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Chelsea Hotel closing party Thurs May 27th
I hope you can join us for this unique installation experience.
the possibility of a painting - CLOSING PARTY
Thurs 27th May 2010
6.30 - 9.30pm
Gallery Suite 1019
Chelsea Hotel 222 W 23rd st
The Hotel Chelsea and 2|ONE|TWO|PROJECTS have created an immersive experience in one of the most exotic rooms of
the hotel. The Gallery Suite has a separate space that is transformed into a unique exhibition environment. The paintings
of various artists will be hung salon style on the wall and creep up and over the ceiling. The audience will view the works
seated or lounging on cushions. The exhibition shows all the possibilities of painting from representational through to
abstract and minimalist paintings.
Also on view are historical images of the room when it was occupied by the artist Alfred Russell, a resident of the hotel for 30 years. A
book has been published for the occasion.
Well received by the press and public alike, we look forward to seeing you! Images of the installation can be viewed here -
http://2onetwo.com/blog/
Review of show here - http://arthag.typepad.com/arthag/2010/03/the-possibility-of-a-painting-the-chelsea-hotel.html
I hope you can join us for this unique installation experience.
the possibility of a painting - CLOSING PARTY
Thurs 27th May 2010
6.30 - 9.30pm
Gallery Suite 1019
Chelsea Hotel 222 W 23rd st
The Hotel Chelsea and 2|ONE|TWO|PROJECTS have created an immersive experience in one of the most exotic rooms of
the hotel. The Gallery Suite has a separate space that is transformed into a unique exhibition environment. The paintings
of various artists will be hung salon style on the wall and creep up and over the ceiling. The audience will view the works
seated or lounging on cushions. The exhibition shows all the possibilities of painting from representational through to
abstract and minimalist paintings.
Also on view are historical images of the room when it was occupied by the artist Alfred Russell, a resident of the hotel for 30 years. A
book has been published for the occasion.
Well received by the press and public alike, we look forward to seeing you! Images of the installation can be viewed here -
http://2onetwo.com/blog/
Review of show here - http://arthag.typepad.com/arthag/2010/03/the-possibility-of-a-painting-the-chelsea-hotel.html
the possibility of a painting | The Chelsea Hotel
The possibility of a painting is an impressive group show at The Chelsea Hotel's Gallery Suite
featuring the works of 13 New York City artists. The show examines the potentials of painting and
exhibits the works salon-style, with pieces dramatically scaling up one wall and swooping up and
across the ceiling! The arrangement of the paintings show the transition from representational
works to abstract to minimalist, ending with one dark, elegant, large-scale minimalist painting on
the opposite wall. The display also creates an immersive experience - visitors are invited to sit or
lounge on specially designed cushions while viewing the show, to fully experience the works and
the atmosphere.
Starting at the lower portion of the right wall are the representational works including:
Tara de la Garza's layered, moody, gritty subway pieces; Marisa DeMarco's black-and-white retro
ladies superimposed with brightly colored modern gadgets; Ayca Koseogullari's shadowy, devilish
figures; Winston Chmielinski's lush and mysterious portraits; Kate Shaw's dreamy, sherbet-colored
landscape; and Sirikul Pattachote's colorful nature scenes. Scanning your gaze upwards you find
the abstract works gradually lead into the minimalists — Kenneth Park's raw, energetic canvases;
Meghan Keane's vibrant swirls; Chelsea Hotel summer resident, Susan Olmetti's vigorous, lively,
large-scale oil painting; Darren Wardle's richly saturated small-scale canvases; Koji Shimizu's
sweet and whimsical ode to his cat; and Felicity Faulkner's stunning, fluid shapes and forms.
The iconic Chelsea Hotel refurbished a guestroom, The Gallery Suite, with a small, separate room
serving as a unique exhibition space. Lucky guests who reserve The Gallery Suite get to "live"
with the paintings during their stay! Much like the hotel, The Gallery Suite, situated on the 10th
floor in Room 1019, possesses a rich, artistic history of its own. Artist Alfred Russell lived in Room
1019 with his wife Joan for thirty years. Alfred was an accomplished abstract painter whose work
was featured in seven Whitney Annuals (from 1949-1955), in MoMA's major abstract show in 1951,
and alongside Pollock's and de Kooning's at the Vehemences Confrontees exhibition in Paris in
1951. Russell renounced avant-garde abstraction as "The Bourgeoisation of Modern Art" in 1953,
and painted mainly in unfashionable figurative styles, rarely exhibiting his work, until his death in
2007. Fittingly, Russell's studio was located in the room currently exhibiting the possibility of a
painting. Starting off his career in abstract painting, moving on to figurative, and ultimately
combining the styles, Russell truly explored the possibilities of painting.
The possibility of a painting is an impressive group show at The Chelsea Hotel's Gallery Suite
featuring the works of 13 New York City artists. The show examines the potentials of painting and
exhibits the works salon-style, with pieces dramatically scaling up one wall and swooping up and
across the ceiling! The arrangement of the paintings show the transition from representational
works to abstract to minimalist, ending with one dark, elegant, large-scale minimalist painting on
the opposite wall. The display also creates an immersive experience - visitors are invited to sit or
lounge on specially designed cushions while viewing the show, to fully experience the works and
the atmosphere.
Starting at the lower portion of the right wall are the representational works including:
Tara de la Garza's layered, moody, gritty subway pieces; Marisa DeMarco's black-and-white retro
ladies superimposed with brightly colored modern gadgets; Ayca Koseogullari's shadowy, devilish
figures; Winston Chmielinski's lush and mysterious portraits; Kate Shaw's dreamy, sherbet-colored
landscape; and Sirikul Pattachote's colorful nature scenes. Scanning your gaze upwards you find
the abstract works gradually lead into the minimalists — Kenneth Park's raw, energetic canvases;
Meghan Keane's vibrant swirls; Chelsea Hotel summer resident, Susan Olmetti's vigorous, lively,
large-scale oil painting; Darren Wardle's richly saturated small-scale canvases; Koji Shimizu's
sweet and whimsical ode to his cat; and Felicity Faulkner's stunning, fluid shapes and forms.
The iconic Chelsea Hotel refurbished a guestroom, The Gallery Suite, with a small, separate room
serving as a unique exhibition space. Lucky guests who reserve The Gallery Suite get to "live"
with the paintings during their stay! Much like the hotel, The Gallery Suite, situated on the 10th
floor in Room 1019, possesses a rich, artistic history of its own. Artist Alfred Russell lived in Room
1019 with his wife Joan for thirty years. Alfred was an accomplished abstract painter whose work
was featured in seven Whitney Annuals (from 1949-1955), in MoMA's major abstract show in 1951,
and alongside Pollock's and de Kooning's at the Vehemences Confrontees exhibition in Paris in
1951. Russell renounced avant-garde abstraction as "The Bourgeoisation of Modern Art" in 1953,
and painted mainly in unfashionable figurative styles, rarely exhibiting his work, until his death in
2007. Fittingly, Russell's studio was located in the room currently exhibiting the possibility of a
painting. Starting off his career in abstract painting, moving on to figurative, and ultimately
combining the styles, Russell truly explored the possibilities of painting.