Hoping you can stop by to see the new exhibition I co-curated currently on view at the Lobby Gallery, 499 Park Avenue, New York City.
The exhibition is on view until December 30, 2010 and is open to the public seven days a week from 10 AM to 6 PM.
For more info about the exhibition and to download a brochure with an essay by Judd Tully click here
Here's some photos from this past Tuesday's gala opening reception.
I'm pleased to announce the placement of two color photographs by internationally-renowned photographer David Burdeny, one of Canada's most successful fine art landscape
photographers. The works were selected for the board room of an international financial firm.
Burdeny has participated in over forty solo and group exhibitions since 2003 across Canada, the United States and Europe. In 2008 he was awarded Nature Photographer of the Year in the 2008 International Pilsner Urquell Photography Awards for his work titled, "NORTH/SOUTH" which document the fragile shorelines and monolithic ice forms for Greenland, Iceland and Antarctic.
His haunting images capture the ethereal beauty of this endangered land.
Blue Monday, Antarctica 2007
Tabulars in Hope Bay, Antarctica 2007
As he states in a 2009 interview in lesphotographes.com
"For me it was not so much a political statement. . .I think I was looking for this new photographic landscape that
was the last pure landscape. . . There are scientists out there that can talk about it better than
I can but I’m happy to record the visual component and bring it to
public ground. The icebergs are as deeply beautiful as they are
horrific; it’s almost as if they are living things."
I'm so excited about a new exhibition I co-curated that is currently on view at the Lobby Gallery at 499 Park Avenue (at 59th Street) in New York City. It features important works by five artists Alcopley, Herman Cherry, Howard Daum, Edvins Strautmanis and Nina Tryggvadottir, who were part of the New York School. The Lobby Gallery is open to the public seven days a week from 10 AM to 6 PM. A gala opening reception is planned for April 21 from 5-7 PM. We hope you can join us.
For more information about the exhibition click here
Exhibiting artwork in commercial venues such as this can be a valuable tool for developers and property managers to help market their buildings in today's competitive environment.
Art adds to the cachet of a building, and can support its branding and leasing efforts. Art helps set a building apart from its competitors, and it provides a unique amenity for existing and prospective tenants. Art not only visually enhances a property, it also is a powerful and cost-effective way to communicate to a targeted audience and and can generate positive media coverage about the building. Art demonstrates a firm's commitment to support local culture for the benefit of the community.
I'm pleased to announce that "The Altered Landscape" an environmentally themed art exhibition I curated, currently on view in the Lobby Gallery at 499 Park Avenue, New York City, the 28 story office tower owned and managed by Hines, the international real estate firm, has been extended through March 12, 2010.
Hines has been an industry leader in sustainable development for over half a century, and this exhibit is a unique way for the firm to draw attention to the building's Energy Star rating, help it reinforce its Green message, and inspire environmentally friendly actions amongst its tenants, visitors, and staff.
The exhibit is open to the public during normal business hours and features the work of five contemporary artists who share a deep understanding of the precariousness of our relationship to the natural world. They use art as leverage to address the pervasive inability of humanity to integrate with the rest of nature. Each artist's distinctive approach conveys these ideas profoundly, capturing our imagination and helping us see things from a new perspective.
Jay Hart 's highly detailed digital images of enhanced distant views of extraordinary natural landforms reveal the history of Earth's geologic processes and natural development. His images give us the ability to literally rise above the clutter of surface detail, to examine the structure of the whole, and to get a palpable sense of the planet as a living organism.
David Maisel's aerial photographs from his Terminal Mirage series feature exquisite cropped compositions and astonishing color. His intent is to portray the impact that mankind has had on the natural landscape and he creates a dynamic and breathtaking tension between the visual beauty of his images and the staggering environmental devastation they suggest.
Terminal Mirage #25, C-Print 2005 Courtesy the artist and Von Lintel Gallery
Kim Keever constructs and photographs large, dramatic dioramas of geological formations and imaginary worlds in a 100-gallon fish tank in his studio, resulting in expansive atmospheric landscapes. His images recall embedded notions of nature as the embodiment of the sublime, while at the same time, asserting the artificiality of that ideal. Like dreamscapes, these hazy vistas are remote but inviting, exotic but strangely familiar. They present nature as a place of otherworldly ethereal beauty – a place that is ultimately accessible only through the imagination.
Turtle Skull Rock, C Print 2001 Courtesy the Artist and Kinz & Tillou Fine Art
Adapting the visual vocabulary of children’s book illustration to large-scale works, Randy Bolton uses wry humor and irony to explore relations between humans and the physical world. Employing succinct narrative scenarios, Bolton’s work presents human psychology in a perpetual state of contradiction, ambiguity and missed connections, where hope of integration with the natural world may indeed elude us, doomed to be lost in the simple bumbling of our day-to-day existence.
Never Take More Than You Need, 2005
Digital Print on Canvas, sculptural element
Courtesy the artist and Littlejohn Contemporary
In her text-based photographs, Stephanie Lempert documents several success stories, where people have begun to take some measure of responsibility for past actions in relation to the natural environment. She presents picturesque images of public parks that are built upon waste sites and overlays the photographs with text that describes details of the conversion process. Her work exudes optimism asserting a re-conception of nature from the ashes of our misdeeds, and proposing the possibility that, if put to the right ends, human ingenuity might find an antidote to human excess.
Fresh Kills Park Digital C-Print,
2008 Courtesy the artist and Claire Oliver Gallery
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