Cavin-Morris Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Cavin-Morris Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Pauline Sunfly “Singing My Parents’ Country”
Pauline Sunfly Nangala paints her parents’ Country, her ancestral places south of her home at Balgo (Wirrimanu), which borders both the Tanami Desert and the Great Sandy Desert in northern Western Australia....More »
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“Voices from an Animist Earth: New Ceramics at Cavin-Morris” Exhibition
We humans are very much aware of the earth’s restless presence right now. Though angry at times it still is the matrix of a consciousness we may ignore, repress, deny or celebrate and it holds our practical...More »
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“PHOENIX!” Exhibition
Featured will be new artists in Art Brut, Indigenous art, and Ceramics as well as new works by our gallery artists. We are introducing our new projects with First Nation Australian artists, and work by...More »
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Ilija Bosilj Bašičević “Tales From Parallel Universes”
Ilija Bosilj Bašičević was born in Šid, in what is now Serbia in 1895, and died in 1972 in the same town. His parents were peasants and he spent most of his life as a farmer, having been forced to drop...More »
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“Shuki: The Art of Sakeware” Exhibition
A beautiful fire, And some beautiful sake, How warming it is. A haiku by the Japanese poet Yamaguchi Seison The first contemporary ceramic of any kind that I ever held in my hand was a small guinomi...More »
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“Winter Spotlight: Gallery Choices”
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents Winter Spotlight: Gallery Choices, a short exhibition to coincide independently with our online viewing room participation in the 2021 Outsider Art Fair. Included in Winter...More »
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Izabella Ortiz “Sea Spells”
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents the second one-person show of dramatic, spiritually abstract works by Izabella Ortiz. Ortiz’s work has been shown minimally in Europe under the vague genre of Art Singulier,...More »
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Kevin Sampson Exhibition
Kevin Blythe Sampson was raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the son of a local civil rights activist. He initially trained as police sketch artist and joined the New Jersey police force, serving for twenty...More »
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“Painting the Japanese Blues: Introducing Issei Nishimura” Exhibition
Issei Nishimura has a number of obsessions but these three are the most important: the blues, his cats, and making drawings and paintings. Obsession might be too mild a word for the passion and time this...More »
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“The Timeless Place” Exhibition
The three artists in this exhibition are travelers. Part of the power and joy of traveling is that it can be formless and depends on the creativity and resourcefulness of the traveler to mark whatever...More »
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“Mascaras: The Other Faces Of Mexico” Exhibition
The oldest known wooden Mexican mask is in New York’s American Museum of Natural History carved by an Olmec artisan somewhere between 1200 – 400 BCE. There were undoubtedly others, but wooden artifacts...More »
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Osamu Inayoshi Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents a spotlight on new work by the important Japanese artist Osamu Inayoshi. He is part of a generation of artists working in clay who are changing the expectations of the ceramic...More »
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Akihiro Nikaido “New Works”
Many young ceramists in Japan have Masters who guide them in their clay experiences. A phenomenon in Japan now is that there are many younger ceramists who do not have Masters and need a forum for announcing...More »
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“Body Lines” Exhibition
Guest curators Caroline Casey and Sophie Friedman-Pappas have combined forces to create an exhibition formed from the Cavin-Morris Gallery roster of artists: Body Lines is a group exhibition featuring...More »
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Christine Sefolosha “Primordial Heart”
Christine Sefolosha is an oneiric or dream traveler. There are some artists whose work drifts like a dark voluptuous flower over the unseeing ant-like hordes of the art mainstream. It ravels and unravels...More »
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“Mavericks II” Exhibition
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Vincent Atherton and Errol Lloyd ‘Powah’ Atherton “The Fire Within: Sculpture”
Each one of us has fire within —Vincent Atherton to Wayne Cox Vincent Atherton (1924-2007) and Errol Lloyd “Powah” Atherton (1961-2012) were father and son. They lived in the same world of spirits,...More »
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“Eagle Crossed the Sun: Visionary Works by J.B. Murray” Exhibition
J.B. (John Bunion) Murray was born in 1908 in Glascock County, Georgia. In the history of African American non-mainstream artists Murray falls into the second generation, born after the 19th century and...More »
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“The Nature of Things: Contemporary Japanese Woven Sculpture” Exhibition
Six years ago Chizu Sekiguchi, contemporary basket maker and teacher, created an exhibit for us called Contained Excitement. We are thrilled that she has agreed to organize another exhibition for us this...More »
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“Duende: Artists Translating Spirits” Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents Duende: Artists Translating Spirits. A duende is a spirit often associated with flamenco dancing that rises up through the feet of dancers. It is also an embodiment of heightened...More »
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Melanie Ferguson “Storytellers: Path to the Known”
Ferguson creates artworks that feel like shrine objects for natural altars, completely contemporary pieces found centuries later tucked behind waterfalls or the fissures in caves and tide pools. The sophistication...More »
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Izabella Ortiz “Water Memories”
Izabella Ortiz currently lives in France, but she has lived in Colombia and Australia. Her work reflects the songlines of visionary cultures. The word oceanic evokes watery expansions and infinite...More »
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Ilija Bosilj Bašičević “Welcoming the Two Faced Rider”
Ilija Bosilj Bašičević was born in Sid, in what is now Serbia and Montenegro in 1895, and died in 1972 in the same town. His parents were peasants and he spent most of his life as a farmer, having been...More »
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“Rings Around The Moon” Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents Rings Around The Moon, a group exhibition featuring Caroline Demangel, Monika Maurer-Morgenstern, Christine Sefolosha, Sandra Sheehy and Henriette Zéphir. These five artists...More »
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Gregory Van Maanen “The Wolf Returns”
Gregory Van Maanen has been reborn many times in this lifetime. Each time presented itself as a transition into another kind of life. Each time pushed him into his unique art more deeply. The first...More »
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“Edgewalkers and Worldbuilders” Exhibition
The last two years have been rich and rewarding in our gallery’s collaborations with art brut and non-mainstream artists from around the world. We designed this exhibition to introduce and showcase some...More »
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“Rebel Clay” Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents an exhibition of non-mainstream ceramics titled REBEL CLAY. This exhibition will be the first of its kind in the country. Clay is a direct way for the artist to sing...More »
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Luboš Plný & Anna Zemánková “Bodies Electric”
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents the work of two masterful Czech artists, Luboš Plný (b. 1961) and Anna Zemánková (1908-1986). Sixteen of Zemánková’s drawings were included in the Venice Biennale of 2013...More »
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“On Love And Barley: Art From Japan” Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents an eclectic exhibition of artworks from Japan including Noh and shrine masks, folk textiles, folk sculptures, contemporary works by Margaret Yuko Kimura and Yohei Nishimura,...More »
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“Immortal Menagerie” Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents a special group exhibition: Immortal Menagerie, independently curated by Cavin-Morris staff members Marissa Levien and Caroline Casey. Immortal Menagerie is an international...More »
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Solange Knopf “resist”
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Ras Dizzy and Leonard Daley “THE BUSH HAVE EARS”
Ras Dizzy (1932- 2008) and Leonard Daley (1930- 2006) are two of the most important painters to emerge from the second generation of self-taught Jamaican artists born from 1930 to 1949, including Albert...More »
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Josef Hofer and Harald Stoffers “The Eloquent Place”
An underlying theme of much Art Brut is the artist’s location of self in an often strange or hostile universe. The artist often has an unspoken utilitarian intention for the work, namely the cataloguing...More »
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“Earth Skin” Exhibition
Clay is a mediation between the artistic impulses of the maker and a sense of Place and inner and outer landscapes. Its tactility once fired satisfies human needs in much the same way a natural landscape...More »
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“FACESHIFTING II: Animistic Masks from the Himalayas” Exhibition
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Maverick Exhibition
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Anna Zemánková “Twilight Before Dawn”
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“Tantra, Anonymous, and Vyakul” Exhibition
Cavin-Morris presents an exhibition of tantric and tantrically influenced art works from India ranging from the sacred to the irreverent. This exhibition presents the Tantra paintings of Acharya Vyakul...More »
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“Spirited Women: Drawing Down Fire” Exhibition
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“Japan: Art Brut” Exhibition
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“Enflamed: New Ceramics” Exhibition
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“Forest Amuletum” Exhibition
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“VODUN, VODOU, CONJURE: The Animistic Arts Of The African Diaspora” Exhibition
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“In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: 30 Years at Cavin-Morris” Exhibition
Cavin-Morris presents an exhibition celebrating and reflecting upon its 30th anniversary as a gallery. We have traveled many non-mainstream roads in those 30 years, some hard, some easier, all of them...More »
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“Enigma Rapt in Mysteries: American Art Without Epoch” Exhibition
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Vivian Maier Exhibition
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“Elementals: Women Sculpting Animism” Exhibition
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John Lurie “There are things you don’t know about”
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“Freshet: Old Loves, New Directions” Exhibition
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“JAPAN: Selections of Contemporary work, Art Brut, Textiles, Ceramics, and New Basketry” Exhibition
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Solange Knopf “Spirit Codex”
The first drawing we ever saw by the artist was done on an old page of poems by French poet, Charles Baudelaire. Our antennae were up immediately. The small drawings arrived and they were exquisite...More »
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“Praisesongs for the Numinous” Exhibition
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M’onma “Lucid Dreaming”
Looking for a cohesive narrative in one of M’onma’s drawings is like telling someone about a dream and then realizing that you are losing and changing the thread of the experience as you tell it…The further...More »
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“Faceshifting: Masking the Spirits” Exhibition
“and the mask is still with us-the crystallization of superstitions and beliefs, the instrument of the supernatural and the divine. “ -Somewhere between laughter and terror, a short eulogy on grimace, Berenice...More »
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“Fukuro - Owls of Hayashibara Japan” Exhibition
An homage to the owl. What other bird has such a multiplicity of personalities that range from the profound dark and deep violence of the raptor to high off the map giddiness and all emotions in between. ...More »
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“Volcanic Visions: Barkcloth Art of the Omie” Exhibition
Ultimately it seems that some of the greatest art in the world concerns itself on some level with the forces of Nature, and Nature itself is part of Place. We are always fascinated by work that speaks...More »
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“Restless II! - a Mix” Exhibition
Restless II! continues this mood but this time the gaze is ours. We saw immediately how this new dynamic fits in with gallery artists like Kevin Sampson, Keith Goodhart, and Timothy Wehrle, for example,...More »
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Yohei Nishimura "Material & Memory"
In the previous exhibition we showed his kiln fired books brought to their barest skeletons of shape. Words and ideas had disappeared yet they still maintained the essential identities as books. In this...More »
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"Two Transcend: Drawings" Exhibition
For some people the air is filled with entities. For some, these are spirits, for some they are interstellar intelligences, and for others they are ideas. In the case of the artist J.B. Murray they are...More »
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Sandra Sheehy "Music from a Garden at Dusk"
Sandra Sheehy creates biomorphic and zoomorphic constructions using thread, shells, layers of paper, sequins, yarn, beads, and painted textiles. Over the ten years that the gallery has represented her,...More »
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"HomeGround -Art from the Pan-African Diaspora-" Exhibition
The links between the Pan-African populations of North America, the Caribbean, Central American and South America have produced some of the greatest art in the world along with the art of the Native American...More »
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Robert Fornell "New Work"
In this small but entirely representative exhibition we will continue with some of the tea and sake sculptural forms with new variations as well as a new series of flat chargers in stark black and white...More »
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"Restless" Exhibition
A gallery is a space that changes and shifts ten to twelve times a year. Sometimes more. But it isn't the only thing that shifts. History is discovered, new ideas emerge, new allegiances form as eyes...More »
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"Uncontained Excitement -Woven Sculpture from Japan-" Exhibition
14 sculptors who have expanded and veered from traditional craft, making sculpture rooted in basketry, but using organic and inorganic materials not part of the basket heritage of Japan. Few of these...More »
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"The Contemporary Art of Chawan -An International Invitational-" Exhibition
The core of this exhibition comes from a show organized by Robert Fornell and Rick Mahaffey for NSECA called Teaware From the Edge. Both artists have work in the exhibition. We decided to expand the...More »
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"Animated by Spirits: Highland New Guinea Shield Collection" Exhibition
New Guinea is the remotest region of the world from Europe, and was the last area to be explored, mapped and colonized by the European powers of the 19th Century. Even up to the 1960’s “uncontacted” groups...More »
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Tim Rowan "New Works"
The personal quietude of American artist, Tim Rowan, belies the depth and activity of his process. He allows his work to be his voice, but sometimes this choice leaves much to the perceptions of the viewer....More »
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"Darker Stars-The Roots of Steampunk Art" Exhibition
The whole idea of Steampunk is revisionist..... its process is to look back on certain threads of history and reweave them into the present and future. There are no rules. A literary precedent has been...More »
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"Obsessive Collective" Exhibition
“Since the beginning of time, special individuals have been compelled to create objects that seemingly have no function or purpose. Whether channeling the spirits, communicating with higher forces, wrestling...More »
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"The Unexpected Edge: Yugen in Contemporary Art" Exhibition
Yugen is the Japanese word for the mysterious or profound sense of beauty in the Universe. It is the power to evoke rather than to directly show. It is Exquisite Mystery as it informs the creative process....More »
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"Art Brut And Then Some" Exhibition
The field of Art Brut and its redheaded stepchild Outsider Art, is going through some healthy changes. It has been self-referential as a field in Europe since the early part of the Twentieth Century....More »
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"Prequal to the Unexpected" Exhibitiion
Cavin-Morris Gallery is pleased to present its Summer Group exhibition in which we look at the best of some of our recent shows and some directions we will be exploring in the future. While still developing...More »
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Shozo Michikawa "The Nature of Clay"
We will present a cross-section of some of his newest pieces. Although he has shown frequently all over the world, aside from a presentation of his work at SOFA by the wonderful Gallery Besson, this will...More »
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"I AM AMAZIGH: Berber Rugs from Mountain and City" Exhibition
At first glance the makers of the contemporary rugs seem to have stepped beyond the reins of tradition and eschewed the past because of the intensity of their colors and the newness of their textures....More »
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"Flawless: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer" Exhibition
Cavin-Morris presents FLAWLESS: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer, an exhibition of new work in an ancient medium brought to a new time. Timed to pick up nuances from New York's Asia's week this is the first...More »
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"Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Self-Taught Artistsz" Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents an exhibition of works by artists not working in the mainstream of art in conjunction with, and to anticipate, the 19th Outsider Art Fair. In this exhibition we pay homage...More »
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"Contained Excitement: Pleasures of the Void" Exhibition
The show concentrates on the way the artist controls the sensual expectations of space in an object, which may or may not take leave of its utilitarian purpose. It is more than an attractive shape; it...More »
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Yuko Oda & Hyungsub Shin "Uprooted"
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents Uprooted, a two-person exhibition featuring new work by New York based artists, Yuko Oka and Hyungsub Shin. The works in this exhibition look to nature for its movement,...More »
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Gregory Van Maanen "The Wolf Returns"
"Gregory Van Maanen has always been my cornerstone of authenticity in the art world. In that his work is so totally tuned in to the world, he has always put the lie to the word 'outsider'. I have watched...More »
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"Rags to Richesse: Rugs from Morocco" Exhibition
Rags to Richesse is an exhibition about culture renewing itself. In communities where nomadic life and herding is being exchanged for processed farming, original materials like wool are becoming scarcer,...More »
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David Chaim Smith "Blood of Space"
David Chaim Smith is unstuck in time. David Chaim Smith makes drawings. These drawings are not about the art world. Yet he is not an Outsider Artist. In fact he is a perfect argument for the futility...More »
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"Curator's Choice Featuring Japanese Art Brut" Exhibition
Cavin-Morris presents one of the first exhibitions in New York City of artwork by self-taught artists from Japan. The show will be this first of many exhibitions centered on drawings and paintings with...More »
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"Plant Body, Animal Body" Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents Plant Body, Animal Body, a continuation of exhibitions begun nearly fifteen years ago when the gallery was in its Soho location. This group show brings together gallery and...More »
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Lidia Syroka "Nomadic Bodies" & Tim Rowan "Stone Ridge Alchemy"
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents the work of two artists: Lidia Syroka and Tim Rowan, who create in two vastly different mediums, but who are consummately joined at the soul. Lidia Syroka's drawings shown...More »
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"Essentially US" Exhibition
Essentially Us is a landmark exhibition for Cavin-Morris Gallery. In 2010 the gallery will be celebrating 25 years as an art gallery, having proudly presented the work of artists and artisans from Neolithic...More »
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"Artists' Books Through Time: Volume I" Exhibitions
The historic narrative in this introductory exhibition has been removed in favor of an eclectic sampling of hand-made books, which cover a wide area of Time and Place. There are inner themes both deliberate...More »
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"Artists’ Books Through Time, Vol. I" Exhibition
The concept of the communicative mark is a basic one. When the marks are strung together, a series of thoughts are linked together. In most instances, they communicate with each other and out to the...More »
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"Spent Heat: Time in the Works of Yohei Nishimura" Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery has been interested in the fired books and magazines of Yohei Nishimura since first being introduced to his work via the Internet and our friend in Japan, Robert Yellin. Born in Kyoto...More »
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Soojin Cha and Zdenek Kosek "Mapping the Non-Material World"
Using art as a way of charting aspects of the universe is not a new idea. Neolithic stone carvings documented star charts and marks on wood or stone from ancient times documented the varied topographies,...More »
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Melvin Edward Nelson Exhibition
It is cool and dark in Colton, Oregon on a crisp rainless evening. Trees on top of the surrounding hills look like rows of acolytes standing still in shadowy meditation. There is a clearing in the natural...More »
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"Visions Drawn Before Dawn: A Centennial Celebration of Anna Zemánková (1908 – 1986)" Exhibition
The layers of evocation in Anna Zemánková drawings seem unending. She channeled great music, both classical and jazz, into her work, struggling with it to create a new way of thinking and engaging the...More »
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Sabhan Adam "Painting with Smoke"
Cavin-Morris Gallery shows the paintings and drawings of the singular, self-taught artist Sabhan Adam. His subjects, mostly figurative, seem to live in a place that tears the watcher out of complacency...More »
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"New Views, Re-Views" Exhibition
"The artists in the show are our peer group, their work has kept us on the path we have been traveling since 1980, in looking for the kinds of work that straddles multiple cultures and flirts with various...More »
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"Chthonic Youth" Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents exhibition "Chthonic Youth." The artists represented are all living and many have been with the gallery since its inception. Gregory Van Maanen and Keith Goodhart have been...More »
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Christine Sefolosha "Coeur Ardent"
Cavin-Morris Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Swiss artist Christine Sefolosha. With this latest group of paintings and drawings, the artist continues her explorations of the dark and light...More »