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Omi International Arts Center Announces 2015 Francis Greenburger Award Winners
Five Established Artists Receive the Francis J. Greenburger Award for a Total of $62,500
For Immediate Release
New York, NY – Omi International Arts Center (Omi) announce today the five artists who will receive the 2015 Francis J. Greenburger Award, a $12,500 prize that aims to honor established artists whose extraordinary merit within the art world has not been fully recognized by the public. Francis J. Greenburger, founder of Omi and notable New York City real estate developer, invited an acclaimed artist, art historian, museum professional, gallerist and collector to each select one recipient whom they believe to fulfill the mission of the award. The awards, totaling $62,500, will be presented in New York City on April 21, 2015 during a ceremony at the New Museum from 6 to 8 p.m.
The distinguished group of artists includes Charles Juhász-Alvarado, Steve Wolfe, Alison Knowles, Suchan Kinoshita and Malcolm Morley. These notable artists were selected by Ursula von Rydingsvard, Roland J. Augustine, Claire Bishop, Oliver Kruse, and Andy and Christine Hall, respectively.
“Omi International Arts Center constantly strives to foster an environment of creative exploration and professional opportunity. Each year, this ceremony is a chance for incredible artists to gain increased exposure for their work,” said Francis J. Greenburger, Founder of Omi International Arts Center and Chairman of Time Equities, Inc. “It’s our honor to award these individuals, who we believe are shaping the art world of tomorrow, with a platform to engage with an art-focused audience and earn increased recognition for their contributions.”
Award Recipient and Presenter Information:
Charles Juhász-Alvarado, presented by Ursula von Rydingsvard
- Charles Juhász-Alvarado grew up between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. He completed both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Art at Yale University. He currently resides in Puerto Rico, and is a professor of sculpture at the School of Fine Arts (Escuela de Artes Plásticas). His work investigates, through craft, the diverse socio-cultural influences, frequently alluding to his own heterogeneous background and the historical and political conditions of the geographic and imaginary spaces that shape his relationships.
- Ursula von Rydingsvard creates massive, abstract sculptures resembling wooden bowls, tools, and walls, echoing the artist’s family heritage in pre-industrial Poland before World War II. Von Rydingsvard has received many awards, including a Joan Mitchell Award (1997); an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994); fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1983) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1979, 1986); and exhibition prizes from the International Association of Art Critics (1992, 2000).
Steve Wolfe, selected by Roland Augustine
- Steve Wolfe re-creates worn books and used records, primarily from the 1960s and 1970s, that have influenced his own personal and artistic sensibilities. Working in the tradition of trompe l’oeil, Wolfe creates pieces that quite literally “fool the eye” on first inspection. These tattered books and worn LPs are tangible manifestations of a fertile moment in American intellectual history. Wolfe’s faithful reconstructions evoke an unexpected play between humble self-effacement and culture’s powerful capacity to have impact on one’s existence. Steve Wolfe’s work has been collected by numerous prominent public and private collections, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Menil Collection, Houston, The Dallas Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
- Roland J. Augustine co-founded Luhring Augustine Gallery with Lawrence R. Luhring in 1985. The gallery, now located on 24th Street in Chelsea with an additional exhibition space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, represents an international group of contemporary artists and also specializes in the resale of historical works, from art of the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Augustine currently serves on the board of several businesses, foundations, and humanitarian organizations including Bard College, AXA Art Insurance, and the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation.
Alison Knowles, selected by Claire Bishop
- Alison Knowles is a Fluxus artist who works across media, including performance and experimental book art. In 1966, Knowles’ The House of Dust, part of James Tenney’s mainframe computer work in chance based, or aleatory, art was recognized at the time as the first computer poem on record, and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968. Knowles work has been in shown in major exhibitions at the Tate Museum, London (1968), the Guggenheim, New York (2009), MoMA, New York (2011), and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2014). In May 2011, Knowles was invited to appear at The White House in An Evening of Poetry.
- Claire Bishop is an art historian and critic. She currently teaches Contemporary Art at the CUNY Graduate Center. Prior to this, she taught at Warwick University (UK) and the Royal College of Art, London. She is a regular contributor to Artforum and has had numerous books published. In addition to her criticism and scholarly work, she has curated exhibitions of art.
Suchan Kinoshita, presented by Oliver Kruse
- Suchan Kinoshita was born in Tokyo, Japan. She moved to Germany to study music in Cologne. She participated in Theater am Marienplatz (TAM) in Krefeld Fischeln from 1983 to 1989. She performed in pieces by composers including Carola Bauckholt, Mauricio Kagel, Dierter Schnebel, Gerhard Rühm, and developed her own works. She then pursued postgraduate study at the Jan van Eyck Academie from 1988-90. Kinoshita won the Prix de Rome in 1993 and was selected for the PS1 Studio Program in New York from 1993-94.
- Oliver Kruse is the chairman of the board of the Insel Hombroich Museum in Neiss, Germany. He is a professor at the Peter Behren School of Architecture, Dusseldorf, and has been a member of the board of Architecture Omi since 2009. He also maintains an artistic practice, working in sculpture, drawing, and video, which he has been exhibiting since 1993.
Malcolm Morley, selected by Christine and Andy Hall
- Malcolm Morley is a painter who has been acknowledged as one of the earliest innovators of “super-realism,” which developed as a counterpoint to Pop Art in the 1960s. Over the course of his distinguished career, Morley has defied stylistic characterization, moving by turns through so-called abstract, realist, neo-romantic, and neo-expressionist painterly modes, while being attentive to his own biographical experiences. He has exhibited across Europe and North America since 1964. His first retrospective, organized in 1983 by the Whitechapel Art Gallery, traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Brooklyn Museum.
- Christine and Andy Hall have been collectors of contemporary art since the 1980′s. Together, in 2007 they founded the Hall Art Foundation, which makes postwar and contemporary art works from its own collection and that of the Halls available for the enjoyment and education of the public.
The awards were founded in 1986 after a conversation Mr. Greenburger had with his friends, André Emmerich and Clement Greenburg, during which André said, “The best and brightest artist of each generation are known, but not to everyone. Ask the inner circle and they can tell you.” This statement is the inspiration and founding principle of the Francis J. Greenburger Awards.
Since 1986, Omi International Arts Center has awarded 45 artists the prestigious award and this year the award adds five impressive artists to its roster of winners.
The event is open to the public, and those interested must RSVP by April 13 by contacting greenburgerawards@timeequities.com. For more information visit: http://www.omiartscenter.org and select ‘Francis J. Greenburger Awards’ under the calendar tab.
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About Omi International Arts Center
Omi International Arts Center is a notforprofit arts organization with residency programs for international visual artists, writers, musicians and dancers. The 300 acre campus is also the site for The Fields Sculpture Park, a public exhibition space with nearly 80 contemporary sculptures; Architecture Omi, exploring the intersection of architecture, art and landscape; and Education Omi, an arts education programs for children.
Image credit: Mr. Greenburger introducing the 2013 Francis J. Greenburger Awards. Photo by Richard Lewin.
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