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ESKFF and Mana Art Center are currently presenting PHOTOREALISM: Our Own Directions -
Works from The Louis K. & Susan P. Meisel Collection from September 18 – February
2012.
The exhibition is a major survey of photorealism from art collector and author Louis K. Meisel, who
coined the term "photorealism" in 1969. The movement emerged in the late 1960s as a generation
of
artists broke from art world tradition by unapologetically using photography to create large-scale realist
works. For more information, visit www.artmanafest.com
or click here.
On November 12, ESKFF and Mana Contemporary presented a panel discussion, AMERICAN
REALISM TO PHOTOREALISM, featuring author and gallerist Louis K. Meisel, Hyperrealist
sculptor Carole Feuerman, and Photorealist
painters Yigal
Ozeri and Ben Schonzeit.
The
discussion was moderated by Eileen S. Kaminsky in conjunction with the current Photorealism
exhibition, Our Own Directions: Works from the Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel Collection. Click
here for a four-minute preview, or for a more in-depth version, see the 15-minute
video here.
Special thanks to video director Anthony Ponzio and video editor Adam Cohen.
For the first time in Austria, the Leopold
Museum is presenting Hermann Nitsch – Structures, a
museum-based examination of the drawn and graphical oeuvre of Hermann Nitsch, through January
30, 2012. At the center of this exhibition is
Hermann Nitsch’s architectural designs, as well as early
sketches for monumental compositions influenced by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar
Kokoschka, informal scribbled drawings, sketches from various actions, color scales for projections,
scores for his music and printed graphics.
Will Kurtz's new solo exhibition, Extra Fucking Ordinary, is on view at Mike
Weiss Gallery January
12 – February 18, 2012. The show consists of life size figural sculptures constructed of collaged
torn
sheets of newspaper, wood, wire, screws, tape and everyday objects which depict the characters
captured by Kurtz's iPhone camera lens.
Trudy Benson and Kim Dorland are participating in the group show Idealizing
the Imaginary:
Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting at Oakland
University Art Gallery in Rochester,
MI. Central to the practice of the painters in this exhibition is the expansion of the imaginary as
the
primary source of their compositions and as such their practice is rooted in invention and the mind's
eye.
The resulting works are reflexive of something intrinsic to contemporary painting: creating a surface
that
is neither a window onto the extant, nor a mirror, but rather a platform expressing the interior feelings
and thoughts of each artist onto a vital exterior surface. The other artists featured are Kevin Baker,
Katherine Bernhardt, Cecily Brown, Matt Connors, Jesse Chapman, Mark Flood, Rosy Keyser, José
Lerma, Dasha Shishkin, Josh Smith, Denyse Thomasos, and Wendy White. This exhibition is curated by
Dick Goody and is on view from January 14 – April 1, 2012.
Daniel Pitín, Oliver Clegg and Nicola Samori will be participating in the three-person exhibition Point
of Entry at Ana Cristea Gallery
from January 12 – February 18, 2012. The phrase 'Point of Entry' is
often encountered in reference to situations of high drama or tension: birth, bullet wounds, crime scenes
and border control being among the disparate usages to which it is applied. Perhaps as a result of these
particular associations it carries with it a weight of expectation and significance.
Olivier Masmonteil is currently on a 6 month trip of Asia (India, Thailand, Vietnam) and South
America (Chile, Brazil). Galerie Dukan Hourdequin
will present a solo exhibition featuring selected
works from this world tour in October 2012. Masmonteil’s first world tour in 2009 led to the creation
of the Quelle que
soit la minute du jour series that consisted of 1000 paintings representing as many
landscapes. Click here for a video preview of his current trip. The podcast of the program L'Atelier
d'Olivier Masmonteil, presented by Vincent Josse and broadcast on Radio France Inter, can
be heard
here.
Damien Cabanes is one of four artists who have been nominated for the 2011
Marcel Duchamp Prize.
Organized in partnership with the Centre
Pompidou and FIAC, the Marcel Duchamp Prize
is among the
most prestigious awards of the international art community. The prize was established by the
Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l’Art Français (ADIAF) in 2000 in order to
promote
French art on the world stage. This prize is awarded every year to a French artist working in visual
or
plastic arts.
Galerie Eric Dupont has organized a retrospective of
works by Damien Cabanes at Museum
of
Modern Art of Saint-Etienne Métropole in La Terrasse, France from September 17, 2011 –
January
30, 2012. Cabanes’ abstract renderings of the human figure are gestural, expressive and highly
spontaneous. His work stylistically recalls that of Outsider Art and Art Brut, and echoes predecessors
such as Giacometti and Dubuffet.
Eileen S. Kaminsky recently had a chance to drop by the Mana Contemporary studio of friend and
artist Virginia Martinsen to discuss some of her inspirations and future projects for the ESKFF.
To
the read the full interview, click
here.
In recognition of her significant cultural impact on the Jersey City community, the Art Department at
New Jersey City University has recommended Eileen S. Kaminsky to receive the 2011 Honorary
Award and Induction into the Kappa Pi Art Honor Fraternity at the University. The Kappa Pi
Art
Honor Fraternity is hosted by 200 schools nation-wide. Established in Kentucky in 1911, it has
dedicated itself to providing a voluntary, non-profit base of support for art excellence and academic
achievement. Some notable and honorary members of Kappa Pi have included John Singer Sargent,
Frank Lloyd Wright, Grant Wood, Norman Rockwell, and, more recently, Al Hirschfeld and Faith
Ringgold.
Japanese artist KAORUKO had her solo exhibition, Aromako, at Mike
Weiss Gallery through January
7, 2012. The title, Aromako, is a play on words combining the artist’s name and visual theme
of the
work and explores the complexity of the modern Japanese woman in terms of her relationship with
herself and tradition. Using acrylic paint, traditional sumi calligraphy techniques and silkscreened
kimono
patterns, KAORUKO creates large-scale paintings which depict women in their private domestic
spaces.
Elisa Johns participated in the group show Domestic
Disturbance at Nye + Brown in Los Angeles.
The exhibition put the viewer in the position of proffering their perception of the compromised "image"
of family values gone array and insures that their imagination is inadequate.
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