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In his Tribeca, Manhattan studio, Tyler Loftis paints drummer Jojo Mayer, who has played with Nina Simone and Dizzy Gillespie and now travels the world with his band Nerve.
2AA represents works by artists Janice Biala, Nell Blaine, Christian Calabro, Eugene Delacroix, Robert DeNiro Sr, Lois Dodd, Arthur Dove, Jason Eisner, Mariangela Fremura, Hans Hoffman, Tyler Loftis, Alex Katz, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Tatyana Murray, Philip Pearlstein, Fairfield Porter, Chris Protas, Paul Resika, Gerhard Richter, Dov Talpaz, and Cristina Vergano.
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2AA represents works from artists Lennart Anderson, Rick Beerhorst, Adam Dahlstrom, Edwin Dickinson, Arthur Dove, Jane Freilicher, Kurt Knobelsdorf, Robert Kulicke, Tim Kurtz, Doris Lee, Stanley Lewis, Tyler Loftis, Janice Nowinski, Philip Pearlstein, Fairfield Porter, Chris Protas, Aref Riaz Rahman, Eleanor Ray, Paul Resika, Giordanne Salley, Dov Talpaz
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Morning Show with Shelley Irwin - NPR
2AA represents works from artists Yuval Bar-el, Rosemarie Beck, Rick Beerhorst, Leland Bell, Todd Bienvenue, Robert DeNiro Sr, Arthur Dove, Mariangela Fremura, Martha Hayden, Jeremy Hutchins, Tyler Loftis, Lynette Lombard, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Jesse McCloskey, Janice Nowinski, Chris Protas, Paul Resika, Rob Servo, Kyle Staver, Dov Talpaz, Bob Thompson, Jeannie Weissglass, Megan Williamson
Tyler Loftis, New York based artist and creator of the Collectors Show, seen here with the Robert DeNiro Sr painting 'Blue & Yellow Interior' that he arranged to be in the show.
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Morning Show with Shelley Irwin - NPR
Collector's Show
Grand Rapids, MI
2AA represents work from NYC artists: Lennart Anderson, Mariangela Fremura, Tyler Loftis, Paul Resika, Kyle Staver, Dov Talpaz
Tyler Loftis: Recent Paintings
May 7-June 6, 2015
Wed-Sat Noon-6pm
Leigh Morse Fine Arts
22 E. 80 #5
New York, NY
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New York Cityscapes - By Mariangela Fremura and Tyler Loftis
Special guest Mariangela Fremura will give a talk about the current Fire Barn Gallery show “New York Cityscapes by Mariangela Fremura and Tyler Loftis".
Before becoming a painter and art historian, her early creative pursuits included 3 feature films and a popular Italian sit-com, as well as a modeling career. But ultimately her passion was for fine art. Fremura grew up in Tuscany, Italy and studied in Florence and Rome where she received her Masters in art history before moving to New York to finish her art education. She now lives in New York City where she paints full-time.
"Mari has some kind of aura about her, like she's got this movie-star quality; and she's got this depth of knowledge and skill and experience about art, she's one of the finest painters I know." - gallery director Chris Protas.
Tyler Loftis, originally from Grand Haven, is the co-founder of the Fire Barn Gallery. He has lived and worked on his art in NYC for the last 17 years.
For this show, Protas asked Loftis and Fremura to make paintings of the city. "There's an endless resource there, I wanted to see how differently they would tackle the subject". Mariangela will speak at 7pm at the opening for this show. This will be an extremely rare opportunity for people to hear this artist talk about her remarkable life.
Show opening Thursday, December 11, 6-8pm at Fire Barn Gallery.
Read two reviews here:
A Timeless Conversation on Colors
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Going ape (naked) for one day!
A Day’s Art with Live Nude Model
Congratulations to 2AA artists winnning in ArtPrize 2013 and ArtWalk 2013!
Kyle Staver's painting "Europa and the Flying Fish" wins $20,000 prize - Artprize 2013 juried 2D award; juror John Yau, editor of Hyperallergic Weekend.
Steve Kurtz wins Artwalk 2013 Muskegon Museum of Art award, presented by Judith Hayner and Art Martin, Executive Director and Associate Curator of MMA. Steve also won first place juried 3D award; jurors Kerri Vanderhoff, Go-Site Project Director of GRAM and adjunct professor of film/video at GVSU, and Eddie Tadlock, Assistant GM of Devos Hall and GRAM board member.
Janice Nowinski wins Artwalk 2013 second prize juried 2D award; jurors Kerri Vanderhoff, Go-Site Project Director of GRAM and adjunct professor of film/video at GVSU, and Eddie Tadlock, Assistant GM of Devos Hall and GRAM board member.
Marc Hoeksema wins Artwalk 2013 first prize juried photography award; jurors Kerri Vanderhoff, Go-Site Project Director of GRAM and adjunct professor of film/video at GVSU, and Eddie Tadlock, Assistant GM of Devos Hall and GRAM board member.
Second Ave Arts presents...
The 5th Annual Indie Rock Music Festival kicks off with a special solo performance by Brian Vander Ark of The Verve Pipe, Friday Sept. 27 8pm
https://www.facebook.com/indierock.invitational
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In fifth year, Grand Haven Indie Rock Fest expands scope
20 NYC artists to show in two Michigan art festivals: Grand Rapids ArtPrize and Grand Haven Artwalk
September 18 - October 6, 2013
See images and where to view the work in Grand Rapids ArtPrize
See images and where to view the work in Grand Haven Artwalk
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A group of twenty-plus artists from New York City blur the lines between ArtPrize and ArtWalk
Grand Haven ArtWalk to again bring ArtPrize-inspired event to Lakeshore
ArtPrize 2013 juried award artists react to winning $20,000 prizes
Tyler Loftis at Bowery Gallery in Chelsea July 30 - August 17, 2013. Opening reception Thursday, August 1, 5-8 pm
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Shelley Irwin Morning Show - NPR
Tyler Loftis Exhibit Opens At Fire Barn Gallery In Grand Haven - WZZM13
Local Grand Haven Painter Making It Big - FOX17
New York City artist to show paintings at Fire Barn Gallery in Grand Haven - mlive
Artist-in-Residency: Grand Haven’s Tyler Loftis - beyondthebreakers.com
About
Second Ave Arts is a full-service bespoke art advisory firm that focuses on modern and contemporary art that has handled and sold numerous works of Post-war and Contemporary art. The owner, Michael Coleman has been a historian of fine art through his studies at Dartmouth College, New York Studio School, and his extensive travels throughout Europe. Michael has curated over a hundred shows from even more artists over the past decade and is the primary dealer for NYC artist and All Art Works founder, Tyler Loftis.
Adam Dahlstrom
Adam Dahlstrom is from Grand Haven, MI and lives there with his partner and 3 daughters. He studied at Columbia College (Chicago), Kingston University (Kingston-upon-Thames, England), and received his BFA in printmaking from Grand Valley State University (Allendale, MI). He has lived and worked mainly in West Michigan with time spent in Chicago, London, New Haven (CT), and two years in New York City. He has exhibited frequently along the coast of Lake Michigan, winning many awards at the Muskegon Museum of Art, Holland Area Arts Council, and other regional venues. Adam Dahlstrom's recent work includes a large scale mural commissioned by the Herrick District Library in Holland, MI. Adam has collaborated with multiple New York artists on projects, including an exceptionally brilliant series of drawings done with NY artist Dov Talpaz depicting scenes from some of their favorite books, Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien and Dune by Frank Herbert. His work is included in many private collections both in West Michigan and New York City.
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Clementines Perfect Circle
mixed media collage 14" x 18"
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Magic Mountain
mixed media collage 6" x 8"
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Small Magic
mixed media collage 9" x 7"
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Untitled (Triangles)
mixed media 9" x 6"
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Little Guy
oil pastel on wood 16" x 12"
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Landscape Study
acrylic on canvas 22" x 38"
Chris Protas
Chris Protas is originally from Norwich, Vermont. He went to Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle for a year in the early 90’s, then moved back to the east coast to attend The New York Studio School (1996-2000). After fourteen years in New York City, he now divides his time between NYC and Grand Haven, Michigan. He co-directed a fine art gallery in Grand Haven for four years (2012-16). Recent solo shows include Kendall College and The Fire Barn Gallery, both in Michigan and he has exhibited in many group shows in Michigan and New York City. Chris is part of the 'Painting in NY' group that has exhibited five times throughout Manhattan since the mid 2000's.
'My paintings don't necessarily have a simple narrative story. Instead of a comic book that can carry on a story for months over many issues, I try to include different pieces and times of a story in a single frame. Hopefully to produce more of a feeling of a story than a literal interpretation of a story. Almost like taking the essential aspects and by showing the moments together they in turn tell more of a universal story - the moral of the story, or something humorously and irreverently equivalent.' - Chris Protas
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Industrious Girl with Spider
2015 oil on canvas 5' x 6'
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Two Awesome People
2015 oil on canvas 5' x 6'
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Circus
2014 oil on canvas 6' x 5'
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Falling Asleep
2015 oil on canvas 6' x 5'
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A Truly Great Performance
2012 oil on wood 18" x 14"
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Brooklyn Apartment
2009 oil on canvas 7" x 10"
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It's All Written Right Here
2011 oil on canvas 20" x 14"
Aref Rahman
NYC Photographer
"I am a photographer who is roaming around, clicking pictures one at a time – finding the beauty it carries. I have traveled a piece of the world. Speak about five languages. I find beauty in unexpected places by riding the subway and biking. I find my inspiration here in New York City. This place is full of unexpected sights. Not limited to Manhattan but the other boroughs' hidden gems also." -Aref
Tim Kurtz
Tim Kurtz graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a Masters Degree in painting and drawing with a focus on abstract art, studying under Ray Yoshida, an important artist of the Chicago Imagism movement. Tim's early career focused on abstract painting and design work for multiple businesses he started, as well as design for textile, clothing, and furniture companies including Herman Miller. Since 2009, Tim has made hundreds of realistic Civil War battlefield paintings that are now in multiple museums across America and many private collections. Currently Tim's studio practice consists of working on both abstract work (painting and collage) and realistic paintings of the Civil War era with a masterful fluidity moving from one genre of painting to the other. Tim has exhibited throughout the Midwest America as well as New York, Chicago, London, Zurich, and Sri Lanka. Tim lives and works in Grand Haven, Michigan.
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Arkansas Chicken
2016 oil on linen 14” x 17"
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Esperanto (Herman Miller I)
2004 acrylic on canvas board 18" x 24"
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Untitled (Blue)
acrylic paint and collage 12" x 18"
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The Room Where It Happened
1998 oil on wood 15" x 17"
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Untitled
1999 oil on wood 14" x 10"
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Untitled (Herman Miller II)
2004 acrylic on canvas board 18" x 24"
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Michigan Cavalry I
2011 oil on linen 14" x 17"
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Michigan Cavalry II
2012 oil on linen 14" x 17"
Steve Kurtz
Sculptor - West Michigan
Images of his last show HERE
Steve Kurtz, born in Livonia, Michigan, has been working and living in West Michigan since earning his BFA at Western Michigan University in 1994. His studio in the middle of nowhere, Michigan has been home, refuge, workspace, think tank for the past 19 years; a sculptural monastery of sorts. His work often speaks of the relationship between nature and machine, the individual and mechanic. With a fluid understanding of multiple materials, Steve's sculptures are largely a commentary of these relationships, with an undeniable sense of the artist, his vision, hope, and humor. Steve has been in many juried shows and has had multiple solo exhibits in Michigan, his most recent at the Fire Barn Gallery in October 2012. Other recent exhibits include the traveling show "There and Back Again" in Holland, Grand Haven, and Grand Rapids, MI, several Muskegon Museum juried shows, and Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Juried show.
Steve Kurtz and some of his work
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Untitled Machine
1992 steel & various material 14” x 19” x 19”
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Untitled
2001 (pic 1) steel, fiberglass & various materials 16’h
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Untitled
2001 (pic 2) steel, fiberglass & various materials 16’h
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Food Tray
1993 ceramic 12” x 17” x 1”
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Super Safety Suit
1993 rubber & various materials 85” x 48” x 48”
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Running Machine
1992 steel & various materials 51” x 24” x 24”
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Broken Ball
1993 stainless steel & various materials 9”h
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One Wheeled Robot
(front) 1992 various materials 18’ x 6” x 4”
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One Wheeled Robot
(back) 1992 various materials 18’ x 6” x 4”
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Untitled
2009 steel 99”h
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Untitled
2009 steel 85"h
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Propeller Hat
1993 aluminum, steel & various materials 15” x 27” x 27”
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Flying Machine #3
1994 steel, wood & canvas 64” x 46” x 24”
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Untitled
2003 steel, aluminum & fiberglass 97” x 65” x 65”
Tyler Loftis
Painter - NYC
Tyler was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He moved to New York City to attend the New York Studio School (1996-98, 2000-02.) He then studied anatomy at The New York Academy of Art in Tribeca, NYC. He has spent several years studying in Italy and now lives and paints in the East Village. Tyler is founder of the Fire Barn Gallery in Grand Haven, Michigan as well as the creator of the Collectors Show, a biannual fine art exhibition in Grand Rapids, Michigan in partnership with ArtPrize. His work is in private collections in New York City, West Michigan, and Europe. Along with many group and solo show in New York, Tyler also shows his work in Manhattan with a group he founded called Painting in New York.
Select Exhibitions
- Current Painting: Tyler Loftis, Chris Protas, Ellen Trumbo. Box Gallery at Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois. Feb 9 - March 8, 2017.
- Painting in NY Sixth Show. Leigh Morse Fine Arts, NY, NY. December 8, 2016 - January 7, 2017.
- Water - Lennart Anderson, Heinz Lechner, Tyler Loftis, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Paul Resika. Leigh Morse Fine Arts, NY, NY. July 28 - August 29, 2015
- Tyler Loftis: Recent Paintings. Leigh Morse Fine Arts, NY, NY. May 7 - June 6, 2015
- American Painting. Lennart Anderson, Robert DeNiro Sr., Arthur Dove, Mark Rothko, Tyler Loftis, John Marin, Louissa Matthiasdottir, Paul Resika. Leigh Morse Fine Arts, NY, NY. Nov. 16 - Dec. 6, 2014
- Modern Color: Paintings by Paul Resika and Tyler Loftis. Leigh Morse Fine Arts, NY, NY. May 14 - June 21, 2014
- ArtPrize 2013; Grand Rapids, MI. 2013
- Tyler Loftis: Painting: Fire Barn Gallery, Grand Haven, MI. 2013
- Bowery Gallery Annual Juried Show, Joan Snyder, juror; NY, NY. 2013
- Painting in NY Fifth Show Chelsea, NY. 2010
- There and Back Again traveling show: Holland, Grand Haven, and Grand Rapids, MI. 2009-2010
- Bowery Gallery Annual Juried Show, Paul Resika, juror; NY, NY. 2009
- Winter Invitational Show The Painting Center, NY, NY. 2006
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The Artist Couple
2015 acrylic on linen 48" x 60"
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Lake Michigan
2015 oil on canvas 22" x 26"
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Before The Storm
2015 oil on canvas 18" x 24"
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Houston Street II
2013 oil on canvas 20" x 16"
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Dunes
2014 oil on canvas 36" x 48"
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The Beginning
2012 oil on canvas 76” X 94”
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Interior
2013 oil on canvas 24” X 18”
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Backyard
2013 oil on canvas 20" x 16"
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Girl at Window
2007 oil on canvas 40” X 30”
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Spring
2015 oil on canvas 9" x 12"
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Painter in the Studio with Coffee and Beer
2015 acrylic on canvas 12" x 12"
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The Composer
2014 oil on canvas 28" x 22"
Lynette Lombard
Lynette Lombard received her MFA from Yale University, B.A.Honours from Goldsmiths’ College of Art, University of London and attended the New York Studio School for two years. She is a Professor of Art at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. Lombard has received Mellon Grants to Berlin and Spain, the Philip Green Wright-Lombard Award for Distinguished Teaching, Research grants from Knox College and was a finalist for the Gottlieb prize. She is represented by the Bowery Gallery, NY, Confluence Collective in Spain, the Midwest Paint Group and Seven on Site, a group of American landscape painters.
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Cariatiz Dusk III
2016 oil on linen 46" x 58"
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Night Moves
2014-15 oil on linen 58" x 77"
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Chautauqua Tree, Storm
2012-15 oil on canvas 30" x 30"
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Wheat Dusk
2013-15 oil on linen 43" x 48"
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Rock Slide
2017 oil on linen 32" x 40"
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Morning Cliffs
2017 oil on linen 18" x 20"
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Big Horn Range
2016 oil on canvas 41" x 50"
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Winter Banking
2017 oil on canvas 30" x 24"
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Afloat
2016 oil on canvas 26" x 26"
Marc Hoeksema
Marc has been practicing fine art photography for over twenty years, traveling through America many times over. He has a BA in studio art from Hope College and has run his own business and fine art gallery in West Michigan. With a minimalist sensibility and a keen eye for light and shadow, Marc's photos have a powerful, yet elegant presence. He has exhibited in many solo, group, and juried shows throughout the Midwest and is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades for his fine art photography, especially his black and white silver prints.
Mariangela Fremura
Mariangela Fremura, born and raised in Livorno, Italy, now lives in the East Village of NYC. Her studies have taken her to the American Academy in Florence (1999), The University of Rome (Masters Degree in Art History, 2000) and to the New York Studio School (2000-2002.) While a student in Italy, she was an assistant to the painter Paul Harbutt, and painted the set design for a production of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” at the Coliseum Theatre in Rome. Her shows in NYC include: Painting in NY Fifth Show, Chelsea, 2010, Bowery Gallery Annual Juried Show, 2009, Pianting in NY Fourth Show, NYC, and In Spiritus RKL Gallery, Brooklyn, 2005.
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Olivia
2017 oil on canvas 36" X 24"
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Portrait of a Girl with Roses
2015 oil on canvas 16" X 12"
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Fanny as Frida
2015 oil on canvas 24" X 18"
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Tompkins Square Park
2014 oil on canvas 24" X 24"
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Flora
2012 oil on canvas 14” X 11”
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Juno
2013 oil on canvas 60” X 36”
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Diana
2012 oil on canvas 24” X 30”
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Juno
2012 oil on canvas 60” X 48”
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Ophelia
2012 oil on canvas 12” X 9”
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Untitled
2011 oil on canvas 10” X 8”
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Young Diana
2012 oil on canvas 36” X 24”
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Daniel Roberts
Daniel Roberts (b. 1984 Oregon) is a sculptor who lives and works in Queens NY. He has shown recently with Slag Gallery, Second Ave Arts, and The Brooklyn Rail’s expansive 2023 show “Singing in Unison”. He has exhibited his outdoor sculpture to the open public in New York’s West Village as part of NYCDOT Arts programming, at Willow Island Sculpture Garden, in Grand Rapids MI as a Frederik Meijer Sculpture Grant awardee and in Detroit, Michigan as part of the Movement Festival in Hart Plaza. He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2011, and his BFA from Oregon State University in 2008.
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Morning Mist Rising
2021 Stainless Steel, Steel 6.5' X 3' X 3'
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Gordian
2021 Steel 6.5' X 5' X 3'
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Boundless (hand)
2022 Aluminum 15" X 5" X 6"
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Venus and Jupiter
2020 Aluminum 13" X 18" X 2"
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Midnight Stinger
2022 Corten Steel 6.5' X 2' X 3'
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Frown Lost
2023 Aluminum 15" X 6" X 3"
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Feels Like More
2023 Aluminum 15" X 6" X 3"
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Bound
2024 Corten Steel 6' X 2' X 3'
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Gathering Currents
2023 Stainless Steel, Steel 6.5' X 3' X 3.5'
Dov Talpaz
Dov Talpaz was born in College Station, Texas, and grew up in Herzliya, Israel. He studied at The New York Studio School from 1999-2002 with artists; Mercedes Matter and Rosemary Beck. He worked as an assistant to the painter Paul Resika from 2003 to 2010. He currently works in Brooklyn, NY and is preparing for a solo show in Vienna for the Fall 2016 and a solo show in Brooklyn for Spring 2017.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2017 - Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (upcoming)
- 2014 - “Studio Show” Two-person exhibition with Tyler Loftis, Brooklyn, New York
- 2013 - “Art of Collaboration” Two-person show with artist Adam Dahlstrom, Holland Arts Council, Holland, Michigan
- 2011 - “Tale of a Horse” Speak Easy Show Space, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2008 - “Painting show” Manhattan World Culture Open Center, New York
Selected Group shows
- 2015 - “Painting in Trees” Brooklyn Peoples Garden, curated by Ben Pritchard, Ben La Rocco and Linnea Paskow, New York
- “Small Goods”, Projekt722 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York - 2014 - “Preliminary Study: RSI-T” curated by Naomi Lev, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan.
- Lafontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- “Never mind the Bullocks” Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, New York - 2013 - “Figure Show” Fire Barn Gallery, Grand Haven, Michigan
- 2012 - “Five Stones” group show, Merhav Leomanut Art Space, Jaffa, Israel
- “MIC-CHECK” group show, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
- “Working it Out” group exhibition, The Painting Center, New York - 2011 - “Painting in New York” Fifth group show, curated by Lori Bookstein & Lauren Bakoian, New York
- 2009 - “Juried Show”, Bowery Gallery, New York
- “There and Back Again” Holland Area Arts Council Gallery, Michigan
- “Sanctuary Folk Art”, Grand Rapids, Michigan
"My paintings and drawings derive from text; through stories and poems figures appear and create a new story, one that is made through my personal experiences and encounters. My fascination is with the story itself and the life that is reflected through it." - Dov Talpaz
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Dinner with Dad
2014 paper collage 23" x 24"
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Parents First Car
2014 paper collage 5" x 7"
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Hovav in Kitchen
2013 paper collage 7" x 5"
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Inside/Outside
2014 paper collage 11" x 12"
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Ivan's Room (Meeting the Devil)
2014 paper collage 36" x 24"
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Leonard C
2014 oil on wood 20" x 16"
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Time Bandits
2015 oil on wood 20" x 16"
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T. Monk
2015-16 oil on wood 14" x 11"
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Untitled (On top of Tyler's figure)
2013-14 mixed media on paper 10" x 8"
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Holding
2015 oil on wood 14" x 18"