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All About Change
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31:05Vicki Sokolik refuses to be an Ostrich. Her son brought to her attention the crisis of unhoused youth — youth unhoused, not living with a parent/guardian, and not in foster care — in America, and she has been fighting to support this vulnerable population every since. Most active in Tampa Bay, Florida, Vicki is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Starting Right, Now, which removes barriers for unaccompanied homeless youth to cultivate long-term well-being and self-sufficiency. She is also the author of the new book, “If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America.” Vicki Sokolik joined host Jay Ruderman to discuss the many ways unhoused youth fall through the cracks in our society, how her organization helps them, and also how to build trust with people who could use your help. Episode Chapters (00:00) Intro (01:10) Vicki’s origin story (02:40) What is “unhoused youth?” (06:40) What should a person do if they worry they see an unhoused youth? (08:19) How have conversations around unhoused youth changed in Vicki’s 20 years working with them? (11:02) How do people get the word out and help unhoused youth? (14:55) Vicki’s new book (16:48) How Vicki builds trust (20:10) What do students receive at Starting Right, Now? (22:58) How does Vicki balance advocacy and direct support? (27:53) Starting Right, Now alumni (29:10) Goodbye For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/…
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Portrait by Sandy Levy Diego Singh (b. 1982, Salta, Argentina) has exhibited his work at the de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso, Italy; Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil; Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy; Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA; Luhring Augustine, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL, among others. Singh was awarded the Knight Foundation award in 2019 and 2015. He lives and works in Miami Beach, FL. His work is on view at Luhring Augustin Tribeca in a two-person exhibition with Tomm El-Saieh through June 8, 2024. Singh was awarded the Knight Foundation award in 2019 and 2015. He lives and works in Miami Beach, FL. Diego Singh, Sin Nombre I, 2023-24 Oil and acrylic on linen 96 x 72 inches (243.8 x 182.9 cm). © Diego Singh; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach. Photo: Farzad Owrang. Diego Singh, Sin Nombre IV, 2022-24 Oil and acrylic on linen 96 x 72 inches (243.8 x 182.9 cm). © Diego Singh; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach. Photo: Farzad Owrang. Diego Singh, Sin Nombre V, 2024 Oil and acrylic on linen 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm). © Diego Singh; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach. Photo: Farzad Owrang.
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Portrait by Sandy Levy Diego Singh (b. 1982, Salta, Argentina) has exhibited his work at the de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso, Italy; Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil; Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy; Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA; Luhring Augustine, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL, among others. Singh was awarded the Knight Foundation award in 2019 and 2015. He lives and works in Miami Beach, FL. His work is on view at Luhring Augustin Tribeca in a two-person exhibition with Tomm El-Saieh through June 8, 2024. Singh was awarded the Knight Foundation award in 2019 and 2015. He lives and works in Miami Beach, FL. Diego Singh, Sin Nombre I, 2023-24 Oil and acrylic on linen 96 x 72 inches (243.8 x 182.9 cm). © Diego Singh; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach. Photo: Farzad Owrang. Diego Singh, Sin Nombre IV, 2022-24 Oil and acrylic on linen 96 x 72 inches (243.8 x 182.9 cm). © Diego Singh; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach. Photo: Farzad Owrang. Diego Singh, Sin Nombre V, 2024 Oil and acrylic on linen 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm). © Diego Singh; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach. Photo: Farzad Owrang.
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×Benjamin Bertocc i has been living and working in N.Y.C. since 2005. He was raised in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, attended Bard College at Simon’s Rock, UMASS Amherst, and Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He now works out of his studio in Long Island City Queens, and lives with his small family in nearby Astoria. Philosopher VII; Abomination Parent Transfixed Between Planes, Frozen, Destroyed (Fiscally Appreciative Parasitoid) 14”x11” Oil on Panel. The Last Beasts in the Sky Still Need to Play, Oil on Panel, 16”x20”. Promession III, oil on plastic entombed canvas 12” x 12” 2022.…
Matthew Leifheit, Photo by Shala Miller Matthew Leifheit is an American photographer, magazine editor, and professor based in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and the Yale School of Art, Leifheit is Editor-in-Chief of MATTE Magazine, the journal of emerging photography he has published since 2010. Leifheit’s photographs have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Aperture, TIME, and Artforum, and have been exhibited internationally. His work has been supported by residencies at the Corporation of Yaddo and The Watermill Center, receiving grants from the New York State Cultural Council and the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale, where he was awarded the Richard Benson Prize in 2017. He is currently full-time faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Gay Archive was presented at Union College Crowell and West Galleries and at Massachusetts College of Art and Design ‘s Brant Gallery in the fall of 2024. “Matthew Leifheit: Gay Chorus” will be on view at REVERB Gallery in Tampa, Florida through February 14th. Selections from Leifheit’s Gay Archive work will also be included in the Griffin Museum of Photography ‘s upcoming exhibition “Nuclear Family,” on view January 17th—March 30th 2025. Installation View of Matthew Leifheit: Queer Archive at Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Brant Gallery, November 2025 John Pfleiderer Body Hair Collection* (undated, collected prior to Pfleiderer’s death in 1982) GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, 2023 40×30” dye sublimation print with footnote. Harvey Milk Underwear, GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, 2023 40×30” dye sublimation print on aluminum Pedro Zamora Gift Image, 2024 22.75’’ x 32.75’’ offset lithography on newsprint, edition of 1000 copies.…
Mark van Yetter (b. 1978) lives and works in the Poconos, PA. Van Yetter co-founded exhibition space Marquise Dance Hall (2007-2015), which started as a book and record store in New York, before transitioning to an itinerant gallery in Istanbul. Current and previous solo exhibitions include Plunderbund Charity, Ebensperger, Berlin, GE (2022); Damn View, Ebensperger Rhomberg, Berlin, GE (2019); False Friends… and Six Bottles, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, CH (2019); Drawings 2005 – 2018: 20 Propositions at Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT (2018); You can observe a lot by just watching, Bridget Donahue, New York, US (2018); We are what we walk between, Micky Schubert, Berlin, DE (2016); The Terrifying Abyss of Skepticism, Bridget Donahue, New York, US (2016); The mere knowledge of a fact is pale, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, NO (2016); Relentless Compassion, VI, VII, Oslo, NO (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Catechism, Bridget Donahue, New York, US (2022); Freedom & Independence, Ebensperger, Berlin, GE (2020); Any Day Now, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, GE, (2020); To confess, one must tell lies, Clages Gallery, Cologne, GE (2019); Nightfall, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, BE (2018); All’estero & Dr. K.’s Badereise nach Riva: Version B, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, AT (2018); All’estero & Dr. K. Takes the Waters at Riva: Version A, A Plus A Gallery, Venice, IT (2018); Hütti, Ludlow 38, New York, US (2017); At the bar, MD Bar, Cologne, DE (2017); Monday is a Day Between Sunday and Tuesday, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE (2017); Group Show, Micky Schubert, Berlin, DE (2015); Eray Börtecene, Sonja Weissmann, Mark van Yetter, Institut für Bienenzucht, Düsseldorf, DE (2014). Van Yetter was the recipient of the Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch Residency in 2016. Mark van Yetter, Jonas, Amelie & Loki, 2024 Pastel on paper, artist’s pine frame 27.6 × 39.4 in. (70.10 × 100.08 cm). Copyright Mark van Yetter, Courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue, NYC, Photo by Charles Benton. Mark van Yetter, Umar, 2024 Pastel on paper, artist’s pine frame 18.9 × 14.2 in. Copyright Mark van Yetter Courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue, NYC, Photo by Charles Benton. Mark van Yetter, Untitled, 2024 Oil on paper, artist’s pine frame 12 × 9.1 in. (30.48 × 23.11 cm) Copyright Mark van Yetter Courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue, NYC, Photo by Charles Benton.…
Gretchen Scherer (b. 1979, Indianapolis, IN) received a MFA from Hunter College, NY and a BFA from The University of Illinois at Chicago, IL. Scherer has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting, ME and Vermont Studio Center, VT. Recent exhibitions include Richard Heller Gallery, LA; Patricia Low Gallery, Gstaad,Switzerland; Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland; Taymour Grahne, London; and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY. Scherer’s work was highlighted in Harper’s Bazaar Latin Art Issue in “Artists to Follow in 2022”, and in New York Magazine by Jerry Saltz in “The Best Art Shows of 2021”. Scherer’s work was recently profiled in the Spring 2024 issue of Juxtapoz magazine (“Gretchen Scherer: If Rooms Could Talk”). Her work is also included in “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller, published by Monacelli Press (2024), an imprint of Phaidon. The artist lives and works in West Creek, NJ and Brooklyn, NY. GRETCHEN SCHERER Sir John Soane’s Museum, Drawing Office, 2024 oil and acrylic on panel 24 by 30 inches Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY. GRETCHEN SCHERER Palazzo Borromeo, Isola Bella, Berthier Gallery, 2024 oil and acrylic on panel 18 by 24 inches Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY GRETCHEN SCHERER Palace of Aranjuez, Porcelain Room, 2024 oil and acrylic on panel 18 by 24 inches Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.…
Paula Siebr a is a Brazilian painter born in Fortaleza, Ceará, in 1998. The artist focuses on images related to everyday life and scenes of intimacy using Brazilian northeastern culture as her starting point. Her paintings emerge from the exploration of established themes such as portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. These motifs, throughout her research, acquire a peculiar aspect: a certain simplification in the contours, added to a reduction in the contrast between chromatic tones, polarizing reality, and reverie – as if the artist were daydreaming about ordinary life. In addition to following a straightforward continuum from tradition, her paintings relate to an inherent visualness of her native land of Ceará and the Brazilian Northeast as a whole. She is particularly close to folk art since her interests encompass the synthetic form of clay objects, laces, and other textile works such as crochet and embroidery, as well as the geometric and colorful architectural features of traditional houses. Surrounding villages, household objects, and anonymous faces are elements of the landscape in which the artist is immersed, appearing as if clothed by a light mist that covers everything – alternately concealing or revealing them. Her recent solo exhibitions include As primeiras coisas [The earliest things] , Mendes Wood DM, New York (2024); Cristalino Segredo , Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2023); Noites de cetim , Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2022); Lembrança de algum lugar , Sobrado Dr. José Lourenço, Fortaleza (2022); O Soar das Horas , Nieuwe Gentweg 21, Bruges (2023) and Arrebol , Mendes Wood DM, New York (2021). Additionally her work has been including in group exhibitions such as Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato en conversation avec Lucas Arruda, Sanam Khatibi, Patricia Leite, Paula Siebra, Marcos Siqueira, Erika Verzutti et Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro , Mendes Wood DM, Paris (2024); 74º Salão de Abril , Centro Cultural Casa do Barão de Camocim, Fortaleza (2023); Arte Laguna Prize Exhibition , Arsenale di Venezia, Venice (2023); Close , Grimm Gallery, London (2023); A Gauzy Flame , Herald St, London (2023); Pequenas pinturas II , auroras, São Paulo (2022); My reflection of you , The Perimeter, London (2022); Corpo Ancestral – 21ª UNIFOR Plástica , Universidade de Fortaleza, Fortaleza (2022); Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021 , Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2022). Additionally, here’s a link to a Studio Visit . Paula Siebra, Uma carta | A letter, 2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 cm, 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York, Photo credit: EstudioEmObra Paula Siebra, Mesa de cabeceira | Bedside table , 2024, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 in Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York. Photo credit: EstudioEmObra Paula Siebra, Mesa do almoço com quadro do Chico da Silva | Dining room table with a painting by Chico da Silva, 2024, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York. Photo credit: EstudioEmObra…
Born in Los Angeles, Lily Ramírez’s painting practice has always hinged on her fascination with the with paint. She began working in acrylics at a young age, experimenting alongside her father who supported her burgeoning practice. The pair moved across the US, living briefly in Montana and Wyoming before re-settling in LA. “Everything I’ve done is based on what he taught me. I had a beautiful, natural childhood,” she says. Ramirez attended Otis College of Art and Design to study painting as an undergraduate, where she studied under artists Meg Cranston, Scott Grieger, and Soo Kim. Lily Ramírez Missoula, Montana, 2023 Oil Stick on Kozo Paper 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm. Lily Ramírez Orange tree, 2023 Oil Stick on Kozo Paper 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm Lily Ramírez Probablemente, 2025 Oil and Oil Stick on Canvas 67 x 71 inches 170.2 x 180.3 cm.…
James Little (b. 1952, Memphis, TN) holds a BFA from the Memphis Academy of Art and an MFA from Syracuse University. He is a 2009 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painting. In addition to being featured prominently in the 2022 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, his work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world, including at MoMA P.S.1, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. In 2022, Little participated in a historic collaboration for Duke Ellington’s conceptual Sacred Concerts series at the Lincoln Center, New York, with the New York Choral Society at the New School for Social Research and the Schomburg Center in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Petzel, New York (2024); Kavi Gupta, Chicago (2022); Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis (2022); Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood (2020); and June Kelly Gallery, New York (2018). His paintings are represented in the collections of numerous public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York; The Menil Collection, Houston; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis; Maatschappij Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Tennessee State Museum, Nashville; and the Newark Museum, Newark. James Little Trophy Wives, 2024 Photo: Thomas Barratt Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York James Little The Problem with Segregation, 2024 Photo: Thomas Barratt Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York James Little Mahalia’s Wings, 2024 Photo: Thomas Barratt Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York…
A citizen of the world, Jerri Allyn (she/he/shimmher) is a community-based artist, educator, and activist who promotes civic engagement. Her work provides a forum for diverse voices that look at issues comprehensively. While challenging traditional gender roles and highlighting the experiences of underrepresented communities, his art explores complex themes including power dynamics and the intersections of body autonomy, race, and social class. Jerri’s diverse artistic practice encompasses various media: audio, video and sculptural tableaus, electronic billboards, 3-D books, and printmaking multiples, often culminating in site-oriented, interactive installations and performance art events. Allyn has exhibited internationally and received numerous prestigious awards. These include a Rockefeller Foundation Residency in Italy, an International Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Residency in Mexico, and grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Lightening Fund, and The National Tanes Fund. Fr more information and research: Website link to Sx Cele popup, Safiya page . Safiya’s Myth Busters . Ongoing Programs: Sx Celebrated : Comprehensive Sex Ed, Body Positive Movement, Sx Worker Rights – Human Rights Watch . Installation shot of work-in-progress popup, Sx Celebrated: Expanding Erotic Power, The Art Room, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Sept 28, 2024; photo: Cheri Gaulke. Safiya with photomontage portrait: Sapphrodite Goddess of Paraphilias / Safiya Discover an inner Deity, Sappic Energies, Erotic, Intimate needs? Your paraphilias are safe with me. Photo Montage, archival digital print on canvas, handsewn fabric frame, hung on rod; 6’H x 4’L; 2024. Excerpt of Performance: Stripper Co-op Dancers Seize the Means of Production, pictured: Kayla Tange, photo: Dan Monick.…
Jim Osman was born in New York City. He received a BA & MFA from Queens College. He has had solo exhibitions at McKenzie Fine Art, Robischon Gallery, Lesley Heller Workspace, Long Island University and Dartmouth College. His work has been included in group shows at the Brooklyn Museum, Equity Gallery and University of Texas at San Antonio. He has received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Parsons School of Design and a NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture. He became a member of the National Academy in 2019. Mr. Osman taught courses in three-dimensional design and sculpture at Parsons School of Design for 22 years. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Clock, 2024, wood, paint, 63 x 49 x 60 inches. Photo: McKenzie Fine Art. Dogleg with Target, 2024, wood, paint, 6 5/8 x 7 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Photo: Christian Nguyen Cedar Porch, 2024, wood, paint, 8 x 6 x 5 inches. Photo: Christian Nguyen…
Bumin Kim is originally from South Korea and received her MFA in Drawing and Painting in 2015 from the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. In 2017 she was awarded at the 30th annual international competition and exhibition, Materials: Hard+Soft . Her work has been shown by various institutions, including: Art Miami and Pulse Art Fair in Miami, FL; Dallas Art Fair in Dallas, TX; Art Aspen in Aspen, CO; San Francisco Art Fair in San Francisco, CA, Art Market Hamptons Fine Art Fair in Water Mill, NY; and Texas Contemporary Art Fair in Houston, TX. Furthermore, Kim’s work has been featured in publications, such as: New American Paintings, Fresh Paint Magazine, and Glasstire , and can be found in public and private collections throughout the United States, South Korea, Japan, and Europe. Bumin Kim completed an artist residency at Facebook’s headquarters in Austin, Texas in 2020, and her work was selected to be displayed at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon in 2022. Meadow 5, 53 x 48 in, thread and acrylic on wood panel, 2024 Winter Night, 35 x 35 in, thread and acrylic on wood panel, 2024 Vexillum 1 (2023), 20 x 12 x 6 in, thread and wood, 2023…
Kelly Reemtsen (b. 1967, Flint, Michigan) is best known for her bright and bold paintings of women carrying household tools such as chainsaws or axes. Her work often investigates the role of the modern woman, deconstructing societal perceptions of gender, power and femininity. Reemtsen's paintings are characterized by their thick impasto, stark white backgrounds, and anonymous figures. Reemtsen is currently based in Los Angeles. She studied fashion design and painting atCentral Michigan University and California State University Long Beach. Reemtsen has been involved with printmaking since the 1990s, studying etching and screen-printing in workshops and with educators across the United States.Kelly Reemtsen’s work has been exhibited widely in North America and is part of the Twentieth Century Fox and AT&T corporate collections. Kelly Reemtsen, In The Spot Light, 2024, Oil on panel, 44 x 44 inches. Kelly Reemtsen, Focal Points, 2024, Oil on panel, 60 x 60 inches. Kelly Reemtsen, Soften the Blow, 2024, Dark walnut wood, faux fur, lacquer. Each Axe: 36 x 12 x 3 inches.…
Bernd Zimmer, born in Planegg in 1948, was a co-initiator of the Berlin Galerie am Moritzplatz, founded in 1977, and is a representative of “Heftige Malerei”. He studied philosophy and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin from 1973. His often large-format paintings initially focused on nature in deliberate contrast to the big city of Berlin. After a two-year stay in Rome, where he received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo, Bernd Zimmer has lived and worked in Polling in Upper Bavaria since 1984. Impressions from travel, nature, literature and philosophy are echoed in Zimmer's colorful works, as is his examination of the natural sciences and the cosmos, to which all forms of existence ultimately belong. Bernd Zimmer, Reflexion über 5 Kontinente, 2019/21 160 x 130 cm, Acryl/Canvas Bernd Zimmer, Ladoga. Mittsommer. Feuerwerk, 2006 130 x 180 cm, Acryl/Öl) Canvas Bernd Zimmer, Wandel (6), 2022, 160 x 130 cm, Acryl/Lwd.…
Elise Engler’s art ranges from the personal to the political, to various combinations of those elements. Her work consists of meticulous, highly pictorial drawings and paintings that capture and document the material world in all its myriad details. Her projects are large in scope, but often intimate in format, and are a narrative investigation of the world seen through its innumerable, but countable, individual components, assembled in suites and series of works. Engler has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in drawing, and an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant in painting. She has been the recipient of two MacDowell residencies, a Yaddo fellowship and a fellowship at Civatella Ranieri, In Umbria, Italy. She spent 2 months in Antarctica as an awardee of a National Science Foundation Antarctica Artists and Writers Grant. Her work has been written about in Art in America, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among other publications, and she has shown in galleries across the U.S. and in Europe. Her project, A Year on Broadway, was featured on CBS Sunday Morning. Her book, A Diary of the Plague Year: An Illustrated Chronicle of 2020, Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt/ MacMillan) was published in 2022. Engler lives and works in New York City. Box Camera, 2024 Oil on panel, 6 x 7 x 1 1/2 in 15.2 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm. January 6, 2021, 2023 Oil on canvas, 62 x 52 in 157.5 x 132.1 cm Homage to Florine Stettheimer’s Cathedral of Art, 2024 Oil on panel, 5 x 6 x 1 1/2 in 12.7 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm…
Ever Baldwin lives and works in Catskill, NY. They hold a BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Recent solo exhibitions include The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; LeFebvre et Fils, Paris; Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA; and JAG Projects, Hudson, NY. Their work has been included in groups shows at Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA; Modern Art, London; and Art Omi, Ghent, NY among others. Ever Baldwin, A new you, 2024, Oil on canvas in painted pine frame with 22k gold leaf, 60 x 40 x 10 inches. Ever Baldwin, Muffy, 2023, Oil on canvas in charred wood frame, 38 x 40 x 4 inches. Ever Baldwin, Hot and cold, 2024, oil on canvas in painted pine frame with aluminum, 38 x 30 x 4 inches.…
Anne Brandhøj with the interactive sculptures she created for Designmuseum Danmark, which are permanently installed in the museum's garden. Anne Brandhøj is a Danish artist and designer whose practice centers around sustainability. From sourcing and harvesting timber to drying, processing, and finishing each piece by hand, her distinct designs take form around the natural irregularities of each length of wood. Its grain, knots, splits, and coloration guide her decisions and remain as elements of the final work. Rather than imposing her creative ideas on the material, Brandhøj works with the chance variations offered by nature, allowing her to incorporate offcuts that might otherwise end up as waste. Their unique textures and patterning are highlighted, polished into delicate eddies and currents that reveal the innate beauty of the material, whether made from oakwood, walnut, Douglas fir, cherry, or beech. In addition to her playful functional objects, she creates large-scale sculptures whose undulating vertical forms reiterate abstract motifs as though materializing the movement of sound—its waves, ripples, and echoes. “I die a little bit inside every time I see furniture with a smooth surface where you cannot see any structure, any knot, anything at all,” says Brandhøj. “It’s a shame when there is so much beauty in the wood to show.” Brandhøj received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in furniture design from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She is a founding partner of Bly Studio, and currently serves as a teaching assistant at The Royal Academy. Brandhøj has exhibited throughout Denmark and internationally. In 2022, she was commissioned by Designmuseum Danmark to create a permanent sculptural installation for the museum, in collaboration with the Kay Bojesen Foundation. Inner Beauty Pedestals, 2023 Cherry 58.5" H x 17.5" W x 15.75” D 75", H x 12.5" W x 10.25” D 51.25", H x 10.25" W x 8.75” D. Works by Anne Brandhøj installed at Hostler Burrows New York Sculpture, 2024, ash, 9.5" H x 7.5" W x 5.25" D, Rooting 11, 2023, maple and glazed porcelain, 8" L x 4.75" Dia. (collaboration with Signe Fensholt), Rooting 22, 2023, cherry and glazed porcelain, 17" H x 10.25" Dia. (collaboration with Signe Fensholt), Rooting 6, 2023, cherry and glazed porcelain, 10" H x 7" Dia. (collaboration with Signe Fensholt), Sculpture, 2024, cherry, 12.25" H x 7.5" W x 6.5” D Pedestal, 2024, cherry, 16"H x 11.5" Dia.…
Hilary Irons is a Maine-based painter and curator. She is gallery and exhibitions director at the University of New England. Hilary received an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2008 and a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2002, and she has attended residencies at the Albers Foundation, Skowhegan, MacDowell, the American Academy in Rome, the Pace House, Hewnoaks, Canterbury Shaker Village, and the Surf Point Foundation. She has written for The Chart, Art New England, Boston Art Review, and other publications. Her work revolves around opticality, the landscape, and material culture, exploring the ways in which our reading of space and objects are impacted by color, mark, and light. Hilary Irons, Legion of Mary, 2024, Oil, acrylic, and marble dust on panel 18h x 18w in 45.72h x 45.72w cm. Photo courtesy of the artist and Morgan Lehman Gallery Hilary Irons, Ash Pail and Duck Askoi, 2022, Oil, acrylic, and marble dust on panel, 17 3/4h x 17 3/4w in 45.09h x 45.09w cm. Photo courtesy of the artist and Morgan Lehman Gallery Hilary Irons, My Funny Valentine, 2022, Oil, acrylic, and marble dust on panel, 14h x 11w in 35.56h x 27.94w cm. Photo courtesy of the artist and Morgan Lehman Gallery…
Alyina Zaidi at Alexander Berggruen, NY, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Alyina Zaidi (b. 1995, New Delhi, India) holds an MA in painting from the Royal College Of Art, London and a BA from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY; Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, BE; Indigo + Madder Gallery, London, UK; Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK; and White Cube, London, UK, among others. Zaidi is a London-based artist from New Delhi and Srinagar. This is Zaidi’s first solo show with the gallery, following her inclusion in the gallery’s group show Katja Farin, Maria Farrar, Esme Hodsoll, Alyina Zaidi (March 1-April 5, 2023). In Lost in the belly of a whale, Zaidi establishes stronger narrative threads with more action than her previous work. Here, nomadic white strawberries attempt to herd their goats and are at war with imperial frogs. In the top left register of Facts and hearsay—an encyclopaedia of various natural and less natural phenomena, these frogs steal the moon. Angels purchase Moons for sale and, in Dubious benediction, guard pickle jars of frogs and moons. On occasion, the unreliable nature of history emerges where portions of the composition are swallowed by dark orbs Zaidi calls “the cave of the unknown.” These nebulous scenes offer a mode of abstraction for the artist and indicate that there is more to learn about this universe. Further embracing reality-warping unknowns, Zaidi’s paintings are filled with magic and mythology. As in previous work by the artist, cherry tomatoes and radishes become spirits, angels with opulent tentacled wings populate most paintings, chilis hang to ward off the evil eye, and rituals are performed around the moon for luck. New supernatural elements in this body of work include poltergeists who lurk in windows and sacred trees. In Zaidi’s painting Euphemia and the assassin, she alludes to a version of the story of Saint Euphemia’s martyrdom in which she was thrown into an arena with lions meant to kill her. In the Islamic tradition of indirect representation, rather than painting Euphemia as a person, Zaidi paints her as a bejeweled textile surrounded by lacy fabric. In a playful rendition of the tale, here, Euphemia is cradled in a hammock of lions’ tails. Alyina Zaidi, Perfumed veils and gauzy tails, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm.). Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Mark Blower Alyina Zaidi, Dubious benediction, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm.), Copyright the artist. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Mark Blower Alyina Zaidi, Facts and hearsay—an encyclopaedia of various natural and less natural phenomena, 2024 acrylic on canvas, quadriptych, overall: 77 x 200 in. (195.6 x 508 cm.), each: 77 x 50 in. (195.6 x 127 cm.). Copyright the artist. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Dario Lasagni…
Szot (b. 1976) has exhibited his work in many galleries across the United States from New York to Los Angeles and Texas. Szot's paintings have been exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery in London and, in 2014, the artist was invited to participate in the Whitney Museum Art Party. His work is in public collections, including Credit Suisse, and numerous private collections, such as Beth DeWoody and the Bass Family. The artist currently lives and works in both Los Angeles, CA and Brooklyn, NY. Ejecta, 80 x 58 inches, oil, metal leaf and charcoal on linen, 2024. Good Luck Flag (Diptych), 74 x 100 inches, oil, metal leaf and charcoal on linen, 2024. Soft Story, 52 x 70 inches oil, metal leaf and charcoal on linen, 2024.…
Portrait Monica BonviciniCourtesy the artist, © Monica Bonvicini and VG-Bildkunst, Bonn 2022 / Photo by Olaf Heine Born in Venice, Italy, Monica Bonvicini currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. The artist studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. Since the 1990s, Monica Bonvicini has had numerous exhibitions and projects around the world. Upcoming, the artist will have a major solo exhibition at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (2022). Other significant solo exhibitions include Hurricanes and other Catastrophes at Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2022), I Don’t Like You Very Much at Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2022), LOVER’S MATERIAL at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (2020), I CANNOT HIDE MY ANGER at Belvedere 21 Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna (2019), As Walls Keep Shifting at OGR, Turin, Italy (2019), Monica Bonvicini at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2017), her hand around the room at BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Newcastle (2016), BOTH ENDS at Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2011), Desire Deseise Devise at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2012), Monica Bonvicini at Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France (2009), Monica Bonvicini / Tom Burr at Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2009), Focus: Monica Bonvicini–Light Me Black at Art Institute of Chicago (2009), NEVER MISSING A LINE at Sculpture Center, New York (2007), Monica Bonvicini at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2002), among others. Bonvicini has earned several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Biennale di Venezia (1999); the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2005); the Rolandpreis für Kunst for Art in Public Space from the Foundation Bremen, Germany (2013); the Hans Platschek Prize for Art and Writing, Germany (2019); the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria (2020). Monica Bonvicini’s works can be found permanently installed in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London; on the waterfront at Bjørvika, before the Den Norske Opera & Ballett House, Oslo; the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (2003-2019); and the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, among others. Monica Bonvicini, Chainswing Rings & Stripes 2024 Galvanized steel chains, chain quick fasteners, belting leather, rivets, galvanized steel rings Dimensions variable Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles Monica Bonvicini, Stay Home 2024 Silkscreen and tempera on Fabriano paper 78 3/4 x 59 inches; 200 x 150 cm (unframed) 82 5/8 x 63 inches; 210 x 160 cm (framed) Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles Monica Bonvicini, Installation view, Put All Heaven in a Rage, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2024. Photo by Pierre Le Hors Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles…
Jammie Holmes in his Dallas studio, 2024. Photo by Daisy Avalos Morning Thoughts takes its title from a 1981 Gil Scott-Heron song by the same name. Throughout the song’s soft, spoken-word lyrics Scott-Heron meditates on the magical potential felt in the moment when night quietly turns to day—on the possibilities that radiate in the first light of morning, as the morning glory and daylily buds open. With his newest body of work, Holmes captures this moment of possibility alongside the inevitable moments of loss that follow as flowers wilt, as color seeps away—the dichotomy of morning and mourning. Underneath all of this,Morning Thoughts embodies the resilience of Holmes, of his community: morning glory and daylily flowers may wilt and die by dusk, but the plants and their roots remain. With Morning Thoughts, Holmes reminds us that hope and loss go hand-in-hand—but beauty remains for those willing to see it, that flowers bloom again in the morning. Jammie Holmes’s first solo museum exhibition, Jammie Holmes: Make the Revolution Irresistible, was presented at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX in 2023. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including:Afro-Atlantic Histories, which traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum ofArt, CA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Dallas Museum of Art, TX. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the New OrleansMuseum of Art, LA; the China Center of International Contemporary Art Vancouver, Canada;Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Dallas Contemporary, TX; and many more. Jammie Holmes - ‘Black Market’ (2024) - copyright of Jammie Holmes and courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery Jammie Holmes - ‘Morning Glory’ (2024) - copyright of Jammie Holmes and courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery Jammie Holmes - ‘Malcolm’ (2024) - copyright of Jammie Holmes and courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery…
portrait_Henri-Kisielewski Michael Iveson (b. 1984, Northern Ireland) lives and works in London. Iveson is a painter, printmaker and installation artist whose works investigates social divisions, the interplay between the abstract space of advertising, fear and desire and their concrete manifestations through status, consumption and the lived environment. Iveson has previously exhibited with Foreign & Domestic at the Salon de Normandy, Paris, in 2019, and at the Averard Hotel, London, in 2016 and 2018, with conceptual and site-specific architectural interventions in painted bubblewrap and experimental printmaking. Iveson, Palette (HTSI) no.5, 2024 erased magazine pages with extracted pigment 13 ¾ x 22 in Iveson, Anonymous (watcher), 2024 extracted pigment on canvas with artist made frame 9 7/8 x 12 5/8 x 1 in Iveson, Boots, 2024 extracted pigment on canvas with artist made frame 12 ½ x 14 1/8 x 1 1/8 in Iveson, How much land does a man need?, 2024 extracted pigment on canvas with artist made frame 14 ¼ x 12 ¼ x 1 in…
Kati Gegenheimer, photograph by Mark Gibson Kati Gegenheimer was born in Bucks County, PA, in 1984 and lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, where she is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She received a MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in 2013 and a BFA in Printmaking and Art History from the Tyler School of Art in 2007. Her works have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at North Orange, Montclair, NJ, 2022 and Gross McLeaf, Philadelphia, PA, 2021. Group and two-artist exhibitions include Kati Gegenheimer | Chenlu Hou, Kristen Lorello, New York, NJ, 2023, Mars in Cancer, David Peterson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2023, Reveries, Peep Projects, Philadelphia, PA, 2022, and Good Pictures, curated by Austin Lee, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY, 2020. She is the recipient of a Yaddo Artist Access Grant and a smART Ventures Grant, and has been granted artist residencies at The Goldey House Artist Residency, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, and the Pollock-Krasner Residency at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY. Kati Gegenheimer, Shell Songs, 2024, Oil on linen, 24 x 18 inches, Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY, Photo: Charles Benton Kati Gegenheimer, Correspondence, 2024, Oil on linen, 24 x 36 inches, Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY, Photo: Charles Benton Kati Gegenheimer, Atlas of Feeling, 2024, Oil on linen, 24 x 18 inches, Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY, Photo: Charles Benton…
Francine Tint In the Studio Over more than five decades, Francine Tint has created a remarkable body of work. Her paintings display an exhilarating freedom of execution combined with an original and frequently surprising color sensibility, varying in size from 10 inches to nearly 20 feet. Her brushwork ranges from languorous and undulating swaths of paint to aggressive and agitated gestures. Her works speak of a powerful and unwavering commitment to the visual and emotional vocabulary of abstract painting, and they embody the artist's personal and deeply held belief in the power of intuitive creation. Tint's direct heritage may be traced to Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. Her admiration for those artists is enormous, but she also reaches more deeply into art history. Artists who are touchstones for Tint include Édouard Manet, Francisco Goya, Pompeian frescoes from the Roman Empire, and especially J.M.W Turner for his reliance on inspiration and radical painting techniques. She is particularly fond of 16th-century Mannerist painters; Jacopo Pontormo's idiosyncratic colors and anatomical and spatial distortions fascinate Tint. She also has a deep interest in Asian brush paintings. Recently, Tint has been mining her books on paleolithic cave paintings where she is captivated by their creators' profound identification with the animals they depicted, an identification which extends to handprints stenciled directly onto the cave walls. She is reminded of the foot and handprints that appear in her paintings. Tint’s work has been exhibited in over thirty solo shows in the United States and Europe, and is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Clement Greenberg collection at the Portland Art Museum and the Krannert Art Museum in Chicago. Her work is in private and corporate collections including Pepsi Co. and Mount Sinai Hospital. Francine Tint, Golden Flutter, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 54 X 39 in. (137.2 x 99.1 cm), Copyright Upsilon Gallery Francine Tint, Impressions, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 52 1/2 x 36 in. (133.3 x 91.4 cm), Copyright Upsilon Gallery Francine Tint, Impressions, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 52 1/2 x 36 in. (133.3 x 91.4 cm), Copyright Upsilon Gallery…
Mala Iqbal was born in the Bronx in 1973 and grew up in a household where three cultures and four languages intersected. "The Edge of an Encounter," a solo show of her paintings and works on paper is currently on view at JJ Murphy Gallery in New York until November 9, 2024. Other solo exhibitions were at Soloway Gallery in Brooklyn; Ulterior Gallery, Bellwether Gallery, and PPOW in New York; Taylor University in Upland, Indiana; Twelve Gates Arts in Philadelphia; and Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles. Her series of collaborative paintings, made with Angela Dufresne, was shown in October 2021 at the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, SUNY Purchase, and at LSU in Baton Rouge in November 2023. Her work has been exhibited in group shows throughout the United States as well as in Australia, China, Europe, and India. Her work has been reviewed in various publications including The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic and The New Yorker. Iqbal has been awarded artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center, and the Hermitage Artist Retreat. She received a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 2023. Mala Iqbal lives and works in New York City. Animals, 2024 Oil on canvas 12 x 16 inches Ghost Friend, 2024 Gouache and crayon on gray paper 4 x 6 inches. Interrupture, 2024 Oil on canvas 72 x 96 inches.…
©Studio ROBIN KID - Portrait of the artist at his studio in the Paris area. Robin Kid (b. 1991), is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist from Dutch descent. Raised by his grand parents in a post war little mining town in the rural south of Holland, Robin had difficulties fitting in at school and preferred to rush home to find his refuge in front of the American programs on TV. From re-runs of Davy Crocket, music videos on MTV to explosive fights on Jerry Springer and the commercials in between, Robin was mesmerized by the spectacle and power of American consumerism. After dropping out of high school and a short-lived career at Mc Donalds, he decided he would teach himself to paint and sculpt through YouTube as a way to navigate today’s world by drawing on the one of his childhood. His work hijacks a variety of social, political and traditional imagery of the past and present, with rebellious, religious, fantastical and in some ways offensive undertones. He pulls intuitively from the world of advertising, the Internet, the entertainment industry and his childhood memories, to produce ambitious, enigmatic and thought-provoking narratives, which question our polarized world of the 21st century. In parallel, Robin Kid’s solo exhibition The Future Is Old is on view at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art MOCO in Barcelona following his three-year solo exhibition at MOCO Amsterdam, and his monumental sculpture The State We Are In, In The Consciousness Of A Country’s Empty Mind as well as four paintings by the artist are on view at the Twenty-First Century Museum 21C in Louisville as part of the group exhibition This We Believe after its three-year exhibition at the 21C Museum in Chicago. ROBIN KID works are part of public, corporate and private collections in Switzerland, France, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, China, South Korea, the UK and the USA. Searching for America by ROBIN KID - Solo show at TEMPLON NYC from Sept 04 to Oct 26 2024. 1 Left - SFA III and IV - Oil paint on canvas cast aluminum stainless steel various materials - Variable dimensions ©ROBIN KID. Courtesy the artist. 2 Middle - SFA VI - Oil paint on canvas cast aluminum stainless steel various materials - Variable dimensions ©ROBIN KID. Courtesy the artist. 3 Right - SFA VIII - Oil paint on canvas cast aluminum stainless steel various materials - Variable dimensions ©ROBIN KID. Courtesy the artist. It’s New Venom, 2023-2024 – ROBIN KID Oil on canvas, stainless steel, aluminum. 118 × 196 × 12 in. / 300 × 497 × 30 cm. Can You Tell Me The Way To Sesame Sreet?, 2023-2024 – ROBIN KID Oil on canvas, stainless steel, aluminum. 149 × 158 × 12 in. / 380 × 400 × 30 cm.…
Adam Simon (born Hampstead, England, 1952) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY, known both for his paintings and for projects addressing the presentation and distribution of art. Simon’s paintings often mine cultural phenomena, including newspaper layout and content, stock photography, iconic images from art history and (most recently) corporate logos. His current exhibition at OSMOS address, in NYC, combines fragments from past paintings. Simon’s public projects began with Four Walls, an artists’ forum and exhibition space that featured one-evening exhibitions with discussion. Simon co-directed Four Walls first with Michele Araujo in Hoboken, NJ (1984-1988) and subsequently with Mike Ballou in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY (1990-1998). The Four Walls archives are now housed in the Smithsonian Archive of American Art. Simon’s other well-known public project was the Fine Art Adoption Network, in collaboration with the NYC nonprofit, Art in General. Beginning in 2006, over 350 artists posted images of works they were willing to give to adopters they selected from among those that solicited the works online. Over 600 works were adopted through FAAN. Simon has exhibited his paintings in the United States and Europe. He has been the recipient of several awards and grants including a NYC Percent for Art commission and a Yaddo artist’s residency. As Much As 18 x 14 inches, acrylic on canvas mounted on wood panel 2024 SeeSaw by Neatlight 48 x 36 inches, acrylic on canvas mounted on wood panel 2024 Gloaming 48 x 36 inches, acrylic on canvas mounted on wood panel 2024…
Soumya Netrabile (b. 1966, Bangalore, India) received a BFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University. Recent solo exhibitions include Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, NY); Andrew Rafacz (Chicago, IL); Anat Egbi (Los Angeles, CA); Gana Art (Seoul, South Korea); Pt.2 Gallery (Oakland, CA); and The Journal (New York, NY). Recent group exhibitions include Andrew Rafacz (Chicago, IL); Anat Egbi (Los Angeles, CA); Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, NY); Trinta Gallery (Santiago de Compostela, Spain); Indigo + Madder (London, UK); and Karma (New York, NY). Netrabile has exhibited in art fairs in Chicago, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Seoul, and Hong Kong. Her work is in the public collections of the Orange County Museum of Art (Costa Mesa, CA); Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA); University Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL); Aïshti Foundation (Jal El Dib, Lebanon); and Museu Inimá de Paula (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). Netrabile lives and works in Chicago, IL. Soumya Netrabile, Passage, 2024, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in (121 x 152 cm), courtesy of the artist and Rachel Uffner Gallery. Soumya Netrabile, Wild Donkeys at Blackrock, 2024, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in (60.96 x 60.96 cm), courtesy of the artist and Rachel Uffner Gallery. Soumya Netrabile, Water tower, 2024, oil on canvas, 60 x 72 in (152 x 182 cm), courtesy of the artist and Rachel Uffner Gallery.…
Hein Koh (b. 1976, Jersey City, N.J.) lives and works in Brooklyn. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a dual B.A. in studio art and psychology in 1998, and received her M.F.A. in painting from Yale University in 2004. Koh has exhibited internationally, receiving features in Artforum, ArtNews, The Atlantic, The Brooklyn Rail, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Time Out New York, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Garage Museum in Russia and the Xiao Museum in China. In 2019, the artist mounted her first public installation at Rockefeller Center with the Art Production Fund. In 2021, Koh presented her first institutional solo show at SCAD Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, titled ‘Hope & Sorrow’. The site-specific installation transformed the museum’s Jewel Boxes into gardens for larger-than-life anthropomorphized flowers—made up of the artist’s very own soft-sculptures of metallic spandex, velvet, and satin, set against vinyl backdrops and Astroturf. In 2022, her first exhibition catalogue was printed in conjunction with her solo show ‘On the Edge of a Precipice’ at the gallery. ‘Hope Springs Eternal’ marks our fourth solo project with Koh, and her first in the main gallery space at 16 East 55th Street. Hein Koh, Awake, 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 72 x 96 inches (182.9 x 243.8 cm) Hein Koh, Mammo, 2024, Acrylic, oil, and oil stick on canvas, 96 x 72 inches (243.8 x 182.9 cm) Hein Koh, Four Burners, 2024, Oil and oil stick on canvas, 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm) Hein Koh, Drooping Flower, 2024, Acrylic, aluminum foil, archival spray varnish, armature wire, concrete, copper pipe, cotton string, duct tape, epoxy clay, fiberglass cloth, gauze, plaster, styrofoam, Weldbond glue. 62 x 26 x 29 inches (157.5 x 66 x 73.7 cm)…
Dike Blair (b. 1952, New Castle, Pennsylvania) uses gouache, oil, his own photographs, and strategies appropriated from Postminimalist sculpture to create intimate tableaux that transform quotidian sights and materials into exercises in formalism. A writer and teacher as well as an artist, Blair came up in the downtown scene of 1970s New York among punk rockers and Postmodernists. In the early 1980s, against prevailing art world trends toward Neo-Expressionism, he began rendering scenes from his life in gouache on paper. These ongoing diaristic paintings are devoid of human figures but nonetheless evoke the specter of the artist whose daily life plays out at a remove across their finely-wrought surfaces. Blair lives in New York and Sullivan County. Blair’s recent solo exhibitions include Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York (2024); Karma (Los Angeles, 2023, New York, 2022); Various Small Fires, Seoul (2020); The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2019); Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf (2019); Secession, Vienna (2016); and Jüergen Becker Gallery, Hamburg (2016). In 2022, Karma presented an exhibition of Blair’s paintings of Gloucester alongside Edward Hopper’s paintings of the same small Massachusetts city. Blair’s work is featured in the collections of the Whitney Museum, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. Blair’s work is on view in Matinee: Dike Blair at Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York through October 27, 2024 and at Karma, New York through October 26, 2024. Dike Blair, Untitled, 2024, Gouache, pencil and chalk on paper, 15 x 20 inches, 38.1 x 50.8 cm, 16 5/8 x 21 5/8 inches, 42.23 x 54.93 cm (framed), © Dike Blair. Courtesy the artist and Karma. Dike Blair, Untitled, 2024, Gouache, pencil and chalk on paper, 15 x 20 inches, 38.10 x 50.80 cm, 16 5/8 x 21 5/8 inches, 42.23 x 54.93 cm (framed), © Dike Blair. Courtesy the artist and Karma. Dike Blair, Untitled, 2024, Oil on aluminum panel, 28 1/8 x 21 1/8, 71.44 x 53.66 x 2.54 cm, 28 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches, 73.02 x 55.24 cm (framed), © Dike Blair. Courtesy the artist and Karma.…
Photo by Brad Trone Maja Ruznic (b. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1983) fuses personal narrative, psychoanalysis, mythology, and esoteric thought into vivid paintings that hybridize figuration and abstraction. Painting variably with oils and gouache on immense and small scales alike, she extracts order from layers of diluted pigment. Ruznic’s practice is informed by her studies, from Slavic shamanism and alchemy to Jungian psychoanalysis and sacred geometry. Imbued with a discordant beauty, her compositions emerge without a premeditated outcome. Ruznic’s introspective, mystical approach places her into a lineage of visionary painters including Paul Klee and Hilma af Klint. Ruznic lives in Placitas, New Mexico. Recent solo exhibitions include those held at Karma (New York, 2024, Los Angeles, 2023); Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque (2022); Karma, New York (2022); and Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico (2021). Ruznic’s work is held in the collections of the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; Dallas Art Museum; EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland; Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico; Jiménez–Colón Collection, Puerto Rico; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Rachofsky House, Dallas; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work was recently on view in the Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Maja Ruznic, On the Other Side, 2023, Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 x 2 1/2 inches, 254 x 381 x 6.35 cm. © Maja Ruznic. Courtesy the artist and Karma Maja Ruznic, Arrival of Wild Gods II, 2023, Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 x 2 1/2 inches, 254 x 381 x 6.35 cm. © Maja Ruznic. Courtesy the artist and Karma Maja Ruznic, Geometry of Sadness, 2023, Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 x 2 1/2 inches, 254 x 381 x 6.35 cm. © Maja Ruznic. Courtesy the artist and Karma Maja Ruznic, Arrangement of a Nervous System, 2023, Gouache on paper, 16 3/8 x 11 5/8 inches, 41.59 x 29.53 cm. 24 x 29 1/4 inches, 60.96 x 74.30 cm (framed). © Maja Ruznic. Courtesy the artist and Karma…
Leora Fridman Leora Fridman is a writer whose work is concerned with issues of identity, care, dis/ability, and embodiment. She is author of Static Palace, a collection of essays about chronic illness, art and politics, Bound Up: On Kink, Power & Belonging,just out this month, and other books of prose, poetry and translation. She is currently faculty at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School and Director of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship. A provocative look at historical trauma as bound, incarnated, and processed through intimate and sexual expression. In an autotheoretical journey through bondage, domination, and intimacy, Leora Fridman uncovers how Jewish historical trauma can be challenged and explored in embodied relations. Drawing on her experiences as an American Jew in Germany, Fridman delves into BDSM practices and experimental communities from Oakland to Berlin. This work weaves personal encounters with critical analysis founded in feminist theory, queer literature, Holocaust history, and memory studies. Bound Up begins with kink and leads us through a sensual and intelligent approach to intergenerational trauma and lived politics. What kind of healing can take place in the relational and physical realm? How can intimacy contradict and complement the process of political reparations? Fridman layers a nuanced understanding of shame, responsibility, and power with explorations of cinema, contemporary art, and popular culture to shed light on topics from personal and political relationships to victimhood and blame. Both timely and timeless, this work is an address to history and the contemporary moment, relevant to Jews, diasporic scholars, and all exploring ethical relationships with history and with other humans.…
Margaret Cogswell- In Mother’s yukata, giving presentation on my work in Japanese at the opening for my mixed media installation- Karasu to Issyoni Kaerimasyo: A River of Memories in Ichinomiya, Japan- 8/24/2024. Margaret Cogswell is a mixed-media installation artist residing in West Shokan, New York. Cogswell is the recipient of numerous awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2009), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2017-18, 1991 & 1987) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2007, 1993). Cogswell’s most recent project (2024), “ Karasu to Issyoni Kaerimasyo: A River of Memories”, was made possible by a generous grant from The Tree of Life Foundation. Cogswell was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Japan where she lived until she was 13 years old. Since 2003, the main focus of Cogswell's work has been an ongoing series of RIVER FUGUES projects exploring the interdependency of people, industry and rivers. RIVER FUGUES began in Cleveland, Ohio with Cuyahoga Fugues, a mixed-media installation inspired by and incorporating generations of stories reflecting the life and dreams embodied by the Cuyahoga River. Expanding on this idea, Moving the Waters: Ashokan Fugues was created for a solo exhibition at the Cue Art Foundation in NYC in 2014, and re-created in 2016 for a solo exhibition at the Kleinart /James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY. RIVER FUGUES have been commissioned by museums and art centers for exhibitions nationally and internationally including Moving the Water(s): Croton Fugues, at Mid-Manhattan Library of New York Public Library, in New York, NY ( solo 2017); Water Soundings, for the Zendai Zhujiajiao Art Museum, China (solo 2014); Wyoming River Fugues at the Art Museum, University of Wyoming, Laramie (solo 2012); Hudson River Fugues at Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, (group 2009-2010); River Fugues for a traveling group exhibition at the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2007), the Monaco Ministry of Culture (2008) and Chicago Field Museum (2009); Mississippi River Fugues, Art Museum, University of Memphis, Tennessee (solo 2008); Buffalo River Fugues at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY (solo 2006); Hudson Weather Fugues at Wave Hill, NYC (group 2005), and Cuyahoga Fugues at SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio (solo 2003). All RIVER FUGUES mixed-media installation projects include a parallel body of works on paper. Recent exhibitions of such works include In the Elements at Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY (2022); Fragile Rainbow at Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Williamsburg, NYC, NY (2022). Upcoming in March, 2023, Cogswell’s work will be included in an exhibition titled This Earth at the Concord Center for the Visual Arts (Concord, Massachusetts) for artists who were awarded residencies at the Montello Foundation in the Great Basin of Nevada in 2022. Margaret Cogswell, Karasu to Issyoni Kaerimasyo: A River of Memories (2024)Mixed-media installation: sunset “painted” with tulle; river= fishing nets over wire fencing mesh; LED candles on river; fishing nets on floor; black shadow on veneer board; fishing pole with bamboo & wire; photo in white fishing net; grey acrylic ground cloth on walls & bamboo structure; crows painted with sumi on washi paper stitched onto tulle and stretched over bamboo circle frame. Margaret Cogswell, Karasu to Issyoni Kaerimasyo: A River of Memories (2024) Detail of photo of artist at 4 years old with playmate in swing in hometown of Marugame, Japan. Margaret Cogswell, Departing - Fearlessly Buoyant (2024) Collaged watercolor, sumi ink, acrylic ink & color pencil on paper. 26” x 47” (unframed dimensions)…
Artist Portrait by Alexander Bedder Anthony Cudahy (b.1989, Fort Myers, Florida, US) received a BFA from Pratt Institute, NY in 2011 and completed an MFA at Hunter College, NY in 2020. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Cudahy is a figurative painter whose tender scenes reveal the nuanced complexities of life. In masterful compositions he creates a world for unspoken stories, intimate moments and romantic gestures. Personal and poetic, Cudahy's figures coalesce with the atmosphere of their environments in fluid brushstrokes. At once dark and luminous, Cudahy's paintings often have a phosphorescent quality to them, as though they are lit from within. For the artist, how the paint is handled has its own narrative potential - the thick textures, light airy space, patterning and delicate marks are all active in the story he is creating. Alongside painting, Cudahy makes incredibly detailed colored pencil drawings, in an all-consuming process of mark making. Unlike his paintings which transform throughout the making, the challenging medium calls for the compositions to be decided beforehand. Cudahy devotedly collects images. His collection draws upon film stills, snapshots of his partner, ancient sites, hagiographic icons and the photography of his great uncle, Kenny Gardner (which his husband, Ian Lewandowski has been compiling). Cudahy returns to his collected images time and time again, for they have a potent quality, which sparks ideas and concepts for the works. Anthony Cudahy, Dowsing (studio), 2024, Oil on linen, 243.8 x 182.9 cm | 96 x 72 in Anthony Cudahy, Death instinct (for Bergman, for Tarkovsky), 2024, Oil on linen, 121.9 x 304.8 cm | 48 x 120 in Anthony Cudahy, Ian and Alex, 2024, Oil on linen, 182.9 x 182.9 cm | 72 x 72 in…
Pieter Schoolwerth. Photo by Jason Mandella. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York. Pieter Schoolwerth (b. 1970, St. Louis, Missouri) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He works in a multitude of mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, and video. Since graduating from the California Institute of the Arts in 1994, Schoolwerth has exhibited nationally and internationally with notable solo shows at Kunstverein Hannover, Thread Waxing Space, New York; Greene Naftali, New York; Grand Palais, Paris; Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; What Pipeline, Detroit; Capitain Petzel, Berlin; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin and Petzel, New York; Twelvetengallery, Chicago. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Sadie Coles, London among others. From 2003–2013 Schoolwerth ran Wierd Records, and the Wierd Party in the Lower East Side of NYC, releasing music by 46 bands and producing over 500 live music, DJ, and performance art events. This is his third solo exhibition at Petzel Gallery Pieter Schoolwerth, Texture Tile #6 (Noone Believes Anything, and They Believe Everything), 2023. Photo: Jason Mandella. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York. Pieter Schoolwerth, OpenWorld (Supporting Actor #12), 2024. Photo: Jason Mandella. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York. Below: Pieter Schoolwerth and Phil Vanderhyden, Supporting Actor, 2024, 4K video with sound by Aaron Dilloway. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York.…
Torey Akers is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Hunter College. Her work has been featured at arts venues across the country, most recently in a solo show at A.I.R. Gallery in Dumbo, NY. Install image of "Besotted", a solo show at A.I.R. Gallery Tzipporah, 2024, 38" x 19", ink on paper with sealant, cardboard, velour, sewing pins, mirrors, ribbons Untitled, 2024, 12" x 5", printed chiffon…
Sasha Sykes (b.1976) is an Irish artist with a research-based practice in rural Ireland, at the foothills of the Wicklow mountains. Her artworks and furniture pieces are hand made using acrylics and resins to explore, manipulate, and challenge the material language of the natural world through the embedding of plants, flowers, algae and fungi she collects from the landscape. Her architectural background infuses her work with a sense of rigor, and informs her strong approach to form and composition, exploring notions of history and usefulness in a 21st century context. The artist has worked all over the world including London (1999-2003) and New York (2003-2006) and has now settled in her native County Carlow where she lives with her husband and three children and works in a strawbale studio next door. Known for her use of hand-cast resins, embedding found objects and collected organic materials, Sykes tells stories of our landscape and social history. Her work is found in numerous private and public collections such as the National Museum of Ireland, The Office of Public Works, The Department of Foreign Affairs and The Department of Culture & Heritage, as well as prestigious hotels and corporate headquarters: from Carton House to the Bank of America. The New York Times stated that Sykes’ art is ‘for people who live in the city but dream of the country’. Noted honors include Gyre, which had critical success at the PAD fair in London, and being invited to exhibit in the ‘Best of Europe’ at the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity’s 2018 ‘Homo Faber’ show in Venice, and receiving an inaugural Fellowship from the foundation in 2023. Blooom! Screen, 2014, Resin, acrylic & garden flora, 63 x 79 inches Verdiculture Cocktail Tables, 2023, Resin, Acrylic & plant material 21 x 16 inches and 18 x 18 inches Blue Hydrangea Console, 2023,, Resin, Blue Hydrangeas,, 34 x 10 x 33 inches…
Louise P. Sloane (b. 1952) has been active as an abstract painter since 1974, infusing her works with personal text that motivates her own experimentation. The visual language of her paintings continues the legacy of reductive and minimalist ideologies, while celebrating color and the human inclination towards mark making. Sloane’s detail-oriented works are typically divided into rectangles or squares. The quadrangle has become a repetitive motif, often centrally featured within the context of a grid. In contrast with her iterative geometries, it is important to Sloane that the works present themselves as human made objects. Thick paint constructs repetitive handmade patterns, the physical motion of her brush strokes revealing the humanity of her practice. The surface holds Sloane’s signature extrusions. Painstakingly written and overwritten, Sloane’s inscribed text is a form of private meditation. Turned into a relief, and abstracted through color blocking, the text is interpreted through its physicality, not its meaning. Contrasting color choices intensify the dimensionality of the surface texture. Sloane uses color straight-up, without mixing. Blending takes place optically, as one color reacts to the other, red against green, or blue against yellow. The elements of mark-making, color, and geometry compete for the viewer’s focus, keeping the eyes and mind in constant motion, unifying her interests in the form of the square. Sloane’s work has been featured in numerous institutional collections, including the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Coral Springs Museum of Art, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, and Cornell Museum of Art and History. Sloane’s works are in the permanent collections of the Heckscher Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Nassau County Museum of Art, Yeshiva University Museum, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (the Sidney and Francis Lewis Collection). Louise P. Sloane Hot House, 2013 Signed, titled, and dated on the verso Acrylic paint and paste on aluminum panel 56 x 48 inches. Louise P. Sloane Patrician Blue, 1999 Signed, titled, and dated on the verso Acrylic paint and paste on panel 32 x 32 inches. Cool Tones, 1976, Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, Oil, paraffin, and pure pigment powders on, canvas, 54 x 48 inches.…
Howard Fishman is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times, where he has published essays on music, film, theater, literature, travel, and culture. His bylines have also appeared in the The Boston Glove, Rolling Stone, The Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, Artforum, San Francisco Chronicle, Mojo, The Village Voice, Jazziz, and Salmagundi. His play, A Star Has Burnt My Eye, was a New York Times “Critics Pick.” As a performing songwriter and bandleader, Fishman has toured internationally as a headlining artist for over two decades. He has released eleven albums to date, and is the producer of the album Connie’s Piano Songs: The Art Songs of Elizabeth “Connie” Converse. His book, To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse, was shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography of 2023. To Anyone Who Ever Asks The mysterious true story of Connie Converse—a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition—and one writer’s quest to understand her life. This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse’s voice on a recording, he was convinced she could not be real. Her recordings were too good not to know, and too out of place for the 1950s to make sense—a singer who seemed to bridge the gap between traditional Americana (country, blues, folk, jazz, and gospel), the Great American Songbook, and the singer-songwriter movement that exploded a decade later with Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. And then there was the bizarre legend about Connie Converse that had become the prevailing narrative of her life: that in 1974, at the age of fifty, she simply drove off one day and was never heard from again. Could this have been true? Who was Connie Converse, really? Connie Converse, Schenectady, NY, 1955 Supported by a dozen years of research, travel to everywhere she lived, and hundreds of extensive interviews, Fishman approaches Converse’s story as both a fan and a journalist, and expertly weaves a narrative of her life and music, and of how it has come to speak to him as both an artist and a person. Ultimately, he places her in the canon as a significant outsider artist, a missing link between a now old-fashioned kind of American music and the reflective, complex, arresting music that transformed the 1960s and music forever. But this is also a story of deeply secretive New England traditions, of a woman who fiercely strove for independence and success when the odds were against her; a story that includes suicide, mental illness, statistics, siblings, oil paintings, acoustic guitars, cross-country road trips, 1950s Greenwich Village, an America marching into the Cold War, questions about sexuality, and visionary, forward thinking about race, class, and conflict. It’s a story and subject that is by turn hopeful, inspiring, melancholy, and chilling. Credits for Talkin' Like You and Birthday song excerpt: The Musick Group. Age of Noon: Produced by Howard Fishman.…
Jen DeLuna in her studio Jen DeLuna (b. 1999), a Filipino and Colombian-American painter, explores the feminine through the lenses of affinity and vulnerability. DeLuna uses found and family photographs as the basis for her work, capturing the tension between movement and stillness, personal and public. Her figurative works in Dust and Sweat and Feigning Grace are wrapped in blurry hazes yet pierce through the surface with shining highlights, creating a simultaneously uncanny and invasive impression. Her mystifying and alluring style builds visual and emotional tension in her works, calling into question their own viewership. Jen DeLuna | The Soft Animal of Your Body, 2024, Oil on canvas | 24 x 24 in. Jen DeLuna | Etiquette, 2024, Oil on canvas | 12 x 12 in. Jen DeLuna | Timid Repetitions, 2024, Oil on canvas | 36 x 36 in.…
Sarah Brenneman (b.1975, Middletown, OH) lives and works in West Orange, New Jersey. She received her degrees in painting from Columbus College of Art (BFA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (MFA). She has had several solo shows including with Garvey|Simon at Artisan Lofts (New York, NY - a two-person exhibition with Gary Petersen 2024); Gold Scopophilia (Montclair, NJ) in 2020 and with Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York, NY) in 2004, 2006 and 2011. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally most recently with La Grange Gallery, (Reims, France) in 2022. She has been awarded residencies with Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Millay Colony of the Arts, Chashama, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Liquitex-Just Imagine Residency and VCCA, Moulin à Nef, Auvillar France. Brenneman’s paintings are included in many private and corporate collections including The Aspen Contemporary Art Collection, Citigroup, Cleveland Clinic, Sprint and The Progressive Corporation. Sarah Brenneman, Dove, 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 60.0h x 48.0w in. Sarah Brenneman Rust Register 2024, acrylic and watercolor on panel, 20 x 16 in Sarah Brenneman, Open But Empty, 2023 watercolor on paper 9.0h x 6.0w in.…
Elias Wessel in front of his work series “Nostalgia” at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York. Elias Wessel is an artist whose conceptual work moves between photography, painting and site specific installations with moving images and sound. He has had exhibitions at 1014 New York (formerly known as Goethe House); Palais Beauharnais, Paris; Art Collection of the Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin; NRW-Forum, Dusseldorf; Art Basel, Basel; Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (mpk); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei among many others. His works are included in public and private collections such as the Spallart Art Collection, Salzburg; AXA Art Collection, Cologne; and the German Parliament’s Art Collection (Kunstsammlung des Deutschen Bundestages), Berlin. Recent publications include Textfetzen (Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2022) and Aesthetics of Conflict (Verlag Kettler, 2023). He is based in New York City since 2008 with regular stays in Germany. Picture Theory: Elias Wessel, “It’s Complicated” (2019-2022), Installation View, 2024 Elias Wessel It’s Complicated – No. 2, 2019 Color photograph, archival pigment print Tabloid Edition: 24 1/2 x 18 5/8 in (framed) Original: 80 1/8 x 60 5/8 in (framed) Is Possibly Art – No. 2, 2021 Audio: 1:42 min Elias Wessel It’s Complicated – No. 5, 2019 Color photograph, archival pigment print Tabloid Edition: 20 5/8 x 18 5/8 in (framed) Original: 67 5/8 x 60 5/8 in (framed) Is Possibly Art – No. 5, 2021 Audio: 1:59 min…
Jack Arthur Wood in his studio. Photo by Bradley Marshall Jack Arthur Wood Jr. is a visual artist, writer, curator and educator based in Ridgewood, Queens. Wood studied at Guilford College, in Greensboro, NC, receiving a BA in printmaking in 2012, and earned an MFA in printmaking from Texas A&M University—Corearned Corpus Christi in 2017. He has been a resident at The Skowhegan pus School of Painting & Sculpture, The Wassaic Project, The Jentel Foundation, Little Bear Hill, and Tiger Lily Press. Wood has had solo/two-person presentations at Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY; My Pet Ram, New York, NY; Conduit Gallery, Ridgewood, NY; Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY; Not Gallery, Austin TX; The Weil Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX; Hudson & Jones Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; The Bakery, Vancouver, BC; and The Clay Street Press, CinThe Cincinnati, OHcinnati, OH. His work has been exhibited at Chart, New York, NY; . Geary Contemporary, Millerton, NY; Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; 5-50 Gallery, Queens, NY;Green House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Field of Play Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY; The Ekru Project,KanBrooklyn, Kansas City, MO; No Place Gallery, Coulmbus, OH; Heaven Gallery, sas Chicago, IL; Pause OFF Gallery, Milford, OH; The Wassaic ProjChicago, Project, Wassaic, NY; Flatbed Press, Austin, TX; and Deanna Evans ect, Projects, Brooklyn, NY. Wood has recently curated exhibitions at Thomas VanDyke Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Jack Arthur Wood, The Multiplicative Index of Metropolitan Contact Paths, 2024, acrylic, fabrics, glue, and paper on muslin, 60 x 72 in Jack Arthur Wood, Immolator, 2024 acrylic, fabrics, and glue on canvas 60 x 52 in 152.4 x 132.1 cm Jack Arthur Wood, Open City (Channel Changer), 2024 acrylic, fabrics, and glue on canvas 54 x 40 in 137.2 x 101.6 cm…
Martina Grlić (b. 1982, Croatia) was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia. She has exhibited at Fragment Gallery, New York, USA; Museum of Mali lošinj; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Kunstlerhaus, Vienna; Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo, China, and the National Museum, Gdanjsk, Poland. She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. For her second solo exhibition in New York City, Martina Grlić presents new and recent works. At first glance, Martina Grlić's paintings might appear fragmented, fuzzy, or even incomplete. However, this is a deliberate artistic choice made to visualize the inconsistency of the recollection process. Interested in the intersection of personal and collective memory and a blurry line on which certain forms become semi-recognizable, the Croatian artist combines technical skill with conceptual depth to convey the understanding of human identity. Drawing on the metaphor theory, her Memory Projects are essentially rearranging and reappropriating visual allegories revolving around cultural, political, economic, or social legacies, as well as gender perspectives. Martina Grlić, Thousand wishes, 2023 Oil on canvas 19 3/5 x 16 1/10 in | 50 x 41 cm Martina Grlić, I’ll wear him like a scrunchie, 2023 Oil on canvas 47.2 x 39.3 in 120 x 100 cm Martina Grlić, Dissociated I, 2022 Oil on linen 66 x 55 in | 170 x 140 cm…
Kejoo Park (B.1956, Daejeon, Korea) lives and works in Frankfurt and New York. She earned a BFA in Painting from Cornell University, studied at Pratt Institute and The Art Students League of New York, and earned an MLA in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University. Kejoo Park, a Korean-American conceptual and multimedia artist, utilizes a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, performance, and sitespecific installations, to explore the intricate relationships between humanity and nature. Her work emphasizes the duality of internal and external existence and the dynamic interplay between natural and artificial elements. In her large-scale public art projects, Park seamlessly integrates diverse genres such as music, poetry, and philosophy, developing a unique artistic language. Drawing on her studies in art and architecture, she expands her practice to express the embodiment of both Western and Eastern cultures. As a landscape architect, she has collaborated with numerous architects on international competitions and projects across the globe. She also served as an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Ecology at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Her work has been exhibited at Gallery Reitz, Zurich, Switzerland (2024); Gallery Uhn, Königstein, Germany (2023); Galerie Anna 25, Berlin, Germany (2023); Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany (2022); Galerie Uhn, Königstein, Germany (2022); Galerie Rieder, München, Germany (2021); Galerie Anna 25, Berlin, Germany (2019); Galerie Rieder, München, Germany (2019); Galerie Artstation, Zürich, Switzerland (2018); Galerie Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt, Germany (2018); Galerie Rieder, München, Germany (2017); Galerie am Hirschengraben, Zurich, Switzerland (2017); Stadtgalerie, Bad Soden am Taunus, Germany (2017); Galerie Anna 25, Berlin, Germany (2016); Galerie Tuttiart, Luzern, Switzerland (2016); Galerie Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt, Germany (2015); the Permanent Collection of Pierre Soulages at the Museum Ludwig, Koblenz, Germany (2014). Kejoo Park, Drinking Song of the sorrow of the Earth - from the series the Song of the Earth ( Das Lied von der Erde) mixed media, 180x180cm (diptych) Kejoo Park Landscape Rondo, 2020 Mixed media on rice paper and canvas 47.2 x 59 in Kejoo_Park_ Homarge3 to Beuys from the Series Visible-Invisible, mixed media, 100x100…
David Allan Peters in his studio, 2022. David Allan Peters (b. 1969 in Cupertino, CA) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA, and his Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA. Peters has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT; Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY; Royale Projects, Palm Desert, CA; and AKA PDX, Portland, OR. Recent group exhibitions include “Hybrid Spaces” (curated by Dr. Necmi Sönmez), Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey; “LA Painting,” Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; “Belief in Giants,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; and “Hello My Name Is...Los Angeles,” Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA. He is a recipient of the Nora Bartine Memorial Award from De Anza College, Cupertino, CA and his work may be found in the collections of Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey and the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. DAVID ALLAN PETERS Untitled #3, 2024 Acrylic on panel 40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery. DAVID ALLAN PETERS Untitled #10, 2024 Acrylic on panel 72 x 60 inches 182.9 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery. DAVID ALLAN PETERS Untitled #16, 2023 Acrylic on panel 40 x 60 inches 101.6 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery.…
David Anaya Maya was born in Bogot. D.C., raised in rural Colombia, and currently lives and works in New York City. After graduating as ‘Maestroʼ from Los Andes University in 2004, Anaya Maya has shown their work internationally and has explored an extensive range of materials, mediums and concepts. As an artist, curator, writer, teacher and art collective organizer, Anaya Maya has expanded seminal interconnections between peoples, bodies, identities, species, and ecosystems. They have been awarded with fellowships and residencies in Colombia, The Banff Centre in Canada, The Drawing Center in New York, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Four of their drawings are part of the collection of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art. Providentia installation, High Noon “Kikuyu,” 2023, oil on linen reinforced with epoxy resin, 10” x 7.5” “Coat of Arms,” 2023, oil and bronze powder on linen reinforced with epoxy resin, 10” x 17” x 2" “National Flower,” 2023, oil paint on dried linseed oil reinforced with epoxy resin, 1.25” x 1.75”…
Florencia Escudero's sculptures include soft and handmade components printed with digitally-rendered imagery. Feminist theory, cyber culture, and an embrace of various techniques such as digital photo collage, hand sewing, and silk-screening place each sculpture in the realm of both the machine-made and the handmade. As the artist notes, "When making these pieces I am thinking about the history of feminist art that looks at the objectification of women's bodies. I want to flip the expectation and look at how objects become human." Escudero received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 2012. Her works have been exhibited at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY, and Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, among other venues. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Florencia Escudero Snakestone, 2024 Digitally printed and silkscreened satin and spandex hand-sewn over upholstery foam, resin, ceramic, colored sand, epoxy, cotton piping, and wood base 33 x 31 x 23 inches Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY. Florencia Escudero Digital Medusa, 2024 Resin with abalone, starfish, epoxy, shells, 3D-printed plastic, temporary tattoo paper, eva foam, steel 22 x 24 x 15 inches Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY Florencia Escudero Echo, 2022 Digitally printed satin and spandex hand-sewn over upholstery foam, resin cast with watches, chains, and glitter, steel rod, chains 32 x 31 x 3 inches Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY.…
Areum Yang (b. 1994 Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in New York) graduated from Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea in 2017 and from the Hunter MFA program, New York, NY in 2021. She recently undertook residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has been included in group shows at Long Story Short, Los Angeles, CA; Analog Diary, Beacon, NY: Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY; Margot Samel, New York, NY, and Mamoth, London, UK. Yang was selected as the winner of the Silver Award for AHL T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards and the KCC Young Artist Awards in 2021. Her work has been selected for print publication in Art Maze Magazine edition 23, Friend of Artists volume 15, and Whitewaller issue 33. The Day Before, 2024 acrylic, oil, fabric collage, oil pastel, pencil on poly cotton 82 x 74 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Derek Eller Gallery, New York, photo, Adam Reich. In Between Dreams, 2024 acrylic, oil, fabric collage, oil pastel, and pencil on poly cotton 70 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Derek Eller Gallery, New York, photo, Adam Reich. Morning Laundry, 2024 oil, acrylic, pencil, oil pastel, fabric collage on poly cotton 70 x 75 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Derek Eller Gallery, New York, photo, Adam Reich.…
Raquel Rabinovich is a New York-based, Argentinian-American artist known for her monochromatic paintings and drawings as well as for her large-scale glass sculpture environments and her site-specific stone sculpture installations along the shores of the Hudson River. Born in Buenos Aires in 1929, she has lived and worked in the United States since 1967, currently residing in Rhinebeck, NY. Rabinovich has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the 2011-2012 Lee Krasner Award for Lifetime Achievement from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She is included in the Oral History Program of the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art. Raquel Rabinovich, Avatars 1, 2022 Ink wash, pastel, and colored pencil on Essindia paper 14 x 20 in. Raquel Rabinovich, Avatars 2, 2023, Oil, wax, and colored pencil on canvas, 30 x 48 in. Raquel Rabinovich, Avatars 3, 2023, Oil, wax, and colored pencil on canvas, 30 x 48 in.…
Nana Wolke by Inna Svyatsky / installshots.art Nana Wolke explores the nature of perception, focusing her attention on modes of apprehension of space and time. Her series of works usually begins on film-like sets, where the artist records the unfolding of staged situations and improvised actions occurring in spaces spanning across social hierarchy. Wolke proceeds to assemble and edit both original and found footage to create distinctly monochromatic visual atmospheres and rhythms that she then translates into painting and sound installations. Using commonplace lighting to model space and generate the grain, textures and slippages of her images and sequences, Wolke utilizes a variety of devices chosen as much for their technical properties as for their social significance – e.g. CCTV equipment, home video camcorders, inventory cameras, intercom systems, etc. Considering the multiple viewpoints from which an action can be witnessed, Wolke’s work conjures a tension between observation and control, often inviting viewers to navigate environments that interrogate notions of access and inclusion – whether for economic, social, or security purposes. In so doing, Wolke reflects upon the conflation of desire and shame in contemporary modes of production and consumption of images and visual culture. By constantly confronting the logic of live actions, cinema, and paint, Wolke ultimately seeks to analyze the progressive inextricability between actual and artificial realities. Wolke holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London. Solo exhibitions include Breed at Management, New York; Wanda’s at NiCOLETTi, London; High Seat at Castor Gallery, London; 4:28 - 5:28 am at VIN VIN, Vienna; and Some Girls Wander by Mistake at Fondazione Coppola, Vicenza. Group exhibitions include Over you/you at the 31. Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana; Daddy at G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig; Painters Painting Painters: A Study of Muses, Friends, and Companions at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas; Love is the Devil: Studies after Francis Bacon at Marlborough, London; and No Angels at Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin among others. Wolke was also selected for the 2021 cohort of Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Nana Wolke 00:02:26,417 - - > 00:02:29,010 (Empire), 2023 Oil, sand, and iron dust on linen 70 7/8 x 94 1/2 inches / 180 x 240 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Management, New York. Photography by installshots.art Nana Wolke 00:00:00,000 - - > 01:36:06,960 (It’s good enough for Nancy. It’s good enough for Nancy), 2024 Oil on linen 24 x 36 inches / 61 x 91.5 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Management, New York. Photography by installshots.art Nana Wolke, 02:10:34,195 - - > 02:18:06,207, (Sleeping pills, sneakers, turtleneck, power cord), 2024, Oil and construction sand on linen, 24 x 36 inches / 61 x 91.5 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Management, New York. Photography by installshots.art…
Will Stovall (Ph.D. Yale University, 2018; M.F.A. Bard College, 2025) is an artist based in Washington, DC. He completed a dissertation on the institutional imagination of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. His paintings were the subject of a solo exhibition at Ulrik and have been featured as cover illustrations for Oxford German Studies and Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. In addition to his interest in visuality in the German philosophical tradition, he has presented research and organized exhibitions on the art history of Washington, DC, and is the editor of Of the Land: The Art and Poetry of Lou Stovall (Georgetown University Press, 2022). Eden and Inferno, 2020, oil on canvas, walnut frame, 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm.). Courtesy of Ulrik, New York; Photo: Stephen Faught Faces and Goalie, 2021, oil on paper pinned on linen, 6 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (17.1 x 14 cm.) Courtesy of Ulrik, New York; Photo: Stephen Faught Watchers, 2021, oil on linen, 4 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (11.4 x 13.3 cm.) Courtesy of Ulrik, New York; Photo: Stephen Faught Watchers [verso], 2021, oil on linen, 4 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (11.4 x 13.3 cm.) Courtesy of Ulrik, New York; Photo: Stephen Faught…
Gail Spaien lives in South Portland, Maine. She earned her B.F.A. from the University of Southern Maine and her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. Spaien has received numerous fellowships including the Ucross Foundation; Varda Artist Residency Program; Millay Colony for the Arts; the Djerassi Foundation Resident Artists Program; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Over four decades, Spaien’s work has been exhibited nationwide and abroad, including Taymour Grahne Projects (London); Vardan Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, MA); Provincetown Art Association and Museum (Provincetown, MA); Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA); the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME); Ogunquit Museum of American Art (Ogunquit, ME); and Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine). After thirty years as faculty at the Maine College of Art and Design she is now full-time in the studio. Turquoise Window, 2024, acrylic on linen, 48 x 45 inches Pearl with Boots and Pheasants, 2024, acrylic on linen, 34 x 36 inches The Season Called Locking, 2024, acrylic on linen, 48 x 48 inches…
Michael Gac Levin was born in Los Angeles in 1984. The artist earned an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2015 and a BA from the University of Chicago in 2006. Yellow Brick Road, a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, took place at Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, VT in 2023. Gac Levin will present a solo show of new works at My Pet Ram in 2024, and will participate in A Cup is a Cup, a Tree is a Tree at Deanna Evans Projects. Gac Levin has recently shown in group exhibitions at Kaleidoscope and My Pet Ram, New York; and BOZOMAG, Los Angeles; as well as online with Taymour Grahne, Platform, and Deanna Evans Projects. His work has been featured in Artmaze Magazine and Maake Magazine, and he has completed special projects online for the Jewish Museum and SCREEN_. Talking Married Oil on canvas 20"x24" 2024 Date Night Acrylic on canvas 24"x30" 2023…
Michael Ambron is a painter and paint maker who works through wildly experimental and meditative approaches to making in order to hone in on a kind of overwhelming simultaneity of lived experience. From an investigation of and curiosity about one’s own perception, to the challenges and worries of living in uncertain and upsetting times, Ambron builds symbols, materials, and gestures into an expansive, floating, and timeless space. His paintings immerse the viewer in a loop of dreams, cartoon violence, lived experience, and world events, that create a vibrating sense of absurdity and urgency. Ambron received his BFA from Tyler School of Art and his MFA from The Ohio State University. He is currently based in Long Island City, NY where he is the owner and operator of Paint Makers Notes LLC, a small business that offers education, consulting, and paint making services to amateur and professional artists around the world. Boundaries, 2021, 63” x 66” x 2” - pigment, glass, stone chalk, acrylic, cellulose, marker, & pastel on canvas - photography for Ortega y Gasset Projects by Gidra Studios. Dilation, 2023, 50 x 52 x 3” - pigment, cork powder, glass, stone chalk, acrylic, cellulose, airbrush, marker, pastel and sand on canvas - photography for Ortega y Gasset Projects by Gidra Studios. No Time installation view Sell Your Dreams, 2024, 66 x 66 x 3" - pigment, marker, acrylic, cellulose, airbrush, & stone chalk on canvas (small painting: "Awake" 2024, acrylic, cellulose, pigment, marble sand, shellac & chalk on wood panel) - photography for Ortega y Gasset Projects by Gidra Studios.…
Portrait by Sandy Levy Diego Singh (b. 1982, Salta, Argentina) has exhibited his work at the de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso, Italy; Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil; Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy; Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA; Luhring Augustine, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL, among others. Singh was awarded the Knight Foundation award in 2019 and 2015. He lives and works in Miami Beach, FL. His work is on view at Luhring Augustin Tribeca in a two-person exhibition with Tomm El-Saieh through June 8, 2024. Singh was awarded the Knight Foundation award in 2019 and 2015. He lives and works in Miami Beach, FL. Diego Singh, Sin Nombre I, 2023-24 Oil and acrylic on linen 96 x 72 inches (243.8 x 182.9 cm). © Diego Singh; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach. Photo: Farzad Owrang. Diego Singh, Sin Nombre IV, 2022-24 Oil and acrylic on linen 96 x 72 inches (243.8 x 182.9 cm). © Diego Singh; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach. Photo: Farzad Owrang. Diego Singh, Sin Nombre V, 2024 Oil and acrylic on linen 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm). © Diego Singh; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach. Photo: Farzad Owrang.…
Photo: Elon Schoenholz, courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery For over four decades, Raúl Guerrero (b. 1945, Brawley, California) has made work informed by his experiences navigating cultures as an American of Mexican ancestry in Southern California. In his paintings, photographs, video, and performance works, Guerrero utilizes language and cultural signifiers to examine notions of place as a way to understand personal concepts of self. An aspect of his work depicts—and critiques—colonial narratives in the Americas such as the settlement of the Great Plains, the history of Latin America, and imposed notions of the American “West.” With compositions fusing Mexican, American, and European visual traditions, he incorporates influences ranging from the readymades of Marcel Duchamp to conceptually-oriented practices associated with a preceding generation of California artists (including John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha) who emerged from Guerrero’s alma mater, the Chouinard Art Institute. A long-time exhibiting artist on the West Coast, Guerrero reflects an intellectually rigorous approach suffused with humor and a deep engagement with legacies of visual art from Southern California and the Southwest. Raúl Guerrero has been the subject of solo exhibitions at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Ortuzar Projects, New York (2018); Air de Paris (project space), Romainville, France (2014); Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, San Diego, California (2001, 2007, and 2013); CUE Art Foundation, New York (2010); Long Beach Museum of Art, California (1977); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (1989); and San Francisco Art Institute, California (1977). Guerrero was included in the California Biennial 2022: Pacific Gold at the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California (2022–2023), and was the recipient of an NEA Photography Fellowship (1979) and the San Diego Art Prize (2006). Guerrero lives and works in San Diego. Raul Guerrero, Fernando y Isabela: 1494, 2023 oil on linen 56 1/8 x 76 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches (142.6 x 193.4 x 4.1 cm) Photo: Jeff McLane, courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery Raul Guerrero, Del Taco, 2023 oil on linen 56 x 76 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (142.2 x 193.7 x 3.8 cm) Photo: Jeff McLane, courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery Raul Guerrero, The Alhambra: 1492, 2024 oil on linen 96 x 76 x 1 1/2 inches (243.8 x 193 x 3.8 cm) Photo: Jeff McLane, courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery…
Alison Kudlow (b. 1981) lives and works in Brooklyn. She earned a BA from the University of Southern California, a post-baccalaureate degree from Brandeis University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Studio Art. She has shown at galleries including Swivel, Parent Company, Field Projects, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Flux Factory, UrbanGlass, Deanna Evans Projects, Doppelgänger Projects, Paradice Palase, Wavelength Space, and at Fullerton College in California. She is a member of Underdonk, an artist-run gallery. She presented a solo show, Meaningful Rituals in Irrational Times, at Elijah Wheat Showroom’s Brooklyn location in 2019. She was an invited resident at the Art Ichol Center in Maihar, Madhya Pradesh, India in January 2023. She is presenting a solo show at Deanna Evans Projects in Tribeca, NY May 17 - June 22, 2024. Suture, 2024, Ceramic, glass, rubber, 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. 36.8 x 29.2 x 8.9 cm. Bolbos, 2024 Ceramic, rubber, glass, iron hardware 28 x 22 x 13 in 71.1 x 55.9 x 33 cm. Thoracic Surge, 2024 Ceramic, glass, mother-of-pearl, bronze hardware 20 x 22 x 6 in 50.8 x 55.9 x 15.2 cm.…
Sari Carel, Portrait. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. Courtesy KODA Sari Carel is a Brooklyn-based, interdisciplinary artist and environmental activist. Her projects consider interspecies communication, nature and the built environment, and how the senses inform perception. Sari Carel participated in a KODA Land + Environment artist residency in 2021. She was offered a studio space on Governors Island in partnership with Swale House, exhibited at FiveMyles and organized a tree-care and stewardship workshop with Trees NY in Brooklyn, NY. Recent exhibitions: The Sun Is A Mouth Of Blue at Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR; The Shape Of Play, a public art project in Boston’s North End, and Mud Songs For Anni at The Schneider Museum of Art’s Art Beyond in Ashland, OR. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at Stundars Museum, Solf, Finland; Atelier Stipendium des Bundeskanzleramtes, Vienna, Austria; and Bundanon, Illaroo, Australia; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; and LMCC Residency on Governors Island, NY, among others. She is a recent recipient of a commissions award for Korea Art Forum's 2024-2025 “Shared Dialogue, Shared Space” program. A More Perfect Circle, features a series of ceramic sculptures inspired by the single-use coffee cup, a ubiquitous object that brings into focus people’s daily experience of interacting with trash. It is informed by research the artist conducted in collaboration with Nicholas Hoynes, a PhD student in Environmental Sociology at NYU and visual interpretations of the data collected. Sari Carel, A More Perfect Circle, 2024, at Lentol Garden. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. Courtesy KODA Sari Carel, A More Perfect Circle, 2024, at Lentol Garden. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. Courtesy KODA Sari Carel, A More Perfect Circle, 2024, at Lentol Garden. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. Courtesy KODA…
Alan Belcher, courtesy of Hunt Gallery Alan Belcher's concept-based work is decidedly multi-layered and object oriented. He has been recognized in the past as an originator of a tactile fusion of photography and object-making. A transparency of vision and simplicity of fabrication with a concentrated regard for materials remain hallmarks of his serial productions. A sense of humour and a reverence for both Pop and Poveric sensibilities, as well as a hands-on approach; invade much of his work. His lifelong study of the works by artists Manzoni, Fontana, Pascali, Balla, Boccioni, and Scarpitta inform much of his work history, and indeed the pieces included in this exhibition. Works by Alan Belcher are held in various public collections which include the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Le Consortium (Dijon), Musee des Beaux-Arts (Montréal), Deste Foundation (Athens), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Suisse Collection, Dropbox HQ (San Francisco), The Progressive Insurance Art Collection (Ohio), MoCA San Diego, Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC (Vancouver), and Musée Nicéphore Niépce (Chalon-sur-Saône, France) —as well as numerous prominent private collections. Napoli, 2024, Neapolitan ice cream on canvas 10 x 16 x 3 inches 25.4 x 40.7 x 7.7 cm, courtesy of LFdocumentation Vesuvio Vesuvio, 2024 Oil on canvas, pepperoni pizza, lava from Vesuvius 22 x 22 x 5 inches 56 x 56 x 12.7 cm, courtesy of LFdocumentation Roma, 2024, Oil on canvas, 24k gold on Bulgari soap 8 x 6 x 2⅜ inches 20.3 x 15.3 x 6 cm, courtesy of LFdocumentation…
Alexander Brewington (b. 1996, Silver Spring, MD), lives and works in Ridgewood, NY. He holds an MFA from Pratt Institute, and a BFA in visual art from St. Johns University. His work was previously included in the group exhibition ‘Departure’ at Thierry Goldberg. Brewington has been in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and his work was featured in Hyperallergic and Canvas Rebel Magazine. Alexander Brewington She Who Walks out of the Dark, 2024 oil on wooden panel 36 x 48 inches Alexander Brewington End on a High Note, 2023 oil on wooden panel 36 x 24 inches Alexander Brewington Back on Track, 2023 oil on wooden panel 36 x 24 inches…
Oda Jaune Portrait 2024 © Charles Roussel For her first solo exhibition in the United States, the rare and uncanny Oda Jaune unveils a challenging exhibition in New York. “Miss Understand” offers a series of nearly 25 new oil paintings and dozens of watercolors, on a singular perception of the woman in our time. Oda Jaune, Bulgarian in origin and trained in Germany, has for nearly 15 years been among the most intriguing figures on the European art scene with a body of work freed from any pictorial convention. Poetic, sensual, and expansive, her painting ignites conversation and explores, without inhibition, the depth of femininity today. ODA JAUNE G like Guerrilla Girl, 2023 Huile sur toile | oil on canvas 120 × 170 cm — 47 1/4 × 67 in. Photo: Laurent Edeline. All photos: © Courtesy the artist and TEMPLON, Paris —Brussels — New York. ODA JAUNE A like Apple, 2023 Huile sur toile | oil on canvas 170 × 120 cm — 67 × 47 1/4 in. Photo: Laurent Edeline. All photos: © Courtesy the artist and TEMPLON, Paris —Brussels — New York. Installation view of Oda Jaune's Miss Understand at Templon, NY. Photo: Charles Roussel.…
Molly Lowe (b. 1983, Palo Alto, CA) received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She has had solo exhibitions and performances at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo, Sweden; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles CA; Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY; SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York; and Performa 13, New York, NY. Her films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY and JOAN, Los Angeles, CA. Lowe has participated in residencies at the Shandaken Project, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Recess Art, New York, NY; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. In 2015, she received the New York Foundation for the Arts interdisciplinary artist fellowship award, and she was recently nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award. Lowe lives and works in New York. Molly Lowe, Wrestle in the Grass, 2023, Oil on canvas, 68 x 80 in, 172.7 x 203.2 cm Molly Lowe, Domestic Embrace, 2023, Oil on canvas. 48 x 56 in, 121.9 x 142.2 cm. Molly Lowe, 2024, LAP, 83 x 66 in.…
Devin B. Johnson (b. 1992, Los Angeles) obtained his BA in Fine Arts from the California State University of Channel Islands (2015) and received a Masters of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute (2019). In addition to being named a 2023 Artist-in-Residence for Fountainhead, Miami, he was selected as an Artsy Vanguard (2022), named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Art and Design (2022) list, was included in Cultured’s “Young Artists 2021,” and was one of sixteen artists from around the world selected for the inaugural year of the Black Rock Senegal residency (2020). His work is collected by Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Pond Society, Shanghai; the Rubell Museum, Miami; the Columbus Museum of Art; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai; and many others. “A Moment in Crossing,” 2023 Oil on linen. 48h x 60w in. “Something Tender” 2023 Oil on linen. 60h x 62w in. “Water Me Deeply”, 2022 Oil and spray on paper. 30h × 22 1/2w in.…
Photo credit: Lamar Landers Sydney G. James (b. 1979, Detroit, MI) is a fine arts painter and muralist living and working in Detroit. James began her career as art director of an advertising agency after earning her BFA from Detroit’s College of Creative Studies in 2001. In 2004, James moved to Los Angeles to work as a visual artist in the film and television industry and earned a master’s degree in secondary education. Since returning to her native city in 2011, James has become known as the eminent muralist of the Detroit art scene, transforming the city’s skyline and artistic legacy as well as completing murals across the country, including New Orleans, LA; Brooklyn, NY; Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles, CA; Worcester, MA; and Hawaii. James was awarded a 2017 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship and served as a 2021 Kresge Artist Fellowship panelist in Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited at Detroit’s Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MOCAD), the Charles H. Wright Museum, Inner State Gallery, PlayGround Detroit Gallery, Collective Detroit Gallery, Detroit Artist Market, Red Bull House of Art, Janice Charach Gallery, and was included in the Arts, Beats and Lyrics traveling exhibition. James’ work has also been featured by major marketing brands including Vans shoes, PepsiCo, Ford Motor Company, Detroit Pistons, and Detroit Lions. James is a co-founder of the bi-annual BLKOUT Walls street mural festival which debuted in Detroit in 2021, created as a direct response to the lack of diversity and artist remuneration across the country’s creative economies. In 2022, James participated in the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Residency in Brooklyn, NY. Sydney G. James, Serving Tee Liberation, 2023. Acrylic, t-shirts, fabric, and gel medium on canvas, 14.5x8ft. Sydney G. James, Bereavement? (non-binary), 2023. Acrylic, fabric, gel medium, and satin trim on canvas, 96x120 inches. Sydney G. James, The Westside Johnsons, 2022. Acrylic, gel medium, and upholstery trim on raw canvas, 10x6ft.…
Donna Green, photo by Joe Kramm Donna Green wrestles with coils of stoneware, manipulating and prodding to create anthropomorphic gestural shapes that burst and stretch into space. Her physical experimentation challenges the properties of the clay, resulting in works that seem to be in a constant state of growth and transfiguration; heroically scaled urns undulate and drip with layer upon layer of glaze. Green draws inspiration from the ancient Jomon ceramics of Japan and Chinese Han Dynasty storage jars, as well as Gonshi, the naturally occurring scholars’ rocks, and Baroque garden grottos. Donna Green was born in Sydney, Australia, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design in 1984 from Sydney College of the Arts in New South Wales. In 1985, Green moved to New York and joined Industrial Design Magazine as one of its editors. She began working in clay in 1988, studying at Greenwich House Pottery and the New School in New York, and in 1997 at the National Art School, Sydney. Green has participated in numerous workshops including “Fire Up,” 1995 with Janet Mansfield in Gulgong, New South Wales, working on-site with Danish artists Nina Hole and Jorgen Hansen, and “The Vessel as Metaphor” in 2018 with Tony Marsh at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO. In 2019, she was a Resident Artist at California State University Long Beach. Later that year, she undertook an Artist Fellowship at Greenwich House Pottery. Green has exhibited at Hostler Burrows, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA; McClain Gallery, Houston, TX; Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY; Utopia Art Sydney, Australia; SIZED Studio, Los Angeles, CA; and the Leiber Collection, East Hampton, NY. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia. Green lives and works in New York. Donna Green installation, photo by Joe Kramm Donna Green installation, photo by Joe Kramm Donna Green installation, photo by Joe Kramm…
Loren Erdrich creates paintings that both aspire toward transcendence and revel in their physicality. Erdrich’s deliberate and open collaboration with her medium allows for discovery in every painting, and she uses her materials in unconventional ways to create a dynamic tension between deliberate and unintentional gestures. She paints on raw muslin with water, dyes, pigments, and other water-based media, allowing the artist and her emerging figures to embrace and celebrate the strength of fluidity, vulnerability, and reactivity. Erdrich holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Burren College of Art at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Jentel Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, Sculpture Space, Vermont Studio Center, and Art Farm Nebraska, and was selected as a Hopper Prize Finalist for 2023. Erdrich has exhibited in solo and group shows internationally in cities including New York City, Paris, Los Angeles, Madrid, Shanghai, Miami, Berlin, Denver, Copenhagen, Houston, Rome, London, and San Francisco. Her work has been featured in DNA Magazine Mexico, Maake Magazine, ArtMaze Mag, Chicago Tribune, Vogue Italia, Cultured Magazine, and WhiteHot Magazine, to name only a few. In 2021, Erdrich collaborated with fashion designer Marc Jacobs to incorporate her paintings into their Resort Collection. The artist lives and works in New York City, NY. Loren Erdrich, Sun Worship, 2023, Size: 24 x 20 inches, Water, raw pigment, dye, acrylic, colored pencil and water-soluble pastel on muslin. Loren Erdrich, Everywhere Alive, 2021, Size: 56 x 52 in, Medium: water, organic and synthetic dye and raw pigment on muslin. Loren Erdrich,, Gathered Things, 2023 Size: 34 x 30 in, Medium: water, raw pigment, dye, acrylic and water-soluble pastel on muslin.…
Alexander Ross in his studio, 2021, Great Barrington, MA Alexander Ross (b. 1960 in Denver, CO) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. Ross has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY; Nolan Judin, Berlin, Germany; and the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, among others. The artist has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. His work may be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; British Museum, London, United Kingdom; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant; New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship; The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Ross lives and works in Great Barrington, MA. ALEXANDER ROSS, Modeling the Physical, 2023, Colored pencil, graphite, and crayon on paper, 22 1/8 x 18 1/4 inches. ALEXANDER ROSS, Intelligence Restructuring, 2023, Colored pencil, watercolor, and graphite on paper, 12 1/2 x 17 inches. ALEXANDER ROSS, Another Aspect of the Presentation, 2023, Colored pencil, watercolor, crayon, and graphite on paper, 14 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches ALEXANDER ROSS, Robed in the Illusion, 2023, Colored pencil and watercolor on paper, 12 5/8 x 11 inches…
photo of Ava (pictured with House Flips) Ava Werner is an American multi-media artist, working with 2D media and installation. Broadly, her work focuses on how humans impact the earth and its resources. Werner is a lecturer in the Art and Design Department at California Polytechnic State University. Most recently, Werner had a residency summer 2023 at Vermont Studio Center. Her Waterlinks Installation project with James Werner is ongoing and has been installed in New Zealand, Micronesia and Vanuatu, Australia, California, New York and Maine. House Flip: Hurricane Katrina Photo collage, Digital print 18” x 24” 2023 Overgrowth Acrylic, cut paper, found images 12” x 12” 2023 Sordida Aqua Acrylic, cut paper, found images 10“ x 10” 2023…
Omari Douglin lives and works in Los Angeles. He received an MFA in Painting from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY in 2019. Selected solo and group exhibitions have been held at Sebastian Gladstone (Los Angeles), Ramiken (New York), Micki Meng (San Francisco), and Theta (New York). Omari Douglin was born in Brooklyn, NY 1992. Raining Spy and Chips, 2023, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 60 x 43 inches Untitled (After Lukas), 2023, Oil on canvas. 60 x 43 inches Kick Ass Painter, 2023, Acrylic and oil on canvas. 60 x 43 inches…
Oidie Kuijpers (b. 1993) is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Kuijpers makes work which explores representation and investigates painting as a form of critical inquiry. His paintings have been included in exhibitions at Oberlin College, Pace Gallery, New York, Pratt Institute, and D. D. D. D. in New York. untitled (2023.31), 2023, acrylic on panel 10 x 10 inches untitled (2023.10.A), 2023, acrylic on panel, 10 x 10 inches untitled (2023.05.A), 2023, acrylic on panel, 10 x 10 inches…
Gregg Louis received a Master’s of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2009. His work has been featured in exhibitions around the world, including Nohra Haime Gallery in New York; NH Galería in Cartagena; Hverfisgalleri in Reykjavik; The World Chess Hall of Fame in Saint Louis; Postmasters Gallery in New York; Galerist in Istanbul; Frieze London; Vienna Contemporary; and Art Bogotá. In 2009, Louis was an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. The New York Times, The Wall St Journal, and Sculpture Magazine have all covered his work. Louis currently lives and works in Saint Louis, and is represented by Nohra Haime Gallery in New York City. Fires in the Sky, 2023 Summer Nights, 2023 Midnight in Wonder Valley, Deep Sky & Like a Moth Drawn to a Flame, 2023…
Portrait of the Artist, Photo by Josh Wool. Brad Kunkle, b. 1978 Lehighton, Pennsylvania, BFA, Kutztown University, 2001. A decade after selling out his debut solo exhibition in New York City on opening night, Brad Kunkle has become internationally known for his unique use of gold and silver leaf in contemporary oil painting. His themes explore the shedding of dogmas inherited from previous generations, intuition, and the power of feminine energies as guides for seeking enlightenment in symbiosis with the natural world. He is represented by Arcadia Contemporary in NYC. Where Time Begins, 78 x 50 inches, Oil, gold and silver leaf on linen. 2023. Pneuma, 63 x 36 inches, Oil and gold leaf on linen. 2023. Stasis III, 24 x 18 inches, Oil and gold leaf on wood. 2023.…
Cynthia Lahti (b. 1963) lives and works in her birthplace of Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Lahti has presented solo exhibitions in Oregon at CEI Artworks Gallery (2019), Ditch Projects (2017), Imogen Gallery (2017), Passages Bookshop (2016), and PDX Contemporary Art (2016), among others. Her work is in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Columbia University Library, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Reed College, Stanford University’s Bowes Art and Architecture Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, Library, and Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, among others. In 2023, the artist’s drawings and sculptures were featured in Kelly Reichardt’s film Showing Up. CYNTHIA LAHTI , White Phone, 2023 Signed and dated Ceramic figure 12 x 12 x 11 inches CYNTHIA LAHTI, Red Girl, 2023 Signed and dated Ceramic figure, wood base 17 x 8 x 7 inches CYNTHIA LAHTI, Sock, 2009 Signed and dated Ceramic figure, wood base 19 x 6 x 5 inches…
photo is by Tyson Housman Originating from vintage video clips, Helia Chitsazan (b. 1995, Tehran, Iran) invokes a visualblur and static of old camera films through her painting. Chitsazan explores a constant and universally ambiguous feeling of absence and loss. To her, art is a language to hold emotions and complications that she experienced growing up in Iran's specific cultural and social circumstances. Chitsazan speaks on the manifestation of her practice, “...growing up in a society with different levels of verbal oppression has made me interested in communicating and expressing myself through various other ways but not talking and art is one of them.” Chitsazan was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Tehran University of Art and recently received an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Recently, Chitsazan was included in a group exhibition, Interest in Humanity: Portraits of Yesterday and Today at Fou Gallery (New York, 2023) alongside Andy Warhol and Joan Miró. Her overall practice includes both painting and installation. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Helia Chitsazan, Three Helias, 2023 Oil on canvas 28 x 28 in 71.1 x 71.1 cm Helia Chitsazan, After midnight 2022 Oil on Canvas 53 x 56 inches Helia Chitsazan, Please take a seat, 2023 Oil on canvas 50 x 56 in 127 x 142.2 cm…
Karla Knight in her studio Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to announce Universal Remote, a solo exhibition of new work for artist Karla Knight, running from November 3 – December 22, 2023. A solo display of Knight’s work will be held concurrently at The Art Show (ADAA) at the Park Avenue Armory from November 1–5. Over the past four decades, Knight has executed her idiosyncratic visons of UFO related imagery with the stubborn persistence of an artist unbeholden to the dictates of art world trends, although contemporary interest in spiritualist art has certainly offered a favorable context. Knight’s relationship with what might be broadly termed “the occult” is rooted in her upbringing; her father authored publications on, among other subjects, UFOs and ghosts, and her grandfather, also a writer, penned a book about afterlife communication. Her solo exhibition at the Aldrich Museum in 2021-22 expanded Knight’s recognition markedly and came at the same time she was beginning to experiment with weathered feedbags from the 1940s and ’50s, attracted to their creamy color and the traces they bore of past lives. She calls these works “tapestries,” as she embroiders the fabric and embellishes it with a combination of acrylic paint pens, vinyl paint, colored pencil, and graphite. Her new Universal Remote series of drawings and tapestries riffs on the notion of channels with central motifs inspired by anachronistic television sets that hail from the early decades of the Cold War; a time when the frequency of UFO sightings was a source of great national anxiety. The tapestry Universal Remote 1, 2022, is painted with a boxy television-like form—or “receiver,” a word the artist relishes—bearing her cryptic characters along with circles that suggest various dials and buttons: channel selectors, speakers, fine tuners, picture expanders. A large, rounded shape marked with blue crosshatching and abstract designs, some of which resemble yellow eyes with slivered pupils, overtakes the “screen.” At the mandala’s heart is Knight’s returning volumetric orb, here coronated with concentric circles. This celestial sphere’s significance denoted by its centrality to the composition, becomes a kind of universal picture, open to an endlessly expanding universe of possible readings. Karla Knight’s work is currently featured in the group exhibition, Sightings, at the Sun Valley Museum of Art (ID), and is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), among others. A second edition of her Aldrich Museum exhibition catalogue, Navigator, with added images of recent works and a new essay by Cassie Packard will be available on November 1, 2023. Karla Knight (b. 1958) Big Night Vision, 2023 Flashe, acrylic marker, pencil, and embroidery on cotton 46 x 73 inches Karla Knight (b. 1958) Delphi 3, 2023 Flashe, acrylic marker, pencil, and embroidery on cotton 33.5 x 30 inches Karla Knight (b. 1958) Universal Remote 1, 2022 Flashe, acrylic marker, pencil, and embroidery on cotton 68 x 49 inches.…
Marianne Nielsen Marianne Nielsen crafts delicate ceramic arrangements, which expose the synthetic and psychological aspects of the natural world. Through the lens of botany and a naturalist approach, she produces an herbarium of gestural forms that preserve the liveliness of plants. In reexamining the still life genre, her works evoke the ephemeral forms of overgrown spaces, crystalizing transient and fleeting moments. Nielsen’s subjects are found throughout nature as well as the decorative arts: in textile patterns, architectural elements, and the general abstracting of form across vernacular craft traditions. As a result, many of her works improvise on the basic format of vase, plate, or decorative dish. At other times, the artist isolates botanical scenarios and chance compositions from field and forest through the slow and detailed observation of her surroundings. Hers is an attention which aims not to simply comprehend the whole but to see each petal, stamen, burl, and stem for its rudimentary elements. Looking at Nielsen’s porcelain and stoneware sculptures, one finds an articulation of the vast taxonomy of natural forms nested within and alongside human culture. Nielsen graduated from the Design School Kolding in the department of ceramics and glass. Her work has been exhibited at the CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, the Vejen Art Museum, the Biennale for Craft & Design in Copenhagen, and the Nordic Craft Pavilion at the Grand Palais in Paris. She is a recipient of the Annie & Otto Johannes Detlefs Ceramics Prize, the Danish Arts Foundation Award, the Danish Crafts Award, the Danish National Bank Jubilee Fund of 1968, and the Ole Haslund Foundation Grant. Nielsen’s works are in the collections of the CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, Middelfart, Denmark; the Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark; and the Vejen Art Museum, Vejen, Denmark. Marianne Nielsen, Broadleaf Bamboo, 2024, 6.75” H x 18.5” W x 8.25” D, Glazed stoneware Marianne Nielsen, Large Leaves, 2023, 10.25” H x 10.75” L, Glazed stoneware Marianne Nielsen, Leaf Crown no. 3, 2024 Glazed stoneware 7.75” H x 4.75” W x 4” D…
Photo credit: portrait Melvin Way 1994, ARS artists rights society @ 2024 photo Andrew Castrucci, Melvin Way estate. This is an interview with the curator Andrew Castrucci. CO₂ Blues, scheduled since mid-2023, is the first exhibition of the enigmatic art of Melvin Way (1954-2024) since his passing, and the third solo show of his work with the gallery. It serves as a retrospective for a visionary who was one of the most admired self-taught artists in the contemporary art arena. Way's mostly small-scale drawings are strange and alluring concoctions of science and art that seem intent on revealing the secrets of the universe. They contain chemical and mathematical formulae, musical notes, abstract designs, and cryptic words and phrases. It is hard to look at one without becoming entangled in trying to figure out what it means. “I felt like I was seeing another kind of infinity, thought made visible, wild nerves, optical barnacles coming to hermetic life, delirium legible,” wrote New York Magazine’s senior art critic Jerry Saltz in a 2015 review in Vulture. The exhibition includes some of Way's most memorable creations including forays outside of his better-known ballpoint pen drawings, especially a selection of the artist’s xerography— he routinely carried his original ink drawings on his person for months at a time and was reluctant to release them for sale because they functioned as protective amulets. His raincoat pockets might be filled with as many as two hundred drawings. At times, his sweat, or a hard rainfall, would cause the ink to bleed, adding complexity to the already dense works. Andrew Castrucci, his lifelong advocate, has likened this process to a kind of baptism, a rite of passage before the works headed off into the world. Before the artist did surrender his works, he often made Xerox copies of them which inspired a new approach—Way then added blue and/or black ink to the copies. These xerographies comprise a small but significant portion of his oeuvre. Melvin Way (1954 - 2024) Fauvi, c. 1989 Ballpoint pen and Scotch tape on paper 10.75 x 8.5 inches. Melvin Way estate ,ARS artists rights society @ 2024. Melvin Way (1954 - 2024) Loki, 2020 Pen and paint on paper 12 x 9 inches. Melvin Way estate ,ARS artists rights society @ 2024. Melvin Way (1954 - 2024) D' SAIREN COPOTE, 2023-2024 Ballpoint pen and Scotch tape on paper 12 x 4 inches. Melvin Way estate ,ARS artists rights society @ 2024.…
Polly Shindler (New Haven, 1977) received her M.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute and her B.A. in History from University of Massachusetts. She has shown throughout the U.S. as well as internationally at Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery in Madrid and Cristea Roberts Gallery in London. She recently had her first solo presentation at NADA Art Fair in Miami and will have her first solo exhibition in April of 2024, both with Deanna Evans Projects. Current shows include Feels Like Home at JDJ gallery, May You Live the Rest of Your Life at BravinLee Programs and Cool and Collected at Kenise Barnes Fine Art. Previous solo shows include Time Management at Freight + Volume, Retreat, at Ortega y Gasset Projects and at the project space Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery, NYC. Art Fairs include SP-Arte representing Gisela Projects, São Paulo, BRA, Art Estampa representing Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery, Madrid, SP, Untitled Art Fair with Pratt Institute Fine Arts and Art on Paper Fair representing 3 Walls, NYC. Polly was awarded the Martha Boschen Porter Grant, a fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation in 2023. Her painting Green Rocking Chair shown in Still Lives, a group show at Underdonk in Brooklyn, was featured in “Goings on About Town” in the New Yorker in September 2018. She was granted a yearlong curatorial residency at Trestle Projects in 2015. Shindler has attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center in 2013, the Wassaic Project in 2020 and 2022, and Provincetown for the DNA Residency in 2021 and 2023 and Yaddo in 2024. Two of her paintings were cover art for published novels, Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny and A Likely Story by Leigh McMullan Abramson. She lives in Millerton, NY in the Hudson Valley with her dog, Owen. Polly Shindler, Library Stacks 2024 Acrylic on canvas 8" x 10" Polly Shindler, Moon Garden 3 2024 Acrylic on canvas 24" x 20" Polly Shindler, Stargazing from the Balcony 2024 Acrylic on canvas 30" x 24"…
Natasza Niedziolka Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly, NewYork/Los Angeles For nearly ten years, Niedziółka has primarily worked with embroidery thread that she applies by hand to stretched canvas. The canvas functions as a support, manufactured by a machine with a regular horizontal and vertical structure, on which the irregular manual stitching of the embroidery can be seen. In their visual appearance, Niedziółka’s works oscillate between textile picture and tapestry. The hatching – in the sense of stitches made close together, most often in a vertical row – is perhaps the most characteristic aspect of these works in which threads are woven into the canvas in a flat chromatic gradation. In their materiality and treatment of color, Niedziółka’s works strive toward immediate sensations: They want to be beheld, for it is only when beholders move in front of the picture that the threads can unfold their entire chromatic spectrum. Seen from the front or from the side, these stitches appear either as separate units or as one dense color field. What appears flat is sometimes revealed to be a loop extending out from the surface; and we can discern how parts of the canvas have been treated with a pigment pen or with ink and wax when we look very closely and recognize their different textures. Her works may therefore explicitly present themselves as pictures, yet their materiality deviates from that of conventional pictures. There is a temporal aspect to be found in the meditative time spent making each work, and there is a chromatic aspect – a curious shimmering of colors that is activated when we move around while looking at the work. And then there is the aspect of the pictures’ appearance, which we can only identify at second glance as embroidered compositions that are non-representational but are always charged with multifaceted associations. Natasza Niedziółka, At One, One&9, 2023-2024, signed, titled and dated by artist, verso, silk thread, crayon on linen, 50 1/8 x 60 11/16 x 1 inches (127.3 x 154.1 x 2.5 cm). © Natasza Niedziółka Courtesy: the artist and Sean Kelly, New York/Los, Angeles. Natasza Niedziółka, Zero6812, 2023-2024, cotton and silk thread, crayon on linen, 92 1/2 x 135 13/16 inches (235 x 345 cm). © Natasza Niedziółka Courtesy: the artist and Sean Kelly, New York/Los, Angeles. Natasza Niedziółka, Protest Song (The Bigger Picture), 2023-2024, silk thread, crayon on ryps silk, 110 1/4 x 74 13/16 inches (280 x 190 cm). © Natasza Niedziółka Courtesy: the artist and Sean Kelly, New York/Los, Angeles.…
Armendariz was born in El Paso, Texas. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2008, Armendariz received the Artpace Supplemental Travel Grant for travel to Mexico City, and in 2013, he was selected to participate as the Artist-in-Residence in the Blue Star Contemporary Berlin Residency Program in partnership with Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. In 2017, Armendariz was selected to be the first Artist-in-Residence for the DoSeum in San Antonio, Texas. In 2017 and again in 2022, Armendariz was a selected to be an Artist-In-Residency at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado. His artistic and conceptual aesthetic is heavily influenced by growing up near the U.S./Mexico border. Images that have cultural, biographical and art historical references are carved and burned into the surface of his paintings, drawings, and prints. Greek and Mesoamerican mythology plays an important part in the artist’s exploration of the complex relationship between humans and animals. As a figurative artist, Armendariz enjoys playing with traits of human anatomy and identifying possible connections with characteristics found in animals that allow a deeper understanding of humanity. Armendariz’s artworks can be found in prestigious collections, including the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX and The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX. Richard, 'Ricky' Armendariz, Fool for Love, 2023,Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left, Woodblock print, 26 x 22 in, 66 x 55.9 cm, Edition of 10. Richard 'Ricky' Armendariz, Novios, Sagittarius, 2022, Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left, Woodblock print, 20 x 20 in, 50.8 x 50.8 cm, Edition of 5. Richard 'Ricky' Armendariz, The Predicament, 2023, Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left, Oil on carved birch wood, 49.75 x 30.5 in, 126.4 x 77.5 cm…
Trudy Benson Trudy Benson received her Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in 2010 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. She has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria; Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT; SUNNY, New York; Massif Central, Brussels, Belgium; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; and Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Étienne, France. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna, Austria; Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY; m.simons, Amsterdam; Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; and Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany. Benson’s work may be found in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, New York; Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY; Portland Museum of Art, ME; Saatchi Gallery, London; Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA; and the Susan and Michael Hort Collection, New York. The artist lives and works in Newburgh, NY. In a departure from her first exhibition with Miles McEnery Gallery in October 2021, Benson’s compositions have turned to emphasize fine line work made with an airbrush. From afar, warped planes buzz with motion; when the viewer steps closer, densely-scribbled marks are revealed as the source rather than solid blocks of color. The paintings are rendered in color combinations from monochromatic palettes to power clashing hues, creating harmony in the unexpected. Trudy Benson, A Cross Across, 2023 Acrylic and oil on canvas 34 x 40 inches 86.4 x 101.6 cm Trudy Benson, Radiant Sky, 2023, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 60 1/4 x 80 inches, 152.4 x 203.2 cm Trudy Benson, Tests Her Limits, 2022, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 61 x 77 inches, 154.9 x 195.6 cm…
Debbi Kenote in her studio, Brooklyn, NY. 2023. Photograph by Anastasiya Shelest. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York. Debbi Kenote (b. 1991, Anacortes, WA) has exhibited at galleries internationally, including shows at Kate Werble and Marvin Gardens in New York, Duran|Mashaal Gallery in Montreal, Cob Gallery in London, and Fir Gallery in Beijing. She received her BFA in Painting from Western Washington University and her MFA in Sculpture from Brooklyn College. Her work has been on display at several art fairs, including Art Toronto, Art Plural, Future Fair and SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Kenote has been published through Liquitex, Maake Magazine, Elle Magazine, Innovate Grant, Suboart, The Hopper Prize, Art of Choice, and Hyperallergic. Her work has been placed in several collections, including the OZ Art Collection and the Capital One Corporate Collection. She has been an artist in residence at the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Saltonstall Foundation, PLOP, Nes Artist Residency, and the Mineral School. In 2022 she was a finalist for the Innovate Grant and in 2021 she was shortlisted for the Hopper Prize. Kenote lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Debbi Kenote, Wax Cap, 2024. Acrylic and dye on canvas, hinges. 48 x 96 inches (121.9 x 243.8 cm).Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York. Debbi Kenote, Elm Cap, 2024. Acrylic and dye on canvas, hinges. 36 x 72 inches (91.4 x 182.9 cm).Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York. Debbi Kenote, Amanita, 2024. Acrylic and dye on canvas, hinges. 36 x 72 inches (91.4 x 182.9 cm).Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York.…
Jakub Tomáš was born in Jihlava, Czech Republic, where he lives and works. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, and studied previously at the University of West Bohemia and the Institute of Art and Design in Plzeň, CZ. He has shown widely in the Czech Republic, with recent solo exhibitions at Oblastní Galerie Vysočiny, Jihlava; Stage Garden Gallery, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm; Městská Galerie, Týn nad Vltavou; Šopa Gallery, Košice; GAVU Cheb; Galerie Václava Špály, Prague; Nová Galerie, Prague; and NEVAN CONTEMPO, Prague; and international exhibitions in Austria, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. Jakub Tomáš, Family Meeting, 2023 Oil on canvas, 63h x 79w in. 160.02h x 200.66w cm. Courtesy of Asya Geisberg Gallery. Photo Credit: Etienne Frossard Jakub Tomáš, Beekeepers, 2023. Oil on canvas. 63h x 47.25w in 160.02h x 120.02w cm. Courtesy of Asya Geisberg Gallery. Photo Credit: Etienne Frossard Jakub Tomáš, The Field Robot of Myself II, 2023 Oil on canvas, 31.50h x 23.75w in, 80h x 60.33w cm. Courtesy of Asya Geisberg Gallery. Photo Credit: Etienne Frossard…
C’naan Hamburger (b. 1984, Jerusalem, Israel; lives and works in New York, NY. MFA Painting Hunter College, 2023. BA, Tufts University, 2007.) Hamburger is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2023 and 2022, and the AXA Art Prize honorable mention in 2023 and prize finalist in 2021. C’naan’s work is currently on view at Charles Moffett through April 20. Her work has recently been exhibited by Kate Werble Gallery in New York, NY, and is held in the permanent collections of the Bartow-Pell Museum, Bronx, NY, and UMass Dartmouth, Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections. C’naan has been an outdoor educator for over a dozen years. Before pursuing her artistic practice, she was a World Champion skateboarder, named best female skater of 2001 by Transworld Skateboard Magazine; and in 2000, she won the World Cup of Skateboarding and the Van’s Triple Crown in Women’s Street. C'naan Hamburger, Painting Class, 2023 Egg Tempera, pigment and ground NYC sidewalk on panel 11 x 12 inches (27.9 x 30.5 cm) Framed: 11 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 2 inches (29.2 x 31.8 x 5.1 cm). Photo by Andy Romer, courtesy of the artist and Charles Moffett. C'naan Hamburger, Theatre Is The Domestication Of An Audience, 2023 Egg Tempera, pigment and ground steel construction plate on panel 14 x 18 inches (35.6 x 45.7 cm) Framed: 13 3/4 x 18 1/4 x 2 inches (34.9 x 46.4 x 5.1 cm).Photo by Andy Romer, courtesy of the artist and Charles Moffett. C'naan Hamburger, Vanitas, 2023 Egg tempera, pigment and ground Manhattan Schist on panel 28 x 39 inches (71.1 x 99.1 cm) Framed: 29 3/8 x 40 3/8 x 2 inches (74.6 x 102.6 x 5.1 cm). Photo by Andy Romer, courtesy of the artist and Charles Moffett.…
Khalilah Birdsong (b. 1977, Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a visual artist who creates large-scale abstract paintings and installations. Birdsong has exhibited with galleries in Atlanta, Georgia, Cincinnati, Ohio, New York, New York and Hamburg, Germany. She has had solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Japan and Italy. Birdsong’s paintings are in private and corporate collections around the world, including commissioned works. In 2019, Khalilah was named by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine (London, England) as “100 Future Contemporary Artists in the World”. Birdsong was invited to participate in the XIIth Florence Biennale in Florence, Italy where she exhibited four large-scale paintings and installation work in the fall of 2019. In 2020, Birdsong was awarded a Hambidge Fellowship for the Creative Arts & Sciences. She currently lives in London, England where she recently completed her Masters of Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Khalilah Birdsong, Standing in Sacred Neutral, 2023 Acrylic and oil stick on canvas 63 x 83 x 1.5 in (160 x 210.8 x 3.8 cm) Inches. Khalilah Birdsong, The High Place, 2023 Acrylic on canvas 67 x 67 x 1.5 in (170.2 x 170.2 x 3.8 cm) Inches. Khalilah Birdsong, The Weathering, 2023 Acrylic and oil stick on canvas 63 x 83 x 1.5 in (160 x 210.8 x 3.8 cm) Inches.…
Sara Stern is an interdisciplinary artist from New York City. Her recent projects prod histories of urban development with speculative fiction. Stern has exhibited and screened her work in the US and internationally, at venues including SculptureCenter (Long Island City, NY), Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), the Museum of the Moving Image (New York, NY), The Jewish Museum (New York, NY), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (Singapore). Stern received a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She is the recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, the Fountainhead Fellowship in the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University, and several residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. In recent years, Stern has participated in The Watermill Center Artist Residency Program (Water Mill, NY), the Art & Law Program, the Object Movement Residency at The Center at West Park (New York, NY), and the Artist Residency at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center (West Rutland, VT). Installation view, Sara Stern, "Study for a Scene", 2024, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Adam Liam Rose. (Center: “The window felt shattered,” 2024, two-channel video (rear and front projection, color/sound), mirror floor, windowed partition, 11:49 min, looped. Right: “Curtain Call,” 2024, Kiln-formed glass, single-channel spotlight video projection, pulley, custom mount, dimensions variable. Left: "Beckett's Chew (Where Credit is Due)," 2024, cast glass, single-channel rear projection (BW/silent), custom mount, 59 sec, looped.) Sara Stern, “Curtain Call,” 2024, Kiln-formed glass, single-channel spotlight video projection, pulley, custom mount, dimensions variable. The window felt shattered (2 min excerpt) from Sara Stern on Vimeo. Excerpt from "The window felt shattered": "The window felt shattered", 2024, single-channel version of two-channel video installation, color/sound, 11:49 min, looped. Credits for The window felt shattered: Director, Editor: Sara Stern, Mime: Bill Bowers, Violin & Viola: Pauline Kim Harris, Sound Design, Mix, Recording, Engineering, Mastering: Kevin Ramsay, Theremin: Sara Stern, Sound recording at Harvestworks - New York City, Excerpt from Dongmae by Pauline Kim Harris, Lauren Cauley, Violin, Annaliese Kowert, Violin, Pauline Kim Harris, Viola, Andrew Yee, Cello, John-Paul Norpoth, Bass, Recorded live at The Stone - New York City (2019). Several lines of text adapted from Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.…
Elizabeth Heyert , photo credit Nina Subin Elizabeth Heyert is an American photographer known for her experimental portrait projects. Formerly a world-renowned architectural photographer, Heyert established her reputation in the art world with her groundbreaking series THE SLEEPERS, THE TRAVELERS, THE NARCISSISTS, and THE BOUND. Heyert's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and numerous private collections. THE BOUND, Heyert's limited edition artist's book of photogravures, was acquired by the Beinecke Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Yale University. Photographs from her latest series, METAMORPHOSIS, were featured in Personal Structures at the 2022 Venice Biennale. A book of those photos will be published in 2023. A short list of her other photography books includes THE TRAVELERS (Scalo), the award-winning book from her series of post-mortem photographs; THE OUTSIDER (Damiani) a conceptual portrait project shot in China; THE SLEEPERS (Sei Swann); THE NARCISSISTS (Silvana); METROPOLITAN PLACES (Viking Studio), a classic anthology of 20th century design which she wrote and photographed; and THE GLASS-HOUSE YEARS (Allanheld & Schram), a history of 19th century portrait photography. Heyert graduated from the Royal College of Art, London. A native New Yorker, she lives in Greenwich Village, and has a studio in the Chelsea arts district. Elizabeth Heyert, Man Flying Over a City Cyanotype, 39 x 28.3”, edition of 3 Elizabeth Heyert, Man at the Bottom of an Ocean #1 Cyanotype, 39 x 28.3” edition of 3 Elizabeth Heyert, Bound #11 Gelatin silver print, 60 x 47.25”, edition of 5…
Tony Bechara, April 29 2018, ©Maku-Lopez Tony Bechara’s dynamic, color-saturated paintings create a pure field of physical perception. You can see a walk through of his show here. Each canvas is meticulously painted with multicolor areas of quarter-inch squares. Using strips of masking tape, Bechara arranges carefully formulated hues into a playful and invigorating optical surface, made up of a multitude of small colored units. The work’s overall rhythm is determined by a process that is systemic but designed to allow combinations of color to emerge by chance. Bechara cites influences across art history, including the colors of Matisse and Vuillard, the pointillism of Seurat and Signac, traditions of weaving and crafting, the precision of hard-edge abstraction, and the famed Byzantine-era mosaics at Ravenna. These influences are evidenced in Bechara’s approach to painting: he uses a tile-like grid as the basis for his explorations into the principles of color usage, particularly the intersection of organization and randomness. The division of the surface of the painting into small modular boxes is similar to pixels; the gaze is constantly in motion. Bechara presents the viewer with their retinal and neurological relationship to color, balancing one’s immediate impression of hue and the overarching logic of pattern. Tony Bechara was born in Puerto Rico in 1942 and today lives and works in New York City. A graduate of Georgetown University, Bechara attended Georgetown Law School and New York University before later studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and the New York School of Visual Art, benefiting in particular from the lessons of Richard Serra and Joseph Raphael. In the 1970s and 80s, Bechara was included in exhibitions organized by the Boulder, Colorado based Criss-Cross pattern printing collective and featured work in the group exhibition ‘Islamic Allusions’ at the Alternative Museum in New York. His work was included in the 1975 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 1980 he was granted a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1981 he was included in ‘The Shaped Field: Eccentric Formats’ at MoMA PS1 in New York. Bechara has had solo exhibitions at the Alternative Museum in 1988; Artists Space in New York in 1993; and el Museo del Arte Puerto Rico in 2008. Recently, Bechara has participated in exhibitions ‘With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972-1985; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2019), which travelled to the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA (2021); ‘Point of Departure: Abstraction 1958-Present’, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, USA (2021); and ‘Artists Choose Parrish’, Parrish Art Museum, NY, USA (2023).His work can be found in numerous public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA; el Museo del Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico; the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE, USA; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Tony Bechara, Abstract Composition, 1970-71 Acrylic on canvas, 208.6 x 166.4 x 2.9 cm82 1/8 x 65 1/2 x 1 1/8 in Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA ©Tony Bechara, Courtesy Lisson Gallery. Tony Bechara, Random 28 (Blue version), 2023 Acrylic on canvas, 152.4 x 152.4 ©Tony Bechara, Courtesy Lisson Gallery. Tony Bechara, Perseus, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 152.4 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm 60 x 60 x 1 1/2 ©Tony Bechara, Courtesy Lisson Gallery…
New York based multidisciplinary artist Michael Dayton Hermann creates work that draws upon the inescapable bombardment of digital imagery to confront the familiar and examine the subconscious from unexpected perspectives. Hermann has exhibited consistently for the past 20 years following receipt of his MFA from Hunter College in NYC where he studied art theory with conceptual artist Robert Morris and executed his thesis under the advisement of Nari Ward. His polymath approach to life rejects easy categorization. He is as adept in his studio as he is in business, philanthropy, and public speaking aways centering the vital role visual art plays in society. He is the author of two books: Warhol on Basquiat and Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire and is a member of the board at Children’s Museum of Art. In his role at the Warhol Foundation, Hermann conceived Andy Warhol: Machine Made, a ground-breaking online auction of five unique NFTs presented by Christie’s, in addition to developing numerous high-profile Warhol projects including The Andy Warhol Diaries docuseries on Netflix and collaborations with Comme des Garçons, Dior, Tiffany, Absolut and many others, generating nearly $100M in revenue to support the philanthropic work of The Andy Warhol Foundation. The exhibit discussed is REconstituted at Baxter St, Camera Club of New York. Michael Dayton, Installation view of REConstituted at Baxter St, Camera Club of New York. Michael Dayton, Installation view of REConstituted at Baxter St, Camera Club of New York. Michael Dayton, Installation view of REConstituted at Baxter St, Camera Club of New York.…
Vincent Donato Roselli (b. 1995) is a self-taught artist from Staten Island, NY. His first exposure to painting was graffiti, and he continues to incorporate old school street art methods in his practice. Vincent creates within a chaotic studio space, utilizing a variety of found substances from dust on the floor to old brush water left in glass jars. He has had solo exhibitions at 81 Leonard Gallery (NY), The National Arts Club (NY) and Chinatown Soup (NY) and has also shown work at venues including Prince Street Gallery (NY) and First Street Gallery (NY). Vincent Donato, Bliss, 2023, Mixed media, annealed steel wire on canvas; 74 x 52.5 in. Vincent Donato, Peg O’ my heart, 2022, Mixed media on linen, 60 x 50 in. Vincent Donato, Wreath #3, 2024, Annealed steel wire, doli, beeswax, found objects; 15 x 7 x 2 in.…
Alva Mooses photographed by Mauricio Cortes Ortega at Shandaken Projects, Governor's Island 2023. Alva Mooses is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work explores the intersections of printed media, ceramics, and sculpture while engaging with earth-based materials to signal the memory of geological time. Her ceramic series titled ear to the earth/ culebra, truena, tormenta was exhibited at Jane Hartsook Gallery as part of her artist residency at Greenwich House Pottery. The slip-cast reconfigured globes move away from historical representations of the earth as a perfect sphere on a steady axis toward a transformative body—the pieces are glazed, distorted, mended, and kiln-fired multiple times. culebra, truena, tormenta translates to snake, thunder, storm, referring to the Mexica earth and mother goddess Coatlicue whose entire skirt, head, and belt represent snakes. The legendery 16th century Coatlicue statue was buried and unearthed multiple times since the Spanish conquest out of concern that the statue would inspire religious and political resistance; it now lives in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. The writer Mirene Arsanios describes Alva’s ceramic globe series as: “Broken or no longer erect, the globe stands and their measuring systems are inoperative—the deconstructed globes undermine the project of western geography and the violence of its measuring tools, favoring instead a world, earth, and planet governed by the erotics of its own materials.” Alva holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from Yale University. She has exhibited her work in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. She has completed fellowships and residencies at the Lower East Side Printshop, Shandaken Projects, Socrates Sculpture Park, Center for Book Arts, Greenwich House Pottery, The University of Chicago, Tou Trykk in Stavanger, Norway, and Casa Wabi, in Oaxaca, Mexico, among others. She serves on the faculty at Hunter College in the Department of Art and Art History and lives with her daughter and partner in Brooklyn. ear to the earth/ culebra, truena, tormenta, 2022 | ceramic | 20x15x8 inches | Photo by Alan Wiener courtesy of Greenwich House Pottery. ear to the earth/ culebra, truena, tormenta, 2022 | ceramic | 16x10x9 inches | Photo by Alan Wiener courtesy of Greenwich House Pottery. Undercurrents, 2023 | Drawing with CNC machine | 13x17 inches…
Matthew Kirk’s (Navajo Nation) practice combines the materiality of his long-held job as an art-handler with mark-making inspired by comics, abstraction, and Diné (Navajo) visuality. A 2019 Eiteljorg Fellow, his work was recently featured in The New York Times. His recent solo exhibition White Snake (2023) was presented at Halsey McKay Gallery in New York City. Kirk was born in Arizona, raised in Wisconsin, and is based in Queens, New York. Waste Is A Thief, 2023 Wood, acrylic, ink. graphite, leather, coroplast, insulation foam, hardware, wire, canvas 63 x 60.5 x 6 inches (160 x 153.7 x 15.2 cm) Save That Chitter Chatter, 2023 Wood, acrylic, ink, graphite, Nerf, hardware, cotton strap 35.25 x 46.75 inches (89.5 x 118.7 cm) I'll Sing Along, 2023 Canvas, acylic, graphite, hardware, basketball rim, rope, hardware, wood 58.5 x 35 x 7 inches (148.6 x 88.9 x 17.8 cm)…
Cyle Warner is a Brooklyn-based artist of Afro-Caribbean descent. A recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Photography, he works across mediums, often using fabric and photographs inherited from family to explore his concept of Dis. In 2022 he attended the prestigious Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art. Welancora Gallery is proud to present Weh Dem? De Sparrow Catcher?, a solo exhibition of new work by Cyle Warner (b. 2001), on view from July 27 to October 10, 2023. Warner’s first exhibition at the gallery brings together a reimagined archive of photographs and textiles to reveal a very personal exploration of his family’s life in the Caribbean. Sourced from the Warner family archive, the photographs are layered, recomposed and enlarged to conjure feelings of curiosity about Warner’s elders and their life in the Caribbean. The works on view raise a number of questions; namely, what would life be like if there had been no migration to the United States? The photos, ranging from the mid 1940s to the early to mid 1970s, depict family members when they were permanently residing in the Caribbean. The hazy quality and sepia tones, as well as what’s visible, what’s further highlighted, and what’s left to be desired all lend themselves to the artist’s fractured understanding of a time in the Caribbean that he never experienced first hand. Cyle Warner a vessel a jam slow, 2023 Various fabrics and inkjet on fabric on wooden frame. 76 x 64 inches 193 x 162.6 cms. Photo: Copyright The Artist Courtesy of Welancora Gallery. Cyle Warner Album Page II (Debating with Powell and the Queen), 2023 Various Fabrics and Inkjet on Fabric on Stained Wooden Frame 15 1/2 x 11 inches 39.4 x 27.9 cms. Photo: Copyright The Artist Courtesy of Welancora Gallery. Cyle Warner I don't want to go, 2023 Archival pigment print with collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 5 x 7 inches 12.7 x 17.8 cms Edition of 2.…
Heather Dewey-Hargborg, American artist and bio-hacker most knowned for the project Stranger Visions. Ana Brígida for The New York Times Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (such as hair, cigarette butts, or chewed up gum) collected in public places. Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Daejeon Biennale, and the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, the Van Abbemuseum, Transmediale and PS1 MOMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Wellcome Collection, and the New York Historical Society, among others, and has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired. Heather has a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a visiting assistant professor of Interactive Media at NYU Abu Dhabi, an artist fellow at AI Now, an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium, and is an affiliate of Data & Society. Hybrid (Trailer) from Heather Dewey-Hagborg on Vimeo. Installation view, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera. Courtesy of the artist and Fridman Gallery. Still from Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera. Courtesy of the artist and Fridman Gallery.…
Jonathan Herbert (b. 1952, New York City) explores the nonverbal relationship between cosmology and consciousness. He creates unique, intuitive formulations of water-based paint using acrylic and urethane media made on the spot, mid-process. He explores the nonverbal nature of creative inspiration via intuition. These works examine the richness of the present moment while simultaneously referring to a concurrent interest in the expression of the past, of his traumatic experiences and resulting emotions. Much of his work has been informed by his extremely abusive childhood and the unsurprisingly drug- and alcohol-ridden years of his life prior to 1986. His experiences as a night shift cab driver in bankrupt New York inspired the years-long body of work, Views from a Yellow Cab. He drove a quarter-million miles over the course of five years. An important and interesting and uncommon view of humankind, as evidenced in the movie Taxi Driver. Herbert received his diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1977. He continued his studies, via an Independent Study Award from the Museum School, for more than a year in Antwerp, Belgium. He began exhibiting in 1978 in Soho and the East Village and has garnered several solo exhibitions. Many of his group shows have been in New York City, including tagging subways and walls in the East Village of the 1970s. In New York in the mid-eighties, shortly after MacPaint had first been released, Herbert was one of the founders of the Digital Art Movement. During his digital years, Silicon Graphics decorated their entire Seybold booth with his work, flew him to San Francisco and asked him to demonstrate his process during the convention. His digital work has been featured internationally. Herbert for years labored lovingly over the creation of digital medical drawings for pharmaceutical books and journals, continuously expanding his education, which fed his fascination with medicine. His work as a digital artist even led to being interviewed on network TV. Herbert’s bibliography begins in December 1982, in the regular Cookie Mueller column “Art and About” in Warhol’s Details Magazine. There is also a Jonathan Herbert entry in the Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia. He has appeared in and been reviewed in many publications. Portraits of Herbert are in both Nightline by Peter Donahoe and Taxi: The Social History of the New York City Cab Driver. Herbert’s work is in the collection of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the Brooklyn Art Library, Pfizer Incorporated, the law firm Kirkland and Ellis, and The Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Indiana. Herbert currently lives and works in Sarasota, Florida, where, every day, he struggles to live fully in the face of multiple invisible disabilities including lymphoma, PTSD, and cognitive impairment, most of which result from 9/11 survivorship. Across the Universe, Acrylic and urethane on canvas 40 x 60 x 1.5 in Wish, Alchemical acrylic and urethane on canvas 60 x 40 in Shan Shui, acrylic and urethane on canvas 72 x 60 x 1.5 in…
Mickalene Thomas Photographed by Malike Sidibe At Yale Gallery for The New York Times Magazine. Mickalene Thomas was born and raised in New Jersey and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. One of the most influential artists in the world today, her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. She is known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Not only do her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations command space, they occupy eloquently while dissecting the intersecting complexities of black and female identity within the Western canon. Outside of her core practice, Thomas is a Tony Award nominated co-producer, curator, educator and mentor to many emerging artists. Apart from her own monumental solo shows, she simultaneously curates exhibitions at galleries and museums and collaborates with corporations and luxury brands. In addition to an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art (2018) and a United States Artists Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellow (2015), she has been awarded multiple other prizes and grants, including the Pratt Institute Legends Award (2022); Rema Hort Mann Foundation 25th Anniversary Honoree (2022); Artistic Impact Award, and more. Thomas is also the Co-Founder of SOULAS House, a cultural hub and retreat for Black women, the Co-Founder of Pratt>FORWARD and founder of Art>FORWARD Artist in the Market incubator for post-graduate students. Mickalene Thomas, September 1981, 2023. Dye sublimation print and rhinestones, 63.375 x 57.75 x 1.25 in Mickalene Thomas, December 1981, 2023. Dye sublimation print and rhinestones, 58.625 x 48.125 x 3 in Mickalene Thomas, Cover 1981, 2023. Dye sublimation print and rhinestones, 15.125 x 12.25 x 1.625 in…
In 2021, Anna Berlin was awarded a Fulbright Research and Study Scholarship to Berlin, Germany, and has since painted between her new home and her family’s house in New Jersey. The paintings weave Berlin’s life with the stories she grew up with about her family, alongside new understanding gained from independent research on her German-Jewish history. The paintings are of a grayscale world, where documentation, legal papers, and everyday ephemera become part of her language of storytelling. The works in Sisters use the monotone language of the bureaucratic documents she relied on in the first year abroad, such as tax forms, proofs of identity, and lists. The visual-verbal governmental speech was sometimes fraught with confusion as she shares her last name with the city, creating reverberations in the artist’s imagination of past and present, person and place, self and family, family history and cultural history. In exploring her new home, the artist accessed a deeper connection to her family’s past in Germany and especially on the role of documents and documentation– how they affected their status, imperiling and saving their lives, as they fled their homes in the 1930s and 1940s to escape the Second World War. Alongside the personal and legal papers her grandparents brought with them to the US, some that were recently donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., there is also the oral; intergenerational memories that were passed along in car rides or at the kitchen table in New Jersey. Short, diaristic narratives accompany each painting on the Image List. Names of people and places blur together – Wasser, Berlin, New York, New Jersey – as the generations travel back and forth over water and over land. Earlier this year, Anna Berlin and Olympia released an artist’s book called Notes from Berlin, that is part memoir, part travelog, and part family history. It was printed in an edition of 100 copies and is available at the gallery. Anna Berlin, Two Sisters, 2023, Flashe, acrylic, oil, epoxy dough on canvas, 52 x 40 x 2 in (132.1 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm) Anna Berlin Wasser, 2023 Flashe and acrylic on canvas with two stools made of flashe and acrylic on epoxy dough and foam stools 60.5 x 40 x 10 in (153.7 x 101.6 x 25.4 cm) Anna Berlin The Vollendam, 2023 Flashe, acrylic, epoxy dough on canvas 52 x 40 x 2 in (132.1 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm)…
Marleen Sleeuwits (NL), Multidisciplinary artist Marleen Sleeuwits, born in 1980 in Enschede, currently lives and works in The Hague. In 2001 she graduated from the Royal Academy of the Arts with a BA in photography, whereafter she obtained her MA in the same discipline at AKV|St. Joost in 2005. Marleen Sleeuwits has been exhibiting solo and in group exhibitions, in The Netherlands and internationally. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions and art fairs such as: Royal Encounters, a group exhibition at Museum Escher in The Hague, Isomatrix, a solo exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam.This year she has two major exhibitions; one solo in the Centre Photographique in Rouen, France and a duo in Sous Les Etoiles Gallery in New York, U.S.A. Ongoing Series of False Ceilings, Year: 2023, Different sizes, Ultrachromeprint, plaster, false ceiling and wood in plexiglasscontainer. All pieces are unique. Interior no. 53, Year: 2019. Size: 150 x 118 cm. Ultrachromeprint on aluminium in frame with museum glass. Installation view, Radical Intervention. Burned photo-prints, neon paper and mirror. At Sous les Etoiles Gallery, New York, U.S.A., October 2023…
Sarah Lubin (Boston, MA) earned a B.A. in Art History from McGill University in 2001, followed by a year in Foundation Studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London). She received an M.A. in Art History from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Lubin is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant (2019 and 2021). Frames is the artist's fourth solo exhibition with Nancy Margolis Gallery. Sarah Lubin, Index, 2023, oil on canvas, 36 x 60 inches Sarah Lubin, Pink Room, 2023, oil on canvas, 54 x 42 inches Sarah Lubin, Picnic, 2023, oil on canvas, 42 x 54 inches…
Julie Severino is a Brooklyn based painter. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art. Severino creates psychological narratives that function as a tool to deepen her understanding of the mind and body connection, in relation to her own personal history and the larger human experience. Playing with perspective, her paintings depict disproportionate figures or things that are in dialogue with the multidimensional environments. Rendering parts of the work differently serves as a means to distinguish rhythm, stillness, force and sensitivity. Stillness and time are necessary to reveal parts of the enigmatic scenes. The sculptures are made with various materials, such as, aluminum, magic sculpt, glass, paper, hair and other materials. The transition from painting to sculpture allows Severino to explore with her hands and body in a way that calls attention to an immersive visual language and way of creating. Including poetry with some of the work is an important part of Severino’s studio practice. Often, the writing becomes the genesis of the paintings and sculptures, but sometimes, during the process of creating, the work will inspire the text that then becomes a part of the physical artwork. Listen to Severino read her poetry here. JULIE SEVERINO, Abundance and Light, 2023, oil, graphite, colored pencil on canvas, 60 x 70 in (152.4 x 177.8 cm) JULIE SEVERINO, Arising and Passing, 2023, oil, graphite, colored pencil on canvas, 48 x 60 in (121.9 x 152.4 cm) Prayers Through Poetry, 2023, oil, gold leaf, graphite, colored pencil on canvas, 24 x 18 in (61 x 45.7 cm)…
Edward Povey was born in London, England in 1951, the only child of a merchant seaman and a seamstress. He studied at the Eastbourne College for Art and Design in England and at the University of Wales in North Wales. 1972-1978 Between 1975 and 1981 he came to the attention of the British media as a muralist, completing 25 internal and external murals up to five stories in height, in Israel, Wales and England. Between 1983 and 1988 he painted and studied symbolism on the Caribbean island of Grenada, and learned under the Danish architectural abstractionist Paul Klose, and the art dealer Jan de Maere in Brussels. From 1991 he showed with John Whitney Payson in New York beside Paul Cadmus, Jack Levine and Michael Bergt and successively with galleries in The Hague, Paris, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, New Orleans, West Palm Beach and London, up to the present. In 2008 he was proposed for a knighthood for his contribution to art in Britain by the Chancellor of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and others. In 2019 the British Library documented his career for the nation. In 2012 the Museum of Modern Art in Wales published a biography of Povey’s life and work up to that point. In 2018 Povey studied Raphael’s Ansidei Madonna in the National Gallery in London, using Ghiotto’s and Raphael’s Verdaccio palette for his new paintings which he termed Emotional Realism. Between 2019 and 2023 Povey appeared in many publications and interviews in Spain, Poland, the United States, Egypt, England, Italy, France and Brazil. His paintings hang in museum collections, private and corporate collections in thirty countries. Since 2021 he has shown with Waterhouse & Dodd in New York. His current Solo Exhibition: “HUMAN”, 5th October - 3rd November 2023. 15 East 76th Street, New York, NY 10021. T: 212 717 9100. Edward Povey is currently beginning a new collection of paintings in his studio in the Devon countryside of England. SEINE, 2023. Edward Povey, Oil on Belgian linen 170.0 X 170 cm / 67 X 67 in. More information from Waterhouse & Dodd, New York. “In civilised societies human beings devise traditions and ceremonies to safely contain meaningfulness in the desert night. Romance, religion, families, paintings and films are all ceremonies of meaning. Even boxes and vases contain what otherwise disperses beyond our control, like emotions in a thunderstorm. We are so very vulnerable, and to have seen the same chair since our childhood, the same parent, the same sky above us remaining and remaining. It is this that calms the chaos. When a couple dances to the trickling pulse of soft rock, bleeding out of a out of a midwestern late radio station, moving slowly beside the long porch window, another couple dance in the reflected glass – and that is my painting. They will always move in a dim tandem with us, twin sisters, identical brothers. Immortal tricks of the light. Paintings are altars, objects and artefacts far stronger than the buildings that host them, because they have centuries in their pockets. This painting groups all that is, for all intents and circumstances, unnecessary and transitory: the aging chair, the little vase of flowers, the ramekin of glacé cherries, the teaspoon of blood, the distracted middle-aged woman. Only a human being can appreciate that these objects are in fact precious and cherished, beautiful and indispensable.” DEFINITIE, 2023. Edward Povey, Oil on linen, 200 X 200 cm / 79 X 79 inches. Modelling courtesy of London model Emily Poynton. Photograph of Baroness Ersilia La Lomia, Sicily, courtesy of her niece, Marzia Caramazza. More information from Waterhouse & Dodd, New York. "Paintings explain themselves just as the silhouette of an arguing couple does, gesturing in a midsummer alleyway viewed from a passing train. Sunday, south London, the hot streets empty, a couple drawing lines in their lives. The English say 'Double Dutch', meaning 'inexplicable',…
Floria González was born in Monterrey on July 20th, 1980. She moved to Acuña Coahuila in 1983, eventually moving to Mexico City at 16 where she currently lives and works. Floria’s dreamlike, cinematic scenes explore alternate realities and hidden layers of the psyche. Using photography, video, installation, performance, and painting, Floria maintains a constant dialogue between fantasy and imagination, excavating forms and scenes that reconstruct her own identity through memories and experiences. Floria has exhibited work in Mexico City, Monterrey, New York, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Berlin, Italy, Hong Kong, London, and Singapore. Floria González, Too Young to Die, M. Ward, First Aid Kit, 2023, oil on canvas, 44 3/10 x 44 3/10 in / 112.5 x 112.5 cm Floria González, The Smoke, The Smile, 2023, oil on canvas, 31 1/2 x 35 2/5 in / 80 x 90 cm Floria González, Crazy, Patsy Cline, 2023, oil on canvas, 35 2/5 x 35 2/5 in / 90 x 90 cm…
Enemy Combatant, David Winner's third novel (March 2021) received a Kirkus-starred review and was a Publisher's Weekly/Booklife Editor's Pick. He is the co-editor of Writing the Virus, a New York Times-noted Anthology. His Kirkus-recommended second novel, Tyler's Last, was nominated for a Pushcart while his first, The Cannibal of Guadalajara, won the 2009 Gival Press Novel Award and was nominated for the National Book Award. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, Fiction, The Iowa Review, The Millions, The Kenyon Review and (in German) Manuskripte. He is a senior editor at StatOrec magazine, the fiction editor of The American, a magazine based in Rome, a regular contributor to The Brooklyn Rail, and a columnist for 3 Quarks Daily Master Lovers, a non-fiction work inspired by hidden love letters from the 1930’s, comes out in November.…
Portrait, Laura Anderson Barbata. Photo: Jake Holler Born in 1958 in Mexico City, Laura Anderson Barbata is a transdisciplinary artist, performer, writer, and educator who lives and works between New York and Mexico City. Since 1992 Anderson Barbata has worked primarily in the social realm, initiating projects in the Venezuelan Amazon, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Norway, and the United States. Among them is the ongoing The Repatriation of Julia Pastrana, begun in 2005, which resulted in the removal of the project’s titular figure’s body from the Schreiner Collection in Oslo, Norway and its successful repatriation and burial in Sinaloa, Mexico, Pastrana’s birth state. The project continues with Anderson Barbata’s production of related artworks, publications, zines, and performances. Anderson Barbata is also known for her project Transcommunality (2001-present), presented in collaboration with stilt dancers, artists, and artisans from Mexico, New York, and the Caribbean. Transcommunality has been staged at various museums, schools, and other public spaces both as exhibitions and performance “Interventions.” Among them are Columbia University, New York (2023); The Watermill Center, Water Mill (2021); Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans (2021); MUCA Roma, UNAM, Mexico (2020); BRIC Arts | Media House, Brooklyn (2019); The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. (2019); Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2017, 2018); Rutgers University, New Brunswick (2017); United Nations Plaza, New York (2017); University of Wisconsin, Madison (2015); Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Mexico (2012, 2016); The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (2008); and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007). Installation View, Laura Anderson Barbata: Singing Leaf. Photo: Olympia Shannon Archive X, 1998/2023, handmade abaca paper bundles with inclusions from the New Testament in Spanish, Ye´Kuana, Yanomami, Ashuar, Maya, and Quechua languages on bamboo structure, unique installation dimensions variable. Photo: Olympia Shannon. El miedo no anda en burro (autorretrato), 1998/2023, honey wax, mirror, sticks, and stones, unique, 15½ x 7 7/8 x 6 in. / 39.4 x 20 x 15.2 cm. Photo: Olympia Shannon…
Mikael Levin explores our conceptions of place, identity and temporarily. His photographs are often of commonplace, everyday sites that, while seemingly insignificant in themselves, tie into larger historical events or movements of our times. By way of these places, his photographs form a topography of societal structures, predispositions, influences and memory. A note on the Stono Rebellion image from the artist: “Critical Places is essentially about how the rebellions of the enslaved are remembered (or not remembered) in the landscape. Through my witnessing of these places in my photographs, I am bringing forward how these rebellions still echo in social patterns and economic structures. What we see the case of the Stono Rebellion is the emergence of the trope of the Black man as "feared, violent, irrational.” Other rebellions are early examples of how power controls information, excessive Police violence, the lack of the Black voice in the telling of our history, the minimization of the woman’s roll, and so on and so forth.“ LEVIN, Mikael (b. 1954) Untitled (from Subaqueous). 2018 Gelatin silver print, printed by artist. 2018 Edition of 5 Paper and image size: 19 ½ x 19 ½ inches. LEVIN, Mikael (b. 1954) U.S. Highway 17 at Wallace River, South Carolina. 2020 / The Stono Rebellion. 1739 Gelatin silver print, printed by the artist. 2023 Edition of 5 Paper size: 16 x 20 inches Image size: 14 3/8 x 17 1/2 inches. LEVIN, Mikael (b. 1954) 4th of July. La Grange, Missouri. 2022 / The Lin Uprising. 1849 Gelatin silver print, printed by the artist. 2023 Edition of 5 Paper size: 16 x 20 inches Image size: 14 3/8 x 19 3/8 inches.…
Chase Biado, 2023, Photo by Ed Mumford Chase Biado said bridging fantasy and art once felt off limits, as if he were “smuggling childhood interests into a contemporary conversation.” In reality, fantasy is a critical facet of adult life. “We're having these epic mythological experiences — in our heads and in our relationships,” he said. “But on the exterior, we’re going about our daily lives.” Biado's style, draped in jubilation, entices viewers to imagine, for a second, what else is possible. Chase Biado (b. 1985) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received a BFA from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon in 2012. Biado exhibits both under his own name as well as one half of the artist duo A History of Frogs alongside his partner Antonia Pinter. Recent solo exhibitions of Biado’s include The Pit and Noon Projects in Los Angeles, CA. He has also shown with VODA, Seoul, South Korea; Marta, Los Angeles, CA; Bozo Mag, Los Angeles, CA; The Neutra VDL House, Los Angeles, CA; Helen’s Costume, Portland, OR; Ruscha and Co., Los Angeles, CA; and participated in DIMIN’s inaugural exhibition. Chase Biado, The Elf Disappeared, 2024. Chase Biado, Music for Field Mice, 2024. Chase Biado, Another Night in Elf City, 2023.…
Dapper Bruce Lafitte (b. 1972 New Orleans) is a self-trained artist who began making and showing work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to commemorate the then-decimated street culture of parades and marching bands of New Orleans. He has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, notably at the Prospect Biennial, New Orleans, and in solo shows at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, MS; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; Fierman Gallery, New York; Gryder Gallery, New Orleans; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, and Vacant Gallery, Tokyo. Lafitte’s work has been in group shows and fairs at the Brodsky Center, New York; Dieu Donné, New York; Tatjana Pieters, Belgium; and the Outsider Art Fair, Paris. Lafitte’s next solo exhibition, The Game is Mine, will be at Alchemy Gallery starting March 7. Lafitte’s work is held in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, and has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and Victory Journal. In 2009, he was a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation artist award and was a mentee by renowned curator and tastemaker Diego Cortez prior to his passing in 2021. Canal and Carrollton Ave on a Saturday, 62x42 inches archival ink on acid free paper, 2023 Canal and Claiborne Ave Saturday Night, 62x42 inches archival ink on acid free paper, 2024 Fat Tuesday in the Lafitte Projects, 62x42 inches archival ink on acid free paper, 2024…
Mathieu Malouf "I am genuinely trying to make beautiful paintings. Not beautiful by contemporary standards of beauty, but something more atemporal or enduring. My paintings are not anchored in any particular period. I like art that is beautiful, even if that makes no sense in our era. No one discusses whether things are beautiful or not anymore. It’s more difficult to paint women than men. I have only painted men—nude men, gay men, famous men. I think men can be more ugly and weird, and it doesn’t really matter; they are more forgiving. But painting women is more difficult. I started noticing how intensely omnipresent women were in art, and I thought that I probably have something to learn from that; by trying to paint women, maybe I’ll discover why. It is a way for me to learn about something that people have traditionally thought is beautiful. Painting women is a way to address art history itself. The Odalisque as a historical genre intrigues me. This was a woman who was essentially enslaved, but she was always richly adorned and confidently portrayed. She looked empowered to me, like Manet’s Olympia. The women in my paintings are not goofy like some of my male subjects tend to be. They are not cynical or sarcastic. Maybe painting beautiful women right now is like a comedian today telling a joke from the 1920s. Penguins have been lingering in my mind for a while. Unlike women, there are not a lot of penguins in art, maybe in a Sigmar Polke. My attraction to them began as a formal one. They are very aesthetically minimal: only three colors and simple shapes. They are crisp and uncomplicated. My painted penguins are materially simple, they are loose and flat, painted in acrylic–unlike the women, who are painted in oil and highly modeled. These two subjects are hard to paint at once, as they occupy different parts of the brain. Maybe there is an allegory there." - Mathieu Malouf Malouf lives and works in New York. He has been featured in exhibitions at institutions such as Swiss Institute, New York (2018); Le Consortium, Dijon (2018); LUMA Foundation, Zürich (2017); Artists Space, New York (2017); Stavanger Art Museum (2014); Kunsthalle Lüneburg, (2014); and SculptureCenter, New York (2012). Work by the artist is included in museum collections worldwide, including the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Mathieu Malouf, Untitled, 2023-24 Acrylic and ceramic plates on canvas 86 x 92 inches (218.44 x 233.68 cm) Mathieu Malouf, The Writer, 2023-24 Oil and ceramic plates on canvas 60 x 70 inches (152.4 x 177.8 cm) Mathieu Malouf, The Legionnaire, 2023-24 Oil and acrylic on canvas, artist’s frame 35 x 29.5 x 2.5 inches (88.9 x 74.93 x 6.35 cm)…
Tom Burckhardt was born in New York City in 1964. He attended SUNY Purchase and graduated with a BFA in painting in 1986, after which he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has been the subject of over thirty solo exhibitions at institutions including the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY; and the Knoxville Art Museum in Knoxville, TN. Burckhardt was a participant of the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India and an artist in residence at the Yaddo Foundation in New York State in 2019 and Pepper House, Kochi, India in 2020. He has received numerous grants and awards, including three grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, a Guggenheim Foundation Grant, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy. He currently teaches part-time at SUNY Purchase. Tom Burckhardt, Gruntled, 2023 Oil on linen 34 x 28 inches Tom Burckhardt, Future Rapture, 2023 Oil on linen 77 x 64 inches Tom Burckhardt, Shabby Lingo, 2023 Oil on linen 70 x 60 inches…
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21:49Catalina Schliebener Muñoz BARRO NY is pleased to present “Manifesto of Immature Abstraction,” an exhibition featuring the works of Ad Minoliti and Catalina Schliebener Muñoz. This show explores queer approaches to abstraction through the use of colors and shapes that articulate non-binary narratives which counter the coloniality of gender, sexuality, age, and interspecies life. The gallery space transforms into an abstract dialogue between queer representations of the animal that reinvent their forms by dismantling colonial imaginaries of the childish, immature, and naive. This deconstruction and critique allows the artists to challenge traditional narratives that intervene in the subjectivation of children, disorganizing and transcending through fantasy. Ad Minoliti Ad Minoliti’s vibrant abstract compositions radiate a spectrum of hues, using geometric shapes to implicitly suggest faces and animal figures. These works invite viewers into a speculative universe where childhood becomes the tool from whichto experience critical perspectives on artistic movements.Meanwhile, Catalina Schliebener Muñoz presents works made with vinyl cutouts, colored pencils, and embroidery on mat boards and walls. Oscillatingbetween modes of sophistication and craft, the artist uses pastels and the textureof embroidery to invite deep reflection on social and behavioral norms as well asdefinitions of bodily normality imposed on children. Across their respective styles, both artists use abstraction to disorient childhood’s symbolic straightness, the imperative of extroversion, and the adult- centric demand for seriousness and coherence of identity. Ad Minoliti employsgeometry and Catalina Schliebener Muñoz uses fragmentation to reinterpret the role of the visual in the social construction of normality. These abstract deconstructions question the stereotypes of mass media, the historical canon of modern art, and contemporary geopolitical narratives, thereby contributing to the decolonization of the modernist social imaginary. Ad Minoliti, MARGARITA PUNZO, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm, 47.25 x 47.25 in Ad Minoliti, OSITE, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm, 47.25 x 47.25 in Catalina Schliebener Muñoz, Growing Sideways Series, (Lovers after MK) - Pair 2021, Sock Monkeys, plexiglass boxes. 10.5 x 24 x 11 in, 26.67 x 60.96 x 27.94 cm Catalina Schliebener Muñoz, Coloring Book Series, Minnie II, 2023, Vinyl, colored pencil, and embroidery on mat board, 33.3 x 33.3 in 83.82 x 83.82 cm…
Adrianne Rubenstein (b. Montreal, 1983) is a painter based in New York. Solo exhibitions include Magic Show at Broadway Gallery, New York; Blue at Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles; Little Shop of Horrors at Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA; and Ruby in the Dust at Deli Gallery, New York. Rubenstein will curate an exhibition at Venus, New York upcoming in summer 2024, and will have an exhibition at Tanya Leighton, Berlin, in September. Her work has been covered in Artforum and The New York Times. Adrianne Rubenstein, Two Waters With Goldfish , 2023 oil on canvas 60 x 72 inches. Adrianne Rubenstein, Pink Painting, 2023, oil on canvas, 72 x 96 inches. Adrianne Rubenstein, Embrace, 2022, oil on panel, 36 x 28 inches…
RYAN WALLACE’s (b. 1977) mixed media paintings conjure an ethereal space between the material and intangible. Repurposing fragments from earlier and developing pieces, the artist seams, layers, excavates, and manipulates the surface of his work to incorporate a wealth of textures and techniques. By limiting his resources, Wallace has developed a rich process-based practice whereby each body of work leads to the next in terms of materials and composition. Wallace’s work has been exhibited at BAM, Brooklyn; Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas; and University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Recent group exhibitions include Volery Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2022); Bohemian’s Gallery, Natsume Books, Tokyo, Japan (2022); De Boer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2021); and The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL (2019). His works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, among others. RYAN WALLACE, FLICKER I, 2023 Oil, enamel, acrylic, ink, copper, aluminum, fiberglass, paper, canvas and linen 56 x 36 in. RYAN WALLACE, PERFUMED GARDEN IX, 2023 Oil, enamel, acrylic, canvas, linen, aluminum, copper and fiberglass 48 x 58 in. RYAN WALLACE, LEAVES TURN INSIDE YOU IV, 2023 Oil, enamel, acrylic, canvas, linen, aluminum, copper and fiberglass 40 x 30 in.…
Portrait of the artist. Photo credit: Jenny Gorman Elizabeth Hazan is a New York based visual artist. Hazan was awarded a fellowship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has twice been a resident of Yaddo. Recent shows include High Noon, at the Duck Creek Art Center in Springs, NY, Heat Wave at Johannes Vogt Gallery, NY, Body to Land at Turn Gallery, NY, Psychedelic Landscape at Eric Firestone Gallery, NY, Sundown at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack, NY and Trodden Path at HESSE FLATOW East. Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, Forbes, Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical, The Brooklyn Rail and the Art Newspaper. She was born and raised in New York City and attended Bryn Mawr College and the New York Studio School. She serves as the director and founder of Platform Project Space in Brooklyn, NY. Elizabeth Hazan, Floodtide, 2023 Oil on linen 76 x 70 in 193 x 177.8 cm Elizabeth Hazan, Glade, 2022 Oil on linen 66 x 55 in 167.6 x 139.7 cm Elizabeth Hazan, Nightshade, 2023 Oil on linen 66 x 55 in 167.6 x 139.7 cm…
Asad Raza (born in Buffalo, USA) creates dialogues and rejects disciplinary boundaries in his work, which conceives of art as a metabolic, active experience. Diversion, first shown at Kunsthalle Portikus in 2022, diverted a river through the gallery. Absorption, in which cultivators create artificial soil, was the 34th Kaldor Public Art Project in Sydney (2019), later shown at the Gropius Bau, Berlin (2020) and Ruhrtriennale (2021). In Untitled (plot for dialogue) (2017), visitors played tennis in a sixteenth-century church in Milan. Root sequence. Mother tongue, at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, combines twenty-six trees, caretakers and objects. Schema for a school was an experimental school at the 2015 Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial. Raza premiered the feature Minor History at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019). Other projects take intimate settings: The Bedroom at the 2018 Lahore Biennale; Home Show (2015) at his apartment in New York, where Raza asked artists to intervene in his life; and Life to come (2019) at Metro Pictures, featuring participatory works and Shaker dance. With Hans Ulrich Obrist, Raza curates exhibitions inspired by Édouard Glissant, including Mondialité (Villa Empain, Brussels), Trembling Thinking (Americas Society, New York), Where the Oceans Meet (MDC Museum of Art and Design, Miami), and This language which is every stone (IMA, Brisbane). Raza will serve as Artistic Director of the upcoming FRONT 2025: Cleveland Triennial of Contemporary Art. Of Pakistani background, Raza studied literature and filmmaking at Johns Hopkins and NYU. Still from Ge, Asad Raza, 2020. Commissioned for The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Galleries. Ge, Asad Raza, 2020. Commissioned for The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Galleries. Asad Raza, Untitled (plot for dialogue), 2017, CONVERSO, Milan Photo Credit: Andrea Rossetti…
Portrait of the Artist. Courtesy of Uprise Art. Devon Reina (b. 1996) is a Brooklyn, New York-based artist and designer. Devon’s cross-disciplinary background inspires his curiosity for materiality and process. His paintings celebrate a range of versatile media, from thick paint impastos, to expressive ink washes and delicate wax pastel line-work. Across his various bodies of work, Devon is interested in how marks of color can interact with each other to suggest the illusion of depth, movement, or direction. Nemeses Year of Work: 2023 Dimensions: 40 in x 40 in x 1.25 in / 101.6 cm x 101.6 cm x 3.18 cm Materials: Pencil and wax pastel on canvas In "Nemeses", I wanted to experiment with placing two parts of the canvas in dialogue with one another, allowing them to agree and disagree in terms of color, surface area, and directionality. Courtesy of Uprise Art. Snowflake Year of Work: 2023 Dimensions: 48 in x 48 in x 1.5 in / 121.92 cm x 121.92 cm x 3.81 cm Materials: Wax pastel on canvas My work is a product of my curiosity in the development and design of art-making systems carried out by the body. I'm fascinated by the potential of parameters, seeing them as fertile grounds for discovery, creation, and exploration of the unknown. Courtesy of Uprise Art. Train Leaves the Station Year of Work: 2023 Dimensions: 24 in x 24 in x 1.25 in / 60.96 cm x 60.96 cm x 3.18 cm Materials: Wax pastel on canvas In applying such a procedural approach to the canvas, "Train Leaves the Station" is an attempt at creating a visual language that suggests the passage of time. I like to look at each of the nine interior boxes as little memories, like looking out a train window throughout the journey to capture nine separate views of the horizon. Courtesy of Uprise Art.…
Mark Yang’s colorful, incongruous arrays of anonymous limbs entangled together investigate the nuances of human interaction through a critical lens of art history. Morphing and distorting idealized figures into conglomerates of body parts, Yang’s forms exhibit a sculptural quality, the result of the artist’s thoughtful rendering of plane, dimension, and space. Reducing, dismantling, and reassembling their limbs almost to the point of abstraction with a variety of painterly techniques, Yang creates characteristically mysterious compositions that are not immediately forthcoming with their narrative plot. With a comprehensive set of art historical references, from the Baroque compositions of Peter Paul Rubens to the postwar abstractions of Ellsworth Kelly, Yang’s anatomical abstractions have been praised for their complication of gender norms. Yang’s ambiguous bodily arrangements rarely depict his figures’ faces, prioritizing their bodies over their identities. Resisting homogenizing classifications, Yang calls attention to shifting cultural conceptions of masculinity between South Korea, where Yang was born, and the United States, where he was raised. Mark Yang, Kelly's Colors for a Larger Wall, 2023 oil on canvas 72 x 60 inches 182.9 x 152.4 cm Mark Yang, Life (3), 2023 oil on canvas 40 x 50 inches 101.6 x 127 cm Mark Yang, Seated and Standing Nude, 2023 oil on canvas 66 x 44 inches 167.6 x 111.8 cm…
Andrew Edlin Andrew Edlin, owner of his eponymously named gallery and the Outsider Art Fair talks about the current show at the gallery and the upcoming fair. Unaccompanied Conversations explores the work of three artists: the now acclaimed Outsider James Castle, Pearl Blauvelt, and John Byam, all of whom were untrained and from modest circumstances, yet developed unique approaches to their art using unconventional materials. And they all devoted their lives to their art in the face of little or no market support. Besides their exceptional talent, these artists all shared traits of neurodiversity. They did not process information the way most people do, or hold “normal” conversations, even the banal—like commenting on the weather. But viewing the works of Castle, Blauvelt, and Byam can be like overhearing the conversations, often deep, sometimes funny, frequently intense, but always unusual, that have played out in the artists’ minds. Since people who exhibit a range of divergent characteristics are often deemed intentionally antisocial, the talents of the neurodivergent have often been overlooked. Because of their inability to verbally articulate what they mean, interactions can be strained, leading to fear, misunderstanding, shunning, and pejorative labels. James Castle (1899 - 1977) Untitled (Cars on sloped track), n.d. Soot, spit, and stick-applied color washes on found wax-coated cardboard 10.25 x 10.75 inches. John Byam (1929 - 2013) Untitled (camera), n.d. Wood, glue and sawdust 7 x 7 x 2.5 in. Pearl Blauvelt (1893 - 1987) Untitled (Photographer), c. 1940's Graphite and colored pencil on notebook paper 8.5 x 11 inches.…
Tiril Hasselknippe is a sculptor working with steel, concrete, fiberglass, and resin who proposes object-based solutions to evade humanity’s downfall and whose sculptures command authority of physical presence through their sheer volume, scale, and weight. Her sculpture is rooted in material and textual world that balances deeply personal exploration with socio-political underpinnings—at times seeming to participate in parts of a post-apocalyptic storyline. Hasselknippe creates a kind of science fiction of formalism in which the double bonds between the sacred and the primitive, the natural and artificial, and the life-giving and the downfall are all present. Hasselknippe received her BFA and MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2011 and 2013 respectively. She also participated in a foreign exchange program at The Cooper Union in New York in 2010. Hasselknippe’s recent solo exhibitions have been held at institutions including Kuntshall Stavanger, NO; NITJA Senter for Samtidskunst, Lillestrøm, NO; Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, NO; Magenta Plains, New York, NY; Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE; Bianca D’Alessandro, Copenhagen, DK; and DREI, Cologne, DE. Her work has recently been included in group exhibitions at the New Museum, New York, NY; Magenta Plains; Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, AT; A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, ITL; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO; and the Vestfossen Kunstlabratorium, Vestfossen, NO. Tiril Hasselknippe: Hyperstate at Magenta Plains Gallery on the LES NYC. Photograph by John Muggenborg.http://www.johnmuggenborg.com Tiril Hasselknippe: Hyperstate at Magenta Plains Gallery on the LES NYC. Photograph by John Muggenborg.http://www.johnmuggenborg.com DREI: Tiril Hasselknippe, photo marcus schwier…
Photo by Yael Malka Emma Safir (b. 1990 NYC) Safir makes paintings that utilize fabric manipulation, lens–based media, smocking, rasterization, upholstery, and digitization. Her paintings function as screen simulations, proxies and portals. Safir is interested in hierarchies of labor in relation to gender and digitization. Safir holds a BFA from RISD in Printmaking and an MFA from Yale in Painting & Printmaking. She has had solo exhibitions at Blade Study, Baxter St at CCNY, SHIN HAUS at Shin Gallery and Bunker Projects; and has participated in group shows at RAINRAIN, Charles Moffett, Jack Barrett, Shulamit Nazarian, Lyles & King, Hesse Flatow, among others. Safir lives and works in New York. Emma Safir, Girandole III 2023 8" x 8.5” Pewter, reflective thread needlelace. Emma Safir, Hole Solution I 2023 14" x 11" x ~1.5" Silk, mdf, appliqué, reflective thread, neoprene, house paint, flashe paint, upholstery foam. Emma Safir, Modern Prometheus III 2023 79” x 37” x ~1.5” Silk, mdf, appliqué, reflective thread, neoprene, house paint, flashe paint, upholstery foam.…
The Thing in Front of You, an exhibition of unique photocollages and small-scale wall sculptures by artist Sandi Haber Fifield, will be on view at Yancey Richardson from January 11 through February 17, 2024. Sandi Haber Fifield was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1956. She holds an MFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Oakland Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; and St. Louis Art Museum. Haber Fifield’s photographs are the subject of four monographs: The Certainty of Nothing, 2021; After the Threshold, Kehrer Verlag, 2013; Between Planting and Picking, Charta, 2011; and Walking through the World, Charta, 2009. Additional publications that feature Haber Fifield’s work include Our Selves, Photographs by Women Artists, MoMA, 2022 and The Photography of Invention by Mary Foresta, MIT Press, among others. Her work is held in numerous major public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Library of Congress, and The Parrish Museum, Water Mill, NY. She lives and works on Shelter Island, New York. Unique Collaged Archival Pigment print on Canson Paper. Unique Collaged Archival Pigment Print on Canson Paper. Unique Photo-based Collaged Object with Plexiglass, Rubber, and Screws.…
Skuja Braden portrait in porcelain 2020 Skuja Braden is a pseudonym & the surnames of International duo Ingūna Skuja (Latvia), & Melissa Braden (USA) working collectively & primarily with porcelain. Skuja Braden represents an “absence of presence” of an individual author, where two artists have combined forces creating a fictive and alternate proxy identity. Collaboration is the non-hierarchical framework Skuja Braden utilize as method, strategy, and philosophy, exploring alternative relations to power through a fusion of disparate identities, inclinations, and perceptions. The work is conceptually based, but always expressed as a synthesis of painting & sculpture. Their works blend decorative, literary, and political elements into hybrid forms utilizing material that is historically associated with absolute refinement. Afternoon Matinee, porcelain (65x39x21 cm) 2021 Flower Power, porcelain (64x33x30) 2022 Rock-a-bye, porcelain, stoneware, wood, and wax (56x64xx36cm) 2008…
In 1932, Paulina Peavy (1901 – 1999) attended a séance at the home of Ida L. Ewing in Santa Ana, California, where she claims to have met a UFO named Lacamo, a spirit from another world. From that moment forward Peavy, a university-trained artist, painted with a brush that “moved on its own.” In order to better channel Lacamo’s energies, Peavy also constructed and wore masks when she painted, occasionally signing her works with Lacamo’s name alongside her own. Peavy’s entire life was dedicated to promoting her worldview and various philosophies through drawing, painting, sculpture, text, and film. Her works on paper depict the artist’s individualized visual cosmos using shapes that resemble energy beams, solar systems, and procreative organic shapes signifying genitalia, ova, fallopian tubes, sperm, and fetuses. Peavy’s life and work were constantly evolving to reflect her belief in mankind’s evolution to an androgynous one-sex through contact with aliens. Laura Whitcomb is a surrealist scholar and the director of Label Curatorial, which focuses on lesser-known artists and movements of the West Coast. She has worked at the Gala - Salvador Dalí Foundation at the Dalí Theatre Museum in Figueres, Spain, while also contributing essays for exhibitions at the Dalí Museum in Florida. She is also a focused scholar of artists who engage hermetic traditions in their art practice. "Paulina Peavy: Etherian Channeler" in 2023 (D.A.P.) is edited by the adjunct LACMA curator Dr. Ilene Susan Fort and focuses on the channeler artist Paulina Peavy, whom Whitcomb curated at Beyond Baroque in 2021 and for the Andrew Edlin gallery in 2023. Label Curatorial focuses on sound art and light artists. Studying the inceptive roots of what became Los Angeles's most notable home-grown movement, she presented a Light and Space installation of Peter Alexander, Laddie John Dill, and Larry Bell at the official re-opening of the Brand Library and Art Center in 2014. In 2022, she curated "Luminaries of Light and Space" at LAX Airport, produced by Dublab, which included these artists along with Robert Irwin, De Wain Valentine, Fred Eversley, Helen Pashgian, Hap Tivey, and Gisela Colon. Whitcomb has two books forthcoming through Label Curatorial, highlighting artist and poet-run galleries from 1949-1965 and artists of the Beat era who continued surrealist lineages while exploring the occult. Paulina Peavy (1901 - 1999) 82 Modern Art, n.d. Mixed media 7.75 x 10 x 0.5 inches Paulina Peavy (1901 - 1999) Phantasma 59, c. 1980s Acrylic on canvas board 24 x 30 inches Paulina Peavy (1901 - 1999), Untitled, c. 1937 - 1939, Oil on panel, 72 x 48 inches…
Julien Gardair portrait by Catherine Talese Julien Gardair is a French artist based in New York City since 2007. His cutout paintings, installations, sculptures, and works on paper are known for their adherence to strict sustainable systems. Gardair's art frequently incorporates a blend of languages and stories, creating a diverse and multilayered visual experience. Julien Gardair’s recent paintings reveal his innovative approach to art. Drawing inspiration from the Supports/Surfaces movement in France and the Pattern/Decoration movement in the United States, Gardair’s art is a fusion of materiality and pattern, along with the structural constraints of Minimalism. These multi-faceted pieces are a synthesis of vibrant paintings and textile works and are created by employing techniques like folding, cutting, and stitching. His work challenges the viewer’s perception of materiality. His sustainable approach ensures that no parts of the paintings are discarded, nodding to the global potential of restoration and upcycling. He holds an MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris Cergy and his work has been shown throughout Europe and the United States. Notably, he was included in La couleur toujours recommencée, the first exhibition of the re-vamped Musée Fabre in Montpellier along with Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, Shirley Jaffe, Peter Soriano and others. He has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de Céret and Bric Arts, Brooklyn. He was commissioned by the New York MTA Arts & Design to create a permanent installation for the 18th Avenue and Kings Highway stations in Brooklyn. The Mobilier National also commissioned him to design a Savonnerie carpet on display at the Elysée Palace. The exhibition Julien Gardair / Melanie Vote: Concurrence, offers an intimate exploration of works by both artists, who beyond their individual artistic pursuits, share a bond as a married couple. The show, presented by Garvey|Simon takes place at DFN Projects, 16 East 79th Street until November 3rd, 2023, Monday to Friday from 11 am to 4 pm. Julien Gardair, Ascension, 2023, 16x12in, Acrylic on canvas, folded, cut, stitched, and stretched over wooden stretchers. Julien Gardair, Wide open, 2023, 16x12in, Acrylic on canvas, folded, cut, stitched, and stretched over wooden stretchers. Left: Julien Gardair, Zaouji, 2023, 16x12in, Acrylic on reclaimed pants and canvas, folded, cut, stitched, and stretched over wooden stretchers. Center: Melanie Vote, Flamboyan, 2023, 16 x 12, oil on paper on wood. Right: Julien Gardair, Striped, 2023, 16x12in, Acrylic on reclaimed t-shirt and canvas, folded, cut, stitched and stretched over wooden stretchers.…
Aiba Riji 相場るい児 Based in Seto City, the epicenter of Japanese ceramic making since 10th century, Ruiji Aiba (b. 1964 in Fukuoka) creates ceramic sculptures and “netsuke.” They are often figures of children, innocently unclothed and at play with frogs, goldfishes, octopuses. Inspired by traditional dolls, fairy tales, classic movies and manga, Aiba emphasizes the ominosity aspect of dolls. The artists describes they are “neither human nor objects. Dolls are transcendental existence.” Aiba’s recent exhibitions were presented at SEIZAN Gallery (New York and Tokyo), Tsuboya Gallery (Kyoto), Gallery Kenbishi (Aichi), Ginza Mitsukoshi (Tokyo). The artist’s first solo exhibition in the US “Dancing With An Octopus” is on view at SEIZAN Gallery New York through October 21st. Ruiji Aiba, Octopus And Child, 2023, Ceramic, 8.3 x 8.3 x 5.7 inches (21 x 21 x 14.5 cm) Photo by Kenichi Hashimoto / Courtesy of SEIZAN Gallery Ruiji Aiba Octopus And Child, 2023 Ceramic 8.3 x 8.3 x 5.7 inches (21 x 21 x 14.5 cm) Photo by Kenichi Hashimoto / Courtesy of SEIZAN Gallery Ruiji Aiba Two Innocent Boys: Death Comes Equally, 2023 Ceramic Set of 2: 11 x 3.9 x 3.5 inches (28 x 10 x 9 cm) 10.6 x 3.9 x 3.5 inches (27 x 10 x 9 cm) Photo by Kenichi Hashimoto / Courtesy of SEIZAN Gallery…
Kandy G Lopez As a multi-media Afro-Caribbean American portrait artist, Kandy G Lopez explores identity through marginalized individuals who represent her community. Navigating through her own identity has inspired works from a variety of mediums to further the conversation of “otherness” with metaphorical and psychological significance. Lopez (b. New Jersey) lives and works in Fort Lauderdale. Selected solo exhibitions include “(in)visibility: cache,” NSU Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale (2023); “Phenomenal Woman,” Miramar Cultural Center (2023); “Intersectionality”, Coral Spring Museum of Art (2023); “(in)visible: Code-Switching,” Girls Club Warehouse, Fort Lauderdale (2022); “(in)visibility: Yup-Pity,” Frank C Ortis Gallery (Third Space), Pembroke Pines (2022). Lopez’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Kinfolk House, Armory Art Center, New Bedford Art Museum, and Studio 18. Lopez received the Broward County Cultural Division Artist Innovation Grant for 2022–2023 and the Project Row House Grant in 2022. She has also been awarded residencies at Nacan in the Dominican Republic (2023), Ucross in Wyoming (2022), Hambidge in Rabun County, Georgia (2021), and Stay Home Gallery & Artist Residency in Paris, Tennessee (2021). Octavia, 2023 Yarn and acrylic on plastic canvas, 50 x 60 in. Courtesy the artist and ACA Galleries, New York Marly & Luis (green), 2022 Yarn and acrylic on plastic canvas, 96 x 60 in. Courtesy the artist and ACA Galleries, New York Br00klynBetty, 2021 Yarn and spray paint on plastic canvas, 90 x 60 in. Courtesy the artist and ACA Galleries, New York…
Photo: Keith Stein Anita Rogers Gallery is pleased to present Superunknown, an exhibition of new work by Henry Mandell. Superunknown, Mandell’s debut solo exhibition at Anita Rogers Gallery, features paintings and drawings from several bodies of work the artist began during the pandemic. Mandell’s studio practice is focused on the exploration of experimental artistic practices, the human condition, scientific principles and their merging effect on our lives, pioneering unique approaches to creating abstract artworks. All of the paintings in Superunknown began as stories, poems, or written data. Using digital tools, Mandell transforms line by line, letter by letter, the characters of selected source text into visually compelling abstract imagery. The first step in transforming what is known into the unknown, experimenting and painting without the use of iterative code. All creative decisions remain with the artist’s hand and mind, establishing Mandell’s wide visual vocabulary with digital painting. The Superunknown series of paintings depict multilayered objects composed of fine colored lines of transformed text about dark matter and current theories about what comprises the fabric of the universe. Each colored line is a separate letter. Like fabric, the overall form is knit up from thousands of separate fine colored line elements like a tapestry from another dimension. The source theories bound up into the artwork represent the limits of our knowing, as 80% of everything everywhere is invisible dark matter / dark energy and is beyond our understanding. The Satoshi’s Garden paintings depict looping vortexes of chimerical limbs and primeval roots; strange forms that seem to overrun the thresholds of cognition and formation. A growing living network inspired by mycelium. The paintings are composed from the text of the Bitcoin White Paper. No one knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is. He, She, It or They authored the Bitcoin White Paper. The paper solved the problems of establishing an internet-based platform for conducting financial transactions without banks via a ‘blockchain’ of growing code that lives on thousands of networked computers worldwide mimicking the Wood Wide Web of living plants. Within the Wood Wide Web, actual living root systems are connected by mycelium fungi. They are completely mysterious, and how they work to nourish every living plant in the wild is beyond our understanding. The Plumb paintings shimmer with thousands of thin vertical lines converging into a veil of color. A plumb line is traditionally used to level and center one’s self on the surface of the Earth. It is an ancient tool still in use today, with a hanging weight at the end of a single string that always points to the center of the Earth due to gravity. In the paintings, the lines are the transformed text of poetry by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. The Theory Of Mind paintings form expressively sinuous interwoven patterns of colored lines within an inverted triangle. Composed from altered text about theory of mind, an important social-cognitive milestone that involves the ability to think about mental states, both your own and those of others and their emotions, desires, beliefs, and knowledge. Foundational to the development of empathy in children. Also, triangles seem to suggest ‘otherness’, as in it is an unfamiliar form in everyday experience and can serve as an invitation to relate to an ‘other’. The theme for Superunknown is described by the artist in this way: “I am inspired by the words of the great artist Ann Hamilton in her essay Making Not Knowing: One doesn’t arrive — in words or in art — by necessarily knowing where one is going. In every work of art something appears that does not previously exist, and so, by default, you work from what you know to what you don’t know. You may set out for New York but you may find yourself as I did in Ohio. You may set out to make a sculpture and find that time...…
Judy Fox is a sculptor who works in the Hudson Valley, with a studio in Rhinebeck, New York. As an undergraduate she studied sculpture at Yale (BA1978) and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She received advanced degrees in Art History (MA1983) and Conservation (1985) from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (NYU). She is a Senior Critic and professor at the New York Academy of Art. Fox has participated in numerous exhibitions around the U.S. and in Europe. A fellow of both Yaddo and MacDowell residencies, she has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the “Anonymous Was a Woman” Foundation, the National Academy of Design, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has had solo exhibitions at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; and Kunsthalle im Pallazo, Liestal, Switzerland. She has been the subject of many reviews and articles, including features in Art in America (2000), Artnet (2007), Sculpture Review (2010), O Magazine (2012), Ceramics: Art and Perception (2013), New Ceramics (2015), and Artforum (2019). Her work has been featured in several books, including David Ebony et al, Curve/The Female Nude Now (2003), Veronica Gunter, 500 Figures in Clay (2004), the Dutch publication Het Grote Boek 2 (2017), Judith Schwartz, Confrontational Ceramics (2008), and Cristina Cordova, The Figure in Clay (2022). She contributed essays to The Figure: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture: Contemporary Perspectives (Rizzoli 2014). Judy Fox, Broccoli, 2023, terra cotta, casein paint 4 x 10 x 7 inches Judy Fox, Naval Orange, 2023, terra cotta, casein paint 8 x 8 x 8 inches Judy Fox Pumpkin, 2023, terra cotta, casein paint 11 x 15 x 12 inches…
Michael Polakowski is a painter based in Detroit, MI. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Oever Gallery in Oostende, BE, in the two-person show ‘Near/Far’. In January 2023, his solo show ‘Anywhere and Here’ was mounted at Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Other notable exhibitions include the group shows ‘Potluck’ at Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; ‘LAX / AMS’ at Thinkspace Projects, Amsterdam, NL; ‘Voyage’ at Nothing at All, Sheung Wan, HK; ‘Get Together’ at Reyes Finn, Detroit, MI; and ‘Pet Peeves’ at 5-50 Gallery, NYC. Polakowski was awarded the Red Bull House of Art Residency in the fall of 2019. He recently completed a mural in collaboration with the Detroit Institute of Arts as a part of their Partners in Public Art Program and has participated in Murals in the Market and Bright Walls Mural Festival. His works have been featured by publications like Juxtapoz, Booooooom and ArtMaze Magazine. Polakowski’s work is currently on view at 5-50 Gallery in New York City, in the two-person show ‘Back In 5’, alongside paintings by Ivan Montoya. ‘Back in 5’ is on view through the 8th of October. Michael Polakowski, 'I'll Be Back in 5', 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24” Michael Polakowski, 'Minor Inconvenience', 2023, acrylic on canvas, 46” x 36” Michael Polakowski, 'Kick Your Feet Up', 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24"…
In this interview with Jasmin Anoschkin, her husband, Severi Haapala serves as the translator for part of the interview Jasmin Anoschkin creates her sculptures entirely by her own hand, whether she is carving wood with a chainsaw or molding clay. Eschewing attempts at technical perfection, she does not hide evidence of these physical processes, embracing uneven surfaces or unexpected glaze effects in her ceramic works. Her whimsical yet poignant characters and the dreamlike world they inhabit suggest an alternative to the rigid and narrow societal standards of what is valued and accepted. Their absolute and unironic sincerity feels almost radical—perhaps even uncomfortable sometimes—provoking reflection not only on the prejudices we hold towards others but on the internalized shame we carry within ourselves. Empowering through the permission it offers, this fantasy universe is an invitation to play and to exist as we are, without inhibition. Each work that Anoschkin has produced over the course of her career as a sculptor forms a piece to an ongoing story. No linear timeline or cohesive narrative is made apparent to the viewer in this surreal journey; her creatures interact but their relationships remain ambiguous. Yet, the artist allows us glimpses into her inner life through the unique titles she bestows upon each piece. Often humorous and surprising, they imbue the sculptures with distinct personalities and individual histories. There’s No Italian Man and Bunch of Violets were conceived as a pair, in memory of Anoschkin’s late aunt Terttu, a great supporter of Jasmin’s creativity. When Terttu was younger, there was an Italian man she would visit every summer. Later, when Jasmin would try to inquire about him, she would always snap, “There’s no Italian man.” Bunch of Violets in Finnish is Terttu Orvokki, a play on her aunt’s name. Contemporary Stalker received its title when it emerged from the kiln and Jasmin, an artist for the past twenty years, proclaimed, “Oh yes, I have finally made contemporary art!” A recurring motif throughout her practice has been the unicorn, which she has adopted as an avatar both in her sculptural and video works, as seen in this exhibition with Platinum Yoga Unicorn and Golden Menstruation Yoga. Through her unicorn persona, Anoschkin rejoices in herself. Supercharged Lollipop Valley marks Jasmin Anoschkin’s second solo presentation in the United States. Her breakthrough artwork in Finland was Bambi, shown at the Mänttä Art Festival in 2009, and again in 2010 at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Association of Finnish Sculptors. This piece was subsequently acquired by the Finnish State Art Collection. Anoschkin has been the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and accolades, including being selected as the 2012 young artist in the Satakunta region of Finland, as well as having her work published on a series of postage stamps in 2017. She has exhibited extensively, and is in the collections of numerous institutions such as the Espoo Museum of Modern Art; Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku; Hämeenlinna Art Museum; Vantaa Art Museum; Lönnström Art Museum; and Kerava Art Museum. Her work is on permanent display in the lobby of the Helsinki City Museum, and she is currently featured in group exhibitions at the Hvitträsk Museum, Kirkkonummi, the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, and the Espoo Museum of Modern Art. Anoschkin has been a member of the Arabia Art Department Society since 2014. Contemporary Stalker, 2023, glazed stoneware, 43.5" H x 26.5" W x 27" D Golden Menstruation Yoga, 2020, glazed stoneware, 29.5" H x 23.5" W x 16" D Aqua Ancestor Frog, 2023, glazed stoneware, 27.5" H x 15.25" W x 21.25” D…
photo is by Colin Outridge, image courtesy Charles Moffett Keiran Brennan Hinton (b. 1992, Toronto) lives and works in Toronto and Elgin, Ontario. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2014 and his MFA from Yale University in 2016. Past international solo shows of Brennan Hinton’s work include exhibitions at MAKI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2022); Thomas Fuchs Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany (2021); Charles Moffett, New York, NY (2021); Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario (2020); and Francesco Pantaleone Gallery, Palermo, Italy (2019) among other. His paintings have been featured in institutional exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; James Castle House, Boise, Idaho; and Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester, NY. Keiran Brennan Hinton A Week in March, 2023 56 x 88 inches Oil on linen Photo by Laura Fin. Photo courtesy the artist and Charles Moffett. Keiran Brennan Hinton Morning Coffee, 2023 56 x 44 inches Oil on linen Photo by Laura Fin. Photo courtesy the artist and Charles Moffett. Keiran Brennan Hinton Lilacs in May, 2023 12x9 inches Oil on canvas Photo by Laura Fin. Photo courtesy the artist and Charles Moffett.…
Polina Barskaya (b. 1984, Cherkassy, USSR) received a MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and a BA from Hunter College, NY. Barskaya received an Artist Fellowship in Painting from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) in 2021, and an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2023, 2022 and 2020. Recent exhibitions include Taymour Grahne Projects, London; Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam; DC Moore Gallery, NY; Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY; and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine (“The Best New York Art Shows of 2021”) and Hyperallergic, among others. The artist lives and works in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY and Citta Della Pieve, Italy. Barskaya is represented by Monya Rowe Gallery, NY. Polina Barskaya, Morning in London, 2023, acrylic on panel, 24 by 29.75 inches. Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY. Polina Barskaya Panicale, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 29.75 by 39.75 inches. Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY. Polina Barskaya, Surrounded by Beautiful Things, 2023, acrylic on panel, 24 by 30 inches. Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.…
Will Pappenheimer is a Brooklyn based artist and educator working in new media, performance and installation. His current work explores the collage of the virtual and physical worlds in the recent mediums of augmented or mixed reality and artificial intelligence. He was a founding member of the augmented reality (AR) collective, Manifest.AR, formed in 2011, which pioneered interventionist projects worldwide. His projects and performances have been shown internationally at Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum and the Moving Image Art Fair in New York; LACMA and Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles; MOMA and Bitforms Gallery in San Francisco; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; FACT, Liverpool, UK; Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul; the ICA, CyberArts Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. He recently debuted a solo show of new at the Alpha Gallery in Boston. His works have been reviewed in the Whitney Museum curator, Christiane Paulʼs historical editions of “Digital Art,” Art in America, New York Times, Hyperallergic.org, WIRED, the Boston Globe, and EL PAIS, Madrid. Beacon Hands : for Emma Lazarus, 2022, Will Pappenheimer with choreography by Freya Björg Olafson, an animated AR alternative monument for the statue of Bavaria, in Munich, GDR for public installations #MakeUsVisible x denkFEmale Munich GDR organized by the XREnsemble #65 Flooded and Moldy Rooms After Artists: After Isa Genzken, 2023-07-21 09.31.53, artificial intelligence text prompt image generation, Instagram digital image, inkjet print 40” x 40”, alternatively signed “noOne” to indicate collective and auto-computational processes of authorship Mirrored Lines Painter, Will Pappenheimer, 2021+, Custom Augmented Reality, AR app on IPad Pro, performance documentation still at the :iidrr Gallery for the “404error” show, curated by Natasha Chuk June 16 – July 16, 2023…
Isaac Aden is an American artist. Aden’s work has always engaged painting from the periphery and approached content as a conceptualist. Deeply informed by Art history, Aden implements a structuralist theory developed Rosalind Krauss in her seminal text Sculpture in the Expanded Field to painting. One aspect of Aden’s work remains true to the tradition of painting while the other veers into new territory. Aden has exhibited internationally, including: dOCUMENTA 13, MassMOCA, The Fidericianum, White Box, Kassel Werkstadt, Gallerie Rasch, Ulrike Petschel Gallerie, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, SPRING/BREAK, Art Miami, Contemporary Istanbul, VOLTA Basel, Sotheby’s, The Jerome A. Cohen and Joan Lebold Cohen Center for Art. The Bertha and Karl Luebsdorf Gallery, The International Gallery of Contemporary Art, The Parthenon Museum, The New York Public Library and the World Trade Center. He has been awarded Fellowships from the Kossak Foundation, Creative Capital, The New York Foundation for the Arts and the United States State Department. Isaac Aden, The Numinous Sublime (installation view), 2021, oil on canvas, 144 x 108 each in., Photography by Yao Zu Lu, courtesy of David Richard Gallery Isaac Aden, The Luminous Sublime (for John Friedrick Kensett), 2023, oil on canvas, 144 x 324 in., and Saturn Devouring His Son, 2021, oil on canvas 144 x 108 in., Photography by Yao Zu Lu, courtesy of David Richard Gallery Isaac Aden, The Numinous Sublime (installation view), 2021, oil on canvas, 144 x 108 each in., Photography by Yao Zu Lu, courtesy of David Richard Gallery…
This is the 2nd interview with Joel-Peter Witkin on this program, the fist one can be found here. Note: All the images discussed in order in the interview can be seen here. Joel-Peter Witkin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1939. In 1959, Edward Steichen, head of the department of photography at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), selected one of Witkin’s photographs for its permanent collection when Witkin is 16 years old. Enlists in the U.S. Army as a photographer from 1961-1964. In 1974 he receives a B.F.A. in sculpture from The Cooper Union, the same year awarded a fellowship in writing from Columbia University. In 1976 he receives a M.A. in Photography from the University of New Mexico, and then 1986 he receives a M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico. He has won numerous awards including four National Endowments in photography and the I.C.P. Infinity Award. His photographs have been exhibited internationally and are included in many museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA), Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Spain), The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (USA), Centre Georges Pompidou (France), The Guggenheim Museum (USA), The J. Paul Getty Museum (USA), The Whitney Museum (USA), and Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) (England). Other achievements include Decorated Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres of France in 2000. Over thirty books have been published on his work. Joel-Peter Witkin lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife Cynthia. Joel-Peter Witkin is a photographer whose images of the human condition are undeniably powerful. For more than forty years, he has pursued his interest in spirituality and how it impacts the physical world in which we exist. Finding beauty within the grotesque, Witkin pursues this complex issue through people most often cast aside by society-human spectacles including hermaphrodites, dwarfs, amputees, androgynies, carcasses, people with odd physical anomalies, fetishists, and “any living myth… anyone bearing the wounds of Christ”. His fascination with other people’s physicality has inspired works that confront our sense of normalcy and decency while constantly examining the teachings handed down through Christianity. His constant reference to paintings from art history including the works of Picasso, Balthus, Goya, Velasquez and Miro are testaments to his need to create a new history for himself. By using imagery and symbols from the past, Witkin celebrates our history while constantly redefining its present-day context. Visiting medical schools, morgues and insane asylums around the world, Witkin seeks out his collaborators who, in the end, represent the numerous personas of the artist himself. The resulting photographs are haunting, beautiful and grotesque yet bold in their defiance hideous beauty that is as compelling as it is taboo. Witkin begins each image by sketching his ideas on paper, perfecting every detail by arranging the scene before he gets into the studio to stage his elaborate tableaus. Once photographed, Witkin spends hours in the darkroom, scratching and piercing his negatives, transforming them into images that look made, rather than taken. Through printing, Witkin reinterprets his original idea in a final act of adoration. Joel-Peter Witkin lets us look into his created world which is both frightening and fascinating as he seeks to dismantle our preconceived notions about sexuality and physical beauty. Through his imagery we gain a greater understanding about human difference and tolerance. “My work is based on the nature of man and his relation to the divine. In the work, I attempt to establish a creative and intellectual standard for still photography in a society in moral free fall.” – Joel-Peter Witkin…
Se Yoon Park, 2023. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park, New York. Se Yoon Park 박세윤 (b. 1979, South Korea) is a sculptor living and working in New York. Park’s foundation in architecture is reverberated through the deft construction of his geometries and manipulation of gravity in his sculptural installations. Integral to his perspective is the deconstructivist approach of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Netherlands, where Park began his career as an architect. Koolhaas’ concept of the diagram, sourcing all possibilities on approach to a structure, is a defining principle of Park’s practice as a sculptor. Park conducted his undergraduate studies in architecture at the department of Architectural Engineering at Yonsei University in Seoul and holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University in New York. In addition to his time at OMA, his work in the realm of architecture includes positions with Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Fernando Romero Enterprise (FREE), and with Joshua Ramus (REX). Park began his exploration of light and shadow in his own work as a sculptor in 2014. His work has since been shown by the European Culture Centre in Venice, in tandem with the 57th Venice Biennale, at the United Nations in the 13th UNCCD exhibition, and in solo and two-person exhibitions in New York and Seoul, at Carvalho Park (New York), Gallery Mark (Seoul), and Huue Contemporary (Seoul, Singapore), and as public art commissions in South Korea. His work has been featured in the Brooklyn Rail, Wallpaper* magazine, Artnet News, Dovetail magazine, Surface, Naver Design Press, Artsy Editorial, the Seoulive, Segye Daily, Seoul Economy Daily, among others. Se Yoon Park, Installation view of Dream Pulley (left) and The Dark Blooms and Sings (right), 2023, Roots and Wings exhibition at Carvalho Park, New York. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park. Se Yoon Park, Installation view of Continuum: Father (left) and Continuum: Mother (right), 2023, Roots and Wings exhibition at Carvalho Park, New York. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park. Se Yoon Park, detail view of Continuum: Mother, Roots and Wings exhibition at Carvalho Park, New York. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park.…
Originally from Honduras, Daniel Handal lives and works in New York City. He received his BS in Applied Sciences from Rutgers University and studied photography at the International Center of Photography. His work centers on portraiture and explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. He has had a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Public Library (Flatbush Branch) and has been shown in group exhibitions at the New Mexico Museum of Art, FotoFest in Houston, and the Center for Photography in Woodstock, among others. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Australian Centre for Photography and MKII in London. Handal’s photographs have been published in HuffPost, Slate, and Hyperallergic. He has been awarded residencies at The Millay Colony for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and VCAA—France. Handal currently serves on the board of directors of Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Worcester Art Museum, 21c Museum and Hotels, Transformer Station Contemporary Art, Kala Art Institute, Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts, and more. Here is a link to Daniel's exhibition where you will find the exhibition press release and more details. © Daniel Handal; “Tulip Thijs Boots (Misty Gray),” 2023; Pigment print on gesso-coated aluminum, painted museum box (Edition of 3 + 2 APs); 16 x 20 x 1.5 inches, Courtesy of CLAMP, New York. © Daniel Handal; “Red Hobbit Columbine (Rustic Wood),” 2023; Pigment print on gesso-coated aluminum, painted museum box (Edition of 3 + 2 APs); 16 x 12 x 1.5 inches; Courtesy of CLAMP, New York. © Daniel Handal; “Bunny Tails (Black Iron Silhouette,” 2022; Pigment print on gesso-coated aluminum, painted museum box (Edition of 3 + 2 APs); 13.5 x 9 x 1.5 inches, Courtesy of CLAMP, New York.…
David Kennedy Cutler (b. 1979, Sandgate, VT) is an artist, writer and performer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His practice addresses traces of domesticity; he presents material objects as witnesses of unseen labor and hidden objects. He observes, transfers, and transforms recognizable every day and artistic materials to create installations, paintings, and performances. Cutler received his BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. He has had solo exhibitions at Derek Eller Gallery (NYC), Halsey McKay Gallery (East Hampton, NY), Essex Flowers (NYC), The Centre for Contemporary Art (Tallinn, Estonia) and Nice & Fit (Berlin, Germany). Cutler has performed in various spaces in New York including Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Essex Flowers, Printed Matter, Halsey McKay, Derek Eller Gallery, and Flag Art Foundation, and internationally at the Center for Contemporary Arts Estonia, among others. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Wellin Museum at Hamilton College and The RISD Museum, and his artist’s books are included in the libraries of the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. He has been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, The New Yorker and Modern Painter, among others. Cutler is represented by Derek Eller Gallery, NY and Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton. Currently on view is a two person show, Hedge, with Mosieur Zohore. David Kennedy Cutler, Late Shift, 2023 Inkjet transfer, acrylic, and permalac on canvas, armature wire 88 x 69 x 3.5 inches (223.5 x 175.3 x 8.9 cm) David Kennedy Cutler, Barricade, 2023 Inkjet transfer, acrylic, and permalac on canvas, armature wire 82.75 x 64.5 inches (210.2 x 163.8 cm) David Kennedy Cutler, Balthazar, 2023 Inkjet transfer, acrylic, and permalac on canvas, armature wire and wood 39.5 x 20.5 x 20 inches (100.3 x 52.1 x 50.8 cm)…
Tomás Díaz Cedeño (b. 1983, Mexico City) lives and works in Mexico City. Most recently his work has been shown in a solo exhibition at Silke Lindner (New York) and featured in the group exhibition Equis, I Griega, Zeta at Anonymous (New York). Previously, his work has been featured in the 2021 New Museum Triennial Soft Water, Hard Stone (New York, NY ) Museo MARCO (Monterrey, MX), Fundación Casa de México en España (Madrid, Spain), PEANA (Mexico City and Monterrey), Francois Ghebaly (Los Angeles, CA) and Galerie Nordenhake (Mexico City). Residency programs completed by the artist include LaCasaPark Artist Residency in New York and Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido. Tu, Casi Todo El Tiempo (You, Almost All the Time), 2023 Terracotta, glaze, steel 26 x 20 inches Earthy, Almost Comforting Scent, 2023 Terracotta, glaze steel 38 3/4 x 30 inches Humming Song II, 2023 Cast aluminum, electronic mechanism, rattles, outlet Various dimensions…
Sara Berman (b. 1975, UK) received a BA in Fashion Design from Central Saint Martins in 1999 after which she founded and ran her eponymous fashion brand for 15 years. In 2016 Sara Berman graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art with a MFA in Painting. Berman’s background in fashion influenced her visual arts practice through the use of various textures, layers, mathematical geometry, pattern and materiality. In her work Berman examines how people see and define themselves through the relationships with their clothes, belongings and the spaces they occupy. The character in Sara Berman’s work is inspired by the trope of the female Harlequin in her ascribed role of the Trickster Whore. Through this character Berman explores space and the role of the feminine within it. Solo Exhibitions include (Upcoming) Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2024); (Upcoming) No Visible Means of Support, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA (2023); The Armory Show NYC, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York (2022); Taking Space, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); Double Ententre, Anat Ebgi, LA (2018); Between Community and commerce, Site specific installation ZAZ10TS Time Square, NYC (2018); Matter Out Of Place, 93 Baker St. London, Frieze (2018) and Big Cactus Little Cactus, Galerie Huit, Hong Kong (2017) Sara Berman Kiss Me. I Dare You, 2023 Oil on linen 100 x 100 cm 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in. Image courtesy of the artist Sara Berman / Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery. Sara Berman Cowgirls, 2022 Oil on linen 200 x 200 cm 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. Image courtesy of the artist Sara Berman / Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery. Sara Berman What Part Of NO Don't You Understand, 2023 Oil on Linen 200 x 200 cm 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. Image courtesy of the artist Sara Berman / Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.…
Tanya Minhas is a New York based visual artist. Raised in Karachi, Pakistan, the artist moved to the United States to attend Princeton University. She received her graduate degree from Columbia University, and painted portraits in oil at The Arts Students League. Minhas started Tanya Minhas Studio in 2012, as a space for her various artistic expressions – painting, drawing, textile designs - to come together. Her current work reflects her practice of repetitive drawing, utilizing ink, paint, and other various media. She meditatively explores the state of harmony between the internal and the external, the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the elusive. Through these explorations, she examines how the strength of one’s intrinsic life force affects this harmony, offering an impetus that seeks to balance our internal lives with an increasingly tempestuous external world. Tanya Minhas, Earth, 2023 Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches Tanya Minhas, Melancholy of Stolen Time - Illumination Sunrise, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 9 x 12 inches Tanya Minhas, The Moon Taps at the Ocean's Heart - Summer Stage 2, 2019 Acrylic on wood panel 9 x 12 inches…
Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Zhang Dali Zhang Dali was born in Harbin, China in 1963. He graduated from the painting department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with a BA in 1987. An influential figure in socio-political artistic movements in China, Zhang Dali has, for decades, challenged the conventional with his social documentation in graffiti, sculpture, photography, and painting. Zhang was exiled from China after graduating from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and spent six years immersing himself in Western art and art history in Italy. Upon his return to Beijing, he developed a keen interest in portraiture (usually of himself), documentary and public urban art, often interrupting spaces with confrontational political statements. The photograph series 'A Second History' consists of propaganda and found images under the rule of Mao, which have been doctored or altered to the Chairman's artistic 'vision' of politics and appropriation. He is critically recognized as one of China's first graffiti and street artists. In 2011, Zhang Dali’s work was featured in New Photography 2011 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The New York Times reviewed the show, mentioning that “the evocation of Orwellian busywork constantly varnishing truth for the benefit of dictatorial dominion is chilling to contemplate.” In 2014, Zhang Dali presented a comprehensive solo show at Klein Sun Gallery titled Square, which featured his cyanotypes, fiberglass sculptures, and paintings. Art in America praised Zhang’s work as it ”compels his audience to acknowledge those who are damaged and marginalized, in hopes of expanding civic awareness and empathy” and stated that “it is now time for the Western media to accord Zhang recognition for his powerful, courageous artworks, which speak up for those who cannot freely speak for themselves." His work is in public collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; Smart Museum, Chicago, IL; and Asia Society, New York, NY. Zhang Dali currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Zhang Dali Dove (41), 2021. Red cyanotype on cotton, 63 x 90 1/2 inches (160 x 230 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Zhang Dali Zhang Dali Dove (57), 2023. Blue cyanotype on cotton, 59 x 74 3/4 inches (150 x 190 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Zhang Dali Zhang Dali, Herbarium Pagoda Tree (S. japonicum) (2), 2020. Blue cyanotype on cotton, 53 1/8 x 37 3/4 inches (135 x 96 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Zhang Dali…
Cristina Canale (b. 1961, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) rose to prominence following her participation in the iconic group exhibition Como vai você, Geração 80?, at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (EAV Parque Lage) in Rio de Janeiro in 1984. Like many of her colleagues from the so-called "Generation 80", her early works reveal the influence of the international context as painting resurfaced, especially with that of German Neo-expressionism. Loaded with visual elements and thick paint, her early paintings have a material or textural characteristic that is reinforced by her use of contrasting and vivid colors. In the early 1990s, Canale moved to Germany to study in Düsseldorf under the guidance of the Dutch conceptual artist Jan Dibbets. Her compositions soon acquired a sense of spatiality, as she began to incorporate the use of planes and depth, while also adding greater fluidity to her use of colors. Cristina Canale’s work is often based off prosaic everyday scenes, which she extracts from advertising photography. Her paintings result in elaborate compositions that intertwine the figurative and the abstract, often blurring one with the other. According to the curator Tiago Mesquita, Canale’s production opposes the quest for constituing structures of the image, which artists such as Gerhard Richter and Robert Ryman engage with, tackling instead “the image and established genres of painting in a subjective manner following the belief in a singular experience.” Cristina Canale lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her recent solo exhibitions include: The Encounter, at Nara Roesler (2021), in New York, United States; Cabeças/Falantes, at Galeria Nara Roesler (2018). Cristina Canale Teach (Fessora) 2023 mixed media on canvas 110 x 100 cm. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler. Cristina Canale Jackie 2020 acrylic, oil and linen on canvas 110 x 100 cm. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler Cristina Canale The house and the dreams 2022 mixed media on linen 170 x 190 x 3,5 cm. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler Cristina Canale Sincronias 2022 acrylic paint, oil paint and acrylic spray on linen 170 x 190 cm. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler…
Owen Westberg (b. 1986, Pittsburgh) received an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been included in recent exhibitions at Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; and Dunes, Portland, ME. Lake is his first solo exhibition. Westberg lives and works in Pittsburgh. "For over a decade, Owen has been painting discreet scenes in oil on smoothed birch panels or aluminum flashings that fit smartly into a purse or piece of hand luggage: late afternoon landscapes, round, glowy fruits, a fictional painter or pair of sneakers, tinted windows on a corporate building, and often, patterned fabrics. He paints these low-stakes subjects with wet, slightly oversized brushes that approximate rather than articulate. His marks are straightforward yet sensitive. Never sentimental. Tender but not sweet, and a bit unhinged—as if in a rush to get it all down. His color—always exact—pulls clarity from a hand that favors a wobbly line over a straight one. Simple shifts from cool grey to warm champagne cast a rippled cloth into full relief. The palette is limited but nuanced— soft ochre, medieval blues, kiwi, terracotta and buttercream, and the regular colors: yellow, orange, navy" - Anna Glantz Owen Westberg placemat, 2022 Oil on panel 10 x 8 inches 25.4 x 20.3 cm Owen Westberg ruin, 2023 Oil on aluminum flashing 7 x 5 inches 17.8 x 12.7cm Owen Westberg editorial, 2021 Oil on birch panel 12 x 3 inches 30.5 x 7.5 cm…
Alison Judd is a multi-media artist whose work is rooted in themes relating to nature, the passage of time, and mothering. Recent shows include Vitality, Abigail Ogilvy, Boston, MA; Be-tween, Brandeis University Alumni Art Gallery, Waltham, MA; Sweet Season, Provincetown, MA; Raw Emotion, Boston, MA; Reprise, 13forest, Arlington, MA. Alison grew up in New York City, studied painting and art history at Brandeis University and received her Masters of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking at MassArt. She currently works out of her home studio in the Boston area where she lives with her husband, three children, and her dog. Garden Observer, oil on canvas, 40" x 30" 2023 Nighttime Reading, oil on canvas, 40" x 30" 2023 Back Home, oil on canvas, 40" x 30" 2023…
Esther Sibiude: The Song of Dirt Stammers our Tongue performance at the Kitchen at Westbeth on June 16, 2023. Credit: Rebecca Smeyne for The Kitchen Esther Sibiude is a visual artist, writer, and harpist working in New York. She studied Fine Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin from 2009-2014. She currently has a show of new drawings at Entrance Gallery in New York City. In complement to her visual art practice she writes radio dramas and curates compilations of poetry and music for radio. Recent performances that she has written, directed and played harp in include “The Song of Dirt Stammers Our Tongue” a live staged radio operetta performed at the Kitchen last month, and “Esra” a live staged adaptation of a radio drama, performed in the panorama of New York City at the Queens Museum. Esther Sibiude’s music ensemble includes a violist, cellist, vocalist, an organist who plays the synthesizer, and herself on the harp. 'One morning of all the mornings in the world, existence and its problematic aspect rose. Somewhere in this chaotic universe, in a relatively rare occurrence, molecular randomness generated organic proteins.', 2018Colored pencil on paper, 25½ x 31½ in. (Framed) 'Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a calendar of space whose nature was to distribute good and bad luck. On day one, the calendar imposed vertiginous symmetries. An empty sound sprinkled into pink air.', 2022Colored pencil on paper, 25½ x 31½ in. (Framed) 'Her mind slipped down the stairs.', 2023Colored pencil on paper, 26½ x 38½ in. (Framed)…
David Bordett (b. 1991, Shenandoah Valley, VA) is an interdisciplinary sculptor whose work critically examines American lore, half truths, and false promise, casinos and class struggle, road side attractions and exploitation, the optimism of the post war 20th century and the ideologies of control that are at work always in aesthetics. Objects and environments operate as catalysts of fantasy, creating a zone of simultaneous horror and seduction that reveals through popular cultural forms our collective desires, aspersions, and fears. He received his BFA from the VCU Department of Sculpture and Extended Media, and MFA from the Yale Sculpture Department. For now, he maintains no permanent residence and continues to drive his 1999 Toyota Tacoma that at the time of writing shows over 330,000 miles on its odometer. Lower Than Below (even the bluest sky changes hue at night) 2021 hand made excavator bucket: steel, aluminum, plywood, adhesive, fasteners, paint, water, aquatic flora (Collaboration - David Bordett and Tommy Coleman) Wild Card 2023 perforated 1970 Dock Ellis Topps baseball card, LySergic acid Diethylamide, aluminum, steel, concrete, rebar, museum acrylic, paint, security fasteners, Georgia Pine, western red cedar, Arri tripod stand, moss Starry, Speculative, Spectacle, Skeptical 2023. wood, electrical components, incandescent lightbulbs, braided steel line and hardware, recovered Volkswagen Karmann Ghia body, yard detritus, soil and sod, projectors…
Susan Vecsey adapts the Color Field technique of pouring paint to create a personal language of abstraction, rooted in the natural world and the human experience of it. In a distinctive process that includes plein-air charcoal drawing, pastel and color studies, and multiple pours of liquefied oil on a surface of raw Belgian linen, she builds compositions in luminous tonal combinations that evoke the optical effects of sea, light, and air. Inspired by the landscapes of eastern Long Island, Vecsey’s paintings evoke not just a place, but it’s very atmosphere. Born in New Jersey in 1971, Vecsey earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her M.F.A. from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, where she studied with Graham Nickson. She has had solo exhibitions at Greenville County Museum in South Carolina, John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, Tayloe Piggott Gallery in Jackson Hole, and Berry Campbell Gallery in New York, among other venues. She lives and works in Manhattan and East Hampton, Long Island. Susan Vecsey (b. 1971) Untitled (Gray), 2022 Oil on linen 52 x 58 in. (132.1 x 147.3 cm) © Susan VecseyCourtesy Berry Campbell, New York. Susan Vecsey (b. 1971) Untitled (Blue), 2023 Oil on linen 74 x 90 in. (188 x 228.6 cm) © Susan VecseyCourtesy Berry Campbell, New York. Susan Vecsey (b. 1971) Untitled (Blue Nocturne), 2023 Oil on linen 48 x 76 in. (121.9 x 193 cm) © Susan VecseyCourtesy Berry Campbell, New York…
Diana Copperwhite (b. 1969, Ireland) lives and works in Dublin and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Driven by Distraction, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2016), Depend on the Morning Sun, Thomas Jaeckal Gallery, New York (2016) and A Million and One Things Under the Sun, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Last Picture Show w/Mary Heilmann, Chris Ofili, Danny Rolph, Vanessa Jackson, Elio Rodriguez, Jill Levine, Rebecca Smith, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York (2017) and Virtú, inc. Picasso, Giacometti, Henry Moore, Elizabeth Magill and Sean Scully at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland (2017). Copperwhite’s work is held in numerous public and private collections including: the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Office of Public Works, Contemporary Irish Art Society, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland (Finland), Dublin Institute of Technology and The President of Ireland. TRAPDOOR, 2022, Oil on canvas, 140 x 120 cm BLIZZARD, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 150 x 180 cm…
Bjørn Friborg by Joe Kramm Bjørn Friborg (Danish, b. 1983) is a glass artist who defies historical methods of making and reinvents process with a dramatically physical approach that pushes the limits of material and technique. His practice is as much performance as a functional act; with unbridled intensity he pierces, ruptures, and manipulates the molten substance with results that are otherworldly, his tour de force actions viscerally reflected in the transformed material. Friborg’s innovative approach is directly linked to his current position as the hot shop manager at Holmegaard Værk, Denmark’s leading glass factory which has been resurrected to develop the practice of contemporary glassmaking both in Denmark and internationally. Friborg received a BFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Design and Conservation in 2013 after studying in Sweden at both the Åfors Glasbruk, V.1 Mästare Ingvar Carlsson “Kalle Pack” and the Kosta Glass School. His work has been exhibited throughout Scandinavia and internationally. Installation view of Bjørn Friborg: Imploded, Photo by Joe Kramm Installation view of Bjørn Friborg: Imploded, Photo by Joe Kramm Bjørn Friborg, Implosion, 2023, Hand-blown glass 18" Dia. x 7” D, Photo by Joe Kramm…
Tom Duncan’s love for sculpture began at age 4 when he was given a clay set by his aunt. Born in Scotland in 1939 just before World War II broke out, he moved with his mother and brother to New York City shortly after the war ended. Much of Duncan’s artwork reflects memories of his childhood during the war. He is an original tenant at Westbeth, where his three daughters, Rachel, Gwynne, and Jane, grew up. In his Westbeth studio, he has created mixed media pieces like Dedicated to Coney Island and Portrait of Tom with a Migraine Headache, each of which took some twenty-five years to complete. Tom Duncan (b. 1939) Detail of The Execution of Private Slovik, 2009 mixed media 74 x 21.5 x 12.5 inches Tom Duncan (b. 1939) Detail of 5 Catholic High School Girls ..., 2001 Mixed media 37 x 22 x 1.5 inches Tom Duncan (b. 1939) Portrait of Tom with a Migraine Headache, 2013 Mixed media 128.75 x 61.5 inches…
Deanna Havas (b. 1989 in New York, US) is an artist based in Budapest, Hungary. Havas received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Germany in 2016. Havas’ work has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at the following venues: Tara Downs, New York, US (2023); Triest, Brooklyn, US (2022); Meow 2, Melbourne, AU (2022); Sundogs, Paris, FR (2018); Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, PT (2017); Marbriers 4, Geneva, CH (2015). Deanna Havas's work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions including Colnaghi, New York, US (2022); 1857, Oslo, NO (2017); Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE (2017); Treize, Paris, FR (2016); Schloss Schöngrabern, Ebreichsdorf, AT (2016); Villa Empain, Brussels, BE (2016); and Eli Ping Frances Perkins, New York, US (2016). Exhibition view of Deanna Havas: Message From the Source. Tara Do'WllS, New York, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs. Photo: Farzad Owrang Deanna Havas, Untitled, 2023. Inkjet and acrylic on canvas, 59 x 78 3/4 in/ 150 x 200 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs. Deanna Havas, Enhanced Serenity, 2023. Inkjet and acrylic on canvas, 39 1/4 x 59 in/ 100 x 150 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs.…
Zoe Pettijohn Schade’s densely researched, seductively beautiful drawings and paintings of varying size explore the scientific, art historical, and philosophical aspects of pattern. Her lifelong repertoire of work rests on the premise that the pursuit of form, repetition, organization, and its arrangements are as vitally important and determining as the finality of the image itself. Pettijohn Schade studied at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, NY in 1995. In 2012-13, she traveled to France on a Fulbright U.S. Research Scholars Grant to work with a collection of 18th century textile paintings, many completed by anonymous women laborers. The title of her third solo exhibition at Kai Matsumiya Gallery, The Hard Problem, on view until June 17, refers to the question of how physical matter gives rise to consciousness. Recent exhibitions include Our Secret Fire at Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY; Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, curated by Jenelle Porter, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; and deCordova New England Biennial 2019, curated by Sarah Monstross, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. Zoe Pettijohn Schade Mirrored Pyramid, 2021 gouache with dyed silver leaf on paper 10½ x 10½ in. 26.67 x 26.67 cm. Zoe Pettijohn Schade Attempts at Self-Organization 7, 2020 gouache with dyed silver leaf, oxidized silver leaf, composite leaf on paper 19 x 13¾ in. 48.26 x 34.92 cm. Zoe Pettijohn Schade, Attempts At Self Organization 8, 2021, Gouache with dyed silver leaf, toned aluminum leaf, copper leaf, gold leaf, and palladium leaf on paper, 22¼ x 18⅛ in. 56.52 x 46.04 cm.…
George Widener’s artwork is as intellectually challenging as it is aesthetically compelling. A high-functioning savant who has channeled his extraordinary gifts of numerical computation into artmaking, Widener struggled for years before his talent was recognized. Born in Kentucky in 1962, Widener’s was not diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome until he was an adult, making an already difficult childhood even more so. Following a stint of service in the US Air Force, Widener was diagnosed with depression, and committed to several psychiatric hospitals. He eventually attended the University of Tennessee. He currently lives and works in Waynesville, NC, near Asheville. Widener’s brain has been proven to function as a super-calculator, a gift that allows him to process mathematical information in a radically different way than most people do. By directing his impulse to calculate complex sequences of numbers through stunning, often large-scale drawings, Widener makes visible not only his savant skillset, but also his unique creative talent for reimagining it aesthetically. Far from mere illustrations of mathematical process, his drawings stage through form and content simultaneously, often playing out elaborate numerical puzzles and games, complex puns, palindromes, and informed prophecies. The artist’s love for punning is evidenced by drawings of magic squares: squares that contain 9 rows of numbers, in each row of numbers adds up to the same value. The artist’s work can be found in many notable public and private collections, including, among others, the American Folk Art Museum (New York), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.), the Collection de l’Art Brut (Lausanne, Switzerland), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the abcd/art brut Collection Bruno Decharme (Paris), the Museum of Everything (London), museum gugging (Klosterneuburg, Austria), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Chicago), the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), and the Asheville Art Museum (Asheville, NC). George Widener, Titanic, 100 years, 1912 - 2012, 2012 Paint and ink on joined paper 60 x 60 inches George Widener, Blue Monday, c. 2002 Mixed media on paper 15.6 x 29.4 inches George Widener, Self Portrait, 2020 Mixed media on paper 60 x 59.5 inches George Widener, Magic Square (Revolutions), 2022 Graphite and acrylic paint on paper 33 x 40 inches…
Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl is a ceramic artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has worked with a myriad of spatial themes and ornaments that frequently reoccur in his formal vocabulary, and which emerge through a methodical, gradual and experimental serial process. Notably, the knot as a shape has been a leitmotif offering possibilities for various sinuous rhythmic cadences and abstract narratives. The hand built architectonic works appear as ‘spatial drawings’–solid, twisting and turning through space. Kaldahl’s interest also lies in the potential of the object to make a direct emotional impact on the viewer. The motif is always clear in its simplicity and easily decoded while remaining open to interpretations. Kaldahl first trained as a potter in the 1970s. In 1988, he joined the Masters program at the Royal College of Art in London, where he graduated in 1990. He is a co-founder of the artist run exhibition platform, Copenhagen Ceramics (CC) launched in 2012. Kaldahl’s works are represented in several public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Danish Museum of Art & Design in Copenhagen, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo and Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. MARTIN BODILSEN KALDAHL, Load - Spatial Drawing #89, 2023, Earthenware, hand-built, 36” H x 20.5” W x 17” D MARTIN BODILSEN KALDAHL, Talk - Spatial Drawing #85, 2023, Earthenware, hand-built, 33.5” H x 20.5” W x 17” D MARTIN BODILSEN KALDAHL, Walk Done - Spatial Drawing #84, 2023, Earthenware, hand-built, 34.5" H x 21" W x 21" D.…
Ted Gahl creates intuitive paintings of varying scale, embedding and juxtaposing personal imagery of the present alongside art historical influences of the past. Gahl’s paintings often read as elements of subconscious activities–reveries, dreams, and memories, while being firmly grounded in the act of painting itself. He obtained his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2006 and MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include MAMOTH, London; Harkawik, Los Angeles; Halsey McKay, East Hampton; Massif Central, Brussels; Alexander Berggruen, New York. Recent group exhibitions include Valentin, Paris; Bjorn & Gundorph, Aarhus, Denmark; S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium; Halsey McKay, East Hampton. Gahl is a 2022 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He lives and works in Northwest Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York. Gallery Installation. Courtesy, Harkawik. Ted Gahl, The Entertainer, 2022. Acrylic, Moroccan pigments, graphite, colored pencil on canvas in artist's frame, 40 x 30 inches. Courtesy, Harkawik. Ted Gahl Tree With Lichen 2022 108”h x 72”w (274 x 183cm) Acrylic on unstretched canvas. Courtesy, Harkawik.…
Portrait of Nicholas Hatfull. Courtesy of the artist and Dracula’s Revenge, New York. Nicholas Hatfull (born in Tokyo, Japan) is a painter who lives and works in Norwich, UK. Hatfull’s first solo exhibition in the United States, titled Shades, is on view at Dracula’s Revenge in New York through June 18. Hatfull received a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2011, and was the Sainsbury Scholar in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome in 2012. Recent solo exhibitions include Josh Lilley, London (2020, 2017, 2014); The Club, Tokyo (2019); and Peles Empire, London (2012). Group exhibitions include Leave the road; take the trail at Xenia Creative Retreat, Hampshire (2022); Timelessness at The Club, Tokyo (2020); Stains On A Decade at Josh Lilley, London (2019); Folly at Emalin, Airth, Scotland (2016); D’Après Giorgio at Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome (2012); and Re-generation at Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2012). His work has appeared in Financial Times, Frieze, Mousse, and Time Out, among others. Hatfull’s writing about painting has appeared in Apollo, Frieze, Mousse, and monographs such as Michael Armitage ‘You, Who Are Still Alive’ (2022). Nicholas Hatfull Shades V, 2023 Oil, gouache and acrylic on canvas 67 x 51 1/4 inches (170 x 130 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Dracula’s Revenge, New York. Nicholas Hatfull Shades IV, 2023 Oil, gouache and acrylic on canvas 67 x 51 1/4 inches (170 x 130 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Dracula’s Revenge, New York. Nicholas Hatfull Shades I, 2022 Oil, gouache and acrylic on canvas 67 x 51 1/4 inches (170 x 130 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Dracula’s Revenge, New York.…
Luciana Abait was born in Argentina and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her multimedia works deal with climate change, environmental awareness and displacement issues facing immigrants. Abait’s artworks have been shown widely in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia in solo shows in galleries, museums and international art fairs. Recent projects have been shown at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the Palm Springs Museum of Art. She has completed numerous public art commissions and installations. Her solo exhibition “On the Verge” is currently on view at the Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana. On the Verge 7, Photograph on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, 11 x 16 inches, 2022 Green Sky and Black Mountain Archival pigment print mounted on wood panel, 50 x 60 inches, 2021. Agua, immersive video projection on the Petroleum Securities Building in Downtown Los Angeles, 37 h x 32 w feet, 2021.…
Victor Boullet (b.1969, Oslo, Norway) lives and works in London, UK and Oslo, Norway. His exhibition at the gallery consisted of two "chapters". The first 4 weeks with paintings installed. The remaining 2 weeks, the paintings were stacked in a corner covered in a blanket, becoming a single work; and 130 drawings were installed on the walls. Links to each chapter can be found here: Chapter One and Chapter Two. Victor Boullet, Binman (Heritage Problem), 2020-2021. Oil on linen Victor Boullet, Untitled (2021). Oil on linen Victor Boullet, Cherries from the Bin, 2019-2021. Oil on linen.…
Erin Milez, Courtesy of the artist and Monya Rowe Erin Milez (b. 1994, Pittsburgh, PA) received a MFA from New York Academy of Art, NY and a BA from Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA. Her work has recently been exhibited at Lorin Gallery, LA; Arsenal Contemporary Art, NY; Cob Gallery, London; and Kutlesa Gallery, Switzerland. In 2020, the artist was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Milez will have a solo exhibition at Monya Rowe Gallery in October 2023. The artist lives and works in Bayonne, NJ, and is represented by Monya Rowe Gallery, NY. ERIN MILEZ Telephone, 2023 watercolor media, colored pencil, and flashe on paper 24 by 18 inches Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY ERIN MILEZ The Cleaners Greet the Day's End, 2023 Oil and acrylic on canvas 66 by 48 inches Courtesy of Lorin Gallery, LA and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY ERIN MILEZ, The Tenders Become Their Land, 2023, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 43 by 72 inches. Courtesy of Lorin Gallery, LA and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY…
photograph by Lori E. Seid Charles Atlas was born in St. Louis, MO in 1949; he has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1970s. Recent solo exhibitions include The Mathematics of Consciousness, a 100-foot long video installation commissioned by Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, and supported by a grant from the VIA Art Fund; Charles Atlas: Ominous, Glamorous, Momentous, Ridiculous, Fondazione ICA Milano, Italy; and Charles Atlas: The past is here, the futures are coming and The Kitchen Follies, The Kitchen, New York. In 2017, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles acquired Atlas' five-channel video installation with sound entitled The Tyranny of Consciousness, which won a prize in Viva Arte Viva, the 57th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennial. In September 2019, Atlas unveiled The Geometry of Thought, a new commission for Art on theMART that spanned across the 2.5 acre river fac;:ade of theMART in Chicago.Atlas' work is included in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Art; Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin; Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; and De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands. Charles Atlas, A Prune Twin, 2020, Eight-channel video installation with four monitors, with sound, Dimensions variable, Installation view Luhring Augustine Chelsea, New York (January 28 – March 11, 2023). © Charles Atlas; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photo: John Berens. Charles Atlas, A Prune Twin, 2020, Eight-channel video installation with four monitors, with sound, Dimensions variable, Installation view Luhring Augustine Chelsea, New York (January 28 – March 11, 2023). © Charles Atlas; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photo: John Berens.…
Charlotte Edey Charlotte Edey is a British artist (b.1992, Manchester). Her work is primarily concerned with contemporary issues of selfhood. Cultural signifiers and personal mythologies are interwoven through a process of world-building. Her imagined realms are peppered with symbolist motifs that explore the politics of embodiment, race, gender and the erotic. Her process combines tapestry and embroidery as an expansion of her drawing practice. Mark-making and gesture are explored through hand-embroidery and beading, forging a relationship between line and thread. Her installations reference ritualistic methods of display that blur the boundary between the real and the represented, forming portals to bodily otherworlds that offer the opportunity to investigate our present. Charlotte Edey lives and works in London. She studied at Chelsea School of Art and Design and the Royal Drawing School. Charlotte Edey, Cutting Ties, 2022, soft pastel on paper in found cedar frame, 13 1/2h x 11w inches, Courtesy of 1969 Gallery and Artist. Charlotte Edey, Finger Coils, 2022, soft pastel on paper, 25 1/2h x 19 1/2w inches, Courtesy of 1969 Gallery and Artist. Charlotte Edey, Tongue Tied, 2022, Woven jacquard tapestry with silk hand-embroidery and freshwater pearl in sapele double frame with hinge, 70cm x 70cm. Courtesy of Artist.…
Photographer: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin Nikki Maloof’s paintings depict the world hidden within the mind. Imagined interiors, and animals become proxies for the human experience. Her subjects convey existential loneliness, but that loneliness is buoyed by humor, capricious paint handling, and the use of a saturated palette. A squiggle depicting ground meat, a cat’s meow being mistaken for a howl, or a comically disillusioned fish being filleted before our eyes, all draw the viewer’s attention to the melancholic and at times brutal tone of the imagery. At the same time, the paint handling and colors attempt to undermine the dark nature of these images all together. This self-defeating melodrama points to an ambivalent view of existence, to a need to laugh and cry and even at once. Nikki Maloof, The Cherry Tree, 2022. Oil on linen, 64 x 48 inch. Photograph: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin. Nikki Maloof, In the Yellow Room, 2022. Oil on linen, 78 x 60 inch. Photograph: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin. Nikki Maloof, Skunk Hour, 2022. Oil on linen, 74 x 114 inch. Photograph: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.…
Victor Burgin (b. 1941, Sheffield, United Kingdom) first came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of the originators of Conceptual Art. His work appeared in such key exhibitions as Harald Szeemann's Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969) at the ICA London, and Kynaston McShine's Information (1970) at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Since then, he has had solo exhibitions at the Museum für Gegenwartkunst Siegen, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, MAMCO Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Mücsarnok Museum, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Musée d'art moderne Villeneuve d'Ascq, The List Visual Arts Center, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Musée de la Ville de Calais, The Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, and Stedelijk van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. His work appears in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, Walker Art Center, Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Museum Ludwig, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Musée national d'art moderne, Sammlung Falckenberg, and The Arts Council Collection in London. Burgin graduated from the School of Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1965, where his teachers included the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, and then went on to study Philosophy and Fine Art at Yale University School of Art and Architecture, where his teachers included Robert Morris and Donald Judd. Burgin is Professor of Visual Culture at the University of Southampton, Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Emeritus Millard Chair of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London. In 2015 he was a Mellon Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He lives and works in South West France and Paris. Victor Burgin, Photopath, 1967-69. instruction card; typewritten on card stock. 5 x 8 inches. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York Installation view of Victor Burgin: Photopath (Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, January 20 - March 4, 2023). Photograph by Elisabeth Bernstein. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York. Detail. Installation view of Victor Burgin: Photopath (Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, January 20 - March 4, 2023). Photograph by Elisabeth Bernstein. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York.…
Lila de Magalhaes (b. 1986, Rio de Janiero) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from the University of Southern California in 2013 and a BA from Glasgow School of Art in 2008. Her recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Palace of Errors, Deli Gallery, NY; Soup of the Night, Matthew Brown, LA; Cupid of Chaos, Ghebaly Gallery, LA; A Soft Flea, Mutt. R, LA; Remote Control, Abode, LA; Exhibition (10), SPF15, San Diego; and Motorfruit, Blood Gallery, NY. She has appeared as well in numerous group exhibitions, including Porch Gallery, Ojai; Company Gallery, NY; Freedman Fitzpatrick, LA; François Ghebaly, LA; ltd los angeles, LA; Steve Turner, LA, PANE Project, Milan; Julius Caesar, Chicago; and 356 Mission, LA. Lila de Magalhaes Interior (The wonders of epsom salt), 2022 Glazed ceramic 9 ½ × 10 ¾ × 1 ½ inches (24.13 × 27.31 × 3.81 cm) Lila de Magalhaes Ride Home, 2022 Dyed fabric, chalk pastel, and thread 43 × 35 × 1 inches (109.22 × 88.90 × 2.54 cm) Lila de Magalhaes Lunch Date, 2022 Dyed fabric, chalk pastel, and thread 62 × 49 × 1 inches (157.48 × 124.46 × 2.54 cm)…
Jakob Jørgensen by Dorte Krogh Jakob Jørgensen was born in 1977 in Nyborg, Denmark. He studied fine art in his early twenties, attending The New Art School, Odense, Denmark and Guildhall School of Fine Arts in London, as well as completing an apprenticeship with Studio Palla in Carrara, Italy. In 2008, he graduated from the Royal Danish Academy for Design, and went on to found a successful design studio. As his interest in large scale steel sculpture developed, he submitted a proposal to the Danish National Workshop in 2017, and was granted access to their vast metalworking facilities. He continued his exploration of the medium, building a dedicated studio tailored to working with steel pipe on the island of Bornholm in 2020. Jørgensen’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions including at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Designmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark; and the 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Finn Juhl Prize, the Bodum Design Award, and the IFDA Goldleaf Award. Installation image of Take Root, From left to right: Resistance, Freedom Vessel, The Wound, The Tree, The Punch, Branch Out II, Branch Out I, 2022, Photo by Joe Kramm. Installation image of Take Root, Wall sculptures from left to right: The Bean, The Beat, The Hole, 2022, Floor sculpture: Freedom Vessel, 2022, Photo by Joe Kramm. The Wound, 2022 Photo by Dorte Krogh https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/The-Burning.mp4…
Julia Wachtel(b.1956, New York, NY) lives and work in New York and Connecticut. Wachtel’s oil, acrylic, and silkscreen-on-canvas paintings, which are drawn from popular culture, explore the impact of our image-saturated world. A figure of the Pictures Generation artists who emerged in early-1980’s New York, Wachtel’s early work mined posters of movie stars, pin-up girls, political figures, and pop music icons, as well as cartoon figures drawn from commercial greeting cards. Her current work primarily explores the vast space of the internet, a place of constantly replenishing images on a disorienting scale. Wachtel appropriates, juxtaposes and ultimately distills these images into concentrated paintings, shifting the original logic and proposing an examination of the emotional, political and aesthetic conditions of an image dominant world. Selected exhibitions include MoMa, New York; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. ; The Whitney Museum Of American Art ; Bergen Kunsthalle, Norway ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ; Le Consortium, France ; MAMCO, Geneva ; Migros Museum, Zurich ; Zabludowicz, London ; Cleveland Museum of Art ; ICA, London ; Kunthalle, Bern. Julia’s work can be found in institutions such as the MoMa, New York ; MOCA,Los Angeles ; The Whitney Museum of American Art ; FRAC Normandie ; Saatchi Collection, London ; Cleveland Museum of Art ; Brooklyn Museum ; Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels ; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London. Julia Wachtel Within and Between, 1984 Oil on canvas 274.3 x 81.3 cm 108 x 32 in © Julia Wachtel. Courtesy Lisson Gallery Julia Wachtel Untitled (Life Blood), 1984 Oil on canvas 274.3 x 83.8 cm 108 x 33 in © Julia Wachtel. Courtesy Lisson Gallery Julia Wachtel Mutant Ninja Chernobyl, 1991 Oil, lacquer ink and Flashe on canvas 152.4 x 335.3 cm 60 x 132 in © Julia Wachtel. Courtesy Lisson Gallery…
Ben Tong (b.1981 Toronto, Canada) is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. His work has been exhibited at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Art Basel Film program, Hong Kong; Europa NYC, New York; Island, New York. He was a fellow at the Villa Aurora Foundation, Berlin, and in residency at the Soma Summer Program, Mexico City. Tong received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, a BFA in Photo from CalArts, and an MFA in Art from CalArts. Ben Tong, Evening’s Revelation, 2022, Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches Ben Tong, I Lost All My Money to You, 2022, Oil on canvas 66 x 56 inches Ben Tong, Dog Star, 2022 Oil on canvas 66 x 66 inches…
Shala Miller, also known as Freddie June when she sings, was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio by two southerners named Al and Ruby. At around the age of 10 or 11, Miller discovered quietude, the kind you’re sort of pushed into, and then was fooled into thinking that this is where she should stay put. Since then, Miller has been trying to find her way out, and find her way into an understanding of herself and her history, using photography, video, writing and singing as an aid in this process. Miller's work in photography and film meditates on the intersection of desire, mourning, pain, and pleasure. Taking up skin as a site of history and intimacy with the self and across generations, she holds space for the body’s vulnerabilities and maladies. Miller lives and works in Brooklyn. The exhibit discussed in the interview is at Lyles & King. Shala Miller Becoming Obsidian, 2023 Archival pigment print on William Turner paper 20 x 16 inches, 50.8 x 40.6 cm Edition of 2 + 1 AP Courtesy the artist and Lyles & King, New York. Shala Miller Modern Day Sisyphus I, 2023 Archival pigment print on William Turner paper, hand engraving on lava stone 48 x 28 inches, 121.9 x 71.1 cm Edition of 2 + 1 AP Courtesy the artist and Lyles & King, New York. Shala Miller Obsidian as Kneeling Inaction Figure, 2023 Polymer powder printed with ink and filled with resin, hand-painted 5 1/4 x 3 x 2 1/2 inches, 13.3 x 7.6 x 6.3 cm Courtesy the artist and Lyles & King, New York.…
Gyan Shrosbree received her B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, and her M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has had recent solo and two-person exhibitions at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; JEFF, Marfa, TX; Wrong Gallery, Marfa, TX; Ola Studio, Pound Ridge, NY: nx.ix Gallery, Detroit, MI; Haus Collective, San Antonio, TX; Grapefruits, Portland, OR; Grand View University, Des Moines, IA; Yellow Door Gallery, Des Moines, IA; Ripon College, Ripon, WI; Lovey Town Space, Madison, WI; and The Iowa Arts Council and State Historical Museum, Des Moines, IA. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions Drake University, Des Moines, IA; Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL; Cleve Carney Art Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL; Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN; The Woskob Family Gallery, State College, PA; NYSRP, Brooklyn, NY; and Artstart, Rhinelander, WI. Gyan has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Yaddo, The Vermont Studio Center, Two Coats of Paint, and The Maple Terrace. Recent publications featuring her work include Hyperallergic, New American Painting, Egomania Magazine,The Coastal Post, Inertia Studio Visits, Precog Magazine, and Maake Magazine. Gyan is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Maharishi International University. She lives and works in Fairfield, Iowa. Instagram for Gyan Shrosbree and Ortega y Gasset Projects. Gyan Shrosbree/Kathleen Shrosbree wearable art on OyG crew acrylic on cotton duck. Gyan Shrosbree, The Dress/What Touches the Floor #5, , acrylic on canvas tarp and stretched canvas, 100” x 60” each, 2022. Gyan Shrosbree Installation, Ortega y Gasset Projects.…
Steve Keister (b.1949, lives and works in New York, NY) earned a BFA and an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a Gottlieb Foundation Grant, among other awards. He has had solo exhibitions at Freddy, Harris, NY; Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Texas Gallery, Houston; Blum Helman, New York; Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne; Feature, Inc, New York; and Mitchell Algus, New York. Steve’s solo exhibition BIO MESO is currently on view at Derek Eller Gallery through February 4, 2023. Steve Keister Installation, Derek Eller Gallery Steve Keister Siamese Cat, 2022 glazed ceramic, acrylic on wood 11 x 14.25 x 3.5 in. Steve Keister Flying Bat 2, 2023 glazed ceramic, acrylic on wood 10 x 23.5 x 10 in.…
Dan Perkins lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from American University. His paintings channel architectural motifs that connote space: crossing through a threshold, gazing through a window, passing from one plane to another. However the spaces depicted sit in an ethereal haze, where color and form are primary. Scale, time and space are all negotiable, up to the viewer to frame and understand. He has shown at Deanna Evans Projects, Sperone Westwater, Hashimoto Contemporary, Launch F18, Mana Contemporary, and elsewhere. His work is held in the collections of Capital One, Fidelity Investments, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Katzen Museum of American University, as well as in many private collections. His work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, Booooooom, Wired Italia, Art of Choice, Archive 00, Two Coats of Paint, Artsy, ArtMaze Mag, and the Washington Post. Lunar Archway, 2022, oil on panel, 50'' x 40'' Pearl, 2022, oil on panel, 36'' x 30'' Red Star, 2022, oil on panel, 36'' x 30''…
Katie Bell is an artist originally from Rockford, Illinois (b.1985). She received her BA from Knox College and her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Bell makes sculptural paintings based off architecture and found objects, fabricating forms that confuse naming. Using construction materials as her palette and woodworking tools as a form of mark making, she builds paintings and sculptures. Bell has shown her work at a variety of venues, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Smack Mellon, Locust Projects, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. She was an artist in residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Space Program and awarded a fellowship in painting by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Bell lives and works in New York, NY. Katie Bell, Day Shift, Wood, acrylic, plexiglass, paper, sand, rope, and nail, 34 x 26 x 4 inches, 2022. Katie Bell, Middy, Acrylic, wood, aluminum, and plexiglass, 31 x 22 x 4.5 inches, 2020. Katie Bell, Middy, Acrylic, wood, aluminum, and plexiglass, 31 x 22 x 4.5 inches, 2020.…
Self Portrait, Nicholas Buffon Nicholas Buffon (b. 1987) is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in New York. Buffon’s research-based practice centers on community, history, memorial, and remembrance. Employing both 2D and 3D techniques, Buffon memorializes queer locations and the minutiae of an ever changing urban landscape, focusing on details of place and the impact it has on a community as a whole. Recent solo exhibitions include Marinaro (2022), a survey exhibition at Poets House, NYC (2019), Callicoon Fine Arts (2019 & 2016), and Freddy, Baltimore, MD (2014). In 2018, he participated in FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Akron Museum of Art; and Spatial Flux: Contemporary Drawings from the JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Jewish Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Michigan; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; QT Gallery; The Hole, Foxy Production, and Shoot the Lobster. His work can be found in public collections including the Rubell Family Collection, Miami; the Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; and the Akron Art Museum, Ohio. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA (BFA, 2009), and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (MFA, 2012). Nicholas Buffon, Caution Men Working, 2022 Acrylic on panel 17.5 x 14 inches 44.5 x 35.6 cm. Image © Nicholas Buffon, courtesy the artist and Marinaro, New York Nicholas Buffon, Han's Deli (the Remains of Pfaff's), 2019 Acrylic paint, gouache, carbon transfer and primer on maple panel 16.25 x 10.75 x .75 inches 41.3 x 27.3 x 1.9 cm. Image © Nicholas Buffon, courtesy the artist and Marinaro, New York. Nicholas Buffon, B&H Dairy, 2018 Foam core, Bristol paper, acrylic paint, Sobo glue, superglue, sculpey and pins 22 x 20 x 10 inches 55.9 x 50.8 x 25.4 cm, Image © Nicholas Buffon, courtesy the artist and Marinaro, New York.…
Samira Abbassy was born in Ahwaz, Iran in 1965 and moved to Lon-don, UK as a child. After graduating from Canterbury College of Art, she began showing in London. She moved to New York in 1998, where she helped to set up the Eliza-beth Foundation for the Arts, and the EFA Studio Center. Her work has been included in shows at the Metropolitan and the British Museum, and is in private and public collections worldwide, including: the Metropolitan Museum, British Museum, the British Government Art Collection, the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, the Burger Collection, the Donald Rubin collection (Rubin Museum, NY), the Farjaam Collection, Dubai, the Los Angeles County Museum and the Afkhami Collection. Her work is currently on view at CANDICE MADEY Gallery. During Abbassy’s thirty year career, her work has been the subject of twenty gallery solo shows in London, Dubai and New York. Her fellowships include: Yaddo fellowship in 2006 and 2022, and Sal-tonstall in 2017. She has been awarded two NYFA awards in 2007 and 2018, a Joan Mitchell award in 2010 and a Pollock-Krasner in 2014. Abbassy was also nominated for the Anonymous Was a Woman award in 2018. In 2019 her work was included in the 26th Venice Biennial presented by Heist gallery London. Abbassy has also worked as an educator in many educational institutions in the UK and the USA, some of which are: Hunter college, Penn State and the University of Virginia, where she was the artists in Residence in April 2012. Samira Abbassy Anastasis, 2021 Oil on birch panel 44 x 33 1/2 inches 111.8 x 85.1 cm, photo by Jeanette May. Samira Abbassy Reincarnated Fears, 2016 Oil on birch panel 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm, photo by Jeanette May. Samira Abbassy Love & Ammunition II , 2014 Oil on birch panel 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm, photo by Jeanette May.…
Katherine Sherwood’s work is an embodiment of her ideals as a feminist and reflect her personal experience with disability. In 1997, at the age of 44, she had a cerebral hemorrhage which paralyzed the right side of her body. Teaching herself how to paint again using her non-dominant hand was part of her healing process. Her recent Brain Flowers series of mixed media paintings on the reverse of antique art historical prints include collages of cerebral angiograms of her own brain. As part of her mission to bring attention to underrecognized women painters, Sherwood repaints vanitas paintings by 17th century Dutch and Baroque women artists, in which still lives with fading flowers suggest the brevity of life and the vanity of earthly achievements. Sherwood was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1952. She received a BA from the University of California, Davis, in 1975, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979. She is Professor Emerita of Painting at the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice, where she taught painting and drawing, developed two groundbreaking courses; Art, Medicine and Disability and Art and Meditation, and played an active role in the expansion of the Disability Studies program. She serveson the board of Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, which serves artists with developmental disabilities by providing a supportive studio environment and gallery representation. Sherwood’s work has been exhibited in the 2000 Whitney Museum Biennial, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2003 and 2009, and at the Smithsonian in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include Anglim/Trimble in San Francisco, George Adams Gallery in New York, and Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles. She had a retrospective exhibition at Worth Ryder Art Gallery at UC Berkeley in 2016. The relevance of her work to medicine and brain science has led to her participation in “Visionary Anatomies” at the National Academy of Science in Washington DC, “Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art” at the Kemper Museum in St. Louis, “Human Being” at the Chicago Cultural Center,and a solo exhibition “Golgi’s Door” at the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. She co-curated the exhibition “Blind at the Museum” at the Berkeley Art Museum. Sherwood was the recipient of a 1989 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1999 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and 2012 Newhouse Foundation Grant. Her work is in many major public collections including the Ford Foundation, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC; and the University of Missouri, Columbia, among others. She published a chapter, “Out of the Blue: Art, Disability and Yelling,” in the book Contemporary Art and Disability Studies (Routledge Press, 2019). She is represented by George Adams Gallery in New York, Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles, and Anglim/Trimble Gallery in San Francisco. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Katherine Sherwood Pandemic Madonna (Lucas Cranach the Elder), 2022 Mixed media on found print 29 x 21 inches, © Katherine Sherwood, courtesy George Adams Gallery, New York. Photo: Dana Davis. Katherine Sherwood Venus After De Obidos, 2019-2022 Mixed media on found cotton duck 77 x 91 inches, © Katherine Sherwood, courtesy George Adams Gallery, New York. Photo: Dana Davis. Bread and Brains (After Josefa de Obidos), 2022 Mixed media on found cotton duck 25 1/2 x 60 inches, © Katherine Sherwood, courtesy George Adams Gallery, New York. Photo: Dana Davis.…
Joel-Peter Witkin at the time the photographs were made that are discussed in this interview. Joel-Peter Witkin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1939. In 1959, Edward Steichen, head of the department of photography at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), selected one of Witkin’s photographs for its permanent collection when Witkin is 16 years old. Enlists in the U.S. Army as a photographer from 1961-1964. In 1974 he receives a B.F.A. in sculpture from The Cooper Union, the same year awarded a fellowship in writing from Columbia University. In 1976 he receives a M.A. in Photography from the University of New Mexico, and then 1986 he receives a M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico. He has won numerous awards including four National Endowments in photography and the I.C.P. Infinity Award. His photographs have been exhibited internationally and are included in many museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA), Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Spain), The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (USA), Centre Georges Pompidou (France), The Guggenheim Museum (USA), The J. Paul Getty Museum (USA), The Whitney Museum (USA), and Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) (England). Other achievements include Decorated Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres of France in 2000. Over thirty books have been published on his work. Joel-Peter Witkin lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife Cynthia. Joel-Peter Witkin is a photographer whose images of the human condition are undeniably powerful. For more than forty years, he has pursued his interest in spirituality and how it impacts the physical world in which we exist. Finding beauty within the grotesque, Witkin pursues this complex issue through people most often cast aside by society-human spectacles including hermaphrodites, dwarfs, amputees, androgynies, carcasses, people with odd physical anomalies, fetishists, and “any living myth... anyone bearing the wounds of Christ”. His fascination with other people’s physicality has inspired works that confront our sense of normalcy and decency while constantly examining the teachings handed down through Christianity. His constant reference to paintings from art history including the works of Picasso, Balthus, Goya, Velasquez and Miro are testaments to his need to create a new history for himself. By using imagery and symbols from the past, Witkin celebrates our history while constantly redefining its present-day context. Visiting medical schools, morgues and insane asylums around the world, Witkin seeks out his collaborators who, in the end, represent the numerous personas of the artist himself. The resulting photographs are haunting, beautiful and grotesque yet bold in their defiance hideous beauty that is as compelling as it is taboo. Witkin begins each image by sketching his ideas on paper, perfecting every detail by arranging the scene before he gets into the studio to stage his elaborate tableaus. Once photographed, Witkin spends hours in the darkroom, scratching and piercing his negatives, transforming them into images that look made, rather than taken. Through printing, Witkin reinterprets his original idea in a final act of adoration. Joel-Peter Witkin lets us look into his created world which is both frightening and fascinating as he seeks to dismantle our preconceived notions about sexuality and physical beauty. Through his imagery we gain a greater understanding about human difference and tolerance. “My work is based on the nature of man and his relation to the divine. In the work, I attempt to establish a creative and intellectual standard for still photography in a society in moral free fall.” - Joel-Peter Witkin Note: All the images discussed in order in the interview can be seen here. Joel-Peter Witkin (b. 1939) Contemporary Images of Christ: Roof: Rest After The Passion (Batman and Christ) Version 2, (Batman with Christ Returns Newspaper),…
Amna Asghar (b. 1984, Detroit, MI) appropriates, layers, and remixes imagery from personal archives, popular culture, and art history, allowing the interactions to conjure hybrids and reflect the complexities of the location of identity. Asghar lives and works in Detroit. Her first institutional solo show, Well Wishes, curated by Jova Lynne, opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in 2021. In addition to two previous shows at Klaus von Nichtssagend, Asghar has had solo as well as group shows with Belle Isle Viewing Room, Detroit. Her work was a part of a series of group exhibitions curated by Sally Howell, Osman Khan, and Razi Jafri titled Halal Metropolis across metro Detroit and two exhibitions curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Parallels and Peripheries: Migration and Mobility, and On The Road II at VisArts, Rockville, MD and at Oolite Arts in Miami, FL respectively. Asghar received her BFA at Michigan State University and her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. Amna Asghar Find A Home, 2022 acrylic on canvas 84 × 120 inches (213.36 × 304.80 cm) Amna Asghar, A Meadow in the Clouds, 2022 acrylic on canvas 72 × 72 inches (182.88 × 182.88 cm) Amna Asghar Well Wishes V, 2022 acrylic on canvas 60 × 48 inches (152.40 × 121.92 cm)…
Benoît Platéus portrait in studio Benoît Platéus (born 1972 in Liège, Belgium) investigates the spaces and relationships between mediums, exploring abstraction in form and content. Working across diverse media and techniques, he fully embraces the creative possibilities of both analogue and digital technologies in order to wrestle with the question of the original. Found images or objects often serve as a starting point for his work, and the transformation of these images and their meanings become his focus — aging, sunbleaching, saturating, enlarging, painting over, somehow modifying. Yet in spite of these efforts, traces of the original always remain in the new reproduced image, and Platéus highlights the poetic qualities of these accidents and imperfections. Platéus's work has been exhibited at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Mu.ZEE, Ostend; Karma, New York; Almine Rech, London; Meessen De Clercq, Brussels; CentreWallonieBruxelles (CWB), Paris; Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels; Annarumma Gallery, Naples; and Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, among others. He is included in several museum collections around the world, including the Fond National d’Art Contemporain, France and the Musée d’Ixelles, Belgium. In 2019, he was the subject of a mid-career retrospective One Inch Off at the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, which was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog and later traveled to Bonner Kunstverein in Germany. In 2023, Platéus had his second solo exhibition, Other Percolators (https://www.signsandsymbols.art/exhibitions/other-percolators), at signs and symbols in New York. Benoît Platéus, Electric Flowers, 2022, Oil on linen canvas, 23.625 x 20.87 inches (60 x 53 cm). © Benoît Platéus. Courtesy of the artist and signs and symbols, New York. Benoît Platéus, Hieroglyph Machine, 2022, Oil on cotton canvas, 51.25 x 61 inches (130 x 155 cm). © Benoît Platéus. Courtesy of the artist and signs and symbols, New York. Benoît Platéus, Oysters and Tools, 2022, Oil on cotton canvas, 61 x 51.25 inches (155 x 130 cm). © Benoît Platéus. Courtesy of the artist and signs and symbols, New York.…
Amy Hill grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She studied commercial art at Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating, she moved to New York City and worked as an illustrator for such publications as Rolling Stone, The New York Times and Penguin Books. The first solo exhibition of her paintings took place in the East Village in 1989. Abridged text below by Reilly Davidson. Amy Hill works in conjunction with historical frameworks, invoking Botticellian strangeness alongside the naïveté of Henri Rousseau. She also infuses her portraits with a hint of "Boterismo,” as inflated features and distorted realism recur throughout these compositions. Hill time travels with ease, intent upon picking up themes and conceits from each era of interest. Her collection of antiques are adapted to serve contemporary demands in an effort to clean out older generations and make room for new ones. The artistic conceits of the Renaissance have been a constant touchstone for Hill, as she pursues this particular beauty via her own reinterpretations of form and content. What do the symbols of this bygone genre represent today? How can these images be improved upon? Hill’s secular figures worship consumer goods rather than the religious icons that were prominent during Europe’s “rebirth.” The desire to possess motivates Hill’s ongoing fascination with the conceits of Renaissance masterpieces. Beauty is also a compelling force by way of inspiration and pursuit. These paintings are a continuation of what Hill has been pursuing since 2015, when she transitioned to a new mode of image making. She has always been interested in updating historical precedents in an effort to sustain a dialogue with painters past, however, she updated this endeavor by introducing new source material into the mix. By observing artists from the early American folk art tradition, she absorbed their consistent portrayal of families and the presupposed innocence of childhood. In accordance with her findings, she came to focus on the promise of youth, the imagined futures that children could occupy. Amy Hill Family Breakfast, 2022 Oil on canvas 26 x 27 in 68.6 x 71.1 cm, courtesy of the artist and Fortnight Institute. Amy Hill Young Woman with Strange Object, 2022 Oil on canvas 25 x 26 in 63.5 x 66 cm, courtesy of the artist and Fortnight Institute. Amy Hill Tea, 2022 Oil on canvas 25 x 26 in 63.5 x 66 cm,courtesy of the artist and Fortnight Institute.…
Julie Curtiss was born in Paris, France, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA and a BA from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum, Atlanta, GA; MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Bronx Museum of Art, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, MN; Maki Collection, Tokyo; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; and Yuz Museum Shanghai, China. Julie is represented by Anton Kern Gallery and White Cube. Julie Curtiss Waiting room, 2022 Oil and vinyl paint on canvas 60 × 48 inches (152 4 x 121.9 cm Julie Curtiss Ice cream truck, 2022 Acrylic and oil on canvas 40 × 32 inches (101.6 × 81.3 cm) Mauvais Sang, 2020, Oil, acrylic, and vinyl on canvas 30 × 25 in (76.2 × 63.5 cm)…
Susan Dory is a Seattle-based artist whose geometric abstractions explore systems of interconnectedness, patterning and her trust of the process. Susan has exhibited widely with exhibitions at Winston Wachter Fine Art in New York and Seattle; Margaret Thatcher, New York; Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Tew Gallery, Atlanta; Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg; The Tacoma Art Museum; The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington; Kittredge Art Gallery, University of Puget Sound, The Western Gallery, Western Washington University; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland; The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center and The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada. She received her BA from Iowa State University and studied painting in Vienna, Austria. Susan is a recipient of the Neddy Award, The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, GAP grant, the Artist Trust Fellowship Grant, and was a finalist for the Betty Bowen Award. Some public collections include, The Tacoma Art Museum, Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, Ireland; The U.S. Embassy, Vientiane, Laos, Seattle Arts Commission Collection, King County Arts Commission, 4Culture, The Microsoft Collection, Vulcan Enterprises, Swedish Hospital, Hewlett Packard, W. Clements Jr. University Hospital, Dallas, TX, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom Spontaneous Sights, through March 11th at Winston Wachter Fine Art. Pole Star 1, 2022, acrylic on canvas over panel, 52 x 58" Arena, 2022, acrylic on canvas over panel, 52 x 60" Secret Cave of the Heart 1, 2022, acrylic on canvas over panel, 58 x 52"…
Jonathan Casella is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California, whose work is defined by dynamic compositions featuring riotous amalgams of dots, checkers, stripes, and bold swaths of color. His disciplined approach to painting involves the exploration and definition of a unique visual language through endless permutations of color, shape, and pattern Born in Houston, Texas, he received a BA from San Francisco State University in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include Harper's NY (2023), Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami (2023), F2T Gallery in Milan (2022), and M+B Gallery in Los Angeles (2021). Jonathan Casella, Doublestar Installation, Harper's Gallery Chelsea Jonathan Casella, Doublestar (A.B.B. Emma Cline), 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 77h x 66.25w in., 195.58h x 168.28w cm Jonathan Casella Doublestar (A.B.B. Eat It Up), 2022 Acrylic on canvas 77h x 66.25w in 195.58h x 168.28w cm…
Jason Lustig is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from the S.F. Bay Area Jason’s work is largely informed by the environment he grew up in. Often moving between cities, mountains, and coastal areas, Jason uses these as the main settings of his paintings and then adds charmingly mischievous characters to live inside them. Using a bright and saturated color palette, his paintings capture moments in time from other worlds that seem to parallel our own. Jason Lustig, "Joyride", 2023, Flashe on canvas, 18 x 24 in. Jason Lustig, "The Regular", 2022, Flashe on wood panel, 10 x 8 in. Jason Lustig, "Window Cat", 2021, Flashe on wood panel, 7 x 5 in.…
Danielle Roberts. Photo: Anushka Bohra | @ab.frames, Courtesy Fredericks & Freiser Archives. Danielle Roberts (b. 1991, Stockton, CA; raised in Gabriola Island, British Columbia; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.) She received an M.F.A. from Hunter College in 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include "Evening All Day" (2023) at Fredericks & Freiser, New York and "Afterglow" (2022) at Friends Indeed, San Francisco. Group exhibitions include "What Now?" (2022) at PM/AM, London; "Women of Now: Dialogues of Memory, Place and Identity" (2022) at Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX, and "Towards a More Beautiful Oblivion" (2021) at Fredericks & Freiser, NY. Danielle is represented by Fredericks & Freiser in New York, and Friends Indeed in San Francisco. Drawing from personal experience Danielle Roberts' paintings are grounded with an uncanny sense of place. Through the collision of light and shadow she creates a world where light is simultaneously magical and toxic; against a darkness that is both soothing and foreboding. The spaces in her paintings radiate with dark luminescence. Roberts does not shy away from discomfort and awkwardness in her worlds. She hones in on the pathos of her own experiences and those of her peers which are at once individual, unique to each of Roberts’ figures, and universal, instantly recognizable to audiences. The artist does not retreat into her painted worlds as an escape from the overwhelming anxiety and instability coursing through contemporary society; instead, she pushes right up against them, opening those spaces onto her audiences. There is an insistence on life and desire, even if those desires are complicated. The people of her scenes - withdrawn and ambivalent - wade through the mess, surviving on their own terms. Danielle Roberts, Hidden in Plain Sight (The Reading), 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 60 inches. Courtesy Fredericks & Freiser, New York. Danielle Roberts, The sky weighs heavy through the night, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 96 inches.Courtesy Fredericks & Freiser, New York. Danielle Roberts, Adrift, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 56 x 66 inches. Courtesy Fredericks & Freiser, New York.…
Lexi Bishop received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Russian Language from Bryn Mawr College, and a Master’s degree in The History of Art and The Art Market: Modern & Contemporary Art from Christie’s Education. Prior to opening here in 2020, Lexi was Associate Director of Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles. From 2014 to 2019, she worked in the Post-War & Contemporary Art department of Christie’s Auction House, New York as a specialist. Before joining Christie’s in 2014, she worked for Kim Heirston Art Advisory and at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, CT. Installation view of ‘Tara Fay Coleman: Marginalia.’ Image: Sean Eaton. Tara Fay Coleman iPhone Note (#1), 2022 screen print on paper 40 x 26 in. (101.6 x 66 cm.) Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof. Tara Fay Coleman iPhone Note (#2), 2022 screen print on paper 40 x 26 in. (101.6 x 66 cm.) Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.…
Kathy Osborn is a painter currently based in Hudson, New York and represented by Susan Eley Fine Art. She has exhibited at all SEFA locations—UWS, LES and Upstate. She was raised in Rochester, NY and earned a BFA from the Road Island School of Design. Osborn was an illustrator for 25 years, with work featured in many major publications: The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, GQ, New York Magazine, and The New Yorker (including twenty cover images). She has also illustrated eight children’s books. In 2014, Osborn began her painting career. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY (2015), Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA (2015); Gallery Molly Krom, New York, NY (2015); Art on Paper Fair (2016), Art Miami and CONTEXT (2016); Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY (2020); and LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY (2021). Kathy Osborn, Woman in Brown Dress (2022), Oil on paper mounted on art board, 10 x 13.5 inches Kathy Osborn, Woman Reading (2020), Oil on paper mounted on art board, 11.8 x 15 inches Kathy Osborn, Nude Pair (2022), Oil on paper mounted on art board, 16.75 x 23.75 inches…
Sara Garden Armstrong: Layered Scapes February 11 – March 11, 2023 Installation View with artist at Steffany Martz, ONWARD Series 49 East 78th Street, Suite 2B, New York, NY 10075 photo credit: George Kondogianis Sara Garden Armstrong is a visual artist whose decades-long practice embraces a wide range of scales and techniques, from large site-specific sculpture to artist’s books. Lyrical, nature-based biomorphic abstraction characterizes the work, focusing on life processes and systems. It addresses organic change and transformation, while exploring properties of materials. Breathing is a major concern, as are mechanical support systems of the body. Other recurrent themes are water and time, with its elements of decay, chance, and shifts of reality. Recent atrium commissions have focused on scientific phenomena and their interactions with the human condition such as the installation for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Alabama-Mississippi Chapter, at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) Medical Center. A past recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation CALL (Creating a Living Legacy) grant through Space One Eleven, Armstrong has exhibited nationally and internationally for over 40 years. Her artist’s books can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among others. The monograph SARA GARDEN ARMSTRONG: Threads and Layers, published in 2020, reveals the influences and concepts that run through her diverse body of work. It coincides with a traveling exhibition of the same name, incorporating site-specific work. The exhibition made its final stop at the Gadsden Museum of Art, January 2023. The Museum published a catalog documenting the history of the exhibition. Armstrong received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama and a Master of Art Education from UAB. After living in New York City for 36 years, in 2017 she returned to Birmingham, where she currently lives and works. She has recently received the 2022 Artist of the Year Award from the Birmingham Museum of Art Collectors Circle. Find her on Instagram. Layered Scape 9, 2021 Acrylic and pigmented fiber on canvas 48” x 60” photo credit: George Kondogianis Sara Garden Armstrong: Layered Scapes Installation View photo credit: George Kondogianis Sentient Matrix, installed 2014, Abaca and kozo paper fiber, acrylic, gel medium, programmable light-emitting diodes, microcontroller, aluminum, stainless steel, and PVC. Approx. 16’ x 20' x 21' Photo credit: Hugh Hunter SARA GARDEN ARMSTRONG: Threads and Layers Gadsden Museum of Art November 4, 2022 – January 26, 2023 Artwork in Image: Abaca Wall Backs 1 – 4 Sprayed abaca forms, plastic hoses, incandescent lights 24” x 98” x 12” Photo credit: Savannah Lowery…
Bruno Dunley. Photo: Maxwell Matias / @kief.m The work of Bruno Dunley questions the specificity of painting, particularly in relation to representation and materiality. His paintings depart from carefully constructed compositions, which he gradually begins to correct,alter, and cover up, frequently revealing the lacunae in the apparent continuity of perception. Bruno Dunley is part of a new generation of Brazilian painters called 200e8 group. The collective, based in São Paulo, was founded with a common interest in painting, to enable its eight members to develop a critical approach to painting within the contemporary art scene. Dunley’s work begins with found images and with an analysis of the nature of painting, where language codes such as gesture, plane, surface, and representation are understood as an alphabet. Recently, his practice has shifted towards gestural abstraction, all while maintaining his interest for representation. As stated by the artist “I see my work as a series of questions and affirmations about the possibilities of painting, about its essence and our expectations of it.” Often, a single color predominates the surface of his compositions, establishing a minimalist language and a meditative quality, that is frequently addressed in critical texts about his work. More recently, the artist has shown an interest for more aggressive composition, expressed through vibrant and contrasting colors. The 200e8's practices stipulate that stable or preconceived ideas about artistic processes should be abandoned, and procedures continually reformulated. In the work of Dunley, promises are made and consequently broken, testing the limits of the viewer’s tension. Bruno Dunley was born in 1984 in Petropolis, Brazil. He lives and work in São Paulo. Recent solo shows and projects include: Virá, at Nara Roesler (2020), in São Paulo, Brazil;The Mirror, at Nara Roesler (2018), in New York, USA; Dilúvio, at SIM Galeria (2018), in Curitiba, Brazil; Ruído, at Nara Roesler (2015), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; e, at Centro Universitário Maria Antonia (CEUMA) (2013), in São Paulo, Brazil. He participated in the 33th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2018). Recent group shows include: Entre tanto, at Casa de Cultura do Parque (CCP) (2020), and many others. Cloud VIII, 2022 conté crayon, pastel chalk and charcoal on paper 29,7 x 21 cm 11.7 x 8.3 in. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler. The obvious, 2022 oil paint on canvas 170 x 140,5 x 4 cm 66.9 x 55.3 x 1.6 in. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler. Maze, 2021 oil paint on canvas 200 x 250,5 x 4 cm 78.7 x 98.6 x 1.6 in. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler.…
Alex Griffin (b. 1978) lives and works in East Falls, Philadelphia. In 2008, Griffin received his B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in Painting and Printmaking. His work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, including at the esteemed Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA. From 2017 until 2019, he was associated with The Professional Artist Membership Program at the Mainline Art Center. Today, Griffin’s paintings are included in private collections across the country and abroad. The Catalog for the exhibtion discussed, Afterglow, can be seen here. Agatha's Dream, 2022, oil on panel, 20 x 24 inches Afterglow, 2022, oil on panel, 20 x 24 inches Nightingale, 2022, oil on panel, 18 x 18 inches…
Bradley Castellanos is an American artist, born in Hartford Connecticut in 1974. He currently lives and works in North Hampton, NH and is represented by Foley Gallery, NY. Castellanos received a B.A in English Literature and Studio Art from Skidmore College in 1998, and an MFA from School of Visual Arts in 2006. He has been featured in exhibitions at Foley Gallery, New York, RYAN LEE, New York, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, and Mogadishni Gallery, Denmark. Castellanos’ paintings have been widely exhibited in galleries, museums, and cultural institutions in the US and abroad, including The Queens Museum, PS 1, The Nueberger Museum, The McDonough Museum of Art, The Tang Teaching Museum, and The Brooklyn Academy of Music. His work has been featured and reviewed in a variety of publications such as ARTnews, Harper’s Magazine, The Huffington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle. Sleep Walker 2022 Oil, acrylic, resin, and photo collage on panel 60" x 48" Fire Braider 2022 Oil, acrylic, and paper collage on paper 48" x 38" Artist Portrait 2022 Oil, acrylic, and paper collage on paper 46" x 35"…
photo of the artist by Frederick Aranda Joey Terrill is a formative figure in the Los Angeles Chicano art movement and AIDS cultural activism. Painting and making art since the 1970s, Terrill has always explored the intersection of Chicano and gay male identity (where they overlap and where they clash) as a strategy for much of his art production. A native Angeleno, he attended Immaculate Heart College and lists influences as diverse as Pop Art, Corita Kent, David Hockney, Mexican retablos, and 20th-century painters ranging from Romaine Brooks to Frida Kahlo. His work conveys the energy, politics and creative synergy of Chicano and queer art circles in Los Angeles. His works from the 1970s and 80s are considered pioneering examples of a queer sensibility and Latinx identity. He has been living with HIV sine 1980. His work was featured in Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. which opened at MOCA LA in 2015 and toured to venues in NY, Denver, Las Vegas , Houston, Massachusetts and Ohio with its final iteration at moCa Cleveland in 2021. Some selected exhibits he has been in include: Drama Queer, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, BC -2016. Forging Territories: Afro & Latinx Queer Contemporary Art, San Diego Art Institute -2019, LA Memo: Chicana/o Art from 1972 -1989, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles -2022 . His work is in the collections of the MoMA, The Whitney, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, MOCA, The Hammer, SFMOMA and the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (opening 2025) "Mi Casta es Su Casta- Portrait of Rudy Garcia" 2018 Robert Resting After Work -1988-89 acrylic on canvas Orlando Waiting for Toast - 1999-2000 acrylic on canvas…
Danny Sobor (b. 1992) is a self-taught oil painter born in Chicago. He received a B.F.A. in cognitive aesthetics from Brown University in 2015. Spending most of his adult-life in Detroit, his exposure to techno and vacancy shaped his belief in futurism. This is his first solo show in New York. Previous exhibitions include 10 Warm Months, Playground Detroit, Detroit, Michigan; Ultra Light Beams, Mount Analogue Gallery, Seattle, Washington; The Printer’s Devil, The Scarab Club, Detroit, Michigan; Joined/Fading, Galerie F, Chicago, Illinois; The Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association Annual Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea. Butterfly Effect, Tchotchke Galley, New York, New York. In this presentation of eight new works at Tchotchke Galley, Sobor explores anxieties about technology and faith, in terms of what is true through media consumption and how painting can meaningfully engage with that in 2023. With an emphasis on thematic absurdity, paired with a sardonic approach to visual culture, Sobor works through his convictions and doubts with a devoted, labor-intensive methodology. In creating these works, Sobor became fanatically committed to the process and often crossed over into what he referred to as “a trance,” frequently kneeling for hours over countless days in their creation. Informing Sobor’s theological imagery and approach, old archetypal symbols such as angels and doves are rendered as flat white stock vectors, signifiers made vacant. According to the artist, “I’m trying to express ideological culture wars by schizophrenically mashing signifiers until a piece feels like it articulates my confusion and frustration. The pieces aren’t non-committal as much as they are doubtful and searching.” Icons by Danny Sobor will be on view from February 14th, 2023 through March 18th, 2023 at Tchotchke Gallery, located at 311 Graham Avenue. The opening reception for the exhibition will be held from 6-8pm on Tuesday, February 14th. Danny Sobor swans II, 2022 Oil on canvas 42 x 26 inches Danny Sobor, painting for world peace, 2022. Oil on canvas, 40 x 48 inches Danny Sobor, peacekeeper, 2022, Oil on canvas, 62 x 40 inches…
France-based artist and illustrator Li Xia, also known as 绿李 Lilou Oh Yeah ( b. 1991, Chongqing, China), works primarily in oil and watercolor. Her work explores ephemeral moments and commonplace objects in daily life, expressed through carefully composed planes of flat colors and nuanced strokes. Both representational and imaginary spaces come alive in Li’s work, with her sensitive attention to the ordinary and the fleeting. Lilou lives and works in Rouen, France. Lilou attended the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne (MFA, 2021), l'École Supérieure d’Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen (ESADHaR) (MFA, 2020) and Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (BFA, 2014). She has exhibited internationally at venues such as the LONG Museum, Minsheng Art Museum, Bananafish Gallery in Shanghai, China, Yi Gallery in New York, USA , Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, UK, Villa des Arts in Paris, France and Rola Bola in Rouen, France. Lilou Li Xia, Eye Contact (Butterfly Kiss), 2022, Oil on canvas, 51 x 35 1/2 in 130 x 90 cm., Courtesy of Yi Gallery and the artist. Lilou Li Xia, Turn off the light, 2022, Oil on canvas, 43 1/2 x 31 1/2 in 110 x 80 cm., Courtesy of Yi Gallery and the artist. Installation view: Lilou Li Xia, Solo Exhibition at Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2022, Courtesy of Yi Gallery and the artist. Links: Artist page https://gallery-yi.com/artists/122-li-xia-%28-lilou-oh-yeah%29/ Solo exhibition at Yi Gallery https://gallery-yi.com/exhibitions/25-lilou-eye-contact-solo-exhibition/ Artist instagram https://www.instagram.com/lilou_oh_yeah/?hl=en Image captions: 3. Lilou Li Xia, Turn off the light, 2022, Oil on canvas, 43 1/2 x 31 1/2 in 110 x 80 cm…
In the show, Throughline at Bureau, several artists are exhibited and here only Claudia Peña Salinas is interviewed. The text below is an excerpt from the press release on the show. Bureau is pleased to announce a group exhibition presenting the work of six artists in various media. January 14 - February 25 2023. Artists Included: Nour Mobarak, Claudia Peña Salinas, Davina Semo, Jeffrey Stuker, Patricia Treib, Viola Yeşiltaç. Claudia Peña Salinas mines stories of humanity’s ultimate dream: that of divine and mythological belief. Taking inspiration from pre-Columbian symbology and architecture, Salinas’s sculpture and painting here focus on the Mayan temple of Kukulcán (El Castillo) at Chichen Itza. For her sculptures she makes minimal frames out of thin brass dowels which she secures by wrapping with hand-dyed thread. At the base of this airy geometric structure sits statuettes of El Castillo’s related deities Chac Mool, the red Jaguar and Kukulcán, each painted with a blue pigment, sacred to the Maya. Her paintings also focus on the iconography and mathematical logic of the temple and its deities. El Castillo was designed to align with the celestial, and on the equinoxes two serpent figures of Kukulkán at the base of the pyramid appear to have their long tails running down the side of the pyramid. Grounded upon the earth and aligning with the heavens, the earthly viewer may experience and contemplate the throughlines of impermanent matter and the immaterial. Claudia Peña Salinas El Castillo IV, 2020 Toner and wax on wood panel 20 × 16 in. (50.80 × 40.64 cm) Claudia Peña Salinas Chac Mool IV, 2020 Toner and wax on wood panel 20 × 16 in. (50.80 × 40.64 cm) Claudia Peña Salinas Ahua Can, 2023 Brass, dyed ceramic, wood and shell found objects and thread, postcard 72 × 50 × 25 in. (182.88 × 127.00 × 63.50 cm)…
Samuel Nnorom (b.1990) is a Nigerian-born visual. He discovered his talent at the age of 9 years while assisting his father in his shoe workshop – where he started making life drawings of customers that visited the shop. He was also influenced by his mother's tailoring workshop –as a kid who played with colourful fabrics with sewing needles and thread. He went further to develop this talent through apprenticeship, training, workshops, Exhibitions, art school and practice. Samuel holds an MFA in sculpture from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and is a full-time practising studio artist with many awards, exhibitions and residencies which include 3rd and 1st prize for the National Gallery of Art 2010 and 2012 respectively, won prizes in 2016, 2017 and 2019 editions of the Life in My City Art Festival. He was the first prize recipient (leatherwork category) of the Icreate Africa 2019. Nnorom has received invitations to important workshops and group exhibitions, including the international art workshop by IICD at the United States Embassy, Abuja (2019), Rele Young Contemporary Bootcamp 2021, published in an international magazine the UK (zine, issue 11, artist responding to issues) and Haus-a-rest, issue 17 Material Damage 2021, Cassirer Welz Award, Bag factory and Strauss & co South Africa 2022, recipient of 2022 Royal Over-Sea League and Art House Residency London, recipient of Guest Art Space (GAS) fellowship and residency from Yinka Shonibare Foundation 2022, shortlisted for Prince Claus Funds CAREC and Mentorship 2022/2023, Noldor fellowship and Residency 2023, and several others. He belongs to the New Nsukka School of Art and he is currently exploring Okirika clothes and Ankara fabric using bubble techniques as sculptural media while interrogating human experiences that relate to consumption, environment, sociopolitical and economic issues through questioning. Kates-Ferri Projects, Installation of Dark Matter Samuel Nnorom: Burnt Roses, 2022 Dye, acrylic, foam and fabric 63 × 47 × 10 1/2 inches Samuel Nnorom: Yellow Quake (2022) Dye, acrylic, foam and fabric 63 x 36 x 8.5 inches…
Julia Felsenthal (b. 1983) is a painter and writer working in Brooklyn and Cape Cod. Born and raised in Chicago, she studied English at Yale University and has written extensively about art and culture for T: the New York Times Style Magazine and Vogue. A lifelong painter, Felsenthal turned her focus to making art full time while living on Cape Cod during the Covid pandemic. Her water paintings emerged from the eeriness and anxiety of that time, and have evolved to reflect the ways that small permutations of the quotidian can become endlessly captivating and sublime. Her work has been exhibited in Brooklyn, NY and across the outer Cape, as well as on Block Island, in Woodstock, NY, and in Seattle, Washington. Felsenthal’s debut solo exhibition with JDJ is on view June 8 through July 21st, 2023. Julia Felsenthal, Ghost Sea in Azurite and Terre Verte, 2023, Watercolor and gouache on paper, 12 x 9 in (30.5 x 22.9 cm) Julia Felsenthal, Dancing Chop, 2022, Watercolor and gouache on paper, 16 x 12 in (40.6 x 30.5 cm) Julia Felsenthal, Over Sea, Under Sea, 2022, Watercolor and gouache on paper, 8 x 6 in (20.3 x 15.2 cm)…
portrait by Emma Dove Amy Winstanley (b. 1983, Dumfries, UK) is based in Glasgow, UK. She is currently having a solo show, Lost Hap, at Margot Samel in New York. She received a BA (Hons) in Sculpture from the Edinburgh College of Art (2005) and an MA from the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (2019). Recent solo exhibitions include: Moral Limb, Stallan-Brand, Glasgow, UK (2021); Grief Bruise, Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2021); Inscapes, AndCollective Gallery, Bridge of Allen, UK (2016); and Interconnections, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, UK (2015). Recent group exhibitions include: Strangers, Rongwrong, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022); tangible/intangible, The Haberdashery, Glasgow, UK (2022); Potluck, Gallery 17717, Seoul, South Korea (2021); To All Our Absent Dialogues, Warbling Collective, London, UK (2020); Surge, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (2017); Fugue Lounge, Neverneverland, De Punt, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018); Surge, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (2017); Every word left unspoken during the exhibition is the title, Neverneverland, De Punt, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2017); Spring Fling at Home, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, UK (2014); and Members Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2015). Winstanley was nominated for the Sluijter prize for painting 2019 (Netherlands), and has been the recipient of the Hope Scott Trust award (2014) and the Creative Scotland Visual Arts Award (2010 and 2014). Along with the artist collective ALKMY she has published short stories and images in What Ties Ties, Ties (2020) and What Thoughts Think Thoughts (2021) both through Print Art Research Centre, Seoul, Korea. Winstanley has an upcoming solo exhibition at Cample Line, Thornhill, UK in July 2023. Amy Winstanley, Care Bond Chorus, 2023, Oil on canvas, 22 7/8 x 20 7/8 in | 58 x 53 cm, Courtesy the artist and Margot Samel, NYC, Photo by Gregory Carideo Amy Winstanley, Matter is Never a Settled Matter, 2023, Oil on canvas, 59 x 47 1/4 in | 150 x 120 cm, Courtesy the artist and Margot Samel, NYC. Photo by Gregory Carideo Amy Winstanley, Untitled, 2023, Oil on canvas, 13 x 8 7/8 in | 33 x 22.5 cm, Courtesy the artist and Margot Samel, NYC. Photo by Patrick Jameson…
Kristen Sanders (b. 1989, California) lives and works in St. Paul, MN. She received a BA from the University of California Davis, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Solo and two person exhibitions include Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN, St. Cloud State University, St Cloud, MN, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, New York, NY, Step Sister, New York, NY, Sadie Halie Projects, Minneapolis, MN, and Sediment Arts, Richmond, VA. Group exhibitions include Good Mother, Los Angeles, Night Club, Minneapolis, MN, Hair & Nails, Minneapolis, MN, O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY, Monti 8, Latina, Italy, Moosey Art, London, UK, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, The Quarter Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Left Field, Los Osos, CA, H.G. Inn, Chicago, IL, White Columns, New York, NY, and Patrick Parrish Gallery, NY. Residencies include The Maple Terrace, Brooklyn, Lacuna Gallery, Minneapolis, David Wurtzel Travel Scholarship, Florence, Italy, and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Sanders has received press in BOMB Magazine, ARTNews, and New American Paintings. She currently teaches at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Morning Tide, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 32 inches In the Negative Spaces, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 inches Abyssal Plane, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 27 x 20 inches…
photo: Matthew Leifheit Rachel Stern (b. 1989, NYC) is a photographer whose work considers the intersection of beauty and power. Her photo-based installations turn to the tableaux and the proscenium creating dialogue between the histories and uses of kitsch and leftist aesthetics. Using materials culled from strip malls and thrift stores she creates images which ask art and visual culture to enter into a discourse of accessibility and, in the spirit of ‘bread and roses’, demand immediate access to beauty. Her work images a world that might be, built out of the world that is. It is a kitsch paradise, a queer-washed history, and an attempt at hope. She received her BFA in Photography and the History of Art and Visual Culture in 2011 from the Rhode Island School of Design, attended Skowhegan in 2014, and graduated from Columbia University in 2016 with an MFA in Visual Arts. She has exhibited her work at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Baxter St., Brandies University Kniznick Gallery, Ortega Y Gasset Project, Invisible-Exports, and Asya Geisberg Gallery among others. Her work has been featured in BOMB, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Vice, Hyperallergic, and Matte Magazine. I Know Not What It Means, 2023, 20x28”, c-print I Will Kiss Thy Mouth, 2022, 30x42”, c-print They Have Looked Too Long, 2023, 25x25”, c-print…
image credit: Star Montana rafa esparza (b. 1981, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) received a BA from University of California, Los Angeles in 2011. Solo exhibitions have been held at Artists Space, New York (2023); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2021); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2019); ArtPace, San Antonio (2018); and Ballroom Marfa (2017). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Mexico City (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson (2022); Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston (2020); San Diego Art Institute (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017); and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016). esparza is a recipient of a Pérez Prize (2022), Latinx Artist Fellowship (2021), Lucas Artist Fellowship (2020), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2017), Art Matters Foundation Grant (2014), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2014). He has participated in residencies at Artpace San Antonio (2018) and Wanlass Artist in Residence, OXY ARTS, Los Angeles (2016). esparza’s work is in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kadist Art Foundation; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles. 110 Northbound, photo by Yomahra Gonzalez Camino Exhibition, photo by: Yomahra Gonzalez Hermila, photo by Yomahra Gonzalez…
Hulda Guzman in the studio, 2023 Hulda Guzmán (b. 1984, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) depicts her tropical surroundings as she explores perspective and reality. Situated between Impressionistic landscape, psychological autobiography, Mexican muralism, Caribbean folk traditions, endearing comedy, and magical realism, Guzmán’s work engenders an emphatic compassion for the united forces of the living, celebrated through the act of painting. Guzmán received a BA from Altos de Chavón School of Design in the Dominican Republic and went on to study photography and mural painting at the National School of Visual Arts, Mexico. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Denver Art Museum, CO; He Art Museum (HEM), Guangdong, CN; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA; Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), CA, among others. Guzmán has been featured in the Dominican Republic’s pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Guzmán has shown with Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK; Alexander Berggruen, NY; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos; Arte BA, Buenos Aires; Galería Machete, Mexico City; Gallery Ariane Paffrath Dusseldorf; and at institutions such as the Denver Art Museum, CO; Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo; the Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Museo de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, Costa Rica; and Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC. The artist lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Hulda Guzmán, Hojas de fuego, 2023, acrylic gouache on linen, triptych overall: 48 1/8 x 88 1/2 in. (122.2 x 224.8 cm.), each: 48 1/8 x 29 1/2 in. (122.2 x 74.9 cm.) Included in Hulda Guzmán: They come from water (May 24-July 5, 2023) at Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY. Copyright the artist. Courtesy of the artist; Alexander Berggruen, NY; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo: Dario Lasagni Hulda Guzmán, Pets. Are they real?, 2023, acrylic gouache on linen, 48 x 29 5/8 in. (121.9 x 75.2 cm.) Included in Hulda Guzmán: They come from water (May 24-July 5, 2023) at Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY. Copyright the artist. Courtesy of the artist; Alexander Berggruen, NY; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo: Dario Lasagni Hulda Guzmán, Eddy y Bo 1, 2023, acrylic gouache on linen, 60 x 37 in. (152.4 x 94 cm.) Included in Hulda Guzmán: They come from water (May 24-July 5, 2023) at Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY. Copyright the artist. Courtesy of the artist; Alexander Berggruen, NY; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo: Dario Lasagni…
Fatemeh Burnes is an artist, educator, curator, and activist based in Los Angeles. Classically trained in Persian art and verse, Burnes also studied biology, modern Persian poetry, and western artistic practice – including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, art history, and exhibition design – in Iran, Europe, and ultimately in California, where she received her BFA and MFA in art and art history.. Since 1992 she has exhibited her own work nationally and internationally, curated over 100 exhibitions, and authored numerous publications. Burnes’s painting and photography focus on nature and human nature by looking at modern events and tragedies, both ecological and social, and how those events manifest in contemporary life. Some of her most current work highlights environmental and identity issues, specifically in the context of her experiences as an immigrant and as a woman. "Goddess of Discord," 2023, oil, handmade paper, and spray paint on canvas, 72" x 96" "Tower of Pride," 2023, oil, pigment, collage, and carving on panel, 16" x 16" "Under My Skin," 2022, oil, pigment, handmade paper, and piano rolls on canvas, 44" x 44"…
Li Wang (b. 1995) is a New York-based painter, born in Beijing, China. Li holds a Bachelor of Arts from The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, where he studied Stage Design. He graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts' MFA program in 2022. Wang is a finalist of the AXA Art Prize and the New American Paintings competition. He is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and the Columbia University Dean's Project Grant. In 2023, his solo exhibitions were held at Fragment gallery (New York, USA) and NADA New York. Li Wang, After bathing, 2022, oil o canvas, 48 x 50 in Li Wang, Carousel, 2022, oil on canvas, 58 x 70 in Li Wang, Tao in my studio, 2022, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 in…
Elzie Williams III (American, b. 1993) holds an MFA in sculpture from Columbia University School of the Arts, New York (2022), and a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York (2015). They are the first recipient of the Solomon B. Hayden Fellowship, administered through Columbia University, NY. The award was founded to support diverse voices in art by Lisson Gallery, Clearing Gallery, and artist Hugh Hayden in honor of Hayden’s late father, Solomon B. Hayden who was a math teacher. Williams’ work was included in Eponymous with Dominic Palarachio and Bat-Ami Rivlin, M 2 3, New York (2021); and on view with Lyn Lui at François Ghebaly, New York (2021). Recent exhibitions include Arrangements in Black at Phillips, New York (2022); exhibitions at Clearing in Brooklyn and Los Angeles (2022); Half Gallery, New York (2022); Thierry Goldberg, New York (2023); as well as MZ.25 (My Condolences), an exhibition by Monsieur Zohore at M+B, Los Angeles (2023); and The School of Visual Arts (SVA) Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Transcending the Ideal: Reimagining Femininity and its Relationship to Power, curated by Virginia Ingram (2023). Politics As Usual is their first solo exhibition. Elzie Williams III That’s Hot, but you're Fired!, 2023 cardboard, magazine page, counterfeit bill, stickers, clear tape, laser pointer 24 x 23.5 inches (61 x 60 cm) Elzie Williams III Monstro, 2023 water bottles, figurine, ten cents, metal, readymade shelf 19 x 5 x 5 inches (48 x 13 x 13 cm) Elzie Williams III Do You Know Where You're Going To?, 2023 magazine swatches of black and brown faces with the color white on reverse, found images, plastic, found objects, acrylic rod, metal, flagpole bracket, light 33 x 14 x 12 inches (84 x 36 x 31 cm)…
Raymond Saá in his studio Raymond Saá is a Cuban-American artist born in New Orleans and raised in Miami. He graduated from the New World School of the Arts in 1991, received his B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1995, and studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in 1996. In 1997, he earned an M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design. Selected exhibitions include White Columns, the Islip Museum, Wave Hill, the Museum of Art Puerto Rico, and El Museo del Barrio. Saá received a 2019 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, in addition to awards from Public Art for Public Schools, the Pollack Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and New Jersey Fellowship in Art. The artist lives and works in New Jersey. The Blue Bird, 2023 Raymond Saá Morgan Lehman Gallery 'The Blue Bird' series, 2023 Size: 30 x 24 in Medium: gouache collage on sewn paper 'The Blue Bird' series, 2023 Size: 30 x 24 in Medium: gouache collage on sewn paper 'The Blue Bird' series, 2023 Size: 30 x 24 in Medium: gouache collage on sewn paper…
Artist Anthony James and his first exhibition in the region entitled Light at Opera Gallery in DIFC.Antonie Robertson/The National Anthony James (b. 1974) is a London-born, Los Angeles-based artist who graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with a degree in painting. James is known for his monumental sculptures and installations that embrace Minimalism, Transcendentalism and Light & Space. In the winter of 2023, James became the first and only visual artist to have work exhibited on all seven continents when he installed one of his stainless steel, glass, and LED Portals at White Desert’s base camp in Antarctica near the South Pole. “In my practice I’m trying to give a visual demonstration of the infinite or the divinity inside us all,” says James. “If you’re seeing and experiencing this ever-expanding cosmos, hopefully that’s a window to explore this underlying law of nature, this inner light.” Constellations, Glass, Steel, LEDs. 2020, courtesy Anthony James Studio Constellations, Glass, Steel, LEDs. 2020, courtesy Anthony James Studio Wall Portal (detail) 40”, Glass, Steel, LEDs. 2020, courtesy Melissa Morgan Fine Art…
Masako Miki (b. 1973, Osaka, Japan) is a multimedia artist whose work ranges installation and large-scale sculpture, printmaking, watercolor and felting. A native of Japan, she now lives and works in Berkeley, CA. Her work frequently explores the idea of synthesis—manipulating contradicting spatial elements to suggest a disoriented context and space. The artist bases her narrative on her own experiences of becoming bicultural in the United States at the age of eighteen. Strongly influenced by craft and folk art of different cultures, she remains close to her ancestral traditions, frequently considering motifs and ideologies that arise from her association with Buddhism, Shintoism, and traditional Japanese folklore. The artist’s practice is further rooted in the belief that art can foster social contexts in which contemporary and universally relevant mythologies and social narratives can be generated—replacing or fixing harmful misconceptions and mythologies of the past that have previously sparked social injustices. In 2020, Miki’s functional furniture was commissioned to be a part of San Francisco’s forthcoming, landmark Minna-Natoma Art Corridor. In 2021, her large-scale sculptures were commissioned as a permanent installation at the Uber Technologies Headquarters in Mission Bay, San Francisco. She has been included in solo and group exhibitions at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, KY (2023); Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Israel (2023); ICA San Jose, CA (2022); Katonah Museum of Art, NY (2022); Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, CA (2022); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA (2019); and de Young Museum, CA (2016), among others. Her work is included in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, NY; Collección SOLO, Spain; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. She received her MFA from San Jose State University. Masako Miki, Empathy Lab, Installated at Ryan Lee Gallery, May 18 – June 30, 2023 Masako Miki, Empathy Lab, Installated at Ryan Lee Gallery, May 18 – June 30, 2023 Hyakki Yagho, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons - Following Plaster Wall Shapeshifter and a Cat Who Lived a Million Years…
Destiny Haven Trujillo (b. 1994, New Mexico, United States) received her BFA in 2016 from the University of New Mexico. In 2022, she had a solo exhibition with Smoke the Moon in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. DIMIN is excited to present Devoraste, a neon diary of the vivid exploits of Destiny Haven Trujillo. For her first solo exhibition in New York, Trujillo embodies the manic charm of her daily life, offering a voyeuristic glimpse into the contemporary vie boheme. The title of the show, “Devoraste”, is derived from the Spanish aphorism meant to convey the concept of unabashed queer self-expression, with the literal translation “you ate that!”. For Trujillo, devoraste references the celebration of pride she conveys in her paintings –colorful bacchanals teeming with joy. At its core, the work addresses sexual identity and fluidity. The acceptance she has found in the queer community is tantamount in importance to the artist personally as it is to her artistic concept. Approachability is one of the major goals of Trujillo’s canvases – her goal is to welcome the broadest audience possible. Destiny Haven Trujillo Anthrax (Persistence of Time), 2023 Acrylic on canvas 40 x 36 in 101.6 x 91.4 cm Destiny Haven Trujillo, V-Day, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 42.5 x 42.5 in, 108 x 108 cm Destiny Haven Trujillo, Daddy’s Little Girl Ain’t A Girl No More, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in, 121.9 x 121.9 cm…
Omaha-born, New York-based artist Tim Brawner produces a practice of painting that mines the space between the uncanny and the grotesque. Seeking to produce in the viewer a compelling affect of unease, Brawner utilizes the idiom of illustration to render images of alienation, through the purposeful bricolage of disparate representational elements. In each work, a persistently fine, monochromatic, painterly execution meets the artist’s formal drafting process of drawing and montage in order to achieve what Brawner terms a pathos of ‘weirdness’: a form of defamiliarization which is also a seduction, an entreat, into a strange representational space nonetheless evoking trepidation and dread. These visual chimeras undermine the spectators’ traditional binary frames of reference, eliding at once those of conservative Western Christian morality and those of liberal secular paradigms of Enlightened empathy. As the artist intones, this ‘weirding’ is “part of the drama of the work; it is an ontological struggle [of an alternative world beyond our given dichotomies] to be represented… to come into being.” Tim Brawner (b. 1991, Omaha, Nebraska) received an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2020. Exhibitions include Zang Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; PAGE (NYC), New York; Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT; Ashes On Ashes, New York; Yale Painting & Printmaking MFA, Galerie Perrotin; Papa Projects, Minneapolis, MN; Union Pacific, London; Unit London, London; Primary, Miami, FL. Brawner will have his first solo exhibition with Management in 2023. Tim Brawner, The Escape III, 2023, Acrylic on canvas 36 × 36 in / 91.4 × 91.4 cm Tim Brawner, Character Head 2, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 60 × 48 in / 152.4 × 121.9 cm Tim Brawner, Character Head 1, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 60 × 48 in / 152.4 × 121.9 cm…
Photo by Lila Barth Jessica Cannon (b. 1979, Brooklyn, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn. She earned an MFA from Parsons School of Design and teaches at Parsons and CUNY Queens College. She is a recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Council’s Community Arts Fund Grant and has exhibited in solo and group shows at Winston’s Los Angeles, Honey Ramka (Brooklyn, NY), Crush Curatorial (Amagansett, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, among others. Veils, an exhibition of new paintings will be on view at the Polina Berlin Gallery in New York, NY through June 24th. Cannon's mystic landscapes confront time with a sense of ontological awe. She employs personal and symbolic language in concert with geometric motifs to depict the horizon and the space beyond it. Jessica Cannon Let It Be The Sky, 2023 Acrylic and iridescent pigments on linen 72 x 60 inches 182.9 x 152.4 cm Photo: Steven Probert. Courtesy the artist and Polina Berlin Gallery. Jessica Cannon Capitan, Spinning Light, 2023 Acrylic and iridescent pigments on canvas 44 x 36 inches 111.8 x 91.4 cm Photo: Steven Probert. Courtesy the artist and Polina Berlin Gallery. Jessica Cannon Setting Arch, 2023 Acrylic and iridescent pigments on linen 17 x 14 inches 43.2 x 35.6 cm Photo: Steven Probert. Courtesy the artist and Polina Berlin Gallery.…
Sakari Kannosto (Finnish, b. 1973) is a multimedia artist working in Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa Finland, with a primary focus on ceramic sculptures and large-scale installations. His fantastical and figurative creatures are inspired by fables, Greek mythology, and Finnish folklore. As he sculpts part human, part mermaid, part animal beings, he references the Finnish myth that animals can shape shift, traveling between worlds as protectors. Imbued with whimsy and humor, Kannosto’s work is also underscored by a deep environmental consciousness. By reimagining a future where humans unite with nature to create adaptive, survivalist families, Kannosto addresses the potentially disastrous environmental consequences brought on by the industrialized world. For Kannosto, clay is crucial to the actualization of his work. As an ancient medium, it has long been a conduit for coded information. He continues in this vein, luring magic out of the clay as he creates a cast of creatures for modern fairytales. There is something deeply hopeful here. Kannosto graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki in 2005. In 2014 he was granted an honorary award for environmental education due to his work as a lecturer and educator. After completing an artist in residence at the Arabia Art Department in Helsinki, he became a permanent member of the department in January of 2020 and is now the chairman of the board. He is a Lecturer of Fine Arts at Omnia in Espoo, and has exhibited widely. Notably, his work can be found in the collections of the National Museum of Finland and the Art Museum of Tampere. SAKARI KANNOSTO (Finnish, b.1973) Oracle, 2022 Glazed stoneware 59" H x 23.625" W x 23.625" D SAKARI KANNOSTO (Finnish, b.1973) Justitia (Mother Justice), 2022 Glazed stoneware 33.5" H x 33.5" W x 15.75" D SAKARI KANNOSTO (Finnish, b.1973) The Inflexible, Siren V, 2022 Glazed stoneware 47.25" H x 12.625" W x 9" D…
Elaine Cameron-Weir, photo by Isabel Asha Penzlien Elaine Cameron-Weir (b. 1985, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada). Elaine Cameron-Weir’s contemplative objects made from carefully sourced materials allow us to consider the ways in which artifice and spectacle have been used to perpetuate systems of belief. Her major installation from the most recent Venice Biennale in 2022 invoked sites of provisional operations and religious reflection by transforming the gallery with modular steel subflooring, neon and electric flicker lights, and repurposed objects previously used for military and industrial purposes. In addition to the Venice Biennale, Cameron-Weir recently opened a solo exhibition at Hannah Hoffman in Los Angeles, CA. Other solo shows from the past two years include the SCAD Museum of Art (2022) and the Henry Art Gallery University of Washington (2021). Recently her work was on view at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum as part of an important exhibition titled “New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century.” Other select solo exhibitions include "exhibit from a dripping personal collection," Dortmunder Kunstverein (2018); “Outlooks: Elaine Cameron-Weir,” Storm King Art Center, New York (2018) where the artist installed a steel mesh sphere for motorcycle stunts known as “globe of death” on the top of a hill; and “viscera has questions about itself,” New Museum, New York (2017). She has shown both in the U.S. and abroad, in group exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; GAMeC, Bergamo; FUTURA, Prague; among many others. installation view, The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT, April 23 - November 27, 2022 Photography by Andrea Rosetti Elaine Cameron-Weir Low Relief Icon (Figure 1), 2021 (detail) US military body transfer cases, aluminum, flicker bulbs, electrical wiring, conveyor belt, pewter, chain, pulleys, aircraft cable, hardware overall dimensions: 281 × 202 × 28 1/2 in (713.7 × 513.1 × 72.4 cm); case with candles: 26.5 × 89 × 28.5 in (67.3 × 226.1 × 72.4 cm) Elaine Cameron-Weir Right Hand Left Hand, Grinds a Fantasizer’s Dust, 2021 (detail) concrete textile, funerary backdrop stand, neon tubing, transformers, spot lights, silk gauze 85.5 x 112 x 24 in 217.17 x 284.48 x 60.96 cm…
Aaron Wilder is an interdisciplinary artist who blurs boundaries between the analog and the digital, the public and the private, and the unassuming and the instigative. He uses his own experiences and sense of identity as a lens through which he explores the introspective and social processes of contemporary culture. Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, Wilder has also lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and France and currently resides in Roswell, New Mexico. With the history of being a self-taught artist since 2002, Wilder received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017. He has exhibited his work extensively across the United States as well as in Italy. “Omission Rituals” is Wilder’s first solo exhibition at Amos Eno Gallery after joining as an artist member in 2020. Wilder’s curatorial practice organically grew out of his artistic practice starting in 2009 and he is currently Curator of Collections & Exhibitions at the Roswell Museum. His curatorial philosophy is centered on the belief that art can change the world. Wilder has a deep interest in emphasizing the possibilities of artistic practice to engage with others about not only art, but also about the world and how we perceive it individually and socially. Aaron Wilder, “Neither Sand nor Rock,” 2022, Digital Photography Collage, Courtesy of the Artist Aaron Wilder, “Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream: Isn't it weird how life's unexpected twists and turns take us to unexpected places? Some good and some not so good.” 2017, Digital Mixed Media, Courtesy of the Artist Aaron Wilder, “Expletive Block: Non-Normative,” 2018, Plywood, Painted and Laser Cut MDF Sculpture, Courtesy of the Artist…
Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo (b. 1978, Bandung, Indonesia) is an artist based in Bandung, Indonesia who received his Bachelor’s Degree in Painting from Bandung Institute of Technology (2001) and a Master’s in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2005). Sunaryo is interested in the utilization of resin as a medium that captures minerals, pigments, and other particles in various states of flux within a sense of stasis. Working initially with more industrial pigments, he has more recently worked with volcanic ash, perishable food ingredients, as well as crude palm oil and converted them into his own distinctive pigments. Sunaryo’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in Southeast Asia, Europe, the UK, and USA, including No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia (2014) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA. Selected solo exhibitions include Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo: New Paintings (2021) at Art Basel OVR: Portals presentation by ROH Projects; ARGO (2019) at Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK; after taste (2017) at Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia; Silent Salvo (2015) at ARNDT Gallery, Berlin, Germany; and group shows include External Entrails (2022) at Silverlens New York, New York, USA; IRL (2020) at Art Basel OVR: 2020; Ripples: Continuity in Indonesian Contemporary Art (2019) at Taipei Dangdai, Taiwan; These Painter’s Painters (2018) at ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia; iris (2018) at Silverlens Galleries, Manila, Philippines; ω (2017) at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong; Biennale Jogja XIV: Age of Hope (2017) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Constituent Concreteness (2017) at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore; Lines of Flight (2017) at Gallery Exit, Hong Kong; Lompat Pagar/Crossing Borders (2015) at National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia; Marcel Duchamp in Southeast Asia (2012), Equator Art Project, Gillman Barracks, Singapore; and Manifesto (2008), National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia. Sunaryo was nominated as a Finalist for Best Emerging Artist using Painting by the Prudential Eye Awards in 2015; and a Finalist in the Sovereign Asia Art Prize in 2010. Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo. Liniresin (Bongkah #1), 2009-2022. Pigmented resin. Variable dimension. Installation shot at Silverlens New York. Courtesy of The Artist, ROH and Silverlens. Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo, Liniresin (Sawit #3), 2022. Palm oil charcoal, fiber and pigmented resin mounted on wooden panel. 200 x 200 x 5,5 cm. Courtesy of The Artist and ROH. External Entrails, 2022-2023. Installation shot at Silverlens New York. Courtesy of The Artist, ROH and Silverlens.…
Photo by Kate Orne/Upstate Diary Melissa McGill, (born in Rhode Island, 1969) is a New York based interdisciplinary artist known for ambitious, collaborative, site specific public art projects. They take the form of site-specific, immersive experiences that explore nuanced conversations between land, water, sustainable traditions, and the interconnectedness of all living things. At the heart of her work is a focus on community, meaningful shared experiences and lasting impact. Spanning a variety of media including performance, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, light, video and immersive installation, McGill has presented both independent public art projects and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally since 1991. She lives in Lenapehoking (Beacon, New York). Her recent endeavor, Red Regatta (2019), was an independent public art project that activated Venice’s lagoon and canals with four unprecedented large-scale regattas of traditional vela al terzo sailboats hoisted with hand-painted red sails, presented in collaboration with Associazione Vela al Terzo Venezia, co-organized by Magazzino Italian Art. In the Waves (2021) was a series of collaborative performances presented by Art&Newport that moved over the landscape in Newport Rhode Island evoking the urgency of rising sea levels and a rapidly changing climate with an ensemble of local community members. The artist invited members of the local community to join the ensemble of this inclusive movement-based public artwork to create a shared meaningful experience about these environmental themes. Her land art project, Constellation (2015-2017), installed on an island in the Hudson River, lit each night creating a new constellation transforming The Bannerman Castle ruin. She has been exhibiting her artwork nationally and internationally since 1991, and additional recent projects include Canaletto and Melissa McGill:Performance and Panorama, 2022, The Lightbox, United Kingdom; Palmas, 2014, Manitoga, Garrison, New York ; The Campi, 2018, Venice, Italy, as well as solo exhibitions at The Permanent Mission of Italy at the United Nations, New York organized by Magazzino Italian Art; Mazzoleni London-Torino; TOTAH, New York; White Cube, London; Power House, Memphis; Palazzo Capello, Venice; and CRG Gallery, New York. She is a graduate of The Rhode Island School of Design, a member of the Lenape Center Advisory Council, and a National Endowment of the Arts ArtWorks Grant recipient. In 2022 she was awarded the Helena Rowe Metcalf Visionary Award by the Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Association. Melissa McGill Sea Saga, 2022 organic indigo on clay coated wood panels (diptych) 36 × 30 × 1 ½ inches (91.5 × 76 × 4 cm) 36 × 30 × 1 ½ inches (91.5 × 76 × 4 cm) Oceanus, 2021 Organic indigo on clay coated wood panel 36 x 30 x 1.5 inches Celestial River, 2022 Organic idigo on yupo paper, 9″ x 12″…
Portrait of Jessica, photo by Shark Senesac Jessica Westhafer (b. 1990, Denver, CO) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from the University of Arkansas in 2014 and her MFA in Painting from Indiana University in 2020. Using a deceptively playful form of figuration, Westhafer explores psychosocial experiences. Westhafer’s imagery taps into memory and sentiment in order “to invent, reimagine, immortalize and even create” idealized or fictitious narratives. These “surrogate scenes of time and place” arouse feelings of vulnerability through which she invites viewers to revisit their own histories. While very specific in its choice of subject matter and detail, her art captures ineffable aspects of early formative experiences that are universal. JESSICA WESTHAFER Partial Installation. SOMEWHERE THAT’S GREEN NOVEMBER 9, 2022 - JANUARY 7, 2023. Photo: Shark Senesac. Jessica Westhafer Always & Forever, 2022 Oil and watercolor on canvas 44 x 108 inches (111.8 x 274.3 cm) © Jessica Westhafer; Photo by Shark Senesac; Courtesy the artist and Vito Schnabel Gallery Jessica Westhafer Bubble Wand, 2022 Oil, watercolor, and glass on canvas 80 x 90 inches (203.2 x 228.6 cm) © Jessica Westhafer; Photo by Shark Senesac; Courtesy the artist and Vito Schnabel Gallery Jessica Westhafer 7th Period Science Class, 2022 Oil on canvas 84 x 72 inches (213.4 x 182.9 cm) © Jessica Westhafer; Photo by Shark Senesac; Courtesy the artist and Vito Schnabel Gallery…
Jennifer Paige Cohen lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at The Pit, Los Angeles; The Saint-Gaudens Memorial, New Hampshire; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; Salon 94, New York; and White Columns, New York. Group exhibitions include Petzel Gallery, Regina Rex, PPOW, Creative Time, The Elizabeth Foundation, Casey Kaplan and Public Art Fund, all New York, NY; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; September Gallery, Hudson, NY; Kate MacGarry, London, UK; and Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria, among numerous others. Jennifer holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art. She has received grants and fellowships from Café Royal Cultural Foundation, Saint-Gaudens Memorial, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, MacDowell, The Corporation of Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Sharpe/Walentas Space Program, Civitella Ranieri and the Chinati Foundation. Untitled (self-portrait), clothing scraps, plaster, plaster gauze, fabric collage, zipper, watercolor, 23”H x 14”W x 16”D, 2022 Untitled, clothing scraps, plaster, plaster gauze, fabric collage, watercolor, 37 ½” x 14 ½” x 9”, 2022 Untitled, clothing scraps, plaster, plaster gauze, fabric collage, watercolor, 24 ½”H x 24”W x 23”D , 2022…
Dana Robinson (b. Brooklyn, NY) is an artist and designer who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Robinson’s practice aims to address topics of youth, Black feminine identity, ownership, and nostalgia. With a background in graphic design and a love of Black vintage media, Robinson uses her layered practice to bring the past in dialogue with the present. She has exhibited at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas State University, Fuller Rosen Gallery, 92nd Street Y, Spellerberg Projects, Kates-Ferri Projects, the Wassaic Project, A.I.R. Gallery, Haul Gallery, and Regular Normal. She has upcoming solo exhibitions at Turley Gallery and Kates-Ferri Projects in 2023. More Wishes Come True for Chris Harris Too, 2022, 18 x 24 inches, Acrylic on wood panel Hand 001, 2022, 11x14 inches, multimedia in clear acrylic case Mouth 006, 2022, 11x14 inches, gouache and collage on paper on wood panel in clear acrylic case…
Jodi Hays (b. 1976) is a Nashville-based artist whose work explores the material vocabulary of the American South through reclaimed and repurposed cardboard, textiles, and fabrics that resemble screen doors, old boards, and sign paintings. She is a 2019 Finalist for the Hopper Prize. Her work has been seen most recently in a solo exhibition at Night Gallery, Los Angeles. Jodi Hays and Michi Meko come together in The Burden of Wait to present a selection of works rooted in their shared focus, the Southern landscape. Hays employs reclaimed cardboard, dyed fabrics, and other quotidian materials to explore the visual lexicon of the American South. She describes her practice as “a southern povera,” calling upon the use of unconventional and humble materials. Hays' work is further inspired by the material habits of Robert Rauschenberg and the rituals and repetitions of Beverly Buchanan. Through her deliberate use of found material, the artist visualizes the resourceful labor of women in the South as those that make, stack, sew, mend, and fix. JODI HAYS Meridian, 2022 Dye, paper, ribbon and cardboard collage on panel 24 x 30 in. (JHY0006) Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC. JODI HAYS May/December , 2022 Dye, and cardboard collage on wood strainer 45 x 46 in. (JHY0007) Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC. JODI HAYS Cotton, 2022 Dye, paper, and cardboard collage 71 x 56 in. (JHY0005) Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC.…
Georg Óskar (b.1985, Iceland) currently works and lives in Oslo, Norway. He graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from Akureyri School of visual arts in 2009 and subsequently obtained his MFA from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in Bergen, Norway, in 2016. Since then, Oskar has exhibited internationally in various countries, including United States, Spain, Germany, China, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, to name a few. Fundamentally, his practice is regarded as a visual diary of his personal observations of the mundane, specifically in nature and people. His works are composed in a unique manner to allow multiple entry points for viewers, prompting them to reflect on the complexities of contemporary life. Infused with a distinct twist, Oskar’s narratives are often sarcastic but always offer genuine observations of his lived and built environment. A sense of levity and innocence is located within his narratives and murkiness of his palette, to operate as a ‘psychological counteract’ that enables him to maintain a bemused distance from the profane, the dark, and the obscene. Georg Óskar, Romeo and Juliet, 2022, Oil on canvas, 200 × 150 cm Georg ÓskarThe end of Everything, Oil on canvas, 200 × 250 cm Georg Óskar, Drowning little bit Everyday, 2022, Oil on canvas, 200 × 150 cm…
Chason Matthams' focus is on capturing the ephemeral experience of consciousness and pointing to its fragmentary nature. While at first glance his paintings seem to be contemplative experiments in mimesis, prolonged looking reveals threatening undertones. Matthams’ employs specific combinations of colors, angles of perspective, and exhaustive detail to anthropomorphize each of his subjects, rendering them just barely sinister. Flitting between mechanical and organic objects, Matthams’ exacting brushwork is the connective thread leading our eye through every sumptuous detail. Matthams graduated with a BFA in Fine Art from New York University in 2004 and an MFA from New York University in 2012. Previous solo exhibitions include Glimpse, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2022), A Hell for Rainbows, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Advances, None Miraculous, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY (2015); and Tyler Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2019, 2013). He was included in Blossom, a three person exhibition with Ted Pim and Marisa Takal organized by the Tong Art Advisory at the Artron Art Centre, Shenzhen, CN (2021); and his work was included in Artforum’s “Portfolios” feature in March 2020. Previous group exhibitions include Stockholm Sessions at Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden (2021); Nature Morte at The Hole, New York, NY (2021); Cynthia Daignault’s The Certainty of Others, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY (2017); L’IM_MAGE_N, Ashes/Ashes, New York, NY (2017); Break Out, Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium (2015); and Beyond the Pale, Interstate, Brooklyn, NY (2014). The book mentioned at the end of the interview is The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, a 2009 book written by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist that deals with the specialist hemispheric functioning of the brain. Chason Matthams, Corsage (aqua, blue, pink), 2022, Oil on linen over panel, 24 x 30 in., 61 x 76.2 cm. Courtesy the artist and Magenta Plains, New York. Chason Matthams, Untitled (RED, Sebastian rig - slider), 2021, Oil on panel, 72 x 60 in., 182.9 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy the artist and Magenta Plains, New York. Chason Matthams, Untitled (Fuji GX680, orange/purple), 2022, Oil on linen over panel, 36 x 29 in., 91.4 x 73.7 cm. Courtesy the artist and Magenta Plains, New York.…
For over fifty years, Dona Nelson has made series of different kinds of paintings, distinguished by a variety of approaches to both image and material.Nelson was born in Grand Island, Nebraska in 1947. She received a B.F.A. from Ohio State University (1968), and studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1967). She is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, where she has worked since 1992. Her paintings are included in museum collections such as The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Pompidou, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of New South Wales in Australia. Among other grants, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994 and in 2011, she received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. The Night of the 25th of May, 2022. Acrylic and acrylic media on canvas. 80 x 80 inches. The Night of the 25th of May, 2022. Acrylic and acrylic media on canvas. 80 x 80 inches. Surveyor's Lunch, 1981-1982. Oil on canvas, 72 x 78.5 inches. Untitled05, 1978. Oil on canvas. 32 x 17 inches.…
The boundary between digital and analog, between novel and nostalgic, is an ever-evolving realm explored in the work of artist Anne Vieux. Having received her BFA in painting and art history from the Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Vieux’s process merges traditional painting with an experimental approach all her own. Using the refracted light patterns of an optical scanner as a jumping off point, Anne mines the depths of digital imagery to look at the patterns and flows behind an image. Appearing at times both metallic and aqueous, her abstract paintings capture something not possible in an analog world, but give warmth and even soul to the randomized data. This marriage of virtual image, physical materiality, and painterly finesse ultimately seeks the tension between the physical and digital realms. With over a decade of work, Vieux has expanded her repertoire to include painting, sculpture, installation, video, artist books, and nfts. in a time when technology rapidly evolves and transforms our experience of life along with it, Vieux’s ability to find beauty and meaning in the flux has garnered her widespread acclaim and a stream of international exhibitions, including solo shows at The Hole, The Journal, NY, NY; County Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; as well as group shows with König Galerie, Berlin, DE; Cranbrook art museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Hunter College Art Gallery, National Arts Club, NY, NY; and Newcomb Art Museum, New Orlean’s, LA. Vieux’s work has been added to notable collections, such as the Newcomb Art Museum, the libraries the Moma, the Met, Virginia Commonwealth, Reed college. Vieux has been commissioned for numerous public art works across the country, including a site-specific installation at the Facebook HQ in San Francisco, CA. Vieux currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Mirror Proxies, installation image at The Hole {{verdure}}, 2022. acrylic and ink on canvas, 86 x 72 inches ~~##_, 2022, digital video h264, 30fps mp4 (2min loop), 3840 x 2160 px…
Sally Kindberg (b. 1970 Stockholm, Sweden) lives and works in London, UK. She holds an MFA and a BFA from Goldsmiths College, London, UK. Kindberg has had solo exhibitions at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY; Every Mooonday, Seoul, South Korea; Duve, Berlin, Germany; and Peter von Kant, London, UK. Her work was featured in group exhibitions at Phillips, London, UK; Another Gallery, Paris, FR; Rudolph Jansen, Brussels, Belgium; Gallery Ascend, Hong Kong; Tuesday to Friday, Valencia, Spain; and 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany among others. Exhibition Links: Sally Kindberg | Press Release / Sally Kindberg | Exhibition Images Sally Kindberg, Road to Recovery, 2022. Oil on linen, 37 x 43 inches. Courtesy of Thierry Goldberg Gallery. Sally Kindberg, Blow, 2022. Oil on canvas, 25 x 27 inches. Courtesy of Thierry Goldberg Gallery. Sally Kindberg, Ocean Liner, 2022. Oil on linen, 59 x 71 inches. Courtesy of Thierry Goldberg Gallery.…
Rachel Mica Weiss, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist. Rachel Mica Weiss (b. 1986, Rockville, MD) is a sculptor and installation artist based in Hudson Valley, New York. Weiss earned a BA in psychology from Oberlin College and an MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. Weiss's work has been the subject of eight solo exhibitions at the following: Here Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (2022); Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (2019) ; Lux Art Institute, San Diego, CA (2018); LMAK Gallery, New York, NY (2018, 2017); Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (2015); Fridman Gallery, New York, NY (2014); the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA (2013). Weiss’ first institutional commission, The Wild Within, is part of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA. Her largest permanent installation to date, Boundless Topographies, funded by the Gates Foundation, is installed at the University of Washington’s Hans Rosling Center for Population Health in Seattle, WA. Weiss’ work is included in the public collections of: the US Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Microsoft Corporate Collection; Boston Consulting Group Corporate Collection; Media Math Corporate Collection; Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, as well as the collections of Francis J. Greenberger and Beth Rudin deWoody. Rachel Mica Weiss, installation view of Collar (left) and Flesh of My Flesh (right), 2022, Carvalho Park, New York. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park. Rachel Mica Weiss, Portal, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist. Rachel Mica Weiss, Bowed Venus, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.…
Allison Jae Evans Allison Jae Evans is a painter whose restrained linear vocabulary draws viewers into a provocative world of seduction, objectivity, and power. Her current exhibition, Hung Up, combines painting, drawing, and installation to construct a layered narrative with references ranging from the nihilism of Richard Kern’s Cinema of Transgression to more contemporary ideas about sex and human connection in the digital world. Evans was born in New Haven, CT and currently lives/works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and an MFA from Hunter College in NYC. Evans's work has been exhibited at The Journal Gallery, 106 Green Gallery, Atlanta Contemporary, Edward Thorp Gallery, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, among other venues. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, and Hyperallergic, and has been reviewed in The New York Times. She was recently interviewed by artist Brian Alfred for the Sound and Vision Podcast and artist Alex Nuñez for the Sunday Painter Podcast. Hung Up is on view at Peninsula Gallery until December 10, 2022. Front Room Installation of Allison Jae Evans: Hung Up at Peninsula Art Space Back Room Installation of Allison Jae Evans: Hung Up at Peninsula Art Space Installation Image of Allison Jae Evans' "1-900-Hot-Fuck", 2022, 24 x 18 inches, Watercolor Crayon on Newsprint, at Peninsula Art Space…
© Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Joey Trisolini Born in Honolulu in 1966, Paul Pfeiffer grew up between Hawaii and the Philippines before moving to New York in 1990 to attend Hunter College and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Pfeiffer is known for his highly sophisticated use of digital technologies and new media, and has created celebrated works of video, photography, installation and sculpture since the late 1990s. Using digital erasure, magnification, and repetition, Pfeiffer samples and retouches images or video footage from sporting events, concerts, game shows and Hollywood films to enhance their psychological effects. By drawing attention to certain aspects of visual culture and concealing others, he underlines the spectacular nature of contemporary media and its consumption. Pfeiffer’s videos are often presented using unusual monitors and hybrid hardware, further emphasizing the ostracizing effect of the found footage and incorporating a crucial sculptural element to the work. Pfeiffer has had one-person exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2001); the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2003 and 2017-18); the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2005); MUSAC León, Spain (2008); the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2009) and Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (2011). Pfeiffer has presented work in major international exhibitions in recent years, including the Performa Biennial and the Honolulu Biennial in 2019 and the Toronto Biennial and Seoul Mediacity Biennale in 2022. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Inhotim Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Inhotim, Brazil; the Pinault Collection, Venice; and Kunst Werke, Berlin, among others. © Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert © Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert Paul Pfeiffer, Red Green Blue, 2022 (3 Min excerpt) Paul Pfeiffer, Red Green Blue, 2022 (3 Min excerpt)…
Kathryn Spence has spent years compiling, sorting and transforming culture’s discards into sculptural objects that reveal a human determination on the topic of sufficiency. Fascinated with space, materiality, and objectness, she attends to materials conventionally wasted to produce installations and individual objects that act as a point of unhinging between the natural world and the controlled world. The show being discussed is Kathryn Spence at P. Bibeau, September 9 - October 22, 2022. Kathryn Spence (b. 1963) resides in the Bay Area and is featured in numerous public collections including SFMOMA, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., U.C. Berkeley Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, Mills College at Northeastern University, the Denver Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Museum solo exhibitions include the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, 2010, the Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, 2001, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, 1999. Spence is a recipient of the Anonymous was a Woman award, the Eureka Fellowship, an Artadia award, and the Fleischhacker Foundation award. Her 'Pigeons' were recently on view at SFMOMA in ‘Greater Than the Sum,’ 2021-22. Spence showed for 18 years at Stephen Wirtz in San Francisco. The books mentioned in the interview are: Douglas W. Tallamy, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard and E.O. Wilson, Half Earth. Installation (close-up) P.Bibeau Gallery, 2019-22Socks, sweatpants, t-shirts, bed sheets, curtains, necktie, fabric scraps, found crocheted and knitted project parts, brown corduroy, yarn, cell phone ads, string, thread, mud, felt, wood, cardboard, pencil drawings, field guides, magazine scraps, stuffed animal fur, wax, plaster, plywood. Photo by Peter Sit. ‘Untitled, (Great gray owl)’ 2019-22:: Gray socks, sweatpants, t-shirts, fabric scraps, stuffed animal fur, cardboard, bird field guide pages, wax, wood. Photo by Peter Sit. 'Untitled, (Boreal owl),’ 2019-22 Found crocheted and knitting project parts, scraps of fabric, yarn, fur from stuffed animals, field guide, cell phone ads, cardboard, thread, string, mud. Photo by Peter Sit.…
Craig Drennen is a painter based in Atlanta and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. His recent solo exhibitions include Merchant, Mistress, and T at Freight+Volume in New York City, Old Athenian & at Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN and First Acts at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, GA. He has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Triangle Arts Foundation, DNA Provincetown, and Skowhegan. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, and the New York Times. Drennen served as dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and manages THE END Project Space. Since 2008 he has organized his studio practice around Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. Craig Drennen is a painter based in Atlanta and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. His recent solo exhibitions include Merchant, Mistress, and T at Freight+Volume in New York City, Old Athenian & at Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN and First Acts at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, GA. He has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Triangle Arts Foundation, DNA Provincetown, and Skowhegan. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, and the New York Times. Drennen served as dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and manages THE END Project Space. Since 2008 he has organized his studio practice around Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. The book of poetry mentioned in the interview is by Victoria Chang, Obit. (The Pill) oil & alkyd on canvas over panel 30-inch diameter 2022 This piece is dedicated to the character of Merchant from Shakespeare's Timon of Athens. T25 oil & alkyd on canvas over panel 72” x 48” x 8” 2022 This piece is dedicated to the character of Timon from Shakespeare's Timon of Athens. Ninth Mistress oil & alkyd on linen + latex paint on wall 15” x 15” canvas + two 2.5” x 5” vertical stripes 2015 This piece is dedicated to the character of Mistress from Shakespeare's Timon of Athens.…
Michael McClard arrived in New York in 1973 with a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he also won a Peabody Award in Sculpture. He soon made his mark on the art scene as a member of a highly original group of young artists who helped to revive an interest in painting and visual performance. He was a founding member of the noted artists’ support group Colab and its first chairman. Sidestepping the confines of abstract conceptual art, McClard’s work seethes with figurative content; yet it has nevertheless retained a conceptual element and mines a strong vein of humor. During the 70s he staged provocative performances such as « Foes v. Foes » at the Kitchen and surreal, carnivalesque installations at venues such as the Clocktower (« There’s Meat on these Bones ») ; PS 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, De Appel, Amersterdam and N.A.M.E Gallery, Chicago. For these presentations, he constructed all sets and props and performed, often as sole actor. His one-act play, « Mumbo Jumbo, » was published in Avalanche 12, Winter 1975. In October 1981, his first large-scale one-man show of paintings and frescoes took place at Mary Boone, occupying both galleries on either side of West Broadway. Drawing on sources from mythology, history and everyday life, he created a pantheon of imaginary characters, notable for their tactile raw energy, range of facial expressiveness and astute power of observation. Also featured were inventive depictions of historical scenes, acclaimed by critics such as Grace Glueck of the New York Times for their verve and by Hal Foster of Art in America for their metaphysical insights. Many of these works were acquired by New York and Los Angeles public and private collectors. During this period McClard was also awarded two fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, in Visual Arts and Mixed Media. In the 90s McClard took a temporary hiatus from painting to explore new media. He embraced the digital revolution and applied his draughtsmanship skills to the creation of original software with his brother Peter McClard through their dotcom enterprise, Hologramophone Research. The computer installation «Characters» furthered his interest in human physiognomy by generating an unlimited sequence of drawings of faces and was exhibited in « A visage découvert, » Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en Josas, France. The book mentioned in the interview: Leavings: Memoir of a 1920s Hollywood Love Child. “I Might Have to Bite You” 1983, pastel on Strathmore, 24” x 18” “Hello Darling” 1983, pastel on Strathmore, 24” x 18” “Miss Bozzart” 1983, pastel on Strathmore, 24” x 18”…
Spencer Lai is an artist, writer, curator and DJ in Melbourne. They have exhibited extensively at both artist-run and commercial spaces within Melbourne and internationally. They graduated from the Victorian College for the Arts (BFA with Honours) in 2014. Working across multiple forms and formats, including sculpture, installation, curation, writing, drawing, Spencer's practice produces associative meaning from a range of accumulated materials that are worked into assemblages, installations and exhibitions. These materials often include text, found objects, design elements or images from consumer cultures, lifted from thrift stores, replicated, or traced or by chance encounters. As well as these object based assemblages they produce expanded paintings, often making grotesque use of cut coloured felt, coloured pencils and printed textile offcuts. The resulting outcomes of their practice are rarely singular or stand-alone objects - rather, their identities are intentionally constructed from multiple references, works, as well as contributions from other artists, sometimes resulting in the form of curatorial group exhibitions. Besides Spencer’s work as an exhibiting artist, their work as both a DJ and gallerist attests to their commitment to fostering community and contributing to the formation of a cultural scene. Upcoming exhibitions include a curated group exhibition at Inge, NYC and solo presentations at Neon Parc & Asbestos, Melbourne, 2023. Recent exhibitions include: Academy for the Sensitive Arts, Theta, NYC; Oriental Painting., Neon Parc, Melbourne; up the hill in my city shoes with Allan Rand, off-site location, Melbourne; A Patience Game with Jürgen Baumann at Holden Garage, Berlin; buddhaminefield., Ge Hinnom Small Group Love, London. The book mentioned is Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh. Academy for the Sensitive Arts, 2022 Installation view form: egg (army green), 2022 Powder coated steel, foam core, acrylic spray paint, rubberised spray paint, synthetic felt, beads, sequins 68.5 x 47 cm (27 x 18.5 in) form 010 (Princess II), 2022 Resin, spray paint, vintage beaded trim, synthetic fabric trim, butterfly 50 x 14.5 x 14.5 cm (19.68 x 5.70 x 5.70 in)…
Dianna Settles is a Vietnamese-American artist in Atlanta, Georgia who received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2014. Her current work explores moments of joyful stillness amidst the cascading series of crises called modern life, accomplished through her synthesis of traditional Vietnamese and classical European painting styles. Dianna SettlesColorfast/fugitives (a vital knowing of the potential to shape, to change, to build, to play, to open the world to new worlds, new possibilities, newly knotting ourselves to our place and time), 2022Acrylic, colored pencil, watercolor on wood panel32 x 48 inches Dianna SettlesHow do we follow after you? Cupping circles, culling rows, 2022Acrylic and colored pencil on wood panel32 x 24 inches Dianna SettlesHow to make it last, how to share (apple season) , 2022Acrylic and colored pencil on panel32 x 24 inches…
Portrait by Zach Baker Jessi Reaves (b.1986, Portland, Oregon) earned her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI in 2009. Her practice centers on sculptures that also operate as furniture, rupturing traditional binaries of the functional and the aesthetic. In 2021, Reaves work was featured in two iterations of the two person exhibition Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas and The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. Reaves’ solo exhibitions include At the well, Bridget Donahue, New York, NY (2022), Going out in Style, Herald St, London, United Kingdom (2019); Jessi Reaves II, Bridget Donahue, New York, NY (2019); Kitchen Arrangement within The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2018); android stroll, Herald St, London, United Kingdom (2017); Jessi Reaves, Bridget Donahue, New York, NY (2016); Now Showing: Jessi Reaves, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (2016). Recent group exhibitions include Slant Step Forward, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento (2019); Carnegie International, 57th Edition, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2018); Ginny Casey and Jessi Reaves, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia (2017); Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2017); Looking Back/ The 11th White Columns Annual, White Columns, NY (2017) among others. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at The Arts Club of Chicago in 2023. Jessi Reaves — Installation View, “At the Well”, September - November 2022, Bridget Donahue, NYC Photo by Gregory Carideo Jessi Reaves, A sample of the truth, 2022, Wood, metal, cord, sawdust, wood glue, paper, enamel paint, 44 ½ × 42 × 45 in. (113.03 × 106.68 × 114.30 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue, NYC Photo by Gregory Carideo Jessi Reaves Warming Rails Extended (Towel Rack), 2022, Metal, hardware, sawdust, wood glue, 58 ½ × 27 × 27 in. (148.59 × 68.58 × 68.58 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue, NYC Photo by Gregory Carideo…
Masamitsu Shigeta (b. 1992, Tokyo, Japan) lives and works in Hoboken, NJ. Shigeta primarily paints landscapes depicting urban nature and architecture. Shigeta plays with painting conventions by shifting the medium toward sculpture, either by shaping his canvas or utilizing custom artist frames. He holds an MFA from New York University and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts. Solo exhibitions include SITUATIONS, NYC and Tyler Park Presents, LA, who jointly represent the artist. Group exhibitions include The Landing, LA, Chinatown Soup Gallery, NY and Tutu Gallery, NY. His work has been reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail and a publication titled Dancing Plants was released for his most recent exhibition at SITUATIONS. His most recent exhibition at SITUATIONS can be found here. A copy of his book can be obtained by writing to info@situations.us. Masamitsu Shigeta Red Light, 2021 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches Masamitsu Shigeta Colorful city, 2022 Oil on canvas with wood frame 42.5 x 32.5 inches Masamitsu Shigeta A thinking Tree, 2022 Oil on canvas with shaped frame 24 x 21 inches…
Huidi Xiang (b. Chengdu, China) is an artist and researcher currently based in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She holds an MFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University (2021) and a BA in Architecture and Studio Art from Rice University (2018). In her practice, Huidi makes sculptural objects, installations, and systems to examine world-making processes and the coexistence of multiple contexts and narratives in late capitalism. Her current work explores the spatial and temporal effects of inhabiting both the virtual and physical worlds. Huidi’s works have been exhibited internationally, including OCAT Biennale at OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China, Lydian Stater in Long Island City, NY, LATITUDE Gallery in New York, NY, Contemporary Calgary in Calgary, Canada, Hive Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China, and Miller ICA in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Huidi has also participated in some artist residencies, including NARS Foundation International Residency Program(2022), ACRE Residency Program(2021), the Millay Colony for the Arts (2020), and Project Row Houses Summer Studios (2016). In the interview we discussed her show, "Neither Here Nor There" at Lydian Stater and also the Virtual Reality Gallery of "Neither Here Nor There." The book mentioned by artist during the conversation: The Vegetarian by Han Kang. Huidi Xiang, Playbour Objects (exhibition view at Lydian Stater Physical Gallery), 2022 Huidi Xiang, Playbour Objects (detail view), 2022 Huidi Xiang, Playbour Objects (exhibition view at Lydian Stater Virtual Reality Gallery), 2022…
Julia Kunin (b. 1961) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores themes including queerness, the body, and the natural world. She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA) and an M.F.A. from The Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ). Recent solo exhibitions include Mechanical Ballet at Kate Werble Gallery (New York, NY) in 2021 and Rainbow Dream Machine at McClain Gallery (Houston, TX) in 2020-21. Recent group exhibitions include: Wild Chambers (two person show with Yevgeniya Baras) at Mother Gallery (New York, NY), Cosmic Geometries, curated by Hilma’s Ghost, at EFA Gallery (New York, NY) in 2022, Fur Cup at Underdonk (Brooklyn, NY) in 2019, Raw Design at the Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco, CA) in 2018, and Said by Her at Lesley Heller Gallery (New York, NY) in 2018. Kunin was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary in 2013. In 2010 She received a Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant to Hungary. In 2008 she received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a residency at Art Omi. In 2007 she received the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist Residency. Fellowships include those at The MacDowell Colony, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, CEC Artslink grant to The Republic of Georgia, an Artist Residency in Wiesbaden, Germany, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, The Core Program in Houston, TX, and Skowhegan. Julia Kunin currently has a series of ceramic lamps at Ralph Pucci International (New York, NY). In 2022 she contributed artist interviews to Two Coats of Paint. She is also a member of the board of FIRE, The LGBTQ Fire Island artist residency. Her work was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA. Julia Kunin Green Clock, 2015 Ceramic 12 x 9 x 2 1/2 in 30.5 x 22.9 x 6.3 cm Julia Kunin Chambered Rainbow, 2016 Ceramic 18 x 13 x 3 1/2 in 45.7 x 33 x 8.9 cm Julia Kunin Psychedelic Body, 2016 Ceramic 40 x 10 x 6 in 101.6 x 25.4 x 15.2 cm…
Silas Inoue was born in 1981 and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark in 2010. He currently lives and works in Copenhagen. Inoue’s work has been widely exhibited internationally; recent exhibitions include; Barbe á Papa, Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeux, France; Night Bloom Central, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY (2022, solo); Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea and Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark (2022); Naturen Taler #1, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark (2021); eat & becʘ̃me, Augustiana Kunsthal, Augustiana, Denmark (2020, solo); and Altering, Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany (2019). Many notable collections include his artwork, such as: Danish Arts Foundation, Bornholm Art Museum, Noma, and Horsens Kunstmuseum, where his first museum solo exhibition is scheduled to open in 2023. Silas Inoue Future Friture-Turritopsis Dohrnii, 2022 Sugar, silicon and cooking oil in acrylic aquarium on concrete plinth 42 1/8 x 13 x 13 in (107 x 33 x 33 cm) Photo Credit: Jason Mandella Courtesy of Ulterior Gallery, New York Silas Inoue Infrastructure, 2022 Acrylic cover, wood, silicon, plastic, mold, and bronze respiratory system 25 1/4 x 26 x 9 1/4 in (64.1 x 66 x 23.5 cm) Photo Credit: Jason Mandella Courtesy of Ulterior Gallery, New York Silas Inoue Mesh, 2022 Graphite and watercolor on paper 35 x 37 5/8 in (88.9 x 95.6 cm) 41 x 44 x 2 1/2 in (104.1 x 111.8 x 6.4 cm) Framed Photo Credit: Jason Mandella Courtesy of Ulterior Gallery, New York…
Jazmín López (Buenos Aires, Argentina). She is a filmmaker, a visual artist, and a professor. She graduated from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. She has also an MFA in Visual Arts from NYU and MFA in Visual Arts from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She participated in the WhitneyISP program. Her work is represented by Ruth Benzacar art gallery and has been featured in venues like Fondation Pernod Ricard, San Jose Museum, OCAT, Tabacalera, Kadist, Istanbul Biennial and KW. Her films had participated in festivals like: Orizonti oficial competition Venezia Biennial, Rotterdam Film Fest, Viennale, New Directors New Films at MoMA and Lincoln Center, Centre George Pompidou and KW institute Berlin, among many other world Film Festivals and featured in Variety and New York Times. She has taught a Master Class in École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and was part of the Jury in the 33 FID Marseille. She works as professor for NYU and as an assistant professor of Boris Groys. She worked as a full faculty professor at Universidad del cine, Buenos Aires. The book mentioned in the interview is In Praise of Love, Book by Alain Badiou.…
Gracelee has attended twenty residencies in the US and abroad and opened her second solo show in New York at Postmasters in June 2022, her third at Heroes Gallery in September 2022. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University at Albany, SUNY. Recent exhibitions include Marinaro Gallery (New York, NY), Postmasters Gallery (New York, NY), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago, IL), HEADLINE Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), and more. She has installed large-scale outdoor sculptures at the Upstate Immersive (Poughkeepsie, NY), Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), Museum of Museums (Seattle, WA), Franconia Sculpture Park (Shafer, MN), Mary Sky (Hancock, VT), and others. In 2017 she returned from 15 months as a Visiting Professor in the Multidisciplinary Department of Art at Chiang Mai University and assistant to artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook on a Luce Scholars Fellowship. She is a member of the collective MATERIAL GIRLS, a recipient of the 2021-22 Individual Artist DEC Grant, a 2019 Jerome Fellow at Franconia Sculpture Park, a 2016-17 Luce Scholars Fellow, a recipient of the 2015 UMLAUF Prize, 2013 Eyes Got It Prize, and the 2011-12 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant. Press for her work includes The New Yorker, ArtNet, Hyperallergic, Artspace, Beautiful/Decay, and MAAKE Magazine, among others. She is an enthusiastic dancer, a lifelong horsewoman, and an aspiring indoor gardener. Installation view, "Gracelee Lawrence: Marisol," Heroes Gallery, New York, 2022. From left: Marisol, Lizard Kiss, 1979; Gracelee Lawrence, Punching a Hole in the Darkness, 2022. Installation view, "Gracelee Lawrence: Marisol," Heroes Gallery, New York, 2022. From left: Gracelee Lawrence, Just a little Fever, 2022; Marisol, Untitled III, 1979. Installation view, "Gracelee Lawrence: Marisol," Heroes Gallery, New York, 2022.…
Jeff Gibson is an Australian-born artist and occasional critic who has worked in a variety of media and contexts—photography, collage, video, prints, posters, banners, and books for galleries and public spaces. Gibson moved to New York in 1998 to work for Artforum magazine, where he has been the managing editor since 2004. Since arriving in New York, he has exhibited on the Panasonic Astrovision screen in Times Square as part of Creative Time’s “59th Minute” program and mounted solo shows at the New York Academy of Sciences, Stephan Stoyanov, and Theodore. In 2011, two of the artist’s videos were projected onto the facade of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, as part of a curated series presented by Light Work and the Urban Video Project. His video Metapoetaestheticism was exhibited in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. In 2016, Gibson produced a billboard, titled Armagarden, for the I-70 Sign Show, a curated program of artworks occupying advertising sites on the Missouri interstate. Gibson’s work was also included in the “Digital Infinity” section of the 2018 Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. And in June of this year, the Griffith University Art Museum in Brisbane, Australia, staged a survey show of Gibson’s art, titled “Countertypes,” featuring a selection of works spanning 1980 to the present. Jeff Gibson, Untitled, 2022, decoupage on wood panel, 24 x 24”. Jeff Gibson, Untitled, 2022, decoupage on wood panel, 24 x 24”. Jeff Gibson, Untitled, 2022, decoupage on wood panel, 24 x 24”.…
Vusi Beauchamp (b. 1979) studied printmaking and painting at the Tshwane University of Technology and Graphic Design at Damelin in Pretoria, South Africa. Beauchamp's provocative iconography employs popular culture, satire and stereotypes in service of a visual political commentary. His somewhat controversial works are meant to comment on social issues, politics and current events in South Africa, though they easily relate to the dissatisfaction felt by many international communities with regards to their political and economic leaders. Beauchamp seeks to examine the South African government currently embattled within itself, the disconnect it displays with its people, and the tense social climate under years of viral threat, mired in misinformation and heightened insecurities over corruption. Predominantly a painter, Beauchamp creates his works on canvas by using various methods, including spray painting and stenciling, with mediums such as crayons, charcoal, oil sticks and acrylic paint. His works on paper similarly use a variety of materials and techniques, often incorporating multiple layers to create the final image. Beauchamp’s most recent solo exhibitions include The Cult of One, Part II at David Krut Projects, New York (2022) and The Cult of One at David Krut Projects, Johannesburg (2022). The exhibitions are a continuum of his ongoing Paradyse of the Damned series, which has been shown at the Borderline Art Space in Iași, Romania (2019); the Johannesburg Art Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa (2018); and the Pretoria Art Museum in Pretoria, South Africa (2015). Winner 1.1, 2019, Mixed media on Fabriano paper, 39.4 x 27.6 in (100 x 70 cm) Africa Bonanza, 2022, Mixed-media on canvas, 33.9 x 28.5 in (86.1 x 72.4 cm) My People, 2022, Mixed-media on canvas 33.9 x 28.3 in (86.1 x 71.9 cm)…
Lucia Buricelli is a photographer from Venice, Italy, based between New York City and Milan. In her work, Buricelli is interested in exploring everyday life in all its forms: interactions between people, animals that live in urban environments, objects that have fallen to the ground, and self-portraits. Ultimately, Buricelli is interested in documenting different aspects of urban daily life. Her clients include The New York Times, Vogue, Time, Vice, among others. New Collectors is an art gallery that primarily features work by emerging artists. The gallery was founded on the premise that the art world is inherently difficult to penetrate, and there need to be more approachable ways for people to explore and buy artwork. The types of exhibitions have ranged widely in the gallery’s first year; there have been shows with students from the School of Visual Arts MFA program, shows curated from open calls, and even exhibitions that utilize augmented reality to display NFTs. The gallery hopes to bring light to new ways of exhibiting while continuing to foster the careers of the artists it represents. Wild City Installation, New Collectors, October 2022 Naples, Italy (2022), inkjet print on archival paper, 31x21, edition of 5 New York City, USA (2019) inkjet print on archival paper, 13x19", edition of 10. New York City, USA (2019), inkjet print on archival paper, 19x13,edition of 10…
Photo by Helmut Spudich, Vienna, 2022 Dave Bopp (b. 1988, Basel, Switzerland) is an ultra contemporary artist based in Berlin. His paintings have been featured in gallery and museum shows throughout Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, South Korea, and the US and has been acquired by prominent private, corporate, and museum collections. Conjunction After Sunset, 2022, Mixed media on aluminum composite board, 31.5 x 39 in (80 x 99.1 cm) Incursion 1, 2022, Mixed media on aluminum composite board, 60 x 79 in (152.4 x 200.7 cm) Juggernaut, 2021, Mixed media on aluminum composite board, 79 x 120 in (200.7 x 304.8 cm)…
Peter Frederiksen champions the art of embroidery. Throughout his exploration of the medium, the artist has developed a free-motion machine technique, commonly working on a standard sewing machine that has been altered by removing the presser foot andlowering the feed teeth, allowing Frederiksen to engage tension while moving an embroidery hoop around freely. The result is dense embroidery stitched onto linen canvas, which is then stretched onto a wooden panel as a nod to traditional painting. Described by the artist as “drawing with a sewing machine,” Frederiksen produces scenes with subtle gradients and uniform textures that closely resemble colored pencil drawings when viewed from a distance. The nostalgic, soft-edged scenes are born from the artist’s love of cartoons (notably post-war Warner Brothers and the Simpsons) and come together through a fervent editing process. Beginning with screenshots taken from old cartoons, often focusing on the smallest of elements while featuring as much action as possible, Frederiksen crops, edits and adds additional details, be it from other cartoons, eclectic designs or abstract images, before tracing, sketching and eventually stitching his creations onto linen. Peter Frederiksen attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2006 - 2008, with a focus on painting, drawing and fibers. It was during these years that the artist explored the techniques of other mediums and expanded his painting practice to include soft sculpture and fiber art. Following his time at SAIC, Frederiksen worked at ad agencies as an art producer where he fostered his passion for promoting and representing other working artists. He is currently a partner, representative and producer at RAD Represents, an artist representation company located in Chicago, IL. The artist’s work has been presented at a number of institutions in Chicago including the Chicago Athletic Association (solo exhibition, 2020), the Hyde Park Art Center (group exhibition, 2019) and the Arts Club of Chicago (group exhibition, 2018). Most recently, the artist’s embroideries have been featured in group exhibitions internationally at Haverkampf Leistenschneider in Berlin (Text-ile, June - August 2022), Galleri Urbane in Dallas (Intersections, July - August 2022), Daniel Raphael Gallery in London (Go Figure!, July - August 2022), and Bulls Fest in Chicago, curated by All Star Press Chicago (The Art of the Game, September 2022). Frederiksen has appeared in numerous print and online publications, including The Guardian, Colossal, It’s Nice That, gallerytalk.net, Textiel Plus, The Fiber Studio, Composite Arts Magazine, and Chicago Art Review. The artist lives and works in Chicago, IL. The book mentioned in the interview: How High We Go In The Dark. Peter Frederiksen, Massey Klein Gallery, no-no-no-no-no, 22-2022 Freehand machine embroidery on linen, 9 x 12 inches. Image courtesy of Massey Klein Gallery and The Artist. Peter Frederiksen Massey Klein Gallery, some locks wont hold, 22-2022, Freehand machine embroidery on linen, 8 x 6 inches. Image courtesy of Massey Klein Gallery and The Artist. Peter Frederiksen, Massey Klein Gallery, "out from under rocks, clearing the crust from dreary eyes and seeing friends again", 2022, Freehand machine embroidery on linen, Each panel 7 x 5 inches, Overall 7 x 10 inches. Image courtesy of Massey Klein Gallery and The Artist.…
Monia Ben Hamouda, photo: Michele Gabriele Monia Ben Hamouda (b. 1991, Milan) lives and works between al-Qayrawan and Milan. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan. Previous positions include a visiting professorship at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden and a Master of Curating at Istituto Marangoni, Florence, and a seat in the jury at the Filmmaker Festival, Milan. Her work has been presented in various venues including ChertLüdde, Berlin; ASHES/ASHES, New York; Ar/Ge kunst Kunstverein, Bozen; Jevouspropose, Zurich; Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Florence; Et.Al, San Francisco; Ada, Rome; Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris; Universitätssammlungen Kunst, Dresden; Alios 16me Biennale d’Art Contemporain, La Teste de Buch; Marselleria Permanent Exhibition, Milan. Awards include: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (winner); VI Club Gamec Prize (finalist); TSI Art Award x Artissima (winner); Art Business Accelerator Grant, Artwork Archive and Redline Contemporary Art Center (winner); DUCATO Contemporary Art Prize (special prize winner). Additional information for Monia can be found on her artist page. The book she discussed in the interview is The Big Something by Ron Padgett. Monia Ben Hamouda Denial of a Red-Winged Blackbird (Aniconism As Figurative Urgency), 2022 laser-cut steel, spice powders, charcoal 86 1/4 x 76 3/8 x 3/64 inches (219 x 194 x 0.3 centimeters). © Monia Ben Hamouda, courtesy ASHES/ASHES, New York and ChertLüdde, Berlin. Monia Ben Hamouda Denial of a Red-Winged Blackbird (Aniconism As Figurative Urgency), 2022 laser-cut steel, spice powders, charcoal 86 1/4 x 76 3/8 x 3/64 inches (219 x 194 x 0.3 centimeters). © Monia Ben Hamouda, courtesy ASHES/ASHES, New York and ChertLüdde, Berlin.…
Portrait by Gabriella Marks Paula Wilson received an MFA from Columbia and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Alongside her current exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery, she is currently exhibiting within a group exhibition Plein Air at MOCA Tucson and has an upcoming solo exhibition Toward the Sky’s Back Door at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs in 2023. She has also recently had an acquisition placed at Colby College Museum of Art. In addition, her upcoming Albuquerque Museum show: Nicola López and Paula Wilson: Becoming Land opens October 8th, 2022 and is part of a larger umbrella of shows titled: Historic and Contemporary Landscapes including work by Thomas Cole and Kiki Smith. Wilson’s has held other recent solo exhibitions at Locust Projects, Miami, FL (2020-2021), 516 ARTS Contemporary Museum, Albuquerque, NM (2019), Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (2018), and Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, NY (2018). She has been included in four exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, exhibitions at Tufts University Art Galleries (2021), Skidmore College (2015), Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing (2014), Postmasters Gallery (2010), Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (2010), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2009), Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (2007), Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (2006), just to name a few. Wilson’s artwork is in many prestigious collections including, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the New York Public Library, Yale University, Saatchi Gallery, and The Fabric Workshop. Microhouse, 2022 Mixed Media. Courtesy of Paula Wilson and Denny Dimin Gallery Earth Angel, 2022 Acrylic and oil on muslin and canvas (relief, silkscreen, monotype, and lithography print), wooden and beaded jewelry made in collaboration with Mike Lagg. Courtesy of Paula Wilson and Denny Dimin Gallery Up My Sleeve, 2021 Acrylic on muslin and canvas (woodblock, relief, monotype, silkscreen, collagraph, and digital print) Courtesy of Paula Wilson and Denny Dimin Gallery…
In Takuji Hamanaka’s mosaic-inspired works on paper, multiple sections of monochrome color interlock within dimensional, polychrome compositions. Adapting the ‘Bokashi’ technique of woodblock printing to a contemporary practice, Hamanaka prints multiple papers in color gradients and arranges them onto paper in organic designs that call to mind lattices, prisms, and slopes. Color and its absence draw attention to the paper’s opacity, as well as more theoretical ideas of windows and grids, and the tension between nature and pure abstraction. Takuji Hamanaka was born in 1968 in Hokkaido, Japan and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. From 1986-89 he trained at the Adachi Institute of Woodblock printmaking in Tokyo, Japan. Hamanaka is the 2022 recipient of a prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and the recipient numerous other grants and awards including The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant (2021), the Rauschenberg Emergency Grant (2020), and the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Printmaking (2017 and 2011). He was a fellow at the Kala Art institute, Berkeley, CA in 2016 and a Barbara and Thomas Putnam Fellow at MacDowell Colony in 2013. His works are included in the collections of the Fleming Museum, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, the New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection among others. Recent group exhibitions include 'Focus on the Flatfiles: Between Worlds,' Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY, and 'Here and Now,' The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ. His exhibitions have been reviewed by John Yau (Hyperallergic) and Johanna Fateman (The New Yorker). The book he mentioned at the end is Early Light by Osamu Dazi. Takuji Hamanaka , Collapsing Stair, 2021, Cut and pasted woodblock printed papers, mounted on museum board, 32 x 25 1/2 inches, TH1165, Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY, Photo: Lance Brewer Takuji Hamanaka, Stream Mineral, 2021, Cut and pasted woodblock printed papers, mounted on museum board, 32 x 25 1/2 inches, TH1165, Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY, Photo: Lance Brewer Takuji Hamanaka, Broken Screen, 2021, Cut and pasted woodblock printed papers, mounted on museum board, 32 x 25 1/2 inches, TH1165, Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY, Photo: Lance Brewer…
Anthony Akinbola Photo by Fredrick Nwosu Anthony Akinbola is an interdisciplinary Nigerian- American, Brooklyn-based artist. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Anthony Akinbola, is a first-generation American raised by Nigerian parents in the United States and Nigeria. His layered, richly colored compositions celebrate and signify the distinct cultures that shape his identity. The artist’s signature Camouflage paintings, consisting of single and multi-panel works, utilize the ubiquitous du-rag as their primary material. Universally available and possessed of significant cultural context, the du-rag represents for Akinbola a readymade object that engages the conceptual strategies of Marcel Duchamp and other significant artistic predecessors. Throughout his work Akinbola unpacks the rituals and histories connecting Africa and America, addressing the power of fetishization around cultural objects. Anthony Akinbola was selected for the Anderson Ranch Art Center Residency in 2017 and created a monumental wall collage for The Queens Museum in 2018. In 2019, Akinbola was awarded the Van Lier Fellowship and named the eighth Museum of Arts and Design Artist Fellow, which resulted in a solo exhibition at the museum. In September 2022, Anthony Akinbola was awarded the Silver Arts Project residency in New York. Akinbola’s work is currently featured in a group exhibition at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. His work will be included in a group exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art in March 2023. His work has been featured in exhibitions at The Queens Museum, NY; the Bronx River Art Center, NY; The Zuckerman Museum of Art, GA; and The Verbeke Foundation, Belgium, amongst others. Following his exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design, NY in 2020, Akinbola mounted a significant solo exhibition in early 2021 at the Kohler Arts Center, WI. Akinbola received a BA in communications and media from SUNY Purchase College. His work is included in the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, and The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY amongst others. Installation view of Anthony Akinbola: Natural Beauty at Sean Kelly, New York, September 8 - October 22, 2022, Photography: Adam Reich, Courtesy: Sean Kelly Anthony Akinbola White Bronco, 2022 durags, acrylic on wood panel overall: 110 x 72 inches © Anthony Akinbola Courtesy: Sean Kelly Anthony Akinbola Camouflage Study "Lilac/Green", 2022 durags, acrylic on wood panel 48 x 96 inches © Anthony Akinbola Courtesy: Sean Kelly Anthony Akinbola Lift Every Voice, 2022 durags, acrylic on wood panel overall: 149 x 73 1/2 inches © Anthony Akinbola Courtesy: Sean Kelly…
Kyle Thurman (b. 1986, West Chester, PA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. In 2016 he received an MFA in painting from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. From 2011 to 2012, Thurman studied with Christopher Williams and Peter Doig as a guest student at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf. In 2009 he received his BA in Film Studies and Visual Arts from Columbia University. Most recently, Thurman was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta; his work is now included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Other recent solo and group exhibitions include Central Fine, Miami Beach, FL; The Meeting, New York, NY; Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria; 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA; Off Vendome, New York, NY; The Cleveland Triennial, Cleveland, OH; Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, MO; Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, Belgium; Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium; Kostyal, London, England; Benevento, New York, NY; OFFSITE, New York, NY; Bodega, New York, NY; MOCA Tucson, Tucson, AZ; Fluxia Gallery, Milan, Italy; Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY; Dickinson Gallery, New York, NY; Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain; Lisa Cooley and Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY; Room East, New York, NY; Middlemarch, Brussels, Belgium; Nudashank, Baltimore, MA; Shoot the Lobster, Miami, FL; Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium; West Street Gallery, New York NY; Eleven Rivington, New York, NY; Clearing, Brussels, Belgium; M and B Art, Los Angeles, CA; Martos Gallery, New York, NY; Printed Matter, New York, NY; and The Mercantile Fiction Library, New York, NY among others. The artist’s upcoming exhibitions include Central Fine, Miami Beach, FL and Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria. Kyle Thurman Dream Police (My neck) 2022 Acrylic dispersion, gouache, oil, and watercolor on PVA primed paper and Dibond panel in artist’s frame 49 7/8 x 73 7/8 x 2 7/8 in 126.7 x 187.6 x 7.3 cm Image courtesy the artist and David Lewis. Kyle Thurman Forest (our shadow) 2022 Gouache, graphite, oil, and watercolor on PVA primed paper and Dibond panel in artist’s frame 49 7/8 x 73 7/8 x 2 7/8 in 126.7 x 187.6 x 7.3 cm. Image courtesy the artist and David Lewis. Kyle Thurman Crown (model monument, emotion) 2022 with altar by Lesser Miracle Patinated bronze and wood Sculpture Dimensions: 21 1/10 x 21 1/10 x 21 1/10 in 53.6 x 53.6 x 53.6 cm Altar Dimensions: 30 x 70 x 33 in 76.2 x 177.8 x 83.82 cm. Image courtesy the artist and David Lewis.…
Andrea Kantrowitz, an artist and educator, has lectured and led workshops on art and cognition internationally, and has twice served as a Singapore Ministry of Education Outstanding Educator in Residence. She was a teaching artist in the New York City public schools for many years, involved in multiple local and national research projects that demonstrated the positive academic impact of an integrated art curriculum for students growing up in poverty. As a director of the Thinking through Drawing Project, she co-organized 10 years of international drawing and cognition research symposia and workshops, in collaboration with colleagues from around the world. She holds a doctorate in Art Education and Cognitive Studies from Columbia University Teachers College, an MFA in Painting from Yale, a BA in Art and Cognition from Harvard and is an Associate Professor and Director of the Art Education Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and are in many private collections. She has curated multiple exhibitions on themes of drawing, cognition, and the creative work of artist/educators. She is an artist member of The Painting Center in New York City, and her artwork is also represented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art. Homage to Las Meninas, Mixed media on paper, 32 x 40. 2022 Many Stories Could Be Told, Charcoal and pastel on paper, 28 x 40. 2022 Polyhhedra, Charcoal and pastel on paper, 24 x 40. 2022…
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