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Group show & Cocktail Party
1711 Upland Road, West Palm Beach | Friday March 22nd | 5:30 - 8pm

Saturday March 23rd | 11am - 5pm
or by appointment | mariana@juliekeyesart.com

ARTISTS
Ben Leone - Nathan Slate Joseph - Walter Bobbie - Chris Leidy
Lucy Villeneuve- Michael A. Butler - Judith Henriques-Adams

IN SUPPORT OF
Friends of Foster Children

SPONSORED BY
Alliant Private Client | Costa Tequila | Tait Yachts

Exhibition dates: Dec - Jan

Come, celebrate this brilliant community in which we live, work and appreciate. This group show explores the impact of dynamic community and how it keeps us striving to be better. The results are the modern Paris of ideas and brilliance..

Irina Alimanestianu, Walter Bobbie, Bill Claps, Bill Clark, Darren Vigil Gray,
Adam Guy, Hilary Helfant, Mark Heming, Virva Hinnemo, Nathan Slate Joseph, Nishan Kazazian, Mary Lambert, Fay Lansner, Ben Leone, John MacWhinnie, George Negroponte, Jodi Panas, William Quigley, ROZEAL, María Schön, Tammy Smith, Janice Stanton, Bert Stern, John Torreano, Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Halsted S Welles, Charles Yoder

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Opening Reception Sat Sept 30th 6-8pm

In the worlds of Walter Bobbie and James Della Volpe — there is a visual manifestation of the cast of characters that occupy the canvases. The passionate expertise in portraying these illuminated creatures gives us a privileged window into the painters souls. That is the beginning and the end to the definition of good art. This exhibition showcases the spectacle of purity.

I wanted to transform the viewer from a world of sometimes harsh reality to that which is magical and happy. Bert once told me that he started photography in photo journalism, but after developing the pictures in his dark room, he felt so sad, he tore them all up. He wanted to create images that made people smile.
He wanted to create magic.
Here’s a quote from the documentary, Bert Stern Original Madman
“I fell in love with everything I photographed. I had to photograph my desires. My loves. And it’s like taking a picture.
You could just do anything because it’s magical.” - Bert Stern

Bloom is the life force that lives on forever through Bert’s iconic images; that which blossoms through light, color, beauty, fire & rebirth.

~Shannah Laumeister Stern

In my last show at  Keyes gallery I exhibited abstract ceramic sculptures resembling sea urchins. Using a similar format I was able to experiment with many different types of glazes and firing.
In this show I have been working more with the idea of communities.
We all have various communities in our life starting with the family unit.

~ Hilary Helfant

Lucy Villeneuve 27, from East Hampton, has been painting since childhood. In her works, this dialogue is translated into a type of dance, a visual conversation between her and whatever is responding on the canvas.  

I work with the elements of Taoism and specifically the Wu Wei, the art of nondoing, and try to focus on the experience of painting rather than the work itself. Each shape feels intentional yet just out of my grasp, a slippery in-betweenness, something short of being too far or not enough. 
In these works, I focused on unfolding my visual language, telling a story of communion. 
~Lucy Villeneuve

Sporis Spectaculi includes Randy Polumbo’s recent work exploring fungi as sculptural material —reishi mycelium sculptural panels, surrealistic chandeliers and tactile tables along with his signature hand blown glass and video artworks.

Described recently in Curbed as “Polumbo’s otherworldly design”, these include: Beckoning, a hand beaded mycelium hive chandelier with handblown pistils, stamens, and micro-planets; Cyclops 2022, hand cast glass enclosing video of naturally occurring phenomena, a blinking eye, ocean waves; an infamous early work, Love Sac, cast from a Birkin Bag with blown glass pieces inspired by stamens reminiscent of sex toys and more. 
Sporis Spectaculi is at once a spore spectacle, hyperreal fantasy, shared memory of the future. 

Continuing the Summer Women Series, we are proud to present Leslee Stradford, an artist and educator born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Hyde Park, one of Chicago's most diverse neighborhoods.
Stradford has exhibited worldwide at numerous galleries and museums, including Keyes Art in Sag Harbor, NY, and the Oakland Museum of California.

In 2021, Leslee Stradford had a solo exhibit titled Padraos at The Church
in Sag Harbor. She is currently on view at The Parrish Museum in Artists Choose Parrish: Stradford and has paid homage to Robert Motherwell with her four large-scale abstract works.

Fay Lansner (1921 – 2010) was a painter of profound complexity and daring. Her work extended over six decades, fueled by an exhaustive pursuit of drawing and pictorial space. Her sinuous lines defied conventions by depicting idealized images of emboldened and liberated women. A selection of Lansner's work will be on view at Keyes Art and Hamptons Fine Art Fair Booth 328 and on inducted into their Hamptons Hall of Fame on June 15th, 2023.

Rozeal mixes and matches from different sources, creating charged and beautiful paintings with personalities like courtesans from Japan's Edo period (1603–1867) fused with 21st-century hip-hop stars. These are her "Afro-Asiatic Allegories." Rozeal will be exhibiting a series of new paintings and drawings. The visual conventions of Japanese ukiyo-e and shunga, the Japanese tradition of erotic art, play a strong role in her work, a thread running through each painting.

A fully illustrated catalog dedicated to more than 20 years of her work will be available at the gallery.
 

OPENING SATURDAY JUNE 10TH 6-8PM

Nela Arias-Misson was born in Cuba and died in Miami just a few weeks before her 100th birthday (September 8, 1915 – July 17, 2015). She risked making art in the 1950s when men dominated the art scene in New York City. Nela studied with Hans Hoffman and adopted the belief that painting was an "arena" for action, immediacy, and rawness. Keyes is exhibiting a highly selected survey bringing together an outstanding selection of Arias-Misson's work, illustrating the progress and achievements that she realized both on a personal level and on the entire development of abstraction in the 20th century. 

Her masterpiece "The Whale" from 1989 underscores these quixotic associations and exemplifies the degree of her inventiveness. Defiantly, Arias-Misson challenges the conventions of her master Hans Hofmann, and her sense of adventure drives her to even greater extremes as she places her faith in authenticity and self-awareness.
Excerpt from essay
~George Negroponte, May 2023

Exhibition Dates: June 10 - June 30, 2023

OPENING SATURDAY JUNE 3RD | 6-8PM

Rosalind Letcher was one of the key members of a vibrant group of Black artists called the Eastville Artists Association based in Sag Harbor—a community drawn together by their social ties rather than an aesthetic program. “Africa, the Orient, European Expressionism, Cubism blend here — yet above all, American individualism is foremost.” The curator of Eastville Artists Association exhibition at Guild Hall in 1979 made this astute proclamation in her introduction to a groundbreaking show of Letcher and her peers' work.  Since receiving her professional artistic training at NYU and City College, Letcher forged a singular approach to figurative painting that draws upon her childhood memories.  

This exhibition at Keyes Art will be her first public exhibition in 20 years that will foreground her recently rediscovered oeuvre.

Exhibition Dates: June 3rd - June 30th, 2023

Watching the Detective - Nathan Slate Joseph paints like a sculptor and makes sculptures like a painter. In this sense, his coterie could include Alberto Giacometti and John Chamberlain. Joseph's paintings occupy more space than a conventional work with heavily pigmented surfaces on galvanized steel that have a gritty and fleshy earnestness. The sculptures read like facades and require the labor-intensive patience of a bricklayer. Joseph often delineates each smaller rectangle with seams or stitching underscoring a larger grid/pattern that create a flickering light challenging the mathematical certainty of some of his Minimalist predecessors. The energy builds on the surface, weaving imperfectly across each work.
Excerpt from essay
~George Negroponte March, 2023

Inklings
Exhibition Dates: April 8 - May 5, 2023

Paul Davis (b. 1938) "Most of these works have been private, done to refresh and create surprise for myself. I try to empty my mind, put down a line, see what it suggests, and go from there, experimenting with techniques and process. In their making, I learn a lot.”

~Paul Davis 

Paul Davis is known for his iconic images for posters, theaters, and museums. Kurt Vonnegut praised Davis’ work as “theater itself.”

In 1968 he was invited by Galerie Delpire in Paris to have his first solo exhibition of paintings, and in 1977, Gilles deBure, curator of the Galerie d'Actualité in the Centre Georges Pompidou, presented a solo exhibition of Davis's work as part of the museum's opening festivities. His distinctive paintings and posters for advertising, publishing and entertainment have been the subject of museum and gallery exhibitions throughout Japan, Italy, and cities around the U.S.

WILLIAM HARRINGTON & JOHN MACWHINNIE

MASTER STROKES ~

OPENING | SATURDAY MARCH 11TH | 5:30-7PM
Exhibition Dates: March 11/April 8th 2023
SCULPTURE, PAINTING

William Harrington is complicated. 

His collages have meaning style and weight, all expressing his PTSD: His point of view. 

John MacWhinnie is the polar opposite, working to minimize the story in order to tell it all. His career has the typical turmoil of great artistic genius. Every piece is furthering his investigation into space subject and color.

Both achieve their goals with master strokes.

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY JAN 28 5-7
EXHIBITION DATES | JAN 28 - MARCH 11 2023

Large Works
Duncan Chamberlain ~ Frazier Dougherty ~ Lester Johnson
Nathan Slate Joseph ~ Vik Muniz ~ William Quigley
Rozeal ~ Dr. Leslee Stradford

Keyes Art and AB NY Gallery invite you to THE BIG TENT, a group show of eight artists who make larger-scale work essential to their studio practice. 
A Big Tent is the term used when promoting the inclusiveness of views among its members. 

Jackson Pollock took larger scale to mean greater intimacy...
“I feel nearer, more a part of the painting since I can walk around it, work from the four sides, and literally be in it."

OPENING RECEPTION | FEB 11 5-7PM
EXHIBITION DATES - FEB 11 / MARCH 11 2023

Dr. Leslee Stradford & Claude Lawrence
Jodi Panas & John Torreano
Virva Hinnemo & George Negroponte

An exhibit of paintings and sculptures by three artist couples whose years together
collectively exceed a lifetime.
Two making one rings true for us because it’s an altogether different approach to expansion. In this equation, lyricism gets reshuffled. The intimate ambiance of the marriage bed diffuses the boundaries of the studio wall. And every day becomes work rooted in the spirit of teamwork. It’s the most sublime test of temperament because it takes two hearts.

OPENING RECEPTION | FRIDAY JAN 27 5-7PM
EXHIBITION DATES | JAN 27 - FEB 9 2023
Keyes Art is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs and videos by Halsted Welles, including garden portraits, long-form time-lapse videos, and triptychs with digital stills of gardens built and maintained by Halsted Welles Associates, over the last forty years.

The exhibit will act as the catalyst for a series of conversations about the need for collective consciousness and community engagement for the good and resilience of humankind.

Welles is a garden architect with a long and successful practice designing and building urban ecological spaces. A horticulturist by upbringing, sculptor and designer by training, he applies his knowledge of natural systems to bring ecological balance to New York City's built environment. Among other institutions, Halsted has studied at both Yale University’s School of Art and Architecture and its School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His professional views have been heard in a number of lectures, critiques, consultations, and classes taught at Parsons School of Design.

HELL’S BELLS 
Organized by Kevin Teare
'The mysteries of nature are deeply enchanting and the idea behind Hell's Bells is to create an access point and vision to a world unseen by the naked eye. The hallucinogenic plants both tempt and taunt, drawing us closer to the unknown, the edge or center, however you might perceive it. Kevin, Caroline and Suzannah share an intuitive interest in these ideas - this show captures their individual expressions to ritual and the supernatural.’

Hell’s Bells is a genus of nine species of poisonous flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. Daturas are known as powerful psychedelic medical purposes as well as poisons. 

Kevin Teare first met Caroline Snow while curating an exhibition that included her father, Chris Snow, "Open For The Stones” in 2011 at Keyes Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. He saw her Biker Prayer Rug pieces and felt an immediate affinity with her vision.

In 2016 Kevin organized "View From Within" at Keyes/Borghi in NYC. There, he was introduced to Suzannah Wainhouse and loved her colorful shamanistic paintings immediately. “The three of us wanted to show together…Hells Bells, a title and theme brought to us by Suzannah is the first exhibition where the dream has been realized. The title Hell's Bells takes its name from the Datura plant and the subject has been expanded to include any mood changing plant or flower.” 
EXHIBITION DATES: OCT 1st - OCT 16th 2022
~Kevin Teare Sept 2022
 

Nela Arias-Misson had a diverse artistic training, including the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes at San Alejandro in Cuba, the Arts Students League and the Parsons School of Design in New York. But her influential formative period was as a student of Hans Hofmann, one of the principal exponents of Abstract Expressionism who became her artistic mentor.

From the ‘1940s to the ‘1950s, Nela became entrenched with the Provincetown, Massachusetts prolific art movement of the time. This city was summer center of Abstract Expressionism represented by such painters as Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Helen Frankenthaler, in addition to Hofmann. She formed relationships and connected with these internationally known American cutting-edge figures.

Despite living in North America for much of her life, it is only recently that the rediscovery of Nela Arias-Misson’s prolific artwork starts to take place.
Arias-MIsson freed herself from any known rules regarding painting and entered a fantasy world without any skepticism or doubt. She found her images, all of them essential, and created her destiny.
Nela Arias Misson passed away in Miami Fl a few weeks short of her 100th birthday.

Organized by George Negroponte

OPENING SATURDAY JULY 16TH 6-8PM | EXHBITION DATES: JULY 16 - AUGUST 15, 2022

Paintings and works on paper by:
Lester Johnson, Virva Hinnemo, Erika Ranee, Eric Holzman, Adam Bartos and Kristy Schopper

”This exhibit is a tribute to Lester Johnson, the painter, and educator (1919 – 2010). The pairing of Lester Johnson in a single exhibit with younger, living artists is a testament to the freshness and timeliness of his work. The viscosity of Johnson's oil paint alone delivers truthfulness: raw and primal. 
Lester Johnson was a representational painter devoting most of his energies to rendering the human form. He sparred and wrangled with oil paint, head-butting his way into messy arguments about allegiances from French to American, from Hans Hofmann to Jackson Pollock, and from the heavenly to the earthbound. 
He regarded painting as the outcome of looking and seeing in the moment: seized and held still by nameless forces. Like Lester, these artists endeavor to find a way out from the muteness of fashion, the monotony of digital, and the weariness of formalities. With the fragrance of passion, the works in this show articulate substance while speaking entirely in their terms.
Virva Hinnemo, Erika Ranee, and Kristy Schopper are devotees of the physical bulge of painting. Fleshy flourishes of paint surge, catch a breath and emerge from oblivion. In a world dominated by digital specs and dots, these artists thickly elevate their medium to contain full degrees of ripeness and expressiveness.” 

~George Negroponte, July 2022

OPENING FRIDAY JULY 15TH 6-8PM | NATALI/KEYES | 207 MAIN STREET GREENPORT NY

Exhibited publicly for the first time at Natali/Keyes Gallery in Greenport, Jerry Shofield’s evocative drawings testify to a life in fashion as well as to a hidden history of a community of North Fork artists who were obscured by the homophobia of their era. Schofield left behind a trove of ink drawings, advertising studies, and collages that demonstrate his incredible draughtsmanship and sense of style. 
This marvelous archive of drawings were discovered when his partner Frank McIntosh passed away in 2020 as the family sorted through his estate.  His drawings read like a catalogue of high fashion from the 1950s to the early 80: he drew for Halston, Chloé, Chanel, Estee Lauder, Diana von Furstenberg–perfectly capturing the zeitgeist of each era.  The gallery has been transformed into an imaginary reimagining of Schofield’s Greenport studio with a selection of drawings hung salon style on the gallery’s rich pink walls, approximating the atmosphere of Schofield and McIntosh’s creative home studio. Gracing the gallery’s window is a large folding screen painted by Schofield, featuring a pair of winged female Griffons, references that conjure Schofield’s worldly travels and his cultural sophistication. The exhibition is accompanied by a collection of ephemera, photographs and other objets d’art from the Schofield-McIntosh house.

~Alison M. Gingeras

OPENING RECEPTION | JUNE 3RD | 6-8PM

Dr. Stradford, an artist whose work is best known as abstract expressionism, has undertaken the challenge of exploring a dark side of American culture. Her work documents the devastation of a prosperous enterprising African American community and challenges the dismissive assumptions that have sometimes overlooked the abilities of black communities, whose diligence has transformed cities through hard work and determination. 

As an artist, her practice includes social, cultural and historical documentation. It straddles figuration and abstraction. Using new technology, photographic research and drawing, she creates digital images, painted canvases and printed silks.

Her work is currently in the collections of three museums, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Parrish Museum, Southampton NY and The California African American Museum: CAAM.

Cullen Washington Jr.’s Black Color Field Paintings are a record of the history of Black skin, wounded, scarred and amended. The surface of the painting is collaged paper.
As I mend the papers together, they mend wounds. The wounds become keloids (an area of irregular fibrous tissue formed at the site of a scar or injury more prominent in Black skin). The keloids become amendments, the 13th Amendment and the 14th Amendment.

The work is also about space and the underlying beginning of matter and light hence their title, Primers. The atmospheric surfaces are comprised of graphite, charcoal, ground mineral pigments and ink; a primordial mixture using the basic element carbon found in most natural phenomena. The richness of my blacks are a mixture of cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks, the process colors in printing processes used to make all other colors in the printed spectrum.

Cullen Washington Jr. is a native of Louisiana and received his BA from Louisiana State University and his MFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Washington lives and works in New York and has exhibited his work in museums, group and solo shows nationally and internationally.

A (constantly) evolving group exhibition of post-war
& contemporary masters.

Richard Avedon - Fred Bendheim - Ben Butler - John Chamberlain
Richard Avedon - Paul Davis - Steve Joy - Elaine deKooning
Claude Lawrence - Seymour Lipton - Elizabeth Peyton - Fairfield Porter
Robert Rauschenberg - Erika Ranee - Faith Ringgold - Alan Shields
Clintel Steed - Bert Stern - Cullen Washington Jr - John Wittenberg

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