He now has a new and improved website and you should be sure to visit it with frequency.
Head to www.anthonyardavin.com.
Anthony Ardavin is an artisy we have meant to harass about an interview since first seeing his work at South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach. That was several years ago. He now has a new and improved website and you should be sure to visit it with frequency. Head to www.anthonyardavin.com.
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The Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago is holding its fifth Not Just Another Pretty Face, a commissioning project that connects artists with patrons--be they long time art enthusiasts or new collectors. There will be a Salon at the Art Center beginning at 6 p.m. on November 12, 2012. A Number of notable Chicago artists will be on hand. This is a great place for art enthusiasts to learn how to build a collection--especially via commissioning contemporary art. It enables participants to form a relatinship with an area artist and not just buy pieces but inspire them For more information head HERE. The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) recently announced two contributions to the cause. One is a donation of six screenprints by Jackson Pollock (from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation) and the other is eight photographs by Lee Friedlander (a gift from the artist). The former have been installed at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin and the latter at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York City. The collection at the embassy in Berlin now includes 65 works and two installations. The Friedlander pieces join works by 50 other American artists. The Pollock images seen here are all untitled and from 1951. They were published in 1964 after the artist’s death. The Friedlander photos, New York City, Washington DC and Newark are from 1963, 1962 and 1962 (respectively) and are all gelatin silver prints. To find out more about FAPE head to www.fapeglobal.org. Friedlander Photographs
Ion Zupcu’s American Homes is a series of 24 silver gelatin prints. They totally amaze me and I have not even seen them in person, only the photos send by Ellen Miller Gallery in Boston. Imagine how wonderful the actual prints look. Zupcu states that "The houses showcased in this series illustrate the spirit and evolution of common houses found throughout North American neighborhoods from the past four centuries. They represent a range of homes from Folk Houses to McMansions. The development of these styles is a reflection of our ever-changing taste and sensibility.” The photos are of architectural models designed specifically for the photos with architect, Tagore Hernandez. For more information head to ellenmillergallery.com. Ellen Miller Gallery is located at 38 Newbury Street, Boston, MA. Sienna, Turkey Madonna, Shutesbury, MA Holly Lynton is now represented by Ellen Miller Gallery. The photographer moved to rural Massachusetts several years ago to be part of (and document) the back to nature movement. She recently photographed a couple of series Bare Handed and Fleeced. Both deal with local farming and sustainability in New England. And rural New England communities is where Lynton spends her time, chronicaling this new natural movement. Lynton received her BA from Yale and her MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Her work has been the subject of solo and group shows in the USA, Germany and the U.K. Varnish Fine Art, in San Francisco, is now showing the work of Mike Davis. Davis, also known as a tattoo artist, is a modern surrealist. His work is, he says, partially inspired by watching his mom’s craft projects when he was a kid. But he is also inspired by ancient art and the art of the Netherlands (from the Renaissance period). His work has humanity and humor and shows a wide knowledge of art—and Davis is also self-taught. Shows are coming. Keep an eye open. If you read any underground or outsider art publications you have likely seen Davis’ work. He has appeared in Juxtapoz, Art Ltd., Pop Surrealism: The Rise of Underground Art, Tatt Book: Visionaries of Tattoo and a number of online art publications. His work has been featured in exhibitions in San Francisco, Rome, Montreal, Los Angeles and New York. New work by Terri Hallman is at Onessimo Fine Art in Palm Beach ( PGA Commons 4530 PGA Blvd, Ste 101 Palm Beach Gardens, FL). Hallman, a native of Wisconsin, is an artist and designer. Hallman goes to great lengths to get the color "right." She uses dry pigments, in powder form, that she applies to paper. When the colors are what she wants she sprays with clear acrylic. She then applies layers of pigment, using tape and applying pressure. She doesn’t use a brush. Then she scrapes away areas to get to color laid down earlier and removes the tape. Sometimes she applies acrylic mediums using the same masking off and tearing up technique. Sometimes she uses color washes and a mix of oil and dry pigment on top of surfaces. I am sure I am muddling how she does this a bit but you get the idea—it is laborious and exacting. It varies with the piece. You can find out and see more on Hallman at www.terrihallman.com. Photojournalist, filmmaker and writer Tim Hetherington died tragically covering the conflict in Libya in 2011. His work seems to span every terrible conflict in our times and his death leaves a whole in his profession—as does the death of any journalist or photo journalist. These are the people who make war real to us. They bring us photos that can change how we view a conflict, how we view the world. Hetherington’s estate is now represented exclusively by Yossi Milo Gallery. The gallery will present an exhibition of his photos in April, 2012. You may also recall the film, Restrepo, which Hetherington co-directed with Sebastian Junger. The film was about a platoon in Afghanistan and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and was nominated for an Academy Award. Zar-X, 2011, oil, metal, powder, textile, paper on wood _ Galerie Peter Kilchmann this week announced a “collaboration” with German artist, Armin Boehm. I assume this means they are representing him. Boehm studied at the National Art Academy in Düsseldorf. In school he worked with both Konrad Klapheck and Jörg Immendorf. Looking at the painting Zar-X, 2011 here. It illustrates how Boehm’s work incorporates Expressionism, French Existentialism, the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Heisenberg’s quantum physics and questions about the human constitution in our technologically driven world. His work may be landscape, cityscape or interiors but there is always an exploration of those areas on the edge of our perception; a sideways glance at something that exists between enlightenment and our daily consciousness. _ We recently ran into Yossi Milo Gallery at Pulse Miami (and did a small thing on a piece by Simen Johan). The gallery is moving to a new location in January 2012. They will be on the ground floor at 245 Tenth Ave (between 24th and 25th St.) in Chelsea. The building, constructed along the High Line is in a new building. The space was designed by Bernheimer Architecture. There will be two exhibition spaces and two viewing rooms on two floors in the new space. The gallery first opened in 2000 and has been at 525 West 25th since 2005. The first exhibit in the new space will be First Look, a curated photography show by artists whose first NYC solo exhibits, were at Yossi Milo Gallery. It will be a look back and a look forward. Artists include; Robert Bergman, Simen Johan, Mohamed Bourouissa, Pieter Hugo ,Sze Tsung Leong, Loretta Lux, Yuki Onodera, Muzi Quawson, Mark Ruwedel, Lise Sarfati, Alec Soth, Alessandra Sanguinetti ,Kohei Yoshiyuki and Liu Zheng. This show will conclude in February. A solo exhibition by American photographer, Doug Rickard will follow. Rickard’s series, A New American Picture, will be featured. This series is currently featured in New Photography 2011 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. At the 25th Street location an exhibition of large-scale color photographs by Simen Johan will run through December 23, 2011. |
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