Louise Nevelson, Maquette for Night Wall I

Leon Kroll, Maine Hills

The Redfield Gallery and Sunne Savage Gallery are pleased to announce the exhibition, Maine Modern and Realist. The exhibit is from August 4th to August 17th, 2010. The opening reception is Wednesday August 4th, 2010 from 5:00 to 7:30 PM at the Redfield Gallery, 125 Main Street, Northeast Harbor, Maine. The Gallery will also be participating in Northeast Harbor’s weekly Thursday Evening Stroll on August 5th.

The Maine Modern artists featured are Louise Nevelson, Byron Browne, Edward Betts, John Marin and Rockwell Kent. Works by Frank W. Benson, Walter Farndon, Leon Kroll, Jane Peterson, Charles Hovey Pepper, Charles Woodbury and contemporary artist Joel Babb represent the Realist Maine artists.

The Court House Gallery is including a selection of works by Robert S. Neuman in their exhibition, The Wingspread Legacy. The exhibition honors the Wingspread Gallery that had a forty year tenure on Main Street, Northeast Harbor, before being destroyed in the fire of 2008.

Opening Thursday July 29^th, the exhibition will run through August 24^th, 2010 at the Court House Gallery, Court Street, Ellsworth, ME. On display will be Neuman’s Ship to Paradise #4, Pedazos Del Mundo # 5 (pictured left), and Homage to Stravinsky, along with works by Aurelia “Thistle” Brown, Paul Rickert, Katherine Bell, Adele Seronde, Lynn Sage, and many others. The Court House Gallery produced a catalog to accompany the exhibition; please see www.courthousegallery.com for more information.

Neuman, Lame Deer Big Eagle, 2007, oil on canvas

 Salomon Contemporary is showing Lame Deer Big Eagle, 2007, an oil on canvas from the Lame Deer Series in Hunt & Chase, a group exhibition curated by Beth DeWoody. Hunt & Chase is the first time Salomon Contemporary is exhibiting Neuman’s work.  

Salomon Contemporary- Warehouse is located at 6 Plank Road – unit 3 in East Hampton, NY. Hunt & Chase runs July 10^th through August 15^th . For more information please visit www.salomoncontemporary

Gallery Sam, Berkeley, CA, exhibited four canvases ranging from 1960-1990 at Art Hamptons, in Sayre Park, Bridgehampton, NY. Included in the art fair is Fragmented Scene, 1960, along with examples from  the Pile,  and the Lame Deer Series. More information about the art fair can be found at www.arthamptons.com.

Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern, Azul, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 56 inches

 Lembranças de Angola, Memories of Angola, is an exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern and Nelson Da Costa. The juxtaposition of the two series highlights the artist’s differences: war and peace, figure and landscape. Their similarities, an Angolan experience, a Portuguese heritage, and formal education cultivated a creative outlet for Ahern and Da Costa resulting in this exhibition, Lembranças de Angola, which Caturano and Company Art Gallery is pleased to host.

Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern’s paintings are driven from her memories; memories of weather, color, landscape. In 2006 Ahern traveled to Angola as a participant in the American Artists Abroad Program. Her works recall the regions bright natural light, the colors of the textiles, and the Atlantic. Ahern enjoyed the people and cultural exchange while in Angola, yet constant security kept her aware of the lingering dangers of Angola’s 30 year civil war.

As child in Angola the 30 year war left Nelson Da Costa an orphan. Da Costa was introduced to art as therapy while healing from physical and emotion trauma. Achieving a degree in art therapy, Nelson earned his Masters in painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The paintings of Da Costa’s address the memories of his lost family and armed rabbles. The details of their faces are lost overtime, what remains are silhouettes abstracted on a camouflage pattern of color. The pattern signifies a war torn Angola; the color represents Angolan culture.   

Lembranças de Angola is the first time Ahern and Da Costa are exhibiting together. The exhibit, curated by Christina Godfrey, is through June 18th at the Caturano and Company Art Gallery, 80 City Square, Charlestown, MA. To visit the exhibition or receive images via email please contact Christina Godfrey. Additional images and biographical information on Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern can be found at www.sunnesavage.com.

The Sunne Savage Gallery recently exhibited four wall sculptures by John Bisbee at AD20/21, Boston, MA.  All four pieces, Moth Flower, Low Deco, Rocket Feather, and Cephalopod, can be seen on www.sunnesavage.com. In addition, photographs of Bisbee’s current exhibition at the Vero Beach Art Museum, FL, are also posted on the site. A Secret Language: Sculpture by John Bisbee, installed through June 27, is comprised of six large works, Scale, Rotor, Plode, Helio, Bloom, and Dendryte.  In the Northeast, John Bisbee’s sculpture can be seen in two summer exhibitions. The Ogunquit Art Museum, ME, is hosting a solo show opening May 22nd, and Storm King Sculpture Park, NY, is exhibiting Bisbee’s sculpture in their group show 5+5: New Perspectives opening June 5th.
 
All the sculptures posted on the Sunne Savage Gallery’s website are available for purchase. Please contact Christina Godfrey with inquires.

Image: A Secret Language: Sculpture by John Bisbee , Courtesy of the Vero Beach Art Museum, Photography by Tom Smoyer

The Sunne Savage Gallery is exhibiting in Booth 20 at AD20/21, Art & Design of the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries. The art fair runs April 9^th-11^th, with the Gala Preview on Thursday April 8^th. AD20/21 is held in the Cyclorama Building, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA. More information about the art fair can be found at www.ad2021.com.

The Sunne Savage Gallery is exhibiting two and three dimensional works of art by Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern, John Bisbee, Gillian Christy, Rockwell Kent, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Robert S. Neuman, John Raimondi, John Thompson, and William Thon.

Kayo Burmon, Black Loops, Color Photograph

Wednesday, February 24^th will be the first art reception held at Aloft Hotel, Lexington, MA, a Starwood Hotel. The hotel, in combination with Sunne Savage Gallery, will begin hosting reception on the first Wednesday of each three month exhibition. The receptions are open to the local community, exhibiting artists, and clients of the hotel. In true Aloft fashion, the evening will be entirely themed towards the current exhibition including music selected by the artist and signature cocktails for the event.

 For the premiere exhibition of 2010, Aloft will be exhibiting selections from Kayo Burmon’s Frescoes Series. Burmon writes, “From the beginning of time, man has felt compelled to make marks. Eventually these marks became standardized and evolved into symbols or letters that consistently mean the same thing… I find enormous beauty in the line and patterns and colors of all marks made by every culture… Because I am particularly drawn to Italy… it was logical to investigate marks there. I started to look at centuries old frescoes, but quickly found myself drawn to the modern day wall paintings in the form of Graffiti. I became obsessed with composing images and capturing them on camera.” Aloft will be exhibiting four of Burmon’s Frescoes from February 22^nd thru May 20^th, 2010.

Sunne Savage Gallery, Winchester, MA, assists Aloft Hotel with their community art exhibitions. The Gallery and Hotel have been working together since the hotel’s opening in 2008. The Sunne Savage Gallery supplies Aloft Hotel with two dimensional arts from local artists to exhibit in the Hotel’s lobby. Working with Aloft Hotel in turn opened the doors for the Sunne Savage Gallery to complete four sculpture commissions for the W Hotel Boston, another Starwood Hotel. The Sunne Savage Gallery, LLC, is a woman-owned, generational business specializing in fine art since 1975. The Gallery offers both private and corporate art services including art advisory, installation, framing, appraisal, conservation and transportation.

We are pleased to announce that the Allan Stone Gallery is exhibiting Plaza Real, 1958, by Robert S. Neuman at Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL. This is the second year the Allan Stone Gallery is exhibiting Neuman’s paintings. In 2008 the Allan Stone Gallery sold Barcelona Triptych, 1959, at Art Basel Miami Beach for a record price. The Allan Stone Gallery, focusing on American postwar Abstract Expressionism, is exhibiting work by Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Franz Kline, Michael Goldberg, Alfred Leslie, and Robert S. Neuman in Booth A 12. Art Basel, Miami Beach, runs Wednesday December 3rd thru Sunday the 6^th, 2009. Please see www.artbaselmiamibeach.com for more information

The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, is currently exhibiting work by Robert S. Neuman. Evolution of a Shared Vision: The David and Barbara Stahl Collection includes Neuman’s watercolor Lame Deer Study, 1989. The Stahls carefully assembled their collection over a 50-year period and with the advice of Charles Buckley, director of the Currier from 1955 through 1964. The exhibition includes prints by Dürer, Rembrandt, Max Beckmann, Edward Hopper, John Sloan, and Reginald Marsh, among others.  We are honored that the Currier and David Stahl selected Lame Deer Study for the cover of the exhibition catalog.  Evolution of a Shared Vision: The David and Barbara Stahl Collection is on view at the Museum thru January 3^rd, 2010. Please see www.currier.org for more information.

Lame Deer Tryptich, 1979, oil on canvas

The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, recently published Modern & Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art. The catalog is the third in a series of comprehensive exhibitions and catalogues showcasing the permanent collection. Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth focuses on post-1945 painting, sculpture, works on paper, new media, and photography, and includes works by Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, Howard Ben Tre, and Bill Viola, among others. Neuman’s canvas Lame Deer Triptych, 1979,is included in the catalog. The painting, measuring 6 ½ x 19 feet, is installed in the College’s Hopkins Center. Please see http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/2009modcontempartdartmouth/index.html for more information.

Image: Gillian Christy, Forest Abstraction, 2009, powder coated steel

Gillian Christy has installed Forest Abstraction in the EWOW suite at the newly opened W Hotel Boston.  The relief, which expansively covers three walls of the suite, was a collaborative effort of the artist, Gillian Christy; the designers, Bentel & Bentel; and the Sunne Savage Gallery. Fitting the W Hotel’s “virtual garden” theme, Bentel & Bentel supplied an inspirational photograph for the tree like pattern. Christy brought the designers vision to life with sculptural precision and ingenuity; skillfully completing the commission to the mass approval of the W Hotel team.

Forest Abstraction is Gillian Christy’s first commission in the Boston area.  Prior to Forest Abstraction, Christy completed three large scale sculpture projects in Providence, RI, including The Return Home, 2008; Embrace, 2005-2007, and Day to Day, 2008; all of which are installed in public areas around the city. Currently Christy is completing her fourth public work in Providence, RI, entitled Wave Traveler. Christy is also beginning the design of a public work for the town of Fitchburg, MA, which is paired with a solo exhibition of Christy’s work at Fitchburg State College.

A selection of Gillian Christy’s interior sculptures and commissions can be seen at www.sunnesavage.com. Please contact Christina Neuman Godfrey for more information about Gillian Christy.