April 2010

News of CGFA Artists, Alumni, Favorites and Friends

Devorah Sperber's "The Last Supper" has been acquired by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
"The Last Supper" is a unique work that is 29 foot long and is composed of 20,736 thread spool piece.
Crystal Bridges also acquired Sperber's "After Grant Wood (American Gothic) 2" for the museum's collection.

Devorah Sperber's 7 × 7 foot "After Mona Lisa 2" will be presented at the Lille 3000 exhibition
in Shanghai, China from May 1 through July 15, 2010.
Her unique commissioned "After Mondrian (Fashion 26)" is now on view
at the front desk of the newly opened Fashion 26 Hotel on West 26th Street in New York City.

Andrew Sendor's first solo exhibition with the Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica, CA will open on May 1.

Congratulations to Carlos & Jason Sanchez on the recent acquisitions of their work by
the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.
Their solo exhibition at the Nicolas Metivier Gallery in Toronto will open on April 29 (through May 22).

Paul Henry Ramirez's site specific installation BLACKOUT will remain on view at the Newark Museum through May 23.
Click here to see a video interview with Ramirez about his BLACKOUT installation.

Nathan Redwood received a excellent review in The Los Angeles Times for his solo exhibition
at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles (on view through May 8).

Mia Pearlman has been awarded the 2009 UrbanGlass Visiting Artist Fellowship for Established Artists.
She will have a three page article published in the May issue of HomeConcepts magazine (Malaysia)
and her interview with Serena Altschul for CBS News Sunday Morning will be broadcast soon.
Pearlman will have work in the "Mark, Paper, Sissors" exhibition at Roos Gallery in Rosendale, NY (May 1 - June 26)
and in the "Escape From New York" exhibition at the Fabricolor Building in Patterson, NJ (May 15 - June 19).

Bradley McCallum & Jaqueline Tarry's mid-career survey at The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore,
will open on May 7. A catalog will be published to accompany this exhibition.
Their work will appear concurrently in Baltimore at the Maryland Art Place, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum,
the Carroll House Mansion and Shot Tower and the Walters Art Museum.

McCallum & Tarry also have videos in the "One on One" exhibition at Site Santa Fe through May 9
and will have work featured in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum's exhibition
"High Water Marks: Art & Renewal After Katrina" from May 1 through September 19.

Gerhard Mayer's third solo exhibition at the Oechsner Galerie, is on view in Nürnberg, Germany through May 29.

Nicola López is participating in the "Does the Angle Between Two Walls Have a Happy Ending?"
exhibition at the Frederica Schiavo Gallery in Rome, Italy through May 6.
Her site specific installation in the "Phantom Sightings" exhibition can be seen at El Museo Del Barrio in NYC through May 23.
"Phantom Sightings" opened in the Spring of 2008 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and traveled
to The Houston Contemporary Art Museum and Museo Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City (catalog).
López recently spoke at the Denver Museum of Art where her "R.A.W." installation remains on view.

Don't miss Gandalf Gavan's solo exhibition "Teaching a Chicken How to Fly III"
at the Larissa Goldston Gallery (530 West 25th Street, NYC) through May 7.

Roland Flexner's stunning wall of Sumi Drawings can be seen in Whitney Biennial through May 30.

Bradley Castellanos's recent solo exhibition at Marx & Zavattero in San Francisco (February 4 - March 13)
was the subject of a great review in The San Francisco Chronicle.

Jonathan Allen is participating in The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council open studios
(May 1 and 2 from 12 - 6PM at 125 Maiden Lane, New York City).
Be sure to check out his new work. For more information on LMCC and directions click here.

Jean Shin is collecting old keys for an installation she is creating for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
If you have old keys of any sort to offer her, please send them to:
Jean Shin studio
68 Jay Street #209
Brooklyn, NY 11201
The installation will be on view at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in the Fall of 2010.

Make sure to check out John Kalymnios' "3×3" and Mia Pearlman's "Voluta"
in the Neuberger Museum's Paper Jam 2 Benefit on May 1.