{"id":864,"date":"2015-07-29T18:35:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T00:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/FOM\/?p=864"},"modified":"2015-08-20T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T19:42:46","slug":"postwar-new-mexico-modernists-karan-rhulen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/news\/event-press-releases\/postwar-new-mexico-modernists-karan-rhulen","title":{"rendered":"Karan Rhulen Gallery \u2013 <em>Postwar New Mexico Modernists<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Fe, NM\u00a0 | \u00a0July 29, 2015<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT: Tim Squires<br \/>505.820.0807<br \/> <a href=\"mailto:info@karanruhlen.com\">info@karanruhlen.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>NEW MEXICO MODERNIST AFTER WORLD WAR II<\/h5>\n<p>Janet Lippincott, Beatrice Mandelman, and Louis Ribak <br \/> Exhibition of 25 paintings and original lithographs<br \/> September 1 \u2013 30, 2015<br \/> Karan Ruhlen Gallery, 225 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501<br \/>Visuals &amp; Curriculum Vitae online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karankaranruhlen.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.karankaranruhlen.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like the post-World War I generation of modernists, this second generation was reared and educated in the fertile art communities of the East and West Coasts and Europe. Louis Ribak and Janet Lippincott served in World War II, taking up residence in New Mexico thereafter and in some cases using their GI Bill benefits to study with the first generation of New Mexico modernists. Others were drawn to the state by the first generation, including Florence Pierce who studied with Emil Bisttram, Earl Stroh who studied with Andrew Dasburg and Tom Benrimo; and Lumpkins with Bisttram and Raymond Jonson. Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak were encouraged to move to New Mexico by John Sloan.<\/p>\n<p>What each of the modernists has in common is a commitment to authentic self-expression using color, line, space and form. Many abstracted New Mexico\u2019s evocative earth elements, including Lippincott and Ribak. Lippincott, Ribak and Mandelman worked intuitively and were prolific. Several of this generation created original prints produced at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, where Clinton Adams served as director.<\/p>\n<p>The artists might also have subscribed to Beatrice Mandelman\u2019s observation that working non-objectively has an inherent bliss that allows the artist to communicate with the viewer through imagination, interpretation and emotional response that is not based on the literal or the descriptive. As Mandelman noted in a 1998 <em>Forbes <\/em>magazine article, her paintings translate the \u201cjoy, love, song [and] dance\u201d of life. It\u2019s like music,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt either touches you or it doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruhlen notes that New Mexico\u2019s post-World War II painters follow the general pattern of taking about a hundred years to be evaluated and placed in the context of art history. \u201cThat is one reason why the price point for most of this work is still accessible,\u201d she asserts. \u201cThe area is ripe for building a museum quality collection, even an encyclopedic one. Collectors are also specializing, building collections, for example, of Lippincott\u2019s early, middle and late periods. Others have turned to original prints by this exciting generation of artists. It\u2019s a vital art niche that is historically significant and surprisingly still affordable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Fe, NM\u00a0 | \u00a0July 29, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-press-releases"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 19:21:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}