Exciting highlights from the gallery collection and selections by artists we represent are on view at the Flomenhaft Gallery. Works are by Pierre Alechinsky, Emma Amos, Romare Bearden, Siona Benjamin, Eugene Brands, Beverly Buchanan, David Burliuk, Jean Dubuffet, Amy Ernst, Neil Folberg, Gerlovin/Gerlovina, Henry Heerup, Asger Jorn, Mira Lehr, Carl Henning Pedersen, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro, Pat Steir, Carrie Mae Weems and Estelle Yarinsky. Be sure to see the works in our fifth floor annex where Ellen Frank’s Illumination Arts Foundation Inc. paintings “Cities of Peace,” namely Hiroshima, Sarajevo and Baghdad, sparkle alongside many of Benjamin and Lehr’s paintings, as well as sculptures by Linda Stein.
o Emma Amos was the only woman to be asked into the Spiral Group formed by Romare Bearden and friends. She combines personal and societal ideas with intense color, and a great sense of rhythm. “Let Me Off Uptown,” is worth the trip to our gallery.
o Bearden is represented by his collages of superb quality and Ringgold by an exciting quilt, “Double Dutch on the Golden Gate Bridge.”
o The Gerlovins were founding members of the Underground Conceptual Movement in Russia. The work on view, the “Bird” personifies their psychological and philosophical sensibilities.
o For Mira Lehr it was timely that Buckminster Fuller was honored at the Whitney Museum. Her art reflects her dialogue when working with him about the relationship between the natural world, layers of color and geometry.
o Carrie Mae Weems’ work from the Sea Island Series, inspired by the superstitions of the Gulag people off the coast of Georgia, is a rare treat for any gallery this summer.
o One should not miss Estelle Kessler Yarinsky’s breathtaking quilted work depicting Zora Neale Hurston, holding a copy of her story, “Spunk” and surrounded by memorabilia of scenes from her life and writings.
o We are proud to show photographs from Neil Folberg’s Impressionist and Umbrian commissions, a beautiful watercolor collage by Amy Ernst, and “Against All Odds,” a terrific print by Miriam Schapiro.
o And of course it would not be a show of highlights at our gallery without works by CoBrA artists, since gallery director, Eleanor Flomenhaft, wrote the first book in the English language on that subject. This group includes watercolors by Pedersen and Alechinsky, prints by Jorn, and an exquisite sculpture by Heerup, not easily duplicated in the U.S.
o Check out two Dubuffet collages and delightful Burliuks from his peasant period.