Sentences with phrase «signa gallery»

East Hampton, Signa Gallery, Lee Kranser: Paintings 1947 - 59, July - August 1959.

Ossorio speaks of his youth and education in England and the United States; attending Harvard; working as a medical illustrator for the Army; coming to New York and becoming acquainted with Jackson Pollock and other New York artists; a mural commission he received for a church in the Philippines; the difficulty of introducing new ideas into Catholic art; traveling to Paris; his association with Jean Dubuffet; changes in his technique; his work in collage; his affiliation with the Signa Gallery; abstract expressionism.

It was in summer of 1957 — by which time Guild Hall was devoting only three week periods to local artists — that John Little and Elizabeth Parker and I decided that there was a definite need for a contemporary gallery in East Hampton and we started the Signa Gallery - the Latin plural of «signs.»

In a partnership with Alfonso Ossorio and Elizabeth Parker, Little founded the Signa Gallery in East Hampton, an important venue and gathering place for artists and art lovers from 1957 through 1960.

Conservative East Hampton was really coming alive artistically, and this transition was sealed upon Ossorio's opening of the Signa Gallery in 1957 with artists John Little and Elizabeth Parker.

1957 Opening Exhibition, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY Artists of the Region, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Italian and American Artists, New York Art Foundation, Rome, Italy The 6th in a Series of Exhibitions of Painting & Sculpture, Executive House Gallery, New York, NY A Review of the Season, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY Figure & Vision: The 7th in a Series of Exhibitions of Painting & Sculpture, Executive House Gallery, New York, NY 1958 Vision of A Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Artist's Vision: 1948 - 1958, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY The Human Image, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY An International Selection, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY

1990 Magicite Informelle, Galerie 16, Paris, France Watercolors from the Abstract Expressionist Era, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY 13th Anniversary, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY East Hampton Avant - Garde, A Salute to the Signa Gallery, 1957 - 1960, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Three Generations, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY Long Island Collects, The Figure & Landscape, 1870s — 1980s, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

1959 Recent Gifts and Purchases, Yale University, New Haven, CT Arte Nouva, Palazzo Graneric, Torino, Italy Art: USA: 59, A Force, a Language, a Frontier, American Art Expositions, New York, NY The Animate Space, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY 3rd Exhibition 1959, A Selection of Painting and Sculpture, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY Ossorio: Paintings & Collages, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY

1960 New Forms, New Media, Junk Art, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY Gutai, International Sky Festival, Osaka, Japan Form Strukter Bedetuntg, Stadtische Galerie, Munich (Lenbachpalais), Germany Second Exhibition 1960, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY Third Exhibition 1960, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY Baroque Ensemblistes, International Center of Aesthetic Research, Turin, Italy

In 1957, along with Elizabeth Parker and John Little, he co-founded the Signa Gallery in East Hampton, which held summer exhibitions of contemporary art for four years.

The Signa Gallery in East Hampton was far from provincial: its opening attracted about 500 guests, among them Marcel Duchamp.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Hamptons became one of the most significant meeting - grounds of like - minded artists, who gathered on the beach, in local bars, and in the artist - run Signa Gallery in East Hampton (active from 1957 - 60).

1958 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (December 5, 1958 — February 8, 1959) A propos du baroque: Jean Degottex, Marcelle Ferron, Sam Francis, Simon Hantaï, Shirley Jaffe, Marcelle Loubchansky, Joan Mitchell, Judit Reigl, Jean - Paul Riopelle, Galerie Kléber, Paris (November — December) Some Contemporary Works of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (November 11 - December 31) American Symbolic Realists: Fifteen American Artists, Palazzo Collicola, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy (June 8 — 29) 18th Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago (May 8 — June 8) The Museum and Its Friends: Twentieth - Century American Art from Collections of the Friends of the Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (April 30 — June 15) American Artists of Younger Reputation, New York Art Foundation, Rome (opened April 14) The Evocative Eye, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, New York (July 5 - 24) The International Art of a New Era: Informel and Gutai, Osaka Festival, Osaka, Japan (September 2 — 7) Action Painting, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts (March 5 — April 13) Abstract Impressionism, The Art Galleries, Portland Building, University of Nottingham, England (February 19 — March 19).