Salvatore Alessi

Read an interview with Salvatore Alessi from Ar[T]Moire

Curriculum Vitae

Awards and Exhibitions

2009 Finalist for Premio Arte Award
2010/2011 Finalist for Lissone Award
2011 International Exhibition “Il Mito Del Vero” at Palace Durini; Milan, Italy
2011 Italian National Exhibition “Venti Anni”; Rome, Italy
2012/2013 Exhibited for Gallery Il Polittico
2013 St Francis exhibition dedication “St. Francis and the Places of his Journey” at gallery Le Logge; Assisi, Italy
2013 Solo Exhibition Museo Diocesano in Piazza Amerina
2014 Participant in “Dark Green- Bright Green” environmentally themed exhibit at Palazzo Incontro, Rome and Studio Gallery of MOCA, Rome
2014 Exhibition “Dal Salso all’Aretusa: Fertiita Visive beginning at Palazzo Moncada, Caltanissetta
2014 Solo show- Exhibition Space of Francesco Siracusa in Argrigento, Sicily
2014 Galleria Forni exhibited Alessi’s work at the Contemporary Art Exhibition in Strausbourg, France
2015 Group Exhibition “1462 Contemporary Art Gallery” in Izmir, Turkey
2015 “Resistance and the Contemporary” exhibition of contemporary art prepared by Project ARS Art Resistance Shoah
2015 Participant in “Artist 2015” international exhibition collaboration with Neo Art Gallery; Istanbul

Traveling Exhibition

Exhibition participant in figurative art “1946-2016 100 Years of Boxing” show beginning in Italian Boxing Federation at Palagio di Parte Guelfa, Florence and continuing throughout Italy and ending in Rio De Janeiro in 2016

Artist Statement

“My painting is a fusion of various pictorial worlds into one. Duality cohabits harmony. My principal interest is to picture a hybrid reality, media influenced and discommunicated, a visual short circuit creating a parallel world where two or more worlds may coexist exchanging energetically in a continuous dialogue.”

Jhina Alvarado

BIOGRAPHY

Jhina (pronounced He-nah) Alvarado is a self-taught, figurative artist who started painting in her late twenties. Having been afraid to paint a portrait or a human figure, she painted mostly abstracted art with elements of realism within each work. In 2009, feeling frustrated artistically, she decided to challenge herself and painted her first portrait and now exclusively paints figuratively. As a woman of color, who is half Mexican and half Korean, she struggled with finding art that represented women who looked like her. To fix this, her recent work focuses on people, mostly women, of color who she sees in her community.

Jhina has had multiple gallery representation across the US and has been featured in many print and online magazines, blogs and art books. Her work is in prominent private and corporate collections and has been commissioned by the royal family of Monaco. She currently teaches AP Calculus at the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts while also painting in her home studio in San Francisco.  She is raising twins with her husband and while she is exhausted from juggling two careers and chasing after two spirited children, she wouldn’t change her life for the world.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In my series, titled “Garden of Eden”, I paint the “everyday” woman, focusing on women of color. These women have a beauty that goes deeper than what is on the surface. There is an inner strength I want to show, a fierceness that makes these images powerful to the viewer. These women that I see every day in my community, reflect what the real world looks like, not the white-washed, superficial beauty that can flood television, movies, media and art. These women are real. They are mothers, daughters, sisters. They are teachers, lawyers, students, home-makers, and more. I want to celebrate these women and show that every woman deserves to be portrayed in art.

In the Garden of Eden, Eve was surrounded by the beauty of the garden before being cast out due to a moment of weakness, a single choice that changed everything. Much like this garden, my paintings are filled with lush flowers and foliage. They surround each figure and envelope them. They show that although there is beauty in the world, there is still danger and evil that is lurking. Some of these paintings are more symbolic with an element of danger, like the snake in the Garden of Eden. In other paintings, the danger, much like the real world, is unseen and can be dependent on a single choice, a single outcome which can change everything.

I started this series because as a mother of twins, one being a girl, I wanted to show them that not everyone has to have “super model” good looks in order to be depicted in art. Beauty is not just skin-deep and superficial. Beauty is an inner power and strength, which I try and foster within them. I want my twins to see art with people that look like them and the people in their community and school.

Mihaela Atomei

BIOGRAPHY

Mihaela Ioana Atomei was born in Romania in 1971.  She graduated from the George Enescu,, University of Arts in Iasi, majoring in Graphic Design.

She started her painting career after graduation, and in 2001 she defined her painting style that resembles the style of the old masters.  In 2004 Mihaela became a member of Union of Professional Artist in Romania.

Mihaela is married and has a 13-year-old daughter.  She travels extensively throughout Europe and where she enjoys visiting museums and galleries.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“I wish to find peace and serenity through the depiction of my characters, and to remind a world obsessed with material things of the warmth and richness of family life.  In a way, I am expressing my refusal to accept things as they are, despite being aware of my inability to stop the madness around me. Perhaps I will succeed in enticing the spectator just for a moment into being part of my world.”

 

Juan F. Béjar

ARTIST STATEMENT

It’s very hard for an artist to explain his work, because in current day painting, particularly mine, I like to give only certain keys when I’m creating it. Later, the audience will have the last word. The painting is a stage behind a door which invites whoever is looking at it to step inside.

Once inside, one can contemplate the past, the present and, sometimes (many times) even the future.“To invent lies to create the truth”, Picasso said. My work is described by experts as “Bejariano style”, and I describe it as “poisoned sweets”So, I’ll just say something written about my work. It will explain it much better than I can.”

“Enigmatic presence” might be a good title for Juan Béjar’s work, said an expert.

“Later, we can give it a different name, but the enigma will always be there, defiant, permanently interrogating the curious people who ingenuously aim to stare into his admired object, but the cheeky and rather malevolent smile seems to assure us that the mystery no longer lies with the artist, but with the painted object itself.”

Another expert said:

“Although you might only glance at Juan Béjar’s paintings, they trap you, submerge you into a perfect and quiet world, but they disturb you and move you. They are full of lies and truths, of feelings which are blatantly hidden.”

The content makes each painting a unique and personal story. With a very elaborate technique with oil, playing with transparencies and colours carefully combined to express feelings and ironic situations. With precise and modulated drawing, he creates beautiful heads, arrogant bodies and strange animals to transport us into the subtle beauty of the deformed.

 

CV

Selected Exhibitions

2019                 We Believe, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

Spring Ahead, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

Artful Companions, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

2018                 PAN  Amsterdam. Contempo Galerie

Colectiva Pequeño Formato en Galería Fermín Echauri 2. Pamplona

Colectiva  “Arquitectura” en Galería Benedito. Málaga

2017                 Individual en la Galería Fermín Echauri 2. Pamplona

PAN Amsterdam. Contempo Galerie

2016                 Individual en la Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País, Málaga, patrocinada por el                                      Consejo Social de la Universidad de Málaga

                          Realisme, Ámsterdam

2015                 Realisme, Ámsterdam

Individual Galería Fermín Echauri 2. Pamplona

PAN Ámsterdam. Contempo Galerie

2014                 Realisme. Ámsterdam

2014                 Colectiva Galería Alfama. Madrid

PAN Ámsterdam. Contempo Galerie

2013                 Realisme. Ámsterdam

Pequeño Formato. Galería Alfama. Madrid

PAN Ámsterdam. Contempo Galerie

2012                 REALISME Ámsterdam. Contempo Galerie          

Pequeño Formato. Galería Alfama. Madrid

PAN Ámsterdam. Contempo Galerie

2011                    Pequeño formato en Galería Alfama- Madrid

Art Format Berlin- Thomas Punzmann fine arts

Individual en Contempo Galerie- Rotterdam.

PAN Ámsterdam- Contempo Galerie

2010                 REALISME, Amsterdam, Stand de la Galeria de Arte Contempo de Rotterdam

Exposición colectiva en la GALERÍA ÉBOLI, Madrid

ART FAIR Den Bosch, Stand de la Galeria de Arte Contempo de Rotterdam

HOT ART BASEL, Stand de Punzmann Gallery de Marbella, Málaga

Pequeño formato en la GALERÍA ALFAMA, Madrid

“El Sueño” GALERÍA BENEDICTO, MÁLAGA, Septiembre

Pequeño formato en la GALERÍA FERMÍN ECHAURI, Pamplona

Berliner Liste.Con la Galería Thomas Punzmann

                          PAN Amsterdam. Contempo Galerie

2009                 Individual en SARA NIGHTINGALE GALLERY, Shelter Island, New york

REALISME, Amsterdam, Stand de la Galeria de Arte Contempo de Rotterdam

ART FAIR Den Bosch, Stand de la Galeria de Arte Contempo de Rotterdam

GALERÍA ALFAMA, Madrid, “PEQUEÑO FORMATO”

GALERÍA FERMÍN ECHAURI, Pamplona, colectiva

GALERÍA ALFAMA, Madrid, “XXV Aniversario”

BERLINER LISTE 09, Berlín, Stand de Thomas Punzmann Gallery

PAN Amsterdan – Stand de Contempo Galerie de Rotterdam

2008                 Individual en Thomas Punzmann Gallery, Marbella (Málaga)

PAN AMSTERDAM , Holanda, Stand de la Galeria de Arte Contempo de

Rotterdam

Colectiva en  Galería Alfama, Madrid, “PEQUEÑO FORMATO”

BERLINER LISTE 08, Berlín, Stand de Thomas Punzmann Gallery

Medalla ATENEO 2008 (Pintura), Málaga

2007                 Participa en la Feria de Arte REALISME con la Galeria de Arte Contempo de

Rotterdam

Individual en la Galería de Arte Fermín Echauri de Pamplona

2006                 Participa en la Feria de Arte PAN con la galería de Arte Contempo de

                          Rotterdam          

                          “PEQUEÑO FORMATO” en la Galería de Arte Alfama, de Madrid

                          Exposición “Artes Plasticas del siglo XX” en el Museo de Málaga

2005                 Colectiva “Sueño y Realidad” en la Galería Alfama. Madrid

                          Colectiva “Pequeño Formato” en la Galería Alfama. Madrid

                          “Raices” individual en la Galería Alfama, Madrid

2004                 Feria de ARTE SEVILLA con la Galería Alfama

Feria ARCO ’04 con la Diputacion Provincial de Malaga

Individual en la Galería Fermín Echauri. Pamplona

Colectiva “Pequeño Formato” en al Galería Alfama. Madrid

2003                 Feria DE ARTE (MADRID) con la Galería Alfama

                          Feria ARTE SEVILLA, con la Galería Alfama

                          Exposición individual en la Galería Espacio de San Salvador (El Salvador)

                          El cuadro “Juegos de Noche” pasa a formar parte de la Colección del Museo de  

                          Arte Moderno de San Salvador (El Salvador

Colectiva Modern – Masters, Punzmann Gallery, San Pedro de Alcantara

2001                 Exposición Colectiva en Miami (EE:UU:) con la Galería Espacio

                             Exposición individual en el Museo Cruz Herrera (La Línea de la Concepción)

                            Exposición individual en la Galería Alfama (Madrid)

2000                 Individual en Galería Fermín Echauri. Pamplona

XI Muestra de Pintura Escultura Latinoamericana en la Galería Espacio de

San Salvador. (El Salvador)

1999                 Exposición individual en la Galería Alfama. Madrid

ARTE SANTANDER, con galería Alfama

Retrospectiva en las Casas del Águila y la Parra, Santillana del Mar, patrocinada

por el Gobierno de Cantabria

Colectiva “XV aniversario de Galería Alfama” (Madrid

1998                 Pintores Malagueños en la Ciudad de Dresde

Exposición Colectiva. Alemania

Colectiva en Galería Alfama. Madrid

Colectiva “Pequeño Formato” en Galería Fermín Echauri. Pamplona

La Fundación Picasso (Málaga) adquiere la obra “El Principito” (1998)

“La otra realidad”. Exposición colectiva. Caixa Ourense

Participa en “Arte Santander” con la Galería Alfama de Madrid

“XI Salón de Otoño” de la Asociación de la Prensa de Málaga. Sala de

la Caja Rural

1997                           Colectiva en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Málaga. Pintores Malagueños de Hoy

1996                           Exposición colectiva conmemorativa de los 25 años de la Sala de Exposiciones

de la Diputación de Málaga

Colectiva Pintores Malagueños Contemporáneos” en la Iglesia del Convento

de la Encarnación de Coín

1995                           Individual en Galería Durero. Gijón

Individual en Galería Fermín Echauri, Pamplona

1993                           Individual en Galería Fermín Echauri, Pamplona

1992                           Europ’Art Ginebra (Galería Afinsa-Lagasca)

Individual en Afinsa-Lagasca. Madrid

1991                           Colectiva Veinte Pintores de Málaga. (Gobierno Civil. Málaga)

Exposición de la Asociación de la Prensa en Galería Benedito. Malaga

Realiza por encargo del Ayuntamiento el cartel de la Feria de Málaga

Colectiva en Galería Durero. Gijón

1990                          Colectiva en Ateneo de Málaga

1989                          Individual en Galería FerminEchauri. Pamplona

1987                          Exposición Colectiva en Galería Durero. Gijón

La Junta de Andalucía adquiere su obra “Retrato Onírico de Fred Astaire”

1986                         Individual en Galería Fermín Echauri. Pamplona

1985                         Arco 85. Stand del Colectivo Palmo. Madrid

1984                        Individual Galería Malacke. Málaga

1983                         Sala de Exposiciones Municipal Marbella. Colectiva de  Palmo

1982                        Museo de los Tilos. Granada

Castillo de Bil-Bil. Nueve Pintores Malagueños. Benalmádena

1981                         Colectiva en Galería Manuela. Málaga

Colectiva en Galería Yunque. Málaga

1980                        Colectiva en Pro de los Derechos Humanos, organizada por Amnistía

Internacional

Colectiva en Parke 15

1979                       Primera Muestra del Colectivo Palmo

Individual en Parke 15. Pamplona

II Exposición de Pintores Andaluces. Universidad de Sevilla. Sevilla

1977                       Colectiva “Contradicciones del Realismo”, Galería Parke 15. Pamplona

Colectiva en la Sala de C.A.A., Málaga

Colectiva en Galería Talía. Estepona

1976                       Individual en Galería Heller, Madrid

Seleccionado para participar en la Exposición de Pintura Española en Moscú

1975                       Exposición Colectiva de Primeras Medallas, Málaga

Colectiva “Del Expresionismo y el Surrealismo” en Galería Lacayí, Málaga

1974                      Individual en la Galería Majestic, Barcelona

1973                      Individual en la Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga

Segundo Premio y Leones de Plata en la Bienal Nacional del Vino en la Pintura

1972                       Individual en la Sociedad Económica Amigos del País. Málaga

1968                      Realiza diversos retratos y murales

Participa en colectivas sobre pintura española contemporánea. Hannover, Germany

1966                     Individual en la Sociedad Económica Amigos del País. Málaga

1965                     I  Salón de Invierno. Obtiene el Premio Nogales

1964                     Exposición Colectiva. Düsseldorf, München, Nüremberg

1963                     Primer Premio de Pintura y Premio de Dibujo en el VI Certamen Regional de Arte

1962                     V Certamen Provincial de Arte. Segundo Premio, Málaga

Jose Antonio Bernad

BIOGRAPHY

Jose Antonio Bernad was born in Albacete, Spain in 1977.  He graduated with a Degree in Fine Arts from UPV (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia).  In 2011 he participated in a workshop by Master Antonio López, and it is after that inspiring experience when he decided to devote his time completely to painting.  His work revolves around the interaction of the human figure with its environment, to express ideas sometimes connected to the subconscious mind.

In 2015 he held his first solo exhibition at the Municipal Museum of Albacete (Spain). His work has been selected in several national and international painting competitions, such as the Biennial of Plastic Arts “Ciudad de Albacete”, or the competition “Figurative 2017” MEAM, European Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona.

CURRICULUM VITAE

2004 – First prize “Young Artists of Castilla La Mancha Competition”. Campollano Polygon Foundation.

2004 – Collective Exhibition: Artists in Solidarity of Albacete. Gallery of Caja Castilla La Mancha.

2005 – Group exhibition: “Mass Media”. Municipal Council of Valencia.

2005 – Group drawing exhibition “Mobile portrait of a day”. Valencia City Council.

2014 – Selected to participate in “Cátedra Ciudad de Albacete” with Antonio López.

2014 – Selected work in XI Biennial of Plastic Arts City of Albacete.

2015 – Solo exhibition. Municipal Museum of Albacete.

2017 – Work acquired in the contest “Figurativas 2017”. MEAM. Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona.

2020 – Solo exhibition at the Municipal Museum of Albacete.

2021 – Group exhibition “50 years of painting in Albacete”. Pablo Alfaro Studio. Year 2021

2023 – Group exhibition “Epicenter” in convent San Francisco de Mula (Murcia).

2024 – Solo exhibition, “A Journey of Artistic Reverie” RJD Gallery, Romeo, Michigan

Alex Bostic

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Biography

Margaret Bowland

Margaret Bowland was born in Burlington, North Carolina, she studied at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill before moving to Brooklyn, NY, where she has lived and worked for over 20 years. She is an adjunct faculty member at the New York Academy of Art.

Bowland’s spellbinding and psychologically charged work brings viewers face to face with contentious culture while affirming the resilience and triumph of the human spirit. A masterful observer of life’s unpredictable nature, her work conveys universal themes through unusually specific insights. Bowland’s work explores the subtle and nuanced edges between strength and vulnerability, certainty and doubt, faith and disbelief. Bowland’s probing and deeply personal images call into question our societal expectations of gender, race, and beauty.

In 2011 Bowland had her first New York solo exhibition, Excerpts from the Great American Songbook, which traveled to the Greenville County Museum of Art, SC. In February 2013, she presented her second solo exhibition, Disturbing the Peace. Bowland’s work has been shown nationwide and internationally in group museum exhibitions and art fairs, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, California and Art Fair 21, Cologne, Germany. Additionally, in 2009 she received major recognition as the People’s Choice Award Winner in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Artist Statement

“It has often been said that every artist has one story that he or she tells over, and over again.  My story is “what does it take to be loved”.

As a young woman from a small Southern town I was taught that the less someone knew about you the better.  If you presented yourself as a blank page to a suitor, that person could project anything upon that page he wished to see.  And you would be loved.  What I could never understand was the worth of such love.  If who I am is not being loved, then what have I won?
This conundrum continues to this day for other young women as they don the clothes, the makeup, the very sentence structure that will allow them to fit within the category of the desirable.

When making works I have often covered my subject in paint to make this point.  I feel that I am doing what the world does to my subjects, tries to obliterate them or turn them into people they are not.  For me, the victory is that my people stare back at you completely whole, completely themselves.  No matter the costume or the makeup you are looking at an individuated and very real, human being.  They have, or are learning to survive through what the world has thrown at them.

I am also keenly interested in the historical continuum of this.  We have always done this.  Cultures who were completely unaware of each others existence used the same white paint to adorn its women, the same fixed attitudes were taught to its men. My paintings fuse the past with the present and slash into the future. I have spent my life learning the painting techniques of the past, in order to call upon the power of its language to speak about today.  Like modern filmmakers I use the drama of the Baroque to evoke in the viewer through light and shadow a mirror of his or her own inner turmoil and hope.

The art of others has saved my life.  When viewing a great films or standing before a great painting one is literally transferred to the skull of the artist.  This is transcendent: it is magic.  And in such a moment you feel in your bones what Caravaggio felt when in the presence of his subjects or what Alejandro Linarite feels when he directs his actors.  This gift of art, this ability to leave your own soul and enter another’s is the gift that saves us.  We are no longer alone.  The pain may persist but the sharing of it is lessened by the camaraderie.”

Money and its power have also transfixed me.  I just did a show in New York called “Power” and it was about the power of money.  Money is the true mute button on life.  Those with money are not asked to honestly confront life.  Money cossets them.  Money can make people respect you, it can make people love you, it can even add to the days you have on this earth by buying you better health care.  But it also distorts your own self-perception, limiting the very depth of our apprehension about what it is to be alive.  We say we are on this earth to know what it means to live;  However it is the rare person who would not prefer to see that reality from behind the rosy glasses bestowed by money.  This is one of the greatest paradoxes of life.”

Yoan Capote

CV

Lives and works in Havana, Cuba

Education and Professional Experience
2001 / 2003 Professor of Visual Art at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana, Cuba
1996 / 2001 Higher Institute of Art (ISA) Havana, Cuba
1991 / 1995 National School of Art (ENA) Havana, Cuba
1988 / 1991 Provincial School of Art, Pinar del Rio, Cuba

Solo Exhibitions
2016 Isla, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
2015 Collective Unconscious, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY,
2014 Emotional Objects, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
2013 Rerum Alter Natura, Long House Reserve, East Hampton, NY, USA
2012 Fonemas y Morfemas II, with Iván Capote, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
Momentum, XI Havana Biennial, El Nukleo + El Bunker Studio, Havana, Cuba
2011 In Tran-sit, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
Fonemas y Morfemas, with Iván Capote, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
2010 Mental States, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, USA
2008 Psicomorfosis, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
2006 Pensamientos Paralelos, Havana Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland.
2004 Animica, George Adams Gallery, NY, USA
Between the Lines, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, NY, USA
Preparations: Studies for Sculpture on Paper, Andre Zarre, Gallery, NY, USA
2003 Drawings and Projects, Brownstone Foundation, Paris, France
2001 El Diseño de lo Híbrido, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
1999 ULM (Huéleme), Galería Carmelo González, Havana, Cuba
1998 Tracc Bakk Track, Galería 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba

Group Exhibitions
2016 Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America, The Museum of Arts Houston, USA
2015 Cuba Ficción y fantasía, Casa Daros, Rio de Janerio, Brazil
Enhanced!, University of South Florida, USA
2014 Nuit Blanche, a free all-night contemporary art event, Toronto, Canada
Beyond the classical: imagining the ideal across time, National Academy Museum, NY, USA
2013 Cuban Forever, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, USA
2012 Entre Trópicos, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
HB, XI Havana Biennial, Pabexpo Exhibition Complex, Havana, Cuba
Caos, Galería Havana, Havana, Cuba
Construir, Deconstruir y Destruir, Carlos Garaicoa Studio, Madrid, Spain
Círculos, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain
2011 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Adjoining Islands: The Cuban Pavilion in Manhattan, SRDR Enterprises, NY, USA
L’Insoutenable l’égèreté de l’être, Yvon Lambert, NY, USA
Cuba Now, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
2010 Stressisimo, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
  Portugal Arte 10, First Portugal Biennial, Lisbon, Portugal
Without Mask, Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, Southafrica
En Otra Dimensión, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
Los Impolíticos, NAP, Naples, Italy
Polaridades Complementarias, New Orleans Art Museum, New Orleans, USA
Panamericano, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
2009 Las Américas Latinas – Las fatigas del querer, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Confluencias II: Inside Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, The National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, USA
X Havana Biennial, La Cabaña Fortress, Havana, Cuba
HB, X Havana Biennial, Pabexpo exhibition Complex, Havana, Cuba
2008 Erótica, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
State of Exchange, Institute of International Visual Art (INIVA), London, UK
Contemporary Cuban Art, New Jersey, USA
Surrounded by Water, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, USA
2007 Killing Time, Exit Art, NY
Inside/Outside, George Adams Gallery, NY
Waiting List: Time and Transition in Contemporary Cuban Art, City Art Museum of Ljubljana (MGML), Tiskovina, Slovenia.
Cero, White Hall of the San Francisco de Asís Convent, Havana, Cuba
2006 Case Studies: Art in a Valise, Katonah Museum of Art, NY, USA
Contemporary Cuban Drawing, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, NY, USA
Pacemaker: Contemporary Cuban Art, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Obsessions, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Group Show, George Adams Gallery, NY, USA
Inner Cities, Galería Luz y Oficio, Havana, Cuba
Doble Blanco, Galería Villa Manuela, Havana, Cuba
In the Nature of Things, George Adams Gallery, NY, USA
2005 Body Language, George Adams Gallery, NY, USA
Wunderkammer I, Galería Nina Menocal, DF., Mexico
2004 Cuba from the Inside Looking Out I, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
New Installations, Artists in Residence: Cuba, Mattrees Factory, Pittsburgh, USA
Benchmark, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY, USA
Just on time, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
The Future is Now, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, NY, USA
Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, USA
Bush-Wack!, George Adams Gallery, NY, USA
2003 VIII Havana Biennial, La Cabaña Fortress, Havana, Cuba
Ciudad Múltiple, International Exhibition in Public Spaces, Panama City, Panama
Sentido Común, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
2002 International Show, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
La Huella Múltiple, CDAV, Havana, CUBA
La Huella Múltiple, Havana Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
100 years of Art in Pinar del Río, Pinar del Río Art Museum (MAPRI), Cuba
ISA Graduated, Havana Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2000 VII Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
  Zoom, Galería Convenio Andrés Bello, Bogotá, Colombia
Con un Pensar Abstraído, DUPP Project, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
1999 A Ras de Tierra, Architects College, Havana, Cuba
Los Desvelos del Cíclope, Espacio Abierto, Havana, Cuba
El Pabellón del Vacío, II Performance Festival, DUPP Project, Havana, Cuba
The Performatical Condition, Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
Con un Pensar Abstraído (Public Intervention), DUPP Project, La Rampa, Havana, Cuba
La Época (Public intervention), Comercial Center La Época, Havana, Cuba
VII Salon of Erotic Art, Galería Mariano Rodríguez, Havana, Cuba
1998 II Salon of Contemporary Art, La Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
Pizza Pizza, Postimposibility, CDAV, Cuba and Fine Arts University, France
Building Cultural Bridges, Cornell, Atlantic and William Patterson Universities, USA
II Sculpture Biennial, Galería Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Havana, Cuba
I Performance Festival Ana Mendieta, Galería UNEAC, Havana, Cuba
1997 Antes de la lluvia, Galería del ISA, VI Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
1996 Se Mandaron pa’ home, CDAV, Havana, Cuba
1995 El Molino Rojo, Casa del Joven Creador, Havana, Cuba
1994 ENA Una Vez, Galería ENA, V Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

Fellowships, Residencies and Awards
2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, NY, USA
2005 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, NY, USA
2004 Invited artist, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, USA
Residency, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA
Grant and fellowship, Cuban Artists Fund, NY, USA
2003 Residency, Brownstone Foundation, Paris, France
2002 Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
Residency, American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, NY, USA
Mention (Curator prize), National Council of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
2000 UNESCO Prize, VII Havana Biennial (with Galería DUPP), Havana, Cuba
Curator Prize, National Council of Visual Arts, (with Galería DUPP), Havana, Cuba
1998 Teodoro Ramos Blanco Fellowship, Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Havana, Cuba
First Prize, II Sculpture Biennial, Galería Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Havana, Cuba

Mary Carroll

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1979 in rural West Virginia, Mary Carroll spent her youth helping her family work their farm and land in an isolated area. She had no television or other modern distractions and was encouraged to entertain herself with objects in nature. Left with the workings of her imagination and observations of the world around her, she translated her understanding into paintings. She continues this practice today, gaining much of her creativity from the natural world. Her figurative realism paintings and drawings offer a narrative that echoes a provocative daydream, communicating both the human disposition and our relationship to the land.

Carroll received her Master of Fine Arts degree in both painting and art history from Radford University, graduating in 2010 Summa Cum Laude, and was awarded the University’s best graduate thesis. Her work is in the permanent collection of the New Salem Museum of Fine Art in Salem, Massachusetts, and has been exhibited at Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin, Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, Kirk Gallery in Denmark, and The Taubman Museum of Art in Virginia. She has been awarded by the Portrait Society of America (2023, 2022, 2019, 2018,) the International ARC Salon (2022,2019, 2018,) and has won The Bold Brush Award (2023,) as well as The Artist’s Magazine Competitions (2023, 2022) and International Artist’s Magazine (2023, 2022.) You can find her work published by these magazines and others like American Art Collector and Fine Art Connoisseur.  Carroll lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.

Beth Carter

Anyone who shares Beth Carter’s fascination with the human condition must surely embrace the invitation to be found in her body of work. For here, among the richly detailed drawings and careful sculptures, we discover an unfolding meditation on those existential dilemmas that beset us all, and a world of its own in the making. This starkly beautiful and haunting world is both particular and universal, at once strange and immediately familiar, because it so powerfully evokes that forever surprising annex of our own lives: the chambers of our night dreams, our subconscious imaginings, and our performances of gender and personhood.

Carter’s work, with bird-heads and cat-heads appearing as her less predatory take on the Minotaur legend. Cleverly, she can conflate and complicate those classical myths and those of contemporary masculinity at the same time.

Based at the Spike Island studios in Bristol, UK, Beth Carter’s work often morphs the human figure with animal creating mythological creatures and extraordinary fictional compositions. She is additionally represented by galleries in the UK, New York, and Paris and has work in private collections across Europe, USA, Canada, South America, Asia and Australia, and in the permanent collection at the Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, France.

Biography

Beth Carter is an artist based at the Spike Island studios in Bristol, UK. Her work often morphs the human figure with animal creating mythological creatures and extraordinary fictional compositions. She is represented by galleries in the UK, New York, Boston and Paris and has work in private collections across Europe, USA, Canada, South America, Asia and Australia, and in the permanent collection at the Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, France.

Artist Statement

 “Working within the realms of a sculptural tradition where the symbolic use of animal imagery is a potent and continuous source, my work creates allegories by, amongst other things, integrating the human form with animal forms. The resulting imagery holds both a timeless significance and a contemporary relevance despite and because of our separation from the natural world. It is important for me that my sculpture and drawings are accessible on an individual level as well as implicating more archetypal themes common to human experience.”

Academic Achievements

1992-1995 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sunderland University, UK
1993-1994 Placement at the Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus
1991 Period of study at the Academy of Fine Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
1990-1991 Art Foundation, Bath College of Further Education, UK

Exhibitions, Europe

Mar 2016 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, represented by Beaux Arts Bath
Jan 2016 London Art Fair, Islington, London, represented by Beaux Arts Bath
Oct 2015 ODYSSEY, The Chapel of The House of St Barnabas, Bo. Lee Gallery, London
Sep 2015 Abditory, Bo.Lee Gallery, London
Sep-Oct 2015 Group Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath, UK
Apr 2015 Minotaur on Box sculpture on display, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, France
Mar 2015 Dessins du Sculpteurs, Galerie Rauchfeld, Paris
Mar 2015 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, represented by View Art Gallery
Dec 2014 A Christmas Cabinet, Bo.Lee Gallery, The Hepsibah Gallery, London
Nov 2014-Jan The Shining Guest, Solo Exhibition, View Art Gallery, Bristol
Nov 2014 A Lamb in Wolf’s Clothing, Bo.Lee Gallery, Bermondsey, London
Jun-Jul 2014 Odyssey, Bo.Lee Gallery, St Edmund’s in the City, London
Sep 2013 Lucid, Bo.Lee Gallery, Clerkenwell, London
Jul-Aug 2013 Summer Salon, View Art Gallery, Bristol
Jun 2013 Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London, represented by Bo Lee Gallery
May-Jul 2013 A Beautiful Death, View Art Gallery, Bristol
Mar-May 2013 Giant Snails and Tiny Lions, View Art Gallery, Bristol
Mar 2013 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, represented by Bo Lee Gallery
Jan 2013 London Art Fair, Islington, London, represented by Bo Lee Gallery
Nov 2012-Jan True Identity, View Art Gallery, Bristol
Nov 2012 Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London, represented by Bo Lee Gallery
Jul-Sep 2012 Summer Salon, View Art Gallery, Bristol
Jul-Sep 2012 Unnatural-Natural History, Royal West of England Academy, Coates & Scarry
Jul 2012 Bloomsbury Art Fair, London, represented by View Art Gallery
Jun 2012 Shadowside, Blackall Studios, London, represented by Bo Lee Gallery
Mar-Apr 2012 Veiled Voyages, View Art Gallery, Bristol
Jan-Mar 2012 Amalgamation, View Art Gallery, Bristol
Jan 2012 Three Kingdoms, Bo Lee Gallery, Bath
Jan 2012 London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London, represented by Bo Lee Gallery
Nov-Jan 2012 In Darkness Blooms, View Art Gallery, Bristol
Nov-Jan 2011 Here and Now, View Art Gallery, Bristol
Nov 2011 Crunch Art Fair, Hay-on-Wye, represented by View Art Gallery
Nov 2011 Hunting The Hunted, Bo Lee Gallery, Bath
Nov 2011 Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London, represented by Bo Lee Gallery
Oct 2011 Art London Chelsea, London, represented by Bo Lee Gallery
Oct 2011 Solo Show – Leading The Giant, Bo Lee Gallery, Bath
Jun 2011 Darkness to Light, The Octagon Chapel, Bath, represented by Bo Lee Gallery
Jan 2011 London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London, represented by Bo Lee Gallery
Oct 2010 Art of Giving, Group Show and Charity Auction, Saatchi Gallery, London
Oct 2010 Art London Chelsea, London, represented by Bo Lee Gallery
Feb-Apr 2010 Comfortably Strange, View Art Gallery, Bristol
2010 Group Show, Mauger Modern Gallery, Bath/London
2010 Solo Show, Black Swan Arts, Frome
Nov-Dec 2009 Christmas Show, View Art Gallery, Bristol
2009 Group Show, Mauger Modern Gallery, Bath/London
2009 Chichester National, (Selected National Art Competition)
2008 National Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (Award for Works on paper)
2008-2009 Joy Experiment – Cross-artform collective tour, S.W. England
2008 Two person show, Badcocks Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
2008 Works on Paper Group Show, The Royal Academy, London
2008 London Art Fair, represented by Four Square Arts, Brighton
2007-2008 Autumn Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2006 Beauty and the Beast, Stourhead Gardens, National Trust / ACE, Commission
2006 Solo Show, Queens Street Gallery, Emsworth.
2005-2007 Brighton Art Fair, Glasgow Art Fair, Art London, Dublin Art Fair
2005 Solo show, Badcocks Gallery, Newlyn Cornwall
2005-2008 Group Shows, Plus One Plus Two Gallery, London
2004 Olympia Art Fair, London (Individual Artist Award)
2003 Group Show, No. Six Chapel Row, Contemporary Art Gallery, Bath
2000 148th Selected Open Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2000 Wandsworth Arts Festival, Alders & Hobbs Dept. Store Window Exhibition, London.
1999 Milfield Open Exhibition, Group Show, Somerset
1999 Spike Island Launch Exhibition, Bristol
1997 Fabulous Beasts, Group Show, Hampshire Sculpture Trust, Hampshire
1995 Northern Graduate Show 95′, The Royal College of Art, London (Awarded 1st Prize)

Exhibitions, USA

May 2016 Inaugural Exhibition, M Fine Arts Galerie, Boston
Jan 2016 Winter Fête Group Show, Georges Bergès Gallery, New York
Jul-Sep 2015 Winter Collective, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
Feb-Mar 2015 Winter Group Show Part 2, Axelle Fine Arts, New York
Jan-Mar 2015 Winter Group Show, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston
Jan 2014 Art Palm Beach, Florida, represented by Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
Dec 2014-Jan Winter Collective Part 1, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
Aug-Sep 2014 Summer Collective Part 2, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
Jul-Aug 2014 Summer Collective Part 1, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
Jun-Oct 2014 Summer Group Show, Axelle Fine Arts, New York
Mar-Apr 2014 Solo Exhibition – Dancing with Morpheus, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston
Feb-Mar 2014 Solo Exhibition – Dancing with Morpheus, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
Jan-Mar 2014 Winter Collective, Axelle Fine Arts, New York
Nov-Dec 2013 Solo Exhibition – Dancing with Morpheus, Axelle Fine Arts, New York
Aug-Sep 2013 Summer Group Show Part 2, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston
Jul-Aug 2013 Summer Group Show Part 1, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston
Apr-May 2013 Spring Group Show, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston
Mar-Apr 2013 Spring Collective, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
Feb-Mar 2013 Winter Group Show, Axelle Fine Arts, New York
Jan 2013 Winter Group Show, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston
Jan-Feb 2013 Winter Group Show, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
Jan 2013 Nocturnes: Romancing the Night exhibition, The National Arts Club, New York
Mar-Apr 2012 Spring Group Show, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
Nov-Dec 2011 Winter Group Show, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
Feb-Mar 2011 Winter Group Show, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York
2010 Affordable Arts Fair, New York, represented by Will’s Art Warehouse

Other International Exhibitions

Sep 2015 Beirut Art Fair, Galerie Rauchfeld (Paris)
May 2015 Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong, Bo.Lee Gallery (UK)
May 2012 Art Melbourne, Melbourne, Coates & Scarry (UK)

Awards, Residencies & Research

2007-2009 Research travel, Gambia, Kenya and Tanzania
2006 Two month Residency at Bronze Casting Foundry, in Guadalajara, Mexico
2002 Research travel and work, Womad World of Music and Dance, New Zealand
2000 South West Arts, UK, Individual Artist Award to produce new body of work
1997 Research travel, Sri Lanka and India, studying devotional mythological Sculpture
1996 Northern Arts, UK, Travel Award to Crete
1996 South West Arts, UK, Travel assistance grant
1995 First Prize, Northern Graduates Show The Royal College of Art, London

Press & Publications

Sep 2016 The Bath Magazine, Magazine editorial, Shape-shifters, Beth Carter
Sep 2016 The Bath Magazine online, website, Beth Carter sculpture,
Oct 2015 ArtMusoCreative, Online Magazine, Beth Carter,
Apr 2015 Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, France, Newsletter,
Dec 2014 Proletarian Art Snob, Blog, Top 10 Solo Shows of 2014,
Nov 2014 View Art Gallery, The Shining Guest, The art of Beth Carter, 108pp book,
Nov 2014 Bristol Post, Newspaper, Beth Carter, The Shining Guest,
Nov 2014 Tail of Wood, Blog, A Lamb in Wolf’s Clothing,
Aug 2014 Great Museums, Elevated Thinking: The High Line in New York City, TV Documentary
Jun 2014 Wall Street International, Web Magazine, Odyssey,
Jun 2014 The Times, National Newspaper, Image for advertising, Affordable Art Fair
Jun 2014 The Guardian, National Newspaper, Image for advertising, Affordable Art Fair
Jun 2014 London Evening Standard, Newspaper, Image for advertising, Affordable Art Fair
Jun 2014 London underground, Billboard Advertising, Affordable Art Fair Hampstead
Jun 2014 Affordable Art Fair, Website, AAF Hampstead Advertising
Feb 2014 Arte Fuse Website, Beth Carter, Dancing with Morpheus at Bertrand Delacroix Gallery
Feb 2014 Examiner, Blog, Art Listings, Beth Carter, Dancing with Morpheus
Jan 2014 Fine Art Connoisseur, Web Magazine, Beth Carter’s Magical Realism
Oct 2013 Wall Street International, Web Magazine, Beth Carter, Dancing with Morpheus
Sep 2013 Axelle Fine Arts, Gallery Website, The Minotaur of Newbury Street and his visitors
Jan 2013 Innomind.org, ‘Artist Spotlight’ The National Arts Club, NY,
Jul 2012 The Arbuturian Magazine (UK) ‘Bloomsbury Art Fair’ review, http://bit.ly/YWrT7G
Jan 2012 View Art Gallery, Amalgamation, exhibition review (video), http://bit.ly/WEt2Xk
Dec 2011 Examiner Blog, Holiday Group Show in Chelsea, review, N.Y. http://exm.nr/15ImuaL
Sep 2011 Creative Boom, Leading the Giant, review, http://bit.ly/YU6Tlk
Feb 2011 The Second Hanging, Chelsea Galleries – Part 2, http://bit.ly/ZBEmSE
Dec 2010 Coates and Scarry, Blog, Beth Carter’s Internal World, http://bit.ly/13PXOPa
Dec 2010 Juxtapoz Magazine, Beth Carter’s Internal World, http://bit.ly/XDUJyb
Feb 2010 View Art Gallery Comfortably Strange, exhibition review, http://bit.ly/ZBGpq5
Dec 2009 Imagine – Own Art, BBC (UK) Television, work featured Winter 2009, Episode 3 of 6
Oct 2008 Metro Newspaper (UK), Darkness reigns at Bristol Contemporary, http://bit.ly/Yo5FLU
2008 Royal Opera House, London, image promoting The Minotaur, Sir Harrison Birtwhistle
2008 Muse magazine, article on work
2004-2012 Who’s Who In Art Directory, entries in 2004-12 publications
2003 Decode magazine, article on work

Projects

2015 Private commission of life-size bronze figure, UK
2008-2009 Joy Experiment (cross-art form collective) tour of locations across S.W. England
2003-2004 Private commission of life-size bronze figure + numerous other private commissions
1995-2001 Environmental art projects including Womad Festival, Las Palmas, Sicily, NZ and UK
1999-2002 Theatre commission animal/figurative costumes for Aardman, Bristol Old Vic
1996 International Sculpture Symposium, Granite, Wood and Bronze Workshop, Aberdeen

Work in private collections across Europe, USA, Canada, South America, Asia and Australia, and in the collection of the Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, France