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PURE PAINT II, featuring contemporary artists Serena Bocchino, Dan Fenelon, Joan Grubin, Diane Rolnick, Robert Sagerman, Eleanor Schimmel, Bernardo Siciliano, Nola Zirin at HENRY GREGG GALLERY Sept 17-Oct 25. Opening Night Reception Thursday September 17. With resili... Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PURE PAINT II, featuring contemporary artists Serena Bocchino, Dan Fenelon, Joan Grubin, Diane Rolnick, Robert Sagerman, Eleanor Schimmel, Bernardo Siciliano, Nola Zirin at HENRY GREGG GALLERY Sept 17-Oct 25. Opening Night Reception Thursday September 17. With resilience and determination, the Henry Gregg Gallery begins its sixth year in DUMBO with PURE PAINT II, a group show conceived as a reminder to the digital age of the enduring primacy of paint as a medium for expressing the ineffable; an exhibition with the same mandate was mounted in 2005. The artists in the Fall exhibition pursue a wide spectrum of methodologies and subject matter in their individual responses to cultural and socio-political realities with a high level of craftsmanship and technical mastery.
The public is welcome to the opening night reception on the evening of Thursday, September 17th from 6:00-9:00 pm at the Henry Gregg Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 226, in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
FEATURED ARTISTS: New Yorker Serena Bocchino generates electrifying rhythms in poured pop colors, drawing on “today’s sounds of music,” in the artist’s words, and the energies of the street. Dan Fenelon’s brilliant canvases fuse cartooning, urban modernism and ancient, labor-intensive tribal motifs in an explosion of vibrant color. Joan Grubin orchestrates optical experiences that explore the act of seeing itself, deploying reflected color with buried fluorescents to raise questions about the discrepancy between what is seen and what is known. Diane Rolnick, a New Yorker now living in New Mexico, immerses digital imagery in encaustic, an ancient and dimensional technique in which pigment is mixed with wax, in a post-9/11 body of work she calls “Conversations,” dialogues with herself, her circle and a growing animal family. Robert Sagerman builds deep, 3-dimensional surfaces in oil paint, in a time-consuming, contemplative process arising from his study of medieval Jewish mystical tradition wherein numbers were assigned to represent letters, words and phrases. Each work is accompanied by a ledger containing color swatches and precise counts of the marks applied. Suspended forms in the carved and layered surfaces of Eleanor Schimmel’s encaustic paintings have a conductive, mystical power; glinting industrial landscapes and unflinching portraits by the Italian artist Bernardo Siciliano, shiver and shimmer in the “violent, blinding” light he finds in New York. With spray enamel, oil paints and stencils on canvas and panel, Nola Zirin uses ellipses and tangents to explore concepts of time and space.
Inquiries may be directed to the gallery owner, Andre’ Martinez Reed, at 718-408-1090 or art@henrygregggallery.com. Private viewings also may be arranged; please call 917-335-3673. The Henry Gregg Gallery is open Wed, Thurs, Sat from Noon-6pm, and Fridays from Noon-5pm. By subway: F to York Street or A,C to High Street in Brooklyn.
