Reginato Sculpture Exhibit Reviewed by New York Times

Peter Reginato with latest sculpture creations.

The Color Coded exhibit hosted by the Heidi Cho Gallery was reviewed  by Grace Glueck in the New York Times (click here for full article). Ms. Glueck writes an interesting and insightful short review of the artwork by Peter Reginato and Ronnie Landfield. The colorful combination of painted canvas by Mr. Landfield and painted metal by Mr. Reginato worked extremely well in the Heidi Cho Gallery. The two veteran artists exhibited works that were full of life and sparked one's imagination. Check out this link for an excellent view of the work presented by Ms. Cho.

(Excerpt from New York Times article by Grace Glueck)
Color Coded
Ronnie Landfield and Peter Reginato
Heidi Cho Gallery
522 West 23rd Street, Chelsea

Rumors to the contrary, the mid-60's Color Field movement known as Lyrical Abstraction lives, and here to bear witness are the recent landscape evocations (mustn't mistake them for real landscapes) of Ronnie Landfield. They are nicely paired with the irrepressible color sculptures of Peter Reginato, complexes of cutout metal shapes that lie in cheerful messes on the floor or assert themselves in upright stances........

A former painter, Mr. Reginato structures his Cubist-originated welded-steel sculptures from a large, biomorphic vocabulary of shapes à la Matisse's cutout collages and Miró's quirky signs: rings, stars, shells, leaves, spirals, twists, zigs, zags, cookie-cutter forms and such, each one as carefully and delicately painted as if it were on canvas. A floor arrangement called "Lloyal Mdewa Canton" (2005) is built of exuberant shapes, some flat and floor-hugging, others that form dimensional aggregations. Altogether, the sprawly nonform of the work, liberated from Cubism but still in the family, exhibits a deft artistic control.

His cutout forms make sportive, stand-alone small figures, too, like "Little Mo in Red" (2005), a creature of brightly painted components that seems part dancer, part cowboy, part symphony conductor. It grows on you.

GRACE GLUECK