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Art Exhibition Belligerently Depicting the Morale of Life & Art for Arts Sake !   Eddie Rehm :  "The Belligerent Plasticity of Duality in He, Himself."      The Dino Eli Gallery is proud to announce its first exhibition of cutting-edge, "Instant Gratification Abstract", contemporary art, hosting works by celebrated New York artist, Eddie Rehm.  " The Belligerent Plasticity of Duality in He , Himself, refers to the concept that also defines the idea ...

This exhibition celebrates the exuberance of gesture and innovative abstraction that came to define a central tenet of Abstract Expressionism. Often a balancing act between unbridled spontaneity and careful forethought, this body of work highlights the dynamic action painting that defined a new era in abstraction. With the primacy of the painted surface called to order, American postwar art took center stage. With work by Robert Motherwell, Jack Tworkov, Richard Pousette-Dart, Norman Bluhm, ...

Photographer and collage artist Adrienne Moumin will be opening her Manhattan studio to the public, on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, 2011, from 12-5PM both days.  Moumin will be showing works from her “Architextures” series of hand-cut-and-assembled gelatin silver photo collages.  The event will signal Moumin’s return to New York after a ten-year absence.  The studio is located at 240 East 55th Street, #8A, New York, NY 10022.  Moumin’s studio is also open by appointment. Moumin’s ...

  Babcock Galleries presents Marylyn Dintenfass’ solo exhibition Souped Up / Tricked Out, a visceral, visual series of oil paintings inspired by a complex love affair with automobiles, on view October 11 – November 18, 2011.     Dintenfass is known for her use of lush color and an organic lexicon of gestural abstract imagery to express encounters with everyday sensual pleasures.   Art critic Lilly Wei calls her work, “A bracing example of an experiential painting for the present.”  In this ...

  Bill Scott - September 8 through October 8, 2011. Hollis Taggart Galleries is pleased to present an exhibition of the recent paintings of Bill Scott. The twenty paintings on view are imbued with a joie de vivre that has long been a hallmark of Scott’s lushly colored, abstracted compositions. In addition to these works, this exhibition showcases paintings that introduce an important new compositional element—as the artist re-interprets iconic historical works of art in his own uniquely ...

studio21south189 Beaver St. Route 8, North Adams, MA413-652-4815  studio21south@gmail.comFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / WEEK OF JULY 11, 2011 "OH, CRAP!" at studio21south July 16-August 21, 2011 Opening Saturday, July 16, 3-7pm NORTH ADAMS--studio21south in North Adams presents "OH CRAP!", an exhibit of art about things forgotten, discarded, and left behind. "Oh, Crap!" includes drawings and pastels by gallery artist Bob Lafond of an abandoned small-craft airport in New Jersey, and also ...

  Absolute Abstraction is now on view through March 12, 2011. Paintings, sculpture, and works on paper include Josef Albers’ classic lithograph, Prefatio, 1942, Hugh Mesibov’s enormous oil, Spontaneous Landscape, 1957, and James Daugherty’s pastel, Synchromist Compostion, 1972. Also represented are Fred Becker, Charles Burchfield, Hans Burkhardt, Edmond Casarella, Minna Citron, Worden Day,  Howard Daum, Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Peter Grippe, Riva Helfond, Fannie Hillsmith, Dorothy Browdy ...

  Los Angeles, CA – Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents a provocative exhibition of works by the celebrated contemporary artist from Spain, Jordi Alcaraz.  The exhibition, Jordi Alcaraz: Traslúcido extends through December 24th, 2010, and introduces a major new publication on Alcaraz.   Jordi Alcaraz: Traslúcido represents the first comprehensive view in America of Alcaraz’s profoundly poetic art. The exhibition brings together large and small scale works which transcend the categories of ...

    Ernest Briggs: Ernest Brigg’s volcanic abstract paintings from the 1950’s and 60’s place him firmly in the ranks of the New York Avant-Garde of that era. Until his death in 1984, Briggs continuously explored new ways of combining and changing compositional arrangements and painterly strategies. His compositions are powerful, interpreting nature as a cataclysmic force. Briggs studied at the radical California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in the early 1950s. It was there, under ...