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Free Gift from Gallery Fifty Six

Just a reminder that Gallery Fifty Six will be giving away a free lithograph as part of the Palladio Group's Christmas Open House events on November 11th and 12th.  The print is numbered and signed by Rollin Kocsis, the artist.  All you have to do is come to the gallery and ask for your print.  One per person, while they last.

Images from 'Pseudonyms'

You will be pleasantly surprised at the high quality of art in the Pseudonym Exhibiton at Gallery Fifty Six

Created by 'Juan Rhodes'

Created by 'Vladimar Klozovitch'

Created by 'Anonymous Cliche'

See The Video of the Pseudonym Exhibition

Click the link below to see a YouTube video of the Pseudonym Exhibition:

http://youtu.be/j_CNUEc6S6U

Just A Reminder...

Just a reminder that  "An Adventure In Art" and "The Pseudonym Exhibition" will open with an artists' reception tomorrow, Friday, November 4, 2011 from 5 to 8 PM.  Twelve artists will present their art in Gallery A and B under different names, in the Pseudonym Exhibiton.  Included in this exhibition are oil and acrylic paintings on canvas, welded metal sculptures, wood and found object constructions, plaster sculpture, colored pencil drawings, and wall sculptures made from Great Stuff.

The drawings and paintings of  Billy Price Carroll are being shown in Gallery C in her exhibition 'An Adventure In Art'.  Mrs. Carroll was a well known and loved Memphis artist who had over 50 one-person exhibitions throughtout the United States and abroad.  There is also a collection of sketches by her that are shrink-wrapped and available for purchase.

Also in Gallery C is the work of J.C. Graham, John Sosh, Paul Clarke, John Armistead, Niles Wallace, Bridget Russell, Eli Gold, Jeannine Paul, Richard Hendrickson, Madison Sherman, Emery Franklin, Bryan Blankenship, Jan Hankins, Nancy White, Forrest Henry, and our new artist from Louisville, Kentucky, Joyce Garner.

Come and have a piece of cake as Rollin Kocsis celebrates his first year as director of Gallery Fifty Six.

New Painting by John Armistead

Gallery Fifty Six has recently acquired a new oil on canvas by John Armisted.  This painting is titled 'A Haven of Rest' and it is 30" X 40".  It is available for purchase.

Copyright John Armistead

Looking Ahead To December

Memphis artist J.C. Graham is putting the finishing touches on his exhibition for December.  "Sound Advice For The Parents of Unruly Children" will be a very interesting show that we eagerly await. Here is a sneak-peak of his work:

Copyright J.C. Graham

Do You REALLY Know These Artists"



Can you figure out 'who did what' in the upcoming Pseudonym Exhibition at Gallery Fifty Six?  The artists participating are Carol De Forest, Chuck Johnson, Madison Shermon, Niles Wallace, John Sadowski, Mike Coulson, John Armistead, Bryan Blankenship, Jeanne Seagle, Paul Clarke, Jan Hankins, and Eli Gold.  See if you can match the artist with the art, and win a free lunch at the Cafe Palladio.

Work In Progress



Copyright Carroll Sellers





Gallery Fifty Six will have two great shows this month.  The Pseudonym Exhibition will show in Gallery B, and the work of the late Billy Price Carroll will be exhibited in Gallery C.  There will be 'something for everyone'.

Billy Price Carroll was a well-known, and well-respect Memphis artist.  She truly had 'an adventure in art', and her work has been shown throughout the world.  Gallery Fifty Six will present over 30 of her paintings, pastels, and drawings.  Many of the pieces are framed, and there is a wide selection of her sketches that are mounted or matted, and shrink-wrapped. 

Twelve artists will be participating in The Pseudonym Exhibit, and each artist has created a work of art that is different from their usual work.  The artists have all selected a pseudonym, and the names of the 'real' artists will be revealed on Nov. 19th.  Patrons may participate and try to 'match' the real artist with their pseudonym.  The first three persons to get the matches correctly will receive a free lunch for two at the Cafe Palladio.

The artists' reception is November 4th, 2011, from 5 to 8 PM.  The exhibition will run from November 4th through November 26th, 2011

A Gift For Our Patrons

Gallery Fifty Six is getting into the holiday spirit.  As part of the Palladio Group's Holiday Open House, Gallery Fifty Six will be giving away a signed and numbered print by Memphis artist Rollin Kocsis, just for the asking. The print is valued at $110.00.   All you have to do is visit the gallery on November 11th or 12th, 2011, and ask for your free print.

This print is a limited edition titled "Is Anyone Comin' To Get Me".  This is a spiritual piece that was created in response to the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina.  The orginal, an acrylic painting on canvas, is now in a private collection.  The edition is 500 prints, and will be offered free of charge as long as the supply lasts.




Get a signed and numbered print of "Is Anybody Comin' To Get Me" free of charge
 by Memphis artist Rollin Kocsis



New Work From Argentina

Mariana De Marchi, our artist from Argentina, sent us over 25 new works of art for the gallery.  Paintings, drawings, and mixed media pieces are in the collection. There are several small delightful pieces that children will love.  These works, and others by Mariana, will be presented in Gallery C during our December exhibition.

Copyright Mariana De Marchi

Copyright Mariana De Marchi

Copyright Mariana De Marchi

Artists Delivering Art

Today the gallery received a number of pieces for the upcoming Pseudonym Exhibiton.  The painting below was created by 'Les Selin'.

The artists' reception is on Friday, Nov. 4th., from 5 to 8 PM

The event is free and open to the public.

New Art In The Gallery - Paintings by Joyce Garner

Joyce Garner documents her rich inner world (a world of acrobats, wanderers, animals, magic, city and forest) in large, vividly-pigmented surrealist paintings.  Garner has had fourteen solo exhibitions of her work since 1991. 



Cold Shoulder - Copyright Joyce Garner

 Joyce is a self-taught artist.  The painterliness and scope of her work reflects deep study of various forerunners - Cassatt, Matisse, Picasso, and Chagall.  Her ambitions for her work are shaped by how she uses art in her personal life; she prefers art which rewards extended meditative contemplation.



Eggshell - Copyright Joyce Garner



A native Kentuckian, Joyce's earliest influences were American pop culture, fairy tales, children's novels, Appalachian craft traditions and the lamplit realities of rural living.  Joyce describes her work as "a world of my own making.  I can enter in and really spend time there.  And when I'm in the painting, it feels like magic."

Virginia Jenkins Coming To Gallery Fifty Six

Gallery Fifty Six is pleased to announce that ceramic sculptor Virginia Jenkins will be showing some of her work at the gallery beginning in November.

Virginia Jenkins creates ceramic sculpture inspired by her love and concern for the plight of earth’s oceans and the paradoxical logic of society. Phenomenological philosophy, empathy, and self-realization are key conceptual components that guide her work and interests.





Copyright Virginia Jenkins



She has undertaken artist residencies at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada; The Mendocino Art Center in California; The Sages housed by the Inn at Sunrise Springs in Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Florida and is excited to fulfill a new position at Pottery Northwest in Seattle this January.



Copyright Virginia Jenkins



Virginia has been published in one of the ceramic field’s top magazines, Ceramics Monthly. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both juried and invitational settings.

She recently completed her coursework for an M.F.A from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

Copyright Virginia Jenkins

Coming November 4th, 2011

SHOWING IN NOVEMBER:  PSEUDONYMS



PSEUDONYMS EXHIBITION

In November, 13 local artists will change their name and their style for an exhibition titled 'Pseudonyms'.

Be sure to attend the artists' reception on November 4th, from 5 to 8 PM.  You will have the chance to meet all the artists.  Come and see if you can correctly match the artist with the pseudonym.  If you are one of the first three people to get all the artists correct, you will win a free lunch for two at Cafe Palladio.

 The Pseudonyms The Artists Have Selected

 Anonymous Cliche

 William David

 John Doe

 Rouge Dottier

 Gros Glasern Gabel

 Forrest Henry

 Vladimir Klozovich

 Jennie McGregor

 Juan Rhodes

 Harold and Scott Salgood

 Carroll Sellers

 Les Selin

 Evelyn Skinker

The Paricipating Artists

  John Armistead

 Bryan Blankenship

 Paul Clarke

 Mike Coulson

 Carol De Forest

 David Douglas

 Eli Gold

Jan Hankins

Chuck Johnson

John Sadowski

Jeanne Seagle

 Madison Sherman

Niles Wallace

 

The true identity of the creator of the works will be revealed on Nov. 19, 2011



Come Celebrate With Me

This month marks my first full year as director of Gallery Fifty Six.  It has been a terrific experience, and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to work in a fantastic gallery with great art and even greater artists.

Come and celebrate with me during the artist's reception for the Pseudonyms and Billy Price Carroll Exhibition on November 4th, 2011.  I hope you will have a piece of cake with me, help share my first anniversary, and enjoy the wonderful art on exhibit.

Gallery Fifty Six is one of the BEST commercial art galleries in the city of Memphis. This is only the beginning of great things to come.

An Adventure In Art

Gallery Fifty Six will have two shows during the month of November.  In addition to the Pseudonyms Exhibition, the gallery will also present some of the work of the late Billy Price Carroll.


Summer Snowballs -   Copyright Billy Price Carrol

Billy Price Carroll, a native of Memphis, has always been an artist.  From the beginning of her career in 1949, Mrs. Carroll's word-of-mounth painting and portrait commissions took her on a full-time endeavor of worldwide adventure in the discovery of creating.

Her works are now in collections in Mexico, France, Germany, Italy, England, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as in numberous states throughout the United States, including Hawaii.  Over the past 55 years, Mrs. Carroll held over 49 'one woman' invitational exhibitions, the most notable of which was in 1969 at the Taiwan National Historical Museum in Taipei.  Here career has been listed in Marquis Who's Who in America since 1976 and Who's Who in the World since 1988.

Art was Mrs. Carroll's life.  She lived it to the fullest.  Each day to her was a new adventure,  and each painting and sculplture was the portrayal of that adventure.  Her yearning was an insatiable search to capture her subjects' inner spirit, that perfect moment of delight, or that spark of child-like wonder.

Gallery Fifty Six will exhibit a collection of her landscapes and still lifes in Gallery C. The opening reception will be on November 4, 2011 from 5 to 8 PM.  If you would ilke to see more of art by Billy Price Carrol, please visit this website:  http://www.billypricecarroll.com/



Some Faces You'll See at Pseudonyms

Next month Gallery Fifty Six will present Pseudonyms, an art exhibition where artists will 'not be themselves'.  Each artist will select a pseudonym and create a work unlike their style.

Below are two portraits by 'William David' that you will see at the exhibition. The opening reception is on Nov. 4, 2011 from 5 to 8 PM.