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Louise Fishman (US), Alejandro Ospina (Colombia), Tom Leamon (UK), Nicolas Pol (France), Lauren Seiden (US), Peter Pumpler (Germany), Niall McClelland (Canada), Steven Day (US) De-Pict, the launch exhibition of a new partnership between Ciprian Ilie (Frameless Gallery) and Cyril Moumen (Gallery Nosco), explores the elusive image - its relevance, appropriation, adapted narratives and its absence. Louise Fishman, Alejandro Ospina, Tom Leamon and Nicholas Pol lead the way. 52 canvases of Fishman’s abstract and gestural paintings, is an exhibition in its own right. These paintings are as important as her larger works and form a palette of impulse and impact. Ospina’s canvases have a sense of immediacy, as if to translate the chaos of an apocalyptic present that we might miss. Leamon’s child-like deconstructed human forms offer a compelling insight into the psyche of man that navigates this social fabric. While, Pol’s exuberant painting on found material (signage), sets you on a mission to decipher the looming figure. It seems, at once, revelatory and inconceivable to uncover the mystery. The exhibition changes pace. Lauren Seiden, Peter Pumpler, Niall McClelland and Steven Day explore materiality of paint as they move away from the image. Seiden and Day play with colour and texture to create contradictory impressions of strength and fragility. Seiden reveals an alchemist’s touch, with intensity and repetition of mark making; she bestows paper with a metallic sheen. Conversely, sculptural blocks by Day create an illusion of fragility. While McClelland and Pumpler allow for an element of chance, playing with paint, allowing it to drip, stick, flood and mould the ‘painting’. These idiosyncratic approaches to the medium are enhanced by our culture today. Images, in their abundance, perhaps reveal much, yet meaning less. While some choose to build upon this excess, others pare down the reference. In their method, it is fascinating to observe how the artist responds to the plethora of images we consume; how they morph digital stimuli, to make sense of the cacophony, to be inspired, to draw a personal narrative. The exhibition draws on this diversity. Between the artists, they depict a pulse, a debate on image, obscurity and how the painter holds ground; leads. Among many things, the result is empirical. The strength of suggestion above a statement; Layered, obscured, fragmented; Hidden within folds and dribbles. Perhaps, the attempt is to coerce a response. Yet, as the gesture gains strength, the narrator withholds. Mary George
Harky Diamonds /2014 Mixed media on canvas 118.2 x 169.2 cm
ALEJANDRO OSPINA
Born in 1970, Bogota, Columbia Lives and works in London
In his most recent body of work, Alejandro Ospina takes advantage of the new technological tools available to him to investigate the phenomenon of bombardment with information from the Internet and the theme of authorship/property. Using a computer and the algorithmic filters of Photoshop, Ospina digitally filters images with themes found on the web and reconstructs them using layers of these same images to create a new abstract associated with the original. We may see glimpses of a riot, the architectural stamp of a favella, a manipulated image from his Facebook, or a semirecognizable painting we have seen before. Using the ‘magic wand’, he ‘lifts’ elements of old and modern masters or contemporaries, appropriating ‘bits’ of information. Through this process the result is a conglomeration of information and mark-making which are close in appearance to Expressionist paintings, without the weight of the angst.
Blood Was Every Color /2014 Mixed media on canvas 132 x 185 cm
ALEJANDRO’S CV EDUCATION
SOLO EXHIBITION
GROUP EXHIBITION
2002
2013
2014
Slade School of Fine Art. University College London. England-MFAA
Megalopolis. IMT Gallery, London
2000 New York Studio School. NY-Certificate Program
Algoritmos. Centro Cultural Colombo-Americano curated by Carlos Blanco, Bogotá, Colombia
ArtRio 2014, 10th - 14th September, Presentation with works by Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) Gallery Nosco/Frameless, Rio De Janeiro.
1994
2011
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA-Double Major Degree in Electrical Engineering/Fine Arts
PINTA London solo booth
Creekside Open selected by Ceri Hand, London Matter 2013. Departure Foundation, London
1988
2010 Fotolog, IMT (ImageMusicText) Gallery, London
2012
Parsons in Paris. Parsons School of Design.
2008
Transient Façades. Wells Gallery, London College of Communication
Paris, France. Exchange Program.
Blog, Christopher Paschall XX21, Bogotá, Colombia
2012
2007 Ventana, Cultural Center University of Salamanca, Bogotá, Colombia 1997 Diners Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia 1994
De/Pict, Gallery Nosco/Frameless, London. 2013
There is Much Love in the World so Lets go Fuck Ourselve. Angus-Hughes Gallery curated by Mark Jackson, London System of Objects. Departure Foundation, London. Swarms of Black Flies Make the Roses Purple. IMT Gallery, London
Diners Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
Bitacora’s Book. Performance with Eva Recacha. Noche en Blanco. Zaragoza, Spain
1993
Undercurrent. Departure Foundation, London.
5 Actitudes, Galería Arteria/Jenni Vila, Cali, Colombia
Royal Academy Summer Show invited by Tess Jaray, London
1991 Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogotá, Colombia
2011
2009
2004
Bitacora’s Book. Performance with Eva Recacha. Bloomberg SPACE. London.
La Muerte Esta Viva. Galería Mundo, Bogotá, Colombia
Trackers, Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London
ArtBo. Bogotá, Colombia
PINTA NY. Christopher Paschall XX21, New York, US
Colombia Underground. Hardcore Art Gallery., Miami, US The Shape of Things. Ferrate Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2010 Contemporary Colombia. Witzenhausen Gallery, New York, US
ArtBo, Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, Entrearte Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia 2008 ArtBo, Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, Entrearte Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia 2007 Dyonisian Duty, Mezkalito Gallery, London
PINTA London. Christopher Paschall XX21, London
Creekside Open, selected by Victoria Miro, APT Gallery, London
Intercambios. Christopher Paschall XX21, Bogotá, Colombia
2006
Beijing Art Fair. Christopher Paschall XX21, Beijing, China
2005 Nuevos Nombres/Lugar No Lugar, Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
CIRCA. Christopher Paschall XX21, Puerto Rico
Group Show, Paradise Row Gallery, London
Beguiled, dance collaboration with Solas dance co, The Place Theatre, London 2002 Slade Degree, Slade School of Fine Art, London 2001 Painting in the Park, Woburn Square Gallery, London Hang the Curator, Center Space Gallery, London 1996 5 Caras, Gallery Altos de Chavón, Dominican Republic 1995 Artists in Residence, Gallery Altos de Chavón, Dominican Republic
Mylar Wrap 1 /2014 Graphite on mylar 38 x 28 x 7.5 cm
LAUREN SEIDEN
Born in 1981, New York City Lives and works in New York
Seiden’s work explores the essential elements of process and materiality through an intuitive and intimate layering of graphite that tests the conventions of drawing; breaking down the surface and transforming the paper into a physical, textural and structural form. Situating drawing not as a medium of preparation or provision, but as a final form, displayed on wooden stretcher bars, as an oil painting. The varying qualities of each drawing are made through changes in applied pressure, speed, and application of medium. Although drawing is investigated through traditional materials, these works conceptually maximize the use of graphite by showing the physical properties of the artist’s actions left on the paper; gestural marks of her hand forcefully moving across the surface. These sculptural forms present an elegant manipulation of materials and transform these materials into objects.
Shield Wrap /2013 Graphite on paper 60 x 30.5 x 5 cm
LAUREN’S CV 2012
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
‘A Shadow in the Prism’, 109 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
‘The Color Grey’, Gallery Homeland, Houston, TX
‘Art and Ageism: The Decisive Eye of Fellow Artists’, NY Arts Magazine 7/13
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
‘Black Lodge’, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
‘The Gray Ways,’ The Huffington Post, by Liz Insogna, May 2, 2013
2014
‘Black Foliage’, Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore, MD
‘Eigengrau, Lauren Seiden and Frank Webster,’ Time Out New York, April 17, 2013
ArtRio 2014, 10th - 14th September,
‘Line and Plane’, McKenzie Fine Art, NY
Presentation with works by Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
2012
‘Cannonball!’, Curated by Vicki Sher, Frosch & Portman Gallery, NY
Gallery Nosco/Frameless, Rio De Janeiro.
‘Visiting ‘The Black Lodge’ In Bushwick’, by Emily Colucci, Societe Perrier, 11/13/12
‘Black Foliage’, Curated by Matt Craven, NY
De/Pict, Gallery Nosco/Frameless, London
‘An Improv of Color And Threads of Hope’, by James Panero, The Wall Street Journal,
Querencia, Denny Gallery, NY
‘Its Endless Undoing’, Thierry-Goldberg Gallery, NY
SP-Arte, Gallery Nosco, Sao Paulo, Brasil
‘Cosmology’, Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Object + Exchange, ‘the Drawing Center’ NYC
‘Itsa Small, Small World’, Curated by Hennesy Youngman, Small Business Gallery, NY
EDUCATION 2003 B.A. Painting and Drawing, Bennington College, Bennington
Art14 London Gallery Nosco
6/23/2012 ‘We went to the LES Vol.2-Its Endless Undoing’, Artfagcity.com, 6/21/12 ‘In the studio with Lauren Seiden’, episode 138, Artthisweek.com 6/21/12
2013
Brucennial 2012, Curated by Vito Schnabel and the Bruce High Quality Foundation, NY
U ntitled Fair/Art Basel, Denny Gallery, Miami, FL
‘Decoding’, Curated by THROAT, New York Public Library, NY
‘Re-Heating Tips’ by Aldrin Valdez, Artslant. com, 8/21/11
‘Intimate’ Gallery Nosco, London
2011
‘ArtRio 2013’, Gallery Nosco, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
‘NurtureArt’, Chelsea Art Museum, NY
‘7 Artists of the Week’ by Ryan Travis Christian, Chicagoartreview.com, 7/7/11
‘Contemporary Art From The USA’,
‘Microwave Eight’, Josee Bienvenu, NY
Curated by Diego Cortez - Luciano Benetton collection, Venice Italy
‘Drawn’, Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY
2010
‘Draw The Line’, Allegra LaViola Gallery, NY
‘A Look at the Winners of AOL’s ‘25 for 25’ Arts Grant Program’ by Natalie Shutler,
‘Eigengraut’, Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY ‘What Have You Done For Me Lately’, 109 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
‘Looking Forward’, Foley Gallery, NY
‘Buy What You Love’ Benefit, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY 2010 ‘Pplaza’, Curated by Grey Market, Miami, FL ‘Closed For Installation’, 303 Gallery, NY ‘Phantasmorganica’, Allegra LaViola Gallery, NY ‘Tools For Thought’, Sotheby’s, NY 2009 ‘Imposters’, Grey Market Gallery, NY ‘No Box Assembly’, Collective Hardware, NY 2008 ‘Pieces Together’, 121 Ludlow, New York, NY
2011
Featured Artist, Assembly Journal, Annual Publication
ARTINFO.com, Published 10/28/10 ‘AOL Announces Winners of 25 for 25’, www.FlashArtOnline.com ‘AOL Artist’ www.aolartists.com 10/27/10
West Chelsea Studio E /2011 - 2014 Oil and graphite on MDF board 7.6 x 5.1 cm each
LOUISE FISHMAN
Born in 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lives and works in New York City
Abstract painter Louise Fishman is drawn to personal experience, stories, and political activism. Through the 1960s, she produced primarily Minimalist-inspired, grid-like paintings. In the early 1970s, in pursuit of a more definitively feminine practice, she gave up abstract painting, which was considered the hotbed of art world machismo, to explore sculptural processes like sewing and knitting, which were traditionally defined as “women’s work.” Returning to painting in 1973, she produced a series called “Angry Women,” which announced the expressive brushwork and muddy pigment that are hallmarks of her mature style. In 1988, a trip to Eastern Europe, where she visited two concentration camps, reinforced the dark, mysteriously emotive quality of Fishman’s vigorously worked paintings, including her 1989 series of eight paintings, “Remembrance and Renewal,” in which she mixed ashes and beeswax into her paints.
West Chelsea Studio F /2011 - 2014 Oil and graphite on MDF board 7.6 x 5.1 cm each
LOUISE’S CV EDUCATION
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
1956–57
(includes major two-artist exhibitions)
Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York (2/15 – 3/25/06)
Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania
2013
2005
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Louise Fishman: It’s Here - Elsewhere, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD (3/5 - 4/5/13)
Louise Fishman, Foster Gwin, San Francisco (5/24 – 7/1/05)
1963
2012
2004
B.F.A. and B.S., Tyler School of Fine Arts, Elkins, Pennsylvania
Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York (9/13 - 10/27/12)
Louise Fishman, Recent Work, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (9/11 – 10/23/04)
1965
Louise Fishman, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY (7/19 - 8/12/12)
New York Abstract Painters George McNeil / Louise Fishman / 2004, Foster Gwin, San Francisco (8/19 - 10/19/04)
1958
M.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
Louise Fishman: Five Decades, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (9/5 - 10/13/12) 2010 Louise Fishman, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (9/29/10 - 10/23/10) 2009 Louise Fishman: Among the Old Masters, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (10/7 – 10/25/09) Cheim & Read, New York (3/26 – 5/2/09) 2008 Louise Fishman: Between Geometry and Gesture, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin (7/19 - 9/26/08) 2007 Louise Fishman: The Tenacity of Painting, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (4/3/07–5/6/07)
2003 Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York (4/22 – 5/24/03) 2002 Louise Fishman, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (4/20 – 6/1/02) 2001 Louise Fishman, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco (4/3 – 4/28/01) 2000 Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York, with an accompanying catalog with essay by John Yau (9/15 – 10/21/00)
1998
1991
1980
Louise Fishman, Cheim & Read, New York (10/14–11/14/98)
Louise Fishman: New Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New Yor (2/14 – 3/23/91)
Louise Fishman: Small Paintings The MacDowell Colony, 7/1980,
Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, (4/21 – 5/29/98)
1989
Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York (11/25–12/20/80)
1996 Robert Miller Gallery, New York (10/22 – 11/16/96) 1995 Small Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (1/10 – 2/4/95) 1994 Small Paintings1992–1994, Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami (11/12 – 12/7/94) 1993 Robert Miller Gallery, New York (9/14 – 11/16/93) 1992 Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, 1979 – 1992, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (12/92 – 1/14/93) Drawings and Experimental Work, 1971–1992, Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (12/9/92 – 1/15/93) Louise Fishman: Paintings, 1986 – 1992, Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (10/16/92 – 1/31/93) Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, 1978 – 1992, Simon Watson, New York (11/29–12/5), (preview of exhibition at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art) Louise Fishman: Small Paintings, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio (1/19 – 2/29/92)
Louise Fishman: New Paintings 1987–1989, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. New York (9/23–11/4/89) Remembrance and Renewal, Simon Watson Gallery, New York (3/4–4/22/89) 1987 Louise Fishman and Andy Spence: Two from the Corcoran, Winston Gallery, Washington, DC (4/87) 1986
1979 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York (9/79) Louise Fishman: Five Years, 55 Mercer, New York (6/12–6/30/79) 1978 Diplomat’s Lobby, The Department of State, Washington, DC
Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York (10/16–11/15/86)
1977
1985
1974
Fishman/Sanderson, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina (6/15–9/15/85) 1984 Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York (10/30–11/24/84) 1982 Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York (3/2–27/82) John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio (3/2–27/82)
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York (5/7–6/2/77) Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York (11/30–12/19/74) 1976 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island (11/76) John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (5/76) 1964 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania
LOUISE’S CV /CONT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
2000
2014
Significant Form, The Persistence of Abstraction, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (4/30/08–6/30/08)
175th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York (2/9 –5/26)
ArtRio 2014, 10th - 14th September,Presentation with works by Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) Gallery Nosco/Frameless, Rio De Janeiro. De/Pict, Gallery Nosco/Frameless, London. Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (1/18 – 7/6/14) 2012 Generations: Louise Fishman, Gertrude Fisher-Fishman, and Razel
2007 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (3/4/07–7/30/07) traveling to National Women’s Museum, Washington D.C., (9/07–12/07) P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2/08-6/08) 2006
Kapustin, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia (10/13/12- 1/6/13)
High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965–75, Independent
PAPYRI: Guestbooks, Bookworks and Similar Departures by guests of Emily Harvey Foundation 2004-2012, Emily Harvey Foundation,
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center,
Venice (10/19- 10/27/12) 2011 Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (5/12/11 – 9/6/11). Traveling to The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., (10/14/11 - 1/22/12) Dance/Draw, The Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston, (10/7/11 - 1/16/12); travels to The Grey Art Gallery, New York University,
Snapshot, Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Maryland (11/3/00 – 2/25/01) The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of The Jewish Museum, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (9/23–11/12/00) 1999 Abstraction: Realism, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, curated by Jonathan Van Dyke (6/9–8/21) 1997 Basically Black & White, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, New York (9/20–10/25) Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island (3/27–9/7) 1995
Washington, D.C. (11/21/06–1/21/07); National Academy Museum,
25 Americans: Painting the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (9/8–12/11)
New York, 2/15/07–4/22/07); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (5/25/07–9/9/07)
Artist’s Choice: Elizabeth Murray, Museum of Modern Art, New York (6/19–8/22)
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (3/28/08–6/1/08)
Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh New Faculty, Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge (9/15–10/15)
The Name of This Show is Not Gay Art Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, (6/8 - 7/21/06) 2005
1995
Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS, Museum of Contemporary
New York (4/17/12 - 7/14/12); The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, New York, (8/12 – 12/12)
Contemporary Women Artists: New York, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Indiana (1/19 - 2/11/05)
2010
2003
46th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (11/7–12/4)
Painting & Sculpture: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts,
The Invisible Thread : Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York (9/28/03 - 2/29/04)
Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (7/19–8/26) 1993
Personal and Political: The Woman’s Art Movement, 1969-1975, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY (8/10–10/20/02)
Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (6/8–6/13)
Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York (12/9/10 – 1/9/11). LES FEMMES, McClain Gallery, Houston (10/15/09 - 1/2/10). Abstraction Revisited, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (10/7/10 -11/27/10) Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, The Jewish Museum, New York (9/12/10 - 1/30/11) 2009 Before Again: Joan Mitchell, Louise Fishman, Harriet Korman, Melissa Meyer, Jill Moser, Denyse Thomasos, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. (10/15 – 11/28/09)
2001 Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA (9/7-10/21/01) The Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Reopening exhibition, New York, NY (8/17 - 9/5/01) Imaging Judaism / Mining History, Susquehanna Art Museum (4/19 - 6/30/01) American Academy of Arts and Letters (3/5 - 4/1/01)
Under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale. Reinstalled at the Guggenheim Museum, Soho (11/6–19) 30th Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings, Castelli Gallery, New York, to benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc. (December)
1992
1982
The Jewish Museum’s Masked Ball in Celebration of Purim, The Jewish Museum, New York (3/10)
New York Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art, New York City (February)
1991
1981
Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York (2/23-3/23)
Rush Rhees Fine Arts Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, (March)
Musèe d’art Moderne et d’art Contemporain, Nice, France (9/27–11/11)
CAPS Grantees from Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York (April–June)
1989
CAPS Award Winners in Painting 1980–1981, Proctor Art Center, Bard College and Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, New York (April–August)
Fragments of History, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia (7/21–9/3) 1988–89 Golem: Danger, Deliverance and Art, The Jewish Museum, New York (12/–4/2/89) 1988 Louise Fishman, David Reed, Joan Mitchell, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, curated by Marjorie Welish (June–July) 1987–88 The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York 1987 40th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1980 Work on Paper, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (June) 1977–78 Critic’s Choice, Lowe Gallery, Syracuse University, Ithaca, New York (December), Traveled to Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, New York (January) 1977
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh The Denver Art Museum, Colorado The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover The Jewish Museum, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia AWARDS
Fifth Anniversary Show, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York (December)
1963 Tyler School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. First Painting Prize, Student Exhibit
1976
Tyler School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Bertha Lowenburg Prize for The Senior Woman to Excel in Art
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Paris International Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris
The Jewish Museum, New York, “Jewish Themes” (traveling exhibition)
John Doyle Gallery, Chicago (November)
1986
1973
1975–76 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1979
Jewish Themes–Contemporary American Artists II, The Jewish Museum, New York (7/15–11/16) Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York (April) 1985 Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York (November) Painting as Landscape, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, curated by Klaus Kertess (traveled to: Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, California. 1983 Six Painters, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York (5/25–7/17) Drawing In and Out, Baskerville & Watson, New York (May–June)
1975
1975
Change, Inc., New York
Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting
1963
1980 Fellow, MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire
National Watercolor and Drawing Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1981
CAPS Fellowship in Painting
1983–84 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting 1986 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, General Support Grant 1994 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting 2002 Adolph & Clara Obrig Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design, 177th Annual Exhibition, 5/1st, 2002
Stain Winter 04 /2014 Inkjet ink on paper 99 x 152.4 cm
NIALL MCCLELLAND
Born in 1980, Toronto Lives in Toronto, Canada
NIall McClelland is a Toronto-based artist with training in graphic design. His work draws heavily on the graphic languages and tribal significations of crests and logos. These are drawn from punk and metal subcultures as well as the historical and present politicized communities of Northern Ireland. His process of laborious mark-making rooted in drawing stands in stark contrast to the utilitarian nature of mechanical reproduction found in printing processes. Painstaking marks that make up large, often monochromatic fields, deliberately call up associations with protest, using a process that is contrastingly mundane.
Cut Corner (Slacker Move) /2014 Cotton sheet over worn linen on board 61 x 76 cm
NIAL’S CV SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
2014
‘He to Whom the Early Bird Runs Best Learns Wisdom and Knowledge’, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, BC, Feb. 2014, solo exhibition
ArtRio 2014, 10th - 14th September, Presentation with works by Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) Gallery Nosco/Frameless, Rio De Janeiro.
2013
Sp-Arte InternationalArt Fair, Sao Paulo with Gallery Nosco
The Nature of Your Oppression is the Aesthetic of Our Anger, Toronto, ON Bruce to Brock and Back, Envoy Enterprises, NY, NY 2012 One Tune Outta Turn, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Toronto, ON 2011 Highest Prices Paid for Gold, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON 2010 Sabbath Sold Soul, Show & Tell Gallery, Toronto, ON 2009 Losers, The Emporium Gallery, Montreal, QB
De/Pict, Gallery Nosco/Frameless, London
2013 SPIT, Leslie St. Spit, Toronto, ON organized by Aleksander Hardashnakov ‘More Than Two (Let it Make Itself)’ The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, ON. Sept.2013, group exhibition School Nite, New York, NY 2012 Trans/Form, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON Material Assumptions, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Like-Minded, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB History, Tomorrow Gallery, Toronto, ON, w/Jeremy Jansen
2011 Imprecise Geometry, 308at156, New York, NY Barricades, Nuit Blanche - Financial District, Toronto, ON Magic for Beginners, P.P.O.W Gallery, NY, NY Sails, Cubes and Folds, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON In the Dark: Three Considerations, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA Surface Tension, Malaspina Printmaking, Vancouver, BC 2010 Group Exhibition, Part 2, David B Smith Gallery, Denver, CO 2009 Black to Back and Light, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto,
Eastern Lakes, Ministere of Suicide /1991 Oil and glycerol on board 100 x 120 cm
NICOLAS POL
Born in 1977, Paris Lives and works in Paris
Nicolas Pol’s large canvases employ a striking array of styles, references and techniques whilst offering an aesthetic that is unique, complex and assured in its depth. Combining street art, graphic design and a multitude of fine art references from Renaissance masters to Majerus and Basquiat, Pol’s craft is remarkably honed for a painter so young. The success of Pol’s work stems from the interplay between the immediacy of colour and iconography with a structure and all-over quality that demand prolonged attention. Pol’s recent paintings take on an apocalyptic vision of the world. Whilst seemingly semi-fantastical the works are very much rooted in Pol’s preoccupation with scientific advances, the notion that there is nothing left to be discovered and that mystery and surprise are a thing of the past. Whilst the subject matter is at times dark – full of killing devices and looming figures – his aesthetic is seductive and sensual, offering a fitting portrayal of the polished yet misleading reality presented to the contemporary consumer. Ironically (yet fittingly) this apocalyptic vision is itself imbued with a complexity and originality that smacks of instant discovery and inspiration. Furthermore, all this is achieved through the act of painting – a medium that was thought to have made its last discovery decades ago.
Fluid /2013 Tar on canvas 20 x 20 cm
PETER PUMPLER
Born in 1980, Germany Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Peter Pumpler makes the implicit horizon of painting explicit. He breaks down the elements of a painting into its individual components: the frame, the rear, the side and the surface of colour. All is revealed. He lets paint drop, flow, stick, run, then he scrapes if off and wraps it up almost like a pancake. He scrapes and crumples the paint into piles, wrinkles, folds and coats the paintings in bitumen to achieve the final result seen here. Pumpler’s painting technique is extremely analytical and physical. The formats are mostly modest in size yet the abundance of texture and vibrancy of colour command attention. This is laconic painting that is missing all self -reference, all pomposity and the misery and triviality of artists’ rhetoric. Pumpler refuses to conform to the art-historical “learnt” baggage, concentrating instead on finding out what happens when you have the means of painting analyzed separately and make these the subject of the painting. As he “fillets” a sheet of acrylic the semi-dry paint almost quivers as though alive. His painting is reflection on painting in the medium of painting.
Rolle /2013 Lacquer on aluminium rod 100 x 100 cm
PETER’S CV 2005
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
2014
Watch Paint Dry – Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin
De/Pict, Gallery Nosco/Frameless, London
2012
SP-Arte, Gallery Nosco, Sao Paulo, Brasil
The Usual Stuff – Mastul, Berlin
Art14 London Gallery Nosco
Yellow Pages – Cabinet des estampes du Musee d’art et d’histoire, Geneve, Switzerland
2011
2013
2002
Tinta, Farbe, Paint – subterranea, Porto Alegre, Brasil
Wilhelm Morgner award – Wilhelm Morgner House, Soest
Kunst am Bau – tecmath AG, Kaiserslautern
2008
Intimate – Gallery Nosco / Frameless, London
Paintings – Corridor Art, Berlin
Perron Award – Kunstaus Frankenthal
The salon – Deutschvilla, Strobl am Wolfgangsee, Austria
1998
2012
2000
Let´s Lounge, Baby – o.T. Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Luzern, Switzerland
Boesner Award – Markisches Museum, Witten 2008
Sur Face – Kunstforum FOE 156, Munchen In Good Humor – Kunsthaus Hamburg
Homes of Langenargen – Galerie Gros, Langenargen
Clinch/Cross/Cut – New Jersey, Basel, Switzerland
Debutants – Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Karlsruhe
Missing Link – Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
1999
2007
Kulturdepot, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Mch1ne – St Pauls St Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand
Hommage Grieshaber – Museum + Stiftung Anton
Variation of Repetition – Gallery Ulrich Mueller, Cologne
Geiselhardt, Gundelfingen The Art of The Line – Linz, Austria
Worpswunder – Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen
1998
1997 13 exibitions -13 openings – Neue Kunst im Hagenbucher, Heilbronn 1996 Packer – Badische Neueste Nachrichten, Karlsruhe
2006 Showing, SAFN, Reykjavik, Island Nothing – Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Art Meets Ars Natura – Spangenberg Easy Handling – Kunstlerhuser Worpswede
None of the Above – Swiss Institute, New York 2004 Transformer – Kunstverein Ludwigsburg
2001
Art print today – Friedrichsbau, Bühl Master students – Schloss Bruchsal (Kunstverein Bruchsal)
Untitled lt yellow /1995 Wax, pigment and gesso on wood 30 x 21 cm
STEVEN DAY
Born in 1965, Newport Beach, California. Lives and work in New York City
The Wax Paintings 1994-2000 - Steven Day’s soft “ambient” abstract paintings are referred to as The Wax Paintings. He uses a cast layer of wax, oil paint on wood, to create luminous works which explore colour. The cast translucent wax veils and softens the colourss, allowing the paintings to interact with light and space. Currently based in New York, Day is originally from California. The Wax Paintings were made the year he finished his studies San Francisco Art Institute in 1994. Early art influences and comparisons can be made to the Minimalism, installations of Robert Irwin, John McCracken, Günther Förg, as well as early Southern Californian Modernism in architecture.
Windows Triptych /01/2014 Acrylic, screenprint and charcoal on linen 40 x 30 cm each
Windows 2013-2014 - Windows is from Day’s photographs made inside an airplane. The picture is distorted by the artist’s halftone screen-printing process directly on linen. Day encourages accidents in both his screen-printing and emulsion process. Layers of acrylic paint, acrylic mediums, drawing with charcoal and/or graphite are both applied, smeared, and removed. The new Windows series certainly references the artist’s early Wax Paintings from the mid 1990’s, although the materials are radically different, and rectangular format are neither monochrome. Windows revisits groupings, in a few ways The Wax Paintings did. The linear arrangements of the paintings are in singles, diptych’s, triptychs, or in some cases, low hanging rows very similar to inside an airplane. Compared to The Wax Paintings however, Windows are more direct; The new questions and outcome are more uncertain, experienced, and raw.
STEVEN’S CV EDUCATION
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010
1994 San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, CA (MFA Painting)
2014
99 Parking Lot, Civil Disobedience, White Box New York, NY
ArtRio 2014, 10th - 14th September, Presentation with works by Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) Gallery Nosco/Frameless, Rio De Janeiro.
POYi , Annenberg Space For Photography, Los Angeles
1989 U niversity of California, Santa Barbara Bachelors of Science
De/Pict, Gallery Nosco/Frameless, London
Cranbrook Estate , Vinyl Contemporary, PULSE NYC
SP-Arte, Gallery Nosco, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2009
Art14 London Gallery Nosco
Ghost Town (10 Videos) , Kran Film Collective, Brussels, Belgium
2013 Shadow Stadium, Recontres Internationales Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
2008
Polar Express (Video Screening), Carne Vale at Flux Factory, Queens, NYC
Surprisingly Natural: the Nature of the Bronx , Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY
2012
Fundamental Abstraction II , Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Shadow Stadium (Video Screening), Recontres Internationales Paris, Palais de Tokyo
Emergency Room , Tass Gallery, Paris, France
Night For Gingham , Indie Collective, Culver City
Group Photography Show, Nouvel Organon, Paris
2007
Operation Castle , Citydrift at Momenta Art, Brooklyn
Whiteout , Kinkead Contemporary, Miami/Basel
2011 Ghost Town (10 Videos) , Casa Vecina, Mexico City
A$$TROLAND, Art For Humans, Chinatown, Los Angeles Selected Works, Art Forum Berlin, Pierogi, Berlin, Germany Emergency Room , Ileana Tounta, Athens, Greece Emergency Room , PS1/MoMA, Queens, NY Selected Works ”, Pierogi Files, The Armory Show, New York, NY Whiteout , Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA
2006
2004
1996
Upper City , Pierogi Files, Basel/Miami Art Fair
Habitats for Humans , Hewitt Gallery, Marymont Manhattan College
Inauguration, Haines Gallery. New York
2003
Paintings , Annie Gawlak. Washington D.C.
Every Day is Different , Michael Steinberg Gallery, New York, NY TAKE OFF , Hebel 121, Basel Switzerland, June
Pierogi Files, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Aperture & Architecture , Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Sante Fe
Hospital , (Artist of the Week), Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Nosco
24 , Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas
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1999
Selected Works , Pierogi Files, The Armory Show, New York, NY 2005 Selected Works , Pierogi Files, Basel/Miami Art Fair
Selected Works , Haines Gallery. San Francisco, CA 1998 TRANSLUCENT , Transamerica Pyramid. San Francisco, CA 1997 Selected Works , DANESE. New York, NY
Beyond Monochrome , Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Paintings , Haines Gallery. San Francisco, CA
Selected Works , Pierogi Files, The Armory Show, New York, NY
Enfernte Bekannte , Binz39. Zurich, Switzerland
Selected Works , Haines Gallery. New York Grammercy International , Chateau Marmont. Los Angeles Grammercy International , The Raleigh Hotel. Miami, Florida
1995 Hommage to the Bard , Terrain Gallery. San Francisco, CA Paintings , Lead Gallery. Seattle, WA 1994 Introductions , Terrain Gallery. San Francisco, CA MFA Graduation Exhibition , Herbst Pavilion. San Francisco, CA 1993 3 Painters , Diego Rivera Gallery. San Francisco Art Institute MFA Spring Exhibition , Walter/McBean Gallery. San Francisco, CA
Waiting On A Friend /2011 Acrylic, oil stick & oil paint on canvas 80 x 65 cm
TOM LEAMON
Born in 1981, London Lives and work in London
Upon leaving university Tom Leamon set up an art collective that took on derelict buildings all over the UK, where he would curate exhibitions and invite artists to show with him. This avenue into the art world enabled Leamon to inhabit the realms of both a full time artist and curator. In 2004 Leamon was given a yearlong bursary to work at Red Cow Studios and create a collection for his first solo exhibition. This opportunity gave him the time he needed to find a mature voice within his own work. Leamon continues to live and work in London, Waterloo surrounded by some of London’s brightest new talents. This daily interaction with like-minded creative individuals has a profound effect on Leamon’s work/life philosophy today. With numerous sell out exhibitions and a number of very well received curatorial events Leamon’s exhibition programme for the rest of the year includes shows in New York, Paris and Cape Town. Leamon paints as a release, expressions of freedom in an altogether constrained world. His work delves into the human psyche, with a particular fascination with the cycle of birth, life, growth and death. There are poems and stories being told in all of Leamon’s works, but he does not want you to simply read them, his work necessitates that one steps inside them. Exploring symbolism through a number of mark making techniques, Leamon’s work challenges on a primitive mark making as well as a sentimental and spiritual level.
TOM’S CV EDUCATION:
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003
2014
BA in Fine Art, Loughborough University
De/Pict, Gallery Nosco/Frameless, London 2013
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Intimate Frameless Gallery, Gallery Nosco
2014
2012
The Truscott Arts Programme, Maida Vale, London
And You, What Do You Worship? The Crypt Euston Road, London
2013
2011
Les Aventures A Venir
One Night Stand & Dressed For Breakfast, Cave London
The Clock Gallery 223, London Back to Nature at Cave London 2009 Rag Factory.
Pleasant Remains Gallery 223, London
DE/PICT Design/ tom delpech Alejandro Ospina’s text/ courtesy of Mark Jackson © Gallery Nosco and Frameless Gallery 2014 20 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DP Cyril Moumen and Ciprian Ilie would like to thank: Louise Fishman, Ingrid Nyeboe, Cristina Miranda, Simon Watson, Fabiana Lopes, Lauren Seiden, Niall McClelland, Steven Day, Peter Pumpler, Tulio Pinto, Alejandro Ospina, Philly Adams, Tom Leamon, Vanda Prochazka, John West, Mary George and last but not least Tom Delpech.
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