KATE MCCARTHY MIDDLE ENGLISH

Kate McCarthy’s playful canvases stitch bright hues and soft contours into everyday scenes. Mixing acrylic paint and thread, the artist organizes a harmony of texture and chroma.

VLADIMIR KAGAN FOR DIRECTIONAL CLOUD SOFA

This Vladimir Kagan sofa has been freshly reupholstered with a forest green mohair fabric to compliment its rich walnut pedestal legs. The sofa’s fluid shapes possess a refined delicacy that only Kagan can offer.

SLATER SOUSLEY UNTITLED

Breaking form down into rhythm and pattern, while working quickly to capture light, Slater Sousley manages to achieve a vibrant serenity in his paintings. The way something emerges from the background of foliage questions how one technically and mentally renders an image. Painted against the setting sun, in the woods that Sousley knows from his childhood, the works reveal themselves as a merger of plein air painting and recitations of his past.

HUMBOLDT PARK BY TED STANUGA

Guided by decades of work, Stanuga uses his intuition to disassemble and remake a world of color, shape, and form in his paintings. These spaces contain a unique sensitivity that captivates time and time again.

Tracing Space, Ted Stanuga's first solo exhibition at the gallery, opens on Friday, September 14th with a reception from 6 - 9pm and will continue through October 28th.

CABINET BENCH DESIGNED BY BROWN SALTMAN ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN KEAL

This low-lying cabinet designed by the Brown Saltman company, exemplifies the smooth, casual refinement of Mid-Century Modern. Detailed with polished nickel handles that offset its rich walnut, this versatile piece can be used to divide a room and provide occasional seating when needed.

SOFA DESIGNED BY IB KOFORD-LARSEN FOR SELIG

IB Koford-Larsen's delicately shaped arm rests and legs demonstrate his dedication to minimal forms, made specifically for their function. This timeless Danish design has been reupholstered in a soft Holly Hunt Faux Fur, perfect for a stylish and cozy living room.

ROOT BY CLARA KIM

Weaving between design and art, Clara Kim creates one of a kind pieces out of her studio in Chicago. Created with a tree's root system in mind, Root's steam-bent legs stretch outward, folding up to encircle the viewer. Both an elegant expression technical mastery and wood's hidden abilities, Clara Kim's Root is a unique statement incorporating graceful form to create unique function.

CREDENZA BY MILO BAUGHMAN FOR GLENN OF CALIFORNIA

Baughman's name is synonymous with California's imprint on American midcentury design. Traversing six decades of design, his timeless pieces take many forms but the one constant is a dedication to comfort and beauty. This credenza exemplifies the laidback, simplisitic style of Cali modernism. A refined handle, composed of leather and aluminum, keeps the ornamentation minimal; while a subtle rise in the sidewall allows for a functional, yet stately back ledge. This handsome dresser can round out a warm bedroom or one in need of an anchor.

UNTITLED BY SHINNOSUKE MIYAKE

Through instantaneous and impulsive brushstrokes, Shinnosuke Miyake uses painting as a form of sketching. Looking through the viewfinder of a camera, he carefully selects an inch by inch square of his initial painting. Using the selection as a source for reproduction, Miyake expands on the accidental. To Miyake, this process is a form of irony within abstraction. Though the works may seem fluid at first glance, the paintings are realistically reproduced moments within a larger picture. Works in Closer combines his freeform mark making and rigorous technical painting, by transferring key details onto new canvases. Using this self-imposed process, Miyake produces new works of expanded windows of opportunities.

ORANGE TO GREEN PAINTED BANDS BY JEAN ALEXANDER FRATER

In Jean Alexander Frater's work, a lush use of color and fabric is smartly balanced with sharp formal logic. Her cogent formal organizations allow colors harmonize and glow. Her work focuses more on the pleasures and individual reactions of viewing. 

BRASS PEDESTAL TABLE BY MASTERCRAFT

This table, made by Mastercraft in the 1970s, features their classic combination of brass bases topped with glass. These minimal pedestals feature a near mirror polish that accentuates their delicate curvatures. Styled enough to coordinate with more ornate interiors, yet reduced enough to play with Midcentury Modern classics, the Mastercraft Brass Pedestal Table is a solid middle ground that can bring together interiors of many types.

 DREAMSCAPE II BY MICHAEL LOTENERO

Dreamscape II is summery, like warm twilight. Comprised of brushed, scraped, and poured paint, its surface has an entrancing transparency that is offset by seductively opaque moments. The picture's thick atmosphere parts right of center to reveal a creamy luminescence; meanwhile thick streaks of white disrupt its illusionist qualities. Pulsing with vibrant energy in every mark, Lotenero's Dreamscape II turns the compelling space of a dream into dynamic abstraction.

WITHOUT WORDS BY SARA PITTMAN

Sara Pittman’s abstractions present dreamy perspectives of fogged colors. Like a comfortable descent into sleep; Pittman’s work shows controlled use of warm and cool tones to create a balanced, yet striking artwork. Her diverse applications of paint allow textures to create and disrupt the visual depth in a painting. Without Words is an enticing display of thin, effervescent layers of paint contrasted against delicate scrapes and fine textures. 

CIPOLLA PENDANT LAMP BY MASSIMO VIGNELLI FOR VENINI

Possibly the most influential designer of the 20th century, Massimo Vignelli collaborated with Venini to create the Cipolla Pendant Lamp. Vignelli's unique mindset as a designer allowed him to refresh how glass was used in lamps. By focusing on the material strengths of glass, while giving attention to its natural beauty, Vignelli produced a series of lamps that are graceful, stunning, and functional. Made with hand blown Murano glass, this fixture utilizes the Sommerso technique. This allowed Vignelli to layer light diffusing opal glass with patterned glass to give the fixture its curved stripes. By giving attention to these details, Vignelli created a lamp that is more luminous than a traditional lampshade while being just as beautiful when not in use.

CIEL BY STEPHEN ELIOTT WEBB

Stephen Elliot Webb’s liquified contours guide your eyes through his compositions. A marbled white and baby blue are used to lay out a serene background, while stretched marks of navy blue tie together the canvas with added depth and contrast. On top of all this are splatters of light greens, dispersed freely among the painting. At a distance, the artwork's background billows and undulates, while up close your eyes get lost in the density of pours, drips, and strokes Webb uses to create his paintings. Ciel is finished in an elegant aluminum frame that accentuates its sharp lines and crisp hues.