Best of 2016 Space Gallery Denver, Nancy Charak

New Exhibition for Nancy Charak! Get yourselves to Space Gallery, 400 Santa Fe Drive, Denver for THE BEST OF 2016 Artists Reception & Holiday Party: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15TH, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Exhibition runs: December 15th, 2016 - January 7th, 2017, featuring work by these many fine artists. . .
FEATURING WORK BY: MARKS AARDSMA, PATRICIA AARON, MONICA AIELLO, TYLER AIELLO, STEVEN BARIS, KATE BECK, TONIA BONNELL, MICHAEL BURNETT, JUDY CAMPBELL, TAIKO CHANDLER, NANCY CHARAK, DIANE CIONNI, JODIE ROTH COOPER, JEFF CURRY, LEOPOLDO CUSPINERA, HAZE DIEDRICH, PAUL ECKE, MIGUEL EDWARDS, MARCUS FITZGIBBONS, CARLENE FRANCES, KAREN FREEDMAN, MICHAEL GADLIN, AMBER GEORGE, JASON LEE GIMBEL, JANE GUTHRIDGE, HOWARD HERSH, MONROE HODDER, SCOTT HOLDERMAN, JEFF JUHLIN, NANCY KOENIGSBERG, WENDY KOWYNIA, JOANNE MATTERA, MICHAEL MCCLUNG, SKYLER MCGEE, DIANE MCGREGOR, LEWIS MCINNIS, IAN MCLAUGHLIN, YIANNI MELLIOS, CONOR O'DONNELL, REGULA ONSTAD, COREY POSTIGLIONE, LISA PURDY, MIKE RAND, LYNDA RAY, SANGEETA REDDY, KAREN SCHARER, STEPHEN SHACHTMAN, BETSY STEWART, WILLIAM STOEHR, KRISTA SVALBONAS, SHARON SWIDLER, PHILIP TARLOW, SARAH WINKLER, JOHN WOOD, ANYA ZUCKERBERG

BLACK, MOSTLY 9H

“Mostly 9H” Series, each 8"×8″ plus black satin frame, graphite, charcoal, conte crayon on gessoed clayboard.

“Black”, October 22, 2015 opening reception, close November 28th, Space Gallery, 400 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Conceptualized by Sharon Swidler, curated by Jo Marks Aardsma.

Exhibiting with Jo Marks Aardsma, Tonia Bonnell, Michael Burnett, Nancy Koenigsberg, Diane McGregor, Corey Postiglione, Susan Schwalb, Sharon Swidler.

WHY BLACK?

…I was no longer working with black…but with the material of black, the surfaces of black, created a light. And this light is a secret light. A light that is not obvious. It was coming out of the black….”– Pierre Soulages

“This show interests itself in the ‘non-objective’: art that is not representational, that contains no recognizable figures or objects, art that has no intentional derivation from any concrete matter.The work for this show was selected because each artist uses black, not as negative space, but as an opening from which to reveal what lies at the edge of vision.”—Jo Marks Aardsma

This work is a continuation of paintings and drawings from the last several years. http://www.rounderstudio.com/black/ and the current work at http://www.rounderstudio.com/mostly-9h/ 

Paintings at Space Gallery Denver

Surface, a group exhibit featuring 10 of my paintings from my series, "How Many Miles to Babylon," and 9 of my small gestural pieces, opened last night at Space Gallery, 400 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. The show is up until November 1 of this year, please come on by. The other fine artists exhibiting are Jo Marks Aardsma, Tonia Bonnell, Sophia Dixon Dillo, Carlene Francis, Susan M. Gibbons, Nancy Koenigsberg, Diane McGregor, and Sharon Swidler. The exhibit is hosted by gallerist Michael Burnett and curated by Jo Marks Aardsma.

Nancy Charak photograph c. 2014

Nancy Charak photograph, c. 2014

Nancy Charak photograph, c. 2014

Nancy Charak photograph, c. 2014

Nancy Charak photograph, c. 2014

Nancy Charak photograph, c. 2014

Surface at Space Gallery Denver 9/26--11/1/2014

Come see my work and the work of other fine artists: Jo Marks Aardsma, Tonia Bonnell, Michael Burnett, Sophia Dixon Dillo, Carlene Frances, Susan M. Gibbons, Nancy Koenigsberg, Diane McGregor, Sharon Swidler

Surface (part 5 in the Art of the Real Series)

Showing: September 26th 2014 - November 1st 2014

Opening Reception: Friday, September 26th 6-9pm
Space Gallery is at 400 Santa Fe Drive, Denver CO 80204, 720.904.1088
 

How Many Miles to Babylon No. 3, c. 2014, 18"x24", oil, oil wash, polyester thread, copper roofing nails on unprimed cotton canvas, Nancy Charak artist

Space Gallery:  This show interests itself in the “non-objective”: art that is not representational, that contains no recognizable figures or objects, art that has no intentional derivation from any concrete matter.

The work for this show was selected because each artist uses the surface as a crucial element beyond a vehicle on which to apply a medium….either revealing what is behind/under the surface or concealing/altering/manipulating the surface itself and in a palette of white, black, gray, or neutral.

Surface What Is It?

Surface: tactile, edged, shadowy, illusory, lustrous, spiny, woven, shimmering, satinous, smooth, watery, patterned, rough, wavy, irregular, abraded, luminous, finished.

All pieces are 18"x24", oil, oil wash, polyester thread, copper roofing nails, wood glue on unprimed cotton canvas, will be on display at SPACE Gallery, from September 26 through November 1, 2014. Opening reception, Friday, September 26th, please come on by.

These pieces will be on exhibit with a number of fine artists, including Jo Marks Aardsma, Sharon Swidler and Diane McGregor.

How Many Miles to Babylon No. 6, c. 2014, Nancy Charak artist

How Many Miles to Babylon No. 8, c. 2014, Nancy Charak artist

How Many Miles to Babylon No. 9, c. 2014, Nancy Charak artist

How Many Miles to Babylon No. 10, c. 2014, Nancy Charak artist

Art Friends Keep Me Warm

Sean Scully says it's very important for a young artist to have friends, because friends keep you warm. Now that I'm no longer a young artist, this is still a truth. So here's to Sharon Swidler, Mary Jo Marks Aardsma, Diane McGregor, Judith Roth, Jason Messinger, Scott Simons, Dara Felz, Basia Krol, Randi Russo, Emily Roynesdal, Jim Pinto, Joey Wozniak, the entire Artists' Breakfast Group, my art-friends who keep me warm. You should look up their work, you should, it'll keep you warm too.

How Many Miles to Babylon No. 9, Work in Progress

Here's No. 9 in the How Many Miles to Babylon series for the show "Surface" at Space Gallery in Denver, opening September 25th, this year. Please come on by, I'll be hanging with Mary Jo Marks Aardsma, Diane McGregor, Sharon Swidler, Nancy Koenigsberg, Tonia Bonnell, Sophia Dillo, Carlene Frances, Sue Gibbons, under the good auspices of gallerist Michael Burnett, at 400 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Space Gallery got a terrific write up here.

How Many Miles to Babylon No. 9 is 18"x24", oil, oil wash, polyester thread, copper roofing nails, wood glue on unprimed cotton canvas.

How Many Miles to Babylon No. 9, c. Nancy Charak artist, 2014

Sharon Swidler at Woman Made Gallery

Scarlet Tanager, Sharon Swidler, artist

Sharon Swidler's painting, "Scarlet Tanager" is included in Woman Made Gallery's upcoming exhibit "Inspired By: Celebrating Illinois Women Artists".

Opening Reception: August 24, 6-9 pm
Exhibit Dates: August 24, 2012-September 27, 2012
Woman Made Gallery
685 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60642


www.sharonswidler.com
www.womanmade.org

Marks In Time, an Exhibit Proposal

Artists Marian Carow, Sharon Swidler and Nancy Charak, create works of art that illuminate lines in subtle, minimal, yet complex ways. Carow, Swidler and Charak discovered that their artworks relate in ways that engender visual conversations. This exhibit proposal is that series of conversations.

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This exhibit proposal arose from an awareness that our different approaches to art making nonetheless have fascinating overlaps. After a number of meetings and discussions with each other about both the art work and of our ways of thinking, we decided that we wanted to collaborate on a group exhibit.

Marian: My drawing process is distillation and expression, putting media to paper, intuitively tapping into a continually evolving vocabulary of lines, marks, smudges, scribbles which populate the silence of the paper plane.

Sharon: My images are navigations through an environment of meditative space. Space and lines create a diary of time, delineating both timeliness and timelessness.

Nancy: What is necessary for my art is that it flows from inside and allows the work to spring from my entire set of experiences and sensibilties as an artist. I then trust that my hand and eye make art that says to the viewer, "here look at this, make of it what you will."

Contact us at marksintiimetrio@gmail.com

Caffeine IV at Murphy-Hill Gallery Chicago

I attended the opening of the Caffeine IV group exhibit at Murphy-Hill Gallery last night. A stellar line-up of who's who in Chicago art exhibited as many as three pieces of work each in this huge, spectacular space seemingly designed for museum work, in the old main Sears-Roebuck building in Garfield Park.

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"Marks in Time and Space," seeking space

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Art by Nancy Charak, Sharon Swidler, and by Marian Carow. We have put together a three-artist show called Marks in Time and Space. We're looking for quality venues to exhibit these works. Contact us at marksintimetrio@gmail.com.