Works of Art: Bram van Velde

Bram van Velde

(Dutch, 1895 – 1981)

Works of art by Bram van Velde are available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.

Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.

Untitled, 1970s

Lithograph, 55/90

18 x 22 inches

$ 975

Untitled, 1970s

Lithograph, 87/100, 22 x 18 in.

$ 1,100

Works of art by Bram van Velde are available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.

Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.

Biography: Bram van Velde

BRAM VAN VELDE (Dutch, 1895-1981)
(in picture with Dutch painters Kees van Bohemen, left, and Corneille, right)

In Europe, Bram van Velde is a legendary mid-century modernist. He moved to Paris in 1925 and spent most of his active career there. He’s a main representative of Art Informel, a 1940s-1950s European equivalent of Abstract Expressionism. Van Velde in the 1940s arrived at his mature, non-objective style, which consists of dynamic lines that form fluid shapes, often with a vertical pull, amounting to gentle, somewhat introverted but energetic paintings. Lithography was an important part of Van Velde’s oeuvre. Despite his relationship to Abstract Expressionism, 1940s and 1960s exhibitions at New York’s Samuel M. Kootz and Knoedler galleries were unsuccessful. A 1968 show at Knoedler did, however, receive critical acclaim. Van Velde’s work is major museums worldwide, including Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and London’s Tate Gallery. Van Velde’s 1989 Centre Pompidou retrospective also traveled to Spain and The Netherlands.

Salon III: January 15- February 4, 2009

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Untitled, 1978
Lithograph, 48/100
$ 1,100/SOLD

if ART Gallery

presents

SALON III: The Print Exhibition

January 15 – February 4, 2009

if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. 29205

Reception: Thursday, Jan. 15, 5 – 10 p.m.

Opening Hours:

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

& by appointment

Printmaking Demonstrations:

Sunday, Jan. 18, 3 – 5 p.m., Marcelo Novo, Print Gocco

Sunday, Jan. 25, 3 – 5 p.m., Phil Garrett, Monotype

Saturday, Jan. 31, 3 – 5 p.m., H. Brown Thornton, Photo Transfer

Sunday, Feb. 1, 3 – 5 p.m., Steven Chapp, Linocut & Photopolymer Prints

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 255-0068/ (803) 238-2351 – if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com

For its January 2009 exhibition, if ART Gallery presents Salon III, an exhibition of prints by gallery artists at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. The opening reception will be Thursday, January 15, 2009, 5 – 10 p.m. The exhibition will be installed salon-style at the gallery’s first floor and continues if ART’s salon-style exhibitions; in December 2008, Salon I & II took place simultaneously at the gallery and Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia.

Among the printmaking techniques represented in the exhibition are etchings, dry points, lithographs, woodcuts, linocuts, photopolymer prints, embossings, monotypes, silkscreens and photo transfers.

During the exhibition, gallery artists Steven Chapp of Easley, S.C., Phil Garrett of Greenville, S.C., Brown Thornton of Aiken, S.C., and Marcelo Novo of Columbia will give demonstrations of various printmaking techniques. For times and demonstrated techniques, see above.

Artists in the exhibition include Karel Appel, Jeri Burdick, Carl Blair, Lynn Chadwick, Steven Chapp, Corneille, Jeff Donovan, Jacques Doucet, Phil Garrett, Herbert Gentry, Tonya Gregg, John Hultberg, Richard Hunt, Sjaak Korsten, Lucebert, Reiner Mährlein, Sam Middleton, Eric Miller, Joan Mitchell, Dorothy Netherland, Marcelo Novo, Hannes Postma, Edward Rice, Anton Rooskens, Kees Salentijn, Laura Spong, Brown Thornton, Bram van Velde, Katie Walker, David Yaghjian and Paul Yanko.