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• The Jonathan LeVine Gallery Presents 'Van Arno: The Minstrel Cycle'
• Opus Art Presents Karl de Vroomen At The Gallery on Cork Street in London
• "The Subject is Women" at the Nassau County Museum of Art
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art Currently Showing Italian Paintings from Its Collection
• Major Picasso Exhibition Opens at Heather James Fine Art
• Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis salutes Bruce Nauman ~ "Dead Shot Dan"
• David Zwirner presents Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordstrom Exhibit
• Lyman Allyn Art Museum opens 50 Years of Collecting Contemporary Art
• Gino Severini Retrospective at Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries
• Tate Modern Presents First Large-Scale Showing of Futurism in Britain in Thirty Years
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art opens "The Matrix Effect"
• Michael Werner Gallery exhibits Paintings by Swiss Artist Félix Vallotton
• Sculptural Installations by Francis Upritchard at Vienna's Secession
• "ARTIST ROOMS 2010 Tour" Announced ~ 21 Exhibitions of Contemporary Art
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Jonathan LeVine Gallery Presents 'Van Arno: The Minstrel Cycle' Posted: 09 Apr 2011 11:00 PM PDT New York.- The Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to announce 'The Minstrel Cycle', new works by Van Arno in what will be the Los Angeles-based artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery and most ambitious show, to date. The opening reception will be held on Saturday 16th April 2011, and the exhibition will then run through May 14th 2011. 'The Minstrel Cycle' features a series of seven large multi-figure oil paintings on canvas, reflecting themes of race and music, which the artist has explored and developed over the past several years. For this exhibition, Arno draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including real and imagined historical events, the surprising true lives of entertainers, blues and hip-hop lyrics, multi-cultural folklore and Afro-Caribbean mysticism. The show title references minstrelsy, a controversial form of entertainment from the 1800s, in which performers in blackface lampooned African-American culture through comic-musical variety acts loaded with racial stereotypes. Since the word minstrel is so culturally charged in discussions of race-relations in the United States and in the historical roots of contemporary musical influences, the artist thought it would be a fitting title for his new body of work. There is a broad range of subjects for the paintings in this show, including Lucifer and the blind fates (three prophetic witches who share one eye, also known as the Graeae in Greek mythology) along with historical figures such as the famous entertainer, Josephine Baker. Throughout his work, Arno consistently pushes the human figure into extremes of posture to emphasize his Baroque sensibility and approach to create tension, contrast, form and shadow. In the artist's words: "I attempt to paint the archetypical moment of clarity and passion. Imagery must be made exciting and alive. Rules of lighting, anatomy, gravity and physics must be bent or broken to make the picture LOUD. That is the ultimate goal of my work." Born in 1963 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Van Arno was raised in St. Louis, Missouri where he attended a Christian Science school from Kindergarten through High school. Arno studied at Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, and by the early '90s, his illustration resume included skateboard deck designs for Powell Peralta, story-boarding for Robotech, box art for Bandai Games, as well as numerous clients in the music industry. When his focus shifted to fine art, Arno began to create figurative works featuring religious, folk, pop culture, and mythical heroes. His paintings have been exhibited across the country in galleries and institutions such as the Riverside Art Museum and Laguna Art Museum in California and the Hollywood Art and Culture Center in Florida. A book of the artist's collected works (2000-2008), entitled Volume: The Uber-Mannerist Work of Van Arno was published in 2009. visit the artists website at ... http://www.vanarno.com/ Jonathan LeVine Gallery exhibits a genre of work influenced by illustration, comic book art, graffiti, street art and pop culture imagery. We represent a mix of emerging and mid-career artists with an emphasis on cultivating new talent and creating an environment where artists can further develop their work. Since 2005, the first year established in New York, Jonathan LeVine Gallery has remained focused on maintaining its mission of community and commitment to providing our artists with a nurturing arena for experimentation and discussion. The gallery is located at 529 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm. Visit the gallery's website at ... www.jonathanlevinegallery.com

Opus Art Presents Karl de Vroomen At The Gallery on Cork Street in London Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:59 PM PDT London.- Opus Art Presents 'Karl de Vroomen: This is the First Thing' At The Gallery on Cork Street in London from May 23rd to 28th 2011 (with a private viewing on Tuesday 24th May from 6 - 8pm). The internationally renowned Opus Art comes to London for an exhibition to showcase the work of highly regarded artist, Karl de Vroomen.  This exhibition will showcase an exceptional body of new work relaying the thematics of Philip Larkin's 1940 poem, "This is the First Thing". Thematically, Larkin's poem deals exclusively with the destructive passage of time, a notion central to de Vroomen's work.   For both Larkin and de Vroomen, time is a mighty and destructive force.  It is shown by de Vroomen in his desolate landscapes, wilting sunflowers and animals suspended in a moment of time.  The artist's paintings show a consideration of death and the cycles of nature, they are introspective explorations of man's search for 'meaning', his paintings endeavour to make sense of the strangeness and disquiet that pervades everyday life. De Vroomen is intrigued by the peripheral or marginal sites that exist between nature and culture, countryside and city.  His paintings cleverly combine an investigation into the formal aspects of painting - drawing from the traditional practice of Romanticism, whilst responding to the poetry and desolation of these places or animals he depicts. De Vroomen has an established reputation in the art world.  From exhibiting with Saatchi to being shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture at the British School of Rome.  De Vroomen has shown his work in London, New York, Manchester and Newcastle upon Tyne. De Vroomen was born in 1982 in London and lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne. He graduated from Newcastle University in 2009 with an MA in Fine Art (with distinction), following the completion of a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton in 2006. Upon graduating de Vroomen was awarded the Hole Editions Postgraduate Print Award and in 2010 was awarded a residency at Newcastle University. Visit the artists website at ... http://www.karldevroomen.com Opus Art is housed in a beautiful Art Nouveau building, Milburn House, on Dean Street close to Newcastle's Quayside and Central Station. The gallery boasts a large reception area and three separate viewing rooms, plus a 'windows' gallery overlooking a busy street. The gallery is by appointment only, Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm. Established in 2005, Opus Art, the North's premier contemporary art gallery, represents the best in cutting edge contemporary art and photography. Its extensive roster of artists includes Chris Acheson, Kim Baker, Charlotte Bracegirdle, Teresa Duck, Hector de Gregorio, Hush, Chris Kettle and Karl de Vroomen. In addition to maintaining an international presence through its websites, Opus Art hosts exhibitions in major cities and attends international art fairs, typically in New York, Miami, Basel and London. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.opus-art.com

"The Subject is Women" at the Nassau County Museum of Art Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:57 PM PDT ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- "The Subject is Women: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism" offers a lavish viewing of works by women and works depicting women. This sumptuous exhibition will demonstrate how artists of these movements and eras depict women — and how women artists depict themselves. The works of the show, many of them vibrant oils, include renowned masters such as Cassatt, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir as well as others. Degas is represented by "Danseuse" (buste), 1900; Pissarro by "La Marché des Gisors, rue Cappeville", 1894-95; Renoir by "Jeunes filles aux lilas", c. 1890 and "Femme nue aux coussins verts", 1909 and Alfred Stevens by "Le Masque japonais", c. 1877.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Currently Showing Italian Paintings from Its Collection Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:56 PM PDT TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - The Tel Aviv Museum of Art holds numerous works by important Italian artists several of which are presently on show. Gino Severini is represented by one of his famous Futurist paintings from c. 1915, the portrait of Mrs. Meyer-See, a socialite and the wife of a well-known London art dealer, as well as by Dancers at Monico's (c. 1910), reflecting the influence of Neo-Impressionism, and Still Life with Mandolin (1918), a characteristic example of his variant of Cubism.

Major Picasso Exhibition Opens at Heather James Fine Art Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:55 PM PDT PALM DESERT, CA.- Heather James Fine Art in Palm Desert, CA, has established itself among U.S. and international art collectors as one of the nation's premier galleries with shows by Monet, Rauschenberg and diverse, up-and-coming young artists. Today it announces a world-class Picasso exhibition that will survey the master's paintings, drawings and sculptures from several of his major periods, including Cubism, and will highlight an important private collection of 80 pieces of Picasso's ceramics. These works will appeal to a wide range of collectors with prices from $5000 to $25 million. The show will run November 28, 2009, through March 14, 2010.

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis salutes Bruce Nauman ~ "Dead Shot Dan" Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:54 PM PDT ST. LOUIS, MO - The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents "Dead Shot Dan", an exhibition of works by the preeminent American artist Bruce Nauman. Bruce Nauman's work is often discussed in relationship to the writer Samuel Beckett, a playwright who evoked the painful drama of existence, and yet never left laughter too far behind.  Nauman's comedy comes with a wry after-taste, and this selection of neons, drawings, prints, photographs, and videos make us laugh and cringe. While Nauman works with a wide range of themes, processes, and ideas, this exhibition underlines his particular use of humor—deadpan, painful, and relentlessly tongue-in-cheek. On view 23 January through 19 April, 2009.

David Zwirner presents Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordstrom Exhibit Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:53 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents Who is sleeping on my pillow, two concurrent solo exhibitions by Swedish artists Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordström. After spending half their lives together while maintaining separate practices, this is the first time they have exhibited together. This is Mamma Andersson's second exhibition at the gallery (her U.S. debut was at David Zwirner in 2006), and Jockum Nordström's fifth. Known for her complex, multilayered subjects that converge between domestic interiors and Nordic landscapes, Andersson will present all new paintings. From Nordström, on view will be collages, other works on paper, and sculptures made of cardboard and matchboxes. Also featured will be two collaborative works, Sleepwalkers and Wetland, both from 2010. In these two-sided works on paper, Andersson has created lush color washes on the back, while Nordström has collaged the front with figures of people, animals, and trees. On view 29 April through 12 June.

Lyman Allyn Art Museum opens 50 Years of Collecting Contemporary Art Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:47 PM PDT   New London, CT - Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces a new exhibition, Fifty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, opening to the public on March 15 and on view through August 17, 2008. Contemporary art poses such questions as - where does the past stop and the present begin?  Where does the local artist meet with and become a colleague of internationally recognized artists? These are questions that will be posed and discussed at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum's galleries this spring.

Gino Severini Retrospective at Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:46 PM PDT San Francisco, CA – Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries, is pleased to announce our current exhibit, Gino Severini - Form and Color: The Graphic Works 1909-1965.  The exhibition consists of 40 graphic works including lithographs, pochoirs, linocuts, and etchings spanning Severini's entire artistic career.  Form and Color is a retrospective, illustrating Severini's technical and stylistic range from Futurism to Cubism to Neo-classicism.  Primary documents and publications by the artist will also be on display. A color catalogue is available.  Exhibition runs until November 25, 2006.

Tate Modern Presents First Large-Scale Showing of Futurism in Britain in Thirty Years Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:45 PM PDT LONDON.- The Tate Modern presents today Futurism, on view through September 20, 2009. This exhibition will be the first large-scale showing of Futurism in Britain in thirty years. The movement set out to modernise Italian art and social attitudes and its influence spread across Europe and beyond, revolutionising the response to the dynamism of modern life. Its master of ceremonies was the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and this exhibition celebrates the centenary of his publication of The Founding and First Manifesto of Futurism in 1909. Artists who will feature include Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Sonia Delaunay, Robert Delaunay, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Natalya Goncharova, Liubov Popova, David Bomberg, Wyndham Lewis, C.R.W. Nevinson and Jacob Epstein.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art opens "The Matrix Effect" Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:44 PM PDT HARTFORD, CT.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's groundbreaking MATRIX program marks its much anticipated resurgence this month in a new exhibition entitled The Matrix Effect. Curated by Patricia Hickson, the museum's new Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition reviews the rich history of the MATRIX program as a primer to the series' full launch this January. The Matrix Effect is on view July 25, 2009 through January 3, 2010. The renowned MATRIX series, a changing exhibition of contemporary art, is a continuation of the Wadsworth's legacy of presenting the work of living artists, an artistic tradition that extends from Thomas Cole and Frederic Church to Salvador Dalí and into the present day.

Michael Werner Gallery exhibits Paintings by Swiss Artist Félix Vallotton Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:43 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Swiss artist Félix Vallotton (Lausanne, 1865 – Paris, 1925). The exhibition features portraits of women, primarily nudes, and is the first gallery exhibition in New York devoted to the artist's paintings. Félix Vallotton's paintings do not give pleasure easily. In portraiture he is not a flashy virtuoso and his nudes are not "sexy", at least not in any typical fashion. His paint handling is careful and deliberate; his palette, subdued and a little flat; his surfaces, slow and at times somewhat dry. His intense, unforgiving attention to detail lends a palpable realism to the paintings. Enlivened by a thinly veiled eroticism, his subtly voyeuristic scenes leave one feeling more than a little uncomfortable. Paintings of Félix Vallotton is on view from 4 February to 10 April 2010.

Sculptural Installations by Francis Upritchard at Vienna's Secession Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:41 PM PDT VIENNA.- Francis Upritchard creates sculptural installations in which human figures, painted in bright colours, inhabit a world replete with found objects and everyday items, modified to meet their needs. The inhabitants and their objects are shown on specially produced or found pieces of furniture. Paying as much attention to the furniture, to its careful refurbishment as to the figures themselves, her work gives equal weight to art, craft, and display: the design and staging within the exhibition space is an integral part of the work. On view April 30 through June 20, 2010.

"ARTIST ROOMS 2010 Tour" Announced ~ 21 Exhibitions of Contemporary Art Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:40 PM PDT LONDON.- 21 British museums and galleries from Llandudno to Fort William will be able to show masterpieces of contemporary art in 2010 thanks to "ARTIST ROOMS", Anthony d'Offay's gift to the nation made in 2008. The "ARTIST ROOMS 2010 Tour" has been made possible by The Art Fund and is supported by the Scottish Government. Held jointly by National Galleries of Scotland and Tate, "ARTIST ROOMS" is the largest public gift of art to museums in UK history. The collection has now been enhanced by artists and collectors who have made significant donations to the scheme including: Ed Ruscha, "The Music from the Balconies", 1984, donated by the artist; Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Idylls End in Thunderstorms", 1986; and "A Last Word Rudder", 1999 donated by the Estate of the artist.

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