Exhibitions

Jose Lima and William Spring from News Travels Fast sat down with Mira Lehr to discuss her new exhibition,  Planetary Visions.

Structure is the underlying component in all of James Little’s works. Each element in his paintings, whether it’s a line, a tone or an angle, has a role to play. Through their interaction with other elements, each competing for the viewer’s attention, they create a conversation that gives each painting its spirit. While none of Little’s works have narratives, the titles of his paintings do have meanings. 

“I don’t use meaningless titles, but the work reflects the titles,” Little said.

We recently sat down with him to learn more about the meanings behind the titles of his Black Paintings series, on exhibit at Rosenbaum Contemporary from September 8 through October 8.

Federica Matta reflects on the Two Generations exhibition at Rosenbaum Contemporary

During the course of our Two Generations exhibition, we’ve discovered many fascinating parallels between Roberto Matta’s and Federica Matta’s art, some of which were unknown until their work was seen side by side.

An essay by Martica Sawin on the Two Generations exhibition at Rosenbaum Contemporary.

The Dozen exhibition, on view at Rosenbaum Contemporary from October 11 through November 10, features new paintings by artist Thomas Hartmann along with works by 11 artists hand-selected by Hartmann from his master classes at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. The 11 artists have all been designated Meisterschüler by Hartmann—a title of distinction given to students at German art academies by their professors upon graduation in recognition of brillliant performance and the development of their own independent pictorial language. Of the 89 students Hartmann has taught since 2005, only 27 have earned this distinction.

Founded in 1662, the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg is the oldest art academy in German-speaking Central Europe. Hartmann, who has received several awards including the Overbeck Prize for Fine Arts; the Art Prize for Artists of Düsseldorf, Germany; and the Wili Oltmanns Prize for Painting, Delmenhorst; and whose work has been shown throughout Europe and the United States in numerous venues including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, and the National Library in Warsaw, Poland, among others, has been a professor of painting there for the past 13 years.

Here he has gathered his ideas about teaching art.

The Manolo Valdés: Pequeñas Esculturas (Small Sculptures) exhibition displays a curatorial selection of 13 Manolo Valdés sculptures available for acquisition through Rosenbaum Contemporary. 

A dozen portrait and landscape paintings by 90-year-old renowned painter Alex Katz comprise the new exhibition, Alex Katz: People and Places, at the Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery in Boca Raton, Florida.

St. Regis Bal Harbour, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rosenbaum Contemporary are presenting Breaking Through—Miami, featuring artists Omar Hassan and Helidon Xhixha, on Thursday, December 3, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the BH Burger Bar at the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort in support of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (DRI). During the event, Omar Hassan will create a new painting in his Breaking Through series which will be auctioned off to benefit the DRI immediately upon its completion.

Join us on one of these two special nights to meet artist Mira Lehr and celebrate her illustrious career. Lehr studied painting with renowned artist Robert Motherwell and was at the forefront of abstract expressionism as a young female artist in the 1950s and ’60s. In 1969, she was selected to participate with Buckminster Fuller on the first World Games Scenario Project at the New York Studio School. Lehr’s art has been exhibited by numerous U.S. museums including the New Museum in New York; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; and the Getty Museum Research Center in Los Angeles as well as American embassies around the world.

Dirk De Bruycker’s paintings are on view through January 10 in our Boca Raton gallery. Educated in printmaking through the printmaking department at the University of New Mexico Albuquerque and the prestigious Tamarind Institute, De Bruycker has developed a unique process of painting using asphalt, cobalt drier, gesso and oil on cotton duck canvas. He is a part recipient of a Visual Arts Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Visual Artists Work Grant from the Flemish Executive Department of Museum and Visual Arts. His work can be found in numerous public and private collections in Belgium and the United States including the Ministry of Visual Arts in Brussels, Belgium; the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Bellagio Collection in Las Vegas, Nevada; and the Hallmark Collection in Kansas City, Missouri.

As we sat down with Oriano Galloni to work on the catalogue for his exhibition, we learned some interesting details and ideas behind several of his works.