"STATIM FINIS"
(The End of Things)
a group exhibition
featuring the works of Charles Dellschau, Darcilio Lima, Colin Christian, Lukasz Grochocki, John McGarity, Jon Jaylo, Jesse Bransford,
Erin O'Shea, Travis Lawrence, William Blayney, William Mortensen, Rithika Merchant, Linnea Strid, Melanie J Moczarski, John D Monteith,
Steven Bradshaw, Jel Ena, Erna Kd, Marko Velk, Lori Field, Matthew Dutton, Joel Lorand, Ray Robinson, Tim Kern, Tine Kindermann,
Bree Jonson, Kim Bo Yung, Stephanie Lucas, Gigi Chen, Art Toulinov, Inge Vandormael, Teiji Hayama, Cendrine Rovini, Anaïs Delsol,
Bruna D'Alessandro, Dolorosa De La Cruz , Cecilia Avendano Bobillier, Samuel D Gliner, A. Fiorillo, Barry William Hale, Loic Lukas,
Terry Tapp, Shona Adelman, Anthony Mangicapra, Martin Ramirez, Philippe Grenade XIV, Christina Dallas, David Molesky, Ellen Stagg and others . |
Stephen Romano Gallery is pleased to present The End Of Things - STATIM FINIS, a survey group exhibition featuring many of the artists that the gallery has exhibited, both contemporary and historical as well as artists the gallery is looking forward to working with in the future. The Gallery's mission has been to blend together the masters of outsider art such as Charles Dellschau, William Blaney, Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Darcilio Lima among others with contemporary, historical, vintage folk and photography and vernacular art as well as works of Esoteric art. This exhibition will continue to perpetuate that vision, as the final planned exhibition curated by Stephen Romano in the Bushwick gallery space, (with plans to relocate after August 2016), thus a melancholic sense of ellipsism* is driving the exhibition, uncertainty of the future and contemplating about effects of past efforts.
*"Ellipsism": n. sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out, that you’ll dutifully pass on the joke of being alive without ever learning the punchline—the name of the beneficiary of all human struggle, the sum of the final payout of every investment ever made in the future.
Marko Velk "Ophelia" 2015
Jon Jaylo "Because We Can Only Write Our Own Story Once" 2016 Oil on Panel
Linnea Strid "... And Her Future Was Waiting" colored pencils 2016
Lori Field "Babes in the Woods " and "Dipsomania" 2007
Travis Lawrence "Exodus" Woodcut 2015
Darcilio Lima "The Prince" 1972
Colin Christian "Trypophobia" 2015
Jesse Bransford
Lukasz Grochocki "Uxac Manik (8 Deer)" 2016
Erin O'Shea 2016
John D Monteith
Tine Kindermann "Königskinder" 2010
William Blayney "There Should Be Time No Longer" c. 1970
William H. Mortensen "Ho Ho Off To The Sabbot" c. 1926 manipulated photograph
William H. Mortensen "Morocco" c. 1940 Metal Chrome print
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Rithika Merchant "Divine Recpticle" 2015
Melanie J Moczarski "The Conversation" 2012
Christina Dallas 2015
Terry Tapp 2016
Anaïs Delsol Dentelle de petite fille, 2013
Lace, acrylic teeth, raspberry residue
Dolorosa De La Cruz 2015
Chalrles Dellschau (1830 - 1923) Plate 4514 SEXION BOMBER 1920
Steven Bradshaw 2016
Jel Ena "Lubido" 2015
Kim Bo Yung 2016
Erna Kd "Sorceress w Pony Tail" 2015
Matthew Dutton "Media Mouth" 2016, detail from "Midnight Paracosm"
Matthew DUTTON "Wolf Like Me" 2016
Ray Robinson "Witch Janet Leafley and her dog "Tbbins"
executed on the same day. The dog was shown mercy and strangled before being burned" 2016
Shona Adelman "Salon of Abundance", 2014, 50" x 42", 4mm colored glass crystals on canvas
Barry William Hale 2015
Tim Kern 2016
Bree Jonson 2015
Stephanie Lucas 2015
Gigi Chen "Love Collection" 2015
Art Toulinov 2016
Inge Vandormael 2015
Anthony Mangicapra
Cendrine Rovini 2015
Bruna D'Alessandro 2016
Cecilia Avendano Bobillier 2015
Samuel D Gliner
A. Fiorillo "Jesus was a Revolutionary" c. 1960 - 1970
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Teiji Hayama
Loic Lukas 2015
John McGarity 2016
Martin Ramirez "Stag" c 1960's.
Philippe Grenade XIV
David Molesky "Firefeeders" 2015
for further information or visuals, please contact romanostephen@gmail.com
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About Stephen Romano Gallery
Stephen Romano Gallery is a new addition to the Brooklyn art gallery community, having opened its doors in April of 2014 in Dumbo and having relocated to Bushwick in September 2015.
Prior to opening the current gallery, Stephen Romano was a private art dealer for 15 years specializing in masters of self-taught and visionary art such as Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Charles Dellschau, Bill Traylor, Darcilio Lima, and many others. The Gallery's most recent exhibition El Gato Chimney’s “De Rerum Natura” was well received and reviewed, as was the preceding exhibition "Trypophobia" by Colin Christian. Stephen Romano Gallery also mounted the most ambitious exhibition of works by pictorialist photographer William Mortensen to coincide with the release of the book "American Grotesque" published by Feral House.
Stephen Romano has been a participant in many art fairs including PULSE, The Metro Show, and the Outsider Art Fair.
In 2013, Stephen Romano produced a seminal 330-page monograph on visionary artist CHARLES DELLSCHAU designed by Marquand Books and distributed by DAP. The book generated several positive reviews from a wide variety of publications such as Bookforum, Raw Vision Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, Antiques, and the arts and Design Observer, among many others. With an introduction by Stephen Romano, the book features the final published essay by renowned art writer Thomas McEvilley, as well as contributions from the founder of The Museum of Everything, James Brett, and the curator of Smithsonian Museum of Aerospace, Thomas Croutch.
In the same year, Romano also published the first ever post-mortem catalog of works by Brazilian visionary Darcilio Lima and most recently a catalogue of an previously unknown photographic series from 1925 by William Mortensen entitled "A Pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft," with an introduction by A.D. Coleman and essay by Tom Pattersen. Most recently, Stephen Romano Gallery had the honor of publishing a catalog of works by Pavel Kraus with an essay by David Ebony, as well as a catalog for Chinese artist Lu Zhang with essay by Robert C. Morgan. In 2015, the gallery produced a catalog of the "TRYPOPHOBIA" exhibition by Colin Christian with texts by Kris Kuksi, Allison C. Meier and Samuel D. Gliner. The most recent catalog was the gallery published was on Italian artist El Gato Chimney with texts by Martin Wittfooth, Pamela Grossman and Michela D'Acquisto.
In the summer of 2015, Stephen Romano curated the highly acclaimed exhibition "Opus Hypnagogia" at Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum. The exhibition was featured in the New York Times, as well as Juxtapoz Magazine, Hi-Fructose, Beautiful Bizarre, Brooklyn Magazine, among many others. This exhibition was followed up in the new Bushwick gallery with "Lexicon Infernali" and a solo show by Rithika Merchant and "Magica Sexualis" and a solo show by Los Angeles artist Jel Ena, and "Charles Dellschau: American Visionary", the third ever solo exhibition of this seminal outsider artist ever organized and "Hieroglyphica" a companion group exhibition. Stephen Romano Gallery has also recently presented exhibtions by Matthew Dutton, Paul Booth, David Molesky, "Saint Bowie" an homage to David Bowie and "The Devils Reign" curated by Peter H Gilmore.
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