Tired of the winter like weather? Soak in some Mediterranean warmth at Regina Saura’s show at Campton Gallery in Soho.  Saura’s, paintings are full of Mediterranean light, color and warmth.  Her installation of paintings, in a series called Through the Forest, literally fills the gallery. The large paintings, placed side-by-side, give the feeling of walking into a forest on a warm sunny day. The Catalonian artist explains “Moving my studio a few years ago from a loft in the center of a small village to a rural environment surrounded by forest has had an unexpected visual and sensory impact on me.”  The sensory impact on the artist is clearly translated to the paintings. The experience will hopefully make you feel the inevitability of imminently warmer weather.

Saura is represented by Campton Gallery in NY and by Mercedes Durban’s Aficionarte in Spain.

http://www.aficionarte.com/

http://www.camptongallery.com/

As I am a member of the Sculptors Guild and exhibited with them I am admittedly biased but I will start there. Members and work that was  exhibited at the fair where:  
Laura Petrovich-Cheney's  Washed Up has undulating rhythms that recall ocean currents on a summer day. Anyone who has spent anytime on the Jersey Shore is familiar with this particular shade of turquoise. My great-aunt had a summer home down the shore, in which all of the furniture was painted this color.
Ginger Andro & Chuck Glicksman's  Jumping Hurdles attracted much attention. Their spinning praxinoscpe mesmerizes viewers.
Colin Chase's Cleave referenced his Buddhist practice with a springing "prayer" flag, bicycle wheel, prayer wheel, and bell. Irene Gennaro exhibited two polychromed, expertly hand carved, wooden Visionary Masks.
Max Pelzman's Cloud Wall was an imposing presence in the booth with its large free form shape.
Lisa Sanders' exhibited Arcs and Rods a wood and plaster sculpture creating tension and rhythms.
Vera Manzi-Scacht's sculpture titled Counterpart visually evoked a sense of Rodin's Gates of Hell in it's architectural structure and complexity.
Elaine Lorenz's David Eye to the Future is a polychromed cement organic column surmounted by an abstract ocular form.
Elizabeth Knowles' Eve Black Vortex is inspired by the biological patterns of organisms.
Thea Lanzisero's  Couture Maquette1 and Couture Maquette 4 evoked gracefully strong dress maker forms.
Yasmin Gur's 3x3 was formed from hand carved wood entrapped in a steel structure. It reminded me of nature constrained by man. Humans imposing their will on the environment.
Michael Wolf 's Shotgun House was meant to recall the collision of man-made structures and nature that have occurred with the severe weather the U.S. has experienced over the last several years.
Eric Laxman's Plow-Warrior Figure is a conflagration of man and machine. To me it conjures images of John Henry and the westward expansion of the United States.
Eve Ingalls' Still Life After Morandi a large wall hung sculpture with an enigmatic quality to it. It plays with transparency and the illusion of form.
Martha Walker's  Separation Anxiety has a dark dream like quality to it but is elegantly beautiful.
Mary Ellen Scherl 's 4x4 a sublime and subtle work was the booth's only two-dimensional piece.

Sculptors Guild Website

Another  booth that I enjoyed was Minny Lee's and Inyoung Seoung's in the booth they called Inyoung Seoung & Collective.  The theme both artist concentrated on for their booth was trees. Minny Lee's photographs are hauntingly beautiful with a slight sense of melancholy in them. The photos have a strong connection to the natural environment. Minny recently participated in a residency in a remote area of Norway and will returning again in the this year.
A portion of Minny's artist statement reads as follows "I consider photography as visual poetry: a verse rather than prose. Although photography has been conceived as a means to portray reality, I am more drawn to its ability to transcend time and place. I constantly revisit personal memories and history through my photography, reflecting on my inner self than striving to represent reality. I am interested in the coexistence between past and present, dream and reality, and absence and presence".
To see more of Minny's work visit her website at.
http://www.minnylee.com/

I also enjoyed Monica Buckle Gallery's exhibition. It was Monica Buckle Gallery's first showing at Fountain Art Fair and she highlighted two artists. Thomas Allen and Adam Handler. I especially enjoyed Thomas Allen's ink drawings on cream colored paper. They are flat and graphic with a great use of line and negative space. The series was displayed in a compelling manner. The individual drawings working well together to create a larger statement.
The owner Monica Buckle received her Masters in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art – New York. Previously she managed a galley on Nantucket and is affiliated with the Greenwich Arts Council.

Monica Buckle Gallery website.

Camille Eskell's both stood out with her series of paintings she calls the Ezekiel Project. Ms. Eskell states on her website:
 "The Ezekiel Project, a series of works on paper, explores themes of loss, searching, restoration and renewal. Referencing and contemporizing the fantastic vision of resurrection described in Ezekiel's parable The Valley of the Dry Bones, the series title also refers to my original family name, which a relative Anglicized when immigrating to the U.S. to assimilate into American society.
The pieces are layered, wiped, stained, and scratched, with blank areas exposed to suspend the illusion and heighten the sense of ambiguity and the unknown."
Eskell's work is strong and powerful combining  the corporeal and spiritual nature of existence.
Camille Eskell's website

I am excited to be exhibiting with the Sculptors Guild at the Fountain Art Fair.

The fair will be held March 7, 8, and 9th at the 69th Regiment Armory Lexington Ave. and 25th St., NYC

I will be staffing the booth Friday and Saturday nights from 7-10pm. Our booth number is D-105.

Please stop by and say hello!

I will be exhibiting my sculpture Shotgun House which was recently exhibited at Leigh Wen Fine Art in Chelsea.

Here is a list of the Sculptors Guild members I will be exhibiting with and the titles of the pieces they will be exhibiting.

JUMPING HURDLES  Ginger Andro & Chuck Glicksman 
CLEAVE # 7, #9  Colin  Chase
Visionary's Mask_I     Visionary's Mask_II   Irene Gennaro
Still Life After   Ingalls Morandi
Eve Black Vortex   Elizabeth Knowles
Couture Maquette1, Couture Maquette4   Thea Lanzisero
Plow-Warrior Figure   Eric Laxman
David Eye to the Future   Elaine Lorenz
Counterpart   Vera Manzi-Schacht
Cloud Wall Two   Maximilian Pelzmann
Washed Up   Laura Petrovich-Cheney
Arcs and Rods  Lisa Sanders
4x4    Mary Ellen Scherl
Separation Anxiety   Martha Walker 
Shotgun House   Michael Wolf
3x3  Yasmin Gur