Between The Lines
dal 8/6/2004 al 10/7/2004
Segnalato da
8/6/2004
Between The Lines
Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York
Featuring John Rosis and Yoan Capote. A new exhibit entitled Between The Lines, featuring Yoan Capote, a Cuban artist who resides in Havana, Cuba, and John Rosis, an American artist who lives in Nycack, NY. The exhibit explores how artists use line and mark-making in their work to create or to emphasize expression.
Featuring John Rosis and Yoan Capote
New York, NY – Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art (PSCA) announces the opening of a new exhibit entitled Between The Lines, featuring Yoan Capote, a Cuban artist who resides in Havana, Cuba, and John Rosis, an American artist who lives in Nycack, NY. The exhibit explores how artists use line and mark-making in their work to create or to emphasize expression.
Yoan Capote is one of the hottest young Cuban artists today, having been included in the seventh Havana Bienal when he was just 23 years old and again in the most recent bienal in fall of 2003. Capote's works are drawings in watercolor, pencil, and ink for sculptures that he would like to realize in the future.
The drawing by Capote, entitled Tran/Sit, is the plan for a sculpture that has been realized with the generosity of Carole and Alex Rosenberg. In the sculpture, a number of suitcases have been made manifest in concrete. When installing the work, the valises may be arranged in any manner so long as they are positioned so that the viewer may sit on them. Capote's inspiration for the work was a personal one. While traveling abroad, he noted that people were often sitting on their suitcases while waiting at transit stations. When traveling to the Vermont Studio Center for his first residency in the US, which was underwritten by the Brundage Foundation and American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, he stopped at a Flea Market where he found the suitcases. He had been thinking about doing such a sculpture and this was the opportune moment. He found in this simple ritual a uniquely sustaining property of the case itself, protecting valuables and personal items, while also supporting the owner of those items. Thus the relationship between luggage and those who lug becomes an existential co-pathetic one.
Escoliosis is a small drawing by Capote of a whimsical cartoon-like door that is open. It is a very unusual door as it appears to be what a portal would look like if it were reflected in a fun-house mirror. It has a playful rightward sag in the middle – both in the door and the doorframe. Perhaps Capote's humorous drawing alludes to the need for more of society to become engaged with art. Scoliosis is a painful condition with many sufferers worldwide. Although it can be alleviated it represents a fundamental weakening of the architectural structure of the human body. It can be argued that without art, the human psyche is also weakened.
Capote also appears in the current exhibition entitled 'Ahora Es El Futuro' at The Durst Organization, co-curated by Lanny L. Powers and Paul Sharpe. The survey of contemporary Cuban art continues through June 4 and features works by Los Carpinteros, Arturo Cuenca, Maria Elena Gonzalez, Renelio Marin, Ernesto Pujol, and Juana Valdes.
Rosis offers abstract works on paper and on canvas inspired by nature and in particular the hills and valleys around Nyack on the Hudson River. Large abstract paintings mimic earlier works where the artist painted on glass and so they emphasize wide expanses of smooth color. Works on paper focus on ovals and circles superimposed on collaged papers, creating liquid lines against subtle variations in form and color in the ground.
Rosis has had solo shows at Yeshiva University in New York and at the Southern Vermont Center for the Arts in Manchester. He is an adjunct at the Rockland Center for the Arts, where he has been shown in numerous exhibits. His work has been included in a number of prestigious group shows including the Fuller Museum of Art in Brockton, Massachusetts, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and NYU in New York.
Opening June 9, 6 – 9 PM, thru July 10.
Image: Yoan Capote, Escoliosis, Watercolor and Pencil on Paper, 25.5 x 19.5 Inches
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PSCA is founded on the premise that the artist comes first and is the raison d'être of the art world. The role of the gallerist is to nurture creative accomplishment and to cultivate the collectors and curators who can sustain artists. The artists represented are those whose work one would wish to collect and to enjoy, while helping to support their careers. PSCA is led by Paul Sharpe, formerly of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The space itself is meant to encourage a dialogue in issues in art today and as such is designed as a salon rather than a white box. The color scheme is blue, camel, and white and it is inspired by a Justin Knowles painting of the mid 1960s. The concept is to create a space where artist and art lovers can congregate and appreciate fine contemporary art.
artists represented
Robert Appleton Carlos Bandres Amaya Bozal Alfredo Cannata
Anton Christian Craig Coleman Arturo Cuenca Linda Cummings
Fairfax Dorn Gloria Garfinkel Laura Harrison Lenore RS Lim
Katy Martin Robinson Murray Martin Penrose John Costa Rosis
Alex Serna Dylan Blue Stone Tattfoo Tan Lee Whittier
work available
Amos Badertscher Yoan Capote Judi Harvest Jeff Kowatch
Michelle Mackey Robin Richmond
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