The New New A showcase of new artwork
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JU N E ED MO N D S Inspired by her meditation practice, June Edmonds began The Circle/Curve Series as a way to explore color, repetition, and balance as conduits to spiritual contemplation and interpersonal connection. The circle has a rich array of cultural, spiritual and historical associations. The West African Adinkra use concentric circles to symbolize what is said to be the symbol of “the greatest power�. Edmonds uses the circle as a doorway to memory, to identity and to connection to the highest and most mysterious parts of the inner self. Each painting work is infused with a rhythmic, pulsating, and alluring energy which invites the viewer to connect with something higher within. Edmonds earned her M.F.A. in Painting at Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia. The artist has done numerous public art and mural projects. She lives and works in California.
As Sunday, So Monday, 2015 oil on canvas 48 x 48 inches $4600.
June Edmonds Lamb, 2014 oil on canvas 24 x 24 inches $2500.
June Edmonds Wait For Diva, 2012 oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $3500.
June Edmonds Patrick Spills, 2013 oil on canvas 48 x 30 inches $4000.
L AL A N I N A N For Taiwanese born Lalani Nan, making art is a legacy passed to her from her mother and her grandmother. Her visual awareness and strong color sense were cultivated from a young age; painting and drawing were a major part of her daily life. As a child, Nan has a vivid memory of shopping with her grandmother in a silk shop. As the store clerk tossed different silks over the counter, each bolt glowed and shimmered with light, creating mystery it its creases and folds. This memory has never faded and became a central influence in her art. Nan’s paintings express her passion for the tactile nature of fabrics and their topographies. Each painting is built slowly with many layers of pigment, each color a building block integral to the richness and depth of hues in her seemingly monochromatic canvases. Lalani Nan received a B.F.A. from the Atlanta College of Art. She works and lives in Woodstock, NY.
Pale Gray No. 3, 2015 oil on canvas 56 x 48 inches $9000.
Lalani Nan Gray No. 4, 2015 oil on canvas 56 x 48 inches $9000.
Lalani Nan Gray No. 5, 2015 oil on canvas 56 x 48 inches $9000.
DAVID CO LL INS By layering geometric planes and simple patterns on fields of rich color, David Collins conveys depth, movement, and a shifting sense of place using the formal elements of painting. In his paintings, structures develop suggesting folded paper, fragments of wings, domestic dwellings or industrial buildings. These images are drawn from childhood recollections of homes, construction sites in 1970’s Dallas and from time spent in airplane hangars while visiting his father’s workplace. Planes of color crop up to create floors, wall-like surfaces, eaves and overhangs; silhouettes evoke cranes, cables and overpasses. Ultimately, these architectural notions do not remain whole, they fracture and fall away to reveal other chambers or the outside world. A simultaneity of interior and exterior space describes the liminal in-between. This falling away of form opens up the paintings to a dynamic landscape with a sense of forces moving in many directions at once. Collins' paintings reveal internal structure and order amidst chaos. Despite the shifting and multitudinous spaces, the paintings find resolution, achieving balance and stillness. Collins earned a MA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design. He is a two-time recipient of the Yaddo Fellowship. His work has been featured in The New York Times and Dallas Art News. Collins work is in numerous private and corporate collections. .Canards, 2016 oil on linen 38 x 32 inches $4500.
David Collins Different Trains, 2014 acrylic on linen 46 x 70 inches $7500.
A N D R E A K A N T R O W I T Z
Seven Brides, 2014 oil on canvas 36 x 60 inches $9,000. Andrea Kantrowitz invites you to look beyond a literal description of fruit and fungi, and see what else can be discovered. The artist embraces the contradictions of living flesh in the thick and heavy medium of oil paint: life’s elegance and absurdity, its universal processes of seduction, destruction and regeneration. Fruit and fungi stand in for human bodies, their forms shaped by the same evolutionary imperatives as our own, to go forth and multiply. Dr. Kantrowitz earned her EdD at Columbia University, her MFA fro Yale University School of Art and her BA from Harvard University. She lives and works in Pelham, NY.
Andrea Kantrowitz Irrational Exuberance,2016 oil on canvas 36 x 60 inches $8500.
Andrea Kantrowitz Winged Samothrace, 2016 oil on canvas 30 x 30 inches (each), 30 x 61.5 (diptych). $7800.
MO L LY Mc C RA CKE N KUM A R In Hindu philosophy, Shiva’s cosmic dance represents the whirling flow that is the dynamic tension and change of the universe. This concept is present equally in the galactic as it is in every cellular process. The artists experiences this dynamic tension most keenly while gardening and observing plants grow and change throughout the seasons, where contemplating nature’s process of birth, death and rebirth inspires her artistic practice Without directly illustrating the garden, McCracken-Kumar’s paintings embody its themes. The colorful surfaces of diaphanous layers give the sensation of being under water or in a densely humid midst. These sensuous and fluid atmospheres develop through many layers of translucent paint that co-mingle with small motifs. The motifs are covered over with more layers to suggest a deep space and pregnant air. Desire becomes the evolutionary impetus for the growth, illuminating renewal and possibilities. Feelings of tranquility are explored as a way to find balance and rest within the incessant movement. The final image then becomes a kinetic yet still embodiment of this painting process. Molly McCracken-Kumar has an MFA in painting from San Francisco Art Institute, she lives and works in Portland, OR
Expansive Germination, 2015 acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 inches $4200.
Molly McCracken Kumar Quantum Mangala, 2015 acrylic on canvas 40 x 60 inches $6000
JOSETTE URSO Josette Urso makes paintings and drawings working directly and urgently in response to her immediate environment. Her approach involves moment-to-moment extrapolation governed by intuitive leaps of scale, color and wayward geometry. In the artist's collages, the visual space is simultaneously highly randomized and highly ordered. The play of visual coincidence creates pleasures, just as it keys us into the generative power of chaos. In all of her work Urso’s visual contrasts and cross-fertilizations unfold and are cumulative, non-linear, free flowing and interpretive. Space becomes an ambiguous and malleable substance, its manipulation and acrobatic mark-making becomes a kind of gymnasium of expertly-placed color and shape. “For me, drawing and painting parallel the act of seeing and are the most
direct links to private time with the physical world. Despite the urgency of my process, as I work, time still slows down. My work becomes a record of this exploration and a reflection of my inherent energy and reason for living.” Josette Urso The artist is the recipient of grants from The Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation and The Pollack-Krasner Foundation and has been invited for residencies at Yaddo Foundation, UCross Foundation, Millay Foundation in the United States as well as residencies in Germany, Ireland, Cambodia and Taiwan. Urso’s artwork has been acquired by numerous museums and private collections worldwide. She lives and works in New York. Papaya, 2015 oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches $6500.
Josette Urso Blue Jay, 2015 oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches $6500.
Josette Urso Up for Sun, 2013 oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches $6500
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Josette Urso Crystal Lake, 2015 paper collage on paper 38 x 38 inches (framed) $3600. (framed)
G RE G O RY H EN N EN Gregory Hennen paints the mountains and valleys of the dramatic landscape of his Virginia home. A naturalist as well as a life-long painter, Hennen has a close relationship with his environment. On his daily walks he fills sketch books chronicling the land, the effect of passing light and the seasonal changes. By building up tens of thousands of small brush strokes, Hennen’s paintings are a complex collection of small marks gathered and made solid. The landscape paintings are at once astoundingly complex and perfectly calm. Hennen makes what can be described as ego-less paintings, perfectly crafted and stunningly beautiful; his paintings are a joy to take in. Hennen was educated at Eastern Connecticut State University and The School of Visual Arts, NYC.
Gregory Hennen May View, Wyatt Mountain, 2014 oil on panel 24 x 24 inches $5000.
MA R G AR E T N E I LL Neill draws to investigate the properties of abstract curvilinear forms found in the localized conditions of her surrounding environment. This experience is sublimated in a process both primal and analytical in developed drawings that are composed of deeply layered intersecting geometries and invite the viewer to contemplate presence in the fluidity of time. This particular suite of drawings presented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art have an auditory influence described through pulsing, skeins of line that reflect patterns of tension and forces of frequency. Like sound waves, diagnostic patterns or aural imagery these drawings reflect amplitude and dimension through interior as well as exterior space. Linear or solid, dense or transparent, the drawings move from one to the next in ephemeral yet solid works that celebrate light and space. The pressure and buoyancy of the unfolding shape propels each work forward. Margaret Neill’s work has been reviewed in Art in America and Art News, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New York Sun. She has work in public and private collections including, Colby College Museum of Art, Pfizer, Wellington Management, The New York Public Library, Deloitte University, The Boston Medical Center, and Intercontinental Hotels in NY, Boston, and Miami. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn.
Margaret Neill, Flow series (install), 2015, 26 x 34 inches, $2000. each, unframed
ME L A N I E P AR K E
Melanie Parke filters and reconstructs pastoral and bucolic still life settings that emerge from her own life through the ideology of memory. Flowers bind the artist to friendships and the women in her life, that sentiment propels to paint compositions which reference lush clusters of time. Parke’s painting is a pleasure seeking process, the artist arranges the pictorial space intuitively, in broad and textured gestures, then pieces together arrangements that compose a homespun narrative. Specific interiors, botanical species and landscapes are often implied. By shifting the emphasis to pattern, texture and tone, she works to destabilize notions of exacting representation in an effort to build on a sensation of memory which conjures both comfort and longing. Parke’s paintings have been exhibited widely throughout the United States. Melanie Parkes lives and work in Michigan.
Peonies in Ming, 2015 oil on canvas 2 x 12 inches $1600.
Melanie Parke Room for Satie oil on canvas 38 x 42 inches $5400.
Kevin Paulsen Bona Dea 4 (Flora/Fauna), 2015 acrylic and pigmented plaster on cotton velvet mounted on panel 47.25 x 71 inches $14,000.
K E V I N P A U L S E N Kevin Paulsen uses paint and pigmented plaster to simulate a fresco-like surface on theatrical velvet or polystyrene. The artist’s method and materials call to mind Roman painting of antiquity, Italian Renaissance painting, and the itinerant paintings of the American Colonial era. Paulsen’s beautiful, often mystical compositions tell a timeless tale of the life cycle of civilizations, his subjects metaphorically describing the aspirations, achievements and frailties of human existence. Paulsen’s archetypal animals and humans inhabit imagined worlds and tell universal stories. Paulsen has painted numerous mural-scale wall paintings in private homes and restaurants. His work has been featured in the 5th Avenue windows of Bergdorf Goodman (NYC), galleries throughout the United States, as well as in numerous publications including Architectural Digest, House Beautiful and Nantucket Home.
Corvid and Queen, 2014 acrylic and plaster on polyester mounted on panel 36 x 60 inches $11,000
YO LA N D A S AN CH E Z Sánchez's paintings are a search for re-enchantment, for a way to reach below the surface of things, to find that point of connection with life. The artist wants to engage the viewer in a sensory experience, one that is un-camera-like, un-computer-like. Her goal is to nudge the viewer into a deeper experience of the present, where the “circumference of self” is dissolved - to provide a moment of contemplation without literally telling a story. Yolanda Sánchez was born in Havana, Cuba and emigrated to the United States in 1960. She has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. After teaching for many years, she returned to her first passion, art. Sánchez was awarded a BFA and an MFA from Yale University in painting. Sanchez lives and works in Miami, FL.
I Only Have Eyes for You, 2015 oil on canvas 52 x 42 inches $8000.
Dance Me to the End of Love, 2015 oil on canvas 60 x 72 inches (diptych) $16,000.
J A C K I E B A T T E N F I E L D Battenfield’s meditative painting process begins with the artist’s close attention to the graceful forms of unfolding leaves and blossoms, and to the twisted boughs and branches of trees. The artist painstakingly translates her photographic studies into drawings on large sheets of translucent Mylar, taking care to stay true to the original images. The artist makes hundreds of color studies before arriving at the palette for each painting. When applied to the Mylar, Battenfield’s ink-like pigments reassert themselves, separating and forming unexpected, distinctive abstract, transparent and opaque patterns. The finished painting on Mylar is mounted on a panel that allows light to play behind the pristine painted surface. Battenfield has shown extensively in the United States as well as is Taiwan, Japan and Israel. Pale Azure, 2014 acrylic on mylar mounted on panel 41.25 x 51.25 inches (framed) $8,000.
Jackie Battenfield Dark Delight, 2015 acrylic on mylar mounted on panel 31 x 81 inches $9,800 (framed)
J O A N N E M A T T E R A Joanne Mattera’s paintings are can be described as lush minimalism, the work is chromatically rich and compositionally reductive. Each painting in the ongoing Silk Road series is a small color field achieved by layers of translucent wax paint applied at right angles. The series, began in 2005, was inspired by the iridescent hues of slubbed silk, hence the title, but very quickly evolved into a more expansive exploration of color. In plying the richness of the encaustic paint against the austerity of a very subtle grid the artist sets in motion a dynamic in which color and texture jostle for primacy. A decade and almost 300 paintings later, the artist is still enthralled with this exploration. Mattera is the foremost expert in the field of encaustic painting and is the founder and director of the International Encaustic Conference. Her artwork is in the collections of The New Britain Museum of Contemporary Art, US Embassies (Slovenia and Poland), US State Department, Bank of America, and Norwegian Cruise Lines, to name a few as well as numerous private collections. Mattera writes a contemporary art blog, she is a frequent guest speaker and curator and is a member of American Abstract Artists (NYC). The artist lives and works in MA and in NYC. Silk Road #274 and #274, 2015 encaustic on panel 12 x 12 inches $2,400. each
D A V I D K O N I G S B E R G
David Konigsberg bridges the divide between art and real life in narrative paintings that are both objective and conceptual. His work occupies a nether world of image and memory in his very personal narratives, which are not meant to be deciphered but experienced as emotional possibilities. The artist’s work has been exhibited throughout out the United States and has been featured in The New York Times, Chronogram and Brooklyn Journal and numerous art and culture blogs. David Konigsberg lives and works in Hudson, New York
Field, 2015 oil on panel 21 x 24 inches $3,500.
David Konigsberg Ebenezer Whites, oil on canvas 50 x 44 inches $8,500.
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