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27 Oct

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Patricia Treib Gathers II, 2017 oil on canvas 72 x 54 1/8 inches   ARTIST BIO Patricia Treib was born in 1979 in Saginaw, Michigan, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Treib's paintings are composed around sensuous details, absences, and shifts in perspective. While her work draws on far-ranging references – the outline of a sleeve, the contours of a 35 mm camera, a cornice, a ribbon – Treib's true subject is the process of looking, through which she discovers new relationships while dismantling what is merely recognizable. The space in between forms become primary motifs, peripheral elements become central presences, shapes suggest calligraphic gestures. Although made in one sitting to sustain a sense of immediacy and directness, the paintings develop over time. The aim is to create a pictorial language that's personal but not private, always open and in flux. Treib received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2020) and has participated in residencies at the American Academy in Rome (2017), Dora Maar House (2014) and MacDowell (2013). Treib received an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.   Submit Inquiry Below hbspt.forms.create({ region: "na1", portalId: "22383903", formId: "391f530e-59f4-4ad0-81cb-e54bea6411d6" }); ...

27 Oct

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Jim Hodges of Summer, from Seasons, 2016 screenprint with intaglio, woodcut and Chine colle with pigment printed Gampi sheet with cutouts in colors, on Revere Silk paper 46 x 36 inches (framed)   ARTIST BIO Jim Hodges’ work explores themes of fragility, temporality, love and death in a highly original and poetic vocabulary. He frequently deploys different materials and techniques: from ready-made objects to traditional media such as graphite and ink. This work, entitled "of Summer", follows the 2015 release of Hodges’ print Winter Speaks, and is the second of a four-print series based on the seasons. Pushing technical boundaries, "of Summer" incorporates many printmaking traditions, including chine collé, woodblock, intaglio, screenprinting, and digital techniques. The work is printed on layers of delicate, translucent paper, which simultaneously veil and expose Hodges’ intricately balanced gestures and colors beneath. Evoking both the impression of surrounding nature and a sense of flowing abstraction, the work recalls the reflective surface of water, with its layers adding subtle depth and a suggestion of something shadowy below. Jim Hodges was born in 1957 in Spokane, Washington, USA. He lives and works in New York.   Submit Inquiry Below hbspt.forms.create({ region: "na1", portalId: "22383903", formId: "391f530e-59f4-4ad0-81cb-e54bea6411d6" }); ...

27 Oct

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Genesis Belanger Candelabra, 2021 lacquered, polished, patinated bronze 10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches   ARTIST BIO Genesis Belanger stages psychologically charged mise-en-scènes composed of idiosyncratic versions of everyday objects. Working in a multitude of handcrafts — welder, ceramicist, and seamstress — Belanger conjures installations of unresolved tension on the edge of a temporal collapse. Her vocabulary is lifted from the 1950s, specifically from the dawn of American advertising, and she infuses her tableaux with a sense of lobotomized capitalist productivity, choosing liminal spaces, such hotel lobbies or office waiting rooms, as subject-matter. In Belanger's practice, the body is absent, inviting the viewer to enter as purposeful actor. In her immersive scenes, objects become surrogate for the female body: pursed lips emerge from matching stoneware lamps, fingers sprout from a bouquet, and a hot dog wiggles itself into a wedge heel. Belanger's three-dimensional work, although situated within the legacy of Claes Oldenburg and Robert Gober, is principally concerned with the manifestation of capitalist myths on a gendered psyche.   Submit Inquiry Below hbspt.forms.create({ region: "na1", portalId: "22383903", formId: "391f530e-59f4-4ad0-81cb-e54bea6411d6" }); ...

27 Oct

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Thomas Wachholz Magenta 0/100/0/0, c. 1980s solvent inkjet print and alcohol on canvas 75 x 55 1/4 inches (unframed)   ARTIST BIO Thomas Wachholz’s works include fire and light, chemical reactions and stimulations of the senses. They generate a space where trivial activities manifest themselves as engaging gestures, interacting with the viewers while leaving traces behind. The installations question the authorship of these very activities, trigger dilemmas and allow for notions of exhibiting to exist differently. In establishing the idea of a Conceptual Pop, the artist playfully examines the limits and rules of painting. Wachholz succeeds in intertwining theory with a smile, both as a spatial construct and a painterly indispensability. Born in Germany in 1984, Wachholz studied under Katharina Grosse and Marcel Odenbach at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.   Submit Inquiry Below hbspt.forms.create({ region: "na1", portalId: "22383903", formId: "391f530e-59f4-4ad0-81cb-e54bea6411d6" }); ...

04 Jul

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Louise Nevelson Sky Gate II, 1982 cast paper relief diptych, ed. 53/90 38 x 24 inches (framed, each)   ARTIST BIO Louise Nevelson, a leading sculptor of the twentieth century, pioneered site-specific and installation art with her monochromatic wood sculptures made of box-like structures and nested objects. Nevelson emigrated with her family from czarist Russia to the United States in 1905, settling in Rockland, Maine. By 1920, she had moved to New York City, where she studied drama and later enrolled at the Art Students League. Throughout the early 1930s, Nevelson traveled across Europe and briefly attended Hans Hofmann’s school in Munich, returning to New York in 1932 where she studied once again with Hofmann. She received her first one-person exhibition at the Nierendorf Gallery, New York, in 1941—the first of several with the gallery throughout a decade punctuated by travels to Europe, explorations in printmaking, and work at the Sculpture Center in New York. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, Nevelson had traveled to Guatemala and Mexico to view Pre-Colombian art and began to produce a series of wood landscape sculptures. In 1977, Nevelson was commissioned to create a sculpture titled "Sky Gate" for the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. She was inspired by a New York skyline view during a flight from New York to Washington. She intended to capture the "windows of New York" among its skyline. The sculpture was destroyed during the September 11 attacks. In "Sky Gate II", Nevelson used a cast paper technique where paper...

27 Jun

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Lisha Bai View Through the Porthole, 2023 piecework linen fabric 34 inches diameter (framed)   ARTIST BIO Lisha Bai is a New York based artist who focuses on sculpture and installation art. Her sun-soaked window, rendered in soft textiles, creates the interior architecture of an imagined seaside room. In this particular work, she drew inspiration from the traditional architecture of Shinnecock Hills homes and views overlooking the Peconic Bay. She knowingly plays off of modernist tropes of illusionism and trompe l’oeil with an interest in traditional Korean stitching. “While the new curtain pieces are a shift from my sand works, I have always been interested in illusionism and materiality in painting,” says Bai. “I want to create the illusion of a pictorial space while calling attention to the works in the show’s materiality. I’m fascinated by how one is often lost in favor of the other, then toggles back.” Bai lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from Yale School of Art.   SUBMIT INQUIRY BELOW hbspt.forms.create({ region: "na1", portalId: "22383903", formId: "391f530e-59f4-4ad0-81cb-e54bea6411d6" }); ...

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