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Grand Gallery
The Annual Exhibiting Artist Members Exhibition
March 4 – 28
Reception & Awards Ceremony: March 7, 6:00-8:00 PM
In 1906 The National Arts Club celebrated its new headquarters on Gramercy Park with an exhibition of American paintings belonging to member and collector William T. Evans. A successful businessman and renowned collector, Evans, as the Club’s Art Committee chair, was instrumental in creating the Artist Life Membership Program and establishing the Exhibiting Artist Members Program and Annual Exhibition.
Pictured: The NAC 2018 First Prize Winner, Dee Shapiro, East is East |
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Gregg Gallery
Abner Hershberger: Recent Paintings
March 4 – 29
Opening Reception: March 15, 6:00-8:00 PM
Artist Statement:
Images
of North Dakota and the Midwest flatland, vast expanses of expressive
grids of grain punctuated with cultivation stripes are always with me. These are fields I plowed in my youth and well into adulthood. The
stark markings of furrowed land, patterns of irrigation, and stubble
fields have a poetic quality. In them I find a rich and meaningful
source for visual expression. Abstracted, their imprint seems even
bolder, representing colorful independent sections that coexist
peacefully despite their diversity. I left the North Dakota farm and
its long, difficult workdays and inclement weather to explore the
greener pastures of artistic pursuits, only to be pulled back to the
fields portrayed here.
www.AbnerHershberger.com
Pictured: Cultivating Private Thoughts' mixed media: 28.5" x 24" |
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Marquis Gallery
From Constructivism to Socialist Realism:
Artistic
Propaganda in Applied Graphic Art of the 1920s–1930s in the USSR.
March 4 - March 29
Opening reception: Monday,
March 4, 6-8pm
The exhibition is a selection from R.R. and R.N. Bagichev
collection of domestic industrial graphic art of the early Soviet Union. The
collection totals over 1200 works that comprise a unique body of material for
studying the printing and graphic arts of the domestic packaging industry
during a period of radical transformation in everyday life after the
establishment of the Soviet power. The collection is valuable in that it
primarily contains the early printings of industrial graphic arts, including
unique works, as well as works created through the joint efforts of the
founders of constructivism, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Vladimir Mayakovsky. By
studying this collection of applied artistic graphics we can picture the
nuances of daily existence and how people lived in the challenging time of the
1920s and 1930s: we learn how they dressed, what they ate and drank, what they
used for bathing and health care, and much more. The period in question, following
the Russian civil war, also coincided with the Red Terror—a period characterized
by severe hunger against a backdrop of spectacular parades and depictions of happy
builders of a “socialist society.” This difficult time lead to the appearance
of unique foodstuffs, such as oatmeal coffee, carrot tea, and other creative
substitute beverages. Some labels include recommendations with practical advice
and recipes.
Aside from glimpses of daily life, society, and politics, these
applied artistic graphics enables us to observe the development of progressive
trends in the art of the 1920s. The principles of constructivism are reflected
in the accentuated flatness of the images, their linearity, and the clean-cut
shapes. In analyzing this material we see changes in the aesthetics of Soviet
applied graphic art during the early decades of Soviet rule, and we observe how
the influence of the avant-garde movement of constructivism smoothly
transitioned to new artistic views in the style of social realism with its realistic
take on images and vivid, affirmative symbolism, permeated with propaganda of
the socialist order and way of life.
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Also in our Trask Gallery
Society of Scribes
March 4 – 29
Gallery Talk: March 8, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
The Society of Scribes presents its annual Members Exhibition of calligraphic works. Visit www.societyofscribes.org |
March Exhibitions
3/4/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/5/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/6/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/7/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/8/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/11/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/12/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/13/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/14/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/15/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/18/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/19/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/20/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/21/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/22/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/25/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/26/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/27/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/28/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 3/29/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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