HOCKNEY, DAVID Nude Portrait, Theresa Russell (detail)

Vered Gallery will be presenting #NSFW: BODIES, a group exhibition featuring figural works by both renown Modern Masters and Contemporary artists, established as well as emerging from February 15th – March 10th. Don’t miss the opening reception on Saturday, February 15th, 6 – 8pm. NSFW [the internet acronym for “Not Safe For Work”] playfully eludes to Vered’s Contemporary spin on traditional nudes and portraiture, subject matter commonly not considered appropriate for public viewing.

CAESAR, RAY Aria

Included in this exhibition are paintings, photographs and sculptures by Milton Avery, Willem de Kooning, David Hockney, Steven Klein, Eric Fischl, Larry Rivers,
Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ray Caesar, Colin Christian, Michael Dweck, William King, Adam Handler, Adam Miller, Ashley Maxwell, Peter Buchman
and Jessica Lichtenstein among others.

KLEIN, STEVEN Case Study #13 image no 01

Highlights in this exhibition include Larry Rivers’ lyrical triumph, Ochre Dance, an homage to Matisse’s seminal masterpiece La Danse. Case Study #13 image no. 01, a stunning photographic portrait of actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as a modern family in crisis, by celebrated Fashion Photographer Steven Klein. And, Untitled 1969 (woman in high heels), a unique painted armature for an unrealized sculpture by Willem de Kooning.

MAN RAY Kiki with Pearls

The unique perspective of this exhibition allows for the viewer to observe art of the nude and portraiture through the eyes of some of today’s most exciting new talents alongside works of the Modern era from which it was inspired. One can see clearly see the evolution of the nude through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries both aesthetically and conceptually, as one moves from Man Ray’s portraits of Kiki de Montparnesse (1928), to Bert Stern’s iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe (1962), and from David Hockney’s cubist, photo collage rendition of actress Theresa Russell (1983, pictured above) and finally onto Jessica Lichtenstein’s frolicking, computer generated lovelies. The viewer will witness dramatic shifts in how New Contemporary Art movements relate to the subjective concept of physical beauty and understand how today’s radical new ideas were informed by Modernism while at the same time trying to reject it’s tradition, just as Modernism was by Classicism of the nineteenth century.

GALLERY DETAILS:
Vered Gallery
68 Park Place, East Hampton, NY
www.veredart.com
631.324.3303
Hours: Sun – Fri, 11am – 6pm; Sat 11am – 9pm

The Exhibition runs from February 15 to March 10, 2014. For more information on the gallery’s exhibition schedule, images and artist bios please visit www.veredart.com or contact Damien Roman.