Eric Sall AB FAB @ ADA Gallery

Eric has a few awesome paintings in Richmond, VA

AB FAB @ ADA Gallery
Richmond, VA
September-October 2012

Eric Sall interview with Gorky's Granddaughter

Gorky's Granddaughter visited the studio

Eric Sall @ Regina Rex - Four Paintings

Four Paintings at Regina Rex

Eric Sall

Eastern Northeastern 
2012
Oil on canvas
78 x 96 in

Britta Deardorff Jackie Gendel Juan Gomez Eric Sall Opening Reception: Friday, April 20th, 7-10pm Regina Rex is pleased to present an exhibition of four paintings - one each from artists Britta Deardorff, Jackie Gendel, Juan Gomez and Eric Sall. The four paintings were selected to individually hold a large wall while collectively contributing to a boisterous conversation in a large white room. These paintings are not cool or restrained �they are exuberant both in scale and visual vocabulary. They employ lush palates, body-scale gesture, and elements of the figurative in an unapologetic and visceral appeal to the viewer. Britta Deardorff was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1983 and currently lives in New York City. She received a BFA in painting from Ohio University in 2005 and an MFA from Hunter College in 2011 where she also was the recipient of the Tony Smith Award. Jackie Gendel lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo shows include Fables in Slang at Bryan Miller Gallery in Houston, and Rose Madder and the Ultramarines, at Jeff Bailey, in NY. Gendel has participated in numerous residencies including the MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program. Juan Gomez was born in 1970 in Bogota, Colombia. Gomez received a BFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has exhibited his work at CUE Art Foundation, Feature, Inc., Massimo Audiello, Art in General, Lombard-Freid Projects, Momenta Art and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Eric Sall was born in Sioux Falls, SD. Recent exhibitions include Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea; Nerman Museum of Fine Arts, Overland Park, KS; and Bemis Art Center, Omaha, NE. He received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Eric lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. SAVE THE DATE! Saturday, May 12th Regina Rex will host an event at the gallery in conjunction with Actually, It�s Ridgewood; a multiple site art event, organized by the Queens Museum of Art as a part of their Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangleexhibition. More info coming soon.

Press:

Four Paintings in a White Box 
Painters’ Table: Hurst, HowardFOUR PAINTINGS AT REGINA REX 
New American Paintings: Kimball, Whitney 

Eric Sall in Wavers

http://www.waversshow.blogspot.com

Wheelhouse Review - Rachel Hayes & Eric Sall

Studio Visit with Wheelhouse Review

Please click the link above to see more pictures from our studio in Kansas City. Wheelhouse Review visited the week we packed up to move back to Brooklyn.

Rachel Hayes & Eric Sall in Abstract Kansas City @ The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

Kansas City Star - Review

 Eric Sall on the left

Eric Sall on the left & far right, Rachel Hayes in the middle

Return to the Easy System, 2010, ink, acetate, gels, fabric sewn on paper.

Rachel Hayes & Eric Sall in Brucennial

NY Times Review

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Eric Sall in Hypercolor @ Small Black Door Gallery

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Eric Sall @ Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea

< Homage to Morandi: Essence of Art > Participating Artists : Anne Harild, Boyun Jang , Bryan Osburn, Changkyum Kim , Changsun Koh, Chunhee Im, Eric Sall, Eunsun Park, Frank Webster, Jahyuk Yim, Joseph Burwell, Manna Lee , Sky Kim, Tom Lee 2011.6.2-6.26 < Homage to Morandi: Essence of Art > Sook-jeen Oh (Director of Brain Factory) The Ideal of this exhibition came from the lingering thoughts  of flower paintings presented at a retrospective of Giorgio Morandi (1890~1964, Italian) who has been considered as a master of 20th century still-life painter, at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art back in 2008. For this exhibition, fourteen local and international artists have individually interpreted ‘the Essence of Art' as a common theme revolving around Morandi's works and life. The beauty of a retrospective comes by encountering the strong aura of existence from the artist's entire life through his artifacts in a confined space. The retrospective of Giorgio Morandi at Metropolitan Art Museum was certainly one of the most memorable exhibitions because of two distinctive reasons. First, the letters he sent to his friends were displayed in frames side by side with his art works, and they prove the artist's private life and his spirit completely stayed in his art. Morandi transformed the daily life from ordinary to metaphysical level through subtle and delicate composition of objects as well as simple but sophisticated arrangement of palette on small canvas. While walking through the aisle where his works were displayed, I started to realize the reason why Morandi could be able to persist with his subject matter. What he was focused on was not the subject matter that was on the canvas, rather it was far more beyond the canvas. Therefore he doesn't seem to need making the visual variation. As a result, what we see from his art, at first, look all the same, but the subtleness of his works vibrates as the time passed by. I thought what he picked as the subject matter; the complexion of what he was searching through making the paintings. What I got was strong impression of his life which completely dedicated to his art as a specimen of all the artists who are searching as he was. This makes the phenomenon of synchronizing the art and the artist himself is something that we all have to think about. The second reason comes from many of Morandi's flower paintings titled ‘Fiori' (all the flower paintings titled the same.) Since they are mostly owned by private collectors- most of them remain anonymous while lending their paintings to the MET- it was very rare to see them in one place. The fact that those flower paintings were only created to give out as presents, according to the descriptions and letters he wrote, the eccentric feeling from the beauty of ‘Fiori' lingered long in my memory. The reasons listed above led me to propose ‘flowers' as the main visual theme of the exhibition. The flowers in Morandi's paintings are artificial flowers that are still preserved and displayed at Morandi Art Museum in Bologna, along with other objects that he used in his still life paintings. Therefore, his flowers in the paintings are also the one of his still life objects that he used for the paintings. This satisfies the hypothesis that the visual theme is flowers and not necessarily flowers at the same time, and it enables to nullify the symbolism of giving and receiving an object or an image of flowers. Then why are Morandi's flowers in the paintings more subtle and elegant than the real flowers? Do the images that are perceived by our eyes reflect the afterimage of our experience? Or, do we implicitly distinguish them as the flowers that would never wilt? Morandi, who once said “ There is nothing more surreal and abstract than reality itself ,” might have thought so. Maybe he wanted to accomplish something that transcends human cognition through our visual system by painting the same subject over and over. This would be the reason why his works, whose essence remains without flesh, are still loved by and inspire many artists all over the world. I'd like to share the experience of a precious opportunity to appreciate Morandi's art world, that deletes the concept of time and imbues the air of contemplation in our spirits, as well as to ponder on the “essence or art”.

Eric receives federal commission

very exciting, the contracts are signed!

Art in Architecture buildings program
www.gsa.gov/portal/content/104456
General Services Administration
Richard Bolling Federal Building
Kansas City, Missouri
2010, completion expected 2014


here is a smattering of work solicited from the U.S.A.

www.gsa.gov/portal/content/104456

And in Other News

Kansas City Star writes about our show... at the Dolphin Gallery
Eric Sall and Rachel Hayes return to Kansas City with large-scale installations at Dolphin. After training at the Kansas City Art Institute, the two got married and now live in New York............

The Old Gold posted pictures of the group show, I Wanna Be Somewhere, I (Rachel) was in last week. My piece was a model of Ice Cold Daydream at the Dolphin Gallery.

Isolated Incidents & Ice Cold Daydream

Eric and I are excited to be showing together in Kansas City, MO. We met in this city, and had our first studios in an amazing loft in the West Bottoms neighborhood. Recently, the awesome Dolphin Gallery relocated to this neighborhood.

September 4 - November 7, 2009
DOLPHIN
1600 Liberty St. Kansas City, MO

Eric Sall
Isolated Incidents
Eric Sall new paintings at Dolphin Gallery were created within the past year during a studio residency at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program in Brooklyn.
In addition to the seven large scale canvases on display the exhibition includes an entire wall installation of small drawings, paintings, photographs and collages mocked up as they were in Sall’s studio in
New York.

Rachel Hayes
Ice Cold Day Dreams
Rachel Hayes installation Ice Cold Day Dream envelopes the front Gallery at Dolphin. A single 30' X 30’ drape of sewn fabric and vinyl hangs weightlessly acting as catch-all for the dense and weighted form that seems to rest in its embrace. Created is an experimental landscape with color, line and light, layered to create a depth of new and ambiguous images.

Eric Sall Studio Visit

here are a few of Eric Sall's new paintings...

Eric @ Marie Walsh Sharpe Open Studios April 24-26

Review of Eric's show @ Acuna-Hansen

LOS ANGELES
Eric Sall: “High and Wide”
at Acuna-Hansen
Eric Sall’s first solo show in Los Angeles puts just three
of his large-format abstract oil paintings on display, but
since one is a masterpiece, the choice to exhibit quality
rather than quantity is a winning decision. Thick, house-
paint sized horizontal swaths ofcolor—from marine
blue at the bottom of the canvas, rising into grey, black,
then grey again and red at the top—form the back-
ground of Fair and Balanced.It is a color scheme that
brings Yves Tanguy’s fantastical landscapes to mind, es-
pecially the black in the middle, which functions as an
amorphous horizon line. The foreground is completely
centered on a contraption of vaguely military con-
trivance. This represented object, both fanciful and me-
chanical, appears like one of Tanguy’s polymorphous
blobs, but enlarged and more machine-like, like a Jean
Tinguely sculpture in two dimensional oils.
Adding another layer of depth to the picture as a whole
is the red, white and blue smears of bunting that form a
sort of hull, holding the parts in place. To use Fox News’
notoriously misleading slogan as a title for an ostensibly
abstract painting while we’re all in the middle of the po-
litical season could be construed as providing shorthand
for the grasping of meaning in front of the work. But it
actually opens up the art historical references and aes-
thetic experiences available when in front of the workto
include the more quotidian, rational mind. Has the con-
traption been attacked, or is it in the process of shooting
things out and attacking something else? The pinks and
purples used to create the lines and designs within the
thing contribute to a subtle statement about the colors
that go into red, white and blue when they are bleeding
into each other: primary colors politicized as masculine
and patriotic confront shades typically gendered as femi-
nine and assailable. Fair and Balancedexcites thought
while providing visual pleasure.
While Paul Klee described his artistic process as “taking
a line for a walk,”in Stockpile, Sall takes his lines for
short, jaunty excursions and layers them on top of each
other. Jagged zigzags march beneath soft curves and
inchworm silhouettes traverse stunted branchings and
pliable fishhooks. Bloody Ridgeblends his enchantment
with the line into roaring dissonances of unexpected
colors that clash on either side of each highlighted
edge. With Sall’s considerable skills manipulating paint,
the maturation of his ideas should be
keenly anticipated.

—ANDREW CHOATE

“Fair and Balanced,” 2007
Eric Sall
Oil on canvas, 78" x 96"
Photo: courtesy of acuna-hansen gallery
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Eric in group show @ ATM

Sweet Return, oil on canvas, 72" x 96"


East Moves West
ATM Gallery is moving one door down, to 621 West 27th Street. We will open our space on October 17th with a show comprised of art works by Huma Bhabha, Yayoi Deki, Anne Eastman, Alison Fox, Tomoo Gokita, Yoko Kawamoto, Min Kim, Tamami Kubota, Mike Pare, Noam Rappaport, Miguel Ângelo Rocha, Eric Sall, Saeko Takagi and Gordon Terry.