Follin Gallery

Valerie Crosswhite Exhibition NY

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Follin Gallery presents Valerie Crosswhite at 45 Bleeker Street (cross street Lafayette). Reception May 4th, 2010 6-8p. Open Bar. (646) 221-8504

Paul Kostabi

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Imagine if a little kid walked into a museum and painted a scene of a house with trees — on top of a Jackson Pollock, leaving a smidgeon of the Pollock exposed in the lower left corner. That’s just one of the many original and aggressive ideas you’ll find in Paul Kostabi’s paintings.
Best known for his angst-ridden, ferocious, expressionistic self-portraits, Paul Kostabi has also accumulated an impressive body of landscapes, still lifes, pure abstractions and several comically rapacious appropriations of various contemporary artists including Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Giles Lyon. The psychically ravaged self-portrait is his most constant theme, but any time Paul feels like it, he’ll bust out a mocking commentary of the pretentious scale and overblown egos of certain adored art stars, or he might sincerely explore the magical color possibilities of an otherworldly vase of flowers on a table. Paul Kostabi’s work is fraught with careless care. He obviously loves painting, but is just as content to paint on low quality pre-gessoed student grade canvas as he is on the finest Belgium linen. He’s like a Mozart who won’t stop moving his fingers on any piano keys he sees — you can pick up his body while his fingers keep moving and put him in front of a Hamburg Steinway or a broken toy piano and he will happily just keep on playing. Likewise, Paul will paint with equal passion for Mars Bar or MoMA, on torn cardboard or the best Arches watercolor paper. His only guide is the art spirit — and even that he’ll subvert if he feels like it.
Recently, strange large words have appeared in his extremely layered work, like: “DARCO JOE ENA” and “CARE BAIP.” The meanings are ambiguous and seem personal. The use of words are yet another graphic device Paul has lifted from the Modernist painting tradition, first explored by Picasso and later by Stuart Davis, Ed Ruscha, Mimmo Rotella, Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Paul’s use of color has become increasingly more decisive and subtle. In the early 1980s, when Paul first exhibited in New York’s Lower East Side, in galleries such as Casa Nada on Rivington Street, Paul’s colors were frequently more primary, acidic and seemingly reckless in the East Village spirit. Now, without losing any energy, his colors often have an almost romantic, autumnal harmony. And the complex layering of painterly stokes at times recalls the recent paintings of Terry Winters or the poster lacerations of Mimmo Rotella. With all these sophisticated art historical underpinnings, one senses that many more discoveries are yet to be made. However, the present collection of diverse painterly achievements, which comprise Paul’s first one-person show in Italy, is already more than satisfying.
In recent years, the New York art world has witnessed a new obsession for ultra-slick, technically “perfect” work. This extreme “neatness” attitude of many young New York artists and dealers make California finish-fetish work from the 1960s seem like raw hobo art. Paul Kostabi’s work is the antithesis of this Neo-analism. He prefers to drive a Rambler with a few scratches on it — not a squeaky clean Lexus.
Mark Kostabi, April 2002

Yellow

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Bold full framed yellow with texture as if the Wilfredo Arias world is viewed from a yellow tinted TV Screen.

Blue Red

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The bright red and light blue almost vibrate on this twisty intricate painting by Wilfredo Arias. The almost random shapes and the interconnectivity evokes a post computer take at modern life in the city.

Number 3

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Painting number three by Dan Asher

Dan Asher

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Dan Asher Biography

1947 Born: in Cleveland, OH

Lives and works in New York

Selected Exhibitions

2009 Bruckner Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Unrelated, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK

White Room and Project Dan Asher, White Columns, New York, NY (solo)

2004 Red Aurora, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)

2003 Kunsthaus Muerz, Murzzuschlag, Austria (solo)

Galleria NoCode, Bologna, Italy (solo)

2002 Antarctica II, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (solo)

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

2001 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Antonio Ferrara Gallery, Reggio Emilia, Italy (solo)

2000 Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)

1999 ICE, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Paradies Eight, Exit Art, New York, NY

29 x 6 h, Dia Genes Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany

1998 Attention Deficit, Richard Salmon Gallery, London, UK (solo)

Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)

Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany (solo)

Videoforum, ART Basel, Switzerland

Wasser, Galerie Bodo Niemann, Berlin, Germany

1997 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Burnett Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)

It always jumps back and finds its way, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

Works on paper, Baron / Boisante, New York, NY

1996 – 1997 La belle danse, une lague codee, Galerie Beaumont, Luxemburg, Luxemburg

1996 Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands

New-Old-Odd, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany (solo)

Susan Inglett Gallery,New York, NY (solo)

Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)

Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)

Sammlung Speck, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

The Cool & The Crazy, McGrath Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany (solo)

Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany (solo)

Galerie Johannes Zielke, Berlin, Germany (solo)

Galerie Bismarck, Bremen, Germany (solo)

Das Lied von der Erde: Kunst aus Keramik, Galerie fur Angewandte Kunst, Munich, Germany

Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1994 Galerie Beaumont, Luxemburg, Luxemburg

Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)

Galerie Gebr.Lehmann, Dresden, Germany (solo)

Galerie Johannes Zielk, Berlin, Germany (solo)

Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands (solo)

Museum Beeckessijn, Velsen, The Netherlands

1993 Sight Unseen, Factual Nonsense, London, UK (solo)

Simon Watson, New York, NY

Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany

Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Achim Kubinski, New York, NY

1992 303 Gallery, New York, NY

Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany (solo)

Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany (solo)

The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1991 American Fine Arts, New York, NY

1989 Hofstra University Museum, Long Island, NY

1986 Simon Cerigo Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1985 John Good Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1984 Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY

Piezo Electric Gallery, New York, NY

Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA

1983 Terminal Show, New York, NY

Red bar, New York, NY (solo)

1982 Club 57, New York, NY (solo)

1981 Manifesto Show, New York, NY

1980 Times Square Show, New York, NY

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

MOMA, New York, NY

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Kunstmuseum Wintertur, Switzerland

The Truth

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Also known by his street name, twist, Barry McGee has a large following in the street art community. He has been working on the streets of San Francisco, his native city, since the mid 1980’s where his images continue to endure on walls, mailboxes and other surfaces despite the continuous campaign of public authorities to paint them out. McGee has long resisted showing his works in museums and commercial galleries but he has recently become more active ion the conventional art world context. His work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts in 2004 as well as in his 2005 solo show at Deitch Projects, entitled One More Thing.

BARRY MCGEE (TWIST)

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Fusing together found and invented imagery, tags and assorted objects Barry McGee draws on a range of influences including the Mexican muralists, tramp art, the graffiti artists of the 70’s and 80’s and the San Francisco Beat poets to create a unique visual language. The work has the strong immediately recognizable visual signature of the best graffiti art, but is also enormously poetic and evocative. It communicates the artist’s strong empathy with people who have been left behind by contemporary society. Also known by his street name, twist, Barry McGee has a large following in the street art community. He has been working on the streets of San Francisco, his native city, since the mid 1980’s where his images continue to endure on walls, mailboxes and other surfaces despite the continuous campaign of public authorities to paint them out. McGee has long resisted showing his works in museums and commercial galleries but he has recently become more active ion the conventional art world context. His work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts in 2004 as well as in his 2005 solo show at Deitch Projects, entitled One More Thing.

Villa Adriana #8 – Jean Kallina

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Villa Adriana #8
1988
Gelatin silver print
20 x 24 inches

Shaker Laundry – Jean Kallina

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Shaker Laundry
1994
Gelatin silver print
20 x 24 inches