Octavia Art Gallery

Wayne Pate’s unique mixed media painting “Iris Bulbs No. 9” just sold to one of our favorite local designers! 🎉
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Rebecca B. Alston: Earth’s Voice
Closing Reception:
Saturday, September 21, 11am - 2pm
*With artist in attendance

Exhibition runs through September 28th

Rebecca B. Alston, Wet Lands, Mixed media on paper, 35 x 47 inches

Don’t let this stunning work of art by Raymond Saá get away!

Details: Raymond Saá
Untitled, 2023
Gouache collage on sewn paper
28 x 22 inches
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Raymond Saá is a Cuban-American artist working with abstraction and creates work on paper and canvas. Saá’s process-oriented work deconstructs and reconstructs natural elements, generating motifs that reference the artist’s Cuban roots, and connect natural forms with an architectural process.

Saá was born in New Orleans, raised in Miami and currently lives in New Jersey. Educated at New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MA (BFA); Parsons New York, NY (MFA)

Collections: US Department of State, Art in Embassies, Matamoros, American Embassy, Mexico; NYC Public Art in Public Schools, NY; Pérez Art Museum, FL; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Queens Museum of Art, NY; US Department of State, Art in Embassies, Tiawana American Consulate, Mexico; Lexus Corporation, CA; Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, MA; Delta Airlines, NJ & LA.

Rebecca B. Alston: Earth’s Voice
Through September 28th

Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to present Earth’s Voice, a solo exhibition of works by Rebecca B. Alston.

Rebecca Alston
A Slice in Time, 2014
Oil on canvas
48 x 36 inches

Rebecca B. Alston: “Earth’s Voice”
Please join us for the opening reception this evening from 6 until 8 pm. DM for a checklist of works in the show!

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Rebecca B. Alston: Earth’s Voice
September 7 - 28, 2024

Opening Reception
Saturday, September 7, 6 - 8 pm

Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to present Earth’s Voice, a solo exhibition of works by Rebecca B. Alston.

In celebration of International Day of Clean Air and International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, Alston’s Earth’s Voice explores a plea for better respect of the earth, with nudges on what society can do to create a world of substantial ecological balance by understanding the tension between environmental, social, and political issues. Her interest in the extra-artistic—most notably from scientific references—fuels her restless, inquisitive sensibility. Alston’s intentions are to bring an awareness to specific problems society faces. She has been an environmental advocate for the last two decades.

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(Detail image) Rebecca B. Alston, Meandering, Mixed media on paper, 60 1/2 x 40 inches

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We are pleased to announce that the iconic “King Zulu,” 1959 oil, by AbEx artist Fritz Bultman has been sold. Congratulations to the new owners of this historic work of art!

Artwork dimensions: 72 x 108 inches

Fritz Bultman’s works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, NY; 1 World Trade Center, NY, as well as several other major American museums and corporations.

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Dan Charbonnet’s art is grounded in the rudiments of painting. He strives to achieve balance between process and application. The construction process comprises actions like ripping, stretching, heating, stapling, fraying, and sewing the canvas, while the application involves the taping, priming, painting (hard lines, soft lines, washes, gestures), and curating color.

Charbonnet’s works continue to evolve, most recently with the new addition of painted canvas strips that are sewn onto the raw canvas strips.

Swipe left to view examples of his new works and some close up details images.
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FINAL WEEK!
To view Ryoko Endo’s solo exhibition, “Crescendo.”
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Inspired by classic 17th and 18th century botanical illustration, Carmen Almon endeavors to represent the fragility of a moment in time, creating not botanical replicas of nature but rather her personal interpretation of her memory of a particular plant, flower, branch, or bud, from its roots to its fruits.

Carmen Almon, Iris with Moth, 2024, Copper sheeting, brass tubing, steel wire, and enamel paint, 28 1/2 x 11 x 10 inches

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Last chance to view the wonderful works by Carmen McNall at Octavia!
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Using a unique process that combines painting and wood-carving, Oakland, Californa based artist Carmen McNall’s work balances intricate patterns and textured mark making bound by organic shapes against stretches of pure pigment. Her practice relates directly to the handmade in both subject matter and ex*****on, opening a dialogue on the relationship between people, their environments, and what inherently fastens us to our surroundings, examining the empowering qualities these places retain

Alia Ali Presale!
New works from the “Warp, Masai, and Glitzch” series are now available for pre-order. DM for more information, a full list of new works, and to place your order!

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for Fidelity Bank White Linen Night 2024! We are so grateful that the featured artist Ryoko Endo & her NY group could join us to celebrate. The exhibition “Ryoko Endo: Crescendo” runs through August 31st.

The paintings are thick with many built up layers. A careful application of opaque and translucent paint application creates a push pull effect, that draws in the viewer. A successful painting has the perfect blend of harmony and discord created by the delicate balance and conflict in between the color and brushwork employed. This duality reflects one’s experience in life. -Ryoko Endo
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Join us at Octavia Art Gallery this evening for Fidelity Bank White Linen 2024! We will be opening “Crescendo,” an incredible exhibition of Abstract paintings by Ryoko Endo. .studio

Please join us tomorrow from 5-9pm for the opening reception of “Ryoko Endo: Crescendo” during Fidelity Bank White Linen Night. The artist will be in attendance & we look forward to celebrating with you!
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Ryoko Endo: Crescendo
August 3 – 31, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 3, 5 – 9 pm
*During Fidelity Bank White Linen Night

Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to present Crescendo, a solo exhibition of recent works by Ryoko Endo.
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This beautiful mixed media painting by Marina Savashynskaya Dunbar is headed to its new home in Florida! DM for a list of works available by the artist!

Marina Savashynskaya Dunbar
River, 2023
Acrylic and sand on canvas over panel
30 × 40 in

Summer Group Show
Through July 27th

Featuring works by:
Alex Beard | Ronnie Cutrone | Luke Forsyth
James Henderson | Kurt Herrmann
Carmen McNall | Ken Tate | Greta Van Campen
Brenda Zappitell & more!

Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to announce:
NEW REPRESENTATION - Amélie Guthrie

Please stop by or DM for a list of her embroidered work!

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Amélie Guthrie
Artemis (diptych), 2024
Thread on canvas
96 x 36 inches

Headed to a museum collection near you!
Details to come!🤗

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Alia Ali
Lust, 2023
Archival pigment print, mounted, UV laminated, frame upholstered by the artist
40 x 33 x 3 inches
Edition of 5 + 2 APs

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She found a lovely new home in New York!
Details: Carmen Menza
Submerged Series
Acrylic, LEDs, mixed media, transformer

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Rebecca Alston is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and architectural designer. She is known for her rigorous exploration of color and form, meticulous use of line, and the integration of scientific principles within the visual arts. Her strong foundation has led to the investigation and innovative approaches to experimental mixed media work on paper, canvas, reliefs, and space. Her most recent work explores the tension between environmental, social, and political issues.

Rebecca Alston
Eco-Sphere I
Mixed media on paper
7 x 10 inches
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SAVE THE DATE
Ryoko Endo: Crescendo
August 3 – 31, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 3, 5 – 9 pm
*During Fidelity Bank White Linen Night
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Wishing you a fun & safe 4th of July! 🎇🎆🎇🎆

Greta Van Campen is an artist based in Thomaston, Maine and is known for a hard-edged graphic approach to representation. She has spent a great deal of time traveling across the United States sourcing inspiration from the landscapes, small towns, and cities throughout America. She starts each painting working from her own photographs and sketches, first deciding on large compositional elements and dynamic lines, then painting in layers and masking off areas and adding smaller details as she continues. This distilled and stylized approach imbues her traditional subject matter with a freshness and modernity.

Greta Van Campen
September on Penobscot Bay, 2024
Acrylic on panel
11 x 24 inches
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Luke Forsyth enjoys working in an array of colors and mediums. He draws inspiration from the everyday, with subjects ranging from domestic interiors and expansive sweeping landscapes. Forsyth’s newest series of paintings draws from his background in theater to examine the parallels between visual and performing art. Focusing on art and theater institutions as sites of physical activity framed by systems of display, he distills elements from each discipline to expose performance in life and life in performance. Forsyth’s paintings are both stage and tableaux; using stagecraft as physical framing devices, flowers and vessels as performers, texture and color as dialogue and blocking. The works are simultaneously playful, alive, still, and focused - like crystallized set pieces from surrealist plays.

Luke Forsyth
Triple Double, 2023
Acrylic paint, spray texture, enamel paint, colored pencil and black gesso on panel
18 x 18 inches

Included in the Summer Group Show 2024:

Carmen McNall
Offering 1, 2024
Acrylic on hand carved wood panel
30 x 40 inches

Using a unique process that combines painting and wood-carving, Oakland, Californa based artist Carmen McNall’s work balances intricate patterns and textured mark making bound by organic shapes against stretches of pure pigment. Her practice relates directly to the handmade in both subject matter and ex*****on, opening a dialogue on the relationship between people, their environments, and what inherently fastens us to our surroundings, examining the empowering qualities these places retain. The faceless figures in McNall’s work resemble Goddess like muses as they rest in dynamic yet effortless poses. Each one embodies strength, confidence, and wisdom alike.

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“Each type of medium carries a different meaning, visual weight and tension. I combine paint that has a transparent, ethereal quality with sand which feels tangible and carries a greater density. Sand is a physical object, yet its existence is a representation of the passage of time. It is the result of rock erosion and it is a material that continually assembles into new patterns. In the Buddhist tradition, sand is used to convey beauty and ephemerality through the construction and subsequent destruction of mandalas. Using these themes as anchors of inspiration, the works evoke impressions of dunes, flora, and natural phenomena while departing from a faithful rendering of reality. “ - Marina Savashynskaya Dunbar


Marina Savashynskaya Dunbar
Firesky, 2023
Acrylic and sand on canvas over panel
24 x 24 inches

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Have a Happy Father’s Day Weekend!
Be safe & stay cool!😎

Eric Fischl
“Men in Water,” 2018
Sublimation on mylar with pins and
pigment print on paper, Edition of 9
32 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches

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