The application will be available until February 8th 2012 for our September workshop.

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Adbhutam, the Rasa in Indian Art on 24th January, 2012 at 6.30 pm at the Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Gawker Artists is pleased to announce the opening of “Timeless, Placeless,” a solo show of paintings by Malado Baldwin at Gawker Media’s NYC headquarters.

“Timeless, Placeless” is comprised of real and imagined landscapes from Malado’s various travels and youth spent in West Africa. In her work lush colors, geographical forms, and art historical and cultural references combine to create a sense of nostalgia, mystery and grandeur.

In Malado’s own words, “Psychedelic and modern meld with ancient terrain to become timeless and placeless. The landscapes of my childhood in Africa co-habitate with Chinese landscapes, Roman mosaics, Italian frescoes, cave art, and science fiction. I paint these strange places: rocky formations; striations, remnants, ruins, boulders, mounds, caves, domes, huts, and architectural spaces…..as localities that could be primordial; may be post-apocalyptic, and are as familiar as alien. Ideas of both destruction and resurrection play through a lens of vibrant color. I speak to the power of landscape to hold suggestive meaning beyond mapping or describing, into exaltation.”

“Timeless, Placeless,” will be on display through March and is open by appointment.

For more information email artists@gawker.com

Please join us Thursday, February 2nd at 8pm for a discussion on the topic, “Painting Today,” mediated by Karen Wilkin

As a supplement to our current exhibition on view at 111 Front Street Galleries Karen Wilkin will lead an open forum discussion with participating artists, Andrea Belag, Matt Blackwell, Gregory Forstner, Jill Nathanson and Larry Poons on the topic of “Painting Today.” This is a DUMBO First Thursday event and the discussion is sure to be lively. Come with a few choice thoughts on the topic ready to share!

In the event that you missed our eblast about the show here is an excerpt from the press release written by Karen

Triangle Arts Association celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its founding and its tenth year in DUMBO this year. WHAT ONLY PAINT CAN DO was organized to honor this double milestone. The twelve artists in the show – ANDREW BAER, FRANCES BARTH, ANDREA BELAG, MATT BLACKWELL, GREGORY FORSTNER, DAVID FRATKIN, DANA GORDON, JAMES LITTLE, JILL NATHANSON, LARRY POONS, SUMMER WHEAT, and ALUN WILLIAMS – are all alumni of Triangle’s workshop and residency programs, from various times, who live and work in the New York City area. They come from different generations, have very different backgrounds and formations as artists, and work in very different ways. The variety of their approaches is notable, ranging from Poons’s and Belag’s lush, intense explorations of the power of color and touch to Forstner’s and Wheat’s equally intense updates on figuration and narrative; from Barth’s and Nathanson’s cool, ambiguous investigations of painting languages to Blackwell’s and Williams’s quirky, modern day allegories; from Gordon’s and Little’s eye-testing riffs on dazzling color and the permutations of geometry to Baer’s and Fratkin’s complex, unstable expanses of saturated hues.

What unites these diverse artists is their decision to employ the time-honored medium of paint, in all its present day manifestations, from oil to acrylic to resins. Their multivalent works not only affirm that the physical properties of paint can have expressive, formal, and conceptual power, but they also offer proof that the medium with a long and distinguished history can be adapted to a broad spectrum of modern day conceptions of what a picture can be.

If that’s not enough…check out this great appreciation written about one of the exhibiting artists, Dana Gordon (workshop ‘88), by James Panero

Dana Gordon, Untitled, 40×30″, oil on linen, 2011

Read the full appreciation here.

Dana also gave a lecture at the New York Studio School in 1999 which we think has relevance to the topic of discussion Thursday, the 2nd. You can read the lecture, entitled “Faux Populi, False Art”, by clicking here.

Finally, Kai Schiemenz (workshop ‘10) is in a group show at Galerie EIGEN+ART in Leipzig on view until March 14

For more details click here.

Triangle artists are hitting the ground running in 2012. Check out these openings in NYC and beyond…

Opening TONIGHT at TNC Gallery in Manhattan 5-7pm featuring work by former alums Eve Bailey (workshop ‘04) and Nora Herting (workshop ‘06)

The selected group of artists for this exhibit work in a diversity of materials and approaches, both traditional and unexpected, to create work that is a mirror of contemporary issues and obsessions. Whether figurative, ornamental, or purely abstract, the exhibition (ironically hung with a theater as backdrop) draws attention to that elusive point of view called “reality.”

Show runs through February 26th. TNC Gallery is located at 155 First Avenue NY, NY 10003. For more info click here.

Triangle board member, Marsha Pels has a show opening this Thursday, January 12th, 6-8pm, at Schoeder Romero & Shredder in Chelsea

In Detroit Redux, Marsha Pels has created a personal metaphorical landscape with an ensemble of five sculptures dealing with decay, frailty and rehabilitation in relation to the fall of a great American city. Pels continues to merge autobiographical narratives within the larger context of global concerns. Consisting of deconstructed surrogates of the artist herself, these sculptures fuse images of destruction with images of resurrection to make us question the body as a working machine, aging vs. fertility and the animal as savior.

Also on view with Marsha Pels’s sculpture are four photographs by Frank Schwere from his series Detroit. Shown in New York for the first time, these large C-prints depict the ruinous state of America’s once great motor city.

Show runs through February 11th. Schroeder Romero & Shredder is located at 531 W. 26th St., NY, NY 10001. For more information and to read the full press release click here.

If you happen to be in London check out David Webb’s (workshop ‘06) piece in this group show opening January 12, 5-8pm at WIMBLEDONspace on the Wimbledon College of Art campus

In recent decades the idea of the nude has been in decline in art-school: life drawing is no longer practiced widely, ideas and research are currently preeminent. The tradition of teaching painting in British art schools has grown out of non-referential painting, abstraction and formalism; and the objective, realist tradition of painting the figure died with Euan Uglow. Would it not be apposite then, to take a look at this neglected genre? The nude seems ripe for a reawakening; it is an implicitly psychological genre, tapping directly into the artistic psyche.

Show runs until February 10. WIMBLEDONspace is located at Merton Hall Road, London, SW19 3QA. For more information and to read the full press release click here.

If you happen to be in The Netherlands check out this group show featuring Els Vanden Meersch (workshop ‘06) opening January 14th, from 4-7pm at CORROSIA!

Spiders, large groups of people, terrorism, deep ravines, squares, failure, dark alleys, death, horses, alone, clowns … Everyone knows fear and anxiety comes in all shapes and sizes. But above all, fear is a gut feeling and resonates subtly and brutally in our world. It’s like a sculptor Louise Bourgeois put it: “Fears are the mainsprings of the world.” The exhibition “Who’s Afraid of …” brings together artists who explore the theme of fear, embrace, swear or use as inspiration and most tangible. The artists in “Who’s afraid or not afraid.

Show runs until March 17. CORROSIA! is located at Markt 5, 1354 AP Almere, The Netherlands. For more information, click here.

The workshop will take place the last two weeks of September 2012.

Click here to apply!

Timon of Athens 8 oil, alkyd on canvas 92" x 72" 2011

Opening reception, Saturday, January 14, 7 – 10pm
Artist talk, Saturday, January 21 at 1pm

SALTWORKS is pleased to present Atlanta-based artist, Craig Drennen’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Continuing his exploration of overlooked and unknown cultural contributions, Drennen’s latest subject is Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. For this exhibition Drennen has created new paintings, works on paper and a performance.

Timon of Athens is Shakespeare’s most challenging and obscure play. It was unfinished and never performed in his lifetime and is generally free of critical analysis and deterministic theories. According to Drennen, this lack of history and public perception provides an open stage onto which he projects his subjectivity.

Utilizing a bottom up approach, Drennen works through the play’s dramatis personæ, using contemporary associations to depict each character individually, then eventually in combination. The process is similar to the evolution of a language as it begins simply, then moves toward greater complexity. Iteration and nuance can be seen in four works on paper in this exhibition–each titled after the character Painter–featuring a large scrawled ‘X‘ in the center, overlayed with a polka dot pattern borrowed from a woman’s skirt, and a hyper-realistic rendering of a Polaroid.

Sustained viewing of Drennen’s work reveals subtle differences in composition and palette spread across a broad spectrum of painterly effects. This versimilitude alludes to an actor’s craft and the use of trompe l’oeil, gestural marks, and hard-edge abstraction is less about pastiche and more about allowing the physical material of paint to perform as many tasks as possible. Drennen states that”…’Painting as acting’ is more important in that I’m making the paint become many different things”.

Craig Drennen lives and works in Atlanta, GA. His work has been reviewed inArtforum magazine, The New York Times among other publications. This is his first solo exhibition at Saltworks. He teaches drawing, painting, and critical writing at Georgia State University and serves as Dean of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has shown in international art fairs such as NEXT, Scope, MACO, and Volta. Since 2008 he has organized his studio practice around Shakespeare’sTimon of Athens.

To see more details on the exhibition visit the Allegra LaViola Gallery

A sincere thank you to all of our artists, friends, families and supporters over 3 decades.  We look forward to spending 2012 with you!

Photograph by Etienne Frossard

Piece by Alice Guareschi, photograph by Etienne Frossard

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