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- The McMurtrey Gallery Presents Jules Buck Jones First Houston Show
- Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art Presents "Drawn to Nature"
- Color Photographs Since 1970 by Joel Sternfeld at Museum Folkwang in Essen
- The Bruce Museum Opens ~ Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of Jewelry
- Denver Art Museum to Show First U.S. Exhibition of the Work of Xu Beihong
- New Museum Presents "Ostalgia," an Exhibition about Eastern Europe Art
- Saint Louis Art Museum Presents Artist Francesco Clemente's "High Fever"
- A Group Exhibition at the Parc Saint Léger ~ Contemporary Art Center
- Chicago's Premier Contemporary Art Galleries Announce Gallery Weekend Chicago
- Lyons Wier Gallery To Display "Under the Radar" a Group Exhibition
- A Celebration and Sale of Scottish Art at Sotheby's London This Autumn
- Beatles to Bowie ~ The 60's Exposed at the National Portrait Gallery
- Chris Stain solos at Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
- University of the Arts Hosts First Group Exhibition of Women's Pop Art
- PAFA Announces Claes Oldenburg Sculpture Commission for Plaza
- Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal hosts Survey of Marcel Dzama's Outrageous Art
- Exhibition to Celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the Dutch Rembrandt Association
- V & A Museum displays ~ Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones
- Exhibition at the MdM Mönchsberg shows Collection FOTOGRAFIS Bank Austria
- This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News
| The McMurtrey Gallery Presents Jules Buck Jones First Houston Show Posted: 17 Jul 2011 11:04 PM PDT  Houston, TX.- The McMurtrey Gallery is proud to present "Jules Buck Jones: Totemomennomenclature", on view at the gallery until August 27th. Austin based artist Jules Buck Jones will have his first solo exhibition in Houston at McMurtrey Gallery. Mr. Jones' collages and drawings reflect his commitment to depicting nature and wild animals. Like a zoologist become artist, he not only gives his animal subjects an identity but a presence.  His work deals with animals. The depiction of animals through drawing and lore is as ancient as the imagination. The impressions and ideas they provoke range from symbolism to science. He makes large scale, 2-dimensioal drawings, sometimes bizarre and fantastic, other times simple and subtle. All of this stems from a long interest in the natural sciences. The work grows from thoughts and research on biological and ecological concerns as well as along narrative and mythical dimensions. He depicts his animals in various ways, using techniques inspired by the clear careful illustrations of field guides, through a range of expressive and abstract artists. A lot of his work bumps representation up against its limits. Abstraction comes into play in many ways. At times an animal, drawn in larger than life scale will melt away into aggressive strokes of color and marks, robbing the animal of its form. Other times I assemble animals into geometric formations, or I'll attempt to merge scientific diagrams with the myths that precede them. Jones work is very much about drawing itself. The line plays a crucial role in the development of his subject matter. He draws with a quick, gestural, playful delivery, which he believes gives the subject a liveliness that often eludes a slower, more meticulous, depiction. He uses a variety of media from all sorts of drawing tools, such as graphite, charcoal, and wax, to different water-based pigments as inks, acrylic, watercolor, and gouache. He teams lines with washes to build or negate my subjects. Jones' works strictly on paper, usually to a very large scale. To him, drawing has more of a romantic relationship to paper than to other surfaces, like wood or canvas. The paper allows his pencils to glide when they move and embraces his washes in some symbiotic manner. The grand scale creates a 1 to 1 ratio between work and viewer. Conceptually he believes this is interesting and intrinsic to the dialogue between man and nature. The scale is also conducive to the loose descriptions and allows a greater arena to suggest the infinite details nature provides.Jones' revels in the idea of continuing the long inscription of drawing, painting, sculpting and believing in animals, and takes his inspiration from prehistoric cave paintings, totemic symbols, the great artist/naturalists like Albertus Seba, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel and John James Audobon, and a contemporary art world increasingly more aware and intrigued with issues of the natural world. Fact and fiction, past, present and the future, all play a role in his work. He aims to express and conjure the flesh and magic of evolution, classification, environment, bio-diversity, mutation, and extinction. Jules Buck Jones received his Master in Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. Mr. Jones is included in the collections of the Austin Museum of Art, The Everglades National Park, and the Balcones Canyonland Preserve at Reicher Ranch in Austin and is a recipient of the David Price Endowed Presidential Scholaship in Art. Mr. Jones was the Artist in Residence In Everglades at the Everglades National Park in Florida. A book of his works titled Everglades inspired by his residency was published in 2010 by Monofnuspress. This summer he will be at the prestigious Skowhegan artists in residency program for emerging visual artists. The McMurtrey Gallery, established in 1983, primarily represents contemporary regional artists. The gallery's emphasis is on painting by both early and mid-career artists, many of whom are included in museum collections and are recognized and exhibited nationally. The gallery also represents a select group of internationally known photographers. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.mcmurtreygallery.com |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art Presents "Drawn to Nature" Posted: 17 Jul 2011 10:13 PM PDT NASHVILLE, TN.- Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art presents "Drawn to Nature" on view until October 2nd. In the early 19th century, a group of artists fled their studios in New York City during the summer and traveled north by steamboat, sketching and painting the picturesque scenery of the Hudson River Valley. Led by painter Thomas Cole, these artists became collectively known as the "Hudson River school" and explored American nature as a resource to invent a landscape tradition distinct from Europe. |
| Color Photographs Since 1970 by Joel Sternfeld at Museum Folkwang in Essen Posted: 17 Jul 2011 09:28 PM PDT  ESSEN.- The Museum Folkwang, Essen/Germany, is dedicating a first European retrospective to the American photographer Joel Sternfeld (*1944, New York) from 16 July, with around 130 works from over three decades. Entitled Joel Sternfeld – Color Photographs since 1970 eleven projects in total are being shown. One emphasis comes with 60 photographs from his never before published early work, which extends from 1969 to the late 1970s. Sternfeld's gaze has always been directed at his home country of America, with its particularities, its people and its own landscapes. |
| The Bruce Museum Opens ~ Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of Jewelry Posted: 17 Jul 2011 09:27 PM PDT  GREENWICH, CONN.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut presents the new exhibition Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of Jewelry from July 16, 2011, through February 26, 2012, featuring a magnificent array of different types of jewelry as well as samplings of minerals, precious stones and other materials from which artists have created an infinite variety of human adornment. The exhibition is organized by the Bruce Museum's new Curator of Science, Dr. Gina C. Gould, and is supported by Betteridge Jewelers, the Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund, Anne and Fred Elser, and Hank and Meryl Silverstein. |
| Denver Art Museum to Show First U.S. Exhibition of the Work of Xu Beihong Posted: 17 Jul 2011 09:04 PM PDT  DENVER, CO.- This fall, visitors to the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will get a rare look inside China's artistic history through two special exhibitions. Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting and Threads of Heaven: Silken Legacy of China's Last Dynasty explore this mysterious and ceremonial country during two time periods—the latter years of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912), and the subsequent formation of the Republic of China during the early to middle 20th century. Xu Beihong offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the full spectrum of work by the 20th century Chinese artist who is widely recognized as the father of modern Chinese painting. One of the first Chinese artists to study in Europe, Xu revolutionized painting in China by drawing influence from both the East and West. This exhibition will feature approximately 60 works from the Xu Beihong Memorial Museum, the majority of which have never before been on view in the United States. |
| New Museum Presents "Ostalgia," an Exhibition about Eastern Europe Art Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:53 PM PDT  NEW YORK NY.- The New Museum presents "Ostalgia," an exhibition that brings together the work of fifty-six artists from twenty countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Republics, and parts of Western Europe. The Multi-floor exhibition is on view from July 14–September 25. The exhibition takes its title from the German word ostalgie, a term that emerged in the 1990s to describe a sense of longing and nostalgia for the era before the collapse of the Communist Bloc. Twenty years ago, a process of dissolution began, leading to the break-up of the Soviet Union. From the Baltic republics to the Balkans, from Central Europe to Central Asia, entire regions and nations were reconfigured, their constitutions rewritten, their borders redrawn. |
| Saint Louis Art Museum Presents Artist Francesco Clemente's "High Fever" Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:42 PM PDT  ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum presents the exhibition Focus on the Collection: Francesco Clemente's "High Fever", which brings together a series of nine dark and mysterious woodcuts that explore the beauty, pleasure and pain of love by contemporary Italian artist Francesco Clemente . Influenced by the mysticism of India, Clemente conveys both the sensual and spiritual aspects of love, including childbirth and motherhood. Clemente exploits the natural grain of his woodblocks to dramatic effect, allowing it to become part of the repertoire of expressive marks found in each of the compositions. The grain and the dark tones of the ink reference the Northern European history of the woodcut. |
| A Group Exhibition at the Parc Saint Léger ~ Contemporary Art Center Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:41 PM PDT  POUGUES-LES-EAUX.- In Europe, in our "post-industrial" era, we are increasingly distanced from the production of the goods we consume. Our downing of tools seems linked to a change in our relationship with the material world, provoking a more passive attitude towards the things with which we surround ourselves. When they break we throw them away, unable to fix them and unable (or unwilling) to understand how they work. In recent years, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in making, in notions of self-sufficiency and craftsmanship. While such notions may find particular resonance in these times of economic crisis, they are also part of a larger school of thinking that is reconsidering our relationship to work and production. |
| Chicago's Premier Contemporary Art Galleries Announce Gallery Weekend Chicago Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:17 PM PDT  CHICAGO, IL.- A select group of Chicago's premier contemporary art galleries have come together to organize Chicago's first ever Gallery Weekend Chicago (GWC) on September 16-18, 2011. Like the very successful Gallery Weekend Berlin, the event is designed to attract an exclusive group of national and international clientele to experience Chicago's dynamic contemporary art scene. Viewings of new exhibitions at top contemporary art galleries and museums, access to hard-to-secure reservations at Chicago's finest restaurants, and private VIP events will make up the weekend's activities. |
| Lyons Wier Gallery To Display "Under the Radar" a Group Exhibition Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:16 PM PDT  NEW YORK, NY.- As expressed by its title, Under the Radar features eight New York based artists who have yet to surface prominently on the art scene but whose talent will surely rise to the top. The select eight are: Tobias Batz, Aleksander Betko, Dina Brodsky, Maya Brodsky, Talia Segal Fidler, Cobi Moules, Aristides Ruiz, and Mitra Walter. On exhibition at Lyons Wier Gallery in New York City from July 21st through August 20th.  Tobias Batz' work, a fusion of fashion photography and street art, is a respectful celebration of the female sprit. It reflects the urban landscape of New York City and its inhabitants. His cutting edge use of photography, body painting, spray paint and experimental methods of digital processing pays homage to Andy Warhol, Frederico Fellini, Man Ray and edgy fashion photographers such as Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon. Aleksander Betko captures the definition of life in New York City. His paintings are of introspective moments that define the resiliency and strength it takes to live one's life on their own terms in a seemingly cold and unforgiving city that provides the backdrop to some of the triumphs of the human condition. In Dina Brodsky's series of paintings "Desert Places," the artist utilizes 17th century oil painting techniques to achieve a range of tonality in which light and shadow, as well as observation and imagination meld concordantly. Like the Robert Frost poem it references, Brodsky's panels explore the beauty that can be found in nature's most isolated places. The artist reveals the dichotomy of feeling that affects one in such settings. In these works, desolation is a siren that tempts our anxieties about loneliness to surface. Although fear suffuses the landscapes, their beauty is never overshadowed.  Maya Brodsky's work is inspired by notions concerning the connection between past and present and how one's memory of the past is formed and changed visually. Her paintings allow the viewer a glimpse into her personal vision and present, which she considers ephemeral and precious. By depicting the specific form of her personal experience, the artist protects it from the obscuring effects of time, implying the existence of something that transcends the particular forms of her subjective reality. Cobi Moules creates a fantasy world in which only he exists. Throughout, there are many different narratives, coexisting to create an alternate world with a sense of excitement, self worth and play. Through the figure's multiplication and overwhelming presence within the landscape, it takes precedence over the landscape and integrates into it. The landscape, based off the Hudson River School style, is a stand in for the artist's own Christian upbringing, seeking to renegotiate his relationship, as a queer and transgender person, with his religious upbringing and of being seen as 'unnatural' through such Christian lens. The importance becomes the experiences of his multiple and overall presence in the landscape; engaging in different activities: playing, exploring his selves and nature, and thus becoming part of it. Talia Segal Fidler applies personal experiences and her immediate surroundings into her hybrid compositions. As a collector of "stuff," she applies what she collects to add textural and decorative elements to her portraits such as jewels, pills, feathers, hair, an old wood palette or a pair of panties. The artist breaks the flat canvas surface and goes beyond simple paint and canvas in order to immerse the work into her everyday life, touching on personal topics such as body image, beauty, consumption, and the passage of time. Aristides Ruiz' intricate ballpoint drawings of urban life and every day scenes capture the feelings and presence of a particular aesthetic moment in time, a single episode of a much longer tale. His 'snapshot' imagery attests to the undeniable presence of human life within the gritty landscape and their consequence on a broader scale. Mitra Walter's small, intimate portraits focus on women and children as she explores ways in which figuration can reveal contextualized perceptions of human nature. Visit the Lyons Wier Gallery in New York City at : http://lyonswiergallery.com/Home.html  |
| A Celebration and Sale of Scottish Art at Sotheby's London This Autumn Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:11 PM PDT
Over the last decade or so Sotheby's has dominated the field of Scottish art and last year its two Scottish Sales brought an impressive total of almost £9 million. Sotheby's continues to hold two sales a year in the category and both sales are now staged in the company's key saleroom in London's New Bond Street. The move to London is the result of the increasingly international profile of Scottish art in recent years; since the beginning of 2008, for example, buyers from at least 15 different countries have participated in Sotheby's Scottish Sales.  Commenting on the Scottish market and the forthcoming sale, Andre Zlattinger, Senior Director and Head of The Scottish Sale at Sotheby's, said: "Following the success of our sale in April this year, we've once again assembled a quality and wide-ranging group of pictures for the September sale, which includes important paintings by many of the leading names in Scottish Art. We look forward to exhibiting them in Edinburgh between September 15-17. Sotheby's is strongly committed to the Scottish market; a market in which we've achieved enormous success in recent years and we hope to build on our impressive track record by bringing Scottish Art to an ever wider audience through our sales in London." The Scottish Colourists regularly form the core of Sotheby's Scottish Sales and this September is no exception. The Colourist group will be lead with arguably one of the finest still lifes by Samuel John Peploe ever to appear on the market. Painted in the early 1920s, the bold, vibrant composition – entitled Red and Pink Roses, Oranges and Fan – is rhythmic in arrangement and paintings of roses mark the epitome of Peploe's still lifes of the period. In his still lifes around this time Peploe used colour at its highest pitch since his return to Scotland from a period in France in 1913. Red and Pink Roses, Oranges and Fan is estimated at £300,000-500,000. A second still-life by Peploe – entitled Still Life of Roses with a Green Tablecloth – is estimated at £250,000-350,000. More than any other member of the Colourist group, Peploe was heavily influenced by the radical work of the Cubists and Fauves and he developed a way of painting that, with its bold and delineated tone, was closely akin to that of Cezanne; this is shown in the still life of roses. Also dating from the 1920s, this still life portrays the simple yet stunning qualities of colour and perspective in their purest form and it is among the most sophisticated and beautiful of Peploe's paintings. Flower paintings were always Peploe's first love. Luxembourg Gardens is another notable highlight among the Peploe offerings and it dates from his time in Paris in 1910. Peploe's desire to live and work in Paris, and fully immerse himself in the beating heart of the modernist art world, greatly informed his work. His Paris scene is estimated at £80,000-120,000. A large-scale streetscape of Vence in the South of France by George Leslie Hunter is set to be a further highlight of the Colourist group and it is among the most significant landscapes that he painted during his time in southern France. The painting captures the heat of the Mediterranean summer through Hunter's use of hot reds and oranges set against a backdrop of dark green. The French Riviera was a theme of great inspiration for Hunter and the streetscape is thought to date from circa 1926 and is estimated at £150,000-250,000.  Two important works by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell are entitled Lady Lavery in Black and Ben More from Iona. The first of these - a sophisticated and elegant portrait of Sir John Lavery's wife, Hazel - was executed in 1912, during his greatest period of portrait painting when he depicted various patrons and their wives and children. Considered to be of exceptional beauty, Lady Lavery was photographed by Cecil Beaton for Vogue and she also featured as a model for Pond's Cold Cream advertisements. The portrait of her is expected to fetch between £100,000-150,000. Cadell first visited Iona in 1913 on a sailing trip with a friend and was immediately captivated by its remoteness and enchanting beauty. He served in the army during much of the First World War and during periods of leave would return to Iona on brief painting forays, which were a welcome sanctuary. The piece and simplicity of Iona offered Cadell a different lifestyle to that of Edinburgh. The view across the Sound from Iona to the island of Mull with Ben More in the distance was one which Cadell rarely painted; it was one that was more frequently depicted by Peploe. The colour of the water is a vibrantly depicted aquamarine and the light is fresh. The landscape is estimated at £100,000-150,000. John Duncan Fergusson's Swimmers near the Sea dates from the late 1920s and depicts the artist's beautiful partner Margaret Morris. Fergusson found the naked form highly inspiring and produced a series of striking nudes throughout his career. The sale will also be highlighted by works by Anne Redpath and Joan Eardley. Redpath is represented by a vibrant oil entitled Summer Gaiety which dates from 1947 and - with its expressive brushwork and harmonious explosion of vibrant colours - is a striking example of the artist's mature style. Still life painting was particularly important to Redpath in the late 1940s and 1950s. Summer Gaiety is estimated at £80,000-120,000. The Shore, Corrie, Arran, a seascape by Joan Eardley is estimated at £80,000-120,000. Eardley visited Corrie during the summer of 1942 and her unconventional method of painting during raging storms displays her fascination with wild seas and the visual grandeur of storms. The present work can be seen as an important precursor to the landscapes she painted a decade later for which she became so well known. The ever popular Jack Vettriano will be represented by some 15 works, the most valuable of which is Bathers, which was exhibited at The Solstice Gallery in Edinburgh in August 1991 in the very same exhibition as two of the artist's most iconic images, The Singing Butler and Mad Dogs. Bathers dates to the most significant period of Vettriano's career and is expected to fetch £100,000-150,000. |
| Beatles to Bowie ~ The 60's Exposed at the National Portrait Gallery Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:10 PM PDT
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| Chris Stain solos at Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:09 PM PDT
West Hollywood, CA - Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art is proud to present Up on the roof countin' pigeons, the first West Coast solo exhibition of work by Baltimore artist Chris Stain. Artwork featured in the exhibition will include stencil, spraypaint and mixed media on metal and found objects. A preview reception for the exhibition will be held on Thursday, February 5th, 2009 from 7.00pm – 10.00pm. The exhibition will be open for viewing through Thursday, February 26th '09 from 1.00pm – 7.00pm. |
| University of the Arts Hosts First Group Exhibition of Women's Pop Art Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:08 PM PDT
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| PAFA Announces Claes Oldenburg Sculpture Commission for Plaza Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:07 PM PDT
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| Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal hosts Survey of Marcel Dzama's Outrageous Art Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:06 PM PDT
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| Exhibition to Celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the Dutch Rembrandt Association Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:05 PM PDT
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| V & A Museum displays ~ Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:04 PM PDT
LONDON - Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones is a collaboration between the V&A Museum and one of the world's foremost hat designers, Stephen Jones. The exhibition displays more than 300 hats chosen with the expert eye of a milliner. On display will be hats ranging from an Egyptian Anubis mask dating from 600BC to a 1950s Balenciaga hat and couture creations by Jones and his contemporaries. To show the universal appeal and delight of wearing hats, Jones has included a wide variety of styles including top hats, berets and a child's plastic tiara. |
| Exhibition at the MdM Mönchsberg shows Collection FOTOGRAFIS Bank Austria Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:03 PM PDT
Salzburg, Austria - This exhibition at the MdM Mönchsberg presents almost the entire FOTOGRAFIS collection which was provided to the MdM Salzburg as permanent loan by Bank Austria and integrated into the MdM's photographic collection in July 2008. The FOTOGRAFIS collection, established in 1976, is one of the earliest and most outstanding photographic collections in Europe. In 1987 it was presented temporarily at the Rupertinum and now it returns to Salzburg. On exhibition at the MdM Mönchsberg through 26 October, 2009. |
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