Art San Diego 2018

SERGOTT CONTEMPORARY ART Alliance ART SAN DEIGO 2018

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By working closely with local art organizations and community partners, our gallery, Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance, fully embraces the idea of an artistic community and seeks to showcase local artists to a global audience. Since our founding, we maintain a growing supportive and philanthropic role in the greater San Diego Art Community and have hosted multiple community outreach programs outlined in our exhibition history.

In 2016, we extended our alliance program by creating two new divisions that focus on multidisciplined mid-career to established artists and international photo-based artists. Our goal is to provide a format whereby our emerging artists have a platform for growth. Currently, SCAA maintains a full schedule of national Art Fairs where we have extended our connections to collectors, museums, foundations, and corporate collections.

We are open by appointment only in Rancho Santa Fe, California.

Cover image: Joe Caroff, Gestures 8, 2012. Mixed media, 19" x 19

Exhibiting Artists

Joe Caroff

Pg. 1

Dario Campanile

Pg. 2

Emily Halpern

Pg. 3

Jeffery Laudenslager

Pg. 4

Francisco Postlethwaithe Montijo

Pg. 5

Maidy Morhous

Pg. 6

Marco Miranda

Pg. 7

Marie Najera

Pg. 8

Hung Viet Nguyen

Pg. 9

Deanne Sabeck

Pg. 10

Jeehye Shin

Pg. 11

Shinpei Takeda

Pg. 12

Joe Caroff ABOUT

“Caroff’s work is about the vital inner world of the artist as well as a response to the broader world and current events. Often suggestive narrative elements seep into abstract forms. Color accents the monochromatic. Forms define negative and positive space. Lines interface and rise from the surface. Through his work, Joe Caroff strives to unify diverse aesthetics and influences to create a unique internal harmony. His intuitive process – guided by the interaction between line, color and space – defines the direction of each work as it evolves.” – Tracy L. Adler, Director of the Ruth and Elmer Wlin Museum of Art

The Matron, 2005 mixed media 29”x 24.5” x 1.25”(framed)

Dario Campanile ABOUT

Dario Campanile’s journey started in Rome, Italy, where he was born in 1948.

Campanile expressed an affinity for art as a young boy. When he was 14, the artist was bedridden with a kidney ailment for three months, and his father gave him a set of oil paints to cheer him up. He painted his first still life in just a few days. In 1986 Campanile was commissioned to redesign and create a new logo for the famed Paramount Pictures. In 2005 he was invited to participate on a project called “Missing Peace.” He also met the Dalai Lama at his home in India, where he posed for a portrait exhibited in the project.

After decades of painting realism and surrealism, Campanile’s work has evolved into abstract expressionism, which is now the artist’s main focus and passion. After 50 years of artistic expression, he is unceasingly inspired by the beauty in the world and continues on his journey through art.

“The Whisperer” 2018, oil on canvas 40 x 30

Emily Halpern About “My paintings map my inner world. My process seeks to open the locked door of the unconscious through methods suggested by Surrealism. I use a square format that negates hierarchical narrative composition, whether top-to-bottom or left-toright. As I work, I frequently rotate the canvas in order to disorient the view, helping new directions emerge and facilitating my stream of consciousness approach. Color is used to reconstruct different moods and to connect to fragmentary, cryptic narratives. My goal is to create "nowhere" spaces with an absence of horizon lines and populated by what psychoanalyst Carl Jung referred to as archetypal imagery such as flying and floating contraptions, rocks and snakes.

The mark varies from heavy and textural to a light touch befitting the content of the piece. My intention is to engage by slipping away, leaving gaps for viewers to fill as a springboard for their own imaginations.” – Artist Statement

Neurotic Excoriations, 2016. Oil on Linen, 76”x 76”

Jeffery Laudenslager About “The work I do today is kinetic sculpture that consists of geometric shapes which are joined and balanced so that wind alone will activate them. And there is a sort of history to the development of this current work. I began using the figure as a basis of early work and that quickly became quite abstract, but the gestural, human qualities remained. An extended period of "illusionist" sculptures played with masses that defied gravity and retained a bit of narrative quality to them as well. I became increasingly interested in the levitating appearance of discreet parts that made up the entire sculpture. I wanted to see things float and move. My last 15 years of artistic production have been devoted to making my art practice as precise, visually satisfying, seductive and, well, yes, beautiful as I can achieve.” – Artist Statement

ITSABOUTFUCKINGTIME, 2014 stainless steel and titanium 99” x 72” x 42”

Francisco Postlethwaite Montijo About “My painting suggests that there is another way of seeing, through the reconsideration of the matter and forms. living in a city that everything is burned and wasted by the sun and extreme heat, a lot of industrial waste and junkyards inspires and force me to recognize beauty where it is not supposed to be. I use undertones backgrounds cracked wood tones to transform in to a harmonic mix color. Old shades, deep colors that emerge from the shadows, from abstract meaning or an inner world, the border line between worn and new, between rugged and premeditated, the beauty of decay, the beauty of a scar, there are sutures all over my paintings because it comes from a aesthetic skin that needs to be cherished and remodeled. My personality, my character, my ocher brightness thrown to the wounded surface. I use the used to bring a new way of seeing.”- Artist Statement

Untitled 14, 2018. Mixed Media, 14”x 11” frame: 5” x 1.25”

Maidy Morhous ABOUT An accomplished printmaker as well as sculptor Maidy Morhous was born in Upstate New York. She currently creates out of her studio in Del Mar thirty minutes north of San Diego, California. Morhous received her Master of Fine Arts degree while continuing studies at Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris, France in the mid-1970’s. Before returning to the States she traveled to Italy to study casting techniques at the Marinelli Foundry, in Florence. Morhous became fascinated with how bronze; a cold hard metal could take on such a soft sensuous appearance, and has since worked exclusively with bronze as her form of creative expression.

Morhous explains, “I begin with an idea, an emotion, an abstract concept. As a piece develops, my original concept evolves, solidifies, or in some cases, changes completely. I see my work as relating collectively rather than as individualistic, the embodiment of feelings and emotions.

Toes on the Nose, cast bronze

Marco Miranda About Originally from Hermosillo, Sonora, a graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Sonora majoring in Printmaking. From a young age he has made plásticasu profession and life, always led by the great desire for experimentation and mixtures, very evident in his work. Filing in Baja California since 2004, when incursions into pictorial elámbito, currently works full time in his studio in one Mexicali, with the representation of galleries in Tijuana and Los Angeles, CA.

Utopia II, Marco Miranda, 2016. Mixed media, plexiglass, 48” x 48”

Marie Najera About Marie Najera lives and works in San Diego CA. Painting professionally for over 22 years, Marie's work is developed as stories of her life, a visual diary overlaid with the influence of current inspirations. After a fire destroyed her studio in 2016, Marie's work transformed and abstracted as she built her portfolio again from scratch. Najera works without any preconceived notions about the finished piece, applying her mixed media materials freely. Her process follows the emotional fluctuations of her daily life, each layer a product of the varied facets of her inner being.

Grow X, 2018. Mixed Media on wood panel, framed, 48 x 48

Hung Viet Nguyen ABOUT Artist Hung Viet Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1957. He studied Biology at Science University in Saigon, Vietnam, then transitioned to working as an illustrator, graphic artist and designer since settlement in the U.S. in 1982. He developed his artistry skills independently, studying many traditional Eastern and Western forms, media and techniques. Nguyen's complex, labor intensive investigations of oil paint reveal a methodical mastery of texture. While portions of Nguyen's work suggest the influence of many traditional art forms including woodblock prints, Oriental scroll paintings, ceramic art, mosaic, and stained glass, his ultimate expression asserts a contemporary pedigree. Nguyen's paintings have been exhibited at galleries, cultural art centers, and museums, juried or curated by museum curators/directors [Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Laguna Art Museum (LAM), Museum of Contemporary Los Angeles (MOCA), Museum of Latin America Art (MoLAA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA), Torrance Art Museum (TAM), UCLA Hammer Museum of Art].

Sacred Landscape III # 49, oil on canvas, 40" x 30", 2018 ($4,500)

Jeehye Shin ABOUT Jeehye was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1979 and spent most of her adolescence in Korea. A new chapter in her life began when she moved to the United States in January 2000. Her life as an artist began as she completed her undergraduate studies majored in Illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York in 2005 and continued her studies majored in 3D Animation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2010.She realized that she was truly passionate about illustration and decided to take a courageous turn towards a different path in the Art world. Doing 3D animation served as an opportunity for her to realize that her true passion lied in Illustration.She believes simple drawing implement such as markers or pens are best materials. With this emphasis on her drawings, she creates lines even with very limited colors, black and white, and focuses on negative spaces.

Fish in the Banana, 2015. Rhinestones on canvas, 32.5� x 38.5� (framed)

Deanne Sabeck About “My light sculptures are created from pure light refracted into the brilliant colors of our physical world. Using dichroic glass, which divides the light spectrum, transmitting one color while reflecting its opposite, I create sculptural light paintings with forms and colors that continually evolve, appear and disappear in meditative patterns.”- Artist Statement

Rapporto Aureo, 2017, 90” x 25” stainless and dichroic glass

Shinpei Takeda About Shinpei Takeda is a visual artist and filmmaker. His works involve a wide range of themes regarding memories and history. He uses multi-media installations, sound interventions, documentary films, large-scale photography installations, and collaborative community projects in various public contexts. Shinpei is also a Founder and Creative Director of The AJA Project, a nonprofit dedicated to working with resettled refugee children in San Diego and displaced youth in Colombia and Thailand using a participatory photography.

Unnamed 1, 2017 wool dimensions vary

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