John Buck and Deborah Butterfield Receive Montana's Governor's Arts Award

Congratulations to John Buck and Deborah Butterfield whose work has been recognized by the Montana Arts Council with a 2010 Governor's Arts Award.  The Governor's Arts Awards program honors outstanding citizens and organizations in Montana whose achievements in the arts have been of great value to the state's culture.

They were recognized at a ceremony in the state Capitol's Old Supreme Court Chambers Friday, January 22, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. 

Boaz Vaadia on White Collar!

I was certainly excited to see one of Boaz Vaadia's pieces featured on the USA network's fun new series White Collar.  And, they mentioned Boaz by name!  For those of you for whom popular television culture isn't all consuming (as it is for me) White Collar features a very slick art thief/con man played by the very slick young actor Matt Bomer who, after an unfortunate incarceration, is forced to help the FBI on high-end crimes.  This week's episode found them in the home of a young trustifarion whose art collection was the target of a nasty, but attractive, thief.  If you really don't have an hour to invest in this kind of eye-candy, you can catch Boaz' piece on Hulu at http://www.hulu.com/watch/127084/white-collar-home-invasion?c=1185:1310

You may have to sign up for a Hulu account to see the video clip, but it's free and who knows?  You may discover the forbidden pleasures of non-HBO or PBS TV.  Enjoy!

Boaz Vaadia in Israeli Press

Congratulations to Boaz Vaadia on the installation of his beautiful piece, Asa & Yehoshafat, in Tel Aviv's Independence Park.  Here is a link to an Israeli press article on the work.  Those of us who don't read Hebrew can enjoy the lovely image of the piece in its new home on the left.

Tel Aviv web:  http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/arts

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