Posts Tagged ‘featured artists’
101st CAA Book and Trade Show in New York City
We are delighted to have a booth at the College Art Association Book and Trade Fair this year in New York City. We have been a member of the CAA for many years and always look forward to talking with the participants of the show. If you or any or your colleagues are going to the show,…
Read MoreBeat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
Poet, mystic, and spokesman for the Beat generation, Allen Ginsberg also photographed his friends and lovers over the years. He made albums of these photos, with elaborate hand-written captions. Allen Ginsberg’s photographs will be on view at the Grey Art Gallery at NYU from January 15 – April 6, 2013. Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen…
Read MoreCollectors make a difference
The South Dakota Art Museum has received an extensive, growing donation of valuable fine art prints that offer visitors an encyclopedic collection of printmaking from the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. The collection includes impressive examples of pop, op, abstract, color field and photo-realist art. The donation comes from Neil C. Cockerline, a former preservation services director and senior conservator with the Midwest Art Conservation Center in…
Read MoreLines Etched with the Weight of Life: Georges Rouault’s Miserere at The Snite Museum of Art
In response to the ravages of World War I, French artist Georges Rouault (1871–1958) produced a portfolio of drawings, which were reproduced as heliogravures, a process combining engraving and photography. Dissatisfied with the results of the reproductions, the artist continued to modify the plates using a variety of printmaking techniques in un-conventional ways. What he…
Read MoreJoseph D. Jachna: Surface Contradictions 1958-1971
For Joseph D. Jachna, photography has always been a spiritual practice. His photographs are quiet meditations—offerings from a lifelong naturalist. Jachna considers himself a poet with a camera, creating the visual equivalent of a Haiku. As with Haiku, the highest form of Japanese poetry, his ideas flow with an intensity created by combining a few…
Read MoreAmerican Vesuvius: The Aftermath of Mount St. Helens by Frank Gohlke and Emmet Gowin at Cleveland Museum of Art
“Gowin and Gohlke were both innovative, influential practitioners of landscape photography when each decided, independently, to photograph the aftermath of the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of this volcano in Washington State,” says Barbara Tannenbaum, the organizing curator and the curator of photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art. “Photographing at Mount St. Helens transformed their approaches to landscape and forever…
Read MoreINK MIAMI
On our trip to Art Basel Miami we planned to attend some of the satellite shows surrounding the convention center. The first one on our list was INK MIAMI because one of our customers, Graphicstudio, was an exhibitor and we wanted to stop by and say hello. It was well worth the trip. INK MIAMI is…
Read MoreAdam Davies “Boundaries and Transitions”
Adam Davies “Boundaries and Transitions” opens October 2 at The Arts Club of Washington. Born in the United Kingdom, Adam Davies is a photographer whose work explores the edges of American urban and rural landscapes. Davies has recently attended residencies at Yaddo, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Chinati Foundation. Currently a…
Read More50 for Arkansas The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel were avid collectors of contemporary art and were well known throughout the New York art scene. Their world-class art collection began in a one-bedroom New York apartment while they lived on Dorothy’s income as a librarian and dedicated Herb’s income as a postal worker to the acquisition of art. Their collection…
Read MoreMichael Rich at Chace-Randall Gallery
Painting is an imperative act. A contemporary force with the weight of historical precedent behind it, painting has offered me a language of authentic authorship. Issues of representation and abstraction, form or formlessness concern me less than experiences which derive from a sustained investigation. In the studio, my inner dialog guides an exploration of the…
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