SPRING 2010 EXHIBITIONS

DIMENSIONAL/TRANSPARENCIES - SCOTT TULAY, work-on-paper

The exhibition investigates the ambiguity of space. Whether inspired by built form or natural context his art is constructed by an armature of light. Light is engaged in defining space, which also possesses a transmission quality – movement of light in space. Scott Tulay is especially attuned to exploring this relationship. With training and practice in fine art and architecture he tries to push his work, rendering up imagined graphic geometries of the manmade, yet, applying the deftness of a painter’s sensibility. Employing perspective skillfully, Tulay engages us by layering the dimensional space ambiguously. Prismatic and hurried light beckons us to read the work cinematically. Conversely, a haunting almost ghosting sensation pervades other work where one can hear a silence of space.

Principally a monochromatic palette persists juxtaposing values from black to white. Hints of color inflect some work, thereby invoking a suggestive context. Using ink, charcoal and pastel, the mediums cohabitat the compositions deftly and seamlessly. This adroitness in technique delivers vibrant and energetic compositions. Tulay brings us to thresholds of new spatial perception in this exhibition.


FLORALIES - VICO FABBRIS , watercolor and work-on-paper

April 2 - May 2, 2010

An exhibition of watercolor paintings and work-on-paper by the artist Vico Fabbris. Entitled FLORALIES, the exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of fantasy botanicals. In an era where environmental concerns are paramount, Vico Fabbris is especially attuned to the loss of nature and it’s delicate species – flowers. He attempts to replace the lost habitat with botanical “flights of fantasy”. In so doing, he delights the eye by creating the “almost real” as well as the satirical and absurd. Whether engaged by an imagined context, by a supporting story, or alone in mid-air suspension, his artwork is exuberant and a celebration of the inventive mind.




FALL 2009 EXHIBITIONS

COLUMNAE - WENDY ARTIN, watercolor paintings

November 24 - December 20, 2009

COLUMNAE, Artin’s upcoming show of watercolors at Gurari Collections, features 60 paintings of architectural columns and landscapes from Rome’s ancient history, a selection of sanguine nudes both male and female, statuary, as well as still life watercolor paintings - birds, lemons and more.

Regarding the title of this exhibition, COLUMNAE, according to Marcus Vitruvius Pollo, (80 –15 BC.), in De Architectura,

“All these should possess strength, utility, and beauty. Strength arises from carrying down the foundations to a good solid bottom, and from making a proper choice of materials without parsimony. Utility arises from a judicious distribution of the parts, so that their purposes be duly answered, and that each have its proper situation. Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other”.

If strength and utility are absolutes in the built form, then beauty is the result of these conditions creating, defining and participating in context. Wendy Artin has been living, breathing in, and painting in Rome and the Campagna over the last fifteen years. In so doing, she has experienced her art in the pulsations of light, shade, and shadow that this city, and this country of civilization, renders. Living daily with the sites, the sounds and all the senses at play, she paints a history in the present that transcends time.

As Wendy Artin observes in the following thoughts –

“ Hot stones, sounds of crickets, great stillness, sun revealing forms and shadows like puddles of clear watercolor. A gust of wind brings gentle wafts of sun-baked plants, the same wind that for centuries has gradually worn away and rounded off the architectural shapes that seem eternal, in their great immobility. This is what stimulated me, the current magic world of architecture created in an ancient past.” Wendy Artin, 2009

Whether inert as in architecture, or in the movement of the live figure, Wendy Artin deftly captures the essence of its being through mastery of the painter’s hand and the timelessness that her innate ability conveys.

Wendy Artin received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; she also studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She has lived and painted extensively for the last fifteen years in Rome, and has painted in Boston, New York, Mexico, Guatemala, and Paris. Her work is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Public Library, Fondation Colas, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Isabele Adjani, John Guare, Adele Chatfield-Taylor, Gustavus Remak Ramsay, Steve Martin, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Richard Leacock, Valerie Lalonde and Jacques Grange. She has exhibited in New York, Boston, Rome, Milan and Paris. Her work has been featured in Pratique Des Arts, American Artist, The New York Times, Vanity Fair ,Gourmet, Elle Decoration, Cote Sud, French Vogue, Elle, Carnet, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. She has been featured on BRAVO television's Arts & Minds.

Gurari Collections is proud that COLUMNAE is our seventh exhibition of Wendy Artin’s artwork. The exhibition is from November 24 - December 20th, 2009, in our gallery in the South End of Boston, 460 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118.

October 2 - 25, 2009

INQUIRIES - T. KELLY WILSON, Recent Work - Oil Painting, Graphite Drawing. After many years of plein-air painting, INQUIRIES has brought the artist into the studio to study, to deconstruct, to obtain space, light, and color from an honored begonia plant. As the exhibition will demonstrate, Kelly Wilson is facile in the analytic and expressive in the nature of painting. Wilson's work resonates with the color-coding of space and the making of dimensional planer surfaces that are warped by the life and age of this plant. Since his inquiry covered a lengthy time span, the investigation measures the begonia's own changes and morphology. The organic nature of plant form defines its’ context with density and sparseness, shoots and projections as it seeks light by which to grow. Wilson recognizes that he can only “ paint the visible’” yet his fascination with the “invisible” – the space and air of this begonia’s universe - is “colorless, though not formless.” He reconciles the seen and unseen by allowing his paint, his palette, to undulate this living natural world. Movement of surface to light and back again presents a unified whole in a vibrancy and simplicity at once.

The subsequent paintings and drawings reveal and pleasure the senses.

T. Kelly Wilson has received a Master in Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Auburn. He continues as an adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, teaching Visual Studies and he directs the Harvard Rome Study Program. He has had a long (25 plus years) and active career in Higher Education at distinguished universities such as Yale College, M.I.T., Rhode Island School of Design. Along with teaching, he pursues a life of painting and drawing with exhibitions at noted galleries in the United States and abroad. In the best sense of the word, Wilson’s talents encompass the best of the artist-architect tradition of the Renaissance humanists to the modernist work of artist-architect such as Le Corbusier. His work has been published in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Columbus Dispatch, Design New England, Architecture and Architectural Record, as well as Harvard Design Review, among other publications.



Gurari Collections annually exhibits 3 - 6 individual artists work and/or thematic exhibitions built from the gallery's inventory. Select artists who have presented at Gurari Collections come from diverse and international backgrounds. American, Italian, French, Russian and German artists have successfully shown their work at the gallery. Topical exhibitions have included; "The Inventive Mind" inventions in creative design 17th -20th centuries; "Celestial Bodies" antique star charts to satellite photographs (from the mythic to current scientific investigations); "Masterpieces of European City Plans" including 18th century engraved wall maps of Paris, Rome and London.

Please look for more updates as new exhibitions find their way onto the schedule.