SUMMER ‘22

Hasan Elahi, José Manuel Fors, Carol Brown Goldberg, Cheryl Goldsleger, Grace Hartigan, Jae Ko, Dimitra Lazaridou, Eugene Leake, Beverly McIver

ON VIEW: JULY 14 - SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JULY 14, 6:00 - 8:00PM

C. Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present its 45th annual summer group exhibition, Summer ‘22, featuring contemporary painting, photography, and sculpture. Participating artists represent an overview of the gallery’s ongoing commitment to engaging programming.

This survey exhibition spans decades to pull together work that showcases, most importantly, a deep love of art making. The work of Eugene Leake (1911-2005) guides us through rural landscapes and atmospheric painting, while Grace Hartigan’s (1922-2008) washes of color blend together figurative content with the artist’s signature sensibility of vibrant color, active gesture, and painterly freedom. Beverly McIver examines racial, gender, social, and occupational identities in her narrative and autobiographical paintings, working to both confront and amaze the viewer with her prowess.

Hasan Elahi works across photo-based disciplines to examine issues of citizenship, migration, and surveillance. After being erroneously suspected of terrorist activity and subjected to FBI questioning in 2002, the artist inundated his detainers with an ongoing archive of his everyday activities, turning personal data into an open-ended art project. In a similar ode to the archive, Cuban artist José Manuel Fors creates photographic collages which act as a collection of memories. Images of family and old documents cast in sepia-tone bring together ideas of time and identity.

The work of Carol Brown Goldberg and Cheryl Goldsleger presents ideas of entwinement and interconnection through painting. Goldberg creates dense organic landscapes filled with intricate foliage, providing an artistic interpretation of advanced sciences as it bleeds into visual language. And Goldsleger explores the inescapable relationship between societies and location, also building tension in the chaos of overlapping typographical forms. Korean artist Jae Ko brings viewers deep into her world of paper by constructing memorizing sculptural forms seeped in vibrant color; shifting our consciousness fluidly between the natural and the human-made. And finally, Greek photographer Dimitra Lazaridou depicts her native Athens in a soft silence which allows us to linger on subtle architectural elements and engage in stillness.