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Hamptons Art Hub | Mark Webber: We Shall be a City Upon a Hill

Anita Rogers Gallery presents We Shall be a City Upon a Hill, an exhibition of work by American artist Mark Webber. The show will be on view February 12 – March 21, 2020 at 15 Greene Street, Ground Floor in SoHo, New York. The gallery will host a reception with the artist on Wednesday, February 12, 6-8pm.

Mark Webber. Untitled (Structures Series). 2019. Stone and hydrocal. 22″ x 12″ x 15″

The exhibition will feature a variety of work ranging from eight-foot-tall portals to tabletop structures, as well as small, handheld fragments. Webber works with a diverse range of materials, including hydrocal, stone, steel, glass and wood. It will be the artist’s largest and most varied exhibition to date.

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. This will be his first solo exhibition with Anita Rogers Gallery. Webber resides in SSag Harbor, NY in The Hamptons.

The Art Scene: 02.06.20 | Mark Webber Sculpture

Mark Webber Sculpture

“We Shall Be a City Upon a Hill,” a show of sculpture by Mark Webber of Sag Harbor, will open at Anita Rogers Gallery in SoHo with a reception on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. and continue through March 21. The artist’s largest show to date, it will include work ranging from small fragments to standing sculptures eight feet tall.

Mark Webber. Untitled. 2019. Hydrocal, copper, wood and steel. 16″ x 10″ x 8″

Rectangular monoliths with smaller rectangular sections cut out from their center, which Mr. Webber calls “portals,” are a recurrent theme in his work. He also makes wire constructions, drawings, collages, totems, and a variety of other objects that reflect his sensitivity to such materials as plaster, glass, copper, steel, papier-mache, and Hydrocal.

James Scott’s Latest Art Documentary ‘Fragments’ Premieres at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam

Thanks to his curiosity – and perhaps unwillingness to fit into any category invented to classify filmmakers – director/artist James Scott was able to create one of modern cinema’s most perplexing oeuvres. In the second half of the 1960s he came to some prominence with a series of unconventional art documentaries, including Love’s Presentation (1966) on David Hockney. In 1970 he co-founded the Berwick Street Film Collective, a legend in radical political cinema, from which he successfully moved towards narrative fiction features, shorts and television; and then into silence.

He re-emerges with Fragments, which returns him to his roots: an intimate portrait of British pop artist/filmmaker Derek Boshier, shot on an iPhone in his studio in California. Boshier, once commissioned by David Bowie, reflects on his life and creative practice while working on a giant drawing, ‘World News’, and a series of paintings titled ‘Night and Snow’.

Derek Boshier in his California studio.

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Mandy Vahabzadeh’s Photographs Featured on MonoVisions

Anita Rogers Gallery will present an exhibition of photographs by Mandy Vahabzadeh. The exhibition will include a selection of images from a period spanning almost thirty years, taken in India, Laos and Vietnam.

Mandy Vahabzadeh is a Swiss American photographer of Persian origin residing in New York City. She attended Pratt Institute, Columbia University and Parsons School of Design. Her photographs have been exhibited in New York City, Aspen, Santa Monica and Atlanta. This will be the artist’s debut show with the gallery.

Mandy Vahabzadeh. Untitled, Rajasthan, India 1991. Archival Pigment. Edition of 25. 16″ x 20″

Mandy Vahabzadeh
Photographs
January 8 – February 8, 2020

Anita Rogers Gallery
15 Greene Street, New York, NY, USA
http://www.anitarogersgallery.com

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Ennead Architects Kicks Off Visual Arts Series with Paintings by Gordon Moore

Work by Gordon Moore, along with works by Doug Argue, will be on view in Ennead Architect’s new office at 1 World Trade Center through Spring 2020.

About Gordon Moore:

Born in Cherokee, IA in 1947, Moore received his MFA from Yale University in 1972. He has been the recipient of several awards and grants, including a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts-Visual Artists Fellowship and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in Painting. His work is part of many prestigious collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), the Block Museum of Art (IL), Chase Manhattan Bank, General Electric Corporation, and Yale University Art Gallery (CT). In 2018, The Salina Art Center hosted a retrospective for the artist. Moore lives and works in New York.

Gordon Moore’s paintings at Ennead Architects

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Anita Rogers on Prince Harry’s & Meghan Markle’s Exit

Meghan Markle fans love her ‘Game of Thrones’ escape from the royals

Excerpt:

But building a life in L.A., should the couple choose to do so, wouldn’t be simple, others warned.

“I’m interested to see how they’re going to support themselves and what kind of life they would be able to have,” said Anita Rogers, chief executive and founder of British American Household Staffing, which connects local families with British nannies and other domestic workers. “I don’t think the queen would allow a royal son or daughter to not have the best of the best when it came to education and child care.”

The city’s hundreds-strong paparazzi corps would also pose a problem.

Read the full article on the Los Angeles Times here.

Mandy Vahabzadeh: Photographs at Anita Rogers Gallery

When a person is gracefully present in front of a camera, gaze direct, without a trace of self-consciousness, it is a gift to the photographer who then disappears.

A portrait is an invitation to connect with the viewer. With the magic of light, it becomes poetry in black & white.

– Mandy Vahabzadeh

Untitled, Fatehpur, India 2003. Archival Pigment. Edition of 25. 16″ x 20″ Framed: 29 1/2″ x 23″

This January, Anita Rogers Gallery will present an exhibition of photographs by Mandy Vahabzadeh. The exhibition will include a selection of images from a period spanning almost thirty years, taken in India, Laos and Vietnam. The work will be on view at 15 Greene Street, Ground Floor in SoHo, New York from January 8 through February 8, 2020.

Visit the artist’s page at Anita Rogers Gallery.

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Gordon Moore’s Tribute to Robert Frank Published by the Brooklyn Rail

A Tribute to Robert Frank (1924–2019)

America, Robert Frank, and Dinah Shore’s Fist

by Gordon Moore

A Personal Remembrance

Excerpt:

Somewhere like nine years later while I am working at the University Bookstore on the Ave. at the UW in Seattle, a book comes in to the art department titled “The Americans” and I start looking through it. I am stunned. Totally stunned. Who did this? Where did this come from? Did I dream this? As I turned the pages, I could actually remember my pulse accelerating at confronting the American social, political and cultural authenticity of those images. I quite realistically felt I had lived that book. And when I turned the page to the image of the window of the Finlen Hotel in Butte, Montana, I had such a rush, I had to sit down. In a very real sense…I had. From that moment forward, in my mind, Robert Frank had been elevated to something approaching a deity. Something he would not, in his humility, feel comfortable with. We had never seen images that honest before.

Read the full essay on BrooklynRail.org

William Scott at Anita Rogers Gallery

Virva Hinnemo and George Negroponte Featured in The East Hampton Star

By Jennifer Landes

There is something loose and special about the Sag Harbor art gallery community, which can treat its art shows as intuitive and impromptu affairs. Often an open forum, it is not unusual for artists and curators to join the spaces in a last-minute collaboration.

Something akin to kismet is happening currently there as the Keyes Art and Sara Nightingale galleries are both offering exhibitions that had their origins in the local artistic community and now find themselves sharing artists and a similar ethos.

Virva Hinnemo’s small oils in “As the Crow Flies” at Sara Nightingale Gallery include this unusual oil-on-metal painting, “One More Thought.”
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For “As the Crow Flies” at Nightingale, the dealer wanted to highlight the geographical closeness and interconnectedness of the South Fork art community. She asked three artists who have shown at her gallery to choose another artist whose work she did not know. Janet Goleas, Laurie Lambrecht, and Ross Watts served as the “jurors” and respectively chose Priscilla Heine, Virva Hinnemo, and Jeremy Grosvenor.

Ms. Nightingale acknowledged her debt to the Parrish Art Museum’s “Artists Choose Artists” show, which employs a similar tactic and is currently on view in Water Mill. Yet, the correspondences do not stop there. Both Ms. Goleas and Ms. Heine are included in the museum’s current iteration of the triennial exhibition.

The Venn diagram continues across the street at Keyes Art, where Julie Keyes invited Ms. Hinnemo and her husband, George Negroponte, to be guest curators for a show they call “One Stop: The Slow Slope of Modernism.” There, the focus is on how East End artists steeped in modernism continue to address the tenets of its various movements.

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