EYEWALL Hendrik Smit

Novenmber 5th -December 24th, 2009

Smit is one of the last true inhabitants in the world of action painting, a place where the process of creating a work receives much more emphasis than the finished product. Reminiscent of the Tachishme style of the 1940s and 1950s Smit's paintings lack any sort of predetermined structure, but are conceived within the moment. In an indefinable instant, the artist and his emotions become one with the paint. Fraught with an indescribable internal energy, each piece explores a different combination of vibrant pigment and violent momentum giving each canvas a vitality it can hardly contain. Formidable and engaging, a unique energy radiates from each work.

PAPER IN THE WIND Summer Group Show 2009

curated by David Gibson

Rosa Almeida, Marcy Brafman, Zac Braun, Amy Chaiklin, Chrissy Conant, Veronica Cross, Alicia Gibson, James Gilroy, Ian Hughes, Liz Insogna, Yuliya Lanina, D. Dominick Lombardi, Sandra Mack-Valencia, Norma Markley, Jesse McCloskey, John Monteith, Mary Murphy, Mark L. Power, Grace Roselli, Mary Ann Strandell, Roya Tabib, Adam Thompson, Ginna Triplett, Chris Twomey, Kathleen Vance, Ruth Waldman, Deborah Wasserman.

GREAT AMERICANS

JAC LAHAV

February 12 - March 14, 2009

532 Jaeckel Gallery is pleased to show the new works of Jac Lahav . The new series of interpretive portraits by painter Abshalom Jac Lahav combines faces of famous persons out of history, and specifically out of the belief system of American ideology and creed, with the bodies of fashion models wearing sleek, sometimes nearly transparent outfits.

MONOCHROME UTOPIA

January 8 - 30, 2009

532 Jaeckel Gallery is pleased to present Monochrome Utopia, a group exhibition featuring artists Sharon Brant, Matthew Deleget, Daniel Levine, Olivier Mosset, Erik Saxon and Li Trincere.

BARACHOIS

October 16 - November 11, 2008

Peggy Bates

Thomas Jaeckel and David Gibson are proud to present “Barachois,” a series of new paintings by Peggy Bates in which the artist continues her fascination with the signification and expressivity of organic form as a direct charismatic link to the natural world.

BRAZIL & BEYOND

September 30 - October 11, 2008

Silva Maranhão

The exhibition includes a series of large works defined by an explosion of colors and strong lines. The artist defines in this exhibition a theme beyond the range of secular erudition, such as the work in acrylic on canvas which deals with the group of eight wealthiest nations liquidating the foreign and domestic debt of the world and establishing a new world order.

Truth or Consequences

May 15 - June 7, 2008

Marcy Brafman

Marcy Brafman’s paintings deal with the dark and light of the cultural landscape and the nature of character. They reflect on the demons and deities of the memory as seen on our devices, online, on television, billboards, boxtops, catechisms, illustrated classic comic books, masterpieces in the Frick, old paperback covers, graffiti and signage on moving vehicles and packaging detritus of every shape and kind. Concern with brand identity as a genuine spiritual state plays a strong role in the work, an examination of painting as a mirror to internal and external states, individual and social intentions. Each painting represents a logo poem, a distillation of an array of ideas into a simple painted statement. Each one plays a character in a private cast alphabet.

David Askevold and Peter Hutchinson

March 27 - April 26, 2008

We are pleased to announce an exhibition featuring two pioneer conceptual artists, David Askevold and Peter Hutchinson, who have established the connections between language, the found photographic moment; and an interaction with nature and the intricacies of the mind between actual and intellectual experience. Though Hutchinson has an ecologic sensibility and Askevold a metaphysical one, both of their oeuvres has added something distinct, useful, and inspired to the practice of Conceptualism.

VINCE CONTARINO

SWEET DIVIDE January 14 - February 6, 2010

"Sweet Divide" a solo exhibition of new paintings which address the specific challenges faced by abstract artists working today. Contarino describes a finished or successful painting as possessed of a nice awkwardness, differentiating an atypical abstract painting from a great one. He is conscious of existing within the cultural context of abstraction, which adds to our understanding of emotion, logic, sensation, and concrete reality while at the same time existing at a critical distance from them. His paintings are mostly spare, with negative space sparring for dominance with gestures that either fill up the middle distance or squirm in the margins. His colors are like the crystals mixing in a kaleidoscope, or the neon lights of Times Square. They express an emotive tonality, a setting of the background noise into which our eyes trace a liminal pathway of esthetic joy. His space is both flat and transparent, his shapes hard and soft. These paintings do not establish a territory so much as hint at a direction away from the commonplace.

RIFT Kylie Heidenheimer

September 10th -October 17th, 2009

On single, diptych and triptych canvases ranging from three to four feet square, the artist skillfully blends open, evanescent spaces with gutsy, tactile passages celebrating the materiality of paint itself. In these visceral works, washes of acrylic paint puddle and pool, thick splashes and blobs might impose themselves, or break apart and scatter like clouds. Throughout her investigations, the artist is guided by her fascination with the dual nature of the painted surface: repository of matter and metaphor for space.

EROICA Oliver Westermeier

May 14 - June 6, 2009

The collages in EROICA are filled with bodies—and not just any body, mind you—but the specifically steroid induced sculpted manifestation of male pride. The artist Oliver Westermeier describes his “Bodybuilder” series as a “riff on the Western fetish of the human body when it is shaped to its outermost limits.” In each image there are many cultural attributions, but none is more essential than the shiny and sinewy forms of hyper-masculine skin and muscles, which constantly interject into Westermeier’s surreal commonplace an element of humanity straining to be most like a machine.

HUMAN CONDITION

Charles Mingus III

March 18 - May 9th, 2009

The "Human Condition" is reflective art in real time as a collection of digital prints composed from impulses; that mental stuff zipping around in all our heads like bits of psychological soup or any number of the multitude appropriate metaphors of inside-outside colliding vectors of mass communication and personal communication. These works are printed on paper, and as a result contain some surprises, delivering crackling artifacts of our culture as well as fresh bases of positive new myth and iconography.

RIPPED AND TORN

December 6 - December 22, 2008

Collage - Assemblage

Collage is the perfect medium for our fast-paced, information packed times. Since the beginnings with its first champions, Kurt Schwitters and Max Ernst, this humble art form has become the darling visual expression for writers. Recently, Pulitzer Prize winning poet John Ashbery received enormous attention for his collage show. Ashbery collaborated with fellow author and artist, the late Joe Brainard who headlines the show “Ripped and Torn”.

Star Black, Amy Ernst, John Evans, India Evans, Judy Rifka, Bob Heman, Madeline Weinrib, Tom Walker, Lewis Warsh, Bruce Weber, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Valery Oisteanu, Rakien Nomura, Micci Cohan, Sali Taylor, Charles Mingus III, Angelo Jannuzzi, Lucien Dulfan, Laurance Rassin, David Shapiro, Allan Sheinman, Toni Tiger and Luigi Cazzaniga.

BOUNDLESS

September 4 - 29, 2008

John Berens & Abshalom Jac Lahav

Each of these artists has made a traditional practice of painting into a signature motif. Yet they are not merely making rote, reliable, and commonplace versions. They are working in the periphery of that traditional practice, reaching for achievement beyond recognizable limits, making what is usually considered an acceptable form into something rigorous and subtle. Both artists ask the same questions: what is this form, and how far can I take it?

INCANDESCENT

June 16 - August 15, 2008

Joergen Geerds, Richard Roth and Carol Salmanson

All three of these artists deal with architecture and its relationship to anthropomorphism. Buildings may not look like human beings, but they mimic our consciousness in that they project light from within, or have some innate sensory rapport with the immediate natural environment.

PROCESS_exhibition in progress

June 12 - June 14, 2008

M.P Landis, Thom Lussier, Justin Romeo, Michael Sanzone

‘PROCESS_exhibition in progress’ is the first installment in a series of experimental exhibitions focusing on contemporary artists whose work is deeply affected by the craft and technique of their artistic process; moreover, how this work is becoming increasingly relevant in the plasticized and often detached world of contemporary art. The exhibition is curated by Kathryn Miriam.

TRUE TO FORM

January 18th - February 10, 2008

Marcy Brafman, Jenny Carpenter, Mary Murphy

The exhibition is curated by David Gibson.

Modern Heroines

November 14 - November 23, 2007

Claudia van der Klooster

“I get to the bottom of things, waste myself, give everything, I live, love with my whole heart. This is the story of the modern heroines. The portrait of women who are great and wonderful exciting and strong, sensitive and open minded. Full of love, filled with passion, ready to live, committed to life. Full of emotions, vulnerable, sensitive, suffering and burning, full of fire and emotions. Women who don’t care about wasting time themselves but who don’t want to waste lifetime. Women who give everything, who gave up a lot to be loved, who gave up a life to live their life. Girls, women, heroines, bitches, mothers, lovers, sweethearts and fucking witches. Women like you and me. A little autobiography.”