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Summer Pictures: Group exhibition curated by Isaac Mizrahi
Donna Chung, Jane Freilicher, Maureen Gallace, Maira Kalman, Adrianne Lobel,
Lisa Sanditz, Wayne Thiebaud and Julia Sherman
July 9 - September 12, 2009
summer hours: Tuesday-Friday 10 to 6 p.m.

The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce a summer group show curated by fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi. The selection of artists is highly personal, even eccentric, and fully represents Mizrahi's idiosyncratic world view. The artists include Donna Chung, Jane Freilicher, Maureen Gallace, Maira Kalman, Adrianne Lobel, Lisa Sanditz, Wayne Thiebaud and Julia Sherman. He has either collected or long admired each of them. Although extremely diverse in terms of age and aesthetics, the group is unified by an original, sophisticated and compelling sense of color and a sensual, joyful quality. Central to the concept is the Wayne Thiebaud painting representing a confection which he is making specifically for the exhibition A large mural-scale painting by Julia Sherman at the entrance will introduce the show. This rigorous and playful geometric composition by Sherman, a relation of Mizrahi's who was active painting in the 1960s and '70s, demonstrates the kind of art and aesthetic sense which influenced him as a young man.

New to the public are the prismatic landscapes of Adrianne Lobel who is well known for her theater set and production design in collaboration with such notables as Mark Morris. Lisa Sanditz creates bold and fanciful paintings which she shows regularly with Chelsea Gallery CRG. She shares a non ironic wit and sense of whimsy with the youngest artist in the show, Donna Chung, who shows her composite/collage works with Williamsburg Gallery Klaus von Nichtssagend. Maira Kalman is a gallery artist who is well known for her editorial paintings as well as those made to illustrate her own books. We will present a small selection of gouache paintings on paper from a Gourmet Magazine project on breakfasts.

Maureen Gallace and Jane Freilicher are both master painters of world renown. Freilicher, the ultimate colorist, recently presented a magnificent show on 57th Street at the age of eighty-four. Gallace, with her landscapes inhabited by prototypical architectural forms, shares with Freilicher a keen observervation of nature.

Mizrahi has designed, directed, hosted cabaret and shown us numerous facets of his personality and talents, but this is his curatorial debut!

SUMMER PICTURES: GROUP SHOW CURATED BY ISAAC MIZRAHI
DONNA CHUNG, JANE FREILICHER, MAUREEN GALLACE, MAIRA KALMAN,
ADRIANNE LOBEL, LISA SANDITZ, WAYNE THIEBAUD AND JULIE SHERMAN
JULY 9 - SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Julia Sherman
Untitled, c. 1970
oil on canvas
120 x 72”

Donna Chung
Untitled, 2005
mixed media
19 1/2 x 35”

MAIN GALLERY:
East wall:
Lisa Sanditz
Z Park South, 2009
acrylic on canvas
70 x 90"

North wall:
Donna Chung
Untitled, 2005
mixed media
20 1/5 x 30 1/2"

Jane Freilicher
Yellow, 2009
Oil on linen
32 x 40”

Jane Freilicher
Hydrangea, 2008
Oil on linen
32 x 32”

Maureen Gallace
Marfa, Texas, 2007
oil on panel
11 x 14”
courtesy 303 Gallery, New York
$50,000

Maureen Gallace
September Sunset, 2008
oil on panel
9 x 12”
courtesy 303 Gallery, New York
NFS

West wall:
Wayne Thiebaud
Neapolitan Cupcakes, 2009
oil on cradled hardboard
10 7/8 x 13 7/8”

South wall:
Maira Kalman
Men with Meringues, 2006
gouache on paper
10 x 8”

Maira Kalman
Breakfast with Sabine, 2006
gouache on paper
9 3/4 x 7 3/4”

Maira Kalman
Indian Bedroom, Rajasthan, 2006
gouache on paper
9 1/2 x 14 1/4"
NFS

Maira Kalman
Girl in Pink Dress, 2006
gouache on paper
11 x 8 1/2”

Maira Kalman
Breakfast in Kentucky, 2006
gouache on paper
9 1/2 x 7 1/2”

Maira Kalman
Herring and Philosophy Club, 2006
gouache on paper
14 1/2 x 9 3/4”

Maira Kalman
Breakfast in Jerusalem, 2006
gouache on paper
9 1/2 x 7 3/4”

Adrianne Lobel
Cathedral Tree, 2007
oil on canvas
36 x 36”

Adrianne Lobel
Glory Tree, 2007
oil on canvas
36 x 36”

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