ALTMAN SIEGEL - HERITAGE AUCTIONS
EMERALD TABLET - TELEGRAPH HILL
04.24.14
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Altman Siegel Gallery : Garth Weiser.
Comment by AB: I don't often see pure abstract paintings that push the limits of the discipline, but I'm seeing them here. They're entirely satisfying at a distance and even juicier close in. If you're going to do something that's been done ad infinitum for the past seventy years by countless numbers of artists, at least advance the program. Garth Weiser does. These are so precise, so texturally rich, so mystifying in the ways the paint is applied, that I'm gonna slap a rare and highly coveted "How Do Dey Do Dat?" Award on 'em. Stop on by and marvel at the mastery. Painting is alive and well.
Art by Garth Weiser at Altman Siegel Gallery.
Pinkie cam detail of art in above image.
Garth Weiser art.
Pinkie cam detail of art in above image.
Art by Garth Weiser.
Pinkie cam detail of art in above image.
Garth Weiser art.
Ambiance - Garth Weiser art show at Altman Siegel Gallery.
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Heritage Auctions : American Art Including Western, California, & Golden Age Illustration Signature Auction.
Comment by AB: You know something's gone completely haywire when you can buy paintings by many of America's best pre-Postwar,or more accurately, pre-Minimalist & Conceptual artists for substantially less than middling works by hot trending unproven upstarts. I keep trying to figure the whole thing out, how hype and fashion have completely turned the once prevailing paradigm on its head. I'll admit that living artists tend to be peppier than dead ones, but the living ones will eventually be less peppy too. So that can't be it... or maybe it can. Buyers seem trapped in the here and now, completely unconcerned or unaware(?) of the art history continuum. Maybe art history is too much of a pain-in-the-ass to learn. That could be it. Maybe gambling on futures is more exciting than buying time-tested quality. The parties are better; that's for sure. Whatever it is, kindly wake me when it's over.
L-R, art by Samuel S Carr (sold $81,250) - Ernest Lawson (sold $18,750).
Pinkie cam detail of Ernest Lawson painting above (nice brushwork).
Art by Edgar Payne, left, sold for $18,750..
Andrew Wyeth art, left, sold for $137,000.
L-R, art by John Hubbard Rich (sold $26,250) - Theodore Butler (sold $25,000).
L-R, Charles Rollo Peters (sold for $31,250) - Jesse Arms Botke (sold $30,000).
Head count - American art auction preview at Heritage Auctions.
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The Emerald Tablet : Nicholas Coley.
Comment by AB: Broad brush impressionistic landscapes by Nicholas Coley are all painted on location, but transformed into imaginary habitats with hyper-heightened palettes.
Nicholas Coley and his art at The Emerald Tablet.
Art by Nicholas Coley.
Nicholas Coley art.
Art by Nicholas Coley.
Nicholas Coley art.
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Telegraph Hill Gallery : Continuum - Thierry Rosset, Jenny Robinson, Seiko Tachibana.
Comment by AB: This tribute to Bay Area printmaker Thierry Rosset features a selection of his patterned linocuts alongside atmospheric industrial structures by Jenny Robinson and intricate impressions of plants and plant life by Seiko Tachibana.
Art by Thierry Rosset at Telegraph Hill Gallery.
Thierry Rosset art.
Linocut by Thierry Rosset in above image closer.
Seiko Tachibana and her art at Telegraph Hill Gallery.
Pinkie cam detail of art by Seiko Tachibana in above image.
Plant prints by Seiko Tachibana.
Industrial structure print by Jenny Robinson.
Jenny Robinson art.
Thierry Rosset, Jenny Robinson & Seiko Tachibana art at Telegraph Hill Gallery.
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