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Gallery 1: Audrey Ushenko: Recent Paintings
Gallery 2: Erica Licea-Kane: Recent Mixed Media Paintings
Space 4: Lisa Dinhofer: Into the Light and More: Drawings and Works on Paper
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AUDREY USHENKO: Recent Paintings
November 4 – December 4, 2004
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4, 6-8pm
Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th floor, Chelsea, New York City, is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Audrey Ushenko, Recent Paintings, November 4 – December 4, 2004.
Audrey Ushenko’s new work continues her exploration of narrative realism. While her optically complex compositions are drawn from life, her vibrating surfaces have no difficulty succeeding on their own merit.
Ushenko’s new work is both more personal and expressive than her past allegories and mythological scenes. Her nervous, pulsating painterly language contrasts dramatically with her familiar and objective image sources. The result is a painting style with multiple personalities: representational and abstract, calm and anxious, precise and gestural. They record the sensitive spatial interplay between individuals inhabiting unique interiors that shudder, vibrate, swell, and splinter.
In Ushenko’s recent ‘Museum Project’ she takes this exploration directly into the museum, painting the environment as she inhabits it, and populating her painting with individuals from life and memory. Her technique is consistent with earlier work, however, the ‘Museum Project’ has helped broaden her increasingly demanding pictorial language. And all Mankind, a work painted at the Brauer Museum in Valparaiso, Indiana is one of the pieces from the project that will be featured in this exhibition.
Ushenko’s artful control of her visual language comes from her integration of Venetian Renaissance methods of paint application with Impressionist color and light theory. The combination of the old masters’ technique of glazing the canvas and carefully layered surfaces of paint enhance the luminosity of Ushenko’s work.
Audrey Ushenko earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL after studying at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. She has exhibited her work extensively throughout the United States including the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN; The National Academy of Design, NYC; University Museum, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO among others. Ms. Ushenko is a professor at (Indiana - Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW), IN.
Catalogues of Audrey Ushenko’s works are available.
There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, October 3, 6-8pm
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LISA DINHOFER: Into the Light and More: drawings & works on paper
Dates: November 4 – December 4, 2004
Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, New York, NY 10011, is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of drawings and works on paper by New York artist, Lisa Dinhofer, Into the Light and More.
Lisa Dinhofer’s unique, beautifully rendered works challenge the mundane in still life and push it to a new level. Objects are no longer contained in a static environment; they are free to move. Intricately detailed, minutely rendered, these pictures encounter the explosion of first awakening. They repel and run from the center and the center constantly pulling them back. Like planets controlled by an unseen force they strain from their restrictions and break the boundaries.
Lisa Dinhofer’s works are simultaneously, direct, intimate, and exploring. The hand of the artist is always completely visible. Each work can be and often is an auditioned for a grand play of a new painting. The concept always stands on its own, even if only on paper. Dinhofer excels both as an accomplished draughtsman and a provocative poet.
Dinhofer has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. Among the places she has exhibited are: Pfizer Corporate Gallery, Pfizer, Inc., New York; National Academy of Design, New York; Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MS; The Bulter Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Cotes Museum, England; Galeria Bibura, Poland; Toyamaya Gallery, Kobe, Japan.
Among numerous awards, fellowships and grants are: National Millay Colony for the Arts, Artist Fellowship; Academy of Design, NY; MacDowell Colony Foundation, Artist Fellowship; National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo Foundation Colony, Artist Fellowship.
Her work has been reproduced in numerous books and catalogues and mentioned in prestigious publications such as The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Art & Antiques, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Art in America and Art News.
Her work is in several private, public and corporate collections including: The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The New York Public Library, NY; City College, C.U.N.Y., NY; The Forbes Magazine Collection, NY; Rose Art Museum Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Jane Voorhees Zimmerili Art Museum, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ; Pfizer Inc, NY; DuPont Corporation, Wilmington, DE; General Electric Co., Bridgeport, CT.
Lisa Dinhofer is an instructor of drawing at the National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts, NYC.
There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, November 4, 2004 6-8 pm.
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ERICA LICEA-KANE: New Mixed Media Work
November 4 – December 4, 2004
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4, 6-8 pm
Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, is pleased to announce Erica Licea-Kane’s third solo exhibition with the gallery titled, New Mixed Media Work, May 9-June 8, 2002.
Erica Licea-Kane’s paintings are intricately patterned and often subdivided into a geometric patchwork of related motifs. They are composed of hand-woven cloth, sewn together and layered in paint which is sometimes cyringed along her grid-based arrangements.
Her work process is labor-intensive and manual, working in a tradition of post-minimalist artists such as Eva Hess and Jackie Winsor - the end result handsomely depicts the meditative qualities of repetition and the challenges of mixed media.
Ms. Licea-Kane’s works have a sense of tension and play between geometric and organic. Traditional motifs such as flags and quilts, as well as landscapes and aerial view configurations supply the formal vocabulary for her work. Her art is tactile and dimensional, however retains the delicacy and visual allure of textiles. These works are carefully constructed and are perfectly suitable for any setting whether it be corporate or private.
Ms. Licea-Kane has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; The American Craft Museum, NYC; Auspices Asahi Shim bun and Tokyo Group Department Stores, Japan, and the Textile Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Fiberarts, Threads magazines and the Boston Globe. Licea-Kane’s works are part of numerous corporate and private collections including those of Meditech Corporation; First Bank, and National Development Associates, in Boston, MA. She has held teaching posts at Massachusetts College of Art; The University of Massachusetts; Rhode Island College, and is currently part of the faculty at Wheelock College and Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA.
For more information call Denise Bibro Fine Art at 212-647-7030.
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