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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We are welcoming 2021 with a new group exhibition, LOOK FORWARD, LOOK BACK, featuring works by David Kimball Anderson, Marit Geraldine Bostad, Antonio Carreno, Austin Eddy, Adam Handler, Oded Halahmy, Eugene Healy, Catherine Howe, Wosene Worke Kosrof, Hunt Slonem, and Rebecca Stern. The exhibition will run from January 15 - March 13, 2021.
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Adam Handler, Meadow Green Girl, 2021Sold
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Adam Handler, Couple During 2020, 2021Sold
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Adam Handler, Miss You Pajama Girl On Mystery Nights, 2021Sold
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It is fair to say that 2020 will go down in history. We were forced out of our comfort zones and adapted quickly to unprecedented circumstances. We struggled, lost, and found a way through. This is why we are kicking off 2021 with a new group exhibition, LOOK FORWARD, LOOK BACK. We are on the precipice of a year of promising milestones.
At the same time, MJFA is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. Naturally, we have begun to look back at our history and the artists and friends who have traveled with us through the past decades. We have much to be grateful for. And as we continue to reflect, we embrace the future, and welcome the artists who have more recently broken in to the art world.
We are excited to showcase a vibrant collection of work that both reflects our own journey, as well as those we support, and promotes an upbeat outlook on the new year. Artists Hunt Slonem, Adam Handler, Marit Geraldine Bostad, Antonio Carreno and Wosene Kosrof are particularly concerned with the power and vibrancy of color to create works brimming with energy. Austin Eddy and Eugene Healy's structured paintings reference nature and love for the environment while Catherine Howe's silk monotypes and Rebecca Stern's cerebral abstractions are grounded in abstract beauty. This is just the beginning, and we are hopeful that 2021 will prove to be a year of empowerment. A bright future is ahead of us, and we look forward to sharing it with all of you.
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Catherine Howe, Silk Monotype 1, 2020$ 6,000.00
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Catherine Howe, Silk Monotype 3, 2020$ 5,000.00
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Catherine Howe, Silk Monotype 2, 2020$ 6,000.00
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Hunt Slonem
Ultradiamond, 2020NY artist, Hunt Slonem is widely admired for his charming "Rabbit paintings", a subject which has a wonderful history. In the early 1980s, the idea for this critically acclaimed series came to him after he discovered that the year of his birth, 1951, was the year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac calendar.
The diamond dust incorporated into the background of this ultramarine 'bunnies' painting gives the work a vibrant and bold dimensionality, causing it to shimmer in the light as you pass by.
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Hunt Slonem
Chinensis Vision, 2020This novel 'bunnies' painting is influenced by the hustle and bustle, 24 hour a day, irradiant lights of New York City's Chinatown, where the artist has resided for decades. Inspired by the street lamps, window lighting and paper lanterns of the eclectic shops throughout the area, the black outlined bunnies sit atop a background with wide swaths of colors in purple, yellow, blue, green, blue, red and grey.
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Eugene Healy , The Front #2, 2020$ 3,000.00
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Eugene Healy, Cape Cod Canal, 2020$ 6,000.00
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Eugene Healy, The Front #1, 2020$ 2,800.00
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Oded Halahmy
WALK, 1977Oded Halahmy was born in the city of Baghdad in 1938. The artist came from a family of Orthodox Jews with deep roots in ancient Babylonian culture. Although New York has been his home for over 45 years, memories of Iraq left an indelible imprint on his life and work. Known for his dynamic yet often playful figurative sculptures in wood and bronze, he fills his work with images — albeit abstracted from reality — that evoke the landscape, architecture and rich colors of the Middle East.
"My goal is always to creat balance, harmony, and peace. The shapes and forms of my work relate to my feelings and experiences in my daily life; it is a record of my progress."
-Oded Halahmy
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Wosene Worke Kosrof, Sketch for a Hat V, 2020Sold
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Wosene Worke Kosrof, The Heart of Dance, 2020$ 10,000.00
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Wosene's canvases are multilayered with paint and imagery, but he is best known for his ingenious use of the Amharic script, and is the first Ethiopian-born contemporary artist to incorporate these symbols as a root element in fine art paintings. The artist elongates, distorts and assembles letters into forms of universal appeal beyond their linguistic meaning. There is rich dialoguing between the simplified letter forms and symbols that are intensely worked creating color-drenched textured surfaces of visual power.
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Marit Geraldine Bostad
Nordic Signals, 2019This painting was shortlisted for the Prestigious Ashhurst Emerging Artist Prize for 2020, and was exhibited in London at the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery from September - December 2020. Departing from her usual palette of warm, nordic colors, Bostad's painting features an explosion of vivid colors. Utilizing thick acrylic paint, the active surface of the canvas incorporates bold colors in red, yellow, blue, pink, and black on a bright white background.
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Rebecca Stern, Useless Worries I, 2020$ 2,000.00
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Antonio Carreno, Flare, 2017$ 7,500.00
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Austin Eddy
Time Stretching Out On Waves Of Patience, 2019Brooklyn-based painter Austin Eddy creates autobiographical paintings that straddle the line between figuration and abstraction. His canvases are covered in mixtures of oil pastel, cardboard, spray-paint, and paper, creating contrasting textures throughout his work. His compositions are often made up of flattened and fractured forms harkening back to 20th century Modernism.
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David Kimball Anderson, Morning Glory, 2020$ 950.00
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David Kimball Anderson, Persimmon, 2020$ 1,000.00
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David Kimball Anderson, Seeds, 2020$ 1,800.00
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Installation Images
LOOK FORWARD, LOOK BACK: KICKING OFF 2021 AND CELEBRATING MJFA'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY
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