Art Bites

Samuel J. Gillis, Chicago, has spent a lifetime serving his passion and appreciation for art. Gillis’s early exposure to cartooning developed into an obsession that led to a formal education in fine art. Sam has been fortunate to study in some of the finest art programs, including Columbia College Chicago and The Atelier Alternative. He was a proud recipient of a scholarship to attend The School of the Art Institute Chicago. Gillis is a prolific artist featured in museums and exhibitions, including The Columbus Art Museum, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and John G. Shedd Aquarium. Part of international collections in Spain, Italy, New York, Guatemala, Russia, and San Francisco, to name a few. He’s been featured in television, movies, and publications nationwide for his work, as well as mentorship of other artists and global initiatives at the center of his mission to help build a better world through art. Gillis with his local and global community and is a frequent donor to organi...

Matthew Marks announces Terry Winters, the most recent exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. The exhibition’s sixteen chromatically rich paintings have been built up with layers of marks in oil, resin, and wax. Their imagery derives from diverse sources, among them botany, geology, and chemistry, as indicated by their titles, which include Shell, Cluster, and Dioxazine Shift. Each finished painting, however, is an abstract composition with its own internal dynamics, emerging through a process that resembles evolution and other unpredictable natural phenomena. Terry Winters (born 1949) lives and works in New York City and Columbia County, NY. His one-person museum exhibitions include the Tate Gallery, London (1986); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1991); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1992); the Whitechapel Gallery, London (1998); Kunsthalle Basel (2000); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2001); the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin...

Artist Eric Fischl stands near his piece "Tumbling Woman" at a preview of the new exhibition at the 9/11 Memorial Museum titled "Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11" on September 1, 2016 in New York City. The exhibition at the museum on the site of the former World Trade Center towers features thirteen artworks that were created in response to 9/11, including paintings, sculptures, video and other media. The show will open September 12 and run until January.

 Opera Gallery Hong Kong is thrilled to announce its Autumn exhibition showcasing celebrated Chinese abstract painter Liu Jiu Tong alongside a collection of figurative sculptures by American artist Richard MacDonald. Interplaying the abstract and the figurative, Liu Jiu Tong’s unrestrained landscapes are inspired by renowned Chinese poets of the Warring States and Tang Dynasty. Eluding to form, Liu expresses a lyricism swathed in tenacious layers of paint, vigorously applied and condensed onto canvas like a fleeting moment trapped between open fingers. Born in 1977 in Suide, a province of northern China, Liu graduated from the Art Institute of Xi’an and continued his studies in Beijing. Growing from the highlands of northwest of China with giant mountains and fields makes Liu’s oil painting full of heroic spirit. Inspired further from his later travels, old charming buildings of Shanghai and peaceful villages surrounded by water appear in his artworks - full of melodic passi...

 De Buck Gallery announced United States representation of the Estate of Bernard Aubertin, the French avant-garde artist who is best known for his monochromatic red nail paintings and for his association with the global ZERO movement. Following a visit to the studio of Yves Klein in 1957, Bernard Aubertin was inspired to follow in Klein’s footsteps and work within the field of monochromy, a style he adamantly adhered to throughout his career, choosing a vibrant red hue just as Klein famously worked in blue. Aubertin’s first monochrome works were created in 1958 and featured canvases covered in materials such as nails, bolts, and screws all painted in red. By 1961, he officially joined the ZERO group, seeking to create a detached, expressionless approach to art making. Later in his career, his practice evolved to incorporate performance, and he became known for setting fire to his own work and exhibiting the remains. Since the 1960s, Aubertin's work has been widely exhibited th...

Vitaly Gunaza was born in 1980 in the Pskov region, Russia. He studied at the Art College of Zaporozhye (Ukraine). In 2007, he graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (Minsk, Belarus), department of painting. Since 2001 he participates in exhibitions in Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Serbia, Germany. Lives and works in Minsk, Belarus.

Joel Shapiro (born September 27, 1941, New York City, New York) is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes.  While serving his Peace Corp time in India, Shapiro saw many Indian art works, and has said that “India gave me the sense of … the possibility of being an artist.” In India “Art was pervasive and integral to the society”, and he has said that "the struggle in my work to find a structure that reflects real psychological states may well use Indian sculpture as a model."  He lives and works in New York City.

SITE Santa Fe announced the opening of SITElines.2016 Biennial. This is the second installment in SITE Santa Fe’s reimagined biennial series with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas. The exhibition features over 35 artists from 11 countries and 6 new commissions organized around intersecting ideas brought together by a team of five curators−Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Pip Day, Pablo León de la Barra, and Kiki Mazzucchelli.

A major new Artist Rooms exhibition devoted to the drawings of the German artist Joseph Beuys is a highlight of the summer programme at the National Galleries of Scotland this year. The exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art brings together, for the first time, the extraordinary group of over 110 drawings by Beuys held in the Artist Rooms collection. Put together with great care and knowledge over many years by Anthony d’Offay, the drawings cover the whole of the artist’s career from 1945 to the end of his life, reflecting his encyclopaedic interest in nature, science, philosophy, mythology, society, politics and religion. This is the largest and most important collection outside Germany by this key figure of post-war art. Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) is perhaps best known for his ‘Actions’, installations and sculpture, but first and foremost he was an artist who was interested in ideas: ideas about how the world, both natural and social, functioned and how the latter...

Arman Allakhverdian was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1979. His spent his childhood in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and this city has a great influence on his art. He is primarily an oil painter working in impressionist style. His passion for art started at an early age, but he has never had professional education. He held his first art exhibit in 2012 at Art galery’s A.S. Gavdzinskiy, Nova Kakhovka, Ukraine . He has had shows in Ankara and Istanbul 2014, 2016, and his showing was well-received by his circle of supporters. Arman has experimented with several mediums, but oils tend to be his most preferred medium. Being a   self-represented artist gives him the freedom and proficiency to express himself with oils, his work has evolved through his own personal experience. The old masters have always been his greatest source of information and techniques. He strives to improve his craft with every new picture he paints. His pictures are always stories about the souls and their ways ...

By Tom Hubbard http://tom- hubbard. artistwebsites.com/   https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=-oUSfodI6Hs   Schools consider art an aside from intellectual activity. Once a college major is chosen, course selection becomes more constricted. This constricted view sees imagination as a weakness. Social conversation respects and rewards precision of thought. The professional world rewards “critical thinking.” There is a whole world of emotion beyond this thinking. Think of a joyous moment in your life. It was driven by emotion, not critical thinking.   In evolution, emotion came to early humans long before modern thinking. Emotion drives evolution, then and now, even on a personal level. We find happiness in emotion. Music, movies and literature are industries based on emotion. I think it’s clear that emotion is in play when we choose political candidates. In all of this emotion in popular culture, fine art is a niche, but it’s becoming ...

Inside Culture   by David Halle  Published in 1993 Cover price $29.95 Today’s price, about $5 There’s gold in them thar cheap book sites! They are cheap but offer insights into how we live. “Inside Culture” is a fine intellectual nugget. Halle’s wisdom is as valid today as it was in 1993. Good non-fiction book are written for a purpose, to explore new concepts, or to explore new frontiers of knowledge. The ideas and concepts may be timeless commentary on the human scene, but the book world is a marketing phenomenon. Books race through the marketing cycle from hot marketing, author on the appearance/interview circuit to … the rusty dusty files of eBay/Amazon, basements and bargain stores. Where does your art go when it leaves the gallery? Halle examines art in the homes of various economic neighborhoods in the New York area. He actually entered the homes, with permission, and recorded the type of homes of varying economic status. Consider this. A...

Artist Portfolio   You are an art lover. You go to art gallery openings and enjoy the social aspect as well as the art on the walls. You may have inherited or were gifted a piece of art. You may have a piece of personally selected art in your living room. But, you seldom come home with a new purchase. You may have a $30,000+ car but are reluctant to lay out $500 for a piece of art. Car dealers are lucky. They can site transportation practicality, while urging you to add $10,000 more for luxury features. All buyers are multiple-motivated by ambiance, persuasion etc. Art buying is unique. It’s difficult for the buyer to summons a hard practical motivation. Car dealers can summons practical and aesthetic arguments. Interpolate some of those car dealer persuasions into selecting art. Consider TRANSFORMATION practicality. What do you want your life to become? Art can enhance your quest. Suppose you go to an author’s book signing. Now fantasize. Everyone is enjoying a s...