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Summer Spotlight

View fullsize   Gregory Van Maanen    The Science of Writing  , 8/28/1981 Acrylic on board 12.5 x 17.25 inches 31.8 x 43.8 cm GVM 73
View fullsize   Gregory Van Maanen    Woman  , 5/1/1984 Acrylic on canvas 24 x 16 inches 61 x 40.6 cm GVM 98
View fullsize   Gregory Van Maanen    Wolfgang (the Lizard) Before The War  , 5/1/1986 Acrylic on canvas 18 x 14 inches 45.7 x 35.6 cm GVM 116
View fullsize   Gregory Van Maanen    Untitled (Splayed Figure on Yellow)  , 1978 Acrylic on board 28.5 x 22 inches 72.4 x 55.9 cm GVM 128
View fullsize   Gregory Van Maanen    Spirit Hand  , 1993 Oil, enamel, acrylic on wood 66 x 48 inches 167.6 x 121.9 cm GVM 754
View fullsize   Gregory Van Maanen    Contact/Guardian Angel   Acrylic on canvas 37 x 32 inches 94 x 81.3 cm GVM 2480
View fullsize   J.B. Murray    Untitled  , c. 1978-1988 Tempera, marker, crayon, and ink on paper 23.75 x 18 inches 60.3 x 45.7 cm JBM 431
View fullsize   J.B. Murray    Untitled  , c. 1978-1988 Tempera, marker on paper 24 x 18 inches 61 x 45.7 cm JBM 435
View fullsize   J.B. Murray    Untitled  , c. 1978-1988 Tempera and ink on paper 24 x 18 inches 61 x 45.7 cm JBM 439
View fullsize   J.B. Murray    Untitled  , c. 1978-1988 Tempera and ink on paper 25 x 19 inches 63.5 x 48.3 cm JBM 471
View fullsize   J.B. Murray    Untitled  , c. 1978-1988 Tempera and marker on paper 24 x 18 inches 61 x 45.7 cm JBM 487
View fullsize   J.B. Murray    Untitled   , c. 1978-1988 Tempera on paper 25 x 19 inches 63.5 x 48.3 cm JBM 502
View fullsize   Joseph Lambert    Untitled  , 2012 Mixed media on cardboard 8.5 x 14.49 inches 21.6 x 36.8 cm JLam 4
View fullsize   Joseph Lambert    Untitled  , 2014 Mixed media on paper 18.11 x 25.2 inches 46 x 64 cm JLam 5
View fullsize   Joseph Lambert    Untitled  , 2015 Mixed media on cardboard 19.69 x 27.56 inches 50 x 70 cm JLam 6
View fullsize   Joseph Lambert    Untitled  , 2014 Mixed media on paper 10.12 x 20.24 inches 25.7 x 51.4 cm JLam 10
View fullsize   Joseph Lambert    Untitled  , 2014 Mixed media on paper 10.12 x 20.24 inches 25.7 x 51.4 cm JLam 11
View fullsize   Joseph Lambert    Untitled  , 2015 Mixed media on paper 11.69 x 16.54 inches 29.7 x 42 cm JLam 12
View fullsize   Melanie Ferguson    Urchin 12  , 2013 Handbuilt stoneware (coil method), sgraffito, oxide stains, crackle slip 15 x 11 x 8 inches 38.1 x 27.9 x 20.3 cm MFe 4
View fullsize   Melanie Ferguson    Urchin 9  , 2013 Handbuilt stoneware (coil method), sgraffito, oxide stains, crackle slip 11 x 12 x 8 inches 27.9 x 30.5 x 20.3 cm MFe 5
View fullsize   Melanie Ferguson    Rippled Resonance Inhales The Way  , 2013 Handbuilt stoneware (coil method), sgraffito, oxide stains, crackle slip 14 x 13 x 9 inches 35.6 x 33 x 22.9 cm MFe 6
View fullsize   Melanie Ferguson    Circles In The Sand  , 2014 Handbuilt stoneware, sgraffito, flashing slips, oxide stains, celedon liner. Soda fired, heavy reduction 11 x 12.5 x 10 inches 27.9 x 31.8 x 25.4 cm MFe 25
View fullsize   Melanie Ferguson    Voices In The Wind  , 2015 Handbuilt stoneware, sgraffito, crackle and flashing slips, oxide stains, black matt glaze liner. Soda fired, heavy reduction 12 x 10 x 9 inches 30.5 x 25.4 x 22.9 cm MFe 26
View fullsize   Melanie Ferguson    Ripe Berries Moon  , 2015 Handbuilt stoneware, flashing slips, oxide stains, soda fired, heavy reduction 15 x 10 x 8 inches 38.1 x 25.4 x 20.3 cm MFe 27
View fullsize   Melanie Ferguson    Their Eyes Grew Round Like Moons  , 2015 Hand built stoneware, flashing slip, oxide stains, Pier Black liner, soda fired in heavy reduction 13 x 16 x 10 inches 33 x 40.6 x 25.4 cm MFe 30
View fullsize   Melanie Ferguson    Engaging Currents of an Endless Sea  , 2016 Hand built stoneware, flashing slip, oxide stains, wood, iron, steel; fired in soda 13.5 x 16.5 x 11 inches 34.3 x 41.9 x 27.9 cm MFe 31
View fullsize   Melanie Ferguson    Restricted Zone  , 2016 Hand built stoneware, sgraffito, flashing slip, oxide stains, celedon liner, gas fired soda 8 x 13 x 13 inches 20.3 x 33 x 33 cm MFe 32
View fullsize   Melanie Ferguson    Flying Above The Storm  , 2016 Hand built stoneware, flashing slip, oxide stains, wood; fired in soda 13 x 14 x 10 inches 33 x 35.6 x 25.4 cm MFe 33
View fullsize   Melanie Ferguson    Battles Left Behind  , 2016 Hand built lidded vessel; stoneware, flashing slip, glaze, oxide stains, gas fired in soda, bone, glass, dandelion seed, wire, silver, leather 17 x 13.5 x 10 inches 43.2 x 34.3 x 25.4 cm MFe 34
View fullsize   Rafa Perez    Untitled  , 2011 Ceramic 6 x 8.5 x 5.5 inches 15.2 x 21.6 x 14 cm RPe 5
View fullsize   Rafa Perez    Untitled  , 2011 Ceramic 6.25 x 11 x 5.75 inches 15.9 x 27.9 x 14.6 cm RPe 11
View fullsize   Rafa Perez    Untitled  , 2011 Ceramic 7.5 x 12 x 5.5 inches 19.1 x 30.5 x 14 cm RPe 14
View fullsize   Rafa Perez    Untitled  , 2011 Ceramic 2.5 x 12 x 9.75 inches 6.4 x 30.5 x 24.8 cm RPe 22
View fullsize   Rafa Perez    Untitled  , 2011 Ceramic 5.5 x 8 x 8 inches 14 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm RPe 23
View fullsize   Rafa Perez    Untitled  , 2012 Porcelain, fired at 1150 degrees 23.62 x 14.17 x 11.02 inches 60 x 36 x 28 cm RPe 26
View fullsize   Rafa Perez    Untitled  , 2015 Steel mesh, porcelain, and clay fired at 1160 degrees 17.5 x 10 x 6 inches 44.5 x 25.4 x 15.2 cm RPe 49
View fullsize   Jon Serl    Pornography  , n.d. Oil on cardboard 24 x 40 inches 61 x 101.6 cm SJ 78
View fullsize   Jon Serl    Tall Harmony  , n.d. Oil on board 42.5 x 18.5 inches 108 x 47 cm SJ 111
View fullsize   Jon Serl    Procession  , n.d. Oil on canvas 33 x 20 inches 83.8 x 50.8 cm SJ 492
View fullsize   Jon Serl    Behind The Game  , 1988 Oil on canvas 38 x 24 inches 96.5 x 61 cm SJ 497
View fullsize   Jon Serl    Five Nuns   Oil on board 31 x 48 inches 78.7 x 121.9 cm SJ 498
View fullsize   Jon Serl    Venice Carnival  , 1958 Oil on board 20.45 x 20.75 inches 51.9 x 52.7 cm ST 51
View fullsize   Tony Pedemonte    Untitled  , 2015 Fiber and wood 19 x 16 x 9 inches 48.3 x 40.6 x 22.9 cm TPed 13
View fullsize   Tony Pedemonte    Untitled  , 2012 Fiber and wood 9 x 24 x 17 inches 22.9 x 61 x 43.2 cm TPed 16
View fullsize   Tony Pedemonte    Untitled  , 2012 Fiber and wood 10 x 6.5 x 24 inches 25.4 x 16.5 x 61 cm TPed 17
View fullsize   Tony Pedemonte    Untitled  , 2014 Fiber and wood 8 x 12 x 23 inches 20.3 x 30.5 x 58.4 cm TPed 20
View fullsize   Tony Pedemonte    Untitled  , 2011 Fiber and wood 19 x 21 x 34 inches 48.3 x 53.3 x 86.4 cm TPed 22
View fullsize   Tony Pedemonte    Untitled  , 2016 Fiber and wood 9 x 22 x 28 inches 22.9 x 55.9 x 71.1 cm TPed 23
View fullsize   Tim Rowan    Untitled  , n.d. Woodfired ceramic 8 x 7.5 x 9 inches 20.3 x 19.1 x 22.9 cm TR 118
View fullsize   Tim Rowan    Untitled  , 2015 Ceramic 18 x 4.25 x 4.25 inches 45.7 x 10.8 x 10.8 cm TR 158
View fullsize   Tim Rowan    Untitled  , 2015 Ceramic 17 x 4 x 4 inches 43.2 x 10.2 x 10.2 cm TR 159

CAVIN-MORRIS SUMMER SPOTLIGHT

(JUNE 30 - AUGUST 19, 2016)

Cavin-Morris Gallery is pleased to present the first in a series of bi-annual exhibitions spotlighting some of the artists represented by the gallery.  Each artist will be exhibited on his or her own wall or separate section of floor space.  This summer we are featuring Jon Serl, Gregory Van Maanen, J.B. Murray, and Joseph Lambert for the walls, and Melanie Ferguson, Rafa Perez, Tony Pedemonte and Tim Rowan on the floor.

These are artists we have been privileged to work with during all phases of the gallery's history.  Jon Serl and Gregory Van Maanen are two of the artists we have worked with the longest, and Melanie Ferguson, Joseph Lambert, and Tony Pedemonte are some of the most recent artists to join us.

Jon Serl lived to be one of the oldest self-taught artists in America, working until he was 98 years old.  His work is a poetic document of LGBT life in this country between the World Wars.  He was a carnival performer and a chuck wagon chef, and started painting in the late 40s.   His work is known for the way he reveled in the sheer glory of drawing with paint.  

Gregory Van Maanen's visionary work is about the transformation of violent energy into the process of making edgy art about healing and forgiveness without sentimentality.  His images are clean and tough and otherworldly.  A large number of his early paintings and sculptures can be seen in the permanent collection of John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.

Master artist J.B. Murray was an African-American visionary whose work spoke to the trials and tribulations of his poor community, and to saving the souls of all black people.  He wrote in asemic calligraphy—invented writing-- that came through his hands from the Holy Spirit.  He considered much of his work to be amuletic in purpose and power. 

Joseph Lambert creates topographies of language.  His spiraling marks are his attempts to express himself to the world to counteract his inability or reluctance to communicate verbally.  They convey a visual expression of synesthesia, a state where different sensory perceptions combine; in this case sound or speech, sight or color and line.

Tony Pedemonte takes the process of wrapping to a personal and viscerally expressive place.  His process is different than that of Judith Scott, who worked before Pedemonte at Creative Growth in Oakland.  Both have created enigmatic sculptures passionately wrapped in layers of materials.  Pedemonte chooses fewer colors of threads to wrap these personally chosen, and frequently hand-assembled objects. In comparison to Scott, his work is more minimal, while still maintaining a totemic quality. 

For our ceramics selection we chose three wonderful artists as different from each other in intention and result as could possibly be.  There is an almost occult spirituality in the beautifully surfaced sculptures of Melanie Ferguson (Georgia, USA).  She captures aspects of place and landscape in the skins of her pieces and yet has imbued them with a sense of lunar and tidal timelessness. 

Rafa Perez (Spain) has a seemingly unlimited vocabulary of imagination in his never-repeating variations on solid organic asymmetrical forms.  He is a master of his materials and his restlessness has resulted in a body of work that is ongoing and ever-pushing his own envelope.

Tim Rowan (New York, USA) also carries an intense sense of place in his pieces coupled with a hint of Japanese sensibility, which he took away from his apprenticeship with Ryuichi Kakurezaki. Yet, rather than a sense of impermanence, his work carries a graceful earthy sense of monumental permanence, a presence that doesn't disappear even when those monuments are in ruins.

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

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