Cynthia-Reeves Gallery Releases Schedule of Upcoming Exhibitions
By: Matt Smith Apr. 01, 2015
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The highlight of our early spring program was the well-received, inaugural Art Central Hong Kong Fair last month, on the harbor front in beautiful Hong Kong. Connecting with an impressive mix of Asian and European collectors and curators, including those from Beijing's White Box Museum of Art and Inside Out Museum, conversations were focused primarily on regional, noted artists, Liangong Feng, Shen Chen and Caroline Cheng. Concurrent with our art fair presence, the gallery has two public and private commissions currently underway in Asia. The CYNTHIA-REEVES team will be back in Hong Kong this month to complete an installation that has been in production for the past year.
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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
DAWN BLACK: INCITEMENTS OF FOLLY
CYNTHIA-REEVES, 1315 MASS MoCA WAY, NORTH ADAMS, MA April 4 - May 3
Artist Reception: Saturday, April 4, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
CYNTHIA-REEVES opens Incitements of Folly, a new exhibition of socially poignant paintings by Baton Rouge artist, Dawn Black. The exhibition takes a candid look at the personifications of "folly" within the broader context of Black's primary themes: dynamics and imbalances of power; the constructs of identity and self awareness; and, depictions of the socially absurd. This exhibition marks the artist's third solo exhibition with the gallery, and features four newly completed paintings paired with a selection of earlier, seminal works, including examples of her powerful Conceal Project series. The artist's reception is on Saturday, April 4 from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. at 1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA.
Unlike Black's iconic portraits, Folly's Burden departs from her deft use of negative space; here, she covers the entire surface in an array of celestial jewel tones and, in the center of this nighttime tableau, she places a stark and singular figure. Folly, perched tenuously in the cradle of a crescent moon, carries the symbol of justice on her slight shoulders. Her cultural identity, while masked, is suggested by the headscarf - Lady Justice re-imagined as a messenger from a tumultuous cloudscape that has no solid ground, no footing. The image is inspired by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute, specifically, the Queen of the Night - a Queen who is magically cast out into the eternal night.
GEORGE SHERWOOD: TACKS and JIBES |
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CYNTHIA-REEVES @ 1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA
April 4 - May 3 Artist Reception: Saturday, April 4, 3:00 -- 5:00 p.m. CYNTHIA-REEVES presents Tacks and Jibes, a concise show of three new kinetic works in dichroic film and stainless steel by American sculptor, George Sherwood. This is the gallery's debut exhibition of Sherwood's work at its MASS MoCA campus location. Opening with a reception on Saturday, April 4th from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., the installation coincides with the opening of Dawn Black's Incitements of Folly at the gallery's venue on 1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA. Sherwood's evolution of material was directly inspired by a hiking trip last summer through the Tour du Mont Blanc, near the French Alps. After coming home to his native New England, his mind returned again and again to the prismatic colors he encountered in the mountain snowscape, recalling how the ever-changing kaleidoscope of reflections transformed the surroundings. These impressions prompted a transition from his material of choice, stainless steel. He was intent on finding a material that would explore light in the same way as his landmark kinetic works, but through refraction as well as reflection. Tacks and Jibes brings together two dichroic sculptures, Dichroic Cube and Col du Coleur, and contrasts them with his latest brushed stainless steel work, H to O. Each is kinetic, with dozens of elements activated solely by currents of air. This movement, in turn, augments how the sculptures reflect shifting light. The show title is a reference to sailing -- maneuvers that allow the boat to change course, and for the sails to capture the greatest force of the wind. This is an apt reference to the ways in which the dozens of finely pitched, discreet dichroic elements in Sherwood's sculptures respond to the subtle movement of air. |
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JANE ROSEN: 2015 INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
March 12 - April 12 The 2015 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts features paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper by 40 contemporary artists exhibited at the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters on historic Audubon Terrace (Broadway between 155 and 156 Streets) from Thursday, March 12 through Sunday, April 12, 2015. Exhibiting artists were chosen from a pool of over 200 nominees submitted by the members of the Academy, America's most prestigious honorary society of architects, artists, writers, and composers. Congratulations to CYNTHIA-REEVES artist, Jane Rosen, for her acknowledgement by the Academy.
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DANIEL KOHN: INTERIORS: PAINTED PLACE CYNTHIA-REEVES @ The Barn, 28 Main Street, Walpole, NH Exhibition Extended Through May 23
Congratulations to CYNTHIA-REEVES artist, Daniel Kohn, on his recent profile in the New York Times, "Learning to See Data", March 26, 2015.
Asked to reflect on his painterly lexicon as it pertained to his DataSets thesis, Kohn responded: ""It's about frameworks of recognition; how you choose to look, rather than what you're trying to see. Scientists often think of visual images like graphs as the end result of their analysis. I try to get them to think visually from the beginning." -- Benedict Carey, The New York Times, March 27, 2015
The artists' Interiors Series retrospective at The Barn @ 28 Main Street, Walpole, NH is now extended through May 23. |
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