Shows

Denise Green

Two shows:

Magisscher Tausch at Galerie Cora Holzl in Dusseldorf thru April 21st, 2007.

and

No Symbols Where None Intended at Galerie Heike Curtze in Berlin thru April 14th, 2007.

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Osvaldo Romberg

Osvaldo Romberg’s Framing the Art is showing at Galerie Heike Curtze in Vienna, Austria thru April 14th 2007.

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James Rosen

James M Rosen

“EMULOUS LUSTRES”

Paintings and Watercolors

Exhibition: 31 March to 21 April

Galleria Carbone Via della Carbone, Ferrara, Italy.

A recently completed series of paintings (previously shown at Wake Forest University)that pay tribute to eight composers, including Dimitri Shostokovich and Albert Ryder. The artist uses a wax emulsion process with multiple pigment layers that gives his paintings a unique veiled look that still allows the image to emerge.

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Oliver Grimley

March 16 – April 14th

Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

22 North High Street

Millville, NJ 08332

(856) 327-4500

Opening Reception: Friday, March 16, 5 – 9 p.m. Artist talk: 5 – 6 p.m.

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Wade Schuman

Los Angeles, California – Forum Gallery presents the exhibition Wade Schuman: Sins and Visions from March 10^th – April 14^th, 2007, with an opening reception on Friday evening, March 9^th, from 7-9:00 pm. This is the artist’s first West Coast exhibition and includes eighteen paintings spanning fifteen years of meticulous and creative work. An intense student of human behavior and keen observer of the mysterious beauty of animals, Wade Schuman incorporates perceptual responses with personal interpretations to create illuminating and revealing metaphors.

Wade Schuman, born in 1962, has already been awarded major scholarships and prizes, including The Mary Post Prize for Painting (Philadelphia), the Award for Excellence from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, three Visual Art Fellowship grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and every possible prize and award from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1986. His work has been shown in many publications including The New York Times, the New Yorker, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Art in America, Slate, and The Sciences magazine. Over the past fifteen years, he has taught painting and drawing privately and at various institutions, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and full-time at the New York Academy of Art. Wade Schuman joined Forum Gallery in 1993 and has since exhibited at Forum, National Academy of Design (New York), Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (Wilmington), Everhart Museum (Scranton, PA), The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia), Miami-Dade Community College and a solo show at Huntington Museum of Art (Huntington, WV). His most recent solo exhibitions have been at the Arnot Art Museum (Elmira, NY) and the Sordoni Art Gallery, (Wilkes-Barre, PA).

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Thomas Chimes

Thomas Chimes: Adventures in ‘Pataphysics

February 27, 2007 – May 6, 2007

Philadelphia Museum of Art

From the PMA’s website:

This retrospective exhibition celebrates the life and work of Thomas Chimes, arguably one of the most important and influential artists to have emerged on the Philadelphia art scene in the past fifty years. It includes approximately one hundred paintings and works on paper, many previously unseen, along with extensive biographical and archival material.

Of Greek descent, Thomas Chimes was born in Philadelphia in 1921. In 1939, the artist enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he studied with Daniel Garber and Francis Speight, but his studies were quickly interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. Chimes served in the United States Army Air Force during the war years, before returning to his studies in New York in 1946. Under the G.I. Bill, the artist studied philosophy at Columbia University, and painting and sculpture at the Art Students League, where his teachers included Reginald Marsh and John Hovannes.

During his three years at the Art Students League, Chimes became acquainted with such contemporaries as Tony Smith, Barnett Newman, William Baziotes, Michael Lekakis, and Theodore Stamos. His own paintings from the 1940s and early 1950s reveal a strong debt to the dominant artistic trends in New York at that time, especially the gestural abstraction of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and other painters associated with Abstract Expressionism. In 1953, however, Chimes made a conscious decision to return to Philadelphia, much to the bewilderment of many of his friends and colleagues in New York. Inspired by the artists and writers whose names have become associated with the city of Philadelphia, most notably Thomas Eakins and Edgar Allan Poe, Chimes began to formulate an intensely personal and highly original iconography that often drew upon childhood memories and dreams.

Tracing the stylistic evolution of Chimes’s idiosyncratic art, the retrospective will provide a comprehensive—and long overdue—examination of the artist’s remarkable career. The diverse body of work that the artist has produced since the late 1950s—which includes crucifixion paintings, metal boxes, a celebrated series of panel portraits, and the more recent white paintings—reveals his remarkable ability to periodically reinvent himself, and underscores the conceptual nature of his artistic practice. Chimes has found inspiration for his evocative imagery in the writings of Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud, James Joyce, and other literary heroes, as well as in the art of Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Thomas Eakins, and Marcel Duchamp. The works of these artists are strongly represented in the the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which Chimes first visited in 1931 and today considers his second home.

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Binod Shrestha

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists is pleased to present a Spotlight Exhibition:

Crossroad: Jarrett Min Davis and Binod Shrestha

March 1 – March 22, 2007

The Felicity “Bebe” R. Benoliel Gallery

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists

237 S. 18th Street, Suite 3A

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Monday – Friday, 10 am- 4 pm

[other hour s by appointment]

Memory, identity, masculinity and tradition are explored in both Western and Eastern cultural contexts through the psychological landscapes of Jarrett Min Davis’ Korean pop imagery and the temporal installations and drawings of Binod Shrestha.

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