H&A Modern Gallery is hosting a new group show titled “Bread & Salt” with a new mantra of “New Home. New Works. New Endeavors” at its New York space.The show reminds its audiences of the traditions of bringing bread and salt to a new home that signifies hospitality and luck. H&A Modern introduces its visitors to a new home located in the Fuller Building and the makers of the new home are a group of artists including María Elena González, David Ligare, Andy Mister, John Moore, Stone Roberts, Elizabeth Turk and others. All these artists will showcase their new works in this inaugural exhibition “Bread & Salt.” In addition, H&A Modern will have a representation of the works of two eminent artists Louisa Chase and Honoré Sharrer by the Estates of Louisa Chase and Honoré Sharrer.Louisa Chase (1951-2016) has always remained a questing spirit throughout her career, freely experimenting with a myriad of media. Her oeuvre incorporates a wide variety of approaches at work at different times of her career. She has always attracted a number of labels upon her stride, like “new image school” and “neo expressionist,” in spite of the fact there is no singular “Chase style.” Yet, she has never given herself or her works a chance to waver from her deep most inner emotions and intentions to reflect upon her graceful canvases. Recognized early in her career, Chase’s works were included in a number of prestigious and important group exhibitions, and were represented in many of the permanent collections of noted museums like the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA); The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Brooklyn Museum; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; the Baltimore Museum of Art; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.Honoré Sharrer (1920–2009) was named “Woman Artist of the Year” in 1949 by the Mademoiselle Magazine. She had a solo exhibition in 1951 where her five-panel work titled “Tribute to the American Working People” (1946–51) attracted critical praise at New York’s prestigious Knoedler Gallery. Though the 12 years of Sharrer’s career promised a successful course accompanied with a high-profile future, producing a body of impressive paintings, the acclaim soon faded. Sharrer adhered to the figural art practice that she followed throughout her career in the face of the dominance of abstract expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s and she had to pay for it. The fact that she was a woman added to the fuel to the fire. Her works are celebrated in many notable public collections across the country, and the list includes the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.The show is on view through April 7, 2018 at H&A Modern Gallery, 9th floor of the Fuller Building, at the corner of 57th Street and Madison Avenue, 41 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022.For details, visit: www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/hirschl-and-adler/overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the artworks.
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