CYNTHIA-REEVES Art Gallery Announces Schedule of Midwinter Exhibition Openings
By: Matt Smith Feb. 19, 2015
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As we segue into our midwinter exhibitions, CYNTHIA-REEVES announces our inclusion in the inaugural Art Central Hong Kong Fair next month, (March 13 - 16), coinciding with Art Basel - Hong Kong. The gallery's initiatives and collaborative projects are currently underway in the US and Asia, with completion dates for several large, permanent works by early summer. Additionally, our focus on curated and solo exhibitions in our New England galleries continues the critical dialogue around contemporary art by bringing nationally -- and internationally -- known artists to the region. These are the final days to catch Allison Gildersleeve's new high color, abstract landscapes (28 Main Street, Walpole, NH) and Lionel Smit and Tomas Munita'smulticultural and socio-political installation, at our venue on the campus of MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. Just completed: a contemporary art collection for a Fortune 500 client in Miami, which included a multi-floor installation of their permanent acquisitions. It is stunning!
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JOHN GRADE: CANOPY TOWER
The Contemporary Austin, Laguna Gloria, 3809 W. 35th Street, Austin, Texas Exploring landscape is at the forefront of Seattle-based sculptor John Grade's practice. Grade draws on his travels through diverse terrains, including the Arctic Circle, the Great Basin Desert, Canyonlands and mountains of the southwest. He absorbs and mirrors patterns found in nature, engaging these organic elements in his monumental, and frequently multi-site, projects. His sculptures posit the question of the human journey through time and space as seen through the lens of the environment. Experiential and philosophical in nature, these beautifully crafted installations provoke an exchange, while creating an immersive environment of their own.
Seeking to enrich and expand viewers' (and his own) relationship to place, Grade subtly inserts his sculptures into the landscape, combining natural materials such as wood, stone, animal hides, and clay with man-made materials. Many of his installations, including Canopy Tower, a new commission for the Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, are sited specifically in consideration of environmental factors. The accompanying weather and nature conditions can be severe at times. Once sited outdoors, the work might adapt, degrade, or even fall apart completely, a process embraced by the artist. Such entropic shifting is a necessary part of the work, with chance, change, and environment acting as major elements in the life of the sculpture. This exhibition is a collaboration between The Contemporary Austin, Rachel Adams, guest curator, and CYNTHIA-REEVES. |
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DANIEL KOHN: INTERIORS: PAINTED PLACE CYNTHIA-REEVES @ The Barn, 28 Main Street, Walpole, NH
February 21 -- April 4
Artist Reception: Saturday, February 21, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. CYNTHIA-REEVES opens an exhibition entitled, Interiors, Painted Place, a mid-career retrospective of Daniel Kohn's seminal Interiors series (1990 - 2006). Following its original New York debut with the gallery in 2006, the show revisits Kohn's interiors, examining his fascination with architectural spaces and visual resonance. Opening with a reception from 5:00 -7:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 21 at The Barn at 28 Main Street in Walpole, New Hampshire, the exhibition runs through April 4. Daniel Kohn often uses words like 'presence' and 'meaning' -- terms that he connects to spatial metaphors. Centrally influenced by Gaston Bachelar's Poetics of Space; the work of Richard Serra and Morandi; and, The Shape of Time, by noted art historian, George Kubler, Kohn seeks to integrate material, form, and ideas into a specific kind of 'presence' that is effectively communicated through his art. Kohn's early work centered on a series of interiors depicting his family's home in the village of Changy, in the Berry region of France. Although representational in form, his work is investigative in nature, imbued with influences from both Europe and the US. The artist describes these interiors as an attempt to revisit The Last Supper from a secular perspective. |
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SHONA MACDONALD: UNCANNY VALLEY
CYNTHIA-REEVES, 1315 MASS MoCA WAY, NORTH ADAMS, MA February 26 - March 29
Artist Reception: Saturday, February 28, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. CYNTHIA-REEVES opens Uncanny Valley, a show of innovative works on paper and paintings by New England-based artist, Shona Macdonald. Opening with a reception from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 28 at 1315 MASS MoCA Way, on the art campus of MASS MoCA, the exhibition runs through March 29. Uncanny Valley is a new series developed from 2013-2015 that explores how human intervention interrupts the landscape. Macdonald deciphers those interruptions in illustrative and figural forms: tarps covering over-wintered plants, reflectors resembling eyes, hay bales becoming teeth. Viewing the landscape for its cultural, rather than organic, geography was first explored by American writer, J. B. Jackson, (1909 - 1996), who also coined the phrase "vernacular landscape". The New York Times has called Jackson "America's greatest...writer on the forces that have shaped the land this nation occupies," (Herbert Muschamp for the New York Times). Macdonald seeks to visually depict the cultural geography that Jackson references and, specifically, the place where she resides, New England. The artist comments: "Sometimes the places I depict are melancholic and soulless, other times they are droll. Part of how viewers can identify with these places is a sense of having been there before, or seeing something we have seen before. I want to show them back to the viewer: to re-present them as a way to establish a sense of belonging." |
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