Claire Oliver - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Claire Oliver. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking” Exhibition
Claire Oliver Gallery presents the New York debut exhibition A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking features 21 works by nine contemporary Black women printmakers. Curated by two artists,...More »
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Judith Schaecter “Almost Better Angel”
Judith Schaechter’s title Almost Better Angels is from a chapter in Robert Sapolsky’s book Behave. The author concludes that human beings have guarded reasons for optimism when it comes to our biological...More »
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Gabi Trinkaus “The Way We Are Told”
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Lauren Fensterstock “The Order of Things”
Every planned landscape reveals the particular philosophy of its maker; one could say it leaves an allegorical map of the world’s structure at the time of its creation. For example, as early as the 18th...More »
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Laetitia Soulier “The Fractal Architectures”
At first look, the viewer may feel they have fallen into a Lewis Carrol novel; Laetitia Soulier’s works of art offer up a world where fantasy and reality intertwine not only to defy common logic, but also...More »
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Norbert Brunner “Cook Local Impact Infinite”
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Matt Bahen “The Curve of the Earth”
Matt Bahen creates paintings that are grounded in a sensibility that challenges the current demand for a frenetic pace. In The Curve of the Earth, the viewer is confronted with a series of large dark blue...More »
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Lisa Alonzo “Cash is King”
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Jazz-minh Moore “Middle of Nowhere”
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Beth Lipman ”Alone and the Wilderness”
Have human beings permanently changed our planet? What on its surface seems a simple question, has sparked a new altercate between Geologists and environmental advocates over what to call the current...More »
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Andrew Erdos “Invaluable”
The intangible and physical forces that shape our planet foster many questions that remain unanswered. Although Man attempts to find a scientific underpinning in his search for explanations, many are validated...More »
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Matthew Sleeth “Magnificent Obsessions”
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Norbert Brunner “Choose to Believe”
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“Migration” Exhibition
Groundbreaking selections from the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University More »
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Judith Schaechter “Dark Matter”
“Dark Matter,” Judith Schaechter’s 6th solo exhibition at Claire Oliver Gallery, extends for the first time the Artist’s studio practice to include both two and three dimensional works of art. Schaechter...More »
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“Summer Group Exhibition”
Preview of upcoming exhibitions of the 2014-2015 gallery seasonMore »
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Gabi Trinkaus “Paradise With A Limp”
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Lisa Alonzo “Vanilla Scented Sovereignty”
In Lisa Alonzo’s candy colored confections, the destructive nature of the object is subverted in its seductive presentation. The Artist’s unique visual language juxtaposes desire, enticement, and abundance...More »
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Anna Navasardian “Black and White”
[Image: Anna Navasardian “Nude II” Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas, 60 x 48 x 1.5 inches | 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm]More »
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Andy Denzler “Between the Fragments”
Zurich-based Denzler employs a wet-on-wet technique, and it is through this fluid physical process that he achieves filmic motion; the challenge is to accelerate and decelerate the consistency of the paint...More »
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Bernardi Roig “The Mirror (exercises to be another)”
Claire Oliver Gallery presents Bernardi Roig’s solo exhibition: THE MIRROR (exercises to be another), a series of new sculptures and charcoal drawings. Continuing the Artist’s exploration of man’s anxiety...More »
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Isaac Diggs and Edward Hillel “125th:Time in Harlem”
125th: Time in Harlem was conceived not as a political statement but as vehicle to invite discussion and investigate the role of Community in America today. Diggs and Hillel have trained their camera on...More »
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Herb Jackson “Veils”
Herb Jackson began his series Veronica’s Veils in 1980 as a way to create a new space in which he could explore the enigmatical nature of the moment when a painting attains a life of its own. 33 years...More »
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Judith Schaechter “The Battle of Carnival and Lent”
The Battle of Carnival and Lent, Judith Schaechter’s new exhibition at Claire Oliver Gallery, tackles one of the most fundamental struggles known to man, the war humankind wages between good and evil....More »
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Andrew Erdos "Guaranteed Impermanence"
By incorporating the viewer's own reflection within his works of art, Erdos cleverly creates an environment that demands participation from anyone who observes it. The artist manipulates the context to...More »
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Jazz-minh Moore "All Our Grandmothers"
Jazz-minh Moore combines her energetic and painterly style with a gouged and carved wood surface to create a fresh perspective on traditional realism. Embracing the authentic, her subjects possess a raw...More »
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Beth Lipman "Precarious Possessions"
Spectacular, new, large-scale sculpture by Beth Lipman inspired by Oscar Wilde's quote, "I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china." In the Victorian era, more was more; not...More »
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"Beyond Bling: The Artist as Jeweler"
For over four millennia, artists have been considered bellwethers, those sought-after trendsetters who play a leading role in style and design innovation. Historically, one can trace prevalent trends in...More »
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Lori Field "Wild Horses and Wallflowers"
In this exhibition, Lori Field has mastered the exacting and unforgiving medium of silverpoint drawing. Boldly using an art form defined by crisp lines and predictability, Field depicts a world that is...More »
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Beth Cavener Stichter "Come Undone"
Too often, looking at artistic representations of the human form proves unsatisfactory. Although the viewer may be able to identify and ap- preciate the emotions in a portrait, the specificity of many...More »
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Andy Denzler "The Sounds of Silence and Distortion"
Creating a desolate yet passionate narrative through color, time, and mystical topologies, Andy Denzler’s studio practice expands and skims the boundaries of both photorealism and action painting. Focused...More »
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Beth Lipman "Faded Bloom"
Beth Lipman's two-dimensional work is simultaneously photographic, documentary, and conceptual. Critically adopting a language pioneered in Baroque and Renaissance Vanitas still lifes, Lipman exploits...More »
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"10-TWENTY-10" Exhibition
10-Twenty-10 marks two celebrated milestones in the history of Claire Oliver Gallery. The Gallery is proud to celebrate ten years in New York and twenty years in business with an exhibition of new work...More »
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Gino Rubert "True Love"
Inspired by the philosopher’s works and writings, Gino Rubert quotes Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “Love letters are started without a clue of what it is we want to say and finished without a clue of what we...More »
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Norbert Brunner "Smiling Broadly"
As Brunner’s work delights both visually and conceptually, the Artist has taken great care to ask more questions in the work than he answers, melding seamless fabrication with deeply meaningful content....More »
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Jennifer Poon "Strange Blooms"
When conveyed with a delicate hand, dark, heavy subject matter becomes tractable enough for us to approach it, reflect on it, and digest its message. Jennifer Poon accomplishes this in her upcoming solo...More »
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Matthew Sleeth "The Rise and Fall of Western Civilization (And Other Obvious Metaphors)"
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Matthew Sleeth guides the amused viewer through a satirical “road to happiness” in his scaled-down but would-be functional freeway installation. The Artist questions...More »
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Trevor Guthrie "Another Sputnik Moment, Please"
At first glance, Trevor Guthrie’s works of art appear to be black and white photographs; the Artist has captured iconic imagery, dramatically lit and in startling detail. Upon closer examination, the viewer...More »
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Andy Denzler "Dissonance and Contemplation"
Expanding the boundaries of abstraction and photorealism, Andy Denzler transports the viewer to a place of personal memory. His paintings of secluded and pensive subjects invite us to enter into a private,...More »
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"The Devil Can Cite Scripture" Exhibition
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"Surface" Exhibition
A medium with one of the richest and most extensive histories, paint on canvas proves time and again that it can reinvent itself. The relationships artists have with this medium and its possibilities...More »
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Stephanie Lempert "Reconstructed Reliquaries"
Lempert’s continued fascination with methods of communication, and more narrowly with language, leads her to explore the intertwined nature of cherished mementos and childhood reminiscences that make them...More »
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Herb Jackson "Firestorm in the Teahouse"
“My paint surface is built up by the application of many layers that are partially scraped off as soon as they are applied. Through this process of gradual accretion, shapes and marks appear and disappear,...More »
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Jesse McCloskey "New World Nightmares"
Jesse McCloskey’s Paintings are certainly representational, yet he considers himself an abstract artist. McCloskey begins each work by making several large, colorful, abstract paintings, then cutting them...More »
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Michael Anderson "The Street is My Palette"
The Nielsen Reports state that in the US, the average person is exposed to between 500 and 1,600 advertising messages per day. As we are only awake an average of 1000 minutes a day, this statistic underlines...More »
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"Six Degrees of Separation: A New Generation of Canadian Artists" Exhibition
While a mere six longitudinal degrees separate Toronto from Vancouver, the distance between the art worlds of Eastern and Western Canada is vast. Bringing ten Canadian artists to Claire Oliver Gallery,...More »
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Lori Field "The Sky is Falling"
Referencing pop culture, personal history and an awareness of those artists who have gone before her, Field develops haunting images that evoke moods and memories inspired by life in the real world. The...More »
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AES+F and Gosha Ostretsov "Bolshoy"
Bolshoy: Large Scale Work by AES+F and Gosha Ostretsov [Image: Gosha Ostretsov "Action Packed Super Heroes II" Acrylic on Canvas 8 panel painting overall: 126 x 268 in.]More »
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Judith Schaechter "Beauty and the Beef"
Schaechter balances traditional stained glass techniques with new methods she has created herself. Her style is singular; nothing in a Schaechter work allows for straightforward narrative or a single...More »
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Jennifer Poon "A Temporary Space"
In A Temporary Space, Poon moves her fragmented, fragile, watercolored bodies off the two dimensional wall; the gallery becomes a proving ground for her exploration of ritual in contemporary culture. ...More »
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Norbert Brunner "Fuck Luck"
Austrian Norbert Brunner’s inaugural American exhibition, Fuck Luck uses the gallery space as a reflection area for self actualization. By juxtaposing large scale crystal embedded mirrors with iconic...More »
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"The Antidote" Exhibition
In the 160 years since French painter Paul Delaroche proclaimed “from today painting is dead”, many scholars and critics of art have echoed his sentiments. As each new concept or movement in the visual...More »
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Bernardi Roig "Pierrot le fou is (not) Dead"
- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2009-12-10 - 2010-01-23
Bernardí Roig, one of today’s most prominent names in Spain’s contemporary art scene, makes use of media as it suits him. His sculptures, installations, videos and drawings use the human figure as the...More »
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Beth Cavener Stichter "On Tender Hooks"
[Image: Beth Cavener Stichter "Humiliation by Design" Stoneware based mixed media sculpture, 82 in. h x 92 in. l x 52 in. d ]More »
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Nezaket Ekici "Kopfsonate"
A personal story, the artist’s performance Lifting a Secret combines coffee and vaseline to create legible text on the surface of a wall, creating a self-contained artwork. She writes with vaseline onto...More »
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Gosha Ostretsov "Coolville"
[Image: Gosha Ostretsov "On the Roof" Acrylic on Canvas, 158 x 63 in.]More »
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"NEXT Invitational: Flora to Fauna" Exhibition
[Image: Kate Clark "Black Bear, Untitled" Mixed Media Sculpture (Organic & Synthetic Materials), 27 x 42 x 16 in.]More »
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Matthew Sleeth "Various Positions (parts 1 through 6)"
In Matthew Sleeth’s American premiere, Various Positions (parts 1 through 6), the artist explores various conceptual positions within each image and the relationships between the various images that make...More »
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Sam Gibbons "Bone Meal"
[Image: Sam Gibbons "XL" Acrylic on Carved Wood Panel, 62 x 48 in.] More »
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Stephanie Lempert "GeoBiographies"
[Image: Stephanie Lempert "Spectacle Island Park" Archival Digital Pigment Print, 32 x 48 in.]More »
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Janet Biggs "Vanishing Point"
[Image: Janet Biggs "Vanishing Point, Salt Flats: Dusk" C-Print, 32 x 48 in.]More »
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Kate Clark "Perfect Strangers"
[Image: Kate Clark "The Brooding Storm" Mixed Media Sculpture (Organic & Synthetic Materials) 23 x 18 x 20 in.]More »
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Noah Fischer "Monitor"
[Image: Noah Fischer "Studio Shot of Monitor in Progress" Mixed Media]More »
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Phyllis Bramson "Kerfuffles"
[Image: Phyllis Bramson "Things Internal" 5 Canvas Installation Oil and Mixed Media 34 x 48 in.]More »
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"New, Next, Now" Exhibition
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"Photo-Electric" Exhibition
Photo-Electric examines the role of new media as a vehicle, enabling artists to represent their own version of reality and expand the visual possibilities of their work. Utilizing photography in a postmodern...More »
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Julie Blackmon "Domestic Vacations"
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Stephanie Lempert"Unexpected Perspectives"
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Gerry Snyder "Fundamental"
[Image: Gerry Snyder "Fixation of Belief" Oil on Wood Panel 48 X 48 in.]More »