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Art News:
Inside Art at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery December 3, 2010
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December 3, 2010
inside Art at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery New Orleans
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Jonathan Ferrara Gallery at Pulse Miami: UPDATE
JFG Has Major Success Thus Far At PULSE Miami: Museum Acquisitons, Major Sales and Great Traffic
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is exhibiting at the 2010 Pulse Contemporary Art Fair in Miami during the annual Art Basel Miami Beach art fairs.
UPDATE THUS FAR:
Skylar Fein has sold three major works to The Brooklyn Museum, a Co-Chairperson of the Whitney Museum and to board members of the Brooklyn Museum.
Eleven of Dan Tague's new folded dollar bill works have sold to collectors across the US and to collections in Brussels, Monaco and Paris.
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is the leading US art fair dedicated solely to contemporary art. Held annually in New York and Miami, PULSE bridges the gap between main and alternative fairs and provides participating galleries with a platform to present new works to a strong and growing audience of collectors, art professionals and art lovers.
PULSE Miami will return to the Ice Palace December 2 - 5, 2010, for its sixth edition, the first with new Director Cornell DeWitt. Presenting over 80 of the world's premier contemporary art galleries and a dynamic cultural program, PULSE Miami 2010 connects art enthusiasts to works by leading and emerging contemporary artists.
For Pulse 2010, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery will present the work of three gallery artists:
David Buckingham, Skylar Fein and Dan Tague.
Pulse happens December 2nd- 5th and is located at THE ICE PALACE, 1400 N. Miami Ave.
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is in Booth (E300) (Pictured Above)
The JFG artists at Pulse
David Buckingham is a Los Angeles based artist whose work is widely exhibited across the country. His recent New Orleans solo exhibition " I Speak As I Please" was both a critical and commercial success and opened the gallery 2010-2011 art season. David Buckingham's work is in several notable collections including Steven Bochco, Josh Groban, Gwen Stephani, Seth Rogen , Perez Hilton, Prada/Milan and The Cisneros Foundation. His work
has been exhibited in New York (O.K Harris) and in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and St. Louis.
Skylar Fein's career has been on a fast ascent in the past three years with his participation in Prospect.1 Biennial, a solo exhibition at New Orleans Museum of Art, his installation at VOLTA NY art fair and his recent Remember The Upstairs Lounge installation in Chelsea for the No Longer Empty curatorial project. Fein is one of New Orleans premier contemporary artists and is in numerous collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The New Orleans Museum of Art and collector Beth Rudin DeWoody.
In addition to works in the gallery booth, Skylar Fein will install "HARSH", a lighted installation work from his 2009 solo exhibition at New Orleans Museum of Art, in the public cafe spaces at The Ice Palace venue.
Dan Tague is a multi-media artist and curator and activist whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of several awards and residencies including grants from The Joan Mitchell Foundation and Pollock Krasner Foundation, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the La Napoule Art Foundation in France. Tague's work is in several private and public collections including The Whitney Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Dan Cameron, and The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. Dan Tague is one of the first artists chosen for Prospect.2 Biennial that opens in 2011.
To see the gallery booth at Pulse, please .
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Whitney Museum Acquires Skyalr Fein
"Lincoln (Soft Serve Ice)" Acquired for Permanent Collection
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is proud to
announce that The Whitney Museum of American Art has acquired the work of gallery artist Skylar Fein for their permanent collection
Whitney Curator of Drawings Carter Foster and the committee selected
Skylar Fein
Lincoln (Soft Serve Ice) (2007)
Drawing. transfer, spray paint on paper
25" x 19" x 3.5"
for the museum's permanent collection.
Skylar Fein
Skylar Fein was born in Greenwich Village and
raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent
resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a gay film festival in Seattle, stringing for The New York Times and as pre-med student at Universtiy of New Orleans where he moved one week before Hurricane Katrina hit.
In the wreckage of New Orleans, Skylar found his new calling as an artist, experimenting
with color and composition of the detritus of Katrina. His work soon
became known for its pop sensibility as well
as its hard-nosed politics. After a few
starring roles in group shows, he had his
first solo show in May 2008 at Jonathan
Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans.
His Prospect.1: Biennial installation
threw a spotlight
on an overlooked piece of New Orleans
history: a fire that swept through a French
Quarter bar in 1973, killing everyone inside.
The worst fire in New Orleans history has
never been solved. His installation, "Remember
the Upstairs Lounge," walked visitors
right through the swinging bar doors, and
offered visual riffs on politics and
sexuality circa 1973. The piece was praised
in Artforum Art In America,
The New York Times Magazine and The
New Yorker,
among others.
His first solo museum show, "Youth
Manifesto", was an ode to punk
rock as a
force for social and cultural upheaval. True
to form, the opening reception at New Orleans
Museum of Art was shut down by police
responding to the look of the unlikely
art-going crowd.
In March of 2010, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery presented Fein's solo installation Skylar Fein: Rise of the Youth Front" at VOLTA Art Fair in New York during Armory Week. This installation drew thousands of people and delved in revolutionary politics past and present: a continuing theme in Fein's work. In December 2010, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery will present Skylar Fein at the Pulse Art Fair during Art Basel Miami Beach.
Skylar Fein was the recipient of a 2009 Joan
Mitchell Foundation Award and his work is in
several prominent collections including Beth
Rudin DeWoody, Lawrence Benenson,The Frederick R. Weisman Art
Foundation, The Louisiana State Museum and
The Birmingham Museum of Art. and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery will present new works by Skylar Fein at the 2010 PULSE Contemporary Ar
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Kevin Levine and Generic Art Solutions Open Tomorrow Night For Photo Nola
Opening Reception to Meet the Artists, 6-9pm Saturday December 4th
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to present Untimely Ruins, new works by photographer Kevin Levine. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, The annual celebration of photography in New Orleans, coordinated by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with galleries, museums and photographers citywide.
Kevin Levine is a photographer and mariner who guides ships through the waterways of coastal Louisiana. Captain Levine is a member of the Associated Branch Pilots for the Port of New Orleans. His photographs explore life on the Mississippi as well as the aging structures of the past. His unique access to the Delta and his perspective of life on the water give his photographs a sense of time and place.
As the son of a Bar Pilot, Levine followed his father's path and has worked on the water since the age of 17. He holds a strong connection to the Mississippi Delta and mourns the loss of beaches and marshland that he witnesses eroding while piloting ships through Southwest Pass.
Untimely Ruins documents three historical lighthouses built at the entrances to the Mississipi River. These lighthouses date from 1838, 1855 and 1871, with the latter considered an engineering feat of its time. All are now deemed inaccessible and are on the doomsday list for lighthouses.
Levine's photographs capture the remains of these fading monuments with use of color and contrast manipulation, exposure and special effects, adding a painterly quality to the structures that celebrate and restore these artifacts from the recent past.
"I spent my childhood summers swimming, fishing and exploring the beaches and muddy silt deposits from the Mississippi River at South Pass. As the son of a Bar Pilot, I followed my father's path and have worked on the water since the age of 17.I feel a connection to this Delta formed by the Missisippi and mourn the loss of beaches and marshland that I witness eroding as I pilot ships through Southwest Pass.
I am attracted to the art of photography by manipulating contrast, color saturation, exposure and special effects. This series of work is about finding the artistic qualities of the old, forgotten, and taken for granted structures that we see on a daily basis, and never really notice. As well as documenting three historical lighthouses built at the entrances to the Mississipi River. These lighthouses date from 1838, 1855 and 1871, the latter is considered an engineering feat of its time. All are considered inaccessible and are on the doomsday list for lighthouses."
In addition to the new works by Kevin Levine, the gallery will present a suite of photographs by the art duo Generic Art Solutions (G.A.S.) entitled "Selections from the Past". Artists Tony Campbell and Matt Vis who make up the art duo are well known for their photographic recreations of master works from art history, such as Carvaggio, where they become every subject in the work. Generic Art Solutions (G.A.S.) currently has a solo exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art entitled "Deja Vu All Over Again" that includes photographs, video works and large-scale silkscreens.
Both exhibitions open on Saturday December 4th with a reception to meet the artists.
To view Untimely Ruins by Kevin Levine, please
To view Generic Art Solutions (G.A.S.) entitled "Selections from the Past", please
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Daisuke Shintani Continues
"Vines and Leaves", New Sculpture by Japanese Artist Through December
"Vines and Leaves", new sculpture by Japanese artist Daisuke Shintani continues through December. "Vines and Leaves" exhibition will run from November 5, 2010 through December 27, 2010 with an opening reception on Saturday November 6th from 6 to 9 pm
For this exhibition,
Daisuke Shintani will present work in two parts. The first will delve into a medium he has mastered for the past fifteen years, his trademark combination of bronze sculpture and poured glass.He will create installations of leaves and vines that will stretch across the walls of the gallery. He creates the vines that hold the leaves by hand-twisting rods of wax that are then caste in bronze.
The second part of the exhibition will see Shintani utilize more ordinary materials found in everyday life; paper, wire, aluminum and gold leaf to explore a new direction in his work, granting himself the freedom to explore new materials to communicate his vision while still embracing the concept of presenting the organic nature vines and leaves. In addition, he has incorporated handmade Japanese papers brought back from his recent trip to Japan.
In his bronze works, Shintani literally pours
molten glass over leaves that are hand-caste from nature.
Shintani then meticulously fires the glass to create the desired length; making his sculptures appear
organic; yet frozen in time.
The Hiroshima-born sculptor began working
with glass over twenty five years ago while
studying at the Glass Art Institute in Tokyo.
He poured glass over random objects he would
find: kitchen appliances, furniture, road
kill, pizza, "pretty much anything I saw and
questioned". He developed a love for glass as
an expressive medium by experimenting with
the intense heat and its interaction with
foreign objects; how it tends to consume
everything and leave traces of its presence.
Daisuke Shintani is an internationally
recognized artist whose work has been
exhibited across the United States and in
Russia, Switzerland, France, Canada, Italy
and Japan.
To view the exhibition "Vines and Leaves", please .
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Sidonie Villere Reviewed in The Tennessean
Impressions at Tinney Contemporary in Nashville
Sidonie Villere's recent Nashville exhibition received a wonderful review in The Tennessean.
"To enter Tinney Contemporary right now, or even to peek in from the street, is to be confronted by the striking sophistication of New Orleans-based artist Sidonie Villere's mixed-media sculptures and paintings."
To read the entire review, please
Impressions: New Works by Sidonie Villere features mixed-media paintings and ceramic sculpture byt the New Orleans based artist whose works reflect her contemporary philosophies and non-traditional approaches. With this show, Villere continues to explore themes of the human condition and self-preservation.
Sidonie Villere has a BFA in Ceramics from The Newcomb School of Art at Tulane
University and an MFA in Ceramics from The University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
As an artist her work has been exhibited across the United States and is in the permanent collection of several museums including The New Orleans Museum of Art and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Her work has also been acquired by Saks Fifth Avenue for their department Stores in New York, Boston, Phoenix, San Francisco and Beverly Hills.
Villere has had solo exhibitions in Miami and New Orleans and been featured in numerous group exhibitions in Atlanta, Miami, New York and New Orleans. As a curator, she has organized national ceramic exhibitions in New Orleans and Portland, OR. Her large-scale works were featured in The P.1 Projects satellite exhibition at the Prospect.1 Biennial Welcome Center in 2008. Villere's work is included in the recent publication, 500 Ceramic Sculptures: Contemporary Practice, Singular Work, by Glen Brown, 2009.
Her work has also been selected for an upcoming January 2011 exhibition in New York entitled "January White Sale" curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody at Loretta Howard Gallery in Chelsea.
To view works from the exhibition, please .
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GALLERY HOURS
Monday - Saturday 11 am to 5pm
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
400a Julia Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
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