Exhibition of Rarely-Seen Drawings Explore Noted Sculptor, Tony Smith’s Early Work at the Menil Collection

HOUSTON, TX.- On view at the Menil Collection from December 17, 2010 through April 3, 2011, Tony Smith: Drawings brings together a group of rarely-exhibited works on paper by the American artist best known for monumental geometric sculptures in steel and bronze. Created between 1950 and 1955, the 30 drawings on display encapsulate a dramatic turning point in Smith’s artistic career, as he shifted from his professional architectural work towards painting and sculpture. Throughout this brief yet remarkably productive period, [...]

Five New Paintings by Cy Twombly to Inaugurate Gagosian’s New Paris Gallery

PARIS.- To inaugurate the new Paris gallery, Gagosian Gallery presents “Camino Real,” a group of five new paintings by Cy Twombly. Each displays the inimitable and exuberant painterly gestures and highly keyed palette typical of his recent paintings. Camino Real is a reference to the play by Tennessee Williams, first performed in New York in 1953. The cast of characters, which includes Don Quixote, Lord Byron, Casanova, Baron de Charlus, and Marguerite Gautier, represents a romantic attitude to life, “old [...]

Realistic Paintings by David Jon Kassan

David Jon Kassan (Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1977) is a contemporary American painter best known for his life-size realist portraits. The paintings combine figurative subjects with abstract backgrounds or “tromp l’oeil texture studies,” reportedly inspired by Franz Kline and Robert Rauschenberg. Of this dual representation strategy Kassan notes, “my effort to constantly learn to document reality with a naturalistic, representational painting technique allows for pieces to be inherent contradictions; paintings that are both real and abstract.” Kassan currently lives [...]

Three Solo Exhibitions Open at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art

ROCKPORT, ME.- For the first time in more than 25 years, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art will present, in effect, three solo exhibitions by three generations of well-established and distinguished artists with strong Maine connections: Will Barnet, Yvonne Jacquette, and Dozier Bell. The exhibitions open Thursday, August 5, and will continue through Saturday, September 25. Will Barnet’s exhibition, Master Printmaker: Selections from Five Decades, combines widely known representational prints of family and personal memories with a series of very [...]

Recent Gifts from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation on View at the Snite Museum of Art

NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Snite Museum of Art presents the exhibition Recent Gifts from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation on view from July 4 through August 15, 2010. This exhibition features a small selection of paintings, lithographs, and drawings by noted Cuban artist Emilio Sanchez. Emilio Sanchez was born in Camagüey, Cuba in 1921. He began his artistic training at the Art Students League in 1944 when he moved to New York City where he lived until he died in 1999. [...]

First Retrospective of Artist and Critic Lil Picard Debuts at Grey Art Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Debuting at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery on April 20, Lil Picard and Counterculture New York comprises over 70 works by a pioneering feminist artist who played varied and vital—but under-acknowledged―roles in the New York art world during the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. This first comprehensive American museum exhibition presents paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages, and several landmark installations and performances. Also included are photographs, writings, and films. All the works are drawn from the collections of [...]

Middle Eastern Women Unveiled in Walgreens’ Window

MIAMI BEACH, FL.- Cecilia Moreno-Yaghoubi unveils a new side of her work at Walgreens Windows, an opportunity made possible by ArtCenter/South Florida. Known for her signature use of found objects in creating eerie, yet poignant assemblages, Yaghoubi shares a series of mixed media paintings that exude an unexpected calm. Representations of Middle-Eastern women set in deep purples, blues and golds hang today in the storefront of the Collins Avenue at 67th Street location in Miami Beach. This context is both [...]

Exhibition of Drawings by Sky Pape to Open at June Kelly Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Water Works: Surface Tension, an exhibition of drawings by Sky Pape that demonstrates once again the artist’s ability to push the boundaries of the medium, will open at the June Kelly Gallery on February 5. It will remain on view through March 9. Pape creates her drawings by an unconventional process — working on the floor and blowing ink through tubes and funnels onto handmade paper from Japan, Korea and Nepal. Sky Pape, “Gowanus”, 2009. Ink and [...]

Artist Rosalyn A. Engelman Wins Gold At The Florence Bienniale

FLORENCE.- Out of 800 artists from 80 countries, exhibiting more than 2,500 works, with a career far from over, New Yorker Rosalyn A. Engelman received a “Career Achievement in Art” Award at the 2009 Biennale Internazionale Dell’ Arte Contemporanea di Firenze. The award-certificate is accompanied by a gold medal, which bears the portrait of Lorenzo di Medici, Il Magnifico. The Biennale is under the auspices of the Italian government, with “High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic.” Rosalyn [...]

Butler Art Museum Receives Jackson Pollock Painting

YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- The Butler Institute of American Art, has acquired a painting by mid-twentieth century master artist, Jackson Pollock. The work, titled “Silver and Black”, measures 21.25 x 15.75 inches and was painted with oil and metallic paint in 1950. The painting, which is a gift from a Western Pennsylvania collector whose family acquired the work in 1958, is valued at two million dollars. According to Butler Director Dr. Louis Zona, “This is indeed a very special holiday present, and [...]