boicosfinearts

Auteur/autrice : Chris Boicos

  • Group Exhibitions

    2015

    • Still Lifes, Landscapes & Fish, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Paxos, Greece.
    • Série Bestiaire, Maison des compagnons, Fontainebleau, France.

    2014

    • ΙΧΘΕΙΣ – Creatures of the sea, Chris Boicos Fine Arts , Paxos, Greece.
    • Poseidon, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Paxos, Greece.
    • Landscapes & Myths II, Chris Boicos Fine Arts , Paxos, Greece.

    2013

    • Landscapes and Myths, Chris Boicos Fine Arts , Paxos, Greece.

    2012

    • Maison des Compagnons, Fontainebleau, France.
    • Galeria Il Novecento, Salerno, Italy.

    2011

    • Galeria Il Novecento, Salerno, Italy.
    • Paola Dal Ferro Gallery, Thiene, Italy – Padua Art Fair, Padua, Italy.
    • Cremona Art Fair, Cremona, Italy.
    • Pordenone Art Fair, Pordenone, Italy.

    2010

    • Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2009

    • Noël Baroque Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    • Van Brunt Gallery Beacon NY, USA. (also 2008)

    2008

    • Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT, USA (also 2002, 2000, 1999)
    • Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France (also 2007, 2006, 2004)
    • Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY, USA.

    2007

    • Andreeva Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA.

    2004

    • Fischbach Gallery, New York NY, USA (also 2003).

    2001

    • New York Academy of Art, New York NY, USA.

    2000

    • Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA (also 1993).

    1999

    • Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC, USA.

    1997

    • Galerie Cornette-Pajarin, Paris, France.
    • Mokpo Museum, Mokpo, South Corea.
    • Mairie du IVème Arrondissement, Paris, France.

    1995

    • Parsons School of Design, Paris, France.

    1994

    • Lizan-Tops Gallery, New York NY, USA.

    1992

    • New York Academy of Art, New York NY, USA.
    • Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, USA.

    1990

    • Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York NY, USA. (also 1985).
    • National Academy of Design, New York NY, USA.

    1987

    • Espace Baudelaire, Rillieux-la-Pape, France.

  • Group Exhibitions

    2017
    Société des artistes français, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
    2016
    American School of Paris, Saint-Cloud, France.
    Fondation des EtasUnis,Cité Universitaire, Paris, France.
    2015
    The Big Messy Christmas Show, Chris Boïcos Fine Arts, Le HUIT, Paris, France.
    Ελιά !, curated by Chris Boicos Fine Arts & Corfu Gallery, Paxos Municipal Gallery, Loggos, Paxos, Greece.
    Still Lifes, Landscapes & Fish, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Paxos, Greece.
    2014
    Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
    Salon du Cercle Municipal des Gobelins et des Beaux-Art, Marie du 13ème, Paris, France.
    2013
    Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
    2012
    Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
    2011
    Galería Ámbit, Barcelona, Spain.
    Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
    2010
    Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
    2009
    Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    2008
    Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Selection du Salon d’Automne à Compiègn, Galerie Raison d’Art, Lille, France.
    2007
    Salon d’Automne, Paris, France.
    Paysages, Pont-l’Evêque et Beaumont-en-Auge
    2004
    Galerie Artemisia, Paris, France.
    Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    2003
    D.F.N. Gallery, New York, USA.
    Redwing Fine Art Gallery, Yarmouth, MA
    Rona Gallery, London, UK.
    2002
    Salon d’Etampes, Paris, France.
    Redwing Fine Art Gallery, Yarmouth, MA
    Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    D.F.N. Gallery, New York, USA.
    2001
    Salon d’Automne, Paris, France.
    Works on Paper, Espace Belleville, Paris, France.
    Salon de Saint Cloud, Paris, France.
    Salon de Garches, Paris, France.
    American Embassy Art Show, Paris, France.
    Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    D.F.N. Gallery, New York, USA.
    2000
    Salon de Saint Cloud, Paris, France.
    American Embassy Art Show, Paris, France.
    D.F.N. Gallery, New York, USA.
    Salon d’Automne, Paris, France.
    Salon de Saint Cloud Honors Show, Paris, France.
    Philharmonic Center, Naples, Florida, USA.
    1999
    Salon d’Automne, Paris, France.
    D.F.N. Gallery, New York, USA.
    Zenith Gallery, Washington, USA.
    Salon de Saint-Cloud, Paris, France.
    American Embassy Art Show, Paris, France.
    Kiron Espace, Paris, France.
    Galerie Liliane R, Deauville, France.
    1998
    Salon d’Automne, Paris, France.
    D.F.N. Gallery, New York, USA.
    Zenith Gallery, Washington, USA.
    Salon de Saint-Cloud, France.
    American Embassy Art Show, Paris, France.
    Prix International d’Art Contemporain, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
    « Montmartre Aux Artistes » at the Mairie du 18ème, Paris, France.
    Carpeaux 18, Paris, France.
    1997
    Figuration Critique, Paris, France.
    Le Nu et L’Âme, Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    The Art Gallery at the Registry, Naples, Florida, USA.
    Itinéraires, Levallois-Perret, France.
    Salon d’Automne, Paris, France.
    1996
    The American Embassy Art Show (Guest of Honor), Paris, France.
    Salon d’Automne, Paris, France.
    The Art Gallery at the Registry, Naples, Florida, USA.
    Indigo Galleries, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
    1995
    Galerie Vallois, Paris, France.
    Figuration Critique, Paris, France.
    1994
    Galerie Vallois, Paris, France.
    The Art Gallery at the Registry, Naples, Florida, USA.
    Prix International d’Art Contemporain, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
    1993
    L’Art à l’Ecole, Paris, France.
    The Art Gallery at the Registry, Naples, Florida, USA.
    1989
    L’Art à l’Ecole, Paris, France.
    Centre Culturel d’Orly, France.
    Galerie Caplain-Matignon, Paris, France.
    Galerie L’Entrée des Artistes, Barbizon, France.
    Salon de Lisieux, France.
    1998
    Salon d’Octobre, Brive, France.
    Fondation W.I.C.E., Paris, France.
    1987
    The Naples Art Gallery, Naples Florida, USA.
    1986
    Salon de Rouen (Prix Spécial du Jury), France.
    Comparaisons, Paris, France.
    Galerie Philip Frégnac, Paris, France.
    The Naples Art Gallery, Naples Florida, USA.
    1985
    Figuration Critique, Paris, France.
    1984
    Figuration Critique, Paris, France.
    Galerie Philippe Frégnac, Paris, France.
    Salon d’Angers, France.
    Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida, USA.
    1983
    Figuration Critique, Paris, France.
    1981
    Art Vivant, Paris, France.
    Centre d’Action Culturelle, Macon, France.
    Holford Gallery, London, UK.
    1980
    Peindre et le Réel, Poitiers and Pont-à-Mousson, France.
    Les Ateliers Imaginaires, Paris, France.
    Journée du Soleil, Paris, France.
    Galerie Philippe Frégnac, France.
    Salon de Montrouge, France.
    1979
    Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Paris, France.
    Peindre et le Réel, Chartres, Fougères and Châteaudun, France.
    Art Vivant, Paris, France.
    Salon de Montrouge, France.
    1978
    Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Paris, France.
    Figuration Critique, Paris, France.
    Galerie Liliane, François, Paris, France.
    Salon de Montrouge, France.
    Salon de Vitry, France.
    1977
    Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Paris, France.
    1975
    Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
    1974
    Art International, Allonnes, France.
    Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
    1972
    Foundation des Etats-Unis, Paris, France.
    1970
    Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France.

  • Personal Exhibitions

    2015
    « Hyperréalistes » with Jacques Bodin,Expo Flash, Galerie Anna-Tschopp, Marseille, France.
    2013
    American School of Paris, France.
    2012
    Fondation Taylor, Paris, France.
    2011
    Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    2010
    ARTSZ, Galerie Suzanne Belaieff, Monaco.
    Galerie Anna-Tschopp, Marseille, France.
    2006
    Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France.
    2005
    Galerie Catherine et André Hug et Galerie Eric Monbel, Paris, France.
    2004
    Rona Gallery, London, UK.
    2003
    Galerie Artemisia, Paris, France.
    2002
    Rivier College Art Gallery, Nashua, New Hampshire, UK.
    DFN Gallery, New York, USA.
    2001
    Royal Street Gallery, Paris, France.
    2000
    DFN Gallery, New York, USA.
    1999
    Boutique Hughes Chevalier, Paris, France.
    Royal Street Gallery, Paris, France.
    Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    1998
    Galerie Mouvances, Paris, France.
    Zenith Gallery, Washington, USA.
    1997
    Zenith Gallery, Washington, USA.
    1996
    American School of Paris, France.
    Galerie Toft, Paris, France.
    1990
    American School of Paris, France.
    1983
    Galerie Philippe Frégnac, Paris, France.
    1981
    Galerie Philippe Frégnac, Paris, France.
    1979
    Galerie Philippe Frégnac, Paris, France.
    1974
    Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique, Paris, France.
    1971
    Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris, France.

  • About

    About

    Ronald Bowen was born in 1944. He grew up in Lake Placid Florida, a quiet town surrounded by lakes, citrus groves, and ranches. From an early age he showed a talent for drawing.

    From 1962 to 1967 he studied art, along with music and languages, at Florida State University in Tallahassee, completing his final year at their study center in Florence, Italy. This first contact with Europe was a turning point for him.

    Finished with his university studies, he taught art for a year at his former school in Lake Placid. In 1968 he chose to return to Europe to teach and continue his art studies, spending a summer in Paris, then a year teaching in a small boarding school in England followed by a year in Nice, France, enrolled as a full-time painting student at the Ecole nationale des arts décoratifs.

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    In 1970 he returned to Paris as « Artist in Residence » at the Fondation des Etats-Unis, a scholarship offered by the Woolley Foundation. The scholarship was renewed for a second year. In 1973 he began teaching art classes part-time at the American School of Paris and has since made that city his home, retiring from the school in 2008. In 2010 he was awarded the Monique Corpet Prize for painting from the Taylor Foundation in Paris. In 1993 Ronald Bowen received French Nationality, making him a citizen of both the U.S. and France.

    The artist lives and works in Paris, France.

    website: http://www.ronaldbowenart.com

  • Artwork

    Watermelons & Peppers:

  • Still Lifes, Landscapes & Fish

    Still Lifes, Landscapes & Fish

    Our summer season in Paxos opens with an exhibtion with art by Ronald Bowen (USA), David Loeb (USA), Margaret McCann (USA), Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera (Spain), Nicola Villa (Italy) and ceramics by Emmanuelle Mellot (France) and Simone Perrotte (France).

    Chris Boïcos and Sofia Kouva:
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    Gaios gallery, June 2015 show:
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    Ceramics by Emmanuelle Mellot, paintings and pastels by David Loeb:
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    Drawings by Ronald Bowen, painting by Margaret McCann:
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    Fish relief by Nicola Villa:
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    Collages by Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera, porcelain by Simone Perrotte:
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    Window with porcelain by Simone Perrotte:
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    Colored pencil drawings by Ronald Bowen:

    Paintings and pastels by David Loeb:

    Painting by Margaret McCann:

    Collages by Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera:

    Reliefs and paintings by Nicola Villa:

    Ceramics by Emmanuelle Mellot:

    Porcelain by Simone Perrotte:

  • Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera at Museo Ulpiano Checa, Madrid

    Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera at Museo Ulpiano Checa, Madrid

    Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera solo exhibtion of collages at the Museo Ulpiano Checa in Madrid from 15 May to 31 July 2015.

    http://loscollagesderodriguezderivera.blogspot.fr/2015/05/colmenar-de-oreja-y-ulpiano-checa-la.html

    Jorge will be exhibiting his latest work with Chris Boïcos Fine Art at the FOTOFEVER salon at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris in November 2015.

    La Adaptacion del cactus - Museo Ulpiano Checa, Madrid May 15 - 31 July 2015
    La Adaptacion del cactus – Museo Ulpiano Checa, Madrid May 15 – 31 July 2015

  • Controluce – Nicola Villa

    Controluce – Nicola Villa

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    The exhibition:

    Controluce (« Against light ») is an exhibition of urban figures and crowds from a variety of cities, New York, Paris, Brussels and Nice. Painting, watercolor, collage and printmaking often in combination, are the techniques through which the artist interprets and fixes his most recent impressions of the contemporary city.

    Michele Tavola, curator of the exhibition:
    « The Italian artist and printmaker Nicola Villa combines the technical ability of an old master with the gaze of a modern observer who lives and breathes in the contemporary urban tissue … His inspiration comes from everyday life and the will to see and interpret reality from a modern vantage point. The city is the perfect social aquarium, the ideal place for observation and elaboration of images that tell stories, that speak of us, of today, stories that compel and interrogate our experience. »
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    The artist:

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    Nicola Villa was born in 1976 in Lecco, a small town in Lombardy on lake Como in Italy, where he began drawing and painting as a young boy. He went on painting through his studies at the prestigious Milan Polytechnic from which he received his architectural diploma in 2004. He, however, chose art over architecture as a vocation and pursued his artistic studies by studying printmaking in the best printing workshops in Milan: Linati, Pierluigi Puliti, Giorgio Upiglio and at Arte Tre with Alberto Serighelli, the printmaker for Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mimo Palladino. In 2007 he was part of the first group of Italian artists to be invited by the Harlem Studio Fellowship for a year’s residence in New York. He received the prestigious Celeste prize for his work inspired by Harlem.

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    He is one of six Italian artists – including Mimo Paladino, Nicola de Maria, Ettore Spalleti, Nicola Samorì and the photographer Giovanni Chiaromonte – chosen by Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi in 2011 to illustrate a contemporary edition of the four gospels, the Nuovo Evangeliario Ambrosiano for the cathedral of Milan.

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    Today the artist works in a great studio in a beautiful baroque building in the old town of Genoa in Liguria. He exhibits his art regularly in galleries and art fairs in Italy, France and Great Britain.

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    The art:

    Nicola Villa never quite forgot his years as a student of architecture at the Milan Polytechnic. Though the human figure is very much at the center of his art, the passers-by observed in the streets of his hometown, Genoa, or in the towns he visits on his many trips abroad, are always inserted into a geometric framework and the ambient light of a subtly indicated urban framework. The inhabitants of Harlem, the businessmen of Milan in their sharp suits and the aging prostitutes of the port of Genoa, are all integrated into the spaces of their respective cities. They « structure » by their presence, whether static or on the move, the surrounding urban environment and reflect the varied sociology and constant flux of the modern city. Nicola Villa takes up the study of the modern city where Impressionist artists like Renoir or Monet, or early 20th century painters like George Bellows or Walter Sickert left off. His, is a resolutely modern form of Impressionism, whose graphic style is reminiscent of the 1960s, combining classic techniques – aquatint, paint on canvas and watercolor – with contemporary imagery – photography, collage and digital fragmentation.

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    The curator:

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    Michele Tavola was born in Lecco in Lombardy in 1973. After his graduation in literary studies from the University of Milan, he obtained a scholarship to study at the Fondazione Longhi and the Scuola di Specializzazione in storia dell’arte in Florence. He received his doctorate in the history of art at the University of Turin. He has worked as art critic for Radio Popolare di Milano and the daily newspaper La Repubblica. Author of an important manual and dictionary of the of the history of art for the publisher Alpha Test, he was also a member of the scientific committee of the review Art App and the San Fedele art prize in Milan.He is currently director of the collection Impronte – monografie d’arte digitali for the publisher Emuse, and author for the same collection of a monograph on Joan Miró as well as the following titles: La poesia della pittura, Michelangelo, La potenza della forma, Picasso incisore, L’avventura del segno. He has curated numerous exhibitions for Italian museums and galleries featuring, notably, the works of Goya, Picasso, Matisse, Miró, Chagall, Dubuffet and Rouault. From 2010 to 2015 he was the municipal councilor for culture and director of the art museum of the city of Lecco.

    Le Huit:

    Founded in 2012, Le Huit, is a new art space in the 10th arrondissement in Paris, the result of the collaboration of ten young people from the milieus of art, literature and communication: Mayli Grouchka, Léo Cogos, Théodore Famery, Eliot Leblanc, Louis Ziegle, Sonia Ye, Ethan Assouline and Cécile Malgouyres.
    Its aim is to bring a breath of spontaneity and fresh air in the often humdrum and unadventurous contemporary Paris art scene. Le Huit hosts more or less ephemeral exhibitions and happenings that last a few days, a week or a month by artists from a great variety of backgrounds. « We noticed that many young creators in mixed media were looking for a dynamic space more supple and flexible than the traditional galleries ». Fashion shows by the group D.Time’s, satirical cartoons by de the blog writer Tiffany Cooper, group shows by art students held for the Huit Thursdays, but also art dinners and pop-up conceptual boutiques are all held at Le Huit. Every event is new or unprecedented and contributes to the steady advance of the cultural art scene of Right Bank Paris further north to the Great Boulevards, between République and Strasbourg-Saint Denis.

    Léo Cogos, Cécile Malgouyres, Eliot Leblanc, Théodore Famery:

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    Place: Le Huit, 8 boulevard Saint-Martin 75010 Paris
    Metro: Strasbourg-Saint Denis or République

    Dates: 12 – 24 May 2015
    Opening Hours: Monday – Friday, 14h – 19h / Saturday and Sunday, 11h – 19h
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    Controluce – Urban Spaces and Figures:

    Controluce – Figures in the City:


    Conroluce – Faces:

    Controluce – Urban Tales, prints:

    Controluce – Oils on canvas:

  • David Loeb Bestiaire Exhibition, Fontainebleau

    David Loeb Bestiaire Exhibition, Fontainebleau

    Our American artist David Loeb is showing his latest pastels this week in the exhibition
    Bestiaire:
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    with Laurent Touze, Brune Desallais and Astrid de La Forest

    at the Maison des Compagnons in Fontainebleau
    26, rue de la Cloche
    77300 Fontainebleau.

    Exhibition open Saturday 28 and Sunday, 29 March
    from 11 am to 8 pm.
    Drinks served Sunday 29 March, 5 to 8pm

  • Publications & Reviews

    2014, Oct
    « Exhibition in Print: The Face in Collage. » Kolaj Magazine, Issue #10.
    2013, Fall-Winter
    « Doug Stapleton. Interview by Kieran Donnan. » 22 Magazine, Volume 4, Collage
    2013, Dec
    « 12 Days. Day 1. Collage. Doug Stapleton. » Fat Boy Review (online journal), Richard House, Editor.
    2013
    « Admiration. » (image) published in the South Loop Review. Vol 15. Columbia College Chicago, USA.
    “In Metamorphosis and outside time: In works by Vivian van Blerk and Doug Stapleton at Jennifer Norback Fine Arts, archetypes reoccur and time is rearranged”, Sarah Nardi, Chicago Reader.
    2012, Dec 16
    “Art Review: Doug Stapleton, Optimistic Reconstructions”, Diane Thodos, NeotericART: An Online Art Magazine
    2011
    « Juxtaposed in Its Essence », catalog, Ed Krantz, curator. Elgin Community College, Elgin IL, USA.
    2009, Dec 31
    « Critics Pick: Paul Clark and Doug Stapleton », Las Manos Gallery. NewCity.