Houston Art Fair, one of the country’s most compelling contemporary art fairs featuring galleries from around the world exhibiting modern and contemporary art in a variety of media, returns to Houston with an exciting new direction and location at Silver Street Event Space, a recently-renovated 20,000 square-foot venue located in the heart of the Washington Avenue Arts District, which is home to the largest concentration of working artist studios in the country.  

TYFA is pleased to announce that prized light artist, Mads Christensen, was recently selected by both the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho and Los Angeles’ Craft and Folk Art Museum for exhibition inclusion. THE ART MUSEUM of EASTERN IDAHO Idaho Falls, ID Illumination: Light as Medium Illumination: Light as Medium presents an exploration of light as an artistic medium. The exhibition features “Buckyball 2015” by renowned American sculptor Leo Villareal, a pioneer in the use of LEDs and computer-driven sculpture, as well as Mads Christensen and others. Exhibition Dates: August 25th – November 5th, 2016 A new iteration of Christensen’s Wave series and Woven 1 were curated into the show.

Timothy Yarger Fine Art is pleased to announce that prized light artist, Mads Christensen, was recently selected by both the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho and Los Angeles’ Craft and Folk Art Museum for exhibition inclusion. Christensen’s “Gated” and “What Are You Blinking About” will be on display.  Curated by Jill Moniz, Work Over School: Art from the Margins of the Inside, sheds new light on the idea of the self-taught artist by examining the work of nine established and emerging artists who have developed great conceptual and technical skill through nontraditional means.

 

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 24 | 6 –9 PM

Exhibition Dates: September 25th – January 8th, 2017 

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 (212) 744-3586 • [email protected] • www.questroyalfineart.com

Cernuda Arte will showcase over fifty artworks by Modern and Contemporary Cuban artists, including: Wifredo Lam, Mario Carreño, René Portocarrero, Roberto Fabelo, Manuel Mendive, Alfredo Sosabravo, Gina Pellón, Joel Besmar, Miguel Florido, Irina Elén González, Dayron González, Juan Roberto Diago, Lilian García-Roig and Vicente Hernández. SHOW DATES & TIMES: Thursday, Sept. 22 12 pm – 6 pm | VIP Preview (By Invitation Only) 6 pm – 9 pm | Vernissage (VIP Passes Only) Friday & Saturday, Sept. 23 – 24 | 11 am – 7 pm Sunday, Sept. 25 | 11 am – 6 pm – See more at: http://www.fada.org/events.html#sthash.RYzSefwm.dpuf

FADA member Jane Eckert of Eckert Fine Art Gallery and Consulting lent her expertise to the upcoming Robert Cottingham exhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art.

The exhibition, Robert Cottingham: Master Realist is a retrospective look at the career of this great American artist. “Robert Cottingham is an American original. It was he who helped to develop and to popularize contemporary realist painting. But beyond his pioneer role in representational art, he has worked to preserve an important aspect of urban American popular culture. In a sense he has, through his painting, preserved for all time, disappearing American imagery. In the process he has raised to iconic levels the signage that has come to mark the American city as well as the countryside. Presenting an exhibition of the work of Robert Cottingham has been a long time dream. We could not be happier that it is finally happening for the Butler and for the people of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania…a dream come true.” ~ The Butler’s Director, Dr. Louis Zona This exhibition is possible thanks to the guidance and overall support of Jane Eckert and her team at Eckert Fine Art Gallery and Consulting.

With the dust barely settling after the renovation of the gallery’s new Culver City location, Arcadia readies for its exciting Fall exhibition schedule. Here is a preview of the extraordinary exhibitions planned: “Drawn to Greatness” September 17-29, 2016 Arcadia will present a landmark exhibition of original drawings by an international array of artists. From a special grouping of portraits by Casey Baugh to the premiere of masterworks by Annie Murphy Robinson, this show will feature over 50 original drawings that prove the time-honored skill of drawing is very much alive and well. The group show, titled “Drawn to Greatness”, will feature new works by esteemed, representational figurative and landscape artists including Daniel Coves, Kerry Brooks, Julio Reyes, Amaya Gurpide, Michael Chapman, Ryan Salge and introducing George A. Morton along with many others. “Drawn to Greatness” opens on Saturday, September 17th, with a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm and continues through September 29th. – See more at: http://www.fada.org/events.html#sthash.Et3F38NF.dpuf

Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present a new solo exhibition of recent paintings by Lexington, North Carolina native, Lee Hall. Hall has pursued careers as artist, educator and writer. Her paintings allow us to share her love for subtle shapes, variety in texturing, and muted color relationships. Her works are poetic landscapes, many deriving from the tradition of abstractions produced by meditations on nature, a tradition encompassing the painters of Asian dynasties, modernism and abstract expressionism. Throughout her academic career, Hall painted and exhibited her work at the Betty Parsons Gallery. She is also the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Childe Hassam Purchase award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Jerald Melberg Gallery will host a Coffee and Conversation artist lecture with Lee Hall on Saturday, September 17 at 11 a.m. – See more at: http://www.fada.org/events.html#sthash.ED4mg9rE.dpuf

Leslie Sacks Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of graphic work by renowned artist, Jim Dine. The exhibition includes a range of iconic imagery from 1973-2010 of hearts, robes and Venuses, as well as early works of figures and tools. This presentation exemplifies the Ohio native’s decades-long affinity for the medium of printmaking and further demonstrates his extraordinary abilities as an innovative printmaker. Unlike many artists who produce editions, printmaking is a deliberate media choice for Jim Dine, enabling him tremendous freedom to explore, experiment and push the limits of the conventional wisdom of the process. Dine’s earliest recorded prints were the product of a ‘happening’, which he staged at Reuben Gallery in New York City in 1960. The Car Crash, 1960 focused upon themes of human suffering, and consisted of five black and white and one color lithograph. In contrast to the oeuvre of recurring imagery that would follow, Dine would never repeat this dark gestural, expressionist imagery again. However, these early editions unmistakably exhibit the veneration Dine holds for master etchers like Dürer, Rembrandt and Picasso. As seen in Four German Brushes (plate 3), 1973, the etching detail is sensitive and meticulous and the plate richly inked. Printmaking is unquestionably a collaborative affair in which Dine relishes. He has worked with virtually every master printer the world over, printing in every city he visits and printing nearly everyday. He even worked with Picasso’s illustrious master printer, Aldo Crommelynck. Crommelynck was famously appalled by some of Dine’s seemingly outlandish techniques-his use of electric tools and a complete disregard for accepted printmaking practices. But, both artist and master printer must work together, whether in a push-pull manner or a more harmonious union, the two must cooperate to execute the vision. Dine embraces the randomness and accidental nature of the printmaking process. He never sketches prior to printing; all ideas go immediately onto the plate, contributing to the born-at-once quality of his prints. His editions are complex endeavors, often integrating multiple printmaking techniques into a single work. In Dream Venus, 2002 he combines soft-ground etching, lithography and hand stamping. Dine commonly uses electric tools such as jigsaws, chainsaws, dremels and drills. In the large-scale robe Very Picante, 1995 the segments of the robe were cut and composited from a large sheet of cardboard, and then reassembled on the press like a jigsaw puzzle. Fourteen jigsaw pieces were then relief printed in one print run, after which two more plates, cut by chainsaw, were printed. Dine also employs additive elements by hand coloring after printing such as acrylic paint, powdered pigments and watercolor. The integrated result is a dynamic, activated surface and a unique multifaceted composition. Jim Dine’s work is held in numerous esteemed private and public collections including the British Museum, London, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Tate Modern, London, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. – See more at: http://www.fada.org/events.html#sthash.ED4mg9rE.dpuf

The gallery is excited to present a special pop-up presentation of three new paintings by Alex Weinstein. This is an exclusive first look at a progressing series by the Los Angeles based artist. The paintings will be on view beginning this Saturday, September 10th. The pop-up presentation of Alex Weinstein | Power Lines begins during Bergamot Station’s Fall Open. Join us as we welcome the fall season with exciting new exhibition openings and artist receptions. Bergamot Station Arts Center (Santa Monica) is an internationally renowned creative arts complex, boasting over 40 galleries and creative businesses. Come enjoy a thriving arts community gathering during our Fall Open! “The power line paintings are grounded, like most of my work, in observation. The colors are tuned to the evening hues of the Los Angeles skyline, over the Pacific with all that that implies: languid surfy sunsets and beach moments – the contemplation of the horizon (the abyss!) and its myriad associative possibilities. Looking west one night, and focusing on the colors of the waning light, I realized how gracefully the drooping power lines framed the scene. The lines’ presence was at once irritating in its disruption of a classically sublime vista with human presence and also compositionally very satisfying: the crisp lines hanging across the distant, blurry colorwash provided a visual schism that I liked. In the paintings, the lines act dually as compositional counterpunches to essentially abstract color fields and also literally as hanging wires across an urban nocturne. I have been interested in the fusion of traditionally antithetical esthetic concerns for a long while now and making paintings that can function as both figurative and abstract compositions is at the core of this work. It allows me to move along experimenting with exuberant color (LA sunsets are trippy, man!) and flirt with color field/minimal/light and space practices while making work grounded, at least in part, in the act of observation. The drawn power lines cinch these paintings effectively. In a narrative capacity, they force a depth of field, foreground/background read. In purely abstract terms they function strictly as sharpened foils to the soft-focus color washes that dominate these pictures.” –Alex Weinstein, Los Angeles, 2016