Exhibition News: Siri Berg @ David Richard Gallery, 2023
Installation Detail:
Geometric Shapes and Color, Group Exhibition.
David Richard Gallery, 2023.
Left: James Kelly
Center: Siri Berg
Right: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
GEOMETRIC SHAPES AND COLOR: IN SERVICE TO FORM, MOTION, PATTERN, DEPICTION, MEMORY, AND ABSTRACTION
Presenting Artworks By: Siri Berg, Bettina Blohm, Sonia Gechtoff, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, James Kelly, Dee Shapiro, Oli Sihvonen, Gary Stephan, Thornton Willis
October 17 - November 16, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 2, 2023 6:00 - 8:00 PM
CHELSEA LOCATION: 508 West 26th Street, Suite 9F
David Richard Gallery is pleased to present, Geometric Shapes and Color: In Service to Form, Motion, Pattern, Depiction, Memory, and Abstraction, a group exhibition including artists: Siri Berg, Bettina Blohm, Sonia Gechtoff, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, James Kelly, Dee Shapiro, Oli Sihvonen, Gary Stephan, and Thornton Willis. Most of the artists live and work in New York, except for Blohm who also has a studio in Berlin and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe who has lived and worked in California and Florida. Most of the artists are on the roster and exhibit regularly with the Gallery. However, this exhibition marks the debut presentation for Bettina Blohm and Gary Stephan.
The artworks in this presentation are handmade, they are painterly, and the artist’s hand is ever present. Precise execution of each stroke and mark is not as important as the basic shapes and color as well as the artist’s influences and underlying concepts. The compositions and individual artworks are often process-driven, focused on formalist concerns and pure abstraction, while full of meaning and content despite their otherwise non-objective appearance. The objectives of each artist with respect to their compositions and individual artworks range from concepts and interests such as: form, motion, pattern, depiction, memory, and non-representational abstraction.
There are 30 artworks in this exhibition with 22 installed on the walls and all presented in the digital online catalog.
About David Richard Gallery:
In 2015 David Richard Gallery launched DR Art Projects to provide a platform for artists of all stripes—in- ternational, national, local, emerging and established—to present special solo projects or to participate in unique collaborations or thematic exhibitions. The goal is to offer a fresh look at contemporary art practice from a broad spectrum of artists and presentations. The Gallery opened its current location in New York in 2017.
Since its inception in 2010, David Richard Gallery has produced museum quality exhibitions that feature Post War abstraction in the US. The presentations have addressed specific decades and geographies as well as certain movements and tendencies. While the gallery has long been recognized as an important proponent of post-1960s abstraction—including both the influential pioneers as well as a younger generation of practitioners in this field—in keeping with this spirit of nurture and development the gallery also presents established artists who embrace more gestural and representational approaches to the making of art as well as young emerging artists.
Artworks Copyright © Siri Berg, Bettina Blohm, Sonia Gechtoff, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, James Kelly, Dee Shapiro, Oli Sihvonen, Gary Stephan, and Thornton Willis
Courtesy David Richard Gallery.
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