Highbrow Magazine - anita shapolsky gallery https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/anita-shapolsky-gallery en John Hultberg’s Cinematic ‘Mindscapes’ Are Focus of New Exhibit https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/24139-john-hultberg-s-cinematic-mindscapes-are-focus-new-exhibit <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, 10/18/2023 - 09:00</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/1hultberg.jpg?itok=oasjwjz7"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1hultberg.jpg?itok=oasjwjz7" width="480" height="395" 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><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><a href="https://anitashapolskygallery.com/newsite/current-exhibition/" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">The Anita Shapolsky Gallery</a> &amp; AS Art Foundation are pleased to present <strong>John Hultberg -</strong> <strong>Painter of the In-Between</strong><em> </em><em>– </em>a show that continues a nearly four-decade relationship with the art of Hultberg. Also on display are works by Martha Jackson, Lynn Drexler, Michael Loew, William Manning, and Zero Mostel, all artists who crossed paths on Monhegan Island.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"> </span></span></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/2hultberg.jpg" style="height:486px; width:670px" typeof="foaf:Image" /><br />  </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">The art dealer <strong>Martha Jackson</strong>, herself a painter, would champion the causes of many artists she admired, including <strong>Hultberg</strong>. In 1961, they traveled together to Monhegan Island. Hultberg was immediately taken by the place, which was reminiscent of where he grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She assisted him in acquiring a home where he would spend much of the next 40 years, greatly influencing his oeuvre. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/3hultberg.jpg" style="height:525px; width:670px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">Hultberg’s works are featured in 140 international institutions, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Carnegie Institute Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Tamayo, Mexico; Smithsonian Institution; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; and many others.<br />  <br /> Hultberg’s work is abstracted, yet his representational vistas and interiors suggest an almost cinematic or ‘graphic novel’ look. These ‘mindscapes’ hint at surrealist symbolist and metaphysical painting. As Hultberg explains, “I am a painter of the in-between.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/4hultberg.jpg" style="height:496px; width:670px" typeof="foaf:Image" /><br />  </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">Lynne Drexler would marry Hultberg and together they would spend summers on the island. Drexler was inspired by the island's beauty, its community of artists, as well as her appreciation for colorists, notably Cézanne and Matisse. Her work has recently seen a surge in popularity.<br />  <br /> As a loose confederacy, Jackson, Drexler, Loew, Manning, and Mostel shared a sense of Hultberg’s ‘in-betweenness’. They were attracted to romantic notions of the rational world; however, they would filter their experience through an expressive existential prism. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/5hultberg.jpg" style="height:506px; width:670px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><strong><em>For more information about John Hultberg and the artworks featured here, visit the </em></strong><a href="https://anitashapolskygallery.com/newsite/current-exhibition/" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline"><strong><em>Anita Shapolsky Gallery</em></strong></a><strong><em>. </em></strong></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><strong>Highbrow Magazine</strong></span></span></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="/john-hultberg" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">john hultberg</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/anita-shapolsky-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">anita shapolsky gallery</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="/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="/abstract-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">abstract art</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/abstract-expressionism" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">abstract expressionism</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">All images courtesy of the Anita Shapolsky 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">In Slider</div></div></div> Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:00:18 +0000 tara 12683 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/24139-john-hultberg-s-cinematic-mindscapes-are-focus-new-exhibit#comments Anita Shapolsky Gallery Features More Masters of Abstraction https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/17020-anita-shapolsky-gallery-features-more-masters-abstraction <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 Mon, 10/18/2021 - 13:23</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/1abstraction_seymour_boardman.jpg?itok=IaRT64yz"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1abstraction_seymour_boardman.jpg?itok=IaRT64yz" width="480" height="446" 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><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">Anita Shapolsky gallery is currently presenting “<a href="https://hamptonsfineartfair.com/gallery/anita-shapolsky-gallery/" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">Masters of Abstraction</a>,” that takes place in the virtual world of the Hamptons Art Fair. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">This group show is composed of artists who are known for their strong, lyrical, expressive brushstrokes; their use of color; and their ambitious geometric compositions.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">Featured artists include: Seymour Boardman, Ernest Briggs, Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Ethel Schwabacher, Yvonne Thomas, and Jeanne Miles. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif">The exhibit is on view through November 30, 2021.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><strong><em>For more information, visit: </em></strong><a href="https://www.asartfoundation.org/" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline"><strong><em>Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation</em></strong></a><strong><em>.</em></strong></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/1abstraction_seymour_boardman.jpg" style="height:557px; width:600px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/2abstraction_yvonne_thomas.jpg" style="height:600px; width:600px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/3abstraction_ernest_briggs.jpg" style="height:600px; width:470px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/4abstraction_amaranth.jpg" style="height:600px; width:485px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/5abstraction_jeanne_miles.jpg" style="height:600px; width:405px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/6abstraction_ethel.jpg" style="height:600px; width:465px" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><strong>Images: </strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><em>1. Untitled, 1963 – Seymour Boardman</em></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><em>2. Map Notes, 1965 – Yvonne Thomas</em></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><em>3. Untitled, November 1959 (Ernest Briggs)</em></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><em>4. Jagged Edge,  1959 – Amaranth Ehrenhalt</em></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><em>5. The Sounds of Children’s Laughter, 1954 -- Jeanne Miles</em></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><em>6. Two, 1957 – Ethel Schwabacher           </em></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><strong>Highbrow Magazine</strong></span></span></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="/seymour-boardman" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">seymour boardman</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/ernest-briggs" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ernest briggs</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/jeanne-miles" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Jeanne Miles</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/anita-shapolsky-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">anita shapolsky gallery</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/abstract-expressionism" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">abstract expressionism</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/abstract-expressionists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">abstract expressionists</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/abstract-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">abstract art</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/new-york-art-world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">new york art world</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">All images courtesy of Anita Shapolsky 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> Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:23:04 +0000 tara 10687 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/17020-anita-shapolsky-gallery-features-more-masters-abstraction#comments From West to East: The Blazing Trail of Abstract Expressionist Artists https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/10178-west-east-blazing-trail-abstract-expressionist-artists <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 Thu, 10/03/2019 - 07:56</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/1asabstract_0.jpg?itok=h2ZkUnD_"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1asabstract_0.jpg?itok=h2ZkUnD_" width="376" height="480" 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>Anita Shapolsky Gallery is currently featuring <em>CA → NY: Post-War Migration of Abstract Expressionists, </em>a group exhibition of select Bay Area and Los Angeles artists who followed the surge of Abstract Expressionists across the country in the 1950s to participate in their flourishing sister movement: the New York School.</p> <p> </p> <p>The Bay Area School of Abstract Expressionism was centered around the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) in San Francisco and its director Douglas MacAgy. MacAgy was hired in 1945 in an effort to revitalize and modernize the overly traditional program. He began by hiring a plethora of mostly young artists who were new to teaching, including Richard Diebenkorn, Stanley Hayter, and Clyfford Still, who were formative in educating a wave of second-generation abstract expressionists. Like many of the students at the CSFA, Ernest Briggs, Lawrence Calcagno, John Hultberg, and Jon Schueler used their assistance from the GI Bill to enroll in the program shortly after their return from service in World War II. Their shared experiences in the war, along with their closeness in age, allowed the professors and students to form a strong, supportive, and often collaborative atmosphere.</p> <p> </p> <p>While the CSFA cultivated its own, unique school of abstract art, it also exposed its students to New York abstract artists like Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt through summer sessions from 1947 to 1949. For students like Hultberg, Rothko's guest lectures about the New York art scene were inspiring enough to convince them to continue their studies on the East Coast. Briggs, Calcagno, and Schueler followed suit after 1950, a migration catalyzed by Still's decision to move to New York and the subsequent firing of MacAgy. LA-based abstract artists Herman Cherry and Richards Ruben also moved to New York state in 1945 and 1960, respectively.</p> <p> </p> <p>The works included in this exhibit exemplify the range within Californian Abstract Expressionism while simultaneously displaying shifts in style and subject matter in these artists' oeuvres that were likely influenced by their exposure and participation in the New York School.</p> <p> </p> <p>After moving to New York in 1953, Ernest Briggs’ style would shift multiple times through the 1960s and ‘70s as a result of the growing popularity of Pop Art, Minimalism, and hard-edge painting among artists in New York. Briggs, however, consistently remained true to the practice of action-painting. He also experimented with acrylic paint and small-scale works from 1963 to 1975. His paintings in this exhibit exemplify Briggs’ range of compositional strategies, canvas size, and technique. Many of these works are from a period of his oeuvre that are rarely shown.</p> <p> </p> <p>Lawrence Calcagno was exposed to nature at a young age, growing up on his family’s ranch outside of Big Sur. His drawings of native plants and landscapes encountered on horseback as a child informed his abstract compositions like Blue Painting, which suggests an infinite blue expanse where sea meets sky. The landscapes Calcagno witnessed while traveling around Europe and Northern Africa between 1950 and 1955, along with diverse ideas from artists he met while studying at Académie de la Grande Chaumiere and Istituto d’arte Statale, were also extremely foundational to his style.</p> <p> </p> <p>Though he was born in Atlantic City and spent his adolescence in Philadelphia, Herman Cherry received the bulk of his formal education in Los Angeles. Cherry studied at the Otis Art Institute in 1927 and eventually the Art Student’s League, where his style was shaped under synchronist Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton. Cherry left California in 1941 to study murals in Mexico City before ultimately settling in Woodstock, making his migration to the West Coast before MacAgy’s historic program at the CSFA even began. In 1947, Cherry would solidify his place within the New York art scene with a show at the Weyhe Gallery of his signature “pictographs,” mixed media sculptures that materialized the playful geometric forms found in his abstract paintings like Cocoon 5.</p> <p> </p> <p>John Hultberg was part of the “Sausalito Six,” a group of artists, including Diebenkorn, Frank Lobdell, and George Stillman, who lived just outside of San Francisco. Hultberg studied with them at the CSFA after returning from the Navy in 1946, although his time in the program was short. He felt a divide within the faculty MacAgy assembled: Still’s camp that favored purely abstract, metaphysical art and Diebenkorn’s more fluid incorporation of both figurative and abstract forms, often inspired by nature. Hultberg considered himself part of the latter group, including images of ships and their harbors in the Bay Area in his paintings and deriving inspiration from the landscapes of his childhood spent in Concord, California. Hultberg never identified with any one particular style, combining elements from Surrealism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and the various trends he encountered in both California and New York.</p> <p> </p> <p>While MacAgy was promoting abstract art in the Bay Area, Richards Ruben - a Los Angeles native – helped establish Abstract Expressionism in Southern California. After serving in WWII, he returned to his hometown in 1944 to attend the Chouinard Art Institute. Ruben would teach painting there, at the Claremont Colleges, and UCLA until he moved to New York in the 1960s, where he continued teaching at NYU, Columbia, and Pratt. The large-scale paintings in his “City” series captured the differing energies of the urban landscapes he encountered in LA and New York. Ruben is most recognized, however, by his uniquely shaped canvases that enhance the geometric forms and lines in his paintings.</p> <p> </p> <p>Skyscapes, rather than landscapes, were what fascinated Jon Schueler. The sky permeated his childhood spent in the open fields around Milwaukee; clouds of smoke surrounded the B-17 bomber plane he flew in the Air Force during WWII. Under Clyfford Still’s teachings, Schueler conformed to the impasto technique that was popular at the CSFA when he studied there from 1949 until he moved to New York in 1951. His transition towards softer, more blended colors would only come in the 1960s, after he decided to leave the urban landscapes of San Francisco and New York behind in favor of the open sky in Mallaig, Scotland. His matured style applied the technical aspects of both Bay Area and New York schools of Abstract Expressionism to the subject matter that captivated him the most: the sky.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>CA → NY: POST-WAR MIGRATION OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS: through November 22, 2019, at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery (152 E 65th St., New York City).</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/2asabstract_0.jpg" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/3asabstract.jpg" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/asabstract.jpg" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/5asabstract_0.jpg" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/6asabstract_0.jpg" style="height:625px; width:465px" /></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="/anita-shapolsky-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">anita shapolsky gallery</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/new-york-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">new york art</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/abstract-expressionists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">abstract expressionists</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/lawrence-calcagno" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">lawrence calcagno</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/john-hultberg" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">john hultberg</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/john-schueler" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">john schueler</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/american-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">american art</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">A. 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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">All images courtesy of the Anita Shapolsky 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> Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:56:34 +0000 tara 9041 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/10178-west-east-blazing-trail-abstract-expressionist-artists#comments Abstract, Figurative Artworks Explore ‘Super Bodies’ in New Exhibit https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/9388-abstract-figurative-artworks-explore-super-bodies-new-exhibit <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 Sun, 09/30/2018 - 19:47</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/1superbodies.jpg?itok=O-XfOnQV"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1superbodies.jpg?itok=O-XfOnQV" width="480" height="321" 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>The <strong>Anita Shapolsky Gallery</strong> is pleased to present a cross-cultural and trans-historical exploration of the body in art. <strong>“Super Bodies”</strong> moves beyond the typical focus on abstract expressionist paintings to exhibit art from a potpourri of artists, periods, countries, and media.</p> <p> </p> <p>Antiques from Japan, China, Burma, and Greece from Anita Shapolsky’s own collection are scattered throughout the exhibition to complement the modern and contemporary works, all exemplifying the ever-present drive to represent the body in both the abstract and the figurative.<br /> <br /> The instinctual drive to creatively capture the body in all its forms has existed for thousands of years. It is a drive that has rooted itself at the very core of humanity. From ancient Greek kouroi to contemporary portraiture, the human body has served as the artist’s most familiar yet most elusive subject. Even the midcentury abstract expressionists attempted to convey the complexities of thought and emotion – what makes humans <em>human</em> – using their own bodies as translators.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Anita Shapolsky Gallery</strong></p> <p><strong>AS Art Foundation</strong></p> <p><strong>152 East 65th Street</strong></p> <p><strong>New York</strong><strong>, NY 10065</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/2superbodies.jpg" style="height:622px; width:625px" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/3superbodies.jpg" style="height:625px; width:417px" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/4superbodies.jpg" style="height:625px; width:407px" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/5superbodies.jpg" style="height:625px; width:439px" /></strong></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="/anita-shapolsky-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">anita shapolsky gallery</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/super-bodies-exhibit" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">super bodies exhibit</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/new-york-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">new york art</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="/painting" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">painting</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/sculpture" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">sculpture</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">Courtesy of Anita Shapolsky 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> Sun, 30 Sep 2018 23:47:59 +0000 tara 8277 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/9388-abstract-figurative-artworks-explore-super-bodies-new-exhibit#comments Abstract Expressionist Gems at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/8885-abstract-expressionist-gems-anita-shapolsky-gallery <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 Sun, 02/11/2018 - 12:19</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/1anita_0.jpg?itok=VrgRkMnt"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1anita_0.jpg?itok=VrgRkMnt" width="283" height="263" 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>Our charming exhibit of small paintings, paper pieces, and sculptures is worth the trip. These works adhere to the gallery’s focus of abstract expressionist style, but offer an eclectic variety of genre, medium and eras. It exposes rare drawings, prints, photographs and paintings from some of the most significant artists of the 1950s and 1960s. This show follows our tradition of representing important artists from all backgrounds to the public.</p> <p>The artists included are:</p> <p>Rodolfo Abularach, Mario Bencomo, Seymour Boardman, Ilya Bolotowsky, Ernest Briggs, Gandy Brodie, James Brooks, Lawrence Calcagno, Perez Célis, Herman Cherry, Beauford Delaney, Lynne Drexler, Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Augustin Fernandez, Grace Hartigan, Carl Hecker, Mitchiko Itatani, Buffie Johnson, Andrey Klasson, Michael Loew, William Manning, Jeanne Miles, Leonard Nelson, Richards Ruben, William Saroyan, Ethel Schwabacher, Aaron Siskind, Charmion Von Wiegand, and Wilfred Zogbaum.</p> <p> </p> <p><a name="_GoBack" id="_GoBack"></a><strong>Featured artwork</strong>: <strong>Seymour</strong><strong> Boardman, </strong><em>Untitled; </em><strong>Ilya Bolotowsky, </strong><em>Rising Horizontal; </em><strong>Perez Célis, </strong><em>Integra Matura; </em><strong>Ernest Briggs, </strong><em>M</em>ask; <strong>James Brooks, </strong>A.</p> <p><strong>Anita Shapolsky Gallery: 152 East 65<sup>th</sup> Street, New York City; from Feb. 13 – April 7, 2018.</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/2anita_0.jpg" style="height:162px; width:283px" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/3anita.jpg" style="height:158px; width:283px" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/4anita.jpg" style="height:276px; width:248px" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><img src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/5anita.jpg" /></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="/anita-shapolsky-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">anita shapolsky gallery</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/abstract-expressionists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">abstract expressionists</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/seymour-boardman" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">seymour boardman</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/ilya-bolotowsky" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ilya bolotowsky</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/perez-celis" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">perez celis</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/james-brooks" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">james brooks</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/ernest-briggs" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ernest briggs</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">Anita Shapolsky</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> Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:19:04 +0000 tara 7928 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/8885-abstract-expressionist-gems-anita-shapolsky-gallery#comments New Exhibit Celebrates the World of the Abstract Artists https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/4514-new-exhibit-celebrates-world-abstract-artists <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, 12/19/2014 - 09:47</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/1abstract.jpg?itok=ui-O2N3N"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1abstract.jpg?itok=ui-O2N3N" width="480" height="392" 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>The Anita Shapolsky Gallery currently presents “Abstract Approaches,” a comprehensive collection of many works from the The New York School of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as works as early as 1935 and as recent as 2009. Abstract art means many things. It is not as simple as a room full of gestural paintings, almost indistinguishable from one another. It varies beyond the use of linear shapes and pure geometry. Abstract artists are more complex than one style, or one viable term. This group represents the mecca of this influential art scene, whose tradition has been upheld and continues to be relevant over several decades.</p> <p> </p> <p>The works exhibited encompass a wide range of approaches that emblematize the Abstract movement. Varying degrees of linearity are shown, as seen in Jeanne Miles’ “The Sound of Children’s Laughter” (1954). Miles’ work explores the divine and spiritual truths. She encourages the viewer to contemplate universal mysteries. Painterly, loose works with a representational basis are also prominently displayed as seen in Irving Petlin’s “The High Plants” (1969) and Buffie Johnson’s “Cyclical Time” (1962). Irivng Petlin is especially known for his mastery of the pastel medium and often drawing inspiration from poetry. Buffie Johnson’s work is of an existential nature. Johnson’s cosmic-like paintings convey her belief in the cylindrical behavior of life with its eternal returns. </p> <p> </p> <p>The two paintings by Stanley Hayter “Pavane” (1935), a wooden collage, “Untitled”(1945), an oil painting, are the earliest works in the exhibition. Hayter was associated with the Surrealist movement, as well as Abstract Expressionism. He is renowned as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century. The studio he founded in Paris, Atelier 17, is legendary.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/2abstract.jpg" style="height:488px; width:625px" /></p> <p> </p> <p>The inclusion of Jeanne Reynal’s sculpture “Sphere” (1950s) nods to the diversity of mediums employed by this art movement. Reynal adopted the ancient technique of Mosaic in her pieces, and through doing so gave a sense of movement and life to flat surfaces. She used found rocks, stones, shells, marble and other semi-precious stones. She was assisted by her husband (also included in this exhibition) Thomas Sills, who would help her break up stones for her sculptures. Upon meeting Sills, an African American, Reynal left her wealthy husband and the two joined forces in both romance and art making. Thomas Sills’ paintings feature luminous organic forms and innovative compositions in lush fields of color.</p> <p> </p> <p>Carl Hecker, a sculptor, is the youngest artist included in the exhibition. Hecker’s piece “Roadflower with Puddles” (2009) uses synthetic materials and is very playful.</p> <p> </p> <p>Artists whose works are being shown in this exhibition are pioneers and masters of the Abstract movement. The six women in the exhibition hold their own amongst the men. Betty Parsons, for example, is considered the godmother of Abstract Expressionism and was not only one of the first advocates of many influential artists, but an artist in her own right. Parsons recorded her experiences with nature using radiant luminescence and eventually turned to sculpture using found wood. She made a brave choice in showing other female artists, which at times resulted in males protesting and walking out of her exhibitions.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/3abstract.jpg" style="height:625px; width:422px" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Amaranth Ehrenhalt, another female artist featured in this exhibition, is an incredibly prolific and multidisciplinary artist. Ehrenhalt’s work has been internationally exhibited since the 1950s. Still alive and exhibiting work globally, Ehrenhalt works in painting, sculpture, tapestry, drawings, prints, mosaics, poetry and prose. Ehrenhalt’s work is frenetic, and features a fearless use of color. The dynamic energy of her work transcends to provoke an emotional response from viewers of all backgrounds. The inclusion of her tapestry piece “Aubrietta” (2008) once again enhances the viewer’s sense of the many diverse approaches to abstract art. </p> <p> </p> <p>An overarching theme of explorations in nature, light, sensual forms, and cylindrical as well as square shapes is evident in the curation of this exhibition. The many approaches exhibited here shed light on the profound creativity of the abstract artists. What is most exceptional is the ability of these artists to express ideas while treating their subject matter with tenderness and sensitivity. In today’s art world of constantly changing trends, few movements have stood the test of time, and certainly none can compare.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/4abstract.jpg" style="height:533px; width:625px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>“Abstract Approaches” will be on view at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery at 152 East 65th Street through Feb 14, 2015</em></strong></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="/anita-shapolsky-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">anita shapolsky gallery</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/abstract-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">abstract art</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/abstract-artists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">abstract 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-exhibits" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">art exhibits</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">Various Artists</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> Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:47:59 +0000 tara 5528 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/4514-new-exhibit-celebrates-world-abstract-artists#comments ‘The Hard Line’ Exhibit Highlights Artists’ Use of Color https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/4382-hard-line-exhibit-highlights-artists-use-color <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, 10/22/2014 - 14:18</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/1hardline.jpg?itok=BfOasD_1"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1hardline.jpg?itok=BfOasD_1" width="256" height="480" 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><strong>Through November 15, 2014 at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City</strong></p> <p> </p> <p> The Anita Shapolsky Gallery is presenting an exhibit of four artists renowned for their contributions to hard-edged works in which color is primary.</p> <p> </p> <p>The approach of <strong>Seymour Boardman</strong> (1921-2005) to visual structure evolved from his earlier works which evidenced a concern with expressive painted surfaces. After losing the use of his left hand during World War II, Boardman resumed his art studies in France from 1946-1949. “Visual structure” played a major role in his approach. Boardman moved from the use of gestural paint strokes to formally composed canvases that are specific in the use of color, shape placement, and line. In his acrylic 1961 <strong>Untitled </strong>(72” x 38”), Boardman places his shapes at the bottom of the rectangular canvas, interacting with both the space above and the actual bottom edge of the painting. He engages the spectrum of black by using two variations-each marked by different intensities and richness. Over a decade later, in the 1978 acrylic <strong>Untitled</strong> (26” x 34”) he uses only lines to explore the vastness of his white color field. Boardman’s work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Newark Museum, Rose Art Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum and other more.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> A founding member of the American Abstract Artists (1936), a group that rejected the popular realist imagery of the day, <strong>Ilya Bolotowsky</strong> (1907-1981) was one of the few artists to create an abstract mural for the WPA.  His biomorphic forms gave way to the grids, shaped canvases, and the use of primary colors interacting with white space – which operate as bands or lines. Bolotowsky was influenced by his countryman Kazimir Malevich, and when he first saw the paintings of Piet Mondrian in 1933, he was strongly impacted by the ideology of Neo-Plasticism. In the 1958 <strong>Naples</strong><strong> Yellow and Grey</strong> (26” x 34 ½”), Bolotowsky delivers a nuanced work, without the use of primary colors. Instead, he punctuates gradations of white, greys, and the warmth of Naples Yellow with slender rectangles of aqua blue, dusty rose, and bluish purple – all of equal intensities. Bolotowksy’s work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum – (where he had a retrospective in 1974) -- and other public institutions.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> The creative journey of <strong>Nassos Daphnis</strong> (1914- 2010) took him from early paintings recalling his youth in Greece, to the City Walls Project in the Manhattan of the 1970s. His abstract, geometric images adorned building walls from the West Side Highway to Madison Avenue and 26th Street. Daphnis first showed at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1959. His ouvre included the exploration of geometric planes of color, often arranged in patterns. He then morphed to a wide-ranging examination of circles, discs, rings, and spheres. The latter he explored in three-dimensional epoxy on novaply (a form of particle board). In <strong>PX-9-69</strong> (30” x 30”) from 1969, Daphnis uses enamel on a circular plexiglass field to explore the push and pull of movement via both color and shape. The black and red motif uses missile-like forms to converge on a central black diamond. Simultaneously, bands of blue, yellow, and white both push towards the center while alluding to the space beyond the perimeters of the canvas. Daphnis is included in the collections of the Aldrich Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and Chrysler Museum and many others.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> Emanating from an extensive background in science, specifically physics, <strong>Kendall Shaw</strong> (b.1924) has consistently been concerned with the metaphysics of art. Throughout his career, color and space have been primary. In his <strong>Cajun Minimalist</strong> series, Shaw uses panels of acrylic on canvas—placed to interact with the white wall space—to illustrate his philosophy of color as energy. In his 2012 <strong>Alligator Kum</strong>, Shaw employs four panels of color, two narrow and two wide. The narrow red and orange bands are separated by a span of white wall, equal in measure to them. The result is a shifting and ongoing dialogue. Shaw’s work is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.</p> <p> </p> <p>All four artists reduced complicated image to its essence through a simple play with basic color planes.</p> <p> </p> <p><br /> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/2hardline.jpg" style="height:596px; width:625px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><br /> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/3hardline.jpg" style="height:784px; width:625px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><br /> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/4hardline.jpg" style="height:511px; width:625px" /></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="/anita-shapolsky-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">anita shapolsky gallery</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/new-york-city" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">New York City</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">art</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/modern-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">modern art</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/hard-line" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">the hard line</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/seymour-boardman" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">seymour boardman</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/ilya-bolotwosky" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ilya bolotwosky</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></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Anita Shapolsky</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, 22 Oct 2014 18:18:29 +0000 tara 5337 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/4382-hard-line-exhibit-highlights-artists-use-color#comments The Art of Karl Hagedorn https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/3962-art-karl-hagedorn <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, 05/07/2014 - 10:07</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/1KarlH.jpg?itok=Io2yHwo-"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1KarlH.jpg?itok=Io2yHwo-" width="399" height="480" 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>Karl Hagedorn (1922-2005) was an artist shaped by the time and history he lived through, as well as the geography of where he resided. His hometown was a small village in the mountains of what had previously been the Weimar Republic, Germany. His life was impacted by world history. As he wrote, "The Weimar Republic had given way to the Nazi regime and one's own life was no longer one's own but at the service of the government.</p> <p>  </p> <p>Living in the Russian zone, Hagedorn related, "Art became more dream than reality." He and his family escaped to West Berlin in 1952. In Munich, he became a student at the Art Academy at the age 34.</p> <p> </p> <p>He considered his six years in West Germany (1953-1959) of tantamount importance to the growth of his art. He visited Paris which was a pivotal experience for him, as he came in contact with artists he had previously been unaware of. The Cubists and Surrealists, along with Leger, Picasso, Miro and Matisse were a revelation to him. He wrote, "They jolted my artistic system alive and capitulated me into the mid-20th century with a clearer direction for myself in it."</p> <p> </p> <p>The next stop for Hagedorn was the United States. In Minneapolis, the Walker Art Center grew pivotal in his life and was where he had his first solo museum exhibition.</p> <p>   </p> <p>By 1973 he relocated to New York City and he ultimately connected with the well-regarded Gimpel &amp; Weitzenhoffer Gallery on Madison Avenue. He was featured in their "New Talent Show," and at 51 years old received a mention in John Russell's review in the <em>New York Times</em>. He exhibited there for more than 20 years while maintaining close ties to Germany.</p> <p> </p> <p>He spent the last years of his life with his wife, Diana, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.     </p> <p> </p> <p>"Symbolic Abstraction" was the term Hagedorn used to reference his work, which spanned the 1950s to the 21st century. He employed the mediums of painting, drawing, watercolor and gouache. Through the decades the connective tissue throughout his output was his vivid colors, forms, and shapes.</p> <p>   </p> <p>His work relates all these elements in the search  for a connection between the human  system, spirit, and the world it simultaneously reflects and creates. Hagedorn worked in the traditional European style, mostly small paintings well balanced with great precision, pleasing to the eye, apolitical, stressing growth of industry and entwined with the human element.</p> <p> </p> <p>What a difference between the younger German artists of the21st century who defy easy categorization. They are inventive, skeptical of all authority, and work within a broad range of mediums that vary in size from notebook to monumental paintings - between high culture and low, figuration and abstraction, the heroic and the banal - allowing flux rather the stability to prevail.</p> <p> </p> <p>Selected collections: Brooklyn Museum, Walker Art Center, New York Public Library, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Goethe Institute, Deutsches Museum and the Kunsthistorisches Museum.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>Karl Hagedorn “Symbolic Abastraction” will be on view at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City from May 8 – Summer 2014.</em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/2karlh.jpg" style="height:469px; width:625px" /></em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/3karlh.jpg" style="height:501px; width:625px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/4karlh.jpg" style="height:557px; width:625px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/5karlh.jpg" style="height:625px; width:512px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/6karlh.jpg" style="height:625px; width:485px" /></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="/karl-hagedorn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">karl hagedorn</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="/artists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">artists</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/painters" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">painters</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/symbolic-abstraction" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">symbolic abstraction</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/anita-shapolsky-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">anita shapolsky gallery</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">Karl Hagedorn</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, 07 May 2014 14:07:24 +0000 tara 4672 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/3962-art-karl-hagedorn#comments Art: The Expressive Edge of Paper https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/3758-art-expressive-edge-paper <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 Mon, 02/24/2014 - 09:24</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/1PAPERNassos%20Daphnis_SS-2-78_1978_acrylic%20on%20paper_30x22%20%281%29.jpg?itok=iNEHWwAD"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1PAPERNassos%20Daphnis_SS-2-78_1978_acrylic%20on%20paper_30x22%20%281%29.jpg?itok=iNEHWwAD" width="348" height="480" 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>The Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City is presenting a multifaceted group of abstract paper works by 27 artists the gallery has exhibited over the</p> <p>years.</p> <p> </p> <p>Paper experimentation shows the dichotomy between planning aspects in art and free form automatic drawing. These works show great technical skill which brings the artists visions to life. The works gives incredible insights into their diverse approaches and the timelessness of their art.</p> <p> </p> <p>The molten iron paintings by Michael Dominick, for example, result in gestural strokes and splashes, which create beautiful and unpredictable marks that not only scorch the surface but also burn down into the depths of the layered paper.</p> <p> </p> <p>The abstract photographs of Aaron Siskind evoke wonder at his ingenuity. Antoni Tàpies's prints are a good introduction to his ideas for earthly paintings. Richards Ruben's oil pastel paintings of Venetian walls on Kochi paper are ethereal. Agustin Fernandez's exquisite prints done in Paris by Lacouriere et Frelaut evoke sensuality using mechanical parts (i.e.screws, pipes, etc.).</p> <p> </p> <p>Artists include: Mario Bencomo, Robert Blackburn, Seymour Boardman, Ilya Bolotowsky, Ernest Briggs, Lawrence Calcagno, Pérez Celis, Nassos Daphnis, Beauford Delaney, Michael Dominick, Herman Cherry, Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Claire Falkenstein, Agustín Fernández, Grace Hartigan, John Hultberg, Elaine Kurtz, Joel Le Bow, William Manning, Henri Michaux, Richards Ruben, Ann Ryan, William Saroyan, Kendall Shaw, Aaron Siskind, Antoni Tàpies, and Petra Valentova.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/2PAPERFalkenstein_Untitled_1960s_L.jpg" /></p> <p>Claire Falkenstein, Mandala #1, 1980, sugar lift etching, 35 x 23 in</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/3PAPERHenri%20Michaux_Untitled_1973_acrylic_paper_22x14%203_4.jpg" /></p> <p>Henri Michaux, Untitled, 1973, acrylic on paper, 22 x 14 3/4 in</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/4PAPERBeauford%20Delaney_Untitled_Ibiza_1956_gouache_watercolor_17%207_8x11%2013_16_L.jpg" /></p> <p>Beauford Delaney, Untitled (Ibiza), 1956, gouache and watercolor on paper, 17 7/8 x 11 13/16 in</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/5PAPERMario%20Bencomo_Torquemada%20series_Inquisition%20Hoods_2001_acrylic%20on%20paper_11x14_W.jpg" /></p> <p>Mario Bencomo, Torquemada series - Inquisition Hoods, 2001, acrylic on paper, 11x14 in</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/6PAPERRubens_pink%20a%20boob_1988_mm%20on%20kochi%20paper_30x42.jpg" /></p> <p>Richards Ruben, Pink a boob, 1988, Mixed media on kochi paper, 30 x 42 in</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/7PAPERBolotowsky_lithograph_untitled%2037%201-2%20x27%201-2_W.jpg" /></p> <p>Ilya Bolotowsky, Untitled, 1970's lithograph, 37 1/2  x 27 1/2 in</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/8PAPERSiskind_Lima_89_photo_1975_W.jpg" /></p> <p>Aaron Siskind, Lima 89, 1975, photograph, 24 x 20 in</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="/anita-shapolsky-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">anita shapolsky gallery</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/new-york" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">new york</a></div><div class="field-item even" 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 odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/new-york-art-scene" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">New York art scene</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="/painters" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">painters</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">Various Artists</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">Nassos Daphnis</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> Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:24:55 +0000 tara 4311 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/3758-art-expressive-edge-paper#comments