Roberta Fineberg

New York City Modern Man, Neon Yellow Contemporary Color Photography, Cities

2011

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...

Breathing In the Spirit of Shohaku Soga, 2003 by Eikoh Hosoe is a contemporary color photograph of Kazuo Ohno, a Butoh dancer. Hosoe's theatrical image is hand-signed on recto (front...

Dancers, France, 2018 by Julia Gat is a 19” x 13” archival pigment print, edition 1/5. The photograph is titled, dated, and signed on verso (back of photo), and printed by the artist. Julia, immersed in an artistic milieu in both her native Israel and her adopted home in Marseille, France where she grew up in a family of 6 documents her family as subjects for photography and short films. Julia, whose father is a choreographer, enjoys shooting contemporary dance photography. Provenance: Gat Studio *** Artist’s Bio: Born in Israel in 1997 Julia Gat won the European Prize ISEM Young Photographers in 2020 and 1st Prize at the Portrait Festival 2016 (Vichy, France). In 2017 her photography was exhibited at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), and then at the Netherlands photo museum (2021-2022). In 2022 she exhibited at Arles Photo Festival. Her first photo book with French publisher Actes Sud was released in 2022 during the annual summer photography...

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...

LETTER E by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...

LETTER O by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...

a series of large scale observations on French master paintings and their opulent gilded frames GILDED BEAUTY by Frank Schott 40 x 32 inches...

LETTER P by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...