IMPORTANT NOTICE: The entrance to the June Kelly Gallery has been moved to 166 Mercer Street.  The entrance at 591 Broadway is closed.  The gallery remains where it has been on the third floor since 1987.  We look forward to seeing you.

Updated: February 17, 2010

An exhibition of 57 prints by gallery artist Elizabeth Catlett that she created as a member of the renowned Mexico City artist collective Taller de Grafica Popular will be presented at the Mexican Cultural Institute, 2829 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC, from February 26 to May 29. The Cultural Center will also offer a simultaneous exhibition, "Shouts from the Archives:The political prints from the Taller de Grafica Popular," in which several additional works by Catlett are included.

A painting by gallery artist Karin Batten has been chosen for the permanent collection of the projected National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center site.  The piece, St. Paul's Chapel, 2002, is an oilstick on paper mounted on canvas measuring 60 by 36 inches.  Batten's studio was on 91st floor of the North Tower.  The painting was also used in a new feature film, "Clear Blue Tuesday," about the 9/11 attacks.

 An invitational exhibition of steel sculptures by gallery artist Rebecca Welz is currently on view in the Humanities Gallery of Long Island University in Brooklyn.  The exhibition will continue through February 25..

Gallery artist LeRoy Henderson is included in a new book, 100 New York Photographers by Cynthia Dantzic, a compendium of significant New York photographers who have made important professional contributions over the past 70 years.  Other photographers represented in the book include Annie Liebovitz, Mary Ellen Mark, Carrie Mae Weems, Joel Meyerowitz, Amy Arbus, Bruce Davidson and Hugh Bell.  The book was published in September by Schiffer Publishing.

Henderson is also one of five photographers included in an exhibition honoring Dr. Martin Luther King opening January 14 at the Panopticon Gallery of Photography, 502C Commonwealth Avenue, in Boston.  Entitled Our Lives Begin to End the Day We Become Silent About Things That Matter, a quote from Dr. King, the exhibition has 10 works by Henderson.  Other artists represented are Ernest C. Withers, Tanya Murphy Dodd, Frank Stewart and Robert Sengstacke.  The exhibition continues through March 9.

Gallery artist James Little has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, one of a few contemporary artists to receive this year's award and its $25,000 prize. The award is granted annually to acknowledge painters and sculptors nationwide who create work deemed to be of exceptional quality. Little 's latest paintings were shown at the gallery from May 7 through June 9. The Joan Mitchell Foundation was established in 1993 to fulfill Mitchell 's desire to assist contemporary artists and to demonstrate that painting and sculpture are significant cultural necessities.

Gallery artist Philemona Williamson is a participant in two exhibitions that will extend well into 2010.

Williamson is taking part in the exhibition entitled “Children’s Pleasures: American Celebration of Childhood,” on view from February 2 to April 18, 2010, at the Emily Lowe Gallery of the Hofstra University Museum in Hempstead, NY.  The exhibition will include two Williamson paintings – Boundary Crossing and Yearning to Be. Dr. Donna Barnes is the curator.

Williamson is also participating in the invitational exhibition entitled “Shrew’d: The Smart & Sassy / A Survey of American Women Artists” at the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from February 12 to May 9, 2010.  Her paintings chosen for the exhibition are Food for Thought and Be Brave, Be Gentle.

A photo feature in The New York Times highlighted the Ralph Ellison Memorial, a 15-foot-tall bronze sculpture designed by gallery artist Elizabeth Catlett. The sculpture is located in a park at Riverside Drive and 150th Street, near where the novelist lived for many years. Click here to see article and photo.

Gallery artist Sky Pape has won a coveted residency at the Bellagio Center in Northern Italy offered by the Rockefeller Foundation. The center, on a 50-acre property on a peninsula between Lake Como and Lake Lecco, provides month-long residencies to scholars, artists, writers, musicians and scientists from around the world. Pape, who will be there from March 8 to April 5 of 2010, has described her project as "Drawing Water: An Investigation of Water as Medium and Muse."

Gallery artist James Little has received significant critical notice for his exhibition of paintings at the June Kelly Gallery.  The New York Times critic Holland Cotter likened Little's eye for "choosing, mixing and gradating color" and his application of paint with that of Mondrian.  The review is here.  Artist Joanne Mattera writes positively and insightfully about Little's exhibition on her blog, which also carries color pictures of his work on the gallery walls.  Her report can be found here.  The June issue of New Criterion praises Little's new work in an article that surveys "the excellent optical painters" at work today.  Here is a link to that article.

And in the October issue of ARTnews, critic Kiki Turner describes Little's work as a "tightly crafted, thoughtful show." (Read review)

Brooklyn Rail carries a lengthy Q & A with James Little in its May issue in which he discusses in detail his approach to his art and his painstaking technique.  The article can be found here.

The exhibition by gallery artist Frances Hynes at the gallery early last year is the subject of a highly positive review by Edward Leffingwell in the June/July issue of Art in America.  He writes that her "skillful working of the brush is on a par with her mastery of color."  The review can be seen here.  The exhibition, entitled North Light: New Paintings, also received a review by Hearne Pardee at artcritical.com.  That review can be seen here.

A 166-page, coffee-table monograph, Julio Valdez, has been published by FTC Group, New York, with color plates, a foreword by Guillermo D.  Clamens, introduction by gallery artist Julio Valdez and an essay by Federica Palomero.  Several images from Valdez’s most recent exhibition at the June Kelly Gallery are included in the book.  See example here.  For more information on the Julio Valdez book, please click http://www.latinamericanmasters.com/english/publications.html

Gallery artist Claudia DeMonte is the subject of a 112-page monograph entitled Claudia DeMonte, with a foreword by Agnes Gund and an essay by Eleanor Heartney.  The book, the first retrospective look at DeMonte's career and published by Pomegranate, contains approximately 120 color and black and white reproductions of her work.  Autographed copies of the book are available at the gallery for $30.00 each plus shipping and handling. See cover here.

Gallery artist Elizabeth Catlett talked about her life as an artist in the United States and Mexico for more than an hour with artist and art historian David Driskell before a packed house at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on May 19 at the invitation of The Friends of Education. Radio station WNYC covered the event and did a report.   This audio report is available as an mp3 audio file and can be accessed from a link on this page.

Gallery artist Su-Li Hung has created a 138-page book entitled Hama San that highlights significant events in the area of Taiwan where she grew up.  Hung has written four short stories and three essays and illustrated them with woodcuts and pencil drawings.  The book has been published in Chinese by Chung-Hwi Publishing Company, Kaohsing City, Taiwan.  The cover of the book can be seen here.

A number of large public murals that were created by gallery artist Karin Batten or on which she was a collaborator are among those highlighted in a new book, On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City, by Janet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissman and just published by the University Press of Mississippi in Jackson.

An article in the spring 2009 issue of American Indian Art magazine by Kate Morris highlights the work of Kay WalkingStick.  Entitled “Reading Between the Lines: Text & Image in Contemporary Native American Art,” the article discusses and is illustrated by a small sculpture by WalkingStick, Tears, a mortuary scaffold of leather, copper and small objects from 1991.  Another WalkingStick work, a diptych entitled Where Are the Generations?, is also mentioned.

Il Bollettino, the newsletter of the Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College, highlights the work of gallery artist Claudia DeMonte in an illustrated article in the winter issue. (Click here to see article.)  DeMonte says her work "is heavily influenced by my Italian Catholic background and my interest in folk art."

Herbert Vogel, a retired postal clerk, and his wife Dorothy, a former librarian, who devoted all of their spare time and money to collecting art, have donated 2,500 paintings, drawings and sculptures to 50 museums throughout the country. Included are 12 pieces by Claudia DeMonte.  The Vogels have given DeMonte’s work to the Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Honolulu Academy of the Arts; Portland Art Museum in Maine; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; Frederick Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson; Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD; St. Louis Art Museum; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Las Vegas Museum of Art, and Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

A full-page illustration of one of DeMonte's works is included in a new book, "The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States." The book was published by the NEA and the National Gallery of Art and is available as an exhibition catalogue at each of the participating museums.

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.  The museum is also publishing a book on this historic era. Other venues will include the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC

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.

NoMAA has awarded Pape a second grant to produce a new series of drawings that explore what she describes as water's "forms, uses, anomalies and poetic implications as both medium and muse." Funds for this grant come from JP Morgan Chase Foundation as well as 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.

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.

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.