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Karen Wilkin on Jan Cunningham

Jan Cunningham. Yellow Triptych,. 2018. OIl on linen. 60" x 111"

Jan Cunningham. Yellow Triptych. 2018. Oil on linen. 60″ x 111″

 

CulturePass: A Conversation with Anita Rogers

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Curator Caroline Spang sat down with Gallery Owner and Director, Anita Rogers, ahead of Taverna Rebetika, an annual celebration of Greek culture taking place Dec 1 at the Anita Rogers Gallery.

CP: How does your background and experience living in Greece influence the artists and work featured in the Anita Rogers Gallery?

AR: My parents held 1960s values. They were free spirits, educated and open humanitarians who valued folk culture. My father moved to Greece in 1962. The mentality and culture in 1980s Greece reflected 1960s Western Europe: unspoiled and carefree. This was a time when the art world had more universal meaning and depth – before the mass market idea had really taken over. My values are rooted in this time and these memories.

I approach the gallery from an artist’s point of view as I was raised by an artist who understood art as something that was in search of truth, searching to understand what it means to be human, exploring that which connects us deeply as humans, almost approaching the metaphysical but while staying rooted in the human experience and truth. This shaped my values and approach to running a gallery in NYC. I choose artists whose visual abilities are exceptional and whose aesthetic approach and philosophical ideas are in line with the beliefs I described and in line with the values that were held, as I remember them, pre-mass media and before the contemporary art scene became more of a mockery and the overblown financial marketplace that it is now.

CP: What is your process of selecting artists to work with?

AR: I can tell very quickly when I look at the work in person. I judge by looking at the work and engaging with it. The work will speak for itself. Finding artists good enough is the most challenging part of running the gallery. There has been a culture of “anything can be art” for some time. This lack of discernment results in having to wade through so much work to even start to find potential fits for us. We are only interested in art we feel has the right essence—that which will withstand the test of time. We call ourselves “incubators.”

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Anita Rogers Gallery to Host Annual Taverna Rebetika

Please join us for TAVERNA REBETIKA, a night of Traditional Rebetiko and Smyrnaiko music hosted by Anita Rogers Gallery in SoHo on December 1st, 2018.

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Greek food, wine and kefi for all!

 

Live Music by I Meraklides

Anita Rogers: Voice and guitar

Dimitris Mann: Bouzouki and voice

Beth Bahia Cohen: Violin and baglama

Vasilis Kostas: Laouto, voice and guitar

 

$20 online before 12/1. $25 at the door.

 

Tristan Barlow Interviewed by Young Space

October 16, 2018

Young Space: What ideas are you exploring in your practice?

Tristan Barlow: My paintings are a mix of ideas that have built up over the years. I have a very strong relationship to art history, old Italian masters of the quattrocento, and the romanticism of ideas concerning space, ruminations of old teachers that have bounced around in my head and turned themselves into mythology. Though my paintings are, for the most part, “abstract,” I think of them more as an arena of spatial possibilities where the confluence of ideas is transformed into a visual language of symbols. Mark-making, layers, pigment, and a willing suspension of disbelief concerning the impossibilities of space lends itself to a world of visual fictions.

YS: What is your process like?

TB: I work with oil paint and that affords a plethora of possibilities. I experiment often in my application of paint. I edit, scrub, scrape, layer, etc…

Visually, my process is a filtering of ideas and notions from all sorts of sources. The idea of a mirrored image and Narcissus can send me through 20 paintings. So can a trip to the British museum or the light from a beach in Florida. Or what it would be like if Botecelli were to make a whole painting of grass and flowers? What if the Ancient Egyptians had internet?

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YS: Do you have a mentor, or a piece of advice (or both), which has influenced your practice?

TB: My first professor in Mississippi, who I must give a lot of credit to, told me, “Son, in this business you gotta fish or cut bait.” That, inexplicably, has come back to mind many a time.

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Anita Rogers Named to the Jury of The National Association of Women Artists’ 129th Annual Exhibition

195 Chrystie Street Gallery, NYC (Lower East Side), Location of the 129th Annual Members’ Exhibition.

The National Association of Women Artists is honored to present its 129th Annual Members’ Exhibition, a show of paintings, works on paper, sculpture, mixed media, photography, and collage by established member artists.  This year, the exhibit will be held at 195 Chrystie Street in the artistic heart of New York’s Lower East Side.  For two weeks, members’ artworks will be on displayed 7 days of the week, just a heartbeat away from the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the International Center for Photography, the celebrated Tenement Museum and many other galleries and restaurants ideal for the gallery-going public.

The Annual Member’s Exhibition continues NAWA’s long history of nurturing and inspiring talented, visionary and dynamic women artists from throughout the United States.  NAWA was founded in 1889 by five brave and innovative women who were barred from full participation in the male-dominated National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists.  Early exhibitions included works by Mary Cassatt, Suzanne Valadon among others and as the roster grew, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Louise Nevelson and Alice Neel became noted member luminaries. NAWA’s existence is a testament to the integral and essential role of women in the art world.  NAWA’s president, Jill Cliffer Baratta, will be hosting the opening reception and award ceremony from 6:00 – 9:00 pm. on Thursday, October 11, 2018, with over $10,000 in awards.

This year’s lineup of jurors is an impressive one—a distinguished painter-writer-teacher, a SoHo gallery owner and a senior curator for the Brooklyn Museum.

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ArtSpiel Reviews Discourse: Abstract

Discourse: Abstract at Anita Rogers Gallery in SoHo, New York

 Photo courtesy of Nina Meledandri

Discourse: Abstract at Anita Rogers Gallery, is an 11 person painting show; one work per artist. As with Sutures, each of the works has its own distinct style and presence. They run the gamut from small to large; some unabashedly dependent on color, while others employ a very limited palette. But where Sutures radiates energy and activity, Discourse is quiet and thoughtful; the atmosphere in the gallery is contemplative with each work demanding to be seen in its own time which the generous gallery space allows for.

The coherence of the show comes from a shared command these artists display of both materials and process. One feels these works were chosen as much to create a discussion about the current state of abstraction as to provide a gateway into further exploration of each artist’s oeuvre. Much of the work presents a concern with formal considerations but the show does not ignore conceptual exploration, gestural passages and mixed media; Lael Marshall’s piece, for example, could have easily found a home in Sutures.

At opposite ends of the exhibition (literally and figuratively) are works by Susan Smith and Mary McDonnell. Smith’s piece is one of the smallest and is composed of primary colors. It is seemingly straightforward, an initial impression that is challenged by an unexpected juxtaposition of media. What appears to be a simple formal construction of three squares becomes strangely visceral and moving in its elegant handling of materials.

McDonnell on the other hand is represented by a large work is unruly and fairly bristling with color which seems to emerge in spite of its dark palette. It is also a profoundly gestural work that is barely contained by the canvas, as if she just managed to capture the presence of some unknown force.

In between these pieces is Joan Waltemath’s painting where hard edge black forms lay atop a field of expressive and beautiful colors, reading perhaps as blips of data floating across our lives. This painting acts almost as a map of the exhibition;  it has aspects of almost every work in the show containing as it does, an exploration of color, an authority of line, the power of “the edge”,  an expressionist sense of abstraction and the layering of elements.

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Town and Country Magazine Turns to Anita Rogers for Household Staffing Expertise

What’s the Difference Between a Butler and a House Manager, Anyway?

“Is he your butler?” writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner asks Paltrow, referring to the man who greeted her—and then served her a glass of wine—at Paltrow’s home.

“No, he’s a house manager,” Paltrow responds. “He’s the best. He’s from Chicago. He’s so incredible. He helps me with everything.”

The entire exchange, which consisted of approximately 43 words, was one of the most buzzed-about takeaways from the piece. It even prompted The Times of London to publish an imagined “conversation” between the actress and her non-butler butler. Was it a classic case of Paltrow pretentiousness—or has GP stumbled upon a phenomenon just before it goes mainstream? (You know, as mainstream as household staff gets.)

In an effort to get to the bottom of this decidedly one-percent debate, we reached out to British American Household Staffing, an agency that provides formally trained estate managers, personal assistants, chauffeurs, governesses, butlers, and baby nurses to the kind of clientele that can afford it. Surely, they would be able to shed some light on the subject.

“She’s acimagetually right,” says BAHS president Anita Rogers. “They have very different backgrounds and different roles. A house manager oversees the structure of the staff and typically does all of the hiring and firing. They handle scheduling—making sure a chauffeur is always on call, housekeepers shifts are covered, and that a replacement is available if someone calls in sick. They’re also responsible for the budgeting, financial planning, and overall management of household.”

Butlers, on the other hand, are more service-oriented. “A seasoned butler is properly trained in etiquette, so they understand how to serve a meal and handle all the details, from the wine pairings down to the flower arranging,” explains Rogers. “They provide a white glove experience, which not everyone needs or wants. In Silicon Valley, for instance, no one would have a butler. But in New York, it’s much more common.”

And while house managers frequently come from a hospitality background—often having worked as the chief of staff at a high-end hotel or resort—butlers are trained at a specialized and credited butler academy.

So there you have it. Gwyneth, Queen of Goop, was right all along. Of course she was. Did you really expect anything less?

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Anita Rogers Gallery Participates in Tribeca Art + Culture Night

June 21, 2018

Tribeca Art+Culture Night is a quarterly local arts festival that celebrates culture at large in Tribeca. It is free and open to the public.

This urban festival embraces the diversity of creative expression, from drawing to design, performance to crafts, music to fashion, and everything in between.

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25+ Lower Manhattan venues participate to the festival, including indoor and outdoor spaces such as art nonprofits, galleries, and parks. The event brings the greater New York City community together around exhibitions, performances, talks and workshops.

Jennifer Famery-Mariani, Director and Chief Curator of TAC Night launched the festival in 2016.

On June 21, Anita Rogers Gallery will participate for the first time. Work by Mark Webber and Jack Martin Rogers will be on view; the gallery will stay open until 9pm.

 

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Hamptons Art Hub Highlights Anita Rogers Gallery for Tribeca Art + Culture Night

Tribeca Comes Alive with Art & Performance on Thursday, June 21, 2018

June 20, 2018

Man-with-Guitar-Jack-Martin-Rogers-ANita-Rogers-GalleryTribeca is the place to be on Thursday, June 21, 2018 when the New York City neighborhood hosts the Spring edition of Tribeca Art & Culture Night (TAC Night). Offered four times a year, TAC Night features art performance, dance, artist tours, gallery talks, open studios, workshops and more taking place across the Downtown New York neighborhood.

Tribeca has a concentration of around 50 art and design galleries along with schools, non-profits, performance art centers, craft makers and more, according to TAC Night’s website. TAC Nights help draw attention to the creative and art concentration by drawing the neighborhood together and offering a formalized slate of gallery tours, performances and special events that can take place inside venues or in the streets.

The spring edition features around 30 venues and partner organizations. Participant galleries include 205 Hudson Gallery at Hunter College; Alexander and Bonin; Anita Rogers Gallery; apexart; Cheryl Hazan Gallery; Hal Bromm Gallery; Lubov Gallery; Ortuzar Projects; Postmasters Gallery; The Drawing Center; The Untitled Space and others.

Performance and live arts helps to make the evening a special one. There are no fewer than 40 special events that include workshops, live music, poetry readings, play writing, dance, exhibition tours, artist talks, collecting insights, feng shey of carpet colors and shapes and much more.

Tribeca Art & Culture Night can be experiences several ways. Participants can sign up for guided tours with an art specialists or register for a TAC Night Pass to experience the evening as a free spirit. Reservations for exclusive events can also be accomplished through the website. Click here to begin. In addition, maps can be found at participating venues.

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Summer Group Exhibition I Featured on ArtDaily.org

Exhibition of drawings by Jack Martin Rogers and sculpture by Mark Webber opens at Anita Rogers Gallery

June 10, 2018

NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is presenting Summer Group Exhibition I featuring drawings by Jack Martin Rogers and sculpture by Mark Webber. The exhibition is on view June 6 – July 14 at 15 Greene Street in SoHo, New York.

Jack Martin Rogers was born in WarwicMW 004kshire, UK in 1945. He studied anatomy and fine art at the Birmingham School of Art. He moved to the island of Crete in Greece in 1962, which is when he began painting his most prolific work. Rogers went through many stylistic periods, ranging from fully figurative to abstract. He died in 2001, leaving behind an extraordinary body of work. Seventy-five percent of his estate is owned by his daughter, Anita Rogers.
“Texture, composition, simplicity, and an organic element are all part of my exploration. What unfolds off the wall and/or into space must be aesthetically pleasing and embrace silence after all the work has been done. My materials all come from materials being used in modern homes.” – Mark Webber

Mark Webber’s sculpture from his prolonged series “Structures: Walls: Portals and Vessels” explore qualities related to architecture, but are firmly sculpture. The conceptual line that divides the two, especially as manifested in “emotional architecture” as described by Mexican architect Luis Barragan, is always at play with his sculpture.

In another series “Structures: Vessels,” Webber moves away from the simplicity of the rectangle as a building plane in space and embraces a similar conceptual line in the curves found in naval architecture. With vessels, he explores what can hold space, open and closed, while referencing what defines the canoe/kayak form in sculpture.

Webber resides in Sag Harbor, NY where he has worked as a cabinetmaker for many years. There he learned the craft of making objects and put in his time to develop that ability. Webber studied under Charles Ginnever and Peter Forakis at Windham College in Vermont. He received a BFA in sculpture at SUNY, Purchase. He has exhibited at many galleries in the Hamptons and is in several private collections on the East Coast.

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