Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Susan Schwalb News: Group Exhibition
Susan Schwalb News: Group Exhibition: New Prints 2012/Summer International Print Center New York May 24 - July 27, 2012 Reception: Thursday, May 31, 6 to 8 pm ...
Friday, May 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
RECEPTION FOR ARTIST: FEB 12th 5-10pm. Save the Date !
Daisy Craddock: Leap into White
at Garvey|Simon Art Access
Indianapolis
January 13 – February 26, 2011
"Orchard Study" 2010, oil pastel on paper, 10 x 10 inches
Garvey | Simon Art Access, LLC is pleased to present an exhibition of new oil pastel drawings by Daisy Craddock in its Indianapolis location, 27 East Main Street, Carmel, IN 46032. The exhibition runs from January 13 – February 26, 2011.
Daisy Craddock was born in 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee and received her MFA from the University of Georgia in 1973. She has been exhibiting her work nationally since the mid-1970s. Known for her gestural paintings and drawings that explore nature, Craddock’s new body of plein air drawings are the subject of this exhibition.
Built up in rich layers of color, the artist has traditionally worked on a darkened paper or canvas since 1979, the year her mother died and her daughter was born. These new works have jettisoned the dark ground, the first time the artist has done a body of work on white since the late 70s.
Craddock states: A return to white feels loaded with promise and fresh meaning. I used to say that working over black was a way to make something out of nothing. By contrast, the new drawings celebrate a joy of living in the here and now. Regardless of the ground, my drawings have always been a place where a vocabulary of line, gesture and color is worked out.
Most of the works in this exhibition were created while Craddock was renting a 19th century farmhouse in the Berkshire Mountains last summer. Her studio was a renovated goat shed, and the surrounding fields, barn and lake were the inspiration for these exquisite drawings. Small in scale, they range from 10 inches square to 10 x 14 inches. The intimate size of these small drawings brings the viewer in close to experience their texture, hue, and line. Despite their small size, there is a certain intensity and energy in these works that belie their scale and peaceful subjects.
These plein air compositions (worked on site) serve as a journal of sorts. They act as an immediate recording of the artist’s experience of time and place, a feeling she hopes to share with viewers of her work.
Daisy Craddock’s work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States. Recent one-person shows include the Fischbach Gallery in New York City, November 2009, and David Lusk Gallery in Memphis in January 2010. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times, Art & Antiques, American Artist, Art News, and Arts Magazine. Public collections include the Anderson Museum, the Newark Museum, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the Roswell Museum, the Rubin Museum of Art, and the Weatherspoon Museum. She is the recipient of a Roswell Artist in Residency and a 2002 New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Arts Recovery Grant. The artist lives and works in New York City.
Friday, November 12, 2010
PAT STEIR, Blue 2004
Pat Steir, Blue, 2004
Edition 2/40, 10 color screen-print
56 1/2 x 43 inches
Our focus print for Friday, November 12, 2010 is Blue, 56" x 43" screen print by Pat Steir created in 2004 and published by Pace Prints. The work is currently on display at Garvey Simon Art Access as part of the gallerie's Pat Steir exhibition, on display from October 9 to November 27, 2010.
Pat Steir is an accomplished painter, printmaker and conceptual artist working in New York and Amsterdam. Blue is a work from her waterfall series, a subject she has been doing to great acclaim since 1985. The large size of this print gives the viewer a taste of just how powerful Steir's prints and paintings can be. Steir's use of white against plush stratified blues creates vivid water imagery. The viewer can feel the intensity and force of a waterfall and the related spray.
Although Steir's pour imagery has been paired with the stain and action painters such as Jackson Pollock, Steir 's technique is clearly different in that she lets nature have a hand in the process. The paint is allowed to flow free form down a vertically positioned canvas. She employs a similar technique in her printmaking.
2010 has been a banner year for Steir. Her work has been the subject of several major exhibitions on both coasts.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
PAT STEIR October 9 – November 27, 2010
Review: Work by Pat Steir
by Dan Grossman/Nuvo Newsweekly
4 stars
Garvey|Simon Art Access. According to the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, you can't step into the same river twice. This aphorism might apply to Pat Steir's series of waterfall prints as well; although her approach is similar in all of them, each is unique. Steir often throws paint on her canvases and lets it drip down. While her methods might seem Abstract Expressionist in the Jackson Pollock bent, the result is anything but. The paint is driven downward by gravity, like water, and thus representational in the most literal sense. In her photogravure print "August Waterfall," the paint is white against a black background and it almost seems as if you are viewing a photographic negative. (In fact, the printing process involves a negative transferred onto an etching plate.)The New York-based Steir has had a long and illustrious career as an artist. Her work spans the latter half of the last century to the present and the nine prints on display here are a small sampling of her overall work.One of the works on display, entitled "July 14th 2001," gives you a hint of the enormous range and conceptual depth of this artist.The movement of the while lines against black in this etching is circular, invoking the effect of gravity on a grand scale, perhaps, or the circularity of history appreciated at the easel in one inspired moment.Through Nov. 27; 317-844-7278, www.garvey-simon-art-access.com.
Garvey|Simon Art Access. According to the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, you can't step into the same river twice. This aphorism might apply to Pat Steir's series of waterfall prints as well; although her approach is similar in all of them, each is unique. Steir often throws paint on her canvases and lets it drip down. While her methods might seem Abstract Expressionist in the Jackson Pollock bent, the result is anything but. The paint is driven downward by gravity, like water, and thus representational in the most literal sense. In her photogravure print "August Waterfall," the paint is white against a black background and it almost seems as if you are viewing a photographic negative. (In fact, the printing process involves a negative transferred onto an etching plate.)The New York-based Steir has had a long and illustrious career as an artist. Her work spans the latter half of the last century to the present and the nine prints on display here are a small sampling of her overall work.One of the works on display, entitled "July 14th 2001," gives you a hint of the enormous range and conceptual depth of this artist.The movement of the while lines against black in this etching is circular, invoking the effect of gravity on a grand scale, perhaps, or the circularity of history appreciated at the easel in one inspired moment.Through Nov. 27; 317-844-7278, www.garvey-simon-art-access.com.
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