James Barron Art

"Polenghi remains very much an artist yet to be discovered." Barry Schwabsky, Artforum In the late 1970s, Francesco Polenghi had a personal, spiritual crisis and went to India, where he studied in an ashram for approximately 13 years. There he learned a mantra that he continued to recite when he returned to Milan, where he painted for the rest of his life in a trancelike state. "In a strange way, [Francesco Polenghi's] paintings squared the circle by combining the meditative calm of Agnes Martin’s work with the vibratory molecular excitation of Op art." Barry Schwabsky, Artforum

“Rather than being remembered for an enduring beauty or grace, ultimately Buchanan's oeuvre will be recognized for its powerful observations about the inherent strength of the human spirit.” Trinkett Clark "I want to give people who can neither read nor write but made all the measurements and built their own barns and shacks a different way of looking at themselves. My fascination is with buildings and ruins. But there’s more fascination with life and its positive aspects." Beverly Buchanan

Beverly Pepper was an American sculptor known for her monumental works in steel, cast iron, bronze, stainless steel, and stone. Born in Brooklyn in 1922, Pepper left New York in 1949 to study painting in Paris. A 1960 trip to Angkor Wat inspired Pepper to pursue sculpture, and her earliest works, such as Antediluvian (1960), explored organic forms in carved wood. Pepper began exhibiting her sculptures in both New York and Rome. In 1962, she was one of ten artists invited by Giovanni Carandente to fabricate major works in Italsider factories for an outdoor exhibition in Spoleto. Pepper then continued to work in factories in both Italy and the United States, becoming the first American artist to use Cor-Ten steel while working in a U.S. Steel factory. Splitting her time between New York and Todi, Italy, Pepper produced a prolific body of both indoor and outdoor sculptures, site specific works, and land art throughout her life. Her work has been widely exhibited, is held in numerous public collections, and has been the subject of multiple monographs. The Beverly Pepper Sculpture Park opened in Todi in 2019. With sculptures from 1960 through 2015, Beverly Pepper: Capturing Light includes some of Pepper’s earliest sculptures in wood and twisted steel, as well as her mid-career Altars and totemic works. Towards the end of her career, Pepper executed a series of soaring, curved sculptures in Cor-Ten steel, which are featured prominently in Capturing Light.

"The characters [in Katherine Bradford's paintings]... are moving along the surface of the earth, and between underworlds and outer space. The paintings suggest rapture in all senses of the word – enchantment and bliss, as well as imminent demise. They have an unearthly, radiant inner light." Jennifer Samet, Hyperallergic

"I’ve always had the desire to make the work a unity, to make all the elements—the periphery line and the internal line, the surface, color—equal, totally locked together." Robert Mangold "Color is so erratic. It’s a wild card in painting. Your attitude towards color is the hardest thing. And now I think of myself as much a colorist as a structuralist." Robert Mangold "I have used circles, squares, ellipses and all manor of four- and many-sided forms and combined forms. I see no difference between this and the way a writer or poet would use words and made-up words to express an idea: the key is to express an idea." Robert Mangold

“The cat is an ancient animal. It has a certain kind of wisdom accumulated over time. It watches you, lets time pass, and calculates all of its moves.” Vera Girvi “Time is crucial to me now. A clock has been ticking quickly.” Vera Girivi

“With all of these things—the cakes, the plates, even the tables that they’re placed upon—they’re about moments where as soon as they’ve been observed or captured in a photograph, or as soon as the celebration has been had, it’s gone in an instant. It’s over; it’s yesterday’s news. It’s ten years ago, which becomes 25 years ago.” Christina Nicodema “It’s a moment of peak perfection or celebration. The exhibition title Extra Special refers to how we all want to feel this specialness or uniqueness... Everyone wants their moment. An Instagram post is fresh for 24 hours, and then it goes off into the content landfill. I like that high school beauty queen metaphor for a moment that can’t be retained, a type of peak specialness that is so fleeting.” Christina Nicodema “[The cakes] possess memories of the past, of societal structures or family structures. I’m thinking about how those things fade and degrade and transform over time, just like our memories. All we have to hold onto are our stories and memories of these things. And our memories are imperfect narratives. They’re never what really happened.” Christina Nicodema

"It is often said that Gilliam’s painting style is inspired by jazz... Colors blended, interpenetrated, and formed expressive, abstract worlds of color that were beyond the artist’s control, despite the regulated production process." Ann Mbuti "I think that lack of control helps to open up this whole way of working, where it’s much more about pooling and letting the alchemical aspects of the paint happen. It’s about directing but not really enforcing what happens." Jackie Saccoccio Works by: Charles Alston Anthony Caro Ruth Duckworth Friedel Dzubas Sidival Fila Sam Gilliam Peter Halley Norman Lewis Dan Miller Pat Passlof Beverly Pepper Jackie Saccoccio Kikuo Saito Joel Shapiro Aaron Siskind