August 28- September 28, 2012

 

The 16th edition of this exhibition will feature 40 new works, ranging from the dynamic floor-to-ceiling installation piece by Abhidnya Ghuge (consisting of 5,441 paper plates), the technicolor hyperrealist paintings by Ira Upin, and the minimalist conceptual neon works by Raine Vasquez. Other highlights from the exhibition include photographs of Tsunami-blighted Japanese schoolhouses in Tohoku by Ayano Hisa, Nikki Rosato's haunting studies of human connectivity using cut maps as her medium, and Edward Ramsay-Morin's hyberbolic prints which explore Western anxieties in the digital age. Samuel Provenza's point-study steel sculptures and Jeffrey Pastorek's narrative portrait grids represent the New Orleans artist's contribution to the exhibition. The exhibition also features Tadashi Moriyama's hand-drawn animated film and surrealist paintings on paper, Derrick Vasquez's series of abstract wall sculpture based on manufactured and industrially engineered materials, and Adam Void's socially-driven collages composed of collected urban propaganda. Last but not least, Aaron Raymer's dramatic sculpture D-Fence incorporates industrial material with taxidermy to create a geometric point of visual interest.

 

The exhibition has been a springboard for numerous artists leading to national press coverage, recognition, gallery representation and acquisitions by museums and other prominent collections. Each year gallery owner Jonathan Ferrara invites a panel of renowned arts professional and collectors to select the newest creative talents, and the exhibition draws a crowd of thousands interested in discovering the work of this selected group of emerging artists. The exhibition serves as a rite of passage for many artists, some of whom are developing their initial relationship with a commercial gallery.

 

For the 16th edition, three renowned arts professionals served the No Dead Artists jury:

 

Eric Shiner - Director of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;

Amanda Coulson - Director of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and Founder of VOLTA Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland and VOLTA New York;

Thomas Coleman - Collector 

 

 

In addition to having their works exhibited at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, selected jury winners will be featured in an article by D. Eric Bookhardt of Gambit Weekly and Artpapers. Also, a new aspect of the exhibition will award one of the selected jury winning artists a solo exhibition in 2013.

 

 

 

October 1- October 31, 2012

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October 1-October 31, 2012

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to announce Paul Villinski's solo show Alight, at Tayloe Piggot Gallery in Jackson Hole, WY, featuring the work of internationally acclaimed artist Paul Villinski. The exhibition, on display from August 30 through October 16, 2012, will open with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, September 7, which coincides with the Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk, a signature event of the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival.

Born in York, Maine in 1960, Paul Villinski started his education at the Phillips Exeter Academy, followed by the Massachusetts College of Art and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He moved to New York City in 1982, and now lives with his partner painter Amy Park and their son Lark in a studio in Long Island City. Villinski has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and has been an Artist-in-Residence at many prestigious institutions including Wyoming's own Ucross Foundation. His works hang in many public and private collections including the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, Miami International Airport, FL, Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Offices, NY and Paris, France, and Fidelity Investments, NY. 

Skylar Fein's work is inspired by his interest in various forms of social revolution that range from political figures and music to fringe cultures. He often employs found materials from his current home of New Orleans to illustrate the individuals he views as heroic for having gone against the status quo. Fein's visual language frequently incorporates appropriated imagery and simple graphics taken from the mainstream or sub-cultures, in order to spark curiosity in the viewer about his historical and cultural discoveries.

For his first solo exhibition at C24 Gallery the artist will present new work that includes collages, prints on bed sheets, and paintings. In a series entitled Beckett at War, Fein turns to Samuel Beckett's involvement with antifascist activities during the Second World War for inspiration. When the Nazis entered Paris, the Irish playwright fled to the south where he entered the Resistance. Fein's new work combines factual and fictional histories, suggested as evidence of this part of Beckett's life that he refused to talk about. "He fought fascism with words, of course, but also with grenades," states Fein, "and in our current climate of a visual art eviscerated of any moral force and clarity, I take what courage I can from his pitiless un-apology."

Also featured in the exhibition will be a series of paintings based on memorabilia from the American punk scene of the 1970-80s and other works that use early Modernism as a starting point to address topics such as fascism, sex and boredom, which the artist likens to "Suprematism on poppers."