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Press Releases - Viridian ArtistsViridian Artists' 24th International Juried ExhibitionJuried by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, Whitney Museum, New York July 2 – July 20, 2013 Opening reception Thursday, July 18th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Chelsea: Viridian Artists Inc. is pleased to present their 24th International Juried Exhibition. Curated by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, Whitney Museum, New York, the exhibition opens July 2nd and continues through July 20th, 2013. In celebration, a special reception will be held on Thursday, July 18th 6:00 - 8:00 pm. At that time, meet the curator and many of the artists. Viridian's Interntional Juried Exhibitions are a series of exhibitions that serve to encompass a diverse selection of outstanding art from around the world that might not otherwise be seen in New York City. This marks the 24th year that the gallery has offered artists the opportunity to have a major museum curator see a selection of their work. As the recipient of the sixteenth CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, Elisabeth Sussman was recently recognized for her dynamic curatorial vision and her dedication to the field. She is Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Most recently, along with co-curator Jay Sanders, she curated the 2012 Whitney Biennial. During her time curating this exhibition at Viridian, she spent many long hours viewing over 1000 images sent from around the world. In her curatorial statement, Sussman states: “New York City, considers itself, rightly or wrongly, the center of the art world. In the week when the jurying of this exhibition took place, another art fair, Frieze, was in town, the contemporary auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s were bringing in tons of money and mega galleries in Chelsea were featuring gigantic shows of globally branded artists. Jurying an exhibition like Viridian’s at that time was an essential activity, a relief from the horrifying realization that, at least in New York, little separates the art world from global financial markets and the entertainment industry.” In addition to the exhibition juried by Sussman, Viridian's director, Vernita Nemec, also views the hundreds of images submitted and curates a selection that she feels have merit for a power point presentation viewable for the duration of the exhibition. This “Director's Choice” selection is another opportunity that Viridian presents as part of its mission is to give exposure to outstanding under-known artists. Group Exhibition: Juried by Elisabeth Sussman First Prize: Elizabeth Castonguay Second Prize: John Hansen Third Prize: Malika Cosme Honorable Mentions: Alexander Churchill, Henry Coupe, Barry Goldberg * Lizz Aston * Ed Herman * Samaray Akarvardar * Jane Alexander-Perry * Ransom Ashley * Bob Augstell * Kathleen Benton * S Brian Berkun * Elizabeth Castonguay * Alexander Churchill,* Malika Cosme * Henry Coupe * Barry Goldberg * John Hansen * Edith Hillinger * Aram Han * Timothy Macy * Dana McElroy * Pilar Olaverri * Zoran Poposki * Leonard Rosenfeld * Kimberly Rowe * Seena Sussman * Tore Terrasi * Rebecca Treadwell *Susan Evans Trees * Catherine Vanaria * Andrew Williams * Director's Choice Emma Buck * Matty Davis * Lauren Dishinger * Nancy Robb Dunst * Rachel Edwards * Kristin Enck * * Jim Granito * Joshua Greenberg * Aimee Hertog * Marla Hoffman * Daniela Izaguirre * Jerry Johnson * Lynne Johnson * Srividya Kannan Ramachandran * Joanna Kidd * Mark Kolessar * Neil Sedwin * Marcia Lloyd * * Maxine Loustalot * DeeDee Maguire * Nicole Pietranton * Robin Becker * Christopher Ruane * Rachel Sard * * Leslie Sheryll * Suprina.* JOHN CULLEN "All About Reflections" June 11- June 29, 2013 Reception: Thursday, June 13, 5-8pm Chelsea: Viridian Artists, Inc. is pleased to present John Cullen's first solo exhibition at our gallery entitled "All About Reflections" from June 11 to June 29, 2013. There will be a reception to meet the artist on Thursday June 13, 5-8pm. The focus of Cullen's imagery is water, presented abstractly, with flowing lines that echo the fluidity of water's movement and currents. His acrylic paintings on wood panels are not large and are described by the artist as "abstract impressionism". Sometimes he is painting the rhythms of flowing water in such a way that narratives of movement are created and filled with the simplicity of nature abstracted. Occasionally other forms overlay the liquefied tendrils, but always the viewer is confronted with water's beautifully rhythmic journey. Though he has worked many years and in many differing ways studying and recording the waves and currents of streams and rivers, the current selection of work encompasses selections from the last five years with a concentration on the "rhythm" series of the past two years up to the present. Cullen feels his most inspired work comes through a sheer force of labor that ultimately fills him with a renewed sense of insight and revelation. The artist studied at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, New York University and Pratt Institute, where he received a Masters Degree in Art Education in 1970. He taught art on both the secondary and college level. He has been exhibiting his paintings since 1988, receiving many awards in exhibitions throughout New York State and the Northeastern coast as well as at the Vera Beach Museum of Art, the Schweinfurth Museum and the Cooperstown Museum of Art. We look forward to your joining us at this exciting new exhibit at Viridian Artists. Viridian Artists' 24th International Juried Exhibition Juried by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, Whitney Museum, New York July 2 – July 20, 2013 Opening reception Thursday, July 18th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Chelsea: Viridian Artists Inc. is pleased to present their 24th International Juried Exhibition. Curated by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, Whitney Museum, New York, the exhibition opens July 2nd and continues through July 20th, 2013. In celebration, a special reception will be held on Thursday, July 18th 6:00 - 8:00 pm. At that time, meet the curator and many of the artists. Viridian's Interntional Juried Exhibitions are a series of exhibitions that serve to encompass a diverse selection of outstanding art from around the world that might not otherwise be seen in New York City. This marks the 24th year that the gallery has offered artists the opportunity to have a major museum curator see a selection of their work. As the recipient of the sixteenth CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, Elisabeth Sussman was recently recognized for her dynamic curatorial vision and her dedication to the field. She is Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Most recently, along with co-curator Jay Sanders, she curated the 2012 Whitney Biennial. During her time curating this exhibition at Viridian, she spent many long hours viewing over 1000 images sent from around the world. In her curatorial statement, Sussman states: “New York City, considers itself, rightly or wrongly, the center of the art world. In the week when the jurying of this exhibition took place, another art fair, Frieze, was in town, the contemporary auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s were bringing in tons of money and mega galleries in Chelsea were featuring gigantic shows of globally branded artists. Jurying an exhibition like Viridian’s at that time was an essential activity, a relief from the horrifying realization that, at least in New York, little separates the art world from global financial markets and the entertainment industry.” In addition to the exhibition juried by Sussman, Viridian's director, Vernita Nemec, also views the hundreds of images submitted and curates a selection that she feels have merit for a power point presentation viewable for the duration of the exhibition. This “Director's Choice” selection is another opportunity that Viridian presents as part of its mission is to give exposure to outstanding under-known artists. Group Exhibition: Juried by Elisabeth Sussman First Prize: Elizabeth Castonguay Second Prize: John Hansen Third Prize: Malika Cosme Honorable Mentions: Alexander Churchill, Henry Coupe, Barry Goldberg * Lizz Aston * Ed Herman * Samaray Akarvardar * Jane Alexander-Perry * Ransom Ashley * Bob Augstell * Kathleen Benton * S Brian Berkun * Elizabeth Castonguay * Alexander Churchill,* Malika Cosme * Henry Coupe * Barry Goldberg * John Hansen * Edith Hillinger * Aram Han * Timothy Macy * Dana McElroy * Pilar Olaverri * Zoran Poposki * Leonard Rosenfeld * Kimberly Rowe * Seena Sussman * Tore Terrasi * Rebecca Treadwell *Susan Evans Trees * Catherine Vanaria * Andrew Williams * Director's Choice Emma Buck * Matty Davis * Lauren Dishinger * Nancy Robb Dunst * Rachel Edwards * Kristin Enck * * Jim Granito * Joshua Greenberg * Aimee Hertog * Marla Hoffman * Daniela Izaguirre * Jerry Johnson * Lynne Johnson * Srividya Kannan Ramachandran * Joanna Kidd * Mark Kolessar * Neil Sedwin * Marcia Lloyd * * Maxine Loustalot * DeeDee Maguire * Nicole Pietranton * Robin Becker * Christopher Ruane * Rachel Sard * * Leslie Sheryll * Suprina.* For further information please contact the gallery at 212-414-4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view our website: viridianartists.com BOB TOMLINSON “Divas & Heroes” oil and collage paintings May 21 – June 8, 2013 Reception: Thurs. May 23, 5-8 pm Coffee/Conversation with the artist: Saturday, June 1, 3-4 pm Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present recent oil and collage paintings by Bob Tomlinson on the ironic theme “Divas & Heroes”. The exhibit opens May 21st with a reception on Thursday May 23rd, 5-8pm PM. The work will be on view through Saturday June 8th. The artist will be at the gallery on Saturday, June 1st, for coffee and conversation from 3-4 PM. The dictionary defines diva as “a great woman singer, a prima donna.” These are present in the person of Josephine Baker etc but the word is also taken in the broader sense of a flamboyant heroine, here historical or literary. The same holds true for the heroes. Whether heroes and heroines are possible in the modern world is open to question. The paintings are of modest format; the focus is on single or three-quarter figures. Having said that, the usual suspects are present, Genghi, Marie Antoinette (at least in painted versions) as well as James Baldwin, Lena Horne, Chet Baker etc. The paintings are combinations of areas painted in oil, elaborately textured and printed papers, as well as computer manipulated photographs. These papers are collaged on canvas and represent elements of costume or abstracted background areas. The painter believes that the frontier between figuration and abstraction is an illusion. There is no monolithic distinction between the two modes. Whether naturalistically depicted or abstracted in various degrees, the “object” perceived in a painting (a figure or a bowl of fruit) is in fact only a combination of visual cues. Such objects are not “natural signs” (to use the terminology of semiotics) but “arbitrary” ones, that is to say only constituted at a second degree by true natural signs: colors, lines and shapes. Art critic Lawrence Downes wrote: “Tomlinson employs classical anatomy as a vehicle for gestural abstraction.” Focusing on form and rhythm as formal autonomous entities, the artist sets his figures hovering in baroque atmospheres awash with subtle color harmonies. Tomlinson’s themes are substantial and implore us to search our memories and connections to myth as well as to reality, but they are executed with an elegant surface treatment that often belies the anguish & emotions that lie deep in the layers of the work. Bob Tomlinson is a Jamaican-American painter born in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Pratt Institute and the City University Graduate Center, he is also a scholar of French Literature and Aesthetics. Tomlinson has shown widely in Paris, London, Amsterdam and New York and is represented in many international public and private collections including those of the Clark-Atlanta University Museum, Dr. Maya Angelou, Lord and Lady Hirshfield, M. Franco Trecanni di Montichiari, M. Pierre Cochet and Herr Waldo Klick. He figures in the recent books, 100 New York Painters by Cynthia M. Dantzic (Schiffer, 2006), Black Paris Profiles by Monique E. Wells (2012) and is also the subject of a projected film by the well-known documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistinc@gmail.com VIRGINIA EVANS SMIT " “F” IS FOR FLOWERS, FISH AND FRAGMENTS " April 9 – April 27, 2013 Reception, Saturday, April 13, 4 - 6 pm. Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present a solo exhibition of prints of all sorts by the artist VIRGINIA EVANS SMIT. The exhibit will continue from April 9 – April 27, 2013 with a reception, Saturday, April 13, 4 - 6 pm. The “F” word usually brings to mind a host of either negative or at the very least controversial associations, but in the case of the art in this exhibit, Virginia Evans Smit is instead showing us the beautiful and the flamboyant of the floral and aquatic side of nature, then playing with it ingeniously. Smit is an artist of diverse skills & interests. Foremost in her artistic explorations are the varieties of printmaking and the artist expands the media to its fullest. In this group of works she is presenting a wide range of silk screen, monoprinting, Chine colle - a unique technique in printmaking in which the image is transferred to a surface that is recollaged in the printing process- solar etchings and digital prints that echo and evoke variations on all the above. She loves color so the floral life in Barbados, where she spends her winters, accounts for much of the subject matter in this exhibition. In her last exhibition at Viridian in 2007, the focus of the work was the blooming beauty of the Caribbean plant life residing in her garden and in 2003, the images were remembrance of travels in Japan and across the U.S. In this current exhibit, she pushes her skills to encompass a wide range of experimental approaches to both her printmaking techniques and her subject matter. The artist has the distinction of being the first African American female to receive a Masters of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania where she received The Thornton Oakly Creative Achievement Award. She has been associated with Viridian Artists since 1978. Over that time period she has had more than fifteen solo exhibitions at Farleigh Dickenson and Columbia University’s Teacher’s College, Mehu Gallery in Manhattan, the James E Lewis Museum at Morgan State University, the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and others. Her work is in many collections including General Foods, the Hewitt Collection of African American Art, the Library of Congress, The Fuba Collection in Johannesburg South Africa, Colgate Palmolive and many other private and public collections in the U.S. and abroad. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12- 6 PM For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com Back to dealer/gallery profile
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