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ALAN DAVIE AND ROLPH SCARLETT AT ACA GALLERIES FEB 10 w/1 cut

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NEW YORK CITY — ACA Galleries will present “Alan Davie: Mystic Visions” and “Rolph Scarlett: Abstract Interludes and Figurative Musings: Monotypes and Works on Paper” on view February–March 17.

Davie is known for his paintings of symbols and abstract forms inspired by Zen Buddhism, ancient arts, non-Western cosmology and the iconography of myth. This exhibit includes paintings and works on paper circa 1962–2003.

He is widely recognized as one of Britain’s most significant living artists. His artwork is viewed as an important link between postwar British and international art. Since 2000, he has had major retrospectives at the Scottish National Gallery Art in Edinburgh, the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam and the Tate St Ives in London.

Born in Grangemouth, Scotland, Davie attended the Edinburgh College of Art from 1937 to 1940. In 1941 he won an Andrew Grant scholarship, which enabled him to travel throughout Europe. In Venice his artwork captured the attention of Peggy Guggenheim, who purchased a painting and helped to launch his career. In 1956, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo acquired works for their permanent collections.

Scarlett, an accomplished artist, industrial designer, set designer and jeweler, applied his Modernist sensibility to a diversity projects, which included creating state designs for George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman, designing displays and amusement rides for the 1939 New York World’s Fair as well as producing guided missile designs for the British War Office.

Born in Guelph, Canada, he moved to the United States in 1919. By the 1930s he had become one of the foremost practitioners of geometric abstraction in America.

In 1938 he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation scholarship from the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, (now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). The following year when the museum opened, he was included in its inaugural exhibition. During the 1930s and 40s the museum acquired 60 of his paintings and works on paper for its permanent collection.

The gallery is at 529 West 20th Street, fifth floor. For information, 212-206-8080 or www.acagalleries.com.