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AETHER at Stephen Romano Gallery

Excited and honored to announce my first solo exhibition "AETHER" at Stephen Romano Gallery Opening Reception May 5, 5-9pm. Hope to see all your lovely faces!! *swooon

Opening reception May 5 2016, from 5 - 9 pm

"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 

featuring the works of Charles Dellschau, Darcilio Lima, Colin Christian, Lukasz Grochocki, John McGarity, Jon Jaylo, Erin O'Shea, Travis Lawrence, William Blayney, William Mortensen, Rithika Merchant, Linnea Strid, Melanie J Moczarski, 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, Anthony Mangicapra, Cendrine Rovini, Christina Dallas, Bruna D'Alessandro, Dolorosa De La Cruz , Cecilia Avendano Bobillier, Samuel D Gliner, A. Fiorillo, Barry William Hale, Loic Lukas, and others .

May 3 - May 29 2016 2016

"Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman: Swallowing The Stone"

​Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman Fox Girl 2015

​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.

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.

"Nyahzul C. Blanco: AETHER"

​Nyahzul C Blanco  "AETHER"

Nyahzul C Blanco 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. 

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. 

"Matt Nolen: When Grasp > Reach"

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Matt Nolen "Portrait Head with Eye" 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.

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

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, Anthony Mangicapra, Cendrine Rovini, 

Christina Dallas, Bruna D'Alessandro, Dolorosa De La Cruz , Cecilia Avendano Bobillier, 

Samuel D Gliner, A. Fiorillo, Barry William Hale, Loic Lukas, 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.
See full catalog of images here

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

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

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

Gigi Chen "Love Collection" 2015

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contact romanostephen@gmail.com or 6467094725 for inquiries

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.

recent press .

http://shishigami.com/srfa/Blanco_Nolen_Deirdre.html

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