Announcements
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.
Christy completes commission for W Hotel Boston
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.
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.
Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern’s painting By The Sea, just added to sunnesavage.com
Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern’s painting By the Sea was chosen by the United States Ambassador to the Ukraine for exhibition at the American Embassy in Kiev during his term. The painting was recently returned to Ahern’s studio in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is now available for purchase.
Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern has participated extensively in the United States Department of State’s Art in Embassy program. Through this program Ahern has exhibited her work in Kiev, Ukraine, Luanda, Angola, and Manama, Bahrain and with other prominent American Artists such as Dale Chihuly and Altoon Sultan. “The Art in Embassies Program is a global museum that exhibits original works of art by U.S. citizens in the public rooms of approximately 180 American diplomatic residences worldwide. These exhibitions… play an important role in our nation’s public diplomacy. They provide international audiences with a sense of the quality, scope and diversity of American art…” ( Program mission statement).
Ahern states that her “ideas for painting come from a compelling desire to shape and to abstract her experiences in nature, culture and life.” She also states that she is “fascinated by the way contemplation, imagination and time alter the memory of an experience.”
Ahern graduated from Boston University, and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, MA. She mentored under Helen Frankenthaler in Santa Fe, NM. Ahern exhibits regularly throughout the United States. More information about Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern work can be found at www.sunnesavage.com. Please contact Christina Neuman Godfrey with inquires.
Personality Portraits by Laura Tryon Jennings
“The paintings of Laura Tryon Jennings speak of the energized, colorful, enchanting chaos that is life. Since acquiring our first painting in 1994, we now have six in our collection. We love the images with slightly distorted perspectives and curiously juxtaposed remnants of everyday life that seem to capture that split second in time before all hell breaks loose again.” - Bruce and Kathy Hornsby, Grammy Award-winning recording artist
Laura Tryon Jennings, recent inductee to Newbury Street’s Copley Society of Art in Boston, is an award-winning New England artist with a resume that boasts nationwide exhibitions and prominent collectors including, best selling author Mary Higgins Clark, Grammy award winning singer Bruce Hornsby, News reporter Joan Lunden, and Harvard University. An artist who can ingeniously play with light and darkness to reveal emotions, her paintings have been described as “psychologically interesting,” as well as “triumphantly intimate and extraordinary.” Whether through interior, landscape, figurative, or still life portraits, Jennings’ whimsical yet serious work combines modern and traditional approaches, with a personal twist, rendering simple and quiet images that belie lives and moments that are never quite still. Each intimate portrait brings the viewer on a journey that will evoke many feelings with a subtle innuendo playing out in each background pattern.
Jennings accepts a limited number of commissions she refers to as “Personality Portraits” which focus on the subject’s within their surroundings and seize their true essence. These heirloom quality paintings offer a client the perfect opportunity to capture and preserve a precious setting and moment forever. For more information and details on Jennings’ work, visit her page on www.sunnesavage.com.
John Gentile wins online exhibition contest with Saatchi Gallery, England.
John Gentile exhibits Cargo, 2008, Oil on canvas, 68 x 68 inches
Saatchi Gallery, King’s Road, London, England.
As stated at www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk., “The Saatchi Gallery aims to provide an innovative forum for contemporary art, presenting work by largely unseen young artists or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK… The Gallery also includes a dedicated space for Saatchi Online artists to exhibit… The space features a rotating selection of winning Showdown artists chosen from Saatchi Online Magazine’s weekly critics’ picks and Showdown competition.“ Cargo, by John Gentile is a Showdown competition winner. Last fall, Cargo received votes from world wide visitors to the Saatchi Gallery’s website. After weeks of “showdown” and “head to head” competitions Cargo, the victor, was shipped to the Saatchi Gallery. The painting is currently on exhibit thru the fall of 2009; Installation images of the exhibition can be seen at http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/current/showdown_wall.htm
John Gentile’s work can be categorized as abstract, but with a reference to realism. A painting begins with a sketch/collage of recent magazine and newspaper clippings; this allows Gentile “to portray the contemporary world as he sees it.” A grid flowing spontaneously and freely over the surface is laid on top of the collage. John then translated the sketch to the canvas utilizing his drawing skill developed from years in the graphic design field. John states, “these lines, as they flow” over the canvas, “tell a story, a real story. You can look inside these lines and something realistic appears. You can stop and actually see what it is, then continue on,” following the grid, “and something else will appear. Looking at my paintings from a distance and the overall grid pattern is abstract, but look at them close up, and you can see very realistic forms inside. I would define my work as Hyper-Realistic Abstractions.’
For more information on John Gentile’s work or to schedule a studio visit please contact the Gallery.
Allan Stone Gallery exhibits Neuman tryptich at Art Basel, Miami
Art Basel: Miami Beach, FL. December, 2008. The image above shows a two-sided graphite drawing by Willem De Kooning, a relief by Robert Mallory, and Robert S. Neuman’s Barcelona Triptych.
The Allan Stone Gallery, booth H3, exhibits Robert S. Neuman, Barcelona Triptych, 1959, at Art Basel Miami Beach. The Allan Stone Gallery, founded in 1960, is the leading authority in American postwar Abstract Expressionism, including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, and Joseph Cornell. The Allan Stone Gallery focused their 2008 booth on first and second generation abstract expressionism. Along with the acclaimed AbEx artists listed above, the Allan Stone Gallery selected works by Norman Bluhm, Michael Goldberg, Robert Motherwell and Robert S. Neuman. Barcelona Triptych, 1959, is Robert S. Neuman’s first painting to be exhibited at Art Basel, Miami Beach. The Allan Stone Gallery had a successful show, selling many works from their booth, including the Robert S. Neuman Barcelona Triptych for a record price. Barcelona Triptych, 1959, is the sum of Robert S. Neuman’s formal education at the California College of Art and Crafts and time spent in Barcelona, Spain on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1956. When the triptych was painted, Neuman had returned to the United States, settling in Boston, MA, where he painted and taught at Massachusetts College of Art. Later, in the early 1960’s, Robert S. Neuman taught at Harvard University where he met Allan Stone, founder of the Allan Stone Gallery, who became a collector of his work. The majority of Neuman’s work from the 1950’s is in private collections. With the exception of Black Painting, 1952, gifted to the The Fogg Museum in 2003; Small Black Painting, 1956, at the Rose Museum at Brandeis University; and Neue Weinsteige, 1960, at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Gallery Sam, Berkley, CA, exhibits Neuman’s at ART Hamptons, NY.
Robert S. Neuman’s Pedazo del Mundo #20, 1962, is flanked with works by Ernest Briggs, to the left and to the right Ronnie Landfield.
July, 2008, Robert S. Neuman exhibited at ART Hamptons, NY, with Gallery Sam of Berkley, CA. Gallery Sam exhibited four works of Neuman’s: Lame Deer Wallowas, 2006; Lame Deer Pictograph, 1995; Pedazo del Mundo #20, 1961, and Man’s Greatest Illusion, 1950. To the right is Gallery Sam booth at ART Hamptons. Neuman’s
