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Check out the 3rd Annual Governors Island Art Fair with an Opening Party on Saturday, September from 11am to 6pm and then September 5th, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, and 26from 11am-6pm. The fair is organized by artists for artists from around the world and now includes galleries, curators and organizations. It is very easy to get to the fair, just take a free short ferry ride to the island to see the 100 solo exhibits, installations, performances and events. Admission is free. Read the attached release and visit www.4heads.org and www.facebook.com/4headsartfair for additional information.
TheGreatNude.tv is one of the organizations participating this year with a Small Works exhibit. With the exhibit there will be Nude Sketch Sessions where the public, exhibiting artists and others are invited to draw from the models. Exhibitors: Ana Bergen, Bob Clyatt, Janet Cook, Carole Feuerman, Chambliss Giobbi, Scott Goodwillie, Gretchen Kelly, Vlad Kenner, Daniel Maidman, Joseph Pearson, Dan Pottick, Ilene Skeen, Eric Sontag, Eric Wallis, Mary Wehrhahn, and Jeff Wiener.
TheGreatNude’s Small Works exhibit is located in Building #12, Section H, Room 4 on the second floor located at the main courtyard of the building. For additional info and images visit www.thegreatnude.tv.
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| Born in Sweden in 1955, Agneta Livijn spent her youth in Sweden and in France. She received her education at the Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm, at L’Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris and later at the San Francisco Art Institute in USA. Art has always been a great interest of Agneta’s, and she has always been fascinated by the life and work of famous artist like Monet and Matisse. The years spent in France certainly had a great impact in defining her career as an artist and designer. In addition to possessing great creativity and talent, Agneta has found inspiration during her travels over the world. |  | |
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| The term “Composition” could imply both a piece of music or dance choreography. Because these art forms are expressed through sound and time, a sense of free-flowing interpretation and open emotional response that is neither literal or interpretive, but rather, abstract and limitless, is engendered in those who witness such art forms. Much like more performance-based work, the work of the Swiss artist known merely as K-soul, operates on levels far and beyond our average viewing experience of visual art. Creating a series of electronic digital moving image and sound pieces known as the “Jardin Cosmique” series, he calls this new medium “light painting.” Working from a laboratory based in the Helvetian Alps, K-soul’s oeuvre ranges from digital painting to light sculpture—or light jewels. |  | |
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| Elisha Ben Yitzhak is a multifaceted artist who works in a variety of media, from oils to acrylic, drawing to watercolor. He is a virtuoso artist who has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally in venues as diverse as Zimbabwe and Switzerland, including London’s celebrated Tate Gallery. In September, he will be featured in a group exhibition entitled The United States Artists Biennial at the prestigious Broadway Gallery NYC, in New York’s preeminent Soho district. Reminiscent of styles as diverse as the quasi-abstracted figurative paintings of Alex Katz, the metaphysical proto-Surrealist paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, as well as the paintings of Henri Matisse's School of Paris period, Ben Yitzhak’s paintings are simultaneously lyrical and mysterious, jubilant yet pensive. |  | |
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…Actually, I believe that every chess player experiences a mixture of two aesthetic pleasures: first the abstract image akin to the poetic idea in writing, second the sensuous pleasure of the ideographic execution of that image on the chessboards. From my close contact with artists and chess players I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. In 1952 the New York State Chess Federation invited Duchamp to address its annual meeting. Duchamp’s remarks were succinct and intelligent, ending with the typically clever reversal quoted above; it was a notable honor. American Chess Master Edward Lasker said about Duchamp’s skill, “He is a very strong player.
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| Two major subjects for Duchampions [sic] are Marcel Duchamp’s final work, Étant donnés: 1. La chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas), posthumously revealed to the public in 1969, and Duchamp’s lifelong devotion to chess. Two acutely relevant exhibitions opened within a month of each other early this season in Philadelphia and New York. Both are de rigueur to see and they are augmented by three associated publications, which are impressive and present important new material to the field. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is architecturally Neoclassical, designed on the plan and with the attributes of a Greek temple built on a promontory overlooking the Schuylkill River. If you have not been there yet you absolutely must go! | | |
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| Suly Bornstein Wolff is a multi-faceted artist who works in a variety of media, from oils to acrylic, drawing to watercolor. She is a virtuoso artist who has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally in venues as diverse as Florence, Tel Aviv and New Delhi, India, and of course New York. Reminiscent of styles as diverse as the quasi-abstracted paintings of Cecily Brown, the metaphysical installation and wall sculpture of Eva Hesse, as well as the paintings symbolist landscapes of Gustav Klimt, Suly’s works are simultaneously lyrical and mysterious, jubilant yet pensive. Employing these paradoxes, she skillfully applies a multi-hued palette of soft violets, ochres, and browns to engender a sense of memory and longing for far away people and places. |  | |
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| The Dada force and spirit has been moved forward since 2006 at the Emily Harvey Foundation where the first, second and fourth Blago Bung evenings took place; the 3rd was held in Zurich at the original Cabaret Voltaire in September 2009. Blago Bung is an explanatory device / blurs all disciplines / is a trans-generational mix / is speed / Blago Bung shines. Participants have included: Michel Auder, John Armleder, Michel Collet, Gerard Colin Thiebaut, Adam Kahan, Patrice Lerochereuil, Nicola L, Larry Litt, Moira Tierney, Valentine Verhaeghe, Beatriz Albuquerque, Michel Bulteau, Jacques Halbert, Per Huttner, Jeffrey Perkins, Nicole Peyrafitte, Ivan Alechine, Taketo Shimada, Joao Simoes, Nicola Sornaga, John Giornio, Roland Wagner, Paul Dorn, Soren Berner.... |  | |
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| Pablo Picasso’s life, works and associations are the central core of this remarkable exhibition, drawn almost entirely from the Philadelphia Museum’s own collection, a large part of which was bequeathed by Albert Eugene Gallatin in 1952. Eleven galleries of paintings, collages, sculptures, and drawings organized by periods are on view, including a wealth of works on paper that are too fragile to be exhibited for lengthy periods of time. The museum has developed an interesting web presence for this exhibition, providing video clips of the main curator and contributor’s comments, a guide to the galleries with short informative essays, and enlargeable images of selected works in the show, as well as a Chronology and online Discussion forum. |  | |
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| Underground on BROADWAY is an exhibition of young and emerging British artists showing this summer at the Broadway Gallery, New York. Follow us for updates on the artists, new & exciting projects in both London & New York, and of course the show itself. |  | |
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| One is from Columbus, Ohio, the other from Sydney, Australia. One is American, the other Salvadorean, yet both are women with contrasting talents. On a cold December afternoon last year in a Harlem loft apartment, those talents would merge to create art. Photographer/ Journalist Sarah Laubacher has built a respectable body of work while working for newspapers in Ohio while desiring to pursue her art in new York. Natalia Segura is a singer/actress/ model came to New York to seek fame and possible fortune. Together they raised the bar on how the human body can be expressed, one behind the lens, the other, exposed fully in front of it. |  | |
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| “Yes” was Marcel Duchamp’s reply at every point scored in the tennis match he and Man Ray played the first time they met in 1915; they played without racquets, nets or a ball and neither one spoke the other’s language. It was in the countryside of New Jersey at an artist colony where Man lived with his French speaking Belgian wife Adon Lacroix. | | |
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