SANDRA GERING INC

14 East 63rd Street New York, NY 10065 Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am - 6pm Saturday 11am - 5pm

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(PETER HALLEY, Explosion #9, 2015)

Tech-né-color

April 14th, 2016 – June 11th, 2016

Opening reception: Thursday, April 14th, 2016, 6-8 PM

SANDRA GERING INC. is pleased to present Tech-né-color, a group exhibition of works by Peter Halley, Todd James, KAWS, Ryan McGinness, Karim Rashid, John F. Simon, Jr., Vincent Szarek, Xavier Veilhan and Leo Villareal.

Observing the depth and variety of the use of color and technology in painting and sculpture has been a core interest to the gallery’s program since its inception. Taken separately, the two roles can seem like oil and water, their characteristics so incongruous that they warrant divided approaches. However, many artists have embraced this incongruity, with results that are not always obvious. Tech-né-color’s consideration presents examples of this subject from the gallery’s past and current programming. Tech (without the use of) color and color (born from) technology have a variety of overlap, aside from the photographic process most viewers recognize.

Examples include: Peter Halley’s use of fluorescent, Day-Glo and other computer-friendly colors and punchy graphics. At variance with this, Xavier Veilhan and KAWS make color choices in sculpture very selectively, their use of technology inherent in the realization of works that can only be created using the latest fabrication methods regardless of the actual materials. The software artist John F. Simon, Jr. incorporates the two themes even further, hybridizing sculpture and software code into a state where they become indistinguishable. Similarly, Leo Villareal starts with computer coding that allows for hundreds of thousands of color possibilities, building light and space works that are initiated with simple binary structures that, in essence, are colorless. Vincent Szarek approaches color conceptually, applying or removing it for symbolic effect. Finally, Todd James, Ryan McGinness and Karim Rashid consistently favor vivid, highly saturated colors in their work, and their painting or graphics highlight the divide between a visceral use of color and a more methodical one. The psychedelic qualities of each describe their common ground.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10am to 6pm and Saturday, 11am to 5pm. For further information please contact Laura Bloom at 646.336.7183 or [email protected].

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WILLIAM ANASTASI puzzle

November 17, 2015 – January 9, 2016

Opening reception: Tuesday, November 17, 6-8 pm

SANDRA GERING INC. is pleased to present Puzzle, William Anastasi’s sixth one-person exhibition with the gallery.

Throughout Anastasi’s career as a seminal figure in the field of Conceptual Art, semantics and tautology have long played significant roles. The subject of pairing in particular has been a recurring theme since as early as 1967, when Anastasi’s Six Sites exhibition at the Virginia Dwan Gallery featured the gallery’s walls photographically rendered on canvas, then hung on the same walls. Repetition has also been embraced in Anastasi’s well-known subway drawings, a continuing series of unsighted works on paper the artist creates while drawing blind on the train, letting the motion of the car dictate the chance markings on paper as pure gesture. Circular reasoning informs Anastasi’s puzzle works. Aside from the obvious playfulness of the subject (humor being one of the least talked-about aspects of this artist’s oeuvre), the puzzle as metaphor first appeared in 1975, when the Museum of Modern Art commissioned Anastasi to design a jigsaw puzzle for their store. The result was iconic, as his design was to create a puzzle-themed puzzle, similar in concept to his wall-on-a-wall works. It was popular enough to re-issue in a second color version, of which the current exhibition’s shaped paintings are based. Hung in pairs, the exhibition room itself becomes a sort of game, unresolvable in this instance as the room only holds a fraction of the series. Upon seeing the first enlarged piece in Anastasi’s studio, John Cage inquired how many pieces were in the puzzle’s box. When Anastasi replied with the number, Cage’s response was ‘Well then you’ve made 513 masterpieces!’ Puzzle also poetically references Anastasi and Cage’s many hours spent over a chessboard, silently engaged in a game of a different sort.

William Anastasi was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1933.  The recipient of the 2010 John Cage Award, Anastasi is in nearly every major permanent collection, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Guggenheim Museum, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The Ludwig Museum, Germany; Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden; The Jewish Museum, NY; and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, among many others.  He has had solo exhibitions at The Neuberger Museum of Art, NY; The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; and The Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf.  His work was recently featured in William Anastasi: Sound Works 1963-2013, at the Hunter College Art Galleries, NY in October 2013. A comprehensive monograph on the artist, William Anastasi: Paintings, Small Works, Drawings has been published by Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy.  Anastasi lives and works in New York, NY.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10am to 6pm and Saturday, 11am to 5pm. For further information please contact Laura Bloom at 646.336.7183 or [email protected].

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“Here is what I know is true, Linn Meyers” first one-person exhibition with the gallery is open until November 7, come to visit us!

Each painting or drawing that I make begins with a line that traces a framework of circles, or a simple singular gesture. This first stroke defines the direction in which the entire image will evolve -- each line is a direct response to the mark made just before.

These works rely on letting go of pre-conceived ideas of how the compositions will develop, allowing the images to evolve independent of expectations. The marks amass to create a picture which is both still and moving, ordered and chaotic, both pointing toward perfection and also wholly imperfect.

-- Linn Meyers, May 2015

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Light and the Space of the Void: Opening Reception Tonight

SANDRA GERING INC. is pleased to present Light and the Space of the Void, an exhibition curated by architect and author Alexander Gorlin. Opening today, July 9th from 6 - 8pm, 14 East 63rd Street, New York, NY.

Although many artists throughout history have used light as theme or subject, the group here is presented metaphorically, and can be perceived to have either mystical or secular qualities depending on the viewer’s standpoint. Whether it is light created through the abject nature of ‘void’ or simply because a work seems to physically possess a feeling of interior illumination, it is clear that these works can be described as triumphant in nature. A literal interpretation is not the focus, rather, a ‘location’ or space for contemplation. Abstractly, void (as understood as empty or nothing) here is shown to give opportunity to one’s interpretation of ‘beginning’. With the architects in particular, it can be seen as a way to interpret a quality of hope. The museums, monuments, synagogues and other structures that incorporate light into their design are featured prominently in Gorlin’s theory, far exceeding the idea of windows as light-allowing structures. In addition, a theme briefly touched upon in Gorlin’s book is the physical perception of sound; in the exhibition it is represented as both ‘sound as void’ and ‘light as sound’.

The artists and architects represented in Light and the Space of the Void are Daniel Buren, Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer, Yayoi Kusama, Daniel Libeskind, Gordon Matta-Clark, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Mark Rothko, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Stephen Vitiello and Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as Alexander Gorlin. Gorlin opened his practice in Manhattan upon returning from the American Academy in Rome where he won the Rome Prize in Architecture. A graduate of both the Cooper Union School of Architecture and the Yale School of Architecture, Gorlin applies modernist and classicist principles to a broad range of projects ranging from residential work to schools, religious buildings and affordable housing. Gorlin has been named one of Architectural Digest’s Top 100 Architects since 2000. His work has been exhibited in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Biennale and the Chicago Athenaeum, and published in The New York Times, Architectural Record and Interior Design magazine. He is the subject of a critically acclaimed 1997 monograph, Alexander Gorlin: Buildings and Projects. Gorlin lives and works in New York.

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Just in case you need a Wednesday pick me up, enjoy these fabulous photographs from David Levinthal’s “Barbie Series” from 1998-1997.

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Should you ever find yourself in Osan, South Korea - be sure to check out Xavier Veilhan’s permanent installation in front of the Amore Pacific building! 

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KSANA

Ksana, the Sanskrit word describing an imperceptible fraction of time, is used here to define the unobservable moment when opposites collide to create a new circumstance: a Buddhist philosophy at the heart of much of the artist’s work.

If you haven’t gotten a chance already be sure to check out Li Hui’s “Ksana” in the last month of its run at Sandra Gering Inc. (14 East 63rd Street, New York) on view until June 27th.

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Final Week - Les Guérillères

This is the last week of Julia Kunin’s solo exhibition at sandrageringinc , catch a glimpse before it comes down this Saturday, 25th.

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Artist and designer Karim Rashid

“I believe furniture should not be obstacles in life but raptures of experience. I try to develop furniture and objects as De-stressers – objects that bring enjoyment, not encumbrances, that simplify tasks, and increase our level of engagement and of beauty. Our lives are elevated when we experience beauty, comfort, luxury, quality, performance, and utility seamlessly together.”

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Gold Lava, Julia Kunin, 2013.

"...from leather to glass to ceramics – Kunin’s voracious appetite for the cultural, material and historical contexts of her making persists." - writes Sheila Pepe on Julia Kunin's solo show at Sandra Gering Inc.

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"The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing." Marc Chagall, died 30 years ago today, March 28th, 1985. #marcchagall #chagall #fauvism #cubism #obituary #sandrageringinc

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“At the heart of her practice, Kunin reveals that the opulent is built from dirt. Informed by fine art, science and geopolitics, the artist utilizes the most precise chemistries to create a logic that is uniquely her own — part organic, part crystalline and 100% fearless.”

http://www.sandrageringinc.com/exhibitions/2015-03-10_julia-kunin/

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Model of the Moon, Field Columbian Museum, Chicago c.1894

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Lord Richard Attenborough’s plea to the arts.

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Leo Villareal Buckyball, 2015,

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René Magritte The Art of living. 1967 Óleo. 65 x 54 cm.

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http://www.skibbereeneagle.ie/uncategorized/restoration-of-eileen-grays-ground-breaking-villa-e-1027/

One of the most intriguing Irish designers was Eileen Gray (1878 – 1976), an Irish aristocrat who inhabited a bohemian world and who was neglected for much of her career but whose work and achievements has been greatly appreciated with hindsight, particularly in Ireland where she was largely unknown in her lifetime as she mainly lived and worked in France.