Denise Bibro Fine Art

Denise Bibro Fine Art http://denisebibrofineart.com/ Denise Bibro Fine Art is a fine contemporary art gallery in Chelsea, New York, that represents established artists in their fields to those with emerging new work. The gallery presents work available by: Lindsey Adams Adelman, Eunice Agar, Lea Barton, Sara K. Bean, John Beardman, Paul Binai, Christa Blatchford, Gordon Boardman, Dusty Boynton, Giorgio Brogi, Nora Chavooshian, Jeremy Comins, Hindy Creamer, Sara Crisp, Boyce Cummings, Lisa Dinhofer, Ric Dragon, Sydney Drum, Camilla Fallon, Rachel Friedberg, Iona Fromboluti, Dan Giese, Janet Goddard, Carol Goebel, Josephine Haden, Mark Hadjipateras, David Herman, Mildred Hermann, John Hrehov, Carol Jacobsen, Mary King, Roy Kinzer, Joyce Korotkin, Erica Licea-Kane, Gerson Lieber, Myung-Ock Lim, Linda Lippa, Shane McAdams, Nancy McCroskey, Jerry Meyer, Michael Paul Miller, Barbara Morgan, Michael Mut, Don Perlis, Christopher Reiger, Amy Ross, Tim Ross, James Scott, William Scott, Tom Sime, Gloria Spevacek, Nora Speyer, Joe Stefanelli, Yvonne Thomas, Dennis Tremalio, Audrey Ushenko, Martha Walker, Peter Wiehl, Kay Wood, James Woodruff, Jan Wunderman. en Copyright 2008, Denise Bibro Fine Art Sun, 6 Jul 2008 00:31:03 -0400 Exhibition: James Woodruff <div class="exhibition-subtitle">New Work</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">June 5 - July 3, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, June 5, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1348"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/17/17016.jpeg" alt="" height="315" width="500" /></a> <p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art,</strong> 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to present the first New York City solo show of abstract painter <strong>James Woodruff.</strong> On view June 5th through July 3rd, James Woodruff: New Work features a series of luminous and atmospheric oils. Undulating soft bodies of color seamlessly shift, suggesting a constant state of transition. Woodruff's seductive surfaces evoke the nebulous, reflective surface of water, and while many of the compositions transcend time and place, others imply a narrative in which colors become the organic components forming the landscape. The palette and application of paint are reminiscent of Rothko, and Woodruff's works are imbued with a similar sense of Zen-like calmness and mystical spirituality. </p> <p>Woodruff has an extensive background in both painting and photography, and worked from 1977 to 1980 as the assistant to Irving Penn. His work has been exhibited in New York City at the Manasse-Chelsea <span class="caps">DAK</span> Gallery; and at venues in Connecticut including the Bachelier/Cardonsky Gallery in Kent; the John Slade Ely House in New Haven; and The Silo in New Milford. His work was selected on numerous occasions for the Rose Algrant Show, an annual memorial exhibition staged at various alternative locations in Cornwall, <span class="caps">CT, </span>in honor of artist Rose Algrant. He holds degrees from the Marist Brothers and Oxford Colleges, both in Johannesburg, South Africa, and studied at the Art Students League in New York City.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1348 Exhibition: David Black <div class="exhibition-subtitle">New York Paintings</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">May 8 - May 31, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, May 8, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1347"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/15/15358.jpeg" alt="" height="354" width="500" /></a> <p>David Black, <em>Central Park Boat Pond</em>, 1998</p> <p> oil on canvas, 30 x 40 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to present <strong>David Black: New York Paintings.</strong> The artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring seventeen vibrant, humorous, and playful depictions of city life, as well as a group of enchanting black and white engravings, will be on view May 8th through the 31st, 2008. A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, May 8th, from 6 to 9 pm.</p> <p>The New York Paintings capture the city's boundless energy and evidence the artist's love for his birthplace. The canvases hum with color and entertain with incisive wit. Whether portraying the social elite dining at the Plaza, canine enthusiasts at the Westminster Kennel Club Show, chess players lingering over a game at Washington Square Park's famed tables, or crowds reveling at the Greenwich Village Halloween parade, Black inserts humor, irony, and generally pokes fun. Grace Glueck of The New York Times wrote of Black's work: "These cartoony, untutored oils, bubbling with color, unabashedly tackle everything from landscape to social mores...," while The New Yorker succinctly noted: "Black is at his most delicious as a satirist."</p> <p>A complement to his paintings, Black's elegant engravings employ a precise economy of line, capturing gesture and expression with a minimal, yet confident and effective approach. </p> <p>A self-taught artist, Black began to explore painting and drawing after a long and successful career in theatre, both as a director and producer. He has devoted himself solely to his art for nearly a quarter of a century. His work has been exhibited in New York City at the National Arts Club and the <span class="caps">DFN</span> Gallery. Black has shown extensively at venues including Noah's Art Gallery and Four Starr Gallery, both in Stonington; and the <span class="caps">P.H.</span> Miller Gallery in Woodbury, all in <span class="caps">CT.</span> His work has been shown at The Weston Gallery and The Malton Gallery in Cincinnati, The Museum of East Texas in Lufkin, the Catherine Kelleghan Gallery in Atlanta; and in England at the Phoenix Gallery in London and Lavenham, Suffolk; and the Essex County Council Gallery, Chelmsford. Black's work is exhibited in American Embassies around the world sponsored by the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Department of State <span class="caps">ART </span>in Embassies Program. He lives and works in Stonington, <span class="caps">CT. </span></p> <p>For more information, or high resolution images, please email info@denisebibrofineart.com, or visit our website at http://www.denisebibrofineart.com.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1347 Exhibition: David Herman <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Fractures</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 10 - May 3, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 17, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1317"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/15/15362.jpeg" alt="" height="632" width="500" /></a> <p>David Herman, <em>Untitled #11</em>, 2007</p> <p> acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art,</strong> 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to present <strong>David Herman: Fractures.</strong> The artist's fifth solo exhibition, featuring a suite of primarily black and white canvases, will be on view April 10 through May 3, 2008. A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, April 17, from 6 to 8 pm.</p> <p>Herman's imagery drifts comfortably between abstraction and representation, depicting irregular black and white patterns reminiscent of bone fragments or parched, cracked earth; stylized maps of the world; and bleak urban skylines. While the work addresses sociopolitical issues such as the global economy, war, and environmental concerns, the artist also finds inspiration in the mundane. The eroding white paint of a parking lot's directional arrow melting into the blacktop came to symbolize the fragility of unchecked development and growth in Herman's piece entitled Broken Arrow. </p> <p>These stark images, drained of color, point to the distressful side effects of globalization: the polarization of the economy, the loss of uniqueness and a sense of place. In his work, Gold Standard, a map of the world reveals fissures throughout. A gold bar hovers above all. One world, under a new god--the god of capitalism. With Horizon I, we are confronted with a disjointed skyline. The calm grey sea lies completely flat, leaving us to wonder how we will weather the next storm.</p> <p>The theme of disintegration, of images breaking apart, is repeated throughout Herman's work, yet the artist offers a glimmer of hope. Placed in the center of several of the pieces floats an ethereal blue globe, a perfect circle, alluding to nature's endless cycles--mother earth primed for her return. </p> <p>David Herman has had solo shows at Caelum Gallery, Gallery Swan, and Nexus Gallery, all in New York City; Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, NJ; Gallery Emanuel, Kings Point, NY; and Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, <span class="caps">NY. </span> His work has also been included in group exhibitions including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY; and the Great Neck Art Center, Great Neck, <span class="caps">NY. </span> Herman's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Gallery and Studio Magazine, and The New York Art World.</p> <p>For more information, or high resolution images, please email info@denisebibrofineart.com, or visit our website at http://www.denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1317 Exhibition: Iona Fromboluti <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Work</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 6 - April 5, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1316"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/14/14410.jpeg" alt="" height="375" width="500" /></a> <p>Iona Fromboluti, <em>Foreign Traveler, Mixed Bouquet</em>, 2007</p> <p> oil on panel, 18 x 24 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to present New York-based painter <strong>Iona Fromboluti's</strong> third solo exhibition. Featuring a new suite of evocative still lifes, Iona Fromboluti: Recent Work will be on view March 6th through April 5th, 2008. </p> <p>Fromboluti's compositions posit unresolved narratives. Hinting at the macabre, they are populated by animal skeletons, desiccated flowers, bugs, discarded oyster shells, the delicate carcass of a small bird; yet she also strikes a blithe note with verdant flora, a string of pearls, and even a box of chocolates. Fromboluti elevates her work to a new level, as she invites the outside in, choosing dramatic skyscapes as the backdrop to these exquisitely painted still lifes. These skyscapes are painted with a looser hand, conveying movement. Foreboding clouds brood beyond what appears to be a mantelpiece, lending a sense of fragility to the objects, as one imagines they may be swept from their perch by a strong gust. The dramatic impact of the work is heightened by a long horizontal support, inferring a monumental landscape with a wide, uninterrupted horizon line. Perhaps the most theatrical piece is the 22" × 120" diptych Summer Dreaming. A dark, mysterious night sky reveals a glimpse of the full moon, illuminating two roses lying on the mantelpiece, one yellow and one pink, which appear to have been abandoned, the residue of a romantic encounter. </p> <p>Iona Fromboluti was born in New York City, and is an alumnus of the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She has had solo exhibitions at Denise Bibro Fine Art, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; the More Gallery and Gross McCleaf Galleries in Philadelphia, PA; and the Vose Gallery, Boston, <span class="caps">MA.</span> Her work has been included in several group exhibitions including Smith College, Northampton, MA; Hofstra University, Long Island, NY; The National Academy of Design, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; the Southern Allegheny Museum, Loretto, PA; Marymount College, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; and the Philadelphia Academy, Philadelphia, <span class="caps">PA.</span> Her public collections include the Butler Institute, Youngstown, Ohio, the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina, and the Pew Charitable Trust Collection, Philadelphia, <span class="caps">PA. </span> She teaches at Pratt Institute and has been featured in numerous publications including the Philadelphia Inquirer and Art in America. </p> <p>For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com or go to our website, http://www.denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1316 Exhibition: Lea Barton <div class="exhibition-subtitle">South</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 7 - March 1, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, February 7, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1210"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/13/13447.jpeg" alt="" height="484" width="500" /></a> <p>Lea Barton, <em>Promenade</em>, 2008</p> <p> mixed media on canvas, 50 x 52 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art</strong>, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce the first New York City solo exhibition of Mississippi-based artist <strong>Lea Barton</strong>. Her recent series of multi-media works, entitled South, will be featured February 7 through March 6, 2008. </p> <p>Barton combines collage and paint with photography and printmaking techniques to create richly layered works exploring the material and political history of the South, and dissecting female stereotypes of Antebellum and contemporary Southern culture. The work reflects both Barton's childhood memories of growing up in Mississippi, and her later efforts to define what it means to be from the South. Photographic self-portraits are often central to her compositions, in which Barton takes on multiple identities: virginal veiled bride, burlesque vixen, prom queen, Miss America. Images of women reoccur in her work, alongside quintessentially female ephemera: dressmaker's patterns, lace, love letters, and traces of wallpaper from abandoned sharecropper shacks. Barton weaves these elements together with both nostalgia and a sense of disconnect. Ultimately, she allows the viewer only glimpses and shards of narrative. Instead of providing answers, Barton poses questions, leaving it to the viewer to create their own impression of the South.<br /> <br /> A selection of Barton's solo exhibitions includes the Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans, LA; Perry Nicole Gallery, Memphis, TN; Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, MS; and the Alexandria Museum of Art in Alexandria, <span class="caps">LA, </span>among many others. She has also participated in many group and invitational shows in museums and galleries nationwide. In addition, she has received numerous awards and commissions, and her work is included in many public and corporate collections throughout the country. Barton received her <span class="caps">M.F.A. </span>from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, <span class="caps">NY. </span> She currently resides in Flora, <span class="caps">MS.</span></p> <p> <br /> For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com or go to our website, http://www.denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1210 Exhibition: Winter Salon <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Gallery and Invited Artists</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">January 3 - February 2, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, January 17, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1153"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/11/11656.jpeg" alt="" height="504" width="500" /></a> <p>Christopher Reiger, <em>Between Meaning and Material (sold)</em>, 2007</p> <p> watercolor, gouache, sumi ink and marker on Arches paper, </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce the opening of Winter Salon: Gallery & Invited Artists. The exhibition features 32 artists working in myriad aesthetic, conceptual, and technical modes. Ten of the participating artists are represented exclusively by Denise Bibro Fine Art (denoted below with an asterisk), while the remaining artists were selected by curators Denise Bibro, Almitra Stanley, and Olympia Lambert.</p> <p> </p> <p>The exhibition encompasses figurative, realist, abstract, and conceptual work, and includes oils, acrylics, sculpture, stained glass, photography, and video. Although the show was not intentionally thematically organized, several themes surface and re-surface in these diverse works: trepidation, danger, and loss; meditations on landscape, nature, and the botanical; as well as work exploring materials and process. </p> <p> </p> <p>Sarah K. Bean <p>Christa Blatchford <p>Nora Chavooshian* <p>Sara Crisp* <p>Lisa Dinhofer* <p>Ric Dragon <p>Sydney Drum <p>Ruth Epstein <p>Camilla Fallon <p>Iona Fromboluti* <p>Daniel Giese <p>Josephine Haden <p>Rob Hann <p>Gerry Hayes <p>Diana Hobson <p>John Hrehov* <p>Carol Jacobsen* <p>Joyce Korotkin <p>Damon Lehrer <p>Myung-Ock Lim* <p>Charles Olson <p>Linda Lippa* <p>Shane McAdams* <p>Aija Meisters <p>Michael Paul Miller <p>Nancy Nicholson <p>Christopher Reiger <p>Tim Ross <p>Al Sprague <p>Dennis Tremalio* <p>Martha Walker</div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1153 Exhibition: Erica Licea-Kane: The Botanical Series <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Mixed media works</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 8 - December 15, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, November 8, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1132"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10306.jpeg" alt="" height="500" width="500" /></a> <p>Erica Licea-Kane, <em>Spine/Vine</em>, 2007</p> <p> fabric, sewing, couching, hand-printed rice paper, acrylic pigment, acrylic medium, 40 x 40 x 2 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art</strong>, at 529 West 20th Street, on the 4th floor, is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by <strong>Erica Licea-Kane</strong>, The Botanical Series: Mixed Media Works. </p> <p>Exploring patterns and visual events found in nature, such as the veins of a leaf, or the rapid motion of flapping butterfly wings, Licea-Kane's new suite of multi-layered, mixed media works draw the viewer into their intricate, richly textured surfaces, yet the actual method of construction of the work is elusive. The artist builds layer upon layer utilizing hand-sewn fabrics, acrylic medium extruded through a pastry bag, small bits of hand-printed rice paper, and numerous applications of acrylic pigment. Licea-Kane's background in traditional textiles and design is evidenced in her incorporation of the grid, repetition, and her attention to detail. The work is executed in luscious, highly saturated colors, such as complimentary reds and greens, hot oranges and pinks, and dramatic black and cerulean blue. Each piece represents a meditation on the juxtaposition of order and chaos. Licea-Kane creates patterns that are deceptively organized in order to disrupt balance, or loosely organized "woozy" grids which merely hint at evenly measured space. Taking its inspiration from nature, The Botanical Series also makes a somber statement about the withering away of significant and vibrant life forces. </p> <p><strong>Licea-Kane</strong> has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the American Craft Museum, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; the Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; the Textile Museum, Toronto, Canada; and Auspices Asahi Shim Bun and Tokyo Group Department Stores, Japan. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as the Boston Globe, Art New England, as well as Fiberarts and Threads magazines. Licea-Kane's works are part of numerous corporate and private collections including Meditech Corporation; First Bank; and National Development Associates, all in the Boston area. Licea-Kane has won several awards and grants, most recently the Artists Resource Trust Grant for the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. She has held teaching posts at Massachusetts College of Art; the University of Massachusetts; and Wentworth Institute of Technology; all in Boston, <span class="caps">MA, </span>as well as Rhode Island College in Providence. Licea-Kane is currently a full-time faculty member at Wheelock College in Boston, <span class="caps">MA. </span></p> <p>Please join us for an opening reception Thursday, November 8 from 6 to 8pm.</p> <p>For more information, or to request high resolution images, email info@denisebibrofineart.com.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1132 Exhibition: Audrey Ushenko <div class="exhibition-subtitle">"Recent Work"</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 11 - November 3, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 11, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1135"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10315.jpeg" alt="Late Flowers 2" height="670" width="500" /></a> <p>Audrey Ushenko, <em>Late Flowers 2</em>, 2007</p> <p> oil on linen, 48 x 36 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p></strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art,</strong/> 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce the seventh solo exhibition for Audrey Ushenko, Recent Work. Ushenko skillfully combines a unique eye for detail evoking modern realism along with the quintessential soft lights and shadows of the impressionist masters. With this exhibit, Ushenko continues her exploration of social interaction and our relationship to the natural and constructed world around us. </p> <p>In each of Ushenko's works, we are casual observers of a domestic, suburban life - witness to the private spaces of the artist. It brings to mind the effeminate décor of a parlor scene, or a window showcasing domesticity; a unique take on the suburban life. One still life captures her artist's living room in a contemplative mode--a literal "room with a view." Perhaps a statement on the ever-disappearing "American Dream" and the unsettling middle-ground the United States currently finds itself, her imagery has a certain undertone of disquiet. Quaint though her still lifes may be, there's a stark coldness to each of her brushstrokes. Concentrating on a color palette of flesh tones set amidst a desolate winter backdrop, she injects a humanlike quality to objects that are not living.</p> <p>Ushenko's work in many ways concentrates on the tranquilities of Americana and the rapidly vanishing middle class. Her work also brings to mind the light-dappled portraiture of Eric Fischl's earlier work and the broad brushwork and constant motion of Lucien Freud's subjects' physicality.</p> <p>Audrey Ushenko earned her Masters and Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University in Evanston, <span class="caps">IL. </span> She has exhibited extensively throughout the <span class="caps">U.S., </span>including the National Academy of Design, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Bloomington, <span class="caps">IN. </span></p> <p>There will be a reception held on Thursday, October 11, 2007 from 6-8PM. </p> <p>For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1135 Exhibition: Jeremy Comins <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Wooden Sculpture</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">September 6 - October 6, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, September 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1130"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10266.jpeg" alt="Treehouse" height="666" width="500" /></a> <p>Jeremy Comins, <em>Treehouse</em>, 1992</p> <p> pine, 27 x 10 x 3 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce the fourth solo exhibition for Jeremy Commins, Wooden Sculpture. </p> <p>Comins' modernist wood sculpture evokes comparisons to the totemic structures of the Pacific Northwest and the primitive work of Scandinavian wood carvings. There is an inherent quality to each of his works that references humanity and our interaction with nature. Referencing the building methods of modern step-back architecture Comins' begins with a sturdy base. He then builds upwards, each portion building upon themselves creating multiple layers similar to Constructivist techniques. Reaching out from the center structure amorphous forms seem to take on a life of their own, evoking similarities to human arms and legs. The different wooden shapes share similarities to that of Brancusi's Futuristic exploration on avian structures.</p> <p>Comins' use of cherry, walnut and mahogany wood is supplemented by his master craftsmanship. He finishes each piece with a perfectly sanded smooth surface, possessing a human skin-like quality to the touch. Critic Roberta Smith of "The New York Times" describes Comins' work as "easy sophistication and palpable integrity and an almost infallible sense of touch, scale and composition."; (November 18, 2005 "Art in Review; Jeremy Comins")</p> <p>Jeremy Comins has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Bodley Gallery <span class="caps">NYC, </span>the Staten Island Museum, the National Academy of Design, the Gallery at Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern Art, <span class="caps">NY, </span>the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Art Cologne, 2007, Art Miami 2006, Red Dot 2007. </p> <p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, <span class="caps">NY, </span>exclusively represents Jeremy Comins. <br /> There will be a reception held on Thursday, September 6, 2007 from 6-8PM. </p> <p>For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1130 Exhibition: Jerry Meyer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Memory Boxes</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">September 6 - October 6, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, September 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1129"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10285.jpeg" alt="" height="432" width="339" /></a> <p>Jerry Meyer, <em>Why Not Know Florida (sold)</em>, 2007</p> <p> mixed media, 24 x 18.5 x 7 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition for Jerry Meyer, Memory Boxes. </p> <p>In a series of mixed media assemblages Meyer's pays tribute to Joseph Cornell's mid-20th Century work. Meyer acknowledges Cornell as a predecessor to work in "Hommage a Joseph Cornell," which carries vivid similarities to Cornell's caged parrot--representing a loss of freedom, or furthermore suggesting burial as a linkage to feelings of nostalgia. Meyer expands on Cornell's innovative creations by illuminating the objects with lights shining on powerful monochromatic planes.</p> <p>As John Baker, Professor of Art History at Mass Art, Boston writes, "The originality of Jerry Meyer's Memory Boxes begins with the artist's drive to create an art of personal search in which not only the imagery but also formal components (such as composition and illumination) and the fine craft of construction reside together as expressive elements. Made of the artist's genuine emotional connections and associations to objects, and his extreme sensitivity to the poetics of lighting conditions, the Memory Boxes have an impact similar to really good theater: powerful feelings personally generated and relevant to us that are clarified and given force of impact by staging devices."</p> <p>Jerry Meyer has participated in an extensive list of exhibitions across the United States, including Artspace, New Haven, CT; Art Miami, Miami, FL; the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, New Haven, CT; and the Sharon Arts Center in Petersborough, <span class="caps">NH.</span></p> <p>Meyer is exclusively represented in New York through Denise Bibro Fine Art. <br /> There will be a reception for the artist Thursday, September 6, 2007, from 6-8PM.</p> <p>For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1129 Exhibition: Gordon Boardman <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Yet Still Standing - Not Yet Standing Still</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">July 19 - August 25, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, July 19, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1146"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10412.jpeg" alt="Placed Now Upon the Storied Walls" height="277" width="500" /></a> <p>Gordon Boardman, <em>Placed Now Upon the Storied Walls</em>, 2006</p> <p> mixed media on canvas, 72 x 96 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce our fifth solo exhibition of Gordon Boardman, Yet Still Standing- Not Yet Standing Still. </p> <p>Influenced by abstract expressionism, his work is comprised of canvases filled with explosions of color juxtaposed with dramatically sharp black incisions of lines. Boardman's work pays tribute to the color palette of Chagall and the constructivist tendencies of Joseph Stella. Boardman's strong demarcation of sensual human physicality lost amidst a wild jungle formation entices the viewer to examine the works more deeply, beyond the montage of the beautiful color planes. Much like a kaleidoscope, the range of colors in each piece -- from the sedated pastels flowing within "Look No Further" to vibrant primaries jumping off the canvas of "Can You Find Me?"-- have an ordered chaos transmitting a deliberate spark of emotion as well as a visual sense of depth and space that is vital in understanding and appreciating the works. His organic forms and gestural brushstrokes are the perfect means of channeling bold energy that resonates through to the viewer.</p> <p>Gordon Boardman has exhibited extensively throughout the US including solo shows at Chuck Levitan Gallery, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; Frank Bustamante, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; <span class="caps">ARC</span> Gallery, Chicago, IL; Foundry Gallery, Washington, <span class="caps">D.C.</span>; and the Creative Arts Gallery, Central Michigan University. Among his most recent group exhibitions are the West Michigan Area Show, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, where he was the National City Grand Prize Winner; juror: Gregory Gillespie. He also was in the Priva B. Gross International Works on Paper Exhibition at Queensborough Community College and he exhibited in the Permanent Collection Exhibit at the Grand Rapids Museum. Boardman was educated at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has his <span class="caps">MFA </span>from Michigan State University, East Lansing, <span class="caps">MI. </span></p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, July 19th from 6-8pm. </p> <p>For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1146 Exhibition: So Inclined <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Work of Recent MFA Graduates, Virginia Commonwealth University</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">June 16 - July 14, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Saturday, June 16, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>So Inclined</strong> features the work of fifteen recent graduates of the Painting and Printmaking Department of Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts and demonstrates the extraordinary talent and energy of these emerging artists. It is the inaugural show for the <span class="caps">VCU</span> Painting and Printmaking graduates at the Denise Bibro Gallery. The work exhibited contributes to the development of contemporary painting and explores its boundaries, utilizes diverse media and processes, and displays great virtuosity, intelligence, and bravado.</p> <p>Saul Becker makes drawings and paintings exploring the notion of composite landscape. Jorge Benitez creates highly rendered, politically engaged drawings. Calvin Burton's colorful paintings "collage" the representational with the abstract. Jason Coates work employs imagery associated with the comic and satirical Jared Lindsay Clark explores art through the use of found and thrift store materials. Lauren Clay constructs large-scale pastel-colored paper installations. Mike Erickson's quirky and humorous work explores Pop Art and Celebrity Culture. Heather Harvey's subtle and minimal wall installations speak of material and deconstruction. Rachel Hayes constructs extensive installations using fabric and vinyl. Andy Kozlowski's work is based on keen observation and irony. Joseph McSpadden makes seductive three-dimensional forms using paint. Eric Sall's creates an explosion of imagery in his abstract paintings. Jody Schwab constructs colorful sensitive paintings that are evocative. Marian Brunn Smith examines intimacy and vulnerability using the female body as her muse. Randy Toy explores all of the potential in printmaking through an interest in Eastern Philosophy.</p> <p>The <span class="caps">VCU</span> Painting <span class="caps">MFA </span>program is ranked #10 in the United States (US News & World Report). Guided by an outstanding faculty and prominent visiting artists, it attracts highly talented and diverse students from around the world, and its graduates are widely recognized as some of the most innovative artists working today. The Department of Painting and Printmaking has a fast growing reputation as a national leader in painting, printmaking, drawing, theory, digital media, and new genres. The Department has recently initiated a new high tech program - the Center for Digital Print Media.</p> <p>The School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University is ranked sixth in the nation among all schools of art and design (US News & World Report) and is first among public university art schools. Offering a program as creative as the field of study, the 15 departments of the School encompass all aspects of the performing and visual arts and design. A branch campus in Doha, Qatar, makes the School of the Arts international in impact. Graduates are widely recognized for their early and remarkable achievements, and the faculty for their exceptional professional and artistic accomplishments.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1417 Exhibition: Myung-Ock Lim: A Living Being <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Installation and series of individual glass works</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">May 10 - June 9, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, May 10, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1133"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10270.jpeg" alt="" height="570" width="500" /></a> <p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce its third solo exhibition of Korean artist Myung-Ock Lim.</p> <p>Formally, Myung-Ock Lim's work bears the influences of high-modernism and minimalism; the interest in sharp, clean geometric forms brings to mind Donald Judd and Tony Smith, and her use and transformation of light conjures Light-and-Space practitioners like James Turrel and Robert Irwin. However, a little time in the presence of Lim's work and her predecessors' interest in the scientific and industrial aspects of sculpture begins to yield to Lim's more personal, even spiritual qualities of the media. Lim's work finds significance in light not only for its form but for its content; light is symbolic, and her glass pieces function as agents in the transformative process.</p> <p>Her beautifully crafted prisms of colored glass take in light, process it, and project it back into the surrounding space in translucent wedges of color. The show's title, A Living Being suggests Lim's interest in light as an animated and vital force. Her ability to invest light with such a variety of qualities speaks to her nuanced understanding of it both psychologically and materially. That understanding of light contributes to this spectacular sculptural installation. </p> <p>The works comprising A Living Being simultaneously function as objects and components in a larger interrelated installation. The jewel-like glass creations stand on their own as exquisite and precious objects, and their ability to filter and cast light throughout the room entangles their identities into a single experience. Like the stained-glass in a gothic cathedral, Myung's work is equal parts heaven and earth; concrete and abstract. They are individually impressive even while they work in concert to cast a sublime wash of light throughout the space. </p> <p>Mrs. Lim has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Korea, including exhibitions at the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles, the Goeun Art Museum in Suwon Korea, the Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Park Ryu Sook Gallery in Seoul, and the Moln Gallery in Seoul. She is in the National Assembly collection and the <span class="caps">POSCO</span> Centre in Seoul. She is a professor of art at the Su-Won University in Seoul, and has received critical attention in the New York Times for her sculptural glass work. <br /> <br /> There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, May 10, 2007 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1133 Exhibition: Dusty Boynton <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Work on Paper</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 5 - May 5, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 5, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1145"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10185.jpeg" alt="" height="403" width="500" /></a> <p>Dusty Boynton, <em>No School</em>, 2007</p> <p> hand-painted collagraph monoprint, 30 x 36 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of Dusty Boynton, Work on Paper, from April 5 - May 5.</p> <p>Dusty Boynton's exhibition of prints applies her vocabulary of expressive marks and colorful subject matter. This suite of collagraphs and monoprints have been reworked with gouache paint, reclaiming some of the raw painterliness associated with Boynton's work in oil. </p> <p>The New York Times noted that her work has, "A Childlike Style that Isn't Childish..." Indeed, Boynton isn't attempting to convey exclusively juvenile subject matter. The work is more complex than that. Her eccentric repertoire of individual characters walk the line between being polite and disorderly. At times they can even seem ghoulish and lewd. Boynton uses all the formal and narrative devices at her disposal to keep the viewer guessing about the psychological nature of these works. A stunning large canvas in her last solo show featured of a crude and simple figure of a young blond girl entitled "Nude" that was as irresistible as it was awkward. The high-key color and seemingly clumsy marks of the piece often remind viewers of works made by the crayons of children, but the whimsical subject matter and gestural treatment are tainted with traces of more mature content. Sometimes one doesn't know whether to laugh or blush.</p> <p>This suite of prints succeeds with the same set of attributes, only the process has changed. Working in tandem with master printer Sarah Amos in northern Vermont, Boynton has been exploring an alternative process to elicit this characteristic sensibility. There is something more subdued and comforting in these smaller works. Where some of her larger works hulk over the viewer eerily, these are more approachable. The viewer may not be in danger of being swallowed whole by one of her creatures, but the drama isn't any mellower in her work on paper. </p> <p>Dusty Boynton has shown at Littlejohn Contemporary in New York City, Gallery Jupiter in Little Silver, New Jersey, and Steffany Martz Gallery in New York City. She has been including in dozens of group exhibitions including "In the Garden" at Barbara Krakow in Boston, "Book, Box, Word. Volume II" at the University of Florida and the North Miami Contemporary Art Center, and the "New Prints, 2002" exhibition at the International Print Center in New York. Her work has been covered in Art in America, Arts Magazine, New Art Examiner, The New York Times, and ArtNews. </p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, April 5 at 6-8pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1145 Exhibition: Sara Crisp <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Work</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 5 - May 5, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 5, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1142"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10265.jpeg" alt="Fisherman's Valentine" height="452" width="452" /></a> <p>Sara Crisp, <em>Fisherman's Valentine</em>, 2006</p> <p> mixed media on panel, 36 x 36 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce its third solo exhibition of Sara Crisp, Recent Work, from April 5 - May 5.</p> <p>Sara Crisp's solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art continues her explorations in mixed media, found objects, and encaustic painting. Her work thrives on oppositions, balancing the personal with the universal; organic and geometric; the concrete and the abstract. </p> <p>Crisp embeds found organic objects such as starfish, butterfly wings and fossils into the wax surfaces of her paintings. They have often been compared to medieval reliquaries, fossilized amber, and naturalist's journals. Although the placement of the component objects is carefully planned, she comes across these artifacts by chance. This duality between control and spontaneity is prominent in the work. The result is visually seductive and symbolically suggestive, balancing scientific objectivity and romantic subjectivity. Her work comes across as precise, even clinical, at times, their surfaces scored and traversed by carefully measured lines and geometric forms. Carefully fashioned, polygonal sections of mica, a transparent mineral, cover the center of each painting. Although the regular patterns incised in the wax and the natural geometry of the embedded organic artifacts suggest something calculated and mathematical, their personal, hand-made and individualized aspects ultimately win out.</p> <p>In addition to celebrating the process involved in creating an object, Crisp's art functions as a memorial to the once-living objects inside the work. In the spirit of post-Minimalists such as Jackie Winsor and Lynda Benglis, the marks on her surfaces also function as placeholders on a timeline of personal activity, although, Crisp's work has a humanity that escapes many of her forebears. </p> <p>The artist's marks, along with the fossils themselves, are all life-affirming in as much as they are souvenirs of time passed. However, ultimately, this artistic recordkeeping and classification of time is only a symbolic gesture. The past is captured and stabilized but not reclaimed. </p> <p>Sara Crisp studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has had several solo exhibitions throughout the United States and has won numerous awards including the Best of Show prize at the Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show and an artist's grant from the Maine Arts Commission. Crisp's work has been shown most recently at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, <span class="caps">IL, </span>and the Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, <span class="caps">MA.</span> She has also received notices in The Boston Globe, Art New England, and The New York Times.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, April 5 from 6-8pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1142 Exhibition: Mark Hadjipateras <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Affordable Solutions for a Better Living?</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 1 - April 1, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 1, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1143"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10413.jpeg" alt="15" height="398" width="500" /></a> <p><p>15</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of New York artist Mark Hadjipateras.</p> <p>Mass production makes things cheaper, and therefore, more available to more people; however, as the world becomes more democratic, it also becomes more homogeneous. These thoughts provide the basis for <strong>Mark Hadjipateras'</strong> installation <strong>Affordable Solutions for a Better Living?</strong></p> <p>This exhibition is comprised of two parts that while physically separate, are in conceptual dialogue with one another. In the first space Hadjipateras has fashioned an environment entirely out of products purchased culled from <span class="caps">IKEA. </span> The store functions as the perfect quarry from which to craft sculptural commentary on consumption. The component products are arranged in clusters and families throughout the space, bringing together traditions of minimal art, scatter, and pop art works from the '60s and '70s. In an adjacent space, hanging from the walls is a group of photographs (printed digitally on watercolor paper) which appear to be small paintings in and of themselves, making reference to movements and artists such as Pop Art, Russian Constructivism, Cubism and Abstract Expressionism.</p> <p>The effect, both in the three-dimensional work and in the photographs, is brought about by decisive appropriation and recontextualization of it in the gallery setting and in relation to other work. By bringing it back into the gallery setting, Hadjipateras has taken the modernist-inspired products full-circle, and, by pushing the limits of what these objects represent, he questions distinctions between art, design, and disposable merchandize. Inexpensive, modular, and ubiquitous, <span class="caps">IKEA </span>symbolizes a somewhat less utopian culmination of Modernism than crusaders like Mies van der Rohe sought. Hadjipateras' ultimately aims to blur the line between expressionism and stoicism. Mass production and globalization has already resulted in universally accepted aesthetics and standards of taste. A Hilton or Inter-Continental hotel room is identical in New York, Beijing, Paris, Athens, Dubai or Tokyo. Is this only the beginning? </p> <p>This is Hadjipateras's third solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art. He has exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Japan: Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, <span class="caps">NYC,</span> Steinbaum/Krauss Gallery, <span class="caps">NYC,</span> Andre Zarre, <span class="caps">NYC,</span> Artio Gallery, Athens, Greece, Gallery K, London, England, Asuka Gallery, Tokyo. He has also exhibited in the Queens Museum of Art, Alternative Museum, Cooper Union, Socrates Sculpture Park, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece. Hadjipateras' work has been reviewed in Art in America, ArtNews, Sculpture Magazine, Time Out <span class="caps">NY,</span> New York Magazine, Washington Post, The New York Sun, Newsday, The New York Times, and The New York Observer. His work is in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum, Zimmerli Art Museum, and the National Pinacotheque of Athens. In 2003 he was a recipient of the New York Municipal Arts Society award for best public work for his <span class="caps">MTA </span>commissioned subway mosaics.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, March 1, 2007, 6 - 8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1143 Exhibition: Roy Kinzer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">A Fractal Sublime</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 1 - April 1, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 1, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1141"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10422.jpeg" alt="Golden Spur" height="375" width="500" /></a> <p><p>Golden Spur</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of New York artist Roy Kinzer. </p> <p>Roy Kinzer's aerial landscape paintings are derived from altered topographical maps and digitally manipulated satellite images. He uses color, bleached-out light and fractal patterns to simulate atmospheric disturbances from the perspective of a satellite. Kinzer's interests lie in the self-similarity that occurs when fractal patterns are magnified; like when a grain of sand appears to have a similar contour as a coastline of a continent. He combines these ambiguous scales with digital effects and enhanced color manipulated on the computer. This magnified view of nature creates a sense of isolation; the computer turns satellite images into a world of fantasy and exaggeration. He hides the normal thickness and texture of paint and collaged roads under layers of mediums and varnish, resulting in a smooth finish that further separates the viewer from the painting's surface. </p> <p>Kinzer's paintings draw from the tradition of American nineteenth century Luminist landscape painters who explored the sublime, the feeling of rapture and awe caused by the beauty and terror of nature. He employs Luminist techniques such as magnified scale, dramatic lighting, deep space, and precarious perspective to heighten the emotional key of his work. But while the Luminists sought out the sublime in nature, Kinzer locates the sublime in technology. He interprets the simulated atmospheric disturbances as technology gone awry, a world where catastrophe and beauty meet, where environmental changes are visualized, where technology has tragically isolated, subjugated and compromised nature, creating a fractal sublime.</p> <p>Roy Kinzer received his Master's in Fine Arts from Vermont College. He is a recent recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He has shown widely throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions at The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, <span class="caps">NY, </span>the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, <span class="caps">NJ, </span>and the J. Rosenthal Gallery in Chicago. His group exhibitions include Breathing Space, at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn, What is the Connection? at Trans Hudson Gallery in New Jersey City, and Works On/Of Paper at Rutgers University. His work has been reviewed The New York Times, The Sunday Star Ledger, and the Village Voice.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, March 1, 2007 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1141 Exhibition: Nora Speyer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Trees on Patience Brook</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">January 25 - February 24, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, January 25, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1144"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10370.jpeg" alt="Birch Tree on Patience Brook" height="500" width="500" /></a> <p>Nora Speyer, <em>Birch Tree on Patience Brook</em>, 2006</p> <p> oil on canvas, 50 x 50 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Nora Speyer, "Trees on Patience Brook", from January 25 - February 24, 2007.</p> <p>In her fifth solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art, Nora Speyer continues to explore plein air landscape through rich color and bravura brushwork. She builds up her surfaces with oil paint, continually working back into the tacky, removing elements and adding new ones. The result is an impression of a place that is meant to be exact, but also generalized by the elapsing of time over the duration of each painting. </p> <p>Speyer's works blend elements of Expressionism and Impressionism along with a tradition of American landscape painting. Specifically, artists such as Bonnard and Redon come to mind as aesthetic touchstones. Though she doesn't evoke them directly, her sensibilities about space and atmosphere benefit from lingering ghosts of the Hudson River painters such as Asher Durand and Thomas Cole. Her craggy, accumulated surfaces also recall the abstractions of Milton Resnick. Each of these disparate attributes conspire to create the eccentric uniqueness of Nora Speyer's work.</p> <p>Specifically, the paintings in "Trees on Patience Brook" are the result of two years of careful observation of the brook that runs near her studio in Wellfleet, <span class="caps">MA. </span> The paintings are both calm and expressive; calm from the nature of the place itself and Nora's unavoidable sensitivity to it, and expressive from her naturally intense painterly approach to representing place. Speyer aims to capture the essence of landscape that runs through all individuals. She looks to capture it optically as well as emotionally; analytically and psychologically. </p> <p>Nora Speyer was born in Pittsburgh, PA and has lived in New York City for many years. Speyer has had numerous solo and group exhibitions. This is her fifth solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art. She has also shown at Galerie Darthea Speyer in Paris, Longpoint Gallery, Provincetown, <span class="caps">MA,</span> Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, <span class="caps">PA, </span>and Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, <span class="caps">PA. </span> Her work has been exhibited at the National Academy, where she is a member, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, <span class="caps">PA, </span>and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her works are in prominent public collections such as the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, <span class="caps">PA, </span>the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, <span class="caps">D.C.,</span> Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia, <span class="caps">PA,</span> Hyatt Hotel, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Nelson Rockefeller Collection to name a few.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist Thursday, January 25, 2007 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1144 Exhibition: Michael Mut <div class="exhibition-subtitle">...and Counting</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">December 15, 2006 - January 28, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Friday, December 15, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1441 Exhibition: Jan Wunderman <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Painting Survey</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 30, 2006 - January 20, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, November 30, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1156"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10547.gif" alt="" height="337" width="400" /></a> <p>Jan Wunderman, <em>Roubidoux</em>, 1988</p> <p> oil on canvas, 40 x 48 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce a new exhibition by artist Jan Wunderman. </p> <p>Jan Wunderman entered the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California, in 1938. Enrolled in a four-year fine-art course, she found it especially difficult for women, who were seldom chosen for the best painting classes even after the required two years of class separation with a very reputable teacher. <br /> <br /> Wunderman was one of two women chosen for such a class in the company of eighteen male students. After finishing at Otis, with a teacher who openly wanted no women in his class, she had the good fortune of briefly meeting Man Ray and Maya Deren. Through them and a few of their friends, she was shown reproductions of work being done in Europe--Dadaism, Cubism, and all manner of work aimed at breaking the classical rules that existed at that time. She was immediately drawn to the excitement and possibilities of abstraction and began to work outside the confines she had known.<br /> <br /> She was able to convince the Gastine Gallery of Los Angeles to give her and two other young women painters an exhibition before leaving for New York in 1946. Once in New York, she found herself immersed in a painting culture that hadn't yet condensed into what we now know as Abstract Expressionism. She indulged the experience and fell instantly in line with its individualism and openness. While learning of work by De Kooning, Kline, Pollack, and many others, she began attending classes at the Brooklyn Museum Art School with Reuben Tam. Under his guidance, her work began to develop a very personal statement far removed from the constricting ideology of art school. <br /> <br /> Her work, though abstract, is always rooted in nature. It has taken many turns through the years but has always maintained certain basic elements, retaining a rich and strong color sense and a painter's vocabulary of her own. </p> <p>Over her career, spanning more than a half century, Jan Wunderman has received numerous awards, exhibited dozens of exhibition, and complimented hundreds of individual and institutional art collections. For a specific list of Jan's biographical information, please contact the gallery for a complete biography.<br /> <br /> There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, November 20, 2006 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1156 Exhibition: Dennis Tremalio <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Paintings</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 19 - November 25, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 19, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1155"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10537.jpeg" alt="" height="404" width="432" /></a> <p>Dennis Tremalio, <em>Central Park</em>, 2006</p> <p> acrylic on canvas, 65 x 69 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art,</strong> 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea, New York, is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of <strong>Dennis Tremalio.</strong></p> <p>Amsterdam-based, American painter Tremalio has always approached painting as an interactive process. Any mark or action on the surface of his canvasses becomes a subsequent point of departure for the rest of the undeveloped painting. The active versus reactive relationship with the painting involves the reworking, discarding and recovering of information that culminates in works that bear the traces of the artists's searching engagement with the canvas.</p> <p>The imagery pinning down the sequences of marks and erasures on his canvasses are taken and collaged from found photographs, magazine cutouts, as well as the artist's own photography. This imagery represents years of collecting and archiving, and he mines this stockpile for subject matter that works collectively to evoke a sense of place somewhere between fact and fiction.</p> <p>Tremalio has a particular interest in landscapes as they engulf and surround time-worn and forsaken suburban structures. These landscapes aim to map our personal, transitory relationship to time and place by attempting to universalize the sites they depict. His paintings are thus both generic and specific, capturing at once a particular setting culled from the page of a forgotten magazine or photograph and a stereotyped representation of the same subject.</p> <p><strong>Dennis Tremalio</strong> has shown extensively in the United States and internationally. He has shown at the Jay Etkin Gallery in Memphis, Tennessee; the Miller Barnes Gallery in Los Angeles; as well as the Lucernaire Centre National D'Art in Paris; and the Shores Space and Margit J. Koch Gallery in Amsterdam.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, October 19, 2006, from 6-8pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1155 Exhibition: Nora Chavooshian <div class="exhibition-subtitle">My Glass House</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 19 - November 25, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 19, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1154"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10563.gif" alt="" height="249" width="500" /></a> <p>Nora Chavooshian, <em>NC18</em>, 2007</p> <p> </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>We are pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Nora Chavooshian's new sculpture at Denise Bibro Fine Art. </p> <p>Nora Chavooshian is primarily a sculptor. In contrast to her last exhibition which focused on works inspired by her Armenian heritage, these works concentrate on another aspect of the artist's personal journey. Chavooshian's most recent body of work, cast in forton, focuses on the materiality and surface familiar in her work with cast bronze. The ornate and sensual contours of her sculptures derive from organic forms. This current body of work has similar formal influences; however, it deals with it in more personal terms. The surfaces of the organic shapes open up to reveal personal allegories. Although these elements are personally significant, they visually transform these sentiments into a universally relevant narrative.</p> <p>Chavooshian's use of visual metaphors and symbols trace her own personal trials while also mirroring current political/global struggles. The artist often uses arrays and sequences of forms to illustrate the dynamics of changing states, and the tensions inherent in such transitions. Each disembodied sculptural component of the sequential whole works toward a greater psychological and formal interconnectedness. For example, the work "Holding" is a series of three hands each holding a unique object designed to evoke its own take on human interaction. Each hand has its own special object: one has a cracked egg representing betrayal: the other has a heart representing compassion; and the third has an eye which represents anger and clarity. Each contains symbolic threads running through the hands. The artist refers to this exhibition as her "Glass House" because of her personal ethic in maintaining emotional transparency as well as humility in her art. </p> <p>Nora Chavooshian has had several solo and group exhibitions with Denise Bibro Fine Art, <span class="caps">NYC.</span> She has also had extensive exhibitions throughout the <span class="caps">U.S. </span>including the Pierre du Pont Arts Center, Wilmington, Delaware; Winfsky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts; the American Can Society, San Francisco, CA; <span class="caps">PASADENA </span> Art Center, Pasaedena, CA; Watchung Art Center, Watchung, NJ; and the Michael Fletcher Gallery, New York, <span class="caps">NY.</span> The artist has been reviewed in The Star Ledger, <span class="caps">NJ,</span> The Montclair Times, <span class="caps">NJ,</span> The New York Times, among many others publications. She has been commissioned by Brookdale Park, Essex County, <span class="caps">NJ, </span>and Angelbeck's Fine Wines, Montclair, NJ to name a few. Chavooshian received her <span class="caps">BFA </span>from The San Francisco Art Institute and also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. </p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist, on Thursday, October 19, 2006, from 6-8PM.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1154 Exhibition: Shane McAdams <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Unmoved Mover</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">September 7 - October 14, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, September 7, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1147"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10425.jpeg" alt="129" height="432" width="432" /></a> <p>Shane McAdams, <em>129</em>, 2007</p> <p> </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of New York artist Shane McAdams. </p> <p>Shane McAdams' process-based abstractions take shape organically and develop within minutes once their material components are set into motion. Using combinations of resistant materials, the branching, web-like forms arise from a set of predetermined procedures that guide the composition. The formal variations between the paintings are the result of subtle manipulations to the basic process such as changes in temperature and application methods. </p> <p>Although the imagery in McAdams' paintings seems to refer to fractal or biological imagery, these associations are only coincidental. The organized structures frozen in action in this work are the product of basic binary opposition that is reflected in systems as wide ranging as epidemiology, linguistics, fluid dynamics, and computer languages. </p> <p>In Unmoved Mover, McAdams extends the basic binary relationship of his materials by introducing different classes of oppositional elements. Beneath the organic forms in this body of work are the slightest indications of fabrics, maps, and texts suggesting another dimension to the natural/synthetic, organic/inorganic relationships that have only metaphorically underpinned his work in the past.</p> <p>Shane McAdams received his Master's in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York. He co-curated Head Over Hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint which was reviewed in the New York Times and Time Out New York. He has exhibited at Denise Bibro Fine Art, Winston Wachter and Janet Kurnatowski in New York as well as in group exhibitions and art fairs around the United States. Shane is also a regular contributor to "The Brooklyn Rail."<br /> <br /> There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, September 7, 2006 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1147 Exhibition: Summer Group Exhibition 2006 <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Denise Bibro Fine Art</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">June 14 - August 19, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Wednesday, June 14, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1148 Exhibition: Carol Jacobsen <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Conviction: Social Documentary Video and Photography</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 20 - June 3, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 20, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1150"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10443.jpeg" alt="" height="708" width="500" /></a> <p>Carol Jacobsen, <em>Conviction 10 Gerri</em>, 2007</p> <p> </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, Inc., is pleased to present Conviction, a social documentary project in video and photography by Carol Jacobsen, from April 20 - June 3, 2006. The exhibit is co-sponsored by Amnesty International <span class="caps">USA,</span> Women's Human Rights, Sheila Dauer, Director, and coincides with Amnesty's campaign against human rights abuses in <span class="caps">U.S. </span>women's prisons.</p> <p>Works in the exhibition include Convicted: A Prison Diary, a video piece based on letters to the artist over the past two years from a woman who gives an intimate, firsthand account of conditions inside prison; and Conviction, a series of photographic prints that defy public perceptions of women prisoners through the historical arrest records, mugshots, and <span class="caps">FBI </span>reports of renowned women such as Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Emma Goldman and Angela Davis.</p> <p>On Tuesday, May 9, 5-6:30 a panel of artists including Martha Rosler, Susan Meiselas, Holly Hughes, Clarissa Sligh, Carol Jacobsen and others will discuss issues relating to feminist politics and <br /> art at Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 W. 20th St., New York, <span class="caps">NY. </span></p> <p>Carol Jacobsen is an award winning artist whose work confronts issues of women's<br /> criminalization and censorship. Her films and photography have been exhibited and screened worldwide, including at Lincoln Center, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Cultura Contemporanea, <br /> Barcelona; Kunstforum, Bonn; Temple Gallery, Rome, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paul Robeson Foundation, Women in Film <br /> Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and others. Her work has been sponsored by Amnesty International <span class="caps">USA </span>since 1998. She is the 2005-06 Human Rights Fellow and Professor of Art and Women's Studies at <br /> The University of Michigan. She serves as Director of the Michigan Women's Clemency Project., and is represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 W. 20th Street, New York, NY 10011.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1150 Exhibition: Disturbing the Peace <div class="exhibition-subtitle">A Group Exhibition of Photography, Co-Sponsored by Amnesty International USA, Women’s Human Rights</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 20 - June 3, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 20, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present <strong>Disturbing the Peace,</strong> a photography exhibit by 10 artists whose works address a range of political questions that cause disruptions to the peace and tranquility of the status quo, transgress accepted boundaries, challenge established authority, and/or reinterpret histories. <strong>Disturbing the Peace,</strong> the show's title, is also a reference to the frequent charge faced by women who are arrested for political protest, unruly behavior, prostitution and other unlawful activities. Exhibiting artists are Susan Meiselas, Martha Rosler, Pat Ward Williams, Connie Samaras, Clarissa Sligh, Donna Ferrato, Deborah Bright, Joanne Leonard, <br /> Holly Hughes and Carol Jacobsen. The exhibit is co-sponsored by Amnesty International <span class="caps">USA,</span> Women's Human <br /> Rights, Sheila Dauer, Director. Catalog essay is by Dr. Wendy Kozol.</p> <p>Susan Meiselas was made a MacArthur Fellow in 1992, and her photographs have appeared in publications worldwide. She is represented by Magnum Photo in New York. Connie Samaras is a Los Angeles-based artist whose works have been shown at the San Francisco Art Institute, Santa Monica Museum and elsewhere.</p> <p>Martha Rosler's works in video, photo-text, installation and performance have been shown at Documenta, the Venice Biennale, <span class="caps">ICA,</span> London, Tate Modern, several Whitney Biennials and elsewhere. Pat Ward Williams' recent exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, the International Center for Photography, Johannesburg Biennale, <br /> and others. Carol Jacobsen has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paul Robeson Foundation, Women in Film Foundation, and others. She is represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art. Deborah Bright's work has been shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Museet for Fotokunst, Copenhagen, and elsewhere. Holly Hughes has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, McKnight Foundation, two Obie Awards, <span class="caps">ICON</span> Award, and others. Clarissa Sligh's work has been <br /> shown at Galerie Junge Kunst, Trier, Germany, Art in General, New York, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, The New Museum, New York, and elsewhere. Joanne Leonard's work has been featured in <br /> Janson's History of Art, Gardener's Art Through the Ages, Women of Photography and others. Donna Ferrato's book, "Living with the Enemy" (1991) has become a photoessay classic and an effective organizing <br /> tool against domestic violence.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1149 Exhibition: Dusty Boynton <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Oil Paintings</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 9 - April 16, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 9, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1152"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10448.jpeg" alt="" height="542" width="500" /></a> <p>Dusty Boynton, <em>Morning (sold)</em>, 2005</p> <p> oil on linen, 72 x 66 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of Vermont artist Dusty Boynton. </p> <p>Boynton's recent paintings demonstrate her ongoing interest in conflating the informal and the sophisticated. As "The New York Times" noted in a review title, the work has, "A Childlike Style that Isn't Childish." Her cast of characters, with their enlarged eyes, heads, and other quirky features, abandon conventional draftsmanship or traditional depiction and end up in a world of their own. The loose and expressive brushstrokes, heightened color palette, and fantastic, sometimes supernatural imagery give her figures a carefree and imaginative, innocence that is often associated with children's art.</p> <p>However, despite the initial juvenile sweep of her work, Boynton's cultivated maturity guides the final product. The initial associations of her pieces begin to yield to subtle details that challenge the viewer's preconceptions about such imagery. The frivolity of Boynton's fantasies mingles with more vexing realities.</p> <p>The sheer scale of her paintings belies the preciousness of child's drawing. Expressive brushstrokes, while seemingly loose and gestural, only appear to continue uninterrupted as if created by a stick of charcoal, pencil or crayon. The continuous gesture is more calculated and formally rigorous than it would appear. These characteristics result in a kind of expressionism that brings to mind Willem De Kooning as well as Neo Expressionists such as Kippenberger, Immendorf, Chia, and, on this side of the Atlantic, Basquiat. Boynton's compositions are steeped in a fanciful sensibility that sets her apart from the determined audacity associated with such counterparts. </p> <p>Equal parts youth and maturity, fantasy and objectivity, Boynton's work walks a wire that spans from the body to the mind.</p> <p>Dusty Boynton has shown at Littlejohn Contemporary in New York City, Gallery Jupiter in Little Silver, New Jersey, and Steffany Martz Gallery in New York City. She has been including in dozens of group exhibitions including "In the Garden" at Barbara Krakow in Boston, "Book, Box, Word. Volume II" at the University of Florida and the North Miami Contemporary Art Center, and the "New Prints, 2002" exhibition at the International Print Center in New York. Her work has been covered in Art in America, Arts Magazine, New Art Examiner, the New York Times, and ArtNews. <br /> <br /> There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, March 9, 2006 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1152 Exhibition: David Herman <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Security</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 9 - April 16, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 9, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1151"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/14/14400.jpeg" alt="" height="406" width="500" /></a> <p>David Herman, <em>Night Elegy</em>, 2001</p> <p> mixed media collage, 11 x 14 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce New York artist David Herman's third solo exhibition, Security. </p> <p>The intricate patterns adorning the envelope of an official envelope containing confidential tax information arrested the artist and became the concept for this recent exhibition.</p> <p>There were tiny numbers jammed up against each other, creating a mesh that would prohibit anyone from seeing through the envelope; they were at once mesmerizing and forbidding. Staring at the busy patterns, they took on a life of their own. Like Rorschach tests, they appeared as filigrees, intricate patterns; an arcane language of signs and symbols that seemed an apt metaphor for the dizzying and sometimes impenetrably complex contemporary visual landscape.<br /> <br /> These numbers and letters, designed in their component form to be symbols of communication, had come to serve as objects of obfuscation. Herman soon began to consider an interesting paradox; the universe of signs and meaning, so evolved to clarify and elucidate, had begun to obscure and confuse - a modern day Tower of Babel as it were.<br /> <br /> These thoughts are the basis for the series, "Security", named after the security envelopes that inspired Herman's stirrings. The secretive deployment of these designs are explored and expanded upon in this exhibition and hopefully reinvest them with a renewed legibility. </p> <p>Herman has shown widely in New York and elsewhere, including exhibitions at the Caelum Gallery, , Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Nexus Gallery, and Gallery Swan. He has show in group exhibitions at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center and the Great Neck Art Center. His reviews include The New York Times, Gallery and Studio Magazine and the New York Art World.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, March 9, 2006 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1151 Exhibition: Linda Lippa <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Oil Paintings</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 2 - March 4, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, February 2, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1440 Exhibition: Carol Goebel <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Flying Migration</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 2 - March 4, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, February 2, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1157"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10558.jpeg" alt="" height="369" width="500" /></a> <p>Carol Goebel, <em>Installation Shot</em>, 2007</p> <p> </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 W. 20th St., Chelsea, New York, is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition of gallery artist, Carol Goebel, Flying Migration, welded steel sculpture.</p> <p>New life forms are invented. They fly; are of steel that soars. Farm implements, cast iron metamorphasizing into wall sculptures. Carol Goebel's pieces are light and airy, but weighty with a formal pressure that underlines their ballast. "Her objects are whimsical and delicate despite having been made of wicked-looking items: scythes, pitchforks, exhaust pipes, harrows, and spades........creating a weird and esthetically pleasing confluence of the beautiful and dangerous," writes Arlene McKanic in Artnews. Goebel's recent work continues her exploration of creating from the old a new life, a new object with its own character. These current works are far more minimal. There is a prevailing elegant beauty comprised by that which is created and the negative space that it works from within its orbit. As the title of the exhibition suggests all these works move, journey. The installation of many indicates both the individuality of each work and the shared characteristic of all needing to fly, move and go to another place. </p> <p>Critics William Zimmer, Helen Harrison, Joan Marter, Arlene McKanic, and Corinne Robins have written glowingly about Goebel's work. Her other solo shows include On The Move, Space Moves, and Moving Up at Denise Bibro Fine Art, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; Moving On at Ceres Gallery, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; Myth From Metal at the Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Center and Guardian Spirits at Broadway Windows, <span class="caps">NY. </span> She has participated in numerous artists' panels and has had her work reviewed in publications such as Artnews, The New York Times, New York Newsday, Arts Magazine and M/E/A/N/I/N/G, Duke University Press.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, February 2, 6-8pm. The artist will be present.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1157 Exhibition: Head Over Hand: <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Pushing the Limits of Paint</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">December 15, 2005 - January 28, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, December 15, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>The hand is the most intuitive and direct tool an artist has to make a mark on a surface. In most two-dimensional art, forms evolve through the direct marking of the surface - the hand is only slightly mediated by drawing implements. While pens, crayons, and brushes are indeed tools for mark making, they are direct extensions of the artist's hand.</p> <p>There is nothing necessarily deficient with the hand's ability to carry out the mind's artistic impulses, however, there is a tendency for gestures to become formulaic. The standardization of the gesture has been at least partially responsible for the decline of formal abstract painting. While many in the art world looked beyond the picture plane to find fresh artistic territory, others have been less willing to give up on painting.</p> <p>The artists in <strong>Head Over Hand</strong> look beyond the conventionalized abstract mark, to art making procedures that employ basic natural processes and non-traditional tools to generate discrete, organized structures in paint.</p> <p>Many of the structures in the show reflect forms in nature. Walter Biggs' brushed graphite builds to mountain-like accretions on the painting's surface. Roland Flexner captures the precise moment a bubble of ink bursts in his small experimental drawings. A simple but inscrutable process of layering and dragging acrylic paint reveals improbably illusionistic surfaces in Kurt Strahm's paintings.</p> <p>Each of the artists in the show demonstrates unique, innovative approaches to creating painterly order on a two-dimensional surface. How these paintings are made is as important as what they look like. Although the processes are obscure, subtleties on their surfaces indicate the nature of their creation - burns, drips, accretions, cracks, pools, etc.</p> <p>Head Over Hand rethinks traditional approaches to painting, reexamines methods and applications, and, in the process, pushes paint to its limits. </p> <p>Artists:</p> <p><strong>Walter Biggs</strong><br /> <strong>Kathleen Kucka</strong><br /> <strong>Mike Miga</strong><br /> <strong>Miriam Cabessa</strong><br /> <strong>Amy Kupferberg</strong><br /> <strong>Matthew Satz</strong><br /> <strong>Jaq Chartier</strong><br /> <strong>James Lecce</strong><br /> <strong>Greg Stone</strong><br /> <strong>Roland Flexner</strong><br /> <strong>Shane McAdams</strong><br /> <strong>Kurt Strahm</strong><br /> <strong>Martin Kline</strong><br /> <strong>Maureen McQuillan</strong><br /> <strong>William Wood</strong></p> <p>There will be an opening reception for the artist Thursday, December 15, 6-8 PM</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1180 Exhibition: Patrick Pierce <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Birth of the New</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 8 - December 10, 2005</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Tuesday, November 8, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1439 Exhibition: Lisa Dinhofer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Chasing Shooters</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 8 - December 10, 2005</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Tuesday, November 8, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Lisa Dinhofer's third solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art continues to expand on her previous representational investigations. Her compositions have become more intricate and orchestrated. "Chasing Shooters" features some of her most complexly composed and technically virtuous work to date.</p> <p>New York art critic and poet Cynthia Nadelman comments in the exhibition catalog for the show:</p> <p>"...Lisa Dinhofer's painting, Constellation has it all - classic repose, modernist intellectual rigor, drop-dead realist draftsmanship, fantasy subject, carnival color. This work takes Dinhofer's strengths in a deceptively simple new direction. Constellation and the equally impressive Chasing Shooters feature Dinhofer's signature marbles of every type and size and seem to make them do the work alone; there are no props (other than the unseen setups that make these still lifes possible). The intent is as formal as classic Sol LeWitt, while the space Dinhofer creates is her own. In Constellation, the marbles appear to sit somewhat randomly in concentric circles on a reflective royal blue surface; and in Chasing Shooters, they seem to float in a disembodied white box. The colors, the reflections, the placements all serve to create formal interrelationships of dazzling impact..."</p> <p>In additions to this fascination with marbles is a general interest in everyday objects, such as lipstick, and fruit, and their potential to generate an implied narrative. These narratives take on a fantastic and whimsical quality as Dinhofer puts her unique compositional spin on them.</p> <p>Her work has been reproduced in numerous books and catalogues and mentioned in prestigious publications such as The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Art & Antiques, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Art in America and Art News. </p> <p>Her work is in several private, public and corporate collections including: The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The New York Public Library, NY; City College, <span class="caps">C.U.N.Y.,</span> NY; The Forbes Magazine Collection, NY; Rose Art Museum Brandeis University, Waltham, <span class="caps">MA,</span> Jane Voorhees Zimmerili Art Museum, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ; Pfizer Inc, NY; DuPont Corporation, Wilmington, DE; General Electric Co., Bridgeport, <span class="caps">CT.</span></p> <p>Lisa Dinhofer is an instructor of drawing at the National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts, <span class="caps">NYC.</span><br /> <br /> There will be a reception for the artist on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1167 Exhibition: Jeremy Comins <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Sculpture in Wood</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 6 - November 5, 2005</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Jeremy Comins' recent wood sculpture continues to express the artist's ongoing interest in organic forms and human psychological states. Finely crafted, the artist uses a variety of different kinds of wood. Although Comins begins with sketches and certain preconceptions about where a piece will go, there are always points of improvisation and detours from original plans. As a result, there is a constant dialogue between the Dionysian (spontaneous) and Apollonian (controlled) impulses guiding his work.</p> <p>Many of his sculptures illustrate, or at least symbolize, the conflicts between these opposing forces in the mind. The inner workings of both the physical world and the human psyche underpin much of his work. Much like dreams or altered states, Comins' works bring question to things and their simulacra, reality and illusion, presence and absence. Comins' wood sculptures have a surreal quality with Rene Magritte and the author Jorge Luis Borges - creating a metaphor of life or a riddle, and remain elegantly refined in their craftsmanship. </p> <p>It could be said that his work seduces with material and craftsmanship but arrests with psychologically driven narratives. This current show demonstrates the breadth of his psychological investigation as well as the variety of materials and attention to craft.</p> <p>Jeremy Comins has had solo exhibitions at Mari Gallery, Bodley Gallery and Roko Gallery in New York, as well as the Staten Island Museum, <span class="caps">NY. </span> Some of his group exhibitions include: the Silvermine Guild, CT; the National Academy of Design, NY; Wharton Esherick Museum, King of Prussia, PA; Lehman College, NY; Gallery at Lincoln Center, NY; National Arts Club, NY; Salmagundi Club, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, <span class="caps">PA, </span>among others. His work has been featured in Woodwork magazine and he has authored and illustrated several books including: Getting Started in African Crafts, Latin American Crafts and Their Cultural Background, Art from Found Objects, Eskimo Crafts and Their Cultural Backgrounds, Totems, Decoys and Covered Wagons, Slotted Sculpture, Chinese and Japanese Crafts and Their Cultural Backgrounds, Vans to Build from Cardboard. Comins has received several awards and honors including: Harry Ballinger Memorial Award, 2002, Hannibal Debellis Sculpture Award, 2001, Graham Gallery Sculpture Award, 2000, Philip Isenberg Memorial Award, 1999, <span class="caps">ASCA</span> Contemporary Art Award, Richman Sculpture Award and the Henry Nordhausen Memorial Award for Photography in 1998. Others awards include the Elliot Liskin Memorial Award.</p> <p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY exclusively represents Jeremy Comins.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, October 6, 2005 from 6 - 8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1182 News: Sara Crisp at the Art League of Long Island <p class="news-added">2008-06-09</p> <p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to annnounce artist Sara Crisp's inclusion in "Conversations in Paint" at the Art League of Long Island's Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery at 107 East Deer Park Road in Dix Hills, <span class="caps">NY. </span> The exhibit runs from June 25 - July 27, 2008, with a reception Sunday, June 29th from 3PM - 5PM. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9AM - 4PM and Saturday and Sunday from 11AM - 4PM. For more information, please go to the Art League's website <a href=http://www.artleagueli.net><strong>http://www.artleagueli.net</strong></a></p> http://denisebibrofineart.com/news/view/537