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FEBRUARY 2013

PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY is pleased to announce that we are expanding our program and MOVING to a larger space at 531 West 26th Street.

Join us on February 21 from 6-8pm for our inaugural exhibition, "Somewhere Only We Know"of new work by Swiss artist-duo HENDRIKJE KÜHNE and BEAT KLEIN.

JANUARY 2013

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our gallery artist and friend ROBERT COURTRIGHT, who died at the age of 86 on December 27, 2012 near his home in Opio, France following a brief illness. He is survived by his partner of over sixty years, the artist Bruno Romeda.

With a career that spanned six decades, ROBERT COURTRIGHT was a pioneering collagist and sculptor whose decidedly reductive style established him as a unique figure in a tradition not generally associated with the Minimalist impulse. Beginning with his early cityscapes of the 1950s, Courtright maintained a lifelong interest in architectonic form, which ultimately led to the grid structure which became his signature style for the next forty years.

With an oeuvre that is a visual mutation between imprint and drawing, Courtright’s collages, voluntarily austere and without needless hyperbole, abuse or complacency, reassure and gratify the viewer by their imaginative construction and sensitive chromatization. Arranging the components of his collages to reveal subtle shifts of color and texture, these stacked rectangles, inspired by architecture, explore and create a unique pictorial language. Even if his painted rectangles are held in place by simply a spot of glue, the "play" allowed between the support and the protective glass causes their shadows to move the immobile. They are like the surfaces of buildings or like tile terraces made vertical. As J. Bowyer Bell has written,

Courtright…offers the best of two possible worlds. There is the ideal work, carefully planned, carefully executed, cool, withdrawn, a matter of concept over adventure, a grid imposing order. There is, however, more to what you see than what you first see. Even if few have visuals ... all offer pattern. If the grid dominates as pattern, the real visual drama is elsewhere - in the perception of each viewer. The grid merges into the whole, color moves across the surface, differences in intensity appear, sight changes are made significant, an image rises from the squares, from the object. There is nothing minimal, nothing cold, nothing as exercise in the ultimate image. Each is an adventure for the eye.

In tandem to his collage constructions, Courtright created a series of masks inspired by the legendary “La Bocca della Veritá (Mouth of Truth),” a large masklike face made from terra cotta located in the portico of the Santa Maria Church in Cosmedin, Rome, which prophesized that anyone who sticks their hand in the mouth and tells a lie would have their hand bitten off. This sculpture was also featured in the 1953 film, “Roman Holiday.” Over the years, Courtright frequently recast the mask, imaginatively altering the expression of his subject through the use different materials: cast paper, bronze, terra cotta and marble, yet always maintain his strong, subtle sense of composition and playful humor.

Courtright exhibited widely in the United States and France. His New York gallery affiliations, included the New Gallery, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Gimpel Weitzenhofer Gallery, Kouros Gallery and since 2009, Pavel Zoubok Gallery. His work is in numerous public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC), SFMOMA (San Francisco, CA), and The Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, PA) to name but a few. In 2009 Robert Courtright was honored with a major retrospective in his native South Carolina at the State Museum in Columbia. A memorial and exhibition at Pavel Zoubok Gallery is planned for the spring of 2013.

DECEMBER 2012

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting at the 8th edition of PULSE MIAMI from December 4-9 at The Ice Palace Studios (1400 N. Miami Avenue). With a unique focus on contemporary and modern Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery will be exhibiting works by a select group of mixed-media artists. Please visit us at B-400

You can preview works from our booth here: http://pulse-art.com/miami/exhibitors/?e=1121

FAIR HOURS:

Tuesday, December 4 - 7 to 10pm / Private Preview Benefiting the Lotus House

Wednesday, December 5 - 10am - 1pm / Museum Preview Morning
Thursday, December 6 - 10am-1pm / Press and VIP Brunch

Thursday, December 6 - 1pm - 7pm

Friday, December 7 - 11am - 7pm

Saturday, December 8 - 11am - 7pm

Sunday, December 9 - 11am - 5pm

NOVEMBER 2012

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's solo retrospective opens at MoMA PS1 on Sunday, November 18 and will be on view through April 1, 2013. Lanigan-Schmidt’s mixed-media constructions, collages, and installations are marked by a trashy opulence concocted from household items and dollar stores.

Mimicking Byzantine decoration with cellophane, aluminum foil, tinsel and glitter, Lanigan-Schmidt (American, b. 1948) pioneered a maximalist aesthetic in the late 1960s that explored gay sexuality, class struggle, and religion. Mingling high with low, and sacred with profane, Lanigan-Schmidt bucked the reductive tastes of conceptualism and minimalism that dominated his youth, creating a radically decorative practice that, despite its influence, has never been properly assimilated into the history of American art.

For additional information, visit the MoMA PS1 website: http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/363

NOVEMBER 2012

Due to Hurricane Sandy, we will be closed during the final week of the exhibition BARTON LIDICE BENES: THE THRILL OF THE HUNT.

We will reopen with BUSTER CLEVELAND: OK BUSTER on Thursday, November 15.

OCTOBER 2012

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our longtime gallery artist and friend JOHN EVANS, who after an extended battle with hydrocephalus, suffered a sudden heart attack and died on the morning of October 5, 2012. He is survived by his wife Margaret Evans, twin daughters India Evans and Honor Evans, and their families.

Beginning in 1964, John Evans made a collage every day on the page of a bound sketchbook, and stamped each collage with the date. Filling numerous books, he continued this practice through the year 2000 - the Millennium - which seemed to him an appropriate end date for the series. Evans’ collage materials range from clippings, business cards, product stickers or labels and ticket stubs to bits of ephemera or anonymous snapshots found on the streets of his East Village neighborhood. Using colored inks, he builds upon the collage elements and creates lively, vibrant compositions. Recalling the small-scale works of modern masters such as Kurt Schwitters, Jean Arp and Paul Klee, Evans’ works are in fact page-sized paintings that extend the boundaries of the collage medium. Formally, they reflect many aspects of their historical antecedents: the use of abstraction; the incorporation of typography and commercial illustration; the ironic juxtaposition, scale shifts and word/image play of Dada; and the disjointed, often erotic, imagery of Surrealism.

Evans tends to preserve the integrity of each element, outlining or highlighting it with color, rather than cutting and overlapping fragments into an intricate overall composition. His collages are mini-time capsules that mark the end of the Vietnam War, the fiscal crisis in New York City during the 1970s, the burgeoning economy, club scene and art market of the1980s, and the AIDS crisis with its devastating effect on the art world. In their daily production, they form both a personal diary and a universal commentary on urban life in the late 20^th century.

Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1932, John Evans studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and moved to New York in 1963. There he became part of the lively community of painters and poets during that fertile period in American art. His friends included collagist and mail-art pioneer Ray Johnson and painter Alice Neel, known for her incisive art-world portraits. Another artist friend, Ursule Molinaro, inspired the “Ursuline ducks” that appear as a constant motif in many of Evans’ collages.Evans’ solo exhibitions include “New York Diary: The Collages of John Evans” at the New York Historical Society, “Avenue B School of Art: The Collages of John Evans” at Morris Museum, New Jersey, as well as numerous gallery exhibitions at Pavel Zoubok, Gracie Mansion and Cordier & Ekstrom galleries in New York. His work has been the subject of two major monographs, JOHN EVANS: Collages (2004) and JOHN EVANS: 1984 (2011), both published by Quantuck Lane Press. Described as an “art world legend” by critic Ben Genocchio in a 2008 New York Times review, Evans was a pillar of the New York art scene and will be dearly missed.

OCTOBER 2012

On view at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery is "Party Headquarters: Art in the Age of Political Absurdity," an exhibition of political art. The exhibition, guest-curated by Eleanor Heartney and Larry Litt, includes a wide range or work, including five currency collages by Mark Wagner, that point out the social consequences of greed, the corrosive effects of money and religion in politics, the dire state of the environment, the contradictory aspirations embodied by the American Dream, and the destructive outcome of unquestioning faith in American exceptionalism.

The exhibition runs from September 28 through November 10, 2012, with an opening reception on Thursday, September 27 from 6 to 8 PM. The exhibition and corresponding events are free and open to the public. Additional information is available at pratt.edu.

SEPTEMBER 2012

Mac Premo's The Dumpster Project is on view as part of the Governor's Island Art Fair. The installation is documented on the project's amazing blog, including footage of The Dumpster being shipped by boat: http://thedumpsterproject.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-dumpster-makes-trip-to-governors.html.

The Govenor's Island Art Fair will be open from 11am-6pm every weekend in September. Additional information and transportation directions are available at http://www.4heads.org.

AUGUST 2012

Mark Wagner's extrodinatry Liberty, 2009 along with the accompanying Liberty Archive Trunk, 2009 documenting every cut in the process, is on view at Haggerty Musuem of Art.

Commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the exhibition, "Thenforoward, and Forever Free", will be on view throuh December 22, 2012. Additional in foration is available at http://www.marquette.edu/haggerty/.

AUGUST 2012

MAY 2012

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved gallery artist and friend BARTON LIDICE BENEŠ (1942–2012). Following a long and courageous battle with a range of medical issues stemming from HIV, the artist died peacefully on the morning of May 30^th, 2012 at NYU Medical Center.

Barton Lidice Beneš was born in Westwood, New Jersey and graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in the early 1960s. Trained as a painter, Beneš’ life changed course during an early trip to the Ivory Coast where tribal art made from detritus dazzled him - he never painted again. A risk taker, both personally and professionally, Beneš transformed the fragments of our throwaway culture into works of art that often addressed taboo subjects; cremation ashes in the 1960’s, shredded money in the 1970’s-80’s, AIDS paraphernalia in the 1990’s, and more recently reliquaries made from celebrity rubbish.

His whimsical collages and sculptures made from recycled currencies dazzled international audiences with their biting critique of cultural and political events. For Beneš, money was both a rich palate of color and imagery, as well as a powerful symbol. He challenged the viewer to literally and figuratively “tear it up”.

More recently, Beneš created Museums, displays of collectible objects (often belonging to well-known personalities) and relics that he mounted, labeled and placed into thematically composed arrangements. These works were celebrated in the 2002 Abrams monograph Curiosa. In his foreword, author John Berendt writes, “They are a chronicle of our times … With some of his relics … he goes one step further and creates a shape that symbolizes the relic itself in some way.A process he calls “Transubstantiation”.

Beneš was also a tireless warrior in the fight against AIDS, serving on the board of Visual Aids from 2003-2009. He chronicled his own HIV+ status in a series of works created with his own infected blood. These were the subject of the groundbreaking exhibition entitled Lethal Weapons, which made Beneš a cause celebre as it toured Europe in the 1990s. A first-generation veteran of the AIDS epidemic, he has been featured in numerous documentary films about Art, AIDS and gay history, including Lovett Productions’ Gay Sex in the Seventies.

A strong believer in the healing power of art, Beneš took part in the award-winning “Flood” exhibition project at the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks, where victims of the 1997 flood brought remnants from their devastated homes for Beneš to make into works of art. The project cemented his relationship with the community and the museum. As part of his estate plan, Beneš has donated a significant portion of his vast collection of antiquities and the surrounds of his legendary Westbeth studio to The North Dakota Museum of Art—to be reconstructed as a permanent installation, his own personal reliquary. This unique environment, profiled in the New York Times in 2005 (February 6), is intended to educate and inspire viewers, a fitting tribute to an artist wholly dedicated to the art of collecting.

Beneš’s work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Smithsonian and The U.S. Mint as well as museums and private collections throughout the world. Earlier this year he received the Wynn Newhouse Award at the Syracuse Club in Manhattan. Over his forty year career, he has exhibited with numerous galleries including Kathryn Markel Gallery, Lennon Weinberg Gallery and Stefan Anders Gallery (Umea, Sweden). Since 2009 he has been represented by Pavel Zoubok Gallery.

Beneš is predeceased by his longtime partner Howard Meyer and is survived by his brother Warren Beneš, his sister-in-law Sam Beneš, numerous nephews, nieces, two godsons and a multitude of friends and admirers.

A memorial service and exhibition are planned for the Fall of 2012. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to support the transfer of The Beneš Collection to North Dakota, helping to bring this very special project to fruition. Checks should be made payable to “TheNorth Dakota Museum of Art” with memo noting “To help move the Beneš Collection To NDMA”; send to The Beneš Collection, c/o Teran, 302A West 12^th Street #102, New York, NY 10014.

APRIL 2012

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to announce BARTON LIDICE BENES as the recipient of a 2012 Wynn Newhouse Award, which provides grants to artists of excellence who happen to have disabilities.

The award and accompanying exhibition draw attention to the achievements of artists with disabilities, showcasing unique skills and insights with collective benefit. Nominees and winners chosen by a committee composed of persons respected in the arts and disabilities communities.

Wynn Newhouse Awards Exhibition is currently on view at The Palitz Gallery at Syracuse University's Lubin House. The exhibition contains the works this year’s four grant winners: Barton Lidicé Beneš, Christine Sun Kim, Mark Parsons and Sunaura, as well as a video displaying the works of the runners-up. The Wynn Newhouse Awards Exhibition runs through June 15, 2012. Exhibition hours are Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Contact 212-826-0320 or lubin@syr.edu for more information.

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is delighted to congratulate THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT on his 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant. Chosen from 130 nominations, the 30 recipients are honored for their talent, promise, and individual artistic strength. Submissions are reviewed by a jury of Foundation trustees, as well as a changing roster of artists, critics, and museum professionals.

The grant will be accompanied by a full-color 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Awards Catalogue, administered by Artists Space.

MARCH 2012

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is proud to announce that we will be exhibiting at both THE ART SHOW and THE ARMORY SHOW - MODERN. At The Park Avenue Armory (Booth D-9) we will exhibit works by modern and contemporary masters of collage and at Pier 92 (Booth 356) we will present a selection of modern abstract collages. For additional information contact Steve Weintraub at steve@pavelzoubok.com.

JANUARY 2012

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to exhibit Penny Rockwell's "Plugs" series at the Outside Art Fair in New York. Visit us at Booth #B-3.

Fair Hours are as follows:

Thursday, January 26: 6:30-9pm (Preview)

Friday, January 27: 11am - 8pm

Saturday, January 28: 11am - 7pm

Sunday, January 29: 11am - 6pm

MARK WAGNER and JIRI KOLAR at The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY.

Mark Wagner and Jiri Kolar are featured in the exhibition, "Ripped: The Allure of Collage" on view from October 29, 2011 - January 8, 2012, guest curated by Kenneth Wayne.

The exhibition will conclude with an artist talk by Mark Wagner on Thursday, January 5, 2012 from 7-8:30pm.

DECEMBER 2011

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting at PULSE MIAMI 2011. Please visit us in Booth #B-400.

For additional information, please visit http://www.pulse-art.com/miami/index.htm

PULSE will exhibit MAC PREMO's "The Dumpster Project" as part of PULSE Projects.

SEPTEMBER 2011

MAC PREMO's "Dumpster Project" premiers at the DUMBO Arts Festival (September 23 - 25).

Artist, animator and self-proclaimed "stuff-maker" Mac Premo has spent the last nine months archiving hundreds of objects collected over the course of his lifetime before consigning them to a 30-yard dumpster. Lined with the relics of Premo's life and work, the dumpster will be publicly exhibited over the next few years.

Visit www.thedumpsterproject.com to see a virtual archive of the objects complete with the artist's vivid recollections.

SEPTEMBER (15-18), 2011

Pavel Zoubok Gallery will be exhibiting at the inaugural HOUSTON FINE ART FAIR. Please visit us at Booth #B-408 at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

JULY 2011

View India Evans new mixed-media collages at the Flea Theater, as part of the set design for Black Moon Theatre Company's revial of Oscar Wilde's SALOME (July 8 - 23, 2011).

APRIL 2011

Artist, activist and Stonewall veteran THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT appearing in "Stonewall Uprising," a chapter in the popular PBS series, American Experience. This important documentry airs Monday, April 25 at 9:30pm.

MARCH 2011

MATTHEW CUSICK, HOLLI SCHORNO, MARITTA TAPANAINEN, and MARK WAGNER at Oakland University Art Gallery, Auburn Hills, MI

Using borders and frontiers as a metaphor for both globalization and cut-and-pasted reconfigured pictorial forms, Borders and Frontiers: Collage and Appropriation in the Contemporary Image explores the cultural significance of the commodified mass-produce, repurposed image as appropriated by artists in the digital age. The exhibition is on view from March 5 - April 10, 2011 and is accompanied by a catalogue.

Pavel Zoubok will be exhibiting at the ART SHOW next week (March 2-6) at the Park Avenue Armory; come visit us at Booth #A21.

This is our first year at the ADAA art fair and we are presenting "TEN: Redefining Collage" featuring the pioneering artists HANNELORE BARON, COLETTE, JOSEPH CORNELL, JOHN EVANS, AL HANSEN, RAY JOHNSON, JIRI KOLAR, THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT, JUDY PFAFF and MAY WILSON.

For more information, visit: http://www.artdealers.org/artshow.html

FEBRUARY 2011

DONNA SHARRETT at Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY

New York Fiber in the 21st Century represents the diversity and vibrancy of fiber in an era that increasingly values the handmade in art and the inherent possibilities of mundane materials. The exhibition is curated by Sandra Sider and is on view from February 2 - March 21, 2011, with a reception on March 21 from 6-8pm.

JANUARY 2011

MARK WAGNER at Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA

Mark Wagner is one of ten disguished artists appearing in Paper Cuts, an exhibition that features collage, sculpture and installation artists who all work with various types of cutting tools to create innovative and intriguing comtemporary paper-based works. The exhibition is on view from January, 27- February, 24, 2011.

DECEMBER 2010

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting at PULSE MIAMI 2010. Please visit us in Booth #B-400 at the Ice Palace.

Fair Hours are as follows:

Thursday, December 2: 1pm - 7pm

Friday, December 3: 11am - 7pm

Saturday, December 4: 11am - 7pm

Sunday, December 5: 11am - 5pm

For additional information, please visit http://www.pulse-art.com/miami/index.htm

OCTOBER 2010

MATTHEW CUSICK at Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

Matthew Cusick is featured in Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contempoary Art, an exhibition that investigates how, in this era of global culture, artists are increasingly exploring maps as both image and cipher. This exhibition addresses themes of borders, boundaries, identity, colonialism, memory, nostalgia, tourism and travel.

The exhibition will be on view from October 3, 2010 - January 9, 2011 and is curated by Sarah Tanguy. For more information, visit www.katonahmuseum.org.

SEPTEMBER 2010

INDIA EVANS, DON JOINT and HOLLI SCHORNO at Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY

Story Time highlights the varied ways artists tell stories through the use of such contemporary devices as avatars, virtual alter-egos and cartoons. The exhibition will be on view September 15 - November 14, 2010 with an Opening Reception September 26.

MATTHEW CUSICK at Free Museum of Dallas, Dallas, TX

In his solo exhibition, Defacements: A Collection of Altered Book Pages, Matthew Cusick alters old schoolbooks, isolating illustrations and removing most of the text. His recontextualization of image, word and number create a new storyline in the spirit of a prankster who has marked up the textbook with an irreverent and provocative commentary. The exhibition opens September 10.

JULY 2010

MARITTA TAPANAINEN acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Maritta Tapanainen's Journey is included in the exhibition, "New Works: Prints, Drawings, Collages," on view from July 28, 2010 - May 1, 2011.

JUNE 2010

MARK WAGNER at the Falconer Gallery, Grinnell College, IA

In his solo exhibition, Face Value, Mark Wagner uses American currency to reimagine iconic portraits, giving new meaning to the term "face value." His art exemplifies the principle (and the principal) of value added. The exhibition is on view from June 18 - September 5, 2010.

APRIL 2010

Donna Sharrett at Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY

Assembling Narratives: Quilting Impulses in Contemporary Art presents the work of six artists—Sabrina Gschwandtner, Karolyn Hatton, Faith Ringgold, DONNA SHARRETT, John Sims, and Anna Von Mertens—who appropriate quiltmaking as a symbolic repository of personal and communal experiences. Co-curated by Donna Harkavy & Flavia S. Zuniga-West, the exhibition runs from April 11 - June 27, 2010. Donna Sharrett will be present for a gallery tour and talk on Sunday, June 13 at 3pm. Please visit www.dorsky.org for more information.

MARCH 2010

Pavel Zoubok interview in the new Sienese Shredder

In the new edition of The Sienese Shredder, Owner & Director PAVEL ZOUBOK discusses collage with editor Brice Brown - its history and recent aesthetic and conceptual prominence in contempoary art.

Visit http://www.sienese-shredder.com/ to purchase a copy of the journal.

FEBRUARY 2010

MAC PREMO at the Philoctetes Center, New York, NY

MAC PREMO is part of the small introspective exhibition, "With or Without Permission: Appropriation Assemblage, and Collage," which explores the art of collecting, sorting, and arranging the ephemera and detritus of life to connect the imaginative and the real. It serves as a visual counterpart to the roundtable The Lure and Blur of the Real and a screening of Joseph Cornell''s film Flushing Meadows.

The exhibition runs from February 20 – April 17, 2010 and may be viewed by appintment M-F from 11:00AM to 5:00PM. Please call 646-422-0544 or email info@philoctetes.org to make arrangements.

MARK WAGNER at the FLAG ART Foundation, New York, NY

Shaquille O''Neal and Mark Wagner standing in front of the artist''s currency collage, Shaq by Marq.

FLAG Art Foundation presents “Size DOES Matter”, curated by basketball legend Shaquille O''Neal. The exhibition is on view from February 19, 2010 - May 27, 2010 and includes works from international artists exploring the myriad ways that scale affects the perception of contemporary art. Every work in the show was selected by Shaq himself or was made at his request.

BARBARA SANDLER at the National Academy Museum, New York, NY

Barbara Sandler is one of sixty-five artists included in the National Academy Museum''s 185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art (Feburary 17 - June 8, 2010).

Visit the National Academy Museum website for more information: www.nationalacademy.org/pageview.asp?mid=6&pid=62,or read the NY Times review: www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/arts/design/19academy.html?ref=design

JANUARY 2010

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved gallery artist and friend MICHAEL COOPER (1949–2010). Following a long and courageous battle with Leukemia, the artist died quietly at home on January 23, 2010.

Born in New York City and educated at Pratt Institute, MICHAEL COOPER began his career as a graphic designer, painter and illustrator. However, it was Cooper’s pursuit of collage as a fine art that was paramount. His first solo exhibition of found object collages was held at O.K. Harris Gallery in 1976. Describing the work, a reviewer for The New Yorker wrote “small collages in which postage stamps, playing cards, Scrabble tiles … and other decorative oddments take what seem to be their predestined places in a given composition.” Color and order lay at the heart of an obsessive practice of collecting that stretched over some thirty years. In a process that he called “disciplining junk”, Cooper created meticulous monochromatic grids from evocative fragments of ephemera and used representative titles like Sixteen Red Things, Twenty-Five Silver Things, and One through Ten. His monochromes and numeric arrangements are at once rich in visual and cultural reference and coolly minimalist in their simplicity.

“What is it about found objects that you find so appealing?” Michael Cooper was once asked. “I just like the idea of rescuing them from oblivion,” he responded.

DECEMBER 2009

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting at PULSE MIAMI 2009. Please visit us in Booth #B-405.

Fair Hours are as follows:

Thursday	December 3	10am-1pm
Press and VIP Private Preview
Thursday	December 3	1pm - 8pm
Friday	December 4	10am - 7pm
Saturday	December 5	10am - 7pm
Sunday	December 6	10am - 7pm

For additional information, please visit http://www.pulse-art.com/miami/index.htm

PULSE will exhibit MARK WAGNER''s "Liberty" as a special project.

NOVEMBER 2009

DON JOINT at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD

The artist''s solo museum exhibition, will be on view from November 7 — January 10, 2010. For more information, please visit www.wcmfa.org.

OCTOBER 2009

THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT featured at Harvard Museum symposium.

Harvard Art Museum presents ACT UP New York: Activisim, Art, and the AIDS Crisis 1987-1993; on view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA (October 15 - December 23).

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt''s art and his participation in the Stonewall riots is featured in "Stonewall and Other Summer Palaces: 1969/1989/2009," presented by Richard Meyer, associated preofessor of art history and fine arts, University of Southern California. Richard Meyer will present his paper on Saturday, October 17, 4:30pm.

Thomas Lanigan Schmidt was invited to the White House by President Obama to commemorate the 40th Anniversity of the Stonewall riots.

HOLLI SCHORNO at the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

The artist''s solo museum exhibition, "Holli Schorno: Collecting Samples," will be on view from October 11 - November 29, 2009. Please join Holli at the opening reception Sunday, October 18, 2-4pm, or during the run of the exhibition. For more information, please visit www.hunterdonartmuseum.org.

AUGUST 2009

ADDIE HERDER (1920 - 2009)

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved gallery artist and friend ADDIE HERDER (1920 - 2009). Following a long and courageous battle with emphysema the artist died quietly at home on the evening of August 11, 2009.

ADDIE HERDER was widely known as an artist''s artist. While many of her contemporaries were filling enormous canvases with the barest minimum of pictorial adornment, Addie went her own way creating complex worlds and outlandish machines in spaces often no larger than twelve by ten inches. The art critic, John Russell, declared that her small spaces had all of the pictorial interest of a Giorgione. He wrote in the New York Times: "There is something addictive about the collage constructions of Addie Herder. Once under their spell, we can''t see enough of them."

JERRY JOFEN (1925-93) films screened at Anthology Film Archives August 6.

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to announce a screening of JERRY JOFEN’s films at Anthology Film Archives on Thursday, August 6 at 6:30pm. The Anthology’s program of “Rare Films by Jerry Jofen,” presents the three remaining films by an artist who is widely credited for being an integral part of the New York underground film scene in the 1960s.

For more information on the artist, visit the "artist''s" page of our website or www.jerryjofen.com; for the recent The Jewish Week article visit http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c344_a16423/The_Arts/Film.html

PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY and FRED (London) are pleased to present: COLLAGE, LONDON / NEW YORK at FRED (London) August 6 - September 27, 2009.

The exhibition features some sixty-nine artists from the last one hundred years, each working in very different ways, but all incorporating collage in its various forms into their practice.

JUNE 2009

MARK WAGNER's currency collages are featured in the June 22 issue of NEWSWEEK

A four page spread of gallery artist MARK WAGNER''S currency collages illustrate the cover story "The Capitalist Manifesto" by Fareed Zakaria in NEWSWEEK. Wagner''s collages also inspired the design of the article, which echoes the palette of the U.S. Dollar. The issue is available at newstands everywhere.

HOLLI SCHORNO's Moving Houses acquired by the Newark Museum.

We are pleased to announce that HOLLI SCHORNO's major triptych, Moving Houses, has been acquired by the Friends of American Art of the Newark Museum (Newark, NJ). This large-scale work on paper was the cornerstone of Schorno’s 2008 exhibition “Landed”, which received reviews in The New York Sun, Artinfo, Time Out: New York and NY Art Press.

MAY 2009

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to announce that we have been invited to join the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA).

The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) is a non-profit membership organization of the nation''s leading galleries in the fine arts. Founded in 1962, ADAA seeks to promote the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practice within the profession. ADAA members deal primarily in paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings and photographs from the Renaissance to the present day. Each ADAA member is an experienced and knowledgeable dealer in their field. ADAA has 170 member galleries in more than 25 U.S. cities.

For further information on ADAA services and events please visit www.artdealers.org

MARCH 2009

JONATHAN SANTLOFER at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC)

Two works by JONATHAN SANTLOFER are included in the exhibition “Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture”, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., on view March 27 – August 2, 2009.

This groundbreaking exhibition showcases approximately 100 never-before-assembled portraits and self-portraits of Duchamp ranging from 1912 to the present, including works by his contemporaries Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Francis Picabia and Florine Stettheimer as well as portraits by a more recent generation of artists.

The exhibition is curated by Anne Collins Goodyear, assistant curator of prints and drawings, and James W. McManus, professor of art history, California State University Chico and is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue published by MIT Press. For additional information visit www.npg.si.edu

FEBRUARY 2009

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to announce that we are now representing distinguished collagist, painter and sculptor ROBERT COURTRIGHT, who will have his first solo exhibition at the gallery in May, 2009.

ROBERT COURTIGHT at the South Carolina State Museum, Coulmbia, SC

On view from February 20 - August 23, 2009, "Collages, Collage Constructions, and Masks 1953-2008" is one of the largest and most comprehensive exhibitions of the artist''s work ever mounted; featuring some 100 works, from early collages and masks to new collage constructions.

HOLLI SCHORNO at The College Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, NJ

On view from February 18 – March 25, 2009, "Anxious Ground: Contemporary Landscape Photography," explores the distinctive currents in contemporary photographic practice and examines the condition & perception of landscape at the beginning of the 21st century: the future utopia, the invisible, the dismantled, the post-apocalyptic, the over-romanticized and the constructed.

JANUARY 2009

JOHN EVANS at Fleischer Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

On view from January 22 – February 21, 2009, "Rich Text" includes work from contemporary artists whose use of text varies from single words to involved narratives, anti-aesthetic to highly designed, powerfully specific to poetic and nonsensical.

Please visit http://www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com for more information.

DECEMBER 2008

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting at PULSE MIAMI 2008. Please visit us in Booth #B504.

Fair Hours are as follows:

Wednesday,	December 3	10am - 3pm
Thursday,	December 4	10am - 6pm
Friday,	December 5	10am - 6pm
Saturday,	December 6	10am - 6pm
Sunday,	December 7	10am - 5pm

For additional information, please visit http://www.pulse-art.com/miami/index.htm

SEPTEMBER 2008

The Shadow Boxes of Sarah Austin on view at the New Britian Museum of American Art, New Britian, CT.

The shadow box art of Sarah Austin, daughter of Chick Austin, legendary director of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, will be featured by the NBMAA in a special exhibition in the Davis Gallery from now through Nov 2, 2008. Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to represent the estate of Sarah Austin (1935-1991).

The Culture of Collage at the Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, State College, PA

Selections from our summer group exhibition 1968/2008: The Culture of Collage will be on view from September 29 - October 24, 2008 at the Zoller Gallery.

For additional information, please visit: http://www.sva.psu.edu/zoller0809.html

DONNA SHARRETT at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

We are pleased to announce gallery artist Donna Sharrett’s inclusion in the Museum of Arts and Design''s upcoming exhibition Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection. On view from September 27, 2008 - February 15, 2009. The exhibition presents over 250 works from the museum’s permanent collection and is part of the celebration of the institution’s grand re-opening on Columbus Circle. Please visit www.madmuseum.org for additional information.

AARON NOBLE at Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

On view from September 5 – 27, 2008, “Aaron Noble: Drawings” at the Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA is an exhibition of works, including five new drawings, by gallery artist Aaron Noble whose work is inspired by Japanese Manga comics, muralism and graffiti. Please visit http://www.secondstreetgallery.org/ for additional information.

MAC PREMO and JIRI KOLAR at Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

“Text Messaging” is on view at the Islip Art Museum from September 17 – November 16, 2008. Curated by Karen Shaw, this exhibition features artists who incorporate language as an integral part of their paintings, sculpture, photography and installations and includes work by gallery artist Mac Premo and by Jiri Kolar. A reception for the artists will be held on Sunday, October 5, 2 – 4 PM. Please visit http://www.islipartmuseum.org/exhibits.html for additional information.

MARITTA TAPANAINEN at the Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA

“Introspective Accretions: The Collages of Maritta Tapanainen” opens at the Fresno Art Museum on Friday, September 12th and runs through November 2, 2008. Please visit http://www.fresnoartmuseum.org/ for additional information.

DAVID POPPIE, HOLLI SCHORNO, MARITTA TAPANAINEN, MARK WAGNER, and CK WILDE in a group exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI.

On view from September 28, 2008 – January 17, 2009, Pieces of the Whole includes the work of various artists working in collage.

Please visit: http://www.jmkac.org/ for additional information.

JONATHAN SANTLOFER’s The Murder Notebook

We are proud to announce the publication of gallery artist Jonathan Santlofer’s new suspense novel, The Murder Notebook. In his 5th art thriller, Santlofer once again, incorporates his knowledge of the workings of the NYC art world with mysteries that are compelling to readers of all kinds.

Please visit Jonathan’s website for additional information: http://www.jonathansantlofer.com

AUGUST 2008

GEORGE DEEM (1932 – 2008)

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved gallery artist and friend GEORGE DEEM (1932 - 2008). During his brief illness the artist’s attention was focused on the forthcoming exhibition of his recent work at Pavel Zoubok Gallery in January 2009 and a concurrent retrospective exhibition of paintings at Allan Stone Gallery, where he exhibited from 1962-1977. These exhibitions, and the release later this year of Let George Do It, a collection of Deem’s writings published by Post-Apollo Press, will honor the memory of this extraordinary artist, who above all, believed in the power of painting to change the way we see.

APRIL 2008

PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY is pleased to participate in ART CHICAGO, April 25 - 28, 2008 in the Merchandise Mart, Chicago.

The fair dates and hours are as follows:

Friday, April 25th: 11am - 7pm
Saturday, December 8th: 11am - 7pm
Sunday, December 9th: 11am - 7pm
Monday, April 28th: 11am - 4pm

More information may be found at:
www.artchicago.com

FEBRUARY 2008

Gallery artist, JOHN DIGBY, has recently been made a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, where he worked in the bird house for six years during his youth. The original house has been rebuilt as the new Blackburn Pavilion for Tropical Birds, where an exhibition of his bird collages for the benefit of the London Zoo will celebrate the opening on March 20, 2008.

JANUARY 2008

PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY is pleased to annouce two solo exhibitions by gallery artists JOHN EVANS and the late MAY WILSON (1905-1986) at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ.