Klaus Rinke: Extra Time Dec 4, 2008- Jan 30, 2009
Artist's Reception - Thursday, Dec 11, 2008, 7- 9pm
Rinke’s “sculptural paintings” challenge the imaginary and illusory qualities of painting while examining the real and tangible nature of sculpture. Describing his work in an interview with Damien Sausset in 2004, Rinke noted:
“To produce sculptural paintings you need another scale, another texture. No depth, no illusion: the thing is simply there. Painting is always about making present an imaginary world. In contrast, the interesting thing about sculpture is that it really lives. That it is different every time – in the morning, at midday, in the evening and even at night. For all these reasons, I see painting as a medium that is worn out, worn out because it has been used too much.”
During his 30 year teaching tenure at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Rinke worked closely with his lifelong friend, mentor and colleague Joseph Beuys, considered to be one of the most influential if not controversial artists of the twentieth century.
Rooted in minimal conceptual ideas, Rinke has consistently explored the nature of time: the disruption of time, the fluidity of time, as well as the structure and order of time. Moreover, having been born in 1939, in Wattenscheid, Germany, much of his early childhood is infused with memories of clocks as symbols of order, control and exactitude.
“As a child, the railway tracks served as my daily playground; at night the clocks became my moons. Each day the ever-present clock faces slowly ticked their way inexorably towards the eminent hour of departure towards home – like time bombs for us in the midst of a real war – as each evening became a race against time.”
Another important element in Rinke’s concept art is water. Not only does he consider it to be a “material to sculpt,” he also sees water as a medium for the representation of the density and the fluidity of time. Water symbolizes the constant cycle of life and death, decay and renewal, and the movement of energy and memory. Rinke experimented with the materiality of water in numerous “demonstrations” – performance-like installations – such as "Operation Poseidon" (1969) which included drawings, tubes, containers and other devices that examined the linear, non-reversibility of flowing water. In other installations such as "Water Circulation I", "Diversion – A River is Pumped through a Museum", and "A Measure of Time – Slowly Sinking Water-Level II" Rinke uses a museum setting to create a dynamic sculpture that consists of filling twelve vats every day with water drawn from various sites along the Rhine River.
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Bonner David Galleries
7040 E. Main St.
Scottsdale, Arizona 85251
Calvin Charles Gallery brings together an eclectic blend of international artists living and working in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan, modern masters of Europe and the Americas, mid-career nationally recognized artists, and local emerging treasures. The works of Kyoko Ibe, Ju Ming, Hou Rong, Fang Xiang, and Quang Em Do are included in our ever rotating collection of contemporary Asian work. Beyond the work included in our collection, Calvin Charles Gallery has participated in traveling exhibitions highlighting works by Fernando Botero and Aurora Canero.
right, Shen Xiaotong, Face 20, Oil
H 94in x W 59in
Founded in 1985, Cline Fine Art specializes in twentieth century and contemporary art from the Americas, with a focus on early Modernism, Southwest Regionalism and Abstract Expressionism.
The gallery maintains a strong inventory of works by distinguished artists such as Arthur Dove, Joseph Stella, John Marin, Emil Bisttram, Raymond Jonson, Howard Cook and Elaine de Kooning.
right, Elaine de Kooning (1918 - 1989) Shadow Grotto (Cave #120), 1987
Watercolor and crayon on paper
14 x 20"
Costello-Childs Contemporary features the works of emerging and mid-career artists of regional, national and international note. The gallery features works in various mediums that include paintings, works on paper, photography, and sculpture, among others.
Michael Costello and Daryl Childs bring a combined 50+ years experience to their gallery, working in various aspects of the arts that have included educational, administrative, curatorial and directorial positions. They bring to their business a love of art and design, a belief in the power of developing and maintaining enduring relationships with their artists and with their clients.
right, John Geldersma, Spirit Poles, painted aspen
size: varying dimensions up to 102"
Duley-Jones Gallery features a dazzling array of contemporary artwork in a variety of media by regional & national artists. The eclectic selection includes the exquisite ceramic of George Alexander, the large watercolors of David Barba, and Robert Brubaker's whimsical figures. Paintings by Pat Bailey, Rhea Gary, Brian Blackham, Walt Wooten, George Green and Dick Phillips, David Gordiner, are featured. An emphasis on art glass includes work by John Miller, David Klein, Leon Applebaum and glass tapestries by Carole Perry and Lyle London are also exhibited as well as baskets by Neil and Fran Prince, wood vessels by Beau Beauford, wood carvings by David Caricato, and original illustrations by Sylvia Long.
right, Walt Wooten, Visit to the Louvre LIV: The Guard Room
Focusing on the years just before and after the mid- century mark, the Eric Firestone Gallery, Scottsdale concentrates its efforts on finding and presenting important works from a select group of twentieth-century American modern masters who have connections to the western United States. In some cases the gallery has been afforded the incredible opportunity to evaluate and study over six decades of art production. The rich artistic contributions these artists have made to the region and the wider realm of American Art is impressive. Through continued scholarship and museum quality exhibitions the Eric Firestone Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona will push forward the artistic and historic importance these artists and their work hold to this day.
Faust Gallery
was opened in 1996 by Bill Faust, the
nephew of noted Lovena Ohl. Bill has created one
of the leading galleries in the country, featuring
work by leading "up and coming" Native
American artists alongside that of acknowledged
masters. The gallery offers a wide spectrum of
work, both contemporary and historic, including:
fine jewelry, pottery, textiles, katsinas, beadwork,
paintings and sculpture.
Take a moment to preview our gallery "online". We feature only a small part of our gallery inventory online, and it continues to change on a regular basis.
Chico Fernandes
Tension and Time: Continuing Studies Exhibition
On view to Dec 29, 2008
Ted Decker Catalyst Space at
Figarelli Galleries Back Room
Fernandes, who attended classes at the Parque LageSchool for Visual Arts and Instituto Metodista Bennett in Rio de Janeiro, began his career as an artist six years ago at age 18 with participation in a group exhibition in New York. Since then he has shown work throughout Brazil and in Mexico, and his work has been featured in numerous international art fairs including Bridge-London and Miami Basel.
The Ted Decker Catalyst Fund, established in October 2003, provides mini-grants to support artists on the business side of their careers. To date, mini-grants totaling over $20,000 have been awarded to visual artists living in Arizona, Brazil, and Peru.
The
g2 Gallery specializes in progressive, contemporary
art in all media and is open to a wide-range of artistic
ideas. As a gallery, we are dedicated to promoting
emerging and mid-career artists, with an emphasis on
local and regional talent.
The g2 Gallery believes that fine
art should be made available for all to enjoy and own.
The environment we create is welcoming to both experienced
art collectors as well as general art appreciators.
It is our belief that by showing quality artists in
a casual and comfortable environment comes an appreciation
of fine art and a desire to enrich one's life with it.
Please visit us at our new
location on the 4th floor of the SouthBridge Complex
(above Estate House): 7144 E. Stetson Dr., Ste. 405
Gebert Contemporary was founded in Santa Fe NM as Chiaroscuro Gallery in 2000 by the Gebert Family. The Scottsdale, Arizona gallery was founded the following year as Chiaroscuro Gallery and becoming Gebert Contemporary in 2008. The Santa Fe gallery became Gebert Contemporary in January 2007. The original Santa Fe location at 439 Camino del Monte Sol retains the name Chiaroscuro.
Gebert Contemporary Art on Main Street in Scottsdale is open late on Thursday evenings during the popular arts walk.
Gebert Contemporary specializes in the contemporary abstract painting and sculpture of an international group of artists. While most of the gallery artists are mid-career and established, we do exhibit a small number of emerging artists. Exhibited works come from Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Germany, Mexico, Nicaragua, Poland, Spain, and the United States.
King Galleries of Scottsdale is pleased to represent the Pueblo pottery of many of today's leading potters. Over the years we have taken the time to get to know each of our gallery artists. As each new pieces comes into the gallery, we talk with the artist, finding out about the time and thought that goes into their work. It is important with contemporary pottery to understand the designs and motivation of the artist and their work. Over time, we feel as if we not only have a business relationship with most of the potters, but also a friendship.
Each piece of pottery that we have in the gallery is hand coil built, stone polished, painted and almost all are traditionally fired. One of our goals here at the gallery has been to encourage the use of traditional methods of making and firing pottery while encouraging the potters to be creative and innovative in their forms and designs.
Since its inception, King Galleries has been committed to represent work by potters who create the highest quality and greatest innovation in their pottery. Charles King has been a judge for pottery at the most prestigious Indian art events, such as Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Indian Market and Gallup Ceremonials. He has also given numerous talks on Pueblo pottery and Zuni fetishes at the Heard Museum and the Pueblo Grande Museum. He was on the Board of Directors of the Indian Arts and Crafts Association (IACA), which has the mission of encouraging and preserving authentic Indian art. Mr. King has written about pottery in the book "Collecting Authentic Indian Art" and an article in American Indian Art Magazine entitled, "Pueblo Pottery: Folk Art to Fine Art". His first book, Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya, was published in 2008.
Eastern
Promise: Contemporary Art from China
November 6 - January 3, 2009
Opening Reception
Thursday, November 6, 2008
7:00 to 9:00 pm
This past year has been a seminal
time for China, with the country seldom far from the
headlines of the world’s press. No one can deny
the success of Beijing’s staging of the Olympics,
and now the newest superpower races towards achievements
in space. The state of the world economy offers further
room for bolstering China’s new standing, and
within the country, there is huge promise for those
who can ride the wave of the boom. Yet behind it all,
there is continued unrest as those left behind have
to struggle even for life’s basics, and as corruption
and lack of quality control have led to tragedy in the
earthquake zone and in daily industrial accidents, not
to mention to serious damage in China’s reputation
in both domestic and world markets.
Artists included in the exhibition
are: Chen Wenling, Huang Binyan, Li Mingzhu,
Liu Bolin, Luo Brothers, Mu Jun, Qu Yan, Suo Tan, Tong
Dazhuang, Wang Dajun, Wang Nengtao, Wang Zhiyuan, Xiang
Xiaoli, Xue Song, Yu Fan, Zhang Dali, and Zheng Li
Above:Liu
Bolin, Hiding in the City #46: Whole Happy Family 2,
color photograph, 47.25" x 29.5
Below: Suo Tan, Chinese Dragon
#2, ceramic, 14.5" x 12" x 9.5"
The Marshall Gallery
specializes in original Abstract Art, Antique
Art, Bronzes, Contemporary Art, Drawings, Etchings,
Figurative Art, Fine Art, Hand-made Clocks, Intaglios,
Landscapes, Modern Art, Oils, Oil Paintings, Original
Art, Pen-and-Ink, Realism, Representational Art,
Sculpture, Still Life, Stone, Symbolist Art, Urban
Art, Watercolors and Wood.
Bryon Draper
November 29, 2008 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Bryon’s fragmented figures display his fascination
with the ruins of antiquity. He interchanges selected
blocks of natural stone with cast bronze figure
fragments that create an enigmatic choreography
of elements that stimulate the mind of the viewer.
School of Art MFA graduate Jose A. Benavides, who this year received an Artist Projects grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, is a featured artist at the Night Gallery. Faculty artists Jim White, Bill Jenkins, Mary Neubauer and Betsy Schneider, along with graduate students including Suzanne Carnes, Damian Johnson and Kris Waid-Jones, also have works on exhibit. The Night Gallery is a creation of the community partnership between the ASU Herberger College of the Arts and the Tempe Marketplace.
The Riva Yares Gallery, founded in 1964, with locations in Scottsdale, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico, offers two of the primary art spaces in the country for the exhibition of museum-level modern and contemporary art.
Artists include Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Joan Mitchell, Manuel Neri, Frank Stella, Milton Avery, Morris Lewis, Roberto Matta, Kenneth Noland, James G. Davis and Jim Waid
Wilde Meyer Gallery
Tucson- Desert Autumn and Gold
Oct 9 -Nov 6.
Interpretations of the desert by artists Brenda
Bredvik, Ka Fisher, and Alix Stefan among others.
Wilde Meyer Gallery, 3001 E. Skyline Dr., Tucson,
AZ. 520-615-5222.
Celebrate our 25 years
in Arizona with the opening of “Wilde Meyer,
Contemporary and Classic for 25 Years” on
Thursday, November 6th, 7pm - 9pm during Wearable
Artwalk. Featured art will include long time collector
favorites by artists who have shared many of those
25 years with us like
Victoria Boyce Galleries has a diverse roster of more than fifty emerging and established artists from the United States, Canada and Mexico. Oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, monoprints, photography, sculpture, jewelry and art furniture are presented. Contemporary landscapes, abstracts, figurative and narrative works are available for the collector and those seeking to uniquely enhance living and workspaces. Commissions are also available for special projects for corporate and individual clients.
The Vision Gallery is a non-profit art gallery managed by the Chandler Cultural Foundation. Exhibits are rotated on a regular basis. For more information, please check our exhibition schedule. A portion of all art sales are used to fund the VISION KIDZ Program, a series of art education workshops offered to the community free of charge.
right, Craig Cheply, Beneath Heaven and Earth
If you are interested in the Vision Gallery and its programs, please call the Gallery at 480.917.6859 and ask to be placed on our mailing list. Event information is supplied to our patrons and the local media.
The Vision Gallery has received funding in the past years from the following corporations and organizations: Bank of America, Motorola, Inc., Mobile Oil Inc, Target, The Arizona Commission on the Arts, Cox Communications, Bashas, Desert Viking, the Downtown Chandler Community Partnership, and the City of Chandler.
For more information about the Chandler Cultural Foundation and the Chandler Center for the Arts visit their web site at www.chandlercenter.org.
"I’m fascinated with the 1920-1950's. Maybe it's a "past-life" thing. I wasn't born until 1955. The period was rich in design. The vehicles, clothing, architecture, appliances and print media were futuristically elegant. Most of my reflections of this time are through a gray colored lens. I use old black and white vintage snapshots of candid common events. None of my images are of re-enacted events; all actually happened. They are common settings, just uncommon that the photos survived. We still live much the way they did back then. Most of the situations in these scenes are universal, timeless and cross-cultural. I'm highly selective of my imagery. I am respectful of the spirit of those in the photographs. I avoid photographs that would embarrass those who have passed on. Instead I want to celebrate their time here on earth.
These images evoke a nostalgic feeling, although my paintings have a contemporary relevance and color palette. I try to bring this era to life with color. Not simply colorizing the scenes but pushing color to a plausible but unusual limit. I leave the people vague so that the viewer can inject himself or herself or someone they know into the image. There's a part of me that is striving to capture a sense of the reality of today's moment and its relationship to the past. There is an illusive, moody feeling that I still haven't arrived at. I have the rest of my life to try."
right, Carlyle Smith, Beating a Dead Horse, Oil, 40" x 55"
Xico Inc., formerly known as Xicanindio, is a multidisciplinary arts organization that was created in 1975 by a group of local Chicano and Native American artists. Their vision was to promote indigenous arts and culture through community based arts programs.
As one of the oldest ethnic nonprofit arts organizations in the state of Arizona, Xico Inc. plays a unique role in the community through the programmatic activities of the organization.
Our mission is to nourish a greater appreciation of the cultural and spiritual heritages of the Latino and Indigenous peoples of the Americas throughout the Arts.
The Xico Ink’s Printmaking Workshops program was established in 1992 and provides a unique opportunity for Arizona Latino and Native American artists to experiment with new media and learn from other local, national and international artists who are skilled in the techniques of printmaking. The result is a new work created in an environment of shared inspiration.
These workshops feature various printmaking techniques including mono-silkscreen, serigraph, and monoprint.
Xico Inc. is a non-profit 501c3 organization and is supported through grants from private and public funders.
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Art One has been representing artwork from students of Arizona universities, community colleges, and emerging and local artists since 1993.
October 18th-December 31st, 2008
Eastern
Promise: Contemporary Art from China
Above:Liu
Bolin, Hiding in the City #46: Whole Happy Family 2,
Victoria Boyce Galleries has a diverse roster of more than fifty emerging and established artists from the United States, Canada and Mexico. Oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, monoprints, photography, sculpture, jewelry and art furniture are presented. Contemporary landscapes, abstracts, figurative and narrative works are available for the collector and those seeking to uniquely enhance living and workspaces. Commissions are also available for special projects for corporate and individual clients.
