"Three Gallery Artists" at Garth Greenan Gallery will feature a selection of paintings and sculptures by gallery artists Mark Greenwold, Ralph Humphrey, and Roy McMakin. The group show opens on July 12, 2018. Born in Cleveland in 1942, Mark Greenwold studied painting at Carnegie Mellon University, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Indiana University. His famously laborious artistic process mirrors the psychological intensity of his paintings. The artist works under magnification, like a jeweler, employing the tiniest of brushes. He builds up surfaces stroke by stroke, all the while flipping between various preparatory photographs and drawings. The result is a kind of delirious realism in which everything portrayed, however realistic, is actually composed of thousands upon thousands of beautiful abstractions.Born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1932, Ralph Humphrey studied painting at Youngstown University. In 1957, Humphrey relocated to New York, where he met artists Theodoros Stamos and Mark Rothko. Rothko’s fierce opinions and strong, personal passions visually rendered in his paintings were major influences on a young Ralph Humphrey — influences which continually pushed the artist throughout his career. From 1966 to 1990, Humphrey taught painting in the graduate art department at Hunter College. He remained at Hunter until his death in 1990. Humphrey’s Conveyance paintings, are a singularly important, emotionally fraught body of work, created between 1974 and 1977. The paintings, hulking masses of casein and modeling paste in blacks, blues, and purple, often loosely resemble actual objects, like packages or containers.Born in Lander, Wyoming in 1956, Roy McMakin is a Seattle-based artist, designer, furniture maker, and architect. His work seeks to bridge the space between art and design. Much of the artist’s work crosses a threshold between utility and contemplation, meaning and anonymity. McMakin writes, “I have always seen functionality as a tool I use to both understand and point out my fascination and relationship to objects, and to language. Call something a table, and you put your keys on it, and something happens. It’s profoundly transformative.”The exhibition will be on view through August 10, 2018 at Garth Greenan Gallery, 545 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011, USA.For details visit: http://www.garthgreenan.comClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the artworks.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin
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