Month: September 2015

Decades

September 12, 2015

September 12 – October 24, 2015
Woodward Gallery

This survey will recall past trends, exhibition themes and current inspirations by the Artists Woodward Gallery has featured throughout its decades long history. These Artists have all been exhibited at some time since 1994 reflecting the variety of the Gallery’s collection:

Peter Apelgren,

Jean Michel Basquiat,

Susan Breen,

Michael Brodeur,

El Celso,

Deborah Claxton,

Gregory Corn,

Alan D’Arcangelo,

Darkcloud,

Natalie Edgar,

Marisol Escobar,

Fab 5 Freddy,

Paul Gauguin,

Red Grooms,

Tom Hall,

Richard Hambleton,

Keith Haring,

Sarah Hauser,

Hiro Ichikawa,

Robert Indiana,

Jasper Johns,

Donald Judd,

Janice Johnson,

Franz Kline,

LAII,

Roy Lichtenstein,

Mark Mastroianni,

Knox Martin,

Moody,

Margaret Morrison,

Robbin Murphy,

Kenji Nakayama,

Neckface,

Terence Netter,

Don Nice,

Francis Picabia,

Jaggu Prasad,

Ad Reinhardt,

Drew Roth,

David Salle,

Matt Siren,

Frank Stella,

stikman,

Ellinor Ströström,

Philip Taaffe,

Francesco Tumbiolo,

Andy Warhol,

Charles Yoder,

“Charting Ground Zero”

Four Seasons Restaurant

September 10, 2015

Brad Robson & JMR/JM RIZZI
2015 – 2016
On view at The Four Seasons Restaurant
99 East 52nd Street, NYC

Brad Robson

Robson was born and currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Robson started on a graphic designer trek at the age of 19 years. He is a self taught fine artist who developed his technique as he completed studies in Graphic Design and Advertising. Robson became a teacher on Album Sleeve Designs for a college in Sydney while continuously pursing his painting career.

The city, as a representation of vitality and space, galvanized his inspiration to paint with colorful abstracted forms. In 2011, Robson completed a residency in Illustration and Visual Storytelling at the famed School of Visual Arts in NYC. In 2013, Robson had his premiere solo exhibition at the Berlin Collective in Manhattan.

JMR/JM RIZZI

Woodward Gallery is proud to exhibit Artist James Rizzi, better known as JMR, at the Four Seasons Private Dining Rooms. This new body of work has roots in Abstract Expressionism, yet favors a Neo Contemporary flare. JMR has catapulted his vision with this acrylic painting series of bold curves and lines punched with bright color. JMR will be simultaneously featured for the 20th Anniversary Fall Season at Woodward Gallery.

Well travelled with his art as both a Street Artist and Fine Art painter, JMR’s imagery has become iconic in his native New York City and his home in Dallas. After a building-sized mural at the Pod Hotel in Manhattan, and major commissioned projects around Brooklyn, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Hong Kong, JMR now raises his brush with the determined statement on motion, scale -and sheer power.

A great symphony of shapes pulsating into one another, JMR’s paintings are at once, serious and sensual, energetic and fearless. His strong black lines caress blank space or beckon to color. These are the mature works of a painter in his prime.

Urban Screams

September 5, 2015

Brad Robson
2015/2016
Woodward Gallery Project Space

Woodward Gallery is proud to feature Australian Artist Brad Robson at the following locations this Summer Season:

The Pool Room Mezzanine of the historic Four Seasons Restaurant at 99 East 52nd Street with large scale urban-scene canvases; with a 15 foot new mural on the Woodward Gallery Project Space at 132A Eldridge Street; and with food paintings at Gourmet Garage, SoHo Windows 24/7 located at 489 Broome Street, NYC.

Brad Robson was born and currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Robson started on a graphic designer trek at the age of 19 years. He is a self taught fine artist who developed his technique as he completed studies in Graphic Design and Advertising. Robson became a teacher on Album Sleeve Designs for a college in Sydney while continuously pursing his painting career.

woodward gallery project space

September 5, 2015

The Woodward Gallery Project Space is a rotating exhibition of street art on view at 132 Eldridge Street directly across from the gallery. Project Space continues inside Ghost Art Lounge & Bar.

Gyotaku Fish Monoprints

September 4, 2015

Jean Kigel
2015 – 2016
Gourmet Garage, SoHo
489 Broome St. (Between Wooster and West Broadway), NYC
On view 24/7 at the street level windows

Woodward Gallery is delighted to feature Maine Artist Jean Kigel at the Gourmet Garage. Gyotaku (ghee-a taa-ku) the art of printing fish, originated in Japan centuries ago as a way of documenting the size of a catch. The walls of Japanese tackle and fish shops were once decked with black and white fish prints.

In modern times, gyotaku has evolved into an art. To print a fish, Jean Kigel carefully cleans a freshly – caught fish, prepares its scales and gills with salt, batten and clay, and applies block- print ink to the fish. Then she presses strong, thin Japanese paper around the form of the fish to make the print. Some of Kigel’s favorite papers kinwashi made form manila hemp, gasen made from the inner bark of cedar.

Depending on the thickness and the tones of the inking, every scale, fin and gill may print. A single fish can be ghost – printed or re-inked in varying tones and colors, producing overlapping schools of fish. Often unexpected effects are achieved. Sometimes Kigel enhances these with sumi (ink) on a bamboo brush. Occasionally, she uses a chigiri-e technique of overlaying translucent Japanese papers on the print. One can be as abstract or as realistic as one likes. All prints are unique!

Jean Kigel studied brush painting in Japan, China and the United States. An award-winning member of the Sumi-e Society of America and the Union of Maine Visual Artist, she is represented by a variety of galleries in Maine, Vermont and Manhattan. Her gyotaku prints are featured in Down East Magazine.

Since 1992, she has conducted Asian brush workshops at colleges, universities, museums and art centers in Maine. Jean Kigel’s work has been registered with the Maine Arts Commission since 1997.