Madison Gallery Contemporary Art

So honored to of been selected as a Juror in @beerslondon - SUMMER MARATHON All applications must be done online link:open call.beerslondon.com. Open Call For Art! Deadline 9 November. All instructions as well as application form & FAQ’s can be found online at www.beerslondon.com/open. #opencall #callforartists #jury #lornayork #madisongallery #beerslondon #summermarathon #2021 #summer2021 #art #artnews #apply #artists #globalreach #annual #allmediumsaccepted #photography #painting #sculpture #performance#sound#mixedmedia

Silent Auction > October 1 - October 15 Live Auction > October 14, 6 PM Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s highly anticipated biennial Art Auction returns this October. This popular fundraising event features live and silent auctions of approximately 100 works by early career and internationally recognized artists.... Art Auction allows visitors to switch from being observers of art to active collectors, a distinct opportunity for the art-curious and first time buyers. Whether you’re a long-time attendee, aspiring collector, or just ready to enjoy a dynamic fundraiser, come celebrate with MCASD! Bid on painting, sculpture, and works on paper at this special evening in support of MCASD exhibitions and programs. All works are carefully considered by MCASD’s Director and Curators, and are available at various starting price points. This year, the MCASD Art Auction will be hosted on ARTSY’s website. MCASD will have a dedicated page you can save on your phone, your home computer, or tablet. Purchase Questions? Email [email protected] @mcasandiego @donaldmartiny #madisongallery #auction #museum

Jason Sims is a contemporary Australian artist known for his sculptural works that explore the potential of light and reflection to create simple illusions of space and form. He is most interested in producing work that serves as a vehicle to re-imagine the space encountered - to deconstruct perceived physical limitations - and facilitate a kind of meditative response allowing viewers to interpret the illusion of space created as reality. He enjoys working with illusion for its ability to evoke the sublime and its power to interrogate our understanding of the world around us. Playing with perception, he invites viewers to exercise their imagination and see the world in new ways.

"Lori Cozen-Geller formulates her sculptures out of a familiar, vital, and relatively recent artistic language. But in creating these objects, she has reasoned well outside the norms of this vocabulary and the genre it informs, almost to the point of heresy. Cozen-Geller is indeed a minimalist, following in the wake of hundreds of principally (if by no means exclusively) American artists who have pared down their formal vocabularies to essences. But Cozen-Geller wants somethi...ng different out of large, simple shapes than do most of her minimalist predecessors and cohorts: she wants meaning. Symbolic meaning. Iconography, that is, as recognizable (if not necessarily self-evident) to the untrained viewer as a stop sign albeit far less literal. The minimalist tradition, now almost a half-century old, presumes that the reductive, geometrically constituted objects that comprise what we know as minimal art do not communicate anything beyond the physical, or at least optical, the experience of their existence. What that experience is may shift, from, say, the obdurate materiality of a Carl Andre or the relentless arithmetical logic of a Sol LeWitt to the perceptual elusiveness of a Robert Irwin; but it is not supposed to assume any sort of inferential resonance, much less narrative content. What you see is what you see, cautioned Frank Stella at the outset of his career, when he was painting some of the early landmarks of the minimalist movement and helping to establish the movement’s philosophy and ethos. To be sure, there is a weighty, ever-present thingness to Cozen-Geller’s things. They occupy space; they demand to be looked at. Furthermore, their identity as objects is underscored by their vivid self- containment: although they are planar, and many of them are displayed on the wall as if paintings, they are not images in any shape, manner, or form. They are objects. They present themselves with the same initial take-it-or-leave-it materiality that animates and adds gravitas (not to mention gravity) to the slabs of John McCracken, the bubbles of Craig Kauffman, and the formidable objects realized by other southern Californian finish/fetish objects. @ Madison Gallery Contemporary Art

Opening exhibition Lino Lago, Fake Abstracts

Self-taught Mexican painter Pedro Bonnin creates lavishly rendered, hyperrealistic paintings in oil that combine whimsy and provocation. #pedrobonnin #halstonmodels #styleandfashion #mexico @ Madison Gallery Contemporary Art

What’s your favorite Lino Lago. Is it one, two or three. #linolago #fakeabstracts #contemporarypainting @ Madison Gallery Contemporary Art

Lino Lago: Fake Abstracts Contact us: 858-523-9155 [email protected] Solana Beach, California Madison Gallery presents noted Spanish artist Lino Lago's first North American solo exhibition, Fake Abstract.... The show will display new original works, from his ongoing Fake Abstract series, in which Lago employs his unique visual language of traditional portraiture, combined with contemporary minimalism. In this show Lago urges us to reconsider contemporary art’s relationship to more classical artistic traditions, whilst also reflecting on beauty ideals and our collective perceptions of reality. As a visual artist, Lago continues to push the boundaries of contemporary art practices. Painting with technically traditional oil paints and appropriating from the imagery of classical European portraits, Lago’s work is permeated by a distinctly contemporary feel. He began to explore the juxtapositions that arose between the formal realism of classic Academic art with the conceptual and abstract visual aesthetics of contemporary art in earlier projects including ‘Paint Over Paint’. Whilst influenced by the art academies of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, there is no doubt that conceptually and visually, Lago’s work belongs to the milieu of contemporary art. His distinguished artistic career has seen him collect prizes from the Queen of Spain to being featured as one of Fuera de Serie’s artist to invest in. The distinctly bold abstract line disturbs the conventional portrait form, imitating the mark of a digital brush and reclaiming traditional artistic methods. However, viewers might be surprised to know that these dynamic lines are infilled by Lago’s own hand, which also create moments of invisibility. His minimalist use of line and abstract shape succeed in creating beautifully striking works, whilst also discussing theoretical concepts of reality. Founded in 2001, Madison Gallery is committed to representing emerging, mid-career and established international artists whom work in a range of media. Inspired by an earnest dedication and passion for art, the gallery consistently exhibits a high standard of contemporary art. Madison Gallery works closely in building private, corporate and public. See more

Using thick pieces of lumber as the foundation for this site-specific installation, entitled Matchstick Men, German artist Wolfgang Stiller developed a series of giant matchsticks that feature ghostly, charred faces sculpted into one end. The distinct shapes were formed with head molds that the artist had laying around his studio, and they are meant to look as if they simply emerged in the wood after burning each flammable tip. The series includes a variety of bent, warped, a...nd burnt pieces that evoke a strikingly emotional response. Stiller leaves creative interpretation up to the viewer, but regardless of opinion, the strewn matches have hauntingly unsettling references to death and mortality. The artist says, The installation can appear like a battlefield or just like some playground where someone played around with matches and dropped them. All the heads I’ve used so far are from Chinese people. This sometimes leads to the assumption that this is a criticism of the Chinese government. One can read it that way, but I think this metaphor could be used for any western system as well. The matchboxes could be simply seen as formal elements within the installation, as coffins, or simply as matchboxes. I actually like to keep it open since I don’t like art that leaves no space for one’s own imagination.

German Artist Wolfgang Stiller’s , Matchstick Men. Matchstick Men, 2018 wood, polyurethane and paint 61.02 inches (155 cm), each... Using thick pieces of lumber as the foundation for this site-specific installation, entitled Matchstick Men, German artist Wolfgang Stiller developed a series of giant matchsticks that feature ghostly, charred faces sculpted into one end. The distinct shapes were formed with head molds that the artist had laying around his studio, and they are meant to look as if they simply emerged in the wood after burning each flammable tip. The series includes a variety of bent, warped, and burnt pieces that evoke a strikingly emotional response. Stiller leaves creative interpretation up to the viewer, but regardless of opinion, the strewn matches have hauntingly unsettling references to death and mortality. #madisongallery. #matchstickmen #wolfgangstiller #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarysculptor @ Madison Gallery Contemporary Art

Pick your favorite Hunt Slonem bunny.. is it number 1 or number six?? We love our Hunt Slonem bunnies arriving next week. DM us for pricing and sizes or contact [email protected] for a complete list. #huntslonem #huntslonembunnywall @ Madison Gallery Contemporary Art

Miya Ando’s work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions internationally at leading institutions including The Asia Society Texas, Houston, The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, New York, SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah College of Art and Design), Georgia; The Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York; and American University Museum, Washington DC. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions including: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Ar...kansas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York; and Queens Museum, Corona, New York. Her work is included in the public collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; The Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York; Corning Museum of Glass, New York; and Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; as well as in numerous private collections. Ando has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She exhibited her work in the group exhibition, Frontiers Reimagined, during the 56th Venice Biennale, Italy, 2015. Tell us a little about your work? My work explores themes of perception and examines one’s relationship to time. I often reference historic literary texts and employ elemental materials. My main focus is investigating the idea that the fundamental nature of reality is that all constituent forms that make up the universe are temporary; a concept found in Buddhism as well as quantum physics. Has your bi-coastal living changed your practice? I spend most of my time in NYC. Going to California hasn't impacted my practice significantly. One thing that has changed is the California light (in particular NorCal light) is very distinctive and has worked its way into the paintings.

Santiago Parra was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1986. He studied Literature at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, followed by an art education at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá and later at the Academy of Art University to study Fine Arts in San Francisco where he also learnt about Motion Pictures and Television. Parra is known for his large, abstract and highly expressive black and white paintings. His canvases capture the suspended flatness of the calligraphy-like imagery, ...harmonizing two seemingly incompatible aesthetic moments, spontaneity and pondering, which are all shaped by movement, strength, gravity and skill of the Columbian artist’s creative process. He explores the expressive possibilities of the quintessential abstract form. With an audacious manner he redefines abstract structures with bold sculptural brushstrokes. His work is both an aesthetic exploration and a questioning of the essence of abstract image making. Collections: -Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, USA -Jorge Pérez Collection -Jean et Colette Cherqui Collection -Tanya C. Brillembourg Collection -Solita Mishaan Collection -Cesar Gaviria Collection