Eric Tillinghast Installation at Portland State University

Eric Tillinghast's installation, Vertical Multichrome, is a site-specific, fabricated aluminum sculpture created for the lobby of Ondine Housing at Portland State University's Ondine Housing. The public art project was funded by Portland's 1% for the arts commission.

Tillinghast is also a recent recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award. He is at work on a second public art commission for the City of Cleveland and we are excited to see what wonderful piece results.

Boaz Vaadia Sees Work Dedicated in Independence Park, Tel Aviv, Israel

Boaz Vaadia's major work, Asa & Yehoshafat, will be dedicated at 4pm on Saturday, December 19th in Tel Aviv. On the left is a digital rendering of the work in its new site.

One of an edition of five, the bronze sculpture will be permanently installed in Independence Park. Donated by a private donor, the park's restoration will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv.

"It is a great honor to have one of my sculptures permanently placed in Independence Park, Tel Aviv, Israel - the country I grew up in and which so profoundly shaped my artistic sensibility," Boaz commented.

He grew up on a farm in Gat Rimon, and was inspired by the nature around him. "I work with nature as an equal partner, that's still the strongest thing I deal with today that primal connection of man to earth. It's in the materials I use, the environments I make and the way I work." Vaadia hand-carves slices of slate and bluestone, shaping them to be layers in a kind of topographical map. He stacks the horizontal slabs until the graded silhouette of a person, animal or group emerges. He views the geological layering of the stone as a natural model for his own sculptural process. It seems a logical metaphor for our human layering of experience and memory.


Vaadia continues the process by casting select pieces in bronze, creating a limited edition. paired with his sculptures are glacial boulders which function visually as counterpoints to the figures. his work appears as though created by natural forces, such as wind and water; they look simultaneously ancient and futuristic, as if the workmanship forms a bridge from the Stone Age to the digital age.

Boaz Vaadia lives and works in New York City.

What is Contemporary Art?

E-Flux has an article that might jump-start some dinner party conversation. Setting out to categorize contemporary art of the last twenty years, they found it impossible to break down in neat categories. Apparently PoMo-Post-Struc didn't work for them. (Or maybe I'm still stuck in the 80's).
Read the entire article here:
e-flux journal - issue #11
"What is Contemporary Art?" Issue One December 2009
http://e-flux.com/journal

Tom Judd Retrospective in Philadelphia

If you are a fan of Tom Judd's work, as I am, you can see a wonderful collection of items that trace the artist's past and suggests much of the history that has provided him with such a wealth of material to draw on in his work to date. Judd is really too young to have a true retropective, but this exhibition, curated by Allen Sheppard, brings together many wonderful works and includes a recreation of the rustic cabin in which Judd and family spent holidays in his youth. The exhibition Evidence of a Collected Past: A Retrospect can be seen by appointment only at The Globe Dye Works, 4500 Worth Street Philadelphia, PA until later this month. Call 212 989-9919 for an appointment. There is a catalogue available to accompany the exhibition.

News from Miya Ando

Miya Ando's work continues to astonish and herself to inspire. She recently began a new series of steel canvases titled "Luminous Transcendent" which are, in fact, luminous in the dark. Here is a little video of the transition:
http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/45a65677d7c9a0650e84f22cfd7cb0b4?pa=404436312

Her recent commission from Anthony Butler, executive director of St. John's Bread and Life, a Bedford-Stuyvescent pantry and community center in Brooklyn, NY for a piece made up of 144 4-inch hand-finished steel tiles arranged in a grid on a wall in the center's nondenominational chapel has garnered notice from the New York press.


And in a wonderful project for Indigo Youth Movement, a non-profit organization that provides an after-school feeding program and organic garden for children in Isithumba village in South Africa. Ando has donated all proceeds from the sale of dedicated works on her website to provide art supplies and books for the children and has raised over $2500 so far. An amazing project with rewards far beyond the material.
http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/97130ec169d799c83e7d00ad4e71bd59?pa=404436312

photograph courtesy Huck magazine.

Alex Zecca at Berkeley Art Center

One of our favorite artists, Alex Zecca, has work included in a beautiful exhibition at the Berkeley Art Center, on view from October 1 - November 29, 2009. Called Metaphysical Abstraction: Contemporary Approaches to Spiritual Content, the exhibition is curated by Jamie Brunson and Michelle Mansour and looks to be an introduction to work by young artists whose work gives rise to the deeper questions that much of our most significant art does. We're posting late, so if you're in the Bay area this month, be sure to take a look. The link is to an article that describes the exhibition and singles out Alex' work for particular notice. http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-10-29/article/34017?headline=Lyric-Representations-of-Sacred-Unattainable-Worlds

John McCormick at Bolinas Museum

Congratulations to John McCormick on the inclusion of his new portrait series in the upcoming annual Bolinas Museum Mini show. This is the 21st year for the Museum's Holiday Mini show with 85 artists creating small pieces for the exhibition. Sales will contribute to the Museum's general fund.

The reception for the exhibition will be on Saturday, November 21st from 3 - 5 pm. For more information call the Museum at 415.868.0330.

John has been busy this year. One of his landscape paintings will be featured in Mitchell Albalas' new book. You can follow John on his own blog at www.johnmccormick.blogspot.com.

Richard Ehrlich's Presence of Absence at Laband

The exhibition of Richard Ehrlich's extraordinary photographs continues at Loyola Marymount University's Laband Art Gallery. The Los Angeles Times has done a great reveiw of the show at http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-ehrlich30-2009sep30,0,1617853.story

The exhibtion gives a good cross section of the work of this wonderful artist and should be seen while it's still up.


From the Namibia series, 2002.

Ricardo Mazal at El Museo de Arte de Queretaro

Ricardo Mazal continues to move and amaze with the second installment of his trilogy on the sacredness of life. Seemingly to the contrary, he approaches his theme through the various human practices surrounding death and burial. His first installment was a meditation on the Tomb of the Red Queen, the burial site at Palenque from 600 AD of a Mayan princess. The sarcophagus was covered in a brilliant red pigment called cinnebar and although the body of the princess itself was no longer there, the color and the experience of absence, along with the stones of the pyramid itself and the jungle beyond provided the inspiration for Mazal's phenomenal body of work. In 2007, Mazal made a journey to Michelstadt, Germany, where friends took him to one of their favorite places, the forest of Friewald, or the Peace Forest. Sited in the Odenwald area of Germany, between the Rhine, Main and Neckar rivers, this forest has become a burial site for families in a unique and ecologically thoughtful way. Each tree can be leased for 99 years; as members of the family die they are cremated, placed in biodegradable urns and buried near the roots of their tree. This return of life to the living earth provided the impetus for the next series in the trilogy, Odenwald 1152. 1152 refers to his own tree, which the mayor of the region insisted Mazal lease even though Mazal explained that as a Mexican and a Jew he would not actually be buried there. Nonetheless, the mayor wanted to be part of the project by securing a tree for the family and when Mazal found the ancient tree whose 4' trunk divided into four parts, symbolizing for him himself, his wife and their two daughters, it provided the emotional and conceptual anchor for the work. Mazal first produces a number of photographs which stand alone as important works of art, but which he then manipulates on the computer to create images that will become paintings. Anne Reed Gallery was honored to present a number of the photographs in an exhibition last year, and now the monumental paintings can be seen at El Museo de Arte de Queretaro in Mexico City. This extraordinary trilogy will be completed with the images resulting from this summer's trip to Mount Kailish in Tibet where the "Sky Burials", bodies placed on elevated platforms without sold enclosures, acknowledge the departure of the significant portion of a human being upon death and the recyling of the remaining organic material, the body, back to the earth either through nourishing the birds and animals who eat it or through natural decomposition. This powerful body of work will be one of the most significant events in contemporary art in the decade and we encourage you to follow Mazal's progress as we certainly will.

You can see a wonderful interview with Ricardo Mazal where this and much more is explained at: http://artworksmagazine.com/2009/03/ricardo-mazal/ The only caveat is that while Ricardo describes his photographing of the jungle at Palenque the images shown are those of Odenwald. Still, it gives great insight into his process and also into the humanity of this amazing artist.



Marzo 7.05 from Tomb of the Red Queen.

Luxe and Lucid - a new design blog from Tricia Huntley!

One of Anne Reed Gallery's design friends has started a new blog that is candy for the style and design aficionados among us. I certainly enjoyed it - yummy things (suddenly I'm channeling Ab Fab's Eddy!) and an economy of comment. Check it out at http://luxeandlucid.typepad.com/

Fletcher Benton Alphabet Series at Albright-Knox

If you are in upstate New York this fall taking in the beautiful foliage, be sure to make a stop at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo to see Fletcher Benton's installation The Alphabet. The exhibition, curated by Holly E. Hughes, contains seventy works on loan from the collection of James J. Curtis. In addition to the brilliantly colored, folded steel, three-dimensional sculptures, original maquettes of each work and other preparational materials will also be on display. It should give a unique insight into the creative process of this American Master. The exhibition will be up for one year, and is a must-see for the serious student of sculpture.
http://www.albrightknox.org/exhibitions/fletcherbenton.html

Roseanne Cash on Dan Rizzie

Dan Rizzie is one of our favorite painters, and now we find that one of our favorite singer/songwriters is a fan as well! Love it when that happens... Read about it at:

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/10/03/rosanne-cash-cant-resist-dan-rizzie
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Nutty Torch
2004
Oil collage on Arches paper
30 x 22"

Richard Ehrlich at Laband Art Gallery

See Richard Ehrlich's rich and evocative photographs from the Namibia, Cook County Hospital, Belmont Park, and The Holocaust Archives series at the Laband Gallery at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. The exhibition, The Presence of Absence, will be on view from September 10 - November 22nd, 2009.

To see more images from the show visit Rick Ehrlich's website at http://www.ehrlichphotography.com/exhibitions/presence.html, and for directions or to RSVP for the reception on September 26th from 4 - 6 pm go to http://www.upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4423557/?ps=5

Boaz Vaadia's New Work

We are always excited when an artist translates her/his personal language through a new medium or material. It's like listening to a familiar piece of music played on a different instrument - the individual voice remains, but is given fresh dimension and flavor by the incorporation of the new. Sculptor Boaz Vaadia has given us exactly this experience in his new work from Basalt Columns. Known for his work in bronze and Bluestone, the new material opens up possibilities for wonderful exploration in future.

Boaz says this about the work: "I am excited about
those pieces as they incorporate a new stone that I have not used before:
Basalt Column that was formed naturally by volcanoes. I am very excited
about this new body of work and I am still learning how to work with the
Basalt Columns."

See more of Boaz Vaadia's work at http://www.vaadia.com/stonework/bigstone/shallum.shtml



Ba'al with Cat
Bronze, Basalt, Bluestone
47 x 77 x 50 inches. Ed. of 5 + 1 A.P.
2009
Bronze by Boaz Vaadia
#104

Eric Tillinghast at CCNOA

Congratulations to Eric Tillinghast whose installation in the Brussels Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art is gaining widespread attention. As always, Eric's work is brilliantly colored and completely unique. The two dimensional assemblages are mounted in a seemingly random pattern suggesting bits and bytes of data floating in the webstream. For more information please visit http://www.ccnoa.org/.

Harold Feinstein

We at Anne Reed Gallery have long recognized Harold Feinstein's mastery behind the camera. His photographs span four decades in black and white and vibrant color. We'e thrilled that word of the fine quality of Feinstein's work has gotten out. Here is a link to the blog of Jim Fitts, Executive Dir. of the Photographic Resource Center in Boston.
http://jimfitts.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/15/

You can see more of Harold's black and white photography at the Houston Fotofest website. We anticipate that his work will be shown during the festival at one of the participating venues. And, of course, Harold's work is available on our website.
http://annereedgallery.com


http://fotofest.org/ff2010/submissions/feinstein.htm

Photo Carraol Images of Mexico City: Betsabee Romero. A vuelta de rueda III

Photo Carraol Images of Mexico City: Betsabee Romero. A vuelta de rueda III

Betsabee Romero's A vuelta de rueda (driving slowly) in Mexico City

Ponchada por el paisaje / Puncture by The Landscape photo by Photo Carraol

Mexico artist Betsabee Romero takes the romance of cars very personally. In her new installation in Atrio de San Francisco, an open-air plaza in the heart of downtown Mexico City, old Volkswagon Beetles are attached to each other in a daisy chain that arcs over the plaza. Another sedan is covered in the colorful handmade tiles of a traditional Mexican kitchen, transforming the cold metal into a warm symbol of family. Romero is interested in the part cars play in human life - getting us from place to place is the least of it. She recognizes that cars are often the site of sexual initiation, sometimes they are our only shelter from the elements when houses fail, but also can be places where life can come to an abrupt end. They are often dangerous targets for kidnappers and for thieves. In a city where traffic routinely turns the air and residents' lungs grey with exhaust fumes, Romero fills an old VW bus with planet healing green plants. Romero uses homely materials to transform vehicles; her art may suggest many things, but remains an exciting and comfortable experience.

Watch Betsabee Romero describe her work in a video by Deborah Bonello, a multi-media journalist based Mexico City.
http://www.mexicoreporter.com/?p=1663

Robert Buelteman Signs of Life

Congratulations to Robert Buelteman whose new book, Signs of Life, is available today. It can be previewed at: http://issuu.com/buelteman/docs/signs_of_life_issuu
The book catalogues a body of work made from 1999 to 2003; in 1999 Buelteman moved from the black and white landscape studies he had been doing to the electrifying cameraless images of plant life included in this volume. And next week, April 2009, Color magazine will feature 8 pages of his work, just in time for Spring!

April Gornik At the Heckscher Museum

April Gornik has a lovely exhibition of 12 large-scale paintings presented in the beaux-arts style at the Heckscher in Huntington, NY. The museum has recently been renovated and a visit is a very nice day-trip from the City. The museum is located in Heckscher Park, at Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue in Huntington Village, NY, on Long Island's North Shore. www.heckscher.org

News from James Surls

This is James Surls' Star Flower in the beautiful sculpture garden at the Irving Art Center in Irving, Texas. He will also have 7 large sculptures installed on Park Avenue between 51st and 57th Streets in New York City. These pieces will be up for 4 months and will be an amazing addition to the cityscape. In conjunction with the Park Avenue installation, there will be a reception at the Gerald Peters Gallery, 24 E 78th Street on April 23rd, and a one-person show at Charles Cowles Gallery, 24th St. in Chelsea, that opens May 28th, 2009.

He also is the subject of a new book coming out the end of April called JAMES SURLS / From the Heartland. It will cover drawings and sculptures from 2005 through 2008, and at 14" x 12" with approximately 180 pages of major essays and photographs, this will be a major reference for the work.

If you are in Abilene, Texas on May 1st, 2009, there will be an exhibition and book signing at the Grace Museum. And afterward there will be a dinner with Jimmy Dale Gilmore and the Flatlanders doing the honors.

miya ando in the New York Times

NYTIMES, Sunday Edition, March 8. ART REVIEW
Works From New Talent Seeking a Boldface Name. Our very own Miya Ando gets a thumbs up review. "Miya Ando’s refined, subtle works of rolled steel, made of sheets of burnished and chemically treated metal, are also a must-see for anyone interested in post-minimalist contemporary art." He was referring to the current exhibition at Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark’s newest major commercial gallery. We feel the same way. Miya’s installation was one of the most successful of last year’s gallery exhibitions. We concur with the enthusiasm of critic, Benjamin Gennocio. Check out Miya’s work under ARTISTS/Paintings on this website.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/nyregion/new-jersey/08artsnj.html?ref=design

Josh Garber in Sculpture Magazine

Check out Josh Garber's work and a great article by Kathleen Whitney in the March issue of Sculpture magazine. Whitney writes, "His results are intelligent, inventive, peculiar, and idiosyncratic, unrelated to the tedious bump, grind, and recycle of popular culture." We agree!

http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag09/mar_09/mar09.shtml

The Making of a Bench

Llisa Demetrios is making a specially commissioned bench. The bronze is being fabricated in stages; check back here in a few weeks for photos of the final work.

April Gornik at the American Academy of Arts and Letters

You can see some of her recent paintings from her last show at Danese Gallery exhibited in a Visual Arts invitational show at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, from March 12 - April 5, 2009. The Academy is way uptown at 633 W. 155th St., open Thursdays through Sundays, 1-4PM. See www.artsandletters.org, or go to http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102461895059&e=001QKH45NF9rCS51jsOtvspihLBWKtwaHwPuaMJfpNSk8HztSybeVctVapvyexA1Se17qWSPWwvnPsMlhs4cGB_rIjHlr_19NpDF2TLkov_Vfv1KjxCu9WmF7mzY5WscydGb7lmUzppXs9MLYH87BSQHuxlk3WmBHz6 for more info.

Anne Reed Gallery and The Open Room

ANNE REED GALLERY is pleased to collaborate with THE OPEN ROOM, a fabulous contemporary furniture store in Ketchum, Idaho. We believe that art should be as integral to the design of a fine room as the décor and furniture, and THE OPEN ROOM shares our design philosophy.

When in Ketchum, visit THE OPEN ROOM, where you'll find beautiful furniture that complements your artwork! With superb taste, owner Claudia Aulum offers décor for gracious indoor and outdoor living, and a unique eye for exquisite lines as well as practical function.

ANNE REED GALLERY recommends THE OPEN ROOM's monthly newsletter which includes knowledgeable articles on design, suggestions on how to make a positive impact with furniture and art, and helpful hints on how best to care for furniture. You will receive a $25 credit toward a purchase at THE OPEN ROOM when you sign up for the newsletter, and you will automatically be entered in a drawing for a $50 Gift Certificate. To register go to: http://www.openroomfurniture.com/GilmanNLcross-2-12-09.aspx
For more information and to see THE OPEN ROOM's wonderful website, go to: http://www.openroomfurniture.com.

Video Interview with Ricardo Mazal

Discussing his process and the impetus behind his most recent project in Odenwald Forest in Germany, Ricardo Mazal can be seen at http://artworksmagazine.com/?p=733. Second in a planned triptych with the common theme of death and burial - although Ricardo sees it as a larger celebration of life and living - the photographs, prints, and paintings of the Odenwald trees is a fascinating look at what inspires an artist and informs his creativity. Beginning with his series on La Tumba de la Reina Roja (The Tomb of the Red Queen), a Mayan burial site in Mazal's native Mexico, and continuing with the Odenwald burial trees, Ricardo will finish the triptych with a journey to Mount Kailash’s sky burials, Tibet, in 2009.

Thomas Brummett at NDMoA

Selections from Thomas Brummett's new series Animalis are on view at The North Dakota Museum of Art in a group exhibition titled Animals: Them and Us, until February 7, 2009. His portraits of animals present them as individuals with great psychological depth and intensity. The singular dignity of each animal in his photographs makes a powerful statement about their innate value alongside that of the human animal.

Miya Ando in Folly online magazine

Folly, an online magazine of science and culture, has featured Miya Ando in January's issue. Miya has had an extraordinary year and 2009 promises to be even better. Check out the beautiful work at http://www.follymag.com/follyarchives.html

photo:Evan Soto

Frank Lobdell at Marin MoCA

Last fall Frank Lobdell was featured at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in "Living Legends of the Bay Area I. " The exhibition ran from September 27 - October 26, 2008.

Frank Lobdell
Untitled, 8.11.91 (State IV)
1991
Monotype: ink on paper
15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches

Richard Ehrlich at the Jewish Museum in New York

Anne Reed Gallery is proud to congratulate Richard Ehrlich on his inclusion in the Jewish Museum of New York. His powerful series of photographs taken at the Holocaust Archives at Bad Arolsen, Germany, has been acquired for the Museum's permanent collection which is known for its rigorous selection process. Ehrlich's haunting photographs of the multitude of records left by the Nazis speak to the enormity of the Holocaust experience.
http://ehrlichphotography.com