#nancy hoffman gallery

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Concinnitas, Ampère's Law – Simon Donaldson, (aquatint; from a portfolio of ten), Curated by Dan Rockmore, Published by Bob Feldman of Parasol Press in collaboration with the Yale University Art Gallery and Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Portland, OR, 2014, Executed by the Harlan & Weaver, Inc., New York, NY

Exhibition: Concinnitas, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY, December 17, 2015 – January 23, 2016

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Rafael Ferrer 1986 Nancy Hoffman Gallery oil on wood 12x24"

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MICHAEL GREGORY

Born in 1955 in Los Angeles, CA, he received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1980. Previously living and working in Bolinas, California, Gregory has been fascinated with the study of old barns and silos. While he paints them from his imagination, the barns often appear so true to life and so rich in detail that they can almost be construed as photographic in nature. He works from a limited palette of whites, greys and blacks to create an often brooding landscape that invites contemplation. The barns dominate the space they are set in, commanding attention as they freeze in time that rare light before a storm.

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Hofstra University

When We All Stand: Artists’ Civic Responsibility

This panel discussion examines the collective power of the arts to address complex issues in society, its ability to chart a path for social change, the role of the artist as activist and their impact on local communities and nationwide. The artists included in the panel are Molly Crabapple, For Freedoms, Miguel Luciano, Michele Pred, and Sophia Victor. Each take a stand and call out injustices through their art and activism on issues such as immigration, gender, reproductive rights, mass incarceration, voting rights, racial bias, and gun violence. Using James Baldwin’s essay, The Creative Process as a talking point, artists will explain how their art and activism help “make the world a more human dwelling place.”

Thursday, February 23, 6:30 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus Advance registration is required. This event is FREE and open to the public.

More info and to RSVP visit https://news.hofstra.edu/event/when-we-all-stand-artists-civic-responsibility/

Presented by the Hofstra University Museum of Art and the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Image credit: Michele Pred (Swedish-American, born 1966) Equality, 2019 Vintage purse with electroluminescent wire 11.25 x 4 x 12 inches Courtesy of Nancy Hoffman Gallery

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Viola Frey in 'The Circle' at Nancy Hoffman Gallery

Late California-based sculptor Viola Frey’s huge standing man is a highpoint of the Whitney’s current exhibition rethinking the presence of craft in fine art; three tondos by the iconic artist at Nancy Hoffman Gallery are a more human-scaled exploration of humanity. This strikingly colorful, theatrical character whose face resembles a tragedy mask, holds a circular form that appears to be a plate or similar artwork, suggesting a tongue-in-cheek portrait of an artist. (On view in ‘The Circle’ through Jan 30th). Viola Frey, Untitled (Mask with Pink and Orange Arms), ceramic, 26 inch diameter, 2001-02.

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Currently at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York is Purdy Eaton’s delightful painting exhibition Eat and Live. Eat and Die.

From the press release-

Eaton’s upcoming exhibition is a nod to Bruce Nauman’s One Hundred Live and Die. Eat and Live, Eat and Die; the essence of all life: plants, animals, humans, kings, queens, and cockroaches are all bound to this ethos. This, like Nauman’s other phrases, Feel and Live, Feel and Die, is simultaneously fatalistic and equalizing.  The chaos of politics, climate volatility, and random violence is rightfully fear inducing and overwhelming, yet there is something hopeful and meditative about the reality you eat you live, you eat you die.  There will always be a tomorrow no matter how dystopic.

Eaton’s darkly humorous oil paintings riff on this dichotomy. As climate change and divisive politics tear at our foundations, we are placated by funny cat videos and TikTok memes. Play and Live, Play and Die. We can see the big picture, but sometimes it is just too depressing and overwhelming, and we want to enjoy that gorgeous sunset even if it is made of toxins.

In a series about state birds, Eaton examines the warped reality that many of the state birds are no longer able to inhabit the states they were legislated to represent. The California quail, California’s state bird for nearly a century, is leaving the state as their range is becoming too warm for them to stay. In Eaton’s depiction, the quail appear in front of a lovely sunset, but on further inspection, they might actually be escaping the latest wildfire. In another painting, Paul Bunyan rises in the foreground, while an American loon flies in another direction. The juxtaposition of this iconic strongman roadside attraction—symbolic of the American celebration of “man taming the wilderness”—-with a bird that can no longer live in Minnesota, hints that it might be time to reexamine our origin stories. In another painting from the series, a Northern Flicker with bright yellow plumage rises from a background of rockets in Huntsville, Alabama. As the location of early launches, these relics of NASA’s glory years are now tourist attractions. Space is no longer the purview of science and human progress—it has become the escape hatch, the place to go when we need a Plan B.

Eaton also spins Nauman’s duality to remind us that despite the apocalyptic visions we read about daily, it is not all bad for all creatures. Fireflies, for instance, are flourishing. The Canada Goose, once on the verge of extinction, has become so common as to be a nuisance. With these color-rich and storied paintings, Eaton is asking us to realize that this is our moment to be alive, before we all die, and that the flowers are indeed quite beautiful.

This exhibition closes 3/14/20.

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Lynn McCarty

Light thru the Cracks, 2011 

Oil on aluminum 

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A painting a day: Winter Rose

During this pandemic time, I thought I would share images of my paintings, starting with my recent work and moving backwards through my online portfolio. For information, please contact Nancy Hoffman Gallery Winter Rose - watercolor on paper - 26.70 x 26.70 cm - 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. - 2020

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Introducing | 2018 Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award Recipients

Sarah Draney, Rick Klauber, Reeva Potoff, and Kay WalkingStick will each receive an unrestricted cash award of $12,000.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is proud to announce the 2018 recipients of the Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award, which was established in 2015 to recognize artistic excellence and provide resources to mature visual artists with a long history of creative practice. This year’s winners—Sarah Draney, Rick Klauber, Reeva Potoff, and Kay WalkingStick—will each receive an unrestricted cash award of $12,000. 

With the support of an anonymous donor, NYFA created this annual award to enable artists with a long history of creative practice to pursue deeper investigations or new explorations that can inform and enrich their work. It has been developed in memory of the artist Murray Reich, a New York-based painter who also had a highly regarded career as a professor of art at Bard College.

Michael L. Royce, NYFA's Executive Director, said: "Artists over 50 represent a vital part of our artist community, and we're thrilled to recognize Sarah Draney, Rick Klauber, Reeva Potoff, and Kay WalkingStick with unrestricted cash grants that can help them open up new possibilities in their work. Thank you to our generous donor for providing support to these artists and continuing to honor the distinguished legacy of Murray Reich through this award."

Recipient Bios

Sarah Draney had her first exhibition in 1962 at Bard College. Since then, her work has been shown widely at venues including 55 Mercer Street Gallery; A.I.R. Gallery; Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY; Ceres Gallery; Contemporary Arts Center and Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Davis and Hall Gallery and Time and Space Gallery, Hudson, NY; Gallery 128; Greenwich House; Grey Art Gallery; Nancy Hoffman Gallery; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Irish Arts Center; Lunds Konstall, Lund, Sweden; Orlando Museum of Art; Project Space 209, Stone Ridge, NY; Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA; Vassar College; and Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY; among many others. She has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and has taught at Pratt Institute and the Feminist Art Institute in New York.

Rick Klauber was born in New York, NY in 1950. He studied with Murray Reich and Jim Sullivan at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. During that time, he worked for and apprenticed with both Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell. Since 1975, when Robert Motherwell sponsored his one-person exhibition at Artists Space in New York, Klauber has had numerous one-person shows including: Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY; Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY; Galerie Huber Winter, Vienna, Austria; Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY; Galerie Wolfram Cornelissen, Gerogeborn, Germany; Universal Fine Objects and Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA; and Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, NY. He has participated in numerous group shows including: Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA; White Columns, New York, NY; Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY; Watermill Center Benefit Exhibition, Watermill, NY; the "International Biennial" at Janos Xantus Museum, Gyor, Hungary; and Universal Fine Arts, Provincetown, MA. His work is included in many private and corporate collections and can be found in The Provincetown Art Association and Museum; The Witherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; and The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK. For the past 21 years, Klauber has taught at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY. He has previously taught at Pratt Institute and at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York. He lives with his wife, Ryn Maartens, in New York.

Reeva Potoff moved to the SoHo neighborhood of New York when it was still illegal to live there, after receiving an MFA degree from Yale University. Potoff would often look out the window in the dead of night and see women working until dawn at their sewing machines. Potoff and many fellow artists joined the Artworkers Coalition or helped out in the South Bronx, and joined feminist consciousness-raising groups. The artist's studio was on Mercer Street in a building that bundled and sold scrap paper; Potoff made all of her early sculptures out of the cardboard that she retrieved. The pieces were based on gathering visual documentation (photos, drawings, and models) from the cliffs that she found along highways and coastal areas. Potoff's first solo exhibition was at The Meisel Gallery in New York; she later exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art and received fellowships from the American Academy in Rome and the National Endowment for the Arts. Potoff has taught at Bennington College and Columbia University, and now teaches at Pratt Institute. Potoff continues to have an interest in nature and grows and photographs mold and the visual material it generates, which provides the basis for large-scale inkjet prints. The prints are scaled for the wall that they are installed on, and the insects that populate the prints are prints as well. Potoff lives and works in the same loft she first settled in, and is still a feminist.

Kay WalkingStick has had over 30 solo shows in the United States and Europe. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Museum of Canada, Ottawa; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Newark Museum, Newark; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and many other museums across the United States. June Kelly Gallery represents her work in New York. WalkingStick taught painting and drawing to graduate and undergraduate students at Cornell University for 17 years, where she is an Emerita Professor. WalkingStick was given an honorary doctorate by Pratt Institute and by Arcadia University. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Design. In 2015, her retrospective of 75 paintings and drawings covering the years from 1970 to 2015 opened at the Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Since closing in September of 2016, the exhibition has traveled to various venues across the country including the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa; the Montclair Museum in Montclair, NJ; The Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio; the Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kalamazoo, MI; and the Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ. The show was listed by Hyperallergic as one of the best 15 exhibitions to open nationwide in 2016. WalkingStick and her husband, the artist Dirk Bach, live in Easton, PA.

About Murray Reich

Born and raised in Coney Island and the south Bronx, Murray Reich (1932-2012) attended City College and received his M.F.A. degree in Painting from Boston University. Following his first solo show in New York at Max Hutchinson Gallery, Reich was awarded a Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship. Reich received other fellowships, including one from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work was exhibited in two Whitney Annuals and at the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as in solo shows and group exhibitions. Reich was Professor Emeritus of Painting at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he taught for 25 years. He served on the faculty of the Graduate Program in Art at Hunter College, also in New York. He was the inaugural director of Tanglewood’s Summer Program in Art in Massachusetts, and also taught at Boston University. He lived and worked in New York City, Provincetown, and Mt. Tremper in upstate New York. For images of his work and a longer profile, please visit www.murrayreich.com.

The Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award was created to provide resources to established visual artists above 50 who are chosen for artistic excellence. With the support of an anonymous donor, NYFA has created this award to enable artists with a long history of creative practice to pursue deeper investigations or new explorations that can inform and enrich their work. Learn more on NYFA.org.

Images from top: Kay WalkingStick (Murray Reich Distinguished Artist ’18), “Eastern Slope,” 2017, oil on wood panel, and Rick Klauber (Murray Reich Distinguished Artist ’18), “Wall Flower,” 2015, acrylic on wood shims.

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Hung Liu, Artist Who Blended East and West, Is Dead at 73

Hung Liu, Artist Who Blended East and West, Is Dead at 73

Hung Liu, a Chinese American artist whose work merged past and present, East and West, earning her acclaim in her adopted country and censorship in the land of her birth, died on Aug. 7 at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 73. The cause was pancreatic cancer, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, which represents Ms. Liu in New York, said in a statement. Her death came less than three weeks before the…

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Concinnitas, Conservation Laws – Peter Lax, (aquatint; from a portfolio of ten), Curated by Dan Rockmore, Published by Bob Feldman of Parasol Press in collaboration with the Yale University Art Gallery and Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Portland, OR, 2014, Executed by the Harlan & Weaver, Inc., New York, NY

Exhibition: Concinnitas, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY, December 17, 2015 – January 23, 2016

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Biden will address a joint session of Congress on April 28

New Post has been published on https://appradab.com/biden-will-address-a-joint-session-of-congress-on-april-28/

Biden will address a joint session of Congress on April 28

Biden was formally invited on Tuesday to speak to Congress on April 28 by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wrote in a letter to the President that she was extending the invitation so he could “share your vision for addressing the challenges and opportunities of this historic moment.” He accepted her invitation later Tuesday evening.

The address will come as his administration continues to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and to pitch lawmakers on his massive infrastructure proposal.

The joint session will be designated a National Special Security Event and there will be a limit on the number of lawmakers in the chamber due to Covid-19 protocols, a Capitol official involved in planning told Appradab Wednesday. Lawmakers will also be seated in the upstairs gallery in addition to the House floor and guests will not be permitted.

Pelosi, a California Democrat, had said earlier this month that she was waiting to make a decision on extending an invitation to Biden amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, noting that it would come in consultation with the Capitol attending physician.

President Donald Trump’s final State of the Union address was delivered just before the pandemic took hold in the US, and his first address to a joint session of Congress was given in late February 2017. Barack Obama, meanwhile, gave his first presidential address to a joint session in February 2009.

This story and headline have been updated with additional developments and details.

Appradab’s Jason Hoffman, Manu Raju and Chandelis Duster contributed to this report.

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Hofstra University

When We All Stand

January 31–July 28, 2023

The exhibition, When We All Stand, focuses on the collective power of the arts to address complex issues in society and demonstrates the ability of art and artists to chart a path for social change.

Emily Lowe Gallery

Behind Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus

Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. • Saturday and Sunday, noon-4 p.m.

Michele Pred (Swedish-American, b. 1966), Love as Activism, 2021, Neon on plexi, Edition 2 of 3, 26 x 26 x 5 inches, Courtesy of Nancy Hoffman Gallery

The Hofstra University Museum of Art’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

For more information visit https://www.hofstra.edu/museum/when-we-all-stand.html...

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Joan Bankemper in ‘Summer Gardens’ at Nancy Hoffman Gallery

Gardens are Joan Bankemper’s inspiration, whether she’s crafting a vase-form covered in flowers and bees or helping plan community gardens. At Chelsea’s Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Bankemper combines handmade and found flowers, vessels and spiritual beings in this riotous sculpted garden. (On view through Sept 1st). Joan Bankemper, Morning Glory, ceramic, 32 x 18 x 18 inches, 2012.

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Plagens’ recent paintings feature an origami-esque central motif circumscribed by loping, calligraphic lines around the periphery. Peter Plagens, Quinella, 2017, mixed media on canvas. #peterplagens #nancyhoffmangallery #origami #hardedge #abstraction #nyc #gallery @nancyhoffmangallery (at Nancy Hoffman Gallery)

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A painting a day: Wayfarer

During this pandemic time, I thought I would share images of my paintings, starting with my recent work and moving backwards through my online portfolio. For information, please contact Nancy Hoffman Gallery. Wayfarer - watercolor on paper - 109.90 x 140.30 cm - 43 1/4 x 55 1/4 in. - 2011