GPG Insight Newsletter: Winter/Spring 2019

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WINTER/SPRING 2019

GERALD PE TERS GALLERY P E T E R S P R OJ E C T S S A N TA F E A R T AU C T I O N


Upcoming Special Events Max Weber: Becoming Modern Opening Reception: March 15th, 5-7pm CONTENTS

Gerald Peters Gallery, New York Clarice Smith, Harold Weston.................................................... 3 gpgallery.com/ny

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe Bookstore.................................................................................. 4 Max Weber................................................................................ 5 Jun Kaneko, Gustave Baumann.................................................. 6 The Wild Bunch......................................................................... 7 Into the Woods.......................................................................... 8 gpgallery.com/sf

Peters Projects March Exhibitions...................................................................... 10 petersprojects.com

Santa Fe Art Auction Upcoming Online Auctions: The Patricia Janis Broder Collection An Earlier West: Books, Prints, and Pamphlets......................... 9

Peters Projects Spring Lineup: Victoria Bell, Dirk Bakker, Joel Hobbie, Visceral Clay Opening Reception: March 29th, 5-7pm The Painted Environment: Landscapes and Still Lifes by Harold Weston April 1-27 SFAA Online Auction: The Patricia Janis Broder Collection April 12-21 Book Signing & Discussion with W.K. Stratton: The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film Saturday, May 11th, 1pm Into the Woods: Susan Brearey, Burt Brent, Andrew Haslen and Chris Maynard Opening reception: Friday May 31st, 5-7pm

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NEW VIDEO ON PETERS PROJECTS ARTIST MAURICE BURNS Eric Marshall is working on a documentary on his uncle, Peters Projects artist, Maurice Burns. Here is a short preview, featuring highlights from our December opening of his current exhibition, Various Forms of Association, up through March 16. Contact Amanda Malloy amanda@petersprojects.com or 505 954-5801 for additional information.

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Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, opened its 2019 season with an exciting installation at The Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory, which showcased works by a number of the gallery’s contemporary artists – Karen LaMonte, Harvey Dinnerstein, Logan Maxwell Hagege, and Gary Erbe – alongside works by American modernist painters and sculptors. The booth included a section dedicated to the ethereal sculptures of Karen LaMonte that captivated The Winter Show’s audience – collectors, museums, dealers, and the press alike.

The Winter Show 2019

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The gallery’s winter-spring season begins with a ground-floor exhibition of new work by Clarice Smith. Winter Escape, on view through March 22nd, presents a selection of works by this renowned painter – paintings of blossoms, flowering trees, boating scenes on the French Riviera, and summer sunsets in New Mexico. These lush luminous paintings evoke the warmth Clarice Smith (b. 1933), Peaches, 1993, oil on canvas, 24 x 25 inches and colors and the anticipation of Summer. Smith has been painting professionally for over 40 years and has had numerous solo exhibitions in prestigious galleries in the United States and abroad, including London, Paris, Zurich, Maastricht, and Jerusalem, with paintings in numerous museum collections. Her paintings can be described as both optically real and occasionally impressionistic in subject, embracing still life, portraiture, genre, and flowers. Of her work Smith has said, “I paint the world I live in, the things I know. I’m not making political statements. I aspire to the paintings of Degas, Sargent and Ingres.” Harold Weston (1894-1972), Gothics Mountain, Autumn, 1922, oil on canvas, 16 x 18 inches

Gary Erbe (b. 1944), Western Album, 2015, oil on canvas, 52 x 69 inches

Opening in April, The Painted Environment: Landscapes and Still Lifes by Harold Weston will shift focus to the first half of the twentieth century with a look at the paintings from the Adirondacks and further afield that define the career of this American modernist painter. The gallery will close out its spring season with a major monographic exhibition of the work of trompe l’oeil painter Gary Erbe. Erbe’s work combines flat space with forms that are exaggerated and enhanced by shadow, light, and color. The result is pure three-dimensional illusion. While there are and will always be elements of Trompe l’oeil in his work, he has less of an interest in fooling the eye in favor of stimulating the mind.

For further information email Directors Alice Levi Duncan, Alexandra Polemis Vigil, Alice Hammond 24 East 78th Street, New York | Call 212-628-9760 3


GALLERY BOOKSTORE

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Imprints of Home is a collaborative work of original prints and poems created during 2014 in Albuquerque, NM by Esther Feske, Dale Harris, Christine Herman, Frank Melcori, Trish Meyer, Carrol Mox-ham, Margy O'Brien, Kent Swanson and Mary Sweet.

SPEAKING TO THE IMAGINATION: THE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST’S BOOK June 21 - August 24, 2019 Opening Reception: Friday, June 21st, 5-7pm Peters Projects, of Santa Fe, is pleased to present, Speaking to the Imagination: The Contemporary Artist’s Book, opening on Friday, June 21st, 5-7 p.m. This is a unique exhibit of handmade artist’s books and works on paper from local, national and internationally known artists and writers. The exhibit will feature works that not only reflect a compelling artistic vision and style on paper with a unique and symbiotic collaboration with words, but distinctive book artistry as well. The very idea, definition and usage of the object “book” and its alternatives will be challenged and expressed in revealing new forms. Some are epic and stirring, some freestanding, some folios, some may be reconfigured or exaggerate an accordion like presence; some will fit like loose paper in their own boxes in limited edition; one or two will be reassuring in their enormity, some incisively petite and condensed. The thing they have in common is their lack of similarity, except for the love of words and art and the ingenious methods by which they’re released into the world. As Anne Evenhaugen of the Smithsonian Libraries has written, “What truly makes an artist’s book is the artist’s intent, and artists have used the book as inspiration in a myriad of ways and techniques, from traditional to the experimental . . . artists used the book format to create narratives to deal with difficult or emotional issues, and some used it as a cheap, portable way to make the artwork available to a broader public than the gallery and museum world allowed.” The exhibit will feature work by poets and artists: Jim Dine, Dale Harris, Helen Hiebert, Carol Mothner, Miriam and Isabel Sagan, Kent Rush, Leon Loughridge, Vicki Bolen, Janet Glovinsky, Richard Wolfson and others. For more information: bookstore@gpgallery.com or call 505-954-5700.

For further information contact John Macker, Publications and Bookstore Director 1011 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe | Call: 505-954-5700 | Email: bookstore@gpgallery.com 4


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Max Weber, Two Women with Fruit, 1918, oil on canvas, 22 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches © 2019 Estate of Max Weber, courtesy of Gerald Peters Gallery.

SPRING CLEANING Freshly painted dining room and conference room hung with works from the Albert Krehbiel (1873-1945) and Peter Rogers (1933-2018) estates.

Max Weber, Egyptian Pot and Fruit, 1923, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches. © 2019 Estate of Max Weber, courtesy of Gerald Peters Gallery.

MAX WEBER: BECOMING MODERN March 15 - May 17, 2019 Opening Reception: Friday, March 15th, 5-7pm

Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, Max Weber: Becoming Modern. Spanning the years 1905 to 1930, the paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures that make up the exhibition will explore Weber’s transformation from art student to arbiter of the avant-garde. Visit gpgallery.com to view more works in this exhibition. Albert Krehbiel Estate

Please contact Evan Feldman at efeldman@gpgallery.com or 505 954-5738 for additional information.

Proudly representing the estates of Frank Applegate Jozef Bakos Cyrus Baldridge Marjorie Eaton Joseph A. Fleck Albert Krehbiel

Datus E. Myers Willard Nash Helmuth Naumer Peter Rogers Albert Schmidt Phyllis Sloane

Harold Joe Waldrum Max Weber Harold Weston Nancy Wood Marguerite Zorach William Zorach

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TRAVELS: KANEKO A known homebody, Jun Kaneko who has achieved international acclaim for his monumental ceramics is most happy when he is at work in the studio. Spanning multiple warehouses in downtown Omaha, Nebraska the studio complex amounts to 400,000 sq. ft. Full of visual wonder – a glazing room, painting studio, two enormous kilns and a spectacular private collection fill these otherwise seemingly ordinary buildings. This past winter, director, Evan Feldman, had the opportunity to visit Jun at the studio. Working closely with studio manager, Troia Schonlau, Evan got a sneak peak of © Jun Kaneko Studio LLC, 2019

newly fired works, drying dangos and recent arrivals from Jun’s work in Cuernavaca, Mexico. What a tremendous experience! A constant innovator, Jun continues to push the boundaries of ceramics, the results of which bring both surprise and delight to the viewer. Please join us this summer as we celebrate Jun with an exhibition of new works, August 23 - October 26, 2019. Opening reception: Friday, August 23rd, 5-7pm

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BEAUCOUP BAUMANN Encouraged by the tremendous response from the recent Gustave Baumann symposium at the New Mexico Museum of Art and New Mexico History Museum, the gallery began releasing for individual sale works from the Holme, Roberts & Owen collection in December. Up through March 9th, this extensive collection which boasts over 160 works holds some of Baumann’s most rare and sought after prints.

For further information contact Gallery Director Evan Feldman 1005 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe | Call: 505-954-5700 | Email: efeldman@gpgallery.com 6


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GERALD PETERS GALLERY, SANTA FE THE WILD BUNCH: BOOK SIGNING & DISCUSSION On the 50th Anniversary of The Wild Bunch, the Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to host author W.K. Stratton, who will discuss and sign his new book, THE WILD BUNCH: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film. Saturday, May 11, at 1pm GERALD PETERS GALLERY, Santa Fe Free and Open to the Public Film Screening of The Wild Bunch, with an introduction by W.K. Stratton and Q+A with award winning novelist, David Morrell Saturday, May 11, at 4pm THE SCREEN at the campus of the former Santa Fe University of Art and Design Sam Peckinpah’s film is the story of a gang of outlaws that is one big steal from retirement. When their attempted border bank robbery goes awry, the outlaws flee to Mexico and fall in with a brutal general of the Mexican Revolution, who offers them the heist of a lifetime. Conceived by a stuntman, directed by a blacklisted director, and shot in the sand and heat of the Mexican desert, the movie seemed doomed. Instead, it became an instant classic with a dark, violent take on the Western movie tradition.

W.K. Stratton tells the fascinating history of the making of the movie and documents for the first time the extraordinary contribution of Mexican and Mexican-American actors and crew members to the movie’s success. Shaped by infamous director Sam Peckinpah, and starring such legendary actors as William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O’Brien, and Robert Ryan, the movie was also the product of an industry and a nation in transition. In 1969, The Wild Bunch spoke to America in its moment, when war and senseless violence seemed to define both domestic and international life. About the author: W.K. Stratton is the author of five books of nonfiction and three books of poetry. He has written for Sports Illustrated, Outside, GQ, and Texas Monthly and was named a Fellow of the Texas Institute of Letters in 2017. He is a longtime resident of Austin, Texas. Please contact Maria Hajic at mhajic@gpgallery.com or 505 954-5719 for specific details.

For further information contact Gallery Director Maria Hajic 1005 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe | Call: 505-954-5700 | Email: mhajic@gpgallery.com 7


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INTO THE WOODS

Susan Brearey, Burt Brent, Andrew Haslen and Chris Maynard May 24 – June 22, 2019 Opening reception: Friday May 31st, 5-7pm Nature provides the artist with endless inspiration. Our spring exhibition, Into the Woods, will showcase 4 artists who employ very different media and techniques, yet each eloquently translates their thoughts and emotions about the natural world into tangible form. The artwork of Susan Brearey and Burt Brent is minimal in detail, but powerfully evocative in form. Printmaker and painter, Andrew Haslen’s linocuts and oils are rich in texture and color, capturing the changing light and mood of his extensive field studies. Chris Maynard’s endlessly creative and complex compositions retain the beauty and essence of his subject. These artists create work that incorporates and responds to our changing natural environment in imaginative, whimsical and thought provoking ways. Please contact Maria Hajic at mhajic@gpgallery.com or 505 954-5719 for additional information.

Chris Maynard, How Stars Were Made, female red-tail black cockatoo feathers, 18 x 12 inches

Andrew Haslen, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, linocut, edition of 75, 12 x 12 inches

Susan Brearey, Wolf Head, oil on paper, 6 x 6 inches

For further information contact Gallery Director Maria Hajic 1005 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe | Call: 505-954-5700 | Email: mhajic@gpgallery.com 8


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SANTA FE ART AUCTION Santa Fe Art Auction is pleased to present a growing roster of online sales for the 2019 calendar year, in addition to our 2019 signature Live November auction, which will take place on November 9. February saw a very successful Spanish Colonial and Hispanic Arts sale, which featured paintings, folk art, and contemporary Hispanic devotional art with pieces ranging from an 18th century Cuzco School painting to a contemporary Folk Art Squirrel by renowned New Mexico folk artist Felipe Archuleta. This sale was the first to be simultaneously open on multiple online platforms: Invaluable, LiveAuctioneers, and Bidsquare, enabling us to welcome in one afternoon more than 500 bidders from 15 countries, and finish with a stellar 83% sell-through rate.

This coming April will see a major online sale of selections from the private collection of Patricia Janis Broder, renowned southwestern art scholar and author of seminal works such as “Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women,” “Taos: A Painter’s Dream,” and “Bronzes of the American West.” The collection features notable Native American works ranging from pieces by early studio-era artists such as Alfonso Roybal (Awa Tsireh) and CUZCO SCHOOL, Virgen del Carmen con Nino, 1804 Tonita Pena (Quah Ah) to contemporary standouts Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Kevin Redstar. Important Native American selections from the collection will also anchor the Live Auction this year, along with a special focus on the work of the American Indian women artists that Broder was among the very first to champion. This collection will be available for preview commencing April 12th.

WE ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING QUALITY CONSIGNMENTS OF IMPORTANT FINE ART, EXCEPTIONAL DECORATIVE OBJECTS, AS WELL AS OUTSTANDING EXAMPLES OF BOTH CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORIC FOLK ARTS AND CRAFTS THAT CONTINUE TO CHARACTERIZE THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST. FULL DETAILS ON ALL UPCOMING SALES CAN BE FOUND BY REGULARLY VISITING OUR WEBSITE, WWW.SANTAFEARTAUCTION.COM OR FOLLOWING US ON INSTAGRAM! POP CHALEE (Taos, 1908-1993), The Forest, 1936

Another exciting new addition to our auction calendar will be “An Earlier West: Books, Prints, and Pamphlets”- a sale presented in conjunction with The Gerald Peters Gallery Bookstore, to be held on Saturday, June 15th, with a preview period of June 7th-15th. We will also continue the very successful tradition started in 2018 of hosting a Western Decorative Arts and Objects sale with a preview period from August 16th-25th. Finally, we will round out 2019 with our Winter Holiday Sale, which realized impressive sales results and a robust sell-through rate in 2018. For further information contact Gillan Blitch and Jenna Kloeppel 927 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe | Call: 505-954-5858 | Email: curator@santafeartauction.com 9


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petersprojects.com as 2-meter-long saw blades, axes, chisels, and Scotcheyed augers an understanding of nature and mass that overwhelmed the viewer with both scale and volume. Very Distant Sites is an exhibition of new works by Bell that carry the same personal information but has changed the materials to only steel rod, stainless steel rod, wire mesh and binding wire. Bell has created “line drawing in space” using the same volume of mass as her earlier sculptures but with a completely different experience of traveling lines. The material choice charges a reactive eye as you follow the metal rods moving in vivacious strokes, suddenly stopping and then twisting around. Also on view are recent paintings carrying the same information of time and space but with a color usage that pays homage to the artists 77 years in the arts.

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SPRING EXHIBITION SCHEDULE: MARCH 29 – JUNE 8 VISCERAL CLAY: LOOK DON’T TOUCH Peters Projects Director Mark Del Vecchio has curated VISCERAL CLAY: look don’t touch, an exhibition of sculpture by six international artists working in clay. Del Vecchio joined the gallery in 2016 as Director and Curator, bringing his expertise of Ceramic Art to the exhibition roster. Del Vecchio has reached out to six artists selected for their immediate visceral edge - something you feel in the pit of your stomach, defying the intellect and leaving you with an emotional reaction. “Ceramics are ubiquitous in the Art World today” states Del Vecchio. “Artists are creating unique and curious works beyond the usual thought of what ceramics can be. Materials have evolved, processes have changed and in the hands of contemporary artists, new works are born every day. This exhibition gives the viewer unexpected sensations as the eye drift across the sculptures, catching on their surfaces, colors and shapes. The organic and amorphic qualities in all these works speak to you only on their terms, with no place to escape.” Artists in the exhibition are AnneMarie Laureys and King Houndekpinkou from France, Aneta Regal from Poland, and Americans: The Haas Brothers, Tony Marsh and Hank Saxe. VICTORIA BELL: VERY DISTANT SITES A career spanning 5 decades, Chicago born Bell continues to explore her personal language of line, space and mass. Previous exhibitions at the gallery have included her massive steel and wood sculptures fashioned with hand tools, such

JOEL HOBBIE: INTERSTITIAL Hobbies’ 2017 and 2018 exhibitions at PETERS PROJECTS brought a unique and powerful voice to the gallery, changing the perception of space and engagement. Evolving technologies merge with Hobbies’ artistic thought process to create an interactive experience that places the viewer at the center of mechanical and organic polarities. Hobbie explains, “Interstitial fuses the spaces of cosmic and microscopic worlds together in an environment where the viewer becomes the catalyst in the joining of spaces together. The space between the event horizon and the singularity of a black hole. The space between on and off. The space between the neurons in our brains.” The exhibition will consist of seven new works created this past year and held back from viewing specifically for this exhibition. Far more advanced both technically and conceptually, Hobbie has brought a mechanical world all his own that has to be experienced to be understood. DIRK BAKKER: READING H20 THE GRAMMAR OF WAVES Dutch artist Dirk Bakker has had a long and extensive career since leaving his position as Director of Photography at the Detroit Institute of Arts and changing his terrain to Mexico. His current series of photography deals with the essential need of man, water, capturing bodies of this life-force in sensuous and thrilling color photographs taken over a five year period on various continents. “I decided to attempt to find structure in this perceived restlessness” states Bakker “and waded into the surf with a camera and found a water solidifying method, diminishing its formlessness by dissolving its scale.”

For further information contact Director Mark Del Vecchio 1011 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe | Call: 505-954-5800 | Email: mark@petersprojects.com 10


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VISCERAL CLAY: The Haas Brothers, Anne-Marie Laureys, Hank Saxe, King Houndekpink-

VICTORIA BELL: To June Leaf, 2015-18, steel, binding wire, Twistor Space, 2018, oil & pencil, Catastrophic Event, 2017, stainless steel rod, binding

JOEL HOBBIE: Singularity, Exons, Superposition A, 2018

DIRK BAKKER: Surf Backdrop, Corral IV, Molina II, 2015-18

For further information contact Director Mark Del Vecchio 1011 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe | Call: 505-954-5800 | Email: mark@petersprojects.com 11


PLAN YOUR EVENT AT GERALD PETERS GALLERY, SANTA FE OR PETERS PROJECTS Contact Elizabeth Hook, Special Events Coordinator, at (505) 954-5721 or ehook@gpgallery.com

GERALD PETERS GALLERY, SANTA FE 1005 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Tel (505) 954-5700 gpgallery.com Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm

GERALD PETERS GALLERY, NEW YORK 24 East 78th Street, New York, NY 10075 Tel (212) 628-9760 gpgallery.com Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm or by appointment

PETERS PROJECTS 1011 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Tel (505) 954–5800 petersprojects.com Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm or by appointment

SANTA FE ART AUCTION 927 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Tel (505) 954–5858 santafeartauction.com Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm or by appointment

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