PREVIEW "WORK OF ART BRAVO TV"

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Photo: Artchick1   First night viewing Work Of Art 

I was invited to a Viewing Party at the studio of one of the contestants on the Bravo Tv new program called Work of Art.   We had a great deal of fun commenting on the broadcast amongst ourselves.  Of course, the Artist contestant, Judith Braun, already new the outcome of the contest winner but was prohibited from the big reveal by a legal gag order  contract of sorts.

Program Work of Art to continue for 8 weeks during the summer months.  Casting is now beginning for Season 2, which I personally think will be set in LA this time around.

ART AS A METAPHOR FOR MEMORY

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photo/artchick1     Artist: Lori Feld "The Sky Is Falling"

"...I especially explore and visualize the concept of 'the other'. These paintings and drawings are deliberately intimate, while containing fetishistic figures that are emotionally confrontational and exaggerated in their 'otherness'..." says LORI FELD, artist, "The Sky is Falling" exhibition at the Claire Oliver Gallery in Chelsea.

These works are mixed media paintings that incorporate colored pencil drawings on rice paper or hand-colored one of a kind prints with additional collage, thread, encaustic, beeswax, lace, charmingly imbued with no lack of inspiration and endearing imagination.

 "Having deciphered some of the imagery, the symbolism remains far more felt than understood, more disquieting than soothing" 

A mystical replication of an 'other world' awaits you for the viewing.

Lori Feld

"THE SKY IS FALLING"

Claire Oliver Gallery - Closes - Oct 7th, 2010 

DALE CHIHULY: BLOWN GLASS AS A VEHICLE FOR SCULPTURE

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Artist: Dale Chihuly - photo: Marlborough Gallery

I remember the first time I saw an exhibition of this artist's work way back in the day when SOHO was the art world capital in NYC.  How wonderful, I thought, this glass, this glowing glass sculpture back lit in a dark gallery. Exquisite!

Dale Chihuly, who was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1941, has become an internationally celebrated personality in contemporary art and design whose prominence in the field of contemporary studio glass is unmatched. He is a generous and charismatic individual with a forceful personality, who ceaselessly promotes himself and his material—glass—to audiences around the world. He has championed the use of blown glass as a vehicle for sculpture, focusing on the vessel in his explorations of color and form.           

An exciting exhibition of his work opens at the Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea, 545 W 25th Street, on September 16th, 6-8PM and continues through October 16th.

This is a remarkable installation at the Marlborough Gallery, Chelsea, one that you too will remember.

50 YEARS AT PACE GALLERY BLOWOUT EXHIBITION

PACE GALLERY Chelsea/James Turrell Holograms

AND A GIFT TO THE ART COMMUNITY...

A catalogue with a foreword by Arne Glimcher, founder, and more than 250 full color illustrations will accompany the exhibition.

In addition, an iPhone application designed to complement 50 Years at Pace, featuring audio clips of artists and art historians, and a walking tour of public works in Manhattan, will be available to download from the lTunes Store, free of charge.

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, The Pace Gallery  presents a multi-

venue retrospective of the gallery’s history highlighting the many artists, exhibitions, people, literature and ideals that have influenced its narrative over the past five decades.

Opening Receptions will be hosted in each gallery from 5:30-9 p.m. on Thursday, September 16, 2010. 

50 Years at Pace will bring together some of the key masterpieces that have passed through Pace’s doors, featuring  loans from important public and private collections worldwide.

With works spanning more than a century and a selection of rare archival materials, 50 Years at Pace will shed light on some of the landmark exhibitions and sales from the gallery’s extensive history. 

Each gallery will explore a different aspect of Pace’s history: mini-reprises of groundbreaking thematic  and historical  exhibitions will be on view at 57th Street; the gallery’s enduring relationship with Pop art and Abstract Expressionism will  be highlighted at 25th Street; contributions to Minimalist Art and the Post-Modernist movement will be featured at 22nd Street; and Pace’s commitment to Contemporary art in the 21st century will be showcased at the gallery’s *new location on 510 West 25th Street.

EXHIBITION:  50 Years at Pace

September 17th through October 23rd