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Sarah Lutz, Burst, 2009, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches

Sarah Lutz is an artist who thoroughly enjoys the visceral pleasures of oil painting. Her lush, colorful surfaces ooze with rich impasto and translucent shimmering glazes. The sensuality of Lutz’s paint handling puts the viewer in a subjective and participatory position by creating a cornucopia of physical and mental sensations.

What is seen during this synesthetic experience is a phantasmagoria of squiggles, pile-ups, blobs and drips that suggest a primordial hothouse where all manner of cross-pollinations occur. Lutz has cited sources ranging from Venetian chandeliers to the experience of snorkeling as part of her studio discourse, and one can sense the thrill of discovery as she ventures through these opulent and animated realms.

Lutz revels in the technical extremes of her medium, pushing the qualities of the paint to register as palpable metaphor. As her thoughts turn to underwater caverns the paint literally thins to an aqueous state. Other passages focus on piles of donut shapes, slathered on and encrusted like the excessive confections of an overzealous pastry chef. Her color choices of vibrant reds, fleshy pinks, watery blues and biting greens underscore the buoyant sense of discovery and playfulness found in these works. This exhibition finds Sarah Lutz having a great deal of fun. Her formal inventions are equaled only by her vivid imagination.

Sarah Lutz received a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College and an MFA from American University.  She has exhibited her work at the Richmond Art Center at the Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT; 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY; The Painting Center, New York, NY; The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; The Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA; DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Brick Walk Books and Fine Art, West Hartford, CT; and Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, NY, among others.  Her work has been reviewed in the New York Observer, the Boston Globe and the Village Voice.

Lohin Geduld Gallery
531 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 212-675-2656
www.lohingeduld.com

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Antony Gormley: Event Horizon. Madison Square Park, New York.

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British artist Antony Gormley, best known for his massive “Angel of the North” sculpture which can be easily seen by rail and road travelers near Newcastle in the North of England, is now exhibiting his “Event Horizon,” a number of iron and fiberglass figures based on his body, in New York City’s Madison Square Park, located from 23^rd to 26^th Streets between Madison and Fifth Avenues.

These life-size replicas were first exhibited in 2007 along the South Bank in London as part of his “Blind Light” exhibit at the Hayward Gallery. Reaction to these works, which are placed on top of buildings, has been very similar in both places, people think that someone is about to jump from a building, so the police departments and emergency services received hundreds of phone calls from concerned citizens. By walking around the Park one is able to see all the sculptures.

The figures are placed where they are clearly visible, the rusted finish contrasting with Manhattan’s skyline, especially on a clear sunny day. Two of the figures are placed on the ground, one inside the Park and other on 23^rd Street and Fifth. It was front page news when Mayor Bloomberg was captured by one of New York photographers looking at of the these sculpture’s private parts.

This exhibition comes on the heels of last Summer’s “One & Other” live performance show on the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square in London. The public itself became part of the experience. Each participant had an hour to do whatever they pleased, and the event was streamed live on the web. Everyone could participate as long as they lived in the UK. Most appeared to protest something or ask for contributions to their cause, and nothing stopped them, even those strong winds and hard rain that seem to be part of a London Summer.

It was at his studio that one could appreciate the diverse and inspiring works Gormley creates. Most of the sculptures in the large space are made of solid iron, and are purposely left on the outside corridor to induce a brown-golden rusted look. Some of his other works that hung from the ceiling were more abstract, the human figure scarcely detectable but for the surrounding wire, similar to wireframe objects that are part of a three-dimensional computer program. Gormley talked about how he only uses his body to create the sculptures. His body was scanned and is now used by a specialized 3D computer program, created to his specifications, through which he is able to generate exact measurements for any design regardless of its size. He works with a team of assistants (he said 17) that construct the figures.

Gormley’s work has been appreciated worldwide, from Europe to the Far East, and now New York gets to enjoy this provocative exhibit.

Copro Gallery presents artist Laurie Lipton’s first solo show, Weapons of Mass Delusions at  CAL STATE Fullerton Grand Central Art Center.  The poster, book signing begins at 6:00 PM and the artist reception and exhibition begins at 7:00 PM. The show continues until June 13. 

CAL STATE Fullerton
Grand Central Art Center
125 N. Broadway
Santa Ana, CA 92701
General Phone: 714.567.7233
http://www.grandcentralartcenter.com

Ashley Gibbons. 2010.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 5-9pm

Utilizing quilting, lingerie and garment remnants to create images of women and the female form, I build a soft space with fabric to provoke hard dialogue. Contrasting delicate heirlooms with graphic images highlight and personify the dichotomy of a woman’s role.

Embroidery is the traditionally feminine act of recording and creating and the finished works are cherished by family members as heirlooms of blood ties. I use this delicate, personal technique to explore issues of sex, intimacy, female form, function, style, and gender roles: subjects not often discussed or recorded inside families. I hand embroider explicit, erotic tales - pathos of flesh and form. A dissonance between two kinds of women’s work?
Combining quilting, embroidery and adornment, I braid the stories of individuals into a larger framework of a collective.

I stretch lingerie across a canvas covered with screws and nails, covering the metal protrusions with the stressed delicate layers of panties and stockings. These intimate garments that lie beneath the exterior façade of the day’s fashion, convey mood, priority and function to the individual woman. The act of stretching them into contortions of their purpose reveals an intimate landscape of personal story and choice. The finished canvas tells a tale of color, fabric, preference, availability, challenging the viewers’ notions of references, preferences, and history with the contorted subjects.

I question how recording, collecting of private roles and choices transform the woman into public artifact. I question how the female form is consumed. I question how personal history intersects with mass produced items of supposed intimacy. I question the medium of dialogue within a family and to a greater audience. I seek to interpret one moment, one action into a new story, a new memory and a new framework.

Edgar Varela Fine Arts
102 West 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
http://edgarvarela.wordpress.com/

Jonathan Bartlett, The Fox Trap, 2010, mixed media; from “Selections from Thesis Projects in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department”

Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 4, 6 - 8pm

An exhibition featuring thesis projects by students in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department. Curated by faculty member David Sandlin.

SVA Gallery
209 East 23 Street
New York City, NY
Tel: 212-592-2010

Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 7pm; Saturday, 10am - 6pm
The gallery will close for Memorial Day weekend starting Friday, May 28 at 1pm.

Elaine Carhartt, Market Day, 2008-09, hand printed, individually water colored lino cut, 12″ x 16″

A solo exhibition of hand-watercolored lino prints by LA-area artist Elaine Carhartt from May 23 - June 20, 2010. The opening reception will be held Sunday, May 23 from 2-5pm.

Books, especially illuminated manuscripts, are the inspiration for Carhartt’s prints. Carhartt translates her fascination with the architecture and costumes of the figures in the small illustrations, creating her own scenes of everyday life — as it might have been in the middle ages while also reflecting our lives today. Bold pattern, themes from nature, and a bright palette bring Carhartt’s figures to life as they perform everyday tasks.

Each print is available in an edition of 10, all hand-watercolored by the artist.

Offramp Gallery
1702 Lincoln Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103
Tel: 626-298-6931
www.offrampgallery.com

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 1st, 2010, 7-10pm

Gallery1988 San Francisco
1173 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-409-1376
www.gallery1988.com

For the first time in London, Marc Zermati will be showing items from his thirty-eight  years in rock music at the Subway Gallery. He will open his files and boxes and display a range of rare posters, original drawings and lithographs…treasures that have given rhythm to his life. The atmosphere of the OPEN MARKET will be recreated with vinyls, stickers, badges, tickets for concerts and backstages, letters from musicians, original drawings, articles from the international rock press and photographs of musicians, artists and friends.

ROCK IS MY LIFE will feature Iggy Pop & the Stooges, Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground, Motorhead, Damned, Slits, Elvis Costello, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, the Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, Eddie & the Hot Rods, Jewel, Little Bob Story, Electric Callas, Asphalt Jungle, the Dogs. Works by Olivia Clavel, Kiki and Loulou Picassso, of the punk collective Bazooka, the New York graphic artist Futura 2000, and Jamie  Reed,will be shown together with rare posters of the Sex Pistols, Jefferson Airplane, Bob Dylan, the Ramones, Jim Morrison and the Cramps, among many others.

In December 1972, Marc Zermati created OPEN MARKET an underground music store in Paris, Rue des Lombards, a magnet for the counter-culture, featuring rock and punk. In 1973 he founded SKYDOG, the first independent punk rock label.  In 1974, with Larry Greenbear, Marc opened BIZZARRE, the first independent records import & distribution company in England, with shop and office in Praed St, London W2, carrying all the first punk singles from NYC , distributing fanzines and rock stuff. He starts also being a promotor for the pub rock scene and punk rock bands.

In 1976, Zermati organized the first punk music festival in Mont de Marsan, south-west France. It included The Damned, Doctor Feelgood, The Gorillas, Eddie & the Hot Rods, Kalfon Rockshow  and Passion Force (Black Punk Rock’n'roll), he also released an LP of the last  spectacular live  performance of Iggy Pop & the Stooges. The following year, in 1977, more than 6000 people attended Zermati’s second Mont de Marsan punk festival, which featured the Clash, Police, Little Bob Story, Damned, Rings, Maniacs, Lou’s, Shakin’ Street, Asphalt Jungle, Jewel, Tyla Gang, Marie & Boys and Doctor Feelgood.

A special exhibition of “Flor de Tierra, Homage to the Women of Juarez” by artist and “21 Leader for the 21st Century honoree Andrea Arroyo.

The exhibit features a selection of works from Arroyo’s project in progress “Flor de Tierra” (”Flower of the Earth”), which looks to commemorate the women of Juarez, the border city in Mexico where more than 400 women have gone missing or been killed in the past 15 years.

Ms Arroyo is a Mexican-born, New York-based artist. Her trajectory includes 26 individual and over 80 group exhibitions. Her artwork is in numerous private and public collections including The Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Richmond Museums, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and The New York Public Library.   Awards include: Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Award, Puffin Foundation Award, Harlem Arts Alliance Award, Groundbreaking Latina in the Arts Award, Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Official Artist of the Latin Grammys, New York City Citation Award for Achievement in Art, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships and Outstanding Latina of the Year.

For more information about the artist: www.andreaarroyo.com

For more information about the “21 Leaders for the 21st Century Award”: http://www.womensenews.org/story/21-leaders-the-21st-century/091221/2010-seven-who-invent-better-future#Arroyo

WHAT: Andrea Arroyo’s exhibition “Flor de Tierra, Homage to the Women of Juarez”
WHEN: May 6 – June 18, 2010. Viewing hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm. Reservations required: events@womensenews.org
WHERE: Women’s eNews, 6 Barclay Street, 6th fl, New York, NY 10007

One of the best of the gritty northern painters, very successful exhibitions of Jack Simcock’s landscape paintings were held every year at the Piccadilly Gallery [Cork Street, London, W1] from 1957 to 1981. This rollercoaster only came to an end when the artist radically changed his style to brightly coloured abstracts, which his regular buyers would not accept.

This exhibition concentrates on the classic oil paintings produced between 1956 and 1977, at the height of his fame. It is the first non-museum exhibition for 20 years and has taken 10 years to accumulate.

His father and grandfather were both miners and he was expected to follow in their footsteps, until his talent for painting was realised. These landscapes have been described as being ‘hewn from the coal-face’, and they often incorporate heads; ‘dirty ghosts …. in a world where men were almost one with the walls surrounding them’.

His work is included in the Tate Gallery, Contemporary Art Society and Government Art Collections.

Keith Chapman Gallery
Hurlingham Studio
Ranelagh Gardens
London
SW6 3PA
Phone:  0207 736 6633
Web:  www.modernsculptors.com