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Richard Estes' Realism 

Press Release

Richard Estes’ Realism, a retrospective exhibition jointly organized by the Portland Museum of Art in Maine and the Smithsonian Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., will feature 50 paintings, a range of nearly 50 years (1964-2013) of the artist’s work. The show will open at the Portland Museum of Art on Thursday, May 22 and will continue until September 7, 2014. It will then travel to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where it will be on view from October 10, 2014 until February 8, 2015. 

Richard Estes is widely considered the master of Photorealism, a form of hy­perrealist painting where a photograph is projected onto the canvas as the source of the image and then painted. In Estes’ case, however, photographs are used only as a starting point. His mastery of painting and technical virtuosity allows him to create surfaces that evince an allover tonal richness, which combined with crystalline clarity of detail, engender a striking magnetic presence. While the ostensible subject is reality, his work is, as art historian Linda Nochlin has pointed out, “concerned with conveying the non coincidence of tac­tile and visual reality,” or, to put it a different way, as the curator Patterson Sims writes, “Estes reveals and revels in a world hidden in plain sight.  His highly detailed works inspire and reward being regarded at length…in the long tradition and history of representational painting he deploys his exceptional skills to turn his observations into revelations.”

Richard Estes’ Realism will be accompanied by a monograph with essays by Patterson Sims, an independent curator, and Jessica May, Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art at the Portland Museum of Art.  It will also include a detailed chronology by Helen Ferruli, an independent art historian. The book will be published by the Portland Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It will be distributed by Yale University Press.  

Chu Teh-Chun 

It is with great sadness that we share the news that the artist, Chu Teh-Chun passed away in Paris on Tuesday, March 25, 2014.  Chu was one of the most renowned Chinese painters of the twentieth century.  Born in 1920 in Jiangsu Province in China, he had lived in Paris since 1955.  He was one of the last living Chinese emigre artists who moved to Paris in the 50's.  Chu will be remembered not only as a great artist but also as a person of profound modesty who in company exuded much warmth and wit.

Red Grooms: Torn from the Pages II digital catalogue 

This catalogue accompanies the Red Grooms exhibition, entitled Torn from the Pages II, on view at Marlborough Gallery from March 19 through April 19, 2014. This will be artist's second Torn from the Pages exhibition with Marlborough, a continuation of the first exhibition which took place from October to December of 2012. Red Grooms came to international attention through his early Happenings, like Burning Building (1959), and his famed three-dimensional constructions, such as Ruckus Manhattan, which was exhibited at Marlborough Gallery in 1976. He has worked in a variety of media, including film and theatrical performances. This exhibition comprises 19 small mixed-media constructions that explore and delve into the creative realms of other artists including Joseph Cornell, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama, Paul Klee, Edward Munch and Francis Picabia.

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Chu Teh-Chun: digital catalogue 

Robert Weingarten: "Another America: A Testamonial to the Amish"  

Marlborough Graphics is pleased to announce that Another America: A Testamonial to the Amish, an exhibition of Robert Weingarten's photographs of Amish communities from around the United States, has opened at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. The exhibition will be on view through May 25, 2014. The black-and-white photographs in the exhibition were taken over the course of four years in states including Indiana, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Because of the ban on photography in many Amish communities, Weingarten's photographs were taken from afar, from public spaces. However, there is no real sense of of distance- physical or cultural- in the artist's photographs; instead, the serene compositions provide the viewer with a look at everyday Amish life, devoid of any of the "strangeness" that has typically accompanied portrayals of Amish communities in the modern world.

More information on the exhibition can be found here.

More information on the artist and his work can be found here.

Bill Jacklin - New York Paintings - 2014 

Grisha Bruskin - H-Hour - 2014 

Robert Weingarten featured on Mail Online  

Robert Weingarten's series of photographs of Amish life is featured on Mail Online. Weingarten spent four years documenting Amish communities in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Tennessee. The series titled, "Another America: A Testimonial to the Amish," will be on view starting tomorrow at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and continues through May 25th. Click here to read the full online article and learn more about the artist.

Chu Teh-Chun Will Open at Marlborough Gallery 

Press Release

The Directors of Marlborough Gallery are pleased to announce an exhibition of rare works in Sèvres porcelain by the contemporary Chinese master painter, Chu Teh-Chun. The exhibition will consist of twenty-six vases that the artist created over a two-year period and which were exhibited at the prestigious Guimet Museum of Asian Art in Paris in the summer of 2009. It was the first itme that this museum exhibited work by a contemporary artist, and the show at Marlborough will be the first time these exquisite works will be seen in New York.

Click here to learn more about the artist Chu Teh-Chun.

Bill Jacklin on ArtDaily 

ArtDaily features an article on Bill Jacklin's current exhibition titled, New York Paintings. Click here to read the full article online and learn more about the artist.

"Bill Jacklin: New York Paintings"  is on view at Marlborough Gallery through March 15.