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30/9/2002

Two exhibitions

Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York

Lennart Anderson: Paintings from 1953-2002
October 1-26, 2002

Salander-O'Reilly Galleries will present an exhibition of paintings by Lennart Anderson, Paintings from 1953-2002. This exhibition brings together major examples of the artist's work from throughout his career, many on loan from public and private collections, including his early street scenes, large and small still lives, nudes and portraits. Many of these early paintings from the sixties and seventies have not been seen in New York in over twenty years.

The earliest painting in this exhibition dates from 1953 around the time when Anderson first moved to New York City from Detroit after graduating from Cranbrook School of Art. In New York Anderson took a studio on 10th Street, which was the epicenter of New York School painting. Here he continued to make his small still-lifes and larger figure groups.

In his catalog essay Scott Noel draws attention to the painterly integrity that underlies Anderson's observed images. He writes:
"Anderson's feeling for 'the tactile identification of paint with form' and the objective interpretation of appearance are inseparable themes and the poetic center of his achievement. The painted surface grows from a gestural involvement with mark to a mosaic of shape. Images are built up and rephrased and his painting process is never concealed. "

Anderson is one of the pre-eminent figurative painters of his generation. One critic referred to him as "a Degas for our time." Anderson's painting brings together the disparate influences of Degas, Willem de Kooning and Edward Dickinson ,with whom he studied. Anderson is scholarly in his knowledge of various painters including Titian, Corot and Chardin. He is a distinguished professor in the studio art Masters program at Brooklyn College. His teaching and work have influenced a generation of younger painters to re-investigate the possibilities of observed painting.

Included in this exhibition is "Idyll III," an important painting of figures in the landscape the artist has worked on for over twenty years. Hilton Kramer has observed that "this is a painting that openly declares its allegiance to the classics of great painting and to the kind of craft and vision that such an allegiance entails. In a saner world than ours, museums would be vying for the honor of mounting a major retrospective of Mr. Anderson's work"

This exhibition is accompanied by a color catalogue with an essay by Scott Noel.

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Arthur Carter: Sculpture
October 1-26, 2002

Salander O'Reilly Galleries announces an exhibition of recent sculpture by Arthur Carter. On view will be a number of abstract sculptures in bronze, painted stainless steel and unpainted stainless steel. There will also be studies for constructions.

Arthur Carter is well known as an investment banker and publisher, and is gaining recognition for his work as a sculptor. His sculpture has been shown at Salander-O'Reilly Galleries and Galerie Piltzer in Paris. Recent commissioned sculptures are installed in front of 90 Park Avenue and in the lobby of 300 Park Avenue in New York. Another has been recently installed on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, D. C.

In the catalogue for the new exhibition Hilton Kramer notes:
"In much of Arthur Carter's new work, with its shifting dialogue between the curvilinear and the geometric, the resulting structures often strike one not so much as drawing in space as calligraphy in space - or even ideograms in space. Their cursive, headlong occupation of a circumambient space has something of the gestural quality of fine calligraphy - a 'scribble in the air' aspiring to the monumental.

And if at times we are reminded of something more traditional in Carter's sculpture - as I am reminded of Brancusi's The Kiss whenever I see The Couple (1999), his monumental outdoor construction of polished stainless steel and bronze at 90 Park Avenue in Manhattan, that too is part of its resonance and charm."

Arthur Carter received an A.B. in French literature from Brown University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. In 1981, after a 25-year investment banking career, Mr. Carter founded The Litchfield County Times and six years later The New York Observer. In 1990 and 1991 he was adjunct Professor of Philosophy at New York University and is presently adjunct Professor of Journalism at New York University. This is Arthur Carter's second solo show at Salander-O'Reilly Galleries.

Gallery Hours
Monday - Saturday, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm

Salander-O'Reilly Galleries
20 East 79 Street, New York, NY 10021
tel (212) 879-6606
fax (212) 744-0655

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