Monday, April 28, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
'Second Nature' at Albany Aiport Gallery
On exhibit: 'Second Nature' at Albany Aiport Gallery
Exhibit explores responses to a world modified by impact of
human activity
Words
like ''natural'' and ''organic'' imply goodness by association. But the more
they've become marketing buzzwords, the murkier their definitions have become.
The exhibition statement for "Second Nature," now on display at the
Albany International Airport Gallery, identifies the problem with such terms:
they once signified things we humans "haven't manufactured or meddled with."
Now, humans affect almost every aspect of nature through such things as global
warming and genetic modification. The show's artists deal with nature, and the
loaded terms we use to talk about it, in a multitude of ways.
Whimsy
is the province of Roberly Bell, as well. Her brightly colored fiberglass forms
resemble something out of a Dr. Seuss book. Bulging and bulbous, these figures
sprout fake flowers or found objects in mutated still life vignettes. The
objects she chooses — a china bird, a ceramic dog — underscore our fascination
with manufactured representations of nature.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Dave Bown Award
PRESS RELEASE
15
July 2012
Dave
Bown Projects is pleased to announce the results of the 4th Semiannual
Competition, which was curated by Diane Mullin,
Senior Curator at the Weisman Art Museum; Ron Platt, Curator of Modern
and Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art; and Mónica
Ramírez-Montagut, Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum from
submissions that were received from artists from over 30 countries.
"It
was an honor to be asked to jury this project. The variety of submissions was
impressive, ranging from intimate figurative drawings to large-scale abstract
paintings and from sculptural constructions to gallery-sized installation work.
The creative impulse evident across the works was inspiring. I hope this
important program will continue to grow and reach more artists in the future.
It is a rare, generous, and much needed support for artists."
—
Diane Mullin, Senior Curator at the Weisman Art Museum
Dave
Bown Projects was founded in 2005. The initiatives of the privately held U.S.
company focus on advancing the field of contemporary art by engaging in
scholarly research, buying works of art, and providing unrestricted monetary
awards to visual artists.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Black and White exhibition
otherlandscape #14Black & White Gallery
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO
Opening reception:
Saturday, March 10th, 6-9pm
The exhibition will showcase the diversity of the gallery program. The 8 artists included with works representing a variety of media (paintings, installations, sculpture, photography and design) reveal the sharp awareness they have of today’s circumstances
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Desk Project
Gallery 5533
Istanbul, Turkey
September 2011
paradise readymade revisited is both a sculpture and a participatory artwork that becomes a field, spreading out across the city of Istanbul like a landscape. It moves away from the object crafted by the artist and becomes whole only through the desire of the participants.
Participants are invited to take a flowering plant from the desk at Gallery 5533. They are asked to relocate the plant within the public realm of the city of Istanbul. They are asked to consider how they can make a contribution to the urban environment by depositing their gifted plant as if leaving behind a personal memento. In return I ask the participants to share documentation of where it is they take their plant. Where might they deposit it; the heavily trafficked Taksim square, a sheltered bus stop along the Halic, a tea garden with a view of the Bosporus or perhaps they will re gift the plant passing it on to yet another.
flower with view of camii
young girl with her flower
flower at tea stall
Sunday, September 4, 2011
secret garden Denise Bibro Gallery
Denise Bibro Fine Art presents Secret Garden, on view September 8th through October 8th, 2011. Nature plays the perpetual muse for six contemporary artists in this exhibition. Featuring work by Roberley Bell, Peter Bynum, Sara Crisp, Erica-Lynn Huberty, Ysabel Le May, and Christopher Reiger, each artist offers their own innovative, distinctive response to the sublime wonder of the landscape, flora, and fauna, inviting the viewer into their own secret garden.
Roberley Bell's ebullient sculptural works conjure fanciful, Technicolor topiaries bursting with blossoms. Utilizing cast foam and plastic forms adorned with artificial flowers, fruit, and birds, Bell explores the relationship between the man-made and the natural in landscape focusing on the artifice of nature.
Peter Bynum celebrates the connection unifying all life forms. Illuminated by LED light boxes, multiple layers of painted glass depict elegant capillary patterns evocative of delicate ferns, coral formations, or oscillating seaweed. Myriad imagery and shadow weave an intoxicating three-dimensional space.
Incorporating meditative, mandala-like designs and botanical elements such as flower petals, stems, and seed pods, Sara Crisp's delicate mixed-media encaustic works are a quiet spiritual homage to plants as the embodiment of the life force.
Erica-Lynn Huberty's intimate narratives are fashioned from vintage textiles embellished with embroidery, needlepoint, and paint. Figures frolic among elegant toile de jouy foliage, birds and butterflies. The utopian veneer is subverted by menacing creatures threatening the peaceful idyll.
For Ysabel Le May, the landscape is a divinely ordered universe. Combining hundreds of individual photographs, edited and meticulously restaged in the digital arena, she creates elegant, fantastical tableaux and ornamental rosettes, home to humming birds, lilies, and heavenly light.
Contemplating man's mutable conception of nature and our place in it, Christopher Reiger's works on paper incorporate scientific and mathematical symbols, hieroglyphs, animals, and plant life. Mysterious equations are drawn, creatures peer out from unlikely vegetation, and the garden becomes curiouser and curiouser...
The exhibition is curated by Denise Bibro and Almitra Stanley. For more information, or to request images, contact us at 212.647.7030, info@denisebibrofineart.com or visit www.denisebibrofineart.com. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11AM to 6PM.
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20th Street, #4W
New York, NY 10011
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