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June 12, 2009 - Reverol & Co LLC. is pleased to announce its exhibition: Modern Art Group Show On June 20 – 2009.
Modern Art Group Show will feature the work of six emerging artists showing at the Historic Knickerbocker Press Building for the first time: Diane DelVecchio, Diego Valle, Bino Alves, Joshua Metcalf, John Reverol, Jason Rondinelli and the special participation of Patrick Bancel. Working in painting, sculpture and montage, these emerging artists along with the well-established Bancel represent the diversity and continuous evolution of contemporary practice in Westchester.
Diane DelVecchio’s historic windows are concentrated studies of kaleidoscopic color and organic patterns, bringing to mind the familiar geometric forms found in textiles and the quirky, meditative subjectivity of still life painting.
Diego Valle’s work uses life experience as a point of departure, creating diverse shapes and words whose structures are familiar yet menacing. His use of color pushes the work into a corner of the surreal, drawing a somewhat despairing and haunting picture of man’s attempts to map the land it owns.
John Reverol’s work could be seen to use politics and current events as a formal and practical metaphor – his paintings meld color and other media to form a playful dialogue with the history of those abstract painters who have come before him. Yet the works are highly personal and emotional, bringing John’s own brand of ‘domesticated and raw originality’ to the fore.
Bino Alves creates paintings and print media that use fashion as a recurring motif to explore discourse ranging from power and propaganda to erotic beauty and kitsch, all the while invoking the legacies of Americana, and the history of branding and fashion.
Jason Rondinelli creates watercolor paintings while using landscape and silhouettes as a metaphor for when worlds collide. The silhouettes dance can be both serene and combative and the convergence of these personified landscapes results in a astounding new structures.
Joshua Metcalf, his internet-cable sculptures bloom fractals of organic growth from technological material. The colorful pieces explore "the branchiness of things," comparing the inherent connectedness of the natural world with our age's widening web of information.
Patrick Bancel was born in the South of France and has been painting since he was five years old. As a leading artist in trompe l'oeil, his work goes beyond that genre and also surpasses photorealism and hyperrealism. Many of his paintings incorporate three-dimensional tactile surfaces in addition to trompe l'oeil painting techniques to tease the viewer’s eyes and minds.
Bancel has had numerous exhibitions in France and the U.S. including those at the National Arts Club, New York, NY. His work has been highly praised in The New York Times and other leading publications. His work is owned by many private collectors worldwide.
Knickerbocker Press Building
52 Webster Avenue Loft #1 &3
New Rochelle NY 10801
Phone #917-767-0866
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