Tag: Susan Breen

June 26, 2023

Michael Alan, Jose Aurelio Baez, Susan Breen, Deborah Claxton, Michael De Feo, BK Foxx, Richard Hambleton, Margaret Morrison, Lady Pink, Jaggu Prasad, JM Rizzi, and Swoon
Summer Garden
Group Exhibition 
July – August 2023
Woodward Gallery

Summer is finally here— and Eldridge Street is abloom! Planted by twelve Artists, a Summer Garden is beautifully cultivated with flowers and vegetables in Manhattan’s urban ecosystem. The magnificence of Jose Aurelio Baez’s floral mural on our Project Space extends to Woodward Gallery’s interior with a variety of still life paintings, colorful collages and intricate works on paper. Each artist’s interpretation of life and nature seeds our garden with diversity. Michael Alan, Jose Aurelio Baez, Susan Breen, Deborah Claxton, Michael De Feo, BK Foxx, Richard Hambleton, Margaret Morrison, Lady Pink, Jaggu Prasad, JM Rizzi, and Swoon flourish together in this exhibition, offering a fresh vitality to the neighborhood.

Come view our Summer Garden, this July and August, on Eldridge Street, on our website, by appointment, and on Artsy.net. Jose Aurelio Baez’s vibrant Eldridge Garden mural is located on Woodward Gallery’s Project Space and Summer Garden is featured in Woodward Gallery, all on Eldridge Street between Broome and Delancey, NYC.

July 30, 2016



Group Exhibition
September 10 – October 28, 2016
Woodward Gallery

The Fall Art Season opens as if nature has been saving up all year for its grand finale. For the first time at Woodward Gallery, a group exhibition is presented in salon format featuring 61 artists and 129 works of art!


An environment of art styles and mediums engulf the gallery walls offering quality, variety and substance for the collector who yearns to feel inspired. The array of Artists makes for a breathtaking visual spectacle.


This NYC Salon is accessible to beginning collectors and art connoisseurs alike.


Artists: Michael Alan, Royce Bannon, Rick Begneaud, David Bishop, Jonathan Borofsky, Susan Breen, Brock, Thomas Buildmore, El Celso, Patrick Christie, Deborah Claxton, Crash, Allan D’Arcangelo, Darkcloud, Jim Dine, Annette Davidek, Marisol Escobar, Natalie Edgar, Tommy Flynn, BK FOXX, Sybil Gibson, Richard Hambleton, Keith Haring, Sarah Hauser, Hiro Ichikawa, Robert Indiana, Infinity, Jean Kigel, Franz Kline, Walt Kuhn, LAII, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichenstein, Bill Martin, Knox Martin, Mark Mastroianni, Moody, Margaret Morrison, Malcolm Morley, Kenji Nakayama, Terence Netter, Roy Newell, Hank O’Neal, Claes Oldenburg, Louise Peabody, Jaggu Prasad, Mel Ramos, Ad Reinhardt, JMR/ JM Rizzi, Brad Robson, Maura Robinson, James Rosenquist, Jessica Hurley Scott, Matt Siren, stikman, Swoon, Francesco Tumbiolo, Jo Ellen Van Ouwerkerk, Nina Venus, Andy Warhol, and Charles Yoder.

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”

March 14, 2015


Susan Breen & Margaret Morrison
March 14 – May 9, 2015
Woodward Gallery

Woodward Gallery features Susan Breen and Margaret Morrison in a two-person exhibition heralding Spring. This season, the Artists travel to a location beyond their traditional roads of art. Both Ways connects different aesthetics by traversing varied terrain intimate and expansive, natural and concrete.


Taken collectively, Susan Breen’s paintings represent a dynamic natural world in flux, in various states of growth, transformation, and at times, decline. Rooted in imagery that alludes to the physical world, these paintings are a seeming departure from earlier more abstract and atmospheric works. Yet, they aspire to a similar celestial space from a different and comparatively grounded vantage point.


Breen’s natural forms float, turn, bloom, grow, and overgrow. Vines twist and flourish, alluding to some universal circuitry. Systems begin to fill up and spill over, hinting at entropy. Trees reach to the sky, flowers cluster and converge. In all of these, Breen manages order yielding in some way to a changing world within each frame, one filled with both darkness and light.


Margaret Morrison departs from her still-lifes to share the zen of driving. She is inexorably drawn to a point on the horizon…. a point beyond her sightline, “where I can crawl inside my head and look around, unpack my thoughts, and unload my baggage.”


That point on the horizon always hovering just out of reach perpetually draws Morrison toward a half hidden moment full of promise where reality and time detach themselves from consciousness, thus allowing the Artist to settle back and clear her mind. Morrison shares, “I love long distance driving. I love the romance of the landscape hurtling past me, the road stretching out for hundreds of miles as I speed along toward an undetermined destination. Nothing is as metaphysically liberating.” Morrison’s highways are a vacation for the mind, body and soul.


Together Breen and Morrison come from their notable pasts invigorated by their new direction. Woodward Gallery is the rest stop where these new small-scale, impressive bodies of work are joined.

 


Exhibition Press:
Widewalls
ArtFuse Magazine
Juxtapoz Magazine
Wall Street International
Mother-Musing
University of Georgia
The Vander Lust

January 10, 2015



January 10 – February 28, 2015
Woodward Gallery


Woodward Gallery boldly unites a group of twenty living artists working in different styles ranging from figurative to street, surreal to abstract. The exhibition is a cross sample of art Woodward exhibits highlighting the range of the Contemporary market.


Richard Hambleton’s 1983 Dancing Shadowman sets the mood. Sabina Forbes II sets the table from a retro 50’s inspired still life into a colorful contemporary feast. Gabriel Specter takes over the gallery entrance with an exciting, aesthetic sculptural installation. Deborah Claxton stuns by assembling thousands of hand cut paper pieces to create a photographic image.


The featured artists are: Rick Begneaud, Susan Breen, Thomas Buildmore, Cycle, Deborah Claxton, Darkcloud, Natalie Edgar, Sabina Forbes II, Richard Hambleton, Hiro Ichikawa, JMR, Mark Mastroianni, Moody, Margaret Morrison, Kenji Nakayama, Terence Netter, Gabriel Specter, Jeremy Szopinski, stikman, and Jo Ellen Van Ouwerkerk.

 


Exhibition Press:
Widewalls
Wall Street International
The Villager

May 4, 2013



Group Show
May 4th – June 30th 2013
Woodward Gallery

Femalenergy 3 is the third grouping of female artists at Woodward Gallery in almost two decades, harnessing the spiritual energy, intuition and prominent creative insight specific only to women in the arts. Each work carries a special feminine message from the artist to her viewer.


Femalenergy sets aside stereotypes and celebrates the nature of women through form, color, and temperament. The exhibition emotes a cultural, unified power specific to the gender.


This group of artists come from all over the country at different stages in their careers. Each produces exceptional art in a variety of mediums. The featured artists are: Susan Breen, Deborah Claxton, Vicki DaSilva, Natalie Edgar, Sabina Forbes II, Phyllis Gay Palmer, Sybil Gibson, Sonne Hernandez, Elisa Jensen, Luisa Mesa, Edie Nadelhaft,Klari Reis, Jo Ellen Van Ouwerkerk, Cristina Vergano, and Lucy Wilner.

September 13, 2008



Remedy
September 13 – November 1, 2008
Woodward Gallery

Woodward Gallery is proud to open the Fall Art Season with Susan Breen: Remedy.
Susan Breen’s Remedy explores our contemporary sense of social, psychological, and physical maladies by imagining the transformation of various ‘ailments,’ to a visual representation of what might, in theory, relieve that state of being.


Having radically expanded her palette from earlier monochromatic oils with this current series’ richly colorful tones, Breen’s paintings examine heartache, fear of flight, insomnia, political disillusionment, hiccups, delusions of grandeur, and other afflictions, through the eye of abstract imagery.


The majority of Breen’s compositions are grounded in symmetry, having derived broadly from Mandalic symbology. Breen’s interests in botany, physics, Eastern philosophy and medicine complicate notions of easy, logical order and balance. This combination has helped Breen’s work to possess both a seeming openness of form, and an absolute rigor in execution.
Remedy expresses possibility and hope where neither comes too freely. In this remarkable series, the notion of affliction is simply a kind of potential existing in a latent, raw state. It lives beneath each panel, on which the patterned and abstract restorative power of Breen’s stunning palette and conceptual sense of game is rendered with force and great beauty.

November 14, 2006



Group Show
November 14, 2006 – January 6, 2007
Woodward Gallery

Woodward Gallery is honored to represent their group of twelve in the exhibition, Gallery Artists ‘06 -’07.


Since 1994, Woodward Gallery has deeply appreciated these individual creative forces of art that affirm beauty and excellence.


Artists: Susan Breen, Deborah Claxton, Richard Hambleton, Sarah Hauser, Hiro Ichikawa, Mark Mastroianni, Margaret Morrison, Terence Netter, Jo Ellen Van Ouwerkerk, Louise Peabody, Cristina Vergano and Charles Yoder will be together for one, final exhibition at Woodward Gallery’s present New York location.


Anticipating a move from their SoHo home of thirteen years, Woodward Gallery will feature signature new work to emphasize the future direction the gallery artists will continue to blaze in New York. The original contemporary artwork by these Acclaimed Artists will offer variety from abstract to urban to figurative on paper and on canvas.

November 4, 2004



Where Light Rises… Shadows Fall
November 4 – December 30, 2004
Woodward Gallery

Taken collectively, Susan Breen’s current body of work almost immediately suggests the twilight process of some elementary particle as it evolves into matter. One may interpret the particleÑthe matterÑto be light, caught in space between the atomic, and the completed shape of its spectrum. Somehow the work seems both ominous and hopeful.


These new paintings may surprise those familiar with the artist’s earlier work, which drew from abstractions of nature and destruction, and whose palette exclusively used gradations of sepia.
But now, color is repeatedly layered and glazed over a sepia foundation, often obliterating it, or leaving only its suggestion. If the sepia tones resembled some kind of early photographic process of some feral state, now each frame appears as if observed under a distorted, microscopic lens, whose refracted view seems to wander around the in-between of its subject. The active quality of the oil’s composition from a distance looks in turns encaustic, and set in stained glass. There is a newness in the sense of motion, to its algorithms, at once cellular and mandalic. An imaginary Spring launched from a past reduced just enough to provide a fertile bed for a new kind of light, perhaps representative of hope, or simply of imagination itself.


This seems to be the telling point of the work: Susan Breen’s work can be said to run laterally to representation as well as expressionism. Rather than articulating an object, or a stateÑi.e., a figure or unconsciousnessÑshe’s chosen neither, and simultaneously extended the past into a coordination of energy: a kind of oil-based representation of an entropic system. Breen’s work has a focal clarity, without losing sense of a constant analog, of the possibility of something else, just around the corner.


Perhaps this is why there is such a strong feeling of dimension and motion, and of light, in her paintings. Breen fuses the particular to the universal: tracings of familiar shapes are placed into a frame of reference with no other boundary than itself. Her work observes the process of becoming, just beyond the unconscious, just before the figure. Something embryonic just as it’s begun to locate the features that may someday identify it. It is a beautiful palingenesis, proof that the imagination, as the result of an evolved process, is capable of creating and recreating evolution itself.

-David Ryan