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Art Silicon Valley: October 9-12. Booth SV288

San mateo County Event Center | 1346 Saratoga Drive | San Mateo, CA 94403

Artists exhibited include Caraballo-Farman, Dan Christensen, Shane Hope, Patrik Hughes, Jun Kaneko, Jeff Koons, Jane Manus, Julien Marinetti, Jedd Novatt, Tristan Perich, Mauro Perucchetti, Ernest Trova, Bernar Venet and James Walsh

Art Southampton: July 23-28. Booth AS-78

Southampton Elks Lodge | 605 County Road 39 | Southampton, NY 11968

Artists exhibited include Debra Bean, Tim Bessell, Natvar Bhavsar, Stanley Boxer, Dan Christensen, Johan Creten, Carole Feuerman, Ray Geary, Max-Steven Grossman, Jun Kaneko, Jae-Yong Kim, William King, Jeff Koons, Jane Manus, Julien Marinetti, Heiner Meyer, Jedd Novatt, Mauro Perucchetti, Larry Poons, Jonathan Prince, Peter Reginato, Ben Schonzeit, Ernest Trova, Boaz Vaadia, Hans van de Bovenkamp and James Walsh.

The Middelheim Museum, Antwerp Exhibits Johan Creten's "The Storm"

Johan Creten’s “The Storm” is the centerpiece of the Middelheim Museum’s summer program. Each year, the museum — an open-air center dedicated to sculpture that has been open since 1950 — invites an artist to create a temporary exhibition to run alongside pieces in its permanent collection, which includes works by Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore or Franz West....

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Steel Fluency | A conversation with Jonathan Clement

By Jonathan Goodman

 
John Clement is a mid-career sculptor whose studio is now located in Long Island City, Queens; until recently, he had been working at an outdoor studio in Bushwick. The new space is across the street from Mark di Suvero’s workshop, where Clement learned the basics of welding metal sculpture some two decades ago. Clement belongs to a group of (mostly) men who work on large-scale metal sculptures; his ellipses of six-inch metal tubing appear monumental and elegant at the same time. During our discussion, he elaborated his vision of contemporary sculpture—a point of view that examines the issues of new art with considerable insight.

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Art Wynwood 2014. February 13-17. Booth B14

Midtown Miami | Wynwood, 3101 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, FL 33137

Artists exhibited include Natvar Bhavsar, Stanley Boxer, Lynn Chadwick, Dan Christensen, Jun Kaneko, Julien Marinetti, Jedd Novatt, Mauro Perucchetti, Jonathan Prince, Kikuo Saito, Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer and Ben Schonzeit.

Meet artist Ben Schonzeit at 5 pm on Friday, February 14th.

The New York Times

By Bruce Weber | March 13, 2009

Ernest Trova was an artist whose signature creation, a gleaming humanoid known as “Falling Man,” appeared in a series of sculptures and paintings and became a symbol of an imperfect humanity hurtling into the future. Mr. Trova was largely known as a sculptor, but his “Falling Man,” a standard of Pop Art, began life as a painted figure, taking shape on his easel in the early 1960s. Faceless, armless, with a hint of a belly and, its name notwithstanding, of indeterminate sex, the figure struck a variety of poses, sometimes juxtaposed with other like figures, sometimes with mechanical appendages.

In October 1963 his one-man show, “Falling Man Paintings,” was the inaugural exhibition of the Pace Gallery on West 57th Street in Manhattan; it sold out, with the works purchased by the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the architect Philip Johnson and others. In three dimensions, the “Falling Man” figure was made from different materials over the years — nickel and chrome-plated bronze, enamel on aluminum, stainless steel — and often, like the Oscar statuette, was polished to an industrial sheen. It was clearly a space age creation, a forerunner of C3PO, the golden robot in “Star Wars.”

The New York Times

By Roja Heydarpour | January 27, 2007

Dan Christensen, an abstract painter best known for his unfettered use of color in various styles, including Color Field painting and lyrical abstraction, died last Saturday in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 64. The cause was heart failure due to polymyositis, a muscle disease, said his wife, Elaine Grove.

In 1967 Mr. Christensen, finding the realism of his classical training restrictive, began using spray guns to paint colorful stacked loops on canvas, a technique that won him critical acclaim. He started by spraying over square pieces of tape, then removing them, creating a grid. The grids turned into tightly coiled loops, which graduated to looser whirls and finally broke into strokes and lines of color.