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SUMMARY:Michael C. Thorpe: 14 Years Old
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY — Beginning November 10\, 2022\, Forum Gallery will present 14 Years Old\, the inaugural New York solo exhibition for Michael C. Thorpe. At just 28 years of age\, Thorpe is an exciting young artist who has burst on to the art scene telling stories about his world expressed in quilts of colorful fabric\, meandering stitching and printed canvas\, in playful pencil and stitched drawings\, and in surprising sculptural works. 14 Years Old will present thirty new works by Thorpe and continues through December 31\, 2022. \nThorpe came to quilting as an artistic vehicle connecting him to his bi-racial background. Quilting is a skill passed on intergenerationally by the matriarchs of Thorpe’s family who were part of the quilting community in New England. Thorpe’s subsequent discovery of the Gee’s Bend community of African American women quilters in Alabama offered the Artist deeper personal meaning in his chosen medium and a connection to his African American heritage. \nRecalling his time playing competitive basketball\, his friends\, family and inspirational figures\, Thorpe transports us into the richly diverse community he inhabits encouraging dialogue between people from all walks of life with a generosity of spirit no better exemplified than in the alluring\, whimsical Atlanta House Party (40” x 33”). In equal measure\, Thorpe’s illuminating juxtapositions highlight cultural issues in two ingenious\, quilted collages\, Whole Family (62” x 46”) and LOT (63” x 46”)\, both inspired by Thorpe’s reading of Ebony magazine. “Before I had ever opened Ebony I thought it was all about celebration of black life however it was far greater than that. It really shed a light on the black experience and talked about topics that are deeply connected to the human experience\,” Thorpe observes. \nA thirst for learning has led Thorpe to the work of artists as wide ranging as Milton Avery\, Alvaro Barrington\, Romare Bearden\, David Hockney\, Lubaina Himid\, David Hockney\, Martin Kippenberger\, Jacob Lawrence\, Robert Rauschenberg\, and Jonas Wood. Thorpe’s boundless imagination and experimental vision has resulted in daring works like Studio Window (84” x 78”) a found gate repurposed into a woven landscape\, and the witty Mikey’s Secret Hideout (69” x 26” x 28”) a wooden cubby-house enclosing a domestic scene in soft-sculpture. His sense of place and the close personal relationships central in Thorpe’s life are shared with us in finely crafted\, visually bold quilts\, including Corner (38” x 24”)\, inspired by his mother’s home\, and Gunther Place (60” x 85”)\, the largest quilt in the exhibition and a striking\, psychedelically colorful interpretation of the apartment he shares with his partner. \nMichael C. Thorpe was raised in Newton\, MA and earned his BA from Emerson College in Boston\, MA where he studied photojournalism. Before his first solo exhibition\, Thorpe attracted the attention of NPR\, who wrote an article about his story and dedication to creating art in the medium of quilting. Press articles about Michael C. Thorpe have been published in Artscope Magazine\, Boston Art Review\, The Boston Globe\, CNN Style\, Cultured Magazine\, Howl\, and PBS among others. Thorpe was recently featured in a Dove Men+Care television commercial and he participated in a collaboration with Nike and the NBA for the league’s 75th anniversary. \nWorks by Michael C. Thorpe have been added to the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston and numerous private collections. Thorpe’s work is currently included in Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art\, an exhibition organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts\, Richmond\, VA and traveling to the Frist Art Museum in Nashville\, TN. His work will be included in Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories\, organized and first presented at the MFA Boston and opening on November 17\, 2022 at the Skirball Cultural Center\, Los Angeles\, CA. His work will also be featured in group exhibitions at The Textile Museum\, The George Washington University Museum\, Washington\, D.C. and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse\, NY in 2023. Michael C. Thorpe will have one man shows at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton\, MA and the Paul R. Jones Museum\, University of Alabama in 2024. \nA 38-page full-color catalogue accompanies the exhibition. 14 Years Old opens with a reception for the artist on Thursday\, March 17\, 2022 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm\, the artist will be present. \nYou are invited to explore our Online Viewing Room for 14 Years Old here:\nhttps://viewingroom.forumgallery.com/viewing-room/michael-c-thorpe-14-years-old
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SUMMARY:Linden Frederick | Alan Magee: The Maine Idea
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY – From September 22 through November 5\, 2022\, Forum Gallery\, New York\, will present The Maine Idea\, an exhibition of works by Linden Frederick and Alan Magee whose distinct approaches capture the mystery\, majesty and history of the place that’s fascinated artists for more than two centuries. \nThomas Cole\, Winslow Homer\, George Bellows\, John Marin\, Marsden Hartley\, and Andrew Wyeth are just a handful of the many glorious painters who have found and explored the landscape\, the people\, the feeling of this unique State that is truly like none other.  Today\, Linden Frederick and Alan Magee\, both born elsewhere\, have lived and worked in and been inspired by Maine for decades. \nLinden Frederick grew up in upstate New York\, moving to Belfast\, Maine in 1989.  “Maine’s culture reflects a small-town American way of life – and that feeds into what I know\, and what my paintings often depict\,” he observes. “Maine embraces its past and well as its present\, and there is a deep respect for tradition and heritage…Maine is unpretentious…Living here\, I’m closer to the human experience I often hint at in my work.” \nThe twelve new paintings by Linden Frederick on view in the exhibition each capture in rich\, enigmatic visions the elements of life that drew the Artist to Maine. Whether a single mysterious lit window in paintings like Night Owl (55 x 55 inches)\, illuminated shop windows in Recruit (30 x 42 inches)\, or the nocturnal view of a pond lit by man-made lamppost in Skating (16 x 16 inches)\, Frederick’s use of light hints at human life in an era not long past but not of today that lies beneath the surface. Neither landscapes nor cityscapes\, these are storyscapes in which a human presence is only implicit.  Linden Frederick notes: “Maine can feel removed from the reality of modern life – somewhat like a stage set would be – and my paintings often reflect that same sensibility.” \nAlan Magee was born in Pennsylvania.  In elementary school\, the Artist found himself attracted to Maine on the multi-colored pull-down map of the US in his classroom\, “the state at the upper right…bordering the blue Atlantic\,” he recalls.  His imagination captured for life\, in 1976 Magee and his wife moved to Camden where early on he discovered the stone beach at Pemaquid Point that would prove to be a turning point in his life and work.  The grandest in scale of ten works by Magee in the exhibition\, Voyage (acrylic on canvas\, 60 x 96 inches) is at once an other-wordly embodiment of the Pemaquid stones and a metaphor for the travel that Magee notes has served to deepen his relationship with the state: “Departing and returning – the cycle of time away and home\, of discovery and contemplation – this time-honored rhythm characterizes my relationship to Maine.” \n  \n\n\nQuotidian objects – a salvaged chain\, an artist’s paintbrush\, and rusty nails discovered on the shores of the Island of Matinicus – are the subject of the paintings Chain (58 x 84 inches)\, Paragon (30 x 24 inches)\, and This Half Century: Matinicus (10 x 8 inches).  Depicted in amplified scale\, Magee sees in these objects an opportunity to contemplate the history of human life.  “A constellation of private pilgrimage sites…a vast cabinet of curiosities housing thousands of old but still useful tools…intriguing\, abandoned objects…all of these things are rich in metaphorical possibilities\, and marvels for the eye\,” says Magee. \nYou are invited to explore our Online Viewing Room for The Maine Idea here: \nhttps://viewingroom.forumgallery.com/viewing-room/linden-frederick-alan-magee-the-maine-idea
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LOCATION:Forum Gallery\, 475 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Couplings
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY — Forum Gallery announces Couplings\, an exhibition about symbiotic relationships and connections between pairs of people\, objects\, and ideas. The exhibition\, comprised of paintings\, works on paper and sculpture\, presents two exemplary works by each of eleven artists. Couplings is on view from Friday\, June 24 through Saturday\, September 17\, 2022. \nWilliam Beckman is renowned for his depictions of man and woman standing side-by-side\, but never touching\, drawn from the Artist’s self-portrait and the image of his partner\, both dressed in overcoats\, a symbol of survival for the Artist. Continuing with his subject\, Couplings presents a new oil painting and the related charcoal drawing\, fresh from the studio\, each monumental in scale and presence. \nIn his lifetime\, the artist Gregory Gillespie shared an artistic and personal friendship with William Beckman. Synergistic of Beckman’s subject\, the exhibition presents a pair of paintings by Gillespie\, a self-portrait and portrait of the Artist’s wife\, connected in their human-scale and stylistic approach\, yet rendered independent in art. \nDramatic oil paintings of brides enveloped in sheer veils of billowing fabric by Steven Assael and charcoal drawings of heroic scale by Clio Newton depicting figures in Renaissance-style bucolic landscapes explore the psychology of the female experience\, while artists Chaim Gross\, Paul Fenniak\, and Raphael Soyer consider human interdependence in two-figure compositions rendered in oil and bronze in the Artists’ distinctive styles. \nChilean-born Claudio Bravo and Guillermo Muñoz Vera create transcendent realist oil paintings combining the duality of present and past\, suggestive of rich stories to be told.  A figurative painting by Bravo suggests an intimate relationship between a male figure very much in the present with a female figure of ghostly presence\, while a second magnificent oil painting by the twentieth-century realist master honors the tradition and fragility of the North African shepherding and agrarian cultures with a sumptuous composition of a pair of animal skins. Simultaneously thought-provoking and visually arresting\, paintings by Muñoz Vera examine the dichotomies of globalism and of contemporary consumer culture. \nMichael C. Thorpe\, fresh to the gallery\, has won fast notoriety for his quilts that tell stories of the Artist’s experience as a bi-racial man in America. Text collages created this year by Thorpe harness the power of the written word to represent an absent figure and provoke conversations about race with humor and wit. \nLanguage lends meaning too in the art of Alan Magee\, whereby the titles given to works of art serve to personify the objects featured in the meticulous paintings for which the Artist is renowned. Presented in Couplings are works featuring pairs of paintbrushes and river stones\, composed as intimate partners\, codependent in their existence as suggested by the titles Nocturne and The Long Distance Friendships. \nYou are invited to explore our Online Viewing Room for Couplings here: \nhttps://viewingroom.forumgallery.com/viewing-room/couplings
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LOCATION:Forum Gallery\, 475 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Important Works of American Art
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY – From May 5 to June 17\, 2022\, Forum Gallery presents Important Works of American Art. Coinciding with American Art Week in New York City and The American Art Fair\, opening in New York on May 14th\, the gallery exhibits exceptional American paintings\, drawings\, and sculpture dating from the first half of the Twentieth Century to today. \nPowerful emotion\, strong political content\, and frank depictions of daily life characterize the art of the social realists. The gallery exhibition features iconic masterworks by Raphael Soyer\, In The City Park\, c.1934; and Jack Levine\, 1932 (In Memory of George Grosz)\, painted in 1959. \nArchetypal American architecture is the subject of Barn Abstraction\, 1946\, an iconic example of Precisionist tempera painting by Charles Sheeler\, and of lively and graphic works by Robert Cottingham\, Stuart Davis\, and Linden Frederick whose Rear Window\, 2016\, is a contemporary vision in oil of life in small-town America imbued with the provocative mystery for which the Artist is known. \nHumanity’s relationship with nature is vividly evoked in watercolors from the first half of the Twentieth century by Charles Burchfield\, Charles Demuth and Andrew Wyeth\, and in the large oil painting\, Sea and Boat Fantasy\, 1944\, by John Marin\, a tour de force of American modernism depicting the dynamic seas of Maine\, inspiring a next generation of artists who were to become associated with Abstract Expressionism. \nA new and powerfully resolute self-portrait by William Beckman and a sensual\, beautiful oil painting by Clio Newton\, known for her large-scale renderings of steadfast women in charcoal\, are included. They will be on view alongside an example of the dreamlike compositions in oil by Alan Feltus\, and a monumental\, psychologically-charged painting by Gregory Gillespie who created paintings with unique\, dimensional surfaces that defy categorization. \nAlso on view will be works by American masters of their medium and subject Chaim Gross\, Don Jacot\, Rance Jones\, Louis Lozowick\, Anthony Mitri and Tom Wesselmann. \nWe invite you to join us in celebrating the rich history of American Art here at the gallery and by visiting us at The American Art Fair\, May 14 – 17\, 2022.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/important-works-of-american-art/
LOCATION:Forum Gallery\, 475 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Brian Rutenberg: Deeps of Peace
DESCRIPTION:Color and memory inspire the paintings in Deeps of Peace\, an exhibition of new work by Brian Rutenberg\, where the nearly pastoral beauty of the coastal lowlands meets the neon\, architecture and attractions of his hometown Myrtle Beach\, SC.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/brian-rutenberg-deeps-of-peace/
LOCATION:Forum Gallery\, 475 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Virtual Events + Viewing Rooms
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SUMMARY:Stillness of Life: Robert Bauer | Paul Fenniak | G. Daniel Massad | Anthony Mitri
DESCRIPTION:Stillness of Life\, includes recent works by four artists celebrated for their meticulous execution. Each artist on view evokes the infinite complexity of his subject\, in that space of observation and memory where time stands still.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/stillness-of-life-robert-bauer-paul-fenniak-g-daniel-massad-anthony-mitri/
LOCATION:Forum Gallery\, 475 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
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SUMMARY:William Beckman: Five Decades of Self Portraits
DESCRIPTION:Presented from September 23 to November 6\, 2021\, Forum Gallery celebrates William Beckman’s 50 years of self-portraiture with an exhibition of seventeen paintings and drawings made between 1976 and 2021. The exhibition\, “William Beckman: Five Decades of Self-Portraits\,” features important examples from each decade beginning with 1976 and includes a group of current paintings\, illuminating the Artist’s singular and ongoing contribution to the field.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/william-beckman-five-decades-of-self-portraits/
LOCATION:Forum Gallery\, 475 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Then and Now: American Social Realism
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY – Forum Gallery presents a group exhibition of American social realism featuring paintings\, drawings\, and sculpture dating from the first half of the Twentieth Century to today.  Artists working in the years between the world wars and well known for their contributions are shown side by side with contemporary American Artists whose work continues the humanist legacy of social realism. \n  \nAmerican social realism took shape in the 1920s in the centers of commerce also home to artistic communities\, like New York and Chicago.  The cultural shift in the United States seen in the art of the social realists bridges the high modernist ideals of Europe and the struggle and very human drama evoked by the Great Depression and the political upheavals of the 1920s and 30s. \n  \nWorks in the current exhibition reflect and record the Nation’s fragile optimism of this time period.  Highly emotional figuration\, strong political content\, and frank depiction of the common activities of daily life characterize the art of the social realists\, demonstrated in this exhibition by masterworks in oil by Raphael Soyer\, In The City Park\, c. 1934\, and Jack Levine\, 1932 (In Memory of George Grosz)\, painted in 1959.  The earliest paintings on view\, dating from the 1920s\, by Isabel Bishop and James H. Daugherty are joined by evocative works in oil by Philip Evergood\, Wood Gaylor\, William Gropper\, Robert Gwathmey\, Joseph Hirsch\, Reginald Marsh\, and Ben Shahn.  Also on view is an exceptional New York scene in pastel by Everett Shinn\, pencil drawings that shine a light on the working class by Aaron Bohrod and Charles White\, rare lithographs of industrial and urban subjects by Louis Lozowick\, and sculptures imbued with humanism by Chaim Gross\, John Storrs\, Harry Wickey and Mahonri Young. \n  \nAt a time when we again face political\, social\, and economic turbulence\, Then and Now: American Social Realism presents paintings by five contemporary American artists whose emotive work shares with the early American social realists the impulse for humanist depiction.  In the art of Steven Assael\, Rance Jones and Alan Magee\, that fragile optimism of the early Twentieth Century is observed again in contemporary works that raise the unglorified every day to symbols of hope and residual strength in troubled times.  Linden Frederick’s singular hidden narratives pay tribute to working America with respect and empathy; while the inimitable political caricatures and heartfelt renderings in watercolor of immigrant garment workers created by the late David Levine combine the social and the political concerns of American social realist Artists\, past and present. \n  \nConcurrently\, Forum Gallery presents at The American Art Fair\, live online beginning May 8\, 2021.  Celebrating Spring 2021 American Art Week\, May 15 – 22\, 2021\, participating galleries will host open houses on Saturday\, May 15\, 2021.  We invite you to visit Forum Gallery on May 15th\, 10am – 5:30pm\, or anytime during our regular opening hours\, to view the exhibition and the works featured in The American Art Fair.  No appointment is necessary. \n  \nPreview Then and Now: American Social Realism on our website: https://www.forumgallery.com/exhibitions/then-and-now-american-social-realism \n  \nVisit Forum Gallery at The American Art Fair starting May 8\, 2021: www.theamericanartfair.com. \n  \n### \n  \nForum Gallery is located at 475 Park Avenue at 57th Street\, New York\, NY 10022.  Forum Gallery is open to the public from Monday through Saturday\, from 10am to 5:30pm.  Please visit https://www.forumgallery.com/exhibitions/then-and-now-american-social-realism to view the entire exhibition online. The exhibition begins on May 13\, 2021 and will be on view through July 2\, 2021.  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Dan Pavsic\, 212-355-4545; dan@forumgallery.com \nFor sales inquiries\, please contact Nicola Lorenz\, Executive Director or Marjorie Van Cura\, Associate Director\, 212-355-4545; gallery@forumgallery.com
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SUMMARY:Drawing Inspiration
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY – Forum Gallery presents Drawing Inspiration\, an exhibition of works on paper by twenty-seven artists who approach drawing from uniquely different perspectives. The exhibition opens on Thursday\, March 25 and will be on view through Saturday\, April 24\, 2021. \n  \nAndrew Wyeth (1917-2009)\, whose artistic vision was largely expressed in works on paper\, commented: “I love the quality of pencil.  It helps me to get to the core of a thing.”  John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) remarked: “You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh”; while Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) famously stated: “I draw like other people bite their nails.”  Claudio Bravo’s (1936-2011) assessment was simple and direct: “Drawing is the basis of my art.” \n  \nThe works on view in Drawing Inspiration date from 1905 to the present.  They highlight the diverse media implemented by artists to a common purpose of exploring chosen subjects in intimate and direct ways.  The act of drawing may be cathartic or meditative\, the approach precise or physical and gestural\, but for both artist and viewer\, works on paper are uniquely inspiring. \n  \nBeyond technical virtuosity\, the exhibition explores the universality of the human experience in the singular expressions of Steven Assael\, Robert Bauer\, William Beckman\, Claudio Bravo\, Rance Jones\, Alan Magee\, Alyssa Monks\, Guillermo Muñoz Vera\, Odd Nerdrum\, Clio Newton and Maria Tomasula.  Figurative drawings by Elie Nadelman\, Pablo Picasso and John Singer Sargent highlight the distinctive drawing styles of these important Twentieth Century artists\, while the exacting pastel drawings of G. Daniel Massad\, charcoal drawings of Susan Hauptman\, and lithography of Robert Cottingham breathe life into the inanimate.  The natural landscape is the subject of Brian Rutenberg’s vibrant works on paper and nature confronts industry in the atmospheric charcoal drawings of Anthony Mitri and pastel over mezzotints of Craig McPherson.  Oscar Bleumner\, Carl Grossberg\, Reginald Marsh\, Morton Livingston Schamberg\, Joseph Stella and Abraham Walkowitz addressed the rapidly changing world of the first half of the Twentieth Century with explosive color and line.  In stark contrast is the personal and poetic vision Andrew Wyeth gave to his pencil drawings and watercolors\, which stand alone in the history of American realist art. \n  \n### \n  \nForum Gallery is located at 475 Park Avenue at 57th Street\, New York\, NY 10022.  Forum Gallery is open to the public from Monday through Saturday\, from 10am to 5:30pm.  Please visit https://www.forumgallery.com/exhibitions/drawing-inspiration to view the entire exhibition online. The exhibition begins on March 25\, 2021 and will be on view through April 24\, 2021.  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Dan Pavsic\, 212-355-4545; dan@forumgallery.com \nFor sales inquiries\, please contact Nicola Lorenz\, Executive Director or Marjorie Van Cura\, Associate Director\, 212-355-4545; gallery@forumgallery.com.
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SUMMARY:Claudio Bravo at Forum Gallery
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY – Opening January 14\, 2021\, Forum Gallery presents its first exhibition of works by Claudio Bravo (1936 – 2011)\, whose estate the Gallery now represents.  The exhibition of paintings\, pastels and drawings includes works exhibited publicly for the first time in the United States. \n  \nIn his catalogue essay\, Art in America contributing editor David Ebony writes\, “Gifted with technical virtuosity\, Bravo commands a seemingly effortless sleight-of-hand to enthrall viewers in unexpected ways.  Like a modern-day alchemist\, he manages to transform everyday objects and ordinary subjects into something inimitable\, rarified and extraordinary.  Even his most austere and nearly abstract compositions can inspire awe in their transcendental allure”. \n  \nClaudio Bravo was a painter of color and light. It was the extraordinary light of Morocco that drew Bravo to the country where he lived from 1972 until his passing in 2011.  He used this light to propel his art\, rendering\, in his still life paintings\, objects from his own collections and his everyday life that he carefully arranged in the light to focus on their enigmatic meaning.  His gift for economy and nuance served his interest in evoking an emotional response rather than creating a mere depiction.  In the Forum Gallery exhibition\, Moroccan Fans\, 1994; Ritual Stones\, 1997; Camel and Lamb Skins\, 2004; and Yellow Marjana\, 2008; are imbued with the harmonious color and spectacular light that set Claudio Bravo’s still lifes apart. \n  \nInspired by the paintings of Mark Rothko and Antoni Tàpies\, Claudio Bravo began painting the palpable textures and subtle colors of paper and fabric in the early 1960’s\, and these subjects became the best-known of his works\, remaining popular throughout the world during his lifetime and beyond.  The exhibition includes Three Aluminum Papers\, 2010\, and Red Cloth\, 2011\, Claudio Bravo’s last completed painting\, a majestic\, luxurious work over six feet tall\, to be exhibited for the first time. \n  \nThe earliest painting in the Forum Gallery exhibition is the haunting Nude Male Leaning on Column\, 1979\, recalling the Artist’s stay in New York City from 1969 to 1972.  An important example of Bravo’s figurative mastery\, the silent\, ethereal drama in this work is emblematic of Claudio Bravo\, who said he owed much to Velázquez. \n  \nOften celebrated as a consummate draughtsman\, Claudio Bravo worked on paper as well as canvas throughout his career\, and his pastels and drawings are among his most sensitive works.  The shimmering color of the pastels and the depth and beauty of the drawings in the exhibition are exemplified by the pastels Green Sofa\, 1991\, and Opening the Door\, 1991\, and the drawings Two Heads and Hands\, 1983\, and Said\, 1995\, as well as the rare still life drawing of Engines\, 2008. \n  \nClaudio Bravo was recognized with fourteen one-person museum exhibitions in the US\, Chile\, Mexico and France during his lifetime.  His works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes\, Santiago; the Ludwig Museum\, Cologne\, Germany\, the Museum Boijmans Van Beurugen\, Rotterdam\, Netherlands; and many more throughout the world.  Claudio Bravo was chosen to represent Chile in the Venice Biennale in 2007. \n\nForum Gallery is located at 475 Park Avenue at 57th Street\, New York\, NY 10022.  Forum Gallery is open to the public from Monday through Saturday\, from 10am to 5:30pm.  Please visit https://www.forumgallery.com/exhibitions/claudio-bravo2 to view the entire exhibition online. The exhibition begins on November 27\, 2020 and will be on view through January 9\, 2021. A full color catalogue accompanies the exhibition. \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Dan Pavsic\, 212-355-4545; dan@forumgallery.com \nFor sales inquiries\, please contact Nicola Lorenz\, Executive Director or Marjorie Van Cura\, Associate Director\, 212-355-4545; gallery@forumgallery.com.
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SUMMARY:In Person: William Beckman | Alan Magee | Alyssa Monks
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY – Our recent series of online exhibitions featured new bodies of work by William Beckman\, Alan Magee and Alyssa Monks.  Now is your opportunity to view selected works from these online presentations in a new exhibition at Forum Gallery\, In Person: William Beckman | Alan Magee | Alyssa Monks.  Opening the day after Thanksgiving on Friday\, November 27th\, the exhibition will present 19 paintings and monotypes and remains on view through Saturday\, January 9th\, 2021. \n  \nWilliam Beckman’s compelling figurative paintings and self-portraits\, expansive landscapes\, and farm scenes reflect his Midwestern roots\, his personal life\, and his six decades creating Art.  Our In Person exhibition will feature a wry self-portrait and five new landscape paintings from small scale to the impressive\, panoramic\, Montana\, which at 104 inches wide is a sweeping vista\, exemplary of the theme of the working farm that Beckman has returned to throughout his career. \n  \nFeeling acutely the anxiety of our current times\, Alan Magee has revisited subjects he has long explored in a new visual language that is a poignant metaphoric insight for today’s world.  Our online exhibition\, Alan Magee: Witness introduced nine captivating paintings of helmets\, armor and weaponry that art scholar and author Eleanor Heartney describes as “works of mourning… (at) a moment in our life and in our time where there is great sadness.” For the exhibition In Person\, we will present three examples of Magee’s helmet paintings alongside three monotypes\, haunting works that speak to the human experience in troubled times. \n  \nAlyssa Monks recently completed seven new paintings created entirely during the Covid-19 quarantine in New York City. “We have all been ‘planting ourselves’ wherever we are and staying put\,” Monks remarks. The new\, small scale paintings\, with their intense but distorted color\, portray the inner psychological experience of isolation for these female subjects as they interact with the “natural” world as it gets less and less certain or safe.  In Person will offer you the opportunity to view all seven paintings together. \n### \nForum Gallery is located at 475 Park Avenue at 57th Street\, New York\, NY 10022.  Forum Gallery is open to the public from Monday through Saturday\, from 10am to 5:30pm.  Please visit https://www.forumgallery.com/exhibitions/in-person to view the entire exhibition online. The exhibition begins on November 27\, 2020 and will be on view through January 9\, 2021. A full color catalogue is available from the gallery. \nDue to the Covid-19 global pandemic\, Forum Gallery will not host an opening reception.  We will be pleased to greet you during our public hours\, and will provide hand sanitizer and face coverings to ensure the safety of all our staff and visitors. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Dan Pavsic\, 212-355-4545; dan@forumgallery.com \nFor sales inquiries\, please contact Nicola Lorenz\, Executive Director or Marjorie Van Cura\, Associate Director\, 212-355-4545; gallery@forumgallery.com.
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SUMMARY:Rance Jones: The Lingering Revolution
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY – Beginning October 1\, 2020\, Forum Gallery will proudly host the first New York exhibition for American watercolorist Rance Jones (b. 1965).  Jones first visited Cuba in 2018 and was immediately inspired to begin his paintings of the current reality of life there.  Making more visits from his native Texas\, Jones fixed his eye on the people of Cuba and the music\, commerce\, dance\, thought and history that informs their daily lives. \n  \nIn the twenty-six watercolors that comprise the exhibition\, A Lingering Revolution\, Jones explores children\, farmers\, workers\, shoppers and tradespeople against the remarkable past/present landscape that is Cuba today.  Venturing out from the city of Havana\, the Artist explores the homes\, workplaces and vistas that describe the unique environment that plays such a large part in defining Cuba.  But his subject is human life\, and the persistent hope\, ambition and devotion that inspire the lives of the Cuban people.  A child walking through the vegetable market has the bright gleam of anticipation in her eye; a laborer hauls his shouldered burden with strength and resolve; a woman reads the newspaper and is clearly absorbed.  All are painted with the meticulous technical ability and knowing sense of color that enable Jones’ talent for revealing human emotion to emerge and prosper. \nFor the exhibition catalogue\, Rance Jones writes: \n“A world apart\, Cuba is a vibrant and visceral country on the edge of great change. The people who live here are survivors and dreamers in a land where nothing goes to waste and everything is celebrated \n.…This series of watercolor paintings explores the interlocking fibers that weave Cubans into their social\, political and physical environment…In these paintings\, I wanted to depict this range of attitudes and emotions through the expressions\, body language and surroundings of these remarkable people.” \nBorn in Lubbock\, Texas\, Rance Jones moved to New York City in 1991 to attend School of Visual Arts and pursue an MFA degree in Illustration. After a decade of work for publications\, including The New York Times and National Review\, Jones moved back to Texas to concentrate on his own artistic endeavors.  Jones’ watercolors have been regularly presented since 2010 in both solo and group exhibitions at galleries and institutions across the United States and in England. His work is represented in private collections across the country. \n### \nForum Gallery is located at 475 Park Avenue at 57th Street\, New York\, NY 10022. Forum Gallery is open to the public from Monday through Friday\, 10am to 5:30pm\, and Saturdays by appointment. Please call 212-355-4545 to make an appointment. Please visit https://www.forumgallery.com/exhibitions/rance-jones-the-lingering-revolution to view the entire exhibition online. The exhibition begins on October 1\, 2020 and will be on view through November 7\, 2020. A full-color catalogue is available from the gallery. \n  \nDue to the Covid-19 global pandemic\, Forum Gallery is unable to host an opening reception.  Instead\, the Artist will be present at the gallery during the gallery’s regular opening hours on Thursday\, October 1st to greet visitors and to answer questions. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Dan Pavsic\, 212-355-4545; dan@forumgallery.com \nFor sales inquiries\, please contact Nicola Lorenz\, Executive Director or Marjorie Van Cura\, Associate Director\, 212-355-4545; gallery@forumgallery.com.
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SUMMARY:Brian Rutenberg: The Pond
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY – From February 27 through April 25\, 2020\, Forum Gallery\, New York\, will present The Pond\, an exhibition of new abstract landscape paintings by Brian Rutenberg. For this exhibition\, his seventh at Forum Gallery\, Brian Rutenberg (b. 1965) has created twelve new paintings inspired by the heat\, humidity and landscape of his native South Carolina lowcountry. \nAbout this latest body of work\, Brian Rutenberg writes: \n           Humidity made me a painter. All of these new paintings are meditations on an imaginary pond as seen through veils of South Carolina Lowcountry heat. The oval has been a primary shape in my work for forty-five years; my first paintings were watercolors of a pond near my childhood home in Myrtle Beach\, where I spent a lot of time because I had buck teeth and was horrible at sports. Little did I know\, the directness and simplicity of those studies would provide me with a lifetime of imagery. Everything I’m trying to do in my paintings is embodied in the solitary act of viewing a pond. Foreground is close\, my sneakers on the muddy bank. Middle ground is the protective gelatin of water. Background is far away. Content is a function of how near or far away things appear from your face. As I walk around to the other side\, that which was hidden becomes visible. Likewise\, a painting doesn’t reveal itself all at once\, but in flecks of partial recognition. I love parades and processionals for this reason. A processional abandons its starting point. Travel eliminates its origins. We are where we go. I paint because I can never see enough places. So\, I return to one. My movement becomes a pond\, the pond becomes a thought\, and the thought returns me to the wealth of humidity.  \nIn conjunction with this exhibition\, Forum Gallery will release Brian Rutenberg’s new monograph\, A Little Long Time. The second monograph of his paintings\, this new book documents works completed since the publication of Brian Rutenberg (Radius Books) in 2008. A Little Long Time is a large-scale\, hardcover book\, with 152 pages\, 129 color plates and a lively text by Rutenberg that draws on his life experience and what took him on his career path as a painter. The book will be available for purchase from Forum Gallery during the exhibition. \nBrian Rutenberg (born 1965\, Charleston\, SC) lives and works in New York City. He is a Fulbright scholar (1997) and a graduate of The College of Charleston and the School of Visual Arts (NY). Rutenberg’s paintings are collected throughout the United States and Europe and are in the permanent collections of museums including the Butler Institute of American Art\, Youngstown\, OH; Yale University Art Gallery\, New Haven\, CT; Peabody Essex Museum\, Salem\, MA; Nassau County Museum of Art\, Roslyn\, NY; Gibbes Museum of Art\, Charleston\, SC; Hunter Museum of American Art\, Chattanooga\, TN; Naples Museum of Art\, Naples\, FL; Boca Raton Museum of Art\, Boca Raton\, FL; Ogden Museum of Art\, New Orleans\, LA; and the Morris Museum of Art\, Augusta\, GA. He has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at institutions across the country including the Cress Gallery of Art at The University of Tennessee\, Chattanooga\, TN (2004); the Gibbes Museum of Art\, Charleston\, SC (2009); the Cotuit Center for the Arts\, Cotuit\, MA (2014); and a retrospective at the Saginaw Art Museum\, Saginaw\, MI in 2017. \n  \nBrian Rutenberg: The Pond opens with a reception for the artist on Thursday\, February 27\, 2020 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm\, and will be on view through Saturday\, April 25\, 2020. \nForum Gallery is located at 475 Park Avenue at 57th Street\, New York\, NY 10022. Please visit https://www.forumgallery.com/exhibitions/ brian-rutenberg-the-pond  to view the entire exhibition online. The exhibition begins on February 27\, 2020 and will be on view through April 25\, 2020. Forum Gallery is open Monday through Saturday\, 10am to 5:30pm. \nFor more information\, please contact Dan Pavsic\, 212-355-4545; dan@forumgallery.com
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SUMMARY:Xenia Hausner
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY – Forum Gallery\, New York will present the first exhibition in the US in a decade of paintings by Austrian artist Xenia Hausner from November 14\, 2019 to January 11\, 2020. Since her introduction to American audiences in 2000\, Xenia Hausner has exhibited extensively in Europe and China as well as New York and Los Angeles. The current exhibition of twelve striking new paintings precedes a solo retrospective exhibition for the Artist to be presented by The Albertina Museum in Vienna\, Austria in April 2020. \nIn the paintings for this exhibition\, Xenia Hausner explores the human condition of women today as she responds to the geopolitical issues of our time. Hausner captures the spirit and soul of her subjects as she probes their emotional and personal lives. The paintings are direct\, dramatic and boldly expressive in their poignant narratives. Using striking color with confident\, secure brushstroke\, Hausner achieves a unique engagement in a highly personal way. With unflinching directness\, she engages the viewer\, drawing us in to her creative world. Her subjects confront us as they reveal themselves with open and palpable strength\, often demanding that we seek out their points of inflection. To view a Xenia Hausner painting is a multi-layered experience that begins with an appreciation of the painting as a bold and colorful object and leads to a deep\, ongoing engagement with the inner drama of the subjects. \nXenia Hausner portrays the emotional lives of her subjects with strength and dexterity. They are passionate about love\, desire\, survival and making sense of life. Xenia Hausner offers insightful views into their hopes and dreams. In her paintings we are able to see\, in a singular way\, some of their past\, much of their present\, and a glimpse of their thoughts of the future. \n\n\nXenia Hausner began her working life as a stage designer in Vienna and since 1992\, has devoted all of her time to easel painting. Forum Gallery introduced her work to the United States in 2000 and subsequently presented two exhibitions in New York and one in Los Angeles. Xenia Hausner has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Wien\, Austria; Ludwig Museum\, Koblenz\, Germany; Rupertinum\, Museum der Moderne\, Salzburg\, Austria; Käthe-Kollwitz Museum\, Berlin\, Germany; The Russian Museum\, St. Petersburg\, Russia; the Shanghai Art Museum and the Today Art Museum in China. \nHausner’s paintings are included in major museum collections throughout Europe\, and three monographs have been published on the Artist’s work\, two of which have appeared in English as well as German. \nXenia Hausner opens with a reception for the artist on Thursday\, November 14\, 2019 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm\, and will be on view through Saturday\, January 11\, 2020. \n### \nForum Gallery is located at 475 Park Avenue at 57th Street\, New York\, NY 10022. Please visit\nwww.forumgallery.com/exhibitions/xenia-hausner to view the entire exhibition online. The exhibition begins on November 14\, 2019 and will be on view through January 11\, 2020. Forum Gallery is open Monday through Saturday\, 10am to 5:30pm. A fully illustrated\, 32-page color catalogue will be available from the gallery\, featuring an essay by Jessa Crispin. \nFor more information\, please contact Kevin Dao\, 212-355-4545; kevin@forumgallery.com
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SUMMARY:Clio Newton: Venus
DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY – Clio Newton\, the 30-year-old American artist whose monumental figurative charcoal drawings have drawn the attention of museums and collectors in group shows at Forum Gallery and in the gallery’s art fair presentations\, will have her first major one-person exhibition in America at Forum Gallery\, New York\, from September 26 to November 9\, 2019. The nine drawings in the exhibition depict “gender composites” invented by Newton\, who composes her subjects from male bodies and female heads\, as did Botticelli\, Delacroix\, Michelangelo\, Titian and many artists of the Renaissance. While these masters used male bodies in response to the prudence and female subjugation of the time\, Newton creates fully contemporary portraits whose simultaneous maleness and femaleness are provocative and compelling in their reference to the gender fluidity of this era. \nWriting in the exhibition catalogue\, Eleanor Heartney observes\, “The moment of transition is imperceptible – in some works it appears to happen around the shoulders or neck\, in others we only become aware of the shift in genders in the arms and legs. Sometimes it is masked by masses of falling hair. Or it only becomes evident in the thickening of shoulders or the unexpected hairiness of chest or legs…these beautiful young people remain unaccountably disconcerting.” \nEach of Newton’s subjects\, then\, is a true composite of very real people. All are individual models\, friends and relatives\, exquisitely rendered with compressed charcoal to create interwoven lines and dark ebony masses that describe luminous skin\, shining eyes and luxurious tresses. And each subject is fully self-aware\, making each drawing uncannily convincing. While the drawings present no political agenda\, the subjects are powerful\, self-possessed\, proud and unapologetic. Ultimately\, they are attached to the realm of myth\, fantasy and archetype\, while they are at once real and not real. In summary\, Heartney states\, “they remind us that art is the realm of the imagination\, never more so than when it serves up a convincing illusion of reality.” \n\n\nClio Newton: Venus\, is on view from September 26 to November 9\, 2019. Clio Newton received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at The Cooper Union in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts at Zürcher Hochschule der Kunste in Zürich\, Switzerland. She was awarded the AKKU Artist in Residency grant in Zurich\, and was selected as one of the top young artists in Europe by Artagon in Paris. \nClio Newton is a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant Award and has exhibited her work in California\, Miami\, New England and New York as well as in Florence\, Italy; Munich\, Paris and Zürich. During the last year\, her work has been added to the collections of The Flint Institute\, MI; 21C Museum\, Louisville\, KY; and the Baltimore Museum of Art\, MD. \nClio Newton is represented by Forum Gallery. \nClio Newton: Venus opens with a reception for the artist on Thursday\, September 26\, 2019 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm\, and will be on view through Saturday\, November 9\, 2019. \n### \nForum Gallery is located at 475 Park Avenue at 57th Street\, New York\, NY 10022. Please visit forumgallery.com/exhibitions/clio-newton-venus to view the entire exhibition online. The exhibition begins on September 26\, 2019 and will be on view through November 9\, 2019. Forum Gallery is open Monday through Saturday\, 10am to 5:30pm. A full-color catalogue is available from the gallery. \nFor more information\, please contact Kevin Dao\, 212-355-4545; kevin@forumgallery.com
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SUMMARY:Natural History
DESCRIPTION:Alan Magee\, Natural History\, 1997\, acrylic and oil on panel\, 16 x 22 inches \nNew York\, NY – From April 4 to May 18\, 2019\, Forum Gallery presents Natural History\, an exhibition of paintings by Robert Bauer\, Linden Frederick\, Alan Magee\, Alyssa Monks\, Guillermo Muñoz Vera\, Brian Rutenberg and Stephanie Wilde. United by their interest in the complex and multi-layered content inherent in the objective imagery of their individual pasts\, each artist uses paint and canvas in a very different\, and very compelling way. \nRobert Bauer uses the language of portrait and landscape to convey the essential\, emotional response he has to past and present. The objectivity of observation unites with the sensitivity of expression in his highly developed and palpably personal paintings and drawings. \nLinden Frederick paints the iconic buildings of his upstate New York\, small-town upbringing. Tinged with nostalgia but always based in clear\, concise reality\, the paintings\, while specific\, seem to bring each viewer to his own memory and association. \nAlan Magee creates poetic compositions from natural and man-made objects whose history\, in his hands\, is palpable. Beginning with the premise that everything is what it seems and not what it seems\, Magee spins his subjects into seemingly simple\, marvelously complex\, peaceful\, contemplative paintings. \nAlyssa Monks places her sumptuous figures in the natural world\, often combining the verdant landscapes of her memory with the human body\, hers and others. The result is a harmonious integration of man and environment. \n\n\nGuillermo Muñoz Vera examines the world around him from the standpoint of his own history as a Chilean born\, naturalized Spaniard in terms of a larger study of human cultural and geopolitical history and its impact on our world today. \nBrian Rutenberg blends the colors and forms of the landscape of his native coastal Carolina with the excitement and passion of action-packed abstraction; the resulting image is uniquely his. \nStephanie Wilde\, who remains dedicated to environmental imperatives in her self-taught practice\, illuminates the inexorable role of nature to inspire woman’s pursuit of progress in her meticulous and fascinating mixed media works. \n### \nNatural History opens on Thursday\, April 4\, 2019 and will be on view through Saturday\, May 18\, 2019. \nForum Gallery is located at 475 Park Avenue at 57th Street\, New York\, NY 10022. Please visit forumgallery.com/exhibitions/natural-history to view the entire exhibition online. The exhibition begins on April 4\, 2019 and will be on view through May 18\, 2019. Forum Gallery is open Monday through Saturday\, 10am to 5:30pm. \nFor more information\, please contact Kevin Dao\, 212-355-4545; kevin@forumgallery.com
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/natural-history/
LOCATION:Forum Gallery\, 475 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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