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Weekly releases from gallery artists.
Paul Humphrey
Byron Smith
JAQUELINE CEDAR
Brooklyn-based artist Jaqueline Cedar creates paintings and drawings that address uncanny scenarios where characters engage themselves and one another with sincerity and purpose. Moments of desire, self-reflection, and lack of control motivate postures filled with bravado and vulnerability. The figures in Cedar’s paintings make rote attempts to connect both physically and psychologically as their gestures are echoed and amplified by their environment. They have strong inclinations toward action yet limited mobility, often finding themselves absorbed by their own thoughts, yet compelled to engage with their surroundings.
Filled with a sense of impending doom and still uncertain of their purpose, these characters acknowledge the absurdity of their circumstances; some are distracted by the task at hand, others ask questions and observe closely. Each figure is not just the focus of each painting, but is also both observer and actor, contained within each frame while also appearing ready to escape from it at any moment. Jaqueline Cedar was born in Los Angeles, CA and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Cedar is an educator at several New York art museums and in 2019 opened the Brooklyn gallery Good Naked. In 2021 she had her debut solo exhibition at Shelter. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Hesse Flatow (NY), Ladies’ Room (Los Angeles, CA), Smoke the Moon (Santa Fe, NM), Petty Cash (Brooklyn, NY), Hudson Hall (Hudson, NY), and Field Projects (New York, NY). Recent press includes Artnet, Two Coats of Paint, New American Paintings, and Boston Voyager. Cedar holds an MFA from Columbia University (2009).
What If I Feel
Acrylic on wood panel
7 x 5 x ¾ in.
2022
$ 1,600.00 USD
Nethermead
Acrylic on wood panel
10 x 8 x ¾ in.
2022
$ 1,800.00 USD
CHARLES SIMMONS
b. 1939 (Big Creek Township, NC), d. 2020
Self-taught African-American artist Charles Simmons resided in North Carolina throughout his life. One of eleven children, Simmons left school after ninth grade and worked with his family to grow crop tobacco; he was later employed by the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company for 35 years.
Simmons’ early creative endeavors began in the 1970s with wood sculptures that were typically in the form of dolls given as gifts. After retirement, he became a dedicated artist, painting and carving a large number of works, many of which relate to his life experience and surroundings.
Asked about his inspirations, Simmons simply replied, “I carve whatever comes into my mind.”
A friend and neighbor of artist Raymond Coins, the two men often worked alongside each other; as Simmons’ motor functions declined with age he adopted Coins’ preferred medium of stone for his sculptural work.
In 2021 Shelter presented the first solo exhibition of his work in New York.
Untitled (Man)
Carved and painted wood
13½ x 12 x 8 in.
c.1970s
$ 3,500.00 USD
Untitled (Woman)
Carved and painted wood bed post
18 x 4½ x 4½ in.
c. 1970s-1980s
$ 2,500.00 USD