John Davis Gallery

On Thursday, June 27th the gallery will have five solo shows (sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, prints and mixed media/installation). The work will be on display through July 19th with a reception for the artists on Saturday, June 27th from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m.

Main Galleries Nicolas Carone The Fictitious Image

"I don't think Abstract was a concluded idea. I think it was in flux; it was becoming something. And it went two ways: to the very abstract or even minimal; and on the other hand, to a configuration of forms that identify with nature or to unconscious elements. There's something of life's experience that can give more to a picture."

Nicolas Carone

Nicolas Carone, Italy, 2000 Photo: Lilliana Malta

The gallery is proud to be exhibiting work from the Estate of Nicolas Carone. The exhibition will consist of painting, drawing and sculpture representing heads and the figure.

Nicolas was born in 1917 in and was an active artist with the of Abstract Expressionists. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the and the Mobile Museum of Art.

He died in 2010 at the age of 93.

Sculpture Garden Isidro Blasco Tilted Garden:

"My work recreates the architectural space of the whole or a particular section of the build space according to a subjective perception of this environment.

This non-permanent house-like constructions are made of wood, plywood, metal and sometimes are painted.

Beginning with a room, or part of it, I choose a point within the space to stand and rebuild the room with the perspective deformations that you have only from that point. From there, another room appears, and while it may resemble the original (same number of

deformed. Windows are misshapen, walls are skewed, and there may be very few, if any, vertical or horizontal lines. The replicated room feels simultaneously familiar and strange, as it claims an entirely new space.

This installation is based in several images that I have taken from the different homes I live in New York since I arrived from Spain in 1996."

Isidro Blasco, 2015

Carriage House, Ground & 2nd Floor Kiki Smith Each Day

continues to be a source of discovery for her. Smith has been working primarily in print for the past year and has chosen to exhibit prints in Each Day at John Davis Gallery.

The works are made in a variety of different techniques, primarily etching, inspired by Magical Secrets about Aquatint and from making demo plates to teach printmaking at New York University and . Also represented are color polymer, digital and relief printing techniques.

Smith has been privileged to work in some of the great printmaking studios across the . This exhibition includes prints published by Harlan & Weaver, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University, Ribouli Digital, Savannah College of Art and Design, Universal Limited Art Editions, University of North Texas, and her own homemade efforts published under Thirteen Moons. Most of the images were inspired by the various living beings found in Catskill, New York.

Carriage House, Third Floor Rachel Ostrow Nothing but Love Songs

paintings use movement and light to explore space and form. They skirt the line between abstraction and representation. They are ambiguous, yet feel recognizable, familiar or iconic. By hinting at the identifiable yet remaining elusive, they use abstraction to be suggestive and to engage the viewer's imagination.

I paint with a squeegee and the images are created through removing layers of paint to expose what is beneath. The final form is often revealed through one single gesture. This process is physical, improvisational and playful. I erase entire paintings frequently and chance plays a large part in each piece. Pushing around layers of transparent colors, I collaborate with the natural properties of the paint to create spaces, forms and moments of light that could have never been planned."

Rachel Ostrow, 2015

Carriage House, Nicolas Carone at John Davis Gallery with Isidro Blasco, Kiki Smith, Rachel Ostrow and Valerie Hammond, June 27 - July 19th, 2015Fourth Floor Valerie Hammond Lure

Hammond has long been fascinated by the folklore and oral tradition of other cultures, especially by those fables which blur distinctions between fantasy and reality. In all of her work, there is play between the material and the immaterial, the physical and the spiritual: the dichotomy between what is seen and the sensation it provokes. One story, told to Hammond during one of her recent stays in Ireland, especially resonated: upon the body of a hare so that it might attend to unfinished business or visit loved ones. (Because of this, hares are protected creatures, and the Irish are not allowed to de were often punctuated by sightings of these hares. Silent and unmoving, they fearlessly returned her gaze, penetrating the hushed gulf between human and animal, as if accessing a timeless, primordial realm. er hares, uncannily corporeal, seem witness to the brief manifestation of passing memory. For Hammond, the work becomes talismanic, her imagery like visual memory.

Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday, 11:00 till 5:00 p.m. For further information about the gallery, the artists and upcoming exhibitions, visit

www.johndavisgallery.com

or contact John Davis directly at 518.828.5907 or via e-mail: [email protected].

High resolution images are available upon request.