Progressive Gallery Tour@ Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery
PROGRESSIVE GALLERY TOUR 2
Join us as we continue the second fabulous season of our Progressive Gallery Tour of our Fairfield County commercial gallery members - from Greenwich to Shelton - for a private tour of the Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery 96 Bedford Street in Stamford, Saturday, Nov. 19, 6-8pm.
The Progressive Gallery Tour, a program of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County, was designed to bring our artist, cultural nonprofit, and creative business members together once a month to discover the richness and variety of our commercial gallery members. Each month we visit a different town - from Greenwich to Shelton.
At the Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, along with plentiful refreshments and music, there will be a private tour by Mr. Alvarez of three areas of the gallery.
First, a selection of works by Eliot Elisofon, a staff photographer for LIFE Magazine from 1942 to 1964, and a founding member of the Photo League. Elisofon was one of the first photographers to travel through Africa after WWII, helping Americans to see and appreciate the vastness and unique qualities of the continent and its people. Elisofon taught at Yale, Syracuse, Radcliffe College, Wellesley College, the Institute of American Artists School and the Museum of Modern Art. Focusing on the human condition, he believed that art must “help human beings live a better and fuller life.” The Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery has access to original estate works, which it is showing to a limited number of collectors and esteemed patrons at private viewings.
Second, in the private downstairs room usually only available to the Gallery's own collectors, will be work by Pablo Agudelo, a mid-20th-Century Colombian painter and friend of Fernando Botero, who, though he did not achieve the notoriety of his contemporaries, exhibited heavily in Latin America and New York. These works are privately held, were recently acquired for the gallery's private collection and many are being seen for the very first time. This is the early preview of a solo show the Gallery will give the artist in 2017.
Third, guests will see the current show at the Gallery, Ground Breakage by James Gortner, a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program. His work has been exhibited around the world, including a piece recently commissioned through the gallery by the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. Recent interviews include a radio show for Yale University with Brainard Carey. Ground Breakage is a dramatic departure from his previous body of work, where he employed a lush figurative style that was layered on top of reclaimed and recycled canvases. Here he uses pieces of the floor floor from his Jersey City studio and used this raw material as his medium. The artist extracts and re-purposes parts of the floor onto stretched canvas. By using the ground he worked on as his canvas, he is re-purposing the property he is being forced to leave, transferring its physical utility and ownership into the greater purpose of Art, and preserving the years of labor he expended in that space. At right, TNT, (2016, reclaimed wood and paint on linen, 66" x 48").
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