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Avery Galleries is delighted to announce their fall exhibition, which will showcase their most exceptional paintings, including several masterworks of American art. Please join them for the opening reception on Friday, November 4, 2016.

Bold Beginnings: Laguna’s Art & Nature Roots showcases original paintings by the founding artists of the Laguna Art Colony.  These historical paintings reveal a deep reverence of nature.  Their work evokes a sense of peace and tranquility in which they combine art and nature reminding us to preserve this awe inspiring land.  They stand as a testament to the ageless beauty of the community as it was a century ago.  Laguna provided artists the opportunity to paint sublime scenery in a perfect climate year-round.

 

These brave individualists attracted artists from around the globe leading to the establishment of the art colony.  Their comradery and vision laid the groundwork for the galleries, museum and festivals that attract millions of visitors each year. This exhibition starts with some of the earliest artists in California in the 1890’s and features some of today’s artists who continue to paint in the tradition of outdoor painting. Featured historical artists; William Wendt, Anna Hills, Edgar Payne, Frank Cuprien and more. Contemporary artists Gregory Hull, Kevin Macpherson and John Cosby

Leslie Sacks Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of graphic work by renowned artist, Jasper Johns. The gallery will present its collection of Jasper Johns lithographs and etchings from 1967-2012. Many of these editions were printed and published by revered ateliers such as Gemini G.E.L., Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Petersberg Press. A wide range of Johns’ iconography is represented in the exhibition, including Savarin cans, targets and numerals.

Jasper Johns made his first lithographs in early 1960 and quickly became an inquisitive and skilled printmaker of great ability and prolificacy. Johns’ oeuvre across all media centers around memory, replication and reproduction, so it is no surprise that he should be seduced by the unlimited range and experimentation printmaking affords him in reusing imagery and reproducing motifs. His work often conveys autobiographical associations and memories through particular elements or marks. Savarin 3 (Red), 1978 (above), is largely constructed of the painterly application of Johns’ own fingerprints serving as a visual conduit for preserving both action and memory as a form of self-portraiture. He develops intricacies throughout the printmaking process, which act as a record keeper of time and memory. Johns says simply, “Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.”

Jasper Johns’ first series of etchings was 1st Etchings, 2nd State, 1967-69 (image below Flashlight). The portfolio of 13 etchings published by ULAE was comprised of quintessentially Johnsian imagery: ale cans, flags, flashlights, numerals, and light bulbs. The objects are as Johns describes, “things the mind already knows”, which thusly allows him to deconstruct and reconfigure the object into near abstraction whereby a new connotation can emerge. Processes like etching and lithography reverse the image, a characteristic that Johns admires. He also relishes in the nature of multiplicity and variants, which allow him to revisit themes and objects finding endless combinations in reworking plates and stones, sometimes years later.

The work of Jasper Johns is held in esteemed and numerous public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Jewish Museum, New York, New York; Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France; National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Museum of Stockholm, Sweden; Pasadena Art Museum, California; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany; Tate Modern, London, England; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.

Leslie Sacks Gallery is located in the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica. 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.

Leslie Sacks Gallery is excited to present a special pop-up presentation of four new paintings by Los Angeles based artist, Bruce Cohen. Cohen’s slightly surreal, realist environments draw from observations, memories and fabricated details. The series is now on view through December 10th.

The Boston International Fine Art Show is New England’s premier show and sale of historic, modern and contemporary fine art. Avery Galleries is excited to bring a rich sampling of new acquisitions to one of their favorite cities. Visit Avery Galleries at BIFAS, booth 9 at the Boston Cyclorama, October 20-23, 2016.

Sixteen of the Upper East Side’s finest galleries are hosting a cocktail party to kick off OCTOBER ART WEEK on Thursday, Oct. 20th, 5 – 9PM. Some of these galleries will be exhibiting at the first edition of TEFAF at the Park Avenue Armory (Friday – Wednesday). Others will be holding exhibitions in their galleries instead. Check individual gallery sites below for information on viewing hours. 

Learn more at http://www.octoberartweek.com/

The American Art Fair celebrates its ninth year from November 18–21, 2016 at the Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York City. Inaugurated in 2008, The American Art Fair is now the only one that focuses on American 19th and 20th century works and features hundreds of landscapes, portraits, still lifes, studies, and sculpture exhibited by 17 premier specialists.

Eckert Fine Art invites you to join them for the Washington Connecticut Antiques & Design Show on October 7th – 9th. The show will be held at 11 School Street in Washington Depot, CT. Their booth will feature art by Hunt Slonem, Alexander Liberman, Mark Beard and Eric Forstmann.

“The palette is rich and varied, consisting of deep greens and acidic yellows, which complement intense reds and blues. The pigments are applied in thick layers using brushes as well as spatulas. Dayron González has learned from Abstract Expressionism; he absorbs the stain, the pour, the deliberate accident into a language all his own… His drawing is organic and rigorous, representing the figure as a complex structure full of contradiction.” ALEJANDRO ANREUS, Ph.D.

 

Many of the works in the exhibition have already sold and are on loan from private collections. A few are still available. The exhibition is accompanied by a full color catalog. The 36 page publication includes a catalog essay by Professor Alejandro Anreus, Ph.D.

Timothy Yarger Fine Art is pleased to present “Rodger Stevens: Postcards from the Limbic System”

Brooklyn-born sculptor Rodger Stevens’ principle medium is wire. While his work appears abstract in nature, it is firmly rooted in narrative – drawing heavily upon literature, history, and personal experience. The objects he makes embody carefully wrought stories, and through their unique composition and form, Stevens delivers compelling narratives to the viewer.

Stevens’ work, while formally beautiful and aesthetically unique speaks to the art historical tradition of classic “wire sculptors” who began establishing popularity around the art form in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. Artists such as Alexander Calder, the American sculptor regarded as the author of mobiles and kinetic art, and Ruth Asawa, champion of tied wire sculpture rooted in geometry and organic abstraction, are the two figures to whom Stevens’ work most directly relate. While the artist does not overtly position himself within this art historical canon the techniques and motivations behind the artist’s practice correspond with those that came before in a unique way. Stevens’ work contributes to the pre-existing history of “wire sculpture” by using form to articulate and highlight human relationships rather than nature or the built environment – emphasized by his predecessors.

Rodger Stevens (born 1966, Brooklyn, NY) earned degrees in both Economics and Fine Art, and spent six formative years at the Sotheby’s auction house in New York. Stevens is now an internationally-exhibited artist whose work resides in numerous private collections. The artist has also collaborated with notable corporate clients: The New Yorker, Nike, Starbucks, Persol, and West Elm. Most recently, Stevens was awarded a coveted Artist Studio Residency at the Art & Design Museum in New York which begins this month.

 

Accolades

Commissions: The Whitney Museum of Art, The American Folk Art Museum, PS1, The Katonah Museum, The Bristol Museum, Tiffany & Co., Barney’s, PS 122, David Rockwell, Jonathan Adler, Todd Oldham, The Rockwell Group, The W Hotel, Mumm’s Champagne, Yohji Yamamoto, The New York Children’s Museum of Art, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Stuart Weitzman, Sotheby’s, MTV, Persol, The Hangaram Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea), Starbucks, The New Yorker

Private Collections: Leonard Lauder, Tom Armstrong, David Rockwell, Todd Oldham, Jonathan Adler, Simon Doonan, Alton Brown, Alfred Taubman, David and Jane Walentas

Publications: Art & Antiques, New York Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle Decor, The New York Times, Surface, Wallpaper, Dwell, Elements of Living, New York Arts Magazine, City Magazine, D Home Magazine, Sandbox Magazine, Cargo Magazine, Blueprint