4 Rooms, 4 Artists

I wanted to share four beautiful rooms recently completed for a client's 50th Birthday party:

Bill Beckley

Lo 1

2012

Cibachrome Photograph

38 c 96 inches

Edition of 3

Bill Beckley (born February 11, 1946), an American narrative/conceptual artist.  He moved from Philadelphia to New York City in the summer of 1970 and lived for a time on a sailboat off City Island. He was one of the artists who organized the first exhibition of the legendary gallery 112 Greene Street Workshop in SOHO in October of 1970.

Ryan McGinnes

Untitled (Woven Mindscape 1)

2012

Woven silk

55 x 43 ¼ inches

Edition of 5

Ryan McGinness (born 1972) is an American artist, living and working in Manhattan, New York. He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and then studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. During college, he interned at the Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant.
Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography, McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments. McGinness is interested in assuming the power of this anonymous aesthetic in order to share personal expressions. His work is in the permanent public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Cincinnati Art Museum, MUSAC in Spain, and the Misumi Collection in Japan.

Donald Sultan

Poppies, June 8 2011 (Red)

2011

Color silkscreen with flocking

Edition of 30

Donald Sultan (born 1951 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American artist, known for large-scale still life paintings. Characteristically Sultan creates his work using industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. This complex technique contrasts with Sultan’s use of simple iconography. Throughout his career, Sultan has pioneered images of lemons, poppies, eggs, playing cards and other objects which contribute to his abstract, yet representational body of work.

His first solo exhibition was mounted in 1977 at Artists Space in New York, New York, and Sultan has since risen to prominence, with his work featured in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Willy Heeks

Knot

2012

Oil and acrylic on canvas

50 x 52 inches

Willy Heeks, (born 1951. Rhode Island).  Willy Heeks has been creating luminous abstract paintings for over 30 years.  Heeks investigates complex spatial relationships through the use of pattern, organic line, and sensuous fields of color.  Heeks interweaves multiple layers of brilliant color that electrify the picture plane with hints of graffiti and the natural world.

Next project!!!!   Can't wait!!!