It has been a rich and inspiring winter and early spring at Cavin-Morris Gallery. We are pleased to present this newsletter to bring you up to date.
Anna Zemánková, Untitled, c. 1970's, Pastel on paper, 34.75 x 24.75 inches, 88.3 x 62.9 cm, AZe 680
Anna Zemánková, Untitled, n.d., Satin collage, textile paint, pastel and ballpoint pen on paper, 23.25 x 16.5 inches, 59.1 x 41.9 cm, AZem 1
Anna Zemánková, the estate of which the gallery has represented since 1993, is included in the 2024 Venice Biennale. Her full-scale oil pastels were the focus of the 2013 Biennial, “The Encyclopedic Palace,” organized by Massimilliano Gioni, and her cut satin collages will be the focus of the current Biennial, “Foreigners Everywhere,” organized by Adriano Pedrosa.
Mohammad Banissi, Untitled (Portrait of Joseph Roulin by Van Gogh), 2022, Chalk pastel on paper, 38.5 x 27.5 inches, 97.8 x 69.9 cm, MBI 7
Alireza Asbahi (CC), Untitled, 2019-2023, Fabric, marker on found rug, 22.75 x 22.25 inches, 57.8 x 56.5 cm, AACC 19
The current issue of Raw Vision (#118) has a review by Allison C. Meier of our exhibition: A Conference of Birds: Art Brut and More from Iran. It is the first exhibition of this scope outside Iran and it was very well attended. Along with gallery artists Jamshid Aminfar, Ali Azizi, Mohammad Banissi, Sarvenaz Farsian, Mahmood Khan, Davood Koochaki, and Nazanin Tayebeh, we introduced the collaged tapestries of Alireza Asbahi, also known as CC.
Mahmood Khan, Untitled, 2020, Marker on paper, 19.5 x 27.5 inches, 49.5 x 69.9 cm, MHK 9
Sarvenaz Farsian, Untitled, 2017, Ink on paper, 11.5 x 16.25 inches, 29.2 x 41.3 cm, SvF 11
Our current show, Morning Interview with a Panther: Paintings and Drawings by Caroline Demangel, is the first one-person exhibition in the United States by this important Art Brut artist, and a long overdue tribute to her talents. The large paintings and small format drawings in this show reveal an intense, consistent, and passionate hand. The show continues through May 4, 2024.
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Leonard Daley, Humpy Dumpy What The Best, 1992, Mixed media on canvas, 55 x 37 inches, 139.7 x 94 cm, LE 44
What Is a Man, paintings by Jamaican artist Leonard Daley (c. 1930 – 2006) follows the Demangel exhibition. Daley, the trickster mystic of Jamaican self-taught artists, Rastafarian by experience and inclination, created some of the most complex art from Jamaica. His painting, included in the American Folk Art Museum’s excellent Marvels of My Own Inventiveness, was widely reproduced.
In the summer we will widen curatorial responsibilities in the gallery and present Staff Picks: Best of the Year. This exhibition will highlight new artists to the gallery and new works (drawings and paintings) by gallery artists including Taguchi Boss, Shane Drinkwater, Karel Havliček, Stéphanie Denaes Lucas (who joins her husband, Loïc Lucas), M’onma, Cara MacWilliam, Jean-Pierre Nadau, Frances Smokowski, Anna Zemánková, and Shinichi Sawada, courtesy Jennifer Lauren Gallery.
Along with this lively exhibition we will be presenting Masking History: Ceremonial and Carnival masks from Mexico and Guatemala.
M'onma, Untitled, 2024, Colored pencil on paper, 24.75 x 38 inches, 62.9 x 96.5 cm, IMo 129
Jean-Pierre Nadau, Passage secret, 2022, Micron pen on paper, 25.59 x 19.69 inches, 65 x 50 cm, JPN 22
Frances Smokowski, Betweenox, 2022, Acrylic over archival pigment print, 13.625 x 11.125 inches, 34.6 x 28.3 cm, FSm 11
Cara Macwilliam, Searching for my Varo, 2023, Gouache, watercolour, and ink on paper, 22.2 x 30 inches, 56.4 x 76.2 cm, CMw 4
Karel Havlíček, Pták, 1950, Pencil on paper, 16.54 x 11.81 inches, 42 x 30 cm, KHav 36
