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Exhibitor's Artists:
Argue Doug
Biography :
Doug Argue explores infinite time and space in his paintings by fusing abstraction with math, science and the anthropology of language. The results are momentous, ethereal, visceral-bordering on spiritual. Argue embraces the tradition of painting while employing modern concepts of realism, abstraction and expressionism.
Influenced by Tintoretto, along with Einstein and Pythagoras, Argue has spent his career focusing on the formal qualities of painting while schewing classical or traditional subject matter. Using various techniques, including those employed by Renaissance painters, Argue has created conceptual and monumental paintings on tires, books and chickens on a scale traditionally reserved for history painting. His new body of work presents a move toward abstraction while continuing this exploration.
Argue has developed a way of communicating that seems far superior and more universal than traditional language. The foundation of his work is the concept that all life forms on earth are likely had on progenitor; and that one language evolved into the thousands that now exist. Through a combination of purpose and chance, genes and language are in a constant state of flux providing almost infinite possibilities of recombination. His work embodies all the questions one might contemplate, and yields all the answers the viewer chooses to see.
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Chatila Yasmine
Biography :
Born in Cairo in 1974, Yasmine Chatila is best-known for her controversial photography series Stolen Moments, which made headlines throughout New York City when it exhibited at Edelman Arts in the Fall of 2008. Chatila is fascinated by the humanity of the anonymous people that city dwellers encounter on a daily and even hourly basis. In her show Stolen Moments, Chatila captured intimate personal experiences of the faceless, nameless urbanites which inhabit New York City. Through patient surveillance, zoom lenses, and a strong fascination with those intangible relationships, Chatila revealed that what is intended to be hidden is exposed, mundane actions become, at once, heroic, and the armor we all wear outside the sanctity of home comes off revealing rarely seen aspects of human nature.
In addition to Chatila's photographic series, she has created various collages, all centered on the artist's personal thoughts and feelings of pop culture, war, the environment, and religion. Her second show Reveries & Delusions exhibited at Edelman Arts in the Summer of 2011. Currently residing and working in New York City, Chatila graduated with a Master's in photography from Columbia University School of Arts in 2002 and is the recipient of numerous awards including a Columbia fellowship and Tag Heuer grant.
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Covert Scott
Biography :
Scott Covert arrived in Manhattan in the 70's, when the city was in a state of glorious, exhilarating decay-a gender-bending mash-up of the Roaring 20's and Weimar Germany. In the 70's and 80's, Scott was a neon-bright young thing in the downtown demimonde, that moveable feast with its ports of call Max's Kansas City, The Pyramid, Club 57, The Mudd Club, Le Jardin, and Club 82. (If you remember that era, you weren't there.)
Scott became a featured actor in downtown's glam-flash-trash theatre, a cult genre that turned notions of taste, glamour, art, and gender on their well-coiffed heads. Working with directors such as John Vaccaro and Scott Wittman, and performing at venues like Club 57, La Mama and Theatre of the New City, the future painter captivated audiences with his performances as Becky Rockefeller in "The Bad Seed," and Poindexter Mattel in "Living Dolls: A Musical of Barbie."
Scott's work has been exhibited at Club 57; The Fun Gallery; 56, Bleecker Gallery; Barbara Braathen Gallery; Ricky Clifton Gallery; Glen Horowitz Gallery, East Hampton, NY; and Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. He was featured in 2011's "East Village West," curated by Ann Magnuson and Kenny Scharf, at Royal/T Art Space, Los Angeles, CA. He attended San Francisco Art Institute.
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Gudnason Torkil
Biography :
Living in New York City, but originally from Denmark, Torkil Gudnason approaches photography with a no-nonsense, Scandinavian sensibility. His style is simple & graphic. He prefers shooting in color in order to play various hues off one another. When asked to list three things he can't live without as a photographer, his answer is appropriately succinct: light, light & light.
As a 10 year old boy, Torkil received his first camera, a Bolex Super-8. His first pictures were of a trip to Italy, which is where, many years later, he would find his first success as an emerging fashion photographer.
His work includes Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, Vanity Fair, Surface, City, Stiletto Magazine, Elizabeth Arden, Maybeline, Pantene, Mac Cosmetics, L'Oreal, Piaget, Guerlain, Shiseido, Estee Lauder, Calvin Klein & Bergdorff Goodman.
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McClure Cathy
Biography :
Cathy McClure is an artist obsessed with the contrast between a discarded forgotten object and the cherished one; she reinvents unstuffed plastic oddities into precious metals. McClure readily transforms the mass- produced machine-made toy skeletons into newly handcrafted framework.
Using plush and tin toys as metaphors, McClure creates installations and videos highlighting the societal affinity for over-consumption and over-production. Her process involves both destruction and creation, imparting her exotic playthings with a quirky sense of humor steeped in the uncanny. McClure is driven by a fascination with the fleeting value placed on low-prices multiple objects farmed out of factories in record numbers. She takes unstuffed, discarded, mechanical rejects and introduces new identities; the underlying plastic object embodies more potential for her imagination than the stuffed object layered with intricate marketing identities.
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Nahas Nabil
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Nabil Nahas grew up in Cairo and Beirut, and moved to the U.S. to study. He earned a BFA from Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1971 and an MFA from Yale University in 1973. Encounters with contemporary painters at Yale influenced Nahas to move to New York.
The complex, radiant surfaces of Nahas' paintings reflect an unusual quality, the personality of its creator, both an innovator and a person of rare culture. While his body of work references a wide range of earlier civilizations and sources, his technique is totally his own, at once pointillist and boldly crafted. Nahas' highly textured paintings explore extremes of size, scale, temperature and mood; as well as seemingly polarized concepts such as nature and artifice, materiality and immateriality, East and West, drawing and atmosphere, along with beauty and ugliness. Placed between these polarities, aesthetics are challenged, altered and energized by a certain type of chemical reaction.
Rather than emerge under the umbrella of any single art movement, Nahas has consistently resisted categorization and engineered a continually evolving style through his art career. Nahas currently lives between New York and Beirut.
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Nares James
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James Nares was born in London in 1953. He attended the Chelsea Art School in London before moving to New York in 1974 to study further at the School of Visual Arts. His works defies any explicit sources of inspiration and is renowned for its originality and craftsmanship.
Nares work is completely his own. Whereas other contemporary artists have drifted into performance or installation pieces, Nares work, while being entirely its own in process and concept, remains firmly grounded in the art historical canon. It is on its most basic level oil and wax on canvas albeit oil applied with hand-made, monumentally sized calligraphy brushes applied in a continuous brushstroke by an artist suspended by harness and wire above the horizontal canvas. His canvases recall Japanese calligraphy and Jackson Pollock and in inventing his own novel technique, each work breathes with his signature, each one different from the last.
Nares has exhibited internationally and his pieces are included in such museums as the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. James Nares currently lives and works in New York.
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Tress Arthur
Biography :
Arthur Tress began his first camera work as a teenager in the surreal neighborhood of Coney Island where he spent hours exploring the decaying amusement parks. Later, during five years of world travel, mostly in Asia and Africa, he developed an interest in ethnographical photography that eventually led him to his first professional assignment as a U.S. government photographer recording the endangered folk cultures of Appalachia. Seeing the destructive results of corporate resource extraction, Tress began to use his camera to raise environmental awareness about the economic and human costs of pollution. Focusing on New York City, he began to photograph the neglected fringes of the urban waterfront with a straight documentary approach. This gradually evolved into a more personal mode of “magic realism” combining improvised elements of actual life with stage fantasy that became his hallmark style of directorial fabrication. In the late 1960s Tress was inspired to do a series based upon children’s dreams that combined his interests in ritual ceremony, Jungian archetypes, and social allegory. Later bodies of work dealing with the hidden dramas of adult relationships and the reenactments of male homosexual desire evolved from this primarily theatrical approach.
Beginning in the early 1980s, Tress began shooting in color, creating room-sized painted sculptural installations out of found medical equipment in an abandoned hospital on New York’s Welfare Island. This led to a smaller scale exploration of narrative still life within a children’s toy theater and a portable nineteenth-century aquarium.
Around 2002, Tress returned to gelatin silver, exploring more formalist themes in the style of mid- century modernism, often combining a spontaneous shooting style with a constructivist’s sense of architectural composition and abstract shape. In addition to images of California skateboard parks, his recent work includes the round images of the series Planets and t
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Winter Christopher
Biography :
Channeling the spectral visions of legendary artists such as Durer, Kippenberger, and Picasso, Christopher Winter creates hallucinatory landscapes, peopled by strangely sinister looking children. Winter’s work is as peculiarly particular as it is universal, exploring the complicitious nature of art, creativity, madness, and death.
Born in 1968 in Kent, England, Christopher Winter lives and works in Berlin. He received a BA with Honors from Camberwell School of Art in London and completed his post graduate work at Düsseldorf Kunstakademie. An artist in residence of the city of Mannheim, Germany in 1993 and 1994, his work has been featured in solo and group shows throughout Europe and New York. His recent curatorial debut, Cover-Up, opened at Tape Modern Berlin featuring artists like Olaf Breuning, Leigh Bowery, Thorsten Brinkmann and Assume Vivid Astro Focus. The Reiss Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim has selected his work to be the inaugural solo exhibition "Wildlife" in their new annex opening this fall. He is a founding member of the artist collective Group X.
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Asher Edelman
President
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Adelaide Rabourdin
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Eliza Coven
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Ethan Vallarino
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Andrew Dermont
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Edelman Arts, a vibrant gallery and art consultancy, specializes in sales of the world’s most accomplished and sought-after names in Pre-twentieth century, Modern, and Contemporary Art. The gallery is also committed to investing in the careers of young artists whose work is significant to support.
Edelman Arts regularly mounts exhibitions, both independently and collaboratively, as well as solo exhibitions and installations for our represented artists Doug Argue, Yasmine Chatila, Cathy McClure, and Christopher Winter. Edelman Arts has also been an active participant of Art Miami since 2009.
Edelman Arts is partners with ArtAssure Ltd., an art finance firm dedicated to minimizing uncertainty and risk for both sellers and purchasers of fine art through innovative strategies and financial services. Our unprecedented experience in the worlds of art and finance enable us to be your adviser and advocate, tailoring our services to fit your personal and financial objectives. ArtAssure was founded by Asher Edelman to bring liquidity and transparency to the art market.
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