Mary Heilmann's winding, abstract road to success Oct 6, 2008
Revealing that art, like youth, is subjective, Ellsworth Kelly, the 85-year-old master of hard-edged geometric abstraction, recently said, "I've always felt that Mary Heilmann is the best of the new abstractionists." Kelly tops a Who's Who of artist-admirers ranging from those straight out of art school to those who are institutions themselves. In the last few years, however, Heilmann's drippy, color-saturated abstractions have become even more mainstream. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Urban art with a green heart Sep 7, 2008
Of course the 21 sculptures take center stage, representing such artists as Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, and Ellsworth Kelly. The most provocative sculpture is Mark Dion's "Neukom Vivarium." The New Bedford native and Pennsylvania resident custom-designed a greenhouse that houses a 60-foot-long western hemlock nurse log, whose decay and renewal represents the cycle of life. (Boston Globe)
An art center worth the climb Jun 22, 2008
Planned for next year is a major exhibit of the work of Ellsworth Kelly, another minimalist whose work should marry well with Ando's architecture. Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell can be reached at. (Boston Globe)
* Basel art fest ends with signs of a slowdown Jun 11, 2008
And a painting by Ellsworth Kelly, priced at US$5 million and topping a list of 18 works by the American artist, was also sold, according to his New York dealer. In most cases, the names of the buyers remained undisclosed. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
FAA Announces New Measures to Improve Air Travel Experience May 2, 2008
The show will feature approximately 80 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints by prominent American artists including Milton Avery, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Ellsworth Kelly, John Marin, Elizabeth Murray, Ed Paschke, Faith Ringgold, Edward Ruscha and Frank Stella. Reverberations, curated by Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy (128 North Broad Street, Philadelphia), opens on June 28 and will continue through September 21. (Saint Louis Front Page)
Milwaukee Art Museums weekend show:Art in Bloom Apr 10, 2008
She is interpreting Ellsworth Kelly s Red, Yellow, Blue II, a large, minimalist triptych of the three primary colors. Borgardt s design will feature simple flowers and simple lines, in an effort to pull together Kelly s very interesting use of minimalism, she said. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
* 'Chromophilia without the color' Mar 5, 2008
A series of signature works by Ellsworth Kelly, from 1951, shows him experimenting with randomly generated patterns of squares cut from store-bought colored paper. One of these collages gave rise to the contemporary masterpiece Colors for a Large Wall, a stunning, nearly 2. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Bill allowing art museum attracts critics to council work session Feb 28, 2008
Consisting mainly of post-World War II pieces, the collection includes master works by Jasper Johns, Frank Stella Ellsworth Kelly and Roy Liechtenstein, Donovan said. Meyerhoff has loaned 40 works of art to the National Gallery. (North County News, MD)
Seattle, Victoria hotel & cruise, $439 Feb 27, 2008
While in Seattle, we suggest checking out one of the city's newest attractions: a nine-acre former industrial site along the edge of Elliott Bay that has been transformed by the world-class Seattle Art Museum into a green space with gorgeous views and works by the likes of Richard Serra and Ellsworth Kelly. After spending a day exploring Seattle on your own, you'll board the Victoria Clipper ferry for a two-and-a-half-hour ride to Victoria, B.C. You'll stay overnight at the 181-room , a... (MSNBC -- Travel)
Renzo Piano's LA museum opens to public Feb 18, 2008
The other side of the top floor features a roomful of Ellsworth Kelly abstractions that respond to the light like living things. Important pieces by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein shift the weight back toward pop art and its progeny, which rule again on the floor below, with ensembles of work by Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman and Jean-Michel Basquiat. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Presidio Trust to work with Fisher on museum Feb 1, 2008
The Fishers' works include creations by Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder and Roy Lichtenstein, Chuck Close and Ellsworth Kelly, but have heretofore been shown mostly in only two galleries at the Gap's waterfront offices or stored in the Fishers' homes. Both Fishers have served on the board of SFMOMA, but Don Fisher said giving his collection to the museum would have burdened it with problems associated with storing, conserving and displaying such a large accumulation of art. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Contemporary Art Museum at the Presidio Endorsed by Presidio Trust Jan 31, 2008
The Fisher collection includes important works from artists such as Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Diebenkorn, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Willem DeKooning, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Anselm Kiefer. In addition to the new museum building, the CAMP project includes the rehabilitation of a nearby barracks, Building 101, which will house the museums bookstore and extensive public education programs, and will include a... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Peter Stegall prefers small, subtle statements Jan 27, 2008
The book-cover dimensions of his pieces by themselves make an implicit critique of the wall-mastering scale common to painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and John McLaughlin (1898-1976) whose work Stegall's might bring to mind. Unlike theirs, Stegall's abstractions have a hand-painted feel that eludes reproduction, though he suppresses obvious traces of touch. (San Francisco Chronicle)
HUNG UP ON THE SUMMER OF L00003644OVE Dec 16, 2007
Everywhere we turn in Miami, he's seeing artists that he likes, from Robert Rauschenberg to Ellsworth Kelly. But every once in a while there's a particular exhibit that captures his imagination. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Clear-sighted ''Ellsworth Kelly'' keeps its eyes on the art Nov 29, 2007
The movie begins following Ellsworth Kelly as he revisits the streets of Paris, where his lean vision took hold around 1950 ... One Halloween when Ellsworth Kelly was a child, he saw a window in the distance filled with color: red, blue, and black ... "It was a red couch, a blue drapery, and something else," Kelly, one of the great abstract painters of the 20th century, recalls in "Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments," a clear-sighted new film by Edgar B. Howard. (Boston Globe)
December sale Nov 29, 2007
World-renown alumni including Jim Dine, Ellsworth Kelly, and Mike and Doug Starn will be represented along with roughly 750 SMFA students, faculty members, alumni, and affiliated artists. Proceeds benefit the artists and SMFA student scholarships - all the more reason to forgo eBay when looking for gifts this season. (Boston Globe)
Don Gorvett and reduction woodcuts Nov 29, 2007
A fulltime resident of Ogunquit since 1990, Gorvett is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, an institution that has produced world-renowned artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Jim Dine. A current a board member of Boston Printmakers, Gorvett's work can be found in the collections of the the Portland Museum of Art, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, the Currier Museum of Art, and the National Geographic Library in Washington D.C., and the Cape Ann Historical Association. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
'Las Vegas Diaspora' at the Vegas Art Museum Nov 20, 2007
It's like a gorgeous Ellsworth Kelly abstraction that morphs into a vaguely predatory image. Nearby, lovingly described slabs of raw meat and entrails, gaily marbled with fat and painted in slick oils by Victoria Reynolds, seem right at home in their elaborate Rococo frames. (Los Angeles Times)
Art Market Stays Strong at Auctions Nov 16, 2007
Matthew Marks Gallery bought a work by Ellsworth Kelly, and L&M Arts bought several works by Willem de Kooning, artists these galleries represent. Such moves are not uncommon, but dealers typically prefer to get outbid by collectors. (Wall Street Journal)
Top 10 ice-skating rinks around the U.S. Nov 8, 2007
Washington, D.C.: The rink is strung with festive lights and set amid the National Gallery of Art's outdoor sculpture collection, graced by the works of Joan Mir, Sol LeWitt, and Ellsworth Kelly. Nov. 17 to mid-Mar. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Review: Louise Nevelson's found at the de Young Nov 8, 2007
Younger gay contemporaries such as Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol (1926-1987) also forswore New York School male posturing, but in the '50s they benefited by an informal conspiracy of denial in a way that Nevelson could not. Did success as a female artist require Nevelson to blow off marriage and motherhood as she did - when her son was 9 - to study in Europe with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), Chaim Gross (1904-1991) and others there, and later in New York. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Smithsonian Given Castelli Records Oct 20, 2007
1930), Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), Robert Rauschenberg (b. (Suite101.com)
Fidelity and Wisdom Sep 13, 2007
The firm has also designed studio spaces for Ellsworth Kelly, Chuck Close, Richard Serra and Francesco Clemente, as well as installations for PMA. A classic example of Art Deco architecture, the original structure was built in 1927 for the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance company by the same team who designed the neoclassical PMA, opened in 1928, and constructed from the same Minnesota dolomite. Even the color adviser for the Fidelity Mutual Life building was the same person to design the glazed... (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
Challenges ahead for GAP founder's modern art museum Aug 15, 2007
Between the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the De Young Museum and Fisher's collection - full of coveted works by contemporary art pioneers such as Chuck Close and Ellsworth Kelly - San Francisco is shaping up to be a world-class city for modern art. Building the museum in a way that squares with San Francisco values, however, may prove to be a challenge. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Traditional Santa Fe embraces future Aug 11, 2007
(Though there are exceptions even there, such as the new Gallery Moda, which has a formidable collection of post-war prints by American artists, Ellsworth Kelly, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Motherwell among them. . (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Art For Our Sake Aug 9, 2007
" The Fishers have purchased works from some of the world's most famous modern artists, storing it away in their homes and in two galleries at the Gap's waterfront headquarters. The hallways leading to Fisher's office look like museums in their own right. One hallway features a series of colorful Mick Jagger portraits by Warhol, a Picasso lithograph and a wall covered in Lichtenstein pop art. Whimsical Calder mobiles float from ceilings, walls and hangers. Art experts say it is not the size of... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Major Contemporary Art Museum Proposed for Presidio Aug 9, 2007
The Fisher Collection includes more than 1,000 works by Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Diebenkorn, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Willem DeKooning, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Anselm Kiefer and numerous other leading artists. "Art is an important part of our life and we want to share our collection with the public so everyone can enjoy it," Donald Fisher said. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
POSTCARD FROM... Jun 23, 2007
Similarly, if there were enough good new art, a deeply affecting picture of a child warrior in fatigues by Congolese artist Cheri Samba, might find itself flanked by more where that came from, instead of familiar abstracts by established artists Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter. Obviously, the fairs have a powerful impact on the hot some say overheated modern and contemporary art market. (Time.com)
In Venice, sober art amid the spectacle Jun 17, 2007
An impression of conservatism is enhanced in the white galleries of the Italian Pavilion, where abstract paintings by such familiar modern masters as Ellsworth Kelly , Robert Ryman , and Gerhard Richter are prominently featured. Many other artists, however, assert urgently political statements. (Boston Globe)
* Art in the present tense: Politics, loss and beauty Jun 14, 2007
But at the core of the show are more enigmatic works by older contemporary masters like Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman, and Sigmar Polke. Polkes skylit room of magical paintings X dark abstract, translucent canvases X had viewers returning at different times of day to witness how they changed as the weather did, from bright sunlight to rain. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Pax Americana in the Serene Republic Jun 11, 2007
There are rooms devoted to Biennale familiars Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Jenny Holzer, Louise Bourgeois, and Sol LeWitt, as well as newer introductions for an international audience such as Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, and Raymond Pettibon. Mr. Nozkowski's thoughtful, quirkily compact little abstractions loosely intimating specific sources and improvising playfully upon art historical precedents epitomize Mr. Storr's thesis of art at the nexus of the sensual and the cerebral. (New York Sun)
Apocalypse at the Venice Biennale Jun 11, 2007
But at the core of the show were more enigmatic works as well by older contemporary masters like Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman and Sigmar Polke. Polke's skylit room of magical paintings - dark abstract, translucent canvases - had viewers returning at different times of day to witness how they changed as the weather did, from bright sunlight to misting rain. (International Herald Tribune)
And it was all yellow Jun 8, 2007
In a way, Oiticica's paintings prefigured developments in American art during the 60s and 70s - one inescapably thinks of Frank Stella, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, and numerous later practitioners of what came to be called "fundamental painting". Oiticica got there by a different route, taking on board the lessons of an earlier, utopian European modernism - Malevich. (Guardian Unlimited)
Symphony in duh! major Apr 13, 2007
"Let's say I took one of our more abstract masterpieces, say an Ellsworth Kelly, and removed it from its frame, marched it down the 52 steps that people walk up to get to the National Gallery, past the giant columns, and brought it into a restaurant. It's a $5 million painting. And it's one of those restaurants where there are pieces of original art for sale by some industrious kids and I hang that Kelly on the wall with a price tag of $150. No one is going to notice it. An art curator might... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Puget Sound Garden Mar 25, 2007
" In the six-panel fold-out announcement of the park's opening, there isn't a single piece of sculpture pictured -- just grass, sky, water, trees and mountains. The lead designers, New York-based Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, faced additional challenges. Crisscrossing the site are train lines and a highway and, unlike the contaminated soil, they could not be removed. So Weiss and Manfredi created a new topography that rises above this infrastructure. It can't block the noise of trains and... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Corcoran shows own Hirshhorns Mar 11, 2007
He clumps women's portraits by Alex Katz, Edward Hopper, Max Weber and Mr. Rivers (his "Olga" is one of the exhibit's standouts); places geometrized works by Richard Anuszkiewicz, Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella together; and groups fanciful Calders that include "Butterfly" (1966), "13 Leaves" (1967), "Jungle (Animals)" (1970), and "Mr. and Mrs. J.H.H." (1966), a hilarious "portrait" of the Hirshhorns as blacks whooping it up. Page 1 of 2. (Washington Times, DC)
Rich and famous towering above the masses Feb 26, 2007
Voyeurs of conspicuous consumption can spy as buyers sign contracts in glass-enclosed offices decorated with prints by Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg and David Hockney. "The sales center is exquisite. The presentation was very slick and finely detailed," said Arnold Stalk, an architect, developer and urban planner in Las Vegas. (Las Vegas Sun)
Jules Olitski; abstract artist favored use of spray gun Feb 13, 2007
In 1966, Mr. Olitski, Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, and Ellsworth Kelly were selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition. The following year, Mr. Olitski had his first solo museum exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, which awarded him the Corcoran Gold Medal and the William A.C. Clark Prize. (Boston Globe)
Whiff of the new as modern art museum expands in San Diego Jan 25, 2007
The main museum will continue to showcase special exhibits and displays from the permanent collection, which includes pieces by Ellsworth Kelly and Sol LeWitt. Visitors under 25 will get into all three facilities for free, Castle said. (North County Times)
