Irene Rice Pereira

One of the highlights of Modern Masters at Wendt Gallery in Manhattan this October is Transforming Night (left), an oil painting by I. (Irene) Rice Pereira. It was included in a 1953 Whitney Museum retrospective exhibition of her work and that of Loren MacIver.

Modern Masters is a second edition of the gallery’s inaugural Non-Objective or Not exhibition. Steven Lowy, Wendt Modern’s curator at large, will continue to showcase masterworks by Art of Tomorrow artists Rudolf Bauer, Hilla Rebay, Rolph Scarlett and Pereira. Bauhaus artist Xanti Schawinsky and Texas modernist Seymour Fogel. The exhibition serves as a preview to upcoming solo and two-person exhibitions scheduled for 2011.

Wendt Gallery is a fine art gallery whose purpose is to create greater awareness of the importance the arts play in contemporary culture. By showcasing past and present, representational and abstract art the gallery hopes to bring special focus to the influence that early modern artists have played on the art of today.

For more information please call 212-838-8818, visit www.wendtmodern.co. Wendt is on the 8th floor of the Fuller Building at 57th Street and Madison Avenue. A reception will be held October 14th, 6-8 p.m.