Process II Construction, 1970
Lithograph, 84/100
19 2/4 x 25 1/2 in.
SOLD
Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Works of Art: Ibram Lassaw
Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Biography: Ibram Lassaw
(American, 1913-2003)
Egyptian-born Ibram Lassaw came to the United States in 1921 and became a citizen in 1928. In 1936 he was a founder of the American Abstract Artists organization, which held its first meeting in his studio. In 1949, he became a charter member of “The Club,” an organization of New York Abstract Expressionists. Much of Lassaw’s work consisted of open, welded sculptures of bronze, nickel, copper, silver and steel that look like drawings in space with strong lines, often forming three-dimensional, grid-like cage constructions. He also created acrylic and ink works on paper and canvas as well as lithography. Lassaw represented the United States at the 1954 Venice Biennale and in the 1950s and 1960s regularly showed at the Kootz Gallery in New York. Lassaw’s work is in many prominent American museums, including New York’s Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Art Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. His work is also in many museums abroad, including The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Matera, Italy.
Egyptian-born Ibram Lassaw came to the United States in 1921 and became a citizen in 1928. In 1936 he was a founder of the American Abstract Artists organization, which held its first meeting in his studio. In 1949, he became a charter member of “The Club,” an organization of New York Abstract Expressionists. Much of Lassaw’s work consisted of open, welded sculptures of bronze, nickel, copper, silver and steel that look like drawings in space with strong lines, often forming three-dimensional, grid-like cage constructions. He also created acrylic and ink works on paper and canvas as well as lithography. Lassaw represented the United States at the 1954 Venice Biennale and in the 1950s and 1960s regularly showed at the Kootz Gallery in New York. Lassaw’s work is in many prominent American museums, including New York’s Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Art Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. His work is also in many museums abroad, including The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Matera, Italy.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Salon III: January 15- February 4, 2009
For installation images, click here.
For printmaking demonstration schedule, click here.
Process II Construction, 1970
Lithograph, 84/100
19 2/4 x 25 1/2 in.
$ 350
if ART Gallery
presents
SALON III: The Print Exhibition
January 15 – February 4, 2009
if ART Gallery
1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. 29205
Reception: Thursday, Jan. 15, 5 – 10 p.m.
Opening Hours:
Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
& by appointment
Printmaking Demonstrations:
Sunday, Jan. 18, 3 – 5 p.m., Marcelo Novo, Print Gocco
Sunday, Jan. 25, 3 – 5 p.m., Phil Garrett, Monotype
Saturday, Jan. 31, 3 – 5 p.m., H. Brown Thornton, Photo Transfer
Sunday, Feb. 1, 3 – 5 p.m., Steven Chapp, Linocut & Photopolymer Prints
For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:
(803) 255-0068/ (803) 238-2351 – if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com
For its January 2009 exhibition, if ART Gallery presents Salon III, an exhibition of prints by gallery artists at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. The opening reception will be Thursday, January 15, 2009, 5 – 10 p.m. The exhibition will be installed salon-style at the gallery’s first floor and continues if ART’s salon-style exhibitions; in December 2008, Salon I & II took place simultaneously at the gallery and Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia.
Among the printmaking techniques represented in the exhibition are etchings, dry points, lithographs, woodcuts, linocuts, photopolymer prints, embossings, monotypes, silkscreens and photo transfers.
During the exhibition, gallery artists Steven Chapp of Easley, S.C., Phil Garrett of Greenville, S.C., Brown Thornton of Aiken, S.C., and Marcelo Novo of Columbia will give demonstrations of various printmaking techniques. For times and demonstrated techniques, see above.
Artists in the exhibition include Karel Appel, Jeri Burdick, Carl Blair, Lynn Chadwick, Steven Chapp, Corneille, Jeff Donovan, Jacques Doucet, Phil Garrett, Herbert Gentry, Tonya Gregg, John Hultberg, Richard Hunt, Sjaak Korsten, Lucebert, Reiner Mährlein, Sam Middleton, Eric Miller, Joan Mitchell, Dorothy Netherland, Marcelo Novo, Hannes Postma, Edward Rice, Anton Rooskens, Kees Salentijn, Laura Spong, Brown Thornton, Bram van Velde, Katie Walker, David Yaghjian and Paul Yanko.
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