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An invitational exhibition of works on paper by
contemporary artists Charles DuBack, Josefina Auslender, Richard Baker,
and Ellen LeBow will open on Friday 24 September 2010 at ACME Fine Art
in Boston. A reception from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. that evening will be held
at the gallery with several of the artists in attendance. The
exhibition will feature works on paper created using a variety of media
and techniques, and ranging in style from pure abstraction to realism.
The artists invited to participate in the exhibition by Gallery
Director David Cowan exemplify the continuity between the modern
tradition that ACME Fine Art has always exhibited and contemporary
artworks from the local region.
Charles DuBack was born in 1926 in Fairfield, Connecticut and has been
living and working in Maine for the past 40 years. DuBack attended the
Brooklyn Museum School and the Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture. He worked in New York during the 1950s and early 1960s,
sharing a studio building with Bernard Langlis and Alex Katz on 28th
Street. DuBack’s works featured in the exhibition come from this time
period, the late 1950s. Although these appear non-objective, DuBack
takes his inspiration from nature. “I am a realist, all of my work
comes directly from nature.” His small, hand colored collages are
evocative of the landscape. DuBack’s work has been featured in Recent
Paintings at the Museum of Modern Art, the Biennial International
Exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Painting, and, most recently in a solo exhibition
at the Portland Museum of Art, Charles DuBack: Coming to Maine.
Josefina Auslender is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where
she lived, worked and studied during the early part of her career. She
has lived and worked in the United States since 1986 and has been
exhibiting frequently throughout Maine, which she now calls home. ACME
Fine Art will feature drawings from Auslender’s recent Stendahl Series
that consist of dense pattered lines surrounding areas of negative
space and outlining volumetric geometric shapes. The abstract spaces
she creates exude a meditative, almost spiritual quality and appear
influenced by celestial and landscape forms.
Richard Baker’s contemporary still life paintings are illusionistic,
yet stylized. Gouache paintings from his tulip series depict the
unfolding of the flower and portray the emotional complexities of this
occurrence. Hilton Kramer, when considering Baker’s recent realist
works concludes that “At his best, he's as good as Magritte, and his
wit is a lot subtler when he confers an atmosphere of anxiety upon
objects ordinarily resistant to it-which is to say that Mr. Baker seems
to have derived from Surrealism elements of wit and anxiety, but
without the vulgarity and showmanship.” Baker lives and works in
Brooklyn and Wellfleet, MA, was a Fine Arts Work Center Fellow
(Provincetown, MA) and is a graduate of the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston and Maryland Institute College of Art. He has
exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Provincetown Art
Association and Museum, and the Cape Museum of Fine Arts (Dennis, MA).
Ellen LeBow’s monumental ink drawings incised on clayboard are
amalgamations of conflicting iconographies ranging from religious to
popular culture. Her irreverent images include the angel Gabriel
bestowing his blessing upon Disney’s Seven Dwarfs and skeletons dancing
with saints. These recent works are a new direction for LeBow, who
formerly concentrated on Haitian subjects. LeBow describes these works
as “[featuring] the press of a tumbling, cosmic ‘cloud’ packed with
characters ‘cannibalized’ from these personal and artistic influences
to become a compressed assault of ‘divine messengers’ threatening at
once to overpower and exalt the earth-bound life below.” LeBow studied
at Pratt Institute and the New York Studio School and currently lives
and works on Cape Cod.
WORKS ON PAPER
INVITATIONAL will be on view at ACME Fine Art in Boston from 24
September to 6 November 2010. Gallery hours are 11:00 to 5:30 Tuesday
through Saturday. The exhibition can be viewed on-line at
acmefineart.com. Please contact the gallery for further information.
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