Archived Exhibitions

Damien A Roman Fine Art is pleased announce our participation in SCOPE New York 2016.  The 16th edition of SCOPE New York returns to its location one block from the Armory Show Piers at Metropolitan West Pavilion located at 639 W 46th St. New York, NY 10036.

In addition to its traditional booth offerings, SCOPE New York will feature its critically acclaimed, open-plan exhibition design. SCOPE New York maintains a decidedly thoughtful, polished presentation, rather than an array of small booths.  Exhibiting galleries flow beautifully into one another, creating curatorial narratives that encompass the entire show.

Participating artists in this year’s edition include: Troy Brooks, Ray Caesar, Tim Conlon, EVOL, AJ Fosik, Gentleman’s Game, Grant Haffner, Elektra KB & Swoon.

Damien A Roman Fine Art and One Art Space are pleased to present  Attack the Block, a concise survey of contemporary street art in America, September 18 through October 10, 2015. This exhibition opens with a public reception for the artists Thursday, September 17, 6 – 9pm.

Co-curated by Damien A Roman, Tim Conlon and Alex Emmart, Attack the Block features work by 25 street artists whose art is intricately linked to their urban environment.  This diverse exhibition includes many subgenres within street art such as Pop Surrealism, Geometric Abstraction, Figural, Sociopolitical and classic Graffiti. 

All over America, in every city, artists are currently changing the landscape.  Armed with wheat-paste, brushes, stencils, spray enamel and other tools of their trade, these devoted ambassadors of art prowl the streets looking to utilize the urban landscape as their canvas.  Whether the artists’ impetus is to beautify urban blight or instigate a dialog within the community, there is no ignoring the creative mark that these artists are making and the international art world has taken notice.

The co-curators of Attack the Block have teamed up with One Art Space to bring the best street artists from around the country, and the world, to the definitive center of the street art universe, New York City.  Artists participating in Attack the Block range from future stars to established forces within the global art community.  Many have had their work exhibited in important museums and galleries including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Deitch Projects and the Corcoran Gallery of Art just to name a few.  Profiles of these artists and their work have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Artnews, Juxtapoz, the New York Daily News, The Observer, High Fructose and many more relevant publications. 

Damien A Roman Fine Art and One Art Space present Group Summer.  The collaboration between DARFA and OAS continues with a final group show before our summer break.  Group Summer features a selection of new works from artists Peter Buchman, Ray Caesar, Colin Christian, Tim Conlon, Gentleman’s Game, Grant Haffner, Steven Klein, Mary Larsen, Francesco, Lo Castro & Taylor Pilote.

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, July 23rd, 6-8pm.

One Art Space is located at 23 Warren St. in TribeCa, NY.
Just blocks away from the 1,2,3,4,5,6,A,C,E,R,J and Z trains

Market Art + Design launches July 9, 2015 as the evolution of ArtMarket Hamptons, the East End’s premier modern and contemporary art fair. Taking place in an exclusive new waterfront venue at the stunning Fairview Farm at Mecox, Market Art + Design will showcase presentations by top galleries enhanced by a striking and tightly curated Design component pulling from dealers and designers from around the world.

OPENING NIGHT ­ PREVIEW BENEFIT
The proceeds of an exclusive opening night celebration featuring great food, local bands, and fantastic art will support Benefit Partner Peconic Land Trust. Founded in 1983, Peconic Land Trust works with landowners, municipalities, and communities to conserve Long Island’s working farms, natural lands, and heritage. Morris Sandwich Shop will offer their famously decadent, local & seasonal grilled cheeses, speciality appetizers, and house­made cocktails to Preview Benefit guests. The beloved food truck’s brick and mortar Crown Heights spot may be new to the scene, but it’s already an institution, hitting Eater’s Brooklyn Heatmap this winter. Long Island and New York City’s high profile art world luminaries, including top collectors, curators, museum directors, and artists, will be in attendance to support Peconic Land Trust and to have first look at Market Art + Designpresentations and special project installations

Damien A Roman Fine Art is pleased to announce its Summer Residency at Norma Jean Pilates in Sag Harbor.  Damien Roman and NJP founder, Hayley Thorpe, are excited to present a series of contemporary art exhibitions at NJP’s spacious Main Street location.  A series of rotating solo and group exhibitions will adorn each of NJP’s impeccably appointed studios through Labor Day Weekend.  Artists represented during this special collaboration include Peter Buchman, Ray Caesar, Gentleman’s Game, Grant Haffner, Mary Larsen and James Roper. 

Norma Jean Pilates is located at 52 Main Street, Sag harbor, NY.  For business hours or to schedule an appointment or please call 917 797 8931 or email info@damienaromanfineart.com.

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Damien A Roman Fine Art and One Art Space are pleased to announce the opening of Fantastic Planet, an exhibition of recent work by Gentleman’s Game, a collaboration between artists Brandon Friend and Jason Douglas Griffin.

Fantastic Planet will open Thursday, May 14 with a reception for the artists at One Art Space located at 23 Warren St. in TriBeCa.

Inspired by 1973’s influential, French, sci-fi classic of the same title, Fantastic Planet explores many of the same conflicts and weighty allegorical themes at the heart of 36 x 54 inches René Laloux’s groundbreaking animated film.  A turbulent, drowned and unforgiving world, perhaps centuries into our own dystopian future, is inhabited by Godlike giants, bizarre creatures from the depths and the scattered remnants of humanity. 

In this striking and brutal world imagined by Gentleman’s Game, mankind struggles to hold on to the last vestiges of terrain, both manmade and natural.  Man’s tenacious survival instinct and ingenuity give rise to incredible, towering cities built upon the skeletons of long decaying oil rigs and the very few mountaintops able to break the surface of the great, never-ending ocean.  The constant struggle for resources and land lead to a proliferation of fantastical modes of transport.  Alchemists, utilizing technologies and magics both old and new, create vessels to fill the sea and air, allowing their clans to fight and maybe survive as new Gods watch over their subjects with cool disregard.  Among the chaos and despair, the artists still manage to create images of hope.  Glimmers of this world’s fragile beauty can be spotted amongst the relentless turmoil.

Friend and Griffin, collectively working as Gentleman’s Game since 2011, have explored the themes of mythology, technology, history and mortality viewed through the murky waters of the Atlantic, the vast ocean that covers nearly the entire surface of their Fantastic Planet.  This seminal exhibition of the young, New York artists collaborative work boasts the most complete selection of paintings from their Atlantic storyline displayed to date.  In this show, Gentleman’s Game will debut a new collection of previously unexhibited works titled Landlords, their latest addition to this epic saga. 

Their partnership is considered unique, but it is their signature technique for bridging the gap between the digital and the handmade that is unlike any other.   Both artists work together to create works by combining mixed media in a process that employs various methodologies rooted in painting, printmaking, collage, drawing and image transfer.  Images, textures and handmade marks are often scanned, printed and then transferred to the canvas or paper surface using a fixative.  The transfer process is facilitated through the application and removal of numerous layers of paper medium allowing different effects begin to develop and variations are created within the moment.  Though technology is integral to their process, it is ultimately the artist’s hand that is responsible for the final creative decisions.

Brandon Friend was born in 1980 in Queens, New York, Jason Douglas Griffin  was born in 1981 in the DC Metro area.  Both were enrolled in the Department of Art Honors Program at the University of Maryland College Park when they first met in 2001.  After receiving his undergraduate degree, Friend returned to Queens to complete his MFA at CUNY Queens College, Griffin moved to New York City to pursue his art career.   

Friend and Griffin later reconnected in New York in 2008 and began sharing the same studio space in Long Island City that they continue to use today.  Their first joint effort was for an exhibition at Lambert Fine Art located in New York’s Lower East Side, in 2011.  The exhibit tiled, Identity crisis, provided the impetus to create work as a pair, propelling the artists to create an entire wall of collaborations.  The name Gentleman’s Game came from a painting that the two created depicting two figures engaged  a game of a chess, which served as a metaphor for their creative process.

Gentleman’s Game has hundreds of works in private collections around the US and their work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and art fairs including Scope Basel, Texas Contemporary, Project Gallery, LA, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, Scope NY and Fountain Art Fair in New York and Chicago.  This is Gentleman’s Game’s first solo exhibition with Damien A Roman Fine Art and their first collaboration with One Art Space. 

Damien Roman is an Art Consultant, Curator and Project Coordinator specializing in Contemporary and Modern Art exhibitions and sales for over 18 years.  He is based in New York City and East Hampton, NY. One Art Space, founded by owner Dan Giella in 2011, collaborates with curators, performers and artists from around the world to create a diverse and exciting program of visual and performing arts projects.  Fantastic Planet is the first of a series of planned exhibitions partnering Roman and One Art Space.

CELEBRATING 15 YEARS IN NEW YORK

15 years ago, SCOPE Art Show mounted its first edition and changed the landscape of the contemporary art fair industry. The first fair to run concurrent with The Armory Show, SCOPE’s spirit of innovation has consistently forged the way for emerging artists, galleries and art fairs. Attuned to nuances in the market and itself an influential force in the cultural sphere, SCOPE is again poised to usher in a new vision of the contemporary art fair.

Damien A Roman Fine Art debuts at this year’s edition of Texas Contemporary with a group exhibition featuring artists Ray Caesar, Colin Christian, Tim Conlon, Eric Fischl, Gentleman’s Game, Wolf Kahn, Elektra KB, Swoon and Dean West.

Damien A Roman Fine Art and Vered Gallery are pleased to present Cosplay, an exhibition of new works by renown sculptor Colin Christian. This eagerly awaited exhibit will be the artist’s first solo show in the US in three years.  Cosplay, short for “costume play” is the inspiration for Christian’s newest series of work.  In Cosplay, Christian enthusiastically tackles the monumental task of reimagining some of the most iconic characters from film, literature and pop culture.  While Christian is best known for his fantastical Pop Surrealist sculptures based upon his own original designs, his Cosplay series allows him to re-envision our most recognized heroes and villains for today, “as we see them now”.   

The growing subculture of Cosplay is a type of performance art in which participants wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character or idea that is usually identified with a identifiable  name.  The truly unique approach to this series of new works has Christian playing dress up with friends, actresses and internet superstars, turning them into sexy and often outrageous multimedia sculptures.  Lana Del Rey becomes Nabokov’s Lolita, Calamity Amelie is Bat Girl and Natalie Portman portrays a vile “droog” from A Clockwork Orange, just to name a few. 

Besides the obvious appeal of rediscovering his favorite iconic characters, Christian has quite an ambitious concept at play here.  At a time when there is such uncertainty and distrust in everything from our government to our financial and religious institutions, Christian believes that people are looking for real heroes.  “Right now, everyday people are choosing to become those heroes, if only in appearance.”  While it’s not new for people to play dress up to emulate their favorite characters, the current Cosplay movement has taken this “hobby” to a new level.  There is an international convention circuit, populated by tens of thousands of ordinary people, that dress up regularly as their most beloved fictional personas.  Christian takes this fantasy role-playing craze and skews it through his artistic lens to quite literally turn real people into larger than life Icons, depicting our inner selves on an epic scale, both the good and the bad.

For Christian, each immaculately handcrafted sculpture requires weeks to months of labor intensive, messy and often noxious work.  Though he primarily works in fiberglass and silicone, Christian is constantly expanding his mastery of media to solve particularly tricky aesthetic and engineering problems.  Works in the Cosplay series incorporate motorized LEDs, automotive trim, chrome detailing and even hat felt imported from London.  For over a decade, Christian’s boundless imagination and eye for detail have made him one of the most sought after Pop Surrealist sculptors in the worlds of art and design. 

Born in London, Colin Christian currently lives and works in Florida.  His works are included in numerous corporate and private collections around the world.  Christian’s sculptures have also been featured in dozens of international art fairs and museums and are included in the permanent collections of the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, The International Museum of Art & Science and The New York Museum of Sex.

Vered Gallery returns to the Bridghampton Historical Society for the 4th edition of the premier Art Fair opening July 10th. Vered’s two spacious booths will feature Modern and Contemporary Masters along side exciting new artists.