The legendary master and American universal icon Chuck Close makes a surprise visit to the studio of Dominican artists Gérard Ellis, in Brooklyn NYC.
“I had the great honor of receiving the visit of Chuck Close to my space during the Art Gowanos Open Studios.
Not only his work but also his story is a stimulating example to everyone. Years ago I read “Chuck Close Life”, by Christopher Finch, and I highly recommend it.” – Gérard Ellis.
El retrato ha estado presente durante toda la historia del arte. La evolución del retrato ha sido reflejo de cada época, desde el inicio de la civilización se evidencia como parte del vocablo cultural y método de expresión artística. Desde sus inicios como práctica de veneración a dioses y gobernantes, hasta su explosión durante el Renacimiento que lo popularizo entre el hombre común, el retrato expresa de manera única la expresión pura del ser humano.
Robert Dandarov nació en Macedonia en el año 1959 y vive en Brooklyn, NY, desde los años 80. Se destaca por hacer presente los mitos y las narrativas religiosas sobre los enfrentamientos de Oriente y Occidente. Su arte expresa profunda crítica social, usualmente tocando temas políticos y religiosos. Como retratista se ha caracterizado por su exquisita precisión en el trazo, y cuya finura detallista al momento de retratar lo posicionan como un importante exponente en el arte figurativo contemporáneo.
Su primera vez en República Dominicana fue hace más de 18 años, invitado por la Escuela de Arte y Diseño de Altos de Chavón. Debido a su impresionante realismo y clasicismo, el retrato de Dandarov ha llamado la atención a numerosas personalidades en el país, coleccionistas y amantes del arte quienes se inmortalizan en el tiempo a través de la finura gestual de este gran retratista.
Comisiona tu retrato con Robert Dándarov en Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery.
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, founded in 1995 with locations in New York and Santo Domingo, is proud to announce Fulgor, the first solo show in the Dominican Republic by renounced Spanish artist Santiago Ydáñez, which will take place on November 2 in its main location in Santo Domingo, Torre Piantini, from 6:00pm-10:00pm.
Fulgor is an impactful collection of works from 2010 to 2017, with more than a dozen large format paintings in acrylic on canvas, where the artist shows an impressive touch and fine gestures. He also integrates other objects from a recollection of vintage elements, which he intervenes and
appropriates, elevating them in what is considered “objet d’art”. In his artworks, he cultivates his non expressionist portraits, landscapes, and animal iconography.
According to Omar Pascual Castillo, a Cuban-born art critic living in Spain: “Ydáñez’s painting avoids being illusory, the force of his stroke fractures all illusion, it kills it, destroys it with strength stuck in time, made into gesture, never still, in that strange calmness that is the pictorial.”
Born in Jaén (1969), Ydáñez is acclaimed by Spanish and European critics as one of the most prestigious contemporary artists, after being rigorously evaluated by deep technical studies. A graduate in Fine Arts from Granada University, he has developed and consolidated a solid international reputation. As such, he has presented his art in different scenarios including Spain, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Norway, France the United States and Canada.
Among his accomplishments, Ydáñez has been conferred with the ABC award for painting and awarded first Pintura Generación 2002 Caja Madrid prize. He has also received scholarships and grants from the Colegio de España in Paris and the Marcelino Botin Foundation in Santander. He has also completed artistic residences in both Academia de España in Rome and Casa Wabi in México.
His work is part of numerous collections, which include the National Center of Arts Reina Sofia Museum, Mojacar de Almeria Museum, Zabaleta Museum, Botin Foundation of Junta de Castilla-León, Sofia Imber of Caracas, L’Oreal of Madrid, Municipal Museum in Madrid, National Center of Arts Reina Sofia Museum and the ABC Collection of Madrid.
Fulgor will be open to the public until December 15th 2017.
Pacific/Caribe 2016 – 2017 by Raúl Recio
July 13th, 2017. Torre Piantini, Av. Gustavo Mejía Ricart Esq. Abraham Lincoln, Suite 1A & 2A
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery is pleased to present “Pacific/Caribe 2016 – 2017”, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by l’enfant terrible of Contemporary Dominican Art, Raúl Recio, whose work has been included in Vitamin P3 (a publication of the world’s hottest painters, selected by international expert). This solo show includes large paintings as well as drawings. The opening will be celebrated on Thursday July 13th, 2017 from 7 PM – 11 PM.
In this new show titled Pacific Caribe, l’enfant terrible of dominican contemporary painting exhibits a rigorous selection of works, curated by Lyle O. Reitzel, from 2016-2017, where the artist references his existential experience produced by his double life among two worlds: Los Angeles, California and Santo Domingo, DR. In this context of extreme contrasts between the pacific and the caribbean, is where his tropical landscape are created, with the integration of geometric figures, elements of art-deco, where in the fast misterios rivers, multiple erotic bodies survive in movement that mimitize with rocks. The landscape plays in the frontier of abstraction with flashes of hallucinations, the feeling of belonging is lost, it is no longer ours, neither of Raúl, the landscape becomes universal.
Raúl Recio was born in Santo Domingo in 1965, the lead of the generation of the 80s, he is the most renowned contemporary caribbean artists, his work has been included in Vitamin P3, an important publication about painting today. He has been distinguished with important awards such as: The Gold Medal, II Biennale of the Caribbean and Central America, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo; Premio X Biennale of Printmaking, San Juan, PR; among other awards in the Biennale of Visual Arts of Santo Domingo during the 90’s. Recio has participated in numerous international biennales such as the Biennale of Havana, Biennale de Cuenca, Ecuador, among others.
His fine art prints have been exhibited in the prestigious institution Americas Society in New York and the Bass Museum of Miami Beach, Florida during the exhibition “Modern and Contemporary Art of the Dominican Republic, with a review that included one of his prints in the New York Times.
The writer Rita Indiana produced a video for the Guggenheim about this controversial artist of dominican painting:
All the Artificial Barriers By Gerard Ellis
June 15th, 2017. 139 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery is pleased to present “All The Artificial Barriers”, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by New York-based, Dominican artist Gerard Ellis. It includes large, mixed media works on canvas, as well as medium and small size works on wood.
