Michael Raedecker

Michael Raedecker

Scene 1997

Acrylic and Thread on Linen

50 x 70 cm

As the sun sets, a shadow of a tree in the front yard cascades along the siding of a ranch house in what appears to be a quiet suburban neighborhood. In "Scene", Michael Raedecker renders the house by using simple shape that follows the roofline, barely indicating when the sky begins or when the grass starts to slope. More importantly, the picture's hyper focus is on what lies behind the sliding glass doors. The blackened interior creates a void of isolated darkness. Through Michael's adept less is more execution the picture's simplicity is its structure. The monotone coloration plants his imagery solidly in the ground. The question that lurks is what is more compelling, the void itself, or the fact that the void makes the viewer becomes the voyeur.

Dee Ferris

Dee Ferris

Still Life with Flowers 2005

Oil on Canvas

183 x 183 cm

Dee Ferris's amazing abstract work "Still Life With Flowers" captures the moment where we try to grasp a memory or feeling from our past. She has stolen the moment in time, yet still makes us aware that time is passing and there is nothing we can do about it. Her soft blurry layered surfaces are powerful and pure. Her mastery of media lets us hold the thought and sit for a while getting lost in the depth of highlight and shadow. Dee Ferris has taken a snapshot and successfully articulated in paint the complexity of a split second. Bliss.

Louisa Chase

Louisa Chase

Untitled 1988

Oil on Canvas

84" x 72"

Louisa Chase "Untitled" can be viewed at The Parrish Art Museum located in Southampton, New York. Louisa Chase was born in Panama City in 1951. She got her Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Syracuse University and then went on to Yale University School of Art (1975) to receive her MFA. Her abstract paintings and prints are in Museum Collections worldwide including The Albright-Knox Museum, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum, and Stadt Nurnberg Kunsthalle (Germany). Her work was shown recently in the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Louisa resides in Long Island, NY.

The Parrish Art Museum's permanent collection includes over 900 works by artists who have have had a significant connection to the east end of Long Island.

Kandinsky at The Guggenheim

Kandinsky at The Guggenheim

September 18th, 2009-January 13, 2010

Wassily Kandinsky (b.1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)

This exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Christian Derouet, Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Annegret Hoberg, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

Kandinsky was a pioneer of abstract art and a brilliant theorist. His inspiration was derived from the landscape as well as from music. Kandinskys work is part of the core collection of the Guggenheim Museum. Solomon R. Guggenheim was first introduced to Kandinsky's work through artist Hilla Rebay who was commissioned to paint Solomon's portrait. While she was painting his portrait she talked about innovative painting that was taking place in Germany. Hilla Rebay organized a trip to see Kandinskys canvases and Solomon was impressed. He wanted to bring the work to the United States and began collecting in 1929. Ten years later Hilla Rebay and Solomon opened the Museum of Non-Objective Paining in New York. In 1943 Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to design the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum which was largely inspired by Vasily Kandinsky's work. Today the exhibition is widely attended as we celebrate his work and the 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum. Heartfelt thanks to Hilla Rebay and her passion for abstract painting and innovation in the arts so that many years later we can attend this exceptional exhibition.