Updated: July 03, 2008

The June Kelly Gallery will be exhibiting at ArtHamptons, the art fair being held at the Historical Society Grounds on the Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton July 10 through July 13. Please come see us at Booth C-7. We will be showing an exciting selection of works by gallery artists, as well as pieces by such art world figures as Romare Bearden, William H. Johnson and Hughie Lee-Smith.

Stan Brodsky's May exhibition at the gallery, "Visions and Vibrations," was reviewed in the summer issue of ARTnews. The review can be viewed here and is in pdf format.

Give a listen to a fascinating interview of Eric Fischl on a CD in the exhibition, "Crossing the Line: An Exhibition in Sound and Print" at the June Kelly Gallery. He is one of the seven artists in the exhibition, which is described in an article in the summer issue of ARTnews. The article can be viewed here and is in pdf format.

A work by gallery artist Sky Pape entitled Murmur, 2006, ink and cut handmade paper, from the Drawing Breath Series , will be included in the biennial exhibition, Art on Paper 2008, organized by the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The exhibition, curated by Xandra Eden Baeden, will showcase unique works by emerging and established artists from across the country and will be accompanied by a catalogue. The exhibition will open October 19, 2008 and remain on view through January 23, 2009.

Head of Man, a black marble sculpture by gallery artist Elizabeth Catlett, will be included in an exhibition entitled Women Artists of Modern Mexico: Frida's Contemporaries that opens at the Museo Mural Diego Rivera in Mexico City on July 7. It remains on view through September 30. The exhibition was first shown at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago in 2007.

Gallery artist Frances Hynes was awarded the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize of $3,000 by the National Academy Museum for her painting, Island Place, an oil on canvas painted this year. It measures 46 x 57 inches. The painting is currently on view in the Academy's 183rd annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art.

Gallery artist Philemona Williamson has been awarded a two-week summer residency at the Bau Institute in Otranto, Italy, starting June 15. The residency is held in the Aragonese Castle of Otranto.

A large oil painting by Philemona Williamson, “Home Free,” will be featured in the June issue of New York Spaces, an upscale interior design magazine.

Elizabeth Catlett received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, on  May 18 at the 111th Commencement Ceremony.

A multiple hand-made print by Lisa Mackie is among a group of prints that has been given to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London by a benefactor of the Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University. Mackie's print, The First Thaw in Ludlow, was created on hand-made paper in 1987 at the Dieu Donné Papermill in New York City and was in the Rutgers Museum's collection of Prints and Drawings.

Two photographs by LeRoy Henderson are included in a traveling exhibition,  Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968, organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.  It remains on view through October 15.  The museum is also publishing a book on this historic era. Other venues will include the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC

Protest, an exhibition of photographs by Henderson that was first shown at the June Kelly Gallery in January, 2007, now currently being shown at the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College in Providence in May 2008.  The photographs had been exhibited at the Malcolm Brown Gallery in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in September.

Stan Brodsky has been honored with a retrospective at the Emily Lowe Gallery at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, through June 6, 2008. The exhibition, entitled Stan Brodsky, The Figure: 1951-2006, has an illustrated catalogue with an essay by Amei Wallach.

Orb Triad, a sculpture by Rebecca Welz, has been selected for inclusion in To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art, an exhibition at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, from April 19 to June 22, 2008. The exhibition, co-curated by Elizabeth Meryman and Lynn Gamwell, will present work by contemporary artists who have been inspired by mathematics. It will comprise an international selection of 25 to 35 works in all media. A brochure with text by the curators will document the exhibition.  Other artists to be featured include Richard Anuskiewicz, Mel Bochner, Squeak Carnwath, Agnes Denes, M.C. Escher, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt and Francois Morellet.

Karin Batten has been awarded a two-week residency at the Ragdale Foundation in September in Lake Forest, Illinois.  The Ragdale Foundation is the fourth largest community for artists in the country.
Batten has a painting, St. Paul Chapel, in the movie, “Clear Blue Tuesday,” a film about 11 New Yorkers whose lives changed course after 9/11.  The movie is directed by Elizabeth Lucas and produced by Al Parinello for the film company Clear Blue Productions.  The movie is scheduled to be released in 2009.

The April issue of ARTnews magazine carried a review of the exhibition of photographs by Charles Martin at the June Kelly Gallery earlier this year. Here is a link to the review.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a painting by Kay WalkingStick, Wallowa Mts. Memory, Var., from 2004. The diptych is an oil and gold leaf on wood panel measuring 36 by 72 inches. The painting was shown in the WalkingStick exhibition at the June Kelly Gallery late last year.

An installation of 30 oil paintings on rice paper by WalkingStick, American Abstraction /Dialogue with the Cosmos, will be shown at the Montclair Art Museum through January 2009. The paintings are based on abstract designs created by Native Americans of the northern plains, Nez Perce and Crow, for women's parflech bags. (To see a detail of the installation, click here.)

The June Kelly Gallery is featured on the cover of the February issue of Art + Auction magazine and is prominently mentioned in a lengthy article on African-American art collectors . The cover photo shows the gallery's back room, with Elizabeth Catlett's bronze sculpture "Reclining Woman" in the foreground; additional photographs of the gallery and works by its artists appear inside, along with a full-page photograph of June Kelly.

Lisa Corinne Davis’ May exhibition at the gallery, “Facts & Fiction,” is reviewed in the February issue of Art in America.  The review can be viewed here and is in pdf format.

Sky Pape has received a grant from the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) to support production of a new series of drawings on the importance of the natural areas of Upper Manhattan and "the traditions and harmonious connection to the land of the native people who preceded a modern presence in the region." The funds came from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone.

Charles Martin has been selected as the director of a documentary film on the art collection of Vivian Hewitt and her late husband, John Hewitt. The collection was bought by The Bank of America and has traveled to museums, universities and cultural centers throughout the United States since 2000.

Two museums purchased paintings from the November exhibition by Kay WalkingStick. The Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga acquired We're Still Dancing/Taos Var.  And the Denver Art Museum bought Farewell to the Smokies.

Philemona Williamson has completed Seasons, a large public artwork consisting of 18 colorful, painterly fused-glass panels underwritten by the MTA and installed at the Livonia Avenue Station of the L line in Brooklyn. The glassworks highlight shared experiences of the changing seasons. Williamson strove to capture expressions of timelessness and bring light and peace to the station environment, inspiring commuters with thoughts and memories of internal destinations and the potential of each new day.  To see Williamson's entire installation, click here.

Glass panels created by Philemona Williamson for the Livonia Avenue subway station in Brooklyn.

A painting by Moe Brooker, Present Futures, was purchased by The Philadelphia Museum of Art from his 2006 exhibition at the June Kelly Gallery.

Two bronze sculptures by Elizabeth Catlett, Stepping Out and Woman Walking are part of Women Only! In Their Studios, a traveling exhibition through 2008, curated by Eleanor Flomenhaft. The exhibition consists of 60 works by 20 artists who broke through the glass ceiling including Mary Cassatt, Faith Ringgold, Elizabeth Murray and Barbara Kruger.

A painting by the late Hughie Lee-Smith, Slum Song (1940, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches), sold for $216,000 on October 4, 2007, at Swann Auction Galleries in New York City. It was a record price for the artist.
In 2008, Hughie Lee-Smith, a biography, will be published by Pomegranate Communications. The author is Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, dean of graduate studies at Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore.

Broadside Print Projects, an organization that supports projects involving artists and poets and writers, has brought together artist Nola Zirin and former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky to create a special portfolio based on Zirin’s paintings and a poem by Pinsky.