~MONUMENTAL PICCOLINI OPENS TO-NITE !!
DON GUMMER, ‘Twins 5’, 2008/Image Courtesy: ALLEGRA LaVIOLA GALLERY
‘MONUMENTAL PICCOLINI’ – CURATED BY JENNIFER RILEY
OPENS FRI MARCH 26 / 6-9 PM
show runs MARCH 26 – APRIL 24, 2010
ALLEGRA LaVIOLA GALLERY – 179 EAST BROADWAY – LOWER EAST SIDE
note, new gallery hrs:
WED-SAT 12-6 PM
SUN 1-6 PM
Two separate but related – capital A is for art – shows – as in pretty serious painting and sculpture !!
‘MONUMENTAL’: the main floor exhibition space will host . . . “monumentally scaled woks” by sculptors DOREEN McCARTHY and DON GUMMER – & – painters JIM LONG and CRAIG FISHER.
‘PICCOLINI’: the lower level of the gallery will present “smaller scaled works in various media by the aforementioned 4 artists” – & – will introduce work by 5 younger contemporaries: DAVID BRODY, YASAMIN KESHTKAR, HOLLY MILLER, CRAIG OLSON and TONY INGRISANO.
there are already some images up on the gallery website – see: ‘MONUMENTAL PICCOLINI’ !!
SOME PIX – FROM THE OPENING – FRI MARCH 26, 2010.
the show’s curator – JENNIFER RILEY.
ALLEGRA LaVIOLA and artist JIM LONG – in front of one of his two large shaped canvases.
art critic IRVING SANDLER, a JIM LONG shaped canvas behind him.
artist CRAIG FISHER.
on the wall – CRAIG FISHER, ‘Painting Not Yet titled’, 2009.
acrylic on raw canvas, 112 x 168 in.
CRAIG FISHER, ‘Painting Not yet Titled’, 2009.
large free standing metal sculpture by DON GUMMER.
‘Twins 5’, 2008. Painted aluminum, 97 x 73 x 25 in.
downstairs in the PICCOLINI room – HOLLY MILLER, with son ROEN, 9 – in front of her work.
HOLLY MILLER – ‘Tease # 2’, 2010. acrylic and thread on canvas. 20 x 20 in.
DAVID BRODY.
DAVID BRODY, ‘Ruins in Reverse (#10)’, 2008-10.
oil on linen, 42 x 28 in.
TONY INGRISANO and CATHERINE TROSSELLO.
TONY INGRISANO, ‘Submission’, 2009. Graphite on paper. 45 x 45 in.
detail, TONY INGRISANO, ‘Submission’.
TONY INGRISANO, ‘Cabra 3’, 2009. Graphite on paper, 50 x 46 in. ($2,600).
detail, TONY INGRISANO, ‘Cabra 3’.
YASAMIN KESHTKAR and TONY INGRISANO. both presented figurative works – with abstract elements.
detail, YASAMIN KESHTKAR, a small oil painting on canvas.
CRAIG OLSON, ‘WITCHSONG’, 2008. watercolor, acrylic and colored pencil on crescent board. 20 x 23.5 in. ($900).
CRAIG OLSON’S ‘WITCHSONG’ from a (short) distance.
JENNIFER RILEY and DOREEN McCARTHY, in front of Doreen’s large ‘Archimedes Spiral’.
DOREEN McCARTHY – with a sectional glimpse of her large sculpture – ‘Archimedes Spiral’, 2008.
inflated TPU Vinyl. 96 in. high x 120 in. diameter.
detail, DOREEN McCARTHY, ‘Archimedes Spiral’.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH