Spring Events and Artist Highlights

Apr 04, 2023

Good afternoon everyone! I am very excited for this newsletter where I share some of my favorite artwork offers as well as two upcoming events this month.

On Wednesday, April 12 from 6-9pm, I am hosting an expanded edition of my arts salon. In place of a seated dinner, next week’s salon is a cocktail party event to encourage more discussions with gallery directors about their artists. The ticket price is the same as past salons and will go towards a fundraiser for Boston Medical Center. Please use this link to purchase tickets before we sell out! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-salon-boston-marathon-fundraiser-tickets-593556913707

On Monday, April 24 from 9-11pm, I am co-chairing the Bronx Museum Gala afterparty. There will be dancing and dessert and a lot of exuberance! If you or your company is interested in purchasing a table for the gala, please contact me for a discounted rate. Please use this link to purchase tickets for the after-party: https://bronxmuseum.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/bronxmuseum/eventRegistration.jsp?event=21&

As always, I will be hopping around the galleries on Fridays and Saturdays so please let me know if you are interested in joining for some or all of it! Below are some highlights from this past month:

LAURENCE PILON

Shortcut, 2022

Oil on canvas

60 x 48 inches

$8,500

LAURENCE PILON

Not a sign to break down, nor a principle to intuit, 2022

Oil on canvas

60 x 48 inches

$8,500

Laurence Pilon’s pictorial and sculptural work offers a speculative visibility of paleo-ecological compositions in becoming, an imaginary space that they investigate from a queer-crip perspective. In their works, fragments of inter-species compositions compress through a slow process of accretion, decomposition, and re-emergence. Throughout this stratigraphic process, they seek fossilization and indetermination while paying particular attention to the agential force of the materials they use. This intuitive and taphonomic approach allows them to visualize entanglements that are at once underworldly and topographical, micro- and macroscopic, and in which various temporal and metaphorical dimensions intersect. - Galerie Nicolas Robert website

ADAM HENRY

Life Score, 2023

Silkscreen on coventry paper

Framed: 49 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches

Unframed: 44 x 36 inches

Edition of 10 plus 5 artist's proofs

$7,500 (Framed)

$6,000 (Unframed)

Adam Henry’s work investigates the realms that exist beyond our senses through painting, collage, and poetic gestures. Best known for lush paintings on canvas that probe the optics of the color spectrum and light, Henry has gleaned from his studies in phenomenology and color theory that our lived experience is haunted by the ways that our brains limit and deceive us. Henry turns his attention toward the perception of sound. Both as a producer (his second studio is a recording space) and an avid listener, Henry has long been immersed in music. His interests, as one might expect from his paintings, skew towards experimental, minimal, and avant-garde composers like La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, and John Cage, the latter being a key influence for the works in this show. But he also has a more fraught relationship with sound. For years, he has learned to manage a persistent case of tinnitus, a disorder that is often a result of damage to the ear, brain, or auditory nerve, which manifests as a ghostly, high-pitched ringing in the mind of the afflicted. Famously, Cage was obsessed with silence as much as he was with sound. For Henry, silence is elusive. - Candice Madey website

ADAM HENRY

Overtone, 2023

Collage

Framed: 14 x 12 1/2 inches

Unframed: 6 x 4 inches

$3,500

JAN GATEWOOD

Had a heady title, you know the kind that asks the big questions. Then I said… why my shit lookin like the Drake Sprite commercial?, 2023

Graphite, oil pastel, oil stick, fabric dye, bleach, salt, glitter, glue, blueberry, and broomstick on paper

55 3/8 x 42 inches (framed)

$12,500

Los Angeles based artist Jan Gatewood is showing eight new works on paper that locate themselves near the intersection of drawing, painting and collage. Using an eclectic array of materials, ranging from oil pastel and fabric dye to palo santo ash or debris, Jan Gatewood explores image-making with wit, language and technical play. Through self-imposed rules and repetition, he renders animal characters in a manner that oscillates in between playfulness and realism, set against abstract backgrounds of splashes, splatters, stamps and smears. Other materials like bleach and salt are poured and sprinkled, blueberries squeezed and daubed over the paper. Oil stick is meticulously dapped with cotton swabs, while fabric dye is applied with fingers, pieces of bok choy, or Gatewood’s own hair - never with a brush. By employing glue as a tool to break apart the images, Gatewood embeds material and gestural abstraction into a reciprocal play of chance and control, making himself respond to his own moves. - Silke Lindner Press Release