Meet Jeremy Lipking – A True California Talent

A Note From Jeremy

Dear Friends,

I hope you are enjoying your winter (or summer for my southern hemisphere friends), I know I am. Here in southern California the Winters and Spring are my favorite times to paint outdoors, the hills are green, the streams are full and the temperatures can be in the 70′s and 80′s. I’ve been trying get out there when I can to take advantage of the great conditions. I’ve also been lucky this Winter to have had a chance to paint with some great visiting artists like Christopher Pugliese and Rose Frantzen who currently has an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. Here are some upcoming events I’d like you to know about.

California Workshops May and June In each of these workshops we’ll be painting the figure in the studio and outdoors. Click on the links to register and pay. May Workshop: May 14th, 15th & 16th 2010 June Workshop: June 25th, 26th & 27th 2010 Location: Agoura Hills CA Cost: $495. For people in Southern California I also offer a weekly painting class in my studio on Tuesday nights 7-10pm. The cost for 8-weeks is $480. To register or for more info on this or the 3-day workshops contact Danielle or call 818-451-7675 You may also pay online for the weekly class here. Realist Revolution: Panel Discussion Contemporary Art: REALIST REVOLUTION and CRITICAL RELEVANCE, Is Main Stream Media Missing an Important Cultural Trend? Date: 4:00PM Friday April 23rd 2010 Location: Hyatt Regency Reston, VA (Washington D.C area) Cost: Free (you must reserve tickets though) I am really excited to announce this panel discussion I’ll be moderating at the 2010 Art of the Portrait Conference in the Washington D.C area next month. We have a top notch panel that will be discussing the current movement in representational art and its place in the contemporary art world. Panel members are: Jacob Collins, artist & founder of Grand Central Academy Alexey Steele, artist and recipient of 2009 Gusi Peace Prize James Panero, writer and managing editor of The New Criterion Dr. Vern Swanson, author and expert on Academic and Realist art & Director of the Springville Museum. This is an important discussion for any artist or collector. Although it is part of the Art of the Portrait Conference agenda, this one event will be open to anyone at no cost but you must reserve tickets by emailing Christine Egnoski at info@portraitsociety.org or call 877-772-4321 Solo Exhibition NY And Last but not least my Solo Exhibition I have been working on for two years night is opening Thursday night June 10th. 2010 at Arcadia Gallery, 51 Greene Street New York, NY 10013 212-965-1387 I hope to see you there. Sincerely, Jeremy Lipking www.lipking.com

Tsvetana Yvanova Fine Art Videos

YouTube is a platform like no other

My art  Professor Angelakov  used to say -  you have to be able t create with anything that is available to you – if you have a pencil – use a pencil, you have oils – use oils; if you have nothing else available- paint with your fingers – if you have no canvas – draw on anything that comes to hand . . .’  His wisdom still follows  me.  The message was clear – never be swayed by  limitations – be it of materials or anything else.  Let your creativity flow no matter what. His words have nourished y creativity all these years.

A new medium has been added to my presentation palette – YouTube and Vimeo.  A skeptical attitude at first has prevented me to pay closer attention to  this popular public channel of  information. But as soon as I watched a science lecture from Harvard University about Nano particles and  not long after I discovered the most talented video artists of all time Philip Geist – I was a ‘convert’!

A special regular editorial will be dedicated to my Facebook and YouTube  ‘discoveries’.  It is only fair to say – I  am incredibly pleased to find out that there are so many unbelievably talented Artists out there! Has it not been for these networking platforms – I would have missed out on this knowledge ! I am very pleased  that  I am ‘in’.  My scepticism was a thing of the past – I was ‘converted’. Just like Facebook has modified my perceptions about social networking.

Here is a link to my latest video - I tried to make a bronze figure to dance . . . .You will know if I have succeeded. The music of  Antonio Vivaldi became a perfect background for the dancing ballerina. If you log in to The Dance Lesson – you will have the opportunity  to see the result of the new video – www.youtube.com/stylevieworg.

Enjoy it!

Tsvetana Yvanova  for

Tsvetana Yvanova Fine Art

WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY PRESENTS

William Turner Gallery Upcoming Exhibitions

MATERIAL MATTERS

Presenting:
JAMES HAYWARD
ANDY MOSES
STEVE VAN NORT
SUZAN WOODRUFF

MARCH 13 – APRIL 17

Reception: March 13, 6:30-8:30

William Turner Gallery

PH: 310-453-0909 F: 310-453-0908 2525 Michigan Ave. E-1, SM, CA 90404

Larry Bell At FRANK LLOYD GALLERY

Larry Bell – A  Contemporary Master

Upon visiting  the Frank LLoyd Gallery, at The Bergamont Station in Santa Monica  – Larry Bell’s work attracted me with its impeccable execution – and somber colors. The textures of the collages were unique – with this  fine, yet commercial feel to it. There is beauty in   the primal compositions ,  executed in the finest of techniques. Add to the blend metallic paint and  all shades of  the dark palette – and you get the picture. Two words come to mind – refined mysticism. We are left with our imagination – wondering where is Joan now?

Larry Bell’s work emerged in the mid-1960’s, and is often included in major exhibitions of Minimal art. His work was shown in the first exhibit to focus on Minimal art, “Primary Structures”, at the Jewish Museum in 1966. Bell’s work was also included in the seminal Museum of Modern Art exhibit, “The Responsive Eye” in 1965. More recently, Bell’s work was prominently presented in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s show, “A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968”, and discussed at length in the catalogue essays.
Bell is one of the most prominent and influential artists to have come out of the Los Angeles art scene of the 1960s, first showing at the Huysman Gallery, and then at Ferus. He became associated with the most important movements at the time, such as Light and Space art and what was described as “Finish Fetish” (a term coined by the late critic John Coplans). Bell has continued to investigate the complexities of highly refined surface treatments of glass, as well as large-scale sculptural installations.

Larry Bell was born in Chicago in 1939, and currently resides in Taos, New Mexico. The artist now maintains studios in Taos, New Mexico and Venice, California. Having grown up in the San Fernando Valley, Bell attended Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles from 1957 through 1959, where he was a student of Robert Irwin. He was extraordinarily successful as a young artist, and showed regularly at Pace Gallery in New York between 1965 and 1973. In September of 2005, Pace Wildenstein presented a show of works titled “Larry Bell: The Sixties”.

His work is in public collections throughout the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Art Institute of Chicago; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Gallery, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Currently Showing at  Frank LLoyd Gallery,  Bergamont Station Santa Monica,CA Frank Lloyd Galler,2525 Michigan Avenue, B5B, Santa Monica, CA
90404, tel: 310 264-3866, fax: 310 264-3868

info@franklloyd.com

Dave Lefner at Skidmore Contemporary

Dave Lefner Has Aways Been In  Love With LA

As a native-born Angeleno, artist Dave Lefner has always had a love for the city around him.  His work reflects a nostalgia for its aging, but unique signage, storefronts, and architecture from all Los Angeles areas,  ranging from the Valley to Hollywood, to his current home of Downtown L.A.

For Dave, the beauty of this metropolis, whether it’s found in the extreme shadows cast from a broken neon sign at midday or maybe the intricate web of powerlines crisscrossed overhead, provides the perfect inspiration for his detailed, very limited-edition, reduction linoleum block prints.  Since earning his degree in Art from the California State University at Northridge, he has made it his main goal to try to document the history of LA through its urban landscape to help in the preservation of this city, especially Downtown’s historical core.  Even in his chosen medium of reduction linocuts, he hopes to further his goal of preservation.  Because of the immediacy of today’s world, the labor-intensive, process-oriented technique of block printing is being lost and forgotten in the face of a digital age.  But for Lefner, the beautiful mystery of this process, as the piece slowly reveals itself with each new color, is worth preserving as much as his subject matter, his city- a ciudad of angels. Skidmore Contemporary Art Gallery

is opening for Dave Lefner tomorrow  – City Blocks

Reduction Linocuts, March 6 – 27, 2010,

Opening Reception -  Saturday March 6, 4-6 pm
Bergamot Station,  2525 Michigan Avenue, B5, Santa Monica, CA 90404
1-310-828-5070