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Warburg Realty Features Anita Rogers Gallery

The SoHo Gallery Scene

April 12th, 2019

Though many of SoHo’s art galleries have been replaced with shops during the past two decades, the neighborhood still has plenty to peruse, from multimedia installations to Photorealism masterworks, from graffiti art to rock-and-roll photography.

Figurative and abstract artists from the 20th and 21st centuries—emerging, midlevel, and posthumous—are the focus of Anita Rogers Gallery. “When Love Comes to Town,” an exhibit of recent drawings and paintings by abstract artist George Negroponte, runs through April 27. Beginning June 19 is a selection of films by artist/director James Scott, whose “A Shocking Accident” won the 1982 Oscar for Best Live-Action Short Film; works and recorded readings by David Hockney will complement the films. Solo shows featuring Morgan O’Hara, Robert Szot, and William Scott are also scheduled for later in 2019.

Works and recorded readings by David Hockney will complement screenings of James Scott films at an upcoming show at Anita Rogers Gallery. Image: Fresh on the Net/Flickr

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George Negroponte: When Love Comes to Town

Anita Rogers Gallery is pleased to present When Love Comes To Town, a solo exhibition of works by George Negroponte. On view are his mixed media paintings completed over the last several years using house paint, spackle, gesso, wallpaper, dirt, enamel, inventory circle labels, and spray paint on canvas, as well as found objects from the surrounding woods. Negroponte’s works on paper, first begun in Sweden in 2008, were set aside for a decade and resumed this past year in collaboration with his wife, Virva Hinnemo. These small and evocative compositions include truncated shapes, veil-like mists, vehement and nuanced marks, unusual color, and punctuated holes. While all the works are marked by an indeterminable amount of paint, some are diptychs with tree fragments and found objects. Negroponte takes pains to tackle the unlikely reconciliation of incongruent parts.

George Negroponte, My Rothko, 2018, Mixed Media on Canvas, 8″ x 8″

The artist Betti Franceschi writes:

George’s new works are evocations more than representations. They conjure the ephemeral by the simplest, most practical means. They are small enough to feel private to the viewer. Sparse, excruciatingly molded, and relentlessly edited, The “Walkings on Water” go against any rational depiction of walking, as they ground and envelop the viewer in a living atmosphere of air and light. Their levitation is like a child’s supernatural powers projected upon the world. The “Marriages” evoke the most essential elements: earth, air, and fire. They are the charmed remains of an always fresh and intensely personal collusion. It’s not that George brings his life into his work: he is so completely invested in both that life can’t stay out, and, in the end, we are graciously invited to see what matters most to him.

On view March 20 – April 27, 2019

Opening Reception: March 20, 2019 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

For further information and photographs, please visit AnitaRogersGallery.com.

Gloria Ortiz-Hernández Featured on Curatious as Holly’s Pick of the Week

Gloria Ortiz-HernÃ¡ndez Featured on Curatious as Holly's Pick of the Week

This week, my pick is for all of you minimalists. I usually skew toward color, but this pastel & charcoal drawing has such gorgeous velvety depths that I’m utterly seduced by it.

The simplicity of Ortiz-Hernández’s works are deceptive. Like poetry, they reveal themselves over time, slowly engulfing you in an ocean of meaning.

Made last year, most of these luscious works have already found homes. Get yours before they’re gone for good!

– Holly Hager, Founder of Curatious

George Negroponte Featured in The East Hampton Star

Excerpt from “The Art Scene 3.14.19”

“When Love Comes to Town,” an exhibition of mixed-media paintings by George Negroponte, is at the Anita Rogers Gallery in SoHo through April 27. Created over the last several years, the works use house paint, Spackle, gesso, wallpaper, dirt, enamel, inventory labels, and spray paint on canvas, as well as found objects from the woods surrounding his house in Springs.

The show will also include works on paper, first begun in Sweden in 2008 and then set aside for a decade before being revisited this past year in collaboration with his wife, the artist Virva Hinnemo.

East Hampton Star's The Art Scene 03.14.19

My Rothko. 2018. Mixed Media on Canvas. 8″ x 8″ Photo by Jenny Gorman

The Red Hook Star-Revue on Morgan O’Hara

Morgan O'Hara in her studio. By Micah Rubin

Artist Morgan O’Hara in her studio. Photo by Micah Rubin

“It’s hard to know where to start with the artist Morgan O’Hara. Since the late 70s, she’s drawn over 4,000 pieces from everyday life — dinner with some lively Italians, a Noam Chomsky lecture, a Taiwanese Lion Dance performance — works she calls “Live Transmission.” On first approach, you’ll see a condense fog of scribbles or a soft web of lines so threadbare to looks like lace. But picking a line (any line!) and following its curve and density, its meetings with the velocity of its neighbors, there’s the sensation of a time warp back to the present that O’Hara had once so intently observed.”

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Gordon Moore Featured in Galerie Magazine

Galerie Editors’ Picks: 5 Great Art and Design Events This Week

Featuring Gordon Moore: Small Verticals

February 5, 2019

Galerie’s picks of the must-see art and design events this week, from a highly anticipated exhibition celebrating Frida Kahlo’s personal style to a spotlight on Jasper Johns at Matthew Marks Gallery.

2. Gordon Moore: Small Verticals
Anita Rogers Gallery

The gallery presents a show of small-format, purely aesthetic abstract paintings by New York artist Gordon Moore. For this series, Moore referenced subject matter like books, blinds, and vent grills. The paintings will be accompanied by a small selection of drawings that use fragments of shadows cast by fire escapes.

Where: Anita Rogers Gallery, 15 Greene Street

When: Opening reception: Wednesday, February 6, 6–8 p.m.

Go to AnitaRogersGallery.com for more information.

Karen Wilkin on Jan Cunningham

Vasari 21: The Critical Edge

January 22, 2019

When an artist I’m interested in suggests something, I respond to that, sometimes to my benefit. Robert Taplin, whose work and writing I’ve followed for years, with enthusiasm, recently suggested I see a show by Jan Cunningham, a painter whose work I didn’t know. Turns out she makes subtle, inventively colored geometric abstractions that play different kinds of drawing against the memory of a grid. I’m very grateful to Robert for alerting me to her work and I hope to see more in the future.

– Karen Wilkin

Karen Wilkin is a New York-based critic, curator, and teacher, who writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal, The Hudson Review, and The New Criterion. Find out more by listening to this podcast interview with her here.

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

Winter Group Exhibition Featured on ArtDaily.org

Anita Rogers Gallery Opens Group Exhibition of Work by Three Artists

NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery presents a group exhibition of work by three artists: John Ashworth, Gordon Moore and Mark Webber. The gallery introduces John Ashworth to the gallery for the first time; Ashworth’s detailed acrylic paintings on paper, canvas and panel are rich in texture, detail and illuminated color. Moore’s works on photo emulsion paper explore depth, perspective, balance and asymmetry. Webber’s hydrocal and plaster sculptures recall architectural forms but are firmly sculpture; the works are defined by their elegant lines and careful balance. The exhibition is on view January 9 – February 2, 2019 at 15 Greene Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10013.
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Born in New York in 1939, painter/sculptor John Ashworth began appreciating art at the age of 8 while visiting seminal institutions such as Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art — as well as 57th Street galleries. Two years later, his own work hung — with that of artists many years his senior — at Washington Square Park. Exhibition attendees purchased all of his hundreds of folded, Rorschach-type blots in poster paint on typing paper pasted onto vertical scrolls. After moving to Massachusetts, where he graduated from high school in 1956, John pursued applied industrial physics at Wentworth Institute in Boston. From there, he majored in civil and structural engineering at Northeastern University and then attended Harvard University Graduate School of Design and, on scholarship, Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts.

Born in Cherokee, IA, Gordon Moore received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1970 and then went on to receive his MFA from Yale University in 1972. He has received numerous awards and grants including the National Endowment for the Arts-Visual Artists Fellowship, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in Painting, the Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation Award in Painting, the Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Moore’s work can be seen in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), Yale University Art Gallery (CT), Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), General Electric Corporation (OH), the Krannert Art Museum (IL) and Kinkead Pavilion (IL). Most recently, Moore’s work was shown in a major solo exhibition at the Salina Art Center in Kansas. The gallery will host a solo exhibition of work by the artist in February 2019.

Mark 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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CulturePass: A Conversation with Anita Rogers

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.”

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.

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.

Visit AnitaRogersGallery.com for tickets.

Anita Rogers

Founder of Anita Rogers Gallery, British American Household Staffing, and British American Talent Management