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DRAWING INSPIRATION - Final Week! On view through Saturday, May 8 Exhibition Highlight: Robert Cottingham | Susan Hauptman ... Robert Cottingham (b.1935) is known for imagery that celebrates the history of communications in America, particularly neon signs and storefront marquees which he depicts in tightly-cropped, colorful and precise compositions, often in a square format. He describes the genesis of his signature work in a 1998 interview with Robert A. Brown for the Archives of American Art: There was the overall composition, where things don't have to be silhouetted against a white background. They can fill the canvasand incorporate the edges of that canvas as part of the compositionI realized that I had in my mind's eye a series of paintings that had this kind of complexityI could see the abstract qualities in them. I could see the color. They even formed themselves as squares in my mindI had a hunch that if I went downtownto LA, downtownand photographed some of thedenser commercial streetsand the prime street down there was Broadwaythat I might find what I'm looking for. That's exactly what happened. I found the signsthings that happen above eye level. I was using a Hasselblad camera at that point anyway. I know now that's where the square came from. The artistic practice of Forum Gallery artist Susan Hauptman (1947-2015) focuses on charcoal and pastel works with minimal color, powerful line and deft draftsmanship. In the exhibition catalogue for her 2019 exhibition with Irene Pijoan and Richard Sheehan at the San Francisco Art Institute, Hauptman said: I live with a drawing for months and months and months. I have to be concentrating the whole time. I’m after accuracy but not realism. I’m looking for the perfect texture, tone. I can tell when the life is in a drawing. Link in bio to view the Drawing inspiration exhibition and Online Viewing Room, featuring all of the works in the exhibition. Images: Robert Cottingham, Roxy, 2002, lithograph, 46 x 46 inches Susan Hauptman, Still Life, 2012, charcoal on paper, 31 1/2 x 28 inches #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #ADAAgalleries #DrawingInspiration #RobertCottingham #SusanHauptman

DRAWING INSPIRATION On view through Saturday, May 8 Exhibition Highlight: Claudio Bravo ... New York, NY - Forum Gallery presents Drawing inspiration, an exhibition of works on paper by twenty-eight artists who approach drawing from uniquely different perspectives. Drawing inspriation is on view at the gallery through Saturday, May 8, 2021. For Claudio Bravo (1936-2011), long acknowledged as one of the world's premier realist painters, drawing has always been an essential component of his artistic practice. In conversation with art historian and author Edward J. Sullivan (published in the 2005 Rizzoli monograph about the Artist), Bravo revealed: "Drawing is the basis of my work. I could never stop drawing since I've done it all of my life...I strive for absolute precision in my drawing. View the Drawing inspiration exhibition and Online Viewing Room, featuring all of the works in the exhibition, including fact sheets and pricing information here https://bit.ly/3mqedWO Images: Elephant Skull, 2006, pencil on paper, 43 1/4 x 29 1/2 inches Lamb Skin, 2003, pastel on paper, 29 1/8 x 42 7/8 inches #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #ADAAgalleries #DrawingInspiration #ClaudioBravo

New York, NY - Forum Gallery presents Drawing inspiration, an exhibition of works on paper by twenty-eight artists who approach drawing from uniquely different perspectives. Drawing inspiration is on view at the gallery through Saturday, May 8, 2021. As part of the @npr series, Art Where You're At, Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg discusses the exhibition with Forum Gallery's Nicola Lorenz, highlighting works by Alyssa Monks, Rance Jones, Steven Assael, and Guiller...mo Muñoz Vera for the article. Read the article at the link in our bio here https://linktr.ee/ForumGallery Images: Guillermo Muñoz Vera, Young Man from Mali, 2019, conte pencil and charcoal on paper, 20 7/8 x 19 5/8 inches Rance Jones, Azucar y Tobaco (Sugar and Tobacco), 2020, watercolor on paper, 21 x 18 inches Alyssa Monks, Transfixed (drawing), 2020, vine charcoal on paper, 15 1/8 x 22 7/8 inches Steven Assael, Henry and Hammer, 2020, graphite and crayon on paper, 11 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #ADAAgalleries #DrawingInspiration #GuillermoMuñozVera @munozverapintor #RanceJones @rancejones_art #AlyssaMonks @alyssamonks #StevenAssael @stevenassael

DRAWING INSPIRATION On view through Saturday, May 8 Exhibition Highlight: G. Daniel Massad | Anthony Mitri... G. Daniel Massad often writes notes about each individual pastel drawing, which he develops over a period of time as the subject and composition reveal themselves slowly. He describes the origins of the totem-like arrangement for his 2015 work, Mrs. Earth, which began at the grocery store: Shopping the mid-winter produce aisles and hungry already for the distant summer’s harvest, Scott handed me a golden apple, dark gold with red spots and a gray-tinted well the stem went down into, and said, 'You should work with this next, no?' I took the apple, groaning inwardly and on the verge of answering his 'No' with my 'No,' and then . . . . . my 'No' unexpectedly opened to the possibility of a new idea with a golden apple in it, dark gold with red spots, and I said 'Yes.' At home, I photographed the apple, alone or coupled with a few grapes, a seed pod from a tulip tree, a bird bone, and after that I did what I’ve trained myself to do: I waited patiently. Anthony Mitri takes his inspiration from spending time forming memories of the places he has encountered, recalling the light at specific times of day, certain sounds or smells, or interesting compositional elements. His meticulous, tightly-wound charcoal drawings include portrayals of the French countryside, urban Paris and New York City, and rural farmland near his home town of Cleveland, Ohio. The Artist has said that The experience of having been there is crucial to these pictures; the process of rendering a drawing becomes an extended moment of memory, the finished piece, a memoir in charcoal. Link in bio to view the Drawing inspiration exhibition and Online Viewing Room here https://linktr.ee/ForumGallery Images: G. Daniel Massad, Mrs. Earth, 2015, pastel on paper, 24 1/2 x 24 inches Anthony Mitri, Ohio Oil, September, 2020, charcoal on paper, 7 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #ADAAgalleries #DrawingInspiration #GDanielMassad #AnthonyMitri

DRAWING INSPIRATION Now extended through May 8 Exhibition Highlight: Joseph Stella... Study for New York Interpreted, 1923, by Joseph Stella is an ethereal multi-media work on paper rendered in oil, pastel, watercolor, ink and pencil. The dominant verticals and swirling aqueous forms relate closely to his painting The Skyscrapers, one of a five-paneled masterwork (nearly twenty-three feet long and over eight feet high) from the Artist’s New York Interpreted series executed between 1920 to 1922. The series reveals Stella’s complicated relationship with the city, which he expressed in a powerful prose poem titled New York: When fog obliterates the bases of the skyscrapers they seem suspended in air, like brilliant jewel cases of destiny, like flaming meteorites held momentarily motionless in their tracks, like stars flung into the darkness of a tempestuous sky. And wide, geometric bands of shadow, moving like an invisible procession, mass, deepen, form and uniform, float into view and disappear, while the metallic skeleton of the gigantic metropolis flashes with sparkly light that breaks out suddenly like the foam of a wave, like the flight of seagulls in a storm. Link in bio to view the Drawing inspiration exhibition and Online Viewing Room here https://linktr.ee/ForumGallery Image: Joseph Stella, Study for New York Interpreted, 1923, oil, pastel, watercolor, ink and pencil on paper, 11 x 8 1/2 inches #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #ADAAgalleries #DrawingInspiration #JosephStella

DRAWING INSPIRATION Now extended through May 8 Exhibition Highlight: Odd Nerdrum | Craig McPherson... Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum, is well known for his compelling portraits, stark landscapes, and apocalyptic narratives that depict unearthly scenes. Nerdrum has stated: Man must be driven out onto the plains. Being out on the plains means coming back to the essential, to the starting point. When man feels betrayed by society it is his right to return to a natural state. Craig McPherson’s series, Steel, celebrates the work and wonder of steelmaking, turning earthy coal and iron ore into molten fire. Symbiotic to the work of the steel mills, McPherson, long considered one of America’s premier printmakers, realized the series in Mezzotint, a very labor intensive, centuries-old, printing process that takes weeks and months to rock a large copper plate that the artist has engraved, scraped and burnished. Conceptually, these works pay homage to the great modernists. McPherson describes the works as, "...my Haystack series. Each is a variation, technically, coloristically... They're about texture, about atmosphere, and about light." The Frick Art Museum in Pittsburgh, PA dedicated an entire exhibition to the Steel series as part of the City of Pittsburgh’s celebration of its 250th Anniversary. Link in bio to view the Drawing inspiration exhibition and Online Viewing Room here https://linktr.ee/ForumGallery Images: Odd Nerdrum, The Red Cape, 1991, charcoal on paper, 37 x 45 inches Craig McPherson, Coal Piles, 1997-2007, pastel on mezzotint ground, 33 1/2 x 54 1/2 inches #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #ADAAgalleries #DrawingInspiration #CraigMcPherson #OddNerdrum

Open until 5:30pm today! Our recent series of online exhibitions featured new bodies of work by William Beckman, Alan Magee and Alyssa Monks. Now is your opportunity to view selected works from these online presentations in the current exhibition at Forum Gallery, "In Person: William Beckman | Alan Magee | Alyssa Monks". Now on view through Saturday, January 9th, 2021, the exhibition presents a combined 19 paintings and monotypes by Beckman, Magee and Monks. Preview the ex...hibition: "In Person: William Beckman | Alan Magee | Alyssa Monks" https://bit.ly/3q6xq19 View the online viewing rooms for William Beckman, Alan Magee and Alyssa Monks on our website by following the links below: "William Beckman: New Works by an American Master" https://bit.ly/2HGpsKK "Alan Magee: Witness" https://bit.ly/3nVhb58 "Alyssa Monks: Plant Life" https://bit.ly/3fO4432 View the digital catalogue online here: https://bit.ly/3798xcy #InPerson #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #WilliamBeckman #AlanMagee #AlyssaMonks #ADAAGalleries

Happy Hanukkah from Forum Gallery! Forum Gallery wishes all of our friends a happy and healthy holiday. Image: Mark Podwal, Dreidel Menorah, 2013, acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches... #MarkPodwal #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #HappyHanukkah #ADAAGalleries

IN PERSON: William Beckman | Alan Magee | Alyssa Monks Now on View Our recent series of online exhibitions featured new bodies of work by William Beckman, Alan Magee and Alyssa Monks. Now is your opportunity to view selected works from these online presentations in a new exhibition at Forum Gallery, "In Person: William Beckman | Alan Magee | Alyssa Monks". ... The exhibition presents 19 paintings and monotypes and remains on view through Saturday, January 9th, 2021. Preview the exhibition: "In Person: William Beckman | Alan Magee | Alyssa Monks" https://bit.ly/3q6xq19 View the online viewing rooms for William Beckman, Alan Magee and Alyssa Monks on our website by following the links below: "William Beckman: New Works by an American Master" https://bit.ly/2HGpsKK "Alan Magee: Witness" https://bit.ly/3nVhb58 "Alyssa Monks: Plant Life" https://bit.ly/3fO4432 View the digital catalogue online here: https://bit.ly/3798xcy Image: William Beckman, "Montana", 2020, oil on canvas, 58 x 104 inches #InPerson #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #WilliamBeckman #AlanMagee #AlyssaMonks #ADAAGalleries

https://vimeo.com/465799016 ALYSSA MONKS: PLANT LIFE - Online Exhibition and Viewing Room The latest offering in our Online Viewing Room series features seven new paintings by Alyssa Monks, created entirely during the Covid-19 quarantine in New York City.... View the online exhibition here https://bit.ly/3dhDlum Enter the online viewing room here https://bit.ly/2HupUvC #forumgallery #ForumArtists #AlyssaMonks Alyssa Monks #ADAAGalleries

Congratulations to Forum Gallery artist Brian Rutenberg! His oil painting "Creek" 2011, is now in the permanent collection of the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio, Jerry Smith, curator. The Work will be shown at the Dana L. Wiley Gallery in the Front Street Building. #BrianRutenberg #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #DaytonArtInstitute

Rance Jones: The Lingering Revolution extended through Saturday, November 21, 2020. Read press for the exhibition: Artland bit.ly/35nXA5V Fine Art Connoisseur bit.ly/2TjvdQK Life’s Prism bit.ly/3kn76wB... Enter the "Rance Jones: The Lingering Revolution" online viewing room: bit.ly/2FPspb2 #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #RanceJones #TheLingeringRevolution #ADAAGalleries See more

Repost @americanartfair Saul Steinberg’s 1951 Walking in Manhattan at Forum Galleries at theamericanartfair.com through October 18. Born in Romania in 1914, Steinberg studied Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, then enrolled as an architecture student at the Politecnico di Milano, fleeing Italy in 1941 with the rise of anti-Semitism, he eventually settled in the United States, creating more than 1200 drawings for The New Yorker including 87 covers. He said that he ...always wanted to draw like a child...who never stopped drawing that way even as he aged and his subject matter became not childish....Perhaps because he survived the war, he made a point of not doing things that he didn’t want to do....He did what he wanted more faithfully and to better artistic effect than anybody I’ve ever known.Ian Frazier, Saul Steinberg at One Hundred, The New Yorker, October 8, 2014 #americanartfair #americanart #forumgallery #saulsteinberg #thenewyorkermagazine #cartoonart

IN PERSON: William Beckman | Alan Magee | Alyssa Monks Opens Today! Our recent series of online exhibitions featured new bodies of work by William Beckman, Alan Magee and Alyssa Monks. Now is your opportunity to view selected works from these online presentations in a new exhibition at Forum Gallery, "In Person: William Beckman | Alan Magee | Alyssa Monks". Opening Today, November 27th, the exhibition will present 19 paintings and monotypes and remains on view through Satur...day, January 9th, 2021. Preview the exhibition: "In Person: William Beckman | Alan Magee | Alyssa Monks" https://bit.ly/3q6xq19 View the online viewing rooms for William Beckman, Alan Magee and Alyssa Monks on our website by following the links below: "William Beckman: New Works by an American Master" https://bit.ly/2HGpsKK "Alan Magee: Witness" https://bit.ly/3nVhb58 "Alyssa Monks: Plant Life" https://bit.ly/3fO4432 View the digital catalogue online here: https://bit.ly/3798xcy Image: Alyssa Monks, "Aerosol", 2020, oil on panel, 18 x 12 inches #InPerson #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #WilliamBeckman #AlanMagee #AlyssaMonks #ADAAGalleries

ALYSSA MONKS: PLANT LIFE - Online Exhibition and Viewing Room The latest offering in our Online Viewing Room series features seven new paintings by Alyssa Monks, created entirely during the Covid-19 quarantine in New York City. "We have all been 'planting ourselves' wherever we are and staying put, Monks remarks. The new paintings, with their intense but distorted color, portray the inner psychological experience of isolation for these female subjects as they interact with ...the "natural" world as it gets less and less certain or safe. Alyssa Monks’ expression of life in these new paintings is a direct reflection of the Artist’s determination to remain positive and proactive during a global pandemic that has threatened both life and emotional well-being. Antithetically, Monks’ paintings celebrate the persistence of life and renewal in the natural world. View the online exhibition and enter the online viewing room here https://bit.ly/37dbH0A #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #AlyssaMonks Alyssa Monks #ADAAGalleries

Forum Gallery @ The American Art Fair October 9-18, 2020 (online exclusive) https://www.theamericanartfair.com/exhibitors "Self-Portrait with Model", c.1945 by Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), has been in private collections for nearly two decades and has rarely been exhibited. The Artist portrays himself seated at his easel in blue shirtsleeves and his signature round glasses. He turns to acknowledge the viewer with the generosity of spirit for which he was beloved. Behind him... sits a model in repose, reading a newspaper in the corner of the studio. The subject matter and treatment are typical of Raphael Soyer’s studio genre paintings of this prized period in the Artist’s career. Soyer completes the scene with an economy of self-assured brushstrokes and warm light, telling of the 1940s era in which the painting was made. Image: Raphael Soyer, Self-Portrait with Model, c. 1945, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches #RaphaelSoyer #AmericanArtFair2020 #AmericanArtFair #onlineartfair #artfairny

Rance Jones: The Lingering Revolution extended through Saturday, November 21, 2020. See the "Rance Jones: The Lingering Revolution" online exhibition: https://bit.ly/3cmMLEl Enter the "Rance Jones: The Lingering Revolution" online viewing room: https://bit.ly/2FPspb2... Image and details: Rance Jones, Azucar y Tobaco (Sugar and Tobacco), 2020, watercolor on paper, 21 x 18 inches #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #RanceJones @rancejones_art #TheLingeringRevolution #ADAAGalleries

Our presentation at The American Art Fair is featured in the recent review by The Scholarly Skater: Forum Gallery has a really fascinating figurative Jackson Pollock painting on linoleum. It also has a Guy Carleton Wiggins painting of Manhattan, the sort of thing I adore, and a great Saul Steinberg, also set in Manhattan. ascholarlyskater.com/2020/10/10/american-art-fair-online/ Forum Gallery @ The American Art Fair October 9-18, 2020 (online exclusive)... theamericanartfair.com/exhibitors#/forum-gallery/ Image: Guy Carleton Wiggins, Untitled (Flags Up Fifth Avenue), c.1936-41, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches #GuyCarletonWiggins #AmericanArtFair2020 #AmericanArtFair #onlineartfair #artfairny See more

Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), "Walking in Manhattan," c.1951, is featured in the review of The American Art Fair by A Scholarly Skater. Forum Gallery @ The American Art Fair October 9-18, 2020 (online exclusive) https://www.theamericanartfair.com/exhibitors... #SaulSteinberg #AmericanArtFair2020 #AmericanArtFair #onlineartfair #artfairny

ALYSSA MONKS: PLANT LIFE - Online Exhibition and Viewing Room Forum Gallery announces the next offering in our Online Exhibition and Viewing Room series, "Alyssa Monks: Plant Life". "Alyssa Monks: Plant Life" presents seven new paintings created entirely during the Covid-19 quarantine in New York City. "We have all been 'planting ourselves' wherever we are and staying put, Monks remarks. The new paintings, with their intense but distorted color, portray the inner psychologi...cal experience of isolation for these female subjects as they interact with the "natural" world as it gets less and less certain or safe. Alyssa Monks’ expression of life in these new paintings is a direct reflection of the Artist’s determination to remain positive and proactive during a global pandemic that has threatened both life and emotional well-being. Antithetically, Monks’ paintings celebrate the persistence of life and renewal in the natural world. Through October 31st, "Alyssa Monks: Plant Life" is presented as an exclusive, cross-platform virtual exhibition that may be viewed on the Forum Gallery website, Artsy and Artnet. The Online Viewing Room, available on our website, features a new video that takes you into Alyssa Monks’ studio and explores the making of these compelling new paintings. View the online exhibition: https://bit.ly/3dhDlum Enter the online viewing room: https://bit.ly/3jPxazZ #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #AlyssaMonks Alyssa Monks #ADAAGalleries

Rance Jones: The Lingering Revolution on view through November 7, 2020. See the "Rance Jones: The Lingering Revolution" online exhibition: https://bit.ly/3cmMLEl Enter the "Rance Jones: The Lingering Revolution" online viewing room: https://bit.ly/2FPspb2... Image and details: Rance Jones, Glow, 2020, watercolor on paper, 21 x 17 inches #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #RanceJones @rancejones_art #TheLingeringRevolution #ADAAGalleries

The gallery is open until 5:30pm today. Currently on view: "Rance Jones: The Lingering Revolution" #forumgallery #ForumArtists #RanceJones #TheLingeringRevolution #ADAAGalleries

Opening Today! "Rance Jones: The Lingering Revolution" The Artist will be present all day today during regular hours to greet visitors and answer questions. For the exhibition catalogue, Rance Jones writes: ... A world apart, Cuba is a vibrant and visceral country on the edge of great change. The people who live here are survivors and dreamers in a land where nothing goes to waste and everything is celebrated. This series of watercolor paintings explores the interlocking fibers that weave Cubans into their social, political and physical environmentIn these paintings, I wanted to depict this range of attitudes and emotions through the expressions, body language and surroundings of these remarkable people. #ForumGallery #ForumArtists #RanceJones #TheLingeringRevolution #ADAAGalleries