SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- MM Fine Art is presenting the two-person exhibition SERENITY featuring the work of Christophe von Hohenberg and Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas. With a reception on Saturday, August 5, 6 to 8 PM, the exhibition began July 29th, and will continue through August 13. Planned last summer by the two close artist friends, the exhibition has taken on special significance after the recent passing of Strong-Cuevas in March. Further, Sunday July 30 there will be a screening of Lana Jokel’s film on Strong-Cuevas I like to Be Awed at the Southampton Art Center.

The exhibition will include new work from von Hohenberg’s White Album series. The photographer’s black-and-white photographs of Hamptons beaches give the impression of squinting against the glaring summer sun—bleached out details blur and faint gestures carve out the presence of figures against the vast oceanic expanse.

Discovered by American Vogue in 1979, von Hohenberg has worked with Interview, Vanity Fair, French and German Vogue, Art Forum and The New York Times Magazine. Von Hohenberg’s work has been included in two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 2018 marked a solo exhibition with CFHILL Gallery at the Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm Sweden. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Norton Museum of Art (Palm Beach, FL) and Guild Hall (East Hampton, NY). His critically acclaimed book Andy Warhol: The Day the Factory Died was awarded the AIG Book and Photo District News Award in 2007, which was followed by the publication of Another Planet: New York Portraits 1976-1996. 2014 marked the publication of his third book, Shadows of the Gods: Mexico City, and in 2020 his most recent venture, The White Album of the Hamptons.

Communication through space and time, the exploration of outer space and of inner consciousness are recurring themes in Strong Cuevas’s work. In her own words, “I like experiment. In short, I am an innovator within a classical tradition.”

Strong-Cuevas studied at the prominent and long-established Art Students League of New York, learning wood and stone carving under the tutelage of John Hovannes in the mid-1960s. She later expanded her approach to creating works and began to work in plaster, this time with Toto Meylan. Besides bronze, some of her works have been cast in stainless steel and aluminum. Careful attention is paid to the surface of her sculptures; and, according to the medium, some are polished to a gleaming finish, some are brushed, and others are treated with a patina.

Sculptures by Strong-Cuevas have been exhibited in one-person shows in New York City and the Hamptons on Long Island. In addition, her works have been represented in group exhibitions in galleries in the United States and Europe, such as The Bruce Museum in Greenwich and the Kouros Gallery in Ridgefield, both in Connecticut; The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY; Shidoni Contemporary near Santa Fe, NM; Biennale III and IV held in Monte Carlo; and the Tolman Collection in Singapore.

MM Fine Art
Serenity
July 29th, 2023 - August 13th, 2023