Affordable Art Fair New York file2016/09/09 · Gus Leunig Gus’ detailed, colourful and poetic...

Affordable Art Fair New York 28 September - Oct 2

Gus Leunig

Colin Douglas Gray

Adam Frezza

Veronica Green

Charlie Sheard

Tami Bahat

Alexander Haslam

Janet Parker Smith

Miguel Vallinas Prieto

www.vanrensburg-galleries.com [email protected]

+852 5411 1881 Chai Wan, Hong Kong

Gus Leunig

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The secret fishing map of Tarcom Rd Acrylic on Canvas 36x47.2 inch US$3490

Spring Dreaming Acrylic on Canvas 40.1x40.1 inch US$3750

Four Birds Acrylic on Canvas 16x16 inch US$980

Green Succulent Acrylic on Canvas 16x16 inch US$980

The Honey Eaters Acrylic on Canvas 20x16 inch US$1250

Parrot Day Masters Acrylic on Canvas 16x20 inch US$1250

Brothers Acrylic on Canvas 16x16 inch inch US$980

Mother and Child Acrylic on Canvas 27.5x27.5 inch US$2800

Creatures at Dusk Acrylic on Canvas 29.5x29.5 inch US$2800

Bluebirds Acrylic on Canvas 16x20 inch US$1000

Gus Leunig

Gus’ detailed, colourful and poetic works encapsulate his love of nature, animals and life in the country, where he spent most of his childhood. His seemingly simplistic figures exist in complex worlds and narratives where the whimsical stories that play out on canvas represent complex maps from the Atlas of Gus’ imagination. The carefully crafted and resolved detail create colourful journeys through a world of observation and playful insight which leaves the viewer with fulfilment and intrigue, where a new day or mood can allow different story lines to unfold. Gus’ professional career as an artist launched in 2009 with a sell out show at Art Sydney, followed by yearly successes in his solo exhibitions at Libby Edward’s gallery in Melbourne, and recently a successful showing at the Design Files showcase. Gus is regularly approached for commissions small and large.

In 2004, Gus spent time in the small aboriginal community, Lockhart River at the very northern tip of Cape York Peninsula. Spending time in the Arts Centre alongside local Aboriginal artists was a major turning point in his approach and enjoyment of his art, which still influences his work today.



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Colin Douglas Gray & Adam Frezzawww.vanrensburg-galleries.com

[email protected] +852 5411 1881 Chai Wan, Hong Kong

Animal Friends Moon Owls Archival Inkjet Print Editions 50 30.7x41.3inch US$1850

Animal Friends Alexa Archival Inkjet Print Editions 100 30.7x41.3inch US$1590

Animal Friends Bird Pile Archival Inkjet Print Editions 50 30.7x41.3inch US$1850

Animal Friends Space Sharks Archival Inkjet Print Editions 50 30.7x41.3inch US$1850

Animal Friends Bird Delivery Archival Inkjet Print Editions 50 30.7x41.3inch US$1850

Animal Friends Road Dogs Archival Inkjet Print Editions 50 30.7x41.3inch US$1850

Animal Friends Odyssey Archival Inkjet Print Editions 50 30.7x41.3inch US$1850

Animal Friends Space Whales Archival Inkjet Print Editions 50 30.7x41.3inch US$1850

Animal Friends Space Cats Archival Inkjet Print Editions 50 30.7x41.3inch US$1850


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Colin Douglas Gray & Adam Frezzawww.vanrensburg-galleries.com


Animal Friends is a collaborative collage project by New York-based artists Adam Frezza & Colin Douglas Gray. The duo utilises hand-cut paper collage culled from a vast collection of both popular and esoteric published source material. Each piece is simultaneously humorous, playful, curious, and beautiful. Begun in 2009, with Colin and Adam as co-workers at a Manhattan art supply shop, the collages quickly developed from a way to kill time at work into an impressive and established series. In the fall of 2010 the duo was commissioned by the New York Post to create a large format fold out poster spread, introducing digital source material to their process. This commission introduced the idea of creating digital prints of their hand-made efforts to a wider audience in a series of editioned professional prints. Limited prints are now available for the first time release at Van Rensburg Galleries Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong.


Veronica Greenwww.vanrensburg-galleries.com


Watermelon Mixed Media & Phosphorescent 20x20 inch US$2500

Decor Mixed Media & Phosphorescent 43.3x51.1 inch US$5800

Forest Snow Mixed Media & Phosphorescent 23.6x23.6 inch US$3000

Search for Cake Mixed Media & Phosphorescent 20x16 inch US$2300

Book Mixed Media & Phosphorescent 7.8x15.7 inch US$1500

Hike Mixed Media & Phosphorescent 20x27.5 inch US$3000

Begin Mixed Media & Phosphorescent 36x36 inch US$4500

Earl Grey Mixed Media & Phosphorescent 27.5x27.5 inch US$3500

My Questions Mixed Media 13.7x9.8 inch US$1500




Search for Cake under black light

Book under black light

Hike under black light

Watermelon under black light

Forest Snow under black light

Earl Grey under black light

Begin under black light

Green Fields German Etch Limited Edition of 30 17.2x27.5 inch $240

Detention - German Etch Limited Edition of 30 40x24.3 inch $400

Boy - German Etch Limited Edition of 30 28.3 x 32 inch $358

Look Up German Etch Limited Edition of 30 16.5 x 19.6 inch $240

Next Stop German Etch Limited Edition of 30 16.5x40 inch $240

Leap - German Etch Limited Edition of 30 28.3x28.3 inch $330



Veronica Green was born in 1984 in Wellington, New Zealand. With the completion of a Fine Arts Honours Degree in 2006 at Massey University in New Zealand she gained an artist in residency at Spiazzi in Venice, Italy where she began experimenting with collage, light, paint, surrealism and abstraction.

Green has had numerous solo exhibitions in Europe, and her work has appeared in many group exhibitions as well as commissions for private collectors. She was the youngest artist to be exhibited 5 times for the prestigious MIART International Modern and Contemporary Art fair represented by Movimento Arte Contemporanea gallery alongside Santomaso, Fontana, and Crippa. As well as Artverona with Kusama, Falk Töpfer and Jean-Paul Riopelle.

Recent exhibitions include Genesis at Artifact Gallery, New York, White Cloud, Golden Horizons at Black Asterisk Gallery, New Zealand and L’era Delle Stelle at Ego Gallery, Switzerland. Her solo exhibition Golden Worlds will open at CoSpace Gallery in Shanghai, China in October.

Green lives in Venice and is currently represented by Ego Gallery, Lugano; CoSpace Gallery, Shanghai; Black Asterisk Gallery, New Zealand; Rigo Gallery, Italy; FMAP, Italy.

Pure Abstraction [Beijing] # 15, 2014 Watercolor on handmade paper 30x38inch US$3590



IMGAP 3, 2015 Watercolor on handmade paper 30x38inch US$3590





Charlie Sheardwww.vanrensburg-galleries.com


Charlie Sheard

Επαµεροι. τι δε τις; τι δ ου τις; σκιας οναρ Ανθρωπος. Creatures of a day! What is someone? What is someone not? Man is the dream of a shadow. Pindar, Pythian Ode 8, 95/96 The Aitia (from the Greek Αιτια, meaning causes or origins) was a long poem written by the Hellenistic poet Kallimakos (Καλλιµαχος) in the third century BCE. The Aitia opened with the poet’s description of a dream in which he was transported to Mount Helicon and tutored in secret knowledge by the Muses. The poem was developed from there into a catalogue of the origins of ancient myths, customs and religious mysteries. Kallimakos was interested in complex techniques, rare narratives, unusual words, and in surprising combinations of effect; his poem engaged with other important Greek literary texts by means of quotation, allusion and commentary. In supplying complex elaboration of the origins of both religious practice and of art, Kallimakos reminded his reader that the work of art is divine in origin, a reminder as timely today as it was in the third century BCE. Whilst I have been preparing this body of work, my mother has been terminally ill; I have been constantly reminded in other ways too of the frailty of our condition, of the vanity and transience of human affections, and that life is really just a very short dream. Kallimakos dreamed of the Muses; almost everything he dreamt is lost. A few surviving fragments are all that is left of his Aitia, even though it was one of the most widely read and influential of all poems in the classical world. My new paintings are my Aitia, songs of origins and of endings. I met Beijing artist Huqinwu several years ago in Sydney, when he was visiting for his solo exhibition at Stella Downer Gallery. We have become close friends, because we have surprisingly similar ideas about painting and culture. Huqinwu has been inviting me to come to Beijing for two years. When I saw him again in Sydney earlier this year, he renewed his invitation, which I finally decided to accept. I have been here for a month. These watercolours were painted here in Huqinwu's studio at the edge of Beijing, where I lived alone for a couple of weeks. There is no heating in Huqinwu's studio and it was extremely cold. This brought back very strong memories of my winters as a young artist, thirty years ago, when I lived in a large studio without heating in Cambridge (England). While I was painting, these memories led me to contemplate both the passing of time and my own mortality. I have a long-standing interest in Chinese painting, particularly in painting from the Song and Yuan dynasties, in the early paintings at Dunhuang, and in the history and development of Chinese Landscape painting. I have been visiting China regularly for the last ten years in order to study these models closely. The new paintings in this small exhibition are pure abstraction, but they reflect my interest in the history of Chinese painting.



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Patrick Leclercwww.vanrensburg-galleries.com


Tigre de Sumatra, Bengal Tiger

40x40 inch on diabond Edition 7-9 $4530 Edition 10 $6800

20x20 inch on diabond Edition 1-3 $1020 Edition 4-6 $1560 Edition 7-9 $2295 Edition 10 $3400

Lievre variable, Mountain Hare

40x40 inch on diabond Edition 3 $2050 Edition 4-6 $3050 Edition 7-9 $4530 Edition 10 $6800


Harfang des neiges, Snowy Owl



Ours brun, Brown Bear



Gorilla,




Boeuf Musque, Musk Ox



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Patrick Leclercwww.vanrensburg-galleries.com


ANIMALS Patrick Leclerc loves getting lost in the 1.5 millions specimens of carefully preserved animals managed by the scientific team at the Museum of Grenoble Natural History Museums of the worldwide archive, which has been for several centuries the worlds most diverse natural history museum. Through his work Patrick offer’s the animals a third life, giving them a feeling of mid conversation, resurrecting these animals to a place of the living and making them accessible to all.


Tami Bahat

The Intellectual Archival Pigment Print in Baroque Frame 10x12 inch US $1350



The Writer Archival inkjet print in Baroque Frame 10x12 inch US$1850

Dramatis Personae

The Dispute Archival Pigment Print in Baroque Frame 16x20 inch US $1850

The Housekeeper Archival Pigment Print in Baroque Frame 14x11 inch US $1650

The Fishmonger Archival Pigment Print in Baroque Frame 8x10 inch US $1250

The Maiden Archival Pigment Print in Baroque Frame 8x10 inch US $1250

The Twins Archival Pigment Print in Baroque Frame 16x20 inch US $2300

The Nun Archival Pigment Print in Baroque Frame 12x18 inch US $2300

Tami Bahatwww.vanrensburg-galleries.com


Tami Bahat is a fine art photographer whose passion lies in molding the obvious into the extraordinary. She strives to push the boundaries of her own imagination, as well as the viewer's, by creating bold works of art from striking perspectives. Lost in time, she finds inspiration in the lighting of Caravaggio, the realism of Degas, in the expression of Rembrandt. Born in Israel to a dancer and a graphic artist, Tami’s family resettled in Los Angeles when she was quite young. Her upbringing was non-judgemental and nurturing, with parents who unconditionally supported her artistic passions. A series of family trips around the world exposed Tami to humanity as a whole, the myriad of ways that people live life. She also developed a keen awareness of the loss and struggle that an earthly existence brings, an undertone in much of her work. Tami currently resides in Los Angeles, dedicating her life to photographic art.


Archival Photographic Print Hand Textured finish 20x27.5 inches US $1600 27.5x40 inches US $2500

Retrato Numero 29, /50

Retrato número 64, 1/3


Retrato Numero 1, 2/50

Retrato Numero 3, 4/50 Retrato Numero 36, 2/50 Retrato Numero 34, 2/50

Special Edition of only 3 Archival Photographic Print Hand Textured finish 20x27.5 inches US $1950 27.5x40 inches US $2950


Retrato Numero 9, 9/50 Archival Photographic Print Hand Textured finish 20x27.5 inches US $1600 27.5x40 inches US $2500



Retrato Numero 10, /50













Artist


Second Skins is presented as a follow up of a former collection named Skins. It deals with two connected photography series that both include portraits of people who try to search for the internal side of being human, but from dealing with different aspects are willing to unveil the intimate self of a human being. While the previous collection represents the same person doing different kinds of work, intending to reflect about individual choices at a stand point in life, Second Skins photographs people with animal faces that have the same purpose. It shows a series of possible personalities that may be within our reach, that may be imposed, or that may be adopted according to circumstances. The images that made up this series try to isolate the character: obviating its context and its references only based on being individual.While the name used as the collection title specifies the order in the series, in reality it is more than an answer to a sequence. It is word game. Second Skins suggests options, possibilities and ultimately choices. Roots is the third of a photography series that follows up Skins: a previous reflection about identity, existence and individual choice. The photographs show bodies with seasonal plants and floral bouquets replacing human heads. The human body represents the stem, and the head represents the flora, while the hidden root is linked to the earth: the starting point and destination, the beginning and end of life. The root is the base of our existence that conditions the direction of our path. The term root indicates belonging, bonding, base, and nourishment. In the present collection there is an initial search for identity. It is added to the human context whether that is social, cultural, economic or kin. This concept is one of the quests that indirectly determines human choices and the search for the authentic self. The photographs uncover a specific image through the plants and flowers that show the present moment. It may be current time or a defined time, or perhaps it represents only what we wish to show, which is not what we really are. It is interesting how this collection’s title points precisely to the unseen element but nevertheless represents the support of the self; therefore all photographs are shot from a mid-plane-take hiding the lower part of the stem from which the roots start. Root searches once more in human nature for “what we believe we are, what others think we are, what we really are and what we would like to be”, demonstrating that there is a reason for these beings to sprout from the root. Root is the third of four photographic series that reflect on the questions surrounding human choices to confront the real self, the self that could be myself, and the self that is definitely myself.


Other Artistswww.vanrensburg-galleries.com


Balance by Janet Parker Smith Mixed Media Print 14x18 inch US$1200

We’re not in Kansas Anymore by Janet Parker Smith Mixed Media Print 14x18 inch US$1200

Ordinary Extraordinary by Janet Parker Smith Digital Print from Collage 26x33.8inch US $1200

Wanton Woman by Janet Parker Smith Collage 12x14 inch US $900

Yau Ma Tei, 2014, 4/10 By Alexander Haslam Archival Inkjet print on Diabond 27.5x39.3 inch US$1800

Hangzhou, China By Alexander Haslam Archival Inkjet print on Diabond 23.6 x 32 inch US$1800

In the night we all are bears by Miguel Vallinas Prieto Archival Photographic Print 27x20 inch US$1800

缘分 Yuánfèn, A relationship by fate by Beulah van Rensburg Oil on Linen 40x49 inches US $2200

我们有独⽴立 Wǒmen yǒu dúlì There we stand alone Oil on Linen by Beulah van Rensburg 40x59 inches US $2400


Other Artistswww.vanrensburg-galleries.com


NAPOLEAN’S ARK by George Raftopoulos Oil on Japanese Linen 59 x 62 inch US$10,000

ASFOORA by George Raftopoulos Oil on Japanese Linen 19.5 X 24 Inch US$2700

3XPLORATION INTO THE ABYSS by George Raftopoulos Oil on Japanese Linen 16 X 24 Inch US$3800

NAPOLEAN by George Raftopoulos Oil on Japanese Linen 50 x 50 Inch US$6500

GIRL OF INNOCENCE by George Raftopoulos Oil on Japanese Linen 50 x 50 Inch US$5000

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