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Galerie Michael invites you to attend an exhibition featuring artwork by Pablo Picasso. This series, Picasso’s Women, features artwork inspired by the women in different moments of his life. View more than 50 pieces of artwork during this spring exhibition.

Godel & Co. is pleased to present Spring Temper, a group exhibition of recent works by artists Sebastian Vallejo, Hector Arce-Espasas, and Allan Tarantino.

The exhibition will take place from March 30 through April 21, and will examine the inventive interplay between three contemporary artists and their chosen mediums. By invoking the term “temper,” various connotations and readings come into play during the visual odyssey laid out by the various artworks. While one spectator might be provoked into a particular state of mind, another might focus on how random elements meld to yield a certain consistency. The possibilities are diverse, as are the reactions when onlookers are confronted with tangible evidence of how heating and cooling in the world of metallurgy can impart strength. Regardless of interpretation, the idea of spring evokes the allure of aromatic scents, blossoms, color, and life. Spring Temper, while visually diverse in terms of each artist’s posture, attitude, and approach, also showcases a harmonious form of expression.

Alex Weinstein
Bursts and Double Negatives

Reception for the Artist: Saturday, April 22nd, 5:00-7:00 pm
Exhibition: April 22 – June 10, 2017
Leslie Sacks Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based artist, Alex Weinstein. Known for his immersive and enigmatic paintings, Weinstein combines both past and newfound approaches to produce his two latest series, Bursts and Double Negatives. The Burst paintings delve into the sensations of the artist’s near-death experience while surfing. The Double Negatives are contemporary nocturnes that revisit Weinstein’s use of the stacked diptych with a distinctly warmed palette across a horizontal tonal expanse.

Alex Weinstein continues to explore the idea of ambiguous space in the Burst paintings. In keeping with his reductive style of painting, most of the decipherable content has been removed from the canvas/panel. These luminous and amorphous oils result through pure abstraction and mark making. Recalling Weinstein’s traumatic near-death experience while surfing in 1983, the Bursts are engulfing as they evoke the sensation of being underwater and consumed by the sea. One is fully immersed, disoriented and gazing up at the glimmering light of the surface overhead. It is a simultaneously disturbing and awe-inspiring. The paintings are a kind of “Ah-ha!” moment of discovery, exploring deeper themes of dislocation and confusion. Weinstein remarks, “Like seeing stars, getting lost or forgetting important things; where colliding thoughts and impulses smack together and sparks are flying. They are also somehow symbolic of the transient and fragile nature of life itself, like creation myths, like birth and dying, falling in love, impermanence, change, the roiling instability of just being alive. Deep stuff. Of course, they are also just paintings content to live as abstractions; as marks on canvas.”

The Double Negative paintings are based on the blazing ruby-red skies at sunset near LAX (Los Angeles International Airport). Weinstein employs a recurring strategy in relating and stacking two painted panels on top of one another. This compositional choice emphasizes the subtle, yet deep changes that occur as the sun dips below the horizon. The drama in these tonalist elegies of dusky, evening-scapes of the waning light over the Pacific is heightened by the deep red-purple hue and stretched horizontal format. The heated palette nods to the smog filters in the atmosphere; the contaminated urban grit. And the deliberate choice of paint application adheres the pigment to the surface like a spray-on tan. As they fade to black they offer the metaphorical potential of danger, glamorous success (and failure), of spectacle fighting against the void, of ambition running rampant and desperate throughout the city, night ever falling. These are very Los Angeles pictures.

Alex Weinstein studied at Brown University and trained at the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been internationally exhibited and is held in esteemed private and public collections worldwide, including the permanent collection of the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California. Weinstein currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Leslie Sacks Gallery is located in the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica 2525 Michigan Avenue, B6. Gallery hours are Tues-Fri 10-6, Sat 11-6. The gallery is online at lesliesacks.com. Email [email protected] or call 310 264 0640.

Join Arcadia Contemporary on April 27 to 30 as we return to the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion in San Francisco.

Plan on arriving eary to the fair to see the premiere of new paintings from Denis Sarazhin, Adam Vinson, Jeffrey Ripple and many more at one of the most important art fairs in the Northwest.

April is a month of discovery at Arcadia Contemporary. The works that form the core of this group exhibition is a collection of haunting, new still life paintings by Spain’s master artist, Miguel Angel Moya.

Like a “cabinet of curiosities,” Moya’s paintings slowly and elegantly reveal the unusual and unsettling by way of a tour ‘de force of painting talent.

The gallery is honored to feature these paintings along with stunning examples of works by Arcadia’s roster of respected artists.
This exhibition will be on display from April 4th through May 18th.

Plan to arrive early as the opening night is very well attended. On view in the Eckert Fine Art booth, the gallery will highlight Modern and Contemporary works by artists:

Alexander Calder
Robert Cottingham
Richard Diebenkorn
Bin Feng
Eric Forstmann
Chi Mori Kaplan
Robert Rauschenberg
Hunt Slonem
Saul Steinberg
Rodney Weiss

For any further information, please email Kevin Van Gorp at [email protected] or Jane Eckert at [email protected]

VIP PREVIEW
Thu, April 27 6-10pm

PUBLIC HOURS
Fri, April 28 12-8pm
Sat, April 29 11-7pm
Sun, April 30 12-6pm

Rehs Contemporary will be exhibiting at the 7th edition of Art Market San Francisco.  On view will be a robust selection of work by many of our artists. The VIP preview is: Thursday, April 27 from 6 – 10 pm. General Show hours are: Friday & Saturday: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm, Sunday: 12:00 – 6:00 pm.

Contessa Gallery Announces Seasonal Satellite Location in West Palm Beach, Florida

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 – Cleveland, OH – Internationally renowned Contessa Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of its first Seasonal Satellite location in West Palm Beach, Florida, at 539 Clematis Street, at the corner of Rosemary. The two-story, 8,000 sq ft gallery space was selected to better serve the gallery’s extensive clientele in the South Florida region. Initially open by appointment only, the gallery also looks forward to hosting special events with charities and other organizations.

Currently on display is a specially curated collection of works by leading contemporary artists, including a very extensive selection by pop & street art sensation, Mr. Brainwash. Contessa Gallery is excited to showcase the artist’s continual revolutionary experimentation with new techniques, media, materials and subject matter. The special exhibition includes original Mr. Brainwash works on Wood, Metal, Brick, Cement, Canvas, Paper, Sculpture and Neon Light Mixed Media. The gallery also features artwork by David Drebin, Hijack, Gilles Cenazandotti, and Cayla Birk.
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About Contessa Gallery
Founded in 1999, Contessa Gallery is a Fine Art Dealers Association member (FADA) that offers artworks of exceedingly high quality as well as art acquisition counsel to collectors, museums and institutions. Areas of expertise include pre-20th century, Modern and Contemporary sculpture, paintings, photography and works on paper. While many galleries focus primarily on artist representation and promotion, Contessa Gallery is collector focused. The gallery’s mission is to assist clients in developing collections that have deep personal meaning. Contessa Gallery encourages its clients to view their collections as a legacy that can be passed down through generations or to art institutions.

Contessa Gallery has participated in prestigious art fairs, such as Art Miami, and in shows in the Palm Beach area for the past 10 years. At the philanthropic level, Contessa Gallery aims to make a difference in the community through the contribution of time, expertise, sponsorship and educational programming for museums and organizations dedicated to the arts.

To make an appointment or for more detailed information about the gallery, its artists, exhibition history, art fair schedule and philanthropic support, please visit our website: www.contessagallery.com or contact Steve Hartman at 216-956-2825 or via email: [email protected].

Rosenbaum Contemporary is presenting an artist reception and gallery talk for the opening of its Jeff Whyman: All In One Moment exhibition. The public is invited to meet ceramic artist Jeff Whyman and hear a talk by the exhibition’s curator Barbara Paris Gifford, assistant curator for the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. The reception will take place from 6 to 8:30 p.m., April 6, at Rosenbaum Contemporary’s gallery at 150 Yamato Road in Boca Raton, Fla. Those interested in attending can RSVP to [email protected] or 561-994-9180 x203. The exhibition will remain on view through April 29 during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Whyman studied under esteemed Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptor Peter Voulkos, who elevated clay from its traditional function to a new role as a material for fine art sculpture. Unlike Voulkos, who produced his works by adding and subtracting clay over time, Whyman creates his pieces “all in one moment,” throwing large, 20- to 25-pound cylinders and smaller vessels like mugs, bowls and miniature vases on his wheel; cutting chunks, wedges and slabs of clay from large blocks; combining these elements together while still wet; then adding sea glass, Chinese crystals, mineral oxides, metal nails and wood ash in a flurry of spontaneous motion resulting in visually complex works exhibiting rich textural variations and colors once they are dried and fired. Inspired by the geologic transformations of the earth through heating, liquefaction, cooling and solidification, as well as marine creatures such as Xenophoridae, which pick up shells as they travel underwater, Whyman’s work tests the limits of clay, exploring how much it can withstand before it collapses or stiffens. His work is included in numerous public collections including the American Museum of Ceramic Arts in Pamona, Calif.; the Bellevue Art Museum in Seattle, Wash.; the Sanboa International Ceramics Museum in Jingdezhen, China; and the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Boca Raton, Fla.

In conjunction with Rosenbaum Contemporary’s exhibition the Boca Raton Museum Art School will be holding two ceramics demonstrations and workshops by Jeff Whyman of his unique process for creating large, expressive ceramic sculptures. The demonstrations will take place on Saturday, April 8, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets are $10 for members and $15 for non-members and can be purchased at bocamuseum.org/events.

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.