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The
opening
reception of a solo exhibit by Saul Chase at the Maya Stendhal
Gallery in Chelsea
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Alecka
Heinrici, Risa Chase, Ekatrina Savtchenko, Angela DiRosetta,
and Maya Stendhal
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Saul
Chase and Douglas Kelley
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A
couple of weeks ago at the Maya Stendhal
Gallery in Chelsea, a steadfast crowd found a pleasant solace at the opening reception
of a solo
exhibit by Saul Chase.
Glistening faces found immediate refuge amid the tranquil aura
of Chase’s signature, “Noir Luminism.”
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Saul
Chase with Harry and Maya Stendhal
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Collectors,
dealers, friends and family gathered to celebrate the significant
reemergence of Chase and his Recent Paintings. The
show includes two series of paintings: Answering
Light, twelve
compositions in acrylic and graphite on panel (55 x 48 in.),
and
The Beautiful Hours, small oil paintings
on paper, arranged as polyptychs and boxed in plexiglass.
Among the guests at the opening were art collectors Larry
and Jane Dinkin, who purchased the entire collection of The
Beautiful Hours for their newly built mansion in Sands Point, Long Island and plan
on donating it to a major Museum. Other guests included Marteen
Barr, Michael Brockman, Frederick Lembeck, Sharon Rosenberg, George
Martel, and Marilyn Silver.
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The
Beautiful Hours
(1985 – 1996)
Porcelain Sky
Oil on Paper
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Answering
Light
Wetlands Morning, 2000
55" x 48"
Acrylic and graphite on wood panels
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Art
critic Douglas Kelley has already coined Chase’s
work as “Noir Luminism," describing his canvases as
breathtaking fantasy landscapes inspired by nature and memory.
Luminism was a nineteenth century American art sub genre that was
an outgrowth of the Hudson river school which had among its chief
concerns the romantic and heroic capture of the grand atmospheric
and lighting effect that some say suggest an early link to impressionism.
Its practitioners included Frederick E. Church, Fitz Hugh
Lane, John F. Kensett, and Sanford R. Gifford.
In the last 20 years chase
has shifted to impossible imagery romantic semi representational landscapes,
his painterly vision continues to encompass this fascination with nature and
its ability to reveal its existential extra ordinariness is a legacy to his main
inspiration the English romantic landscape artist Joseph Mallord Willliam
Turner(1775-1851)
Saul Chase’s work is in the permanent collection of Smithsonian American
Art, the Brooklyn Museum and American Academy of arts and letters. Chase earned
a B.A. in fine arts from the City College of New York and a M.A. from CUNY.
The exhibit at Maya Stendhal Gallery will be on view until November 1st, 2004. |
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L.
to r.: John Wegorzewski and Maya Stendhal; Michael
Moers and Maya Stendhal; John Wegorzewski, Ekatrina Savtchenko,
Saul Chase, and Alexandre Heinrici.
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