Press Release: "New Artists Pop Up"

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"NEW ARTISTS POP UP"
October 23- October 27, 2018
Reception Thursday October 25th, 6-8pm

Ernesto Ruiz Bry * Ellen Burnett * Kiffi Diamond * Kazuo Ishikawa * Marco Lando * Nancy Nicol

Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present "NEW ARTISTS POP UP"The exhibition continues from October 23- October 27, 2018 with an opening reception October 25th, 6-8pm.

Its always exciting the first time one sees a small body of work by an unfamiliar artist, so periodically Viridian uses whenever available moments arise, to do so. These 6 artists are yet to have solo exhibits at the gallery, but we seized this moment to introduce their art to you in a short one week pop-up exhibition. All but Marco Lando who uses photography as his media of choice, incorporate found objects or collage in their work.

Ernesto Ruiz Bry is an Argentinian artist based in Fort Lauderdale. Bry creates large collages of sport figures primarily, whom he admires for their perseverance and fortitude. His collages employ images from magazines that would be discarded if not used to create art. Like many who work in the collage medium, he feels that the recycling of the magazine images is not only helping to save the environment, but serves to give them a new life as well.

Ellen Burnett and Kiffi Diamond are both artists who recycle discards, though their recycling is focused not on paper, but on objects of all sorts. Burnett was one of the winning artists in our 28th Annual Competition juried by Susan Thompson of the Guggenheim Museum. At an early age, her mother introduced her to collage and assemblage by often taking her to MOMA and teaching her frugality, after having lived through the Great Depression. Burnett creates both collages and sculptural compositions from a wide range of objects and materials she collects and meticulously organizes in her studio.

Kiffi Diamond is a collage and assemblage artist too, who was born into a family of artists in Los Angeles. Her interest in collecting and collage comes out of an early passion for Victorian ephemera. Using her signature style and strong design sense, she combines idiosyncratic materials into witty visual narratives.

Kazuo Ishikawa comes to Viridian from Tokyo, Japan. He has a very unique way that he approaches creating his collage/ assemblages that incorporate plastic, metal and wood as well as paper. He begins his compositions first with vanishing points that he then connects with lines and shapes, keeping the work in bas relief with just an illusion of dimension.

Marco Lando’s photographic practice is intended as epic and revolutionary. Fragments of architecture and portions of cities exist against the background of a cloudy sky or mountain peaks, creating the scenario of the “Alchemy” series. In order to create an immediate visual and emotional upheaval, Lando often chooses to play architecture against nature: representing what matters most, daily life and shelter, while employing objects such as blankets, as metaphorical tools.

Nancy Nicol is still a New Yorker at heart, after commuting daily as a school kid from New Jersey & collecting found objects, bits of rusty metal and whatever along the way. Now she lives in a totally different setting on Cape Cod, but her early NYC journeys to school, the museums and urban neighborhoods still impact the art she makes today. Her collages and sculptures continue to be created from the detritus of moments.

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com

Press Release: Srividya Kannan Ramachandran: “A.I. Generated Art”

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Srividya Kannan Ramachandran

“A.I. Generated Art”

October 30 - November 24, 2018

Opening reception, Thursday, November 1st, 6-8PM

Closing reception on Saturday November 24th, 4-6PM

Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present "A.I. Generated Art", our first solo exhibition of AI-generated images by Srividya Kannan Ramachandran. Her exhibition continues from October 30th to November 24th, 2018 with an opening reception, Thursday, November 1st, 6-8PM and a closing reception on Saturday November 24th, 4-6PM.

“A.I. Generated Art” is a collection of images that were generated from an A.I.’s consciousness. All but one of the images (can you guess which?) in this show were entirely created by artificial neural networks. Like a parent or teacher teaching art to a student, Ramachandran trained the artificial brain with her pre-existing corpus of abstract art. After the training process is complete, the A.I. is free to generate new art in the same style that it has learned. The promise of imbuing a machine with creativity opens new vistas for “art” as we define and know it.

For decades now, computers have been used to automate routine and tedious tasks. But what lay beyond the ability of computers, was to simulate the human intelligence, and even beyond that, lay artistic creativity. Technology has evolved to a point where A.I. can now “learn” from an artist and generate new art by itself. What then is the meaning of art? This ground-breaking work by Ramachandran, a data scientist by day and an artist by night, at the intersection of technology and art, seeks to redefine aesthetics for an A.I. dominated future.

 
In Ramachandran’s words – “The purpose of my art is to delight those who set aside searching for purposes in life, if only it be for the brief time they spend gazing at my work. Beneath the ever-running reductionist outer mind, we all possess a silent mental substratum. Reposing in this substratum – termed ‘chitta’ in Sanskrit – yields a serene sense of bliss and also an effortless identification with a universal transcendent self. Our innate propensities embedded in our sub-conscious prevent us from resting perpetually in this tranquil state. Instead, these propensities impel us to react to all inputs in Pavlovian reflexive fashion.”

The aim of Ramachandran’s art then is to gently attenuate these propensities by using abstraction to directly color the chitta and induce in it a sense of “impersonal” delight that is distinct from the usual responses of either joy or disappointment. Art perceived by this inner intuitive self, escapes the confines of being the artist’s work solely and is uniquely reborn in every gaze on it within each distinct individual.

The artist will be speaking about the technical details of creating these works at MLConf 2018, a machine learning conference in San Francisco on November 14, 2018.

This will be Ramachandran’s first solo show at Viridian Artists. She was initially invited to become a part of Viridian after being one of 30 artists selected for the Director’s Choice exhibit, a juried exhibit that happens periodically at Viridian. We look forward to your seeing these wonderful new artworks.

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com

or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com

Ellen Burnett: Open Studio Evening: Friday January 21st, 7-10 PM

Ellen Burnett will be having an Open Studio event on Friday, January 21st, 7-10 pm
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Open Studio Evening -
Friday, September 21, 7-10pm
34 Liberty Place
Weehawken, NJ

Wally Gilbert : Art Show in in Cambridge, MA

Wally Gilbert
Art Show

University Place
124 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA.

Opening Party:
Thursday, October 4, 6 – 8 pm

Artist's Talk:
Thursday, October 11, 6:30 – 7:30 pm

Press Release: BOB TOMLINSON “Still Crazy After All These Years”: A Retrospective

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 BOB TOMLINSON
“Still Crazy After All These Years”
A RETROSPECTIVE
October 2 - 20, 2018
Opening reception Saturday, October 6, 2018 3-6 pm
Champagne and conversation with the artist, Saturday, October 20, 3–4 pm

 Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present a retrospective of works by Bob Tomlinson.  The exhibit opens October 2nd with a reception on Saturday October 6th, 3-6 p.m. The work will be on view through October 20th. The artist will be at the gallery on Saturday, October 20th, the final day of the exhibit, for champagne and conversation from 3-4 p.m.

 There are two kinds of artists, a Picasso who is constantly changing his style and a Balthus who is relatively stylistically stable.  The first case does not exclude recurrent themes and a recognizable mark, nor does the second exclude a subtle stylistic evolution.  Tomlinson’s art is somewhere between the two. One of the joys of a retrospective is that it allows both the viewer and the artist to reflect on recurrent elements and themes in the work. 

 In Tomlinson’s art, it is not far-fetched to see echoes of the early woodcuts in the graphic style of his later works. His abstract collages prepare the viewer for the collage passages of the later oil and collage paintings.  Beyond variations of style and media, in Tomlinson’s paintings there is an ongoing concern with the human body as the primary expressive tool.  Faces are turned away and except for the portraits, we seldom see the eyes.  Ignoring the traditional distinction between naturalistically depicted figures and abstract forms, the sensuous color and bold, sinuous contours of this artist’s elusive and lyrical paintings play on the tension between figurative references and abstracted shapes. 

 Tomlinson is a Jamaican-American artist born in Brooklyn, New York.  He has shown widely in Paris, London, Amsterdam and New York and is represented in many international public and private collections including those of the Clark-Atlanta University Museum, City University of New York, the late Dr. Maya Angelou, Sir Shean McConnell, Lord and Lady Hirshfield, Sr. Franco Trecanni, Mme Linda Weil-Curiel and Herr Frits Bernard. 

 A graduate of Pratt Institute and the CUNY Graduate Center, Tomlinson is also a scholar of French Literature and Aesthetics and has lectured and published in both disciplines, as well as in Afro-American Studies.  He figures in the books, 100 New York Painters by Cynthia M. Dantzic (Schiffer, 2006) andBlack Paris Profiles by Monique E. Wells (2012) and is one of the artists studied in a recent Masters Thesis by Charlotte Barat, Artistes Noirs Américains à Paris (1945-1969), (Université de Paris I, Panthéon- Sorbonne, 2014).  He is also the subject of a film project by well-known documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah.

 Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12 pm - 6 pm

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Director, at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com

Work by Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad featured in Dab Art's Quarterly Journal and Online Exhibition

Two works by Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad have been selected for Dab Art’s online exhibition and its first quarterly journal. Journals will also be added to the permanent catalog in the LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Balch Art Research Library.
These political works along with 33 others from different artists are currently featured in an online exhibition from September 1 until December 1 for Dab Art and Artsy. 

This exhibition explores various views on current political, geopolitical, and social issues from a selected group of contemporary artists.

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Viridian's Summer Intern Marqusha Oliver Featured in the Southeast Missouri News

Southeast Fine Arts Student Explores New York Art Scene

Southeast Missouri State University student Marqusha Oliver traveled to New York City this summer to intern in one of the city’s finest and most highly respected art galleries.

Oliver interned at Viridian Artists Inc., an artist-owned, professionally operated gallery, located in New York City in the Chelsea region of Manhattan. The gallery is one of the city’s oldest artist-owned galleries housing contemporary art.

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Courtesy of Southeast Missouri State University

Press Release: John Nieman: "Art with a Story"

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 JOHN NIEMAN
"Art with a Story"
September 4th-September 29th, 2018
Opening Reception, Thursday, September 6th, 6-8 pm.
Closing Reception, Saturday, September 29th, 4-6pm

Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present "Art with a Story", an exhibition of paintings by John Nieman. The exhibition continues from September 4th to September 29th, 2018 with an opening reception, Thursday, September 6th, 6-8 pm.

Art with a Story is more than a series of paintings, but a body of work that is also a book & a series of audio recordings as well. As a book, its 139 pages of what one reviewer called “Flash Fiction” are one-page stories filled with creativity and inspiration overlaying the paintings that they are about. Here in this exhibit we are made privy to the paintings themselves for unlike other authors who use a photograph to inspire the words & story, Nieman creates watercolors to draw us in. He then   superimposes words connected to and clarifying what the images are about – giving them a deeper meaning then the surface of reality and what is seen at first glance.

Multi-talented as both a writer and a painter, the images are realistic in their execution with a slightly soft focus, but with the addition of his words, he adds meanings that go much deeper than the object depicted. With the layering of both word & image the artist’s intention is to create space for a bigger impact of the themes of the works. "A picture is worth a thousand words" describes his art perfectly, though only superficially, since for him it is the idea that holds the greatest importance whether word or image or both. And hoping to make people see reality in a different light, both the ordinary and the unusual, these paintings incorporate words and images in equal power.

The artist, who has been a "voice over actor", has added recordings that can be listened to while viewing. "Hi-tech" recording of these stories he has written in the artist’s voice accompany all the images are accessible by a QR code or cell phone number. You can just “read” the painting, but if you do, you risk missing his dramatic interpretation. John Nieman's art continually connects the verbal and the visual, whether with recordings accompanying the art or in paintings with images that have words superimposed and often both, as in this exhibit.

Nieman is continually fascinated by the nexus of art and pop culture, perhaps because before turning to fine art over a decade ago, he enjoyed a successful career in advertising, but he is no “Mad Man” at heart. Since leaving the advertising world he has exhibited widely and collections of his paintings and poems have been published in "The Art of Lists" and "The Art of More Lists" and "The Wanted Book". Nieman's art hangs in collections throughout Europe and the US. 

This will be John Nieman's second solo exhibit at Viridian, his first a series of Wanted Posters of people who are wanted because of their good deeds and ability to inspire rather than their crimes.

             Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM           

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or    viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com

Painting by Nancy Nicol in Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Silent Auction

"Two Herring Gulls," oil on panel for the 12x12 exhibit and silent auction at PAAM, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, one of 307 entries. Bids start at $125.00

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Press Release: “Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions”

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                                              “Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions”
                                                          Viridian Affiliates
                                                   July 17 - August 11, 2018
                                          Opening Reception: Thursday, July 19, 6-8PM
                                          Closing Reception: Saturday, August 11, 4-6PM

 Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad* Deb Flagel * Charles Hildebrandt * Barbara Hillerman * Jenny Belin *
Matthias Merdan * Vernita N’Cognita * Carolina Poggi * Kathleen Shanahan

Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of outstanding art by nine artists who are part of Viridian Artists' Affiliate program. The “Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions in these artists' creations are not immediately apparent, but each has a personal vision that that often supersedes their imagery and in these times of complex real events.  Their meanings & motives reveal themselves and it is then that we understand move clearly their “Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions”. The show extends from July 17th to August 11th with receptions to meet the artists Thursday July 19th, 6-8pm & Saturday, August 11, 6-8PM.

 Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad’s latest series reflects her abiding desire to use traditional techniques and mediums such as encaustic, raw pigments and metal leaf to create contemporary images which reflect very modern concerns. Her work focuses on the contradictions between what things appear to be and what they actually are, especially at this time of fake reality and alternative facts. Based in Montreal, Canada, Ackad is increasingly showing her works in the United States. Most recently, at the Alexandria Museum in Louisiana, at the American Swedish Institute and the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Minneapolis where she was awarded 4th place in the pastel category in the 23rd Arts in the Harmony International juried exhibit.

Deb Flagel’s "All That Is", a mixed media assemblage, like much of her art, is about the accumulation of momentary glances. As she records the environmental landscape that surrounds us, her mind pieces together line, color and shape, constructing an emotional response. The artist says “signs and symbols become metaphorical.  Emotion and experience become tightly stitched. Senses heighten.  Clarity of intention unfolds. The energy of truth moves closer”. Originally conceived a decade ago, this work speaks clearly about the dangers lurking in our reality today.

When viewers look at the paintings of Charles Hildebrandt, they may see a landscape that they recognize somewhere in their own mind; perhaps a familiar place or an aspect of a past experience. For this artist, many childhood and adult memories are the roots of the conception of the images, with perhaps the wish of holding onto the past. In these paintings too, we are helped to realize that the places and individuals we cherish, undergo constant transformation as do we.

Barbara Hillerman sees reality through the lens of design and visual structure as much as through reality’s multitude of meanings. The elements of design play a dominant role in her images for her journey as an artist was initially begun via graphic design. The artist’s intent when she photographs is to ask the viewer to "read" her images from the visual clues she supplies, but then to come to their own conclusions. 

Vernita N’Cognita has been working for decades with materials that are valueless trash, first junkmail and more recently, plastic packaging. An outstanding attention-getter is her “Endless Junkmail Scroll”,an ongoing work which is now over 400 feet long. The artist is constantly searching for new ways to present the work, offering it for just $10 a linear inch to be torn away from the whole & presented separately as a constant reminder that all that we discard is adding to the ongoing pollution of our environment.  In the fall, she will be having a solo exhibit of the Scroll and related works at Farleigh Dickinson University and last February it filled 3 galleries at the Crary Gallery in Warren PA.

Matthias Merdan is a Swiss artist whose work is also embedded in the re-use and recycling of the discarded. He enjoys exploring materials, forms and concepts, always surprising viewers with works often potent with their messages.

Jenny Belin’s recent work is inspired by the studies of flowers, cats and dogs that she has drawn in her sketchbooks. 

Carolina Poggi worked with Fatima Quaglia and Julio Bernal graduated from the National Dance Academy of Uruguay, to create this photographic essay “The prison of freedom” at the Contemporary Art Museum which was formerly a female penitentiary. This environment was a key element of inspiration to contrast artist’s freedom in a space which topically represents repression.

 Poggi studied at the Cinema School of Uruguay specializing in still photography and has long been fascinated with photographing dancers in performance and in rehearsal. She is drawn to the concept of the photo-essay and has set up her own black and white lab working on several essays ranging from architecture to nature and especially, dancers. Her work has been displayed in Uruguay and abroad both in solo and group shows. In the past, she worked as a dance photographer shooting trainee dancers at the National School of Dance of Uruguay.

Kathleen Shanahan’s mixed media works owe much to print making studio practices and the processes of layering and sequentially developing unique effects. The artist creates her “pastiched” imagery through collage and the juxtaposition of diverse elements. Here, her piece, entitled “Real Concerns”, is embedded in fantasy that choreographs our imagination as she manipulates it.

Viridian's Affiliate program is one of the many ways in which our gallery continues its mission of supporting the art of outstanding "underknown" artists.

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12- 6 PM

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director

VA Summer Intern

We are thrilled with our summer intern, Marqusha Oliver from SE
Missouri University.

Gallery Director Vernita Nemec Juries the "Wordplay" exhibit at Woman Made Gallery, in Chicago

WORDPLAY
July 6 – July 28, 2018 | Opening Reception: Friday, July 6 | 6–8 p.m.

Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport #4A-3
Chicago, IL 60608
(312)-738-0400

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CHICAGO —Woman Made Gallery (WMG) is proud to present the exhibition ‘Wordplay,’ an exploration of how artists intertwine text and image to deliver message and effect change.  From handwriting to video, poetic thought to political activism, this group of artists incorporate letters, numbers and symbols to give meaning to their art.

Exhibiting Artists:

Angela Amias; Marjorie Arnett; Rebecca Baruc; Emily Beck; Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura; Ruth Burke; Megan Cherry; Maryangel Garcia; Fran Gardner; Kyra Garrique; Nina Ghanbarzadeh; Naomi Hart; Maxine Hess; Leslie Hirshfield; Brooke Jana; Mary Sue Kern; Rachel Kice; Maria Kompare; Tracy Kostenbader; Dorothy Krause; Katherine Krcmarik; Carole Kunstadt; Angela LaMonte; Cynthia Lee; Minjoo Lee; Gayla Lemke; Marcy Lichterman; Jackie Lima; Ara-Lucia; Rosemary Lyons; Megan Mattax; Jenna McDanold; Mary McFerran; Pamela Penney; Cynthia Petry; Nichole Riley; Emanuelle Schaer; K. Elizabeth Sekararum; Jenny Stopher; Harriette Tsosie; and Jessica Wagner.

About the Juror: Vernita Nemec

Vernita N’Cognita aka Vernita Nemec is a visual/ performance artist/ curator who has exhibited her art throughout the world.

Her artwork ranges across a variety of disciplines, from creating installations, m/m collages and tangible art objects such as the “Endless Junkmail Scroll to the creation of performance art that conceptually investigates theatre and its edges – using language, space, and time, silence and stillness as well as movement and voice as an instrument of self-expression.

In the 90’s she served for a decade as the Director of Artists Talk On Art interviewing art world luminaries such as Irving Sandler, Rob Storr, Jerry Saltz, Nancy Spero, Peter Plagens and Robert Rosenblum. She was an independent curator at Henry Street Settlement for the Arts and currently, is the director of Viridian Artists, art gallery in Chelsea, NYC.

In 1995, she assumed the name VERNITA N’COGNITA in homage to under-recognized artists. In addition to her ongoing artistic output, she has curated and organized important exhibitions of art from recycled materials (“Art from Detritus: Recycling with Imagination”) throughout the U.S., for which she received a Kauffman Foundation Fellowship and a grant from the Puffin Foundation.

Nemec AKA N’Cognita has presented her art in a variety of venues: galleries, universities and experimental spaces in the US, Mexico City, Darmstadt & Frankfurt in Germany; Dublin, Ireland and Tokyo, Japan. She has received funding for her performance art from the Jerome Fnd and the NEA and in 2010 and 2015 was invited by Movement Research to perform at Judson Church where performance art came alive in the 60’s.

Ellen Burnett Open Studio

Things that have potential beyond their initial existence; 
they speak to me.

- Open Studio Evening -

Come see the artist in her natural habitat!

Thursday, July 12, 6 - 8pm, 34 Liberty Place, Weehawken, NJ

All Our Yesterdays, 29"w x 25"h x 3.5"d. Mixed Media including various woods, metals, glass, feathers, paper, orange peel, fabric, ceramic, pine needles, bone, bronze spill.

www.ellenburnett.com

Nancy Nicol at Burdick Gallery in Wellfleet, Mass.

Opening reception with oil paintings featuring ponds and waterscapes and sea life. Address 25 Bank Street, this family-owned gallery is a secluded gem with a Japanese style garden and fountain. Feel free to enjoy the garden with refreshments and meet the represented artists.

Work by Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad will be on exhibition at the Alexandria Museum of Art

Viridian Affiliate, Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad’s painting ”Butterfly etc...was selected by the juror, William U. Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia for the international exhibition at the Alexandria Museum of Art Juried Exhibition.     

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This same work, “Butterfly etc” was awarded the Merit Prize in 2017 at the ISEA  ( International Symposium of Experimental Art)  International Exhibition by juror, Jade Dellinger, Director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery in Southeast Florida .

A Review of Viridian Artist Henry Coupe's Work Featured in the Utica Observer Dispatch

"Utica native and prodigious artist Henry Coupe passed away three years ago, but his work lives on. "

by Joseph Labernik

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Press Release: “Deciduous Dragons” Recent work by Kathleen King

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“Deciduous Dragons”
Recent work by Kathleen King
May 22-June 16, 2018
Reception: Thursday, May 24, 6-8PM

Viridian Artists is pleased to present “Deciduous Dragons” recent work by Kathleen King on exhibit from May 22nd thru June 16th. The reception is on Thursday May 24th from 6pm to 8pm.

Fantastic and exotic representational subjects sourced from objects found in nature such as dried plant detritus, (leaves, pods, twigs, etc…) are ruminated over, then transformed into bronzes and paintings in this most recent solo exhibit of Kat’s work.

King states: “Elevating the humblest of discarded botanical fragments to iconic status for the viewer’s contemplation is an ongoing concept in my drawings, paintings and sculptures. I reconfigure the botanical/detritus fragments into small 3D models.  Contemplating these models, I transform them into metaphorical subjects in the final art works.”

Artist/Educator Kathleen King is currently represented by Viridian Artists, INC and has been represented by the gallery since 2001.

Ms. King has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as an Assistant Adjunct Prof. from 1989 to 2001 in the SAIC Print Media Dept. The artist has also taught at Loyola University, Chicago from 1977 to 2009 as an Adjunct Prof.

In the near future, Ms. King will be teaching drawing and watercolor courses as a Visiting Adjunct Prof. in the Korea University 2018 International Summer Campus Program. The artist has been invited to teach in the KU ISC Program almost every summer since 2007.

Ms. King is also currently on the board of the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, located on the Greek island of Skopelos in the Aegean Sea. Besides serving on the board, Kathleen has taught courses and workshops at the foundation’s print shop.

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12- 6 PM

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director 

Superfine! Art Fair Reviewed in New York Magazine

Click here for a link to the complete article which includes a photograph of work by Viridian Artist Mary Tooley Parker.

 MAY 2, 2018 6:09 PM
An Art Fair Where the Pieces Come to Life
By Melania Hidalgo

Have you ever been to an art fair where the sculptures come to life, and human models are used as canvases? The second annual Superfine! Art fair opens today in New York’s Meatpacking District, once again blurring the line between performance and immersion. The week-long exhibit will feature a variety of art shows, summits, markets, and tastings. On Wednesday night, renowned body-painter Trina Merry will stage live re-creations of her “Lust of Currency”series, in which she paints over her models to blend in with historically iconic works of art like Edvard Munch’s The Scream, or van Gogh’s Self Portrait, as a take on society’s materialist culture.

Following Merry’s show, members of the Heidi Latsky Dance troupe will act as living effigies, embodying a moving sculpture court that silently merges with the evening spectators.

Founded in 2015 by entrepreneur Alex Mitow, the fair aims to promote high-quality affordable artwork to ordinary city dwellers and aficionados, providing a platform to both experience and purchase local and internationally sourced pieces. The fair will exhibit 78 art galleries, solo projects, and collectives, with certain live ticketed events throughout the week.

This year, the program has placed a strong emphasis on spotlighting young female talent and progressive politics: 70 percent of the showcased artists are women, with a base reflecting people of color and the LGBTQ community. Following the XX Perspective Female Arts Summit featuring curators and art directors, the fair reserved its popular Saturday-night slot for the “Girls’ Night Out (for Art!)” cocktail party and live music performances, the proceeds of which will go to the evening’s host, the Lower Eastside Girls Club.

Beginning as a small project in Miami, Superfine! has now become a national interactive exposition with full-scale installments in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and Mexico City.

Superfine! opens Wednesday, May 2, at 9 p.m. and will run through Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets are available here starting at $12 for general admission, and up to $85 for the Art Warrior All-Access pass. Scroll below for a selection of images from this year’s installation.

 Saxon Woods Pool, by Mary Tooley Parker. Photo: Mary Tooley Parker