Author Archives: mauri

Beautiful Art Inspired by The Beautiful Game

Even though it’s happening in Brazil, you’d have to have been walking around with your eyes closed and your ears plugged not to know that the World Cup is just getting started right about now. Futbol, or “Soccer” as we call it here in the states, is the world’s most popular game. In culturally diverse […]

Posted in News | Tagged beautiful game, contemporary art, Gabriel Orozco, Gabriel Uchida, Nøne Futbol Club, Rochelle Costi, William Kentridge, World Cup 2014

Trees at Chelm & Read Gallery

Joan Mitchell: Trees May 15 – August 29, 2014 Cheim & Read Gallery 547 W 25th St. New York City cheimread.com

Posted in Exhibits | Events | Tagged Cheim & Read Gallery, Joan Mitchell, NYC, painitng

A Handweaver’s Pattern Book at Clifton Benevento

Polly Apfelbaum: A Handweaver’s Pattern Book May 31 – August 8, 2014 Clifton Benevento 515 Broadway New York City cliftonbenevento.com

Posted in Exhibits | Events | Tagged clifton benevento, NYC, Polly Apfelbaum, textile arts

Volta10: Patrick Jacobs

Patrick Jacobs intentionally blurs boundaries between the traditional artistic media of painting, sculpture, and photography in his works. At the same time, they present the viewer with a spatial and perceptual conundrum; we are drawn into a space at once determinate and infinite, natural and contrived, prosaic and otherworldly. VOLTA10 June 16–21, 2014 Viaduktstrasse 10 […]

Posted in News | Tagged otherworldly, painting, Patrick Jacobs, perceptual art, photography, sculpture

The Shaped Canvas, Revisited

“The Shaped Canvas, Revisited,” currently on view at the Luxembourg & Dayan Gallery on 77th street, just off Madison Avenue, takes “The Shaped Canvas,” curated by Lawrence Alloway at the Guggenheim Museum in 1964 as a point of departure and augments it with new work by younger artists. The curators cite as precedents exhibitions of […]

Posted in News, News-Previews | Tagged Elizabeth Murray, Kenneth Noland, L. Brandon Krall, Lawrence Alloway, Luxembourg and Dayan, Lynda Benglis, modern art

Frameshift at Denny Gallery

Featuring: Lorne Blythe, Heather Clearly, Erin O’Keefe, Pieter Schoolwerth, Barry Stone, Wendy White Frameshift June 12 – July 20, 2014 Denny Gallery 261 Broome St. New York City dennygallery.com

Posted in Exhibits | Events | Tagged Barry Stone, Erin O'Keefe, Heather Clearly, Lorne Blythe, Pieter Schoolwerth, Wendy White

Ugo Mainetti

My name is Ugo Mainetti. I am an autodidact painter, I’m from Valtellina and I am the father of four children, two daughters and two sons. I came into the world without whimpering on May 5th, 1945 in a little district called Valle in the commune of Tartano. I was born into a peasant family […]

Posted in NY Arts Magazine: Artists at Home & Abroad | Tagged Broadway Gallery, gestural, italian, painting, Tartano, Ugo Mainetti

Mara Alves

Early on discovered the art in my life and this passion grew with me. Figurative, passionate—by nature I am colorist and experimentalist, carrying for my works, small experiences in my day-to-day, trying to represent everything that exists around me and inside me. I am always in love with art, always wanting more, looking for new horizons and […]