Highbrow Magazine - tripoli gallery https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/tripoli-gallery en Afrofuturist Painter Angelbert Metoyer Introduces New Exhibit ‘Magnificent Change’ https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/12077-afrofuturist-painter-angelbert-metoyer-introduces-new-exhibit-magnificent-change <div class="field field-name-field-cat field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/photography-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Photography &amp; Art</a></div></div></div><span class="submitted-by">Submitted by tara on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 11:16</span><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1metoyer.jpg?itok=1MNdXf9B"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1metoyer.jpg?itok=1MNdXf9B" width="480" height="320" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p> <p>Tripoli Gallery (Wainscott, New York) is currently presenting this year’s artist-in-resident, Angelbert Metoyer<strong>,</strong> and his solo exhibition, <em>Magnificent Change</em>. The performance of <em>Magnificent Chang</em>e will be a living symbolic garden and installation from April 3rd to May 24<sup>th</sup>. The completed exhibition will remain on view until May 3rd, 2021. The residency and exhibition will lead up to the release of two new works for a contemporary auction in June at Sotheby’s.<br />  <br /> With his main studio based in Houston, the American painter and <em>Afrofuturist</em> draws on recent sojourns in light in his new body of work. Using past works in his process, Metoyer constructs in concert with the elements to create artworks that exhibit life force and vitality, permeated texturally with historical references and thematic layers.</p> <p> </p> <p>Metoyer explores memory, mythology, and metamorphosis through the channels of history, philosophy, and theology. These various media combining conventional artistic mediums with nontraditional materials such as coal, oil, tar and gold dust (“excrements of industry” as he calls them) exhibit an otherworldly quality.</p> <p> </p> <p>Metoyer’s paintings and drawings evoke a conceptual duality, straddling a line between literal representation of lived experiences and abstract expressions of memories and dreams. In breaking down and reconstructing new narratives, Metoyer explores the lifespan of chronicles that live within his work.<br />  <br /> Metoyer studied drawing and painting at the Atlanta College of Art. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the U.S. Department of State, Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Charles, H. Wright Museum, African American Museum of Contemporary Art, the ACE Collection, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany. He has shown at the Venice Biennale, Art Basel Miami, and Art Basel Switzerland. His work has been featured on many album and book covers, including Mike Ladd’s <em>Negrophilia</em>, Saul Williams’s <em>Niggy Tardust</em>, Bilal’s <em>In Another Life</em> (2015) and <em>VOYAGE-19</em> (2020), and Marcus Guillery’s <em>Red Now and Laters</em> (2014). Angelbert Metoyer has exhibited with Tripoli Patterson since 2005; <em>1<sup>st</sup> Annual Thanksgiving Collective</em>, 2005; <em>Butter Lane Barn Show</em>, 2006; and in group shows at Tripoli Gallery since the year of its inception; <em>Before We Let </em>Go, 2009; <em>Modern </em>Salon, 2012; <em>What Have We Done?,</em> 2019; and <em>Are We There Yet?</em>, 2021. <em>Magnificent Change </em>marks his second solo show at Tripoli Gallery following <em>After Life </em>in 2017.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>For more information, visit </em></strong><a href="https://tripoligallery.com/" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline"><strong><em>Tripoli Gallery</em></strong></a><strong><em>. </em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/2metoyer.jpg" style="height:400px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/3metoyer.jpg" style="height:400px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/4metoyer.jpg" style="height:600px; width:404px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/5metoyer.jpg" style="height:600px; width:539px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Highbrow Magazine</strong></p> <p> </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/angelbert-metoyer" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">angelbert metoyer</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/artists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">artists</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tripoli-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">tripoli gallery</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/contemporary-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Contemporary art</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/afrofuturist" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">afrofuturist</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/new-york-galleries" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">new york galleries</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The Editors</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pop field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Popular:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">not popular</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photographer field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Photographer:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Images courtesy of Tripoli Gallery</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-bot field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Bottom Slider:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Out Slider</div></div></div> Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:16:17 +0000 tara 10309 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/12077-afrofuturist-painter-angelbert-metoyer-introduces-new-exhibit-magnificent-change#comments Seascapes: Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/4252-seascapes-photographs-hiroshi-sugimoto <div class="field field-name-field-cat field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/photography-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Photography &amp; Art</a></div></div></div><span class="submitted-by">Submitted by tara on Wed, 08/27/2014 - 10:44</span><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1hiroshi.jpg?itok=4E6EjzP8"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1hiroshi.jpg?itok=4E6EjzP8" width="480" height="372" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p> <p>Southampton, NY – Tripoli Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto. <em>Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes</em> will be on view at 30a Jobs Lane from August 27 through October 21. This marks Sugimoto’s first solo exhibition at Tripoli Gallery.</p> <p> </p> <p><em>Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes</em> brings together Sugimoto’s iconic seascapes, on loan from important collections and on view for the first time in Southampton since <em>Time Exposed</em>, his 1994-95 solo exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum.</p> <p> </p> <p>Among works on view are Mediterranean Sea, Crete (1990); Yellow Sea, Cheju (1992); Lake Superior, Cascade River (1995-2003); and Tyrrhenian Sea (1990), as well as his 2011 Five Elements sculpture, made from optical quality glass and based on the form of a 13<sup>th</sup> century Japanese Buddhist stupa reliquary.</p> <p> </p> <p>A unique seascape photograph is preserved within the glass sphere of the 6-inch high pagoda, honoring and revering the element from which all life stems.</p> <p> </p> <p>Sugimoto began his series of seascapes in 1980, traveling to remote oceans, seas and lakes around the world. Using his preferred late-19th-century/early-20th century big box camera with black-and-white sheet film, he achieves high technical results with gradations and tonalities that make each photograph distinct and impeccably rich in detail.</p> <p> </p> <p>Perched on high cliffs, Sugimoto is able to look across the water and capture its vastness and mystery in a minimalist composition that relies solely on the water, the atmosphere, and the horizon line that precisely bisects his frame.</p> <p> </p> <p>“My first view of the ocean came as an awakening,” Sugimoto writes, recalling his earliest and most vivid recollection of the sea, “I spied it from a Tokaido Line train, the seascape passing from left to right. It must have been autumn, because the sky had such vast, eye-opening clarity. We were riding high on a cliff, and the sea flickered far below like frames of a motion picture, only to disappear behind the rocks. The horizon line where the azure sea met the brilliant sky was razor sharp, like a samurai sword’s blade. Captivated by this startling yet oddly familiar scene, I felt I was gazing on a primordial</p> <p>landscape.” (“The Times of My Youth: Images from Memory,” Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005)</p> <p> </p> <p>Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo in 1948 and has lived and worked in New York City since 1974. He has had solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; and Hara Museum of Contemporary</p> <p>Art, Toyko, among others. A major 30-year survey of his work opened at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo in 2005 and travelled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas.</p> <p> </p> <p>Sugimoto has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the recipient of honorary doctorates and awards including the Praemium Imperale Award in 2009 and 2010, the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in 2001, and the 15th Annual Infinity Award for Art, International Center of Photography, New York, in 1999. Sugimoto's work is held in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery, London; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; MACBA, Barcelona; and Tate Gallery, London.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes will be on view at the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton, NY, from August 27 – October 21, 2014.</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/2hiroshi.jpg" style="height:490px; width:625px" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/3hiroshi.jpg" style="height:486px; width:625px" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/4hiroshi.jpg" style="height:487px; width:625px" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Highbrow Magazine</strong></p> <p> </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/hiroshi-sugimotos" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">hiroshi sugimotos</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tripoli-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">tripoli gallery</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/artists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">artists</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/new-york-artists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">new york artists</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/art-scene" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">art scene</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/photography" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">photography</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/photographers" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">photographers</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Hiroshi Sugimoto</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pop field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Popular:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">not popular</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-bot field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Bottom Slider:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Out Slider</div></div></div> Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:44:10 +0000 tara 5125 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/4252-seascapes-photographs-hiroshi-sugimoto#comments New Paintings by Eric Freeman https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/2833-new-paintings-eric-freeman <div class="field field-name-field-cat field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/photography-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Photography &amp; Art</a></div></div></div><span class="submitted-by">Submitted by tara on Wed, 09/25/2013 - 09:51</span><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1Eric%20Freeman_Untitled%20%28purple%29_2013_55x70inches.jpg?itok=2nAQUq5t"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1Eric%20Freeman_Untitled%20%28purple%29_2013_55x70inches.jpg?itok=2nAQUq5t" width="480" height="379" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>  </p> <p> Southampton, NY – Tripoli Gallery currently presents a solo exhibition by Eric Freeman titled <em>New Paintings</em>.</p> <p>  </p> <p> The paintings are ephemeral. While we understand that these works are fastened to the canvas, that the paint is permanent once dried, there is an ever-evolving quality to their surface—one seems to not only respond emotionally, but the paintings themselves react optically to the colors and light around them. Stripped of narrative and void of external references, what remains is pure and intense color.</p> <p>  </p> <p> In an age where artists are constantly exploring new mediums and trying to break away from what has already been done, Eric Freeman finds his mode of expression by pushing through the traditional medium of oil on canvas. He has continued to energize his own practice and the fundamentals of being a painter by experimenting with the combination of elements in the buildup of oil paint. Fascinated with the qualities that make up a color, he has recently started exploring with iridescent pigments, raising the depth of each color at hand and adding just the right amounts of various oils, before applying the new blend to the canvas in confident and graceful brushstrokes. Freeman applies layer upon layer, thinning them out intermittently—a process through which he creates different surfaces for light refraction to occur at various speeds, allowing the light to actually bounce between each layer resulting in a backlit quality.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Painter David Salle referenced an “illusive immateriality” to Freeman’s work, noting: “Where does the energy in these pictures come from? What does Freeman want us to feel? A sense of giving over to it; the thrill of the roller coaster gives way to something more internal. Accept the sheer physical/optical fact, these paintings seem to say, because that’s what painting is.”</p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1970, Eric Freeman earned his B.F.A. from Tufts University in 1993. He has shown at the Wetterling Gallery in Stockholm, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Mary Boone Gallery, Stephen Stux Gallery and Feature Gallery in New York, Springs Fireplace Project and Glen Horowitz Gallery in East Hampton, The Western Project in Culver City, and the Saatchi Gallery in London. His work is included in the collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation and the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, Saatchi Gallery, London, and in the collection of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York. Freeman currently lives and works in Sagaponack, New York.</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/2Eric%20Freeman_Untitled%20%28red%29_2013_72x72inches.jpg" style="width: 650px; height: 663px;" /></em></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/3Eric%20Freeman_Untitled_2013_96x96inches.jpg" style="width: 650px; height: 649px;" /></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/4Eric%20Freeman_Untitled%20%28small%20purple%29_2013_30x30inches.jpg" style="width: 650px; height: 658px;" /></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/eric-freeman" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">eric freeman</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/artists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">artists</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/american-artists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">american artists</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">art</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tripoli-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">tripoli gallery</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/david-salle" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">david salle</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Eric Freeman</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pop field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Popular:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">not popular</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-bot field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Bottom Slider:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Out Slider</div></div></div> Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:51:53 +0000 tara 3564 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/2833-new-paintings-eric-freeman#comments