UNTITLED, ART
San Francisco 2020
17 - 19 January, 2020
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Booth B14
UNTITLED, ART is an international, curated art fair founded in 2012 that focuses on curatorial balance and integrity across all disciplines of contemporary art. Untitled, Art innovates the standard fair model by selecting a curatorial team to identify and curate a selection of galleries, artist-run exhibition spaces, and non-profit institutions and organizations, in dialogue with an architecturally designed venue. The next edition of Untitled, Art San Francisco will take place January 17 – 19, 2020 at Pier 35, 1454 The Embarcadero.
Honoring Bay Area interest in and commitment to Figurative work, NHG proposes a dynamic installation based around “The Figure,” for Untitled 2020, including painting, sculpture, video, photography; exploring personal interpretations and approaches to the figure as wide ranging as a terra cotta sculpture of an African child to a pregnant mother-to-be twirling in nature through the seasons in video, to a reclining nude on her divan in sensual repose.
Many of the works are by Bay Area artists, including:
Colette Calascione—long-time Bay Area resident
Colette Calascione paints idealized women in settings she creates with touches of fantasy and fancy. She loves pearls and masks and hair-do’s from the 30’s. Painted in oil over many months Colette presents us with the woman-figure more as ideal than reality.
Timothy Cummings—long-time Bay Area resident
Timothy Cummings paints in acrylic, mostly young men, boys on the verge of manhood. He loves inventing costumes, plaid pants, patterned bow ties while he creates and invents a scenario in which to set his characters. Completely self-taught his paintings always tell a story.
Viola Frey
Viola Frey is best known for her larger than life monumental figures in clay standing 10-12 feet in height glazed in her signature palette of blue, orange and red. She was also a consummate drafts-person, drawing from the model in her studio at least once a week. Surrounding the figure in her drawings are figurines, floral patterns, bits of her three-dimensional vocabulary creating a swirl of activity, not unlike her studio activity.
Hung Liu
Hung Liu has been called the most important Chinese artist working in this country. A few years ago, Liu’s focus shifted to her first non-Chinese body of work, based on photographs of Dorothea Lange from the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Having been part of the Cultural Revolution in China, and having lived in camps for four years, Liu can relate to these images. She pours her passion and pathos into her oil portraits of the people Lange photographed, figures imbued with dignity.
Each of the artists will be represented by 1 or 2 works, creating a provocative conversation on the subject of “The Figure.” Other artists included in various media: Nicolas Africano (cast glass sculpture), Nathalia Edenmont (photography), Judy Fox (terra cotta sculpture), Gregory Halili (watercolor), Lisea Lyons (Bay area photographer), Joseph Raffael (Bay area watercolor) and Asya Reznikov (video)
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Nicolas Africano
Asya Reznikov
Colette Calascione
Hung Liu
Gregory Halili
Judy Fox
Timothy Cummings
Viola Frey
