Art Southampton Fair

Mindy Solomon Gallery is pleased to announce their participation in the first Art Southampton fair. News according to The Hamptons Art Hub:

It’s official–The Hamptons will have a third art fair this summer. Art Southampton will hold its inaugural fair in July, creating a trio of weekends where art fairs take hold of the Hamptons.

Art Southampton will take place from July 26 to 30. It is presented by Art Miami, an anchor fair of Miami’s Art Week held each December. Art Miami presents modern and contemporary art. It has held 22 fairs since inception.

“Our goal as an organization is to come to the Hamptons and engage the community both socially and culturally long-term and offer a discerning group of collectors at every level the opportunity to enjoy the highest level art fair ever held in The Hamptons,” according to Nick Korniloff, who is director for Art Southampton as well as a partner of Art Miami LLC.

Art Southampton will be held from July 26 to 30, 2012 on the grounds of the Southampton Elks Lodge, 605 County Road 39, Southampton, NY. www.art-southampton.com

Visit the Mindy Solomon Gallery Fair page for news on other upcoming art fairs.

David Hicks at Boltax Gallery Summer Project

Don’t miss Mindy Solomon Gallery artist David Hicks’s show ‘Specimens and Artifacts” at boltax gallery Summer Project on lovely Shelter Island in New York.  On display June 29 – July 30, and an opening reception June 30th.  Summer project hours are Friday – Sunday from 11 AM – 6 PM at 21 North Ferry Road.  Check out www.boltaxgallery.com for more information.

And, see more of David’s newest works at the upcoming Mindy Solomon Gallery exhibit ‘Organic Inhabitants: The Creature Comforts of David Hicks and Patricia Sannit‘ this summer, July 14 – September 8 here at Mindy Solomon.

The de la Torre Brothers: Museum Shows Abound!

Mindy Solomon Gallery artists and brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre are known for their mixed media works based upon their Mexican-American bi-cultural experience. LA Weekly describes their work as a “raucous parade of unlikely icons, sabotaged masterpieces, reconstituted artifacts and cock-eyed renditions of just about anything you can think of.”

Tara’s Temple, 2011
48x36x3 inches
Mixed Media, Resin Castings, Faceted Glass

Their current exhibitions include:

• ’50 years of studio glass’ Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft through July 1
• The International Glass Prize 2012 taking place in Glazen Huiz, Lommel, Belguim through October 7
• “Mexicanisimo” at San Jose Museum of Art through September 23
• “Trazando la Linea” at CEART, Mexicali featuring the full “La Reconquista” installation, through July 1

La Reconquista

Coming events include:

• Teaching in Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, June 10-23
• Teaching in Pilchuck, Washington Session 6, August 20-31
• Showing work in the Orlando Museum of Art glass show, November 2012

Solos shows include:

• Exhibit at Mesa Center for Contemporary Art, September 14-January 7
• Exhibit at Chrysler Museum, Virginia, September 12-October 28
• Residency at The Chrysler Museum, Virginia, September 17-24
• Featured artist at the International Glass Symposium Novy Bor, Czech Republic,  October 4-7
• Exhibit at Mindy Solomon Gallery in December
• Completion of public art project at San Diego Public Library, with artwork installations in the main glass elevator

Visit the Mindy Solomon Gallery for more information on the artists and to follow news on their upcoming exhibit in December.

Generic Art Solutions at SCOPE Basel… And Videos!

We are thrilled to be exhibiting three great works by Generic Art Solutions (GAS) at SCOPE Basel, Switzerland, June 12th-17th:  Marat, The Raft, and Liberty.  See them all on the GAS page of our website here // Generic Art Solutions work at Mindy Solomon Gallery

Generic Art Solutions is the collaborative effort of Matt Vis and Tony Campbell. This New Orleans-based art duo utilizes nearly every art medium to examine recurring themes of human drama and functions of contemporary society. Always rooted in the performative, the pair play every character in each of their works. The resultant effect of their elaborate two-man stagings is as impressive as the subject matter itself.  By combining classical, romantic, and baroque compositional elements with contemporary pictorial techniques, GAS seek to illuminate common threads that connect past histories with current events: that the history of art is political; that human behavior repeats itself; that the cycle of repetition must be broken in order for progress to be made.  More absurd than comical, the work is a humorous and irreverent commentary on the function of art and contemporary life.

GAS’s video portraits and public performances are just as poignant as their photographs.  Please enjoy a few of their enactments here:

SPILL

MOLOTOV (Passing the Torch)

RIOT COPS ON THE BEAT

NEST

TIN SOLDIERS

Gary Petersen Featured in Art in America

Mindy Solomon Gallery artist Gary Petersen‘s painting ‘The Things I Miss’ was featured in Art in America in May, along with a great review on Petersen:  ”Showing a softer side to hard-edge abstraction…meditations on space, angle and extension…emotional content as well, which moves the viewer with its sense of attenuation.”  And, “new territory to explore in a tradition that feels like it is just getting started.”  We couldn’t agree more!

Read the full article here // Gary Petersen in Art in America, May 2012

Gary Petersen ‘The Things I Miss’ 2011, 20 x 16 inches, acrylic and oil on masonite panel

Petersen says of his work:  ”I am an abstract painter using geometry, particularly line, to reflect vulnerability and uncertainty in the world and in the self. Color allows somewhat familiar forms to become personal and subtly eccentric. My work is influenced by childhood cartoons, cosmology, the body, and pop culture.  My longtime interest in early 20th century abstraction and the notion of the cosmic merges with an American pop sensibility.”

Gary Petersen is a native New Yorker, and holds a BS from Penn State and an MFA from The School of Visual Arts. Awards include: a studio at The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program 2010-2011; The New Jersey State Council on the Arts; Painting Fellowship Award for 2011, 2002, and 1993; and the Visual Arts Fellowship Award, Edward F. Albee Foundation, 1988. Petersen’s works have been exhibited widely in solo shows since the 1990s, and reviewed in The New York Sun, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Partisan Review.  He currently occupies a studio at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City.