Opening September 25
Kunst-Element
Irenelaan 18 5583 AD Waalre, The Netherlands
www.kunst-element.nl
Kate Beck Modulations (s) 30.5 x 30.5cm Graphite on Paper on Aluminum, 2011
9.07.2011
Poëma :: The Netherlands
Kate Beck Modulations (s) 30.5 x 30.5cm Graphite on Paper on Aluminum, 2011
8.07.2011
6.28.2011
MAINE DRAWING :: Ogunquit Museum of American Art
July 1- August 21
The Question of Drawing
In the Sculpture and Long Galleries
In the Sculpture and Long Galleries
The Question of Drawing examines the varied and adventurous definitions of what contemporary drawing can be. From paper to canvas to new media, the exhibition features artists who push the parameters of what is acceptable as a drawing, including:
Kate Beck Gideon Bok Lesley Dill Julie Featheringill William Kentridge Joyce Kozloff Sol LeWitt Julie Mehretu Cobi Moules Martin Ramirez Kiki Smith Andrea Sulzer
This exhibition is part of Where to Draw the Line: The Maine Drawing Project, a collaborative exhibition project of almost two dozen Maine museums and galleries.
Opening Reception Saturday July 2, 2011 5-7pm
Tuesday, July 26, at 7 pm
The Question of Drawing An illustrated lecture by artist Kate Beck.
Maine artist Kate Beck’s work is included in the OMAA exhibition “The Question of Drawing.” Her work reflects her interest in “(the) pure aesthetic of line as an element of both color and substance with a wide range of thought and feeling.” The artist will speak about her work in drawing and the significance of drawing in a contemporary art context. Widely exhibited, Kate has had recent solo exhibitions at the Pelavin Gallery in New York City, Icon Contemporary Art in Brunswick, Maine and Kunst-Element, Waalre, The Netherlands.
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Shore Road, Ogunquit, Maine 207-646-4909
6.16.2011
Marked Differences :: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles
ARTISTS: David Ambrose, Kate Beck,
Hedwig Brouckaert, Catalina Chervin, Stephen Cox,
Ellen Driscoll, Elizabeth Duffy, Abby Goldstein,
Marietta Hoferer, Toine Horvers, Nene Humphrey,
Mary Judge, Elise Kaufman, Michael Kukla,
Robert Lansden, Dawn Lee, Peter Matthews,
Jim Napierala, Morgan O'Hara, Gary Petersen,
Sherae Rimpsey, Viviane Rombaldi Seppey,
Donna Ruff, Sepideh Salehi, Andra Samelson,
Claudia Sbrissa, Peter Schroth, Emna Zghal
June 3 - July 24, 2011
Open free to the public: Thursday - Sunday, 12 - 5pm
Join us for Roberta Waddell's Curator Talk
Saturday, June 18, 4pm
Roberta Waddell's selection of 49 works from the Kentler Flatfiles by 28 artists suggests the diversity of mark-making languages and media in drawing today.
"Artists of all stripes and practices in recent years have mixed and combined media--painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, digital processes, film and sculpture--in ways that defy easy categorization. Inherent in the autographic touch of a drawing, however, there is consistently an intimacy and freshness that encourage quiet study and close examination."
- Roberta Waddell
The Kentler Flatfiles were founded in 1990 as an essential element of the gallery. The Flatfiles, a compendium of artworks by over 160 artists, have become an important resource for artists, collectors, curator and the general public by stressing the importance of drawing and work on paper in contemporary art today. The Flatfiles are located behind the gallery and are available for viewing by appointment.
Roberta Waddell was Curator of Prints at the New York Public Library from 1985 until 2008 after serving as Curator of Prints at the Worcester Art Museum, and Curator of Graphic Arts at the Toledo Museum of Art.
A brochure with an essay by Roberta Waddell accompanies the exhibition.
KENTLER INTERNATIONAL DRAWING SPACE
353 Van Brunt Street(Red Hook) Brooklyn, NY 11231
718.875.2098 info@kentlergallery.org
Open free to the public:
Thursday - Sunday, 12 - 5pm
Promoting drawing and works on paper since 1990
6.01.2011
Field Guide to Getting Lost :: Pelavin Gallery, TriBeCa
Kate Beck Canyon.White, II
Poured Oil, Graphite on Linen, 84 x 60 inches 2010
with Timothy Paul Myers, Mark Safan and Jean-Paul Cattin
Pelavin Gallery
13 Jay Street
New York, New York 10013
212.925.9424 voice 646-709.4781 mobile
Continues through 3 September 2011
5.16.2011
Field Guide to Getting Lost :: Opens May 26 Pelavin Gallery, TriBeCa
Margaret Neill
Prospectus (Series) 5, Pencil on Paper, 23.5x38 inches, 2010
Fiona Robinson
Unstable Horizon 5, Oil, Charcoal, Graphite on Canvas, 30x40 inches, 2011
Cecilia Vissers
Gaoth, (four part) 84x77x1cm, each, Anodized Aluminum Panels, 2010
Kate Beck
Canyon,White,II, Poured Oil, Graphite on Linen, 84x60 inches, 2010
5.06.2011
A Field Guide to Getting Lost :: May 26, TriBeCa
Karl Klingbiel The Hunter's Sleeve
A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST: CURATED BY TODD MASTERS
Opening Reception Thursday 26 May, from 6 - 8 PM.
Continues through 3 September 2011
Continues through 3 September 2011
In commemoration of the institution’s thirty year anniversary, Pelavin Gallery is proud to announce a group exhibition of gallery artists based on the cultural historian Rebecca Solnit’s book of essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Using Solnit’s meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost as a premise, this show seeks to present a collection of works which entices “the wideness of the world” and the virtues of being open to new and transformative experiences. Curated by Todd Masters with the intent of celebrating the gallery’s new diverse program, a variety of media will be shown—installation, wall drawing, mixed-media, painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, collage—and a number of gallery artists represented, including: Kate Beck, Jean-Paul Cattin, Tara Fracalossi, Patricia Gaeta, Dima Gavrysh, Karl Klingbiel, Norman Mooney, Timothy Paul Myers, Margaret Neill, Fiona Robinson, Mark Safan and Cecilla Vissers.
The exhibition of A Field Guide to Getting Lost, like Solnit’s essays, advocates the importance, for any creative act, to allow the mind and body to wander. Throughout the show, the artists’ personal and professional wanderlust is showcased through the implementation of layering, repetition and unique use of materials. Viewers are presented with such assorted works as a thirteen foot installation of meticulously hand-cut graph paper by Patricia Gaeta; a multi-layered reductive painting of poured oil paint, graphite and mica on canvas by Kate Beck; a nine inch thick Lincoln Library filled cover-to-cover with daily ink drawings by Margaret Neill; and a plexiglass display case filled with a collection of hundreds of pages covered in hand typed dollar signs by Timothy Paul Myers.
Solnit’s writing is often abstract, constantly interlacing personal reflections and cultural histories. She informs us that the word “lost” derives from the Old Norse for disbanding an army and extrapolates from this the idea of striking “a truce with the wide world.” Alluding to the author’s literary methodology and references in the curation of this exhibition, Masters combines diverse styles and subjects by the twelve artists on display. One grouping of works ties together a Carbon Drawing by Norman Mooney created with the billowing smoke of a blowtorch; Dima Gavrysh’s Untitled night vision portrait of an American soldier in Afghanistan; Cecilia Vissers’ smooth and saturated anodized aluminum diptyich titled Gaoth; and Karl Klingbiel’s The Hunter’s Sleeve, an expressionistic oil and encaustic on board that showcases a depth of divergent palettes and textures.
Blue, in concept and color, is an important character in this exhibition as the idea of disorientation—“Blue is the color of longing for the distance you never arrive in.” The alternating chapter titles in Solnit’s book of essays, The Blue of Distance, is a point of reference for several works in the show. Fiona Robinson’s atmospherical Unstable Horizon displays layers of mirage-like lines of a shifting horizon, while Tara Fracalossi’s site specific installation of photographs—mounted to the walls of a narrow hallway in the gallery—presents the viewer with various sea and sky scapes from the artist’s daily documentation of her everyday life. Other works focus on the discussion of the distance and disembodiment of Blue—Mark Safan’s oil on canvas depiction of a torn cloudscape and Jean-Paul Cattin’s abstract c-print of Motel de Founex both play with ideas of nostalgia, longing and loss—illustrating Sonit’s conclusion that “to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty.”
For more information please contact the gallery at 212.925.9424 or gallery@pelavingallery.com
Pelavin Gallery 13 Jay Street New York NY 10013
2.25.2011
Spacial Investigations :: Anne Lindberg
Anne Lindberg’s raume yellow at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas
" Everyone flocks to Anne Lindberg's raume yellow, even though it's nothing more than thread, staples, and o-hooks... this work shows how simple repetition of simple material is enough to send our vision trembling ecstatically. "
-Elizabeth Shurman, in Review, January 2011
Anne Lindberg, raume yellow, 2010. Egyptian cotton and staples. Installation view of Museum Interrupted at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: EG Schempf, 2010.
In her large scale drawing and sculpture, Anne Lindberg procures line as an element configuring real space, making it universally sensible, plausible: a drawing. Her works are presented as fields of mark developed as a system slowly accumulating, creating an abstract matrix of perception, and provoking an emotional, visceral response. Raume yellow evidences as an eloquently charged body, physical yet ephemeral. Repetitive release-and-stop of the thread exists in immediate reaction to the architectonic structure of space they adhere to. Lindberg's sensibility is simply poetic genius, and becomes the sustaining element of this work.
Anne Lindberg, raume yellow, 2010. Egyptian cotton and staples. Installation view of Museum Interrupted at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: EG Schempf, 2010.
In her own eloquent articulation:
"As Alexander Theroux says, yellow, for all its dramatic un-alterability, is a color with thousands of meanings - light and spirit to illness and bananas. Wallace Stevens said yellow was the “first color” while he also suggests its’ association to decay and dissolution, and an affirmation that it is the color of sun.
I found myself recently under a brilliant blue tent eating a juicy yellow/orange peach. When I returned back to my studio, I immediately decided to build a version of my ongoing graphite line drawings in space, in yellow. It only seemed to make sense. Luminosity was connected.
"Using just a single material, Egyptian cotton thread, the other major elements in this work are staples and tension. With this taut horizontal passage of tens of thousands of lines, I am seeking a raw mysterious form that greets us as an abstraction - optical and immaterial.
"raume yellow is a drawing in space and a collection of marks and shadows on the wall. I frequently return, in all of my work, to the subtle distinction between drawing as noun and verb as a long held focus in my studio practice. This blurred distinction drives my fascination with an expanded definition of drawing languages and the resurgence of drawing in contemporary art. My collective body of work is an iteration of this language - a reassertion of the age-old desire to understand self in place."
- Anne Lindberg, September 2010
Thank you, Anne
1.18.2011
FLUXUS :: ensemble et al
A melancholy, simple, meditative composition written by Ron Tucker
for his chamber percussion group,
Ron Tucker
with my painting, Anxieties + Alienations
and a nice shirt...
ensemble, et al. is a Brooklyn-based pseudo-classical percussion ensemble
performing their debut here at Pelavin Gallery
during my solo exhibition, Conditions of Existence, October 2010
I am so honored and pleased to share this with them
The group combines the structure and instrumentation of classicism and modernism with an
emotional aesthetic commonly heard in post-punk-indie rock.
melancholy... meditative... reflective... minimal...
...a perfect flow...
Inspired by artists such as amiina, Clogs and Rachel's and influenced by contemporary
composers like Arvo Part, Philip Glass and Steve Reich, ensemble, et al.'s music aspires to be
simple, intimate, elegant and delicately beautiful.
Thank you, Ron
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