Do You Think It Needs A Cloud?

DO YOU THINK IT NEEDS A CLOUD?

tel +1 212 445 0051 www.milesmcenery.com 520 West 21st Street New York NY 10011

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DO YOU THINK IT NEEDS A CLOUD?

tel +1 212 445 0051 www.milesmcenery.com 520 West 21st Street New York NY 10011

511 West 22nd Street New York NY 10011

525 West 22nd Street New York NY 10011

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BRIAN ALFRED Sizzling Summer City Sunset, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 50 x 60 inches 127 x 152.4 cm

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“Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus.” – Milton Avery

MILTON AVERY (1885 - 1965) Trees by Southern Sea, 1959 Oil on canvas 30 x 38 inches 76.2 x 96.5 cm

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WHITNEY BEDFORD Veduta (Avery/Tree), 2020 Ink and oil on panel 24 3/8 x 31 inches 61.9 x 80 cm

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SEBASTIAN BLANCK Hot Hat, 2020 Oil on linen 28 x 21 inches 71.1 x 53.3 cm

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TOMORY DODGE Angeles, 2020 Oil on canvas 16 x 14 inches 40.6 x 35.6 cm

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INKA ESSENHIGH Thistle, 2019 Enamel on canvas 50 x 40 inches 127 x 101.6 cm

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“I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.” – Helen Frankenthaler

HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928 - 2011) Groundswell, 1987 Acrylic on canvas 79 1/2 x 51 1/4 inches 201.9 x 130.2 cm

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“In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.” – Hans Hofmann

HANS HOFMANN (1880 - 1966) Landscape, 1936 Oil on panel 24 1/2 x 30 1/4 inches 62.2 x 76.8 cm

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“Do you think it needs a cloud?” – Jane Freilicher

JANE FREILICHER (1924 - 2014) Late Summer, 1968 Oil on canvas 80 x 70 inches 203.2 x 177.8 cm

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APRIL GORNIK Sea of Light and Dark, 2019 Oil on linen 75 x 105 inches 190.5 x 266.7 cm

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ISCA GREENFIELD-SANDERS Island, 2020 Mixed media oil on canvas 63 x 63 inches 160 x 160 cm

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ANNIE LAPIN Painting is Dog, StepScape 5, 2020 Oil and acrylic on linen 52 x 42 inches 132.1 x 106.7 cm

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“I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me – and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed… I would rather leave nature to itself. I do not want to improve it… I could certainly never mirror it. I would like more to paint what it leaves me with.” – Joan Mitchell

JOAN MITCHELL (1925 - 1992) Tilleul, 1977 Pastel on paper 19 x 13 inches 48.9 x 34.9 cm

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“One goes into the studio naked, and comes out bruised. Given the privacy of this medium, what help is there in one’s memories of sex, of geography, of nature, of people, of politics, or in one’s present experiences of them, for that matter? No, the issue is between you and the medium, the empty blank rectangle that so paralysed Mallarmé, and of which, Kandinsky rightly said, it is more beautiful empty than most finished pictures!” – Robert Motherwell

ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915 - 1991) Beside the Sea No. 41, 1966 Oil and acrylic on paper 29 x 22 7/8 inches 73.7 x 58.1 cm

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MICHAEL REAFSNYDER Step into Liquid, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 42 x 50 inches 106.7 x 127 cm

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PATRICK WILSON Large Weather Event, 2018 Acrylic on canvas 86 x 70 inches 218.4 x 177.8 cm

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GUY YANAI Hotel in Rayol, 2020 Oil on canvas 59 x 47 1/4 inches 150 x 120 cm

Published on the occasion of the exhibition

DO YOU THINK IT NEEDS A CLOUD? 10 September – 10 October 2020 Miles McEnery Gallery 511 West 22nd Street New York NY 10011 tel +1 212 445 0051 www.milesmcenery.com Publication © 2020 Miles McEnery Gallery All rights reserved Director of Publications Anastasija Jevtovic, New York, NY Photography by Christopher Burke Studio, New York, NY Robert Wedemeyer, Los Angeles, CA Evan Bedford, Los Angeles, CA Page 8 Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Photo credit: Evan Bedford ISBN: 978-1-949327-37-3 Cover: Sea of Light and Dark (detail), 2020