
Featuring Renata Berdes, Christianne Msall, Andrew Sloan
Featuring Vera Girivi, Janet Sobel, Elisabeth Zangrandi
James Barron founded his art business in 1987 as a private art dealer and consultant, and established James Barron Art in 2010. He specializes in modern and contemporary American and European art. Trained as an art historian (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) at Brown University, Barron is known for his refined vision and ability to juxtapose works in unexpected combinations. He exhibits regularly at art fairs including The ADAA Art Show, the Dallas Art Fair, the Outsider Art Fair, and Intersect Art and Design fairs.
Janet Sobel immigrated from Ukraine to New York in 1908 and began painting in 1937, at age 43, experimenting with mixed materials and drip painting. From 1943 through 1946, Sobel became a powerful presence in the New York art world, exhibiting at the Puma Gallery and at Peggy Guggenheim’s “Art of This Century,” where her recurring method of applying ‘drip’ would later be acknowledged as the beginnings of her transcendence from primitivism through Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism.
Elisabetta Zangrandi is a self-taught painter living in Verona, Italy. From a young age she has painted on any surface available to her – rocks, bottles, wood, plants. Inspired by her love of nature and the sweeping landscape visible from her home, her pictures are colorful worlds of fantasy, often involving princesses and fantastical creatures. Although dissociated from the professional art world, she has long admired the work of Italian Renaissance masters and French Impressionists. James Barron Art has exhibited her work at the Outsider Art Fair in New York and Paris, the ADAA Art Show, the Dallas Art Fair, and in our gallery in South Kent, Connecticut.
Living and working in Genoa, Italy, Vera Girivi is a self-trained painter and mother of two. She began painting seriously within the past five years. Her work depicts women, often in intricately patterned interiors, who do not minimize or hide their flaws, but rather rejoice in their authenticity.
Although mostly detached from the professional art world, she has acknowledged Picasso, Cezanne, Monet, Chagall, Modigliani and Matisse as influences. Girivi paints under a pseudonym: ‘GI’ for Giovanna, her daughter, ‘RI’ for Riccardo, her son, and ‘VI’ for Vittorio, her husband. Under this name, Girivi can be bold in her painting. She gained a tremendous following for her work on Instagram, which grew exponentially when Jerry Saltz highlighted her work.
Since then, James Barron Art has exhibited her work at the Outsider Art Fair in New York and Paris, the ADAA Art Show, the Dallas Art Fair, and in our gallery in South Kent, Connecticut. We will present a solo exhibition of Girivi’s work at Marfa Invitational in May 2022. We are proud to have placed her work in important private museums and foundations in the United States, Italy, and Germany. Her work continues to touch collectors throughout the world, from Australia to Los Angeles; New York, Vermont, Milan, and beyond
James Barron Art
PO Box 2
Kent, CT 06757
+1 917 270 8044
info@jamesbarronart.com
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