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Past Exhibitions
- Past to Present
It is with great pleasure that we present “Past To Present”, opening Thursday, February 4th, 2010 through February 28. The show will open on Feb. 4th for the Gallery Walk. The Artist reception will be held on Thursday, February 11, 6 PM – 9 PM at the gallery.
Director Henry M. Reed: “Past To Present,” was arranged purely spontaneously and totally on-the-fly …like a great improvisation, similar to a jazz or modern dance performance. For this new show, I’ve assembled artists, all of whom are masters of their realm and put them together for a major performance.
Rafaello Leonardo Black is an artist who’s graphite pencil drawings on gesso of the Jimi Hendrix Experience has immortalized him into an old world masterly. I first encountered his work at the Salomon Arts Gallery in Tribeca, by the invitation of the visionary and stalwart defender of great art and craftsmanship, Rodrigo Salomon. After encountering Rafaello’s miniature drawings, which he does with a magnifying glass, I instantly realized his gift that I was setting my eyes upon. Inch by inch of his artwork, you can see everyday life on a cobblestone street complete with brownstones, stoops, stores and people everywhere roaming about. I have yet to see anything that precise and rhythmically done by a human hand in modern times in that dimension.
Alongside Rafaello, I present Susan Sauerbrun. Her artwork has graced our walls in the past. Susan exhibits great dedication and insight into the craft of art Abstraction with spirit, much like the way Rothko put his heart and soul into his work to become a timeless living organism. I recall how at Susan’s first show “Silent Pictures” at the Henry Gregg Gallery, two legendary photography dealers, Howard Schickler and Billy O’Connor, arrived together to admire her work. There is good reason why Sauerbrun’s new work was recently selected for the “By Invitation Only” show at the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York! I chose to present her work again, as it represents timelessness in art, which I believe is arts true value.
My third ‘Past to Present’ artist is Chris Wynters, the notable colorist who teaches at Pratt Institute. His piece “Orange” continually fascinates me. It is an exemplary work for our period in which the layout of forms align and is tied to Chris’ outstanding improvisational and brilliant choice of color combinations, which together bring to my mind the experience of standing before Cézanne’s “Still Life with Apples” with its depth and warmth that warms one’s soul. Yes, Chris is a great colorist, but moreover a gifted portraitist and sculptor, whose oeuvre is collected, commissioned, cherished and desired throughout the world.
The fourth presence whose work will soon hang here at the Henry Gregg Gallery is Nola Zirin. She’s a great artist, a dear friend and mentor. Her work speaks for itself. And not only to me, but to the entire abstract art community in NYC. Her choices of color, form and her conceptual framework show great spontaneity … and whether large or small they enter collections in the way of masterpieces. She’s shown works on paper, miniature paintings, all of which demonstrate rare skill and unnerving confidence. Nola is known to destroy her works where the results do not satisfy her, much in the way of Francis Bacon.
My fifth choice is Michael Price, a longtime artist of the gallery. Michael is the Renaissance scholar who has dedicated his life through intense practice to understand through experiment and painting the makings of great and everlasting works. Michael's focus since the 1990's has been the polychromatic nude, not as a representation of the phenomenal world, but as an autonomous numinous experience. The gateway to this world is through the use of natural colour, i.e. colour which he prepares himself from rocks and crystals.
My sixth artist is a fellow gallerist, as well as a close friend, Gloria Kennedy who will be presenting some of her original works. She is well known and respected in the art community and is an exceptional sculptor in her own right. The three pieces presented in this event are of highly textured white stoneware with metallic pewter and gold glazes. The works represents the Akan Queenmother Ohemmaa and her attendants Nkotimsefo .
Finally, the Henry Gregg Gallery presents, in-group show, the works of Salvador Rosillo. I’ve known Salvador longer than any of the others whom I represent. He’s director of the Salvador Rosillo Museum in Tribeca. In fact, Salvador has just returned from a major presentation of his work in Mexico. He is a ‘free-jazz” painter and a great one, improvising in color and by means of a new attack, and has become a true performance artist who paints with his hands and fingers and never uses a brush. Moreover, he is a very active poet, philosopher and revolutionary whose being can jump out at you from the canvas. Salvador is the extension and embodiment of Rafael Tamayo as Jimmy Lyons is the extension and embodiment of Charlie Parker in the latter day.
I am extremely proud to have succeeded in creating these associations, making possible the bringing together of extraordinary talent in a unique and timely show for our times.
- Peace From Within
- In The Shadows
Photographer Edmund Leveckis is a photographer living and working in New York. “In The Shadows” is the first major show of his illuminating photographs taken in New York.
In the tradition of most street photographers Leveckis carries a camera at all times photographing the nuances of daily life in the city.
- Pure Paint II
PURE PAINT II, featuring contemporary artists Serena Bocchino, Dan Fenelon, Joan Grubin, Diane Rolnick, Robert Sagerman, Eleanor Schimmel, Bernardo Siciliano, Nola Zirin at HENRY GREGG GALLERY Sept 17-Oct 25. Opening Night Reception Thursday September 17. With resilience and determination, the Henry Gregg Gallery begins its sixth year in DUMBO with PURE PAINT II, a group show conceived as a reminder to the digital age of the enduring primacy of paint as a medium for expressing the ineffable; an exhibition with the same mandate was mounted in 2005. The artists in the Fall exhibition pursue a wide spectrum of methodologies and subject matter in their individual responses to cultural and socio-political realities with a high level of craftsmanship and technical mastery.
- Visualizing Climate Change
Human Caused Climate Change is the challenge of a generation, effecting everything from the way we live our lives to where we grow our food and which animals will survive. Noting the urgency of the challenge faced by climate change, the Henry Gregg Gallery is partnering with GHG Photos to present a collection of images that dramatically show the way humans are affecting the planet. Named after the scientific shorthand for "greenhouse gases" the photographers of GHG Photos have traveled the world to document the causes and effects, as well as attempts to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate. The images capture a range of subjects including forest fires, floods, glacial retreat, sea level rise, arctic habitat loss, and a myriad of other effects the world is experiencing.
- Windows To Light The Work Of Pedro Abreu
Pedro Abreu was born in Samaná in the Dominican Republic. He received his first camera, a Kodak Brownie, at age ten, and he immediately began his first project: taking pictures of his family. He earned his BFA at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in New York City.
As an independent artist, Pedro has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows internationally including the Indépendants Salon des Artistes in Paris and Museo Del Barrio in NYC.
- On The Streets The Work Of John Elder
Excellent Street Photography demands focused vision, instantaneous reflexes, the best hand-eye coordination, and an intimate knowledge of one's camera. Frequently, there are no second shots.
- Homage
André Martinez-Reed is a native New Yorker. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, "I believe, to understand the workings of the Spirits roaming the Universe, one must first become aware of its existence. Once you do, it is only a matter of stepping through the door. It is impossible to look back as you explore your subtle surroundings and realize the wonder of all the infinite possibilities that exist around us. As an artist, you need not labor to capture the unexplained in a photograph or in a painting. With openness, it's presence makes itself known. Be open and keen, then your work will become a living entity"
His philosophy and ideas coalesce in the exhibition, “Homage, A Tribute To The Spirits,” which will be presented at Henry Gregg Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 226 in Brooklyn's DUMBO section. It will showcase twelve oil paintings and six fine art photographs.
- Serenity
Serenity, a search for and a depiction of tranquility as seen through the paintings of Joshua Hughes and the photographs of Olympia Ferrari.
- Scott Endsley
“Artists are the shamans of our culture,” Endsley says. “I want to create art that that will help heal the hate in this world.” Thus, Killing Mediocracy is Endsley’s attempt to end the endless celebration of mediocrity and bring us back to an appreciation of the true beauty.
- The Artist Project The Works Of Peter Sumner Walton Bellamy
An extraordinary collection of rarely-seen, classical portraits of leading figures from New York’s art world, taken from 1981 to 1990, will be exhibited in DUMBO, Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Back In The Day
The Henry Gregg Gallery is proud to present “Brooklyn Back in the Day,” an exhibition of documentary photographs by six important photographers whose careers began and first flourished in Brooklyn.
The exhibition features work by Anthony Almeida, Peter Sumner Walton Bellamy, Peter Essick, Tony Velez, Charles Denson, and Tom Callan.
- Vibrance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Martinez& Salomon are pleased to present Vibrance, a show dedicated
to capturing the texture, movement and patterns of music and
showcasing the works of Rafael Leonardo Black, Christopher Wynter,
Bobby K. Hill, Scott Endsley, Scott Weingarten and William Claps.
- Reverberation
Reverberation
The Works of
Juan Sanchez-Juarez
Mark Blanchette
Byrce Lankard
Henry Gregg Gallery continues its tradition of showing exceptional master works with "Reverberation," a group show that explores the tension between the ephemeral body and echoes the eternal spirit. The show also explores what endures the passage of time, with photographs to show its stillness and paintings to show the fluidity of its passage. Both mediums are often used for portraiture, drawing attention to the personal nature of the show's theme.
February 14 - March 30, 2008
- New York Landscapes the Photos of Robert Herman
The series of images presented in this show recount the years of New York streetscapes. Capturing the spirit of the neighborhoods of New York, seemingly mundane, everyday moments become powerful, iconic images.
Soho reflected in a coffee shop window of an antique car. Mirrored in puddles, the streets of Williamsburg are transformed into a poignant, painterly photographs of beauty, texture, and solitude.
Born in Brooklyn, Robert is a consumate New York artist, having shown in galleries throughout the US. He has shown at The Museum of Modern Art and his work is in the collection of the esteemed George Eastman House in Rochester, NY.
Robert is currently working on a book project '1981: A Year In New York.
This show will be on exhibit in Rome and in the US at the same time !
- Immaterial- The Works of Sam Clayton
Artist Sam Clayton lives in two worlds. One is the external world of physical objects and the other is the internal world of experience and transcendence. His work explores the areas in which these two worlds overlap, collide and balance each other. His multi-media collages add a bright and insightful addition to New York City's fall shows.
Clayton draws on disparate styles and mediums in his attempts to unify these two different aspects of human existence. Very much a polymath, Clayton assembles elements created in charcoal, ink, gouache, watercolor and acrylic. The artist leaves this process open-ended, attempting to give the viewer "a kind of Rorshach moment." Each journey through genre arrives at an underlying truth, and Clayton allows the viewer to determine exactly what that truth is.
Clayton uses the body as a surface upon which to explore the nature of this truth. In nearly all the works on show, internal experience is both enacted and projected on the human form. Plumbing the depths by limning the surface, the artist explores the dualism of the external world and internal experience. Some works are of images that have been ripped apart and reassembled anew to reveal the tension between seen and unseen topographies.
Aptly, Clayton cleaves in two the abstract portraits of the Fifties.
Rather than rendering the subject in an abstract idiom, Clayton has rendered his figures in gripping realism, only to add to the frame abstract elements consisting of organic splatters and geometric lines.
These splatters incorporate the notions of movement and the element of time, inviting a narrative interpretation. Each work is a frozen record, a snapshot of both a body and a body of thought. While the portraits within each work are often done in the grays and blacks of charcoal, the overlain splatters evince a Pop art color scheme of pastel hues, extending the underlying thematic tension to the formal aspect of color.
Revealing an inner world through the outer one is a herculean task, which the artist unabashedly questions. While he might not have finally arrived in one unified world, each piece is an important step and a confident one at that. For all his attempts to reveal the duality of his own existence, the work and the inspiration seemlessly blend, as the journey of making art is an allegory for the quest to unite distinct halves. The works reassuredly express doubt and demonstrate an awareness of all that remains unknown, creating a paradox apt for simultaneously exploring two worlds that are unreconcilable by their nature.
- Emotions Of Africa- The Works Of Anne Foudral
Sept.13,2007 through
November 15,2007
- JUMP!
In this special presentation, the gallery is hosting the innovative exhibition Jump! The show of nine artists jumps about in time, space, and categories to juxtapose artists with wide ranging interests, and invites the viewer to jump in, too!
This event will feature the works of Nola Zirin, Eleanor Schimmel, Carol Bruns, Serena Bocchino, Helen Brough, Anne Raymond, Joan Grubin, Ai Ohkawara and Alice Plush
June 7 - July 28
- The Spirit Hunter -The Photos
Andre'Martinez-Reed
Connecting to Gods, Spirits and Ancestors
April 5 - May 28, 2007
- The Spirit Hunter
Andre' Martinez Reed
Nov.30-Jan.30,2007
- The Works of Fernand D'onofrio
Feb.1-March 31,2007
- Five Lenses: Forgotten Shades of Gray
Andre Cypriano, Marcos Adandia, Dr. David Parker, Joshua Wolfe
Sept 14 - Nov 16,2006
- Veneration
John Ferro Scott Endsley Damien Garcia
June 15 - July 22, 2006
Artist reception: June 15, 2006, 6-9 PM
- Art of Revelation
Nad Wolinska
Philip Rubinov-Jacobson
May 5 - 31, 2006
- My Visitors
Nestor Madalengoitia
March 23 - April 22, 2006
- Silent Pictures
Susan J. Sauerbrun
February 10 - March 4, 2006
- Autistic Savant Artists: Don't dis' the Ability
Ping Lian Yeak
Richard Wawro
Christophe Pillault
Temple Gradin
January 11 - February 4, 2006
- The Embracing of Life and the Unexpected
André Martinez
October 14 - December 31, 2005
- Lush Life
Martha Glinski
September 6 - October 2, 2005
- Central Park Venus
Michael Price
June 24 - July 30, 2005
- Pure Paint
Nola Zirin
Serena Bocchino
Sara Conca
Michael Brennan
Eleanor Schimmel
Melissa Meyer
Julian Jackson
May 14 - June 18, 2005
- Jazz Lines
Ivo Perelman
April 8 - May 7, 2005
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