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Exhibiting in Chicago May 18-21 at the Chicago Antiques, Art & Design Show at the Merchandise Mart. We will be bringing a selection highlighting our collections of Academic, Impressionism/Post-Impressionism, Modern and Contemporary works. Please contact us at guariscogallery@guariscogallery.com for more show and ticket information.

Eckert Fine Art proudly presents American Masters Editions, 1960-2000s, an exhibition surveying the printmaking and edition efforts of artists Cecily Brown, Alexander Calder, Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenberg, Larry Rivers, and James Rosenquist. The opening will be held from 4-7pm on Saturday, May 13th at 12 Old Barn Road, Unit 1, in Kent, Connecticut. The gallery is located in the Kent Barns art district. This opening marks the inaugural exhibition for the Second Saturday at Kent Barns seasonal art walk.

The artists whose works are presented in this show have historically been handled by EFA, and the gallery has drawn upon its numerous relationships with private collections to provide for the works exhibited.

Opening Reception: May 13th, 4-7pm

Join Cernuda Arte at BOOTH B-301

Cernuda Arte will exhibit works by:

Wifredo Lam, René Portocarrero, Mario Carreño, Roberto Estopiñán, Hugo Consuegra, Raúl Martínez, Juan Tapia Ruano, Agustín Cárdenas, Guido Llinás, Francisco Antigua, Tomás Sánchez, Roberto Fabelo, Juan Roberto Diago, Miguel Florido, Irina Elén González, Vicente Hernández, Joel Besmar, Giosvany Echevarría, Reynier Ferrer and Jorge Luis Santos

For more information please contact the gallery:

Ramón Cernuda at (305) 299-2950

Isabel M. Suárez at (786) 495-6422

Eric González at (305) 297-6831

David E. Stone is working with economic questions of price, scarcity, and supply in the context of artistic production under capitalism. He asks us to look closely at assumptions that we reflexively make about commercial exchanges for fine art.

In the Project Room:

Cathy Stone draws intuitively by allowing chance operations to influence her line, color and form, while remaining mindful of the presence of memories of joyful personal experiences and of the larger traditions of art making. She deeply respects the human need to find meaning in all visual information.

Stephen Kaltenbach continues to develop work that addresses his observations and queries in the making of Conceptual Art. The Bad Ideas are ongoing project proposals started in 1970 with the Room Alterations: projects that can, and have been built, but in some cases, projects that should not be built, because they are deliberately either unworkable or dangerous. In 1969 Kaltenbach began his Sky Totems, photographs that are reflected and combined to warp space and time.

Kaltenbach was first active in New York during the 1960s and from 1970 to the present in Northern California. The post-minimal conceptual art he produced then and now is receiving renewed international attention. His years as a member of the New York scene in the 1960s placed him at the forefront in the formation of a new, idea-based type of art making that was later formalized as Conceptual Art. At the time, the wide variety of experimental approaches could not be properly called a stylistic movement, but gave artists freedom to work in styles and media that were not previously understood to be art. Kaltenbach left New York in 1970, returning to Northern California, where he taught (and operated under the art world radar) continuing to make art using a variety of conceptual strategies in a secret 40 year project revealed by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer in the September 2010 issue of Artforum.

Opening Thursday, May 4th, Rehs Contemporary will debut David Palumbo and Todd M. Casey’s Skin and Tonic at their 57th Street gallery. With more than 100 works between the two, the walls are expected to be jam packed, celebrating figurative and still life work – as the art world has done for centuries.

With a growing presence of Realism in the Contemporary art world, it is no surprise to see a contemporary twist on these classic motifs. As Art Historian Janet Whitmore notes in the exhibition catalog, “both Palumbo and Casey participate in the academic tradition of classical realism, but it is the context of twenty-first century life that provides the structure for their work.

David’s paintings, on the surface appear erotic, but is far deeper and more sensual. The female figures arouse a sense of intimacy – well-crafted and composed to give you a window into a very private moment in time. It is that intimacy, and sense of vulnerability, that instantaneously draws you in. Palumbo goes on to set the tone through hands and facial expressions while building the atmosphere using heavy brushstrokes of deep or vibrant hues. The resultant compositions are beautiful, raw and engaging.

Todd takes on a very different subject through his still life work. Todd’s exploration encompasses more than you might think at first glance… he delves into the celebration and struggle of life. While his compositions of bright alcoholic drinks and objects before stark backgrounds are beautiful in and of themselves, what brings Todd’s work to another level is the emotion that this imagery can evoke – we celebrate with alcohol, we commiserate with alcohol, and we escape with alcohol. Todd too draws on this feeling of intimacy, allowing the viewer to connect the work with their own experiences – leaving the meaning a bit open ended as it parts ways with the easel but wholly complete when the right viewer steps in front of the canvas.

Both artists are truly dependent on the viewer. They rely on the observer’s personal experience to fully complete the narrative – and that is part of what makes their works so intriguing. It is that ability for the artist to relate and connect; to make you feel.

WHEN

Opening Evening Party
Thursday, May 4, 2017: 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Regular Show Hours (Monday-Friday)
Friday, May 5th, 2017 – Friday, May 26, 2017: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

The gallery will also be open on Saturday, May 6th from 12:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Rosenbaum Contemporary is presenting an opportunity to meet artist Hunt Slonem in conjunction with “The Birds and the B’s,” an exhibition of his bird-, butterfly-, bunny- and blossom-themed paintings. An artist reception will be held at Rosenbaum Contemporary’s Boca Raton gallery, 150 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, Fla., on March 7 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Slonem will also be signing copies of his new book, “Birds,” published this month by Glitterati Incorporated, along with the companion book, “Bunnies,” published in 2014. The public is welcome and can RSVP to rsvp@rosenbaumcontemporary.com or by calling 561-994-9180 x 203. “The Birds and the B’s” will remain on view through April 29. Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Artist Hunt Slonem is considered one of the great colorists of our time. A painter, sculptor and decorator (known for his keen eye for pairing vintage furniture with contemporary art), Slonem is famous for his neo-expressionist works of butterflies, bunnies and tropical birds. He has had over 300 one-man shows in galleries and museums internationally. His work can also be found in the permanent collections of 250 museums including the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney and the Moreau Foundation, and is part of private collections world wide, including those of many celebrities.

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.

Important American Paintings, Volume XVII: Enduring
Hardbound, 108 pages, 42 color plates

New York (September 7, 2016) – Questroyal Fine Art’s anticipated Important American Paintings, Volume XVII: Enduring is now available by request. This hardcover, 108-page catalogue features forty-two color plates by some of the most important nineteenth- and twentieth-century painters, with examples ranging from masterpieces of the Hudson River School to American modernism. But as gallery owner Louis M. Salerno assures, “You do not have to be an expert to appreciate these paintings; in fact, you do not have to have any knowledge of art. You simply must be able to detect a quickening heartbeat, a spark of desire. After all is said and done, that is the best reason to buy a painting.”

Biographical information on each artist is included alongside critical comments by their contemporarie, showing how their influence has endured for a century. Featured artists include Albert Bierstadt, Charles Burchfield, Thomas Cole, Henry Martin Gasser, Sanford Robinson Gifford, William Glackens, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, John Frederick Kensett, Reginald Marsh, Alfred H. Maurer, Thomas Moran, Guy Pène du Bois, Fairfield Porter, Francis Augustus Silva, and Guy C. Wiggins.

To request a copy of Important American Paintings, Volume XVII: Enduring, call 212-744-3586 or visit www.questroyalfineart.com/publications.

About Questroyal Fine Art
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, is an established American art gallery specializing in quality American paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Questroyal’s extensive inventory of over four hundred artworks includes important Hudson River School, tonalist, impressionist, and modernist examples.

903 Park Avenue (at 79th Street), Third Floor, New York, NY 10075
Monday–Friday 10–6, Saturday 10–5 and by appointment
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