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Timothy Yarger Fine Art Representing Three New Artists

3/30/2012

Timothy Yarger Fine Arts, in Beverly Hills, is representing three new artists; Carole Feuerman, Yossi Govrin, and Udo Noger.

Feuerman is a hyperrealist sculptor who has been working for over 40 years. Her work ranges from resin to marble and bronze and is in numerous museum and private collections worldwide. Her work recently was singled out by the curators of Los Angeles I’M Yours as “Best of L.A. Art Show” earlier this year.

Govrin works in multiple media from cement, hemp to antique chandelier sculptures. The work crosses cultural and nationa boundaries. His work was particularly appealing to the shutterbugs at Art Miami this pas year.

Noger is an abstract artist from Germany who has had solo shows at Art Basel and SCOPE Miami. New work by Noger, including charcoal drawings, recently arrived at TYFA.

Marlene Mocquet First Major Asian Show Via Feast Projects In Hong Kong

3/28/2012

Marlène Mocquet’s first major show in Asia will be presented by FEAST Projects, Harbour Industrial Centre, Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong.

The show takes place from April 19 to May 26, 2012 (hours from 12- 7 p.m.). There will be an reception with the artist on April 19, 2012 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Mocquet has a wide ranging resume which includes a 2009 one woman retrospective at the Contemporary Art Museum in Lyon (quite a feat considering she 33 years old). She was invited to the Shanghi Biennial in 2010 and is the winner of the Pierre Cardin Prize, Alphonse Cellier Prize and the Hiscox Prize.

Her mixed media work on canvas channels surrealism into a world with her own characters, creatures and objects. Her work references masters ranging from Hieronyms Bosch to Betty Boop, from Paul Klee to Tim Burton. Her painting began as a form of self-therapy—where much great art begins.

Her work has been shown in solo exhibits in France, Austria and the United States. Now her work comes, en masse, to Asia.

Joel Shapiro’s Recent Work At John Berggruen Gallery, April 5

3/28/2012

New sculpture and drawings by Joel Shapiro are coming to John Berggruen Gallery, 228 Grant Ave in San Francisco. The show opens April 5 and runs through May 12, 2012. A reception with Shapiro takes place Thursday, April 5 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Shapiro began his work in the late 60s and is sculpture is rooted in that time; a time when Minimalism and Conceptual Art were redefining the discipline. He has received numerous commissions for his work over the years. The most recent a 32 foot tall aluminum work at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. Other works are at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Creative Artists Agencey in L.A., Köln Sculpture Park, Cologne, Germany, National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C and numerous other locations.

Heather McGill Exhibit At Ellen Miller Gallery In Boston

3/23/2012

Ellen Miller Gallery present an exhibition of the work of sculptor Heather McGill from March 30 to April 28, 2012 at 38 Newbury Street in Boston. There will be a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, March 30, 2012.

McGill is a Detroit-area artist who takes part of her inspiration from Detroit’s industrial heritage. She works in a variety of media including steel, urethane and paint. Some work is on paper. Some is biographical. Some is collage. Some is all of the above.

If you are not in Boston but plan to attend Pulse New York (May 3-6) McGill’s work will be featured at the Ellen Miller Gallery booth.

McGill is is artist in residence and head of sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her MFA is from San Francisco Art Institute. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, grants and fellowships.

Varnish Fine Art Present Ransom And Mitchell's Smoke and Mirrors

3/13/2012

Varnish Fine Art will be exhibiting Ransom & Mitchell’s Smoke and Mirrors—photographic tableaus and portraits—from September 8 to October 27, 2012 at 16 Jessie Street, #C120 San Francisco. These collaborative works clearly show the film background of both. There are also nods to the Italian and Dutch masters.

Jason Mitchell is a director and photographer while Stacey Ransom is an art director photo illustrator. The portraits are of other creative artists.

But why listen to me yap about it? Find out more via the wonderful art magazine, HiFructose, HERE.

There will be an artist reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, September 8 2012

Scott Wolniak Talks On HIs Current Exhibition At Andrew Rafacz Gallery

3/9/2012

Scott Wolniak’s current exhibit at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, 835 W. Washington Blvd in Chicago, Connoisseurship of Rubble, will be the subject of a talk by Wolniak at 3 p.m., Saturday March 17, 2012.

Wolniak will talk about urban rock collectiong, spastic technique, object aura, integrated painting, carving and color theory. A reception and conversation will follow. Refreshments will be served.

Stephen Friedman Gallery Presents First UK Exhibit By Li Tianbing

3/9/2012

Stephen Friedman Gallery, Gallery 25 - 28 Old Burlington Street London, presents the first UK exhibit by Chinese-born artist Li Tianbing. from March 15 to April 21, 2012 . There is a private viewing Wednesday, March 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibit consists of eight large scale paintings related to the artist’s life growing up in China. His paintings are semi-biographical and present a personal artistic portrait of the Chinese “one-child” policy and how it pervades Chinese society.

Tianbing was born in Guilin China in 1974 and went to study in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts when he was 22. His work draws on both traditional Chinese technique and also incorporates Western themes.

Rare Gallery Presents Friend's Bones, 3D Artwork by Kristof Wickman And Chadwick Augustine

3/7/2012

Rare Gallery present Friend’s Bones, three dimensional art by Kristof Wickman and Chadwick Augustine. The opening reception takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. March 15 at Rare, 547 West 27th St. #514, New York. There will be an artist talk at 3 p.m. March 24.

The exhibit runs through April 12 and is the first time either artist has exhibited at Rare.

Wickman received his BFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison (lovely campus) and an MFA from Hunter College of the City University (NY). He recently had a solo exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the Raw/Cooked series. He has also been exhibited in Wisconsin, Illinois, New York and California.

Augustin als received his BFA in Wisconsin but from the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MFA from New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University. He has lectured extensively.

Jake Verzosa’s Harbinger Opens at Silverlens Gallery, March 15, 2012

3/3/2012

Jake Verzosa takes straight up portraits and makes them something more. His latest work, collectively entitled Harbinger, opens at Silverlens Gallery, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City, Philippines, March 15 and runs through April 14. Verzosa is a fashion photographer but his work aims fomr more than that. He takes his models and looks at them in a different light as a “vessel of form and movement.” He documents figures in transition and as the model is asked to interpret a series of cloud formations.

Ethereal stuff.

Look at the images about Harbinger 1 and 2 and look for the human forms alongside clouds.

Verozosa lives in Manila. He is also doing a long term project documenting the last of the tattooed women of Kalinga.

Tim Hetherington Estate Now Represented By Yossi Milo Gallery

3/2/2012

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.