Dominican art gallery "Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo", founded in Santo Domingo in 1995 and with almost three decades in the local and international scene, has been selected for the third time to represent the Dominican Republic at the prestigious Contemporary Art Fair "Zona Maco 2022", to be held between February 9 and 13 at the Citibanamex Center in Mexico City.
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Whatever it is, the Mezcal Verde Amarás, de la mano de artistas dominicanos, lanza nuevas etiquetas para la nueva generación de botellas que se distribuirán por todo el mundo. La marca revela el resultado del talento dominicano en un evento sostenido en la prestigiosa Lyle O.Rietzel Gallery, a la exhibición asistieron amantes de arte, coleccionistas y por supuesto amantes del mezcal.
Mezcal Verde elige incorporar obras de arte únicas en cada botella, asociándose con artistas emergentes que prestan su estilo original a cada botella. En esta ocasión la marca colabora por primera vez con artistas dominicanos para vestir las botellas. Gerard Ellis, Gustavo Peña y el estudio de diseño El Aposento proponen su versión del universo Mezcal Verde Amarásway you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Lanzamiento #NOLABEL de Mezcal Verde Amarás
De izquierda a derecha: Manuela Corji, Duran Aguirre, Jose Maria Cabral, Flavio Florencio. Hugo Vailanti, Cristina Rovira. Stefano Cavolli, Mar Martinez, Freddy Jana. Marian Gabrielle, Moises Emmanuel. Manuela Corji, Luis Quiñones Polanco, Duran Aguirre. Fernando Solano, Gustavo Peña. Cristina Hernandez, Gerard Ellis. Wayne Wheeler, Sharon Sued, Fernando Solano. Manuela Corji, Flavio Florencio, Luis Miguel Molina. Clara Solano, Luis Paredes. Mar Martinez, Stefano Cavolli. Veronica Modesto.
Gustavo Peñam, Happy Abduction, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 68h x 78w in. (Private Collection).
Gustavo Peña titula su obra como “Happy Abduction” una obra que representa la experiencia de consumo del mezcal mediante la abducción de una persona por un platillo volador o UFO en medio de un paisaje tropical durante el atardecer. El artista describe el estilo de su obra como pop art.
El Aposento, El Tigre, 2021, Serigrafia Sobre Papel Materica Gesso, 27 x 40 in.
El Aposento, un estudio de diseño dirigido por Luis Molina, propone una etiqueta que representa, de alguna manera, parte de la cultura popular dominicana con su obra “El Tigre” la cual ilustra un felino mientras se escabulle entre los agaves florecidos representando el concepto de “el tigre” como jerga dominicana, una persona que se sale con la suya. La pieza toma referencia las antiguas ilustraciones chinas de la Fauna, ya que en esta cultura el Tigre representa a las personas que buscan aventuras y disfrutan plenamente de la vida.
Gerard Ellis, Circus Man, 2021, Acrilica Sobre Lienzo, 45 x 57 in.
Para su etiqueta “Circus Man”, Gerard Ellis toma como punto de partida un personaje de circo de los que exhiben gran fuerza y poderío, de los que se destacan entre las multitudes, su postura erguida da ese sentido de poseer una actitud positiva y de victoria ante la vida, sin miedos ni ataduras. También trata de evocar a los personajes de la lucha libre mexicana, muy arraigada a su cultura popular. La “pesa”que levanta está compuesta por dos plantas de Agave, materia prima para la elaboración del Mezcal.
Luis Cruz Azaceta Solo Show: "Personal Velocity in the Age of Covid"
Luis Cruz Azaceta, Vitral, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 48h x 96w in, 121.92h x 243.84w cm
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery presents "Luis Cruz Azaceta: Personal Velocity in the Age of Covid.
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery celebrates its 25th anniversary with a spectacular exhibition by New Orleans-based Cuban-American master Luis Cruz Azaceta. The show is set to open, for the first time ever at LOR Gallery in a virtual manner, via Instagram live @lorgallery, Wednesday December 3rd, 2020.
The exhibition is made up of a selection curated by Reitzel of 5 unpublished pieces produced by the artist during the confinement in the 2020 quarantine, along with 6 other works at a retrospective level, which belong to the period 2007-2019, connected to each other in a natural evolution in terms of language, palette and composition within the iconography that identifies Azaceta’s universe.
In paintings such as "Pandemia 2" and "Pandemia 3" Azaceta addresses the "poetic window of the virus and its state of mutation; a cacophony of horror and beauty". He embraces the chaos it has caused and channels it through his own artistic hand, bringing us in the end a powerful exhibition both visually and philosophically.
According to Cruz Azaceta: "In my work I always face reality, whether implementing figuration, abstraction or a combination of both, which allows me the freedom to express my ideas in relation to the situations that occur in the world, creating images to express this condition... Once the work becomes something mechanical to a certain degree in which I know what is going to happen I stop and move on to something else. I don't like to repeat myself and let the work become totally mannerist and mechanical. That's boring to me. I like to be surprised by the process, creating things I don't expect, and that's what keeps me excited and moving forward”.
Luis Cruz Azaceta, born in Havana in 1942, immigrated to the United States in 1960, settled in New York and graduated from the School of Visual Arts, beginning his 40-plus year career as an artist. Cruz Azaceta bursts into the Big Apple as one of the great pillars of Latino origin, with a proposal committed to social causes, denouncing from the vanguard the violence in the streets, the drama of AIDS, the war in Iraq and oil, the dictatorships in Latin America, and being also the first to address, in his plastic discourse, the migration crisis of Cuban rafters.
The artist has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally and has received awards from The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. His works belong to the Permanent Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), N.Y., The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, The Museum Of Fine Arts Boston, MA. The New Orleans Museum Of Art, New Orleans, Cortes, Art Collection, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island School Of Design Museum Collection, Providence, RI. San Antonio Museum Of Art, TX, Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, Museo del Barrio, New York, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art in Washington, DC, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico, PAMM Museum, Miami, FL.
LOR Gallery has represented Cruz Azaceta's work for over 15 years, organizing seven memorable solo exhibitions, including "Migrations, Labyrinths & Hallucinations"(2005), "No Words"(2007), "Labyrinths"(2010) "Falling Sky"(2013), "Swimming to Havana" in New York(2016) and "A Question of Color" (2018).
The exhibition will be open to the public until January 30, 2021.
Luis Cruz Azaceta, Laberintos, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 48h x 96w in, 121.92h x 243.84w cm
Luis Cruz Azaceta, Amazona Devastation, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 48h x 96w in 121.92h x 243.84w cm
The entire exhibition can be seen here:
Luis Cruz Azaceta at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
News! The work of the Cuban/American master Luis Cruz Azaceta, is currently featured in a new exhibition, MAKE AMERICA WHAT AMERICA MUST BECOME at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Curated by George Scheer, CAC Executive Director,, Katrina Neumann, Curator, Private Collection, NYC and Toccarra A. H. Thomas, Director of the Joan Mitchell Center, N.O.
PROGRAM JAN - MAR 2020
JOSÉ BEDIA AT ZONA MACO 2020
5 - 9 FEB 2020
LOR Gallery is thrilled to announce our participation by invitation with cuban icon José Bedia in Zona MACO 2020, on Booth A122, General Section. ZⓈONAMACO, Latin America’s art fair, introduces a partial list of selected exhibitors for its 2020 edition, which will take place from February 5 to 9 in Centro Citibanamex,. For the first time, the fair will present in one same location modern and contemporary art, design, photography and antiques, gathering its four fairs (ZⓈONAMACO México Arte Contemporáneo, ZⓈONAMACO Diseño, ZⓈONAMACO Foto, and ZⓈONAMACO Salón) for ‘ZⓈONAMACO Art week.
LOS BRAVÚ AT VOLTA NY 2020
5 - 8 MAR
We are pleased to announce our 5th participation in VOLTA ART FAIR NEW YORK with Spanish duo LOS BRAVÚ , from Wed, Mar 4, 2020 – Sun, Mar 8, 2020 on Metropolitan West, New York. Most of their pictorial production emerges from their residences around the world. For this single show we present a selection of paintings made on both sides of the Atlantic, an artistic journey from a cultural standpoint, between West Africa and the Caribbean. During 2019, chance or destiny took Los Bravú to three outstanding destinations of the colonial past: Santo Domingo, Cadiz and Senegal. Their art is a constant reformulation of the academic resources of Renaissance and Baroque painting, worked from an ironic perspective focusing on the social and cultural peripheries.
JOSÉ GARCÍA CORDERO - OPERA NEGRA
26 MAR 2020
We seal the first quarter with an astounding show by dominican master and french senate laureate José García Cordero with his OPERA NEGRA, a solo show comprising his darkest and most politically charged works to date. This event will take place in parallel locations LOR Gallery Santo Domingo, Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes and Centro de la Imagen, and will accompany a homonymous publication encompassing both past and recent artworks of monochrome nature.
The Kingdom of This World, Reimagined - OPENING DEC 6TH
The Kingdom of This World, Reimagined , curated by Professor in Art History in Texas Tech University Lesley A. Wolff, (Ph.D.) & organized by Marie Vickles, celebrates the 70th anniversary of Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier’s historical novel, The Kingdom of This World (1949). The story follows the trials and tribulations of Ti Noël, an enslaved laborer on a colonial sugar plantation in Saint Domingue. After Ti Noël’s friend, Makandal, loses his arm in an accident and flees the plantation, the events surrounding the Haitian Revolution are set into motion. During this volatile era of revolution and change, Ti Noël struggles to find a place for himself as a free man on an island where he was once enslaved. As Ti Noël’s journey unfolds, so too do the historical events before, during, and after the Haitian Revolution (circa 1791-1804), which Carpentier cleverly weaves into the fictional and marvelous tale of Ti Noël’s many spiritual and physical transformations. This storied novel is credited with helping to launch the literary genre of lo real maravilloso [the marvelous real] in the Western Hemisphere and has served as an archetypal framework for the comminglings of histories and imaginings in the Caribbean since its initial publication seventy years ago.
This exhibition brings to life the slippages of past and present manifest in Carpentier’s masterpiece through a dynamic grouping of contemporary artworks, each of which responds to the novel’s vivid and violent descriptions of colonial enslavement and the struggle for Black freedom and nation. Participating international artists include Dudley Alexis, José Bedia, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Scherezade García, Sergio García, José García Cordero, Simryn Gill, Leah Gordon, Roberto Juárez, and Maggie Steber. The works featured will emphasize painting, photography and mixed media compositions that utilize Carpentier’s imaginative work as the catalyst to engage dialogues about the “Global Caribbean” through themes of revolution, autonomy, history and Caribbean ecologies.
The Little Haiti Cultural Complex will host an opening reception for the exhibition from 4PM to 6PM on Friday, December 6, 2019, which will be precede and followed by receptions for related exhibition programming sponsored by the Little Haiti Cultural Center and the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance. All programs are free and open to the public.
The exhibition will be on view by appointment from December 6, 2019 through January 20,
2020 at the Little Haiti Cultural Center Gallery Satellite Gallery, 307 NE 61 st St., Miami, Florida
OPENING LOS BRAVÚ: E’TO TIGUERE TAN BIEN CHIVO’
Gracias a todos los que nos acompañaron en el memorable Opening de Los Bravú, presentando “E’to Tiguere Tan Bien Chivo'”, su primera exposición individual en Santo Domingo, abierta al público hasta el 30 de mayo, 2019.
La galería Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo se complace en presentar, por primera vez en República Dominicana a uno de sus más recientes descubrimientos artísticos, la propuesta emergente a cargo del fantástico dúo español Los Bravú en nuestro espacio de la Torre Piantini, Cortesía de La Bodega.
PRIVÉE: E’TO TIGUERE TAN BIEN CHIVO’
La galería Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo se complace en presentar, por primera vez en República Dominicana a uno de sus más recientes descubrimientos artísticos, la propuesta emergente a cargo del fantástico dúo español Los Bravú en nuestro espacio de la Torre Piantini, Cortesía de La Bodega.
Gracias a todos los que nos acompañaron en el memorable Privée de Los Bravú, presentando ” E’to Tiguere Tan Bien Chivo’ “, su primera exposición individual en Santo Domingo, abierta al público hasta el 30 de mayo, 2019.
LOS BRAVÚ: “E’TO TIGUERE TAN BIEN CHIVO”
Lyle O. Reitzel gallery is pleased to introduce one of their most recent artistic discoveries, up-and-coming Spanish Dúo Los Bravú, by announcing their first solo show in Santo Domingo. Their exhibition titled “E’to Tiguere Tan Bien Chivo” will take place starting 7 PM April 4th 2019 in our gallery space in Torre Piantini.
Los Bravú, Galician word that roughly translates as a wild animal’s scent, is composed by Dea Gómez (Salamanca, 1988) and Diego Omil (Pontevedra, 1989), both Fine Art graduates from University of Salamanca established in Pontevedra. Their impeccable pieces, fruit of simultaneous work by the dúo, manifested early on a distinctive and fresh aesthetic inspired by Italian renaissance imagery merged with elements and surroundings of contemporary life.
The novel Dúo has been invited to the second edition for the artist residency hosted at El Portillo, Samaná in collaboration with Valeria De Moya. In this idyllic caribbean atmosphere, Los Bravú will produce key pieces that will be exhibited in their upcoming show. The first edition of this residency in 2016, pioneered by Uruguayan Ignacio Iturria, left an indelible imprint as a master of his artistry under the new warmth of tropical light.
Los Bravú at Samaná, Dominican Republic
Los Bravú have exhibited in international galeries and festivals such as FIN de Angoulême, JUSTMAD, Estampa & Matadero Madrid, and El Parche in Bogotá. Their pieces are part of important collections like DKV and La Real Academia de España in Rome. Currently they’re exhibited in the renowned ‘Fundación Casa Cortés’, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and ‘Colección Mariano Yera’, whose collection of larger paintings transcends from half of the XX century to the present.
SCOTT DANIEL ELLISON’S “WOODLAND FABLES” – EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND
Due to overwhelming interest, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery is proud to announce the extension of Scott Daniel Ellison’s “Woodland Fables” through mid-January. We would like to again extend an invitation to any and all who have not had the opportunity to see this incredible collection of works by the talented New York oil painter.
Two new works, “Goblin” and “Picnic” have also been added!
OPENING ESPACIO VIVO: LO NUEVO, EL RETORNO, LO INESPERADO
PRIVÉE: ESPACIO VIVO
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery agradece a todos los asistentes del Privée de la nueva exposición Espacio Vivo: Lo Nuevo, El Retorno, Lo Inesperado en celebración de su 23 aniversario en la escena artístisca.
La exposición presenta lo Nuevo del fantástico dúo español “Los Bravú”. El Retorno del artista cubano Gustavo Acosta (1958) y Lo Inesperado protagonizado por el artista dominicano Juan Mayí (1963). Se integran así mismo los íconos cubanos Luis Cruz Azaceta (1942) y José Bedia (1959), el Maestro uruguayo Ignacio Iturria (1949) y como contraparte dominicana se suman José García Cordero(1951), Raúl Recio (1965), Gerard Ellis (1976) y Gustavo Peña (1979). Por último, presentamos al gran artista contemporáneo Walter Iraheta (El Salvador, 1968) entre muchos otros. La exposición continuara abierta al publico hasta el 31 de Enero del 2019.
ESPACIO VIVO: THE NEW, THE COMEBACK, THE RETURN
Los Bravú, “Retrato de chica con gorra”, 2018 Vinyl acrylic on Arches 300gr paper 29h x 22w in.
Espacio Vivo: The New, The Comeback, The Unexpected.
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery founded in 1995, celebrates 23 years of uninterrupted trajectory representing the national and international contemporary art scene. LOR Gallery introduces their new collective show titled Espacio Vivo: The New, The Comeback, The Unexpected in their Santo Domingo headquarters this 23rd of November, 2018.
This exhibition comprises of a body of work composed by several artists of different backgrounds, style and generations.
The New is represented by the emerging Spanish Duo “Los Bravú”. Dea Gómez (1988) and Diego Omil (1989) established in Pontevedra, Spain. The artists came together to create a unique language influenced by Italian Renascentist iconography juxtaposed with contemporary elements. In addition, renowned artist Jesús Zurita (Ceuta, 1975) established in Granada, Spain, introduces pieces defined by his attention to detail and his relationship with images and media, which is why film, animation, comics and literature are key items in his work.
Gustavo Acosta, “Gliding” Acrylic on Canvas 67h × 67w in
The Comeback of Cuban artist Gustavo Acosta (1958) solidifies the show with his enigmatic compositions in which architecture, symbolism and abstract imagery trigger the spectators collective memory. Starring The Unexpected is Dominican artist Juan Mayí (1963), whose explosive and expressive brushstrokes complement his experimental abstractionism, resulting in captivating artwork.
Juan Mayí, X from the series “Memoria Sígnica”, 2015. Oil on linen. 203h x 203w cm
In addition, we exhibit the works of Iconic cuban artists Luis Cruz Azaceta (1942) and José Bedia (1959), Uruguayan maestro Ignacio Iturria (1949), winner of the Venice Biennial, Edouard Duval-Carrié (1954, Haití), recently honored with the first Ellie Michael Richards price awarded by Art Center/South Florida, and Santiago Ydáñez (1969, Jaén), recipient of the BMW Painting Award 2018. Joining Mayí in the exhibition, are fellow Dominican artists José García Cordero(1951), Raúl Recio (1965), Gerard Ellis (1976) and Gustavo Peña (1979). Lastly, the great contemporary artist Walter Iraheta (El Salvador, 1968) re-incorporates the team showcasing his new series of drawings on paper “Gente Armada”.
Jesús Zurita, “Amanece”, 2009 Acrylic on Linen. 200h x 200w cm
LOR Gallery is the result of 23 years of hard work, successfully becoming a catalyst for the contemporary art scene in the Dominican Republic. By vigorously working with a selection of dominican, caribbean and latin american artists LOR Gallery helped place the Dominican Republic on the artistic map. With the use of basic tools such as intuition, a critical eye and a particular taste that transcends fashion and tendencies, LOR Gallery discovers new talents while supporting established ones in a multicultural atmosphere; because of this, it has elevated artists by placing their work in private and international collections.
Through 2006-2010 LOR Gallery established its presence in the international market opening a new space in Wynwood Art District. In June 2016 its branch in New York inaugurated with José García Cordero’s solo show titled “Tales From the Caribbean Nights”.
LOR Gallery has organized numerous exhibitions in museums, institutions and galleries worldwide, including its participation in some of the most prestigious international art fairs such as: ARCO, Madrid; VOLTA, New York; CONTEXT Art, Miami; Art Miami, CONTEXT New York, ARTE BA, Buenos Aires. PULSE Miami; SCOPE New York, SCOPE Miami’, PINTA, Londres, PINTA, New York; ZONA MACO, México; MIART, Milano; KIAF, Korea, etc.
Espacio Vivo: The New, The Comeback, The Unexpected
Opening: November 23rd, 2018.
Duration: 7 – 10 PM
November 23, 2018
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery Santo Domingo,
Gustavo Mejía Ricart esq Abraham Lincoln
Torre Piantini, Suite 1A
ESPACIO VIVO: LO NUEVO, EL RETORNO, LO INESPERADO
Espacio Vivo: Lo Nuevo, El Retorno, Lo Inesperado.
La Galería de Arte Contemporáneo Lyle O. Reitzel, fundada en 1995 y con sede en N.Y. celebra sus 23 años de trayectoria ininterrumpida en la escena nacional e internacional con un impactante show colectivo titulado “Espacio Vivo: Lo nuevo, el retorno y lo inesperado” en su sede principal en Santo Domingo el próximo 23 de noviembre 2018.
La exhibición reúne un cuerpo de obras inéditas de artistas de múltiples estilos, generaciones y procedencia geográfica.
Los Bravú, “Retrato de chica con gorra”, 2018. Vinyl acrylic on Arches 300gr paper 29 x 22 in.
Lo Nuevo es representado con la propuesta emergente del fantástico dúo español “Los Bravú”, conformado por Dea Gómez (1988) y Diego Omil (1989) y establecidos en Pontevedra, quienes desarrollan una carrera ascendente con un lenguaje muy particular, influenciados por la iconografía renacentista Italiana con elementos contemporáneos. Al mismo tiempo se suma el reconocido artista Jesús Zurita (Ceuta, 1974) quien vive y trabaja en Granada, de una obra narrativa, con gran atención sobre la composición del plano pictórico y la relación entre las imágenes; por lo que no es de extrañar que el cine, la animación, el cómic y la literatura sean manantiales que le proporcionan caudal.
Gustavo Acosta, “Gliding” Acrylic on Canvas, 67×67″.
El Retorno del artista cubano Gustavo Acosta (1958) es significativo y un gran aporte al show con sus obras enigmáticas donde la arquitectura funge como símbolo y sus patrones geométricos se instalan en la memoria colectiva. En el territorio de Lo Inesperado es protagonizado por el laureado artista dominicano Juan Mayí (1963), tan explosivo e irreverente como sus experimentaciones abstractas.
Juan Mayí, X from the series “Memoria Sígnica”, 2015. Oil on linen. 203 x 203cm.
Se integran así mismo los íconos cubanos Luis Cruz Azaceta (1942) y José Bedia (1959), el Maestro uruguayo Ignacio Iturria (1949), ganador de la Bienal de Venecia, Edouard Duval-Carrié (1954, Haití), reconocido recientemente con el premio Ellie Michael Richards otorgado por Art Center/South Florida, y Santiago Ydáñez (1969, Jaén), ganador del Premio de Pintura BMW 2018. Como contraparte dominicana se suman José García Cordero(1951), Raúl Recio (1965), Gerard Ellis (1976) y Gustavo Peña (1979). Por último, se reintegra a LOR Gallery el gran artista contemporáneo Walter Iraheta (El Salvador, 1968) un comeback muy esperado, presentando su nueva serie de dibujos en papel “Gente Armada”.
Jesús Zurita, “Amanece”, 2009 Acrylic on Linen.200 x 200 cm
LOR Arte Contemporáneo es el reflejo de un trabajo incansable y sistemático que inicia hace 23 años, fomentando el desarrollo de la carrera de artistas dominicanos, caribeños e iberoamericanos de vanguardia, desde República Dominicana hacia el mundo, con coherencia y una selección impecable, utilizando como herramientas básicas un ojo crítico, la intuición y un gusto particular que trasciende modas y tendencias, descubriendo nuevos talentos emergentes y apoyando un importante grupo de artistas multigeneracionales al elevarlos al nivel de sus pares en otras latitudes e integrando sus obras al coleccionismo internacional privado e institucional.
En el período 2006-2010, afianza su presencia en el mercado internacional abriendo un nuevo espacio en Wynwood Art District, y en junio 2016 inaugura su sede en Nueva York con el solo show “Tales From the Caribbean Nights ” del artista dominicano José García Cordero.
Ha organizado innumerables exhibiciones en Museos, Instituciones y Galerías alrededor del mundo, participando también en algunas de las más prestigiosas ferias de arte internacionales como: ARCO, Madrid; VOLTA, New York; CONTEXT Art, Miami; Art Miami, CONTEXT New York, ARTE BA, Buenos Aires. PULSE Miami; SCOPE New York, SCOPE Miami’, PINTA, Londres, PINTA, New York; ZONA MACO, México; MIART, Milano; KIAF, Korea, entre otras.
Espacio Vivo: Lo nuevo, el retorno y lo inesperado.
Apertura: 23 Noviembre, 2018
Duración: 7 – 10 PM
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery Santo Domingo,
Gustavo Mejía Ricart esq Abraham Lincoln
Torre Piantini, Suite 1A
SCOTT DANIEL ELLISON’S “WOODLAND FABLES” – OPEN THROUGH DECEMBER 12TH
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery would like to thank everyone who attended the opening of Scott Daniel Ellison’s solo exhibition, “Woodland Fables”. We are absolutely thrilled to display this new collection of his works in our lower east side location.
If you were unable to attend the opening for this exhibition, “Woodland Fables” will be on display at Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery NY through December 12th. We invite you to come by our lower east side space and see our large collection of works by this incredible artist.
Ever since Scott Daniel Ellison was young, he has had a fascination with the unknown. Growing up in rural New York State, he would often search the meadows, farms, and ponds behind his house looking for animals, bones, ruins, and anything else that might excite — both real and imagined. He is drawn to awkward, uncomfortable images, and cites horror, heavy metal, and wildlife imagery as sources of inspiration for his work.
The exhibition will be open December 12th, 2018 at our lower east side location:
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery
139 Eldridge St.
New York NY 10002
“WOODLAND FABLES” A COLLECTION OF WORKS BY SCOTT DANIEL ELLISON
Lyle O. Reitzel Contemporary Gallery, founded in 1995, presents in their Lower East Side space a solo show by Scott Daniel Ellison (b.1971) titled “Woodland Fables”. The opening will take place on Thursday, October 25th at Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery’s Lower East Side location.
Ever since Scott Daniel Ellison was young, he has had a fascination with the unknown. Growing up in rural New York State, he would often search the meadows, farms, and ponds behind his house looking for animals, bones, ruins, and anything else that might excite — both real and imagined. He is drawn to awkward, uncomfortable images, and cites horror, heavy metal, and wildlife imagery as sources of inspiration for his work.
Ellison’s work is characterized by the abstract and grim characters he places against minimal backgrounds or dark, natural settings. Familiar elements within the works create a bridge between the natural world and the alternative reality Ellison crafts. Smiling monsters and eccentric props lend a humorous tone to some of his works,resulting in a cohesively creepy and playful artistic expression. The narratives Ellison creates illustrate a unique and often frightening wonderland full of otherworldly creatures. Scarecrows and creatures both real and imagined are set in landscapes that may bring to mind an old horror film set left abandoned, or a place that exists only when you walk to the end of a long dirt road. In his first published monograph titled Iowa, Ohio, Ellison creates a storybook world in which the viewer is placed in uncertain and precarious situations. The darkly humorous works are often sparse and enigmatic, suggesting but never completely offering extended narratives.
Scott Daniel Ellison was trained in photography prior to finding more creative freedom in painting. His paintings have been shown extensively in New York City as well as abroad. Most recently his work has been featured in Dazed and Confused Magazine and the renowned art journal Esopus. Ellison has also been featured in a solo show at Pulse, Miami in 2010 and was awarded a fellowship in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2012. He has exhibited with ClampArt in New York and had a solo exhibition at Matteawan Gallery in 2014, as well as internationally in Stockholm, London and Venice. He has also exhibited at Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX; University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Monya Rowe Gallery, NY, NY; Galleria Traghetto, Venice, Italy; and Carl Berg Projects, West Hollywood, CA. His first monograph Iowa,Ohio, was published by Schilt Books in 2014, and a second book titled Witch Hazel, was published in 2016 by ClampArt. Ellison received a BFA and an MFA from SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY.
EDOUARD DUVAL-CARRIÉ’S “KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD AND OTHER STORIES”
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery NY would like to thank everyone who attended the opening for Edouard Duval-Carrié’s “Kingdom of This World and Other Stories”, as well as Edouard Duval-Carrié himself for allowing us to show his incredible works.
“Kingdom of This World and Other Stories” will be on display at Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery NY through October 25th, 2018.
TALKING ABOUT AZACETA: WITH MARIANNE DE TOLENTINO AND JANET BATET
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery presented the conference “Trans-identity and Rupture” on June the 23th, facilitated by the critic and art analyst Marianne de Tolentino from the Dominican Republic and the renowned art historian and cuban curator Janet Batet from Miami to talk about the work and statement of the master Luis Cruz Azaceta.
Marianne de Tolentino, current Director of the National Gallery of Fine Arts of Santo Domingo, explained his recent work, the permanent evolution of the artist and the direction of a work that is renewed through the break with his own past.
Janet Batet focused on the career of Cruz Azaceta, marking essential milestones in his artistic development and linking his career to the concept of trans-identity, something more than present throughout the Caribbean space. Based on the concepts of Sygmund Bauman: liquid modernity, liquid fear, precariat to imbricate it to the contemporary global society where, definitively, the proposal of Azaceta is inserted.
Marianne De Tolentino:
Originally from a family of artists, born French and Dominican because of her marriage to Dr. Mario Tolentino Dipp, Marianne Tolentino has spent her entire professional life in Santo Domingo, dedicating herself to education, culture and art.
As a cultural officer, she was Ambassador in charge of Cultural Affairs of the State Secretariat for Foreign Affairs, in charge of International Relations in the General Directorate of Fine Arts and the Museum of Modern Art.
She has been part of the Dominican Delegation in assemblies and international organizations: UNESCO, UN, OAS, European Union, Caribbean Regional Cultural Committee, Latin American Sculpture Seminar, Meeting of Cultural Operators, Havana Biennial, Sao Paulo Biennial, Carib’ Art, Caribbean Studies Seminar (University of Cartagena). He has offered numerous courses and art conferences.
She is currently in charge of the column of art and culture, “Creation” in the newspaper “Hoy”. Apart from hundreds of articles in the “Listín Diario”, she has collaborated with several art magazines and newspapers of Latin American countries, being today correspondent of the Colombian magazine “Art Nexus” and collaborator of “Arte al Día”. She has been director / editor of the cultural magazine “Cariforum”. She also is Commander of the Order of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella, the highest Dominican decoration.
In 2015, she received the National Corripio Foundation Award for the best articles on culture in the Media, and has just received recognition from the Chamber of Deputies as Woman relevant 2017.
She has been awarded by the Dominican Association of Art Critics as the best Art Critic in Media: years 2011, 2013, 2016.
Currently, she is the Director of the National Gallery of Fine Arts, a branch of the Ministry of Culture of the R.D.
She is the curator of the newly opened Fernando Peña Defillo Museum and a member of its patrimonial Foundation.
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Janet Batet (Havana, 1970)
Art historian, curator and essayist. Graduated from Art History at the University of Havana (1987-1092) and her Masters in New Media at the University UQAM, at Montreal (2002-2004).
Former researcher and curator of the Visual Arts Development Center (1992-1998), Havana, Cuba and Professor of the Higher Institute of Art, in the City of Havana.
Her research is oriented towards new technologies and contemporary art with special attention to Latin American and Caribbean artistic practices. Curator of Latin American Graphic. XX-XXI centuries. Member of the management team that laid the foundations of the Contemporary Cuban Art Salon, based in Havana. He also collaborated as a specialist in Caribbean Art for the 1st Montreal Biennial, with the CIAC (International Contemporary Art Center, Montreal). His writings on contemporary art are regularly published in prestigious periodicals such as Art Nexus, Art Daily, Art Pulse, Art Experience: NYC, The New Herald, Art District, Cuban Art, Cuban Art News, Themes, The Miami Rail, Knight Arts Miami, among others.
Among her curatorships there are:
-Golden Silence: Omar Barquet and José Ángel Vincench. Dotfiftyone Gallery,
Miami, 2017.
– Prophylactic life: Hamlet Lavastida. Dotfiftyone Gallery, Miami, 2015.
– Crossroads of Dystopia. Frost Art Museum, FIU, Miami, 2014
– Ramiro Lacayo Deshon: Conversations with Abstract Expressionism. The Americas Collection Gallery, Miami, 2014.
– The Silent Shout: Voices in Cuban Abstraction 1950-2013. (Janet curatorship
Batet, José Ángel Vincench and Rafael Diaz-Casas). Virginia Miller Gallery,
Miami, 2013-2014.
– Like lamb to the slaughterhouse. Photo Madrid, Madrid, 2012.
– 90 Miles: Living in the Vortex. Dotfiftyone Gallery, Miami, 2011.
– Central America: Civics and violence. (Curator Clara Astiasarán and Janet Batet) Feria Arteamericas, Miami Beach, 2011.
– Mario Bencomo: Utopie: If le Québec était a tropical country. Beaux-Arts des Amériques, Montréal, 2010.
– Re-collections: Carlos Betancourt. Moly College Art Gallery, New York, 2009.
– Art Encounters: Latin America. CCE, Miami, 2009.
– Rêveries. Art et Mémoire. Nuit Blanches, UQAM, 2003.
– Illumination. Art and religion Silver Spur Gallery, 1998
– Paintings of silence. Biennial of Havana-Acacia Gallery, Havana, 1996.
– Palimpsestos. Appointments and Appropriations. Havana Gallery, Havana, 1995.
– Vae Victis. Gallery Spur Silver, Havana, 1992.
Batet has contributed essays to numerous books and catalogs, highlighting among them, The Silent Shout: Voices in Cuban Abstraction 1950-2013 (Artspace / Virginia Miller Galleries, Miami, 2014), Antonia Eiriz: A Painter and Her Audience (MDC Museum of Art + Design, Miami Dade College, Miami, 2013); Wrinkles of the City. JR and José Parlá (Havana, Damiani / Standard Press, 2012); Disappointment. Luis Gispert (Ohwow Press, 2011); Liu Bolin (Galerie Paris-Beijing, 2011); Trans-Cuban Identity (VIII Encounter Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, Miami, 2011); On Nature of men (III International Encounter of Art Critics. Wifredo Lam, Havana, 1997); Paintings of Silence (Galería La Acacia, 1995) and Palimpsestos: Appointments and Appropriations (Galería Habana, 1995).
Essays of his authorship have been included in the following art anthologies Cuban: We the most infidels: Critical narratives of Cuban art 1993-2005 (Andres Isaac Santana, editor, CENDEAC, 2006); Anthology of Critical Essays: The New Cuban Art (Magaly Espinosa and Kevin Power, editors; Perceval Press, Santa Monica, 2006) and Artists in Purgatory (Aldo Menendez, editor. The Cuban Art Alliance, 2017).
OPENING: “A QUESTION OF COLOR” BY LUIS CRUZ AZACETA
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery Presents "Here Versus There" by Tania Marmolejo
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery NY is proud to present a collection of recent drawings and paintings by Tania Marmolejo, a Dominican artist living in New York. The works displayed are heavily inspired by her Swedish and Dominican upbringing, and the large-scale, ambiguous female facial expressions in her paintings explore issues of gender and her identity as a Scandinavian Caribbean female artist.
‘I believe in the middle ground. Not the tame, ‘I give up’ middle ground, but the tense, uncomfortable point that provokes reflection and thought when confronted with opposing ideas, emotions and forces’. – Tania Marmolejo
‘Here Versus There’ will be open at Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery NY until May 15th, 2018