October 31, 2012
Bird Drawings/Creatures at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is pleased to announce both Billy Sullivan: Bird Drawings and Lucy Winton: Creatures, two simultaneous exhibitions opening on November 10, 2012. We are also premiering the publication of BIRDS, a limited edition book featuring Sullivan’s drawings and an essay by renowned author Margaret Atwood, who is also a highly regarded birder and conservationist. The entire edition of 450 consists of 350 copies in wrappers, and 100 deluxe cloth-bound copies signed by both the writer and artist.
BILLY SULLIVAN: BIRD DRAWINGS??
From his dining room table in East Hampton, NY, Billy Sullivan has been documenting the avian activity in his wooded backyard since 1990, capturing the social goings-on of East End birds in much the same way he has chronicled family and friends since the 1970s. Unlike Sullivan’s vibrant oil portraits, which begin from his own photographs, the bird drawings are executed in a matter of minutes, each time span noted in the drawing’s title. This diaristic approach has an evident immediacy, as Sullivan’s quick marks scratch across the surface of the paper, like birds flitting across his yard.
In a 1995 interview with Saul Ostrow in Bomb magazine, Sullivan reflected, “It’s less about chronicling and more about the mark that I’ve been building…. One of the reasons I wanted a studio out here in the country is because I started drawing those birds. It wasn’t about relying on a photograph anymore, but on what I was seeing, and memory.”
Billy Sullivan lives and works in New York City and East Hampton. He has exhibited extensively since the early 1970s, and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both in New York; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; and Guild Hall, East Hampton, amongst others.
LUCY WINTON: CREATURES??
A “romantic aesthetic” comes naturally to Lucy Winton, whose artwork references a spectrum of influences, from children’s book illustrations to Odilon Redon to contemporary Japanese artist Aya Takano. New York Times art critic Benjamin Genocchio called Winton’s work “empathetic, playful, and very strange, reminding me a little of the late, rather terrifying paintings of Francisco Goya.”
In Winton’s drawings, pastoral landscapes and sweet-faced faunae mingle with an undercurrent of Sturm und Drang. Five large-scale drawings in charcoal, graphite, and airbrush depict a number of doe-eyed beasts whose surroundings are tinged with man-made catastrophe. Perhaps the drawing that most closely captures the empathy in Winton’s conceptual arc is Me ’n’ You 4Ever, in which Winton herself is lying protectively beside a docile deer, both gazing cautiously at their human audience. A series of brightly colored works in oil on Yupo paper demonstrate Winton’s ability to interweave cultural symbols, art historical references, and pop culture. Her animated subjects dart through their painterly expressionist surroundings, punctuated with the vernacular of cartoon-based illustration.
Lucy Winton lives and works in New York City and East Hampton. She has recently exhibited at Danese Gallery in New York, and the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, where she is also in the permanent collection. Her work is several private collections, including those of Lisa Phillips, April Gornik, and Neda Young.
For further information:
Jess Frost, Director??
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc.??
87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937??1
631-324-5511 / jess@glennhorowitz.com??www.glennhorowitz.com
From his dining room table in East Hampton, NY, Billy Sullivan has been documenting the avian activity in his wooded backyard since 1990, capturing the social goings-on of East End birds in much the same way he has chronicled family and friends since the 1970s. Unlike Sullivan’s vibrant oil portraits, which begin from his own photographs, the bird drawings are executed in a matter of minutes, each time span noted in the drawing’s title. This diaristic approach has an evident immediacy, as Sullivan’s quick marks scratch across the surface of the paper, like birds flitting across his yard.
In a 1995 interview with Saul Ostrow in Bomb magazine, Sullivan reflected, “It’s less about chronicling and more about the mark that I’ve been building…. One of the reasons I wanted a studio out here in the country is because I started drawing those birds. It wasn’t about relying on a photograph anymore, but on what I was seeing, and memory.”
Billy Sullivan lives and works in New York City and East Hampton. He has exhibited extensively since the early 1970s, and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both in New York; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; and Guild Hall, East Hampton, amongst others.
LUCY WINTON: CREATURES??
A “romantic aesthetic” comes naturally to Lucy Winton, whose artwork references a spectrum of influences, from children’s book illustrations to Odilon Redon to contemporary Japanese artist Aya Takano. New York Times art critic Benjamin Genocchio called Winton’s work “empathetic, playful, and very strange, reminding me a little of the late, rather terrifying paintings of Francisco Goya.”
In Winton’s drawings, pastoral landscapes and sweet-faced faunae mingle with an undercurrent of Sturm und Drang. Five large-scale drawings in charcoal, graphite, and airbrush depict a number of doe-eyed beasts whose surroundings are tinged with man-made catastrophe. Perhaps the drawing that most closely captures the empathy in Winton’s conceptual arc is Me ’n’ You 4Ever, in which Winton herself is lying protectively beside a docile deer, both gazing cautiously at their human audience. A series of brightly colored works in oil on Yupo paper demonstrate Winton’s ability to interweave cultural symbols, art historical references, and pop culture. Her animated subjects dart through their painterly expressionist surroundings, punctuated with the vernacular of cartoon-based illustration.
Lucy Winton lives and works in New York City and East Hampton. She has recently exhibited at Danese Gallery in New York, and the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, where she is also in the permanent collection. Her work is several private collections, including those of Lisa Phillips, April Gornik, and Neda Young.
For further information:
Jess Frost, Director??
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc.??
87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937??1
631-324-5511 / jess@glennhorowitz.com??www.glennhorowitz.com
