SOPHIE BENINI
MEADOW UNDER THE STARS
Spring 2020
Presented in the spring of 2020, at the VON MORISSE ART SALON at The Stark House, Meadow Under The Stars, showcases Benini's poetic "narrative embroideries" made of silk threads, organza and pearls. Under her magical thumb, Benini transmits stories of a nature she reveres offering us a glimpse of the mysterious. Benini belongs to those rare and few artists Agnes Martin wrote "...depend upon perception alone".
Those who have the opportunity to see - or touch, if only with their eyes - the works of Benini, find themselves in an enchanted world as they witness her whimsical creations. After the first sense of wonder, another kind of wonder emerges, where pure and simple beauty take on a narrative of their own.
JULIETTE DUMAS
WHALE FLUKE (NIGHT)
Fall 2019 - Winter 2020
On November 1st, 2019 acclaimed Whale Fluke Painting NIGHT by Juliette Dumas went on view at The NeueHouse Madison Square New York City.
Dumas explores the formal properties and inherent meaning of forms of Nature. Drawing on historical precedents such as paleolithic paintings and Cézanne’s studies of the Montagne Sainte Victoire, her paintings are a study of the language of Nature, an attempt to understand an experience other than human. Dumas subscribes to the terms of the Rio Negro Manifesto written by French critic Pierre resting in 1978.
MATTHEW COLE
FROM TOKYO TO BERLIN
January 17-27, 2019
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition was held at ChaShaMa (Space to Present), 21 Greenwhich Avenue, West Village, New York City.
Cole’s new work, From Tokyo to Berlin, is the culmination of three years of travel, from 2015 to 2018, absorbing into his painting a long history of cross-cultural pollination between East and West. Japanese printmaking has been a deep well of inspiration for western artists dating back to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Henri Matisse famously espoused the Japanese traditions for their purity of form and color in depicting naturalist scenes and was a famed collector of woodblock prints. Cole travelled to the source, learning the woodblock technique in Okayama Japan.
JENNIFER RILEY
MACHINE SERIES PAINTINGS
November 28 - December 15, 2018
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition was held at ChaShaMa (Space to Present), 485 Madison Avenue, New York City.
Riley is known for her abstract and semi-abstract paintings in which the primacy of drawing, color, line, luminosity, monumentality, nature and the built environment thread throughout her oeuvre. The “Machine Series”, her newest work, uses found patterns of steel remainders from the auto-engine industry to become armatures for draping or delineating solid and veiled areas of color that explore possibilities for abstract painting, integrating concepts of technology, anthropology, industry and nature.
ALEXIS DE CHAUNAC
BOTANICA MAGNIFICA
November 18-26, 2018
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition was held at ChaShaMa (Space to Present), 7 East 14th Street, New York City.
In this new body of work, de Chaunac draws his inspiration from the natural world, collecting insects, plants and minerals in the spirit of the naturalists. A passion since childhood which has evolved in urging the artist to name, label and classify the world around him.
OWEN SCHUH
UNFOLDING A CUBE
October 27-November 17, 2018
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition was held at ChaShaMa (Space to Present), 7 East 14th Street, New York City.
Owen Schuh draws his inspiration from mathematical rules, algorithms and complex organic systems. His work is painstakingly created by hand using pencils, paint, a compass and, at most, the aid of a pocket calculator. Owen Schuh, Unfolding A Cube is a visual investigation of different methods and orders for unfolding a simple form, the cube: 3 dimensions, 6 facets, 8 vertices and 12 edges become one surface of varying configurations.
COMMON PLACE
A Group Exhibition of new works by artists-in-residence at Residency Unlimited (RU) curated by Danni Shen
July 11-16, 2018
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present COMMON PLACE curated by Danni Shen with works by artists-in-residence at RU (residency Unlimited).
This group exhibition, featuring international artists with Residency Unlimited (RU), explores a scope of gestural renewal includes new works by Clare Kenny (Switzerland), Fatma Shanan (Israel), Janine Mackenroth (Germany), Douglas Argüelles Cruz (Cuba).
AMEL BENNYS
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
June 1-29, 2018
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Bennys is a Tunisian abstract painter and sculptor. Layered textures and pigments define much of her work. Bennysʼpractice exists within the realm of incessant layering of flat pigments, the “tableau” becomes the art object as a three-dimensional structure. AMEL BENNYS, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, presents the artist’s most recent works developed in New York in 2017 and 2018 revealing Bennys layered textures and pigments noteworthy of her signature process.
SIRI BERG
BLACK & WHITE
May 12 - June 29, 2018
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
This exhibition was made in collaboration with Hionas Gallery and in conjunction with Siri Berg: A Life in Color curated by Magnus af Petersens at BONNIERS KONSTHALL in Stockholm, Sweden, May 09 - 10 June, 2018.
ANDRE VON MORISSE
THE YOUNG NORWEGIANS, PART 1
May 03 - 27, 2018
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist second solo exhibition with the gallery. Here, the artist explores his childhood memories in Norway where he grew up in the late 1960’s with his mother Aud and his father Bjorn Morisse (1944-2006) who created in 1965 the famous Folk Band, The Young Norwegians.
“Growing up the son of rock legend Bjorn Morisse, frontman of The Young Norwegians, has provided painter Andre von Morisse with a treasure trove of imagery surrounding his bohemian parents from which to construct a narrative investigation of his much mediated childhood. The present show, which includes a cherubic image of the young painter, announces itself as Part One of what may prove to be an epic cycle. von Morisse is the husband of gallery proprietor Silas von Morisse.” - David Cohen (ArtCritical, May 6, 2018)
JAM SESSION
A group exhibition curated by Ella Marder
April 16, 2018 - March 2020
Silas von Morisse Gallery is pleased to participate in the group exhibition JAM SESSION, curated by Ella Marder for the NeueHouse Madison Square, New York City. Special collaboration with Blum & Poe and Silas von Morisse galleries
With: Frances Barth, Clarina Bezzola, Elvire Bonduelle, Clara Claus, Matthew Cole, Stephen Dean , Anne Deleporte, Julien Gardair , Hyon Gyon, Julian Hoeber, Daniel Horowitz, Gavin Kenyon , Linder, Dave Muller , Miles Pittman , Penny Slinger, Andre Von Morisse, Marjorie Welish, Justin Williams. Gallery artists in bold.
JULIETTE DUMAS
ANGELS
April 05-29, 2018
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist second solo exhibition with the gallery.
The two Lifesize Whale Fluke Paintings presented in this exhibition by Juliette Dumas gained her critical acclaim and reviews. Both works are placed in prestigious collections in the US.
Whale Fluke (Le Grand Bleu), 2018 and Whale Fluke (Night), 2018, both clay and gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 60 x 144 x 3 in.
BRETT WALLACE
AMAZING INDUSTRIES
March 6 - 12, 2018
Silas von Morisse Gallery is pleased to present Brett Wallace Amazing Industries at SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW, March 2018, New York City.
AMAZING INDUSTRIES explores the archetype of a mega corporation encroaching on our daily lives, bringing ideologies and promises of new utopian futures. This exhibition explores the Amazon business model and turns it inside out to reveal its hidden pockets of alienation and strangeness as a signifier of the future of work. The exhibition voices a concern about the precarity and inequality of late capitalism.
KES ZAPKUS
NEW PAINTINGS
March 2-30, 2018
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist second solo exhibition with the gallery at the approach of his 80th birthday.
KES ZAPKUS: NEW PAINTINGS is summary work, which substantiates a life long investigation of deeply held beliefs concerning the essence of the historical Art of Painting. Relegating image making and illustration to photography he focuses his concentration to celebrate the other aspects of a full visual language. His work is defiantly non-pictorial but fugue-like in structure with a complex of elements and small units cross-referenced and viewed simultaneously for the sense of totality.
DAVID GOERK
WHITE & BLACK (NEW WORK)
February 01-25, 2018
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
David Goerk’s work explores the dialogue between painting and sculpture. The artist unique touch with wood, gesso, enamel, oil, encaustic and the occasional inclusion of other mediums create unique and distinct objects. Painting and sculpture are not trying to be defined here; rather, the impulse is to make objects unto themselves with their own powers.
FRANCES BARTH
NEW PAINTINGS: 2011-2017
November 03 - December 17, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
The exhibition features new works by Frances Barth made between 2011 and 2017. The exhibition presents never seen before works among which the COM paintings: a series of five paintings on panels created in 2011. Those panels are meant to be read in a cinematic way from left to right as the light changes in each work, indicating a progression of time from early morning to late in the day. Those fictive landscapes allow the viewer to participate, moving closer to an architectural/natural element traveling across vast space.
KARSHAN - SCHLITZ
IN DIALOGUE
September 13 - October 29, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery.
KARSHAN – SCHLITZ: IN DIALOGUE features drawings by Linda Karshan dating from 1996 – 2004, selected for this exhibition by curator Dr. Mark McDonald of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Prints & Drawings Dept.(MET). The exhibition also features 2 large works on paper and a series of small drawings by Frauke Schlitz.
The exhibition was accompanied by Artist Talk featuring: GLENN KURTZ in conversation with Linda Karshan and Frauke Schlitz, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23.
GOERK / PAGK / WELISH
SUMMER EXHIBITION
August 8 - September 01, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present a Summer exhibition. The gallery was named ART 3 before changing its name to Silas VON MORISSE..
“In the sparse white cube of ART 3 Gallery, three artists present works in varying media. David Goerk, Paul Pagk and Marjorie Welish all work with color to investigate abstraction. David Goerk’s drawings and sculptures appear to be based on the form of playing dice; even in his two-dimensional works, he injects movement into the otherwise static images. Paul Pagk’s paintings, by contrast, make use of negative space to create dynamic colored canvases”.
- Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein, August 7, 2017 (ARTNET News Editors’ Picks: 11 Things to See in New York This Week)
MATTHEW COLE
MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS
July 25-August 4, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
"Memories, Dreams, Reflections" is a continuous exploration of painting approached from a particular psychological angle named after Carl Jung's autobiography on Visions and Symbols.
SILOS
A Group Exhibition of new works by artists-in-residence at Residency Unlimited (RU) curated by Rashmin Viswanathan.
July 11-21, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present SILOS curated by Rashmi Viswanathan with works by artists-in-residence at RU (residency Unlimited).
With works by CONRAD BOTES (South Africa), SARA GASSMANN (Switzerland), CAMILA LAMARCA (Argentina), AI MAKITA (Japan), LYOUDMILA MILANOVA (Germany). This group exhibition, featuring international artists with Residency Unlimited (RU), explores a range of material possibilities.
GRETCHEN SCHERER
ONCE I HAD THIS DREAM
May 24 - June 24, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
A delightful exhibition, an entrance into the world of small paintings by artist Gretchen Scherer.
"Gretchen Scherer's small paintings of exquisite interiors remind us of Jane Irish and are pretty delightful; Scherer shares Irish’s joy in the depiction of fancy interiors and has a similarly lush palette, but there is something more ominous in those empty rooms, a clearly felt absence." - Gabriella Vainsencher (ARTFCITY September 2013)
ARTICULATE
A GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY DAVID COHEN
April 5 - May 22, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present in gallery 1 & 2 this exceptional group exhibition curated by David Cohen. Artists: Clytie Alexander, Eve Aschheim, Willard Boepple, Diana Cooper, James Hyde, Alain Kirili, Harriet Korman, Jonathan Lasker, Katherine Mangiardi.
This group exhibition, selected by David Cohen, brings together artists working in a striking array of different mediums, genres, styles and milieu, as befits a curator and critic of ecumenical taste who prides himself in looking across lines of fashion and status. In the group he has gathered there is, a common sense of articulation. The exhibition includes sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, photomontage, photogram and video.
JEN DURBIN
90 MOVES IN 90 SECONDS (THE JACKIE SERIES 2001-2017)
April 5 - May 21, 2017 (reprised until December 17, 2017)
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present this exceptional exhibition in ARTFORUM BEST OF 2017 December 2017, Print Issue P. 77)..
Durbin’s 90 Moves in Nine Seconds (The Jackie Series 2001-2017), is based on the recorded film of the assassination of JFK (The Zapruder film). Durbin's unique and extraordinary point of view is solely focused on the movements of Jackie O's pink hat. Durbin extracts from the film each and every pivots of the hat as it flew over in the air, each pivots being recorded out of wood or reed showing us the detailed movement of the whirling hat. Durbin’s “Jackie Series" is an elaborate and complex sculpture installation comprised of 11 core parts 30 feet high, with 11 panels of drawings, wood chairs, reed, plaster and wool hats.
A BRIEF GOSPEL FOR OUR TIMES
A Group Exhibition
February 18 - March 26, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present in gallery 2 this exceptional exhibition.
A BRIEF GOSPEL FOR OUR TIMES is an installation evolving around truth, memory, perception, and the sacred. In a pale blue room, lined with a gold thread, a large abstract mural temple greets the visitor, while on the frieze, words unfold, relevant to our very recent History. “A brief gospel For Our Times” hints at where we are today in our history and where we are going.
Featuring: JOE AMRHEIN (words on wall) , DAN BAINBRIDGE(sculpture of Jesus with Marie Magdalena head) WILLIAM CORWIN (sculpture), CARIN RILEY (mural drawing) , HAZEL LEE SANTINO (sculpture), ANDRE VON MORISSE (paintings).
LAWRENCE BECK
WINTER THICKETS
February 15 - March 26, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
The large scale black and white photographs shown in the exhibition are from the series titled THICKETS (2003-2005) that Beck shot locally upstate New York during a few Winters. Those works were originally exhibited at Sonnabend gallery in 2005.
ALAN NEIDER
BLANKET PAINTINGS
January 18-February 5, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present in gallery 2, the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
“Long before combining painting and sculpture became a popular strategy for painters, Neider was constructing three-dimensional objects – including lamps, chairs, curtains, and non-objective forms – to paint on. Neider’s large- scale paintings often droop off the wall, but the vigorous paint handling defies the abjectness of the objects themselves.”
Sharon Butler for Two Coats of Paint, February 2, 2016
OWEN SCHUH
DRAWING RULES
January 18-February 5, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present in gallery 2, the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Owen Schuh creates artworks that draw inspiration from mathematical rules, algorithms and complex organic systems. In particular, he is fascinated by simple sets of well-defined rules that generate unexpectedly intricate and nuanced structures. His work is painstakingly created by hand, using at most the aid of a pocket calculator.
DRAWINGS, RULES presented three larger works on canvas by Schuh dating from 2006 to 2011.
MARJORIE WELISH
SOME DIFFERENCES
November 9, 2016 extended until February 5, 2017
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
The art of Marjorie Welish is diagrammatic: dedicated to forms of thought. Grids make visible a structural stability, but also a questioning of such stability--through changing approaches to repetition and difference. SOME DIFFERENCES presented some of Welish most recent diptychs paintings.
On February 5, 2017 the gallery presented a Conversation with critic and curator Lilly Wei, (in an excerpt from the forthcoming catalogue titled: A Work, and...), where Welish answered a few questions about her painting.
ADOLFO DORING
POSTED 162 GRAMS
October 5-November 6, 2016
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
POSTED 162 GRAMS is based on a conceptual book created by the artist out of images he posted on INSTAGRAM from August 16, 2014 to September 2, 2015. Doring’s labor-intensive process reveals his deep love and commitment to analogue photography. The artist presented 81 small silver-gelatin prints. A filmmaker and photographer who created iconic music videos in the late 90’s, won an MTV Music award and shot an Oscar-nominated documentary, Doring has kept his passion for photography uncompromised. His work in this show proves his deep commitment to art and its relationship to the contemporary social landscape.
BRETT WALLACE
IF THIS, THEN WHAT
October 3-November 6, 2016
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present in gallery 2 the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
I F THIS, THEN WHAT stems from Wallace's interest in the speed and spectacle of production and distribution systems and their impact on society. Wallace's works arrive to us out of a glitch he is creating in a production process. In a series of subtly transformed shipping boxes the artist completed in 2016, he laser cuts anodyne statements onto cardboard boxes to expose errors where the ad space on the outside of the box may have been hijacked in the production process (Culture, Hope, Get Big Fast , etc.).
JULIETTE DUMAS
NO SAFE HARBOR
September 7 - October 2, 2016
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition in the US and with the gallery.
Juliette Dumas creates artworks that address our strained relationship with Nature. Dumas uses the physical properties of her materials and the dynamics of their interaction, to create metaphors for humanity’s struggle to control the effects of environmental degradation. The exhibition presented a range of Dumas ephemeral installations involving water, plastic, and rocks (Strategies of Resistance; Horizon Line); a series of silver gelatin works (Frozen Plates : Collaboration with the Cold), large white canvases (The Erased Paintings) and a wood sculpture (Whale Bone).
JUSTIN WILLLIAMS
FIGURES & VESSELS
June 22-July 24, 2016
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition in the US and with the gallery.
Transcending the whispers of local folklore and urban legend, Justin Williams’s artworks are raw, subversive, and primal while simultaneously being idyllic, mystical, and sublime. His imagery includes expressionistically rendered figures and animals often engulfed with luscious and vibrantly jewel toned foliage. The artist grew up living and working in the Dandenong Ranges just east of east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Known for its towering Mountain Ash trees and sheltered fern gullies. This topography, that of unruly bramble and dew on leaves just after a thunderstorm features heavily in Williams’s paintings.
MATTER & CONJECTURE, KES ZAPKUS, STEFAN GRITSCH
CURATED BY MARJORIE WELISH
May 11-June 19, 2016
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present both artists first solo exhibition with the gallery.
A Two Person Exhibition, curated by art critic and artist Marjorie Welish, featuring paintings by Kes Zapkus in duality with Swiss artist Stefan Gritsch acrylic-pigment-matter blocks. This exhibition derives its rationale from the title of a major painting by Kes Zapkus.
RICHMOND BURTON
I AM PAINTINGS (THE RETURN)
March 30-May 8, 2016
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
The exhibition was accompanied by Artist Talk: Dominique Nahas in conversation with Richmond Burton Wednesday April 20, 2016, 7- 8 PM
This exhibition marked a 15-year anniversary and return to Burton’s seminal works, originally shown in 2001 at Cheim & Read, New York, NY. Burton’s works are known for their kaleidoscopic color, undulating patterns, and lyrical handling of expressionistic mark making. The I AM paintings manage to simultaneously hold two truths without becoming one or the other.
ADOLFO DORING + ALEXIS DE CHAUNAC
ZONA MACO | NEW PROPOSALS 2016
February 3- 7, 2016
Silas von Morisse (formerly ART 3) is pleased to present the artists at ZONA MACO | NEW PROPOSALS, BOOTH NP42.
ADOLFO DORING: REPURPOSED created for NEW PROPOSALS, was an installation comprised of 2 crates (This Way Up & The Nature of Man) complemented by 40 color photographs.
ALEXIS DE CHAUNAC, BESTIARIO, presented a selection of 30 drawings previously exhibited at The Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Xalapa, Mexico (May-June 2015).
ANDRE VON MORISSE
PINK FREUD & THE PLEASANT HORIZON
October 28, 2015-January 17, 2016
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Pink Freud and the Pleasant Horizon stems from Andre von Morisse’s interest in the powerful influence of Freud, Darwin, and Christ on ideas about psychological, scientific and spiritual motors of human life and on popular culture since the 20th century. The exhibition consists of six photographs of paintings the artist first executed in black and white (oil on canvas, 26 x 26 in.) and then photographed. This series of 12 works is accompanied by 4 color paintings: Pink Freud 2 (2015), Pink Freud’s Dream (2015), Pink Froid and You don’t always get the memories you want (2013).
ALEXIS DE CHAUNAC
A DANCE WITH LIFE AND DEATH
September 16-October 25, 2015
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Set against a backdrop drawn from mythology, anthropology and medical sciences with sources in New York, Mexico and Paris, the exhibition is comprised of three bodies of work: Traité d’Anatomie Humaine has 50 watercolors drawn on original book pages from the 1911 edition of Le Traité d’Anatomie Humaine published by P. Poirirer and A. Charpy, Paris, France. Anthropologie, Polyptych-The Last Supper.
DAN BANBRIDGE
BESTIARY
May 20-June 28, 2015
Silas von Morisse is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Bainbridge’s menagerie is a creation of mixed-media objects, assemblages, collages, and performances, the artist draws from nature, history of representation, Western mythology, childhood, adult fantasies, and popular culture. Captivated by the interrelation between vulnerability and cruelty, this highly original emerging talent has created a contemporary bestiary.
ANTHONY MILER
12 PAINTINGS AT NADA NEW YORK
May 14- 17, 2015
Silas von Morisse (formerly ART 3) is pleased to present ANTHONY MILER at NADA NY | BOOTH 4.21
ANTHONY MILER: 12 PAINTINGS was a rotating solo booth exhibition at NADA New York featuring twelve works by the Brooklyn-based artist. On each day, ART 3 showed three to four different works by this emerging talent who received critical acclaim.
SERGIO PURTELL
IN BROOKLYN: ARCHITECTURES OF DISAPPEARANCE
April 8-May 16, 2015
Silas von Morisse (formerly ART 3) is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
This exhibition forms only a part of the artist's greater project “Real”. Purtell's photographs evidence an ever-changing cityscape in the process of its own disappearance. The works selected for the exhibition were taken in Bushwick, Williamsburg and Gowanus. The exhibition was accompanied by an Artist Talk on April 29 with Sergio Purtell, Thomas Roma and Susan Kismeric, former curator of photography at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
LINDA KARSHAN
SIGNS OF MEN
March 4-April 5, 2015
Silas von Morisse (formerly ART 3) is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery.
This exhibition presented for the first time, Summer Drawings, 2014 and Footfalls, a series of 27 etchings, drawn and printed in Copenhagen, in the workshop of Niels Borch Jensen. The show contextualized Karshan’s newest work by including a selection of drawings since 1993, and a video by Candida Richardson, Movements, and their Images (2009), which observes the artist’s unique working method. On March 29, Balance in Determination: Walking with Linda Karshan featured the artist in conversation with Dr. Mark McDonald, Curator of Prints, Dept. of Drawings & Prints, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
CLAUDIA BAEZ
PAINTINGS AFTER PROUST
October 8-November 22, 2014
Silas von Morisse (formerly ART 3) is pleased to present the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery. Exhibition curated by Anne Strauss, former Associate Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Dept. of Modern and Contemporary Art).
Baez, a longtime admirer of Proust, was inspired to create her own Proust-related series rendered in a contemporary expressionistic vocabulary. The exhibition was accompanied on November 1st, by PROUST IS IN THE AIR, an afternoon with Proust, which included a music improvisation by Naum Goldenstein (clarinet) and Alexandra Zelman (text) performing music by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Reynaldo Hahn, Camille Saint-Saëns, followed by a conversation between curator Raul Zamudio and writer Phoebe Hoban on Contemporary painting.
ANTHONY MILER
THE GRISAILLE PAINTINGS
September 6-27, 2014
Silas von Morisse (formerly ART 3) is pleased to present the artist first US solo exhibition and with the gallery.
Miler's semi-abstract paintings and drawings, with their vibrant colors and distorted human figures are inspired by works of the COBRA avant-garde group, formed in 1948 in Paris by Karel Appel, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, et al. Their manifesto called for complete freedom of color and form, their working method was based on spontaneity and experiment, drawing inspiration from children's drawings and primitive art forms. Miler’s sensuous strokes remind us of Joan Miro or Willem de Kooning. For his solo exhibition at ART 3, he forsakes color to explore in shades of gray with graphite on raw canvas.
ART 3 INAUGURAL EXHIBITION
OPENING GROUP SHOW
May 17-June 14, 2014
Silas von Morisse launched ART 3 Gallery on MAY 17, 2014 in vibrant Bushwick art scene around the corner from LUHRING AUGUSTINE satellite gallery. Featured Artists: Dan Bainbridge, Alexis de Chaunac, Julia Curylo, Adolfo Doring, Roberto Dutesco, Linda Karshan, Kim Keever, Andre von Morisse, Sergio Purtell, Jeremy Sheaffer.
“As part of its inaugural exhibition and participation in B.O.S., ART 3 showcases the works of 12 artists from around the globe. Standouts include “Picnic,” a painting by Andre Von Morisse that reimagines Edouard Manet’s iconic “Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe” as a scene involving characters from the Popeye cartoons, and Julia Curylo’s “Chicks,” chicken-shaped inflatables covered with imagery that references famous female artists like Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keeffe.” - Valeriya Safronova, May 29, 2014 for T The New York Times Style Magazine.