C. Grimaldis Gallery
[2] In addition to representing approximately 40 nationally and internationally established artists, the gallery is responsible for the estates of Grace Hartigan and Eugene Leake.
[3] The gallery has been responsible for hundreds of important solo and group exhibitions that have launched and sustained the careers of many artists from the United States and abroad.
"Grimaldis began in 1977 by exhibiting mostly artists with a regional reputation, but gradually added major New York names to the roster and made his gallery one always worth following.
[20] On September 29, 1977 the inaugural C. Grimaldis Gallery opening reception was held for an exhibition of prints by Mavis Pusey and sculptures by Stephanie Scuris.
Having thrived during the 1970s, 1980s and remaining as an influential voice in the local and national community solidifies the C. Grimaldis Gallery's place in Baltimore art history.
[14][24] In a feature article in The Baltimore Sun Sunday Magazine Cherrill Anson wrote, "The most celebrated woman painter in the United States today, Miss Hartigan has made her studio in a four-story former rag factory a block from the waterfront for two years—ever since she married the Johns Hopkins scientist Dr. Winston H. Price and moved to Baltimore from New York.
The Baltimore Sun reported that "These smaller works resting on, and expanding horizontally and vertically from plain white stands rising to table height, have been compared to still-life paintings by old masters such as Chardin.
One such work at Grimaldis is the outstanding "Rose Bloom," 1983, in lead and wood—a lyrical arrangement that suggest the patterns of overlapping petals without literally depicting a floral shape.
[8] This is illustrated in Joe Shannon's response to the exhibition in Art in America, "McIver, a North Carolina native who is currently a Radcliffe fellow, has created a narrative project that is one of the most emotionally successful you will see, as pure painting and as a mirror on life.
"[37] An award-winning documentary on Beverly McIver's life and work titled "Raising Renee" was created by West City Films and HBO in 2011.
[40] As Hilarie Sheets, contributing editor to ARTnews who also writes regularly for The New York Times, Art in America, and Art + Auction, described in a C. Grimaldis Gallery "Infinite Void" exhibition catalog: Ahn is part of a younger generation of artists, including Olafur Eliasson, Ivan Navarro, Spencer Finch, and Leo Villareal, who use actual light as their primary medium because of its immediate experiential qualities and metaphoric richness.
At once thrilling and ominous, it suggests a rabbit hole to another world—underwater, outer space, afterlife—or journey to the unknown, the kind of leap of faith involved in the artist's own passage to an unfamiliar country and language.
