Arnot Art Museum Exhibits "High Fidelity: Anthony Brunelli and the Digital Age Photorealists" →

March 7, 2020

The Arnot Art Museum is a world-class institution of fine art in Elmira, N.Y. Known for the Matthias H. Arnot collection of sixteenth through nineteenth century European paintings and sculpture. The Arnot also holds a significant collection of Hudson River School paintings and a growing collection of Contemporary Realist works. The founding collection represents one of the last remaining gilded-age private collections still housed in its original showcase parlor and displayed in the salon style. The eight additional gallery spaces contain exhibitions curated seasonally.

Exhibits

A Collector’s Vision: The Matthias Hollenback Arnot Collection
A collection of fine 17th to 19th century European paintings, featuring Jules Breton, Jean-François Millet, and Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Reflections of Ancient Cultures
This founding collection exhibit holds interesting artifacts from Ancient Egypt, and East Asia.

High Fidelity: Anthony Brunelli and the Digital Age Photorealists

National Traditions
Selections from the Museum's American Collections 1785-2005

Kathie Meredith: Breaking Barriers
Motorsport photographs from the Racing Center

Source : https://www.smithsonianmag.com

RON WEIS: MILLION DOTS (WITH COLIN ROBINSON) →

March 2, 2020

We live in an age of numbers on a scale beyond conception. There are eight billion human beings on the planet, nine million in New York City alone. Twelve million millionaires inhabit the US, with 43 million living in poverty. Grappling with such scale is daunting and overwhelming.

This is where Million Dots comes in. Its pages, filled over and over with precise geometric arrays of black dots, help us grasp the scale of a number that is both commonplace and unimaginable. But while Million Dots serves as a vital conceptual tool, an intriguing plaything and a welcome gift, it is also a work of art, an embodiment of the view of its creator, American artist Ron Weis (born 1947), that “If you experience something and can’t find a category in which to comfortably place it, it’s probably art."

Join us in the 2nd floor Art Department for a discussion about Million Dots and Ron Weis and Colin Robinson.

Opening Reception of High Fidelity: Anthony Brunelli and the Digital Age Photorealists →

February 29, 2020

Join us for the Opening Reception of High Fidelity: Anthony Brunelli and the Digital Age Photorealists
Works from the Louis K. Meisel Gallery

Thursday, 5 March 2020 at 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Event admission for Museum members is always free! For not-yet-members, reception admission is $10, please come and enjoy!

Location: 235 Lake Street, Elmira, NY 14901
Regular Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 5pm; Saturday, Noon-5pm. Closed Sunday, Monday and Holidays.
• Regular Admission: $7 per person, free to those under 18. Free to Museum Members

Membership: Please inquire at the Reception Desk, call Guest Services at 607-734-3697 – or – visit us online to apply for membership benefits at: http://www.arnotartmuseum.org/
Directions: Exit 56 from Route 17/86 (Church Street Exit). Turn left at the forth traffic signal onto Lake Street. Free parking is available in the Museum parking lot at the rear of the building, bordering Baldwin Street.

Art Wynwood returns for its ninth edition to Downtown Miami →

February 11, 2020

Art Wynwood, the premier winter contemporary art fair produced by Art Miami, will return for its ninth edition at Herald Plaza on Biscayne Bay in Downtown Miami. The fair will open this Thursday, February 13th with a VIP Preview benefiting the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami before opening to the public over Presidents Day Weekend - Friday, Feb 14th through Monday, Feb 17th, 2020.

The fair offers collectors the opportunity to acquire curated works from emerging talent in the contemporary market, mid-career artists, and blue-chip contemporary, post-war and modern masters and features an elevated array of murals, pop surrealism, street art and other genres.

OUR BACK YARD: NA CHAINKUA (CHAINKY) REINDORF/ARTIST INTERVIEW →

December 9, 2019

Mike Foldes: As a native of Ghana, had you traveled much before coming to the States? And, if you had visited the States previously, what brought you here and where did you go?

Na Chainkua Reindorf: I traveled a lot as a child. Two of my mother’s four siblings lived in London, UK. So I spent a lot of Christmases with my cousins. I visited the States for the first time in 2009 though. I was here in Maine for a week, as part of an exchange program that my high school did with a prep high school. I eventually returned to the States after graduating high school to attend Grinnell College, a small liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa.

Installation view of "Anthony Brunelli: In Retrospect" at Louis K. Meisel Gallery.

10 Questions for Painter Anthony Brunelli, a Pioneer of the Photo-Realist Panorama →

November 9, 2019

Courtesy of artnet

Photorealist paintings create a dizzying effect that is itself oddly pleasurable—what at first glance might appear to be a large-scale photograph reveals itself to be a meticulously rendered depiction of a street corner, a face, or a still life, and the eye vacillates back and forth, absorbing the whole while dazzling at the individual brushstrokes.

For Binghamton, New York, native Anthony Brunelli, the desire to push the limits of photorealism has been the guiding principle of his 25-year career. Brunelli broke into the scene in the 1990s with his industrial cityscapes of upstate New York, in which he pioneered some of the earliest photorealist panoramas.

Over the years he has brought his meticulous touch to scenes from around the world, from Asian marketplaces to European urban intersections. Now, “Anthony Brunelli: In Retrospect,” an exhibition at New York’s Louis K. Meisel Gallery, is taking a look back at how his photorealist cityscapes have developed over the decades. On the occasion of the exhibition, we caught up with Brunelli, who told us about the influence of Chuck Close on his work and his unexpected alternate dream job.

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