Artist News - Robert Harms, Michael Reafsnyder, Heimir Bjorgulfsson

3 Shows not to be missed in February:

Robert Harms: paintings and watercolors @ The Drawing Room, East Hampton NY
open through March 28

In a recent review by Eric Ernst, Harms work is described as "an energetically vibrant view of nature that is nevertheless gently rhythmic in his use of calligraphic and linear components." For full review click here.

To see works by Robert Harms in the gallery visit our website - click here or call 614-291-2555.


Michael Reafsnyder: Feast @ Ameringer McEnry Yohe in NYC
open through March 5

"Rather than inviting us to talk about happiness after it has gone missing or to discuss love once it has been lost. Reafsnyder's demonstrative works bring a smile to your face before the conversation even gets going." David Pagel

For further information click here.

For available paintings and ceramics in our gallery visit our website or call 614-291-2555.






Heimir Bjorgulfsson @ CTRL Gallery in Houston TX
opening February 25

For further information click here.

For available works in our gallery visit our website or call 614-291-2555.

Stephen Mueller Art in America review

Zigmund Installation & Artist News 1/21/2011

Here is a preview of the Almond Zigmund exhibition opening tonight. Despite the huge snow storm, Almond arrived on time from New York and will be here for the reception.

Join Us!
1055 North High Street & 3rd Avenue
6-8 pm.












Artist News:

Christopher X. Herren Bost has sent a new group of paintings from his new home in Joshua Tree, California. There are images of the desert and a couple abstract panels too. They are installed in the back room at the Short North Gallery.
















Melissa Meyer is in an exhibition at Schroeder Romero & Shredder, which is reviewed by Roberta Smith in today's New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/arts/design/21galleries-PAVERS_RVW.html

Almond Zigmund: Opening Friday, Jan 21, 6-8

Almond Zigmund

On view in the Rebecca Ibel Gallery in the Short North

1055 North High Street, Columbus OH 43201

Exhibition open January 21 – March 5

Opening Reception: Friday, January 21, 6-8 pm

The Rebecca Ibel Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent sculpture and works on paper by Almond Zigmund. The exhibition will begin with an opening reception on January 21, 2011 and remains open through February 26, 2011.

Zigmund draws on conceptualist and minimalist masters (such as Sol LeWitt) while infusing her work with an unmistakably contemporary and unique aesthetic.

Her sculpture and works on paper are sharp and precisely constructed. Bold color schemes, geometric shapes, and complex but cleanly-delineated patterns predominate. Zigmund often plays on and revitalizes architectural themes and intricate commercial patterns. Through her work, she explores the way we experience the space of our everyday environment, while challenging us to question and recalibrate our perceptions of the physical world around us. Zigmund applies her clean technique, fresh aesthetic, and subversive perspective to multi-media site-specific installations, sculpture, and works on paper.

Based in New York, Zigmund continues to gain national attention with numerous exhibitions on both the East Coast and West Coast, in addition to exhibiting internationally. Recent shows include the Parrish Museum of Art, Southampton NY and the University of La Verne, La Verne CA. Zigmund earned a BFA from the Parsons School of Design, before attaining an MFA from The University of Las Vegas, where she studied with Dave Hickey. The Rebecca Ibel gallery has represented Zigmund since 2005.

For further information visit us at rebeccaibel.com or call 614-291-2555. The Rebecca Ibel Gallery features fine contemporary art. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11 am – 5 pm and by appointment.

Artist website: http://www.almondzigmund.com/

Images:

Almond Zigmund

Pink Pile, 2010 Wood, acrylic and glue 66 X 36 X 36 inches

Facade Box III, 2010 Acrylic on wood 28 x 28 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches

Untitled (white), 2010 Acrylic on wood c.35 x 25 x 25 inches

Untitled V, Triple Plane (green) and Untitled VI, Triple Plane (Grey), 2010
each Acrylic and flocking on paper, stretched 20 1/2 x 15 inches

New Year - artist news and exhibition dates

2011 is off and running. Mark your calendars for our forthcoming exhibition opening! Also a couple noteworthy events and artists' news.
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Saturday - Jan 15- 5-7 The Drawing Room, East Hampton -
Robert Harms: paintings and watercolors
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Thursday - Jan 20 -4:30 Wexner Center for the Arts - Artist Talk with Joel Morrison
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Friday - Jan 21 - 6-8 pm Short North Gallery - Opening Reception
Almond Zigmund: New Sculpture and works on paper
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Rory Krupp: Fluffing Realty @ Dublin Arts Council
open through February 25 - for further info click here

Krupp exhibition review in the Columbus Dispatch by Melissa Starker
click here
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Rob Wynne @ Dior NYC

Artnet Magazine
Artnet Design by Brook S. Mason

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/frontpage.asp

Rob Wynne's work with architect Peter Marino for Christian Dior is featured in a new Artnet magazine article.

excerpt:
"Marino turned to the New York artist Rob Wynne, fast becoming a design-world star for his fluid mirror-glass installations, who provided works such as the dripping pink "Radiant" glass letters affixed to a mirror. The store features a total of four Wynne installations."

Jonathan Hammer in France
Exhibition of Button Ass
at the Ecole d'Art de Beauvais:

News and Reviews December 2010

Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year!

The gallery will be open by appointment only through January 8. Please call 614-291-2555 or email gallery@rebeccaibel.com to schedule a visit. Thank you.



Ori Gersht - current exhibition in the Short North Gallery on view through January 8.

We are thrilled to announce that the Columbus Museum of Art has acquired a work by Ori Gersht 'Drown' from the series 'Falling Bird'.

Our exhibition is well received with a review in Sunday's Columbus Dispatch.
Review in the Columbus Dispatch - click here









Heimir Björgúlfsson is included in an exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum:

"New Acquisitions 2006 – 2010"
Reykjavik Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland

November 20, 2010 - January 23, 2011










We are also excited to announce that the Columbus Museum of Art has also acquired works by Laura Sanders and Michael Reafsnyder.

Laura Sanders
Girls and Plastic Floating
2010 Oil on canvas
41 x 65 inches






Michael Reafsnyder
Yummy
2007 Acrylic on linen
30 x 30 inches

Ori Gersht - Infinitely Divisible

Gallery Associate John Campbell-Orde contributes some insight into the broad issues in our current show. Here are his reflections on the works by Ori Gersht:

Ori Gersht's work has been described as capturing the 'optical unconsciousness,' or the infinite changes that exist in between what the brain and naked eye register with human consciousness. Gersht employs cutting-edge photographic technology to accomplish the eternal desire to suspend time. Rendering time plastic, Gersht creates ethereal works, pregnant with narrative. The photographs in the current exhibition come from his Falling Bird series and Pomegranate series, and play on the classical still life painting. As with other photographs from these series and his photographs from earlier series, those in the upcoming exhibition elicit dialogue between the temporal and the physical, with time the invisible hand imbuing the physical with import. Gersht’s photographs both compresses and expand time. In contrast to still life paintings, his scenes are captured quickly through photography. Time is thereby compressed when compared to the classical still life painting, which seems to depict one moment even though significant time would have elapsed during the painting process and changes to the scene would therefore have occurred. Gersht also expands time by dissecting it. Each photograph represents an exact moment in time. As his photographs implicitly recognize, though, time is subject to infinite dissection. While his photographic process reveals fleeting realities that otherwise would elude human consciousness, since time can never be broken down completely it will always to obscure as well as reveal. Like Russian dolls, within every moment lies another.

Lush and painterly in feel, the photographs in the upcoming exhibition depict objects typical from still life paintings, such as fruit, sliced open to reveal latent life, or recently hunted game patiently awaiting its dressing. As the classical still life painters suspended time and refocused our eyes through the meditative stillness in their scenes, Gersht uses photographic technology to dissect time by the millisecond. Time is both implicit subject matter and the brush Gersht uses. Each temporal fragment and accompanying physical permutation is captured through high speed photography. In one large photograph in the upcoming exhibition a duck hangs suspended by twine above water, a brightly colored orange resting nearby. Subsequent photographs in the Falling Bird series show the duck descending and slowly being enveloped by the water, with jewel-like droplets suspended in the air around its neck. In another photograph in the upcoming exhibition we see pooled water with carefully arranged grapes resting on an adjacent ledge. Closer inspection reveals that the wall behind has been splashed with the water, an implicit event that the photograph does not reveal. In the photograph from the Pomegranate series, which is based on a 17th Century still life and Degerton's famous photograph of a bullet that has just burst through an apple and emerged on the other side. In the pomegranate photograph from the upcoming exhibition, a pomegranate suspended by string has just been exploded by a bullet. Nearby are vegetables and sliced-open fruit peacefully resting. Other photographs from the Pomengranate series show the pomengrante further expanding and tearing open from the violent shock.