Rodolfo Abularach
Peter Agostini
Karel Appel
Thomas Beckman
Seymour Boardman
Ilya Bolotowsky
Ernest Briggs
Lawrence Calcagno
Nicolas Carone
Perez Celis
Bruce Checefsky
Nassos Daphnis
Haydn Davies
Lynne Drexler
Friedel Dzubas
Amaranth Ehrenhalt
Claire Falkenstein
Agustin Fernandez
Joseph Fiore
John Hultberg
Carol Hunt
Buffie Johnson
Albert Kotin
Ibram Lassaw
Jenny Lee
Martee Levi
Michael Loew
William Manning
Jeanne Miles
Leonard Nelson
Louise Nevelson
Tom Nonn
Jeanne Reynal
Misha Reznikoff
Richards Ruben
William Saroyan
William Scharf
Ethel Schwabacher
Thomas Sills
Nancy Steinson
Antoni Tapies
Yvonne Thomas
Erik Van der Grijn
Wilfrid Zogbaum
ODDS & ENDS

HOMAGE TO SEYMOUR BOARDMAN
Sy Boardman / Paintings & friends of Sy
Lawrence Calcagno, Burt Hasen, John Hultberg, William Manning and Richards Ruben
December 10th, 2005 through March 4th, 2006

Boardman, Seymour - passed away October 3rd, age 84. A productive and widely respected abstract artist represented in numerous museum and private collections. An artist who expressed his direct experience and willingness to take risks in the pursuit of ambitious painting. He exhibited with Martha Jackson, Stephen Radich and A.M. Sachs. Since 1984 he has been represented by the Anita Shapolsky Gallery. He will be greatly missed by the artists, staff and all others who were lucky enough to meet him. I grieve deeply at the loss of a good friend and a truly great artist the knowledgeable art world will one day appreciate for his independence and excellence.

Initially, in the freely brushed manner of abstract expressionism Boardman gradually eliminated the arbitrary aspects of his work until only straight lines and two or three areas of flat sometimes somber, tones remained. He could hardly have achieved more with less.
In a career that was steady and determined, Seymour Boardman created paintings that are unique, while avoiding fashion and trends. His work stands alone because it derives from the Romantic landscape previously articulated by Avery and early Rothko (who was a friend) and later developed into almost hard edged painting. Seymour Boardman’s paintings are objects for contemplation. This memorial exhibition exposes several decades of Boardman’s oeuvre. An implicit grid has served as an understructure of his paintings throughout the years except for a period in the 60’s when he used few intense colors on raw cotton with hand drawn perfect lines that sometimes formed a polygon. This gave him another attack element, an underlying structure of interest to support and give point to his sensuous and precisely weighted color.

He did a body of black and white in the early 70’s – using only black acrylic on a white gesso ground – a compositional motive emerged as be reduced a complicated image to its essence. The painted areas became the negative space while the original white ground became bold jagged lines piercing the blackness award for one of these paintings. Boardman’s canvas remains flat because of its right – angled edges, but the color planes often seem to bend and twist in space. The slight roughness of the lines, softening the plane edges without lessening the impact of the image, saves the painting from mechanical precision. Strangely, disturbing canvases result from his explorations of mental expectation, and they are no less profound because they are quiet and beautiful.

Boardman’s spontaneous works on paper exhibits energetic vigor in attacking the surface with a concentration on strong and overlapping oil stick marks, maximizing his sense of palpable shallow space. In the 70’s and 80’s paintings were large with rectangular forms and working to the edge of the canvas. The 90’s were mostly oil stick colorful, playful, expressionistic works.

Seymour Boardman is represented in many private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Newark Museum, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Gallery Beyeler, Switzerland; New York University, NY; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Stichting Yellow Fellow Museum, Woudrichem, Netherlands, etc.

Gallery Hours: Tue – Sat, 11 – 6 pm.

A memorial exhibition will be held at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery December 10th, 2005 – March 4th, 2006.
Anita Shapolsky

If you wish to be contacted via email about our future exhibitions, please contact us at ashapolsky@nyc.rr.com.

Seymour Boardman
Untitled, 1955
Oil on canvas, 56" x 40"