COLLECTOR CIRCLE held a very successful event this Fall! Our collectors were introduced to four talented emerging artists, who showed and discussed their work, including Katherine Bernhardt, Matt Keegan, Valerie Hegarty, and Rachel Owens.

 

COLLECTOR CIRCLE wants to congratulate Mary Mattingly. From June through September 2009, Mary Mattingly lived on the Waterpod, a sculptural autonomous off-the-grid floating island. Mattingly led a team of artists, designers, and builders and worked with the Mayor’s Office of Special Projects and Citywide Events. The Waterpod docked in all 5 boroughs and at Governors Island.
Mattingly’s Waterpod was featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtForum, Nature Magazine, Time Out New York, The New York Daily News, and others. Coverage appeared on BBC News, Douglas Kelley Show, WNBC, MSNBC, New York 1, Fox News.

 

Francesca DiMattio
Lattice, 2009
oil, acrylic and collage on canvas
63 x 53 inches (160 x 134.6 cm)

Valerie Hegarty - Installation Shot

Christina lei Rodriguez will be showing at NAM, Mocha, and Art Basel this December in Miami.

Kamrooz Aram is showing with Perry Rubenstein

Marcia Kuré

Marcia Kuré received attention in Artforum's top December Best Of 2007 listings. Kuré's métier is drawing, and she draws with ease and authority using the brownish pigment of the kola nut. Here she showed a group of works titled "Vogue Series." But there is nothing remotely indebted to fashion in her solitary anthropomorphs, posed like sentinels from an era of repressed decorum, sometimes accompanied by allegorical beasts.

COLLECTOR CIRCLE invited you to attend another art gallery experience.

Marcia Eitelberg hosted September's Collector Circle at the tulle showroom, at 209 west 38th street & 7th avenue on the 5th floor, New York, NY on Sunday, September 13, 2:00PM to 7:00PM

 

We enable you to meet the key players, hear their secrets and get an inside view on what makes our art world tick, in a non-threatening and comfortable setting. You will be introduced to four talented emerging artists, who will show and discuss their work.

Katherine Bernhardt-Studied painting at the Chicago Art Institute and Graduate work at S.V.A. She has shown extensively in Europe. Her spirited Pop/Gesture paintings are mainly from Commercial Advertising. Katherine is in the Saatchi Collection.

Matt Keegan-has a multifaceted practice that includes publishing, exhibition making, and visual work. His text-based art installations question the relationship between language and image. His work has been shown at the New Museum, White Columns and Sculpture Center in NY.

Valerie Hegarty-Lives and works in NY. Through the combination of real and fabricated components, her work poses as artifacts of Art History gone awry, leaving the viewer to wonder at the veracity of the transformation.

Rachel Owens-lives and works in NY. Rachel works with great dexterity with cut glass to create the most amazing figures and flowers. She studied at the Chicago Art Institute,, Ill.

Rachel Owens, Self-Portrait, 2008

 

Olafur Eliasson's Waterfalls will take over the East River this summer.
click here for his website

The following Summer, Mary Mattingly's Waterpod project will travel from the East River, up the Hudson River. click here for www.thewaterpod.org

Mary Mattingly

Mary Mattingly had a solo show at Galerie Adler in Germany in October. Mattingly was one of fifteen artists out of 1000+ to be chosen for a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council studio this year, and was selected to participate in a residency in Oxfordshire, England. In September, Mattingly taught a master class at the International Center of Photography. She has a project organized by Collector Circle at the Columbus Circle branch of the New York Public Library that opened on September 16th and included a slideshow presentation and talk on October 6th. Her work can be seen currently in "31 Under 31 Women Photographers" curated by Lumi Tan and Jon Feinstein.

CRITIC'S CHOICE of BEST IN SHOW:
Steven Wilson, co-founder of 21 C Museum Foundation in Louisville, selected SEPTEMBERISTS, 2006, by ANTHONY GOICOLEA as the best in show.
 
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR COLLECTORS WHO OWN ANTHONY GOICOLEA'S WORK!

Still Waters, © 2006 Anthony Goicolea

Kori Newkirk

Kori Newkirk was born in New York in 1970. He received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993 and his MFA from the University of California at Irvine in 1997. Newkirk has had solo exhibitions at The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2003); Galleria Francesca Kaufman, Milan, Italy (2003, 2001); Finesilver Gallery, Texas (2002); James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2002); and at the Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica (2001, 1999).

 

Maybury, 2003, Neon lights, 33 x 24 x 24 inches.

CRISTINA LEI RODRIGUEZ
was born in 1974 in Miami, FL, lives and works in Miami, FL. She graduated from California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, in 2002 with a Graduate Merit Award. She received her BA in art and political science from Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. with Highest Honors in Art. Her work was purchased by the Rubells in Florida for the sculpture garden at the museum. Cristina recently had a solo exhibition at Rocket Projects, in Miami, FL, but has since started showing with Pelican Gallery in Miami.

Cristina Lei Rodriguez
"Flooded", 2004
resin, plastic, foam, selected objects
17" high by 14" deep by 20" wide

 

Matthew Brannon

 

Utilising the aesthetics of graphic art, Matthew Brannon’s work explores the gulf between social ideals and personal crisis. Using screen printing as form of analogue reproduction, Brannon’s images carry both the suggestion of mass replication and aura of original artworks. Directly challenging the void between language and actuality, Brannon often combines text and image to illustrate the potential for dysfunction. In Police Officer Giving Up, Brannon juxtaposes a neutral symbol of a houseplant with a statement of desperation. Exuding the inadequate sentiment of greeting cards, Brannon offers decoration as a feeble mask for emotional depletion.

 

Alison Fox

On March 6, 2005, NEW YORK MAGAZINE published a fascinating article on the New York art world.

"It takes more than money to buy a hot piece of art"

The article mentions young artists like Alison Fox at ATM gallery. click here for a transcript of the article.

 

Aya Uekawa

Aya Uekawa shows with Kravets|Wehby gallery. These images are from her series: A Team Player Candidate (Acrylic on Canvas).

 

DIETMAR LUTZ just had an exhibition of new paintings at emilyTsingou gallery in London called Momentum.

 

This fall, we would like to extend our Congratulations to all of the collectors involved in Collector Circle. We are building fabulous collections! From collecting early works of Phoebe Washburn (who has exhibited recently at the Whitney Biennial and at the Guggenheim Museum), to Mary Mattingly (who is nominated for the Prix Pictet and will show at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, in Dubai, and at London's Standpoint Gallery this fall), to Sarah Greenberg Rafferty (who recently had a show at Guild and Greyskull, Museum 52, Mary Boone, Susan Inglett, and will be in Gagosian's September group show), to Valerie Haggerty (she will be showing at the upcoming Brooklyun Museum show), Kamrooz Aram (represented by Perry Rubenstein), Peggy Prehiem is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery), Christina lei Rodriguez (who will show at NAM, Mocha, and Art Basel this December), Francesca DiMatto, Jay Moon, Ellen Harvey, Kysa Johnson, Rachel Harrison, Benjamin Degen, and many more!

Spring 2008 Featured Artists of the Month: Marcia Kuré and Benjamine Degen

Marcia Kuré received attention in Artforum's top December Best Of 2007 listings. Kuré's métier is drawing, and she draws with ease and authority using the brownish pigment of the kola nut. Here she showed a group of works titled "Vogue Series." But there is nothing remotely indebted to fashion in her solitary anthropomorphs, posed like sentinels from an era of repressed decorum, sometimes accompanied by allegorical beasts.

Benjamine Degen's work was seen at PS1's Greater New York show, and his work is currently being shown at Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY. "We Can’t Stop Living".

 

Artists on the move:

Collector Circle gave tours of the Armory Show, the Pulse Show, Volta, and other satellite shows. There is a brunch for Pulse on Thursday, March 27th.

Our January 29th Champagne event was a big success with Orly Cogan, Nicole Cherubini, and Tara Modoni among other artists.

Sunday, September 16th - we celebrated our brand new space on 185 West End Avenue at 2pm, with:

LESLIE BAUM 
Born in Summit, NJ in 1971, currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. Leslie received her BA from the University of Vermont in 1993 and studied abroad at the Glasgow School of Art. She shows with Tony Wight/Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery where she has had two solo shows. (This gallery is one of the best in Chicago).Her most recent show, "The Space Between," was reviewed in the January 2007 issue of Art forum. Leslie has also shown at CRG, NYC, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco and Barone Odom, Rome, among others. She was selected as the Best Emerging Artist by Chicago Magazine, and nominated for the Richard H. Driehaus Award for Emerging Artists. Her colorful paintings and drawings can be found in the collection of the Chicago Art Institute.

Leslie Baum

NEWMAN POPIASHVILI GALLERY will show the work of JAYE MOON
Born in Seoul, Korea, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her attractive sculptured valises remind us of Duchamps Boite-en-Valise, refashioning the suitcase as a portable museum. Each piece is built of semi-translucent, frosted white Plexiglas, with detailing crafted from Lego pieces and stainless-steel drawer pulls and knobs. The artist has the Plexiglas cut to size, but otherwise assembles her work by hand. Solo shows include Max Estrella, Spain, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, NY Steuben Third Gallery, Brooklyn, Ny, Yoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea.

LUXE GALLERY will present two artists

ELLEN HARVEY
Her education includes Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Independent Study Program. Yale Law School, CT, J.D. MA and BA from Cambridge, Mass. She works with video and mirrors that are remarkable. Her drawings are visions of an imaginative contemplation of space that turns to ruins. Her awards include Artist's Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, NY Lily Auchincloss Foundation Fellowship, NY Independent Project Grant, Artists Space,and many others.

NICOLE COHEN
Born, 1970, Falmouth, Mass. Attended the U of Southern CA, LA (MFA 1999), and Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass. (BA 1992). She received an Artist Space Grant from the City of Brooklyn, NY and a Southern California Worldwide Grant from the University of Southern California, LA She has had solo shows with Shoshana Wayne Gallery in LA and a solo museum show entitled, "My Vie en Rose," at Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. Mass. Her work has been in group shows at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in PA, throughout the US and Internationally.
We will also have additional works for sale by:
Matthew Brannon, John Coplans, Jon Pylypchik, Loren Ellis

NEWS WORTHY
 
Vik Muniz in another group show at Samson Projects-Boston,Mass.
He is having a solo show at Sikkima-Jenkins Sept-October. Opening September 9th at 6:00-8:00 PM
 Olafur Eliasson just received 55,00 euros for the Keisler Prize
 
Nan Goldin was admitted to the French Legion of Honor and is receiving the highest honor in France for achievements in the field of architecture and arts.

"Almost Safe" - an exhibition of photographs, drawings and a 16mm film by Anthony Goicolea. Goicolea's exhibition is a gathering of "evidence" about a spiritually anemic and physically damaged world. Goicolea combines photographs of ruined landscapes, a wall-size drawing of tangled destruction, nineteenth century style portraiture, and a 16mm film.

Mary Mattingly's image, "The New Mobility of Home" headlined the ICP's triennial called "Ecotopia" that opened last September. It was also on the cover of Le Monde in France this November. Mattingly's work almost sold out at the Pulse art fair. She had a large installation open at White Box Gallery in New York in called Fore Cast. The show included an interactive installation that invloves flooding the space with water and a live musical performance. After Mattingly's show at Robert Mann gallery, she had a full page review of her work in the New York Sun, as well as a great review in the March issue of Artforum.

Collector Circle Event, April 22nd, 2007

Grace from Zach Feuer Gallery joined us as well as the artist Justin Lieberman. Marlboro Gallery was there, and other exciting galleries. This event was not to be missed!Justin Lieberman.

Jennifer Zackin showed work – She has a show opening at the Aldrich Museum. Alexander Lee showed some new sculptures, and Morgan Lehman showed us the work of Katia Santibanez.

 

Here are some highlights from the Collector Circle meeting on Sept. 17th.

Krvets/wehby Gallery brought the pictures of Charlie Roberts and Aya Uekawa to the event.
Bravin Lee Gallery brought work by Marcia Kure. Marisa Baumgartner will also bring work.
Morgan Lehman Gallery is bringing works by Andrew Schoultz

Charlie Roberts Bouquet, (detail) 2006

There was a very interesting and informative article in ARTnews this summer - What Makes a Painting a Painting? "It used to be simple: wet paint on a flat surface. Today painting includes photography, digital prints, sculpture, and a host of other materials—but not necessarily paint"

 

JEFF SONHOUSE
1968 born New York, NY
Lives and works in NYC
Jeff received a BFA at the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Hunter College. His work is featured in the current exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem titled Frequency. Frequency was praised in the New York Times this Friday by art critic Roberta Smith. His work has been collected by the Collector Circle.

Marcia Kure from the Postpartom series, 2006

Sebastiaan Bremer has a Solo Exhibition in 2005 at the Gemeente Museum (The Hague, Netherlands), and is represented by Roebling Hall, NY.

Bubonic Bling - 2002, oil and mixed media on canvas
52 x 56 1/4 inches

Eva StrubleCanton Trees, 2006
Acrylic, ink, pen, gouache, pastel, and spray paint on paper, 38 x 50 inches

Eva Struble was born in 1981 in Elsmere, KY. She lives and works in New Haven, CT. Eva just graduated from Yale with an MFA in fine art, and received her BA from Brown University. She has also attended school in France and Senegal. Eva is showing with Lombard-Fried Projects in New York.

 

New York is where the Art is and Collector Circle offers cutting-edge art shows that explore art appreciation and art collecting. Please join us for our third show of the season on Sunday, January 29th, at 2:00 PM. at 530 East 76th Street, NYC, Suite 28B.

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art will show the work of Debra Hampton and Dannielle Tegeder. Debra explores the world through patterns of chaos, chance and order in her abstract drip paintings. Danielle is inspired primarily by architectural blueprints and technological sketches creating fantastical environments. Russian born Peter Rostovsky will also discuss his work. Dinter Fine Art will be showing the sculptures of Joanne Greenbaum inspired from her drawing process, and Susan Inglett gallery will show the work of Christopher Ulivo and Craig Love. Christopher imagines worlds of wilderness and the people who inhabit them through painting, while Craig works on antique paper scraps to capture flights of the imagination. Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts will be joining us with a surprise artist.

 

Featured Artists January:
Adia Millett and Mary Mattingly

 

Art Basel Miami, Pulse, Nada, Aqua and Scope.

The scene in Miami was electricfying!!!! Anthony Goicolea opened with a show at Luis Adelantado Galleryon Nov. 28th. His drawings sold out before the show opened, and most of the photos were gone by the opening. Anthony won the #1 BMW-Paris Photo Prize at the Paris Photo art fair for 2005.
Christina Lei Rodriguez opened in Miami at Emmanual Perrotin Gallery. Emmanual Perrotin Gallery is located in Paris as well. Her prices have doubled since we purchased her work. Debra Hampton was a hit at the fair, and she will be presented at our next Collector Circle along with Peter Rostovsky and Jon Pylypchik.

Follow this link to Walter Robinson's writeup on Artnet.com on this years Miami scene.

Hope to see all of you on January 29th for our next Collector Circle Show. It promises to be GREAT. Until then if you have any questions please call Marcia Eitelberg at 917 868 2984.
HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY!

Collector Circle hosted another award winning show that took place at 2pm on Nov. 13th, 2005 at 530 East 76th street with our guests from  Roebling Hall Gallery who showed the work of Sebastiaan Bremer, Mixed Greens Gallery showed the work of Coke O'neal and Adia Millett. Deborah Coulter showed her recent works on paper. Also, Eric Lopresti, a young painter whose work have been exhibited internationally, including solo shows in New York, discussed his work. He is the recipient of the Kuriansky Award and the Miami Young Painters William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award. Kathleen Cullen joined us with a surprise artist.

Eric Lopresti - 2005

Deborah Coulter - Fluency 2005

ADAM ADACH
was born in 1962, Warsaw, Poland.He lives and works in Paris. In 1995, Adam graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Adam has a ONE- PERSON EXHIBITION at D'Amelio Terras, New York this year.

Adam Adach Descente, 2004
Oil on Wood
59" x 59"

 

Kysa Johnson has a Solo Exhibition at Roebling Hall, Brooklyn NY this year. In 2004, Kysa had a solo show at the National Academy of Science, Washington DC

Kysa Johnson
Blow up 45 Subatomic Decay Patterns, 2004
Ink on MDF 96 x 48"

 

 

Rachel Owens, whos work at Lehman Maupin was reviewed in the latest "Flash Art", will be coming to one of the next Collector Circle events.

Rachel Owens is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. She has been in New York since 2000 after completing graduate school in Chicago at the School of the Art Institute. Most recently she participated in the widely reviewed show Some Exhaust at Lehman Maupin Gallery. She has also participated in shows at Bellwether Gallery, WAH Center, Sara Nightingale Gallery and Weather Records. She has been reviewed in Flash Art, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and TONY.

My recent projects have all been involved in the use of figuration, landscape and architecture to explore metaphors for the human condition emotionally, psychologically, and socio-politically. -Rachel Owens

We will always be available for all our collectors to view and discuss the various exhibits. This past March, at the Armory Show and also the Scope Art Fair, we met with collectors for personal tours and viewings. contact us

The Armory Show opened Friday, March 11, and runs through Monday, March 14th on piers 90 and 92

SCOPE Opened Friday, March 11 at the Flatotel on 135 West 52nd Street.

 

 

 

FEBRUARY

MIAMI ART EVENT:

Cristina Lei Rodriguez's piece - on the invite for the Rubel collection's show in Miami this month.

RACHEL HARRISON has been doing extremely well. Currently, new drawings are available by Rachel. We can find her work in solo and group exhibits.

Rachel Harrison Hail to Reason , 2004;
Wood, wire, polystyrene, Parex, Portland cement, acrylic,
DVD player, and doilies; 100 x 39 x 36 in

KIRSTEN DIERUP had a one person exhibition
at Rare Gallery in March 2005. She is currently in a
two-person show at Guild and Greyskull, NY.

January - 2005

 

 

 

Collector Circle - October

Dear Art Enthusiast,
On October 23rd, Collector Circle took a significant group on a journey through some of New York’s leading contemporary art galleries. Here we met the key players, had an overview of the work the galleries represent and learned why they choose the artists that they work with. We heard their secrets and had an insider’s view on what makes the art-world tick. With an emphasis on collecting the work of emerging and contemporary artists we discussed the resources available to us; enforcing our skills towards becoming more confident buyers and collectors.

 

Construction 2002
Acrylic transfers on canvas
48" x 72"

We met at 1:30 pm at Rare Gallery on 521 West 26th Street to discuss artist Erik Benson.

Collector Circle December

From December 2nd through December 5th, a group of collectors went to Florida for Art Basel, NADA Art Fair, and Scope Art Fair in Miami. We saw several new artists with their work on display in Miami, including German artist, Andrea Lehmann.

On January 30th , Collector Circle will hold another meeting in New York, with the artists To Be Decided.

Andrea Lehmann
Grab Maedchen

< click here for additional images of paintings by Andrea >

 

 

We went to Lombard Freid to discuss Naomi Fisher

Ladies 2003
Ink on vellum
36 x 24 inches

and Lehman Maupin to discuss Tony Oursler, and others.

 

September 19, 2004

Our last show was a huge success!

As our first anniversary rapidly approaches, we want to welcome all of our new and returning collectors for an exciting new season ahead!

This meeting will be held at 2pm on
Sunday, September 19th at 300 E. 51 st Street, Suite 5H

* Note: RSVP by Wednesday, September 15th by calling
516-868-2162, 917-868-2984, or 212-268-1520 *
Our first meeting's featured artists will be:

 

 

 

 

Rachel Urkowitz is an artist who lives and works in New York . She is represented by Galerie Neff in Germany and works with Michael Steinberg Gallery in New York . She was the recipient of the Artists' Residency Grant in Giverny , France in 2002. She has been in many solo and group shows throughout the US and Europe .

Rachel's work deals with landscape, architecture and narrative through a multi-disciplinary practice. Her most recent sculptures - laser-cut white arches - combine the modularity of an erector set with the architectural form of the flying buttress.

Rachel Urkowitz, Anya Smith , 2003 Michael Steinberg Fine Art/ MS Editions Inc.

Milton Rosa-Ortiz

Milton Rosa-Ortiz was born in San Juan , Puerto Rico in 1967. He graduated from Kansas State University with a BA in Architecture. He also attended the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowman Village , Colorado in 1998. His work is curated by Cornell DeWitt Projects. This past spring his work was in two New York group shows at both Jeff Bailey Gallery and Robert Steele Gallery.

Milton is known for constructing site-specific sculptures and installations that are constructed from found materials (e.g. broken glass, stones, driftwood) which are suspended from the ceiling by invisible threads. These pieces appear to float like apparitions.

 

 

Jenny Laden, Lounge, 2004 at Jeff Bailey Gallery
Jenny Laden lives and works in New York . She graduated from Barnard College in 1992 and obtained her MFA from New York University in 1998. She is Represented by Jeff Bailey Gallery . She has been a visiting lecturer in studio art at Barnard College and Columbia University . In addition, she was the Open Studios Press (New York Edition) “New Paintings” competition winner in 1999.

Jenny's portrait series depicts women in their homes. She gains access to this intimate experience of a woman's domestic solitude and her relationship to her home, herself, and her private, uninterrupted time. She depicts a range of experiences, such as: freedom, release, exhaustion and fantasy. Through the synthesis of line and tonal color, Jenny articulates subtle forms within the figure's body, and produces striking studies of “being”.

Louise Belcourt at Jeff Bailey Gallery

Louise Belcourt has lived and worked in New York for the past 2 years. She is represented by Jeff Bailey Gallery . Her work has been exhibited in Paris and New York at Peter Blum and Artemis Greenburg Van Doren. Recently her work has been included in “Open House: Working in Brooklyn ” at the Brooklyn Museum . Louise was born in Canada and received her BFA from Mount Allison University , Canada . She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2000. She has been an AIR at the Yaddo Foundation in Saratoga Springs , NY and at the Milay Colony in Austerlitz , NY. In addition, she was a Visiting Artist in 2002 at Concordia University, Canada .

Louise's recent paintings are explorations of light, color, and spatial volume. Unreal and unnatural color schemes combine to create solid and specific forms in vast open spaces. Working with these forms is a way for her to physically and mentally connect with the world around her and to explore the possibilities of painting; the paring-down of structures and content to essential elements.