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Sims Reed Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of Fine Art prints and original works on paper by the internationally renowned American artist Dale Chihuly.

While celebrated for his exquisite and pioneering glass installations, drawing has always been integral to Chihuly's artistic practice. They became an increasingly important means of communicating his ideas to his team after losing the sight of his left eye in 1976. These works evolved from charcoal and graphite studies into wilder colourful pieces, that according to the artist remain a crucial part of his creative process, without which the glass works would not have progressed in the way or at the speed with which they have. He describes the exchange of energy between the two as a flow of ideas, commenting that ' drawing is a fluid process,' like the blowing of glass.

This exhibition, which is comprised of twenty-nine original prints and ten original works on paper, seeks to reveal the elision of these two disciplines. Some of the prints - a medium the artist has been exploring for almost 30 years - draw on his sculptural series, such as Baskets, Niijima Floats, and Venetians, for inspiration, while others are purely imaginative.

As Chihuly has said, ' sometimes the drawings would be about the glass; sometimes they'd just be drawings, a way to release the energy, or a way for my mind and body to be creative while the glassblowing was going on.'

The featured prints range from woodcuts, hand-coloured screenprints and lithographs, as well as many embellishments incorporated into the production of each. Says the artist, ' I want people to be overwhelmed with light and colour in some way they've never experienced.' These qualities, along with his two other guiding principles, asymmetry and irregularity, can be witnessed in the displayed works. For example, Echo Floats (2018), is formed of two swirling daffodil-yellow and iridescent violet spheres with speckled centres set against a spring green background. A work of exceptional beauty, it also mirrors the grand, spherical form and blended-color surfaces found in the artist's acclaimed Niijima Float series, which he commenced in 1991.

Also included in the show are ten original works. The earliest of these, Venetian Drawing (1990), captures the immediacy of his astonishing visual invention, with upswept thrusts of black charcoal suggestive of birds or flames, while evoking the exuberant forms achieved in the sculptural series from which its title is derived. In other original works presented, Chihuly's dedication to experimentation is highlighted. His delight in stretching the limits of whatever media he works with is particularly evident in the Ikebana drawings (1998 and 2009), in which the artist employs an innovative technique of burning directly into the paper.

Max Reed, Gallery Director, says: ' We are thrilled to be showing for the first time these prints and works on paper by Dale Chihuly, who over five decades has explored new and old techniques, pushing the boundaries of Contemporary Art to create works that transform the everyday experience. While he is globally and justly renowned for his installations and glass artwork, it is arguably on paper that these ideas initially emerge and are subsequently revisited, resulting in a creative collision that gives rise to astonishing works of beauty and depth.'

Header image: detail from Dale Chihuly, Jerusalem, 1999 © Chihuly Studio. Photographer: Terry Rishel.

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Sims Reed Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of Fine Art prints and original works on paper by the internationally renowned American artist Dale Chihuly. While celebrated for his exquisite and pioneering glass installations, drawing has always been integral to Chihuly's artistic practice.

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What began an Eagle Scout project for High School Senior Diego Sosa, has become an inspiring event for the Chilton Community.

The exhibit being planned is scheduled for July 13- July 18, and will include art pieces from entrants from the Chilton area and will be a variety of media in both two and three dimensions. Area artists were invited to submit up to 4 original art pieces for possible inclusion in the exhibit. Artists of all ages were invited to submit pieces.

Due to the limitations of the Covid 19 crisis, the event will be virtual and can be viewed at

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Art Showing | Chilton Wisconsin Art Show

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What began an Eagle Scout project for High School Senior Diego Sosa, has become an inspiring event for the Chilton Community. The exhibit being planned is scheduled for July 13- July 18, and will include art pieces from entrants from the Chilton area and will be a variety of media in both two and three dimensions.

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“Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression” | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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“Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression” | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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The MFA brings together its unparalleled collection of Monet paintings for the first time in a generation-in honor of its 150th anniversary

Claude Monet (1840-1926) breathed fresh life into the art of painting. With a bold vision and radical approach that included a vibrant palette and visible brushwork, he proposed a new way of seeing and depicting the world. Artists and collectors came to France from near and far-from the US, Japan, and all over Europe-with hopes of meeting Monet and purchasing his work. His impact was far reaching and today his works are beloved around the globe.

Boston has been a center for the collecting and appreciation of Monet's paintings since the late 19th century. In honor of its 150th anniversary, the MFA celebrates a great treasure of its collection with a once-in-a-generation chance to see all 35 of the Museum's oil paintings by Monet. Many of the paintings were brought to Boston during Monet's lifetime, and, although a gallery was dedicated to a rotating display of the artist's works in 2016, it has been 25 years since the entire collection was shown together.

"Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression" highlights this city's and this Museum's enduring commitment to the artist. Through the generosity and foresight of local collectors, a retrospective of Monet's long career permanently resides within the Museum's walls-from early paintings like Rue de Bavole, Honfleur (about 1864) and his experiments with Mediterranean light in Antibes (Afternoon Effect) (1888) to works from his innovative Grainstacks, Rouen Cathedral, and Water Lilies series. What's more: the exhibition draws from the MFA's broader global collection to bring Monet's early works into conversation with exemplars he admired-from Japanese woodblock prints to earlier European paintings-enabling a fuller understanding and appreciation of the art and artists that inspired him.

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The MFA brings together its unparalleled collection of Monet paintings for the first time in a generation-in honor of its 150th anniversary Claude Monet (1840-1926) breathed fresh life into the art of painting. With a bold vision and radical approach that included a vibrant palette and visible brushwork, he proposed a new way of seeing and depicting the world.

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“Hearts in Isolation” | Studio Museum, NYC

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“Hearts in Isolation” | Studio Museum, NYC

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The online photography exhibition Hearts in Isolation: Expanding the Walls 2020 features work by the fifteen teenage artists in the 2020 cohort of the Museum's annual program, Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History, and Community. Launching July 30th, the first online edition of the annual Expanding the Walls exhibition marks the program's twentieth anniversary.

During their eight months in the program, Expanding the Walls participants from New York City-area high schools explore digital photography, artistic practice, and community-a term that took on new meaning this year, when students could no longer gather with one another and their mentors but had to complete the program remotely. As a result, their photographs reflect on themes of home and safety.

Hearts in Isolation: Expanding the Walls 2020 is organized by Makayla Bailey, Curatorial Fellow, Exhibitions; and Jordan Jones, Curatorial Fellow, Permanent Collection; with Ginny Huo, Senior Coordinator, Teen Programs; and the Expanding the Walls 2020 participants.

The twentieth anniversary of Expanding the Walls is made possible with support from The Keith Haring Foundation Education Fund; Conscious Kids; New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Joy of Giving Something; and Colgate-Palmolive. Additional support for The Studio Museum in Harlem's Education programs is provided by the Thompson Foundation Education Fund; the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation; Gray Foundation; Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts; Con Edison; and the Hearst Endowment Fund.

The Studio Museum in Harlem is deeply grateful to Donna Mussenden VanDerZee for her continued support of Expanding the Walls; photographer and professor Isaac Diggs for his mentorship; and New York University for its generous support of the program.

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The online photography exhibition Hearts in Isolation: Expanding the Walls 2020 features work by the fifteen teenage artists in the 2020 cohort of the Museum's annual program, Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History, and Community. Launching July 30th, the first online edition of the annual Expanding the Walls exhibition marks the program's twentieth anniversary.

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“Jordan Casteel: Within Reach” | New Museum, NYC

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“Jordan Casteel: Within Reach” | New Museum, NYC

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Bringing together nearly forty paintings spanning her career, including works from her celebrated series Visible Man (2013-14) and Nights in Harlem (2017), along with recent portraits of her students at Rutgers University-Newark, "Within Reach" will be Jordan Casteel's first solo museum exhibition in New York City.

In her large-scale oil paintings, Casteel has developed a distinctive figurative language permeated by the presence of her subjects, who are typically captured in larger-than-life depictions that teem with domestic details and psychological insights.

Portraying people from communities in which the artist lives and works-including former classmates at Yale, where she earned an MFA; street vendors and neighbors near her home in Harlem; and her own students at Rutgers University-Newark in New Jersey-Casteel insists upon the ordinary, offering scenes with both the informality of a snapshot and the frontality of an official portrait. In these richly colorful works, Casteel draws upon ongoing conversations on portraiture that encompass race, gender, and subjectivity, connecting her practice to the legacy of artists like Alice Neel, Faith Ringgold, and Bob Thompson, among others. Casteel's studies in anthropology and sociology also inform her works, which can often be read as a reflection on the presentation of the self in everyday life and as an investigation of the relationships that tie together intimacy and distance, familiarity and otherness.

Casteel's subjects, who are frequently black men looking directly at the viewer, are self-possessed and casually posed, but, as they stare in the distance, they also seem to ponder questions about masculinity and class, belonging and displacement. In the exchange of gazes between the sitters, the artist, and the viewers, her paintings blur impulses and aspirations to compose a nuanced portrait of daily life in the US.

From her earliest series, Visible Man, Casteel has challenged conventional depictions of blackness while simultaneously reconfiguring stereotypes and expectations around femininity and desire. In Jiréh (2013), a student from the Yale School of Drama appears unclothed and in repose at home, gazing tranquilly at the viewer from a patterned couch. More than on any sense of erotic tension, the painting rests on a sense of empathy and quietness. In later works, Casteel's encounters with her subjects are animated by a different sense of place: in Nights in Harlem, Casteel shifts her attention outside, to men and women who populate the streets of her neighborhood. Posed in their environments, these figures reflect the communal spaces and social relationships they inhabit.

Along with her depictions of life in Harlem, Casteel also explores scenarios in which anonymity and individuality seem to coexist. In her cropped "subway paintings"-one of which lends its title to the exhibition-she zooms in on the everyday gestures she observes on New York City trains. Even against the anonymous weight of strangers clasping cell phones and huddling near doorways, the body still remains legible, its identity concealed but its inner life nevertheless present. In these, as in many of her works, Casteel captures the sensory experience of life in the city, while conjuring the complex emotional landscape of her sitters.

"Jordan Casteel: Within Reach" will also include recent portraits of Casteel's students from Rutgers University-Newark. This series is comprised of works composed as domestic tableaux wherein the sitters and the artist share moments of proximity and estrangement that double as allegories of fleeting youth. These paintings signal a new phase for Casteel, one in which detailed passages of paint are contrasted with more abbreviated notations that still retain all the humanist qualities that distinguish her work.

The exhibition is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director.

A fully illustrated catalogue published by the New Museum accompanies the exhibition and includes interviews with the artist conducted by Massimiliano Gioni and Thelma Golden, and newly commissioned texts by Dawoud Bey, Lauren Haynes, and Amanda Hunt.

Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, CO) lives and works in New York City and is Assistant Professor of Painting in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at Rutgers University-Newark. Recent solo exhibitions include "Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze," presented at both the Denver Art Museum, Denver (2019) and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (2019-20). In recent years, she has participated in exhibitions at institutional venues such as Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2019); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2018); MoCA, Los Angeles, CA (2018); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2017 and 2016); and MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2017). Casteel has been an artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space, Governors Island, NY (2015); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2015); and The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY (2016). Casteel received her BA in Studio Art from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA in 2011 and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2014.

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Bringing together nearly forty paintings spanning her career, including works from her celebrated series Visible Man (2013-14) and Nights in Harlem (2017), along with recent portraits of her students at Rutgers University-Newark, "Within Reach" will be Jordan Casteel's first solo museum exhibition in New York City.

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Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA) | British art curator Lee Cavaliere

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Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA) | British art curator Lee Cavaliere

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VOMA - virtual online museum of art | A Virtual Online Museum of Art

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© VOMA/The Sixteen Trust 2021
Registered Charity Number: 1184247 Contact: info@voma.space

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“Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of the Coronavirus” | University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL

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“Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of the Coronavirus” | University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL

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An Evolving Online Exhibition // June 6 - December 12, 2020

Curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, and organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa.
Participating Artists
// Marcos Agudelo // Diana Al-Hadid // Atelier Van Lieshout // Alberto Borea // Sebastiaan Bremer // The Bruce High Quality Foundation // Seth Cameron // Samantha Casolari // Rebecca Chamberlain // Jake and Dinos Chapman // Jordi Colomer // Patricia Cronin // Godfried Donkor // Dysturb // Inka Essenhigh // Maureen Gallace // Zhao Gang // Rico Gatson // Mark Thomas Gibson // Patrick Hamilton // Ellen Harvey // Yishai Jusidman // Deborah Kass // Basil Kincaid // Glenda León // Matvey Levenstein // Kalup Linzy // Hew Locke // Cristina Lucas // Narsiso Martinez // Eva and Franco Mattes // Allan McCollum // Richard Mosse // Angel Otero // Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara // Edison Peñafiel // Dagoberto Rodríguez // Anastasia Samoylova // Fernando Sánchez Castillo // Guy Richards Smit // Kiki Smith // Bosco Sodi // Tavares Strachan // SUPERFLEX // Sarah Sze // Jorge Tacla // Tony Tasset // Newsha Tavakolian // Janaina Tschäpe // Spencer Tunick // Rodrigo Valenzuela // William Villalongo // Kennedy Yanko // Lisa Yuskavage //

Live Event - Artist Conversation Featuring Eva & Franco Mattes and Atelier Van Lieshout // Saturday, September 12, 1pm EDT // Zoom Link

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An Evolving Online Exhibition // June 6 - December 12, 2020 Curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, and organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa.