February 6, 2014
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.
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March 13, 2009
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.”
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January 27, 2007
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.
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