Denise Bibro Fine Art

Denise Bibro Fine Art http://denisebibrofineart.com/ Denise Bibro Fine Art is a contemporary art gallery in Chelsea, New York, representing both established and emerging artists. Exlusively representing artists David Barnett, Daniel Borlandelli, Dusty Boynton, Jeremy Comins, Sara Crisp, Lisa Dinhofer, Iona Fromboluti, David Herman, Carter Hodgkin, John Hrehov, Carol Jacobsen, Myung-Ock Lim, Linda Lippa, Jerry Meyer, Terry Rose, Nora Speyer, Audrey Ushenko, James Woodruff, Jan Wunderman. Additional works are available by: Lindsey Adams Adelman, Eunice Agar, Robert Aitchison, Sara K. Bean, John Beardman, Leah Beeferman, Paul Binai, David Black, Christa Blatchford, Gordon Boardman, Josh Bonnett, Daniel Borlandelli, Nora Chavooshian, Hindy Creamer, Ric Dragon, Debra Drexler, Sydney Drum, Richard Eagan, Ruth Epstein, Camilla Fallon, Rachel Friedberg, Daniel Giese, Janet Goddard, Carol Goebel, Angelou Guingon, Josephine Haden, Mark Hadjipateras, Rob Hann, Mary Hart, Gerry Hayes, Mildred Hermann, Amy Hill, Brooke Inman, Iliyan Ivanov, Mary King, Kate Kisicki, Tony Klotz, Joyce Korotkin, Jessica Langley, Ryan Lauterio, Damon Lehrer, Gerson Leiber, Erica Licea-Kane, Gerson Lieber, Scott Malbaurn, Theresa Marchetta, Shane McAdams, Nancy McCroskey, Carmen McLeod, Roz Meyer, Michael Paul Miller, Cheryl Molnar, Valerie Molnar, Barbara Morgan, Michael Mut, David Nakabayashi, Nancy Nicholson, Charles Olson, Monica Palma, Don Perlis, Chris Pousette-Dart, Amy Ross, Tim Ross, Rebecca Rutstein, James Scott, William Scott, Alexis Semtner, Madeline Silber, Tom Sime, Gail Spaien, Gloria Spevacek, Nora Speyer, Joe Stefanelli, Jeff Sundheim, Naoe Suzuki, Yvonne Thomas, Dennis Tremalio, Audrey Ushenko, Martha Walker, Peter Wiehl, Douglas Wirls, Kay Wood, James Woodruff, Harold Wortsman, Jill Ann Zevenbergen, Win Zibeon. en Copyright 2012, Denise Bibro Fine Art Thu, 17 May 2012 04:31:02 -0400 Exhibition: Dusty Boynton <div class="exhibition-subtitle">On Edge: Structured Reliefs</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 5 - May 19, 2012</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 5, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2313"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/48/48082.jpeg" alt="" height="457" width="500" /></a> <p>Dusty Boynton, <em>Accumulated Loneliness</em>, 2011</p> <p> Oil and graphite on linen, 66 x 72 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><b>Denise Bibro Fine Art</b> presents <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/959><b>Dusty Boynton</b></a>: <i>On Edge</i>, the artist's sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, on view April 5 through May 19, 2012.</p> <p><b>Boynton</b>'s creative oeuvre continues to have no boundaries. She has created a new modus operandi. This exhibition is primarily comprised of structured reliefs and mixed media paintings. <b>Boynton</b>'s work continues to have the inner child, the devilish pranksters and/or the sinister interpreter, as in her earlier works. Continuing her love of drawing with paint, she is now literally cutting out components of her paintings, placing those extracted parts on two and three dimensional surfaces.</p> <p>Still the tireless maverick mark maker, <b>Boynton</b> approaches her work with a sense of intimacy, transparency and vulnerability; conveying the raw demeanor and unpredictability of her subjects that we all relate to. As Critic Donald Kuspit notes in his essay, "<b>Boynton</b>'s works are as timeless and fresh as ever: the inner child remains alive and well in her art." </p> <p>We are pleased to announce, in conjunction with this opening, the printing of "Out of Line," a survey of the extensive work leading up to this new body of work by <b>Dusty Boynton</b>. These books will be available for sale at the opening reception and during the exhibition. In celebration of this event, a limited amount of this same publication will be available with a unique work by the artist enclosed.</p> <p><i>Boynton has shown at Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY; Gallery Jupiter, Little Silver, NJ; and Steffany Martz Gallery, New York, <span class="caps">NY.</span> Selected group exhibition exhibitions include In the Garden at Barbara Krakow in Boston, MA; New Prints, 2002 at the International Print Center, New York, NY; Book, Box, Word, Volume II at the University of Florida and North Miami Contemporary Art Center. Her work has been reviewed in ArtNews, Art in America, The New York Times, Arts Magazine, and New Art Examiner. Boynton's work was also featured in the film "Remember Me" with Robert Pattinson.</i></p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2313 Exhibition: David Barnett <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Constructions and Collages</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 1 - March 31, 2012</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 1, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2301"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/47/47524.jpeg" alt="" height="522" width="500" /></a> <p>David Barnett, <em>Capricorn too (Homage to Max Ernst)</em>, 2011</p> <p> mixed media construction, 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 21 1/2 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/><b>Denise Bibro Fine Art</b></a> presents <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2301><i><b>Recent Constructions and Collages</i></b></a>, a solo exhibition of recent work by gallery artist <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1358><b>David Barnett</b></a>, on view March 1 through March 31, 2012.</p> <p>Barnett's detailed, deftly executed works comment on the ongoing interplay between humanity and technology as well as evoke a Renaissance or Medieval aesthetic, with traditional portraiture and iconic imagery. <b><i>Recent Constructions and Collages</b></i> features two and three dimensional work and introduces a further development in Barnett's vocabulary: two-and-a-half dimensional wall-mounted assemblages. Comprised of found objects and mixed media, such as discarded medical instruments, photographic elements and ripped topography; Barnett combines these elements with mechanical parts. </p> <p>Whether through the literal combination of man and machine, as in <i>Workmen's Circle</i>, which depicts a half-boy, half-robot riding a futuristic bicycle made from found sprockets, wheels, and springs - the boy and the contraption have converged, blurring the line between man and machine - or in his modified pastel painted and penciled collage, <i>...In Your Face (book)</i>, a tongue in cheek look at the superficial aspects of today's digital social networks, Barnett prompts the viewer to participate in this timely dialogue. Utilizing remnants of photographs from a discarded yearbook, we see behind each photo's façade, catching glimpses of the inner personality which is often hidden behind composed portraits. In another example, <i>Cyclopedia</i>, a meticulously created categorized list of traditional images - the bird and the Renaissance man - have been betrayed by technological elements. These portraits may reveal a loss of soul in contemporary society or a character tethered to a machine unable to fly to the heavens. Suggesting that technology has become its own religion, we are left to worship machines instead of our traditional deities. Other works, such as <i>The Garden</i>, present traditional and universal themes simultaneously; in this case Adam and Eve conjure the themes of creation and consequence of the human experience.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2301 Exhibition: DETONATE <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Chaos and Consumerism</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 2 - February 25, 2012</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, February 2, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2281"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/46/46907.jpeg" alt="" height="377" width="500" /></a> <p>Carol Es, <em>The Deal</em>, 2009</p> <p> Oil, paper and embroidery on canvas, 36 x 48 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><b>Denise Bibro Fine Art</b> is pleased to announce <b><i>Detonate: Chaos and Consumerism</i></b>, February 2 through February 25, 2012, with an opening reception on February 2 from 6 to 8PM. The exhibition features artists Nancy Baker, Carol Es, Bill Gusky, Leslie Kneisel, Tim Ripley and Oriane Stender. Economic and cultural turmoil are the impetus of each artist's works, creating unique dialogues in various mediums and styles, sparking conversations that seem inescapable. </p> <p><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2225><b><i>Nancy Baker</b></i></a>'s works explode and swirl with objects of industry, as though an eruption has just occurred resulting in disjointed chaos. Baker's works include glitter and pop culture iconography as well as fetishized grenades. Full of angst and energy, Baker's work is anything but introverted.</p> <p>Having grown up in what the artist describes as the sweatshops of the Los Angeles apparel industry; <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2430><b><i>Carol Es</b></i></a>' work evokes a dialogue between the overtly commercial and the deeply personal. Her textured works weave dysfunctional family values with industrial objects, accented by her inclusion of embroidery. </p> <p><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2431><b><i>Bill Gusky</i></b></a> projects TV cartoons from the 1960's and 1970's, reworks the images, re-appropriating these nostalgic objects to create a new dialogue or history, finding new meaning in the present. Commenting on the "technology will save us" mentality of that era, Gusky's work makes us wonder, in our present technological culture, what now?</p> <p><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2432><b><i>Leslie Kneisel</i></b></a>'s otherworldly images move from past to present to future, taken of retro-looking rides in a visit to Disneyland. These alien-like images tempt us far away from everyday life, looking for an escape from reality.</p> <p><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2226><b><i>Tim Ripley</b></i></a>'s icons are specific, particular and deftly painted. These isolated objects are oddly familiar, evoking the starkness of certain commercial advertisements.</p> <p>In a nod to minimalism, <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2434><b><i>Oriane Stender</b></i></a>'s painted dollar bills break down the complex. Her elegant works diverge from the explosive, the excess of consumerism, and meditate on the singular, pared down object; reminding us of the downsizing that many have had to accept.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2281 Exhibition: Winter Salon <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Gallery and Invited Artists</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">January 5 - January 28, 2012</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, January 5, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2272"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/46/46142.jpeg" alt="" height="344" width="500" /></a> <p>Thomas Huber, <em>Anna</em>, 2011</p> <p> mixed media on paper, 18 x 24 inches (framed) </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of <b>Winter Salon 2012</b>, on view January 5 through January 28, 2012, with an opening reception Thursday, January 5th from 6 to 8pm. The exhibition features 10 artists working in myriad aesthetic, conceptual, and technical modes. The exhibition encompasses figurative, realist, and abstract work, and includes painting, works on paper, sculpture, and collage.</p> <p>Gallery Artists</p> <p><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1358><i><b>David Barnett</i></b></a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/985><i><b>Gordan Boardman</i></b></a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/990><i><b>Charles Olson</i></b></a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/991><i><b>Jan Wunderman</i></b></a></p> <p>Invited Artists</p> <p><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2413><i><b>Fred Bendheim</i></b></a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2414><i><b>Matthew Burcaw</i></b></a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2415><i><b>Thomas Huber</i></b></a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2416><i><b>Stephen Robert Johns</i></b></a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2417><i><b>Monique Rollins</i></b></a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2418><i><b>Francine Tint</i></b></a></p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2272 Exhibition: Mark Hadjipateras: City Dwellers <br>James Woodruff: Language in Line <div class="exhibition-subtitle">A Series of Installations by Mark Hadjipateras: Fiberglass Series with Metallic Paint, Acrylic and Metallic Paint and Bronze Series. <br>Recent Paintings by James Woodruff.</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 17 - December 23, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, November 17, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2252"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/45/45543.jpeg" alt="Stomp, 2011" height="498" width="500" /></a> <p>James Woodruff, <em>Stomp</em>, 2011</p> <p> Oil on Linen, 24 x 24 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><b>Denise Bibro Fine Art</b> is pleased to announce two concurrent solo exhibitions, <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/981><b><i>Mark Hadjipateras</b></i><a>, <i>City Dwellers</i></b>, in Gallery I and <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1309><i><b>James Woodruff</i></b><a>, <i>Language in Line</i></b>, in Gallery <span class="caps">II, </span>from November 17th - December 23rd, with an opening reception November 17th from 6 to 8pm. </p> <p>Freestanding, biomorphic, anthropomorphic, robotic and sometimes entomic creatures cast in fiberglass and coated in a broad spectrum of glossy auto-body paint are just some of the characters occupying <b>Mark Hadjipateras</b>' world. On the surface, <b>Hadjipateras</b>' works appear comedic but there is always an underlining seriousness and substance in his projected characters and the world they inhabit. Many of his human-like objects possess physical idiosyncrasies, with gender body characteristics, while they are at the same time featureless.</p> <p><i>City Dwellers</i> were first presented in the 2002 permanent mural installation; a project commissioned for the <span class="caps">MTA </span>for New York's 28th Street N/R station. Over the past few decades, <b>Hadjipateras</b>' universal world of characters and environments infer modernist and minimalist traditions while simultaneously suggesting a continuance in the future informed by science, science fiction, animation, movies and cartoons. <i>City Dwellers</i> can be anywhere, particularly in New York and/or Greece where the artists lives and works.</p> <p><i>Language in Line</i> suggests a communicable relationship between the seen and unseen, audible and silent. <b>James Woodruff</b>'s manifests this in his most recent paintings, which pulsate with energy and fluidity. <b>Woodruff</b> is fascinated with an image having the power to reveal something clearly, familiar, that creates visual and experiential dialogue and connection.</p> <p>Colors co-inhabit <b>Woodruff</b>'s muted backgrounds, creating shapes which float through space. At times, the forms melt; lines converge, diverge and exist on variant spatial planes. The connection of marks creates a visual language which evokes an experience from the viewer. The communication between color and line that we intuitively understand facilitates the viewer's experience to converge this visual language on different levels, the meaning of which may be in sync with the viewer or provoke further dialogue.</p> <p><i><b>Hadjipateras</b>' work has been shown in many international contexts, most recently in solo exhibitions at 12 star gallery, London, and a.antonopolou.art, Athens. In 2008, a large-scale retrospective exhibition was presented at the Municipal Gallery of Athens. The artist is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and the Dakis Joannou Collection (Athens), among others. In 2002, the artist was commissioned by the Municipal Arts Society of New York and the Metropolitan Transit Authority to create a permanent installation in New York's 28th Street subway station. </p> <p><b>Woodruff</b> has an extensive background in both painting and photography, and worked from 1977 to 1980 as the assistant to Irving Penn. His work has been exhibited in New York City at the Manasse-Chelsea <span class="caps">DAK</span> Gallery; and at venues in Connecticut including the Bachelier/Cardonsky Gallery in Kent; the John Slade Ely House in New Haven; and The Silo in New Milford. His work was selected on numerous occasions for the Rose Algrant Show, an annual memorial exhibition staged at various alternative locations in Cornwall, <span class="caps">CT, </span>in honor of artist Rose Algrant. He holds degrees from the Marist Brothers and Oxford Colleges, both in Johannesburg, South Africa, and studied at the Art Students League in New York City.</i></p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2252 Exhibition: Audrey Ushenko <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Fête champêtre</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 13 - November 12, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 13, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2249"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/44/44364.jpeg" alt="" height="375" width="500" /></a> <p>Audrey Ushenko, <em>Urban Cottonwood</em>, 2011</p> <p> oil on linen, 24 x 36 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><b>Denise Bibro Fine Art</b> is pleased to announce Audrey Ushenko's solo show, <b><i>Fête Champêtre</b></i>, on view from October 13th through November 12th, 2011. As the title suggests, her uniquely rendered canvases of luxuriously composed still life and social gatherings have the airs of an extravagant garden party or celebration. Ushenko's masterful use of light and shadow and brilliant brushstroke enhance the viewer's experience. One gets senses of things that have just happened and things that are going to happen. Often, Ushenko takes liberty twisting the compositions by juxtaposing people, creatures and objects that you may not expect to be nearby or you would not have noticed otherwise. In doing so there is always an element of the unpredicted in Ushenko's work. The ordinary is far from ordinary. </p> <p>Some of her recent canvases feature dynamic figurative compositions. These vibrant forms stand alone in their uniquely rendered physical characteristics, but together, they seem to join in celebration, enjoying a decadent <i>fête champêtre</i>. In one work, Ushenko renders delicate crystal and stargazer lilies, composed of warm, saturated tones set against a warm, soft environment. In another, with a still life in its foreground, Ushenko skillfully contrasts flesh tones with a cold, wintery palate.</p> <p>Ushenko "... is a master chronicler of realities small and large," as critic Gerrit Henry noted in his 2003 <i>Art in America</i> review. The mundane and the actions and habits of people and circumstance become celebratory and sometimes lampooned life events. Both the inanimate object and painted figure come alive through her broad brushstrokes, contrasting texture and hue. Ushenko's acute attention to detail makes these works powerful, provocative vignettes.</p> <p>Ushenko earned her Masters and Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University in Evanton, <span class="caps">IL.</span> She is a member of the National Academy of Art in New York City. She has exhibited extensively throughout the <span class="caps">U.S., </span>including the National Academy of Design, <span class="caps">NYC </span>and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, <span class="caps">IN.</span> Ms. Ushenko has been reviewed in many renowned publications including Art In America, The New York Times, American Artists to name a few. Her works are in a number of substantial private and public institution collections.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2249 Exhibition: Secret Garden <div class="exhibition-subtitle"></div> <div class="exhibition-dates">September 8 - October 8, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, September 15, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2213"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/31/31893.jpeg" alt="" height="499" width="500" /></a> <p>Christopher Reiger, <em>Turned, to a Transparent Fire</em>, 2009</p> <p> watercolor, gouache, acrylic, sumi ink and marker on Arches paper, 24 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1794><b><i>Roberley Bell</b></i></a><br /><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2357><b><i>Peter Bynum</b></i></a><br /><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/951><b><i>Sara Crisp</b></i></a><br /><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2289><b><i>Erica-Lynn Huberty</b></i></a><br /><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/2358><b><i>Ysabel Le May</b></i></a><br /><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1075><b><i>Christopher Reiger</b></i></a></p> <p><b>Denise Bibro Fine Art</b> presents <i>Secret Garden</i>, on view September 8th through October 8th, 2011. Nature plays the perpetual muse for six contemporary artists in this exhibition. Featuring work by Roberley Bell, Peter Bynum, Sara Crisp, Erica-Lynn Huberty, Ysabel Le May, and Christopher Reiger, each artist offers their own innovative, distinctive response to the sublime wonder of the landscape, flora, and fauna, inviting the viewer into their own secret garden. </p> <p>Roberley Bell's ebullient sculptural works conjure fanciful, Technicolor topiaries bursting with blossoms. Utilizing cast foam and plastic forms adorned with artificial flowers, fruit, and birds, Bell explores the relationship between the man-made and the natural in landscape focusing on the artifice of nature. </p> <p>Peter Bynum celebrates the connection unifying all life forms. Illuminated by <span class="caps">LED </span>light boxes, multiple layers of painted glass depict elegant capillary patterns evocative of delicate ferns, coral formations, or oscillating seaweed. Myriad imagery and shadow weave an intoxicating three-dimensional space.</p> <p>Incorporating meditative, mandala-like designs and botanical elements such as flower petals, stems, and seed pods, Sara Crisp's delicate mixed-media encaustic works are a quiet spiritual homage to plants as the embodiment of the life force. </p> <p>Erica-Lynn Huberty's intimate narratives are fashioned from vintage textiles embellished with embroidery, needlepoint, and paint. Figures frolic among elegant toile de jouy foliage, birds and butterflies. The utopian veneer is subverted by menacing creatures threatening the peaceful idyll. </p> <p>For Ysabel Le May, the landscape is a divinely ordered universe. Combining hundreds of individual photographs, edited and meticulously restaged in the digital arena, she creates elegant, fantastical tableaux and ornamental rosettes, home to humming birds, lilies, and heavenly light.</p> <p>Contemplating man's mutable conception of nature and our place in it, Christopher Reiger's works on paper incorporate scientific and mathematical symbols, hieroglyphs, animals, and plant life. Mysterious equations are drawn, creatures peer out from unlikely vegetation, and the garden becomes curiouser and curiouser...</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2213 Exhibition: Summer Selections <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Gallery and Invited Artists</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">July 14 - August 13, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, July 14, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2067"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/43/43102.jpeg" alt="Above: A selection of work from the exhibition." height="512" width="500" /></a> <p><p>Above: A selection of work from the exhibition.</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present <i>Summer Selections 2011</i>, on view July 14 through August 13, 2011. Featuring 19 artists and an eclectic array of concepts and techniques, the show includes painting, encaustic, mixed media, sculpture, assemblage and video. While 9 exhibiting artists are represented exclusively by Denise Bibro Fine Art (denoted below with an asterisk), 10 guest artists have also been invited to participate.</p> <p>Nancy Baker<br /> David Barnett*<br /> Roberley Bell<br /> Daniel Borlandelli*<br /> Dusty Boynton*<br /> Jeremy Comins*<br /> Sara Crisp*<br /> Carter Hodgkin*<br /> Jim Holl<br /> Cathy Hozack<br /> Erica-Lynn Huberty<br /> Kendrick Mar<br /> Jerry Meyer*<br /> Thomas Mitz<br /> Charles Olson<br /> Lynda Pizzuto<br /> Tim Ripley<br /> Terry Rose*<br /> Jan Wunderman*</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2067 Exhibition: Don Kimes <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Exquisite Interruption</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">June 2 - July 9, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, June 2, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2066"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/41/41559.jpeg" alt="Book 2" height="331" width="500" /></a> <p>Don Kimes, <em>Book 2</em>, 2010</p> <p> acrylic, watercolor, ink painted on digital ghost on paper, 36 1/2" x 46 1/2" (framed) </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art presents <i>Don Kimes: Exquisite Interruption</i>, featuring a new series of abstract paintings, on view June 2nd through July 9th, 2011. Eight years ago, Kimes' home and studio succumbed to a flood, destroying a lifetime of work, and its documentation. Embracing the accident, the artist began to make paintings based on the ruined works. The result is complex and evocative--an homage to the power of nature and the passage of time--a metaphor for memory, perceived loss, and rebirth. </p> <p>After scanning and printing the remains of salvaged photographs on canvas or paper, Kimes manipulates them with paint, intensifying color and detail, sometimes working broad areas with large sponges, but more often applying acrylics in tiny, delicate strokes. The multi-layered imagery suggests something seen through a microscope, alluding to a desire to unearth the nascent image born through the act of unintended destruction, while the luminous tertiary palette suggests the transparency of precious stones or stained glass. In the artist's own words, Kimes is "using the second part of [his] life to re-paint the first. The flood turned out to be a gift, an exquisite interruption." The exhibition is an optimistic nod to our ability to overcome hardship and thrive. </p> <p><i>Kimes has an extensive international exhibition history. Selected solo shows include the Galleria Extra Moenia di Giuliana Dorazio, Todi, Italy, Katzen Museum of Art, Washington, DC; Fowler Kellogg Galleries Chautauqua, NY; Hillyer Gallery, International Art & Artists Washington, DC; Casa di Cultura, Villahermosa, Mexico; National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC; Galleria Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy; America Haus, Munich, Germany; Stephan Gang Gallery, Claudia Carr Gallery, and Prince Street Gallery, all in New York City. Selected group shows include the National Academy of Design, New York City; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; and Rueda Museum, Madrid, Spain.</i></p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2066 Exhibition: Jerry Meyer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Civilization and Its Discontents</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 14 - May 28, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 14, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2030"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/43/43101.jpeg" alt="" height="333" width="500" /></a> <p>Jerry Meyer, <em>Installation (with details)</em>, 2011</p> <p> mixed media, 10' x 8' x 7 1/2' </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art presents <i>Jerry Meyer: Civilization and Its Discontents</i>, on view April 14th through May 28th, 2011. Combining appropriated text and images--deftly manipulated in Photoshop--with ancestral ephemera and other nostalgic objects, Meyer's third solo exhibition features a new series of multimedia light boxes and a major installation.</p> <p>Sigmund Freud claimed that civilization begets discontent and pathology through the repression of human instinct. His claim is manifest in Meyer's humorous and fanciful exploration of guilt, anxiety, and neurosis. The work's luminous, theatrical glow beckons the viewer. Closer inspection reveals Meyer's cunning sensibility. A jukebox showcases song titles such as the <i>Prozac Music Company's Today Is Slightly Less Horrible Than Yesterday</i>. Among the stops on a New York City subway map are <i>La La Land</i>, <i>Out There</i>, and <i>Out to Lunch</i>. </p> <p>The exhibition's centerpiece is the room-sized installation <i>My great-grandfather's attempts to turn sexual energy into electricity to power small machinery based on the principles of Sigmund Freud and Nikola Tesla</i>. The exterior is clad in wooden explosive crates. The interior radiates multicolored light. An antique dressmaker's form clothed in prim Victorian attire greets us, a wire clamped firmly to its glowing nipple. Myriad electronic machinery blinks, whirs and hums in valiant effort.</p> <p>Poking fun at psychology and universal fears, Meyer forces us to laugh out loud, while his work also encompasses a softer side, evident in his tender tributes to Billie Holiday and his own great aunt Ida. Enshrined in vintage wallpaper and silk flowers, the women are elevated to sainthood, while the boxes become reliquaries.</p> <p>Meyer has exhibited widely at venues including the Eli Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT; Artspace, New Haven, CT; Art Miami, Miami, FL; the Red Dot art fairs in New York City, Miami Beach and London; Art Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY; the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, New Haven, CT; the San Jose Rep Gallery, San Jose, CA; and the Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough, <span class="caps">NH.</span> He is represented exclusively by Denise Bibro Fine Art.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2030 Exhibition: Daniel Borlandelli <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Vendaval</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 10 - April 9, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 10, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2028"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/40/40557.jpeg" alt="" height="407" width="500" /></a> <p>Daniel Borlandelli, <em>Vendaval</em>, 2010</p> <p> Acrylic on canvas, 68 x 84 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art presents Daniel Borlandelli: Vendaval, March 10th through April 9th, 2011, featuring painting, works on paper, and sculpture. Borlandelli's explosive, multifaceted compositions employ dramatic use of color, as well as several distinct painting and construction techniques. Inspired by nature, he juxtaposes bold, gestural mark-making with jewel-like, tightly rendered symmetrical forms. Vendaval refers to a forceful wind capable of causing violent squalls. The howl of this invincible wind rages across the surface of Borlandelli's work. </p> <p>The canvasses and works on paper conjure a range of natural elements: hot lava spewing from the earth's core, the delicate bifurcation of plants, river tributaries, and radiant celestial spheres, exploring repetition in nature from an infinitesimal scale to a colossal one. The polychrome sculptures are writhing abstract forms constructed from tiny fragments of wood, fastened with multitudes of screws. The effect is that of growth captured in stop-motion photography: a form that is at once at rest, yet bursting with movement and raw energy. The sculptural forms appear to have escaped from the canvasses and assumed a life of their own.</p> <p>Borlandelli has mounted solo exhibitions at venues including the Uruguayan Cultural Center and 43 8th Avenue Gallery, both in New York, NY; Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, NJ; Studios on the Square Gallery, Roanoke, VA; Jennifer Gallery, Avon, CT; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Montevideo, Uruguay. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY; Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY; and the Museum of American Art of Maldonado, Maldonado, Uruguay. He is the recipient of the Pan Am award for Young Artist of Uruguay; the Calle Entera Gallery Vincent Van Gogh Award; and was elected "Best Emerging Artist of the Year" in 1987 by the International Art Critics Association, Filial, Uruguay. He is represented exclusively by Denise Bibro Fine Art.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2028 Exhibition: Roslyn Meyer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Water Play</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 10 - April 16, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 10, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2029"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/40/40597.jpeg" alt="" height="500" width="500" /></a> <p>Roslyn Meyer, <em>Mirage (edition of 12)</em>, 2010</p> <p> Archival pigment print, 16 x 20 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art presents Water Play, color photography by Roslyn Meyer. The exhibition has been extended through April 16th, 2011. In her homage to the transformative powers of water, Meyer offers two distinct series of images: one exploring hushed reflective surfaces, the other harnessing the forceful tumult of surf. </p> <p>Meyer's lens plays on the surface of soft undulating ripples; reflecting sky, flora and fauna, as well as the man-made world. These abstract images are chameleon-like, masquerading as psychedelic Pop art, television static, and even the stripes of a zebra. But look closer, and one picks out a stone, the leaf of a tree, or the architectural detail of a building. In her reflections, Meyer animates a tranquil world. Alternatively, in her study of breaking waves, movement is interrupted, and crashing surf becomes a silent, crystalline glacier. Investigating the tension between surface and depth, motion and stillness, realism and abstraction, Meyer's complex, layered images at once reveal and conceal the nature of their subject.</p> <p>Meyer's work has previously been shown at venues including Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY; A Leaf Photography Studio and Gallery, New Haven, CT; Kennedy Studios, Martha's Vineyard, MA; and the Guilford Art Center, Guilford, <span class="caps">CT.</span> Her work is held in the collection of the Yale University School of Medicine, as well as many private collections.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2029 Exhibition: Sinister Play <div class="exhibition-subtitle"></div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 3 - March 5, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, February 3, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2026"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/40/40064.jpeg" alt="" height="396" width="484" /></a> <p>Tim Ripley, <em>The Pit</em>, 2009</p> <p> oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art presents Sinister Play, February 3rd through March 5th, 2011. Seven artists explore the duality of imagery which is at once childlike, cute, and cuddly, yet belies disturbing undercurrents of menace, mischief, and violence. Featuring work by Meredith Allen, Nancy Baker, Monika Malewska, Kendrick Mar, Douglas Newton, Jon Pellicoro, and Tim Ripley, <em>Sinister Play</em> includes painting, photography, works on paper, and sculpture. Curated by Denise Bibro, Olympia Lambert, and Almitra Stanley.</p> <p><strong>Meredith Allen</strong> encases stuffed animals in shiny cellophane and photographs them with luminous saturated backdrops. While the effect is seductively cheerful, the images conjure the fatal dangers of small children playing with plastic bags.</p> <p>Juxtaposing high art and kitsch, <strong>Nancy Baker's</strong> works in gouache, collage, and glitter on paper utilize wordplay and cartoon icons to expose inequities in our politics, economy, and culture. Hello Kitty<sup>TM</sup> becomes <em>Hello Shitty</em>, wielding a fiery missile; while <em>Hello Titty</em> threatens us with a hand grenade.</p> <p><strong>Monika Malewska's</strong> oils depict bleeding rainbow-hued unicorns, a suspect-looking rabbit bombarded by airplanes, and Godzilla bullying diminutive Pillsbury Doughboys<sup>TM</sup>. While her palette embraces pinks and baby blues, hostility lurks at every juncture.</p> <p>In <strong>Kendrick Mar's</strong> <em>Decapitation</em>, a pink bear-like toy dumbfoundedly contemplates a decapitated head sitting in a pool of blood. In another image, a muscular, masked executioner lurks behind an innocent looking white creature, his axe poised.</p> <p><strong>Douglas Newton's</strong> painting <em>Celebration</em> depicts an angel-shaped cookie cutter which becomes a damsel in distress, alone and vulnerable amidst a barren, windblown landscape while candy-colored toy airplanes swarm the sky above her.</p> <p><strong>Jon Pellicoro</strong> poses bendable figurines of the Pink Panther and Pee Wee Herman in compromising positions to create a perversely humorous sculpture, and also photographs toys on the beach in disturbing juxtapositions, such as a doll head with a skull.</p> <p>Playful, bulbous creatures appearing as if sculpted from Play-Doh<sup>TM</sup> are the subjects of <strong>Tim Ripley's</strong> highly rendered paintings. But, with titles like <em>Devil Bunny</em> and <em>Hand Grenade</em>, Ripley posits that looks can be misleading and lead to dire consequences.</p> <p>All seven participating artists have exhibited widely. For more information, to review their résumés, or to request high resolution images, contact us at 212.647.7030, info@denisebibrofineart.com or visit www.denisebibrofineart.com. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 11AM - 6PM.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2026 Exhibition: Carol Jacobsen <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Mistrial</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 3 - March 5, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, February 3, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2027"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/39/39916.jpeg" alt="" height="372" width="500" /></a> <p>Carol Jacobsen, <em>Time Like Zeroes</em>, 2011</p> <p> video still, </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art presents Carol Jacobsen: Mistrial, on view February 3rd through March 5th, 2011, in our Platform project space. Co-Sponsored by Amnesty International, the exhibition encompasses large-scale photography and video installation<br /> exploring issues of women's criminalization.<br /> Selected and enlarged from the artist's own archive of original 8" × 10" news photographs, the images displayed in Mistrial document the arrests and murder trials of women in the early 20th century. Visually reminiscent of 17th century painting, some of the photographs emanate the delicate light of Dutch interiors, while others conjure the dramatic chiaroscuro of Italian Baroque portraits. Accompanying each photograph is its original news caption, as well as a brass plate engraved with a judicial quote from a corresponding contemporary murder trial. The eerie juxtaposition creates a poignant critique of concepts of justice and gender which persist through time.</p> <p>The sense of temporality in the photographs is conveyed in the video installation<br /> through the spatial journey of the camera's movement. The camera moves from the<br /> outside of a woman's prison, and travels inward, first depicting the circles of razor wire surrounding the prison, and finally ending deep inside the darkest cells of the segregation unit. Narrated by women inmates, the video portrays an intimate and personal narrative, as well as a highly-charged political challenge to current punishment regimes.</p> <p>Together, the images in the exhibition link the eras of the Wall Street crash, the Great Depression and the recent global economic crisis, conveying a resonant sense of timelessness.</p> <p>Jacobsen's work has been shown internationally, and has been co-sponsored by<br /> Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. She has received awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, Women in Film Foundation, Paul Robeson Foundation, and Art Matters. Jacobsen's essays have appeared in Hastings Women's Law Journal, New York Law Review, Signs Journal, and Art in America. A professor at the University of Michigan, she also directs Michigan Women's Justice & Clemency Project, a grassroots effort for freedom, human rights, and civil rights for women prisoners. She is represented exclusively by Denise Bibro Fine Art.</p> <p>Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 11AM - 6PM. For more information, or to request high resolution images, contact us at 212.647.7030, info@denisebibrofineart.com<br /> or visit www.denisebibrofineart.com.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2027 Exhibition: Winter Salon <div class="exhibition-subtitle">2010-2011</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">December 16, 2010 - January 29, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, January 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2019"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/38/38606.jpeg" alt="" height="751" width="500" /></a> <p>Roberley Bell, <em>Flower Blob #65</em>, 2005</p> <p> cast foam with dyed plastic and flocking covered with plastic flowers, beaded fruit, 21 x 12 x 14 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Winter Salon: 2010-2011, on view December 16, 2010 to January 29, 2011. A reception will be held for the artists Thursday, January 6th from 6 to 8pm. The exhibition features 21 artists working in myriad aesthetic, conceptual, and technical modes. The exhibition encompasses figurative, realist, and abstract work, and includes painting, works on paper, sculpture, and collage, as well as found object assemblage.</p> <p>David Barnett<br /> Roberley Bell<br /> Dusty Boynton<br /> Jeremy Comins<br /> Sara Crisp<br /> Lisa Dinhofer<br /> Sydney Drum<br /> Iona Fromboluti<br /> Julie Harvey<br /> David Herman<br /> Carter Hodgkin<br /> Roy Kinzer<br /> Johnny Madsen<br /> Jerry Meyer<br /> Charles Olson<br /> Terry Rose<br /> Audrey Ushenko<br /> Deborah Winiarski<br /> Douglas Wirls<br /> James Woodruff<br /> Jan Wunderman</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2019 Exhibition: H. Lloyd Weston <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Color-Concepts-Creativity</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">December 16, 2010 - January 29, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, January 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2020"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/39/39168.jpeg" alt="" height="371" width="500" /></a> <p>H. Lloyd Weston, <em>Autumn Sonata</em>, 2001</p> <p> oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art presents H. Lloyd Weston: Color-Concepts-Creativity, on view December 16, 2010 through January 29, 2011 in our Space 4 gallery. Infused with the vibrant hues of his native Jamaica, Weston's landscapes comprise a painterly, impressionistic homage to the simple beauty of nature. Whether depicting tropical flora and fauna, the play of light on water, or the rolling hills of Tuscany, Weston applies an exuberant palette and a keen sense of abstraction. </p> <p>Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2011 include the Museum of Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV; and the Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. Selected past solo shows include the United Nations Headquarters, National Arts Club, and Ta Nisia Gallery, all in New York City; Galleria Ca d'Oro, Rome, Italy; Renoir Gallery, Maastricht, Netherlands; Roy Miles Gallery, London, <span class="caps">U.K.</span>; as well as Mutual Life Gallery and Pineapple Room Gallery, both in Jamaica. Selected group exhibitions include Gallery Art 54, New York City; Galleria Die Treppe, Stuttgart, Germany; Galleria Steingenberger, Berlin, Germany; and the National Art Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica. In 1989 Weston presented a commissioned painting to Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in London. Weston pursued independent art studies in Paris, London, the Netherlands; and the Art Students' League in New York City. He received a <span class="caps">B.A. </span>from Fairleigh Dickinson University.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2020 Exhibition: Dusty Boynton <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Out of Line</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 21 - December 11, 2010</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 21, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1935"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/36/36838.jpeg" alt="" height="416" width="500" /></a> <p>Dusty Boynton, <em>Dark Spirit *SOLD</em>, 2010</p> <p> mixed media on paper, 38 7/8 x 46 7/8 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Dusty Boynton: Out of Line, the artist's fifth solo show at the gallery, on view October 21 through December 11, 2010. Boynton's new series of works on paper are rendered with exuberant, gestural zest, as she continues to delve deep into the realms of the inner child, emotional conflict, and psychology.</p> <p>Boynton approaches her work with a sense of immediacy, transparency, and vulnerability. As Donald Kuspit notes in his essay, "Boynton's works are as timelessly fresh as ever: the inner child remains alive and well in her art. He goes on to add that she is "a masterful colorist and gesturalist, but above all, her works are painterly drawings."</p> <p>Out of Line refers not only to Boynton's maverick mark making, but to the raw demeanor and unpredictable behavior of her subjects. At times joyous, but also embodying anger, fear, regret, and self-doubt, they are humble creatures to whom we somehow all relate.<br /> Boynton has shown at Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY; Gallery Jupiter, Little Silver, NJ; and Steffany Martz Gallery, New York, <span class="caps">NY.</span> Selected group exhibitions include In the Garden at Barbara Krakow in Boston, MA; New Prints, 2002 at the International Print Center, New York, NY; Book, Box, Word, Volume II at the University of Florida and the North Miami Contemporary Art Center. Her work has been reviewed in ArtNews, Art in America, The New York Times, Arts Magazine, and New Art Examiner.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1935 Exhibition: Carter Hodgkin <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Unforeseen Behaviors</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">September 9 - October 16, 2010</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, September 16, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1934"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/36/36151.jpeg" alt="" height="716" width="500" /></a> <p>Carter Hodgkin, <em>Willy Nilly Routine</em>, 2010</p> <p> oil, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 52 x 36 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Carter Hodgkin: Unforeseen Behaviors, on view September 9 to October 16, 2010, is the artist's premiere solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art. Fusing physics, digital technology, and painting, Hodgkin's hyper-energetic, cascading compositions are based on simulated atomic particle collisions. Amid an infinite black void, thousands of vibrantly-hued dots explode and implode in a constant state of flux, conjuring fireworks, waterfalls, and volcanic mountains. An exploration of instability and uncertainty, Unforeseen Behaviors alludes not only to the behavior of atomic particles, but to emotional states of tumult, tension, and unease.</p> <p>Embracing the infinitesimal realm of physics, Hodgkin manipulates computer code to generate animations of simulated particle collisions. From these animations she captures still images which become templates for the paintings, blurring the boundaries between digital media, drawing, and painting. Layer upon layer of overlapping tiny dots and fragile lines are painstakingly hand-painted in oils, coalescing into emergent iconic forms. In the artist's words, the work "reflects a tension between technology and handcraft, as well as the rigor of scientific process and the emotional possibilities of abstraction."</p> <p>Hodgkin has mounted solo shows at venues including Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, Berland/Hall Gallery, Nature Morte Gallery, and White Columns, all in New York City; as well as Nature Morte in New Delhi, India; and the <span class="caps">ZKM</span>/Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. Selected group exhibitions include the New Museum, and the Drawing Center, both in New York City; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Adamson Gallery, Washington, <span class="caps">D.C.</span>; and Musée Mediathèque, Uzes, France. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Flash Art International, and The Los Angeles Times, among others. Selected collections include the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Library of Congress, Goldman Sachs, and Pfizer Corporation. Hodgkin recently completed a large-scale public art commission for City University of New York, Queens College. She lives and works in New York City, and is represented exclusively by Denise Bibro Fine Art.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1934 Exhibition: Summer Selections <div class="exhibition-subtitle"></div> <div class="exhibition-dates">July 22 - August 13, 2010</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, July 22, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1932"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/35/35554.jpeg" alt="" height="519" width="500" /></a> <p>Krzysztof Izdebski-Cruz, <em>Galatea</em>, 2009</p> <p> oil on canvas, 44 x 46 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Summer Selections 2010, on view July 22 through August 13, 2010. Featuring 27 artists and an eclectic array of concepts and techniques, the show encompasses painting, encaustic, mixed media, sculpture and assemblage. While 19 exhibiting artists are represented exclusively by Denise Bibro Fine Art (denoted below with an asterisk), 8 guest artists have also been invited to participate.</p> <p>*David Barnett<br /> *Lea Barton<br /> *Gordon Boardman<br /> Daniel Borlandelli<br /> *Dusty Boynton<br /> *Jeremy Comins<br /> *Sara Crisp<br /> *Lisa Dinhofer<br /> David Eisenhour<br /> *Iona Fromboluti<br /> *Carol Goebel<br /> *John Hrehov<br /> Krzysztof Izdebski-Cruz<br /> *Carol Jacobsen<br /> *Roy Kinzer<br /> James Knight<br /> Claire Lieberman<br /> *Linda Lippa<br /> Johnny Madsen<br /> *Jerry Meyer<br /> Barry Nemett<br /> Christopher Reiger<br /> *Terry Rose <br /> *Nora Speyer<br /> *Audrey Ushenko<br /> *James Woodruff<br /> *Jan Wunderman</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1932 Exhibition: Jeremy Comins, "Climbers"; David Herman, "People/Places" <div class="exhibition-subtitle"></div> <div class="exhibition-dates">June 10 - July 17, 2010</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, June 10, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1865"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/34/34737.jpeg" alt="" height="479" width="500" /></a> <p>Jeremy Comins, <em>Jeremy Comins and David Herman</em>, 2010</p> <p> </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present two concurrent solo exhibitions--Jeremy Comins: Climbers, and David Herman: People/Places--on view June 10 through July 17, 2010. </p> <p>Jeremy Comins' fluid, organic sculpture, deftly carved from rich woods-with the occasional addition of bronze-explores humanity's relationship to nature, as well as the complexities of human psychology. Inspired by observing rock climbers in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, imagining how a figure would climb through his own carved forms, as well as mining the metaphor of returning home to safety, the series encompasses free-standing and wall-mounted works.</p> <p>As Roberta Smith noted in her New York Times review of Comins' work, it invokes an "easy sophistication and palpable integrity and an almost infallible sense of touch, scale and composition." His use of cherry, pine and mahogany wood is complimented by his master craftsmanship. Each piece presents a perfectly sanded smooth surface, possessing a human skin-like quality to the touch. Smith concludes that Comin's works "would do any museum proud."</p> <p>Comins has had numerous solo and group shows, including a recent collaborative project of the Sculptors' Guild and the Drawing Center presented on Governor's Island; the Interchurch Center; Bodley Gallery; the Staten Island Museum; the National Academy of Design; the Gallery at Lincoln Center; and the Museum of Modern Art; all in New York City. Denise Bibro Fine Art has featured his work in art fairs such as Art Miami, and Red Dot Miami, New York, and London. Other exhibition venues include the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Art Cologne in Germany.</p> <p>David Herman's intensely hued suite of acrylics on canvas was inspired by his travels in Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East and beyond. Turning perspective on its head, space is flattened, architectonic forms are abstracted, and the human figure is rendered in silhouette.</p> <p>In stark contrast to the artist's last series of paintings, executed almost entirely in black, white and grays, the new work conveys a sense of optimism and joy. Rife with pulsating color, vernacular architecture is celebrated with animated geometry, while the figure is isolated in an iconic manner, lending the most humble task-like the preparation of sugarcane-a sense of reverence.</p> <p>Herman has had solo shows at Caelum Gallery, Gallery Swan, and Nexus Gallery, all in New York City; Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, NJ; Gallery Emanuel, Kings Point, NY; and Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, <span class="caps">NY.</span> His work has also been featured in group exhibitions including the Albright-Knox Collector's Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY; and the Great Neck Art Center, Great Neck, <span class="caps">NY.</span> Herman's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Gallery and Studio Magazine, and The New York Art World.</p> <p>Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 AM - 6:00 <span class="caps">PM.</span> For more information, or high resolution images, please contact the gallery at the information provided below. </p> <p>info@denisebibrofineart.com <br /> 212-647-7030 <br /> http://www.denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1865 Exhibition: David Barnett <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Sacred Creatures</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">May 6 - June 5, 2010</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, May 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1864"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/33/33638.jpeg" alt="" height="377" width="500" /></a> <p>David Barnett, <em>Sacred Creatures</em>, 2010</p> <p> mixed media, 16 1/4 x 19 x 7 1/2 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>David Barnett: Sacred Creatures gathers a plethora of found objects combined with those fashioned by the artist's own hand. His inventive assemblage works encompass pedestal-mounted sculptural objects, wall-mounted constructions, as well as two- and three-dimensional collages. On view May 6 through June 5, 2010, this is Barnett's second solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC.</span></p> <p>The work is imbued with a rich sense of history, incorporating Victorian era botanical imagery, ancient anatomical diagrams, and vintage mechanical elements. Conflating the study of anatomy and mechanics, Barnett conjures ethereal butterfly- and bat-winged beings, strange amalgamated saints, unexpected human and animal hybrids, fanciful flying machines, and curious carnival rides. A scarce commodity in our era of instant gratification, these intimate, intricate works are meticulously hand-crafted and expertly assembled, lending them a quality of rarity and preciousness. Barnett's work is at once uncommon, delightful, eccentric, and mysterious.</p> <p>Barnett has mounted solo exhibitions at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; the Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY; and the Brownstone Gallery, Brooklyn, <span class="caps">NY. </span> Numerous group shows include Gallery Henoch, Allan Stone Gallery, and the Armory Show, all in New York, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY; Futura Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; Philipse Manor Hall Museum, Yonkers, <span class="caps">NY, </span>among others. He has been profiled in The New York Times, Idea magazine, and Print magazine. Barnett has held teaching positions at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the School of Visual Arts.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1864 Exhibition: Terry Rose <div class="exhibition-subtitle">In Flux</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 18 - May 1, 2010</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 1, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1863"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/32/32247.jpeg" alt="" height="632" width="500" /></a> <p>Terry Rose, <em>Pavo</em>, 2009</p> <p> oil, micron pigment, enamel, varnish on aluminum panel, 30 x 24 3/4 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Terry Rose: In Flux, on view March 18 through May 1, 2010. The artist's first New York City solo exhibition features a new suite of paintings executed on aluminum. Residing in the liminal space between abstraction and representation, Rose's imagery emerges, elides, and expands in a constant state of becoming. There is a magical sense of momentary arrival, then a whisper, urging us to remain in the present, as change is inevitable. Conjuring evolving galaxies, the work explores the microcosm and the macrocosm, and their undeniable interconnectedness. </p> <p>Rose works flat, beginning with a base coat of wet varnish, dropping in oils, enamels and micron pigments. He is dependent on the fluid nature of his medium, as substances move across and through the varnish. Chemical and physical reactions yield unpredictable forms. Random calligraphic lines appear, resembling a map's topography. Welcoming chance interaction, the artist creates swirling, cascading passages, occasionally invoking aspects of ancient Chinese landscape painting. </p> <p>Rose has mounted solo shows at Gallery <span class="caps">NAGA,</span> Boston, MA; Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI; Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA; Jill Thayer Gallery, Bakersfield, CA; and the Pasadena Arts Space, Pasadena, <span class="caps">CA.</span> Selected group exhibitions include University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, <span class="caps">MA.</span> His work is held in public and private collections including the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA; the Four Seasons Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Bellagio Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV; Mandarin Oriental Hotels in New York City and Boston, MA; St. Regis Hotels in Ft. Lauderdale, <span class="caps">FL,</span> Shenzen, China, and Dubai.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1863 Exhibition: Reunited <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Boston University School of Visual Arts Alumni</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 18 - March 13, 2010</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Friday, March 5, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1850"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/31/31795.jpeg" alt="" height="586" width="500" /></a> <p>Alfredo Gisholt, <em>El Entierro de la Sardina (Burial of the Sardine)</em>, 2009</p> <p> oil on canvas, 84 x 72 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present <em>Reunited</em>, showcasing 17 alumni of Boston University's College of Fine Arts, on view February 18 - March 13.</p> <p>Part of <span class="caps">CFA</span>'s InCite Arts Festival, this exhibition features painting and sculpting alumni from the Boston University School of Visual Arts, one of three schools within the College of Fine Arts. An artists' talk will be held on Friday, March 5, from 5-6pm, followed by a reception from 6-8pm with many of the artists present.</p> <p>Since its launch in 1954, the BU School of Visual Arts has nurtured scores of accomplished and renowned contemporary artists including painters Brice Marden and Pat Steir, and dealer/gallery owner Arnold Glimcher. </p> <p>Artists include: </p> <p>Sachiko Akiyama<br /> William Augustus<br /> Shira Avidor<br /> Andrea Bergart<br /> Michelle Bova<br /> Jonathan Daly<br /> Alfredo Gisholt<br /> Jonathon Jackson<br /> Carol Keller<br /> Sarah Meder<br /> Marc Mitchell<br /> Lydia Musco<br /> Kayla Mohammadi<br /> Matt Phillips<br /> Gabriel Phipps<br /> Russell Roberts<br /> Aithan Shapira<br /> Lisa Taliano<br /> Lindsey Warren</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1850 Exhibition: Chautauqua <div class="exhibition-subtitle">A Continuum of Creativity</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">January 5 - February 13, 2010</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, January 7, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1811"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/30/30257.jpeg" alt="" height="684" width="500" /></a> <p>Chris Antemann, <em>Paradise</em>, 2009</p> <p> porcelain, decals, luster, 27 x 17 x 17 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Chautauqua: A Continuum of Creativity, showcasing 25 faculty and 25 alumni of the Chautauqua School of Art, on view January 5 through February 13. This exhibition features an international group of established and emerging artists, encompassing an impressive, eclectic array of works in all media, in celebration of the school's 100th anniversary. </p> <p>One of the oldest summer art programs in North America, Chautauqua has experienced incredible growth in recent years, including the total renovation of the School of Art and spectacular new museum quality galleries. For 100 years the Chautauqua School of Art has recognized that art is about touching a higher fundamental chord which at times connects our humanity, questions our preconceptions, and ultimately transcends boundaries of language, time and culture. A Continuum of Creativity reflects the strength, breadth, and long-term commitment that are at the core of the Chautauqua School of Art. To learn more about the school, <a href=http://www.ciweb.org/school-of-art><strong>click here</strong>.</a></p> <p><strong>Faculty</strong> <p>Roberley Bell <br /> Tom Butter<br /> Betsey Garand<br /> Brenda Garand<br /> Judy Glantzman<br /> Glenn Goldberg<br /> Susan Grabel<br /> Margaret Grimes<br /> Barbara Grossman<br /> Charlie Hewitt<br /> Don Kimes<br /> Julie Langsam<br /> Stanley Lewis<br /> Ying Li<br /> Frank Martin <br /> Polly Ann Martin<br /> Don Perlis <br /> Carole Robb<br /> Elena Sisto<br /> Gary Stephan<br /> Lee Tribe<br /> William Tucker<br /> Audrey Ushenko<br /> Stephen Westfall<br /> Marc Zimetbaum</p> <p><strong>Alumni</strong> <p>Daniel Abrams<br /> Tom Andersen<br /> Chris Antemann <br /> Devang Anglay <br /> Heather Couch<br /> Angela Dufresne<br /> Kate Gartrell<br /> Rochelle Goldberg <br /> Margaret Jacobs<br /> Joshua Kaplan<br /> Whitney Kovar <br /> Heidi Leitzke<br /> Jeremy Long<br /> Vikki Michalios<br /> Ali Miller<br /> Saori Moriizumi <br /> Evan Nabrit <br /> Sarah Noble<br /> Perry Obee<br /> Alyse Rosner<br /> Amber Scoon <br /> Benjamin Schulman<br /> Justin Shull <br /> Dan Steinhilber <br /> Jenny Wu</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1811 Exhibition: Sara Crisp <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Intervals and Circles</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 12 - December 19, 2009</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, November 12, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1800"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/30/30242.jpeg" alt="" height="500" width="500" /></a> <p>Sara Crisp, <em>Untitled (Flower of Life)</em>, 2009</p> <p> encaustic, petals, mica on wood panel, 25 x 25 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Sara Crisp: Intervals and Circles. On view November 12 through December 19, this is the artist's third solo exhibition at the gallery. Embracing the sacred universality of the circle, Eastern spirituality, and the ability of a simple plant to symbolize life force, Crisp's mixed-media and encaustic works incorporate delicate, meticulous patterning paired with botanical elements such as flower petals, stems, and seed pods. </p> <p>Where she previously integrated bones and skeletons into her work, this new series is notable for their absence, rendering it more life affirming. Looser symmetry and more random patterning have also evolved, conveying a joyous sense of musicality, spaciousness, and breath. In the artist's words, the work is about "inspiring the sacred, the contemplation of the sacred in the mundane, and the exalted in the universal."</p> <p>Crisp has had solo exhibitions at venues including June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME; the Gallery at R & F, Kingston, NY; and Mixed Media Gallery, New Paltz, <span class="caps">NY.</span> Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; <span class="caps">SOHO20,</span> New York, NY; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME; Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT; among others. Denise Bibro Fine Art has showcased Crisp's work at international art fairs such as Art Miami, Red Dot, and the Affordable Art Fair. Her numerous awards include the Best of Show prize at the Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show and an artist's grant from the Maine Arts Commission. She has also received notices in The Boston Globe, Art New England, and The New York Times. Crisp studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1800 Exhibition: Gone to the Dogs <div class="exhibition-subtitle"></div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 8 - November 7, 2009</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 8, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1727"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/27/27863.jpeg" alt="" height="493" width="500" /></a> <p>Raychael Stine, <em>Dark Beach 2</em>, 2008</p> <p> oil and acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Gone to the Dogs, a canine-themed exhibition showcasing the work of 22 artists and 3 painting pooches, on view October 8 through November 7, 2009. Curated by Denise Bibro, Almitra Stanley and Olympia Lambert, the exhibition encompasses painting, photography, video, and mixed media sculptural assemblage, featuring works that run the gamut of the conceptual and aesthetic continuum. A celebration of man's best friend exploring our multi-faceted relationships with the beloved dog, the works are endearing, nostalgic, laugh-out-loud funny, regal, and profoundly beautiful. </p> <p> <br /> David Barnett<br /> Sophie Blackall<br /> Dusty Boynton<br /> Boyce Cummings<br /> Peter Drake<br /> Katherine Fraser<br /> Eric Ginsburg<br /> Lauren Grabelle<br /> Catherine Hnatov<br /> Serge Hollerbach<br /> Brooke Jacobs<br /> Michel Keck<br /> Susan Kuhlman<br /> Damon Lehrer<br /> Laelia Mitchell<br /> Jane O'Hara<br /> Amy Ross<br /> Nancy Schutt<br /> Raychael Stine<br /> Jenny Toth<br /> Tim Vermeulen<br /> Douglas Wirls<br /> Susan Woolf<br /> *Sammy the Doggie DaVinci<br /> *Tillamook Cheddar<br /> *Ziggy the Painting Pekingese</p> <p>A portion of sales proceeds will benefit Animal Haven, a nonprofit organization that finds homes for abandoned cats and dogs throughout the Tri-State area, and provides behavior intervention when needed to improve chances of adoption. Founded in 1967, they operate a limited admission shelter/adoption center in Manhattan and mobile adoption van. They also provide programs that enhance the bond between animals and people. Find out more <a href=http://www.animalhavenshelter.org>by clicking <strong>here</strong>.</a></p> <p>For more information, or to request high resolution images, contact the gallery at 212.647.7030, info@denisebibrofineart.com, or visit www.denisebibrofineart.com.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1727 Exhibition: Johnny Madsen <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Red, Yellow and the Blues</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">September 3 - October 3, 2009</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, September 10, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1719"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/28/28307.jpeg" alt="" height="431" width="500" /></a> <p>Johnny Madsen, <em>Untitled (NY 04)</em>, 2009</p> <p> acrylic on canvas, 47 x 55 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Johnny Madsen: Red, Yellow, and the Blues. On view September 3 through October 3, this is the Danish neo-expressionist's first solo show in the United States. Depicting psychologically charged, provocative, and mysterious figures, Madsen's thickly impastoed acrylic surfaces pulsate with energetically painted primary colors. A legendary rock and blues musician in Denmark since the 1980s, Madsen has been painting for thirty years, and enjoyed notoriety as an artist in the past decade with shows in Denmark, Venice, and London. We are excited to have the opportunity to premier his work in the United States as part of this international tour. </p> <p>Madsen cites the Fauves, translated as "the wild beasts," among his influences. Like them, he uses color freed from a merely descriptive role, and employs it for expressive emotional effect. The paint, often applied with a palette knife, has a vibrant, raw quality. In Madsen's own words, "It is important to me that [the painting] isn't too perfect. If my strokes turn too tidy it's not right. A painting is supposed to vibrate. It must possess energy, otherwise it's not right."</p> <p>Born in Thyborøn, Madsen began drawing and painting at an early age and has developed his practice as a painter in tandem with his musical career. He has exhibited his work widely since the early 1980s, and recently mounted a solo show at Mews42 Gallery in London. Madsen has his own gallery on Fanø, where he paints and exhibits his work. </p> <p>Torben Gettermann, Consul General of Denmark, will host a reception for the artist Thursday, September 10 from 6 to 9pm. Refreshments will be served, and Madsen will perform a selection of his own music. </p> <p>For more information, or to request high resolution images, contact the gallery at 212.647.7030, info@denisebibrofineart.com, or visit www.denisebibrofineart.com. The gallery would like to recognize the Royal Danish Consulate General of New York for their assistance with this exhibition.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1719 Exhibition: Summer Selections <div class="exhibition-subtitle"></div> <div class="exhibition-dates">July 30 - August 21, 2009</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, July 30, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1728"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/26/26906.jpeg" alt="" height="325" width="500" /></a> <p>David Barnett, <em>Fragments 6</em>, 2008</p> <p> mixed media, 7 1/2 x 10 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Summer Selections 2009, on view July 30 through August 21, 2009. Featuring 25 artists and an eclectic array of concepts and techniques, the show encompasses painting, printmaking, photography, mixed media, and assemblage. While 14 exhibiting artists are represented exclusively by Denise Bibro Fine Art (denoted below with an asterisk), 11 guest artists have been invited to participate.</p> <p>*Eunice Agar<br /> *David Barnett<br /> *Lea Barton<br /> Daniel Borlandelli<br /> *Dusty Boynton<br /> *Giorgio Brogi<br /> *Jeremy Comins<br /> *Sara Crisp<br /> *Lisa Dinhofer<br /> Josephine Haden<br /> *David Herman<br /> Carter Hodgkin<br /> Iliyan Ivanov & Robert Aitchison<br /> *Carol Jacobsen<br /> *Roy Kinzer<br /> Scott Malbaurn<br /> *Jerry Meyer<br /> Roz Meyer<br /> Terry Rose<br /> Sanda<br /> *James Woodruff<br /> Harold Wortsman<br /> *Jan Wunderman<br /> Win Zibeon</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1728 Exhibition: Virginia Commonwealth University <div class="exhibition-subtitle">"For Lovers," MFA In Painting Thesis Exhibtion</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">June 25 - July 25, 2009</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Friday, June 26, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1694"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/25/25827.jpeg" alt="" height="428" width="500" /></a> <p>Valerie Molnar, <em>Track a Falcon On A Cloudy Day</em>, 2009</p> <p> hand-knit acrylic yarn, 4 feet high x 3 1/2 feet wide </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present <em><strong>...For Lovers</strong></em>, featuring the work of 13 recent <span class="caps">M.F.A. </span>graduates of Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Painting and Printmaking. On view June 26 - July 26, 2009, the show encompasses a remarkable diversity of approach to concept and technique, demonstrates seriousness of purpose, and constitutes a significant contribution to the contemporary cultural landscape.</p> <p><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1665><strong>Leah Beeferman's</strong></a> text-based drawings, animations, and sound works address the persistence and limitatioons of human exploration in the fields of science, engineering and architecture. Painting on the reverse side of Plexiglass, <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1663><strong>Josh Bonnett</strong></a> creates watery, organic abstractions, which he often illuminates from behind. <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1666><strong>Brooke Inman's</strong></a> idiosyncratic drawings investigate the limitations and challenges of interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships with elegant minimalism. <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1662><strong>Kate Kisicki</strong></a> is inspired by her love of painting's emotive properties, yet the works also incorporate elements of pop culture. An installation of small mixed media pieces by <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1667><strong>Tony Klotz</strong></a> depicts esoteric imagined landscapes and utopian communities. <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1664><strong>Jessica Langley</strong></a> employs tropes from romantic landscape painting while commenting on American privilege in her sardonic series featuring cat climbing structures. Painting takes on three dimensions in <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1654><strong>Ryan Lauterio's</strong></a> sculptural <span class="caps">MONO</span>-RAIL (at wits end infinite welcome), an energetically painted fantastical transportation vehicle. <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1660><strong>Carmen McLeod</strong></a> uses photographs as a starting point to create painterly collaged interiors. Large acrylic canvases by <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1661><strong>Theresa Marchetta</strong></a> utilize pop strategies to depict subjects of power. Working with yarn, <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1655><strong>Valerie Molnar</strong></a> knits vibrantly colored, large-scale, wall-mounted abstractions. <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1668><strong>Monica Palma</strong></a> explores the relationship between closeness and distance, in drawings both intimate and immense. Combining her fascination with optical illusion and highly restrained abstraction, <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1659><strong>Alexis Semtner's</strong></a> paintings investigate the nature of perception. <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1669><strong>Jill Ann Zevenbergen</strong></a> constructs large-scale, digitally mastered laser-cut paper installations exploring repetition in the contemporary urban landscape.</p> <p>The <span class="caps">V.C.U.</span> Painting <span class="caps">M.F.A. </span>program is rated number eight in the United States, and has a fast growing reputation as a national leader in painting, printmaking, digital media, theory, and new genres.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1694 Exhibition: Jerry Meyer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Memory Boxes</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">May 14 - June 20, 2009</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, May 14, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1574"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/25/25521.jpeg" alt="(The Ecliptic, 2009, mixed media, 4 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 4 inches)" height="255" width="500" /></a> <p><p>(The Ecliptic, 2009, mixed media, 4 1/2 × 12 1/4 × 4 inches)</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Jerry Meyer: Memory Boxes, on view May 14 through June 20, 2009. Meyer's second solo exhibition at the gallery features a new series of multi-media light boxes, together with other illuminated sculptural works. The work evokes a dramatic personal narrative--often a reconstruction of the artist's own childhood memories--rife with humor, sentiment, and sometimes sadness.</p> <p>Building his own plexiglas boxes, to which he adds ancestral ephemera, family photos and other nostalgic objects, Meyer illuminates them with found light sources as well as various types of bulbs and colored filters. His sophisticated sense of engineering and lighting lend nuance and elegance to these assemblage compositions. The work bristles with the theatricality of a stage set, yet summons the sacredness of objects displayed in reliquaries or shrines. Deeply fascinated by psychology, Meyer often conjures family dynamics such as parent-child love expressed through physical bonding, or suggests that the recollection of unconditional parental love may be a potent antidote to the inevitability of loss and separation. The work is at once personal and universal--the artist's sentiments are right there on the surface, offered to the viewer with vulnerability and gentle wit.</p> <p>Jerry Meyer's work has been included in exhibitions throughout the United States, such as Artspace, New Haven, CT; the Art Miami and Red Dot Art Fairs, both in Miami, FL; as well as the Red Dot Fairs in New York City and London; the Eli Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT; the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, New Haven, CT; the San Jose Rep Gallery, San Jose, CA; and the Sharon Arts Center in Petersborough, <span class="caps">NH.</span></p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1574 Exhibition: Roy Kinzer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">urban self-similarity</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 2 - May 9, 2009</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 2, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1573"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/23/23977.jpeg" alt="" height="469" width="500" /></a> <p>Roy Kinzer, <em>Taftville</em>, 2009</p> <p> acrylic and collaged map on wood panel, 32 x 30 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Roy Kinzer: urban self-similarity, on view April 2 through May 9, 2009. In his second solo exhibition at the gallery, the artist continues to explore self-similar patterns occurring in nature in his urban aerial landscapes. Kinzer focuses on the repetition of shapes and structures across different scales, and creates his own random fractal patterns by integrating collaged road maps with satellite-derived imagery. In his most recent work, he has dialed up the intensity and the intricacy of his compositions. Kinzer sees himself as a modern day Hudson River School painter, "using perspective, magnified scale and dramatic lighting to explore the sublime--the feeling of rapture and awe caused by the beauty and terror of nature." </p> <p>Void of inhabitants, the work invokes isolation. Kinzer adds elements of fantasy and exaggeration by disrupting the original image with scratches, scrape marks, and bleached-out light. These gestures visually tear into the repetitive fabric of the cityscape, eating into the surface like atmospheric disturbances. The artist then adds layers of filigreed collaged road maps. The final painting is encased in multiple layers of mediums and varnish, creating a smooth, flat surface.</p> <p>Kinzer received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and the Curator's Choice Award from the Albright-Knox Collector's gallery. His solo exhibitions include the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY; the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; and the J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, <span class="caps">IL.</span> Selected group exhibitions include the Red Dot Art Fair in New York, Miami Beach, and London; Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY; Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, NJ; and Rutgers University. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Sunday Star Ledger, and The Village Voice. Kinzer received his <span class="caps">M.F.A. </span>from Vermont College.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1573 Exhibition: Lisa Dinhofer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">In the Round</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 5 - March 28, 2009</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 5, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1572"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/24/24136.jpeg" alt="Image detail from Lisa Dinhofer's "Light Travelers #2"" height="375" width="500" /></a> <p><p>Image detail from Lisa Dinhofer's "Light Travelers #2"</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Lisa Dinhofer: In the Round, the artist's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view March 5th to 28th, 2009. This new suite of realist still life paintings and works on paper mark a departure for Dinhofer, as all of the paintings are executed on round panels, giving her intricate and meticulously rendered compositions an expansive kinetic quality. Each painting is shown with its accompanying colored pencil drawing, lending insight into the artist's process.</p> <p>The artist's trademark glass marbles are still present, arranged with hoards of bees, gossamer butterflies, iridescent dragonflies, and other insects. Edges have a limitless quality, and the subjects appear to recede or advance, swirling within the vortices created by the circular space. These still lifes transcend stillness, entering into realms of the magical and spiritual. Dinhofer paints in lusciously saturated hues, achieving intense luminosity. She demonstrates consummate draftsmanship--inside each of her marbles she captures a complex reflection creating a fantastical world within a world effect. This theme is extrapolated in works where marbles become planets, creating solar systems and universes, reminding us of just how small we indeed are. </p> <p>Dinhofer's work has been reproduced in numerous books and catalogues and mentioned in prestigious publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, and Art News. Her work is in several private, public and corporate collections including: The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The New York Public Library, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; City College, <span class="caps">C.U.N.Y.,</span> NY; The Forbes Magazine Collection, NY; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Jane Voorhees Zimmerili Art Museum, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ; Pfizer, Inc., NY; DuPont Corporation, Wilmington, DE; and General Electric Co., Bridgeport, <span class="caps">CT. </span> Dinhofer is an instructor of drawing at the National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts, <span class="caps">NYC. </span><br /> For more information, or to request high resolution images, contact the galley at<br /> 212.647.7030, info@denisebibrofineart.com, or visit www.denisebibrofineart.com.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1572 Exhibition: John Hrehov: <i>A Survey 1999 - 2008</i> <br/>Linda Lippa: <i>China in Transformation</i> <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Two concurrent solo exhibitions</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 5 - February 28, 2009</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, February 5, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1571"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/22/22012.jpeg" alt="Hrehov (left), Lippa (right)" height="345" width="500" /></a> <p><p>Hrehov (left), Lippa (right)</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to announce John Hrehov: <em>A Survey, 1999-2009</em>, and<br /> Linda Lippa: <em>China in Transformation</em>, two concurrent solo exhibitions on view from February 5th through 28th, 2009.</p> <p><strong>John Hrehov</strong>: <strong><em>A Survey, 1999-2009</em></strong><br /> <br /> Hrehov's fifth solo exhibition spans ten years of output in oils and charcoal, exploring the development of his signature allegorical realist mode, a meditation on the natural and spiritual world, infused with surrealism and mystery.</p> <p>When working with oils, Hrehov takes great liberties with color, lending depth and richness, whereas his charcoals are rendered in a labor-intensive pointillist technique, drawing attention to the surface. Architectural structures, statuary, trees and animals populate the work, and become the characters acting out the artist's multi-layered, metaphorical messages. Hrehov's compositions eschew perspective, embrace symmetry, and assign equal visual and symbolic weight to their components. The work achieves not only visual balance, but energetic and spiritual balance, providing a transcendent refuge. </p> <p>Hrehov has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the country. Recent solo exhibitions include Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN; Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY; Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL; and Denise Bibro Fine Art, <span class="caps">NYC. </span> Hrehov's awards include the Gladys Emerson Cook Prize in the Area of Prints, Drawings and Pastel, 167th Annual Exhibition National Academy of Design, <span class="caps">NYC </span>and the Eastman-Bolton Memorial Award, Cleveland Institute of Art. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, American Artist Magazine, Louisville Courier-Journal, and The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne, <span class="caps">IN. </span> Hrehov holds an <span class="caps">MFA </span>from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, <span class="caps">IN.</span></p> <p><strong>Linda Lippa</strong>: <strong><em>China in Transformation</em></strong></p> <p>The 21st century has fueled exponential growth in China, resulting not only in a dramatically changed urban landscape, but in a radically changed economic and social landscape. Lippa spent 2008 traveling throughout China, seeking out these transformations and their effects on the Chinese people. The artist enlists narrative, metaphorical, and visual strategies to capture the spirit of contemporary Chinese life, in which new technology and ways of thinking co-exist with age-old tradition.</p> <p>Lippa positions her subjects within the context of their own unique environments in order to mine the complexities of today's China. In works such as Mao, the transitional elements from the previous century are obvious, while in Beijing, Bus Ride, and Students, the dominant influences of the 21st century, particularly environmental, take center stage. Lippa infuses humor into her work as well. Beauty Salon depicts a man standing on the street, his Western business attire partially covered by a smock printed with Chinese characters, his head wrapped in a red towel prominently displaying the Wella product logo. By drawing attention to the world of unrestricted commerce, Lippa successfully conveys the transitory, ever-evolving conditions of today's China, as well as man's inherent desire to experience the unexperienced.</p> <p>Lippa's recent group exhibitions include Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, <span class="caps">NJ, </span>which acquired a painting for their collection; <span class="caps">UBS</span> Group Show, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; Dana Gallery, Newark, NJ; Longview Museum, Longview, TX; Belskie Museum, Closter, NJ; Traveling the Carolinas, National Association of Women Artists, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; Cambridge Art Association, MA; Cornell Museum, Del Ray, <span class="caps">FL. </span> Recent solo exhibitions include the Museo de Arte Acariqua-Araure in Venezuela; Gallery Galou, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; Gallery on the Vineyard, Martha's Vineyard, MA; Gallery Magritte, Tucson, AZ; Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and John Harms Center for the Arts, all in <span class="caps">NJ. </span> Lippa's notices include Art News, The New York Times, Gallery and Studio, Forbes Magazine, and The Bergen Record of <span class="caps">NJ.</span> Her work is in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and internationally.</p> <p>For more information, or to request high resolution images of the artists' works, please contact the gallery at<br /> 212.647.7030, or info@denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1571 Exhibition: Winter Salon: Gallery & Invited Artists <div class="exhibition-subtitle">2008-2009</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">December 18, 2008 - January 31, 2009</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, January 8, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1569"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/21/21337.jpeg" alt="" height="626" width="500" /></a> <p>Jeff Sundheim, <em>Untitled 2</em>, 2008</p> <p> </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Winter Salon: Gallery & Invited Artists, on view December 18, 2008 to January 31, 2009. A reception will be held for the artists Thursday, January 8th from 6 to 8pm. The exhibition features 30 artists working in myriad aesthetic, conceptual, and technical modes. Nine of the participating artists are represented exclusively by Denise Bibro Fine Art, while the remaining artists were selected by curators Denise Bibro, Almitra Stanley, and Olympia Lambert. The exhibition encompasses figurative, realist, and abstract work, and includes painting, works on paper, sculpture, and collage, as well as found object assemblage.<br />  <br />  <br /> <a href=http://platform.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1328>Nancy Baker</a><br /> <a href=http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1358>David Barnett</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1073>Lea Barton</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/959>Dusty Boynton</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1006>Giorgio Brogi</a><br /> <a href=http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/962>Jeremy Comins</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1535>Debra Drexler</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1135>Sydney Drum</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1536>Richard Eagan</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1563>Angelou Guingon</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1541>Mary Hart</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1538>Amy Hill</a><br /> <a href=http://platform.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1239>Scott Malbaurn</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/950>Shane McAdams</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/961>Jerry Meyer</a><br /> <a href=http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1543>David Nakabayashi</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/990>Charles Olson</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1544>Chris Pousette-Dart</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1075>Christopher Reiger</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1399>Amy Ross</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1539>Rebecca Rutstein</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1540>Madeline Silber</a><br /> <a href=http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1568>Gail Spaien</a><br /> <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/957>Nora Speyer</a><br /> <a href=http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1545>Jeff Sundheim</a><br /> <a href=http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1542>Naoe Suzuki</a><br /> <a href=http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/949>Audrey Ushenko</a><br /> <a href=http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1309>James Woodruff</a><br /> <a href=http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/991>Jan Wunderman</a><br /> <a href=http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1537>Win Zibeon</a></p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1569 Exhibition: David Barnett <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Spirits on the Wing</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 6 - December 13, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, November 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1431"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/19/19151.jpeg" alt="" height="487" width="500" /></a> <p>David Barnett, <em>Damselfly</em>, 2008</p> <p> mixed media, 12 x 12 x 4 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>David Barnett: Spirits on the Wing</strong>, on view November 6 through December 13, 2008, is the artist's first solo exhibition with <strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art</strong>. The show encompasses pedestal-mounted sculptural objects, wall-mounted constructions, and two-dimensional collages combining a plethora of found objects as well as those fashioned by the artist's own hand. The work is infused with a rich sense of history. The theme of flight reoccurs throughout, as does the conflation of the study of anatomy and mechanics. Barnett draws inspiration from Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell, and Leonardo Da Vinci.</p> <p>Intricate, fanciful flying machines fashioned from cut and manipulated vintage tin containers and soldered brass wire are anthropomorphized by the addition of a porcelain doll's head. Ethereal winged beings, evocative of angels or saints, adorned with beatific faces, have marionette bodies--wood strung together with wire--or legs attached to pedals. The collages utilize Victorian era catalog and botanical imagery, anatomical diagrams, and animals. A girl sprouts butterfly wings, a cow is mechanized by the addition of wheels, a bird has a man's head. Reminiscent of the German Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, Barnett's work is at once delightful, eccentric, and mysterious.</p> <p>Barnett has mounted solo exhibitions at Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, <span class="caps">MD, </span>the Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, <span class="caps">NY, </span>and the Brownstone Gallery, Brooklyn, <span class="caps">NY. </span> Numerous group shows include Gallery Henoch, Allan Stone Gallery, and the Armory Show, all in New York, NY; Futura Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; Philipse Manor Hall Museum, Yonkers, <span class="caps">NY, </span>among others. He has been profiled in The New York Times, Idea magazine, and Print magazine. Barnett has held teaching positions at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the School of Visual Arts.</p> <p>For more information, or to request high resolution images, please contact us at info@denisebibrofineart.com, or call (212) 647-7030.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1431 Exhibition: Dusty Boynton <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Work</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 9 - November 1, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 9, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1416"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/19/19086.jpeg" alt="" height="406" width="500" /></a> <p>Dusty Boynton, <em>Photo Shoot</em>, 2008</p> <p> oil on linen, 58 x 72 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present our third solo exhibition of work by Dusty Boynton, on view October 9 through November 1, 2008. These energetic canvases acquaint us with a motley cast of characters-- human, animal and in between-- painted with confident, gestural strokes in radiant color. The work encompasses the intensity of Abstract Expressionism with a joyous sense of child-like exuberance. Boynton's ability to construct emotionally and psychologically charged imagery is reminiscent of De Kooning's Women series, as well as the mysterious, yet playful, works of Paul Klee. Her works have the ability to incite uncanny humor without losing their poignant intellectual sensibility. Boynton stealthily communicates equal parts poetry, irreverence, elation, fear, and gentle empathy.</p> <p>Boynton has shown at Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY; Gallery Jupiter, Little Silver, NJ; and Steffany Martz Gallery, New York, <span class="caps">NY.</span> She has been included in dozens of group exhibitions such as In the Garden at Barbara Krakow in Boston, MA; Book, Box, Word, Volume II at the University of Florida and the North Miami Contemporary Art Center; and New Prints, 2002 at the International Print Center, New York, <span class="caps">NY.</span> Her work has been covered in Art in America, Arts Magazine, New Art Examiner, The New York Times, and ArtNews. Denise Bibro Fine Art will feature Boynton's work at the Red Dot Art Fair in London October 16-19, 2008. <br /> <br /> For more information, or high resolution images, please contact the gallery at info@denisebibrofineart.com or call us at 212-647-7030.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1416 Exhibition: Animus Botanica: <div class="exhibition-subtitle"><a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1359>Boyce Cummings</a>, <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1075>Christopher Reiger</a>, <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1399>Amy Ross</a></div> <div class="exhibition-dates">September 4 - October 4, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, September 4, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1415"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/19/19858.jpeg" alt="" height="493" width="500" /></a> <p>Christopher Reiger, <em>A Retching</em>, 2006</p> <p> watercolor, gouache, sumi ink and marker on Arches paper, 47 x 47 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>In <em>Animus Botanica</em>, three young artists explore themes of nature, narrative, and fantasy. On view September 4 through October 4, 2008, the work of Boyce Cummings, Christopher Reiger, and Amy Ross encompasses painting, drawing, and collage. The subject matter centers on flora, fauna, and the human form, as well as hybrid creatures, all of which are enthralling, and sometimes downright ominous. A fox emerges from the soft pink petals of a magnolia blossom, a Rubenesque female figure sports a bear's head, a possum bears his teeth against an onslaught of bats, a lifeless bird hangs from string amongst a botanical rendering. </p> <p>According to painter Boyce Cummings, nature occupies a large part of his inner life, and he casts people as animals in his works in oil, acrylic, and mixed media. Birds preside over seemingly abandoned architectural structures in barren landscapes, an abstract curvilinear design decorated with stars become the bird's lonely song. A regal polar bear silently crosses a white abyss, while an underpainting reveals numerous caricature portraits, recalling the disturbing drawings created to illustrate phrenology, or the study of the shape of the human head as it was thought to relate to intelligence.</p> <p>Christopher Reiger's complex multi-media paintings on paper vibrate with saturated color and dense compositions of fauna, which the artist refers to as "hallucinatory landscapes." Often populated by menacing crows and other intimidating animals, Reiger suggests that nature is by no means idyllic, and compares its extremism to the contemporary cultural and political climate. His smaller works on paper allude to man's mutable conception of nature, while at the same time referencing archaic scientific experiments involving humans, animals, and plants.</p> <p>Amy Ross' watercolors and collages portray delicate, elegantly rendered botanicals morphed with animal and human forms. Ross notes these images subvert the traditional genre of botanical illustration by viewing the natural world through the lens of genetic engineering and mutation gone awry. Woodpeckers with mushroom caps for heads adorn fragile white birch branches; another mushroom sprouts into a headless writhing serpent. While these creatures are charming, Ross alludes to the dangers of meddling with nature.</p> <p>Cummings, Reiger, and Ross all have extensive exhibition histories. Please see the artists individual pages for resume history. For more information, or high resolution images, please contact the gallery at our contact page.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1415 Exhibition: Summer Selections <div class="exhibition-subtitle"></div> <div class="exhibition-dates">July 10 - August 22, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, July 10, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1414"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/17/17624.jpeg" alt="" height="362" width="500" /></a> <p>Myung-Ock Lim, <em>A Sacred Solace II: Dark Green</em>, 2007</p> <p> laser cut optical glass, </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art presents Summer Selections, on view July 10 through August 22, 2008. The show features nine artists working in diverse concepts and media, including Lindsey Adams Adelman, Dusty Boynton, Giorgio Brogi, Sara Crisp, Lisa Dinhofer, Iona Fromboluti, Mark Hadjipateras, Roy Kinzer, and Myung-Ock Lim.</p> <p>Lindsey Adams Adelman works with human hair to create elegant and precise drawings which range from horizontal or vertical striations to repetitive kaleidoscopic designs. The hair, taken from numerous heads, displays subtle variations in texture and color. Also embracing a minimalist aesthetic, sculptor Myung-Ock Lim's sharp-edged glass wedges are comprised of individual laser-cut sections of glass assembled to create a striated prism. They take in the light, bending and refracting it, and reflect it back into the room in majestic rich hues. Featuring pastel-colored abstract shapes painted on the reverse side of frosted glass in a hard-edged vein, Giorgio Brogi's work has a seductive surface and conjures precious bits of candy.</p> <p>Working in a figurative mode, Dusty Boynton's energetic canvases depict a motley cast of characters--human, animal and in between--painted with confident, gestural strokes in radiant color. The work is at once joyful and psychologically charged. Also involved in a narrative of imagined characters, Mark Hadjipateras' drawings and paintings explore science fiction themes: otherworldly landscapes, robots, and fanciful vehicles. Executed in a cartoonist's manner, they embrace a child-like sense of wonderment, and hum with energy and a sense of mischief. </p> <p>Derived from satellite imagery, Roy Kinzer's aerial landscape paintings encompass digital manipulation and collaged maps. What at first appears as abstraction, reveals the tops of buildings, roads, topographical contour lines, rivers, and lakes. </p> <p>Inspired by nature and spirituality, Sara Crisp creates mandala-like patterns surrounding the central focal point of each piece, which are actual objects such as butterflies, seedpods and bones, enveloped in encaustic. Using similar subjects, Iona Fromboluti's evocative still lifes hint at the macabre; populated by skeletons, desiccated flowers, and bugs. She invites the outside in, painting dramatic, foreboding skyscapes as the backdrop for these exquisite compositions. In a different incarnation of the still life, Lisa Dinhofer, a consummate draftsman, creates paintings and color pencil drawings celebrating the complexity of the objects she depicts: marbles, glass animals, insects, creating intricate compositions which become a world of their own.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1414 Exhibition: James Woodruff <div class="exhibition-subtitle">New Work</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">June 5 - July 3, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, June 5, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1348"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/17/17016.jpeg" alt="" height="315" width="500" /></a> <p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art,</strong> 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to present the first New York City solo show of abstract painter <strong>James Woodruff.</strong> On view June 5th through July 3rd, James Woodruff: New Work features a series of luminous and atmospheric oils. Undulating soft bodies of color seamlessly shift, suggesting a constant state of transition. Woodruff's seductive surfaces evoke the nebulous, reflective surface of water, and while many of the compositions transcend time and place, others imply a narrative in which colors become the organic components forming the landscape. The palette and application of paint are reminiscent of Rothko, and Woodruff's works are imbued with a similar sense of Zen-like calmness and mystical spirituality. </p> <p>Woodruff has an extensive background in both painting and photography, and worked from 1977 to 1980 as the assistant to Irving Penn. His work has been exhibited in New York City at the Manasse-Chelsea <span class="caps">DAK</span> Gallery; and at venues in Connecticut including the Bachelier/Cardonsky Gallery in Kent; the John Slade Ely House in New Haven; and The Silo in New Milford. His work was selected on numerous occasions for the Rose Algrant Show, an annual memorial exhibition staged at various alternative locations in Cornwall, <span class="caps">CT, </span>in honor of artist Rose Algrant. He holds degrees from the Marist Brothers and Oxford Colleges, both in Johannesburg, South Africa, and studied at the Art Students League in New York City.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1348 Exhibition: David Black <div class="exhibition-subtitle">New York Paintings</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">May 8 - May 31, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, May 8, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1347"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/15/15358.jpeg" alt="" height="354" width="500" /></a> <p>David Black, <em>Central Park Boat Pond</em>, 1998</p> <p> oil on canvas, 30 x 40 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to present <strong>David Black: New York Paintings.</strong> The artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring seventeen vibrant, humorous, and playful depictions of city life, as well as a group of enchanting black and white engravings, will be on view May 8th through the 31st, 2008. A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, May 8th, from 6 to 9 pm.</p> <p>The New York Paintings capture the city's boundless energy and evidence the artist's love for his birthplace. The canvases hum with color and entertain with incisive wit. Whether portraying the social elite dining at the Plaza, canine enthusiasts at the Westminster Kennel Club Show, chess players lingering over a game at Washington Square Park's famed tables, or crowds reveling at the Greenwich Village Halloween parade, Black inserts humor, irony, and generally pokes fun. Grace Glueck of The New York Times wrote of Black's work: "These cartoony, untutored oils, bubbling with color, unabashedly tackle everything from landscape to social mores...," while The New Yorker succinctly noted: "Black is at his most delicious as a satirist."</p> <p>A complement to his paintings, Black's elegant engravings employ a precise economy of line, capturing gesture and expression with a minimal, yet confident and effective approach. </p> <p>A self-taught artist, Black began to explore painting and drawing after a long and successful career in theatre, both as a director and producer. He has devoted himself solely to his art for nearly a quarter of a century. His work has been exhibited in New York City at the National Arts Club and the <span class="caps">DFN</span> Gallery. Black has shown extensively at venues including Noah's Art Gallery and Four Starr Gallery, both in Stonington; and the <span class="caps">P.H.</span> Miller Gallery in Woodburgh, all in <span class="caps">CT.</span> His work has been shown at The Weston Gallery and The Malton Gallery in Cincinnati, The Museum of East Texas in Lufkin, the Catherine Kelleghan Gallery in Atlanta; and in England at the Phoenix Gallery in London and Lavenham, Suffolk; and the Essex County Council Gallery, Chelmsford. Black's work is exhibited in American Embassies around the world sponsored by the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Department of State <span class="caps">ART </span>in Embassies Program. He lives and works in Stonington, <span class="caps">CT. </span></p> <p>For more information, or high resolution images, please email info@denisebibrofineart.com, or visit our website at http://www.denisebibrofineart.com.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1347 Exhibition: David Herman <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Fractures</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 10 - May 3, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 17, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1317"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/15/15362.jpeg" alt="" height="632" width="500" /></a> <p>David Herman, <em>Untitled #11</em>, 2007</p> <p> acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art,</strong> 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to present <strong>David Herman: Fractures.</strong> The artist's fifth solo exhibition, featuring a suite of primarily black and white canvases, will be on view April 10 through May 3, 2008. A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, April 17, from 6 to 8 pm.</p> <p>Herman's imagery drifts comfortably between abstraction and representation, depicting irregular black and white patterns reminiscent of bone fragments or parched, cracked earth; stylized maps of the world; and bleak urban skylines. While the work addresses sociopolitical issues such as the global economy, war, and environmental concerns, the artist also finds inspiration in the mundane. The eroding white paint of a parking lot's directional arrow melting into the blacktop came to symbolize the fragility of unchecked development and growth in Herman's piece entitled Broken Arrow. </p> <p>These stark images, drained of color, point to the distressful side effects of globalization: the polarization of the economy, the loss of uniqueness and a sense of place. In his work, Gold Standard, a map of the world reveals fissures throughout. A gold bar hovers above all. One world, under a new god--the god of capitalism. With Horizon I, we are confronted with a disjointed skyline. The calm grey sea lies completely flat, leaving us to wonder how we will weather the next storm.</p> <p>The theme of disintegration, of images breaking apart, is repeated throughout Herman's work, yet the artist offers a glimmer of hope. Placed in the center of several of the pieces floats an ethereal blue globe, a perfect circle, alluding to nature's endless cycles--mother earth primed for her return. </p> <p>David Herman has had solo shows at Caelum Gallery, Gallery Swan, and Nexus Gallery, all in New York City; Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, NJ; Gallery Emanuel, Kings Point, NY; and Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, <span class="caps">NY. </span> His work has also been included in group exhibitions including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY; and the Great Neck Art Center, Great Neck, <span class="caps">NY. </span> Herman's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Gallery and Studio Magazine, and The New York Art World.</p> <p>For more information, or high resolution images, please email info@denisebibrofineart.com, or visit our website at http://www.denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1317 Exhibition: Iona Fromboluti <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Work</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 6 - April 5, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1316"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/14/14410.jpeg" alt="" height="375" width="500" /></a> <p>Iona Fromboluti, <em>Foreign Traveler, Mixed Bouquet</em>, 2007</p> <p> oil on panel, 18 x 24 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to present New York-based painter <strong>Iona Fromboluti's</strong> third solo exhibition. Featuring a new suite of evocative still lifes, Iona Fromboluti: Recent Work will be on view March 6th through April 5th, 2008. </p> <p>Fromboluti's compositions posit unresolved narratives. Hinting at the macabre, they are populated by animal skeletons, desiccated flowers, bugs, discarded oyster shells, the delicate carcass of a small bird; yet she also strikes a blithe note with verdant flora, a string of pearls, and even a box of chocolates. Fromboluti elevates her work to a new level, as she invites the outside in, choosing dramatic skyscapes as the backdrop to these exquisitely painted still lifes. These skyscapes are painted with a looser hand, conveying movement. Foreboding clouds brood beyond what appears to be a mantelpiece, lending a sense of fragility to the objects, as one imagines they may be swept from their perch by a strong gust. The dramatic impact of the work is heightened by a long horizontal support, inferring a monumental landscape with a wide, uninterrupted horizon line. Perhaps the most theatrical piece is the 22" × 120" diptych Summer Dreaming. A dark, mysterious night sky reveals a glimpse of the full moon, illuminating two roses lying on the mantelpiece, one yellow and one pink, which appear to have been abandoned, the residue of a romantic encounter. </p> <p>Iona Fromboluti was born in New York City, and is an alumnus of the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She has had solo exhibitions at Denise Bibro Fine Art, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; the More Gallery and Gross McCleaf Galleries in Philadelphia, PA; and the Vose Gallery, Boston, <span class="caps">MA.</span> Her work has been included in several group exhibitions including Smith College, Northampton, MA; Hofstra University, Long Island, NY; The National Academy of Design, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; the Southern Allegheny Museum, Loretto, PA; Marymount College, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; and the Philadelphia Academy, Philadelphia, <span class="caps">PA.</span> Her public collections include the Butler Institute, Youngstown, Ohio, the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina, and the Pew Charitable Trust Collection, Philadelphia, <span class="caps">PA. </span> She teaches at Pratt Institute and has been featured in numerous publications including the Philadelphia Inquirer and Art in America. </p> <p>For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com or go to our website, http://www.denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1316 Exhibition: Lea Barton <div class="exhibition-subtitle">South</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 7 - March 1, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, February 7, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1210"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/13/13447.jpeg" alt="" height="484" width="500" /></a> <p>Lea Barton, <em>Promenade</em>, 2008</p> <p> mixed media on canvas, 50 x 52 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art</strong>, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce the first New York City solo exhibition of Mississippi-based artist <strong>Lea Barton</strong>. Her recent series of multi-media works, entitled South, will be featured February 7 through March 6, 2008. </p> <p>Barton combines collage and paint with photography and printmaking techniques to create richly layered works exploring the material and political history of the South, and dissecting female stereotypes of Antebellum and contemporary Southern culture. The work reflects both Barton's childhood memories of growing up in Mississippi, and her later efforts to define what it means to be from the South. Photographic self-portraits are often central to her compositions, in which Barton takes on multiple identities: virginal veiled bride, burlesque vixen, prom queen, Miss America. Images of women reoccur in her work, alongside quintessentially female ephemera: dressmaker's patterns, lace, love letters, and traces of wallpaper from abandoned sharecropper shacks. Barton weaves these elements together with both nostalgia and a sense of disconnect. Ultimately, she allows the viewer only glimpses and shards of narrative. Instead of providing answers, Barton poses questions, leaving it to the viewer to create their own impression of the South.<br /> <br /> A selection of Barton's solo exhibitions includes the Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans, LA; Perry Nicole Gallery, Memphis, TN; Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, MS; and the Alexandria Museum of Art in Alexandria, <span class="caps">LA, </span>among many others. She has also participated in many group and invitational shows in museums and galleries nationwide. In addition, she has received numerous awards and commissions, and her work is included in many public and corporate collections throughout the country. Barton received her <span class="caps">M.F.A. </span>from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, <span class="caps">NY. </span> She currently resides in Flora, <span class="caps">MS.</span></p> <p> <br /> For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com or go to our website, http://www.denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1210 Exhibition: Winter Salon <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Gallery and Invited Artists</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">January 3 - February 2, 2008</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, January 17, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1153"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/11/11813.jpeg" alt="" height="494" width="500" /></a> <p>Charles Olson, <em>Ex Voto (Rose)</em>, 2007</p> <p> </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce the opening of Winter Salon: Gallery & Invited Artists. The exhibition features 32 artists working in myriad aesthetic, conceptual, and technical modes. Ten of the participating artists are represented exclusively by Denise Bibro Fine Art (denoted below with an asterisk), while the remaining artists were selected by curators Denise Bibro, Almitra Stanley, and Olympia Lambert.</p> <p> </p> <p>The exhibition encompasses figurative, realist, abstract, and conceptual work, and includes oils, acrylics, sculpture, stained glass, photography, and video. Although the show was not intentionally thematically organized, several themes surface and re-surface in these diverse works: trepidation, danger, and loss; meditations on landscape, nature, and the botanical; as well as work exploring materials and process. </p> <p> </p> <p>Sarah K. Bean <p>Christa Blatchford <p>Nora Chavooshian* <p>Sara Crisp* <p>Lisa Dinhofer* <p>Ric Dragon <p>Sydney Drum <p>Ruth Epstein <p>Camilla Fallon <p>Iona Fromboluti* <p>Daniel Giese <p>Josephine Haden <p>Rob Hann <p>Gerry Hayes <p>Diana Hobson <p>John Hrehov* <p>Carol Jacobsen* <p>Joyce Korotkin <p>Damon Lehrer <p>Myung-Ock Lim* <p>Charles Olson <p>Linda Lippa* <p>Shane McAdams* <p>Aija Meisters <p>Michael Paul Miller <p>Nancy Nicholson <p>Christopher Reiger <p>Tim Ross <p>Al Sprague <p>Dennis Tremalio* <p>Martha Walker</div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1153 Exhibition: Erica Licea-Kane: The Botanical Series <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Mixed media works</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 8 - December 15, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, November 8, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1132"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10306.jpeg" alt="" height="500" width="500" /></a> <p>Erica Licea-Kane, <em>Spine/Vine</em>, 2007</p> <p> fabric, sewing, couching, hand-printed rice paper, acrylic pigment, acrylic medium, 40 x 40 x 2 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art</strong>, at 529 West 20th Street, on the 4th floor, is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by <strong>Erica Licea-Kane</strong>, The Botanical Series: Mixed Media Works. </p> <p>Exploring patterns and visual events found in nature, such as the veins of a leaf, or the rapid motion of flapping butterfly wings, Licea-Kane's new suite of multi-layered, mixed media works draw the viewer into their intricate, richly textured surfaces, yet the actual method of construction of the work is elusive. The artist builds layer upon layer utilizing hand-sewn fabrics, acrylic medium extruded through a pastry bag, small bits of hand-printed rice paper, and numerous applications of acrylic pigment. Licea-Kane's background in traditional textiles and design is evidenced in her incorporation of the grid, repetition, and her attention to detail. The work is executed in luscious, highly saturated colors, such as complimentary reds and greens, hot oranges and pinks, and dramatic black and cerulean blue. Each piece represents a meditation on the juxtaposition of order and chaos. Licea-Kane creates patterns that are deceptively organized in order to disrupt balance, or loosely organized "woozy" grids which merely hint at evenly measured space. Taking its inspiration from nature, The Botanical Series also makes a somber statement about the withering away of significant and vibrant life forces. </p> <p><strong>Licea-Kane</strong> has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the American Craft Museum, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; the Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; the Textile Museum, Toronto, Canada; and Auspices Asahi Shim Bun and Tokyo Group Department Stores, Japan. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as the Boston Globe, Art New England, as well as Fiberarts and Threads magazines. Licea-Kane's works are part of numerous corporate and private collections including Meditech Corporation; First Bank; and National Development Associates, all in the Boston area. Licea-Kane has won several awards and grants, most recently the Artists Resource Trust Grant for the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. She has held teaching posts at Massachusetts College of Art; the University of Massachusetts; and Wentworth Institute of Technology; all in Boston, <span class="caps">MA, </span>as well as Rhode Island College in Providence. Licea-Kane is currently a full-time faculty member at Wheelock College in Boston, <span class="caps">MA. </span></p> <p>Please join us for an opening reception Thursday, November 8 from 6 to 8pm.</p> <p>For more information, or to request high resolution images, email info@denisebibrofineart.com.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1132 Exhibition: Audrey Ushenko <div class="exhibition-subtitle">"Recent Work"</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 11 - November 3, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 11, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1135"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10315.jpeg" alt="" height="670" width="500" /></a> <p>Audrey Ushenko, <em>Late Flowers 2 *SOLD</em>, 2007</p> <p> oil on linen, 48 x 36 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p></strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art,</strong/> 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce the seventh solo exhibition for Audrey Ushenko, Recent Work. Ushenko skillfully combines a unique eye for detail evoking modern realism along with the quintessential soft lights and shadows of the impressionist masters. With this exhibit, Ushenko continues her exploration of social interaction and our relationship to the natural and constructed world around us. </p> <p>In each of Ushenko's works, we are casual observers of a domestic, suburban life - witness to the private spaces of the artist. It brings to mind the effeminate décor of a parlor scene, or a window showcasing domesticity; a unique take on the suburban life. One still life captures her artist's living room in a contemplative mode--a literal "room with a view." Perhaps a statement on the ever-disappearing "American Dream" and the unsettling middle-ground the United States currently finds itself, her imagery has a certain undertone of disquiet. Quaint though her still lifes may be, there's a stark coldness to each of her brushstrokes. Concentrating on a color palette of flesh tones set amidst a desolate winter backdrop, she injects a humanlike quality to objects that are not living.</p> <p>Ushenko's work in many ways concentrates on the tranquilities of Americana and the rapidly vanishing middle class. Her work also brings to mind the light-dappled portraiture of Eric Fischl's earlier work and the broad brushwork and constant motion of Lucien Freud's subjects' physicality.</p> <p>Audrey Ushenko earned her Masters and Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University in Evanston, <span class="caps">IL. </span> She has exhibited extensively throughout the <span class="caps">U.S., </span>including the National Academy of Design, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Bloomington, <span class="caps">IN. </span></p> <p>There will be a reception held on Thursday, October 11, 2007 from 6-8PM. </p> <p>For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1135 Exhibition: Jerry Meyer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Memory Boxes</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">September 6 - October 6, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, September 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition for Jerry Meyer, Memory Boxes. </p> <p>In a series of mixed media assemblages Meyer's pays tribute to Joseph Cornell's mid-20th Century work. Meyer acknowledges Cornell as a predecessor to work in "Hommage a Joseph Cornell," which carries vivid similarities to Cornell's caged parrot--representing a loss of freedom, or furthermore suggesting burial as a linkage to feelings of nostalgia. Meyer expands on Cornell's innovative creations by illuminating the objects with lights shining on powerful monochromatic planes.</p> <p>As John Baker, Professor of Art History at Mass Art, Boston writes, "The originality of Jerry Meyer's Memory Boxes begins with the artist's drive to create an art of personal search in which not only the imagery but also formal components (such as composition and illumination) and the fine craft of construction reside together as expressive elements. Made of the artist's genuine emotional connections and associations to objects, and his extreme sensitivity to the poetics of lighting conditions, the Memory Boxes have an impact similar to really good theater: powerful feelings personally generated and relevant to us that are clarified and given force of impact by staging devices."</p> <p>Jerry Meyer has participated in an extensive list of exhibitions across the United States, including Artspace, New Haven, CT; Art Miami, Miami, FL; the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, New Haven, CT; and the Sharon Arts Center in Petersborough, <span class="caps">NH.</span></p> <p>Meyer is exclusively represented in New York through Denise Bibro Fine Art. <br /> There will be a reception for the artist Thursday, September 6, 2007, from 6-8PM.</p> <p>For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1129 Exhibition: Jeremy Comins <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Wooden Sculpture</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">September 6 - October 6, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, September 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1130"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10266.jpeg" alt="Treehouse" height="666" width="500" /></a> <p>Jeremy Comins, <em>Treehouse</em>, 1992</p> <p> pine, 27 x 10 x 3 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce the fourth solo exhibition for Jeremy Commins, Wooden Sculpture. </p> <p>Comins' modernist wood sculpture evokes comparisons to the totemic structures of the Pacific Northwest and the primitive work of Scandinavian wood carvings. There is an inherent quality to each of his works that references humanity and our interaction with nature. Referencing the building methods of modern step-back architecture Comins' begins with a sturdy base. He then builds upwards, each portion building upon themselves creating multiple layers similar to Constructivist techniques. Reaching out from the center structure amorphous forms seem to take on a life of their own, evoking similarities to human arms and legs. The different wooden shapes share similarities to that of Brancusi's Futuristic exploration on avian structures.</p> <p>Comins' use of cherry, walnut and mahogany wood is supplemented by his master craftsmanship. He finishes each piece with a perfectly sanded smooth surface, possessing a human skin-like quality to the touch. Critic Roberta Smith of "The New York Times" describes Comins' work as "easy sophistication and palpable integrity and an almost infallible sense of touch, scale and composition."; (November 18, 2005 "Art in Review; Jeremy Comins")</p> <p>Jeremy Comins has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Bodley Gallery <span class="caps">NYC, </span>the Staten Island Museum, the National Academy of Design, the Gallery at Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern Art, <span class="caps">NY, </span>the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Art Cologne, 2007, Art Miami 2006, Red Dot 2007. </p> <p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, <span class="caps">NY, </span>exclusively represents Jeremy Comins. <br /> There will be a reception held on Thursday, September 6, 2007 from 6-8PM. </p> <p>For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1130 Exhibition: Gordon Boardman <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Yet Still Standing - Not Yet Standing Still</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">July 19 - August 25, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, July 19, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1146"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10412.jpeg" alt="Placed Now Upon the Storied Walls" height="277" width="500" /></a> <p>Gordon Boardman, <em>Placed Now Upon the Storied Walls</em>, 2006</p> <p> mixed media on canvas, 72 x 96 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce our fifth solo exhibition of Gordon Boardman, Yet Still Standing- Not Yet Standing Still. </p> <p>Influenced by abstract expressionism, his work is comprised of canvases filled with explosions of color juxtaposed with dramatically sharp black incisions of lines. Boardman's work pays tribute to the color palette of Chagall and the constructivist tendencies of Joseph Stella. Boardman's strong demarcation of sensual human physicality lost amidst a wild jungle formation entices the viewer to examine the works more deeply, beyond the montage of the beautiful color planes. Much like a kaleidoscope, the range of colors in each piece -- from the sedated pastels flowing within "Look No Further" to vibrant primaries jumping off the canvas of "Can You Find Me?"-- have an ordered chaos transmitting a deliberate spark of emotion as well as a visual sense of depth and space that is vital in understanding and appreciating the works. His organic forms and gestural brushstrokes are the perfect means of channeling bold energy that resonates through to the viewer.</p> <p>Gordon Boardman has exhibited extensively throughout the US including solo shows at Chuck Levitan Gallery, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; Frank Bustamante, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; <span class="caps">ARC</span> Gallery, Chicago, IL; Foundry Gallery, Washington, <span class="caps">D.C.</span>; and the Creative Arts Gallery, Central Michigan University. Among his most recent group exhibitions are the West Michigan Area Show, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, where he was the National City Grand Prize Winner; juror: Gregory Gillespie. He also was in the Priva B. Gross International Works on Paper Exhibition at Queensborough Community College and he exhibited in the Permanent Collection Exhibit at the Grand Rapids Museum. Boardman was educated at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has his <span class="caps">MFA </span>from Michigan State University, East Lansing, <span class="caps">MI. </span></p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, July 19th from 6-8pm. </p> <p>For more information or high resolution images please email info@denisebibrofineart.com</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1146 Exhibition: So Inclined <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Work of Recent MFA Graduates, Virginia Commonwealth University</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">June 16 - July 14, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Saturday, June 16, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>So Inclined</strong> features the work of fifteen recent graduates of the Painting and Printmaking Department of Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts and demonstrates the extraordinary talent and energy of these emerging artists. It is the inaugural show for the <span class="caps">VCU</span> Painting and Printmaking graduates at the Denise Bibro Gallery. The work exhibited contributes to the development of contemporary painting and explores its boundaries, utilizes diverse media and processes, and displays great virtuosity, intelligence, and bravado.</p> <p>Saul Becker makes drawings and paintings exploring the notion of composite landscape. Jorge Benitez creates highly rendered, politically engaged drawings. Calvin Burton's colorful paintings "collage" the representational with the abstract. Jason Coates work employs imagery associated with the comic and satirical Jared Lindsay Clark explores art through the use of found and thrift store materials. Lauren Clay constructs large-scale pastel-colored paper installations. Mike Erickson's quirky and humorous work explores Pop Art and Celebrity Culture. Heather Harvey's subtle and minimal wall installations speak of material and deconstruction. Rachel Hayes constructs extensive installations using fabric and vinyl. Andy Kozlowski's work is based on keen observation and irony. Joseph McSpadden makes seductive three-dimensional forms using paint. Eric Sall's creates an explosion of imagery in his abstract paintings. Jody Schwab constructs colorful sensitive paintings that are evocative. Marian Brunn Smith examines intimacy and vulnerability using the female body as her muse. Randy Toy explores all of the potential in printmaking through an interest in Eastern Philosophy.</p> <p>The <span class="caps">VCU</span> Painting <span class="caps">MFA </span>program is ranked #10 in the United States (US News & World Report). Guided by an outstanding faculty and prominent visiting artists, it attracts highly talented and diverse students from around the world, and its graduates are widely recognized as some of the most innovative artists working today. The Department of Painting and Printmaking has a fast growing reputation as a national leader in painting, printmaking, drawing, theory, digital media, and new genres. The Department has recently initiated a new high tech program - the Center for Digital Print Media.</p> <p>The School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University is ranked sixth in the nation among all schools of art and design (US News & World Report) and is first among public university art schools. Offering a program as creative as the field of study, the 15 departments of the School encompass all aspects of the performing and visual arts and design. A branch campus in Doha, Qatar, makes the School of the Arts international in impact. Graduates are widely recognized for their early and remarkable achievements, and the faculty for their exceptional professional and artistic accomplishments.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1417 Exhibition: Myung-Ock Lim: A Living Being <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Installation and series of individual glass works</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">May 10 - June 9, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, May 10, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1133"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10270.jpeg" alt="" height="570" width="500" /></a> <p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce its third solo exhibition of Korean artist Myung-Ock Lim.</p> <p>Formally, Myung-Ock Lim's work bears the influences of high-modernism and minimalism; the interest in sharp, clean geometric forms brings to mind Donald Judd and Tony Smith, and her use and transformation of light conjures Light-and-Space practitioners like James Turrel and Robert Irwin. However, a little time in the presence of Lim's work and her predecessors' interest in the scientific and industrial aspects of sculpture begins to yield to Lim's more personal, even spiritual qualities of the media. Lim's work finds significance in light not only for its form but for its content; light is symbolic, and her glass pieces function as agents in the transformative process.</p> <p>Her beautifully crafted prisms of colored glass take in light, process it, and project it back into the surrounding space in translucent wedges of color. The show's title, A Living Being suggests Lim's interest in light as an animated and vital force. Her ability to invest light with such a variety of qualities speaks to her nuanced understanding of it both psychologically and materially. That understanding of light contributes to this spectacular sculptural installation. </p> <p>The works comprising A Living Being simultaneously function as objects and components in a larger interrelated installation. The jewel-like glass creations stand on their own as exquisite and precious objects, and their ability to filter and cast light throughout the room entangles their identities into a single experience. Like the stained-glass in a gothic cathedral, Myung's work is equal parts heaven and earth; concrete and abstract. They are individually impressive even while they work in concert to cast a sublime wash of light throughout the space. </p> <p>Mrs. Lim has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Korea, including exhibitions at the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles, the Goeun Art Museum in Suwon Korea, the Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Park Ryu Sook Gallery in Seoul, and the Moln Gallery in Seoul. She is in the National Assembly collection and the <span class="caps">POSCO</span> Centre in Seoul. She is a professor of art at the Su-Won University in Seoul, and has received critical attention in the New York Times for her sculptural glass work. <br /> <br /> There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, May 10, 2007 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1133 Exhibition: Dusty Boynton <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Work on Paper</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 5 - May 5, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 5, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1145"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/28/28663.jpeg" alt="" height="406" width="500" /></a> <p>Dusty Boynton, <em>Oddball</em>, 2006</p> <p> monoprint, 34 x 41 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of Dusty Boynton, Work on Paper, from April 5 - May 5.</p> <p>Dusty Boynton's exhibition of prints applies her vocabulary of expressive marks and colorful subject matter. This suite of collagraphs and monoprints have been reworked with gouache paint, reclaiming some of the raw painterliness associated with Boynton's work in oil. </p> <p>The New York Times noted that her work has, "A Childlike Style that Isn't Childish..." Indeed, Boynton isn't attempting to convey exclusively juvenile subject matter. The work is more complex than that. Her eccentric repertoire of individual characters walk the line between being polite and disorderly. At times they can even seem ghoulish and lewd. Boynton uses all the formal and narrative devices at her disposal to keep the viewer guessing about the psychological nature of these works. A stunning large canvas in her last solo show featured of a crude and simple figure of a young blond girl entitled "Nude" that was as irresistible as it was awkward. The high-key color and seemingly clumsy marks of the piece often remind viewers of works made by the crayons of children, but the whimsical subject matter and gestural treatment are tainted with traces of more mature content. Sometimes one doesn't know whether to laugh or blush.</p> <p>This suite of prints succeeds with the same set of attributes, only the process has changed. Working in tandem with master printer Sarah Amos in northern Vermont, Boynton has been exploring an alternative process to elicit this characteristic sensibility. There is something more subdued and comforting in these smaller works. Where some of her larger works hulk over the viewer eerily, these are more approachable. The viewer may not be in danger of being swallowed whole by one of her creatures, but the drama isn't any mellower in her work on paper. </p> <p>Dusty Boynton has shown at Littlejohn Contemporary in New York City, Gallery Jupiter in Little Silver, New Jersey, and Steffany Martz Gallery in New York City. She has been including in dozens of group exhibitions including "In the Garden" at Barbara Krakow in Boston, "Book, Box, Word. Volume II" at the University of Florida and the North Miami Contemporary Art Center, and the "New Prints, 2002" exhibition at the International Print Center in New York. Her work has been covered in Art in America, Arts Magazine, New Art Examiner, The New York Times, and ArtNews. </p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, April 5 at 6-8pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1145 Exhibition: Sara Crisp <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Work</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 5 - May 5, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 5, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1142"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10265.jpeg" alt="" height="452" width="452" /></a> <p>Sara Crisp, <em>Untitled (Fisherman's Valentine)</em>, 2006</p> <p> mixed media on panel, 36 x 36 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce its third solo exhibition of Sara Crisp, Recent Work, from April 5 - May 5.</p> <p>Sara Crisp's solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art continues her explorations in mixed media, found objects, and encaustic painting. Her work thrives on oppositions, balancing the personal with the universal; organic and geometric; the concrete and the abstract. </p> <p>Crisp embeds found organic objects such as starfish, butterfly wings and fossils into the wax surfaces of her paintings. They have often been compared to medieval reliquaries, fossilized amber, and naturalist's journals. Although the placement of the component objects is carefully planned, she comes across these artifacts by chance. This duality between control and spontaneity is prominent in the work. The result is visually seductive and symbolically suggestive, balancing scientific objectivity and romantic subjectivity. Her work comes across as precise, even clinical, at times, their surfaces scored and traversed by carefully measured lines and geometric forms. Carefully fashioned, polygonal sections of mica, a transparent mineral, cover the center of each painting. Although the regular patterns incised in the wax and the natural geometry of the embedded organic artifacts suggest something calculated and mathematical, their personal, hand-made and individualized aspects ultimately win out.</p> <p>In addition to celebrating the process involved in creating an object, Crisp's art functions as a memorial to the once-living objects inside the work. In the spirit of post-Minimalists such as Jackie Winsor and Lynda Benglis, the marks on her surfaces also function as placeholders on a timeline of personal activity, although, Crisp's work has a humanity that escapes many of her forebears. </p> <p>The artist's marks, along with the fossils themselves, are all life-affirming in as much as they are souvenirs of time passed. However, ultimately, this artistic recordkeeping and classification of time is only a symbolic gesture. The past is captured and stabilized but not reclaimed. </p> <p>Sara Crisp studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has had several solo exhibitions throughout the United States and has won numerous awards including the Best of Show prize at the Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show and an artist's grant from the Maine Arts Commission. Crisp's work has been shown most recently at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, <span class="caps">IL, </span>and the Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, <span class="caps">MA.</span> She has also received notices in The Boston Globe, Art New England, and The New York Times.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, April 5 from 6-8pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1142 Exhibition: Roy Kinzer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">A Fractal Sublime</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 1 - April 1, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 1, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1141"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10422.jpeg" alt="Golden Spur" height="375" width="500" /></a> <p><p>Golden Spur</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of New York artist Roy Kinzer. </p> <p>Roy Kinzer's aerial landscape paintings are derived from altered topographical maps and digitally manipulated satellite images. He uses color, bleached-out light and fractal patterns to simulate atmospheric disturbances from the perspective of a satellite. Kinzer's interests lie in the self-similarity that occurs when fractal patterns are magnified; like when a grain of sand appears to have a similar contour as a coastline of a continent. He combines these ambiguous scales with digital effects and enhanced color manipulated on the computer. This magnified view of nature creates a sense of isolation; the computer turns satellite images into a world of fantasy and exaggeration. He hides the normal thickness and texture of paint and collaged roads under layers of mediums and varnish, resulting in a smooth finish that further separates the viewer from the painting's surface. </p> <p>Kinzer's paintings draw from the tradition of American nineteenth century Luminist landscape painters who explored the sublime, the feeling of rapture and awe caused by the beauty and terror of nature. He employs Luminist techniques such as magnified scale, dramatic lighting, deep space, and precarious perspective to heighten the emotional key of his work. But while the Luminists sought out the sublime in nature, Kinzer locates the sublime in technology. He interprets the simulated atmospheric disturbances as technology gone awry, a world where catastrophe and beauty meet, where environmental changes are visualized, where technology has tragically isolated, subjugated and compromised nature, creating a fractal sublime.</p> <p>Roy Kinzer received his Master's in Fine Arts from Vermont College. He is a recent recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He has shown widely throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions at The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, <span class="caps">NY, </span>the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, <span class="caps">NJ, </span>and the J. Rosenthal Gallery in Chicago. His group exhibitions include Breathing Space, at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn, What is the Connection? at Trans Hudson Gallery in New Jersey City, and Works On/Of Paper at Rutgers University. His work has been reviewed The New York Times, The Sunday Star Ledger, and the Village Voice.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, March 1, 2007 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1141 Exhibition: Mark Hadjipateras <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Affordable Solutions for a Better Living?</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 1 - April 1, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 1, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1143"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10413.jpeg" alt="15" height="398" width="500" /></a> <p><p>15</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of New York artist Mark Hadjipateras.</p> <p>Mass production makes things cheaper, and therefore, more available to more people; however, as the world becomes more democratic, it also becomes more homogeneous. These thoughts provide the basis for <strong>Mark Hadjipateras'</strong> installation <strong>Affordable Solutions for a Better Living?</strong></p> <p>This exhibition is comprised of two parts that while physically separate, are in conceptual dialogue with one another. In the first space Hadjipateras has fashioned an environment entirely out of products purchased culled from <span class="caps">IKEA. </span> The store functions as the perfect quarry from which to craft sculptural commentary on consumption. The component products are arranged in clusters and families throughout the space, bringing together traditions of minimal art, scatter, and pop art works from the '60s and '70s. In an adjacent space, hanging from the walls is a group of photographs (printed digitally on watercolor paper) which appear to be small paintings in and of themselves, making reference to movements and artists such as Pop Art, Russian Constructivism, Cubism and Abstract Expressionism.</p> <p>The effect, both in the three-dimensional work and in the photographs, is brought about by decisive appropriation and recontextualization of it in the gallery setting and in relation to other work. By bringing it back into the gallery setting, Hadjipateras has taken the modernist-inspired products full-circle, and, by pushing the limits of what these objects represent, he questions distinctions between art, design, and disposable merchandize. Inexpensive, modular, and ubiquitous, <span class="caps">IKEA </span>symbolizes a somewhat less utopian culmination of Modernism than crusaders like Mies van der Rohe sought. Hadjipateras' ultimately aims to blur the line between expressionism and stoicism. Mass production and globalization has already resulted in universally accepted aesthetics and standards of taste. A Hilton or Inter-Continental hotel room is identical in New York, Beijing, Paris, Athens, Dubai or Tokyo. Is this only the beginning? </p> <p>This is Hadjipateras's third solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art. He has exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Japan: Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, <span class="caps">NYC,</span> Steinbaum/Krauss Gallery, <span class="caps">NYC,</span> Andre Zarre, <span class="caps">NYC,</span> Artio Gallery, Athens, Greece, Gallery K, London, England, Asuka Gallery, Tokyo. He has also exhibited in the Queens Museum of Art, Alternative Museum, Cooper Union, Socrates Sculpture Park, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece. Hadjipateras' work has been reviewed in Art in America, ArtNews, Sculpture Magazine, Time Out <span class="caps">NY,</span> New York Magazine, Washington Post, The New York Sun, Newsday, The New York Times, and The New York Observer. His work is in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum, Zimmerli Art Museum, and the National Pinacotheque of Athens. In 2003 he was a recipient of the New York Municipal Arts Society award for best public work for his <span class="caps">MTA </span>commissioned subway mosaics.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, March 1, 2007, 6 - 8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1143 Exhibition: Nora Speyer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Trees on Patience Brook</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">January 25 - February 24, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, January 25, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1144"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10370.jpeg" alt="Birch Tree on Patience Brook" height="500" width="500" /></a> <p>Nora Speyer, <em>Birch Tree on Patience Brook</em>, 2006</p> <p> oil on canvas, 50 x 50 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, <span class="caps">NYC, </span>is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Nora Speyer, "Trees on Patience Brook", from January 25 - February 24, 2007.</p> <p>In her fifth solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art, Nora Speyer continues to explore plein air landscape through rich color and bravura brushwork. She builds up her surfaces with oil paint, continually working back into the tacky, removing elements and adding new ones. The result is an impression of a place that is meant to be exact, but also generalized by the elapsing of time over the duration of each painting. </p> <p>Speyer's works blend elements of Expressionism and Impressionism along with a tradition of American landscape painting. Specifically, artists such as Bonnard and Redon come to mind as aesthetic touchstones. Though she doesn't evoke them directly, her sensibilities about space and atmosphere benefit from lingering ghosts of the Hudson River painters such as Asher Durand and Thomas Cole. Her craggy, accumulated surfaces also recall the abstractions of Milton Resnick. Each of these disparate attributes conspire to create the eccentric uniqueness of Nora Speyer's work.</p> <p>Specifically, the paintings in "Trees on Patience Brook" are the result of two years of careful observation of the brook that runs near her studio in Wellfleet, <span class="caps">MA. </span> The paintings are both calm and expressive; calm from the nature of the place itself and Nora's unavoidable sensitivity to it, and expressive from her naturally intense painterly approach to representing place. Speyer aims to capture the essence of landscape that runs through all individuals. She looks to capture it optically as well as emotionally; analytically and psychologically. </p> <p>Nora Speyer was born in Pittsburgh, PA and has lived in New York City for many years. Speyer has had numerous solo and group exhibitions. This is her fifth solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art. She has also shown at Galerie Darthea Speyer in Paris, Longpoint Gallery, Provincetown, <span class="caps">MA,</span> Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, <span class="caps">PA, </span>and Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, <span class="caps">PA. </span> Her work has been exhibited at the National Academy, where she is a member, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, <span class="caps">PA, </span>and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her works are in prominent public collections such as the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, <span class="caps">PA, </span>the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, <span class="caps">D.C.,</span> Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia, <span class="caps">PA,</span> Hyatt Hotel, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Nelson Rockefeller Collection to name a few.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist Thursday, January 25, 2007 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1144 Exhibition: Michael Mut <div class="exhibition-subtitle">...and Counting</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">December 15, 2006 - January 28, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Friday, December 15, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1441 Exhibition: Jan Wunderman <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Painting Survey</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 30, 2006 - January 20, 2007</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, November 30, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1156"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10547.gif" alt="" height="337" width="400" /></a> <p>Jan Wunderman, <em>Roubidoux</em>, 1988</p> <p> oil on canvas, 40 x 48 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce a new exhibition by artist Jan Wunderman. </p> <p>Jan Wunderman entered the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California, in 1938. Enrolled in a four-year fine-art course, she found it especially difficult for women, who were seldom chosen for the best painting classes even after the required two years of class separation with a very reputable teacher. <br /> <br /> Wunderman was one of two women chosen for such a class in the company of eighteen male students. After finishing at Otis, with a teacher who openly wanted no women in his class, she had the good fortune of briefly meeting Man Ray and Maya Deren. Through them and a few of their friends, she was shown reproductions of work being done in Europe--Dadaism, Cubism, and all manner of work aimed at breaking the classical rules that existed at that time. She was immediately drawn to the excitement and possibilities of abstraction and began to work outside the confines she had known.<br /> <br /> She was able to convince the Gastine Gallery of Los Angeles to give her and two other young women painters an exhibition before leaving for New York in 1946. Once in New York, she found herself immersed in a painting culture that hadn't yet condensed into what we now know as Abstract Expressionism. She indulged the experience and fell instantly in line with its individualism and openness. While learning of work by De Kooning, Kline, Pollack, and many others, she began attending classes at the Brooklyn Museum Art School with Reuben Tam. Under his guidance, her work began to develop a very personal statement far removed from the constricting ideology of art school. <br /> <br /> Her work, though abstract, is always rooted in nature. It has taken many turns through the years but has always maintained certain basic elements, retaining a rich and strong color sense and a painter's vocabulary of her own. </p> <p>Over her career, spanning more than a half century, Jan Wunderman has received numerous awards, exhibited dozens of exhibition, and complimented hundreds of individual and institutional art collections. For a specific list of Jan's biographical information, please contact the gallery for a complete biography.<br /> <br /> There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, November 20, 2006 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1156 Exhibition: Dennis Tremalio <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Paintings</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 19 - November 25, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 19, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1155"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10537.jpeg" alt="" height="404" width="432" /></a> <p>Dennis Tremalio, <em>Central Park</em>, 2006</p> <p> acrylic on canvas, 65 x 69 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p><strong>Denise Bibro Fine Art,</strong> 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea, New York, is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of <strong>Dennis Tremalio.</strong></p> <p>Amsterdam-based, American painter Tremalio has always approached painting as an interactive process. Any mark or action on the surface of his canvasses becomes a subsequent point of departure for the rest of the undeveloped painting. The active versus reactive relationship with the painting involves the reworking, discarding and recovering of information that culminates in works that bear the traces of the artists's searching engagement with the canvas.</p> <p>The imagery pinning down the sequences of marks and erasures on his canvasses are taken and collaged from found photographs, magazine cutouts, as well as the artist's own photography. This imagery represents years of collecting and archiving, and he mines this stockpile for subject matter that works collectively to evoke a sense of place somewhere between fact and fiction.</p> <p>Tremalio has a particular interest in landscapes as they engulf and surround time-worn and forsaken suburban structures. These landscapes aim to map our personal, transitory relationship to time and place by attempting to universalize the sites they depict. His paintings are thus both generic and specific, capturing at once a particular setting culled from the page of a forgotten magazine or photograph and a stereotyped representation of the same subject.</p> <p><strong>Dennis Tremalio</strong> has shown extensively in the United States and internationally. He has shown at the Jay Etkin Gallery in Memphis, Tennessee; the Miller Barnes Gallery in Los Angeles; as well as the Lucernaire Centre National D'Art in Paris; and the Shores Space and Margit J. Koch Gallery in Amsterdam.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, October 19, 2006, from 6-8pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1155 Exhibition: Nora Chavooshian <div class="exhibition-subtitle">My Glass House</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 19 - November 25, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 19, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1154"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10563.gif" alt="" height="249" width="500" /></a> <p>Nora Chavooshian, <em>NC18</em>, 2007</p> <p> </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>We are pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Nora Chavooshian's new sculpture at Denise Bibro Fine Art. </p> <p>Nora Chavooshian is primarily a sculptor. In contrast to her last exhibition which focused on works inspired by her Armenian heritage, these works concentrate on another aspect of the artist's personal journey. Chavooshian's most recent body of work, cast in forton, focuses on the materiality and surface familiar in her work with cast bronze. The ornate and sensual contours of her sculptures derive from organic forms. This current body of work has similar formal influences; however, it deals with it in more personal terms. The surfaces of the organic shapes open up to reveal personal allegories. Although these elements are personally significant, they visually transform these sentiments into a universally relevant narrative.</p> <p>Chavooshian's use of visual metaphors and symbols trace her own personal trials while also mirroring current political/global struggles. The artist often uses arrays and sequences of forms to illustrate the dynamics of changing states, and the tensions inherent in such transitions. Each disembodied sculptural component of the sequential whole works toward a greater psychological and formal interconnectedness. For example, the work "Holding" is a series of three hands each holding a unique object designed to evoke its own take on human interaction. Each hand has its own special object: one has a cracked egg representing betrayal: the other has a heart representing compassion; and the third has an eye which represents anger and clarity. Each contains symbolic threads running through the hands. The artist refers to this exhibition as her "Glass House" because of her personal ethic in maintaining emotional transparency as well as humility in her art. </p> <p>Nora Chavooshian has had several solo and group exhibitions with Denise Bibro Fine Art, <span class="caps">NYC.</span> She has also had extensive exhibitions throughout the <span class="caps">U.S. </span>including the Pierre du Pont Arts Center, Wilmington, Delaware; Winfsky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts; the American Can Society, San Francisco, CA; <span class="caps">PASADENA </span> Art Center, Pasaedena, CA; Watchung Art Center, Watchung, NJ; and the Michael Fletcher Gallery, New York, <span class="caps">NY.</span> The artist has been reviewed in The Star Ledger, <span class="caps">NJ,</span> The Montclair Times, <span class="caps">NJ,</span> The New York Times, among many others publications. She has been commissioned by Brookdale Park, Essex County, <span class="caps">NJ, </span>and Angelbeck's Fine Wines, Montclair, NJ to name a few. Chavooshian received her <span class="caps">BFA </span>from The San Francisco Art Institute and also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. </p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist, on Thursday, October 19, 2006, from 6-8PM.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1154 Exhibition: Shane McAdams <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Unmoved Mover</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">September 7 - October 14, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, September 7, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1147"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10083.jpeg" alt="" height="432" width="432" /></a> <p>Shane McAdams, <em>Untitled #172</em>, 2006</p> <p> mixed media, 24 x 24 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of New York artist Shane McAdams. </p> <p>Shane McAdams' process-based abstractions take shape organically and develop within minutes once their material components are set into motion. Using combinations of resistant materials, the branching, web-like forms arise from a set of predetermined procedures that guide the composition. The formal variations between the paintings are the result of subtle manipulations to the basic process such as changes in temperature and application methods. </p> <p>Although the imagery in McAdams' paintings seems to refer to fractal or biological imagery, these associations are only coincidental. The organized structures frozen in action in this work are the product of basic binary opposition that is reflected in systems as wide ranging as epidemiology, linguistics, fluid dynamics, and computer languages. </p> <p>In Unmoved Mover, McAdams extends the basic binary relationship of his materials by introducing different classes of oppositional elements. Beneath the organic forms in this body of work are the slightest indications of fabrics, maps, and texts suggesting another dimension to the natural/synthetic, organic/inorganic relationships that have only metaphorically underpinned his work in the past.</p> <p>Shane McAdams received his Master's in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York. He co-curated Head Over Hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint which was reviewed in the New York Times and Time Out New York. He has exhibited at Denise Bibro Fine Art, Winston Wachter and Janet Kurnatowski in New York as well as in group exhibitions and art fairs around the United States. Shane is also a regular contributor to "The Brooklyn Rail."<br /> <br /> There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, September 7, 2006 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1147 Exhibition: Summer Group Exhibition 2006 <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Denise Bibro Fine Art</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">June 14 - August 19, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Wednesday, June 14, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1148 Exhibition: Carol Jacobsen <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Conviction: Social Documentary Video and Photography</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 20 - June 3, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 20, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1150"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10443.jpeg" alt="" height="708" width="500" /></a> <p>Carol Jacobsen, <em>Conviction 10 Gerri</em>, 2007</p> <p> </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, Inc., is pleased to present Conviction, a social documentary project in video and photography by Carol Jacobsen, from April 20 - June 3, 2006. The exhibit is co-sponsored by Amnesty International <span class="caps">USA,</span> Women's Human Rights, Sheila Dauer, Director, and coincides with Amnesty's campaign against human rights abuses in <span class="caps">U.S. </span>women's prisons.</p> <p>Works in the exhibition include Convicted: A Prison Diary, a video piece based on letters to the artist over the past two years from a woman who gives an intimate, firsthand account of conditions inside prison; and Conviction, a series of photographic prints that defy public perceptions of women prisoners through the historical arrest records, mugshots, and <span class="caps">FBI </span>reports of renowned women such as Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Emma Goldman and Angela Davis.</p> <p>On Tuesday, May 9, 5-6:30 a panel of artists including Martha Rosler, Susan Meiselas, Holly Hughes, Clarissa Sligh, Carol Jacobsen and others will discuss issues relating to feminist politics and <br /> art at Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 W. 20th St., New York, <span class="caps">NY. </span></p> <p>Carol Jacobsen is an award winning artist whose work confronts issues of women's<br /> criminalization and censorship. Her films and photography have been exhibited and screened worldwide, including at Lincoln Center, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Cultura Contemporanea, <br /> Barcelona; Kunstforum, Bonn; Temple Gallery, Rome, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paul Robeson Foundation, Women in Film <br /> Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and others. Her work has been sponsored by Amnesty International <span class="caps">USA </span>since 1998. She is the 2005-06 Human Rights Fellow and Professor of Art and Women's Studies at <br /> The University of Michigan. She serves as Director of the Michigan Women's Clemency Project., and is represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 W. 20th Street, New York, NY 10011.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1150 Exhibition: Disturbing the Peace <div class="exhibition-subtitle">A Group Exhibition of Photography, Co-Sponsored by Amnesty International USA, Women’s Human Rights</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">April 20 - June 3, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, April 20, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present <strong>Disturbing the Peace,</strong> a photography exhibit by 10 artists whose works address a range of political questions that cause disruptions to the peace and tranquility of the status quo, transgress accepted boundaries, challenge established authority, and/or reinterpret histories. <strong>Disturbing the Peace,</strong> the show's title, is also a reference to the frequent charge faced by women who are arrested for political protest, unruly behavior, prostitution and other unlawful activities. Exhibiting artists are Susan Meiselas, Martha Rosler, Pat Ward Williams, Connie Samaras, Clarissa Sligh, Donna Ferrato, Deborah Bright, Joanne Leonard, <br /> Holly Hughes and Carol Jacobsen. The exhibit is co-sponsored by Amnesty International <span class="caps">USA,</span> Women's Human <br /> Rights, Sheila Dauer, Director. Catalog essay is by Dr. Wendy Kozol.</p> <p>Susan Meiselas was made a MacArthur Fellow in 1992, and her photographs have appeared in publications worldwide. She is represented by Magnum Photo in New York. Connie Samaras is a Los Angeles-based artist whose works have been shown at the San Francisco Art Institute, Santa Monica Museum and elsewhere.</p> <p>Martha Rosler's works in video, photo-text, installation and performance have been shown at Documenta, the Venice Biennale, <span class="caps">ICA,</span> London, Tate Modern, several Whitney Biennials and elsewhere. Pat Ward Williams' recent exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, the International Center for Photography, Johannesburg Biennale, <br /> and others. Carol Jacobsen has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paul Robeson Foundation, Women in Film Foundation, and others. She is represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art. Deborah Bright's work has been shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Museet for Fotokunst, Copenhagen, and elsewhere. Holly Hughes has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, McKnight Foundation, two Obie Awards, <span class="caps">ICON</span> Award, and others. Clarissa Sligh's work has been <br /> shown at Galerie Junge Kunst, Trier, Germany, Art in General, New York, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, The New Museum, New York, and elsewhere. Joanne Leonard's work has been featured in <br /> Janson's History of Art, Gardener's Art Through the Ages, Women of Photography and others. Donna Ferrato's book, "Living with the Enemy" (1991) has become a photoessay classic and an effective organizing <br /> tool against domestic violence.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1149 Exhibition: David Herman <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Security</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 9 - April 16, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 9, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1151"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/14/14400.jpeg" alt="" height="406" width="500" /></a> <p>David Herman, <em>Night Elegy</em>, 2001</p> <p> mixed media collage, 11 x 14 </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce New York artist David Herman's third solo exhibition, Security. </p> <p>The intricate patterns adorning the envelope of an official envelope containing confidential tax information arrested the artist and became the concept for this recent exhibition.</p> <p>There were tiny numbers jammed up against each other, creating a mesh that would prohibit anyone from seeing through the envelope; they were at once mesmerizing and forbidding. Staring at the busy patterns, they took on a life of their own. Like Rorschach tests, they appeared as filigrees, intricate patterns; an arcane language of signs and symbols that seemed an apt metaphor for the dizzying and sometimes impenetrably complex contemporary visual landscape.<br /> <br /> These numbers and letters, designed in their component form to be symbols of communication, had come to serve as objects of obfuscation. Herman soon began to consider an interesting paradox; the universe of signs and meaning, so evolved to clarify and elucidate, had begun to obscure and confuse - a modern day Tower of Babel as it were.<br /> <br /> These thoughts are the basis for the series, "Security", named after the security envelopes that inspired Herman's stirrings. The secretive deployment of these designs are explored and expanded upon in this exhibition and hopefully reinvest them with a renewed legibility. </p> <p>Herman has shown widely in New York and elsewhere, including exhibitions at the Caelum Gallery, , Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Nexus Gallery, and Gallery Swan. He has show in group exhibitions at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center and the Great Neck Art Center. His reviews include The New York Times, Gallery and Studio Magazine and the New York Art World.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, March 9, 2006 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1151 Exhibition: Dusty Boynton <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Oil Paintings</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 9 - April 16, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, March 9, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1152"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/13/13949.jpeg" alt="" height="342" width="276" /></a> <p>Dusty Boynton, <em>Red Dress</em>, 2006</p> <p> oil on linen, 44 x 36 inches </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of Vermont artist Dusty Boynton. </p> <p>Boynton's recent paintings demonstrate her ongoing interest in conflating the informal and the sophisticated. As "The New York Times" noted in a review title, the work has, "A Childlike Style that Isn't Childish." Her cast of characters, with their enlarged eyes, heads, and other quirky features, abandon conventional draftsmanship or traditional depiction and end up in a world of their own. The loose and expressive brushstrokes, heightened color palette, and fantastic, sometimes supernatural imagery give her figures a carefree and imaginative, innocence that is often associated with children's art.</p> <p>However, despite the initial juvenile sweep of her work, Boynton's cultivated maturity guides the final product. The initial associations of her pieces begin to yield to subtle details that challenge the viewer's preconceptions about such imagery. The frivolity of Boynton's fantasies mingles with more vexing realities.</p> <p>The sheer scale of her paintings belies the preciousness of child's drawing. Expressive brushstrokes, while seemingly loose and gestural, only appear to continue uninterrupted as if created by a stick of charcoal, pencil or crayon. The continuous gesture is more calculated and formally rigorous than it would appear. These characteristics result in a kind of expressionism that brings to mind Willem De Kooning as well as Neo Expressionists such as Kippenberger, Immendorf, Chia, and, on this side of the Atlantic, Basquiat. Boynton's compositions are steeped in a fanciful sensibility that sets her apart from the determined audacity associated with such counterparts. </p> <p>Equal parts youth and maturity, fantasy and objectivity, Boynton's work walks a wire that spans from the body to the mind.</p> <p>Dusty Boynton has shown at Littlejohn Contemporary in New York City, Gallery Jupiter in Little Silver, New Jersey, and Steffany Martz Gallery in New York City. She has been including in dozens of group exhibitions including "In the Garden" at Barbara Krakow in Boston, "Book, Box, Word. Volume II" at the University of Florida and the North Miami Contemporary Art Center, and the "New Prints, 2002" exhibition at the International Print Center in New York. Her work has been covered in Art in America, Arts Magazine, New Art Examiner, the New York Times, and ArtNews. <br /> <br /> There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, March 9, 2006 from 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1152 Exhibition: Carol Goebel <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Flying Migration</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 2 - March 4, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, February 2, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/1157"><img border="0" src="http://denisebibrofineart.com/static/dyn-images/10/10558.jpeg" alt="" height="369" width="500" /></a> <p>Carol Goebel, <em>Installation Shot</em>, 2007</p> <p> </p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 W. 20th St., Chelsea, New York, is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition of gallery artist, Carol Goebel, Flying Migration, welded steel sculpture.</p> <p>New life forms are invented. They fly; are of steel that soars. Farm implements, cast iron metamorphasizing into wall sculptures. Carol Goebel's pieces are light and airy, but weighty with a formal pressure that underlines their ballast. "Her objects are whimsical and delicate despite having been made of wicked-looking items: scythes, pitchforks, exhaust pipes, harrows, and spades........creating a weird and esthetically pleasing confluence of the beautiful and dangerous," writes Arlene McKanic in Artnews. Goebel's recent work continues her exploration of creating from the old a new life, a new object with its own character. These current works are far more minimal. There is a prevailing elegant beauty comprised by that which is created and the negative space that it works from within its orbit. As the title of the exhibition suggests all these works move, journey. The installation of many indicates both the individuality of each work and the shared characteristic of all needing to fly, move and go to another place. </p> <p>Critics William Zimmer, Helen Harrison, Joan Marter, Arlene McKanic, and Corinne Robins have written glowingly about Goebel's work. Her other solo shows include On The Move, Space Moves, and Moving Up at Denise Bibro Fine Art, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; Moving On at Ceres Gallery, <span class="caps">NYC</span>; Myth From Metal at the Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Center and Guardian Spirits at Broadway Windows, <span class="caps">NY. </span> She has participated in numerous artists' panels and has had her work reviewed in publications such as Artnews, The New York Times, New York Newsday, Arts Magazine and M/E/A/N/I/N/G, Duke University Press.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, February 2, 6-8pm. The artist will be present.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1157 Exhibition: Linda Lippa <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Recent Oil Paintings</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 2 - March 4, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, February 2, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1440 Exhibition: Head Over Hand: <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Pushing the Limits of Paint</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">December 15, 2005 - January 28, 2006</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, December 15, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>The hand is the most intuitive and direct tool an artist has to make a mark on a surface. In most two-dimensional art, forms evolve through the direct marking of the surface - the hand is only slightly mediated by drawing implements. While pens, crayons, and brushes are indeed tools for mark making, they are direct extensions of the artist's hand.</p> <p>There is nothing necessarily deficient with the hand's ability to carry out the mind's artistic impulses, however, there is a tendency for gestures to become formulaic. The standardization of the gesture has been at least partially responsible for the decline of formal abstract painting. While many in the art world looked beyond the picture plane to find fresh artistic territory, others have been less willing to give up on painting.</p> <p>The artists in <strong>Head Over Hand</strong> look beyond the conventionalized abstract mark, to art making procedures that employ basic natural processes and non-traditional tools to generate discrete, organized structures in paint.</p> <p>Many of the structures in the show reflect forms in nature. Walter Biggs' brushed graphite builds to mountain-like accretions on the painting's surface. Roland Flexner captures the precise moment a bubble of ink bursts in his small experimental drawings. A simple but inscrutable process of layering and dragging acrylic paint reveals improbably illusionistic surfaces in Kurt Strahm's paintings.</p> <p>Each of the artists in the show demonstrates unique, innovative approaches to creating painterly order on a two-dimensional surface. How these paintings are made is as important as what they look like. Although the processes are obscure, subtleties on their surfaces indicate the nature of their creation - burns, drips, accretions, cracks, pools, etc.</p> <p>Head Over Hand rethinks traditional approaches to painting, reexamines methods and applications, and, in the process, pushes paint to its limits. </p> <p>Artists:</p> <p><strong>Walter Biggs</strong><br /> <strong>Kathleen Kucka</strong><br /> <strong>Mike Miga</strong><br /> <strong>Miriam Cabessa</strong><br /> <strong>Amy Kupferberg</strong><br /> <strong>Matthew Satz</strong><br /> <strong>Jaq Chartier</strong><br /> <strong>James Lecce</strong><br /> <strong>Greg Stone</strong><br /> <strong>Roland Flexner</strong><br /> <strong>Shane McAdams</strong><br /> <strong>Kurt Strahm</strong><br /> <strong>Martin Kline</strong><br /> <strong>Maureen McQuillan</strong><br /> <strong>William Wood</strong></p> <p>There will be an opening reception for the artist Thursday, December 15, 6-8 PM</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1180 Exhibition: Lisa Dinhofer <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Chasing Shooters</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 8 - December 10, 2005</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Tuesday, November 8, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Lisa Dinhofer's third solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art continues to expand on her previous representational investigations. Her compositions have become more intricate and orchestrated. "Chasing Shooters" features some of her most complexly composed and technically virtuous work to date.</p> <p>New York art critic and poet Cynthia Nadelman comments in the exhibition catalog for the show:</p> <p>"...Lisa Dinhofer's painting, Constellation has it all - classic repose, modernist intellectual rigor, drop-dead realist draftsmanship, fantasy subject, carnival color. This work takes Dinhofer's strengths in a deceptively simple new direction. Constellation and the equally impressive Chasing Shooters feature Dinhofer's signature marbles of every type and size and seem to make them do the work alone; there are no props (other than the unseen setups that make these still lifes possible). The intent is as formal as classic Sol LeWitt, while the space Dinhofer creates is her own. In Constellation, the marbles appear to sit somewhat randomly in concentric circles on a reflective royal blue surface; and in Chasing Shooters, they seem to float in a disembodied white box. The colors, the reflections, the placements all serve to create formal interrelationships of dazzling impact..."</p> <p>In additions to this fascination with marbles is a general interest in everyday objects, such as lipstick, and fruit, and their potential to generate an implied narrative. These narratives take on a fantastic and whimsical quality as Dinhofer puts her unique compositional spin on them.</p> <p>Her work has been reproduced in numerous books and catalogues and mentioned in prestigious publications such as The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Art & Antiques, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Art in America and Art News. </p> <p>Her work is in several private, public and corporate collections including: The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The New York Public Library, NY; City College, <span class="caps">C.U.N.Y.,</span> NY; The Forbes Magazine Collection, NY; Rose Art Museum Brandeis University, Waltham, <span class="caps">MA,</span> Jane Voorhees Zimmerili Art Museum, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ; Pfizer Inc, NY; DuPont Corporation, Wilmington, DE; General Electric Co., Bridgeport, <span class="caps">CT.</span></p> <p>Lisa Dinhofer is an instructor of drawing at the National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts, <span class="caps">NYC.</span><br /> <br /> There will be a reception for the artist on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 6-8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1167 Exhibition: Patrick Pierce <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Birth of the New</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 8 - December 10, 2005</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Tuesday, November 8, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1439 Exhibition: Jeremy Comins <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Sculpture in Wood</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">October 6 - November 5, 2005</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Thursday, October 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM</div> <br/> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Jeremy Comins' recent wood sculpture continues to express the artist's ongoing interest in organic forms and human psychological states. Finely crafted, the artist uses a variety of different kinds of wood. Although Comins begins with sketches and certain preconceptions about where a piece will go, there are always points of improvisation and detours from original plans. As a result, there is a constant dialogue between the Dionysian (spontaneous) and Apollonian (controlled) impulses guiding his work.</p> <p>Many of his sculptures illustrate, or at least symbolize, the conflicts between these opposing forces in the mind. The inner workings of both the physical world and the human psyche underpin much of his work. Much like dreams or altered states, Comins' works bring question to things and their simulacra, reality and illusion, presence and absence. Comins' wood sculptures have a surreal quality with Rene Magritte and the author Jorge Luis Borges - creating a metaphor of life or a riddle, and remain elegantly refined in their craftsmanship. </p> <p>It could be said that his work seduces with material and craftsmanship but arrests with psychologically driven narratives. This current show demonstrates the breadth of his psychological investigation as well as the variety of materials and attention to craft.</p> <p>Jeremy Comins has had solo exhibitions at Mari Gallery, Bodley Gallery and Roko Gallery in New York, as well as the Staten Island Museum, <span class="caps">NY. </span> Some of his group exhibitions include: the Silvermine Guild, CT; the National Academy of Design, NY; Wharton Esherick Museum, King of Prussia, PA; Lehman College, NY; Gallery at Lincoln Center, NY; National Arts Club, NY; Salmagundi Club, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, <span class="caps">PA, </span>among others. His work has been featured in Woodwork magazine and he has authored and illustrated several books including: Getting Started in African Crafts, Latin American Crafts and Their Cultural Background, Art from Found Objects, Eskimo Crafts and Their Cultural Backgrounds, Totems, Decoys and Covered Wagons, Slotted Sculpture, Chinese and Japanese Crafts and Their Cultural Backgrounds, Vans to Build from Cardboard. Comins has received several awards and honors including: Harry Ballinger Memorial Award, 2002, Hannibal Debellis Sculpture Award, 2001, Graham Gallery Sculpture Award, 2000, Philip Isenberg Memorial Award, 1999, <span class="caps">ASCA</span> Contemporary Art Award, Richman Sculpture Award and the Henry Nordhausen Memorial Award for Photography in 1998. Others awards include the Elliot Liskin Memorial Award.</p> <p>Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY exclusively represents Jeremy Comins.</p> <p>There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, October 6, 2005 from 6 - 8 pm.</p></div> http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1182 News: dusty boynton at helen day art center, vt <p>Artist <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/959><b>Dusty Boynton</b></a> will exhibit at the Helen Day Art Center, August 3 - 9, 2012.</p> <p>Dusty Boynton<br /> August 3 - September 9</p> <p>Dusty Boynton exhibits mixed media paintings and pieces from her “Structured Reliefs” series. Boynton’s love for painting is ever-present. If possible, her cutout figures come to life even more than her canvases. Packed with personality, the figures exist between carefree child-like drawings and psychosomatic studies.</p> <p>For more information, click <a href=http://www.helenday.com/east-gallery-current><b>here</b></a>.</p> http://denisebibrofineart.com/news/view/2168 News: David Barnett at Mamaroneck Artists Guild Juried Exhibition <p>Artist <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1358><b>David Barnett</b></a>'s work has been chosen for the Mamaroneck Artists Guild's Eighth Open Juried Small Works Exhibition.</p> <p>Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - Saturday, June 2, 2012</p> <p>Reception, May 19, 5pm-7pm </p> <p>Juror: Neil Watson<br /> Executive Director Katonah Museum of Art</p> <p>For more information on the exhibition and the Mamaroneck Artists Guild, click <a href=http://www.mamaroneckartistsguild.org/exhibition/exhibition-2012-05-09to06-02.html><b>here</b></a>.</p> http://denisebibrofineart.com/news/view/2155 News: Carter Hodgkin to participate in 'Art takes times square' project <p>For a link to the article click <a href=http://www.hamptons.com/The-Arts/Art-News/16975/Art-Takes-Times-Square.html><b>here</b></a>. </p> <p>New York City - This summer, the world's most visited attraction will become a spectacular art exhibition. </p> <p>On June 18, more than a dozen of the most iconic video signs in Times Square will be made into an immense display of art. </p> <p>In concert with the Times Square Alliance and curatorial partner Chashama, a non-profit group for creative space transformation, Artists Wanted has produced "Art Takes Times Square," a worldwide call for entries searching for inspired works by artists, designers, photographers and all creative talents from across the globe to determine one creative visionary whose artwork - in an opportunity of a lifetime - will receive a radiant presentation on Times Square's digital billboards before millions of viewers this summer. </p> <p>Participation is free and open to anyone of 18+ years of age. Submissions will be accepted through May 25, 2012 up to 12 midnight. Artists Wanted is also awarding $16,000 in cash grants and printing a limited edition book on selected artists from the competition. </p> <p>Already, thousands of artists from 168 countries have applied and the public at large is invited to help choose the winner. Participants include Rossella Vanon, Fidencio Martinez, and <a href=http://denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1709><b>Carter Hodgkin</b></a>.</p> http://denisebibrofineart.com/news/view/2142