The Broadway Gallery is Pleased to Announce

Relief

'Slurp' by Simone di Bagno

A group show curated by Laura Jean Zito

March 1 - 15, 2010

With an opening  reception Thursday, March Fourth, 6-8pm

Featuring Simone di Bagno, Ronald Berlin, Linus Coraggio Susanne Pitak Davis,
Annelies van Dommelen, Kelly Irwin, Barbara Keogh, Phillip de Loach
Stephanie Magdziak, Stacie Speer Scott, Miguel Osorio, Laura Jean Zito

“RELIEF…The secret garden of abstraction that is the artists’ province, the gulf linking the shores of reality and fantasy, can be seen as a space of relief… from the cares of diurnal demands as well as from an abandonment to escapism. It is the realm that dreams are made of, where artists rearrange objects from mundane concerns into whimsical reinterpretations of their perceptions. Life always provides a layer of abstraction whether we notice it or not, and artists always remind us of its presence. Reality is not always the thing which it appears to be, and dreams are not always so fantastical as they might seem at first. It’s all how you see it….which filter of understanding you bring to it…a process of dissecting and rebuilding. The word RELIEF itself has so many meanings: a raised surface, extra breathing space, cares lifted away, sheaths removed to make way for a purer form, new growth, spiritual help, added layers of matter and
 meaning…”

Susanne Pitak Davis’s “Angel in a Flight of Fancy” leads the way on a journey into these artists’ imaginative meanderings. Annelies van Dommelen’s  “All is Well At Noon” is a calming assemblage of everyday objects elevated from the mundane by a bit of embossing. Stacie Speer Scott looking out an Italian window abstracts the lovely landscape, then sums up her Italian experience in a delightful cornucopia of memories. Barbara Keogh’s “Gourdian Knot” reflects on the nature of relationships, while her “Pineapple Friends” suggests her crusty characters have one. Their rough exteriors render Ron Berlin’s “Swimmer” all the more naked as do the gnarly barks of Stephanie Magdziak’s “Copper Beech” and “Pine Tree.” The wood of found objects is deemed holy by Phillip de Loach’s “Prayer Box,” and accentuated by Scott’s  “The Rose.” Kelly Irwin’s “High Class Beach,” a photo of a luxury tire buried in the sand, treats found objects in a different way. Simone di  Bagno’s “Suck It Up” playfully conceptualizes relief in a literal and  figurative way. Miguel Osorio juxtaposes marine elements in an elegantly-hued collage to create “The Reef.” Laura Jean Zito suggests abstraction using reality itself in ”The Red Sea.” Linus  Coraggio shows the  ever-changing nature of reality in “West Side Highway Before the George  Washington Bridge.” In his metal sculpture made from found objects, such as “Double-Afro Piston Head,” reality is turned on its head to be viewed as something entirely unexpected. His motorcycles made from food blenders and other work can be viewed on his website, www.linuscoraggio.com. The artists’ websites are as follows: www.susannepitak.com, www.vandommelenart.com, www.stephaniemagdziak.com, www.staciespeerscott.com, www.miguelosorio.com

RELIEF © 2010 Laura Jean Zito

The Broadway Gallery celebrates New York Art Fairs Month with an International Artists Works on Paper Show

NY Arts Magazine and World Art Media are pleased to announce a continuation of the international traveling exhibition Global Perspectives which will be shown in three different continents; Europe, North America and Asia.

From March 3 to 30, 2010 the next exhibition Global Art Perspectives: Art 2010 Annual Preview will be on display at Broadway Gallery, in conjunction with several Internet projects, the exhibit will continue to offer writers and viewers the chance to submit essays and comments on the nature and significance of biennials, fairs and public exposure for new and emerging artists. Featuring over 200 artists with on-site commissions, new and older works, of all mediums, dynamically executed on paper. The curators include Basak Malone and Tchera Niyego from New York, Agustina O’Farrell and Santiago Bunge from Buenos Aires, L.Brandon Krall from New York, Cosimo Di Leo Ricatto from Amsterdam, and Stefano Pasquini from Italy. In celebration of NY Art Fairs week, where the city of NY turns to a see of art fairs (including the armory show, pulse, scope, fountain, pool and Volta) the Broadway gallery will exhibit this dynamic paper show which will run till the end of the month.

Utilizing the ideologies of the international art fair, exhibition and symposium, this unique exhibition emphasizes the process of creation and discovery. Marked by local and global relationships, aesthetics, and practices Global Art Perspectives: Art 2010 Annual Preview comments on visual culture in a wider context, than the traditional art fair exhibition.

The first exhibition in this traveling show Works On Paper, A Global Perspective was previously on display at Pavillion Consorzio Cantieristica Minore Veneziana, concurrent with the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, and featured eight international curators working with a dozen different countries. Global Art Perspectives will also be traveling to Beijing, China where it will be on display at Arts Space Beijing.

Featuring International Artists:

Jennifer Reeves, Yue Kyoeng sub, Emma Braslavsky, May Stevens, Bailey Doogan, Edamon Namusiv, Carl E, Hazlewood, Kilian Kerner, Rudolf Baranik, Carol Flax, Hearne Pardee, Lauren O Neal, Victoria Hanks, Tony Zaza, Robert Sievert, Michael Wilson, Paul Parcelllin, Graeme Sullivan, David Berger, Frances Devuono, D.Dominick Lombardi, Claire Wolf Krantz, Ana Tiscornia, Markus Winkler, Charles Giuliano, Richard Huntington, Claudia Ruth Schomig, Nancy Dohn, Raul Zamodio, Mark Van Proyen, John Perreault, John Antoine Labaie, Abraham Lubelski, Leigh Trifari, Phong Bui, Jamey Hecht, Deborah Garwood, Jeanne C.Fryer-Kohles, Victoria Korb, Kay Miler, Janet Culbertson, Jeffrey Carr, Jemes Rosenthal, Lori Don Levan, Patricia Miranda, Maureen Mullarkey, James Little, Diane Calder, Elisabeth Kley, Betty Collings, Leon Golub, Mario Naves, Nelleke Nix, Alison Knowles, Roger Boyce, Christopher Chambers, Matt Freedman, Joel Silverstein, Robert C.Morgan, Howardena Pindell, Daniel A.Heyman, Loren Munk, Jan Estep, Gary Duehr, Robert Taplin, J.D.Javis, Patritia Pac, Siri Berg, Alejandro Montaldo, Juan Pavlovsky, Julieta Barderi, Peter Leonard, Santiago LLorente, Andres Ghiorzo, Adriana Torregrossa, Dario Solman, Fabrizio Rivola, Federika Ponnetti, Grace Rim, Jennifer Schmidt, Kaz, Laura Serri, Marco Fantini, Marina Gasparini, Mili Romano, Natalija Ribovic, Oreste Baccolini, Roberta Piccioni, Sabrina Muzi, Saeri Kiritani, Stefano Cagol, Stefano Pasquini, Frans Goddijn, Hans Franz, Joanneke Meester, Josien Vogelaar, Kurt Nahar, Maartje Folkeringa, Patricia Kaersenhout, Saskia De Brauw, Ana Bonamico, Jean James, Marco Antonio Abbagnara, Masaki Asakawa, Matthew Lauretti, Maz Jackson, Michel Beaucage, Sisko Ruskokivi-Runeberg, Sophie Hedderwick, Whitney Mcveigh, Andrea Amelung, Anna VanMatre, Ayse Kucuk, Dilek Ozmen, Francois Geffray, Hanna Scheriau, Heidemarie Kull, Juergen Buhre, Keith Morant, Andres Giles, Claudia Lucini, Leonardo Pellegrini, Marcelo Linares, Santiago Bunge, Santiago Deramo, Tomas Ghiorzo, Valentina Cambiaso, Carla Gannis, Carter Hodgkin, Jerelyn Hanrahan, Karni Dorrell, Dirk, Janjager, Georgeta Stefanescu, Heleen Wiemer, Maaike van der Linden, Richtje Reinsma, Roosmarijn Schoonewelle, L. Brandon Krall, Nura Petrov, Patrice Lerochereuil, Seth Carnes, Teri Hackett, Gunilla Oldenburg, Vernita Nemec, William S. Stone, Ari Liimatainen, Beatrice Englert, Destroy Be, Hansen Thiam Sun, Ioanna Voskou, Carlos Aquilino, Theodor Barr, Iuri Izrastzoff, Patrick Fenech, Helmut Zwerger, Dorin Baba, Jennifer Contini Enderby, Alison Slon, Alice Warshow, Karen Bannister, Eugenie Barron, Neville Ward and many more.