Nathan Slate Joseph


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South China Morning Post  City Reviews: In your Mind's Eye; Sundaram Tagore Gallery  October 28, 2008

"...Less-colour-saturated but no less intuitive are the pieces by Natvar Bhavsar, who sprinkles pigment delicately on his canvases in an echo of Jackson Pollock, although the works' understated quality reflects a gentle Asian sensibility that's the opposite of the American painter's frenetic, ego-driven style..."

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Sculpture  Nathan Slate Joseph: Pure Pigment, Constructed Form  September 2008


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Celebrity Society  'Spices and Silk' Opening at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Beverly Hills  June/July 2008

Artwork by Nathan Slate Joseph - a celebration of texture & color, East & West, and the industrial & the natural; "Spices and Silk" opened Saturday, May 31st at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills. Nathan Slate Joseph's work has been heavily influenced by the colors characteristic of countries along the Silk Road - Morocco, India, China, Indonesia, and Mongolia. The exhibit consists of steel and pigment reliefs and vessels.

Curator Sundaram Tagore explains, "Nathan's work is a mix of East and West, and although he has been a serious part of the fabric of New York City's art scene for many years, his work has a universal element to it." The opening was a great success and the exhibition will run through June 30th.

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Jewish Times Asia  Sundaram Tagore Gallery Opens in Hong Kong  July/August 2008

"Sundaram Tagore, a New York-based curator and gallerist, has announced the opening of a Hong Kong Gallery. The Gallery focuses on a dialogue between the cultures of East a West while filling the need for better representation of international art in Hong Kong."

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Art Knowledge News  NATHAN SLATE JOSEPH AT SUNDARAM TAGORE GALLERY  May, 2008

"Nathan's work is a mix of East and West, and although he has been a serious part of the fabric of New York City's art scene for many years, his work has a universal element to it."

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The Standard  Home Where Art and Heart are for Gallerist Tagore

"Tagore's Galleries in New York, Los Angeles and now Hong Kong combine visual arts with other forms such as poetry reading, dance performances, music, films and charity funding."

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Prestige  Sundaram Tagore Gallery Opening  May 2008

Sundaram Tagore Gallery Hong Kong will hold its grand opening on May 9 at 57-59 Hollywood Road. The inaugural group show will consist of five Eastern and five Western artists chosen from among those the gallery represents. The great grandson of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Sundaram Tagore comes from 14 generations of artists, writers and poets. Tagore also has galleries in New York and Beverly Hills.

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Kee  The Essence of Life  May 2008

"Tagore explains how his passion for art has enabled him to dissolve differences in cultures and bring them together in a unique and creative way, denoting that art can transcend all culture and social standings."

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Asian Art News  New Openings  May/June 2008

"Gallerist Sundaram Tagore said, "All these artists have spent their lives working in and exploring different Eastern and Western cultures - including India, China, Nepal, Japan, Italy, Holland and America. Together they create an incredible mosaic and foster an intercultural dialogue that reflects a diversity of thought and artistic style."

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Friday Magazine  Art of Heart: Art's New Dimension  April 3, 2008

" 'We're dedicated to intercultural dialogue, and dialogue across the oceans', he [Sundaram Tagore] says, returning to his favorite topic."

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Gettysburg Times  5 Sculptures by New York Artist Being Placed in Town for Arts Fest  October 4, 2007

Workers installed a series of gleaming steel sculptures created by renowned New York artist Nathan Slate Joseph, being exhibited in Gettysburg this weekend n cinjunction with 'The Gettysburg Festival:Prelude and Portraits'..."

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Art in America  Review of Exhibitions: Nathan Slate Joseph at Sundaram Tagore  April 2007

"[Nathan Slate Joseph's] reliefs equally suggest the natural world and the exuberant energies of Abstract Expressionism."

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Arabian Business  The Art of Business  March 25th, 2007

"Today, everything is condensed in time. What took 100 years, today takes about ten years and that's largely because of the internet revolution."

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Art & Antiques  Ahead of the Curve  Collector's Sourcebook 2006/2007

"...Now working with painted paper ritually immersed in ink and dye and then serrated, Qadri has developed a 'new' methodology of painting beautiful spiritual work where the artists is in a calm introspective state..."

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Asian Art News  A Tectonic Language  September 2006

"...The salty blooms and ocher depths of many of [Joseph's] steel-relief paintings evoke not only the Mediterranean hub of Western culture but also its spokes, spanning the compass... "

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Asian Art News  Sundaram Tagore Gallery at the Hong Kong Exhibition Center  August 2006

"...a group of four gloriously shimmering works [by Hiroshi Senju] from this acclaimed series."

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The New York Times  Upscale, Downpriced: More Than a Taste At Six of the Best  July 12, 2006

(Joseph's work appears in the publication image. His piece graces the dining room wall of Jean Georges, a New York restaurant that overlooks Columbus Circle.)

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Asian Art News  Sundaram Tagore Gallery at the Hong Kong Exhibition Center  July/August 2006

"Sohan Qadri's single color works seem to ripple down the surface of the paper on which they are made. These are fine, thoughtful works by an artist who is acutely aware of simplicity and the power of a single color and the hues within it."

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Architectural Digest  The Essence of Light  July 2006

(featuring the painting A Line in the Sand by Nathan Slate Joseph)

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Namaskaar  Indian Art blooms in New York  July 2006

"...The gallery, always interested in cross-cultural connections, has shown a diverse group of artists including Natvar Bhavsar, Sohan Qadri, Judith Murray, Nathan Slate Joseph, Anil Revri and Susan Weil..."

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News India Times/Desi Talk  Group Exhibition Reveals Confluence of East and West  Friday, June 30, 2006

"Bhavsar, Qadri, and Revri, are symbolic of the journeys of the artists of our times. Geographically, they have traveled out the country of their birth; artisically out of the influence of the Modernism of Matisse and Picasso, the Abstractionism of Mondrian, the Lyric Abstractionism of Pollock."

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Asian Contemporary Art Week  Sundaram Tagore Gallery  May 25, 2006

"The goal . . . is to create a dialogue among cultures and to find points of commonality and elements that inspire new ways of thinking and creating...Curated by Sundaram Tagore"

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Asian Art News  East/West Dialogue  May/June 2006

"...Natvar Bhavsar is a color field painter who works in pure pigment. He is largely credited for bringing a spiritual element to the absrtact expressionism movement in America..."

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Robb Report  Contemporary's Softer Side  March 2006

Joseph's work appears in a publication image of a Los Angeles home designed by Richard Landry of Landry Design Group.

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Rave Sq.  Erasing Borders  Nov-Dec 2004

"[Sundaram Tagore] A gallery owner and curator explains diaspora culture from an artistic perspective - and highlights the responsibilities of the émigré Indian artist today"

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Art in America  Nathan Slate Joseph at Sundaram Tagore  June 2002

"Nathan Slate Joseph's work uniquely combines the large-scale exuberance of Abstract Expressionism with the laissez-faire mellowness of found-object art."

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The Harlem Patchwork Building  January 31, 2002

"Facade designed by Nathan Slate Joseph in collaboration with Caples and Jefferson Architects."

"Harlem New Modernism"
-The New York Times, January 31, 2002_-

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Art News  The Artist's Artists  November 1984

"The gradations of rust that result are enhanced by a variety of other hues, and the final product has the effect of a carefully composed painting."

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Blue Sands  Natural Man

"Nathan Slate Joseph is a collaborative artist who partners with nature. As he dabs, flings and brushes galvanized steel surfaces with earthy inorganic pigments and then treats them with acids to faciliatate their breakdown, he serves as the front man while weather toils away unnoticed in the back of the house. Making a studio of the great outdoors--or at least a potato field, the artist paints with wind, rain, and sunlight."

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