Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present Lisa Dinhofer: West Village Road Kill and Other Found Objects, the artist's fifth solo show at the gallery, on view October 11 through November 10, 2012. Dinhofer's new color pencil work continue her realist style, deftly creating meticulous portraits of creatures; dragonflies, turtles, birds, bats and grasshoppers, that comprise her surrounding neighborhoods of SoHo and the West Village.

Dinhofer refers to her subjects as "our roommates and neighbors." All of Dinhofer's subjects are either found by the artist or are offerings from friends. They are rendered on paper in the artist's studio. Dinhofer's object-based studies often magnify the subject up to ten times their actual size, celebrating the intricacies and subtleties of New York City's flora and fauna. The flexibility of color pencil enables the artist to articulate the surface texture and transparency of a cicada wing, the soft plumage of a redheaded sparrow, and the radiating patterns on a tortoise shell..

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, NYC; City College, C.U.N.Y., 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, CT. Dinhofer was commission for a glass mosaic mural project by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Art for Transit, New York, NY, on display at the 42nd street and 9th Avenue A/C/E Subway Line. Dinhofer is an instructor of drawing at the National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts, NYC.

On View in Gallery Two:

Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to announce John Hrehov, Shades from White to Black, on view from October 11 through November 10, 2012, his sixth solo show at Denise Bibro Fine Art. Hrehov's works evoke his continued interest in the theme of man coexisting with nature. Utilizing the artist's signature labor-intensive pointillist technique, Hrehov uses shades of white, black and gray, focusing specifically on urban settings - juxtaposing patterns onto the surface to represent elements of wind, rhythm and sound.

Objects such as bats, owls, rabbits, birds and vegetation co-inhabit with cement, brick, fences and asphalt roofs. In the work Lesser, Hrehov renders undulating lines, beaming outward from what can only be a moon - cutting into radiating patterns of a downward moving bat, captured in motion with a midnight snack of a moth. In another work, Glean, Hrehov creates a landscape of contrasting geometric patterns. A field of horizontally layered pebbles and rocks extends back to a fence with vertical wooden beams, continuing toward a triangular composition of a mountainous background, leading finally up to the sky. Contrasting these more rigid compositions are two animals - bunnies - existing peaceful in the foreground. Hrehov's stark palette enhances the drama of these unique forces living side by side.

Hrehov has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the country, including 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, NYC. Hrehov's awards include Gladys Emerson Cook Prize in the Area of Prints, Drawings and Pastel, 167th Annual Exhibition National Academy of Design, NYC and 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, IN. Hrehov holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne in northeast Indiana.

For more information, 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.

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