Bruce Robbins

Bruce Robbins Large Mixed Media Contemporary Collage Painting Abstract Flower

1987

Oil pastels, acrylic, wax pencil, graphite, watercolor and collage elements on paper framed to 39.5 X 31.5. sheet measures 30 X 22 inches. (no glass) Raimundo Figueroa...

Chihung Yang American (b. 1947) Untitled (Black and Brown Composition) (1986) Mixed media (acrylic, pastel) on paper Hand signed lower right Sheet 38 x 50 inches, frame dimensions: 45 x 57 x 2 inches, wood frame with glazing Provenance:= From a Corporate Art Collection Yang Chihung (Chinese: 楊識宏; pinyin: Yang Chihung; born 1947) Taiwanese-American artist. Yang Chi-hung was born on 25 October 1947, in Chungli, Taiwan. He developed an interest in art in early childhood, and found inspirations to pursue an artist career after reading Lust for Life – The Life of Vincent van Gogh, translated by poet Yu Kuang-chung, in junior high school. Between 1965 and 1968, he attended the National Taiwan College of Art, developing a sound foundation in oil painting under the tutelage of famous Taiwanese artists of the Japanese Colonial period, such as Liao Chi-chun, Li Mei-shu and Yang San-lang. Meanwhile, he actively attended events organized by the modern art groups of Taiwan, namely the Fifth Moon Group and Ton Fan Group, only to find himself both intimidated and dissatisfied with the then relatively conservative art environment in Taiwan. In 1979, he emigrated to the United States of America with his wife, Jane, and their son, Daniel. His pioneering works soon landed him the “Outstanding Asian-American Artist” award. The concept and style of abstract expressionism as represented by the works of Jackson Pollock in the 1950s had great impact on Yang’s work. With the sense of nihilism that gave rise to abstract expressionism in the post-war period, artists no longer clamored to depict the external environment, but rather chose to focus on their own inner experience. Yang Chihung embraced this spirit about the early 1990s when his style turned abstract. In 1984–85 and again in 1985–86, he was twice awarded a year's residency at The Clocktower Studio in New York City by MoMA P.S.1. In 2013, Yang, along with Xu Bing, Zhang Huan, and Li Chen, were the four artists featured in the Discovery Channel Asia documentary series, Chineseness, a multi-series production that focused on postwar Chinese contemporary artists. He is of the generation of artists such as Chen Tingshi, Liang Yifeng, Yang Yuyu, Pang Jiun, Yinhui Chen, Jui-Ling Hung, De-Jinn Shiy, Yong-ik Cho, Wan Chuan Chang, Kuosung Liu, Sanlang Yang, Chetsai Shen, Fu-sheng Ku, Chunxiang Zhao, Ming Ju, Ming-Che Huang, Jiutong Liu, In-Ting Ran, George Chann, Yi Hong, Tzu-Chi Yeh, Max Liu, Yi-Hsiung Chang, Che Chuang Awards and recognition 1989, Outstanding Asian American Artist Award, by Governor of New York 1984–1986, MoMA P.S.1 National Studio Program, Residency at Clocktower Studio, New York SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1969 Contemporary Young Artists Exhibition, U. S. I. S. Lincoln Center, Taipei, Taiwan 1974 Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ueno Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 1977 10 Chinese Leading Artists, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 1978 Contemporary Chinese Art from Taiwan, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 1978 International Exhibition of Prints, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea 1979 6th British International Print Biennial, Bradford Art Galleries and Museum, England 1980 4th Miami International Print Biennial, Metropolitan Museum Coral Gables, Florida 1982 Summer Invitational, Susan Caldwell Inc, New York City 1982 Four Artists, SoHo Center for Visual Artists, New York City 1983 New Acquisitions and Trustee's Choice, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1983 Cleveland (UK) 6th International Drawing Biennale, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, England 1983 Dreams Demons Madness, Alternative Museum, New York City 1984 Rambunctious, Siegel Contemporary Art, New York City 1984 Invitational Painting Exhibition, Part II: Eight Imagist Painters, Siegel Contemporary Art, NYC 1984 Salvo, Ruth Siegel Ltd, New York 1984 Modern Art, Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York City 1985 Exotica, Paintings and Works on Paper, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York City 1985 The Art of the 1970s and 1980s, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1985 Large Figurative Drawings...

This depicts civil rights icon MLK, the Statue of Liberty, Iwo Jima, an assemblage of mixed media photographic images and painted collaged elements. A powerful, moving work, an ode to the black civil rights movement. John M. Mitchell is originally from North Carolina, and as an art student at North Carolina Central University, he was involved with the Civil Rights movement including participating and getting arrested at a sit-in protest in Durham in 1963. After graduating, he was one of the first art teachers to take a position at the newly integrated schools in his home state. Mitchell continued his education in the 1990s and earned an MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1993. He later served as a professor there from 1998-2006. Of his inspiration to create, Mitchell says: "A lot of my work is based on my experiences during the Civil Rights movement," he says. "I see art making as a 'record' of experiences. My bittersweet past, growing up in the segregated South, inspires the content, focus and narrative of my work." Savannah-based artist John Mitchell believes that a home is more than a simple edifice. Rather, he argues that the sociological, psychological, architectural, and historical associations embedded in the structure “tell us about our culture, our lives. It tells us about where we come from.” Mitchell's signature shotgun house constructions, crafted from found materials and scraps of newspaper headlines, reference his childhood in North Carolina, where such modest architectural structures were once commonplace. In "ALA 1963," he uses the shotgun shape to create a heartfelt memorial to a group of African-American girls killed in a racially motivated church bombing in Alabama nearly 50 years ago. He also incorporates the shotgun symbol in "Victims," a powerful reflection upon crime in Savannah in the early 1990s, which reveals how little has changed over the past two decades. Mitchell's mixed media constructions operate, in many ways, like memory itself. Scraps, fragments and pieces loosely cohere around a central idea, making symbolic and metaphorical connections. In these richly narrative and boldly stream-of-conscious assemblages, the whole truly is greater than the sum of its parts. Mitchell's jazz collages - carefully crafted from scraps of newspaper, sheet music, magazines and tissue paper - celebrate key players in Savannah's jazz scene, from sultry female vocalists to wiry male saxophone players. A tribute to the late jazz bassist Ben Tucker, a true Savannah legend, is especially moving, incorporating a pencil sketch of the standing bass player as well as newspaper clippings of other Savannah jazz musicians. Mitchell grew up in a shotgun house in North Carolina, a style of vernacular architecture that is particularly prevalent in the South. Mitchell fills his sculptural homes with objects of metaphorical and symbolic, iconic, importance. In Home Sweet Home he includes the American flag, a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and a china plate depicting The Last Supper, among other items that convey a personal and historical narrative. He notes that making art acts “as a ‘record’ of experiences. My bittersweet past, growing up in the segregated South, inspires the content, focus, and narrative of my work.” While this contains elements reminiscent of folk art and outsider art this is a quite sophisticated tour de force. He was included in the show Complex Uncertainties, Telfair Museum: Modern and contemporary art comprise painting, prints, drawing, photograph, sculpture, and works in new media, representing American artistic achievement from 1945 to the present day. The exhibition includes works by artists such as Bruce Davidson, Elaine de Kooning, Carrie Mae Weems, Sam Gilliam, Ethel Schwabacher, Radcliffe Bailey...

Title: (Baseball) Mits 25.5" W x 25.5" H x 2.25" framed; canvas measures 24" W x 24" H. Provenance: The Rails Collection, Washington, DC (with their label verso) This depicts floating baseball gloves inn an abstract pattern. This is not signed on the front and might be signed verso. We have not examined out of frame. Patrick LoCicero was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1959. He attended Youngstown State University, Ohio, and the Columbus College of Art and Design. He completed a B.F.A. at Ohio State University in 1982 and an M.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1986. His paintings, installations, prints, and multimedia work have been shown in California, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. LoCicero's richly layered imagery is characterized by unusual juxtapositions of everyday objects and classical motifs, which play with the viewer's perception of materials and subjects. LoCicero’s assemblage paintings combine collage with painting. The overlap and collage elements relate directly to the images he depicts, guiding him in his choice of subjects, and come from a variety of sources including the Kama Sutra, antique children’s books, letters and journals. His still life paintings resonate due to the contrast the artist sets up between the collaged surface and the painted surface, as well as the play between the actual shallow space and implied deep space. Patrick specializes in creating mixed-media collages that tell stories. Collage paintings inventively reinterpret the collage technique that developed during the Cubist Dada era, and he reinvigorates one of the most important modes of expression in the art of the 20th Century. EDUCATION 1986 M.F.A. The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1982 B.F.A. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH TEACHING 2000 to 2010 - Instructor, Drawing, Mixed Media, University of Washington Extension Program, Seattle WA 1997-present - Visiting Faculty, Painting, Drawing, Senior Advising, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA 1996 - Adjunct Lecturer, Design I, 2-D Design 130, City College of New York, NY 1994 - N.E.A., Maryland State Arts Council Grant, Individual Artist Grant 1992-1994 - Adjunct Lecturer, Drawing, Printmaking, Professional Practices and Gallery Management, Modesto College, Modesto, CA 1989 - San Francisco City Location Grant, San Francisco, CA 1984-1986 - Lecturer: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, De Young Museum School, San Francisco, CA 1985 - Instructor: Lithography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1983 - Artist-in-Residence, St. Charles School, Youngstown, OH 1982 - Tuition Scholarship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1981 - Tuition Scholarship, The Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 - "Ephemera", Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle WA "This or Maybe That", O'Reilly Hall, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Dayton 2012 - "Bird Portraits", Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle WA "Recent Collages", Cumberland Gallery, Nashville TN 2010 - "CIRQUE", Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle WA 2009 - "History of Collage", Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle WA "Collaged Botanicals", Ira Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA 2008 - "Paper Flowers":, G2 Gallery , Scottsdale AZ "Double Versed Flowers", Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale NY 2006 - "The Flowered Kama Sutra", Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR 2005 - "Cigar Boxes", The Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2004 - "The Tourist", Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR "Holiday", "Greenwood/Chebithes Gallery, Laguna Beach ,CA 2003 - "Travels", Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Passages", The Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle WA 2002 - "The Bachelor Stripped Bare", Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland OR 2001 - "Quilts ", The Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA "Calling Cards ", The Marsha Ralls Gallery, Washington, DC 2000 - "Sideshow", Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR 1999 - "Same Language Different Words", Ira Wolk Gallery, St. Helena CA "Illusion of Memory,"Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle WA 1997 - "Nostalgia Suite," Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle WA 1996 - "Symbol: Object, '' Associated American Artists, New York, NY 1995 - "The Idora Park Series," The Marsha Ralls Gallery, Washington, DC 1994 - "The Idora Park Series," Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA "The Fabric Paintings," The LEF Foundation, St. Helena, CA "Selective Work," The Shaklee Corporate Headquarters, San Francisco, CA 1992 - "The Stripe Paintings," Italian American Museum, San Francisco, CA "Large Scale Collages," Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1991 - "The Fabric Paintings," Owen Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1990 - "Redeeming Dreams," Saxon Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Double Dreams," Braunstein Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1989 - "Recent Work," Monsoon Restaurant, Opera Plaza, San Francisco, CA 1987 - "The Vegetable Paintings," The Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 - 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Patricia Rovzar Gallery Seattle WA 2012 - "Elastic Plastic", Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings MT "New Whimsy", Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle WA 2012 - Seattle Art Fair, Seattle WA 2011 - "Transformations", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA "20 Years 20 Artists", The Ralls Collection , Washington DC. 2010 - "Summer Selections", Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA "Gallery Feature Artists", Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN "Arts Aspen", Aspen, CO "Gallery Salon", The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C. "International Artists", United States Embassy, Tbilisi, GA 2009 - "Discoveries", Butters Gallery LTD. Portland OR 2009 - "Summer Gallery Show", Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN "Finds Refined", Museum Of North West Art, La Conner WA "Happenings", Alexis Hotel, Seattle WA 2006 - "Miami Art Fair", Miami, FL "Los Angeles Art Fair", Los Angeles, CA "Affordable Art Fair", New York, NY 2005 - "Gallery Artists Inaugural", Meyer/Milagros Gallery, Jackson, WY "The Red Show", Cheryl Hazan Gallery...

Rajib Bhattacharjee - Untitled Acrylic & Charcoal on Archival Paper, 23 x 23 inches (unframed) Rajib Bhattacharjee passed preparatory painting in 1991 from Govt. College of Art and ...

Rajib Bhattacharjee - Untitled Acrylic & Charcoal on Archival Paper, 23 x 23 inches (unframed) Rajib Bhattacharjee passed preparatory painting in 1991 from Govt. College of Art and ...

Rajib Bhattacharjee - Untitled Acrylic & Charcoal on Archival Paper, 24 x 30 inches (unframed) Rajib Bhattacharjee passed preparatory painting in 1991 from Govt. College of Art and ...

Rajib Bhattacharjee - Untitled Acrylic & Charcoal on Archival Paper, 24 x 30 inches (unframed) Rajib Bhattacharjee passed preparatory painting in 1991 from Govt. College of Art and ...