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Grand Gallery
Kyle Staver: Printed Matters (2001 - 2018)
Linocuts, Monotypes, and Aquatint Etchings
January 29 - March 1
“Kyle Staver’s recent work exceeds its predecessors in confidence, ease and even a kind of perfection. In this century’s resurgence of figurative painting, Ms. Staver is a significant precedent.” (Roberta Smith - The New York Times)
The National Arts Club is pleased to present this first comprehensive show of prints by Kyle Staver. Acclaimed for her large imaginative canvases filled with light, movement and excitement, Ms. Staver brings these same qualities to her prints depicting family and friends enjoying ordinary pleasures and pursuits. Employing her mastery of line, space and gesture, she has the rare gift to make the everyday monumental.
Kyle Staver was born in Minnesota and received her MFA from Yale University in 1987. She was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2015 and in the same year was elected a member of the National Academy. She has exhibited in New York with Kent Fine Art, Tibor de Nagy, and most recently, Zurcher Gallery.
Pictured: Bad Dog, 2007, Linocut
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Gregg + Marquis Gallery
HIGHLIGHT: Gramercy
January 31 - March 2
Highlight: Gramercy is
the latest in a series of enlightening and captivating exhibitions, and is
curated by independent curators, Paul Efstathiou and Eleanor Flatow. It features
works by eight emerging and established contemporary artists based in Athens,
Vienna, New York City, Connecticut and Los Angeles. The artists included in the exhibition are
Marcel Dzama, Amir Fallah, André Hemer, John
Knuth, Liz Leggett, Olga Migliaressi-Phoca, Evan Robarts and Anne Vieux.
While drawing attention to each artist’s particular style,
techniques, mediums, themes and intentions, Highlight: Gramercy collectively
delivers a vibrant, enthralling and erudite visual experience evoking
positivity, verve and curiosity. Parallels can be made among the artists –their
interest in extraordinary processes and materials, use of technology, and the
integration of social commentary – however, it is the uniqueness of their
visual expressions that produces a compelling show and reflects the essence of
contemporary art.
Referencing Islamic and graffiti art, while grappling with his
identity as an Iranian-American, Amir Fallah reinterprets conventional
notions of portrait painting with his distinctive use of boldly painted rich
ornamentation and layered patterns. Evan Robarts uses found objects and unusual tools
in his singular sculpture and paintings elevating ordinary materials and tasks
while investigating themes of gentrification and the condition of the
blue-collar worker. John Knuth employs flies and their regurgitation to
create minimal and pointillistic abstractions that capture the chaos and beauty
of nature, and are metaphors for the density and sprawl of urban landscapes.
Liz Leggett, championing the act of
painting, dynamically applies vibrant colors to her
canvases empowering the spontaneity of the medium and process to reveal the
narrative and composition.
Integrating technology within their unique and complex
processes, Anne Vieux and André Hemer both explore the harmony
and dichotomies of the digital and physical worlds resulting in striking
abstract compositions. Vieux’s works depict vibrant, lustrous and
fragmented planes in striking hues of purples, blues and pinks; meanwhile, Hemer’s
works are gestural and sculptural while skillfully visually balancing physical
objects and their digital representations.
Responding to the current political and socially charged environment,
Olga Migliaressi-Phoca
challenges the mainstream portrayal of women by referencing global fashion
magazines, editorials, found objects and photographs of street graffiti. With
sarcasm and humor, Migliaressi-Phoca
manifests the female image with empowerment and equal privilege. Marcel
Dzama gleans from the Surrealists and various source materials to create
fantastic worlds where women carrying guns lead a revolution and marvelous
creatures wearing costumes perform playful yet sinister roles.
About Paul Efstathiou
Paul Efstathiou is a second-generation art dealer and native
New Yorker with expertise in the primary and secondary contemporary painting
and sculpture markets. For more than a decade he has been working as an art
dealer in New York. In 2016, he made his successful curatorial debut with Highlight:
Summer One at Hollis Taggart Galleries in Chelsea. Since then his Highlight
exhibitions featuring emerging contemporary artists continue to achieve
acclaim. More information about Paul Efstathiou can be found at
www.highlightcurated.com.
About Eleanor Flatow
Eleanor Flatow, a native New Yorker, has held leadership
positions at various art organizations over the past 20 years, including as a
specialist at Christie’s and most recently as Executive Co-Director of the
Carriage Barn Arts Center in New Canaan Connecticut. Her background in the
worlds of for-profit fine art, not-for profit institutions, and financial
services informs her work as an entrepreneur in the arts. This is her second collaboration
with Paul Efstathiou.
Pictured: 1) Olga Migliaressi-Phoca THIS WOULDN'T BE SO HARD IF I HAD SOMEONE TO TALK TO2017 Digital Print on canvas, Acrylic, Ink, Oil Pastels, Wax 2) Liz Leggett, The Big Hype 2018 Oil on canvas 3) Evan Roberts Tenant 2018 Hydrocal plaster on vinyl tile mounted to wood panel
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Trask Gallery
White: Elizabeth O'Reilly
EXTENDED through March 1
White as a color. How does white work as a color? In this
body of work, Elizabeth O’Reilly looks closely at white in sunlight and
white in shadow. Painted on site from locations on the North Fork of
Long Island to cabins in Maine, O’Reilly’s work is based on her close
observation of the natural world.
Irish-born but Brooklyn-based since 1986, O’Reilly
received her B.Ed from The National University of Ireland and an MFA
from Brooklyn College. Her work has been reviewed extensively in Art in America, The New York Times and Art News among others. She has received numerous awards including a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant. A documentary on her work, An Artist Abroad,
was shown on network TV in Ireland. O’Reilly’s work is found in many
public and corporate collections both in the United States and abroad.
Pictured: SNOW AND PINK PATH, Oil on panel
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February Exhibitions
1/29/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 1/30/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 1/31/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/1/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/2/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/4/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/5/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/6/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/7/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/8/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/9/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/11/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/12/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/13/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/14/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/15/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/16/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/19/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/20/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/22/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/23/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/25/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/26/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/27/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 2/28/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/1/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/2/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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