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!
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
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.
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.
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery NYC is happy to announce that we will be opening early on May 4th and participating in Armory Week’s LES Early Morning show. We will be open from 10am, alongside 35 other wonderful galleries in the Lower East Side. Come join us and check our current exhibition, ‘Here Versus There’ a solo show of drawings and paintings by Tania Marmolejo. On display until May 15th.
To coincide with this, on the evening of the 4th we will also be having an evening with the artist from 6:30-9:00 PM. Join us for a meet and greet with Tania Marmolejo, she will be here to discuss her current work and the exhibition.
We look forward to seeing you then.
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
