Robert's work is often referred to as both Pop Art and Abstract Painting. To reference his sources of imagery we must look at the fact that we are besieged with an astounding number of images every day. Advertising, movies, mail, computers, newspapers, magazines, television, comics, art and graffiti all contribute to this constant barrage of visual information. This onslaught has contributed to and influenced our daily lives and Reitzfeld's work accepts this fact. He celebrates and uses this imagery to construct his paintings.

Renowned Contemporary American Artist Frank Stella Explores Architecture and the Leap from Canvas to Space in His First Solo Exhibitions at Metropolitan Museum

The current group of large scale paintings further develops the abstracted format and reduced palette of the works exhibited in Moore’s previous show in this gallery in 2005.  In the earlier pieces the strong grid, the multiple veils and the piercing structures were elements of a formal language developed by Moore to explore his continuing visual concerns. The grid alluded to security netting that caught his attention on the streets of New York and it supplied the context of gritty urban reality.  A piece of rebar that pierced the netting inspired the protruding clusters of drawn lines that created the dramatic and emotional elements within the extreme economy of the rest of the painting. That there was a reference to a real world event is crucial to Moore’s empirical process. 

Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to open the fall season with an exhibition of 16 new photographs by Dutch artist Wijnanda Deroo. Interiors will be on view from September 6 to October 13, 2007. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, September 6 from 6-8pm.

Laurel Sucsy

 

Laurel Sucsy’s color-based abstractions are at once playful and meditative.  They begin in the absence of a preconception and develop with a faith in a

persistent search.

 

There is a priority given to the personality of individual marks, each

painting built as a complex accumulation of their relationships.  Yet despite the constant threat of chaos, the work eventually achieves a subtle and unexpected cohesion.

 

The resulting paintings convey a sense of live movement and promise, a

lyrical exchange between stability and transcendence.

Tom Nicol

On September 13 through October 7 an exhibition of the work of Tom Nicol will be featured at the John Davis Gallery in Hudson, New York.  At first glance, one would categorize these works as geometric abstract paintings.  Although the work resides visually in an abstract tradition, the artist thinks of them as non-abstract objects.  Nicol considers the work to be quite literal, not abstracted or distilled from any source.

Nicol grew up in the flat farmland of Ohio, and his current body of work is a place where opposite influences from past and present co-exist. Many of the paintings take as their beginning roots the shifting blues and grays of vast cloudy skies and the ordered fields, while other works reference the many pieces of colorful plastic pinned up in his studio that Nicol finds on the sidewalks of the city. Water and sky framed by urban elements (asphalt, grids, cement, brick) is an ever-present context for this work.

The artist feels that the basic process of making a painting is a deliberation of differences and similarities. It is a process of finding deliberate relationships with color, language and numbers, derived from mathematical relationships that are visually meaningful on an intuitive level.  His impulse to make a painting begins with either a word or a combination of numbers.  These elements become a sort of mental anchor - a grounding to investigate the language of painting.

from the 26 th May through the to 30 th September

MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma

In a new series of paintings, Julie Heffernan expands her complex  painted cosmologies to a set of six large scale self-portraits of women wearing skirts of wild game. Heffernan's classic nudes stand  among what could be a cornucopia of sport, the luxury of fur, or a frivolous display of the dead. Her paintings continue to be a constant conflict of attraction and repulsion as she merges both the gorgeous and grotesque into a single image.

All of the works in this exhibition involve degrees of agitation, sometimes rendered subtly, and sometimes more overtly. While the exhibition does not directly address some of the overwhelming issues which make this such an anxious era - a grinding war, rising intimations of ecological upheaval, violence as a routine form of intercultural politics, economic travails - it is informed by them and by others; this is an agitated exhibition for an agitated time in which wavering hopefulness is accompanied by constant, nagging dread. However, each work in this exhibition also couples agitation with repose; there is quiescence in this commotion, grace and calm emerging from works and situations that are otherwise nervous and unruly.

August 22nd through September 10th, 2007

With a collection of Dancer/Choreographers from seven countries and four continents, the third annual Dance Omi International Dance Collective promises to bring exciting artistic and cultural exchange to the campus of the Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York this summer.