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at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Since 1990, Jim Nutt has focused exclusively on female heads in spare line drawings and rich, detailed paintings. This exhibition is a retrospective of Jim Nutt's work that emphasizes the development of these important paintings through their precedents in his own work. Acknowledging the groundswell in interest in this unique American artist's work, this will be the first major presentation of Nutt in over a decade. Nutt's history as an important artist dates to the mid-1960s where in Chicago he was a chief instigator of the irreverent "Hairy Who" group, now better known as the imagists.
While it was undoubtedly inspired by mid-twentieth century pop culture, especially comic books, advertisements, jukebox and pinball machine art, and street signs, Nutt's art also explores the formal devices and techniques of historical painting. Northern European portraiture of the 15th and 16th century; Colonial American painting; the color and line explorations of Henri Matisse and Joan Miró; the quirky individualism of such artists as John Graham, Max Ernst, Arshile Gorky, and H. C. Westermann all offered lessons as Nutt has matured over four decades of artistic development. A fully illustrated catalogues is planned. This exhibition is organized by MCA Curator Lynne Warren.
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"After the Fall: 18 Emerging Artists from East and Central Europe"
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
September 19 through July 26, 2010
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 19th from 3 to 5pm
Artist Roundtable Discussion: 5 to 7pm
After The Fall, emerging contemporary art from East and Central Europe, by artists who were educated at the transitional period between communism and democracy.
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Opening September 16th
Emerging Images: The Creative Process in Prints
Curated by Wendy Weitman
IPCNY
508 West 26th Street, Room 5A
New York, NY 10001
http://www.ipcny.org/
Saturday, September 11, 2010
OFTHEMOMENT
The Renaissance Society's Annual Benefit Gala and Art Auction
The Renaissance Society is pleased to announce OFTHEMOMENT, its annual gala and benefit art auction. The auction consists of over seventy works by some of today's most compelling artists represented by the world's leading galleries.
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September 10, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Richard Artschwager: Hair
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is proud to present an exhibition of works by the widely acclaimed American artist Richard Artschwager, in the first focused look at the artist’s exploration of rubberized horsehair.
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12th - 25th July
From the Galway Arts Centre's website:
This year we are delighted to be co-commissioning a new work by the excellent Alice Maher for our annual co-production with Galway Arts Festival. The new commission, ‘Godchildren of Enantios’ will be exhibited alongside Maher’s other animated works and a new sculptural piece. The sound is by Trevor Knight.
Limited edition intaglio print available.
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12 July – 24 October 2010
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra is her name. She has Chilean nationality but has been living in Düsseldorf since 1995. Her work is 'modest'. It is small-scale and concerns drawings. But, good heavens – when she hangs those drawings on the wall! Then they become part of a greater whole; a chain that can stretch over the entire wall. Her world is populated by bidden and unbidden guests. She welcomes them in, without respect to persons. It must be said, however, that once they are caught in her net, there is no escape. Everything and everybody is 'sealed' beneath a thin layer of beeswax, which is applied over all the drawings. Something that was initially fluid and therefore malleable suddenly appears unmanageable; in readiness for eternity.
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July 3 – August 22, 2010
This show with over 15 works is Ciprian Mureșan's first solo exhibition in an art institution context. His works have been displayed recently in the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Renaissance Society (Chicago), and the New Museum (New York), as well as at the 17th Sydney Biennale. In 2009, he was one of the artists representing Romania at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Mureșan is a member of the editorial team of the art and culture journal IDEA arts+society, one of the most influential art journals in Eastern Europe.
Recent work by Mureșan (born 1977 in Cluj) ranges from drawings and animated films to photography, sculpture, and video. Taking as his point of departure the changes in post-Communist states after 1989, he addresses issues of cultural identity and collectivization processes in his works. Throughout, he draws on art history, which leads him to idiosyncratic interpretations of the present.
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May 12 - July 23, 2010
The Arts Club of Chicago is pleased to announce the installation of the exhibition George Grosz in America 1933 – 1958 from May 12 to July 23, 2010. The exhibition is a unique opportunity to view the later, lesser known, work of an important and provocative modern artist.
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May 7 - 10, 2010
New York Gallery Week inaugurates in the spring of 2010 with a series of art events to celebrate the most vital gallery community in the world. NYGW will be an annual event, concentrating on programmatic and artistic rigor, with a mission that aims to ignite the New York art scene and direct focus back to artists and galleries.
For further information, please visit http://www.newyorkgalleryweek.com
May 2 – June 27, 2010
The Seductiveness of the Interval:
Stefan Constantinescu | Andrea Faciu | Ciprian Muresan | studio BASAR
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Opening reception: May 1st, 2-5 pm
Mel Kendrick's Marker, 2009, will be on view as part of LongHouse Reserve's 2010 opening season exhibition, "Rites of Spring: Art in the Gardens."
For directions and further information, please visit longhouse.org
March 3–7, 2010
David Nolan Gallery is pleased to announce their participation in The Art Show this year.
During the first week of March 2010, the international art world will converge in New York City during the 22nd annual Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement. The 2010 edition of The Art Show continues ADAA's tradition of bringing the highest quality artworks to one monumental art exhibition space at the Park Avenue Armory. The 70 selected exhibitions, presented by the nation's leading art galleries, will feature museum-quality works ranging from 19th and 20th century Old Master works to recently completed contemporary painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and multi-media. The Art Show and its Gala Preview, on March 2, 2010, will benefit Henry Street Settlement and continue an art world institution.
For further information, please visit http://www.artdealers.org/artshow.html
Extended through February 15, 2010
The Madison Park Conservancy's Mad. Sq. Art program is pleased to present Markers, a group of five new cast concrete sculptures by Mel Kendrick. They will be installed on the central axis of the central Oval Lawn of historic Madison Square Park.
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February 3 - May 4, 2010
Nature, Once Removed
The (Un)Natural World in Contemporary Drawing
Curated by Sean McCarthy
at the Lehman College Art Gallery
Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468
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February 5 – April 25, 2010
DESIRE
Desire is a complex human emotion and a driving force in our lives from childhood through old age. We all can recall examples of literature, film, and music that are rife with expressions of desire. But how do contemporary visual artists portray desire, and all its attendant psychological states—anticipation, arousal, longing, regret, and so on? Opening in February, The Blanton will present a major exhibition of recent works in all media by an international roster of contemporary artists who have investigated notions of desire.
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February 2 - April 3, 2010
The University Art Museum is pleased to present Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey. Although best known for his comically raucous paintings, Carroll Dunham's commitment and contribution to printmaking have been considerable. Including over 100 prints by one of the most prolific and inventive printmakers of his generation, this exhibition marks the first museum study of this distinguished artist's graphic oeuvre.
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August 30, 2009
IN Berlin, autumn means art. Every year for the last 13 years, art hounds have descended on the city for Art Forum, the contemporary-art fair that showcases works from around the world...
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July 2009
"Inside Out" by Richard Artschwager
Riverside Health Center, 160 West 100th Street, Manhattan
A Project of the Department of Cultural Affairs' Percent for Art Program, the Department of Design and Construction and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Since 1982, the Public Design Commission of the City of New York has recognized outstanding public projects with its Annual Awards for Excellence in Design. The winning projects are selected by the Commission from the hundreds of submissions reviewed each year and exemplify the highest design standards.
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June 3 - September 7, 2009
elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collections of the National Modern Art Museum
For the first time in the world, a museum will be displaying the feminine side of its own collections. This new presentation of the Centre Pompidou's collections will be entirely given over to the women artists from the 20th century to the present day.
elles@centrepompidou is the third thematic exhibition of the National Modern Art Museum's collections, following Big Bang in 2005 and the Mouvement des Images (Image Movements) in 2006-2007.
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Open May 2009
Designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Renzo Piano, the Modern Wing provides a new home for the museum's collection of 20th- and 21st-century art. Now a decade in the making, this 264,000 square-foot building makes the Art Institute the second largest art museum in the United States. More Information
From the New York Times review:
"There is a small gallery devoted to six works by Jim Nutt, an outstanding but underappreciated painter, native to Chicago, whose perverse portraits and strung-out figures reflect the influence of local Surrealist collections like the Bergman."
April 27 at 7:30pm
Peter Saul, Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellow
Monday, 27 April at 7:30pm
Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street campus
Free and open to the public
Known for his acid-hued paintings that meld cartoon imagery with biting social and political commentary, Peter Saul was inspired in the 50s and 60s as much by comic books as by the surrealists, becoming an unrelenting critic of various aspects of American culture...
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Friday, April 24 at 6:45pm
David Nolan Gallery's current exhibition, Peter Saul: "New Paintings," will be the focus of the upcoming Review Panel at the National Academy Museum on Friday, April 24, along with three other current shows in NYC.
Location: The Hunting Library, 1083 Fifth Ave. @ 89th Street. Admission is $5. www.nationalacademy.org.
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Saturday, April 18, 6-8pm
"Mixed Greens: Artists Choose Artists on the East End"
April 19 - June 21, 2009
6 pm, Panel Discussion; 7 pm, Opening Reception
Museum director Terrie Sultan will moderate a discussion with three of the jurors and their selected artists: John Alexander chose Jessica Benjamin, Michael Combs chose Randall Rosenthal, April Gornik chose Lucy Winton, Mary Heilmann chose Frazer P. Dougherty, Richard Kalina chose Peter Dayton, Michelle Stuart chose Jody Pinto, Donald Sultan chose Stephen Laub, John Torreano chose Kevin Teare, and Joe Zucker chose Ellen Wiener.
A reception will follow, featuring a performance by the xframes—an experimental punk band featuring exhibition artist Peter Dayton, Stan Stokowski, and Jameson Ellis.
April 17 through October 18, 2009
Presenting over one hundred works that underscore the great scope of the Morgan's collecting interests, the exhibition includes old master and modern drawings, literary and musical manuscripts, illuminated texts, and rare printed books and bindings. The selections were drawn from more than 1,200 works acquired since 2004 and include seminal figures from various genres...
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"Works on Paper"
April 3 – June 21, 2009
Drawings and prints from 1996 to today. Curated by Julia Friedrich.
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April 7, 2009, 6pm
Fullerton Auditorium
111 South Michigan Avenue
FREE ADMISSION
As part of SIAC's Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series, curator and writer Klaus Kertess will interview artist Joe Zucker at the Fullerton Auditorium on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 6pm.
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March 18, 2009
David Nolan Gallery is very pleased to announce that Sandra Vásquez de la Horra is this year's winner of The Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation Drawing Prize.
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March 18, 2009
David Nolan Gallery is also pleased to announce their participation in Artparis this year. The gallery will display 30 new drawings by Chilean artist Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, who has been nominated for the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation Drawing Prize, which will be awarded on the opening night of the fair. The international fair features 115 galleries and 800 artists.
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March 1 - May 11, 2009
Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). The exhibition is curated by Ann Goldstein, MOCA Senior Curator, and organized at MoMA by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture.
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The Orange County Museum of Art presents the first major American survey of works by Peter Saul. Organized by the Museum with guest curator Dan Cameron, the exhibition features paintings and drawings from the early 1960s to the present, including large-scale "historical epics," satires of art history, and several of his most recent paintings addressing World War II and the war in Iraq.
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January 21, 2009
David Nolan Gallery is pleased to report that Sandra Vásquez de la Horra has been nominated for the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation Drawing Prize...
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November 2008
November 21, 2008. New York City's David Nolan Gallery has opened a new art space in a former cabinetry workshop at 527 West 29th Street designed by studioMDA...by Shonquis Moreno
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November 2008
Mel Kendrick will receive the Francis J. Greenberger Award on Monday, November 17, 2008...
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September 2008
Peter Saul is the recipient of the second annual Artists' Legacy Foundation award. The $25,000 prize is given for achievement in painting or sculpture. Saul's retrospective is on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through Jan. 4 and travels to the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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July 2008
The New York Dealer David Nolan is opening not one but two new spaces this September...by Meredith Mendelsohn
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November 2007
Art Basel Miami Beach 2007: David Nolan turns a limited space into something that works for the art and the gallery...by Marina Cashdan
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November 3, 2006
Romanian artist Serban Savu has been short-listed for The Sovereign European Art Prize 2006/07, following the proposal made in 2006 by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.
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