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ARTS NEWS: July 09, 2009
 Top Stories Burk Uzzle - Woodstock: 40th Anniversary
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY USA United States of America Life Sentences - Mary Porterfield and Frank Bell
Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL USA United States of America Linda LaBella, Barron Storey and Robin Gaynes-Bachman
Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA USA United States of America | | Burk Uzzle - Woodstock: 40th Anniversary
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY USA United States of America Laurence Miller Gallery joins the nationwide celebration of Woodstock�s 40th birthday with an exhibition of photographs by Burk Uzzle, the foremost photographer of arguably the most peaceful assemblage of over 300,000 persons ever. Approximately 25 vintage, modern and color prints from the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, as it originally was promoted, will be shown. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Life Sentences - Mary Porterfield and Frank Bell
Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL USA United States of America The Noyes Cultural Center (NCC) is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Chicago artist, Mary Porterfield from July 8 through August 31, 2009. This, Porterfield's first show at the NCC, consists of large scale works produced over the past ten years, selected by the exhibition's curators, Chie Curley and Barbara Goldsmith. Porterfield�s canvases depict large, panoramic landscapes that reference nature�s force, in the form of geysers, tornados and volcanoes of Biblical proportion. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Linda LaBella, Barron Storey and Robin Gaynes-Bachman
Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA USA United States of America Bert Green Fine Art in Los Angeles is pleased to present three solo shows running from July 9 though August 15, 2009 by mid-career artists, Linda LaBella, Barron Storey and Robin Gaynes-Bachman. Linda LaBella, who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, is having her second solo show at the gallery. Barron Storey�s first solo show at BGFA is titled �Cardboard Town.� Displayed with several earlier, larger abstract works from the 1980s, Gaynes-Bachman also traces an evolution using this medium over many years. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Richard Avedon : Photographs 1946 to 2004
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA USA As a highlight of its summer exhibitions schedule, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to present Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946�2004, on view from July 11 through November 29, 2009. Widely celebrated as one of America's preeminent photographers, Avedon was among the first to challenge the conventional boundaries between studio photography and reportage. Some of his best-known portraits�a young Bob Dylan standing in the rain, Marilyn Monroe caught in a vulnerable moment, Andy Warhol and his Factory cohorts�are the most iconic of the 20th century. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
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The Ruling Class
Alberto Sughi
 Back in April 2009 a reader of my Blogs for AbsoluteArts posted the following comment: "On the www.albertosughi.com website there is a very powerful painting called "Ruling class". Would love to participate in a discussion on that piece." Since then I committed myself to holding such a discussion and today I will try to maintain that promise. Possibly in order to understand The Ruling Class ("La Classe Dirigente, Oil on Canvas, 165x140cm, 1965) we need to place and read it in the context of another group of works also painted between 1964 and 1965. So let's start by examining the Historic Moment (L'Ora Storica), a work I painted at the end of 1964 and that clearly is a prelude to The Ruling Class itself. This is a triptych, 165 by 420 centimetres, one of the paintings that most reflect if not the world of Bacon, at least Bacon's style, clawing at the canvas, his very open way of painting first on unprepared canvas, with a great sweep of background colouring, that had a strong influence on me. I felt most attracted to three painters: Degas, Munch and Bacon. In fact, I then felt an affinity between them, even if secretly, not from the thematic point of view, but as a way of confronting the canvas, a great affinity between Degas and Bacon.
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