FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
Please join us for the opening on (First-)Friday, May 3rd, 2024, from 6-8pm
Please join us for the opening on (First-)Friday, May 3rd, 2024, from 6-8pm
The fifth iteration of The Salon Show, a group exhibition with new work by the gallery's roster.
Opening: First Friday, November 3, 6 - 8pm
Wednesday - Saturday: 11am - 6pm
Sunday: 11am - 4pm
And by appointment
Image: Marsh (#2345), 2023, Oil on Linen, 35 x 30”
Reading the Earth curated by Deborah Davidson
with Stephanie Anderson, Nicole Duennebier, Joerg Dressler, Steve Imrich, and Wilhelm Neusser
Thursday, June 15th
Gallery Talk with the Shana Dumont Garr at 5:30pm
Continuing with artists in the exhibit at 6:00pm, Reception to follow
Landscapes are culture before they are nature: constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. So goes the argument of this book. But it should be acknowledged that once a certain idea of landscape is a myth, a vision establishes itself in an actual place, it has a peculiar way of muddling categories, of making metaphors more real than their referents; of becoming, in fact, part of the scenery.
Simon Schama, Landscape And Memory, pg 61
Galerie Alfred Knecht at Halle 2, H2/C37
Artists presented:
Andreas Blank | Gundula Bleckmann | Thaddäus Hüppi | Irmela Maier | Wilhelm Neusser | Franziska Schemel
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery presents new work by Wilhelm Neusser and Mishael Coggeshall-Burr.
Opening on First Friday, May 5, 2023
SMFA Art Sale
Friday, November 4, Public Sale Day: 10am-8pm
Saturday, November 5, Public Sale Day: 10am-5pm
Sunday, November 6, Public Sale Day: 10am-5pm
Proceeds from this year’s sale will provide crucial support to ensure equitable access to an SMFA education through much needed financial aid assistance, making it possible for SMFA to truly support the next generation of artists. Catalog. PDF.
Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt
Opening: Thursday, November 3, 4-10pm
Friday – Saturday: 11am-8pm
Sunday: 11am-6pm
Galerie Knecht und Burster
Booth GE3
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is pleased to present new work by Coral Woodbury, Nathaniel Price and Wilhelm Neusser at Art on Paper in New York City. Find all artist’s work on Artsy and a complete list of Wilhelm's new and available work here.
The Painting Center is pleased to present the juried exhibition titled Break of Day, Edge of Night curated by Steven Cabral, Lisa Petker Mintz and Christopher Schade. The exhibition will be on view from July 19 - August 13, 2022 and will be featured on Artsy with a catalogue of the artists’ works. More…
Galerie Knecht und Burster at Halle 1 C 37
Artists presented:
Andreas Blank | Gundula Bleckmann | Axel Brandt | Wilhelm Neusser | Franziska Schemel | Daniel Wagenblast | Ulrich J. Wolff
Boston University, Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery
Field Visions explores the possibilities of landscape – specifically, how abstraction, metaphor, and materiality are leveraged to open up these possibilities, and in doing so, render nature into an abstraction that becomes landscape. While each artist propels their unique poetic visions through an established genre, they also push material and the fiction outward, tree-like, proving that the field of landscape painting is not only pliable but expansive, and imagination is constantly unfolding and inventing new spaces. (read more)
Reviewed by
Cate McQuaid for the Boston Globe
Jessica Shearer for the Boston Art Review
Matt Murphy, Curator
Artists on view:
Riley Brewster | Jennifer Caine | Matt Hufford | Masako Kamiya | Wilhelm Neusser | Anthony Palocci | Stephanie Pierce | Samnang Riebe | Sarah Stewart | Michael Zachary
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is pleased to present the 2022 summer group show featuring work by Mishael Coggeshall-Burr, Susan Murie, Wilhelm Neusser and Natalia Wróbel. Open on First Friday, June 3rd.
Einführung in die Ausstellung. Audio 24 min. Wilhelm Neusser und Jochen Langner im Gespräch. Aufnahmeregie: Fahri Sahin Sarimese
Metaphorisch gesprochen bezeichnet Schwarzweiß das Denken in Extremen. Es blendet die ebenso metaphorische Grauzone, den Übergang von Weiß zu Schwarz, oder Schwarz zu Weiß, aus. Genau diesem unscharfen Verlauf widmen sich Neussers neueste Bilder in vibrierenden Farben.
Seine Landschaften beschreiben die Natur in ständigem Wandel von Tages- und Jahreszeiten, im Wechsel von Hell und Dunkel. Auch der Zustand der dargestellten Räume ist nicht eindeutig und oszilliert zwischen illusionistisch einladend und bedrohlich abweisend.
Eine Marschlandschaft unter dramatischem Himmel spielt ebenso auf Emil Noldes Norddeutschland wie auf Kaliforniens Waldbrände an. Die von der Cranberry Ernte inspirierten Bog Bilder erzählen vom Herbst in Neuengland, zugleich klingen Untertöne von Umweltzerstörung und Naturkatastrophe an. Mit ihrer intensiven Farbigkeit explodieren Neussers Forsythien förmlich und geben der Natur dieses Frühblühers etwas verunsichernd Künstliches.
In der großen Gruppe der Zaunbilder wird der Betrachter*in ein Standpunkt außerhalb des Bildes zugewiesen, der Zugang zum Bildraum wird verwehrt. Zäune als Mittel der Ein- und Ausgrenzung sollen helfen, eine scharfe Linie zu ziehen und Klarheit zu verschaffen: hier Schwarz, dort Weiß. Neussers eingezäunte Landschaften aber unterwandern diese Absicht und führen uns zurück in die farbige Grauzone, in der nichts feststeht und alles im Fluss.
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Metaphorically speaking, black and white means thinking in extremes. It masks the equally metaphorical gray area, the transition from white to black, or black to white. It is precisely this blurry gradient that is the focus of Neusser's most recent paintings in vibrant colors.
His landscapes describe nature’s constant change, through the seasons and at all times of the day, from light to dark. The atmosphere is just as ambiguous, oscillating between alluring illusion and repellent threat.
A marsh landscape under a dramatic sky alludes as much to Emil Nolde’s Northern Germany as to California’s wild fires. Inspired by the cranberry harvest, the series of Bog paintings portrays New England in the fall albeit with undertones of environmental pollution and natural disaster. Neusser’s forsythias positively explode with intense color, lending to the nature of this early bloomer an unsettling artificiality.
In the large group of fence paintings the beholder is positioned outside the picture; access to the pictorial space is denied. Fences, as a means to enclose and to exclude, are supposed to help draw clear lines and provide clarity: black here - white there. Neusser’s fenced landscapes undermine this, leading us back to the colorful gray area in which nothing is certain and everything is in flux.
Kunstverein Koelnberg, Aachener Straße 66, Köln
Eröffnung: 10. Und 11. Dezember 2021, 17 - 20 Uhr
Öffnungszeiten: Mittwoch, den 15. bis Sonntag, den 19., sowie am Mittwoch, den 22. Dezember, jeweils 12 - 20 Uhr und nach Absprache (Der Künstler ist anwesend, es gilt 2G mit Maske, Änderungen vorbehalten)
RE/VISIT vereint eine Gruppe von Bildern Wilhelm Neussers aus den Jahren 2006 - 2012. In den surreal anmutenden Gemälden stehen Bezüge zu Architektur und Vegetation im Mittelpunkt. Ohne einen klaren Maßstab changieren sie zwischen Mikro- oder Makrokosmos, zwischen Modell oder Wirklichkeit. Alle vermitteln ein Gefühl von Fragment und Unstetigkeit, sie sind zugleich Baustelle und Ruine. Erwartungen an Sicherheit, Stabilität und Wachstum werden in Frage gestellt. Mehr denn je, sind sie ein Spiegel unserer Zeit.
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RE/VISIT brings together a group of paintings by Wilhelm Neusser from 2006 to 2012. The somewhat surrealist paintings refer primarily to architecture and vegetation. Without a clear sense of scale, they oscillate between micro- and macrocosm, between model and reality. All convey a sense of fragmentation and discontinuity, simultaneously construction site and ruin. Expectations of safety, stability and growth are called into question. They are, more than ever, a mirror of our time.
“In a lush painterly language, the fenced landscapes reflect on our recent experiences of limited access and destinations out of reach.”
Knecht and Burster Gallery presents new paintings by Wilhelm Neusser at Discovery Art Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. Please visit us at Halle 12, Booth E4 from November 4-7, 2021, 11am-8pm.
First Choice opens on Thursday, November 4th, 4-10pm (Please contact gallery for invite).
New paintings presented by Galerie Knecht und Burster at FAIR FOR ART VIENNA, October 2-10, 2021.
DAZZLESHIP is a group exhibition curated by Michael MacMahon for The Umbrella Arts Center Main Gallery. More information here.
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition by Boston-based painter Wilhelm Neusser. In this newest body of work, a thicket of forsythia or a chain link fence create a space just out of reach, suggesting a longing for an indeterminate place or time. The show’s title, The Sixth Season, refers to a mysterious missing panel in a series by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Like the work of this 16th century forerunner, Neusser’s paintings invite speculation. What or which time is lost? The Sixth Season contrasts our nature as social beings with the experience of a season lost, the pandemic spring of 2020.
The Six Season, Exhibition Tour, YouTube
The Six Season, Wilhelm Neusser in conversation with gallerist Abigail Ogilvy, YouTube
Studio Views: Wilhelm Neusser, ArtSake, Massachusetts Cultural Council
Pieter Bruegel’s The Seasons, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Wilhelm Neusser, Artist-in-Residence in 2019, generously created this video of his Fruitlands Series, taking us behind the scenes to his studio in Somerville, MA. He made 21 paintings, a body of work in response to a display of over 50 Hudson River School paintings with a focus on five specific paintings from the museum’s collection. The result, Pastoral Present, was on view in our art gallery last year.
Music by Carl Straussner
Size does matter! The brilliant Boston based artist Eben Haines built Shelter in Place Gallery (Instagram: @shelterinplacegallery), a 1:12 scale exhibition space with incredible attention to detail (There are stains, where the sky light leaks!!!) He invites fellow artists to show and share artwork created for the space. My painting is inspired by Katharina Grosse’s curtain-like piece, that she created in response to Jackson Pollock's mural, on view at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston last year.
Shelter in Place Gallery got lots of press over the last few weeks:
Knecht and Burster Gallery presents new paintings by Wilhelm Neusser at the Karlsruhe Art Fair. Please visit us at Hall 2, Booth A 28 from February 13-16, 11am-7pm. Preview on Wednesday, February 12, 2-9pm (invite only). Contact the gallery or find the press release published by the art fair.
Opening Reception: December 6, 6-8:30 pm
Work by: Clint Baclawski, Mishael Coggeshall-Burr, Keenan Derby, Austin Eddy, Lisa A. Foster, Ariel Basson Freiberg, Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Holly Harrison, Lavaughan Jenkins, Richard Keen, Kristina McComb, Jennifer Moses, Wilhelm Neusser, Amanda Wachob, Natalia Wróbel. Website
Knecht and Burster Gallery presents new paintings by Wilhelm Neusser at Discovery Art Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. Please visit us at Booth G21 from November 1-3, 11am-8pm. First Choice opens on Thursday, October 31, at 4 pm (invite only), followed by the official opening from 6-11 pm.
Works by: Axel Brandt, Simone Lucas, Wilhelm Neusser, Franziska Schemel and Daniel Wagenblast.
“Inspiriert von der farbenfrohen und zugleich surreal anmutenden Cranberryernte im Norden Amerikas hat der aus Köln stammende und heute in Boston lebende Maler Wilhelm Neusser eine Serie von Bildern geschaffen, die über die romantische Landschaftsdarstellung hinaus weisen. Bedrohliche Himmel und dramatisches Licht lassen eine endzeitliche Stimmung aufkommen. Verloren und vereinsamt wirken die Figuren, die in den gefluteten Feldern stehen, als steckten sie fest und wüssten nicht wohin und wie weiter. Neusser puscht die Pastorale in Richtung Apokalypse, die Ernteszene mutiert zum ökologischen und sozialen Ernsfall und offenbart die Ängste unserer Gegenwart.”
Woods (2015/18) by Wilhelm Neusser has been selected for “Long Live Rembrandt” at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The exhibition showcases Rembrandt's impact on artists today across all media, genres and styles.
Painters of the Dutch Golden Age are a constant source of inspiration for Neusser as he envisions contemporary landscape. Rembrandt’s The Stone Bridge, held by the Rijksmuseum, has hung for years as a postcard in Neusser’s studio. “Not in order to copy or imitate what Rembrandt was able to do with paint on panel (I couldn’t),” said Neusser, “but in order to draw from his incredible play with dark and light, the sublime mood and atmosphere in this painting.”
Around the time Neusser began painting Woods, he became enamored of a series of online lectures on Rembrandt by John Walsh, especially the art historian's emphasis on the Dutch master's technique and surface treatment. The forest landscape in Woods was determined by the nature of the painting material itself. According to Neusser, “the topography of the subject matter and the canvas became one”.
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is proud to present Picnic, a group exhibition featuring Mishael Coggeshall-Burr, Wilhelm Neusser, Anna Schuleit Haber, Amanda Wachob and Natalia Wrobel. All five artists focus on depicting places or moments in time infused with emotion, memories and personal experience. The works in the exhibition speak to their personal history, especially related to location. Website
Pastoral Present is a project in which visual artist Wilhelm Neusser will subtly, thoughtfully alter the display of the Fruitlands Museum’s permanent collection of Hudson River School landscape paintings with new paintings he made specifically for the space. The first presentation will appear with the opening of our main season on Saturday, April 13, with two new works. The second shift will be shared in early September 2019.
A New View features more than fifty nineteenth-century landscapes by Hudson River School painters such as Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, and Frederic Church. Neusser, a German-born painter whose landscape paintings are widely exhibited throughout Europe and the United States, has long been influenced by nineteenth-century landscape painting, which celebrated and romanticized nature and landscape at a time when dramatic change, such as industrialization, was underway.
The rich colors and captivating imagery of Neusser's paintings incorporate contrasting brushstrokes, some of which streak the scene in what the artist calls a dialectic process of healing and hurting the imagery. Pastoral Present is part of a new body of work that highlights the enduring influence of the Hudson River School –and how the artists’ concerns about highlighting and protecting our natural resources are relevant today.
Shana Dumont Garr, Curator
What makes the corporeal in art such a seductive subject? Why is figuration in painting so hot right now? Figure Focus aims to address these questions by examining the work of 15 contemporary painters approaching figurative work from new and exciting perspectives. This exhibition is an invitation to investigate multiple facets of the figure including psychological, societal, and formalistic considerations. The paintings can be viewed aesthetically and conceptually to inspire, confirm, and unmoor historic and current ideas of figurative painting. Figure Focus has been curated by Boston-based painter Andrew Fish.
Artists include: Dana Clancy, Sean Downey, Andrew Fish, Ariel Freiberg, Ian Gage, Greg Horwitch, Joel Janowitz, Lavaughan Jenkins, Catherine Kehoe, Sharon Lacey, Susan Lichtman, Sarah Lubin, Wilhelm Neusser, Hiba Schahbaz, Molly Segal.
Knecht and Burster Gallery presents recent paintings by Wilhelm Neusser at the Karlsruhe Art Fair. Please visit us at Hall 2, Booth A 28 from February 21-24, 11am-7pm. Preview on Wednesday, February 20, 2-9pm.
A group exhibition featuring artwork by:
Eric Aho
Christiane Corcelle
Keenan Derby
Daniel Herr
Ariel Basson Freiberg
Wilhelm Neusser
Anna Schuleit Haber
Opening Reception: Friday, October 5th 6-8 pm