FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Continues through May 29 2016

"Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman: Swallowing the Stone"

"Nyahzul C. Blanco: AETHER"

"Matt Nolen: When Grasp > Reach"

and

"STATIM FINIS"

(The End of Things)

featuring the works of Charles Dellschau, Darcilio Lima, Colin Christian, Lukasz Grochocki, John McGarity, Jon Jaylo, Jesse Bransford,

Erin O'Shea, Travis Lawrence, William Blayney, William Mortensen, Rithika Merchant, Linnea Strid, Melanie J Moczarski, John D Monteith,

Steven Bradshaw, Jel Ena, Erna Kd, Marko Velk, Lori Field, Matthew Dutton, Joel Lorand, Ray Robinson, Tim Kern, Tine Kindermann,

Bree Jonson, Kim Bo Yung, Stephanie Lucas, Gigi Chen, Art Toulinov, Inge Vandormael, Teiji Hayama, Cendrine Rovini, Anaïs Delsol,

Bruna D'Alessandro, Dolorosa De La Cruz , Cecilia Avendano Bobillier, Samuel D Gliner, A. Fiorillo, Barry William Hale, Loic Lukas,

Terry Tapp, Shona Adelman, Anthony Mangicapra, Martin Ramirez, Philippe Grenade XIV, Christina Dallas, David Molesky and others .


May 3 - May 29 2016 2016

 

Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman ‘Orphic Egg Girl’ 2016

 

 

"Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman: Swallowing the Stone"

Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman a self-taught figurative and contemporary surrealist painter who integrates modified oil and egg tempera techniques of the 14th century Old Masters and the genre of magic realism to create pieces that appear to glow from within.

 

 

Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman "Cinnabar Girl" 2016

Art critic Shana Nys Dambrot has written that her “deft combination of both modes of art-making yield mesmerizing results that satisfy the impulses of not only the art-historical technique and the fabulistic narrative, at the same time exploring the complex interplay between rendered space in two and three dimensions. So there is a lot going on at once in her work, but whether you enter it through its aspects of formalism, symbolism, or process, with Sullivan-Beeman, the medium is the message.”

 

Sullivan-Beeman uses her personal dream journal to inspire her artwork, exploring Jung’s collective unconscious with an overt curiosity for the bizarre and the esoteric, especially alchemy and the tarot. Sullivan-Beeman is based in Los Angeles, where her work has been shown at Corey Helford Gallery, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, and Gabba Gallery. Her show with the Stephen Romano Gallery is her first solo exhibition in New York City.





Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman The Messenger 2015
 

 

Nyahzul Blanco from the series "AETHER" photomontage on aluminum 2016

 

"Nyahzul C. Blanco: AETHER"

Nyahzul is a self-taught multi media artist born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in Brooklyn, NY. She has been actively creating,  exhibiting, and curating for over a decade across the U.S. in Los Angeles, Orlando, Detroit, New York City, Las Vegas and in her hometown of Bogotá. Currently she is the Associate Director of Rabbithole Studios in Brooklyn. Her complex personal works evoke magical and romantic narratives that explore the many facets of femininity, darkness and light within, and finding unity between the two. 

 

Nyahzul Blanco from the series "AETHER" photomontage on aluminum 2016


Her photomontage series AETHER, named after the element of unity that combines all five elements - Fire, Earth, Air, Water, and Aether itself, further explores these concepts in the female figure. The Pythagoreans (Greek Philosophers) honored Aether by embracing the Five-Pointed Star as their most sacred symbol. These photomontages are the exploration of the sense of self and awareness of the body (Earth) and spirit (Heaven) and their unity, as well as what exists beyond human awareness. The Element of Aether (Spirit) is the celestial energy that fills all spaces, being the conduit between our soul and our bodies. This is a search in unifying light and darkness and to understand their opposing natures as one being as well as their vital spiritual energy. 

Nyahzul C Blanco "Starman" from the exhibtion "Saint Bowie" at Stephen Romano Gallery

 
                    

 

Matt Nolen "Portrait Head With Eye" detail 2016

 

"Matt Nolen: When Grasp > Reach"

Matt Nolen is a studio artist living and working in New York City. Trained as a painter and architect, Nolen’s work includes sculptural objects and architectural installations using clay and mixed media. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in numerous private and public collections including: The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NYC., The Museum of Arts and Design, NYC., The Newark Museum, NJ., The Houston Museum of Fine Art, TX., The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. and The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY .Nolen’s work has been written about and reviewed in many periodicals and books including: The New York Times, American Ceramics, Ceramics Art and Perception, Masters of Craft, Confrontational Clay, Postmodern Ceramics and Painted Clay.

Matt Nolen "Portrait Head With Eye" detail 2016

Nolen has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Mid Atlantic Foundation (regional NEA) Fellowship and international residencies in Israel and China. His residency at the Kohler Co.’s Art/Industry Program resulted in a handmade public washroom that has been named “Best Restroom in America” by the Cintas Corp. and among “The 10 Best Bathrooms in the World” by the Travel Channel.

He has recently served as President of the Board of Trustees for Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle Maine and is Adjunct Professor of Art at New York University and Ceramics Area Coordinator at Prat.

 

Matt Nolen Installation detail 2016

 

 

 

"STATIM FINIS"

(The End of Things)

a group exhibition

featuring the works of Charles Dellschau, Darcilio Lima, Colin Christian, Lukasz Grochocki, John McGarity, Jon Jaylo, Jesse Bransford,

Erin O'Shea, Travis Lawrence, William Blayney, William Mortensen, Rithika Merchant, Linnea Strid, Melanie J Moczarski, John D Monteith,

Steven Bradshaw, Jel Ena, Erna Kd, Marko Velk, Lori Field, Matthew Dutton, Joel Lorand, Ray Robinson, Tim Kern, Tine Kindermann,

Bree Jonson, Kim Bo Yung, Stephanie Lucas, Gigi Chen, Art Toulinov, Inge Vandormael, Teiji Hayama, Cendrine Rovini, Anaïs Delsol,

Bruna D'Alessandro, Dolorosa De La Cruz , Cecilia Avendano Bobillier, Samuel D Gliner, A. Fiorillo, Barry William Hale, Loic Lukas,

Terry Tapp, Shona Adelman, Anthony Mangicapra, Martin Ramirez, Philippe Grenade XIV, Christina Dallas, David Molesky and others .

 

Stephen Romano Gallery is pleased to present The End Of Things - STATIM FINIS, a survey group exhibition featuring many of the artists that the gallery has exhibited, both contemporary and historical as well as artists the gallery is looking forward to working with in the future. The Gallery's mission has been to blend together the masters of outsider art such as Charles Dellschau, William Blaney, Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Darcilio Lima among others with contemporary, historical, vintage folk and photography and vernacular art as well as works of Esoteric art. This exhibition will continue to perpetuate that vision, as the final planned exhibition curated by Stephen Romano in the Bushwick gallery space, (with plans to relocate after August 2016), thus a melancholic sense of ellipsism* is driving the exhibition, uncertainty of the future and contemplating about effects of past efforts.

*"Ellipsism": n. sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out, that you’ll dutifully pass on the joke of being alive without ever learning the punchline—the name of the beneficiary of all human struggle, the sum of the final payout of every investment ever made in the future.

 

 

Marko Velk "Ophelia" 2015

 

Lori Field "Babes in the Woods " and "Dipsomania" 2007

 

Travis Lawrence "Exodus" Woodcut 2015

 

 

Darcilio Lima "The Prince" 1972

Colin Christian "Trypophobia" 2015

Jesse Bransford

 

Lukasz Grochocki "Uxac Manik (8 Deer)" 2016

 

Jon Jaylo "Because We Can Only Write Our Own Story Once" 2016 Oil on Panel

 

Erin O'Shea 2016

 

John D Monteith

 

Tine Kindermann "Königskinder" 2010

William Blayney "There Should Be Time No Longer" c. 1970

 

William H. Mortensen "Ho Ho Off To The Sabbot" c. 1926 manipulated photograph

William H. Mortensen "Morocco" c. 1940 Metal Chrome print

Rithika Merchant "Divine Recpticle" 2015

 

Melanie J Moczarski "The Conversation" 2012 

 

Christina Dallas 2015

 

Anaïs Delsol Dentelle de petite fille, 2013
Lace, acrylic teeth, raspberry residue

 

Dolorosa De La Cruz 2015

 

Chalrles Dellschau (1830 - 1923) Plate 4514 SEXION BOMBER 1920

 

Linnea Strid "... And Her Future Was Waiting" colored pencils 2016

Steven Bradshaw 2016

Jel Ena "Lubido" 2015

Kim Bo Yung 2016

Erna Kd "Sorceress w Pony Tail" 2015

 

 

Matthew Dutton "Media Mouth" 2016, detail from "Midnight Paracosm"

 

Matthew Dutton "Wolf Like Me" 2016

 

Ray Robinson "Witch Janet Leafley and her dog "Tbbins"

executed on the same day. The dog was shown mercy and strangled before being burned" 2016

 

Tim Kern 2016

 

Bree Jonson 2015

Stephanie Lucas 2015

Gigi Chen "Love Collection" 2015

Art Toulinov 2016

 

Inge Vandormael 2015

 

Anthony Mangicapra

 

Cendrine Rovini 2015

 

Bruna D'Alessandro 2016

 

Cecilia Avendano Bobillier 2015

 

Samuel D Gliner

A. Fiorillo "Jesus

 

Barry William Hale 2015

 

Loic Lukas 2015

John McGarity 2016

for further information or visuals, please contact romanostephen@gmail.com

 


About Stephen Romano Gallery

Stephen Romano Gallery is a new addition to the Brooklyn art gallery community, having opened its doors in April of 2014 in Dumbo and having relocated to Bushwick in September 2015.

Prior to opening the current gallery, Stephen Romano was a private art dealer for 15 years specializing in masters of self-taught and visionary art such as Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Charles Dellschau, Bill Traylor, Darcilio Lima, and many others. The Gallery's most recent exhibition El Gato Chimney’s “De Rerum Natura” was well received and reviewed, as was the preceding exhibition "Trypophobia" by Colin Christian. Stephen Romano Gallery also mounted the most ambitious exhibition of works by pictorialist photographer William Mortensen to coincide with the release of the book "American Grotesque" published by Feral House.

Stephen Romano has been a participant in many art fairs including PULSE, The Metro Show, and the Outsider Art Fair.

In 2013, Stephen Romano produced a seminal 330-page monograph on visionary artist CHARLES DELLSCHAU designed by Marquand Books and distributed by DAP. The book generated several positive reviews from a wide variety of publications such as Bookforum, Raw Vision Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, Antiques, and the arts and Design Observer, among many others. With an introduction by Stephen Romano, the book features the final published essay by renowned art writer Thomas McEvilley, as well as contributions from the founder of The Museum of Everything, James Brett, and the curator of Smithsonian Museum of Aerospace, Thomas Croutch.

In the same year, Romano also published the first ever post-mortem catalog of works by Brazilian visionary Darcilio Lima and most recently a catalogue of an previously unknown photographic series from 1925 by William Mortensen entitled "A Pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft," with an introduction by A.D. Coleman and essay by Tom Pattersen. Most recently, Stephen Romano Gallery had the honor of publishing a catalog of works by Pavel Kraus with an essay by David Ebony, as well as a catalog for Chinese artist Lu Zhang with essay by Robert C. Morgan. In 2015, the gallery produced a catalog of the "TRYPOPHOBIA" exhibition by Colin Christian with texts by Kris Kuksi, Allison C. Meier and Samuel D. Gliner. The most recent catalog was the gallery published was on Italian artist El Gato Chimney with texts by Martin Wittfooth, Pamela Grossman and Michela D'Acquisto.

In the summer of 2015, Stephen Romano curated the highly acclaimed exhibition "Opus Hypnagogia" at Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum. The exhibition was featured in the New York Times, as well as Juxtapoz Magazine, Hi-Fructose, Beautiful Bizarre, Brooklyn Magazine, among many others. This exhibition was followed up in the new Bushwick gallery with "Lexicon Infernali" and a solo show by Rithika Merchant and "Magica Sexualis" and a solo show by Los Angeles artist Jel Ena, and "Charles Dellschau: American Visionary", the third ever solo exhibition of this seminal outsider artist ever organized and "Hieroglyphica" a companion group exhibition. Stephen Romano Gallery has also recently presented exhibtions by Matthew Dutton, Paul Booth, David Molesky, "Saint Bowie" an homage to David Bowie and "The Devils Reign" curated by Peter H Gilmore.

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