very deep historical, psychological, social, economic upheavals and movements that make this region quite a fascinating one," he said.
The exhibit opened Friday as part of Art Basel Miami Beach, the annual four-day contemporary art fair that draws collectors to the Miami area. "The Global Caribbean" is being staged in a new cultural center in Miami's gritty Little Haiti district.
Caribbean contemporary artists are seldom seen in the international art market, and "The Global Caribbean" presents their work both to regional communities and to a wider audience, said officials from Culturesfrance, a French government agency whose initiatives in the islands led to the exhibit.
The 23 artists are linked by their Caribbean heritage — hailing from Cuba, Martinique, Haiti, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad, Guadeloupe, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico — though many now live in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
The exhibit includes photography, paintings, sculptures and video installations. Duval-Carrie said each artist was selected to illustrate the region's diverse talents, connections and experiences with natural disasters, colonization and migration.
Some pieces clearly reference the legacy of slavery on Caribbean plantations. Faceless fabric dolls line up in an untitled installation by Alex Burke of Martinique. Colored pencils before the dolls appear to be oars, and the overall piece evokes a ship of stoic prisoners.
The metal wires binding scrap wood, beer bottles and cast-off wheels in two sculptures initially appear as simple nets catching ocean debris. But Jamaican-born Arthur Simms said each material in his two works has a specific meaning: hemp rope for the drugs associated with that island; glass and metal for the superstition in some black communities that reflected light wards off evil; wheels for constant migration throughout the Caribbean. The deceptively rough assembly of each piece is meant to suggest the handmade carts poor Jamaican vendors push to sell their wares in the market.
"It's about the diaspora, it's about me leaving Jamaica as a child, it's about the journey of the Africans coming to this hemisphere," Simms said.
Three canvas prints by Jamaican artist Charles Campbell swirl geometric shapes with knots, bloody hand prints and indistinguishable faces. Combined, the images appear to be a mass of people struggling with an oppression beyond the frame.
Some artists' Caribbean links aren't immediately apparent. Abstract fan shapes drip down the pastel canvases of Haitian-American painter Vickie Pierre. A series of black and white close-ups by Puerto Rican photographer Betty Rosado of a man's face, tattoo, chest hair and a prayer card pulled halfway from a pocket reveal his personality but nothing about Caribbean culture.
Hew Locke warns viewers not to assume that the politics underlying many Caribbean artists' works are always the politics of slavery and social class.
Locke, who grew up in Guyana, bound two adult-sized, seething figures with chains to a much larger horned figure between them in an installation titled "Kingdom of the Blind."
The work, about the control of power, was created in a post-9/11 context, influenced by the wars being fought by the U.S. and the U.K., where he lives, Locke said.
"Slavery is probably there, because being who I am as soon as I put chains on something it alludes to that, but the chains keep that power in," Locke said. "If these small figures are let off the leash, then who knows what could happen."
"The Global Caribbean" runs through March 30 and then travels to France.
LINDA POCHESCI at THE NOYES ART MUSEUM
LINDA POCHESCI at the NOYES MUSEUM OF ART
We are honored to announce the paintings of Linda Pochesci were included in the exhibition REALISM UNBOUND: CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTAIONAL ART IN NEW JERSEY.
Realistic, yet not completely true to life, this exhibition pushes the boundaries of representational painting. Renowned artists from the garden state present images of the real world in interior spaces as well as pure plein air landscape. The concept is further explored when the spaces begin to move, take alternate shapes and become transparent.
Artists included in the exhibition are: Rita Baragona, Robert Birmelin, Paul Carrellas, Lois Dodd, Jeff Epstein, Daniel Finaldi, Leslie Hertzog, Lynn Kotula, Barbara Kulicke, Arthur Kvarnstrom, Mel Leipzig, Terri McNichol, Harry I. Naar, Deborah Nelson, Elizabeth O’Reilly, Linda Pochesci, Kyle M. Stevenson, St. Clair Sullivan.
Ms. Pochesci’s work is included in our current Salon Show of gallery and invited artists and we have several of her works in our inventory.
Carlos Estevez: Images of Thought
Clark Gallery is honored to announce the work of Carlos Estevez is the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the UB Art Gallery at the University of Buffalo from Nov. 5 – Feb. 6, 2010. The exhibition, entitled: Carlos Estevez: Images of Thought represents his artistic practice during the years 1992-2009, and is accompanied by a new book entitled: Images of Thought: Philosophical Interpretations of Carlos Estevez’s Art, by the exhibition’s curator Dr. Jorge J.E. Gracia, SUNY Distinguished Professor (2009, SUNY Press).
The gallery has an extensive inventory of Mr. Estevez’s work, please visit www.clarkgallery.com
Eleanor Miller Reviewed in Chicago
The exhibitions of Eleanor Miller, Mark Bowles and Larry Chait at the newly opened Anne Loucks Gallery on Fulton Market Street, is a well put together, cohesively combining stylistically complementary artists. Larry Chaits' colorful digital photographs, large works that are perfectly framed in simple wood frames, are all based upon Midwestern, rural imagery like farmhouses, silos, and windmills. The images themselves are relatively sharp but the the background in all the pieces are blurred, effectively forcing the viewer to acknowledge the object image as paramount. This juxtaposition of background and object create a feeling of incorrigible movement which implies imminent destruction of these beautiful, once ornate structures that have fallen into neglect.
Mark Bowles minimalist oil paintings are simple stripped down renderings of the horizon. Although there is nothing captivating or new in these pieces, the bright colours used in all make it difficult not to appreciate the overall visual affect. All the pieces are large, most 20" x 30".
The strongest of the three artists is Eleanor Miller. Her large acrylic paintings are a delight to behold--all incorporate birds in flight surrounded by flowers and other elements of their natural (albeit modernly rendered) habitat. Miller employs a soft, serene earth-tone palate in all of the pieces. Stylistically the pieces are very modern despite the subject matter. This is mainly achieved through her adept ability of dripping and splashing the paint in a manner that is perfectly balanced between modern aesthetic and eco-fragility. The works are all moderately large, mainly 24" x 36".
We have an excellent inventory of Ms. Miller's paintings at the gallery.
Timothy Kadish at Alphonse Berber Gallery in LA
Clark Gallery is honored to announce the work of Timothy Kadish was the subject of a one-person exhibition at the esteemed
Alphonse Berber Gallery in Berkeley, California. The Alphonse Berber Gallery is located in a beautiful 7200 sq. ft. Julia Morgan-designed building across from the University of California. The gallery presents the work of dynamic, aggressively innovative emerging to mid-career contemporary artists. For information on the exhibition please visit http://alphonseberber.com/.
Timothy Kadish is the recent recipient of a prestigious Traveling Scholar Fellowship from the SMFA and his work was recently featured at the MFA Boston as part of the Traveling Scholars Exhibition.
Clark Gallery has an excellent selection of Mr. Kadish's work in our inventory and his first solo show at the gallery will be in January, 2010.
Laura Chasman at National Portrait Gallery
Clark Gallery is honored to announce Laura Chasman’s work will be included in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Exhibition at the prestigious National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. This important exhibition has a long run and will be featured from October 23, 2009 – August, 22, 2010.
The National Portrait Gallery invited artists from all over America to investigate the contemporary art of the portrait for the second Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, The resulting exhibition celebrates excellence and innovation, with a strong focus on the variety of portrait media used by artists today.
Approximately 60 works were selected by an esteemed panel of judges including: Martin Sullivan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Carolyn Carr, Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery, Wanda Corn, Stanford University, MacArthur Fellow, Kerry James Marshall and Peter Schjeldahl, Art Critic, New York. A fully illustrated publication will accompany the exhibition, and includes work in all media including paintings, drawings, photographs, film, video and digital animation.
For more information on the exhibition please visit the National Portrait Gallery website at: http://www.npg.si.edu/, and for more images of Ms. Chasman’s please visit our website at: www.clarkgallery.com
Ms. Chasman’s work will be the subject of a one-person exhibition at Clark Gallery
in February 2010.
LAURA CHASMAN and ARTADIA AWARDS BOSTON 2009
Clark Gallery is honored to announce Laura Chasman is a finalist for the Artadia Awards 2009 Boston. Artadia's mission is to encourage innovative artistic practice and meaningful dialogue across the United States by providing artists in specific communities with unrestricted awards and a national network of support.
Laura Chasman makes deeply personal and poignant portraits of individuals representing what she terms as “a visual journal of my life.” From children to the elderly, her subjects encompass the wide spectrum of humanity she encounters in her daily endeavors. Executed in gouache on paper, her portraits mark the distinctive characteristics of a person with an insightful and penetrating gaze at transformative times.
Ms. Chasman has received the prestigious Maud Morgan Prize from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; a Fellowship from the Massachusetrs Cultural Council and several other awards which assist artists in mid-career. Her work is widely represented in public and private collections, including the MFA Boston.
The gallery has an extensive inventory of Ms. Chasman’s work. Ms. Chasman is available for commissions.
Julie Levesque Exhibits in Wisconsin
Clark Galley is honored to announce sculptor Julie Levesque has constructed a site-specific installation for the Wriston Art Galleries at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Julie’s ambitious installtion entitled “Sift” presents a crouched figure on hands and knees crawling along a circular, white, wooden track raised off the floor, measuring 20 feet in diameter .
The heroic figure is created from white plaster, she is clothed in a cotton garment that has been soaked at the bottom with supersaturated salt water which is now dried and crystallized.
The top surface of the circular track is not solid, but is faced with semi-transparent overlapping screen. The screen is covered with coarse rock salt which has been parted as if the figure has been crawling around the circuit. The floor below the track is dusted with fine salt that appears to have been ground through the screen as her hands, knees, and feet drag along the surface.
“Sift” is an act of mythological repetition. Timed and timeless, it is the plodding, methodical representation of work – work of deliberate mindlessness. Head down, eyes closed, It is the refusal or inability to recognize the nature of the universe - that the journey many not be linear but cyclical.
The exhibition runs from March 14 – April 26. Julie will also deliver a lecture at the university and work with students.
Carlos Estevez
Clark Gallery is pleased to announce Carlos Estevez has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 Emilio Sanchez Award in the Visual Arts
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University and the Cintas Foundation has announced seven finalists for the coveted 2009 Cintas Foundation Emilio Sanchez Award in the Visual Arts: Tania Bruguera, Ivan Toth Depeña, Carlos Estevez, Carlos Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Leyden Rodriguez- Casanova and Gladys Triana were chosen from a large field of applicants.
The award carries a $15,000 cash prize which is used by the winner to further his or her creative development. The award is generously funded by the Emilio Sanchez Foundation. In 2005, the Emilio Sanchez Foundation (www.emiliosanchezfoundation.org) endowed an award in the visual arts, in honor of the late Cuban artist and Cintas Fellow Emilio Sanchez (1989 - 1990). This will be the fifth such award in the series of five donated by the Emilio Sanchez Foundation. It was first awarded in 2005 to Christian Curiel, in 2006 to Glexis Novoa, in 2007 to Gean Moreno, and in 2008 to Ernesto Oroza.
The 2009 jury for the fellowship award included Elvis Fuentes, Curator, Museo del Barrio, New York; Rene Morales, Associate Curator, Miami Art Museum, Miami; Alma Ruiz, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Robert Storr, Dean of Yale University's School of Art, New Haven; Gilbert Vicario, Assistant Curator of Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
We have an excellent selection of paintings and works on paper by Mr. Estevez. For information or images please email or call the gallery.
ARTnews review of Sharon Kaitz: Mothers in Arms
Museum Acquisitions
Smith College Museum of Art has acquired two photographs for its permanent collection:
1. Linda Connor, Veiled Woman, India, Gold toned gelatin silver print on printing out paper, 10 x 8 inch contact,1979
2. Cynthia Greig, Representation #55 (Cup Tower), C-Type Chromogenic Development Photograph, 24 x 20 inches, 2007
The photographs will become part of the museum’s rich holdings in photography that span the history of the medium, from William Henry Fox Talbot, Edward Muybridge and other major photographers of the nineteenth century, to contemporary artists Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe. The earliest acquisitions were images by Luke Swank, Walker Evans, George Platt Lynes and László Moholy-Nagy purchased in 1933; photography became a regular part of the exhibition and acquisition program in the 1960s. The collection today consists of more than 5,700 photographic prints and gravures.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most important art collections at an American liberal arts college, the Smith College Museum of Art holds nearly 25,000 works of art, with particular strength in 19th- and early 20th-century art. From its establishment in 1879 as a contemporary American collection, Smith's holdings have served as an important teaching tool as well as a significant public and scholarly resource.
Ilana Manolson
Clark Gallery is pleased to announce that following her successful one-person exhibition Observing the Overlooked, hosted at the gallery in March, Ilana Manolson has received a prestigious Artist's Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in the category of painting.
MCC Artist Fellowships provide direct assistance to Massachusetts artists, recognizing exceptional work and supporting the further development of their careers. This year, the MCC Fellowship program awarded 39 awards across a range of disciplines from a pool of 1800 applicants. These highly competitive awards also provide artists with recognition and affirmation from their peers and the public.
Ilana is presently painting in Ireland as an Artist-in-Residence with the Ballinglen Arts Foundation. The Foundation's programs are designed to support serious artists making important work in ideal, inspiring conditions while contributing to the life of local communities.
Clark Gallery has an excellent selection of Ilana's paintings and prints executed prior to her departure for Ireland. Please call or email with any questions regarding Ilana's new work.
Jim Dow & the Boston Celtics
If you are looking for legends, consider the Boston Celtics and Jim Dow.
The Green and White is home to some of the greatest players ever to play the game. The Celtics have celebrated 17 World Championships, have 31 Hall-of-Famers, and honor 22 retired numbers.
When it comes to Championships, no organization has won more titles than the 16-time World Champion Boston Celtics. Whether it's the Green's first title in 1957, their 12th in 1974, or the 16th in 1986, the Celtics tradition of winning championships has stood the test of time.
Jim Dow is an internationally acclaimed artist. His photographs are found in many museum, private, and corporate collections. They include the Art Institute of Chicago; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; the Fogg Museum, Harvard University; the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England. Dow has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New England Foundation for the Arts and has been the recipient of numerous grants.
Described as having the "grandeur and loneliness of ancient ruins," Dow's work has been cherished for documenting the disappearing uniqueness of America's playing fields and arenas. In Dow's view, the stadiums and ballparks of contemporary society are analogous to medieval cathedrals in being "a center of civic pride where people go to do some combination of worship and dream."
Among his many commissions, he has created photographs of the FleetCenter for the Boston Garden Corporation (1995/96). A version of the photograph, available at Clark Gallery, is on permanent display at the FleetCenter and at the New England Sports Museum.
The Boston Garden (circa 1992) is available in four sizes:
- Four Panel Panorama of 8 x 10 in. prints - Four Panel Panorama of 11 x 14 in. prints - Four Panel Panorama of 16 x 20 in. prints - Four Panel Panorama of 20 x 24 in. prints
For information please contact us at Clark Gallery.