Summer Exhibition: Gallery Artists
Opening Tuesday, July 6 – August 13
The Nancy Margolis Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the summer exhibition featuring a mixture of drawing, painting, and sculpture. On view will be pen and ink drawing by Gina Ruggeri, painting by Holly Farrell and Amy Mahnick. The gallery will also be showing the corresponding sculpture of Amy Mahnick, and the ceramic sculpture of artist Kim Simonsson and Jack Earl. The work of Anna Hepler, ME; Lucy Fradkin, NY and Ferne Jacobs, CA, will also be exhibited in the viewing room.
Gina Ruggeri, New York, creates both large and small-scale drawings of pen and ink wash on paper. Spontaneously composed drawings, some with simple illustrative line, some with lush charcoal and watercolor, act as studies for her painted work of the natural world. Ruggeri, received her MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, where she was recently exhibited in a 2009 group exhibition. Ruggeri is the recipient of a 2002 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program Grant and will have an installation project in 2010 at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
Amy Mahnick, Brooklyn, will exhibit a collection of soft-hued, still life oil on linen paintings. Mahnick’s tour de force, throw away plastic containers cut, glued and manipulated into three dimensional sculptures, are the models for the still life compositions. Close ups of the sculptures further illuminate the personality inherent in each small grouping. Mahnick received her BFA from Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and MFA from The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY. Mahnick is a recipient of the National Arts Club Award for Still Life, and a 2006 Artist Grant from the Vermont Studio Center.
Holly Farrell, Toronto, paints vintage domestic objects, acrylic & oil on Masonite, with exacting realism. A self-taught painter, Farrell focuses on objects, worn and aged; cracked porcelain bowls, cookbooks and 50’s party shoes. Thoughtful and nostalgic, these quiet scenes reflect the intimacy with which the artist viewed the objects, and the people to which they belonged. Farrell has been reviewed in numerous publications including The New York Times, Art in America and The Boston Globe. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Jack Earl, OH, brings to life the comic book super heroes he loved in a selection of work from his playful 2008 exhibition Comic Worlds at the Nancy Margolis Gallery. Earl will exhibit a large full body sculpture of Jughead, rendered in white clay and oil paint. Earl has had a long history with the Nancy Margolis Gallery, and is established as one of the important American ceramic artists.
Kim Simonsson, Finland, explores decorative and metallic textures with his ceramic figures in this exhibition, contrasting his approach to the abstract simplicity of earlier figures. Simonsson’s sculpture can be found in numerous public collections including the prestigious Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland, Tampere Art Museum, Finland, National Museum of Norway, Arario Gallery, Korea, Shigaraki Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan as well as private collections in France and The United States.
Please feel free to contact the gallery for additional information on any of the artists included in this exhibition.