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Winter Spotlight: Visionary Edge

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 

WINTER SPOTLIGHT: VISIONARY EDGE

December 1, 2016 – January 7, 2016

Cavin-Morris Gallery is pleased to present our Winter Spotlight:  Visionary Edge featuring six artists we represent:  Angkasapura from Java, Bessie Harvey from Tennessee, Kevin Sampson from New Jersey, Christine Sefolosha from Switzerland, Solange Knopf from Belgium, and Sylvain and Ghyslaine Staëlens from France.  There is fierce grassroots spirituality in this group illustrating the central interests of the gallery: a strong visionary edge and a hardcore way of manifesting it.

Angkasapura draws animistic figures with a lush, obsessive complexity stemming from the densities of his native folkways as well as from his perceptions of street and Javanese urban culture.  His work has recently been accepted by Musee de L’Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland, and will be included in an upcoming exhibition of new artists.

Bessie Harvey is one of the grand, old masters of vernacular African American art. Her work was first shown in the mid 80’s at Cavin-Morris Gallery.  She works in the tradition of root sculpture portraying the spirits implicit in the old Conjure religion.  She was included in the 1994 Whitney Biennial organized by curator Klaus Kertess.  We have been fortunate enough to find some wonderful unexhibited works for this presentation.

Kevin Sampson has been with Cavin-Morris Gallery since the early 1990’s.  His work continues to incorporate African American local histories, social awareness, and spirit yard imagery in a style inimitably his own.  He has recently returned from a Joan Mitchell residency in New Orleans.

Christine Sefolosha is a painter of oneiric universes.  The figures in her paintings move in mysterious narratives that seem to merge the mythical spaces of various cultures and epochs.  Her work is immediately recognizable, and she is one of the few painters in the field working in small to large formats.

Solange Knopf also draws from the realms of dream, encapsulating a wide range of magic, decadence, spirits, pleasure and pain, and enlightenment.  Knopf presents her work like Sefolosha, it has no time frame, it moves through history and lore in a personalized way making her particularly unique in the field.

Sylvain and Ghyslaine Staëlens make brooding sculptures that connect spiritual guardians with figures from witchlore, gypsylore, and traces of the medieval Black Virgin.  All their sculptures are conceived and born with the materials they find in the Nature around their farmlands, forests, and volcanic mountains of rural France.  Like all the other artists in this exhibition their work resounds in a timeless place.

For further information please contact Cavin-Morris Gallery at info@cavinmorris.com, or phone: 212-226-3768.

View fullsize  Bessie Harvey Untitled, 1986 Polychromed wood, beads 21 x 22 x 12 inches 53.3 x 55.9 x 30.5 cm BH 77
View fullsize  Bessie Harvey Many Faced Totem, 1986 Mixed media 27 x 14 x 8.5 inches 68.6 x 35.6 x 21.6 cm BH 94
View fullsize  Bessie Harvey Untitled, c. 1985 Mixed media 21 x 19 x 11 inches 53.3 x 48.3 x 27.9 cm BH 96
View fullsize  Bessie Harvey Untitled, c. 1990 Paint, beads, mixed media on wood 17 x 16 x 14 inches 43.2 x 40.6 x 35.6 cm BH 97
View fullsize  Christine Sefolosha Arbe Fantome (Phantom Tree), 2005 Ink on rice paper 26 x 15 inches 66 x 38.1 cm CSe 79
View fullsize  Christine Sefolosha Barbarian, 2011 oil monotype on black inked paper 33.46 x 23.62 inches 85 x 60 cm CSe 93
View fullsize  Christine Sefolosha La Dispute, 2013 Ink, pigments, colored pencil on rice paper chine collé 39 x 47.5 inches 99.1 x 120.7 cm CSe 96
View fullsize  Christine Sefolosha Botanical Phantasy #2, 2014 Oil monotype and colored pencil on paper 19 x 23.75 inches 48.3 x 60.3 cm CSe 101
View fullsize  Christine Sefolosha Troll, 2014 Mixed media on Arches paper 27.5 x 19.75 inches 69.9 x 50.2 cm CSe 107
View fullsize  Christine Sefolosha Sylvestre, 2016 Mixed media on Arches paper 32 x 41 inches 81.3 x 104.1 cm CSe 110
View fullsize  Christine Sefolosha Les Revenants, 2016 Mixed media on Arches paper 49 x 85 inches 124.5 x 215.9 cm CSe 111
View fullsize  Sylvain and Ghyslaine Staëlens Péril en la Demeure, 2012 Wood, metal, fabric, volcanic stone, pigment and paint 39.37 x 59.06 inches 100 x 150 cm GSS 8
View fullsize  Sylvain and Ghyslaine Staëlens Personnage Soleil, 2014 Wood, metal, cloth, found objects 42 x 20 x 9.5 inches 106.7 x 50.8 x 24.1 cm GSS 30
View fullsize  Sylvain and Ghyslaine Staëlens Cavalier, 2015 Wood, metal, cloth, found objects 35 x 47 x 13 inches 88.9 x 119.4 x 33 cm GSS 37
View fullsize  Sylvain and Ghyslaine Staëlens Personnage, 2015 Wood, metal, cloth, found objects 65.75 x 18.9 x 9.45 inches 167 x 48 x 24 cm GSS 45
View fullsize  Sylvain and Ghyslaine Staëlens Guerrier, 2015 Wood, metal, cloth, found objects 51.57 x 15.75 x 9.84 inches 131 x 40 x 25 cm GSS 47
View fullsize  Noviadi Angkasapura Untitled, 2014 Ink on found paper 8.25 x 6 inches 21 x 15.2 cm NoA 96
View fullsize  Noviadi Angkasapura Untitled, 2015 ink and graphite on paper 11.2 x 8.5 inches 28.4 x 21.6 cm NoA 167
View fullsize  Noviadi Angkasapura Untitled, 2015 Ink and graphite on paper 8.3 x 11.6 inches 21.1 x 29.5 cm NoA 208
View fullsize  Noviadi Angkasapura Untitled, 2015 Ball point pen, graphite on paper 10.25 x 20.5 inches 26 x 52.1 cm NoA 216
View fullsize  Noviadi Angkasapura Untitled, 2015 Ballpoint pen, graphite on cardboard 17.5 x 12.25 inches 44.5 x 31.1 cm NoA 226
View fullsize  Noviadi Angkasapura Untitled, 2016 Ball point pen, graphite on cardboard 25 x 25.75 inches 63.5 x 65.4 cm NoA 228
View fullsize  Kevin Sampson Fourth of July, 2001 Mixed media 11.25 x 8 x 8 inches 28.6 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm SK 126
View fullsize  Noviadi Angkasapura Untitled, 2016 Ball point pen, graphite on cardboard 20.5 x 16.25 inches 52.1 x 41.3 cm NoA 247
View fullsize  Kevin Sampson St. John, 2005 Mixed media 34 x 18 x 19 inches 86.4 x 45.7 x 48.3 cm SK 154
View fullsize  Noviadi Angkasapura Untitled, 2016 Ball point pen, graphite on paper 32.5 x 11.5 inches 82.6 x 29.2 cm NoA 248
View fullsize  Solange Knopf Behind the Darkness I, 2013 Mixed media on paper 28.74 x 31.1 inches 73 x 79 cm SoK 37
View fullsize  Solange Knopf Behind the Darkness II, 2013 Acrylic, colored pencil on paper 19.5 x 25.5 inches 49.5 x 64.8 cm SoK 38
View fullsize  Solange Knopf Spirit Codex No. 22, 2014 Acrylic, colored pencil, and graphite on paper 29.45 x 23.23 inches 74.8 x 59 cm SoK 57
View fullsize  Solange Knopf Mandragore, 2014 Acrylic, colored pencil, and graphite on Kraft paper 27.5 x 19.5 inches 69.9 x 49.5 cm SoK 69
View fullsize  Solange Knopf Iboga, 2014 Acrylic, colored pencil, and graphite on Kraft paper 27.5 x 19.5 inches 69.9 x 49.5 cm SoK 70
View fullsize  Solange Knopf Le chant du Tambour, 2015 Colored pencil, and graphite on canson paper 43 x 31 inches 109.2 x 78.7 cm SoK 73
View fullsize  Solange Knopf Big Bang, 2014 Mixed media on paper 21 x 28.5 inches 53.3 x 72.4 cm SoK 82
View fullsize  Solange Knopf Les Boucliers Protecteurs (The Protective Shields), 2016 Colored pencil and graphite on bamboo fiber paper 31 x 43 inches 78.7 x 109.2 cm SoK 83
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