Richard Haley ’s works investigate the use of surrogates in performance as he documents staged events being performed by inanimate proxies. These surrogates function in a number of ways: as literal casts of Haley’s body parts; as digital 3D renderings; and as traces of the body, such as the impression one would leave behind if lying down in the grass or residue left behind from the ashes of Haley’s cremated body. A number of works employ hand crafted miniature sculptures of everyday objects to be used as stand-ins for the original.

Haley is interested in treating the body as raw material, and with consideration of the body as an apparatus. His stand-ins create attentiveness to the materials they are being made from, and point to the authentic corpus it references. “Rehearsals Part 2” serves to shift the work outside the vernacular of performance and documentation and steer it towards the presence and present-ness of sculpture. By using screen-based technology, Haley forces a collision between the hyperreal/unreal virtual world and the tangible physical lived experience, calling into question the ephemeral weightless matter of digital images and their heavy influence on daily lives.

The Private Impressionist, on view at the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College. The exhibition was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, in association with FADA Member Gallery Denenberg Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California. 

The exhibition is comprised of works from a private collection and seeks to shed light not only on the artist’s favorite themes but also on the complex man himself and the artists he called his friends. Indeed, beyond the work of Degas, the show also boasts more than forty additional works on paper by Degas’ artist friends and colleagues, including Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The Degas collection at the PMA is the property of Robert Flynn Johnson, an art historian and art lover, who curated the show compiled from artworks he has amassed over the past 40 years.

Join Cernuda Arte to celebrate the First Friday of the New Year. 

Gallery Night

January 4, 2019

6 – 9 p.m.

Showcasing selections from:

Important Cuban Artworks

Volume Sixteen

Join Beatriz Esguerra Art on Wednesday, January 2, 2019, for the opening of Pedro Ruiz’s (a BEA artist) exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Cartagena. This event is part of the Cartagena International Classical Music Festival’s programming. A percentage of the sales of the exhibited artworks will be donated to the Festival’s Foundation and to the Museum of Modern Art of Cartagena. 

Pedro Ruiz’s work occupies itself with social and political issues that affect countries worldwide. Nature and the concept that it is a force that we cannot control and must live in harmony with, is ever-present in his works. Ruiz has developed numerous series through paintings and installations like Love is in the Air, Desire, Displacements, Gold, Natural Gold, Desire, Colombiana Light and most recently, Ibargüen.

Paintings and mixed media works by Czech artist Viktorie Langer are now on view through January 19, 2019, in Rosenbaum Contemporary’s Boca Raton gallery, 150 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, Fla. It is the first U.S. exhibition of the artist’s work and can be viewed during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Langer was a Jindřich Chalupecký Award finalist in 2017, and her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout Europe, including the National Gallery in Prague and the Sør-Troms Museum in Trastad, Norway. Her work is inspired by “early 20th Century art, especially artificialism and poetism; however, it also speaks a very current language and has a mature, signature style,” according to a jury statement from the Jindřich Chalupecký competition.

According to Langer, her paintings are “quite figurative, but the figures are not clear. It’s more like a feeling, like if someone passes you and you just get a glimpse of the person.” She also noted that the size of the painting is important. “When you come close to the painting, you feel it might absorb you or wrap around you. Perhaps that’s why I do large formats,” she said.

Rosenbaum Contemporary, founded in 1979, is based in Boca Raton with a second gallery inside the St. Regis Bal Harbour Hotel in Miami. The gallery caters to international collectors interested in investment-quality works by Postwar, Modern and Contemporary masters and presents nationally recognized museum-level exhibitions throughout the year. The gallery also offers a wide range of free services to collectors worldwide including acquisition advice, art consulting, sourcing of artists, art collection building and management and resale of select works of art

Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new pastels by Charles Basham. Aptly titled Ends of the Day, the exhibition will debut large scale pastels with an emphasis on landscapes at sunrise and sunset. In these works, Basham renders dramatic and compelling moments of indirect morning and evening light, heightened through bold colors such as magenta, gold, lemon, emerald and turquoise. The natural vistas he portrays escape contextual clues that would place it in a specific time and place, sharing with audiences an enhanced version of the universal experience of being outdoors.

Charles Basham received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Kent State University in his native state of Ohio, where he still resides on the family farm. He has been making art for over forty years, and, as a result, has enjoyed much acclaim for his visually stimulating and emotionally charged landscapes.

At 11am on Saturday, November 10, the exhibition will open to the public with a Coffee & Conversation event with the artist speaking and answering questions about the works in the exhibition.

View Online Catalogue here.

The nineteenth volume in Questroyal’s coveted Important American Paintings series explores the ways in which art attracts collectors and investigates what motivates people to acquire this unique asset. Gallery owner Louis M. Salerno proclaims “Art is an enigma! Without any quantifiable utility, its impact is profound. Over my lifetime, as both a dealer and a collector, I have witnessed the joy and satisfaction that art brings to so many clients.”

Featuring 37 color plates in 96 pages, this hardbound catalogue includes important examples by Milton Avery, George Bellows, Ralph Albert Blakelock, Charles Burchfield, Thomas Cole, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Childe Hassam, Hayley Lever, Thomas Moran, William Trost Richards, Eric Sloane, and Worthington Whittredge. To request a complimentary copy, visit: www.questroyalfineart.com/publications

Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art is pleased to present Julian Opie: Recent Works, an exhibition of new editioned work by one of the leading British contemporary artists working today.

Julian Opie is a master at observing everyday life and transforming prosaic scenes into powerful, graphic works that speak to all of us on a basic level. Born in London (1958) and raised in Oxford, Opie went on to study at Goldsmith College under the tutelage of Michael Craig-Martin, the conceptual artist who served to influence his technique and process. Over several decades, Opie has developed and perfected the minimalist approach he adopted during his education. His work has evolved to incorporate a variety of media and styles including sculpture, silhouettes, animations, and quintessential portraits and landscapes.

Opie considers himself to be a realist whose work does not deal in metaphors. A sheep is a sheep; a crow is a crow; a person walking down the street is nothing else. Expanding on this realist approach, he says “having more details in a picture doesn’t mean it’s more like reality”. He uses technology to strip down and present his ideas in a way that is reminiscent of both the European old masters and the Japanese manga art which inspire him. Although he frequently uses photographs as his starting point, the work is also inculcated with his empirical understanding of the subject matter: “reality is a complex construction that is built from experience.”

Julian Opie: Recent Works includes a series of black-line relief silhouettes entitled Walking in Melbourne as well as three-dimensional walking figures known as Melbourne Statuettes.  Additionally, the show will feature Crows, a whimsical animated light installation; Cornish Coast, a series of colorful minimalist landscapes; and Heads, a set of three-dimensional profiles on sprayed aluminum.  Also on view will be a Julian Opie self-portrait and the Nature 1 series featuring laser-cut aluminum wall reliefs depicting boats, pebbles, sheep and fish.

Julian Opie’s works can be found in many public art collections, including Tate, British Museum, Victoria & Albert, Arts Council, British Council and National Portrait Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, ICA in Boston USA, Essl Collection in Vienna, IVAM in Spain, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem and Takamatsu City Museum of Art in Japan. Opie has also presented many public projects in cities around the world, notably in the Dentsu Building in Tokyo 2002; City Hall Park in New York 2004, Mori Building, Omotesando Hill in Japan 2006; River Vltava in Prague 2007; Phoenix Art Museum USA 2007; Dublin City Gallery in Ireland 2008; Seoul Square in South Korea 2009; Regent’s Place in London 2011; Calgary, Canada; The Lindo Wing, St Mary’s Hospital, London; and more recently permanent installations at SMETS in Belgium, PKZ in Zurich, Arendt and Medernach in Luxembourg, Taipei, Taiwan and Tower 535, Causeway Bay in Hong Kong

Dozen, an exhibition of the Thomas Hartmann Master Class from the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, Germany, will open with an artist reception on October 11 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Rosenbaum Contemporary’s Boca Raton gallery (150 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, Fla.) The exhibition will remain on view through November 10 and can be viewed during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Dozen exhibition features new works by Thomas Hartmann as well as works by 11 artists handpicked by Hartmann from his master classes at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. The 11 artists have all been designated Meisterschüler by Hartmann—a title of distinction given to students at German art academies by their professors in recognition of brilliant performance and the development of their own independent pictorial language. Of the 89 students Hartmann has taught since 2005, only 27 have earned the distinction of Meisterschüler.

“The students in my class(es)…belonged to the generation that had grown up with countless pictorial media and had to learn early to be selective. They learned to connect painting with basic creative research and to recognize what painting, in competition with the new pictorial media, can achieve these days at all anymore,” Hartmann said.

The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, founded in 1662, is the oldest art academy in German-speaking Central Europe. Hartmann, who has received several awards including the Overbeck Prize for Fine Arts; the Art Prize for Artists of Düsseldorf, Germany; and the Willi Oltmanns Prize for Painting, Delmenhorst; and whose work has been shown throughout Europe and the United States in numerous venues including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, and the National Library in Warsaw, Poland, among others, has been a professor of painting there for the past 13 years.

Hartmann and five of the Meisterschüler (Andrea Barzaghi, Christiane Bergelt, Nian Cheng, Johannes Listewnik and Jasmin Schmidt) will be present for the artist reception, which is free and open to the public. The remaining artists featured in Dozen are Tobias Buckel, Ludwig Hanisch, Katharina Kraus, Karina Kueffner, Hannah Lang and Marco Stanke.

Additional information about the exhibition and the artists can be found at www.rosenbaumcontemporary.com.

Rosenbaum Contemporary, founded in 1979, is based in Boca Raton with a second gallery inside the St. Regis Bal Harbour Hotel in Miami. The gallery caters to international collectors interested in investment-quality works by Postwar, Modern and Contemporary masters and presents nationally recognized museum-level exhibitions throughout the year. The gallery also offers a wide range of free services to collectors worldwide including acquisition advice, art consulting, sourcing of artists, art collection building and management and resale of select works of art.