Land Air Place
A walk in a woods; one year, 2014, acrylic on Juan silk, 8 x 9 feet
I'm excited to announce my next exhibition, curated by Leslie Kerby including artists Natasha Madioff, Elizabeth Riley, and Holly Sears.
PRESS RELEASE
April 8 - May 8, 2016
Project: ARTspace 156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 308, New York, NY 10010
Opening Reception: Tuesday April 12, 2016 6:30-8:30pm
Artists Talk: Saturday, April 30 at 2:30 pm ______________________________________________________________________________
Project ARTspace is pleased to present Land, Air, Place curated by Leslie Kerby and featuring work by Natasha Maidoff, Debra Ramsay, Elizabeth Riley and Holly Sears. In a present day “mash-up” of color, swagger, humor, skill, and solitary moments, this exhibition through these artists’ works, posits a conversation between Remington, Bonheur, Muybridge, Pendergast, Seurat, Delauney, Chamberlain, Cole and Bierstadt.
Natasha Maidoff uses the natural world as a backdrop where she incorporates physical theater, layering it with digital media to create visual textures of projection and performance in excerpts from her “Live Cinema!” triptychs, The Cowgirl and The Sleepwalker. In the The Cowgirl, the performer lies on her back in the dark on a horse, as mountains are projected onto her body; text appears telling a story of loss and a dramatic shift in life. In The Sleepwalker, she journeys through dreams into the land of the known and unknown, but finds herself trapped, hammering on the walls of invisible boxes, searching for a way out.
Debra Ramsay’s absorbing dance with the landscape started in 2014 and proceeds as she continues to mine the trails of New Berlin, New York and Bethany, Connecticut selecting individual colors from her seasonal trips to create abstract sculptural pieces for this exhibition.The colors, presented both in a systematic grid and lyrically playful way, allow us to “gauge the color of the seasons changing and thereby glimpse time passing and time paused, feel the coupling of art and nature—and quietly savor the abundantly satisfying pleasures of both.”
Elizabeth Riley starts her sculptural process with standalone videos that are mining new experiences and environments, based on a consciousness of place and influenced by living in New York City for many years. Riley combines 2-D video media—printouts of sequential video stills sometimes on extended lengths of inkjet paper often with 3-D physical materials such as raw plywood, furniture and found materials.The sculptures are architectural, angular and alive—living cities that explore both human connection and disconnection in these environments.
Luminous depth and mirror like surfaces created by painting with thin oil glazes makes you think that Holly Sears hung out with the Hudson River painters.This slow and sometimes tedious technique allows Sears to construct and collage the elements of her paintings—“giving veracity to what might otherwise be conceived as unbelievable content.” Like the other artists in the exhibition Sears is awed and inspired by the landscape and the mystery and amorality of nature.And so, with a blend of surrealism, naturalism, ritual and digital phenomena these artists hold forth with new conversations about land, air and place.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 12-6 pm Other times by appointment: contact Aaron Zulpo 630.244.7160
Gallery Travels Blog visits The Violent Study Club exhibition
Many thanks to artist/writer Anne Russinof and her blog Gallery Travels Seen Around Town
for visiting the exhibition and gallery talk at Stout Projects. Click on the "Gallery.." link to see the full post.
Generative Processes Exhibition listed among "Best Art Exhibits of 2015"
Color changes in the forest, during one year, at the same location., 6inches X 12 feet 9 inches, acrylic on Juan silk, 2015 at TSA NY, Brooklyn, NY.
Big **THANKS!!** to Brooklyn Magazine and artist/writer Paul Behnke for including Generative Processes, the exhibition of Alex Paik and my work in their "Best of ...2015" list.
A few catalogs from the exhibition remain, which includes an essay by Rose Art Museum Director Emeritus, Carl Belz. Let me know if you'd like a copy.
Group Exhibition Opening December 11th
I'm pleased to have my work included in the TSA Flat Files. I hope you can join us for the opening or visit the show during its run through January 3rd.
Special viewing of Violent Study Club exhibition
Salmon and Witch Hazel, acrylic on polyester resin, 16 x 20 inches, 2015
Tuesday, November 21st, Stout Projects will open at 11:30 for a viewing of the exhibition.
If you're interested in joining us please RSVP to me at Debra@DebraRamsay.com
Stout Projects is located at 55 Meadow Street # 310, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Current Exhibitions
The effects of a fold on a line, graphite., 8 inches square, Kozo paper, graphite, 2013
Volume 2: Black & White
Schema Projects
92 St Nicholas Ave
Brooklyn NY 11237
co-curated by Mary Judge and Enrico Gomez
The exhibition continues through Dec 6th
Friday: 1-5pm
Saturday & Sunday: 1-6pm
and by appointment
Volume 2 is one bookend of a two-part exhibition exploring the ways in which artists respond to paper and transform it from the 2 dimensional into the 3 dimensional in innovative and engaging ways.
Please contact the gallery for further details at info@schemaprojects.com
Each of the colors of spring, cocooned by all of the colors of spring. 9 x 24 inches, 2014
Violent Study Club
Stout Projects
55 Meadow Street # 310
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Opening November 21, 2015, 2-4pm
An artists talk is scheduled on December 19 at 2pm
The exhibition continues through December 20th.
Fri – Sun, 1p – 6p and by appointment, stoutprojectsnyc@gmail.com
The Shape It Takes at The Art Garage
News of the exhibition was published in The Cheshire Patch
One Year of Color
Acrylic on polyester film, 8 feet square, 2015
The Shape It Takes
Delighted to be included in this four-person exhibition. Please come visit if you can.
New work will be showing at Odetta Gallery Flat Files
I'm pleased to let you know that starting July 23 my work will be available at
ODETTA
229 Cook Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
www.odettagallery.com
7 Colors Within a Witch Hazel Blossom
12 x 8.5 inches, acrylic on polyester film, 2015
Closing reception for Generative Processes Sunday March 29th
Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is hosting a closing reception in conjunction with the adjoining art space, Transmitter. I'll be in the gallery from noon- 6 and would love to visit with you.
From their press release:
Please join us from 12-6 PM in conjunction with the closing reception for 6x6 at Transmitter for bagels, pastries, mimosas, coffee and more. Both exhibitions close this Sunday, March 29th.
Generative Processes, features the work of Alex Paik and Debra Ramsay. Their color palettes generate an immediate sense of relationship, Paik arrives at his intuitively, while Ramsay’s is system-based. The artists share a generative process of making, a cultivation of a standardized element that is repeated and worked.Featuring the work of Alex Paik and Debra Ramsay. Click here to read the full press release.
We were pleased to have this exhibition mentioned in Bushwick Daily, Structure and Imagery, The Queens Courier and other media outlets.
TSA
1329 Willoughby Ave, #2A
Brooklyn, NY 11237
www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com
Phone: (347) 746-8041
Territory of Abstraction is reviewed!
Hyperallergic visited Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia. Many thanks to writer Hannah Yudkin for her insights on the exhibition. The full review is here.
Generative Processes Exhibition
Color changes in the forest, during one year, at the same location, 6 inches x 12 feet, acrylic on Juan silk, 2015
I'm delighted to be showing work from my Time As Landscape series in conjunction with the work of Alex Paik at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery.
The exhibit highlights shared elements within our practices and cites the particular manifestation of each. The work operates on an intimate and humble level, combining the abstract and cerebral with grace and humor.
An accompanying catalog will feature an essay by Carl Belz, Director Emeritus of the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.
I hope you can see the show:
1329 Willoughby Ave, #2A
Brooklyn, NY 11237
February 20 – March 29, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, February 20, 6-9pm
Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 12pm-6pm and by appointment
Phone: (347) 746-8041
We are pleased to have been selected by The Bushwick Daily as one of the 5 "must see" exhibitions:
Upcoming Exhibition
Two Equal Lovers, 9 x 12", ink on Dura-Lar, 2013
Territory of Abstraction at Pentimenti Gallery.
February 21- April 4
Opening reception Saturday, February 21, 4 - 6:30 PM.
Territory of Abstraction will feature the work of twelve artists that share an interest in geometry, color, pattern, and repetition. Yet, despite the material and optical similarities each artist approaches their work with a distinct purpose and context, commenting on a variety of subjects such as architecture, space, psychology, and illusion. When put together their work showcases the expansive nature of contemporary abstract art, and the potential content of relatively simple forms.
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday by appointment, Wednesday - Friday: 11 AM - 5 PM, Saturday: noon - 5 PM. 145 north second street | Philadelphia, PA 19106
T 215 625 9990 W www.pentimenti.com
Doppler Shift
The effects of a fold on a Pink line, 10 inches square, colored pencil on vellum, 2013.
It’s been called “retinally intoxicating.”
Artist, writer, editor Thomas Micchelli comments on the “forthrightness of this work” and the “irresistible intensity of its designs and pigments…”
In 2012 the exhibition Doppler Stop, curated by Mel Prest, traveled to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Berlin, and Zagreb. It included works from artists from the US, the Netherlands, Germany and France. The exhibition catalog explained, “…work that optically straddles this un-locatable perceptual space where static objects move and shift or trigger simultaneous sense readings.”
An expanded exhibition, Doppler, showed at Parallel Art Space in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 2013.
Now, Doppler Shift, curated by Mary Birmingham, is a revisitation with variation of the previous exhibitions.
Come and experience the exhibition for yourself.
There are a variety of ways to do that:
Opening reception Sunday, September 28th, 1-4pm
Stop & Go 3D screening Wednesday, October 1st, 7pm
An Afternoon of New Music, November 9th, 2pm
Art Afternoon: Walk & Talk, January 11th 2-4pm
Gallery hours
M, T, W & F 10am-5pm
Th 10 am-8pm
Sa & Su 11am-4pm
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
68 Elm St, Summit, NJ 07901