Context Art Miami 2021
November 30 – December 5, 2021
Per Adolfsen, Brian Cirmo, Diana Copperwhite, Susana Guerrero, Ian Hughes, Jean-Guerly Pétion, Alberto Rodriguez, Danny Rolph, Lien Truong.
532 Gallery @ Context Art Miami 2021 (Artsy Link)
February 24 - March 14, 2021
Chelsea, New York: 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel is pleased to take part in this year's Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary / Art Wynwood Special Online Edition. Our online booth at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary and Art Wynwood Online Edition, features the following artists in the gallery's programme: Brian Cirmo, Carlos Rodriguez Cardenas, Danny Rolph, Diana Copperwhite, Electric Coffin, Elio Rodriguez, Gustavo Acosta, Ian Hughes, John Alexander Parks, Jose Angel Vincench, Julie Langsam, Karl Jean Guerly Petion, Lennart Rieder, Lien Truong, Paco Marcial, Per Adolfsen, Piers Secunda, Sky Kim, Susana Guerrero. The fair is on view until March 14.
Jean Guerly Petion
In Between Beneath The Mirror
2021
Acrylic, Mixed media on canvas
83 x 53 inches
"Synonymous with the dark and the unknown. In this painting the shadows are reversed. Hyper fragmented colours create forms that resemble aspects of the human figure. They find their shape in the process where form, light and organic mass dismantle the laws of logic. In this fictional space the shadow becomes solid, electric and light" -- Diana Copperwhite
"Copperwhite’s process and form evoke both a sense of excavation—and with it, Freud’s archaeological metaphors for delving into the past and the unconscious—and that sense of blurring or erasure when one cannot quite fully remember an event. Her fluid bands of colored light slicing across weathered surfaces viscerally affect the viewer, reminding us that memory is not just an artifact of the past, but an animated phenomenon intensely felt in the present." -- Robert Shane, The Brooklyn Rail
Diana Copperwhite
In The Shape Of Shadows (2019)
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 x 2 inches
"Looking at Jose Angel Vincench’s geometric abstractions, one can’t help being stunned by all their luminosity — the light inherent in their gold, the most precious metal of all minerals, all the more so because of its symbolic import – and their innovative, idiosyncratic geometry. Gold is universally regarded as a sacred material, a symbol of transcendence, like the sun that rises above the earth it shines on. We cannot live without its miraculous light, and we value gold because it is imbued with light. It is a peculiarly abstract material, a sort of immaterial material like light. Gold is the most malleable of metals; working with gold leaf, as Vincench does, is to bend light to one’s aesthetic and expressive purpose" -- Donald Kuspit
Jose Angel Vincench
Autonomia (2015)
Gold leaf on canvas
31 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 1 3/5 inches
"January 1990 was my first trip to New York. On a cold morning I caught a train from Manhattan to Montauk changing at Jamaica. I had read that lots of artists I admired had lived on Long Island and I wanted to go as far east as I could. The train journey was eventful, I remember everyone warning me not to leave it too late getting back to the City! So, 30 years later during Lockdown in the UK I wanted to recollect that day. I decided on a diptych format to create a division between the two parts of Long island as I saw it with Brooklyn, Queens and the city I was leaving on the left transitioning to the rural as your eye wanders right. I chose a thicker triplewall to paint upon for its extended optical effects. My memories are primarily of the striking angularity in the architecture in the city that carried into Long Island, becoming less frequent as the journey progressed. I watched from the window of the train whilst listening to P-Funk on a cassette tape in my Walkman. I remember this overwhelming pink hue upon the buildings as the train chugged eastwards. In this painting I reference the coast and waves viewed that day in the lower part of the right hand panel. A clear angular dark shape on the right represents the end of that journey as I looked out on the freezing ocean and returned (slowly) on the late train back to the city. This painting is a recollection but I also view it as a kind of allegory relating to the urban and the rural, like what you often see in Pre and Early Renaissance Painting?" — Danny Rolph
Danny Rolph
Long Island (2020)
Acrylic, Mixed media on canvas
39 2/5 x 56 x 1 3/5 inches
Situated between the past and the future, Lien Truong’s paintings are layered between different times, pointing to an ambiguous present that conflates defiance with prejudice and moral risk. Truong melds a soft, painterly palette with references to symbols that overflow with historical meaning.
Patterns of cloth, involving reference to historic Asian silk painting, seem to absorb the lineage of violence in the collective psyche. The paintings themselves are vessels, setting in relief historical indignities suffered by individuals at the hands of the state. The vessels give rhythm and shape to people and places whose histories have been all but erased.
Lien Truong
And then the water turned a lurid hue (2019)
Oil, silk, acrylic, laser cut linen, antique Japanese cloth on canvas
60 x 72 inches
Per Adolfsen
Full moon and an empty beach
2021
Graphite, Pencil on Hahnemuehle paper
23 3/5 x 16 1/2 inches
Per Adolfsen"s drawings in graphite and colored pencil are the product of Adolfsen’s abiding interest in keeping his artistic practice grounded in the fundamental relationship of eye, mind, and hand, without reliance on technologies and tools more modern than those used by the Old Masters and their disciples through the centuries.
Brian Cirmo
Snowflake
2019
Oil on canvas
22 x 20 inches
Brian Cirmo's large-scale paintings envelop the viewer in the visceral worlds he creates, while smaller scale portraits, set in snowy landscapes or on moon-lit beaches, offer moments of reflection. The color gray figures in many of the works, even those ablaze with luminous color; Cirmo also asks viewers to think about the gray areas that we navigate in our relationships or in solitude.
"The daily trading on the exchange is a ferocious zero-sum game where there are winners and losers. It's a fight. So I decided to paint it as a rather unlikely fist fight where all the business guys in their dark suits have suddenly mixed in with a huge brawl. I used exaggerated gestures and sometimes quite preposterous attitudes so that the piece became more whimsical than brutal. The building itself seems have gotten into the action as well with the trading stations dancing amongst the crowd... In the end the picture is a tribute to the pugnacious, competitive side of New York life, more positive than negative..." -- John Alexander Parks
John A. Parks
The New York Stock Exchange (2015)
Oil on linen
30 x 42 x 2 inches
Piers Secunda
ISIS Bullet Hole Painting (Angels)
2017
Industrial floor paint
30 x 30 x 2 1/2 inches
Ian Hughes
Scrum
2019
Acrylic on canvas
42 x 36 inches
"The best pictures almost always involve an element of serendipity, some unexpected occurrence in the process of making them, or more likely, in the process of destroying them. Scrum is one of those pictures. I was in the process of painting it out with a coat of gray paint when I took a swipe at it with a wet sponge. It was almost like the figure I was wiping out fought back! The painting ends up looking like the psychological experience of making it: a tussle, a head-but between two opposing forces." -- Ian Hughes
Susana Guerrero
The Mother / Le Madre
2020
Brass, terminals, woven cable, ceramic
67 × 61 × 59 inches
"The process of making the artwork it’s like a ritual; the choice of every material, the configuration of every shape, of every element, brings a poetic meaning and symbolism to the artwork. The process as exorcism, the transformation of physical pain as purification of the body and the spirit, its laceration as the offering to the miracle of life" -- Susana Guerrero
Elio Rodriguez
Tropical Garden I
2018
Mixed media
72 x 72 inches
In his wallmounted monochromatic soft sculptures, Rodríguez assembles forms that initially read like whimsical semi-biomorphic riffs on 20th century Abstract Expressionist sculpture, and almost feel like a playful synthesis of Louise Bourgeois and John Chamberlain. Given time and attention, though, it begins to reveal complex allusions to nature’s exuberant fecundity, the artist’s complex relationship to his own Cuban identity, and the stereotypes that many North Americans have about tropical cultures. Although all of the artist's works are patently artificial in their materials and construction, they also embody the artless power of nature in all its self-assertive, unselfconscious grandeur.
Marlon Portales
Guggenheim
2018
Oil on canvas
118 x 177 inches
In "Guggenheim" Portales places the art spectators at the center of artistic discourse. As they view his paintings of other people viewing art, Portales’s audiences are invited to think about their own roles as spectators.
Once upon a time a Racing driver said “that we race cannot be explained by the necessity of sports for industry, but by the indefinite urge in Men to compete and succeed in things that really serve no purpose, but still require the entire dedication and force of his personality”. That sentence describes as well, a good part of an artist life. My own at least. And on that basis, my sculptures reflects many of the spirit of the early Motorsport drivers. This particular work was inspired by a driver named Jochen Rindt who, in 1970 became the only posthumous World Champion ever in Formula 1.
His countryman Wolfgang con Trips, who said those words that start this text, he also died in a racing crash not too long after he said those words, nine years earlier than Jochen — Paco Marcial
Paco Marcial
Clocking the time until all we a-green, there's lucky numbers (2018)
ZIG Kuretake water base ink pen on paper, mounted on Lanaquarell watercolor paper
11 x 16 inches
In a set of floral still lifes embedded within undulating, wavelike backgrounds, Lennart Rieder seems to point toward the profound gulf between humanity and the natural matrix from which we once emerged.
In "Slow" my intention is kind of a call to slow down, also a reference to the slow painting movement, and the vanitas still life paintings. The still life as a symbol of transience. The shapes are intended to have a digital appeal, connecting the traditional medium oil on canvas with digital tools, "Post Digital". In the end, I'm really trying to create a certain feeling while referencing different aspects in painting and art -- Lennart Rieder.
Lennart Rieder
Slow (2019)
Oil on line
67 x 49 inches
Sky Kim’s paintings have a systematic and coherent internal logic that mimics the complex interplay of order and dissolution found at every level of the cosmos. This painting hints at fragile aquatic forms including soft globular colonies of our most ancient unicellular ancestors in the primordial seas. Set in soft watery blues and lustrous shades of turquoise suggesting bioluminescence and nature’s exuberant palette
Sky Kim
Rain Wall (2020)
Watercolor, Swarovski crystals on paper
70 x 144 inches
Seattle-based collaborative duo Electric Coffin (artists Duffy de Armas and Stefan Hofmann) works provide the odd pairing of an animal with a disproportionately small vehicle perched on its back. Although the meaning of this mash-up is elusive, its bright, industrial colors and sleek, contemporary materials (back-painted glass, acrylic resin, holographic film) seem to gesture obliquely toward the idea that today the entirety of nature and culture form one vast junk pile of free-floating bits and pieces waiting to be refashioned into an endless series of slick, cool commodities through a neverending process of recombination and remixing.
Electric Coffin
Bloodlust Trans Am Wolf (2019)
Glass, acrylic paint, wooden frame
40 x 49 x 1 inches
Julie Langsam
Whirling Dervish
2020
Oil on wood panel
Julie Langsam's work explores the notion of the sublime within the context of utopian/dystopian ideas about modernist 'progress' and societal ideals. These underlying themes are present in works that embrace a variety of strategies and genres including landscape, figuration, abstraction, documentary photography, and architecture.
"The shadow that haunts Acosta’s worldly cities suggests they are illusions—theatrical illusions which people mistake for reality, to allude to Plato’s myth of the dark cave, where people are chained to their ignorance. But the geometrical character of his paintings tells us that they are higher things—that art is more intelligible than reality, and as such more peculiarly real than reality. Acosta’s idealistic geometry is his way of escaping from—rising above—the grim reality of the city" -- Donald Kuspit
Gustavo Acosta
Sixteen flags and a Tropical Landscape (2017)
Acrylic on canvas
Diana Copperwhite, Confucious Confused 2016
( Detail) oil on canvas, 12″ x 16″
CONTEXT ART MIAMI
Booth #203
Works by
Bernard Ammerer
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Susana Guerrero
Ian Hughes
Les Joynes
Julie Langsam
Nadja Marcin
Armando Marino
John Parks
Elio Rodriguez
Piers Secunda
Tanja Selzer
Jose Vincench
New CONTEXT Art Miami Pavilion
November 29 – December 4, 2016
Midtown Miami | Wynwood
118 NE 34th Street | Miami, FL 33127
preview work on artsy click here
Pulse Play Selection (1 of 3): Les Joynes, Shapeshifter (2014) video 2:30 min.
In Shapeshifter, New-York based, Les Joynes recontextualizes Joseph Beuys’ I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) during his journey to the Khovsgol Province in Northern Mongolia.
Exploring nomadic identity, Les Joynes performs this shamanic ritual expanding his Selfhood in the adaptation of the Other.
Pulse Projects Selection: Armando Marino, Narcissus (2016) oil/ canvas
Inspired by the classic Greek mythology and today’s youth culture, Armando Marino’s large scale Narcissus is part of a series of his major oil paintings
that would reflect his romantic commentary on the growing prevalence around us of taking smartphone “selfies”. Narcissism is alive and well.
December 2 – 6, 2015
CONTEXT Art Miami Pavilion | Midtown Miami – Wynwood
2901 NE 1st Avenue | Miami, FL 33137
BOOTH CTX 41
PULSE NEW YORK
Booth B-12
Metropolitan Pavillion
125 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011
Diana Copperwhite Skanner Darkly 2015
Oil on canvas, 72 x 96 inches
PULSE B12
Danny Rolph JV3 2014
Oil on Canvas, 84 x 72 inches
PULSE PROJECTS
Armando Marino, The Raft ( La Patera) 2014 , Bronze, 50x 23×20 inches
Diana Copperwhite
Ian Hughes
Julie Langsam
Armando Marino
Tanja Selzer
Booth E45
The CONTEXT | Art Miami Pavilion Midtown |
Wynwood Arts District 2901 NE 1st Avenue
Miami, FL 33137 www.contextartmiami.com
June 10-15, 2013
We look forward to seeing you at Volta9 in Basel for the presentation of new works by Armando Marino and Nadja Marcin.
For additional information please contact the gallery.
Dreispitzhalle
Helsinki- Strasse 5
4142 Basel
Please join us for the Solo presentation of Armando Marino at VOLTA NY
“Marino is a romantic painter—his nature has the seductive abundance often found in traditional romantic landscape painting, as Tree of Life, 2012 makes clear—but he is an ironical romanticist, one might say a disappointed romanticist, as The Revolutionary, 2013 strongly suggests”
Donald Kuspit.
IAN HUGHES Solo presentation at the first Edition of UNTITLED , Miami
curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud.
