Experience the Timeless, Powerful Artworks of Arting Gallery at Hamptons Fine Art Fair July 13-16, 2023

Art aficionados and collectors will experience Arting Gallery‘s impressive showcase at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair July 13-16 in Booth #345 at the Southampton Fairgrounds, featuring One Hundred Melodies of Solitude original painting series and limited edition prints by Linling Lu, along with paintings by Kevin Labadie and Pat Alexander. The fair begins with its much anticipated and glamorous Opening Night on Thursday, July 13th from 6-9:30pm. This Vernissage event is one of the most fashionable and chic evenings of the Hamptons’ summer season.

Arting Gallery is founded by Dr. Xiaoming Liu, an award winning designer, landscape architectural scholar and a passionate art lover for decades. Founded in 2022, the spacious fine art gallery is located in Baltimore’s Woodberry / Clipper Mill area and has now become one of the newest exciting venues in the region. Arting represents Linling Lu, Kevin Labadie, and Pat Alexander. Linling Lu’s One Hundred Melodies of Solitude paintings are recently acquired by The Phillips Collection and The Baltimore Museum of Art. Her works are in collections of Louis Vuitton, Microsoft, Carl M. Freeman Foundation, Capital One, and US Embassy in Beijing. Previously, her striking work inaugurated Arting Gallery, in September 2022.

“Linling Lu is one of the most formidable painters working in Baltimore today. While recently the subject of solo exhibitions at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (2022) and The Phillips Collection (2023), the Baltimore Museam of Art (BMA) is among the first institutions to collect her work, advancing the museum’s mission to support excellent work by artists with deep ties to the region. Lu began her ongoing series One Hundred Melodies of Solitude in 2010. Scaled in relation to the body in space, these circular paintings comprise concentric bands of color in complex harmonies, which suggest a progression of sound while also absorbing the viewer in an optical investigation of each specific hue.” —Baltimore Museum of Art.

“Linling Lu‘s signature works are abstract paintings with concentric rings of bright, pulsating colors. These circular canvases (tondos) ranging in scale from small to human-size, have hypnotic as well as sonic qualities, inspiring introspection and contemplation. They give color, shape, and form to music, a primary source of inspiration for the artist who was first trained as a classical pianist.” —The Phillips Collection

“Lu’s abstract paintings with concentric rings of bright, pulsating colors echoes sonic qualities and inspire contemplations. Lu’s paintings complement numerous works in the collection that emphasize color and shape, from Georgia O’Keeffe to Moira Dryer, as well as Terry Parmelee,” explains an excerpt from The Phillips Collection Member Magazine.

Kevin Labadie’s paintings and installations have been shown regionally and internationally, including exhibitions at The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Noyes Museum of American Art, Oceanview, New Jersey, The Corcoran Gallery of Art,The C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, VisArts, Rockville Maryland, The Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, and Gallery K, Washington D.C. Labadie’s work has been included in exhibitions in Tokyo, Japan and Munich, Germany.

Labadie is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Work Commission Grant from The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, Works In Progress Grants from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC), and an Individual MSAC Artist Award for Painting. He is Professor Emeritus at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Pat Alexander’s work has been exhibited in the United States, Asia and Europe. Her wall installation Out of Bounds was featured, Fall, 2022, in Renewal, curated for the D.C. Sculptors Group by Olivia Kohler-Maga and Babette Pendleton, the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, DC. Her installation, Will They Miss Us When We’re Gone, was exhibited at the Gallery Paper/Design, The Hague, Netherlands, 2019-2020. Her sculpture Drip was included in the International Paper Triennial, Musee de Charmey, Switzerland, 2020.  Even the Stars, a cast paper and steel sculpture, was reconfigured for the Biennial Paper Fiber Art: Eco-Sublime, Taiwan, 2017-18. An earlier version was exhibited at the Gibb Street Gallery, VizArts, Rockville, MD, 2016.

Alexander created sculptural environments for the dance performances of Dear Mother, the Peabody Dance Centennial, choreographer Connie Dinapoli, composer Angel Lam, 2015, and Meander, choreographer Carol Bartlett, the Peabody Dance, 2008. She made cast paper sets for Scaling the Walls, multi-media dance performance at Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 2001. Scaling the Walls was reconfigured for a performance at the Brown Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, during Blurred Edges, the American Independent Colleges of Art and Design conference on the interdisciplinary, 2004.

Alexander’s paintings and drawings have been widely exhibited on the east coast, USA, in Europe and at the V A.Nishiogi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. The artist’s public art includes “Geometro”, a mosaic tile installation, Baltimore Metro: Lexington Market Station, commissioned by the Maryland Mass Transit Administration, 1983 and Oasis, a mosaic tile installation in the Druid Park Swimming Pool, Baltimore, 1987-2001. She was awarded art residencies in Turkey, Canada, France and Spain. Foundation awards include Maryland State Art’s Council Individual Artist Grants, a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist’s Residency Grant and a NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship. Alexander is a Professor Emeritus at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Fine art lovers and collectors will enjoy Arting Gallery at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair July 13-16, 2023 in Booth #345. It is an annual, well-curated, high-caliber art fair created specifically for art-enthusiastic Hamptonites. As the only international art fair in the Hamptons this summer, it’s where the excitement, anticipation and drama of an international fair connects with the main thoroughfare in the Hamptons. Located at the Southampton Fairgrounds, 605 County Road 39 in Southampton, New York 11968.

SHOW HOURS
Vernissage: Thursday, July 13 | 6-9:30pm
Friday, July 14 | 12-9pm
Saturday, July 15 | 12-6pm
Sunday, July 16 | 12-6pm