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Virva Hinnemo Receives Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2018-19 Artist Grant

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation announced today it has awarded $3,168,000 to 111 artists and 12 organizations during its 2018-2019 grant cycle. The 124 grants provided invaluable support to national and international artists and not-for-profit organizations. This year’s grantees and award recipients include artists from 18 states, Puerto Rico, and 17 countries. These grants provide critical professional support to artists around the globe, enabling them to create new work, offset living expenses, and prepare for exhibitions. The Foundation has also provided Emergency Relief Grants to artists affected by recent hurricanes and California wildfires. Since its inception in 1985, the Foundation has awarded more than 4,510 grants in 77 countries, for a total of nearly $74 million.

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Virva Hinnemo, Excavation, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, 44″ x 52″

ArtNet News: 22 Unmissable Spring Gallery Shows in New York

Morgan O’Hara has been tracking how she spends each and every minute for the past 47 years, recording daily reports in small notebooks as part of an ongoing series called “Time Studies.” This careful documentation, complete with monthly summaries and annual reports, is being shown with the “Letter Press Editions” she has been making since 1978 and a selection of “Silverpoint Drawings” made on watercolor paper with black gesso. The artist also currently has solo shows in New York at Magdalena Keck through May 13 and at Mitchell Algus Gallery through June 2, collectively presenting six separate bodies of work.

– Caroline Goldstein & Sarah Cascone

George Negroponte Featured on ArtDaily

Solo exhibition of works by George Negroponte on view at Anita Rogers Gallery

April 16, 2019

NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is presenting 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.

Installation View.

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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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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.

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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″

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.

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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?

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

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