Kara Goes to Spain! Almenara Art Prize 2023

ABFA Gallery Artist Nadine Robbins’ Kara just can’t seem to stop amassing accolades and recognition! This blue beauty has been featured as the cover of both the ABFA 2021 catalog, In Real Time and Create! magazine’s issue #33. Next up? This piece has been selected as one of the top ten finalists for the 2023 Almenara Art Prize (portrait category), a “non-profit initiative to promote artists and an online and social media platform to connect artists, art lovers, collectors, galleries and other prominent people around art world.”

Kara and the rest of the beautiful paintings in this initiative can be viewed at https://www.thealmenaracollection.com/ . The physical exhibition of these works will take place in Cordoba, Spain, from September 29th to October 31st.

Congratulations, Nadine! And best of luck!

NA CHAINKUA REINDORF AT POLY. A FLUID SHOW

Gallery Artist Na Chainkua Reindorf is participating in a group exhibition in Berlin’s KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art from September 17th, 2023 through February 25th, 2024. Her two newest Gedu paintings make their striking debut alongside an eclectic and inspiring group of contemporary artists!

Press Release: “The exhibition proposes a new, polycentric culture that moves away from monoculture (monogamy, minimalism, specialization). POLY. A Fluid Show brings together works by eleven international artists who work across disciplines, with painting as a point of departure. They address hustling, mixing, and queering, which overcomes and dissolves boundaries between countries, genders, age groups, digital and analogue cultures, and materials.”

Details of the show can be viewed here.

Congratulations, Na Chainkua!

Jessica Fridrich wins 2023 Arizona Highways Photo Contest

ABFA is pleased to announce that our represented photographer, Jessica Fridrich, has won the 2023 Arizona Highways Photo Contest! Despite going up against Arizona natives, it was our upstate New York girl that captured the winning shot in White Pocket, AZ. Jessica has been a finalist in this competition twice in previous years, and this year her hard work and perseverance paid off.

Celestial Cotton Candy

Location: White Pocket, AZ

Main Prize Winner in 15th Arizona Highways Photo Contest

The judges of this competition are professional photographers themselves, and the winning photo is selected based on resolution, technical correctness, and originality of composition.

Congratulations Jessica!

Nadine Robbins for the cover of Create! Magazine

ABFA Gallery artist Nadine Robbins’ painting KARA, (2021, oil on linen, 24 x 24 in.) was recently featured on the cover of Create! magazine Issue #33. Create! is a contemporary art magazine with a mission to democratize art accessibility and support new and emerging artists.

Nadine gave an interview on her artistic beginnings, her inspirations, and her creative process. Notably, Nadine commented “The cultural climate and the strength of women have always been the driving force behind my work. My intention was to express my emotions and opinions through others in my figurative work. However, my goals have shifted. Realizing that I was no longer enjoying my process due to burnout and fear. Something had to change. I decided to take three months away from all artistic endeavors and social media to find new, more satisfying ways to express myself.”

Nadine’s refreshed and authentic approach shine through in her recent works; her feature is very well deserved. Kara is currently gracing the walls of Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, and we highly recommend visiting this piece in person if you are in the Binghamton area!

Steve Carver Exhibits at The Corners Gallery, Ithaca

ABFA Gallery Artist Steve Carver is on exhibition at the Corners Gallery in Ithaca, New York from April 22 - May 20, 2023!

Some members of the ABFA team enjoyed a night out in Ithaca with Steve at the artist’s reception. Steve is a tremendous artist and a good friend to the ABFA family, we’re very excited to see other wonderful galleries recognizing his talents as we do!

Press Release by Corners Gallery:

Corners Gallery in Ithaca, NY is happy to announce a new exhibit called TIME, ART, LOVE, MONEY, which will be on view from April 22, 2023, through MAY 20. The artist’s reception and opening will be Saturday, April 22, from 4:00 till 6:00 PM.

Gallery owner Ariel Bullion Ecklund will be showing the work of Steve Carver, covering over 45 years of paintings done for both private and commercial interests.

From the late 1970s through the early years of the 21st Century, Carver was a practicing graphic designer and illustrator who produced work for record album covers (The Beach Boys, Kansas, Chaka Khan, Doc Watson, Maynard Ferguson, etc.), book publishers (Random House, St. Martin’s Press, Penguin Books), and magazines and newspapers (TIME, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Boston Globe, many others).

For the last dozen years he has pursued personal work instead, at first producing larger scale, typography focused pieces and more recently smaller scale paintings in a return to an earlier form of working. His paintings have been shown at Fowler-Mills Galleries, Santa Monica, CA; Herbert Williams Gallery/CFAC, Syracuse, NY; Corners Gallery, Ithaca, NY; Fred Jones Gal lery, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Carver’s paintings are in collections both private and institutional across the U.S.

Steve Carver is represented by Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts

www.anthonybrunelli.com

Totem, 2022

acrylic & alkyd on wood panel

14 x 11 in.

A full list of our available works by Stave can be viewed here.

Eric Green Paints Silence

“Eric Green paints silence. His images capture the melancholy of time passing. They challenge both perception and reality. He wants his images to ‘capture the transcendent beauty of being alive without redundancy.’

His place of human solitude is not nature. It's not a lone mountaintop with one ancient bristlecone pine. It's not an unexplored cave of a million years of erosion with sculpted fantasy formations. It's not an uninhabited atoll in the Pacific. This is a human-made place and not one intended for silence.” — James John Magner

Poolroom was recently featured in John Magner’s article ‘The Life of Silence,’ published in electronic column PTSD and Art. The column discusses the therapeutic effect of art and perceiving art on PTSD.