Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2018 i American Art Collector

Readers of this magazine know that ever since issue No. 1 we have spent a great deal of time and effort profiling cities from coast to coast in relation to the galleries collectors can find there. There are so many wonderful art destinations in this country and we want art collectors to experience them just as we have. So early on in the history of the magazine we came up with something called the Art Lover’s Guide. In this section, we have made collectors aware of all the wonderful art regions and destinations across America, places like Charleston, Santa Fe, Texas, Colorado and Scottsdale. And we do so by providing profiles of the major galleries and artists in those areas, as well as the events and other cultural institutions. I’m…

25 MINNEAPOLIS, MN WALKER ART CENTER Daniel Buren: Voile/Toile-Toile/Voile Known for his striped art in public places, Buren will be featured in a two-part exhibition showcasing his first works in the United States in the form of a sailboat regatta. www.walkerart.orgThrough October 7 1 SALEM, MA DOWNTOWN SALEM Salem Arts Festival The 10-year anniversary of the Salem Arts festival will celebrate all forms of art from paintings, sculpture and photography as well as writing, film, music, dance productions and more. www.salemartsfestival.comThrough June 3 2 ATLANTA, GA MOCA GA Larry Walker Retrospective: The Early Years The treasured artist will have pieces from his early career featured, such as his mixed media works comprised of paint, collage and other materials to create intricate and profound messages. www.mocaga.orgThrough July 31 KANSAS CITY, MO…

“Windows and doorways figure prominently in Moore’s paintings, through them the artist beckons us to enter a constructed world where the present is eternal and we can look—and look again—until our gaze and minds are full.”—Suzette McAvoy, executive director and chief curator, Center for Maine Contemporary Art John Moore recalls Joan Miró’s painting The Farm, 1921-22, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Within a few years of painting the scene of his family’s Catalonian farm, Miró (1893-1983) would be painting surrealist abstractions. Each year, however, he returned to the farm from his studio in Paris. He told a journalist, “The Farm was a résumé of my entire life in the country.” Moore’s childhood experience was among the factories of St. Louis. The beauty and history of…

ANITA LEWIS P.O. Box 4486, Oceanside, CA 92052 (858) 361-9640 anita@artformodernlife.com www.anitalewis.com CHRISTINE D’ADDARIO Locust Valley, NY, (516) 996-3475 www.cdaddario.com CHRISTOPHER GERLACH info@christophergerlach.com www.christophergerlach.com CLARK LOUIS GUSSIN San Jose, CA, (408) 476-8873 clark_gussin@yahoo.com www.clarkgussinart.com EVELYN DUNPHY (207) 449-7057 artist@evelyndunphy.com www.evelyndunphy.com GEORGE BILLIS GALLERY 525 W. 26th Street, Ground Floor New York, NY 10001, (212) 645-2621 www.georgebillis.com GLEASON FINE ART 31 Townsend Avenue, Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538, (207) 633-6849 www.gleasonfineart.com HAYNES GALLERIES 91 Main Street, Thomaston, ME 04861 (207) 354-0605 www.haynesgalleries.com HENRY ISAACS Represented by Greenhut Galleries 146 Middle Street, Portland, ME (207) 772-2693 info@greenhutgalleries.com www.greenhutgalleries.com JEFF SEWELL Laguna Beach, CA www.jeffsewellart.com JEROME WEBER (337) 519-3953 weberjf2002@yahoo.com KOPLIN DEL RIO 313 Occidental Avenue South Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 999-0849 www.koplindelrio.com LEWALLEN GALLERIES 1613 Paseo De Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505)…

Louisville, Kentucky, is a historic river city born from the steamboat industry in the early 1800s. Its prime location at the Falls of the Ohio made it an important trade center for both northern and southern waterways. The city’s growth has since been characterized by the rise of the Kentucky Derby and its rich history of bourbon distilling; the unique limestone water is said to be the key factor in both its strong racehorses and superior spirits. Over the past decade, however, Louisville’s arts and culture commitment has given the city another economical boost and exciting appeal. Now, its creative community is flourishing due to innovative, high-caliber art institutions, a thriving arts and culture district, dedicated community arts funding and key voices committed to engaging Louisville in national art dialogues—and…

UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / SELBY FLEETWOOD GALLERY 6/8-6/21 Santa Fe, NM art Nathanael Gray will show landscapes in his signature textured style at Selby Fleetwood Gallery this June. This group of representational works lean into abstraction, but he says, “I do not think a great deal about what stylistic framework the paintings fall into. They are poems of place.” His plein air works have grown out of an exploration of Northern California. “I have been really excited about the journey I have had with the ocean and getting to know the ocean over the last few years,” he says. “I grew up in central Indiana. Far away from the ocean. I moved to California almost three years ago. The ocean has captured me.” In Evening Wash, the viewer looks straight…

UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / CALIFORNIA ART CLUB 6/10-7/1 Los Angeles, CA art In 1914, the California Art Club presented its fifth annual Gold Medal Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art. The museum is now known as the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and it has been a host to the exhibition more times than any other venue, and in 2018, the museum will house the California Art Club’s 107th annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition. “The California Art Club is honored to return to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to, once again, present our annual Gold Medal Exhibition,” says the organization’s president, artist Peter Adams. He adds, “Our histories are intertwined because of not only the Club’s numerous exhibition presented…

UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / HAVEN GALLERY 6/30-8/4 Northport, NY art The illustrations of Adam Oehlers seem almost imbued with magic, a fantastical rendering of whimsical fantasy worlds with characters and subjects that remind us of stories we dove into as children. The U.K.-based artist’s upcoming show, The Wilderlands, runs from June 30 to August 4. The exhibition showcases primarily pieces that blend pen, pencil and watercolor, resulting in artwork that looks as though it’s come straight from the pages of Aesop’s Fables. Having worked with these mediums for years now, the illustrator says he rarely strays from them, allowing him to continually refine his technique. “I came across the word ‘wildered,’ which means ‘to be lost in an unknown land.’ This brought to me a harsh landscape that is wild…

According to artist Antonio Masi, “A bridge represents connections. Not just a connection between two landmasses, but a connection that binds the past and the future. And, in my case, they bind a grandfather who helped build the Queensboro Bridge over a century ago to his grandson, who paints it.” Masi believes each bridge has a mood, attitude and distinct personality. “In order to know it, you must meet it; the only way to meet it is to walk across it,” he says. “After a proper introduction to a bridge, I tack a 60-by-40-inch sheet of paper to my studio wall and begin. Working large enables me to immerse myself completely. My whole body is now engaged in the act of painting—brushstrokes are bolder, colors flow more. The larger the…

Barbara Fracchia enjoys painting many aspects of the arts, but the “loves of her life” are opera, ballet and symphonic music. “A variety of ideas in these classics flood my mind,” Fracchia says. This year, she has the opportunity to paint scenes from famous operas and ballets for the San Francisco Opera House. She says, “Aside from the usual paintings of this beautiful Opera building, the great sets and performers upon the stage, I delved into the stories of the operas.” Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle – Der Ring des Nibelungen is among the operas performed. “‘Ring Heads’ from around the world attend these performances of four very long operas,” Fracchia explains. “I confess I did not understand or have interest in these operas until I learned about the music and…

As a mixed-media figurative artist, Donna Weathers begins each piece differently. Sometimes it starts with a piece of homemade Japanese tissue paper, other times a strip of newspaper, corrugated paper or an ad from a vintage magazine spark the beginning of a painting. “I love the spontaneity and excitement of ‘why not,’” she says. “In Patterned Crown, I used a replica of a vintage pattern for the shape of her hair but still needed something interesting in the background, so I collaged in a strip of papyrus just for kicks and loved the texture of it. Mainly, I like to keep the women beautiful but imperfect and fun.” Weathers, who in March 2018 was selected as one of 100 artists to participate in The Other Art Fair’s inaugural Los Angeles…

Unveiling spotlights a recently completed portrait commission, figurative work or exhibition from some of the best and most active members of the Portrait Society of America. This month Christine Egnoski, Executive Director of the Portrait Society, interviewed Everett Raymond Kinstler at the opening of his exhibition, America Creative: Portraits by Everett Raymond Kinstler. In March, a new exhibition of work by renowned portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler opened at Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee. The exhibition, America Creative: Portraits by Everett Raymond Kinstler, boasts an incredible selection of 31 portraits painted over Kinstler’s 70-year career. As you walk through the gallery, you might recognize a few familiar faces, as Kinstler has painted many well-known public figures, including presidents, politicians, actors, musicians, authors and his fellow artists. The portraits,…

ADDISON ART GALLERY 43 S. Orleans Road, Orleans, MA 02653 (508) 255-6200, www.addisonart.com AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MARINE ARTISTS P.O. Box 2903, Gainesville, GA 30503 www.americansocietyofmarineartists.com THE GALLERY AT TREE’S PLACE 60 Route 6A, Orleans MA 02653 (508) 255-5996, www.treesplace.com GLEASON FINE ART 31 Townsend Avenue Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538 (207) 633-6849, www.gleasonfineart.com JACOBINA TRUMP jacobina@jacobinatrump.com www.jacobinatrump.com KAREN ANN HITT (941) 586-0207, kanorighitt@gmail.com www.anoriginalhitt.com Represented by Hughes Gallery Boca Grande, FL, www.hughesgallery.net LISA GLEIM Atlanta, GA, lisa@lisagleimfineart.com www.lisagleimfineart.com NANCY BALMERT www.nancybalmert.com QUIDLEY & COMPANY 26 Main Street, Nantucket, MA 02554 (508) 228-4300, www.quidleyandco.com RAY CRANE Rockport, MA, (978) 546-1137 www.raycranestudio.com REHS CONTEMPORARY 5 E. 57th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022, (212) 355-5710, www.rehs.com RICHARD A. JOHNSON (843) 229-0660 richard@richardajohnsonart.com www.richardajohnsonart.com S L JOHNSON www.brusheswithlife.biz TERRY ELKINS P.O. Box 1951,…

UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / KOPLIN DEL RIO 6/7-6/30 Seattle, WA art For her newest work, California painter Judy Nimtz went big. Life-size big. “I’ve always loved the larger-scale paintings, the society portraits by John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins and even earlier with Anthony van Dyck. I’m not so much painting society portraits, but I loved that scale of the figures,” Nimtz says from her Venice Beach studio, adding that she’s creating works as tall as 72 inches and beyond. “It was nerve-wracking going that large. Even physically, just getting your arm to the top of the painting is a new thing for me. It’s very physical painting that big. And the brushstrokes that would work on a small painting don’t work anymore on a large canvas. They don’t convey the…

UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / SELBY FLEETWOOD GALLERY 6/8-6/21 Santa Fe, NM art June 8 through 21, Selby Fleetwood Gallery will feature new figurative works from Helen Steele. Steele’s paintings investigate the psychological states of harmony, serenity and isolation. She often uses her hands to scrape paint across the canvas, giving a visceral sense to her paintings. Growing up in Germany but living in America for the past 30 years, she is often quickly identified as a foreigner, and because of that, she says, “My art often portrays a deep feeling of loneliness and loss; people wander through imaginary landscapes, looking for themselves, and for a place they can call home. I find home (an identity and self) in the connection with people, that magical moment that makes two people understand…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sarah will scour the country for the best and brightest emerging artists on the scene and then interview them about their work. Sarah has a wonderful eye, and I'm sure you will enjoy what she is able to discover. Artists, if you want your work considered, hashtag all your social media posts #tobeannounced #americanartcollector. The first things you notice are the proportions then the very direct yet simultaneously ambiguous text and the smooth, almost perfect brushstrokes with a harsher, rawer undertone. Then it goes deeper. You notice all the symbolism and the repeated themes that carry throughout his body of work, such as masks or disguises, so as to say that this particular character is hiding his true self in some way or another. Nothing exists in the…

Isle of Hope near Savannah, Georgia, was first settled in 1736. It was originally known as L’îsle d’Espérance and was thought to be a place where pirates stashed their booty. The historic United Methodist Church was used as a hospital during the Civil War, and the soldiers carved their names in the pews. In more recent times, scenes in the films Glory, the original Cape Fear and Forrest Gump were filmed on the historic and scenic island. Savannah investment manager Lane Curlee grew up on Isle of Hope where he and his wife raised their family and live today. Their home is redolent of history despite its 20th-century ranch style. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe declared, “God is in the details.” The Curlees have added moldings and fine period furniture…

UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / NOH/WAVE 6/16-6/30 Los Angeles, CA art In 2003, filmmaker Lars Von Trier challenged fellow director Jørgen Leth to remake his film The Perfect Human five times, each with a various challenge, or obstruction, cast over it. The obstructions were, at times, devious: one version must be shot in the “worst place in the world,” another must be made of shots that last no longer than 12 frames, and another must be animated. Obstructions, the reasoning went, allowed an artist to see artwork from a fresh perspective, and to challenge the artist in ways that were meant to be uncomfortable and existentially compromising. In his California studio Aaron Westerberg has been painting with obstructions. “I’ve been doing these color studies, these little exercises that I do to…

UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / GEORGE BILLIS GALLERY 5/15-6/9 New York, NY art Gaze out a window on a rainy day and you’ll notice the world has succumbed to abstract shapes and effects through the droplets of water that cover the pane. These characteristics have continued to inspire the paintings of Karen Woods, who finds a new sense of wonder or fresh perspective every time it showers. “I think that’s why I continue to get excited by the abstract qualities,” says Woods. “It’s the way a trickle of water can just completely cut a light post in half and the other visual things that happen [when looking out a window] when it’s raining.” She also delves into the two-dimensional space and the three-dimensional depth that the view from the inside looking…

UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / THE GALLERY AT TREE’S PLACE 6/16-6/29 Orleans, MA art In an upcoming show that strives to capture the emotion of daily life within the human experience, the Gallery at Tree’s Place in Orleans, Massachusetts, will feature the works of Kim English, Elaine Coffee and Gwen Marcus. Titled Everyday People: Moments in Time, the exhibition will show about 20 to 25 works. “Everyday People: Moments in Time is an exhibition focused on the people we encounter in our daily lives,” says gallery owner Mike Donovan. “We all seem to be interested in creating work with people as the subject,” says English, whose oil paintings often depict dynamic scenes of people walking down lantern-lit, cobblestone paths or sunny village streets. “Kim’s effortless brushstrokes and wonderful palette capture people…

UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / HAVEN GALLERY 6/30-8/4 Northport, NY art Tel Aviv-based artist Julie Filipenko’s colorful figurative paintings lure in the viewer through the subjects’ emotive looks and the imaginative narrative. Even portraits brim with tales as the women are surrounded by creatures such as mice and butterflies, adding a sense of wonder and curiosity. June 30 to August 4, Haven Gallery in Northport, New York, will host a solo exhibition for the artist titled Every Lie I Said Was True. “Julie Filipenko’s paintings are mischievously bold and playful. Her girls are known for their recognizable faces featuring large, expressive eyes curious with wonder and adventure,” says gallery owner Erica Berkowitz. “A lover of pattern, detail and design, Filipenko often juxtaposes her girls with floral motifs or ornaments their surroundings…

Holly Sears is “awed and inspired by the mystery and amorality of nature.” The surrealism of her pictorial subjects is given firm solidity of being based in a framework of a believable, natural world and rendered in a paint application to rival the Dutch Masters. Her delicate, glasslike surfaces are built up through thin layers of oil, each bit of feather, fur and foliage crafted with precision and dedication to the verisimilitude of her inner visions. Sears’ consummate skills enable her to produce magical, personal imagery that is wholly original and unforgettable. Sears’ work has received numerous awards and is included in both prestigious private and museum collections. “I first saw Holly Sears’ work in a neighboring gallery in Chelsea nearly 10 years ago. I was absolutely stunned, mesmerized and…

Born of Greek parents in West Berlin, Antonios Aspromourgos was raised and educated in Athens, graduating from AKTO School of Fine Arts. His earlier career as a graphic designer included art direction of high-profile magazines such as Vogue/Liberis Publishing House together with teaching color theory, drawing and children’s book illustrating at Athens College. In 2016, Aspromourgos moved to California, establishing a new studio and shifting his focus to creating canvases and drawings in a new environment and culture. “I have always been a colorist by nature, and I love the way the light in California plays with the colors on my canvas,” says the artist. “It makes me more mindful about the balance of light in a composition and how to use color to engage the viewer sensually.” And it…