AMOS ENO GALLERY :: EXHIBITIONS

Recent Exhibitions:

PAST AND PRESENT

November 25 – December 19, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 3, 5:30 – 8:30 PM

Featuring: Stephen Crone, Theresa Gooby, Virginia Maksymowisz & Alex Wixon

Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present a group show of past and present directors. Not only have these individuals kept Amos Eno running since 1974, they are also gifted artists. Our current director, Alex Wixon creates small water-media and collage drawings. She layers patterns, textures, and line work to build a whimsical world for the viewer to explore. The previous director, Stephen Crone uses the sculptural and gestural aspects of opera to create his video landscapes. His new work, Fields of Oblivion is a requiem piece where the dead exists as radiations filled with emotion. Former director, Theresa Gooby‘s Drawings of Trees in Winter is a series of mixed media on wood panels. Taking motivation from the naked beauty of nature in winter, they are inspired by progression of life becoming art. In addition, Virginia Maksymowicz directed Amos Eno Gallery from 1983 to 1986. For the past ten years, she has been juxtaposing the female body with architecture in ways that becomes visual metaphors for the societal roles women play.

CLOSE VIEWS (FROM A DISTANCE)

October 27 – November 21, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 5, 5:30 –8:30 PM and Saturday, November 14, 3 – 6 PM

Featuring: Susan Arthur-Whitson, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Judy Gelles, Benjamin Pierce, & Blaise Tobia

Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present Close Views (From a Distance), a group show of Philadelphia-based photographers. The five photographers exhibiting in this show look very closely at the world and at the photographs they produce. Susan Arthur-Whitson works literally in close-up range; the miniature objects she sets in ambiguous locales gain strength from her careful staging and technique. Blaise Tobia looks closely at the urban landscape and telling segments of material culture; he then finds complex formal and conceptual relationships within and among the resulting photographs. Similarly, Ditta Baron Hoeber looks intently at human interactions and then at the photographs she has made, finding forms, patterns, gesture, and other revealing elements. Judy Gelles’s primary subject is the social environment and her means of representation merges photographs and recounted stories into a formally and conceptually unified whole. Benjamin Pierce is concerned with form and its recognition; usually his forms derive from the human body. In the video work he has made for this show, the concept of human form extends to vocal and musical patterns as well.

DEBORAH FREEDMAN: PAINTINGS AND PRINTS

September 30 – October 24, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 1, 5:30 – 8:30 PM

Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present a new solo exhibition of paintings from New York artist Deborah Freedman titled Paintings and Prints. The work will be on view from September 30-October 24.

“Is an artist born with an evolving notion of what art is?. Is it part of the calling, both external and internal? Ultimately it grows into a tested notion, what the artist means by it and wherein it lies. Simultaneously, the artist invents a personal language to express this understanding. As an artist matures not only does the language become more expressive but the artist becomes it master.

In these paintings by Deborah Freedman one sees the fruits of maturity. Ostensibly growing out of her monotype prints with their inherently flat color, Ms. Freedman has more expressive options in paint.

The color is more nuanced and textured; the pictorial space accomplished effortlessly but to great effect, and lies ambiguously over the canvas. So while you might be looking at trees, what you are really seeing is the coloratura of an accomplished artist, comfortable in herself, conversant with historical precedents, and so familiar with the difficulty of making good art that she leads us on an adventure through her eyes. It is so rare and such a pleasure.”

- Stewart Waltzer has been a dealer in Post War art in New York since the early 70’s. He writes for ArtNet.

Deborah Freedman lives and works in New York City and Kerhonkson, N.Y. She attended New York University studying with Knox Martin, James Wines, Irving Sandler and Robert Blackburn.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums throughout the country and is included in major public and private collections including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, Prudential, NASA, CITI and IBM. Her paintings for fashion and editorial photography are widely seen in periodicals such as The New York Times, Elle, American Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, and The New Yorker, She is also co-owner with Marjorie VanDyke of VanDeb Editions, publishers of etchings and monoprints.


	Current Exhibition: NEW YEAR SAMPLER January 13 – February 6, 2010 Closing Reception: Thursday February 4, 5:30 - 8:30 Featuring: Charleen Kavleski, Deborah Freedman, Jose-Ricardo Presman, Walter Thompson Press Release Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to open the new year with a group show called New Year Sampler. Four long-standing members of this not-for-profit artists’ cooperative: Charleen Kavleski, Deborah Freedman, Jose-Ricardo Presman and Walter Thompson have come forward to give our viewers a sampling of the membership’s artistic range. Between the two women, one of them, Deborah, is a painter with strong abstract leanings who marvelously transforms elements drawn from nature, turning them into deeply personal visions; the other, Charleen, is a multi-media artist who synthesizes systemic and random elements of her conceptual art with her family history of masonry and quilt making. Between the two men, Jose strives by conceptual means to insert within the gallery itself forms or elements that impact the way we experience the space we are in; and Walter, in a minimalist manner, makes severe geometric representations out of repetitive and accumulative straight lines.
	Recent Exhibitions: PAST AND PRESENT November 25 – December 19, 2009 Opening Reception: Thursday, December 3, 5:30 – 8:30 PM Featuring: Stephen Crone, Theresa Gooby, Virginia Maksymowisz & Alex Wixon Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present a group show of past and present directors. Not only have these individuals kept Amos Eno running since 1974, they are also gifted artists. Our current director, Alex Wixon creates small water-media and collage drawings. She layers patterns, textures, and line work to build a whimsical world for the viewer to explore. The previous director, Stephen Crone uses the sculptural and gestural aspects of opera to create his video landscapes. His new work, Fields of Oblivion is a requiem piece where the dead exists as radiations filled with emotion. Former director, Theresa Gooby‘s Drawings of Trees in Winter is a series of mixed media on wood panels. Taking motivation from the naked beauty of nature in winter, they are inspired by progression of life becoming art. In addition, Virginia Maksymowicz directed Amos Eno Gallery from 1983 to 1986. For the past ten years, she has been juxtaposing the female body with architecture in ways that becomes visual metaphors for the societal roles women play. CLOSE VIEWS (FROM A DISTANCE) October 27 – November 21, 2009 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 5, 5:30 –8:30 PM and Saturday, November 14, 3 – 6 PM Featuring: Susan Arthur-Whitson, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Judy Gelles, Benjamin Pierce, & Blaise Tobia Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present Close Views (From a Distance), a group show of Philadelphia-based photographers. The five photographers exhibiting in this show look very closely at the world and at the photographs they produce. Susan Arthur-Whitson works literally in close-up range; the miniature objects she sets in ambiguous locales gain strength from her careful staging and technique. Blaise Tobia looks closely at the urban landscape and telling segments of material culture; he then finds complex formal and conceptual relationships within and among the resulting photographs. Similarly, Ditta Baron Hoeber looks intently at human interactions and then at the photographs she has made, finding forms, patterns, gesture, and other revealing elements. Judy Gelles’s primary subject is the social environment and her means of representation merges photographs and recounted stories into a formally and conceptually unified whole. Benjamin Pierce is concerned with form and its recognition; usually his forms derive from the human body. In the video work he has made for this show, the concept of human form extends to vocal and musical patterns as well. DEBORAH FREEDMAN: PAINTINGS AND PRINTS September 30 – October 24, 2009 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 1, 5:30 – 8:30 PM Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present a new solo exhibition of paintings from New York artist Deborah Freedman titled Paintings and Prints. The work will be on view from September 30-October 24. “Is an artist born with an evolving notion of what art is?. Is it part of the calling, both external and internal? Ultimately it grows into a tested notion, what the artist means by it and wherein it lies. Simultaneously, the artist invents a personal language to express this understanding. As an artist matures not only does the language become more expressive but the artist becomes it master. In these paintings by Deborah Freedman one sees the fruits of maturity. Ostensibly growing out of her monotype prints with their inherently flat color, Ms. Freedman has more expressive options in paint. The color is more nuanced and textured; the pictorial space accomplished effortlessly but to great effect, and lies ambiguously over the canvas. So while you might be looking at trees, what you are really seeing is the coloratura of an accomplished artist, comfortable in herself, conversant with historical precedents, and so familiar with the difficulty of making good art that she leads us on an adventure through her eyes. It is so rare and such a pleasure.” - Stewart Waltzer has been a dealer in Post War art in New York since the early 70’s. He writes for ArtNet. Deborah Freedman lives and works in New York City and Kerhonkson, N.Y. She attended New York University studying with Knox Martin, James Wines, Irving Sandler and Robert Blackburn. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums throughout the country and is included in major public and private collections including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, Prudential, NASA, CITI and IBM. Her paintings for fashion and editorial photography are widely seen in periodicals such as The New York Times, Elle, American Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, and The New Yorker, She is also co-owner with Marjorie VanDyke of VanDeb Editions, publishers of etchings and monoprints.

NEW YEAR SAMPLER

PAST AND PRESENT

CLOSE VIEWS (FROM A DISTANCE)

DEBORAH FREEDMAN: PAINTINGS AND PRINTS