De Luca Fine Art | Gallery
217 Avenue Road, Toronto, Canada
December 3 - 31, 2011
Reception: Saturday, December 3, from 3-6pm

"This spectacular exhibition is your chance to see 22 artists at once. It’s the prefect introduction of what the new year will bring. Don’t miss it!" This group exhibition runs from December 3 - 31, 2011 at De Luca Fine Art Gallery located at 217 Avenue Road, Toronto, Canada.

ARTISTS: Flavio Belli (Canada) – Janet Bellotto (United Arab Emirates/Canada) – Bruno Billio (Canada) – Emanuele Bonfanti (Italy) – Mauro Bordin (France) – Tony Calzetta (Canada) – Jerry Campbell (Canada) – Giovanni Cerri (Italy) – Giuseppe De Luca (Italy) – Daniel Diaz (Argentina/Canada) – Laura Fantini (USA) – Ciba Karisik (Canada) – André Krigar (Germany) – Jiri La Docha (Canada) – Ernesto Manera (Argentina/Canada) – Francesco Marchetti (UK/Italy) – Antonio Pedretti (Italy) – Vincenzo Pietropaolo (Canada) – Abraham Anghik Ruben (Canada) – Iner Souster (Canada) – Michael Toke (Canada) – Juno Youn (Canada).
 

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery, established in 2004, is now located at 217 Avenue Road. The gallery represents and introduces Italian and International Artists to Canadian audiences. In collaboration with select Galleries, De Luca Fine Art | Gallery introduces established and emerging Canadian Artists to Europe. For more information regarding this event please visit www.delucafineart.com

The Salmagundi Club, located at 47 Fifth Avenue in New York City’s Greenwich Village, will host its 128th Annual Member’s Exhibition of original works by artist members in the visual arts including paintings in all media, sculpture, graphics, and photography. This year’s awards will be judged by Alasdair Nichol, Fine Art Appraiser of the beloved television program Antiques Roadshow and Vice Chairman at Freeman’s Auctioneers of Philadelphia.

My artwork will receive the "John N. Lewis Memorial Award" during the award ceremony.


Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 - www.salmagundi.org - phone: 212.255.7740

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° GIORNATA DEL CONTEMPORANEO
Associazione Musei d'Arte Contemporanea Italiani

RECEPTION:  Saturday, October 1, 6-8 pm

Original works by:
Aimée, Giuseppe Barbanti, Maurizio Carpanelli, Laura Fantini, Orazio Grillini, Silvana Mascioli, Demetrio Rizzo, Alessandra Rossi, Valeria Ventura.

Click here for the Press Release (In Italian)

Circolo Artistico di Bologna - Corte Isolani, 7a - Bologna, Italy
Phone and Fax: 051 229490 - Website: www.iterarte.com
www.amaci.org

Gallery hours: Monday to Saturday 11-13 AM / 5-8 PM

One of my artwork has been selected and is on display in the "69th Annual Exhibition - Audubon Artists" at the Salmagundi Club galleries in New York.

Selections Jurors (composed of Active members)
Awards Jurors - Beth Venn, Senior Art Curator of American Art, Newark Museum, NJ
Awards Jurors - Nancy Haulenbeek, Fine Arts Consultant, N.E.H. Visual Art

Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
www.audubonartists.org

On August 27, 2011, the commission of the Fine Arts category of the Arts Festival 2011 in Bologna, Italy decreed: "2nd Prize LAURA FANTINI with the work entitled “Similar Features 5'' for the elegance of the image and the technical figurative-chromatic result achieved"

The second and third prizes will be exhibiting their work in a group show in Bologna in February 2012.
 

Two painting studies are on display in "City Life Exhibition" at the Salmagundi Club in New York, and one of them won the First Prize Award. This exhibition in all media is focused on life in an urban setting.

The Salmagundi Club, originating in 1871 as a sketch class in Johnathan Scott Hartley’s studio. It was cited in 1957 for its architectural distinction by the Society of Architectural Historians and the Municipal Art Society. Following a tradition of 137 years, the Salmagundi Club continues to serve as a center for fine artists from New York and around the country.


Art Committee
Chairman: Charles Yoder Vice Chairman: Annie Patt, Joseph McGlynn, Roger Rossi, Elizabeth Spencer, Ekaterina Smirnova, Travis Siewers, Guy Wiggins, Thomas E. Picard, Thomas Taffe.

Art Committee
Chairman: Robert Pillsbury
To be announced

Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
www.salmagundi.org - phone: 212.255.7740

Some of my artworks will be on display in "Artist Choice" opening, Thursday, February 3 at Gallery 364 "Bay Ridge's First Art Gallery & Studio". Show will be on view, February 3 through February 10, 2011

I will also be one of the guest judges for the "Artist Choice" Competition:

Guest Judges: Doug Schwab, Professor of Photography at Brooklyn College
Laura Fantini, Artist
Winning artwork from the "NOSTALGIA" show will also be on display.
Noshes Provided by Pierre of Circles Bay Ridge
Music By Annmarie Weisner, Violinist

● More info at www.gallery364.com >>>
 

"Laura Fantini - A Hyper-realistic Award-winning Artist

Laura Fantini is a hyper-realistic award-winning artist who specializes in colored pencil still life. Her artwork is defined by strong contrast values and highly theatrical compositions with dramatic lighting. “My flowers, seeds, or leaves are more than mere objects. Their tension, rigor and alm......" >>>

Original works by:
Anthos, Maurizio Carpanelli, Giovambattista Circosta, Dovevivonolefate , Georgeta Mita, Enacovici, Laura Fantini, Max Gasparini, Rino Moschini, Leda Righini, Demetrio Rizzo, Maca Sanchez

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Circolo Artistico di Bologna - Corte Isolani, 7a - Bologna, Italy
Phone and Fax: 051 229490 - Website: www.iterarte.com

Gallery hours: Monday to Saturday 11-13 AM / 5-8 PM

 

The painting “Similar Features 5” (image on the left) has been chosen to share the back cover (plus 2 pages feature) of the book from Kennedy Publishing, Best of Worldwide Artists, working in Charcoal, Pastel and Pencil.

"The two edititon book features some of the finest artists in the world and is a wonderful example of the stunning and varied uses of Charcoal, Pastel & Pencil"

You can take look inside or to purchase visit the Best Of Artists Bookstore.

Featured on the Front Cover
ARTISTS A-I Top left, Janet Hamilton with a detail of Glowing Through The Rain. Top right, Pat Averill with a detail of Light Catchers. Center right, Lyn Diefenbach with Golden Orb. Bottom, Chin-Cheng Hung with Courage.

Back Cover Artists
Top left, Linda Gross Brown with A Cold Walk. Top Right, Laura Fantini with Similar Features 5. Bottom left, Helena Hugo with Healer.
 

Art Committee
Chrmn: Sharon Way-Howard, Vice Chrmn: Robert Pillsbury,
Thomas E. Picard, Joseph McGlynn, Jacqueline Garrick-Waldman, John Mansueto, Guy Wiggins, Charles Yoder, Naomi Campbell, Roger Rossi, Elizabeth Spencer, Kevin McEvoy, Charles Bierman.

Jury of Awards
Chrmn: Robert Pillsbury
Alexandra Martin, Carol Kardon, Bill Creevy, Timothy Jahn, Emily Trueblood, Michael Hennessy,
Mary Ann Heinzen.

Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
www.salmagundi.org - phone: 212.255.7740

On April 29 at Gallery 364, during the April Art Competition entitled "Beginnings", I received an honorable mention for my colored pencils artwork entitled "Wedding Rose”
 

Three paintings from my cityscapes collection are at The Berkeley Carroll School for the exhibition, Art of the City: In Memory of Ed Martin.

Paintings and Drawings from the Bob Weiss and Sally Smith Art Collection and selections from Nothing Personal: A Suite of Poems by E. A. Martin
 

Art Committee
Chrmn: Sharon Way-Howard, Vice Chrmn: Thomas Taffe
Joseph McGlynn, John Mansueto, Kevin McEvoy, Ron Beuzenburg, Charles Bierman, Jacqueline Garrick-Waldman, Robert Pillsbury, Elizabeth Spencer, Charles Yoder, Naomi Campbell, Thomas Picard, Guy Wiggins.

Jury of Awards
Robert Pillsbury, Chairman
William Creevy, Timothy Jahn, Mary Anny Heinzen, Alexandra Martin, Emily Trueblood, Carol Kardon, Michael Hennessy

Original works by artists members in all media including sculpture and photography.

City Visions
Laura Fantini and Jeff Faerber

The Object Image Gallery is pleased to announce a two person show “City Visions”, of the work of Laura Fantini and Jeff Faerber “Although both artists are not originally from New York,” according to Bob Weiss gallery director, "their work captures unique aspects of the city that might be overlooked by native New Yorkers. In the eyes of these two talented artists the city becomes fresh and new.”
 

The Italian-born artist Laura Fantini, is mostly renowned for her detailed and hyper-realistic colored pencils still-lifes particularly flowers, leaves and seeds. This exhibition showcases her new luminous urban landscapes: highly theatrical compositions with dramatic lighting. They are still - not frozen - and loaded with life. The cityscapes display a highly trained craftsmanship combined with a great sense of modernity in portraying the actual surroundings.

The Bologna’s cityscapes allowed the artist to acquire a deep understanding on how to represent the architecture of Park Slope and Brooklyn through the colorful buildings, seasons, stoops, signs, graffiti, etc. The technique, colored pencils and gauche on cardboard, results into the most dramatic effect and makes her townhouses’ close-ups appear almost real.

“Laura Fantini believes in the synergy between hearing and visual reception, between images and words. She knows how to capture, with distinctive traits, the identities of visual diversity without neglecting any detail, certainly useful to get rid of any ambiguity of meaning, while she tends, at the same time, to determine, with a descriptive and suggestive research, the peculiarities of the pictorial creation, giving life to a project of composition, a truthful crossbreed of limitless figurations and meanings.” (F. Falsetti, art critic)

Laura Fantini was born in Bologna, Italy and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of her hometown, where she developed as an artist while being exposed to the city's cultural environment. Fantini's art has been exhibited internationally and has been widely published and documented. She currently lives and works between Bologna and New York.

Jeff Faerber grew up in California and studied art at San Jose State University and the School of Visual Arts in New York. His art has appeared in magazines, books, CDs, and websites. He has shown throughout the United States. His painterly depictions of New York are a skilled wedding of subject and technique. Faerber’s views of Coney Island document what
is a fast changing icon of the city.

There will be a reception with the artists on March 7, 2009 at 2PM.

Press Release "City Visions"
Italian Press Release "City Visions" (In Italian)

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By subway: 4, 5 & Q trains to Atlantic Av. - 2 & 3 Bergen St. - D, N, R trains to Pacific St.
By car: Manhattan Bridge to Flatbush Ave. right on 5th. 4 blocks.
Gallery hours: Thursday & Friday evenings 4 to 8PM, Saturday and Sunday 12 to 5PM and by appointment.

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By subway: 4, 5 & Q trains to Atlantic Av. - 2 & 3 Bergen St. - D, N, R trains to Pacific St.
By car: Manhattan Bridge to Flatbush Ave. right on 5th. 4 blocks.
Gallery hours: Thursday & Friday evenings 4 to 8PM, Saturday and Sunday12 to 5PM and by appointment.

Honoring

John Catsimatidis, Chairman & CEO, Red Apple Group; Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director, The Broadway League; and Dennis Swanson, President, Fox Television Stations. Greg Kelly and Rosanna Scotto, Co-Anchor’s of Fox 5’s Good Day New York, will serve as auctioneers. 

Big Apple Greeter’s live and silent auctions will occur during its ticketed fall event.

The event will be held at Club 101. The auction will run from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm and will feature a unique array of items donated by  generous supporters.

More info>>>

Reggio Emilia
Palazzo Sacrati  - Via Emilia S.Pietro, 27
November 12 through November 16, 2008 (3:00 - 8:00pm - free entry)

Ferrara
Palazzo Nagliati - Corso Giovecca, 59
November 19 through November 23,  2008 (3:00 - 8:00pm - free entry)

Rome
at Banca Profilo - Via Gregoriana, 40
November 27 through November 30, 2008 (3:00 - 8:00pm - free entry)


Prize Jury:
Massimo Zanello (Assessore alle Culture, Identità e Autonomie della Regione Lombardia), Rachel Ferrario (art critic), Marco Meneguzzo (art critic), Chiara Gatti (art critic), Velasco Vitali (artist), Giampiero Cantoni (Collector), Guido Podesta (Museum of Permanent President), Sandro Capotosti (Banca Profilo President), Milena Gamba (Profilo d'Arte Prize Curator).

click here to watch a flash slideshow

click here to browse the publication
(pages 36, 89)
 

Getting Around: City Transportation Images.
Works by Laura Fantini, Thomas Hagen, Robert Weiss, Warren Beishir, Simon Carr and Jeff Faerber.

By subway: 4, 5 & Q trains to Atlantic Av. - 2 & 3 Bergen St. - D, N, R trains to Pacific St. By car: Manhattan Bridge to Flatbush Ave. right on 5th. 4 blocks.

Gallery hours: Thursday & Friday evenings 4 to 8PM, Saturday 12 to 5PM, Sunday12 to 5PM and by appointment. Gallery will be closed Dec. 24 - Jan 3rd