Highbrow Magazine - seymour boardman https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/seymour-boardman en 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 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 ‘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