“Maikel Martinez: Dreamscapes” is now on view through Sept. 3 at the Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery (150 Yamato Road) in Boca Raton, Fla. The exhibition features paintings by Cuban artist Maikel Martinez.

While at first glance Martinez’s works appear to be photographs or photorealistic paintings, upon closer inspection they are revealed to be places that don’t exist. The majority of them are dreams or images that come to Martinez’s mind. He takes elements from landscapes and develops them to create his own scenarios. As he paints, he plans where to place each element while at the same time transferring the emotions he is feeling in the moment to the canvas. For example, through the painting “Blanco Infinitum” he expresses the feeling of meditation or levitation—being transported from one place to another.

While his paintings are his method of expressing himself to the world, Martinez prefers to paint in solitude. Through the process of painting he achieves a sense of calm. This solitude is reflected in his paintings: landscapes (or rather, “dreamscapes”) reduced to their minimal elements.

Martinez, born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, received the Landscape Award at the 2000 Salon Nacional, sponsored by the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and held in homage to Tiburcio Lorenzo, the Cuban painter recognized as the Cuban “Lord of the Landscape.” His work has been exhibited in institutions and galleries in Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean including the Royal Bank of Canada and the Museo Provincial de Historia in Pinar del Rio, Cuba.

“Maikel Martinez: Dreamscapes” can be viewed during Rosenbaum Contemporary’s regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., as well as on its website www.rosenbaumcontemporary.com.

Summer Edition 2022, an exhibition of summer-themed editioned works by artists including Slim Aarons, Alexander Calder, Jim Dine, Damien Hirst, Alex Katz, Simon Procter, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Donald Sultan and Manolo Valdés, will be on view at Rosenbaum Contemporary (150 Yamato Road) in Boca Raton, Fla., from June 1 through September 3.

Among the highlights of the exhibition are Astonishing, Health and Sunshine, a new aquatint, drypoint and lithograph triptych by artist Jim Dine from an edition of 11, and lithographs and screenprints from the New York, New York portfolio published by the New York Graphic Society in 1983. The exhibition also includes monoprints, C-prints, woodcuts, etchings, pigment prints and sculptures.

Summer Edition 2022 can be viewed during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. as well as online at www.rosenbaumcontemporary.com.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to welcome Donald Sultan, a titan of American art, to Charlotte. His iconic paintings, conte crayon drawings, sculpture and screenprints will be presented in the artist’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery.

Donald Sultan is a painter, printmaker, and sculptor known for large-scale, multi-media compositions of flowers, fruit, dominoes, and other simple forms that are both representational and abstract. His first linoleum paintings of the 1970s were inspired by the unconventional ‘found objects’ used in the Arte Povera modern art movement in Europe. There have been over 50 solo exhibitions of his work that have appeared in museums and galleries worldwide, including the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. 

A native of Asheville, NC, where he was recognized with the 2010 North Carolina Award, the highest award a state can bestow on a civilian, Sultan has lived in New York City since 1977. A 1980-81 NEA Visual Arts Fellowship recipient, he has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.

“Juraj Kollár: En Plein Air” will feature new abstract landscape paintings by Slovakian artist Juraj Kollár, who was dubbed “the most naturally gifted and pertinacious painter of his generation” and “the central figure of young…contemporary painting in Slovakia” by art historian Katarina Bajcurová. The paintings were completed during the pandemic last year and reflect a new direction for Kollár.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present a survey exhibition of paintings, works on paper and prints by Robert Motherwell.  Featured works will include paintings from the Hollow Men series, Open series and an important Elegy series painting, as well as collages, ink drawings, etchings and lithographs.  The opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday evening, February 25, from 6-8pm. 

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) was the youngest member of the heroic generation of post-war Abstract Expressionists who revolutionized painting and shifted the art world’s attention from Paris to New York. He is also the only one of the group (which included Jackson Pollock, Hans Hoffman, and Willem DeKooning) for whom printmaking became a major preoccupation. Motherwell’s work as a printmaker, as well as a painter, distinguished him, both for his innovations in graphic media and for his stunning images on canvas and paper.

Robert Motherwell was born on January 24, 1915 in Aberdeen, Washington. As a child, he moved with his family to California – first to Los Angeles and then to San Francisco. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Stanford University in 1937, Motherwell pursued graduate studies in philosophy at Harvard. He spent a year in Paris and then moved to New York in 1939, where he studied art history with Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University. Renowned as one of the founders of Abstract Expressionism, Motherwell became an artist of international stature. His career encompassed more than five decades, and he received virtually every honor accorded to an artist.

“Thomas Hartmann: Everything Meets” will be on view from February 1 through March 5 at the Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery (150 Yamato Road) in Boca Raton, Fla. The exhibition will feature new landscape, people, and book paintings by German artist Thomas Hartmann.

In his paintings, Hartmann strives to reconcile contradictions: from close-up perspectives to bird’s-eye views, individuals versus the whole, preservation versus obsolescence, and beauty versus melancholy, constantly seeking to find the one perfect point where everything meets.

His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions including the Museum Ratingen, the Kunsthalle Erfurt, the Kunsthalle Rostock, the Museum of Modern Art of Bremen, the Görlitz Museum of Cultural History, the Heidelberger Art Association, the Neubrandenburg Art Collection, the Oldenburger Kunstverein and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Siegen in Germany.

The works can be viewed during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., as well as on the gallery’s website www.rosenbaumcontemporary.com.

“Hunt Slonem: New Directions” is on view through January 29, 2022. The exhibition features new works by artist Hunt Slonem, who is best known for his neo-expressionist paintings of rabbits, butterflies and birds. The exhibition will include blown-glass and bronze bunny sculptures, bunny wall sculptures and glowboxes as well as bunny and butterfly paintings in bright, new colors.

The blown glass and bronze sculptures and glowboxes are new mediums for Slonem and mark a new phase of growth for the artist whose career has spanned nearly five decades. Produced at his West Coast studio in Seattle, Wash., the blown glass sculptures are a natural expansion of Slonem’s artistic vocabulary. Directing his team of artistic glassblowers in the formation of new works with the same quick, gestural dance as his paint brush marks on canvas, Slonem has evolved his famous bunnies into the dynamic medium of glass. Each unique work’s hand-formed composition reflects his engagement with the materials. He worked with his Seattle team to create the bronze sculptures and glowboxes as well.

“This new body of work was born out of these unexpected times,” Slonem said. “Given an unexpected opportunity to create work in an entirely new methodology, what has resulted is an artistic liberation of sorts. My established lexicon of forms has taken on new life in blown glass, in bronze and other media, all in a visual culmination that is thrilling to me artistically. This moment in time has proven to be an impetus for an ever-expanding vocabulary of new work.”

Slonem has exhibited new directions in his paintings as well, painting bunnies and butterflies against solid backgrounds in bold colors.

Slonem has had more than 300 solo shows in galleries and museums internationally. His work is also in the permanent collections of 250 museums including the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney and the Moreau Foundation and is part of private collections worldwide, including those of many celebrities.

His new works can be viewed during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. as well as on the gallery’s website www.rosenbaumcontemporary.com.

Rosenbaum Contemporary, founded in 1979, is based in Boca Raton, Florida. 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.

“Hidden Figures,” an exhibition of paintings by Colombian artist Ivan Loboguerrero, is on view at the Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery (150 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, Fla.) through December 11. It can be seen during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Loboguerrero’s paintings feature abstract environments that, upon closer inspection, reveal figurative shapes hidden within, thus achieving the artist’s intended effect of inviting viewers to experience spirituality.

Loboguerrero received first place in painting at the Fifth Meeting of International Artists, Alberto Urdaneta and second prize in the National Painting Contest of the Banco Ganadero in Bogotá, Colombia. He graduated from the Faculty of Art at the Universidad Nacional of Colombia. His work has been exhibited throughout North and South America as well as Europe.

Rosenbaum Contemporary, founded in 1979, caters to international collectors interested in investment-quality works by post-war, 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 proudly presents an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Argentine artist, Manuel Reyna.  Considered a national treasure in his homeland, Reyna was born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1912, where he lived and worked until his death in 1989. Trained as a brick mason and self-taught as an artist, Reyna was honored by the Museo Caraffa in Cordoba with a major career retrospective in 2004.

Reyna’s paintings possess a sense of selflessness as he silently and openly shares his world, his Argentina, with the viewer. There is a wonderful sense of solitude within these paintings, a harmony of nature and man communicated through a sensitive approach to color and impeccable attention to composition.

A selection of sculpture, paintings, photography and mixed media works by Modern and Contemporary masters.