VISIONARY COINCIDENCE: WORKS BY
STRONG-CUEVAS AND CHRISTOPHE VON HOHENBERG
OPENS OCTOBER 1 AT LEONARD TOURNÉ GALLERY
Strong-Cuevas' work explores inner consciousness, outer
space and communication through space and time. In the words of distinguished
art critic Donald Kuspit, "Strong-Cuevas's sculpture is rooted in
primitive art, with its bold structures, expressive directness, communal
symbolism, and conviction of cosmic absolutes. It is also rooted in Cubism,
with its awareness of the dialectical ambiguity of appearances, perhaps most
evident in Picasso's use of frontal and profile views of the face in a single
image, at once integrating them yet allowing them their difference. Primordial
expression and sophisticated perception are the alpha and omega of modern
art."
Born in Paris, Strong-Cuevas lives and works in New York,
where she studied under John Hovannes at the Art Students League of New York
and worked on projects with Toto Meylan. Her work has been exhibited in dozens
of solo and group exhibitions and is represented in the collections of the
Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut; Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New
York; Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York; Grounds for Sculpture in
Hamilton, New Jersey; and the Smithsonian-affiliated Long Island Museum in
Stony Brooke, New York.
Christophe von Hohenberg
is a portrait, documentary and lifestyle photographer. In 1979, he was
discovered by American Vogue and his
photographs were displayed in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Since then, he
has worked with such publications as Interview,
Art Forum, Vanity Fair, Geo, German Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Fortune, Hamptons Magazine,
German Vogue and French Vogue. His
book, Another Planet: New York Portraits
1976-1996, was published in 2014 following his critically acclaimed Andy Warhol: The Day the Factory Died,
which received the Photo District News Photo Book Award and the AIGA Book Award
in 2007.
In
addition to the MoMA, von Hohenberg's work has been displayed at the Gray Art
Gallery, the Stephen Keszler Gallery, Affirmation Arts and Staley-Wise Gallery
in New York, New York; the Rudolf Budja Gallery in Salzburg, Austria; the
America House Cultural Center in Munich, Germany; the Goss Gallery in Dallas,
Texas and Aretha Campbell Fine Art in London, England. His exhibitions have
been reviewed in German Vanity Fair, English Vogue and The Daily Telegraph. Born in New York, von Hohenberg currently lives
in New York and Mexico City. His photographs can be found in private
collections in the United States, Europe and South America.
