CK Contemporary
Artists JosĂŠ Basso
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Conor Walton
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James Neil Hollingsworth 12 Rosalyn Bodycomb
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Maurizio Lanzillotta
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Stephanie Rew
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Ottorino De Lucchi
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Nick Patten
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Juan Escauriaza
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Michael Kidd
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CK Contemporary is based in San Francisco and exhibits its roster of noteworthy living artists at major international art fairs and prestigious art galleries throughout the United States.
By
focusing on distinguished artists who are often just emerging on the US market but who have already enjoyed illustrious careers abroad, CK Contemporary is able to offer a collection of original paintings that is on the leading edge of today’s art scene. Chris Kelley, Owner Lauren Ellis, Director phone 415.397.0114
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José Basso (Chilean, born 1949)
José Basso was born in Chile in 1949. He graduated with a Fine Arts degree from the University of Chile where he later became a professor of art. He was granted a number of prestigious scholarships throughout the years, including Amigos del Arte in 1982, Fundacion Andes in 1991 and Fondart in 2001. Basso’s first professional recognition occurred when he won the Valparaiso International Biennial Exhibition Prize for Painting. In 1999, his work was selected by the Worldwide Millennium Painting Exhibition in London. He has represented his country in several international exhibitions and his works are included in the collection of Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in Santiago. Basso was also honored with a commission from Queen Sophia of Spain to create two paintings for the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid. In addition, in 2007 he was commissioned to paint an important mural for the Office of Export Administration in Washington, D.C. Basso’s work is also included in a number of prestigious corporate and private collections worldwide. With his elegantly simplified forms and fine brushwork, complimented by his signature use of boldly contrasting colors, Basso’s evocative creations are universal in their appeal. 2
Opposite Page: 2 Casas con Estrellas Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches
Right: Nubes al Atardecer Oil on canvas 14 x 18 inches 3
Galpon Rojo 4
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches
La Niebla Que Viene
Oil on canvas
60 x 40 inches
Luces en Las Nubes
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches 5
Nube en Horizonte 6
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Valle con Luna
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Galpons Bajo Las Estrellas
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
The Andes
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches 7
Conor Walton (Irish, born 1970) Conor Walton studied painting and art history at the National College of Art and Design, winning the Taylor Prize in 1993, the year of his graduation. Since winning Third Prize for Painting at the Florence Biennale in 1999, Conor has developed an international career, with solo exhibitions in Ireland, Britain, Denmark and Norway. His portraits have won prizes at the BP Portrait Award in London and at Portrait Ireland and are found in numerous public and private collections. He currently lives in Wicklow, Ireland, with Jane Carney and their three children. Walton’s years studying art history as well as his Master’s degree in late seventeenth-century cultural politics, have greatly influenced his approach to still life painting, which is significantly more cerebral than decorative. He states that, “Everything I do in still life is done tactically, strategically, self-consciously. I end up trying to treat the painting as a miniature drama, a microcosm. I use objects that have meaning for me and try to get the whole painting to make a statement, to express an attitude. And because still life is an art of objects,...attitudes like objectivity, materialism, fatalism, nihilism, are easily accessible through the genre.” 8
Above: Veiled Oil on canvas 18 x 20 inches
Opposite Page: Still Life with Judgement Oil on canvas 24 x 18 inches
Right: The Song of the Dodo Oil on canvas 28 x 24 inches 9
Earth-Moon Distance Oil on linen 18 x 30 inches
The Runaway Train Oil on linen 11 他 x 18 inches 10
It’s the End of the World as We Know It Oil on canvas 11 ¾ x 24 inches
Fat Tails Oil on linen 15 x 36 inches 11
James Neil Hollingsworth (American, born 1954)
James Neil Hollingsworth was raised in Marietta, Georgia. Shockingly, with the exception of a few life drawing classes, Hollingsworth is a self-taught artist. His early adulthood was spent in a variety of disciplines. After high school, he served in the U.S. Air Force, and later worked as a licensed aircraft mechanic. He had his own typesetting business for several years and then shifted his profession again to work as an emergency room and surgical nurse for more than a decade. The dynamic stages of Hollingsworth's early career are linked by a common thread - each position revealed his penchant for detailed work and honed his appreciation for design and craftsmanship. In 2004, Hollingsworth committed himself to pursuing his art full time. Placing his subjects against a simple backdrop, he intensifies our connection to their design and aesthetic appeal through formal choices. A dramatic use of light, flawless draftsmanship, and clever compositions bring viewers up close and personal with the irresistible shapes and colors inherent in ordinary household objects. In his romanticizing of utility-driven design, one can draw comparisons between Hollingsworth's style and mid-century modernism. His vibrant interpretations transform utensils and edibles into powerful, visual creatures that beckon our prolonged enjoyment. Â 12
Panchito - B.25 No.2 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches
Opposite Page: My Office Chair, No.2 Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches
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Above: Black Grapes Oil on panel 16 x 16 inches
Left: Sunbeam Mixer Oil on panel 24 x 24 inches 14
Right: Big Drill Oil on panel 18 x 18 inches
Below: Tractor Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches
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Rosalyn Bodycomb (American, Born 1958)
Rosalyn Bodycomb’s paintings stand as both a respite from and a space in which to contemplate the chaotic world around us. Hyper-realistic images of place carefully observed - her work captures the deep intricacies of the natural world and beckons us to imagine our way in.
D.C. Metro I Oil on panel 27 x 36 inches
She received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award in 2005, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2007, and a Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2009. Her work is in the Permanent Collection of the Dallas Museum of Art and many private collections across the United States. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and spent her childhood in Southern California. She received a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from Texas Christian University of Fort Worth, and currently lives and works in New York City.
D.C. Metro II Oil on panel 27 x 36 inches 16
Coney Island I Oil on canvas 23 他 x 18 inches
Coney Island II Oil on canvas 23 他 x 18 inches 17
Maurizio Lanzillotta (Italian, born 1960)
Born in Campobasso (Molise, Italy), Lanzillotta spent his childhood and teen years in Santa Agata (between Módena and Bologna) moving later to Rávena and eventually settling in Spain. He was greatly influenced by the landscape of his home and of his adopted country, infusing his works with the sense of thick fog and diffused light he fondly remembered from his childhood.
Relazioni Cosmiche I Oil on canvas 27 ½ x 27 ½ inches
The semi-translucent quality of his surfaces account for the seductive and calming nature of his paintings. His detailed, patient, meticulous work, obsessive to the point of exhaustion, is achieved by eliminating any sign of brush strokes, smoothing out the pictorial matter and polishing the surface itself until he reaches that "early Italian" patina, superimposing successive and subtle layers of paint until he reaches the desired effect. Some of Lanzillotta’s most important artistic influences were Giotto, the metaphysical school of Ferrara (especially De Chirico), and of course Giorgio Morandi. But, his greatest influence (more intellectual than plastic) would be Mattia Moreni to whom he owes a question that has been the key to his own freedom of expression: "What is all this prattle about post-modernism when modernity has not yet taken place?" 18
Relazioni Cosmiche II Oil on canvas 27 ½ x 27 ½ inches
Cloud Looking Fish
Oil on canvas
59 x 39 Âź inches 19
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Opposite Left: Little Red House Oil on canvas 39 ¼ x 16 ¼ inches
Opposite Right: Paisaje Urbano con Encina y Nubes Oil on canvas 51 x 51 inches
Right: Sabbia Oil on canvas 39 ½ x 39 ½ inches 21
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Opposite Left: Pez y Reflejo de Paisaje Oil on canvas 28 他 x 24 inches
Opposite Right: Tree and Landscape Oil on canvas 24 x 6 inches
Above: Conejo y Nube Oil on canvas 51 x 28 他 inches
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Stephanie Rew (Scottish, born 1971)
Stephanie Rew was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland leaving for Dundee in 1990 to study at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. She followed her passion for figurative painting – citing Alison Watt and Jenny Saville as her inspiration at that time. As well as concentrating on life drawing and painting she also sketched the Dundee Repertory Dance Company during rehearsals, which started a relationship with dance and her paintings.
Final Touches Oil on canvas 19 ½ x 39 ¼ inches
After graduating, her career path took her to Brighton. The move led to a partnership with the John Lewis Department Store, which took 50 original drawings of her dancers to sell at their flagship Oxford Street Store. The funds raised by this, in turn, helped her put together her first solo show at the Sussex Arts Club. The pursuit of gallery representation took her to London in 1998, where she held the first of three successful exhibitions before moving back to Edinburgh in 2002. She now lives with her husband and two children and works full time as a painter. She continues to widen her audience, winning the Elizabeth Greenshields Award in 1995, and the RGI New Artist Award in 2009 and acquiring an ever growing list of corporate and private collectors. 24
Opposite Page: Recline in Green Kimono Oil on canvas 39 ¼ x 27 ½ inches
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Ottorino De Lucchi (Italian, born 1951)
With a degree in Chemistry and Pharmacy, De Lucchi’s prestigious career as a university professor and researcher stands out above all in the brief notes of his personal background. There is no conflict between his work and his art, as his experience as a chemist produces his ability to observe nature with serenity and tranquility - qualities which are apparent in his baskets of fruit and his unusual vases with their delicate flowers, standing out against a uniform background, while light flows through them and highlights their profile with a very bright outline. His compositions are made up of very few elements, an expression of modernity, far from the complicated opulence of the Baroque. A single object attracts our attention, revealing its intimate beauty, and we ask ourselves what is so strange, so unusual and yet so familiar about them? A turning point in his career came when De Lucchi discovered the drybrush works of Andrew Wyeth. His scientific spirit drove him to conduct a long series of experiments, coming up with a technique which is based on a similar underlying idea but entirely original in terms of how it is executed. However, in both artist’s work we can identify the essential qualities of simplicity, precision, conciseness and consistency. 26
Domenica di Dicembre Drybrush watercolor on board 14 ½ x 14 ½ inches
Per Novembre Drybrush watercolor on board 14 x 14 inches
Fine Agosto Drybrush watercolor on board 14 ¼ x 14 ¼ inches 27
Pomeriggio di Dicembre
Dopo le Ferie Drybrush watercolor on board 10 x 14 ¾ inches 28
Ultimi Caldi Drybrush watercolor on board 20 x 28 ¾ inches
Drybrush watercolor on board
4 ¾ x 13 ½ inches
Primo Ottobre Drybrush watercolor on board 14 ¼ x 20 inches
In Inverno
Drybrush watercolor on board
14 ½ x 20 inches 29
Nick Patten (American, born 1953)
Nick Patten grew up in Troy, New York, near where he completed a degree in Studio Art at the college of St. Rose. After some time in New York City and Cape Cod, he returned to the Hudson Valley area where he now paints in a private studio behind his house. His works can be found in private collections throughout North America and Europe, including the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, and the Print Club of Albany Permanent Collection. Patten begins the process of creating his compositions from photographs, but states that, “The photos are just a starting point. I use what I call the ‘process of exclusion,’ which means I sort through what’s on the film and take out all extraneous objects, sometimes adding things from my imagination. With the design in place, I then work to create a balance, harnessing the bold contrasts of light and shadow to reveal the quiet drama in an everyday scene.” Patten’s hauntingly still, calm and serene paintings often leave viewers with a sense of wistful nostalgia. However, he says, “I don’t put any narrative into my work. I don’t try to manipulate the observer’s emotions." 30
Within Oil on panel 11 x 14 inches
Front Parlor Oil on panel 11 x 14 inches
Order Oil on canvas 28 x 22 inches
Everything Here Oil on canvas 28 x 22 inches 31
A Day Like This One Oil on panel 50 x 40 inches 32
Far Right: Now and Then Oil on canvas 28 x 22 inches
Sometimes Never Oil on panel 26 x 24 inches
White Rocker Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches 33
Juan Escauriaza (Spanish, born 1961)
Juan Escauriaza was born in Madrid in 1961. He has a PhD in Geological Sciences and a postgraduate degree in Hydro-Geology and Paleontology. Though he worked for ten years as a geologist with several important companies in Spain, his true passion was always for art and in 1994 he dedicated himself solely to painting. Since then, he has had over sixteen solo exhibitions, numerous group shows and a major retrospective sponsored by the City Hall of Madrid. His extraordinary critical and commercial success makes it even harder to believe that Escauriaza is an entirely self taught artist. Though he still resides in Spain, Escauriaza’s work is focused on the American landscape. He visits the US frequently and studies his surroundings, sizing up his chosen milieu for subject matter. Inevitably, he is drawn to those elements of the landscape that many of us might pass by without registering a second glance. By way of acrylic brushed on linen with masterful prowess, Escauriaza reminds his viewers of the poetry of place and the beauty of the prosaic.
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Above: A Good Friend Acrylic on linen 51 ¼ x 63 ¾ inches
Opposite Top Right: The Red Box Acrylic on linen 32 x 51 ¼ inches
Opposite Left: On the Ramp Acrylic on linen 51 ¼ x 29 ½ inches
Opposite Bottom Right: Hot Day Acrylic on linen 38 ¼ x 63 ¾ inches
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Michael Kidd (English, born 1937)
Michael Kidd was born in London in 1937. He studied at Wimbledon Art School and at the Royal College of Art, where his fellow pupils included David Hockney. His final year there was spent at the RCA's embryonic film school, where he studied alongside the nowrenowned film director Ridley Scott. For many years he worked as a film director in the advertising industry, directing commercials and corporate films for British Airways, Coca Cola, Lloyds and Barclays Bank, and Ford Motor Company, among others. His work in this field has won many awards. Kidd turned to painting again in 1981 and has since devoted all his time to it, exhibiting regularly throughout the UK since the 1990’s. All of Michael's work shows a strong imaginative streak, quirky at times, surreal at others. His work is highly distinctive and possesses an unworldly quality with a playful sense of mystery, occasionally bordering on the abstract.
Above: Time Passing By Oil on panel 23 ½ x 31 ½ inches
Right: Chrysler Night Acrylic on panel 24 x 32 inches 36
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