FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

IN CONTEXT: collage + abstraction           

May 31 – August 10, 2007

PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY is pleased to announce the opening of IN CONTEXT: collage + abstraction, a large-scale survey of abstract collages by fifty-five modern and contemporary artists, including Hannelore Baron, John Evans, Arturo Herrera, Conrad Marca-Relli, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Anne Ryan, Amy Sillman and Dodi Wexler. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, June 1, from 6-8pm, or during the run of the exhibition, which continues through August 10.

The gallery is located at: 533 West 23rd Street (between 10th & 11th Avenues)

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am-6pm (through June 30)Summer Hours: Monday – Friday, 11am-6pm (July 2 – August 10)

Bringing together the work of over fifty modern and contemporary artists, IN CONTEXT: collage + abstraction explores the medium of collage within the broader context of non-objective painting and drawing. Drawing upon modernist traditions, such as Constructivism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, collage remains a viable medium with which artists explore divergent vocabularies as an extension of the abstract impulse. Working outside of the constraints of representational art, the artists in this exhibition employ a broad range of materials (both found and fabricated) and visual strategies to create a transcendent aesthetic.  Representing almost a century of abstract collage, these artists reflect the influential position collage occupies within the canon of non-objective art.

ARTISTS:

Hannelore Baron, Tony Berlant, Janice Biala, Fritz Bultman, Michael Cooper, Chris Corales, Robert Courtright, Douglas Craft, John Digby, William Dole, John Evans, Adam Fowler, John Fraser, Marietta Ganapin, Ilse Getz, Carol Gove, Balcomb Greene, Gertrude Greene, Addie Herder, Arturo Herrera, Clinton Hill, Leslie Hirst, Nick Holliday, Jerry Jofen, Ken Kewley, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Lance Letscher, Elaine Lustig-Cohen, Conrad Marca-Relli, Peter Marks, Salvatore Meo, Jerry Mischak, Robert Motherwell, Martin Mullin, Mario Naves, Louise Nevelson, Simon Neville, Robert Nickle, David Poppie, Christian Rossi, Judith Rothschild, Anne Ryan, Stefan Saffer, Holli Schorno, Kurt Schwitters, Amy Sillman, Al Souza, Maritta Tapanainen, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente, Jacques Villeglé, Robert Warner, Dodi Wexler, Charmion von Wiegand, James Zver

IN CONTEXT: collage + abstraction will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay by curator and art historian Robert Hobbs.

For additional information and images please contact Maggie Seidel at (212) 675 7490 or [email protected]