Past Exhibitions: January-February 2007

Robin Grebe, Unavailing, 2006
Courtesy Habatat Galleries

Contemporary Glass:
Beauty and Innovation

The material "glass" in the hands of artists offers creative possibilities like no other. The artists in this exhibition were chosen for their importance to the contemporary glass art movement and their ability to demonstrate the range of processes used by artists today. Exhibition presented in collaboration with Habatat Galleries.

Richard Cleaver, Dreamer  (detail)
2005, Courtesy the artist

Richard Cleaver: Family Fictions

Richard Cleaver’s sculptures are hand-built ceramic objects in which orderly forms are encrusted with mesmerizing details, including painted imagery, gilding, pearls, and beads. Typically a glistening shrinelike structure inspires the viewer to explore a wealth of clues concerning a veiled story or scenario.

Stanley Lewis, Two Houses in Leeds, 2004
Courtesy collection of Erein & Henry Justin

Stanley Lewis—
A Retrospective

This exhibition presents a retrospective look at the paintings and drawings of renowned landscape artist Stanley Lewis.  Lewis has spent 40 years painting the backyards, side streets, and open fields of Washington, DC, Western New York State, Kansas City, MO, and Northampton, MA.  His paintings undergo a rigorous process of construction as he cuts his canvases apart and reassembles them as intensely crafted visual experiences. The result of this deconstruction and reconstruction is a layered visual experience, forming precision out of chaos. Exhibition curated by Jonathan Bucci.

Duane Hanson, Self-Portrait with Model, 1979
© Estate of Duane Hanson/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Duane Hanson: Real Life

Duane Hanson became famous in the 1960s and 1970s for his lifelike sculptures of everyday people that were cast from live models, then painted in great detail and finished with ordinary objects. His work is often mistakenly thought of as simply a form of extreme realism, but in fact it grew out of a highly developed social conscience. Duane Hanson took photographs as a sketching tool for his sculptures. This is the first time Hanson's photos, alongside the sculptures, will be seen by the public. The exhibition is organized by the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA.

Detail from Garden for the Accused, 2006
Photo: E. Anderson

Dennis Oppenheim: Alternative Landscape Components, 2006

New York–based conceptual artist Dennis Oppenheim has been working since the 1960s, when he helped to redefine the possibilities of art.  Often using public outdoor areas or even his own body as sites for his art, he manifests ideas of temporality, discomfort, and chaos. Exhibition presented in collaboration with Dorfman Projects, New York.

Robert Brady, Blessing, 1991
Private Collection

Robert Brady:
Sculpture 1989–2005

For the past 16 years, West Coast artist Robert Brady has created wooden sculptures that pare complex forms down to their essence, infusing them with quiet poeticism and a singular presence.  This body of work is represented in a traveling exhibition organized by the Palo Alto Art Center and courtesy of the Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.