Visual Arts
Our Visual Arts Program and Exhibitions are co-curated and organized by Todd B. Richmond and Paz Tanjuaquio, made possible by TOPAZ ARTS, Inc., with public support, in part, from NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
Recent Exhibitions:
– 2019 –
TOPAZ ARTS presents
Timberline: a solo exhibition by Nicholas Arbatsky
on view May 11 to June 29, 2019
view photos of the exhibition >
Timberline is a series of prints by New York-based artist Nicholas Arbatsky, whose kinetic process captures the shape of wind and the color of time. Highlighting the atmosphere and terrain of his subject, the images from the Timberline Series were photographed on the western slopes of Mount Hood, Oregon, between the altitudes of 2,000 and 11,000 feet above sea level with subsequent images produced in Colorado, Utah and California. The installation at TOPAZ ARTS will include new pieces made specifically for the space featuring graphic elements inspired by topographic maps and two decades worth of snowboard magazines. read more >
– 2018 –
TOPAZ ARTS presents
Pierre Ardouvin: Le couvert est mis (The table is set)
on view September 15 to October 27, 2018
opening reception with the artist: Saturday, Sept 15th, 3-6pm
TOPAZ ARTS is pleased to present Pierre Ardouvin, a prominent Paris-based artist in his first solo exhibition in New York, Le couvert est mis (The table is set). Ardouvin’s works, widely exhibited throughout France and internationally, are often presented as a journey into the hazardous byways of consciousness and memory.
This exhibition features a new installation “Le couvert est mis (The table is set)” made specifically for the Topaz Arts space during his one-month artist residency. Using ephemeral construction, a set table, raised on columns of bricks placed on top of one another, Ardouvin creates an inviting yet precarious table scene, evoking a distant memory of a horizon, which as a child, seemed so high up. Also on view are new drawings by Ardouvin, and his sculptural series “The night is not over”, (title extracted from the poem “Isolation” by Michel Houellebecq). Thick velvet curtains with large printed images of caves are attached to the walls. Placed on the floor and peeking out from underneath the curtains are a pale grey cast of a pair of feet are visible, yet the body disappears within the curtain’s folds and the cave-like images. An encounter with clandestine appearances of a world in-between, blurring the stability of the limits between the inside and the outside, past and present, the space of the portrayal and the portrayed.
TOPAZ ARTS presents
500 Years After Guernica
an exhibition of new collaborative paintings by Manuel Ocampo and Irene-Iré
curated by Todd B. Richmond and Paz Tanjuaquio
on view March 3 to April 28, 2018
opening reception with the artists: Saturday, March 3, 3-6pm
500 Years After Guernica is an exhibition of new collaborative paintings by Manuel Ocampo and Irene-Iré. For this show at Topaz Arts, the series of paintings focus on imagery culled from propaganda (war) posters. The use of these imageries in these works serve as an index to how our minds functioned during times of conflict and how we measure ourselves within the codes of visual history in modern and post-modern times.
Manuel Ocampo, renowned artist from Manila, Philippines and Irene-Iré from Madrid, Spain, collaborate on this new series of paintings. In Irene-Iré’s work, similar visual cues are used from different ideological camps during the Spanish Civil War, using them to clash with each other resulting in an abstraction or something completely new. In Manuel Ocampo’s paintings religion and politically charged images are often used in order to test their efficacy. But Ocampo also knows that paint daubs, however art referential, cannot be abstracted away from ongoing history.
TOPAZ ARTS presents
Marks and Conversations
a two-person exhibition of new work by Maeve D’Arcy • Roberto Jamora
on view June 9 to July 28, 2018
TOPAZ ARTS is pleased to present Marks and Conversations, curated by Todd B. Richmond and Paz Tanjuaquio, featuring new work by Maeve D’Arcy and Roberto Jamora – two local artists whose works investigate color, abstraction, and gestures in painting to convey memory, place and time.
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– 2017 –
TOPAZ ARTS presents
Dark Forest – solo exhibition of large-scale oil paintings and immersive installation
by Todd Bradford Richmond
on view March 4 to April 1, 2017
opening reception: Saturday, March 4, 2-6pm
closing reception: Saturday, April 1, 3-6pm
admission is free - rsvp@topazarts.org
TOPAZ ARTS, 55-03 39th Avenue, Woodside, NY > directions
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TOPAZ ARTS Visual Arts Program is pleased to present Dark Forest – a solo exhibition of large-scale oil paintings and immersive installation by Todd Bradford Richmond, on view March 4 to April 1, 2017 at TOPAZ ARTS. Richmond’s new works explore the inner voice of uncertainty and the unknown in his solo exhibition Dark Forest – a new series of large-scale oil paintings and immersive installation. Using light as a medium in Laser Forest, blue lasers create an experiential forest of light where viewers can wander through and interact with enigmatic light and atmosphere. Dark Forest (100″ x 160″, oil on canvas, 2016), Painted Forest (100″ x 160″, oil on canvas, 2016) and Negative Forest (100″ x 160″, vinyl, 2016), are a series of large works that survey painting: each adaptations derived from Dark Forest. In Solo Series 1-6 (40” x 40”, oil on linen, 2016), Richmond highlights several sections of the large-scale paintings to duplicate as amplified “details”, forming individual compositions.
Richmond makes paintings, installations, films and music compositions, encompassing an ongoing conversation across mediums and employs diverse materials and modes, exchanging language and concepts between genres. His practice draws upon nature, form, composition and movement.
More about the artist >
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TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. presents A Body in Places: Queens Edition
an exhibition by artist Eiko Otake and photographer William Johnston
co-curated with Todd B. Richmond & Paz Tanjuaquio
on view May 6 – 28, 2017
Opening event: Saturday, May 6, 2017
1-3pm: Delicious Movement Workshop with Eiko
3-6pm: Opening reception
4pm: Performance by Eiko
TOPAZ ARTS is pleased to present A Body in Places: Queens Edition – an exhibition by renowned artist Eiko Otake and photographer William Johnston – on view May 6 to 28, 2017. The exhibition at TOPAZ ARTS presents new images from the photographic series where the collaborators visited Indian Point Energy Center, the nuclear plant in Buchanan, New York in 2016, along with selected images from A Body in Fukushima (2014-16), which shows their extensive work in irradiated areas in Fukushima, Japan after the 2011 nuclear meltdowns. The photographic series accompanied by a movement workshop and live performance by Eiko form a poetic response to disaster and proximity.
On Saturday, May 6th, TOPAZ ARTS is pleased to offer a Delicious Movement Workshop 1-3pm and a live performance by Eiko at 4pm during the exhibition opening reception from 3-6pm. Admission is complimentary.
“Move to experience a body as part of a landscape and landscape as a body; both breathe and move,” a statement from the Delicious Movement Manifesto, aptly describes Eiko’s A Body in Places. The photographs by Johnston capture Eiko’s movement and gestures among evolving landscapes, from Fukushima, Japan to the Indian Point Nuclear Plant in New York, drawing upon distance and potential disaster as a malleable experience.
This project is part of Eiko’s solo series A Body in Places and A Body in Fukushima – for full details, please visit eikoandkoma.org/abodyinplaces and eikoandkoma.org/abodyinfukushima
> full press release: TOPAZ ARTS presents A Body in Places: Queens Edition
– 2016 –
The Golden Age: Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
presented by TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. and
Todd B. Richmond & Paz Tanjuaquio co-curated with Chương-Đài Võ
an exhibition by Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez
in collaboration with Carol Cassidy, Lionel Descostes, Nic Ford, Joe Fyfe, Sébastien Gouju, Jean Sébastien Grill, Francis Morandini and Emma Perrochon
on view June 4 to 25, 2016
opening reception: Saturday, June 4, 3-6pm
Join us for a talk at 3:00pm, Sat, June 4th: a conversation with artist Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez, art historian Jane DeBevoise (Asia Art Archive), moderated by Chương-Đài Võ Admission is complimentary.
TOPAZ ARTS Visual Arts Program is pleased to present The Golden Age: Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam – an exhibition by Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez, on view June 4 to 25, 2016. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, June 4, 3-6pm, with a talk at 3pm: a conversation with Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez with Jane DeBevoise (Asia Art Archive), moderated by Chương-Đài Võ. Admission is complimentary.
The Golden Age: Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam is a “travelogue” and “experimental diary” of Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez’s artist residencies, projects and travels in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia over the past decade. Born in Auxerre, the French artist of Catalan, Cretan and Vietnamese descent first went to Vietnam in 2006. Influenced by his regular travels to Asia since then, he has developed a post- abstraction practice that engages with questions of translation, the decontextualization and transformation of familiar practices, and collaborations with artists of different genres and media.
image: “Night on Earth”, 2016 by Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez & Jean Sébastien Grill
The TOPAZ ARTS Visual Arts Program is made possible, in part, by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
Topaz Arts presents
Case Studies
- group exhibition featuring
Joseph Paul Fox | Ged Merino | Orange | Roger Rothstein | Junko Yamada
with works by Todd B. Richmond and Paz Tanjuaquio
on view March 12 to May 7, 2016
opening reception: Sat, March 12, 3-6pm
closing reception: Sat, May 7, 3-6pm
Curators Todd B. Richmond and Paz Tanjuaquio have long been inspired by Joseph Cornell, an American artist who lived most of his life on Utopia Parkway in Queens where he created his renowned works that influenced the genre of assemblage and collage. For Case Studies, Topaz Arts presents a group exhibition of New York City artists whose works take a contemporary approach to collage, assemblage, encasing, and sculpture – featuring Joseph Paul Fox, Ged Merino, Orange, Roger Rothstein, Junko Yamada, plus special guest artists during the exhibition, on view from March 12 to May 7, 2016.
There will be a closing reception on Sat, May 7, 3-6pm, in conjunction with an informal performance by Dylan Crossman at 5pm in the dance studio for Topaz Arts Series: Choreographers in the Studio.
The TOPAZ ARTS Visual Arts Program is made possible, in part, by New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs.
– 2015 –
TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. presents
Territory: Unlimited
a group exhibition featuring artwork by the
Society of Philippine-American Artists (SPAA)
on view October 16 to November 21, 2015
opening reception: Fri, Oct 16th, 6-8pm
closing reception: Sat, Nov 21, 2-5pm
Read a review of the exhibition >
“A Philippine panoply of art shows diverse views” – by Cristina Schreil, Queens Chronicle
The exhibition features 20 members of the Society of Philippine-American Artists (SPAA):
Aurora Caparas-Corpuz, Lorina Capitulo, Reynaldo Cardenas, Ronald Cortez, Cheryle Cranbourne,
Dr Mars Custodio, Angelito L David, Oscar R Dizon, Carlos L Esguerra, Christopher Fallarme,
Lenore RS Lim, Athena Santos Magcase-Lopez, Chato Morando, Mirinisa Myers, Ameurfina Nazario,
Dr Godfrey C Pinder, Luz Marie Tan, Archie Reyes, Ching Valdes-Aran, Dr Copernico J Villaruel, Jr.
TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. presents
Mind Field: Oil and Oranges
a solo exhibition of large-scale paintings by Todd Bradford Richmond
on view May 15 to August 15, 2015
opening reception: Friday, May 15, 2015, 6-9pm
during TOPAZ ARTS’ 15th Year Celebration
Celebrating its 15th year, TOPAZ ARTS is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by founding artist Todd B. Richmond in a new series of large-scale paintings “Mind Field: Oil and Oranges”. These inspired works, created while in Southern California, are at once lush with color and imagery against the materials of exposed linen, oil paint, aluminum and tar. Conceptually depicting arboretums, oil fields, and urban elements, the work surveys the dichotomy of land use and natural resources, capturing the fading era of coastal citrus orchards now dwindling due to drought and development.
Past Exhibitions
TOPAZ ARTS presents four exhibitions per year featuring the work of emerging and established visual artists, in painting, photography, printmaking, installation, performance art, new media, and sculpture. Past Exhibitions at TOPAZ ARTS have featured the following artists:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
AA Bronson – artist talk
Mark L. Blackshear
Anne Brégeaut – Suspended Moments
Philip Brutz
Kathrin Burmester – Since I’m Being Honest With You
Hector Canonge
Jason A. Cina – New Work
Avy Claire
R. Lane Clark
Roy Fowler – New Paintings
Yuka Hirata
Tenjin Ikeda
Haejae Lee
Iris Lezak
Timothy Lomas
Clarinda Mac Low
Manuel Ocampo – 2012 Artist in Residence
Ben Pritchard
Brian Dean Richmond
Todd B. Richmond – Mind Field: Oil & Oranges
Roger Rothstein
Satomi Shirai
Bandaul Srey – Memory of Smoke
Greg M. Stowell
Mamerto Tindongan – Unearthing the Magic
Alan Ulrich
collaboration:
Todd Richmond | Mark T. Simpson | Paz Tanjuaquio
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Marks and Conversations
a two-person exhibition of new work by Maeve D’Arcy | Roberto Jamora
Beyond Portraits – a group exhibition featuring works by
Kameelah Janan Rasheed | Qinza Najm | Weidi Zhang | Zain AlSowaigh
Unearthing the Magic – a solo exhibition of wood sculptures by Mamerto Tindongan
InAction: the Virtuosity of Presence
featuring portraits of 40+ dance artists by Sylvain Guenot
Under the Influence a group exhibition featuring artists & former assistants to Richard Artschwager:
Chris Freeman | Tenjin Ikeda | Todd Richmond | Alan Ulrich
“1975″ – a group exhibition featuring works by
Anida Yoeu Ali | Amy Lee Sanford | LinDa Saphan
curated by Chuong-Dai Vo
Bastards of Misrepresentation: New York Edition
curated by Manuel Ocampo featuring 20 Manila-based artists:
Poklong Anading, Yason Banal, Bea Camacho, Valeria Cavestany, Lena Cobangbang,
Maria Cruz, Gaston Damag, Dex Fernandez, Arvin Flores, Dina Gadia, David Griggs,
Robert Langenegger, Romeo Lee, Pow Martinez, Jayson Oliveria, Carlo Ricafort, Timo Roter,
Gerry Tan, MM Yu, Maria Jeona Zoleta
Project Diversity 2007:
Andrea Bonifacio | John Day | Ik-Kyu Kim
Elliott Lloyd | Desi Minchillo | Natalia Nakazawa
Lisa Renko and Michael Matel | Sam Shaffer
Silent Auction Contributing Artists:
Alyson Aliano | Philip Brutz | Avy Claire
Molissa Fenley | Roy Fowler | Luis H. Francia
Tenjin Ikeda | Rebecca Klementovich | Haejae Lee
Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer | Timothy Lomas
MMBC/ Mason Maxey – Bobby Clifton collaboration
Richard Miceli | Roger Rothstein | Sam Shaffer | Greg Stowell
