Casa Dell’Arte Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of prominent American Figurative artists. The exhibition, entitled ‘Contemporary American Figurative Art’, will be displayed at Casa Dell’Arte Gallery from March 5 to March 27, 2010.
The exhibition will feature a selection of drawings and paintings that haven’t previously been exhibited in Turkey and it will be realized through partnerships with two major figurative art galleries in New York (Forum Gallery and Cavalier Gallery) and consignments of contemporary American figurative art pieces from private collections in Turkey.
The exhibition not only brings together important representatives of Contemporary American Figurative Art but also makes it possible for the new works of prominent artists such as Steven Assael, Alan Feltus, Max Ginsburg, Jeffrey Gold, Susan Hauptman, and Steven Wright to be seen in Istanbul.
Information about participating artists:
Steven Assael was born in New York, New York in 1957. He attended Pratt Institute and presently teaches at The School of Visual Arts in New York. Assael has had several solo shows nationally and is represented in the public collections of The Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, (TN),) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY).
Alan Feltus was born in Washington, DC in 1943, Mr. Feltus studied at the Tyler School of Fine Arts and later received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union in New York and an M.F.A. from Yale University. He has received many awards for his work, such as a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award from Cooper Union, and the Raymond P. R. Neilson Prize from the National Academy of Design. Alan Feltus has had one-person gallery exhibitions worldwide and his work is included in in several important public collections such as The Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, AR, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., The National Academy of Art in New York, NY, The Oklahoma City Art Museum and the Wichita Art Museum in KS.
Max Ginsburg’s paintings are about people, the people one finds on the streets of New York. Simply put, he finds beauty in unglamorous reality. During his career Ginsburg has participated in several one person and group exhibitions and received many awards for his work. He still continues to teach.
Jeffrey Gold was born in 1958 in Los Angeles. He studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, receiving his BFA degree in 1983. A Forum Gallery artist since 1993, Gold continues to live and work in Los Angeles where he has also been exhibited by Koplin Gallery and Robert Berman Gallery. Jeffrey Gold’s work is in the collection of Jim Carrey and Annabeth Gish and other important collections of contemporary figurative painting throughout the United States.
Susan Hauptman received an M.F.A from Wayne State University in Detroit in 1970. Since then, she has had one-person exhibitions several galleries and her work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Arkansas Art Center, the Katonah Museum, the Yale University Art Museum, the Arnot Art Museum. She has received numerous grants including two from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and the Pollock-KrasnerFoundation. Additionally she has been given awards by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the Oakland Museum of Art.
Stephen Wright was born in 1962 and he graduated from California State University Illustration Department in 1987. The artist has exhibited accross the United States and internationally and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.