Jerald Melberg Gallery proudly presents Wolf Kahn: A Fifty Year Survey, a retrospective exhibition of paintings and pastels by the internationally acclaimed artist. New work will be shown alongside art from the past five decades, allowing viewers the opportunity to enjoy the subtle progressions Kahn has made in his career. Kahn has been represented by Jerald Melberg Gallery since opening in 1983 and this solo exhibition, presented in honor of his 90th birthday, marks his nineteenth with the gallery.
Wolf Kahn is widely considered the preeminent landscape painter in America. A master of both pastel and oil, Kahn is an artist who embodies the synthesis of his modern abstract training under the tutelage of Hans Hofmann, with the palette of Matisse, Rothko’s sweeping bands of color, and the atmospheric qualities of American Impressionism. It is precisely this fusion of color, spontaneity and representation that has produced such a rich and expressive body of work with unmatched luminosity.
Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927, Wolf Kahn arrived in the United States in 1940 and in 1945 graduated from the High School of Music and Art in New York. After time in the Navy he attended classes taught by Stuart Davis and Hans Jelinek at the New School for Social Research. He then studied at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art in New York. In 1950 he enrolled in the University of Chicago from which he was graduated in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Wolf Kahn has been honored with numerous awards, including most recently the 2016 International Medal of Arts from the United States Department of State and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Design and School of Fine Arts. A recipient of both Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, he is an elected member of the National Academy of Design, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and has served on the New York Arts Commission. Kahn’s work has been represented in countless solo exhibitions and can be found in the permanent collections of over 100 museums, including such prestigious institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mint Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The Antiques Show is a showcase of English, European, and American period furnishings, decorative arts and fine art, architectural elements, garden furniture, vintage jewelry, and silver–all late 17th to 20th centuries.
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Opening Night Preview Party: Thursday, March 15, 2018
Friday, March 16 – 10 am – 6 pm
Saturday, March 17 – 10 am – 6 pm
Sunday, March 18 – 11 am – 5 pm
Arcadia Contemporary is proud to present “Song and Dance,” an exhibition of new oil paintings by Adam Vinson.
This upcoming exhibition marks the world premiere of the artist’s newest direction: his “memory paintings,” which have been influenced by vintage photography. In these paintings, Vinson is able to render imagery that resonates of a time long-passed, yet maintain a contemporary nod to a shared collective consciousness.
Beatriz Esguerra Art has the pleasure of inviting you to the opening of L´Objet Trouvé, a solo show of works by Colombian artist Elsa Zambrano.
Zambrano´s artistic process has been highly influenced by the writings of André Malraux. Within his notion of the imaginary museum, Malraux wrote that museums, in their act of containing objects, implicitly changed the essence of said pieces. Once exhibited within the museum space, a shift incurs between the viewer and the object, resulting in a novel dialogue between the two.
The same occurs in Elsa Zambrano´s assemblages. She highlights the works of prominent artists from within the art historical canon using an array of found objects, and as a result, the viewer comes to appreciate a unique encounter between said pieces thanks to their placement within her boxes. Each of her assemblages becomes, in effect, a museum in itself.
This exhibition will also feature the series Ex Votos, a compilation of her latest work that revolves around the Divine Child, a 20th century religious wooden statue of the child Jesus, and one of Colombia’s most important religious icons. In these pieces, Zambrano places a miniature replica of the Divine Child with postcards of important works of art, inserting the writings of Malraux in the background of each assemblage.
The tradition of ex votos, identified as early as the Neolithic age, has been appropriated by different religions and cultures throughout history. Ex votos, or votive offerings, were objects displayed or deposited primarily for religious purposes in order to thank or gain favor from deities or supernatural forces. With this same sense of appropriation, Zambrano references the spiritual sensation of respect, admiration and emotion that she herself feels when encountering works of art in a museum.
This show will exhibit 28 assemblages from her series The Imaginary Museum, and 56 small boxes of collage and assemblage from her most recent series Ex Votos.
Opening Reception
Saturday March 10, 2018 5-8 pm
Bert Green Fine Art is pleased to present our second solo show by Chicago collage artist Doug Stapleton and our first show by Chicago artist Jeffrey Michael Austin.
Jeffrey Michael Austin has a fascination with the phenomenon of reflection. Whether a puddle, a mirror, or a glistening, slick, viscous surface, he works with materials that imitate and amplify reflective qualities. His simulacra of ordinary objects employ illusory effects to mediate and obscure reflectivity: high gloss, humidity, fingerprints, smoke, etc. The works invite interactivity with a large dose of caution, as thing are not always what they seem.
Opening Reception
Saturday March 10, 2018 5-8 pm
Bert Green Fine Art is pleased to present our second solo show by Chicago collage artist Doug Stapleton and our first show by Chicago artist Jeffrey Michael Austin.
Doug Stapleton is a master collagist. His works employ extreme precision, keen composition, and idiosyncratic source materials which address identity, history, and ancestral themes. His interest in traditional illustrative and reproduction techniques give his work gravity and a sense of solidity. Collage is a time-honored medium that is practiced by most artists at one time or another – either in their preparatory practice or as final, finished artworks. The impulse to assemble, dismember, and re-organize imagery is central to an artist’s methodology and the creative process.
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Desert X Exhibition of Art
From Feb 25 through April 30, 2017, the Coachella Valley and its desert landscape will become the canvas for a curated exhibition of site-specific work by established and emerging artists, whose projects will amplify and articulate global and local issues that may range from climate change to starry skies, from Tribal culture and immigration to tourism, gaming, and golf. The art works, in various indoor and outdoor locations, will be available free and will offer visitors a way to see the Valley and reflect on serious and playful issues through the lens of the participating artists’ creativity and work. Desert X is produced by Desert Biennial, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded in 2015 to bring the finest international artists to the Coachella Valley to create art, engage viewers, and focus attention on the Valley’s environment — its natural wonders as well as socio-political-economic issues that make it vibrant, curious, and exciting.
Vision
Desert X, an international, contemporary art exhibition, will focus attention on and create conversation about environmental, social, and cultural conditions of the 21st century as reflected in the greater Palm Springs area. The Coachella Valley stretches east and south from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea. It is a desert environment, surrounded by some of the highest peaks in the United States. Long a sacred site and home to the Native American tribe of Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, it has become known for tourism, camping, hiking and golf, its rich modern architectural history, as well as for entertainers and politicians who have enjoyed this vibrant area.
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