Richard Levy Gallery

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Magician’s Table Jay Kelly, Jenna Kuiper, Matt Magee September 25–November 20 First Friday Gallery Reception: October 2, 6:00–8:00 pm

Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present Magician’s Table, a three-person exhibition of sculptures by Jay Kelly, photograms by Jenna Kuiper, and paintings by Matt Magee.  Intuitive practice is the thread that ties these artists and varied mediums together.

Jay Kelly constructs mixed-media sculptures from delicately welded metal, painted wood, and rice paper. Built around wiry lattices or biomorphic shapes, these small-scale contemporary sculptures recall ancient artifacts and embrace a sense of timelessness. Kelly’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; British Museum, London; San Diego Museum of Art; Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT; and  Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, among others.

Bringing the vocabulary of drawing to the photography darkroom, Jenna Kuiper composes unique large-scale photograms using cut-up shapes, complex burning and dodging techniques, and fiber-based matte silver-gelatin paper. This camera-less process harkens back to the beginnings of photographic history. Based on conjecture rather than sight, Kuiper instinctively arranges her compositions in the dark with unforeseen results. Stones, daggers, ceremonial vessels, and geometric forms come together in images that embody stillness and movement, representation and abstraction, and elements of the unknown. Kuiper developed this series at Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, CA. She lives and works in Albuquerque, NM.

Over a career spanning more than four decades, Matt Magee has experimented widely with abstract and conceptual art. Magee finds inspiration in contemporary scientific, ecological, and technological advancements as well as early abstractionists. Despite the crisp regularity of his work, his brushstrokes are visible and engaging, and his formal compositions are expressive. Magee has been awarded the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation resident fellowship and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.

Additional information and images for this exhibition can be found on our website at www.levygallery.com

Altered States • Gerhard Richter & assume vivid astro focus Clockwork for Oracles • Willy Bo Richardson August 7 - September 4 Gallery Reception: Saturday, August 29, 6-8 pm

Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present Altered States, an exhibition of selected editions by Gerhard Richter and the artist collective assume vivid astro focus (avaf).  This psychedelic summer show of abstract prints explodes with neon and prismatic colors.  

Gerhard Richter is among the most important artists of the 20th century. He paints using unpredictable gestures and elements of chance, and in his seminal Flow paintings, he creates multicolored abstractions by pouring enamel paints on a glass surface. Three chromatographic photographs of the Flow painting series show the original compositions in various stages of completion. Although Richter refers to these editions as“facsimile objects,” they differ from the originals in a number of ways. Many represent the only version of paintings that no longer exist, and others are images of damaged work. Gerhard Richter’s work has been in major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Tate Modern, London, as well as in countless exhibitions since 1962.

Assume vivid astro focus is a pseudonym for the internationally acclaimed artist collective whose main collaborators are Brazilian-born New York based artist Eli Sudbrack and French multimedia artist Christophe Hamaide-Pierson.  Avaf works in a vast array of media including painting, drawing, installations, video, sculpture, neon, wallpapers, and collage using bright colors and references to the Brazilian Festival of Carnevale. Their stimulating aesthetic fuses Pop art, psychedelia, and densely patterned motifs that often comment on gender roles, politics, and cultural codes.The titles of these works, like most by avaf, are an acrostic play on the letters a, v, a and f.This combination of letters frequently appears as names of performances and installations. Altered States includes five works on paper and a neon installation. Avaf has been the subject of major exhibitions and public art projects around the world including the National Museum of Art,  Architecture and Design, Oslo; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; and the 2004 Whitney Biennial, New York.

In the project room the gallery presents Clockwork for Oracles, new paintings by Santa Fe-based artist Willy Bo Richardson.  In these large-scale paintings, Richardson allows gravity to define the brushstrokes. Vertical lines of distinctive colors stream down the canvases giving the works an atmospheric quality. Richardson’s work is featured on the KNME TV PBS weekly arts series ¡COLORES! and has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States.

http://www.levygallery.com/inventory/james_turrell/10797.html

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Exposure • Gordon Parks and Rania Matar

After the Threshold • Sandi Haber Fifield         June 13 - July 24

Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present Exposure, an exhibition of selected photographs by Gordon Parks and Rania Matar.  Each photographer presents a deeply humanitarian  perspective to human rights conflicts both past and present. This show is in collaboration with PhotoSummer 2015, a series of public programs in Albuquerque and Santa Fe that focus on contemporary photography spanning regional, national and international artists, curators and scholars.

Coordinates

April 17–June 6

Closing Reception: Saturday, June 6, 6:00–8:00 pm

Ed Ruscha, Wall Rocket, 2013, lithograph, 28.75 x 28 inches: image, 32.5 x 31.25 x 2 inches: frame, edition of 60

Richard Levy Gallery Booth #417 will be participating in Art Market San Francisco April 29 - May 3, 2015:

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Benefit Preview Reception: Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Benefiting the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprised of the de Young and the Legion of Honor

Art Party: Thursday, April 30, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

NEST • an exhibition of visionary birdhouses created by award winning architects and designers opens this Friday:

New York Friends! Next week the gallery will be showing at ‪#‎ArtonPaper‬ in Booth #411.

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JOHN BALDESSARI

National City, 1996-2009

A preview of what you will see at our booth 617 at Miami Project December 2 - 7 

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Now on exhibition at the gallery: Saara Ekström • Careless Water through December 19th. The gallery will be closed November 27 - December 9 

Saara Ekström

Careless Water, 2011

c-print

35.5 x 28.5 inches: image

90.6 x 72.5 cm

37.75 x 30.75 inches: frame

95.9 x 78.1 cm