J ivcevich: SAMPLING April 20 - May 31, 2011

j ivcevich: SAMPLING April 20 - May 31, 2011

Daisy Craddock Featured in Latest Issue: Art & Antiques

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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION or visuals, please contact Elizabeth Garvey  917-796-2146 or liz@gsartaccess.com  Gallery address: 27 East Main St., Carmel, IN  46032.  Open Wednesdays – Saturdays: 12 – 5pm.  Also open by appointment, and other random times outside of Gallery hours.

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.   
  

PAT STEIR October 9 – November 27, 2010

Review: Work by Pat Steir 

by Dan Grossman/Nuvo Newsweekly

 

"August Waterfall" by Pat Steir

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.

In the News

Brain gain: Sisters bring new gallery to Carmel Elizabeth Garvey's story unfolded in New York City, where she was immersed in the art world, becoming co-director of the Schmidt Bingham Gallery in Midtown Manhattan. Garvey's sister, Catherine Simon, also went to New York City. Business and real estate were her fortes. Eventually she took her abilities to Marin County, in northern California. So far this is your classic brain drain story. But there's a twist. In June, the sisters opened a temporary gallery in the Carmel Arts & Design District called Garvey|Simon Art Access. They're home again, involved in a creative enterprise that has found enough local traction for them to decide to find to remain in their current space for at least the coming year. "Liz and I are very good friends, as well as sisters," says Simon in the airy Magdalena Gallery space the sisters are leasing for the summer while Magdalena is away in Mexico. Currently on view is a show calledContemporary Abstraction, prints by three artists who have had exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art: Tara Donovan, Ingrid Calame and Dan Walsh. "She would take me to art shows and galleries and it was so nice to go with someone who's not intimidated by that world," Simon says about the introduction to the art world that Garvey provided. "It felt like I had a shield. Then, when I decided I wanted to start purchasing art, it became a really lovely process where you begin to get these pieces in your home that become like parts of your family. It's like you're involved with the art instead of just looking at it." "It's called Art Access for a reason," says Garvey who, in addition to being a gallerist, worked the past ten years as a private art curator, advising clients on how best to build their personal collections. "Even for me, you walk into a big, white, sterile gallery and you get the stare-down from the 20-something receptionist and there's this whole intimidation factor that I don't think needs to be there. Some people like that game. It's like going past the velvet rope at a club. But that's not what we're about. "What we want to do is show people you can buy fine art, really high quality, museum-quality art by artists who are nationally or internationally known. And you can afford it." An organic process Garvey has used her store of relationships with New York art dealers and artists' representatives to stock Art Access with a focused selection of works on paper by leading contemporary artists. "We're only interested in selling art that can hang on a wall or that's an object," she says. "We're not interested in doing the video or the installations, but to show people that many artists who do installation-based work also do two-dimensional work, like Tara Donovan. That's part of the access, to help people realize that even artists like that frequently do drawings, works on paper, paintings." The sisters began thinking in terms of a partnership last year. Their initial concept was to do temporary pop-up gallery shows, the first of which took place in a redesigned home in New York City. When that venture worked, they began looking for a way to build on its success. The burgeoning Main St. gallery scene in Carmel caught their attention. Garvey was encouraged by the opening of Evan Lurie's gallery, coupled with the extent of the suburban development she saw on Indianapolis' north side. "There are people on the upper eastside and Park Avenue," she says of arts patrons in Manhattan, "who really don't want to go downtown to Chelsea. That's why there are the 57th St. galleries and Madison Avenue, and there probably always will be, because they want to stay in their uptown area. I imagine that's true here, too." According to Garvey, Art Access has already become a magnet for people who are new to the area. "The bulk of my mailing list is from people who just moved here in the last year or so and have been looking for a gallery like this." While their original idea was to lease a gallery space for the summer and then move on to the next project, the response to Art Access has been so encouraging the sisters have decided to stay in Carmel for at least a year. "It's been an organic process for us," says Simon. "We were going to do this temporary thing, but since we've been here we've thought it makes sense [to establish a more permanent location]. These are our roots. We're west coast/east coast, but Indiana at heart. The gallery is still getting its legs, but we're feeling a little more hopeful and excited than we thought we would." Garvey adds: "I think that what we have to offer is something really fresh. Collectors have come in and said, 'Wow, no one has done anything like this here.' I think we can be a portal into the contemporary art scene." An insider's view Art Access aims to provide visitors with an insider's view of that scene. To that end, the gallery is outfitted with an iPad programmed with videos on each of the artists being exhibited, as well as plenty of books to browse through on the artists' works and programming bringing artists into the gallery. The painter James Moore came from California to discuss his process as part of the gallery's first show in June. David Morrison, head of printmaking at Herron presented an overview on methods used to create works on paper at the end of July. The gallery has also found its range expanding. Garvey discovered the steel and hardwood constructions by local artist Donald Mee and quickly incorporated Mee's work into the Art Access mix. She envisions the creation of a Projects Room dedicated to emerging local artists. While she maintains that championing the work of artists that have shown in New York galleries is vital for establishing the gallery's market and value, she also thinks Art Access can provide a platform for homegrown talents. "Coupling our vision of bringing well known artists with the finding of the new and fresh – I would love to do both," she says. David Hoppe, NUVO, www.nuvo.net, August 17, 2010. Photo by Stephen Simonetto. GALLERY SPACE Arts + Design District 27 East Main Street Carmel, IN 46032 www.gsartaccess.com 917.796.2146         On View Now GALLERY HOURS Wed.–Sat. 12–5, and by appointment

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