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.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings, watercolors and paintings by America’s First Family of Art, the Wyeths. We will celebrate the great achievements of N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, who have collectively captured the spirit of 20th century America, depicting its people and landscapes. This exhibition coincides with the Mint Museum’s The Wyeths: Three Generations, Works from the Bank of America Collection, affording the Charlotte area an opportunity to see two major exhibitions at the same time. Jerald Melberg Gallery will be exhibiting paintings, drawings and watercolors by N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), his son Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and his grandson Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946). All works will be available for acquisition.

To view the online catalogue of works in the exhibition, click here.

 

Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present a new solo exhibition of recent paintings and sculpture by Cordoba, Argentina artist Raúl Diáz (b. 1952). Diáz has spent many years perfecting a technique for his two-dimensional works in which he carves thick wooden panels and then paints them. His imagery draws on childhood memories of lake fishing with his father and grandfather. The sight of wooden fishing boats, either dotting the water or stacked on the beach, is indelible in Diáz’ memory, and these same vessels frequently appear in the work as a metaphor for life’s journey. His compositions are notable for their contrast of dream-like imagery and contemplative silence with technical invention.

Raúl Diáz is one of the best known and celebrated living artists in Argentina. He has had over thirty-five solo exhibitions, including a mid-career retrospective in 2010 at the Caraffa Museo (of Modern Art) in Cordoba. He exhibits worldwide and has been represented by Jerald Melberg Gallery for twenty years.

New York based artist Kim Keever’s boldly colored images are abstract in composition and large in scale. With a strategic dispersal of pigment into a 200-gallon tank of water, he photographically captures the billowing color colliding into a soft yet explosive choreography.

A recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, Keever has been living and working out of his New York studio for many years. He has exhibited extensively throughout the country and abroad, recently in both London and South Korea. Keever’s work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, Microsoft, Bank of America and Philip Morris.

Robert Indiana: The Power of Words, featuring the artist’s new Bob Dylan Suite as well as a selection of his other powerful, word-based works such as HOPE, LOVE, ART, BODY/SOUL, HE and SHE, is now on view through December 10 at the Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery, 150 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, Fla.  

The Bob Dylan Suite, a series of 12 silkscreens on canvas, marries the word-based iconography Indiana first originated in the 1960s with lyrics from Bob Dylan’s 1965 song, “Like A Rolling Stone.”  The artist cites Dylan’s songs as one of his influences while making his early works.

Like Dylan, who was recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Indiana, is known for the power of words in his works. His iconic LOVE,created in the 1960s, is one of the most recognized images in American art and inspired a generation. HOPE, created in 2008, became a symbol for a new generation as well. Throughout his career, Indiana, a self-described “sign painter” has had his finger on the pulse of our times, inspiring viewers with poignant yet simplistic words created in such a way as to make people pay attention to them.

Indiana’s works can be found in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Detroit Institute of Art; the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art in Buffalo, New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art in Maryland; and the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam, The Netherlands, among others.

 

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. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Man Bartlett’s The Akasha Model, is a project that includes a sound installation, interactivity, and sculptural objects. The artist recorded his own brain waves during a series of different thought exercises in an attempt to create an archetypical record of all sentient thought. Man Bartlett’s work is a mixture of traditional media, digital media, and performance, all of which emphasize the philosophical difference between perceptual knowledge and reality and how this manifests in the interaction of technology and culture. Bartlett is concerned with action and repetition and “the manipulation of the relationship of a medium to itself.”

Oli Rodriguez is a transgendered artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans all object-based media plus performance, installation, and writing. The digitally manipulated photography of The Last Seduction “queers” the strict limits of acceptable subject matter of 19th Century South American colonialist painting by recontextualizing figures from the white, heteronormative heroism of European classical iconography with non-gender-conforming people of color. This 21st Century intervention into a canon of representation presents us with a sharply contrasting interpretation of official historical truth.

 

Opening Reception Saturday November 12, 2016 5-8pm

Artist’s Talk by Oli Rodriguez Saturday December 10, 2016 4pm

Arcadia Contemporary is excited to present Brad Kunkle’s debut, solo show on the West Coast this November. Titled “In/visible”, this exhibition will display all new works with Kunkle’s signature gilded technique and refined figurative painting style. Be among the first to view these new works at the opening reception for “In/visible”, Saturday, November 12th at Arcadia Contemporary in downtown Culver City.

 ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, in the backwoods of Upstate New York, he languished in a mental institution as his paintings began to break American records. So great was his fame that at an auction in the Plaza Hotel ballroom the total realized for his paintings exceeded the totals for the Monets, the Rembrandts, the Renoirs, the Pissarros, and the Botticellis. Forever true to his own vision, he lived in abject poverty in the years before he was institutionalized, and even then he never ceased painting, pulling out his own hair for brush bristles and using tobacco juice to augment the meager supply of paint he possessed. His influence and admiration reached across every genre of painting. The Ashcan leader and revered teacher Robert Henri admired his work. William Merritt Chase, the premier impressionist and member of the elite group known as The Ten, purchased his work. The most distinguished modernists recognized his brilliance; George Bellows called him a genius, and Marsden Hartley thought his work was a plausible basis for a genuine American art. Pop art star Andy Warhol owned his work, he was abstract expressionist master Franz Kline’s favorite artist, and contemporary realist Jamie Wyeth has a Blakelock in his current collection.

 

RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK THE GREAT MAD GENIUS RETURNS November 11–December 10, 2016 Over 125 paintings for exhibition and sale Click here to pre-order an exhibition catalogue

Meet Acclaimed LA Based artist JoAnn Belson at the opening of her first Midwest show “Pretty Poison” Hosted by Jane Coats Eckert & Dianne Wright at Coats Wright Art & Design Indiana Design Center.

 

November 10, 2016 5:00-8:00 PM

200 S. Rangeline Rd. Suite 122 Carmel, IN 46032