2021 Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary / Art Wynwood Special Online Edition

Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary / Art Wynwood Special Online Edition

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.

 

View our virtual fair booth on Artsy (link) 

Jean Guerly Petion

In Between Beneath The Mirror

2021

Acrylic, Mixed media on canvas

83 x 53 inches

In Between Beneath The Mirror, 2021, Acrylic, Mixed media on canvas, 83" x 53"

"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)

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 A. Vincench, Autonomia (2015)

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)

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)

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.

 

Per Adolfsen, Full moon and an empty beach (2021)

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.

Brian Cirmo, Snowflake (2019)

"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)

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

Piers Secunda has developed a studio practice using paint in a sculptural manner, to record both conflicts and post industrial revolution developments,
which have formed the world we know today, with a focus in the last decade, on the destruction of culture in war time.
Piers Secunda, ISIS Bullet Hole Painting (Angels) (2017)

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

Scrum, 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 42" x 36"

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

 

Susan Guerrero, The Mother / La Madre (2020)

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.

Elio Rodriguez, Tropical Garden I (2018)

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.

Marlon Portales, Guggenheim (2018)

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 (2020)

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)

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)

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)

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

44 x 44 inches

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.

Julie Langsam, Whirling Dervish (2020)

"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)

Gustavo Acosta

Sixteen flags and a Tropical Landscape (2017)

Acrylic on canvas

43 x 98 x 2 inches

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Context Art Miami Nov 29 – Dec 4, 2016

 

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

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PULSE NYC March 3 – 6, 2016

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.

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Context Art Miami, 2015

 

December 2 – 6, 2015

CONTEXT Art Miami Pavilion | Midtown Miami – Wynwood

2901 NE 1st Avenue | Miami, FL 33137

BOOTH CTX 41

 

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PULSE ART FAIR

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

 

 

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CONTEXT – ART MIAMI December 2-7, 2014

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

 

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VOLTA 9 BASEL

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

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VOLTA NY 2013


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. 

Armando Mariño is included in the current exhibition Fifteen Recent Acquisitions at Deutsche Bank Collection 60 Wall Street. He had two solo exhibitions in 2012 in New York City, Recent Paintings from the Year of the Protester  at The 8th Floor Gallery/ Rubin Foundation and  The Waste Land at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel in Chelsea.
In 2011 Mariño was Artist in Residence at the Bronx Museum  and recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant.

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Untitled 2012

IAN HUGHES  Solo presentation at the first Edition of UNTITLED , Miami
curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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