Scherer & Ouporov are one of ten international artists featured in the Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections publication that "explores Klimt's influence among today's leading contemporary artists" and also includes Vanessa Beecroft, Peter Doig, Ellen Harvey, and Vik Muniz, among others.
 
 

 

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978-3-7913-3834-7  
GUSTAV KLIMT
The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections
480 pages, illustrated
Edited by Renee Price
9 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.
Cloth bound
$65.
This publication accompanies the exhibition Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, which presents paintings and drawings from the collections of the co-founders of Neue Galerie New York. Together, these collections comprise the finest gathering of works by Klimt in the United States.

Essays examine Klimt's earliest patrons; his studios; the role of photography in his erotic work; profiles of the most important women in Klimt's life; his relationship with Gustav Mahler and Auguste Rodin; his never-before-published 1917 notebook; and an interview by Neue Galerie director Renee Price with Maria Altmann, heir to the five Klimt paintings stolen by the Nazis that were recently returned to her by the Austrian government. This lavish volume on Klimt's life and art also includes an exploration of the influence Klimt has had on popular culture.

 

The Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse is featuring New Art: South Florida, an exhibition highlighting the recent works of Scherer & Ouporov and 13 other recipients of the 2007 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships for Visual and Media Artists, from September 8-October 27, 2007.

In the video, Tree-Rain, Scherer & Ouporov investigate relationships between nature and language. By making reference to Russian art history and literature, they combine text and images to formulate symbolic reference.

Coral Springs Museum of Art is presenting a survey of Scherer & Ouporov’s rich collaborative body of works from 1999 to 2007, with over 40 paintings, drawings, etchings, photographs, video, and interactive installations.  The majority of works are on loan from private collections all over the United States.  Entitled One Voice, this solo exhibition, runs from September 7 until November 17, 2007. 
 
Scherer & Ouporov are exhibiting their latest installation, Glossololia, and photographic works as a part of Florida Atlantic University 's 2007 Biennial Art Faculty Exhibition from September 8 to October 27, 2007 in the Schmidt Center Gallery.
 

Scherer & Ouporov's work is included in Art & Psyche: The Freudian Legacy, at CDS Gallery, New York from September 14 to November 29, 2007. Curated by Lynn Gamwell, author of Dreams 1900-2000-Art, Science, and the Unconscious Mind, this exhibition traces the complex, evolving relationship between the visual arts and psychoanalytic thought throughout the 20th century and up to present day.  According to this  thoughtful survey, the works of  Jonathan Borovsky, Max Ernst, Eric Fischl, Lucien Freud, Arshile Gorky, Roberto Matta, Jackson Pollock, and Scherer & Ouporov, among others, served as visual manifestations of Freud’s “unconscious” musings.&nb sp; Gamwell states:  “…Scherer and Ouporov and Jonathan Borovsky examine the fraught relationship betwee n dreams and the waking life."

Participating artists:

Nicolas Africano, Jonathan Borofsky, Charles Brown, Julie Cockburn, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Timothy Cummings, Edmund Engelman, Max Ernst, Eric Fischl, Gonzalo Fonseca, Lucian Freud, Arshile Gorky, Marcel Jean, Leon Kelly, Roberto Matta, Charles Matton, Jorge Michel, Odd Nerdrum, Jackson Pollock, Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov, Kurt Seligmann, Hedda Sterne, Christian Vincent

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Scherer & Ouporov's recent photography work is featured in the Cultural Quarterly , A Broward County Board of County Commissioners Publication, Spring, 2007, pp. 30-35, including two full-page fold out sections.

         
Scherer & Ouporov were selected as 2007 recipients of the highly coveted South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists.  Based solely on the quality of the artists' work, the recipients were selected by regional and national arts experts Regina Bailey, The Wolfsonian, Miami, Kelly Gordon, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., David Cabrera, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Bill Fagaly, New Orleans Museum of Art among others.  An exhibition featuring their work will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, in September, 2007.
 
 

Opening April 13th, 2007, the artists will present new work in a two-person exhibition entitled  Silver and Gold  along with fellow egg tempera painter Fred Wessel at the Arden Gallery, Boston.  The April issue of Art News features works and details about the show.
 

Scherer and Ouporov are preparing for a major solo museum exhibition opening at the Un iversity of Mary Washington Galleries in Fredericksburg,VA from March 15-June 3, 2007 and traveling to the Coral Springs Museum of Art in Coral Springs, FL, September 7-November 17, 2007. 
                                                      


The artists' solo exhibition, Tree of Life, opened on May 4, 2006, at the  Jenkins Johnson Gallery,
 521 West 26th Street.  The show consisted of paintings, silverpoint drawings, photography, and a DVD projection. A catalog is available with essay by John O'Hern for $25 USD.  The Tree of Life installation and several new pieces have been selected for the Eighth Annual Realism Invitational, on view from June 1-July 15, 2006, at both  Jenkins Johnson Gallery's New York and San Francisco locations.
 


The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin featured five Scherer and Ouporov paintings in the exhibition Dreamscapes which ran from September 25, 2005-January 28, 2006 (below).


        

Scherer and Ouporov's solo exhibition, "Celestial Alphabet", at the Turner Carroll Gallery was reviewed in the April, 2005 issue of Art in America by Sarah S. King (below).






The artists' successful solo exhibition at the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, July-August, 2004, was met with good critical response. 








Scherer and Ouporov's diptych, Death Portraits, Suzanne and Pavel, were recently acquisitioned by the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM, where they are currently on view in the exhibition Contemporary Works on Paper from the Collection.  The prints are also in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library, Library of Congress in Washington DC, and the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
 


 From June 11 through July 12, A Tribute to Robert Blackburn and the Printmaking Workshop, at Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, the artists works were included in a show featuring some of the most accomplished printmakers from the legendary Printmaking Workshop which Robert Blackburn had founded and supported for more than 50 years, before his death in May, 2003.

Steps, 1999, intagl io on paper, 22 x 20.5 in.

From June 28 through September 7, 2003, Scherer & Ouporov's work was on view in Genetic Expressions: Art After DNA at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick's Nobel Prize-winning discovery, Genetic Expressions featured biology-inspired art along with images from science and popular culture to explore the myriad ways in which cracking the genetic code has changed our world.  Scherer & Ouporov's painting, The Family of Apes, was reviewed in the New York Times, Sunday, July 27, 2003, by Helen A. Harrison and featured on the cover of the weekend section of the New York Newsday, June 27, 2003.
 
 

The Family of Apes, 1994
egg tempera on wood panel, 16 x 20 in. Private Collection.








Scherer & Ouporov's prints have been selected for the traveling exhibition Creative Space: Fifty Years of Rober t Blackburn'sPrintmaking Workshop, A Library of Congress exhibition in Collaboration with International Print Center New York (IPCNY) and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. The exhibition runs through January 25, 2003 at the IPCNY in Chelsea and opens at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC on February 26, 2003. The Library of Congress recently acquisitioned six Scherer & Ouporov prints for their permanent collection.
 

The artists have five of their paintings included in the traveling museum exhibition, Tempera /New Temperaments at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA opening March 7, 2003 through June 1, 2003. The exhibition is accompanied by a full color catalog with essay written by Director, John W. Streetman III.

The artists' painting "Guillaume" was featured in the Critics' Picks section of the Seattle Times, March 9, 2003.
 


January 18 thro ugh May 10 Scherer & Ouporov are exhibiting in Magic Realism at Sangre De Christo Arts Center in Pueblo, CO.



An in-depth interview and photos of the artists and their works are included in the recent publication, Intimate Creativity: Partners in Love and Art, by psychologists Irving and Suzanne Sarnoff, published by The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. The celebrated couples profiled here include Scherer & Ouporov, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, and Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel. The authors also draw on historical and contemporary literature about similar couples, ranging from Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber to Gilbert and George to Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.




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Several of Scherer & Ouporov's paintings are included in the important traveling international exhibition and accompanying hard cover publication, Dreams 1900-2000, Science, Art and the Unconscious Mind, edited by Lynn Gamwell with essays by D onald Kuspit and Ernest Hartmann, published by Cornell University Press, Binghamton University Art Museum, State University of New York, 2000.








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