Paul M. Levy

Abstract Geometric 1970s Vintage Silkscreen Screen Print Manner of Vasarely

1970

Dee Shapiro is a Contemporary American artist and writer associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement. I have seen this referred to as Hejaz. Dee Shapiro was inspired to be an Artist in her early years of education. Dee's career started in the 1970s as a pattern painter with her works of art included in the Pattern and Decoration at P.S. 1 (other artists included Mary Grigoriadis, Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnel, Miriam Schapiro, Betty Woodman, Robert Zakanitch.) She researched and explored the Fibonacci Progression in color on graph paper and also explored geometric complexity of architectural designs, leading her to create the small horizontal oil paintings of cities and landscapes. Dee Shapiro became a Yaddo fellow in 2017. Dee Shapiro obtained her bachelor's degree in 1958 and Master of Science in 1960 from Queens College, City University of New York. Dee Shapiro is an artist that sees the subject on a large scale, but what she creates is on a diminutive scale. Shapiro's strength is the ability to give expressive power on canvas that makes her work seem larger than they are. Dee Shapiro has been a teacher, lecturer, and writer through career. "I have been concerned with women’s issues most of my life. I have worked to enhance the position of women in society through supporting the work of women artists. As a contributor to Heresies Magazine and a founder of a women’s cooperative gallery as well as developing a body of work that references women’s work and more currently focuses on female sexual imagery, I identify with feminist matters and affairs." Group exhibitions 2018 The American Dream, Emden, Germany Solo exhibitions 2016 Art 101, Brooklyn, NY 2015 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 2015 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT 2012, 2010, 2009 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 2010 Norfolk Library, Norfolk, CT 2009 George Billis Gallery 2006 Harrison Street Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ 2004 The Mercy Gallery. Loomis Chafee, Windsor, CT. 2004,2002, 1998 Andre Zarre Gallery, NY C, National Arts Club, NYC 2000 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA 1998 Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY 1997 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 1996 North Winds, Port Washington, NY 1994, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 1984 Ana Sklar Gallery, Miami, FL 1983 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 1982 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 1981 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 1980, 1976 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 1979 Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI Andre Zarre GalleryNYC 1978 St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN 1977 University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK 1975, 1973 Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY Selected bibliography James Panero, Supreme Fiction The Hudson River School Revisited, March, 2010 Piri Halaz, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, April 2010 Steve Starger, Art New England, Dee Shapiro: “On The Horizontal,” Feb/Mar 2005 Maureen Mullarkey, The New York Sun,”The Last Time I Saw Cuba,” April 15, 2004 James Kalm, NY ARTS, International Edition, April 2000 Helen Harrison...

Perez Melero, Spanish/Venezuelan (1938 - ) Born in Spain, PEREZ MELERO began his career in Venezuela where he lived from the late 1950's until the early 1980's. Maintaining workshops in Caracas and New York, he is an artist who exhibits his work internationally. He is in public collections including the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, CANTV, Fundarte, the White House, the American Institute of Architects, and the Women in Military Service to America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. ARTIST STATEMENT My 3-dimensional constructions are built mostly from wood, paper, canvas and acrylic paint. Their ideas evolves from an organic and intuitive process. The final work is a combination of my creative vision and a highly organized process employing disciplines of geometry and applied design. Viewers should interact physically with my constructions. They need to walk around them and view them from different perspectives. Up close one can see the detailed and intricate methods of their construction. From further back, one can appreciate their total effect. Color and light and how they interact are central to my work. Color is painted on pieces of wood attached to a high-contrast geometric background. Light penetrates between them, reflecting color from one to another and on the background. These reflected colors seem to mix in the air and produce an impression of others. As light sources change angle or intensity, and as the viewer moves around the work, new colors can be perceived even though they aren't really there. The interaction between color and light has produced an illusion. This relationship between color and light, in part, defines my work. His work is in the tradition of Latin American Modernity made famous by artists: Carlos Cruz-­Diez, Jesús Rafael Soto, Eduardo Ramírez-Villamizar, César Paternosto, Carlos Rojas, Omar Rayo, Fernando De Szyszlo, Julio Le Parc, Omar Carreno, Raul Lozza...

Screenprint printed in black and white on handmade oatmeal paper. Signed, dated and numbered in white pencil. Date and name lower right, Signed and numbered edition of 85 from ARTISTS PORTFOLIO, a limited edition series of five prints in support of the dance company of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company. The other four artists who contributed were Robert Longo, Keith Haring, William Katz and Gretchen Bender. Bill Katz was born in New York, studied at The Art Students League and with Sebastiano Mineo of New York City. He was the studio assistant to Robert Indiana for more than a decade, initiating and arranging print projects for the artist, including Numbers (1968), with poems by Robert Creeley.For five years he worked and lived in the home that was once occupied by the great American sculptor Gutson Borglum. He also spearheaded the project of the cover artwork at Chanterelle with the full roster of distinguished contributing artists, photographers, musicians, and writers — Marisol, Chuck Close, Jasper Johns and Robert Mapplethorpe. Almost all the images were made specifically for the menus In addition, some of the images were made for one night special events, such as annual benefits held for the Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company. He also Curated for the Fisher Landau Center for Art, Painting and Sculpture, Selections from the collection, which included work by Carl Andre, Willem de Kooning, John Duff, Robert Indiana, Neil Jenney...

Paul Levy (American, b. 1944) An established designer and illustrator, Paul M. Levy was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944. He received his B.S. in Industrial Design from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1968, returning later to do independent study there. He also did independent study at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, in 1969 and received an M.F.A. in Sculpture and Printmaking from Ohio University, Athens. From 1964 through 1971 he worked for design firms in Ohio, New York and California. From 1971 through 1973 he taught at the University of Cincinnati and Ohio University, Athens. He has exhibited in galleries, museums and art groups. In 1971 he was one of a number of artists who created enormous outdoor murals in a Cincinnati project called "Urban Walls." His graphic designs and illustrations for such firms as Container Corporation of America have appeared in publications such as Fortune, Business Week...