Artists' Reviews

Check out these wonderful reviews:

Heimir Bjorgulfsson @ CTRL Gallery in Houston:
Praising his 'kind of eccentric interplay between natural and man-made worlds'.
Descirbed as ' As formally lovely as it is endearingly strange, Björgúlfsson's highly original work inspires a multitude of narratives.'
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2011/03/heimir_bjorgulfsson.php#
http://www.29-95.com/art/story/sarah-williams-heimir-bj%C3%B6rg%C3%BAlfsson-jim-nolan-must-see-exhibits
http://temporaryartreview.com/exhreview/main-street-galleries/


Dan McCleary
LA Times review of show @ Craig Krull

"Panel Discussion," a monumental new painting by Dan McCleary that is the centerpiece of his show at Craig Krull Gallery, takes its title two ways. The silent reverberation between them dazzles.
McCleary's detailed powers of observation are impressive but not flashy. A general simplification of form keeps the scene from distracting fussiness, so that a clarity of vision prevails.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/03/art-review-dan-mccleary-craig-krull-gallery.html

Michael Reafsnyder
Art News review of show @ Ameringer McEnry Yohe

Reafsnyder's paintings and ceramics are praised for the 'lovely disorder of color' and 'sense of perpetual motion', as well as, his excess and feel good approach to abstraction. 'Arguably Gerhard Richter's spirit was being channeled - and challenged - as was Jackson Pollock's.'

Kurt Lightner - Opening Friday

Kurt Lightner

Paintings and Sculpture

Opening Reception: Friday, March 11, 6-8 pm

The Rebecca Ibel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Kurt Lightner. In these new works, Lightner concentrates his energetic compositional style and beautifully complex palate in smaller format paintings. Drawing on the natural surroundings experienced during his youth in Ohio, his new paintings explore, in an increasingly abstract vocabulary, the destructive force that nature has on man-made structures. In these small, vital paintings, dense brushstrokes intersect disjointedly, both creating structure and destroying it. Opaque brushstrokes bespeaking movement and destabilization are interspersed with luminous color. Lightner combines the disparate and sometimes oppositional in beautifully dynamic tension.

The sculptures have words, sentences carved directly on the branches. The origin of the branch is from a tree taken from the artist’s family property in Troy Ohio and the passages from his great-grandfather’s diary. The diary describes the mundane routine of a mid-west farmer, the seasons and life in a small community. These works are related to a larger, ongoing project involving a complete year’s diary carved onto the whole tree.

Originally from Ohio, Lightner received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design in 1993 and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2004. He has garnered considerable national attention in recent years, exhibiting in exhibitions in New York and across the country, including a solo show at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the Rebecca Ibel Gallery.

For further information visit us at rebeccaibel.com or call 614-291-2555. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11 am – 5 pm and by appointment.

Stephen Mueller - Art News review March 2011

New Paintings by Melissa Meyer

Melissa Meyer is now settled into her new studio on 39th Street and has been very productive! Here is a preview of a couple new pieces. Also look out for her work at the Armory Fair with Lennon Weinberg.






















Melissa Meyer 2011 Oil on canvas 20 x 18"




















Melissa Meyer RK Bridal 2011 Oil on canvas 18 x 20"

James Brown in the Paris Review

Check out James Brown's work in the Paris Review
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/02/18/hommage-a-frederick-seidel/

The Paris Review

Arts & Culture

Auguri, Frederick Seidel!

February 18, 2011 | by The Paris Review

James Brown, Planet (Pink and Grey) VI, 2006, oil and pencil on linen.

Frederick Seidel has received some unusual tributes in recent years. Writing in n+1, Philip Connors credited Seidel’s poetry with giving him the courage to quit his job. Wyatt Mason made a passionate case for Seidel’s Poems 1959–2009 in The New York Times Magazine—not a publication known for its attention to verse. There's been a poem dedicated to Seidel in The New Yorker. The London Review of Books has likened him to a YouTube person in a bunny suit, while fellow Paris Review staffer Dan Chiasson compared Seidel’s effusions to a garden hose. In a nice way.

Now the artist James Brown has published a collection of works on paper, canvas, cardboard, and linen inspired by Seidel’s poem “Into the Emptiness.” The volume has come to our attention just in time to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday, tomorrow, of our most youthful editor.

New Paintings by Stephen Mueller

New in the studio of Stephen Mueller, too good not to share. Enjoy!















Kami 2011 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 57.5 inches























Olga 2010 Acrylic on canvas 28 x 28 inches

Exhibition Schedule and Gallery News, Spring 2011 After 7 years of maintaining two gallery spaces, the Rebecca Ibel Gallery announces the closing of our downtown Columbus gallery at 2 Miranova Place. The gallery continues to present a program of exhibitions at 1055 North High Street in the Short North, Columbus' Arts District. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday 11-5 and by appointment. For further information please contact the gallery at 614-291-2555. For exhibition preview and artist news visit our gallery BLOG! http://www.rebeccaibelgallery.blogspot.com/ www.rebeccaibel.com Spring 2011 Exhibition Schedule Short North Gallery: 1055 North High Street, Columbus OH 43201 ~ 614-291-2555 Almond Zigmund Pink Pile, 2010 Acrylic on wood 66 X 36 X 36 inches Kurt Lightner Untitled, 2010 Acrylic on panel 14 x 18 inches Sarah Fairchild Garden Beets, 2011 Acrylic and flocking on paper 34 x 52 inches through March 5, 2011 Almond Zigmund: Sculpture and Works on Paper For further information contact the gallery at 614-291-2555 visit our gallery website www.rebeccaibel.com or visit the artist's website: www.almondzigmund.com March 11 - April 30, 2011 Kurt Lightner: Paintings and Sculpture For further information contact the gallery at 614-291-2555 visit our gallery website www.rebeccaibel.com or visit the artist's website: http://kurtlightner.net/ May 3 - June 4, 2011 Sarah Fairchild Gallery Hours: The Short North Gallery is open Tuesday - Saturday, 11-5 and by appointment. Rebecca Ibel Gallery •1055 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43201 • 614.291.2555 • rebeccaibel.com