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I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN

TW Fine Art is pleased to present "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden," which will feature works by Erika Keck (primary), Katarina Riesing (primary), Joseph Leroux (primary), Stephan Doitschinoff (primary), Stacey Lee Webber (primary), Richard Gabriele (primary) and Donna Napoli-Steele (primary), Ted Noten, Ghada Amer & Reza Farkondeh, Mickalene Thomas, Carlos Betancourt, McDermott & McGough, and Matthew Brandt. The exhibit opens to the public with a reception on November 27th at 6 pm and will run through December 28th.

"INPYRG" marks the inaugural group exhibition for TW Fine Art's second season in the heart of Palm Beach, returning to its sprawling space on storied Worth Avenue. A contemporary exploration and examination of depictions of flora and fauna in contemporary art, the exhibit consists of a number of still lives, particularly floral still lives, which have had a long and storied past in art history -- representing humanity's connection with nature.

The eponymous phrase for the title of this show has been associated with the struggle to regulate mental health. In a day and age where society is struggling to preserve and protect the environment and its own sense of safety, security, and mental well-being, it seemed ever prescient to examine what natural beauty means in the visual arts in this new decade of the 2020s.

Each of the artists in this exhibition takes a distinctly post-modern approach to figurative depictions of flora and fauna as well as material choices –– using anything and everything… except for flowers themselves. As is TW's signature at its Palm Beach Outpost, this collective exhibition will feature works both from artists represented by TW Fine Art and works from renowned blue-chip artists, highlighting TW Fine Art's active role in both the primary and secondary art markets.

Highlights:

Erika Keck creates three-dimensional paintings of bouquets that challenge the conventions of painting and sculpture, examining the prototypical divide between abstraction and figuration –– yet, at the same time, the artist insists she is a painter and not a sculptor. Like natural flowers, Erika's bouquets experience gravity under their own weight. The works are composed entirely of materials found in paintings –– hanging wire, wood, textile, joiners and fasteners, and, of course, paint.

Richard Gabriele will be presenting three of his large scale "Magic Carpets," which build upon traditional Eastern textile motifs while transforming the palpable nature of the work by creating the illusion of a floating rug with handmade and hand-frayed Japanese paper. The handmade paper for the oversized watercolor paintings is from the Iwano paper mill (run by Japanese Living National Treasure Ichebei Iwano).

Stacey Lee Webber will be presenting six brand-new works. Utilizing the artist's mastery of soldering currency builds new and exciting worlds that both carry the societal weight of the materials from which they are derived (coins) while also being liberated from the staid imagery of currency to form new narratives. Additionally, for the first time, TW will also be displaying and making some of Stacey's handmade jewelry available for sale beginning in December.

This exhibition is running concurrently with "Hubert Phipps: Takes Flight," a solo exhibition of sculptures and wall works by Hubert Phipps.

Artists include: 

Erika Keck, Joseph Leroux, Stacey Lee Webber, Ted Noten, Katerina Riesing, Donna Napoli-Steele, Richard Gabriele, Ghada Amer & Reza Farkondeh, Mickalene Thomas, McDermott & McGough, David Alexander Flinn, Stephan Doitschinoff, and Carlos Betancourt.

Location: 

TW Fine Art - Palm Beach Outpost

HUBERT PHIPPS TAKES FLIGHT

TW Fine Art is pleased to present the first solo exhibition at its Palm Beach location, centered around the artist Hubert Phipps, running from November 27th to December 28th.

Phipps, a sculptor & painter, is best known for his pigment works, paintings, and abstract sculptures, incorporating steel, bronze, wood, composites, plaster, and glass. An avid pilot, having flown for close to five decades. Phipps often pilots his Airbus Helicopter H-120 down to Palm Beach from his artist studio in Virginia. Having logged 4,000+ hours of flying time, a significant influence on Phipps' work has come from the view he gets while flying.

Takes Flight seeks to demonstrate unity between Phipps' explorations of humanity, culture, and production and how the body can serve as a means to use instruments and as a tool of artistic production itself. 

As described by exhibition curator Ty Cooperman, "Phipps approaches his artistic practice like a seasoned horologist, in which beauty arises from the marriage of precision engineering and nature's proclivity for entropy."

Phipps' penchant for design presents itself as a means of perfection in the surfaces of each work –– nothing unintentional or out of place. We see a relation between the sculptural works as they exist in a simplified two-dimensional silhouette and three dimensions. Like a racecar or a plane, the profile is carefully considered equally in object movement and interaction with the ether.

"Hubert Phipps offers a much-needed contemporary perspective on the endless quest to portray motion and energy in the visual arts. Like the Italian Futurists before him, Phipps encourages us all to reconsider the relationship between the organic and the industrial." - Ty Cooperman

This exhibition is running concurrently alongside "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden."

Artist: 

Hubert Phipps

Location: 

TW Fine Art - Palm Beach Outpost

SKY’S THE LIMIT

Sky’s the Limit explores the cosmogony of each of the four artists as they build new, idiosyncratic worlds through their work. The exhibition highlights the influences that inform the artists’ approach to world-building and storytelling, from their personal lives and past experiences to their creative inspirations. Each of the artists approaches the idea of world-building with their own perspective, process, and aesthetic.

Alberto Pazzi is known for his autobiographical story-telling via his art and his fondness for bubble-gum pink paint and paper. Through recontextualized pop-culture motifs, Pazzi shares pastiches of his own lived experiences through surreal scenes. His character-laden pieces stretch the mind to imagine impossible configurations of places, people, and things. Roger Allan Cleaves embraces a more narrative approach; his work centers around "The Land of the Forget Me Nots," which imagines a fictional multiverse as a way to examine social themes, fantasy, and epic adventures through the lens of Afrofuturism. In his work, he creates and populates new worlds that balance issues of artistic expression and sociological ideas via storytelling. Carles García O'Dowd takes us to "Eden," a land inhabited by "topoids" and "yoyos." G.O'D. takes on an imaginary pop cosmogony that gives him space to examine and critique the contradictions present in neo-liberal societies. His drawing and printmaking work is heavily influenced by his experiences with activism, counterculture, pop music, and cartoons. Spencer Chalk-Levy will be presenting his work at TW Fine Art for the first time with this exhibition. His drawings depict expressive casts of characters that feel both contemporary and Renaissance-inspired. Spencer will be debuting his series "Battalion 102" and another series depicting a high-end brothel in Berlin from various angles.

The four artists displayed together offer possibilities for alternative and concurrent universes, sparking new conversations about the generative potential of visual art by enacting tangible change. Sky's The Limit aims to prove that a better world is possible — if only we can envision it.

Artists Include: 

Spencer Chalk- Levy, Roger Allan Cleaves, Carles García O’Dowd, Alberto Pazzi

Location: 

TW FINE ART – Brooklyn Outpost

CAUGHT UP IN A LOCKDOWN ART AFFAIR

TW Fine Art is pleased to present Caught Up in a Lockdown Art Affair, a group exhibition of works created by fifteen artists over the last 18 months of the global pandemic. COVID-19 and the ensuing lockdowns shook people from their regular routines, and while many artists took a break from their practices and studios, others embraced this time to lean into their creative work, pushing their output further than ever before. This show celebrates these new works, and the bright spot that came out of an otherwise difficult year. Caught Up in a Lockdown Art Affair will be on view at TW Fine Art’s Brooklyn Summer Outpost (514 Atlantic Ave) from August 24, 2021 through September 30, 2021, with a public opening event on August 24 from 6:30pm to 10pm EST. 

COVID-19 can be considered a turning point in canonical contemporary art history, marking seismic changes in political climate, technology, and social conditions both nationally and internationally. This exhibition aims to honor and acknowledge the very real challenges of this moment while celebrating the resilience and creative potential that has arisen from the zeitgeist. As we look towards the future of contemporary art, the pieces created during this time will stand out as part of a watershed moment much in the way that art history today distinguishes between pre- and post- World War II art. 

The works in the exhibition span drawing, sculpture, paintings, embroidery, prints, photographs, ceramics and more, showing an impressive range of mediums and styles. In their own way, each artist expresses a unique conceptual and aesthetic perspective, imagining new possibilities for world building that can arise post-lockdown. Included in the show are Erika Keck’s sculptural paintings that construct abstract, tactile scenes with vibrant colors. Stacey Lee Webber embroiders paper money as a way to comment upon and critique currency, society, and politics. Her punk-inspired pieces transform recognizable bills and imbue them with new and unexpected narratives. Preston Douglas explores the relationship between fine art and fashion by painting and drawing directly on chiffon. In his monochromatic works, the stretcher becomes the body, with fabric over the frame representing the clothing. Sienna Berritto exhibits detailed photographs in her high-concept feminist style. Brian Kenny shares one of his signature conceptual sculptures. Carles García O'Dowd’s unique ink drawings and color prints play with imaginary pop cosmogony. And Bill Bernstein’s new photographs explore genderqueer aesthetics in New York City.

This show also marks the first time exhibiting at TW Fine Art for many of the artists, including Roger Allan Cleaves, who will display his vibrantly surreal afrofuturist character drawing, Alberto Pazzi, whose minimalist paintings examine modern culture using a muted pink palette and simple lines; Richard Gabriele’s high-concept woodblock prints, which replicate the style of traditional eastern carpets; Jenny Hata-Blumenfield’s light and movement-inspired ceramics incorporating colorful lucite elements; Tom DeLaney’s dark, hyper-realistic oil paintings which merge fantastical elements with everyday imagery; Jessie Novik’s richly-colored still lifes that recall historical oil painting tropes, featuring imagery of food, flowers, and fabric; and Galen Gibson-Cornell’s woven works of found posters, which are mounted floating off the wall with a custom-made magnet system. This will also be Roxana Halls’s first showing in NYC ahead of a BBC series airing later this year. The exhibition will feature her surreal oil paintings, which depict women's internalized rules of conduct via maniacal laughter.

During world-changing events, great artists record and reflect on their environment with unique insight and perspective. As we enter new phases of the pandemic, Caught Up in a Lockdown Art Affair turns to artists to show us how the world has changed and envision how it will evolve going forward. This exhibition commemorates the pivotal and complicated period we’re living through, and celebrates the artists who continue to document their worlds and imagine new ones through it all. 

Artists Include: 

Bill Bernstein, Sienna Berritto, Roger Allan Cleaves, Tom DeLaney, Preston Douglas, Richard Gabriele, Galen Gibson-Cornell, Roxana Halls, Jenny Hata-Blumenfield, Erika Keck, Brian Kenny, Jessie Novik, Carles García O'Dowd, Alberto Pazzi, and Stacey Lee Webber

Location: 

TW FINE ART – Brooklyn Outpost

514 Atlantic Ave.

Brooklyn, NY 11217

Hours: 11:30am – 7 pm, Tues – Sat

BRIAN KENNY: I’MMATERIAL

TW Fine Art is pleased to present Brian Kenny’s multimedia exhibition, I’mmaterial, which features a variety of conceptual and abstract drawings, textiles, and installation pieces created over the last decade-and-a-half. Together, the autobiographical and improvisational works mark a progression in the prolific artist’s spirited exploration of queerness, sexuality, and American identity. This exhibition marks the first in TW Fine Art’s summer season of programming and events at the gallery’s Brooklyn outpost, located at 514 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11217. I’mmaterial will be on view from July 1, 2021 through August 7, 2021.

The exhibition considers the porous border between a person or object’s physical presence and its intangible essence. The title announces “I’m material” while also reinforcing the critical immateriality that animates the self and gives meaning to objects. Kenny recontextualizes found objects, such as old sports jerseys, American flags, jock straps, medicine bottles, or pages of a book, imbuing them with new significance. For Kenny, what makes art powerful is not the material itself, but the narrative, emotions, and personal connection that it can carry.

I’mmaterial features the latest in Kenny’s American Flag series, including a flag constructed entirely out of transparent shower curtains. Another is completely covered in vantablack paint, creating a void only distinguishable as a flag when viewed up-close. The flags signal the artist’s ambivalence toward his identity as an American; growing up as a gay person on a military base, he is both attracted to and repelled by the symbols and status of American patriotism.

Also included in the show are drawings from the Secret Heroes series, in which Kenny layers rebellious and raunchy illustrations on top of children’s coloring book pages. Using markers, crayons, and stickers, the artist subverts the genre and gives himself complete permission to color literally and figuratively outside the lines. Similarly, in Sacred Profanities, drawings overlay pages from a book showing Michelangelo's art, bringing the work into the present and inserting Kenny’s contrarian presence into the iconic scenes.

This exhibition presents a softer side of Kenny’s art; over time his work has evolved to embrace a more feminine aesthetic, subtler messages, and physically softer materials. I’mmaterial provides a rich cross-section of Kenny’s conceptual artwork, inspiring viewers to reconsider everyday objects as vessels for new and unexpected meaning.

SHOW ME THE MONEY

TW Fine Art is pleased to present: Show Me The Money, a collective exhibition running from April 9th, 2021 to May 16th, 2021 at its outpost in Palm Beach, Florida. Show Me The Money features works by fourteen artists. Show Me The Money investigates the concept of currency through a visual and tactile exploration of both currency’s tangible forms – such as coins, woven paper bills, and precious metals – and also the semiotics associated with wealth and materialism. Works by masters of contemporary and modern art are juxtaposed with works by TW-represented artists, highlighting TW’s hybrid approach to fine art agency which unites established collectors with early and mid-career visual artists unparalleled enabling access to primary and secondary market works. 

Show Me The Money is an exercise in visual storytelling. Curatorially, for example, Show Me The Money depicts what happens when you break down the metaphors associated with currency, reducing it to its most basic physical characteristics and manipulate it in such a way that currency itself can serve as the basis for sculpture, as in the works of Johnny Swing and Stacey Lee Webber. At the same time, the signs and symbols associated with money and its purchasing power are made flexible, fungible, and playful in the works of Todd Pavlisko, which utilize plastic retail fasteners to depict dollar signs on canvas. Works by TW represented artists including Todd Pavlisko are brought into a curatorial dialogue with works by artists including Nick Cave, Andy Warhol, Barbara Kruger, Deborah Kass, giving rise to the experience in which the exhibited works quite literally ‘show you the money.’

SATURDAY, IN THE PARK

TW Fine Art is pleased to present: ​SATURDAY, IN THE PARK​, a collective exhibition running from February 20, 2021 to April 1, 2021 at its outpost in Palm Beach, Florida. Unlike most gallery exhibitions, ​SATURDAY, IN THE PARK ​is a multi-sensory art experience which utilizes fine art, sculptural installations, and set design to take viewers through a thoughtfully-curated exhibition of over 70 works of art under the guise of a 24-hour period from Saturday morning to Sunday morning.

In the entry, Brian Kenny’s banners hang from the ceiling, while his hand-made, one-of-one garments dangle from a clothesline, fostering the experience of being inside the artist's urban studio. In a hidden room off the entry, ​Bill Bernstein’s nightlife photography has been transformed into floor-to-ceiling installations, alluding to hazy disco nights from a distant memory... or of a night soon to come as the ‘day in the park’ transforms into nighttime debauchery.

Our largest gallery, the ‘morning’ room, has been transformed into a ‘park’ featuring wall-to-wall grass, live foliage and trees, soundscapes, and park benches. Along the way you will see sights such as ​Derrick Adams’ ​experiences of black life, love, and family, with glimpses of ​Andy Warhol’s ​pop art interpretation of taking a second to ‘smell the flowers.’ The playful howls not too far down the garden path come from the eponymous wolf of ​Beth Cavener’s ​In Bocca al Lupo.​ As the winding path approaches the next gallery room, ​Erika Keck ​challenges the conventions of painterliness through her wall-works, which utilize acrylic paint as a sculptural medium, enabling each painting to fully inhabit three-dimensional space.

The park trails off into the ‘afternoon’ room, featuring a picturesque picnic setting. Enjoy a light snack while the works of ​Jack Tworkov, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ida Ekblad, ​and Jacolby Satterwhite ​evoke memories of the Fourth of July. As the afternoon comes to an end, it's time to head to the ‘evening’ soiree before heading off for a night in clubland.

The ‘evening’ room emanates perceptions of sunset skies and 70s glamour through the large-scale prints of ​Bill Bernstein’s ​contact sheets on the walls, visually telling the story of nights in New York City. Overhead, a disco ball sets the mood as the warm tones of funk guitars and bass entice you to walk towards the velvet rope of the ‘nightlife’ room.

Beyond the velvet rope, multicolored lights and disco music beckons you. This is the decadent after party you heard whispers of. Large scale, highly limited edition prints of work by ​Bill Bernstein, depicting late-70s club-life in New York, bring about a whirlwind sensation. In the video interview accompanying these works, Bill’s words take viewers on a journey back to iconic clubs including Studio 54, Paradise Garage, Xenon, and The Mudd Club. ​Todd Pavlisko’s work “Cocaine” occupies the back wall, encouraging the party to last all night long.

Location: Palm Beach Outpost

Dates: February 20, 2021 - April 4, 2021

DEVOUT UNORTHODOX

TW Fine Art is pleased to present DEVOUT UNORTHODOX, a collective exhibition running from December 21, 2020 to February 1, 2021 at its new outpost in Palm Beach, Florida. Divided into four parts by room, each component gives rise to a particular dichotomous experience.

In the foyer, Maynard Monrow’s sculptural work plays with the optical and cultural power of neon to question the logical through an exercise in semiotics; while Brian Kenny’s sports-jersey appliqué banners give a thorough artistic interrogation to the notion of machismo in garmenting and cultural costuming, connoted by his choices of raw materials.

In the salon, the psychological cubism of George Condo comes into dialogue with the surreal sculptural works of Rotganzen, while works by Joan Mitchell, Louise Fishman, and Rashid Johnson elucidate the absurdity in the historical narrative that abstract painting is somehow only a ‘white male artist’s game.’

In the parlor and la chambre, a selection of works from Ahmer Farooq, Carles García O'Dowd, COARSE, Kehinde Wiley, Antony Gormley, Elizabeth Peyton, Tanya Minhas, and Todd Pavlisko work synchronously to further interrogate the norms of each artist's particular chosen mediums. Each artist builds upon a conceptual frame to create their artworks.

In the darkroom, we will have a selection of works from the Damien Hirst series “I Once Was What Your Are, You Will Be What I Am,” leading to our final mini-exhibition: Andy Warhol: When Your 15 Minutes of Fame Come to an End, a reunion of “rear ends” from Sex Parts and Torsos.

Location: Palm Beach Outpost

Dates: December 26, 2020 - February 1, 2021

ANDY WARHOL: WHEN YOUR 15 MINUTES OF FAME COMES TO AN END

Beginning in approximately 1976, Andy Warhol embarked on the development of a couple provocative series of works which would become known as Sex Parts and Torsos. Not unlike his application of commercial-style screen printing to create portraits, these photographic works juxtapose the serialized output of Polaroids with the intimacy and uniqueness of the nude human form. Rarely are many works from Sex Parts and Torsos brought together for public exhibition. We are happy to buck that trend and reunite this selection of “rear ends.”

Location: Palm Beach Outpost

Dates: December 26, 2020 - February 1, 2021