de la Torre Brothers to Show at Cuidad Juarez El Paso Biennial 2013

MSG artists Einar and Jamex de la Torre are participating in the Bienal Cuidad Juarez El Paso Biennial 2013 at the El Paso Museum of Art June 2-August 18, 2013. Biennial 2013 includes over 40 artists living and working within 200 miles of the US/Mexico border.

Organ Exchange // 2001 // 48 x 48 x 8 inches // Blown glass, mixed media

Including two artworks by each artist, this exhibition constitutes the third collaboration between the El Paso Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte INBA – Cd. Juárez. For more information, visit the El Paso Art Museum website.

View more available works by the de la Torre brothers at Mindy Solomon Gallery //

Christopher Winter in Children’s Charity Auction

A watercolor from MSG Artist Christopher Winter‘s Wildlife Series (2010) will be included in the Children’s Cancer & Blood Foundation’s 6th Annual Contemporary Art  Auction, taking place on May 15th at Bonhams New York. Other artists include Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, and Jasper Johns.

Christopher Winter // ‘Wildlife XX (20) // Watercolour // 15 x 20 cm // 2010

This is a wonderful cause and all acquisitions will be free of buyer’s premiums, allowing proceeds to directly benefit the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center. Click here to preview and bid on the works.

View more available Christopher Winter works at Mindy Solomon Gallery //

The Work of Sylvia Hommert

The Mindy Solomon Gallery is proud to present the work of New York based artist Sylvia Hommert April 6-May 11 at the gallery, with an Opening Night Reception Saturday, April 6th from 6-9PM and Artist’s Talk at 6:30PM. Born in 1967 and educated at the famous Otis Parsons School of Art in Los Angeles, California, Hommert’s background as a successful textile artist and designer led her to explore abstraction and the use of color and light in painting as another form of textural experimentation. Pushing the possibilities of pigment and surface with an almost alchemistic precision, she creates colorful surfaces that project prismatic color and pattern.

“The Symbol of all Art is the Prism.
The goal is destructive.
To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains.”
- E.E. Cummings

Sylvia Hommert // Domination Gold // 44 Panels //
Hologram paper, beeswax, aqua tint, resin, on birch panel //

Sylvia Hommert // Zigzag // 2012 // 30 x 40 inches //

Hommert writes in her artist statement:

“Light and the reflection of light, how it interacts in an environment, is a constant thread that flows through my work. I am captivated by the silvery light glistening off alpine icicles and the lavender iridescence of sunset on water. It’s elusive, full of movement, ever changing, and it’s this ephemeral quality that intrigues me. How the passing of time plays off the luminous surfaces of each painting–the highs and lows, the shadows and relief. The color subtly shifts too, as the light moves through a space from sunrise to sunset, or as you move through the room. An organic calendar that clocks both physical movement and the passage of time. My technique has evolved as a way to capture the liquid and fluid nature of light, and I am drawn to materials that enhance and illuminate: pearly paua shell, metal leaf, holographic paper, crystalline mineral salts, beeswax, resin. By building up layers of materials from the opaque to translucent to transparent, then using a flame to burn away portions, I create depth and texture. Exposing elements that are underneath holds a hint of mystery that’s akin to uncovering buried treasure. Introducing dimension as a factor, I can express not only surface texture and depth, but different perspectives; the highs and lows offering yet another way to play with and capture light.”

EXHIBITION INFORMATION: Mindy Solomon Gallery presents ‘The Work of Sylvia Hommert‘ April 6-May 11, 2013. An Opening Night Reception takes place Saturday, April 6th, from 6-9pm, with an Artist’s Talk at 6:30pm. Hommert’s background as a successful textile artist and designer led her to explore abstraction and the use of color and light in painting as another form of textural experimentation. Pushing the possibilities of pigment and surface with an almost alchemistic precision, she creates colorful surfaces that project prismatic color and pattern. Mindy Solomon Gallery is located at 124 2nd Ave. NE, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. The gallery is open Wednesday-Saturday from 11am-5pm. For more information, please contact the gallery at info@mindysolomon.com or 727-502-0852, or visit the website at www.mindysolomongallery.com

de la Torre Brothers at Glazenhuis, Belgium // Opening this Sunday

Opening this Sunday, March 31st, through September 31st, 2013: Mindy Solomon Gallery artists Einar and Jamex de la Torre will participate in the exhibition ’3 Solo Shows’ at Belgian glass museum GLAZENHUIS.  The museum invited four internationally renowned artists to present solo exhibitions this summer: brothers Jamex and Einar de la Torre (Mexico/USA), Petr Stanicky (Czech Republic), and Richard Meitner (USA/Netherlands).  Each were given a floor in the museum, where they will present a ‘solo show.’

Einar and Jamex de la Torre

The exhibition will present confrontation of three very different approaches to art, glass, and the museum environment. The artists in this group converge in the use of glass for its almost limitless potential to realize form, but within the conviction that material must remain subordinate to perception of art—freed of any obligations in choice and use.

de la Torre Brothers // A Dios Bavaria, 2004

The de la Torre brothers will transform the space into a colorful and vast spectacle imbued very liberally with references to both Mexican folk art and Flemish folklore.

Keep Reading // GLAZENHUIS Current Exhibitions

de la Torre brothers // Mitosis 2008

See more of Einar and Jamex de la Torre‘s available works at Mindy Solomon Gallery //

And, contact the Gallery at 727-502-0852 to inquire about the de la Torre works featured in this post //

William Pachner: ‘Imagined Fragments’ // Opening Reception March 30 in Woodstock

The Byrdcliffe Kleinart/James Art Center is pleased to present ‘Imagined Fragments,’ a selection of black and white works on paper by William Pachner ( Mindy Solomon Gallery-represented artist), with a catalogue by Daniel Mason. The exhibition will be on view March 29-May 5, 2013, with an opening reception Saturday, March 30th, from 4-6pm. A gallery talk with William Pachner and Michael Perkins will take place May 6th from 2-3pm; Mr. Pachner will be 98 years old at the time of this talk. For more information, please contact BYRDCLIFFE at 845.679.2079, email info@woodstockguild.org,  or visit www.byrdcliffe.org. The Center is located at 36 Tinker Street in Woodstock, NY.

William Pachner // Drawing from the ‘Imagined Fragments’ Exhibition

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1915, Pachner has made his home in Woodstock since 1945. He studied art in Vienna and worked as an illustrator in Prague before coming to the United States in 1939 on the eve of World War II. During the war, his anti-fascist anti-Nazi illustrations have appeared in the foremost national magazines. When he learned in 1945 that all members of his family had been exterminated by the Germans, he quit his commercial career and resolved never again to do a commercial job, but to paint what he felt.

Known as a colorist, Pachner’s work includes satiric drawings, erotic figurative, biblical Judaic and Christian themes, photomontages, and paintings of great color intensity. Late in his career, he turned to black and white after losing sight in his one good eye. The works in this show represent loss: absence of sight, family, homeland—everything—with the almost unbearable weight of personal and artistic annihilation. While their form, movement, and gesture embrace an essential vitality, these drawings also embody a silent horror and violence. The artist’s final works embody a multiplicity of meanings and are an affirmation of humanness and the reminder of the sacredness of all life.

About his paintings, Pachner said, “I want, in each work, the world, like my countryman Mahler, the whole pie, not just one triangular wedge of it, but all of it in all of its contradictions, paradoxes, ironies, unbearable sorrows, indescribable joys, tragic comedy, farce, pathos and drama, both authentic and fraudulent. The world, I say to myself, on which all this takes place simultaneously—the world so incomprehensible, so dear, so much in need of our care, of our embrace.”

In recent years, his work has been shown at the Tampa Museum of Art, the Florida Holocaust Museum, and the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Art.

The Mindy Solomon Gallery is proud to offer a new secondary-market painting by William Pachner, Oil #9, painted in 1974 at 44.5 x 45 inches.  Please contact the gallery for details.

William Pachner // Oil #9, 1974, 44.5 x 45,” oil on canvas

Sunkoo Yuh: New Works for Clayarch Gimhae Museum

MSG artist Sunkoo Yuh shares these fantastic images of his creation process for several new large-scale sculptures during his two-month residency as visiting artist at the Clayarch Gimhae Museum in South Korea. He is preparing for an October 1, 2013 solo exhibition at the Museum.

View more Sunkoo Yuh works on the MSG website // 

Gareth Mason Talk and Demo at AMOCA

Gareth Mason //

MSG artist Gareth Mason is currently exhibiting at AMOCA (American Museum of Ceramic Art) in Pomona, California. Mason will be giving a talk and a demo at the show, Friendship Forged in Fire: British Ceramics in America. He will be talking with Richard Jacobs, a ceramics collector, discussing ideas exchanged through letters between the two during 2011-2012. The letters center on correspondences and divergences in the experience of art between the collector and the artist. The talk is this Saturday, March 9 at 7:00PM.

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UPCOMING
Mason will be featured in his solo exhibition, Surface Inspiration, at Mindy Solomon Gallery May 18-June 29, 2013.

View more Gareth Mason works at MSG // 

Christopher Winter Featured as Cover Artist for Dan’s Papers

Christopher Winter // Dog Fight // 2012 Christopher Winter  // Dan’s Papers Cover Artist + New York and European Exhibitions Berlin-based MSG artist Christopher Winter was recently featured as a cover artist for Dan’s Papers in fall of 2012.  “My fascination for subjects of awakening and lost innocence led me to themes which were inspired by literature like The Lord of the Flies,” says Winter.  The publication included an interview with more insights from Winter; click here to read the article. Winter will have three works on auction March 7th and 8th with Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses in New York:  ‘The Illusionist,’ ‘Evening Star (Virgin Forest),’ and ‘Untitled (Virgin Forest).’ He is also a participant in the Paris Art Fair March 28-April 1 at Grand Palais, and presents his landscape exhibition ‘Shape the Scape’ in five galleries in Berlin, Cologne, and Zurich in 2013 and 2014. Learn More //

Kate MacDowell at John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Fragile Endurance on View through September 22nd //MSG artist Kate MacDowell presents her exhibition, Fragile Endurance, at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, February 10 – September 22, 2013. The Arts Center functions as a catalyst for and explorer of new art forms and new ideas that impact the lives of both artists and the public. MacDowell’s exhibit explores the friction and discomfort in man’s relationship with nature. These works raise the question of our own vulnerability within changing ecological systems. Her choices of material and subject matter respond to environmental stressors such as climate change and species extinction. She chose porcelain for its luminous and ghostly qualities; the delicate reputation of the medium highlights the impermanence and fragility of natural forms in a dying ecosystem. Her case studies of two extinct species—the Costa Rican golden toad and the passenger pigeon—can be seen as thoughtful records of lost life forms and commentaries on our own culpability. Learn More //

Post Coital Extended Through March 30

On View at the Gallery // Post Coital through March 30th Now on view through March 30th at Mindy Solomon Gallery!  Post Coital features work by Rebekah Bogard, Georgine Ingold, Muir Vidler, Scot Sothern, Christina West, Becky Flanders, and Marta Soul (courtesy of Kopeikin Gallery).  The purpose of this exhibition is to examine a diverse group of artist’s perceptions of romantic love. The work being presented is each of their instinctive reactions to this concept. Post Coital, the blissful finale to a passionate exchange, does not always manifest in the same way. Gender, generational differences, and previous life experience color the expectation and outcome of romantic interaction. The artists presented in this exhibition endeavor to shine a small light on a universal occurrence that makes life more exciting and often more perplexing. See our Facebook Album of the Installation // Learn More //