Guccione and sister in Wendt show

Paintings by Juanita (Rice) Guccione and her older sister, Irene Rice Pereira, are featured in an exhibition entitled Non-Objective or Not: Dialogues in Modernism at the new Wendt Gallery on the 8th floor of the Fuller Building in Manhattan. The exhibition opens Friday, February 5, and continues through March 13. The survey show is curated by Steven Lowy.

This inaugural show features the artists Rolph Scarlett, Hilla Rebay, Seymour Fogel, Xanti Schawinsky and includes works by Victor Matthews, Gary Stephan, Mary Ann Strandell and Daniel Villeneuve.

Hilla Rebay was an early Pereira champion.

The sisters both studied with Hans Hofmann in Manhattan and in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Pereira is known internationally for her Geometric Abstract paintings. Guccione, who also painted under the names Rice and Marbrook, made a number of important Cubist paintings before settling into her more familiar Figurative Surrealist and Abstract Surrealist oeuvre.