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Maira Kalman
Further Illuminations
March 4- May 1, 2010
Opening reception for the artist, Thursday, March 4, 6-8pm
Booksigning, Saturday, April 24th, 4-6 pm for Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce our fourth solo exhibition with Maira Kalman. This exhibition is comprised of over fifty gouache paintings created since 2005, mainly on assignment for various magazines and publications including Departures, The New York Times Magazine, Gourmet, Time, Travel and Leisure, The New Yorker and the recent New York Times blog And the Pursuit of Happiness. The work encompasses Kalman's signature subjects: fashion (Galliano, Balmain), still lifes (soda bottles, oysters, flowers, crown jewels), great hotel interiors, and portraits (presidents, poets).

In general, Kalman's style has become more painterly in recent years with the use of broad saturated color field backgrounds. She has also come to use photographs, both her own and others’, more frequently as the basis for her paintings, which is discussed at length in a recent issue of Aperture magazine.

This exhibition coincides with the major survey show of Kalman's work currently at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia through June 6, 2010. That show will travel to three additional venues including the Jewish Museum in New York where it will open in spring 2011. The ICA show has an accompanying catalog co-published by Prestel which will be released in April. We will have a book signing here on April 24th with Maira Kalman and Ingrid Schaffner, Chief Curator at the ICA as well as the editor and main author of the catalog. The public is encouraged to bring their own Kalman publications for signing at the book event.

Kalman has been involved in multiple aspects of art and design for almost forty years. She is self-taught and works in many media including embroidery, installation, photography, product, theater and textile design and performance. She has authored twelve children's books with text and illustrations, has illustrated the “Elements of Style” and authored two blogs for the New York Times, "The Principles of Uncertainty" which was subsequently published as a book and was the subject of our last exhibition in 2007. She is perhaps best known for the 2001 cover of The New Yorker entitled Newyorkistan which she coauthored with Rick Meyerowitz.

MAIRA KALMAN
FURTHER ILLUMINATIONS
MARCH 4- MAY 1, 2010

On that Day, 2009-10
ink, colored pencil and collage on vellum
two panels, 72 x 26 5/8” each

Israel Bed, 2008
gouache on paper
7 1/2 x 11 1/8”

Do, 2005 Don’t, 2005
gouache on paper
7 1/2 x 5 3/4” each

Three Soda Bottles, 1999
gouache o paper
10 x 9”

Merce Cunningham, 2005
gouache on paper
10 1/4 x 7 1/2”

Office area:
Royal Embroidery, 2006
embroidery on fabric
11 1/4 x 11 1/2”

Main Gallery
East wall:
Inauguration Angel, 2009
gouache on paper
9 1/2 x 9”

Eleanor Roosevelt, 2009
gouache on paper
11 x 8 1/2”

Democracy, 2009
gouache on paper
10 1/2 x 7 1/4”

Chair with Books, 2009
gouache on paper
7 1/2 x 7 1/2”

Women Only, 2009
Men Only, 2009
gouache on paper
8 1/2 x 8 1/2” each

Beautiful Things, 2009
gouache on paper
8 x 11”

Mary Todd Lincoln Bed & Breakfast, 2009
gouache on paper
11 3/4 x 7”

Thomas Edison Napping, 2009
gouache on paper
10 1/4 x 12 3/4”

Tadevsz Kosciuszko, 2009
gouache on paper
10 3/4 x 7 1/2”

North wall:
Jefferson’s Room, 2009
gouache on paper
9 x 11 1/4”

Blue Room, 2009
gouache on paper
8 1/2 x 11”

Green Room in Mt. Vernon, 2009
gouache on paper
10 x 13 1/2”

The Red Room in the White House, 2009
gouache on paper
10 x 12 3/4”

Pentagon Turkey Platter, 2009
gouache on paper
8 1/2 x 11 1/4”

Walt Whitman Rest Stop, 2009
gouache on paper
11 x 9”

Statue at Sissinghurst, 2007
gouache on paper
11 3/8 x 8 3/4”

Girl in White Dress, 2007
gouache on paper
12 1/4 x 9 7/8”

Floral Couch, 2009
gouache on paper
13 1/4 x 12”

Vita Sackville-West, 2007
gouache on paper
13 x 10 1/4”

Vase at Sissinghurst, 2007
gouache on paper
12 1/2 x 10 7/8”

The Flowered Bed, Sissinghurst, 2007
gouache on paper
12 1/4 x 9 3/4”

Fruit at the Ritz, 2005
gouache on paper
11 3/4 x 9 1/2”

Rotundiloba, 2009
gouache on paper
11 1/2 x 8 3/4”

Nabokov Catching Butterflies, 2009
gouache on paper
11 1/2 x 8 3/4”

Hotel Celeste, 1998
gouache on paper
5 1/2 x 7 1/2”

Luxury Vase, 2008
gouache on paper
12 3/4 x 11”

West wall:
Le Corbusier's Ronchamp Chapel, 2009
gouache on paper
9 x 11 1/4”

Oysters, 2009
gouache on paper
8 1/8 x 8 1/2”

De Soto, 2009
gouache on paper
9 x 12 1/4”

Ben Franklin’s Tea Set, 2009
gouache on paper
9 1/2 x 11 1/2”

Velazquez’s Girl, 2009
gouache on paper
8 3/4 x 11 1/2”

Pagoda Tree, 2009
gouache on paper
11 x 8 1/2”

Cupcake, 2009
gouache on paper
8 3/4 x 11”

South wall:
Woman Dancing, 2009
gouache on paper
11 1/4 x 9”

Accordian Woman, 2008
gouache on paper
13 x 10 1/4”

Woman with White Hood, 2005
gouache on paper
13 x 10 1/2”

Red Sofa, 2008
gouache on paper
14 1/8 x 10 3/8”

Kissing Couple, 2008
gouache on paper
7 x 6 1/4” L

L overs in Museum, 2008
gouache on paper
7 x 10 1/4”

Ottoman Breakfast, 2008
gouache on paper
14 x 10 1/4”

Jane Austen, 2005
gouache on paper
12 1/4 x 11 1/2”

Galliano, 2005
gouache on paper
12 3/8 x 10 1/2”

Guards at Night, 2008
gouache on paper
15 x 12 1/4”

Margaret Plantagenet Pole, 2009
gouache on paper
12 1/4 x 9 3/4”

Sir Thomas More, 2009
gouache on paper
11 1/4 x 11 1/4”

Royal Crown, 2006
gouache on paper
7 3/4 x 6 1/2”

Royal Pillow, 2005
gouache on paper
7 1/2 x 6”

Emilie le Tonnelier, 2009
gouache on paper
9 1/4 x 9 1/4”

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Israel Room

Do, Don't

Three Soda Bottles

Merce Cunningham

Royal Embroidery

Inauguration Angel

Eleanor Roosevelt

Democracy

Chair with Books

Women Only

Men Only

Beautiful Things

Mary Todd Lincoln Bed & Breakfast

Thomas Edison Napping

Tadevsz Kosciuszko

Blue Room

Red Room in the White House

Jefferson's Room

Green Room in Mt. Vernon

Walt Whitman Rest Stop

Pentagon Turkey Platter

Statue at Sissinghurst

Girl in White Dress