Julia Gat

France, Contemporary Dance, Color Photography of Bodies in Movement

2018

An archival pigment print mounted on dibond with plexi face mount, Double Helix by Roberta Fineberg is contemporary 40” x 60” color photograph. The art is signed, dated, titled on verso (back of work) by the artist. Edition of 5. 2- a/p's. The artist Roberta Fineberg (RF) is inspired by abstract painting. Exploring the concept of infinite possibilities, RF alternates between the concrete and the abstract. The subject is the eternal feminine, a swimmer figure repeated in 16 quadrants to form a photo-collage on movement, space, time, rhythm, and color. Ships framed. Provenance: RF Studio *** Artist's Bio: As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter. RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City. In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop-up group...

The contemporary color photograph is printed on Baryta paper, 13” x 19" (sheet size), an archival pigment print signed, dated, titled on recto (front of photo) by the artist. Edition of 5. 2- a/p's. Double Helix...

Shot on the streets of New York, a neon-yellow pop art photographic portrait called Modern Man, 2011 by Roberta Fineberg. Modern Man is a 14" x 11" c-prin...

Lips, 1960 by Ormond Gigli is a c-print. It is titled and dated in ink lower left margin recto (front of photo), signed lower right margin recto by the photographer. A contemporary color photograph, a close up of beautiful red lips, by a master of 20th Century photography, the work remains an iconic 20th Century fashion photograph, in an edition of 30. The print provenance is the artist's studio/archive and is available: 24" x 36" Lips is another of Gigli’s iconic and popular works, created for TIME magazine, in 1960. It’s pop-inspired close-up of a woman’s brightly painted lips...

Golden Girl 2 Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm ) Limited Editi...

Golden Girl 1 Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm ) Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbere...

Golden Girl 3 Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm ) Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbered...

Golden Girl 1 Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm ) Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbere...