Eric Phleger Gallery

New Carolyn Guild image

2011-02-26T10:43:00.000-08:00

Carolyn Guild spent her 60th birthday down in Moab, Utah making photographs.

This is one of the new images. She is pretty amazing. Her show at the Oceanside Museum of Art is going on through April 5, 2011. Check it out if you have not already.

Come meet Carolyn Guild at the Oceanside Museum

2011-01-26T11:32:00.000-08:00

Carolyn Guild will be speaking about her new show "Affirmations of Spirit" at the Oceanside Museum of Art on February 5, 2011 at 2 pm. There are 33 photographs in this great show. Also on view at the museum are photographs by American master Imogen Cunningham. I hope to see you there.

Carolyn guild at Oceanside Museum of Art

2010-12-17T15:28:00.000-08:00

Carolyn Guild at Oceanside Museum of Art, February 5 through April 3, 2011.

We are very pleased for Carolyn whose show will be titled "Affirmations of Spirit".

Also showing at the museum will be Imogene Cunningham.

New Show opening November 18, 2010

2010-11-08T09:15:00.000-08:00

Robin Bright "Now and Then" opens November 18, 2010

2010-11-05T09:26:00.000-07:00

We are excited to announce our new show of work by San Diego artist Robin Bright. The show, "Now and Then" will include recent sculpture, collage and drawings as well as select pieces made over the last thirty years. Come meet the artist at the reception Thursday November 18, 2010 from 6 until 8 pm.

Carolyn Guild

2010-11-05T09:19:00.000-07:00

I am happy to announce that Carolyn Guild has asked me to represent her. She is truly a gifted photographer. Look for her work alongside Ansel Adams' work at the Kimbell Art Center in Park City Utah. That show opens November 26, 2010.

Paper Work

2010-11-05T09:15:00.000-07:00

The Paper Work show has gone very well. We sold work by Ed Moses, Jean Lowe, Allison Renshaw and Lindsey Nobel. Thank you to all who came in to view the show.

Successful show by Carolyn Guild

2010-09-10T10:24:00.000-07:00

Thanks to all who helped make the Carolyn Guild show our best selling show to date.

Carolyn is preparing to show along side Ansel Adams' early work at the Kimbel Art Center in Park City Utah and then off to the Camera Obscura gallery in Denver. We still have terrific images available by this wonderful photographer. Let us know if you are interested.

Successful Opening Reception!

2010-07-19T12:39:00.000-07:00

We had a wonderful opening reception for Carolyn. Thanks to everyone who attended.

Capturing the Divine

2010-07-12T11:02:00.000-07:00

Guild's work is about nature's divinity. As she wanders the west she waits for that perfect moment to create an image that captures the divine. Edward Abbey has influenced her along with Ansel Adams and Minor White.

My favorite

2010-07-07T16:21:00.000-07:00

Guild travels the west in search of images that capture the spirit in nature. This image is called "Quiet Storm" and was taken in the Canadian Bugaboo mountains.

Guild's images are captivating

2010-07-07T16:19:00.000-07:00

"The Jetty at Ponto" by Carolyn Guild.

Carolyn Guild Opens July 15, 2010

2010-07-07T16:16:00.000-07:00

Carolyn Guild is a local Encinitas artist who travels the west in search of images that capture the divine. The new show is titled "The Passionate Landscape". This is a must see.

Congrats to our gallery artists!

2010-06-30T18:07:00.000-07:00

Alex Weinstein, Andy Moses, Ed Moses, David Lloyd, Timothy Williams, Wolfgang Bloch, Charles Arnoldi and Ned Evans have all been included in a show called "Swell" being housed in three galleries in New York, Metro Pictures, Nyehaus and Freidrich Petzel gallery will be hosting this exhibition of California artists which spans 60 years of work. Check it out if you are in the city this summer.

New Paintings by Ed Moses

2010-06-30T18:02:00.000-07:00

We recently got 7 new pantings by the master abstract painter who recently celebrated his 84th Birthday. Happy Birthday!

Cheryl Sorg's stunning work

2009-09-18T13:56:00.001-07:00

Cheryl Sorg opens Saturday September 19th.

2009-09-18T13:45:00.000-07:00

If you have ever seen Cheryl Sorg's work you know how amazing it is. I am so excited to have several major pieces of hers in the gallery, two of which just came from the Long Beach Museum's exhibition "Novel Constructions", "Bodies I have in mind and how they can change to assume new shapes" aka. Metamorphoses. Also in the gallery is "Sing in me muse and through me tell the story" aka Homer's Odyssey, which took Cheryl 7 years to complete! In addition to the large pieces we also have sketches, photographs and mock ups. This is a show not to be missed.

Cheryl is a local Leucadian, who trained at MassArt in Boston and has shown throughout the country. Come check out this terrific artist.

El Barril:Tijuana......Raul Guerrero

2009-08-07T12:14:00.001-07:00

Raul Guerrero opens August 8, 2009

2009-08-07T12:07:00.000-07:00

I am proud to open a show of Raul Guerrero's recent paintings of "Bars, Women and fast Food". Stop by the opening reception and meet Raul Saturday August 8 from 6 until 9 pm. Raul once referred to his paintings as cultural portraits....I think that is right on.

This is the last week of the Garnier/Cockrum show.

2009-07-20T09:06:00.000-07:00

Come see this work before the show is over.

It is wonderful work.

Come check out this show!!

2009-07-06T11:37:00.001-07:00

If you have not already seen the work in this show come check it out. It is amazing!

We are so fortunate to have this level of work in Leucadia.

Here are a couple of Jacques Garnier's images.

Garnier/Cockrum Opening

2009-07-06T11:33:00.000-07:00

We had a great turnout for the Jacques Garnier / Liz Cockrum opening and all had a good time.

New Show Opens Saturday!

2009-06-24T07:25:00.000-07:00

Saturday evening I am opening a show of Jacques Garnier's photographs entitled "Passages" as well as Liz Cockrum's photography called "Sirens". the opening reception is from 6 until 8 pm.

I hope you can make it!

Basel news

2009-06-24T06:42:00.000-07:00

Basel was incredible! Every major gallery from Europe as well as New York was in attendance and even a select few from the west coast. A gallery from Germany which had the premiere booth in the fair showed one solitary painting by Andy Warhol called, the Retrospective Painting. It was roughly 7 by 35 feet and was priced at $75 million. When I first saw the painting, Joel Sachs who is the Warhol Foundation's president, was also viewing it for his first time, looked at the painting in amazement and said "WOW". Galleries brought out their best works and some were very rarely seen such as the Lucien Freud paintings. Works by Yves Klein, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Motherwell (one gallery did a whole show of large "open" canvases) Morris Louis, Franz Kline, Ad Reinhardt, Warhol, Cy Twombly, Picasso, Giacometti, Robert Longo...I could go on and on...it was there. John Baldessari's work was well represented and he was in attendance everywhere it seemed. Collectors such as Steve Cohen, Eli Broad, and Brad Pitt from the US were in attendance and buying. Arnold Glimcher, who runs Pace Gallery, was there with Martin Scorsese presenting a new film they had recently worked on together. The Kunsthalle beer garden, the watering hole of the art world while in Basel, was at capacity every evening.

In addition to attending the fairs I visited several museums and foundations in Basel. The Foundation Beyelor, a fantastic museum designed by Renzo Piano for Ernst Beyelor, was showing a Giacometti retrospective. It was an amazing show of sculpture, painting, furniture made by Alberto's brother Diego, as well as other paintings made by the artistic family. Downstairs at the foundation, London based artist Marc Quinn who does sculptural self portraits made from his own blood were on display. They were a bit repulsive in a fantastic sort of way as they are made from blood he draws from himself over a five year period and freezes it and makes a cast sculpture from it. I suggest googling the artist.

The Kunstmuseum had a Van Gogh exhibition of 70 landscape paintings presented in chronological order. Pretty unbelievable, and the best ones were from American collections!

Then there was the Schaulager which is an art storage facility rarely open to the public. It is on the outside of Basel and was open for the first time presenting an exhibition titled "From Holbein to Tillmans", paintings made over the last 500 years or so. The Shaulager is an awesome building housing incredible artwork. I will post more on this institution as I have time to research it. Basel is a fantastic destination for any art lover and June is the month to be there.

Art/40/Basel

2009-06-06T14:53:00.000-07:00

The gallery will be closed June 7 through June 15 as we will be attending Art Basel.

The gallery will be open June 16.

Surfing Heritage Art Talk

2009-06-06T14:25:00.000-07:00

Friday Night June 5, The Surfing Heritage Museum held a gathering of sorts to talk about art with Wolfgang Bloch and Alex Weinstein, Kevin Ansell and others. Bolton Colburn, Director of the Laguna Art Museum, Scott Hulet, editor at the Surfers Journal and Steve Pezman, publisher of the surfers journal were leading this discussion. Even David Lloyd was in the audience actively participating. Although the artists appreciate the publicity given them by the surf industry they do n0t think their work is just about surfing and that culture, it is about art and process, even politics and religion. Bolton Colburn said that the more people who grew up surfing and have become financially successful subsequently purchase art related to surfing and as galleries, museums and collectors support this genre, it becomes a significant genre unto itself. As the money comes so does the "importance". Art in Southern California has been produced by artists, many of whom happen to surf and live in close proximity to the ocean. Whether it be Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, Ed Ruscha, Charles Arnoldi, Ken Price, Ed Keinholtz or John Baldessari, the surfing culture and the ocean has been a part of their lives and has affected their work somehow. The ocean and the western point of view are why we live in California.

Ed Moses Images

2009-06-02T12:07:00.000-07:00

These are two images of the five paintings currently available for viewing at the gallery.

In A Different Light

2009-06-02T11:25:00.000-07:00

The current show blends abstract painting with landscape painting and emerging artists with established ones. Five small paintings by one of southern California's artistic legends, Ed Moses, are on view. These paintings were completed in late 2008 when Moses was 82 years of age. He currently has a show in Los Angeles that takes up two gallery spaces, Greenfield Sacks Gallery and Frank Lloyd Gallery. Moses is doing some of the strongest work of his 60 year career and we are lucky to have these works. The works are a bargain too!

Also on display are four paintings by Ed's son Andy Moses who is an art star on his own. Although many see Andy Moses' work as abstract, they are in fact landscape paintings of intense depth and beauty. His work is currently in at least three group shows in Los Angeles but has rarely been seen in San Diego. Andy Moses studied art at Cal Arts in Valencia graduating in the late eighties and has been showing nationally and internationally ever since. His studio is currnetly in Venice CA, but he spent 10 years living and working in New York and becoming a master of the painterly craft. His work is atmospherical and mysterious. His canvases are often shaped in a concave or a convex and the surfaces of his paintings border on perfect. Come check out these works, we are lucky to have them in North County.