Exhibitions
August Exhibition in Downeast Maine
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.
Robert S. Neuman Exhibits at The Court House Gallery, Ellsworth, ME
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 29th, the exhibition will run through August 24th, 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.
Robert S. Neuman: Summer exhibitions on Long Island, NY.
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 10th through August 15th . 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 exhibits in Lembranças de Angola.
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.
John Bisbee: Current Exhibits in FL, ME, and NY.
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
Sunne Savage Gallery exhibits in AD20/21, April 9-11, 2010
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 9th-11th, with the Gala Preview on Thursday April 8th. 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 Frescoes on View at Aloft Hotel, Lexington, MA.
Wednesday, February 24th 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 22nd thru May 20th, 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.
Robert S. Neuman: An Art Fair, An Exhibition, A Catalog
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 6th, 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 3rd, 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.
Gillian Christy: Inside Outside on view at Fitchburg State College thru December 1st.
Image: Gillian Christy, As winter sets, 2007, Steel and Bronze, 22T x 24 x 14 inches
Inside Outside is not only Gillian Christy’s first solo exhibition; it is also her first traveling show. After exhibiting Inside Outside in the Mayer Gallery, at Appalachian State University, NC, the exhibition is presently at the Campus Center Art Gallery, Fitchburg State College, MA, to introduce Gillian and her work to the Fitchburg community. Gillian Christy has been selected to complete a large scale public work for the town. The commission will welcome visitors and natives of Fitchburg via the Water Street Bridge.
Christy is currently in the project’s design phase. She is drawing inspiration from the town’s history, industry, architecture, as well as discussions and thoughts from residents. In keeping with her previous work, Christy will use these inspirational elements as “connectors” to link the sculpture and the people of Fitchburg. Christy is on schedule to complete the design in December, and start fabrication in the New Year.
To read more about Gillian Christy, her work, and the Fitchburg project go to http://www.telegram.com/article/20091028/NEWS/910280427/1003/NEWS03
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.
“William Thon: Painting and Works on Paper” will be on view at Redfield Gallery, 125 Main Street, Northeast Harbor, Maine, August 27th to September 19th, 2009. Contact Sunne Savage with inquires at the Redfield Gallery (207) 276-3609.
Inspired by the waters, cliffs and boats on the Maine coast, William Thon worked with variegated textures to achieve his vision. In “Shag Island”, 1961, (shown above) Thon uses his palette knife to create texture and plains on the surface of the rocks where the cormorants perch above the frigid waters. Thon works his palette knife to express the sharp angle of the steep cliffs, and with the sweeping strokes, he creates turbulent waves giving a dramatic mood. The emotional impact that Thon achieves with paint is forceful. His trademark watercolor and resist technique is used on works on paper where he interprets, boats, the fog and seagulls in flight. “The Irish Fishermen” a watercolor shown below is an example of this technique.
William Thon lived in Port Clyde with his wife, Helen. He was discovered by the owner of the Midtown Gallery, Allan Gurskin. Midtown Gallery continued to represent Thon for forty years. Helen and William Thon announced in 2001 that they would bequest their estate to the Portland Museum of Art. The funds are used to support the juried biennial art exhibit by Maine artists held at the Portland Museum of Art.
Maine Inspiration: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings by Robert S. Neuman.
Ethel H. Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME.
August 16- September 25, 2009
Maine Inspiration addresses the 50 years in which Robert S. Neuman has enjoyed significant time in Maine and the effect that time has had on his work. The exhibition includes works from the Ship to Paradise, Stacks & Piles and Space Signs Series as well as the small group of Neuman’s Maine Landscapes. The exhibition is accompanied by an educational package equipped with explanations of each series, lessons on Neuman’s techniques, and hands on art projects for childern K-12.
Image: Robert S. Neuman, Somes Sound, 1968, oil on canvas
MAINE COASTAL VIEWS: 1880-1980 also features work by A.T. Bricher, William Partidge Burbee, Wilson Irvine, Charles Woodbury , Sally Michel , Tony Vevers and William Thon. For more information please contact Sunne Savage at the Redfield Gallery, 207 276 3609.
”Selections from the Collection of Clareand Allan Stone” ran July 20-Augst 14th, 2009 at College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME. The exhibition, curated by the Stone family, incorporated 42 works of arts regularly installed in their Seal Harbor home. Incorporated in the exhibition was an early untitled canvas by Robert S. Neuman. The image above shows Neuman’s canvas installed aside three small works by Robert Rasley, Derrick Guild, and Philip Sultz, all three seen above to the right of Neuman’s canvas. To the left of the canvas is a Willem DeKooning oil on paper. A review of the exhibition can be seen at http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/111611.html.
Inside Outside Exhbition: Mayer Gallery
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University
423 West King Street
Boone, NC 28608
Inside Outside is an exhibition of Gillian Christys’ newest work consisting of sculptural wall pieces inside the Mayer Gallery as well as outside, among the TCVA grounds. This body of artworks is based on the familiar objects that one may view on a daily basis. Christy often discovers these elements found in existing architecture or industry. Christy states, “ These object’s shapes intrigue me enough to recreate them, skewing their perceived form, function and size. It also strikes me as humorous that these objects could potentially retain personality traits! Clearly, I create an imaginative world but often the underlying themes illustrated within the piece are serious in content.
Nick Edmonds featured at the National Academy Museum, NY, 184th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. Reviewed in the April 17thissue of Antiques and the Arts Weekly, page 14.
Mountain near Santa Fe (image: painted wood, 20.5″H x 16″W x 10″D) is from a recent series derived from selected views of mountains and woods. This particular mountain is on the Turquoise Trail between Albuquerque and Santa Fe New Mexico.
The goal is to provide viewers with a sense of the wholeness of nature while living indoors. These room sized pieces are derived from selected views of mountains, bodies of water and the woods. I first envisioned making a sculpture that could be thought of as a small garden inside a house while studying wood joinery in Japan in the 1970’s. The profusion of gardens to be walked through and the many environments of stone and gravel meant to be viewed while stationary were overwhelming and I have sought to recall and utilize some of this energy as I understand it in these recent works.
In these sculptures a movement of rocks leads the viewer through the sculpture. Each rock used in the sculpture is carved in wood from an identical sized stone found on beaches or somewhere in New England. The duplication of these stones is a demanding exercise and entered into the spirit of study and renewal. After the stones are carved and primed it takes a while to achieve the three dimensional rock garden effects that I seek. But when properly arranged these faithfully copied stones bring a depth and hardness to the sculpture which is fairly unique.
184th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art is on view through June 10th, 2009 at the National Academy Museum, NY. Inquiries about Nick Edmonds please contact the Sunne Savage Gallery.
Sunne Savage Gallery and Sam Shaw exhibit at AD 20/21, Boston, MA.
AD 20/21 Cyclorama Building, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA.
March 26-29, 2009, Gala Opening on Thursday, March 26th, to benefit Boston Architectural College
In keeping with the theme of AD 20/21, Art & Design of the 20th and 21st centuries, Sunne Savage of Sunne Savage Gallery has invited Sam Shaw of Shaw Contemporary Jewelry to display his jewelry in the Sunne Savage Gallery booth, Number 14.
The Sunne Savage Gallery will be exhibiting a selection of works by Robert S. Neuman. The arrangement will be a retrospective of Neuman’s various series including early works, Pedazos del Mundo, Lame Deer and Ship to Paradise Series. The grouping will also cover Neuman’s preferred mediums: prints, collage, mixed media on paper, and oil on canvas. Sam Shaw will be exhibiting his Twig Series, a collection of jewelry created from the outermost twigs of a birch tree cast in solid 18K gold. The result is an exact replica in gold. Each piece is then fabricated so that every finished piece is as unique as the branch Shaw initially gathered.
For more information about the Galleries and AD 20/21 please contact the Sunne Savage Gallery (781) 721-2410. Websites for the art fair, Sunne Savage Gallery and Shaw Contemporary Jewelry are www.ad2021.com, www.sunnesavage.com, and www.shawjewelry.com
