Tag Archive "bridgette-mayer-gallery"
Abstract processes fuel two at LG Tripp and two at Bridgette Mayer
Rebecca Jacoby, one of two artists featured at LG Tripp this month, has a bright pastel palette after my own heart. Many of her works are done in acrylic, oil, pastel and collage. For such a wide array of media, she utilizes her materials in a way that they are blended beyond individual identification, making her pieces very cohesive and whole.
Weekly Update – First Friday group show at Jolie Laide and Charles Burwell at Bridgette Mayer
De-Nature, the seven-person group show at Jolie Laide, demonstrates how artists love to mess around, ie transform or de-nature things, on the way to creating something new. Guest curator Wendy White is a New York artist, and most of the artists are New Yorkers with track records exhibiting in and around the Big Apple. So it’s a New York show — go see it anyway.
Weekly Update – Business works at Bridgette Mayer
Shepherding a commercial gallery into adulthood requires the faith of Job and a will of steel. Bridgette Mayer Gallery on Washington Square North, 9 years old this year, is about to catapult itself to adult status with a move early in 2011 to a much larger space and expanded exhibition programming that includes museum-quality shows, panel discussions for artists and collectors and one-off solo exhibitions of international artists along the lines of Kara Walker and Yayoi Kusama.
Weekly Update — First Friday picks
Here’s the link to my Weekly piece. Below is my copy. Sage Projects “Tenuous Magic Parts” opened at the new South Street gallery in May to a crowd of 300 and is being held over for another opening Friday. The show asks the artists to find truth in a perplexing world. Fantasy abounds in comical portraits, nonsense posters, paintings that question reality, still lifes that aren’t still, and junk assemblage sculpture. Dustin Metz’s paintings and Karen Stone’s “hair trees”—fantasy 2-D portraits with art nouveau arabesques of long hair—are standout pieces. Curator Jon Manteau loves music at openings and “Fat Man ... More » »
Beautiful dreamer: Clara Fialho at Bridgette Mayer Gallery
It’s been such a long while since artists unabashedly embraced the beautiful and the pretty that to see it placed before you as an earnest expression of soul makes me think the artist is a rebel, someone marching to her own drumbeat. Clara Fialho‘s highly internalized paintings at Bridgette Mayer Gallery are both beautiful and very pretty. And the dreamy abstract paintings deserve a close look because they embrace a kind of pre-postmodern sense of, I don’t want to say optimism, but at least acceptance of the world as a bunch of lemons with which you can make something delicious.
Two postmortems
Sometimes I just blow it in the timely department. I saw two shows that I hesitated to write about partly because I had mixed reactions. But they both were rather interesting, and so I’m coming back at them, even though both are gone. 1) Ryan Widger at Kelly and Weber (closed last month) Ryan Widger, Grey Room Ryan Widger‘s huge, grayed-out photographs at Kelly and Weber (201 Gallery) last month, created from distressed negatives that have suffered the effects of bleach and other cruel treatments, are of architectural spaces with mysterious what-is-it or who-is-it elements. They look like a still ... More » »
Expressions of ommm–Beach, Takeda and Oberst
Dennis Beach, Spin #1, acrylic on panel Dennis Beach continues to live up to his name–riding perfect waves of wood and color to create Op Art oms that vibrate with the universe, at Schmidt Dean. The exhibit of 12 pieces includes columns, tubes, and sunspots. At least that’s what they look like to me. Dennis Beach, Bump #1, Acrylic & Epoxy on Wood (the recesses are a deep blue-y purple that vibrates in much the way that the pure pigment spots in Anish Kapoor pieces do) There’s a funny tension here between Beach’s sense of control and my idea of ... More » »
Mapping another world: Charles Burwell at Bridgette Mayer
Charles Burwell, Red Bio, 36×37 inches; I loved the way the drips creates a wavy edge at the bottom that then created a ridged shadow. I don’t remember earlier work created with such abandon to the joys of juicy color and texture. The layers of Charles Burwell’s new work in his one-man show Continuum at Bridgette Mayer Gallery have taken on a new physical presence and a sense of freedom. The new paintings of oil on canvas suddenly are juicy with unrestrained overlapping lines and intense, drippy color — so drippy that the paint corrugates the bottom edge of the ... More » »
What we want to see Friday–that’s TODAY!!
Sorry we didn’t get this up earlier, y’ll but we hope to see you out and about tonight! love, libby and roberta SPACE 1026Spaceman, a print by Drive By Press Space 1026 tops our agenda with a print extravaganza that includes printing “in the gutter” according to the press release. We don’t know what that means, but we love the way it sounds. This is a collaborative printmaking exhibitionfeaturing works by Cannonball Press, Howling Print Studio, Drive By Pressand many, many more! So we will be there. Many affordable prints will be for sale so bring some bucks and get ... More » »
Weekly Update – Ivan Stojakovic at Bridgette Mayer
This week’s Weekly has my Editor’s Pick review of Ivan Stojakovic‘s new show at Bridgette Mayer Gallery. Below is the copy with a couple images from the show. Ivan Stojakovic. Cell Trip, 2007, Oil, Acrylic, Alkyd on Canvas, 48×60” Despite their Play-Doh colors and cake-icing surfaces, Ivan Stojakovic’s paintings raise serious—even heavy—issues. Stojakovic is a Yugoslavia-born emigrant who left home in 1999 after living through the war that tore his country apart. His paintings evoke maps or diagrams of complex systems with lines of flow intersected by nodes that resemble targets. Biogear, 2007, Oil, Acrylic, Alkyd on Canvas, 40×30” Battle ... More » »
« Previous Page — Next Page »
