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  

Laurie Hassold makes sculptures that she presents to the world as possible “future fossils”; remnants of what could be and might well be a result of the impact of our species on the planet. Fully speculative yet imbued with a reverence for Nature and its brutal force, these creatures are amoral and magnificent. Opening Reception Saturday September 10, 2016 5-8pm.

Helen Maurene Cooper is a photographer who engages cultures and communities of women to find the intersection of race, class, and feminism. The subject of her current work is the people of the central gulf coast of Florida and the local community near the location of the historic Weeki Wachee Mermaid show. Like her past series about Chicago nail and prom cultures, Cooper has isolated specific currents of localized human behavior that reveal deep truths about our nature as socialized beings. Opening Reception Saturday September 10, 2016 5-8pm

“Barbara Cole: Counterpoint,” an exhibition of lenticular photographs and C-prints, is now on view through October 22 at the Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery at 150 Yamato Road in Boca Raton, Fla. Cole combines the medium of water with a painterly aesthetic to photograph human figures in unconventional ways. The technique she originated, which has been much-copied since, enables her to re-envision the nature of our relationship to our surroundings. Photographing through water, rather than through air, also allows her to refocus attention on this natural resource that is often taken for granted. Over the past decade, her work has evolved toward almost total dissolution of the human figure, creating a dramatic tension between the figure and form, testing the nature of photography and its impact on our experience of reality. Cole’s artwork has been exhibited worldwide in venues including the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto and the Canadian embassies in Washington, D.C., and Tokyo, Japan. Her work can also be found in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, and the Polaroid Corporation in Canada and the United States. She is also the recipient of numerous awards including the Grand Prize at the 6th International Festival of Fashion Photography in Cannes, France. 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.

Join them for the opening reception for Literary Illusion, a solo show for Argentinian sculptor, Pancho Luna. Pancho Luna remembers his grandmother’s library as an eclectic and rather magical place. It contained volumes of volumes in several different languages, which didn’t matter all that much since he started exploring them long before he could read anyway. It turns out there’s more than one way to read a book, though, and Luna became enamored of them all — as pure color, shape, smell, texture, typeface; as repositories of photographs, illustrations, reproductions; and ultimately as sites of experience and triggers of memory — in short, as both symbols and objects. And it is precisely this multifaceted power to impart knowledge by means other than words on pages which Luna explores in his luminous, alluring, and deceptively simple sculptural works in which recreations of curated bookshelves are rendered in transparent Lucite to powerful, nuanced effect. RSVP by email: [email protected]

Jane Eckert is pleased to announce that she is returning Eckert Fine Art to the charming New England town of Kent, CT. The gallery will be located in the Kent Barns complex at 12 Old Barn Road. Save the Date: August 20th Grand Opening featuring art by Robert Rauschenberg, Eric Forstmann, Robert Cottingham, Tom Otterness, Robert Graham, Paul Ching-Bor, Norman Rockwell, Andrew Wyeth and other important artists. Eckert Fine Art 12 Old Barn, Unit 1 Kent, CT 06757

The Alphabet is a complete series of etchings, letters A-Z, and numbers 0-9 plus a title plate and two repeated letters for a total of 39 images. The series was begun in fits and starts over a 25 year period, originally intended as a response to the AIDS crisis. The letters were completed in 2014, and the numbers in 2016, all at Anchor Graphics in Chicago. Now the combined alphabet and numbers series will be exhibited together for the first time. These works explore the presence of death in all human endeavors, using traditional signifiers of mortality such as the skeleton as a primary actor and subject. Each plate corresponds to a specific fatal activity or malady, highlighting the act of existence as a high risk activity fraught with peril.

 

Opening Reception July 16 – August 20 2016 Artist’s Talks Saturday July 30, 2016 at 4 pm

Robin Dluzen has created a full-scale replica of one of the henhouses on her parents’ property in Michigan. Covered in charcoal drawings, made of impermanent materials, and divorced from its productive use, this work speaks to the artist’s remove from an aspect of the culture in which she was raised. Installed in the gallery project room, this piece takes on an imposing scale by forcing an unavoidable intimate relationship with the object in a diminutive space. Rather than nostalgically celebrating the animal world, Dluzen introduces a critical look at the interaction of humans with the sources of their food; chickens as instinctively motivated, useful creatures for which there is no need for sentimentality. The relationship between the chicken and the henhouse is a cooly, efficient economic relationship.

 

Robin Dluzen Ameraucana July 16 – August 20, 2016 Opening Reception 5-8 pm, July 16th. July 16 – August 20 2016 Artist’s Talks Saturday July 30, 2016 at 4 pm

For this singularly themed exhibition, Casey Baugh explores the evening and all of the promises it reveals or can hide. From figures bathed in the glow of neon and headlights to those who choose to walk amongst the shadows, Baugh’s brilliant depictions of these people reveal more than any light could possibly achieve. This will be an exhibition NOT to be missed.

 

Opening Reception – Thursday December 10th from 6-8pm

Butterflies, flowers and other seasonally themed works by artists Damien Hirst, Bill Beckley, Robert Indiana and other Modern and Contemporary masters. – See more at: http://www.fada.org/events.html#sthash.Ta5zfQD0.dpuf