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James Fisher's oil on linen works look like multimedia collages, but they are created entirely with paint. The artist gave us a detailed acoount of his unique process and how he achieves the mesmerizing textures and effects in his paintings. 

Jose Lima and William Spring from News Travels Fast sat down with Mira Lehr to discuss her new exhibition,  Planetary Visions.

Structure is the underlying component in all of James Little’s works. Each element in his paintings, whether it’s a line, a tone or an angle, has a role to play. Through their interaction with other elements, each competing for the viewer’s attention, they create a conversation that gives each painting its spirit. While none of Little’s works have narratives, the titles of his paintings do have meanings. 

“I don’t use meaningless titles, but the work reflects the titles,” Little said.

We recently sat down with him to learn more about the meanings behind the titles of his Black Paintings series, on exhibit at Rosenbaum Contemporary from September 8 through October 8.

In discussing Erik Minter’s artwork, we turn to the writing of Clement Greenberg. In Greenberg’s writing, Avant-Garde and Kitsch, he discusses the duality of these two dichotomies (avant-garde and kitsch)—neither of absolutes, but orbiting on separate ellipses in the art world. We are reminded of this essay while we review Minter’s exploratory background: from working on Matthew Barney's final Cremaster 3 film series and his subsequent Guggenheim retrospective to helping design Paula Hayes’ Silicone planters, and unique experiences like assisting Tom Otterness in his studio, and creating 3-D sculptural processes for some of David Zwirner’s gallery artists. All in a day’s work of a top-notch preparator and designer, but where does the artist role begin and the designer dissolve? These two roles are seen as orbiting around the figure Minter, himself. One needs the other to survive, to flourish and to develop…conflicting manifestations dueling for reins on creative expression. 

Federica Matta reflects on the Two Generations exhibition at Rosenbaum Contemporary

During the course of our Two Generations exhibition, we’ve discovered many fascinating parallels between Roberto Matta’s and Federica Matta’s art, some of which were unknown until their work was seen side by side.

An essay by Martica Sawin on the Two Generations exhibition at Rosenbaum Contemporary.

Oriano Galloni's Tracce di Universo sculptures represent a search for universal centrality.

On December 4, the Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery will open its exhibit at Art Miami 2018 with a mammoth collection of Modern and Contemporary art masters.  All the works in the Rosenbaum Contemporary exhibit for Art Miami 2018 were hand-selected by gallery president Howard Rosenbaum and his staff.  They each reflect the pedigree of blue chip, museum quality artwork that is reflective of the gallery’s institutional integrity.

The Dozen exhibition, on view at Rosenbaum Contemporary from October 11 through November 10, features new paintings by artist Thomas Hartmann along with works by 11 artists hand-selected by Hartmann from his master classes at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. The 11 artists have all been designated Meisterschüler by Hartmann—a title of distinction given to students at German art academies by their professors upon graduation in recognition of brillliant performance and the development of their own independent pictorial language. Of the 89 students Hartmann has taught since 2005, only 27 have earned this distinction.

Founded in 1662, the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg is the oldest art academy in German-speaking Central Europe. Hartmann, who has received several awards including the Overbeck Prize for Fine Arts; the Art Prize for Artists of Düsseldorf, Germany; and the Wili Oltmanns Prize for Painting, Delmenhorst; and whose work has been shown throughout Europe and the United States in numerous venues including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, and the National Library in Warsaw, Poland, among others, has been a professor of painting there for the past 13 years.

Here he has gathered his ideas about teaching art.

The Manolo Valdés: Pequeñas Esculturas (Small Sculptures) exhibition displays a curatorial selection of 13 Manolo Valdés sculptures available for acquisition through Rosenbaum Contemporary. 

Rosenbaum Contemporary showcased works on paper by Modern and Contemporary masters at the Art on Paper Fair in New York. Here are some of the highlights from our booth.

A dozen portrait and landscape paintings by 90-year-old renowned painter Alex Katz comprise the new exhibition, Alex Katz: People and Places, at the Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery in Boca Raton, Florida.

Paula Rivas and Christian Wloch’s kinetic light sculptures deal with fractions of the world invisible to the naked eye– the atomic particle realm of light and its properties observed in conventional environments through normal human interaction and our circumstantial but limited optic abilities.

By popular demand, Helidon Xhixha’s sculptures from the our Miami Art Week events remain on view at The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort.

We were honored with visits from several of our artists in our Art Miami 2015 booth.

St. Regis Bal Harbour, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rosenbaum Contemporary are presenting Breaking Through—Miami, featuring artists Omar Hassan and Helidon Xhixha, on Thursday, December 3, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the BH Burger Bar at the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort in support of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (DRI). During the event, Omar Hassan will create a new painting in his Breaking Through series which will be auctioned off to benefit the DRI immediately upon its completion.

In the summer of 2010, the friend of photographer Simon Procter, Rolande, an aged but still very wild paintress, died. Rolande’s family agreed to open her studios one last time “before all was cleared away.” Procter, with help from his friends at Christian Dior Couture and his Paris creative team, shot in this extraordinary space. Young French model Pauline Serreau was given the daunting task of embodying the dead artist. The images in the Roland, Death of a Painter series are a unique example of life, art and death interpreted through contemporary fashion photography.

Congratulations to artist Helidon Xhixha, one of 11 artists invited to participate in the Syrian Arab Republic Pavilion’s “Origins of Civilization” exhibition at the 56^th Venice Biennale.

Join us on one of these two special nights to meet artist Mira Lehr and celebrate her illustrious career. Lehr studied painting with renowned artist Robert Motherwell and was at the forefront of abstract expressionism as a young female artist in the 1950s and ’60s. In 1969, she was selected to participate with Buckminster Fuller on the first World Games Scenario Project at the New York Studio School. Lehr’s art has been exhibited by numerous U.S. museums including the New Museum in New York; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; and the Getty Museum Research Center in Los Angeles as well as American embassies around the world.

Dirk De Bruycker’s paintings are on view through January 10 in our Boca Raton gallery. Educated in printmaking through the printmaking department at the University of New Mexico Albuquerque and the prestigious Tamarind Institute, De Bruycker has developed a unique process of painting using asphalt, cobalt drier, gesso and oil on cotton duck canvas. He is a part recipient of a Visual Arts Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Visual Artists Work Grant from the Flemish Executive Department of Museum and Visual Arts. His work can be found in numerous public and private collections in Belgium and the United States including the Ministry of Visual Arts in Brussels, Belgium; the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Bellagio Collection in Las Vegas, Nevada; and the Hallmark Collection in Kansas City, Missouri.

Rosenbaum Contemporary presented a spectacular lineup of modern masters and new works by emerging artists at Art Miami 2014. Here are some of the highlights from this year’s booth:

As we sat down with Oriano Galloni to work on the catalogue for his exhibition, we learned some interesting details and ideas behind several of his works.

In March, we shine the spotlight on Raphael Mazzucco, artist and photographer extraordinaire.  Much of his mixed media work, which combines photography, paint and collage elements,  is an inspiring celebration of beauty and nature.  Mazzucco is fascinated with the sensuality of the female nude.  He portrays women as ethereal, yet earthly sexy and provocatively alluring.   Mazzucco captures beauty and his point-of-view has captivated viewers from around the world.

Work by fine art photographer Simon Procter that chronicles couture runway shows he photographed for Chanel over a ten-year period is currently on view at Rosenbaum Contemporary’s Miami gallery, which is located in the lobby of the St. Regis Bal Harbour Hotel.  The show opened on March 25, 2014 and will run until the end of April.

In January and February, a work by Bill Beckley, one of the artists represented by Rosenbaum Contemporary, was featured on the covers of BAMbill, the program for the Brooklyn Academy of Music.  BAM is an arts center, located in Brooklyn, New York, that promotes the work of both emerging and modern master artists in all disciplines: visual arts, theater, dance, music, opera and film.  Beckley has donated the work titled I’m Prancin, made in 2013, to be sold to benefit BAM.  It now hangs in BAM’s opera hall.

Earlier this month, Rosenbaum Contemporary participated in Art Wynwood, a fair that takes place in the Wynwood section of downtown Miami and showcases 70 international galleries. These galleries present emerging, cutting-edge, contemporary and modern art that ranges from traditional painting and sculpture to multi-media, installations and performance art.

Robert Indiana and Howard Rosenbaum rang in the new year with a visit at Robert’s home and studio to discuss upcoming projects for 2014 and exchange holiday wishes.

Rosenbaum Contemporary presented an exciting lineup of emerging artists and modern masters at Art Miami 2013. Here are some of the highlights from our booth: