The Leiber Collection Invites Visitors to its Sculpture Garden

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THE LEIBER COLLECTION

 

INVITES VISITORS TO ITS SCULPTURE GARDEN

While the Leiber Collection is well-known to lovers of art and fashion, fewer people are familiar with the Collection’s sculpture garden. Placed with an artist’s sense of composition in a verdant landscape of trees, shrubs, and flowering plants are sculptures by the following artists: William King, Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Constantino Nivola, Ronnie Chalif, Calvin Albert, Jun Kaneko, and Gerson Leiber.

William King’s sculptures span countless media and are generally devoted to figurative portrayals of the human figure. Hans Van de Bovenkamp is renowned for his large sculptures created primarily for open-air public locales. Constantino Nivola’s sand- casted sculptures have been described as bas-relief sculptures in concrete, combining sculpture with architecture. Ronnie Chalif’s abstract sculptures have been inspired by the power and beauty of rocks and rock formations from many mountainous regions. Calvin Albert’s work combines abstraction and representation in figures that have a muscular form, and are noted for their spirit of serenity and tension. Jun Kaneko’s ceramic sculptures are a synthesis of painting and sculpture, displaying qualities that are enigmatic and elusive, restrained and powerful, eastern and western. Gerson Leiber is well known as a modernist painter and sculptor; he is represented in the sculpture garden by a large bronze, figurative piece on a concrete base; it is entitled The Human Condition. Modernism is the theme exemplified by his impressive body of paintings, prints, and sculptures.

Every Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday, from 1 PM to 4 PM, visitors are invited, free of charge, to tour the Collection and the sculpture garden as well as other beautifully designed gardens on the property, and to enjoy one of East Hampton’s most prized aesthetic treasures.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway, East Hampton, NY. Its web address is www.leibercollection.org, and the phone number is 631-329-3288.

Major Modernist Artist, Gerson Leiber, Exhibits at Leonard Tourne Gallery

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MAJOR MODERNIST ARTIST,

 GERSON LEIBER,

 EXHIBITS AT LEONARD TOURNÉ GALLERY

New York, NY — Gerson Leiber, a 93-year-old modernist painter, who has been producing acclaimed works of art since 1946, is being celebrated with a one-man show of colorful abstract paintings at the Leonard Tourné Gallery.

Gerson Leiber’s reputation ranks high in artistic circles, and it is no surprise that his work has been praised by such eminent art critics, curators, and artists as Will Barnet, Hilton Kramer, Ruth Appelhof, Gail Levin, Avis Berman, Phyllis Braff, and Bernice Steinbaum, among various others.

Will Barnet wrote: “Gerson Leiber is a painter with full control over his vocabulary of means.” And Ruth Appelhof, the director of Guild Hall in East Hampton, wrote: “Gerson Leiber [is] one of a pantheon of outstanding 20^th Century artists…has explored styles, even movements, with dexterity of a gifted, extremely self-confident person always expressing his own aesthetic at the core of his work.”

In addition to being honored with numerous one-man exhibitions, Gerson Leiber has received more than a dozen awards and honors for his work which is in such prestigious collections as The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art, Seattle Museum of Art, and The Yale University Art Gallery as well as many other museums.

The exhibition premiers on May 6 and will be open to the public throughout May. The Leonard Tourné Gallery is located at 46 East 65 Street in Manhattan. For further information, please contact info@leonard-tourne.com

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Gerson Leiber at the Leonard Tourne Gallery

NEW YORK, NY – May 2015 –Leonard Tourné Gallery is pleased to present “The Implications Are Clear,” an exhibition of oil paintings by American modernist painter Gerson Leiber. The exhibition opens May 6 and will run through May 31. Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Leiber began his artistic career during World War II while stationed in Budapest, Hungary. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Budapest and, after the war, took up printmaking and painting at the Art Students League of New York. He later studied engraving with Gabor Peterdi at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Leiber’s influences, rooted in abstract expressionism, include Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Bonnard. In the words of Ruth Appelhof, director of Guild Hall in East Hampton, Gerson Leiber is “one of a pantheon of outstanding 20th Century artists who has explored styles, even movements, with the dexterity of a gifted, extremely self-confident person always expressing his own aesthetic at the core of his work.” Art critic and curator Phyllis Braff wrote: “An artist who understands the art of his era, Leiber builds on the optical velocities and gestural immediacies of abstract expressionism.” Leiber has had dozens of solo exhibitions in the United States and Israel and his work is included in collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, National Gallery of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Art  and the Yale University Art Gallery, among many others. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the National Academy of Design’s Benjamin Altman Prize for the Figure, The Ralph Fabri Medal of Merit, the Museum of Fine Arts Purchase Award and the President’s Award. For additional information or to schedule a viewing, please contact Leonard Tourné Gallery, located at 46 East 65th Street between Madison and Park avenues, atinfo@leonard-tourne.com or by phone at (212) 219-2656.

THE HIGHLAND FALLS SCULPTURE WALK TO EXHIBIT SCULPTURE BY STRONG-CUEVAS

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THE HIGHLAND FALLS SCULPTURE WALK

TO EXHIBIT SCULPTURE BY STRONG-CUEVAS

Highland Falls, NY —The Eisenhower Leadership Center, in association with Collaborative Concepts and Highland Falls, has selected an important work by Strong-Cuevas as part of its first annual Highland Falls Sculpture Walk to take place on May 16, 2015. It will run until November 7, 2015. Collaborative Concepts, along with the Eisenhower Leadership Center, and the Village of Highland Falls are creating a sculpture walk. This new initiative is part of a revitalization effort on the part of the Village of Highland Falls and the Eisenhower Leadership Center. The walk shows how art can benefit leadership and learning. In addition to Strong-Cuevas’ large, dramatic sculpture, there will be seventeen large sculptures by other well-known artists.  Strong-Cuevas is a critically acclaimed sculptor whose work can be seen in museums, private collections, and in  galleries in the United States, and in Europe.. Her smaller works and drawings are on exhibit at the Leonard Tournè Gallery in New York City.  Phyllis Braff wrote in The New York Times on Strong-Cuevas “One is impressed with the ambitious program of seeking a sculpture that blends architecture and perfectly keyed abstraction with the potent emotionalism resulting from human-face themes…. Creative use of negative space has been one of the artist’s favorite devices. It is particularly striking, for it adds intensity, and often a strange force as well…. Strong-Cuevas’ bronze sculptures contain a great deal of psychic energy. Isolated facial features removed from context, enclosed mysterious spaces, meticulously polished surfaces and a certain ritualistic quality all help to generate this spiritual feeling.”

And the art critic Donald Kuspit wrote: “Strong-Cuevas’s sculptures, cosmically open and epic in scale or hermetically enclosed and intimate in scale, whether constructions or cast in bronze, whether involving single or multiple heads, fuse the modernist traditions of primitivist expression and pure abstraction, confirming their originality by reconciling the opposites. They are, indeed, imaginative brainwaves of the archetypes.”

About her own work, Strong-Cuevas wrote in an essay in Art Times Journal that “Creation begins with a wish, a desire to do something, to make something, to see beyond the immediate reality. If we are lucky, it will open a door to a stream of thought that is inspiration. We inspire, we breathe in ideas.”

Curators for the Highland Falls Sculpture walk are Nicole Shea of Eisenhower Leadership Center, the Collaborative Concepts steering committee, and Robert Van Winkle of RVW Sculpture Arrangement. For more information, call 845-528-1797 or email collabconcepts@optonline.net

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