Panel Discussion: Beyond the Gendered Lens: From the AAA Exhibition, Blurring Boundaries, to a larger discussion of Women in Contemporary Art,Pen and Brush, NY. 2019 Beyond the Gendered Lens: From the AAA Exhibition, Blurring Boundaries, to a larger discussion of Women in Contemporary Art
PANELISTS:
Rebecca DiGiovanna, curator of the traveling exhibition, Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 - present.
Emily Berger, Artist and AAA member
Creighton Michael, Artist and AAA member
Virginia Anderson, Curator of American Art and Department Head, American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and curator of, By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists, currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Nancy Princenthal, author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, and Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art and Sexual Violence in the 1970's
Karen Wilkin, independent curator and art critic, author of numerous publications on such artists as, Katherine Bradford, Stuart Davis, Helen Frankenthaler and Hans Hofmann
PANELISTS:
Rebecca DiGiovanna, curator of the traveling exhibition, Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 - present.
Emily Berger, Artist and AAA member
Creighton Michael, Artist and AAA member
Virginia Anderson, Curator of American Art and Department Head, American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and curator of, By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists, currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Nancy Princenthal, author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, and Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art and Sexual Violence in the 1970's
Karen Wilkin, independent curator and art critic, author of numerous publications on such artists as, Katherine Bradford, Stuart Davis, Helen Frankenthaler and Hans Hofmann
Signage (Artists in Cars) 2019 “My forms are geometric, but they don’t interact in a geometric sense. They’re just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don’t see them.”
Ellsworth Kelly
Billboards and signage dominate the back highways and cities of urban America. Like most urban kids I grew up in the back seat of a car, hyper aware of signage and neon. The visual landscape of stacked letters, blinking lights, bold color, and oversized pictures became lodged in my psyche at an early age. During the mid-twentieth century many artists associated with Colorfield painting and the New York School were influenced by the massive scale of architecture, advertisements and media found in the cities.Their canvases reflected those oversized experiences.
The current artists participating in Signage, utilize an abstract language of symbols, overlapping forms, idiosyncratic geometry and pure saturated color. Their choices both conscious and unconscious reference the verticality, congestion and energy of the contemporary urban environment.
Participating Artists:
PAUL BEHNKE
RICHARD CALDICOTT
FIEROZA DOORSEN
JOANNE FREEMAN
ANTHONY FROST
BRENT HALLARD
TOM MCGLYNN
HOLLY MILLER
PIERRE MUCKENSTURM
MEL PREST
ULLA PEDERSEN
JESSICA SNOW
Ellsworth Kelly
Billboards and signage dominate the back highways and cities of urban America. Like most urban kids I grew up in the back seat of a car, hyper aware of signage and neon. The visual landscape of stacked letters, blinking lights, bold color, and oversized pictures became lodged in my psyche at an early age. During the mid-twentieth century many artists associated with Colorfield painting and the New York School were influenced by the massive scale of architecture, advertisements and media found in the cities.Their canvases reflected those oversized experiences.
The current artists participating in Signage, utilize an abstract language of symbols, overlapping forms, idiosyncratic geometry and pure saturated color. Their choices both conscious and unconscious reference the verticality, congestion and energy of the contemporary urban environment.
Participating Artists:
PAUL BEHNKE
RICHARD CALDICOTT
FIEROZA DOORSEN
JOANNE FREEMAN
ANTHONY FROST
BRENT HALLARD
TOM MCGLYNN
HOLLY MILLER
PIERRE MUCKENSTURM
MEL PREST
ULLA PEDERSEN
JESSICA SNOW
Domestic Disturbances at 490 Atlantic, Brooklyn, NY. 2017, Domestic Disturbances features the work of eight artists whose work merges functional and non-functional elements, highlighting the interplay of art and design. Traditionally the use of craft and design was associated with domesticity, functionality and decoration. These classifications have contributed to a hierarchy that historically marginalized and devalued the art of women, minorities and non-western cultures. Changes in cultural awareness precipitated by feminism, gender identity and racial diversity have shifted perceptions of aesthetic value and in turn softened divisions in the art world. The artist participating in Domestic Disturbances have come full circle, bringing a multidisciplinary approach to their practice that champions both the fine and applied arts. Building on a devalued history of marginalization, their work celebrates the personal as political.
Joanne Freeman 2017
Participating Artists:
Elisa Darrigo
Lael Marshall
Joanne Mattera
Jim Osman
Sue Ravitz
Lizzie Scott
Debra Smith
Patricia Zarate
Joanne Freeman 2017
Participating Artists:
Elisa Darrigo
Lael Marshall
Joanne Mattera
Jim Osman
Sue Ravitz
Lizzie Scott
Debra Smith
Patricia Zarate
"Wit" at The Painting Center, NY. 2013 Wit" is defined as a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humor. Abstract language is not immediately associated with humor, as pictorial and narrative language can seem more accessible. Why certain shapes and colors appear humorous depends on context, cultural associations or individual experience. But sometimes the reason is not tangible, or sensible, some things are just funny.
Analyzing wit in reference to abstract art and language is a sure way to diffuse its potency, since its delivery feeds on the novel and unexpected. Disruption of the status
quo helps to define humor. Modernist aesthetics surrounding form, balance and proportion still provide a common reference point from which to view abstract art. This
shared visual language has become part of our collective consciousness and dictates our expectations. When preconceived standards are disrupted they can alter assumptions, surprise, reinvent and communicate wit.
The conversation between artist and viewer is enhanced by recognition and discovery. A small gesture like a nod or wink can provide a link with the mindset of the artist and set the tone of the conversation. It is a mistake to polarize humor and intellect since they work best in unison. Wit suggests qualities of the human spirit in an overly synchronized world, be it the slip, the twist, the pratfall, it's the imperfection that identifies the personality.
The artists selected for this show share a sense of humanity and amusement that resonates in their work. You could call it a "twinkle in the eye" or a "joy" that permeates through what they do. I think of it as an inner wit that can't be kept down, as long as someone is willing to play.
Joanne Freeman 2012
The artists featured in this exhibition are Marina Adams, Polly Apfelbaum, Joanne Freeman, Joe Fyfe, Barbara Gallucci, Phillis Ideal, Jonathan Lasker, Sarah Lutz, Doreen McCarthy, Mario Naves, Thomas Nozkowski, Paul Pagk, Ruth Root, Fran Shalom, and Stephen Westfall.
The exhibition will be accompanied with a catalogue. An artist panel discussion will be held on Thursday, Febuary 14 from 6 to 8 pm.
Analyzing wit in reference to abstract art and language is a sure way to diffuse its potency, since its delivery feeds on the novel and unexpected. Disruption of the status
quo helps to define humor. Modernist aesthetics surrounding form, balance and proportion still provide a common reference point from which to view abstract art. This
shared visual language has become part of our collective consciousness and dictates our expectations. When preconceived standards are disrupted they can alter assumptions, surprise, reinvent and communicate wit.
The conversation between artist and viewer is enhanced by recognition and discovery. A small gesture like a nod or wink can provide a link with the mindset of the artist and set the tone of the conversation. It is a mistake to polarize humor and intellect since they work best in unison. Wit suggests qualities of the human spirit in an overly synchronized world, be it the slip, the twist, the pratfall, it's the imperfection that identifies the personality.
The artists selected for this show share a sense of humanity and amusement that resonates in their work. You could call it a "twinkle in the eye" or a "joy" that permeates through what they do. I think of it as an inner wit that can't be kept down, as long as someone is willing to play.
Joanne Freeman 2012
The artists featured in this exhibition are Marina Adams, Polly Apfelbaum, Joanne Freeman, Joe Fyfe, Barbara Gallucci, Phillis Ideal, Jonathan Lasker, Sarah Lutz, Doreen McCarthy, Mario Naves, Thomas Nozkowski, Paul Pagk, Ruth Root, Fran Shalom, and Stephen Westfall.
The exhibition will be accompanied with a catalogue. An artist panel discussion will be held on Thursday, Febuary 14 from 6 to 8 pm.
COLOR-TIME-SPACE at Lohin Geduld Gallery, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Hofstra Univ. 2010 Color Time Space - Curated by Joanne Freeman and Kim Uchiyama
Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, in conjuntion with Lohin Geduld Gallery present “Color-Time-Space”, curated by Kim Uchiyama and Joanne Freeman. The artists in the show are: James Biederman, Laurie Fendrich, Joanne Freeman, Julie Gross, Ben La Rocco, Gary Petersen, Kazimira Rachfal, Jennifer Riley, Yvonne Thomas, Kim Uchiyama, Stephen Westfall, Thornton Willis, Kevin Wixted. There will be two separate opening receptions for the artists, for each gallery. Please join the artists on Friday, September 11th from 7-9pm for an opening reception at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, located at 205 Norman Ave in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Please join the artists for an opening reception at Lohin Geduld Gallery, located at 531 West 25th St in Chelsea Manhattan, on Thursday September 10th 5-7pm. For more information please contact the galleries directly. -JK
“Music is an art of sound interval, time interval, and painting—my painting—is an art of space intervals. One is time, one is space.”
Gene Davis interview, 1981 April 23, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute.
Sound and sight share experimental qualities when interpreted in music and visual art. The rhythm and tones of music compare with the intervals of sight and space in painting. The underlying systems in the score of music, and the grid in painting are comparable structures in the art of composition.
The artists participating in “Color-Time-Space” use color selectively to build intuitively rhythmic, and distinctly diverse color relationships in their creation of the painting space. That space is defined by grids, both actual and implied and by the repetition of the specific color elements. The paradoxical relationship of the intuitive and the measured gives these painters’ works a variety of contradictory attributes.
In a 1971 interview with Barbara Rose for ArtForum, Gene Davis states, “ One must enter a painting through the door of a single color…if the viewer selects individual colors and looks at them across the surface of the work, he’s almost reliving the painting process…the spectator is in a sense, entering into kind of a time experience in the same way that I did when I painted it.”
The “time experience” described by Davis, links the experience of contemplation by the viewer with the process of creation by the artist. The artists participating in “Color-Time-Space” address this link and demonstrate the emotive, visceral space created in painting when color is used with psychology and intention.
Joanne Freeman
Kim Uchiyama
2009
Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, in conjuntion with Lohin Geduld Gallery present “Color-Time-Space”, curated by Kim Uchiyama and Joanne Freeman. The artists in the show are: James Biederman, Laurie Fendrich, Joanne Freeman, Julie Gross, Ben La Rocco, Gary Petersen, Kazimira Rachfal, Jennifer Riley, Yvonne Thomas, Kim Uchiyama, Stephen Westfall, Thornton Willis, Kevin Wixted. There will be two separate opening receptions for the artists, for each gallery. Please join the artists on Friday, September 11th from 7-9pm for an opening reception at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, located at 205 Norman Ave in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Please join the artists for an opening reception at Lohin Geduld Gallery, located at 531 West 25th St in Chelsea Manhattan, on Thursday September 10th 5-7pm. For more information please contact the galleries directly. -JK
“Music is an art of sound interval, time interval, and painting—my painting—is an art of space intervals. One is time, one is space.”
Gene Davis interview, 1981 April 23, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute.
Sound and sight share experimental qualities when interpreted in music and visual art. The rhythm and tones of music compare with the intervals of sight and space in painting. The underlying systems in the score of music, and the grid in painting are comparable structures in the art of composition.
The artists participating in “Color-Time-Space” use color selectively to build intuitively rhythmic, and distinctly diverse color relationships in their creation of the painting space. That space is defined by grids, both actual and implied and by the repetition of the specific color elements. The paradoxical relationship of the intuitive and the measured gives these painters’ works a variety of contradictory attributes.
In a 1971 interview with Barbara Rose for ArtForum, Gene Davis states, “ One must enter a painting through the door of a single color…if the viewer selects individual colors and looks at them across the surface of the work, he’s almost reliving the painting process…the spectator is in a sense, entering into kind of a time experience in the same way that I did when I painted it.”
The “time experience” described by Davis, links the experience of contemplation by the viewer with the process of creation by the artist. The artists participating in “Color-Time-Space” address this link and demonstrate the emotive, visceral space created in painting when color is used with psychology and intention.
Joanne Freeman
Kim Uchiyama
2009
