Beth Urdang Gallery

"Mulford Onions," Oil on Canvas, 34 x 50 Inches, is a large-scale, elegant, very realistic still life of 2 onions side by side on a light green/gray ground. The monumental proport...

Mary Ellen Johnson is internationally recognized as one of the top Photo Realist painters working today whose extraordinary area of expertise is large-scale, unimaginably realistic, stunningly beautiful and delightful images of food. Currently available are this delicious slice of cherry cheesecake, a slice of cherry pie with vanilla ice cream, an equally gorgeous strawberry parfait sundae, and a bowl of mixed berries with whipped cream: Mary Ellen Johnson "Cherry Cheesecake" 2010 Oil on Wood Panel 38 x 27.5 Inches Note: This painting is framed in dark wood. THE BACKGROUND IS A VERY LIGHT CREAM SOLID COLOR WITH THE SHADOW. The artist has also completed many commissioned food paintings including the Canadian Government's request for images of 5 of Canada's favorite foods which subsequently became stamp images - and The Cheesecake Factory's two commissions for their corporate headquarters and the owners' Malibu beach house. A quote from the artist: “I make the panels large to give a monumental feeling to the painting when viewed. These large images not only confront the viewer with their size but with their tremendous sense of extravagance. My work explores the deep connection that food has with humanity.” Mary Ellen Johnson Johnson further describes herself as a ‘Precision Realist’ whose primary subject is food. Sold works include paintings of PB & J sandwiches, pancakes with blueberries and syrup, banana splits, ice cream, hot dogs, cupcakes, waffles, muscles and sushi, among others. Unequaled for their brilliance and dramatic depictions of mundane subjects with their connotations of nostalgia, comfort and tradition, it is also her scale, cropping and over the top technical skill that renders these works so overwhelmingly appealing! MARY ELLEN JOHNSON Born: 1967, West Long Branch, NJ. Education: 1989, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS: Beth Urdang...

"Hot to Trot" Oil on Panel, 6 x 6 inches. Painting of Chocolate Cupcake with Chocolate/Brown Frosting and Red and Orange Sprinkles on a Pa...

"Cherry on Top" Oil on Canvas, 6 x 6 inches. Painting of Chocolate Cupcake with White Frosting and Red Cherry on Top of a Pale Blue and Pin...

""With Blue and Yellow" Oil on Canvas, 6 x 6 inches. Painting of Cupcakes with White Frosting and on a Blue and Yellow Background with Polka Dots. This painting is not framed and does not require framing. There are two additional works in this series on canvas that work well as a group. There are 8 additional cupcake paintings...

"Untitled" Small Abstraction in Black and White, Pop Sensibility. Flashe on Canvas, 14 x 11 Inches. This painting has a very sophisticated sensibility in that it is purely abstra...

"Untitled" Medium Sized Abstraction on Paper in Cream, Gray, Black and Red. Monoprint, 30 x 22 Inches, Framed in White Wood. This monoprint has a very sophisticated sensibility in that it is purely abstract and consists of a suggestion of a gray grid on a cream ground with a powerful black and red free-wheeling biomorphic linear shape. The mark making was inspired by the artist's stay in Rome - where her then 10 year old son became addicted to Italian comic books -which adds another whimsical Pop dimension. Associations can also be made with Alexander Calder's paintings, sculptures and works on paper, and Asian art. Also available by the artist are canvases (72 x 60 inches, 40 x 32 inches, 14 x 11 inches) and a series of related paintings on paper measuring 30 x 22 inches. Margo Margolis lives and works in New York. She recently retired as Chairman of the Tyler School of Art's (Philadelphia) Department of Painting. Margolis’ continuing commitment to abstraction is as fresh and invigorating as it was in the early 1970s when she began exhibiting with the Brooke Alexander Gallery in New York where she had several shows. In addition her work has been exhibited throughout the country at numerous galleries and institutions including The Pennsylvania Academy of Art, The Renaissance Society, The Munson-Williams Proctor Institute and Halls Walls, among others. In reviewing the artist’s 1993 exhibition in the Beth Urdang gallery for the 'Boston Globe,' Nancy Stapen stated: “…eccentric, quasi-geometric forms and initial impression of simplicity belie this artist’s highly sophisticated grasp of paintings. These are multi- layered works concerned with the discipline’s core issues – transluscency and opacity, flatness and illusioinism, line and form, figure and ground, pattern and surface, structure and weightless pictorial space… these paintings may be analyzed up to a point. In the end, their process remains mysterious. Their appeal lies in their engagement with an inventive form language intrinsic to painting, as well as in their deft synthesis of quietude and quirkiness.” June 3, 1993 Current Chief Art Critic for the 'Boston Globe, ' Cate, McQuaid, wrote of Margolis’ 2017 exhibition in the gallery: “Her marks grab at you as insistently as a toddler demanding attention. They’re like a language made purely of punctuation, rhythmic and emphatic, let out of the duty of modifying sentences, freed at last to express itself alone.” January 6, 2017 Margo Margolis’ works are included in numerous public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank, Amerata-Hess Corporation, General Mills, Best Products, IBM, Estee Lauder, Miami-Dade College, Chemical Bank, and Wellington Management. She is the recipient of many awards including 2 grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, a New York State Council on the Arts Grant, and Yaddo and MacDowell Residency Grants. Margolis received a BS degree from Skidmore College and an MFA from Indiana University. She lives and works in New York. Statement by Margo Margolis: "While text and image combine to tell the story, it is the drawing around the narrative, the space between text and image that I find compelling. In my work, it is the space between, on the periphery, in the margins that has become the foreground. It is the charged environment that has become the subject. Equally significant and transformative have been innovations in process that have evolved. Discrete marks are de-contextualized, reassembled and photocopied. They are further manipulated by exaggerations in scale, repetition and excessive layering. I have introduced 'printerly' processes (carbon tracking and stencils) that combine with marks that are hand-drawn, hand-painted. These are layered over and under transparent veils of paint. The incorporation of printing methods has been critical both formally and conceptually. These processes underline the fact that this is a system based on a 'ready-made' language. They create an identity distinctly different from action painting, gestural painting or any notion that the artists' stroke is assumed to reveal his/her psyche. These are distanced marks and frozen gestures. In combination with what is handmade, they reveal an alternate translation. Importantly, these processes, in allowing direct reproduction point to the semantic mutability of the language. However, most important is the process of building, excessive layering, and the continual dissolution and re-materialization of form. The paintings have a physicality and material presence that affirms the medium and is in contrast to their graphic impact." MARGO MARGOLIS EDUCATION B.S. Degree 1970, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York MFA Degree 1972, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 2016 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 2007 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 2001 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 1997 Esso Gallery, New York, New York 1993 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Mass. 1991 Beth Urdang Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1989 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Mass 1987 Richard Green Gallery, New York 1980 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1979 University of Southern Florida, Tampa, Florida 1979 Miami-Dade College, Miami, Florida 1978 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1977 Connecticut College, New London, Ct. 1977 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Fabulous You, Tiger Stikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, New York 2011 Twin, Twin, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 2010 Spring Editions, Pelavin Editions, New York 2010 Group Exhibition, Beth Urdang Gallery, Wellesley, Massachusetts 2004 Analog Click-Click, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. 2002 Snapshots, Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside, PA, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1999 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA 1998 Accrochage in the Gallery, Esso Gallery, New York 1998 Brad Kalhammer, Nicholas Rule, Margo Margolis, Solo Voices, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND 1998 Art Exchange Show, New York 1998 Works on Paper, Galeria Martano, Turin, Italy 1998 Paintings and Monoprints, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York 1997 Esso Gallery in Torino, Villa Buttino, Torino, Italy 1997 Art Exchange Show, New York 1996 Objects by Some Artists and Architects, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA 1996 The Art Exchange Show, New York 1994 Abstract Painting, Carolyn Roy Gallery, New York 1995 Wayne C. Brown DePonton d”Amecourt Collection, Colby College, Waterville, ME 1994 Contemporary Prints, Quartet Gallery, New York 1992 Mentors, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1991 Presenze, Artisti Stranieri in Italia Oggi, Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy 1990 Contemporary Painting, Langman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. 1989 Very Special Arts Benefit, Christies, New York 1989 Ground Work, Valencia College, Valencia, FL 1989 Group Show, Shea Beker Gallery, New York 1989 Drawings, Lorence Monk Gallery, New York 1989 Monoprints, University of Maine, Orono M 1989 Inadmissible Evidence, SUNY Purchase, New York 1988 Group Show, Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, New York 1986 Mutual Respect, Vanguard Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1984 Nature As Image, OIA, New York 1983 Works on Paper, Bucknell University, A 1982 Group Show, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1981 Abstract Painting, Womens Caucus of the CAA, New York 1981 Ten Years Later, Skdmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York 1981 Exchanges III, Louis Abrons Center, New York 1981 Group Show, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1981 Sign and Symbol, Jeffrey Fuller Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1981 Five Abstract Painters, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1981 Group Show, Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1980 New York, New, Work,”Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1979 Group Show, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1978 Diamond, Margolis, and Ripps, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1978 Contemporary Drawings, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1978 Drawings, Pratt Graphics Center, New York 1978 Thick Paint, Curated by Carter Ratcliffe, Renaissance Society, University Of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1978 New Editions, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1978 Three New York Painters,” Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI 1978 Six Contemporary Painters,”curated by Marcia Tucker, Kirkland College Clinton York 1977 Works on Paper, Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI 1977 Critics Choice,” Joe and Emily Lowe Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York 1977 New Abstract Objects,” Halls Walls, Buffalo, New York 1977 Diamond, Jacquette, Margolis and Ripps-New Work, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1977 Painting ’75,’76,’77, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York; American Federation for the Arts, Miami, FL; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, O 1977 Works on Paper, Vick, Klaus, and Rosen Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1976 Group Exhibition, Towson State College, Towson, MD 1976 “Contemporary Approaches to Painting,” University Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara 1976 “Four Young Artists,” Bykert Gallery, New York 1976 Invitational, OK Harris Gallery, New York PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Brooklyn Museum, New York IBM Corporation, New York Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA Prudential, New York Rosenthal and Rosenthal, New York Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York Ivan Chermayeff, New York Lehman Brothers, New York Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL Amerada-Hess Corporation, New York American Can Company, Greenwich, CT Estee Lauder Corporation, New York General Mills, Minneapolis, MN Freed, Frank, Shriver, New York Chemical Bank, New York Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX Best Products, Richmond, VA Skadden, Arps, New York Stephen Paine, Boston, MA Davis, Polk, Wardwell, New York Roger Sonnabend, Boston, MA Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA Zimmerli Archives, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ GRANTS AND AWARDS Temple University Study leave, 1980, 1987,1994, 2002 Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1987 Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1980 New York State Council for the Arts, 1977 Yaddo Residency Grant, 1976 MacDowell Residency Grant, 1976 Indiana University Fellowship, 1970 CATALOGUES Painting ’75,’76,’77 Critic’s Choice Contemporary Drawing, Philadelphia Thick Paint Margo Margolis, Miami Dade College Exchange III Nature as Image Ground Work Presenze Chemical Bank: An Art Collection in Perspective Margo Margolis, Esso Gallery BIBLIOGRAPHY Richard Lorber, Arts Magazine, September 1976 Art Week, October 23, 1976 Henry J. Seldis, Los Angles Times David Rush, "Paintings with a Sculptural Character," Art Week, October 30, 1976 Allen Ellensweig, Arts Magazine, April 1977 Richard Brugin, New York Arts Journal, September 1977 Mary Delahoyd, "Painting '75, '76, '77" (catalogue essay) 1977 Hayden Herrera, "Critics' Choice," Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, New York and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York (catalogue essay) 1977 John Russell, New York Times, June 1978 Carter Ratcliffe, "Thick Paint" University of Chicago, IL (catalogue essay) 1978 Ann Percy, "Contemporary Drawings, Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (catalogue essay) 1978 Alexandra Anderson, Village Voice, March 26, 1979 Peter Frank, "In One Medium, Out the Other," Village Voice, April 9, 1979 Thomas Lawson, Art in America, October 1979 Karen Valdes, Margo Margolis, Miami-Dade Community College, (catalogue essay) 1979 Print Collector's Newsletter, Spring 1979 Lee Edwards...

"Untitled" Small Abstraction in Pink, Gray, White, Blue, Black and Red. Flashe on Canvas, 14 x 11 Inches. This painting has a very sophisticated sensibility in that it is purely ...

"Page 6" Small Abstraction of White, Black, Pink and Cream. Flashe on Canvas, 14 x 11 Inches. This painting has a very sophisticated sensibility in that ...

"Red/Yellow" Large Abstraction of Yellow, Red, Black, White and Cream. Flashe on Canvas, 72 x 60 Inches. This painting has a very sophisticated sensibility in that it is purely...

"One Morning in April" Large Abstraction of Black, White, Pink, Red, Tan and Teal Blue, Flashe and Collage on Canvas, 72 x 60 Inches. This painting has a very sophisticated sens...

"Small Abstract #15," Oil on Canvas, 8 x 8 Inches, is a brilliantly colored, lush abstraction, very expressionist and fluid in style in burgundy, pink, blue, and white. Holt has ...

"Small Abstract #117," Oil on Canvas, 8 x 8 Inches, is a brilliantly colored, lush abstraction, very expressionist and fluid in style in orange, white, blue, yellow and green. Holt ...

"Small Abstract #116," Oil on Canvas, 8 x 8 Inches, is a brilliantly colored, lush abstraction, very expressionist and fluid in style in orange, white, blue, yellow, green and red. ...

"Small Abstract #108," Oil on Canvas, 8 x 8 Inches, is a brilliantly colored, lush abstraction, very expressionist and fluid in style in shades of green, white and purple. Holt has...

"Peaches and Pears" 2019 Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 Inches Vividly colored Abstract Expressionist painting filled with light and energy, primarily in yellow, white, blue, chartreuse an...

"Three Purples" 2019 Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 Inches Vividly colored Abstract Expressionist painting filled with light and energy, primarily in white, blue, chartreuse, yellow, orang...

"Squiggles" 2019 Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 Inches Vividly colored Abstract Expressionist painting filled with light and energy, primarily in white, blue, chartreuse, yellow and orange....

"Strawberry Fields Forever" 2019 Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 Inches Vividly colored Abstract Expressionist painting filled with light and energy, primarily in white, blue/gray, burgund...

"Either Way" 2019 Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 Inches Vividly colored Abstract Expressionist painting filled with light and energy, primarily in white, blue, burgundy, yellow and lavende...

"Gulf Stream Waters" 2019 Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 Inches Vividly colored Abstract Expressionist painting filled with light and energy, primarily in blues,...

"Tiled Quadrilateral," Oil on Linen, 28 x 20 Inches, is a Minimalist, elegant geometric abstraction in two shades of tan. Exquisitely crafted, there is a jaunty and witty quality to...

"Your Photo Here," Oil on Linen, 24 x 20 Inches, is an elegant geometric abstraction of one black tilted rectangle superimposed on another in white which is barely visible, on a tan...

"Tilted Square," Acrylic and Oil on Panel, 18 x 18 Inches, is an elegant and complex geometric abstraction in black, olive green, light blue and brown. Exquisitely crafted, there i...

"Crossroad," Oil on Linen, 30 x 30 Inches, is a vibrant and elegant geometric abstraction in saturated tones of yellow and two shades of blue/gray. Exquisitely crafted, there is a ...

"Right on Red," Oil and Acrylic on Linen, 11 x 9 Inches, is a vibrant and elegant geometric abstraction of one bright red floating square tilted on a field of brilliant yellow. Exqui...

"Elegant Still Life of Stacked White and Gold Cups with Beige and White Flower Background," 2019, Oil on Canvas, 20 x 20 Inches (Unframed). Olga A...

"Elegant Still Life of Cups in a Circle, Purplish Hue," 2019, Oil on Canvas, 12 x 16 Inches (Unframed). Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant and beaut...

"Elegant Still Life of Turquoise Cup with Other Cups," 2019, Oil on Canvas, 13 x 16 Inches Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant and beautiful cups, pla...

"Malevich On My Mind" is a geometric abstraction in yellow and white gold leaf and oil on wood panel, part of a series of small 3-dimensional constructions and 2-dimensional painting...

"Gold Brick" is a geometric abstraction in yellow and white gold leaf and oil on wood panels, part of a series of small 3-dimensional constructions and 2-dimensional paintings by Cha...

"Elegant Still Life of Two Cups on Blue Chinese Fabric," 24 x 18 Inches. Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant and beautiful...

"Elegant Still Life of Two Gold Metal Cups on Patterned Fabric," 24 x 24 Inches. Look carefully and you will see the artist at work in the studio reflected in the sparkling surfaces...

"SILENCE," 23 Karat Gold Leaf and Oil on Canvas, 4 1/2 x 19 3/4 Inches Inches, is one of a series of paintings by the artist which whimsically addresses POP art's vocabulary of verbal associations and also is a riff on the 'Silence is Golden...

"American Splendor" 23 Karat Gold Leaf and Oil on Linen, 26 x 50 Inches, is inspired by the American flag, elegant and whimsical, also reminiscent of American folk art and in the sp...

"Aerial #7 " Mixed Media on Denril Paper, 24 x 45 Inches. Lyrical, vivid abstraction in yellow, red, blue, turquoise, pink white and black. This work can be read as a pure ab...

"Trace #6 " Mixed Media on Denril Paper, 28 x 40 Inches. Lyrical abstraction in shades of yellow, blue, white and orange. Denril paper is closely related to tracing paper and vell...

"Trace #14 " Mixed Media on Denril Paper, 49 1/2 x 42 Inches. Lyrical, vivid abstraction in red, blue, orange, burgundy, yellow, white and purple. Denril paper is closely relate...

"Trace #13 " Mixed Media on Denril Paper, 49 1/2 x 42 Inches. Lyrical, vivid abstraction in red, yellow, blue, pink, white and purple. Denril paper is closely related to tracing...

"Trace #12 " Mixed Media on Denril Paper, 49 1/2 x 42 Inches. Lyrical, vivid abstraction in shades of yellow, blue, white and purple. Denril paper is closely related to tracing ...

"Coming/Going," 2018, Oil on Panel, 24 x 24 1/2 Inches. Abstraction in shades of orange, cream, yellow, burgundy and blue. Susan Sharp is an outstanding abstract painter of biomo...

Beach Walk #4, 2018, Oil on 2 Panels, 48 x 72 Inches (Diptych) These 2 panels can be installed with a slight amount of space in between or with no space at all. Vivid abstraction ...

"Stars and Stripes," 26 x 50 Inches, is an elegant painting of the American flag in oil and 23 karat gold leaf, in the spirit of Pop art and reminiscent of American Folk Art. Also...

"Union Jack (White)," 23 Karat Gold Leaf and Oil, 26 x 50 inches, is an elegant, Pop inspired painting of the British Union Jack flag. Other versions are available in red and gold ...

"Viva La France!," 23 Karat Gold Leaf and Oil on Canvas, 32 x 48 Inches, is inspired by the French flag, elegant and whimsical, however it can also be viewed as a pure geometric abs...

"Vertical U.S. Flag," 34 x 18 inches, is a Pop inspired flag painting, 23 karat gold leaf and oil, elegant and whimsical, also reminiscent of American folk art. There is also a larg...

Charlotte Gibbs recently had the distinct honor of being awarded First Prize in The Roddy Compeition held at the Concord Center for Visual Arts in Concord, MA where she was singled ...

Charlotte Gibbs recently had the distinct honor of being awarded First Prize in The Roddy Compeition held at the Concord Center for Visual Arts in Concord, MA where she was singled ...

Charlotte Gibbs recently had the distinct honor of being awarded First Prize in The Roddy Compeition held at the Concord Center for Visual Arts in Concord, MA where she was singled ...

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Untitled, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40 Inches A brilliantly colored, gorgeous and lush abstraction, very expressionist and fluid in style in orange, yellow, aqua, green and white. T...

Small Abstract #87, Oil on Canvas, 8 x 8 Inches, is a brilliantly colored, gorgeous and lush abstraction, very expressionist and fluid in style, in white, red, orange, brown, blue ...

Small Abstract #63, Oil on Canvas, 8 x 8 Inches, is a brilliantly colored, gorgeous and lush abstraction, very expressionist and fluid in style in orange, yellow, red, turquoise and...

"Orange Red," Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 Inches, is a brilliantly colored, gorgeous and lush abstraction, very expressionist and fluid in style in shades of orange, yellow, red, white, ...

"Larger Abstraction (Untitled)," Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 Inches, is a brilliantly colored, gorgeous and lush abstraction, very expressionist and fluid in style in red, orange, yellow...

"Black, White & a Little Red," Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36 Inches, is a gorgeous and lush abstraction, very expressionist and fluid in style in black, white and red. There are 2 very re...

"Elegant Still Life of Umbrella with Golden Polka Dots" Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant and beautiful cups, plates, teapots, and dishes, but there...

"Elegant Still Life of Yellow Bottle and Teapot, and Polka Dot Cup" Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant and beautiful cu...

"Elegant Still Life of Yellow and Blue Cups on Polka Dots" Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant and beautiful cups, plates, teapots, and dishes, but th...