GROUP SHOW AT LEONARD TOURNÉ GALLERY

Leonard Tourné Gallery and Spoon invite you to a group show featuring work by their best-selling artists, Sonja Eisenberg, Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Max Glaser, and William Hinson. The show will be up at our SoHo location, at 463 Broome Street (between Greene and Mercer), through September 1.


About the artists

Sonja Eisenberg's paintings represent the transformation of the unseen, of turning grief or lightness into hope and strength. Eisenberg, originally from Berlin, fled Nazi Germany at the age of eleven and came with her parents and brother to New York, where she still resides. She began her painting career after the death of her first son and has shown her work across the United States and in France, Israel, Japan, Amsterdam, Austria, England, Switzerland and her native Germany.

New York-based Max Glaser works with the concept of containment. His work, which often involves crushing objects--ranging from fruit to once-live animals--between panes of bullet-proof plexiglass, investigates the compression of reality and consciousness into two-dimensional images of symbol and memory. His work has been shown at Cuchifritos Gallery, The ArtBridge Drawing Room, and the Affordable Art Fair 2011, all in New York City.

William Hinson, who works out of his studio in Memphis, Tennessee, explores the interpretation of surfaces, from industrial sites to architectural remnants, which to him reveals a testament to time and endurance. His subjects, while no longer functioning, continue to engage the viewer as they are wrapped in history and narrative. His process is also about surfaces, and involves layering, scraping to reveal, painting over and obscuring hard edges. His work has been shown in New York, Washington, DC, and various galleries in the South.

Colombian-born Gonzalo Fuenmayor's work looks at ornamentation and its role in contemporary culture, in particular its relationship to tragedy. Victorian style elements, such as chandeliers and ornate mirrors, are a recurring theme and are juxtaposed with flaring bunches of bananas, alluding to a decadent and often violent colonial past. Fuenmayor has exhibited in solo and group shows in the United States, South America and Europe.