Exhibitor listing
Dillon Gallery
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Fronth Per
Biography :
Per Fronth is an internationally established Norwegian artist, represented by galleries and museums worldwide. His career with the Dillon Gallery began in 1998 with his first solo exhibition Xingu Chronicles, which quickly established him as a powerful force in contemporary photography. His works are in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris; Sørlandet Kunstmuseum, Norway; as well as in numerous private collections. Per Fronth was awarded the title “Nobel Artist 2009” and was selected to create the Nobel Peace Prize Diploma, given in 2009 to US President Barack Obama. Per Fronth holds the honor of being the first photographer given the commission of making the Diploma. In 2009, Norwegian publisher, Press Forlag, published the first monographic survey of Per Fronth´s work, which debuted in New York with the series Evolution of Melancholy, exhibited at the Dillon Galley.
Fronth's acclaimed series, The Xingu Chronicles, Bloodlines and Theatre of War, all document disappearing cultures by using photography as the basis for creating works that are a unique hybrid of painting and photography. Per Fronth is also an award-winning film director. His short films "Ode to a Hunter" (2000) and "Godiva" (2001) have been selected for the official programs for Berlin, Toronto and Sundance film festivals.
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Fujimura Makoto
Biography :
Makoto Fujimura is a leading contemporary Nihonga artist, and an innovator of culture. Fujimura’s paintings are in the collections of almost every major museum in Japan and he was honored with a career retrospective in Tokyo before he turned forty.
Born in the US and trained in Japan, Fujimura's extensive exposure to both Western and Asian Art has created a unique fusion of the two in his own work. He spent his early years in Japan and retuned as a postgraduate on a Japanese governmental scholarship to study Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) at the famed Tokyo University of Fine Art. Graduating from his MFA program as the top painter, he entered into an apprenticeship with the master Nihonga painter Matazo Kayama (1927-2004) to pursue his doctoral studies under the master's tutelage. Because of Kayama’s open mindedness and encouragement, Fujimura was able to experiment with the Nihonga tradition, achieving a synthesis between his outsider point of view and classical Japanese painting. With a particular affinity for the metaphysical aspects of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, Fujimura’s art is grounded in a deep religious faith. In 2002 Fujimura was given a Presidential appointment to the National Council on the Arts. He is also the founder and visionary for the arts advocacy organization IAM (International Arts Movement) since 1991.
The completed works for Fujimura's The Four Holy Gospels manuscript project, first exhibited at Dillon Gallery in fall, 2010, are currently on display at the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA), New York City.
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Kaletski Alexander
Biography :
“I want to use the least to express the most,” states Alexander Kaletski. Whether in his economical painted line employed against scrumbled canvas surfaces or in the use of found materials in his renowned cardboards, Kaletski works with a fluent freedom that belies the rich layers of meaning in his art. After defecting from the Soviet Union in the early 1970s, Kaletski became enthralled with the high quality and abundance of disposable packing materials in the USA. For the light-pocketed young artist, these rich and varied materials provided stimulating components for the creative process. With a perceptive eye for the striking individual in the crowd, coupled with the confidence that engenders spontaneity, Kaletski’s art revels in flashbulb observations of the extraordinary incidents and individuals that enliven and populate our culture.
His paint and cardboard collage portraits display the spectacular, often riveting characters found in the urban environment of New York City. His use of logo-printed cardboard packaging materials guides his exploration into the themes of contemporary society. Beginning with simple commercial cardboard, Kaletski adds collage and paint, resulting in pieces that provoke, inform, and more often than not, amuse. In addition to the provocative images he produces, the viewer is confronted with the amplification of the logo or design remnant of the original product contained, as well as the cardboard itself, scarred, pitted and torn, now artfully reborn.
Kaletski is also a master of oil painting. He finds figuration and abstraction to be inseparable, and his canvases best demonstrate this. They have been described as a controlled structure of dripped paint that creates free-form geometric shapes, by using uneven and highly energized brush strokes. Kaletski utilizes abstraction to play upon ambiguous images, contradictions and surprises, allowing the viewer to follow his symbols and figures and decide for themselves what meaning
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Kouzaki Masatake
Biography :
Since winning the UBS Art Award from London’s White Chapel Gallery in 2000, Masatake Kouzaki’s work has been widely exhibited internationally. In the last decade, he has shown at the Sato Museum, the Fukushima Museum, the Koriyama Museum, and the Futyu Museum in his native Japan. Intensively trained in the traditional Nihonga technique of Japanese painting at Tokyo National University, where he gained his doctorate in 2005, Kouzaki uses a unique combination of traditional materials (ground mineral pigments, gold and silver leaf on rice paper) with modern oil and acrylic paints. The artist has also worked extensively with relief application in the form of foil molds, innovating this centuries old technique. Kouzaki has received numerous awards and extensive critical recognition for his creative approach to Nihonga.
Kouzaki’s paintings explore a unique vision of diverse characters, by combining animals and plants, and real and mythical creatures into new creations. Kouzaki sees his imaginative conceptions as intimately tied to advances in science and industry. By depicting humans as transformed, hybrid characters, he makes us reflect on humanities self-identification.
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Laudamiel Christophe
Biography :
Christophe Laudamiel is a world-renowned perfumer and osmocurator™ who has created fragrances for famous houses such as Ralph Lauren, Tom Ford, Abercrombie and others. He is now Master Perfumer and President of DreamAir LLC, a unique enterprise in bespoke fragrances and Air Sculpture® designs, scenting such places as the Setai Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ferrari, Belstaff and other locations worldwide.
Christophe authored and managed the 30+ scents for the first ScentOpera which premiered at the New York and Bilbao Guggenheim Museums (2009). In early 2012, he held the first solo show ever completely devoted to olfactory art in the heart of Chelsea, NYC: Phantosmia, at Dillon Gallery. He recently installed an exhibit for the Biennale at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art and a permanent exhibit at the only American factory for the Blind.
He often gives keynote speeches about his avant-garde approaches at institutions such as Harvard and Columbia Universities, the French Embassies, the University of the Arts in Berlin. He is the only perfumer to have scents academically archived (at Harvard University and at the Grasse Perfume Museum) and is founding the not-for-profit Academy of Perfumery in the US.
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Leonardi Hector
Biography :
Hector Leonardi has been communicating the joy of painting through his art for over forty years. He received a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in the early fifties and an MFA at Yale University where he studied with and was mentored by Josef Albers. His first job was as an assistant to industrial designer Russel Wright and he went on to teach basic design, color theory, and drawing at The Parsons School of Design for twenty years.
Though a beloved teacher and mentor to younger artists, Leonardi’s primary focus for the last four and a half decades has been his own artwork, paintings that merge Abstract Expressionism and European Modernism into a unique painting style and technique. Throughout his career, Leonardi has had a consistent stream of solo exhibitions in prestigious New York and international galleries. He has received impressive honors and awards as well as glowing reviews in a number of publications, and his paintings are included in many private and public collections.
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MacIver Steven
Biography :
Steven MacIver was born in the Orkney Islands and completed his BA in Fine Arts at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen and his MFA at the Slade School of Art. Following his graduation in 2004, MacIver was honored with the Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome. His fundamental preoccupation with the creation of various types of space was deepened by his time in Rome and can be seen in his renderings of stadiums and coliseums. He uses these abstracted architectural studies to deeply explore how space is used and contained.
For MacIver, the fundamental aspect of art is the ability to draw a line well and this is clearly demonstrated in his explorations with internal and external space. He calls his artistic method a type of “excavation” because he uses a scalpel to remove paint in a reductive method from the canvas. The result is a structured surface that is both glossy and flat: a type of interplay between drawing and painting. His various compositions, made of a multitude of intersecting lines, create both a real and imagined space. Amongst the many awards and grants this gifted young artist has already received, the Rome Prize for study awarded to him by the Slade School placed him as one of the leading young artists from Britain. He currently lives and works outside Oxford.
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Noguchi Kazumasa
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Kazumasa Noguchi, born in 1978, studied architecture at Tokyo National University of the Arts, before deciding to focus his creative output on installation and multi-media art projects. As an artist Noguchi calls on his architectural training, incorporating his knowledge and capabilities in his spellbinding tape and origami installations. His art explores the natural division of architecture into two structural elements: the foundation and invisible inner structure and the visible, tangible exterior surface. His interest in the inner structure of how things are built and spaces conceived lead him to create three-dimensional space installations using unusual materials. These works expose the limitations of our experience of the totality of a constructed space when our awareness stops at the exterior shell-like surface. Noguchi’s art has to be viewed in terms of architectural interior and exterior considerations, and how the exterior shell functions as a superficial disguise of the reality of structure. This is sometimes highlighted by the two-dimensions of a canvas hung in a taped, fictitious three-dimensional space, dissolving traditional context and giving the objects a new autonomy. A variation on this theme appears in his origami work which form an important part of Noguchi’s installations. The artist creates monumental origami using large pieces of colored cardboard, challenging our notion of origami as small, delicate and precious. Noguchi’s origami is massive but often the forms are in keeping with the familiar visual tropes of origami. Once the origami shape is enlarged and made as a sculpture, we experience it out of context and tend to find it unsettling because unexpected. The combination of these elements creates installations that are both beautiful and disorienting in their presentation, familiar yet disturbing in their setting.
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Rose Brian
Biography :
Born in Virginia, Brian Rose moved to New York City in 1977 to attend Cooper Union. He studied with photographers Joel Meyerowitz and Larry Fink, the painter Jake Berthot, conceptual artist Hans Haacke, and art historian Dore Ashton.
In 1980, he and fellow Cooper graduate Ed Fausty photographed the Lower East Side of Manhattan, supported by a New York State CAPS grant, and later participated in a photographic survey of the Financial District, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 1985 Rose began photographing the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall. That project has continued to the present, chronicling the fall of the Wall and the rebuilding of Berlin. His book The Lost Border, The Landscape of the Iron Curtain was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2004.
From 1993 to 2007 Rose lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. In 1998 he photographed the Mercatorplein neighborhood with its immigrant population and Amsterdam School architecture. That work, supported by the Netherlands Architecture Fund, was published as Mercatorplein, Image of a World in Amsterdam.
After returning to New York, Rose began re-photographing the Lower East Side and documenting the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. Rose's images have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He lives in New York with his wife, urban planner Renée Schoonbeek, and his son Brendan, who at age 4 made the drawing at left--his father with camera--and the Twin Towers.
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Schoener Silke
Biography :
Schöner has a BFA from Dresden Art School, 1991 and an MFA from Kassel Art School. Though she is from the far west of Germany, Schöner went east to study in Dresden soon after the Wall came down. Under the influence of the Leipzig school, she was exposed to an unbroken tradition of figurative painting that had oddly been protected behind the iron curtain during a time when this type of academic training had virtually disappeared in the west. This influence can be detected in her confident drawing, her strong compositional sense and her freedom from false gestures.
Schöner’s deep engagement with the landscape of her native Germany focuses on the pictorial tension between the explicit and the implied, the seen and the unseen. Her canvases are panoramas of openness with long ribbons of detailed landscape unfurled across a stark white ground, leaving the viewer free to extrapolate what is left unstated. She says of her work: “In my landscape paintings, I try to find a state of open space and tranquility that resembles deep breathing.” All of her canvases begin with a pencil sketch of the entire scene, yet the sketch does not dictate the end result. Much of that drawing will remain unfinished, a barely visible presence, appearing only as the viewer approaches. Her work has been exhibited widely in Europe, Japan and the United States.
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Smith Cedric
Biography :
Cedric Smith is a self-taught painter and photographer who draws on a wide range of influences and sources, traditional and contemporary, to express his poignant observations of African-American life in the rural south. These include landscape art, pop art, brand advertising and especially photography, either his own, vintage images, or a combination of the two. Much of the Philadelphia-born, Atlanta-based artist's work is inspired by an observation from his childhood: the complete absence of African-Americans in advertising and on the labels of popular brands during that and earlier times.
The artist’s collection of vintage photographs provides the foreground for a related topic he is documenting: that of the disappearing black culture of the South. Juxtaposing historical imagery with contemporary settings, Smith often re-photographs these old portraits in everyday locations, each snapshot creating a direct dialogue between past and present realities, providing an enduring narrative that continues into this century. Smith’s concept behind the addition of found vintage photographs evoke an extraordinary sense of longing and loss as he makes us contemplate how the subject’s life could have been altered by a different set of circumstances.
Cedric Smith has received extensive critical acclaim for his work both in the US and abroad.
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Tabori Michel
Biography :
Born in Paris and raised in New York, Tabori is currently based in Venice California. Tabori’s career spanned two decades in film before moving to still images, where he incorporates his cinematic expertise and visual acuity in his vibrant artworks.
Tabori describes his work as “flexible light installations,” meaning that the work has no absolute dimension. The piece is scaled to the context and space in which it is exhibited. The experience is subjective and variable. It involves light and shadow, surface and depth, reflection and refraction. All of Tabori’s works start out as one or more photographs. Each one begins from inspiration, occasioned by nature, by a person, by music. The photographs are then digitized and the images distilled to an elemental, abstract essence. Details are emphasized or obliterated in the process of enlargement. Colors are exaggerated and distorted to better reflect the underlying truth of the experience. The images are next transferred to canvas, where Tabori paints and covers them in a deep glossy resin. The end result of this mixed-media work of photography, digital imaging and painting is visually rich and arresting.
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Yoshiga Asami
Biography :
Asami Yoshiga studied Nihonga (Japanese style painting) at the Musashino Art University, where she became interested in the relationship between nature and humanity. Through her artwork, she expresses the influence of nature on the Japanese sense of beauty and uncovers a particular Japanese aesthetic.
Applying the Nihonga technique, known for its use in traditional painting, in a contemporary and avant-garde presentation, Yoshiga's images appear through veils of silk-like teteron cloth. By applying of ink and pigment on separated layers of transparent fabric, she creates a dream-like and ethereal quality that invites the viewer to enter the hushed world of the landscape. Her art portrays a deep sense of reverence for nature and the natural world and engenders a human-nature dynamic without the representation of the human figure.
Since graduating in 1999, her six solo exhibitions have placed her as one of the leading young protagonists in th new Nihonga movement. In the last five years, she has been included in the exhibitions at the Ueno Royal Museum, the Gunma Museum of Art, the Biennale for the Museum of Modern Art in Gunma, the Sato Museum of Art, and the Toyohashi Museum of Art.
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