Jim Jacobs

'Nankaweep', Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, American Abstraction

1983

Signed lower right, 'Charles Seligman' (American, 20th century) and created circa 2000. Texas abstract artist Charles Seligman boldly interweaves poi...

Signed lower left, 'Clausen' for Don Clausen (American, 1930-2020) and dated 1974. A self-proclaimed "sculptor of paint," Donald Clausen used tools of his own invention to create co...

Signed lower right, 'Savo' for Joan Savo (American, 1918-1992) and dated 1960. Additionally signed, verso, on old label and titled, 'City Lights'. Accompanie...

Signed lower right 'G. Pisani', (Italian, born 1935), titled verso 'Paesaggio con Valigia' (Landscape with Luggage) and dated 1963. Provenance: Galleria El Centro, Naples, Italy 1963. (from original label, copied verso). A very substantial, mid-century abstracted landscape comprising an assembled group of Fendi shopping bags in the fashion designer's signature tones of cream, bistre and scarlet, shown contrasted against a lyrical, sunset-coral background. This powerful and lyrical oil was awarded the 1963 Michetti Painting Prize. Gianni Pisani studied at the Accademia de Bella Arti in Naples under Emilio Notte. Much of his career in the 1960s and 70s involved reinvigorating the Neapolitan art scene with assemblages, ‘object art’ and performance art, an approach that was critically described and acclaimed by poet and writer, Edoardo Sanguineti. The recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards, including the Prize City Cesenatico (1955). Pisani exhibited widely and with success from the early 1950's including at the 8th Biennale of San Benedetto del Tronto (1969), Palazzo Dugnani (1983) and at the Non-Existent Gallery. Other solo and group exhibitions include a three-time participation in the National Quadrennial Art Shows (VIII, Rome, 1960; IX, Palazzo dei Esposizione, 1965/66; XI, Palazzo dei Congressi, 1986) and the 1995 Venice Biennale. An ardent exponent, and influential teacher, of Modernism, Pisani taught at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan and, for many years, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, of which he was later appointed director. Gianni Pisani’s works are held in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Museum of Capodimonte, the Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina (MADRE), Museum of Contemporary Religious Art...

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 13 (horizontal) is a vivid mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her long-term series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2...

"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...

"Laying a Field" was inspired by constellations and fractals. I was also experimenting in mold making using a type of vacuum molds. The lines you see are slightly raised above the ...

Paolo Minoli (1942-2004) R.S.P. (Perspective Space Search) 1969 Acrylic on Canvas Size 40x40 cm (63x63 cm including the frame with invisible glass) Bibliography: Pirovano, Paolo Minoli, General Catalog, volume 1, 1959-1979 Paolo Minoli was born in 1942 in Cantù (Como). He attended, at a very young age, the home of painter Enrico Sottili and, as a student, the studio of sculptor Gaetano Negri. He graduated "Master of Art" in 1961 from the State Art Institute of Cantù, where he taught from 1964 to 1978. Participated in 1968 in the national exhibition for young painters of the "San Fedele" prize in Milan. In 1969 he was featured in the exhibition "Urban Field. Aesthetic Interventions in the Urban Dimension," organized in Como, with a collective intervention on the theme "Signal Color." From 1977 to 1978 he was part of the research group "The Systematic Questioning" with Nato Frascà and Antonio Scaccabarozzi. Since 1979, at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, he has taught the special course in "Chromatology" and collaborated, as a consultant, with companies for the application of chromatic solutions in industrial production. He was artistic director of the art series published by the "RS" editions in Como (1975-1986) and, from 1986 to 1989, of the "On Color" silkscreen printing workshop in Cantù, in collaboration with various artists, including Mario Radice, Carla Badiali...