Harriet Bart has been awarded a 2017 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship. Designed to identify and support outstanding mid-career Minnesota artists, the McKnight Fellowships for Visual Artists provide recipients with $25,000 stipends, public recognition, professional encouragement from national visiting critics, and an opportunity to participate in a speaker series.
Driscoll Babcock is pleased to announce Wafaa Bilal’s current exhibition, 168:01, at the Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, is profiled on CNN.
Khushbu Shah of CNN writes: At its height, the college of fine arts library at the University of Baghdad housed more than 70,000 books. From floor to ceiling, the topics ranged from the history of art, modern forms of art, and oral history. Students from around the country came to study at the sprawling university campus in the Iraqi capital and study in the massive library. Then came the US-led Iraq invasion in 2003. And when the shells stopped dropping, the books that had not been looted were left as ash. The entire library was destroyed as the rubble settled. Now, one lone artist is trying to restock those books.
The catalogue may be purchased for $30 at the gallery front desk (525 W 25th Street) or over the phone (212-767-1852). Cash, checks, and credit cards are accepted.
Published November 2015
Features an Introduction by Kathryn Harrison and an Interview with the Artist
9 color plates + 7 color illustrations
32 pages
ISBN: 9780989806268
softbound, 11 x 11 inches
The enigmatic OCULUS is a powerful architectural, art and virtual reality form that resonates over millennia, from Rome's Pantheon to New York City's new Fulton Center. More than ever before, the OCULUS is a form of artistry, experience and wonder.
Join the conversation as we discuss the OCULUS as a provocative portal for entrance, exit and passage.
Thursday October 22 from 6:30-8:30 pm at Driscoll Babcock Galleries
525 W 25th Street, New York, NY, 10001
Please RSVP by October 21st to info@driscollbabcock.com
Driscoll Babcock is pleased to announce the release of Jenny Morgan: All We Have is Now, published in conjunction with Morgan’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. This richly illustrated catalogue presents Morgan’s latest body of work, an investigation of darkly charged psychological works in intense hues. Centered on themes of life, death, and rebirth, Morgan’s works question how we relate to our past and challenge us to live in the present. The catalogue reproduces 13 of Morgan’s new paintings in full color and features an in-depth interview with the artist.
Published May 2015
48 p.
13 color plates + 6 color illus.
ISBN: 978-0-989-8062-4-4
Softbound: $27.55 + tax
Wafaa Bilal's 3rdi exhibits in "Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography," at the Museum of Arts and Design, September 14, 2014. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated catalogue, which features Wafaa's work as the cover image!
"Wafaa Bilal: The Ashes Series" is concurrently exhibiting at the Sharjah International Photography Exhibition, hosted by Sharjah Museums, United Arab Emirates.
For the fourth consecutive year, Driscoll Babcock exhibits at the 2014 Armory Show - Modern on Pier 92, Booth 434
Driscoll Babcock is exhibiting at PUSLE Miami, December 5-8, 2013 at the Ice Palace Studios in Miami, Florida. PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is the leading US art fair dedicated solely to comtemporary art.
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Disturbing The Peace accompanies "Margaret Bowland: Disturbing the Peace," the artist's Spring 2013 exhibition and her second solo show with the gallery.
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The Greenville County Museum of Art features three paintings by Margaret Bowland in Here's Your Freedom, a group exhibition curated from the museum's permanent collection. Celebrating the human spirit in its pursuit of individual, political, and artistic freedoms, these selections invite viewers to discover and invent their own definitions of freedom. Other artists in the exhibition include Philip Guston, Andy Warhol, Eric Fischl and David Hare.
Exhibition Information:
Here's Your Freedom (Group Exhibition)
Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
January 11 - February 24, 2013
www.gcma.org
All proceeds from the auction benefit LongHouse Reserve, a non-profit organization founded by Jack Lenor Larsen. LongHouse's collections, gardens, sculpture and programs reflect world cultures and inspire a creative life. Show your support! Online bidding is available until July 19th at 11 PM EST.
Left: Harriet Bart, WITHOUT WORDS, 1997, Lead and vinyl on wood, 9 x 12 inches
Right: Marylyn Dintenfass, SITELINE, 2013, Monoprint with Carborundum plate, 18 x 18 inches
Driscoll Babcock Galleries invites you to join Margaret Bowland and Nathaniel Mary Quinn in a discussion moderated by Independent Curator, Dexter Wimberly.
Margaret Bowland and Nathaniel Mary Quinn have established themselves as leading voices in contemporary figurative painting. During the artist talk the two will discuss their creative process, recent projects, as well as the concept of "Power" - the subject of Bowland's third solo exhibition at Driscoll Babcock Galleries.
Bowland’s catalogues will be available for purchase and signing following the talk.
Watch The Bholdr's recent video interview with Margaret Bowland to gain insights into the artist's current show.
"The idea behind POWER, for me, is that people don't know what it is. They're born into a maelstrom of powers that affect their lives....What is behind the power that is controlling your life?"
Margaret Bowland: Power will be on display at the gallery through December 12th.
Marylyn Dintenfass: Painted Anthology, a survey exhibition the artist’s major themes from the last several years, opens August 24, 2015 at the Morrison Gallery, The University of Minnesota, Morris. In this selection of works, Dintenfass explores various dichotomies and intersections that draw from the seductive danger of candy, the iconic Postwar muscle car, and the expressive intersections between visual art and music; a preview of Dintenfass’s newest body of work, Oculus, is also on view. This exhibition of major works gives an overview of Dintenfass’s vision: her gestural mark making, uncanny sense of color, and diverse application of the circular motif transformed across various media and scales.
Driscoll Babcock artists Harriet Bart and Margaret Bowland will be featured in the 2015 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, a curator-driven art fair during Armory Arts week. Bart and Bowland's work will be exhibited alongside artists Nancy Lorenz and Mark Wagner in MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE, curated by Tess Sol Schwab.
SPRING/BREAK Art Show brings together more than 80 individual curators who will showcase unique, museum-quality projects at Skylight at Moynihan Station, 307 West 31st Street (at 8th Avenue) from March 4-8, 2015, with exhibitions conceived around this year’s central curatorial theme, TRANSACTION. Please see attached press release for additional information.
Seven oil paintings by Jenny Morgan will exhibit at MOCA Jacksonville's upcoming exhibition, "Great Real: New American Painting"
After curating pop-up art shows in Los Angeles and in Montauk in 2013,The Committee, the New York City-based cultural programming agency, is pleased to present The Summer Show, the first in a series of seasonal happenings to be produced in, and around, Manhattan in 2014 and 2015. Thisthree-day exhibition will be on view at S Artspace, located at 345 Broome Street, New York, New York, 10013, from Thursday, July 10 through Saturday, July 12, 2014.
The exhibition will feature 3 oil on paper monotypes by Marylyn Dintenfass. Dintenfass exhibits alongside Robert J. Anderson, David Goodman, Daniel Oglander and Jenna Snyder-Phillips.
In Erasing, the artist ritually selects a square to be cut and removed from a photographic image of Saddam Hussein’s destroyed palace. He then archives the squares as if they were dissected specimens. These fragmented pieces of information call out for further investigation and understanding. Each detail of the process—from the artist’s time of arrival, to the formal aspects of the selected square—is fully documented. Bilal’s direct and particular interaction with the image allows him to revisit his native country of Iraq, from which he can no longer physically return, and create further distortion of the image through the filter of personal contemplation, while also inviting the public to engage in the profane from the safety of the gallery setting.
Wafaa Bilal discusses his sculpture, THE HIERARCHY OF BEING, 2013-14, with Sara Raza, Maraya Art Centre Associate Curator, and Aida Mahmudova, Baku-based artist and founder of YARAT Contemporary Art Space. The sculpture will provide an access point for conversation about the importance of public art projects in global cultural cities, such as Sharjah and Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Click here for additional information on Bilal’s THE HIERARCHY OF BEING
The Katonah Museum prompts a debate with a provocative and interactive approach to portraiture. Based on the ideas that no two people respond to an artwork the same way, and that any single artwork conveys many meanings, Eye to I explores the countless ways individuals experience imagery.
Included in the exhibition are two masterworks from Driscoll Babcock's collection: John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), MRS. JOHN SCOLLAY (MERCY GREENLEAF), 1763, Oil on canvas, 35 ¼ x 28 inches; and Robert Henri (1865-1929), PORTRAIT OF MARCIA ANN M. TUCKER, 1926, Oil on canvas, 60 x 40 ½ inches
For additional artwork information, please contact Tess Schwab, Director
Driscoll Babcock is exhibiting at The American Art Fair, December 2-5, 2013 at the Bohemian National Hall, New York, NY. The American Art Fair is the only art fair that focuses on American 19th and 20th century works. Driscoll Babcock's booth features a group exhibition celebrating over 100 years of outstanding American works on paper. From preparatory sketches to highly finished works of art, the exhibition explores the multitude of applications of the paper support.
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Driscoll Babcock is pleased to participate in the Fourth Annual Chelsea Art Walk, Thursday, July 25, 2013, 5-8PM. The gallery will be open for extended evening hours to give gallery hoppers the special opportunity to view the recently-opened contemporary group show, "Contained Conflict." Click here for more exhibition details
Driscoll Babcock is one of a select group of premier art destinations along this unique, self-guided walking tour through the SoHo and Chelsea art districts.
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Ticket purchasers are granted access to The New Yorker's wrap party and silent auction at Hudson Studios immediately following the gallery walk, 6-8PM, where this Marylyn Dintenfass print will be available for purchase at the silent auction.
All proceeds from the silent auction will benefit arts organization Creative Time.
Artwork Details:
Marylyn Dintenfass
CORONET VI, 2010
Ultra Violet Etching, 31 ½ x 31 ½ inches
Unique Trial Proof for the portfolio PERFECT PITCH: FIVE CHROMA CHORDS, now in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Margaret Bowland's WHITE CROWS #1, 2007 is the cover image of Dexter L. Booth's 2013 book of poetry entitled "Scratching the Ghost." Booth is the winner of 2012 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
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For the third consecutive year, Driscoll Babcock exhibits at the 2013 Armory Show - Modern on Pier 92, March 7-10, 2013.