The pieces in these exhibitions reveal something else about the monochrome: The reason one - color pictures work is that they can be used to mean such different things.
Not exact matches
Twelve or so years on, Doig's concurrent
exhibitions at Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Michael Werner
reveal him to be
in fine form, while the scale and number of
pieces indicate that he could have moved to a big - fish outfit like Gagosian a long time ago.
In Mungo Thomson's solo
exhibition at Kadist Art Foundation, Wall, Window, or Bar Signs, the gallery is filled with neon works that appropriate the form of Bruce Nauman's spiraling neon text
piece, The True Artist Helps the World by
Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign) from 1967.
Capturing the unique energy and atmosphere of Trinidad, while following the making of the tapestry
in Edinburgh, imagine...
reveals the finished
piece on display at a new Ofili
exhibition called Weaving Magic, currently on at the National Gallery
in London.
In addition to Benglis's extraordinary poured latex
pieces from the 1960s and 1970s, drawing on themes from her childhood and her Greek roots, the
exhibition includes early bronze casts, wax reliefs, and videos,
revealing the creative universe of an artist who has radically reinvented the language of contemporary sculpture.
Her new works for the
exhibition consists of multiple
pieces of plywood
in various sizes, which she cuts into with a circular saw at varying depths
revealing the textures and colors of the wooden veneers lying below the surface.
Things That Happen, their first solo
exhibition in London since 2005, comprises both new commissions and recent works; videos, drawings, sculptures and text
pieces that
reveal the artists» characteristic subtle wit and intelligence.
Though Conceal,
Reveal is more minimal
in its composition compared to the more vivacious
pieces in the
exhibition, it epitomizes the core visual and process - based motifs that characterize the
exhibition.
Lying shyly by the gallery's entrance on an almost imperceptible
piece of paper, the record
revealed that
in its five years of existence, only three
exhibitions were by women.
Yet, the
pieces featured
in the
exhibition reveal her deliberate return to the gestural improvisation of Abstract Expressionism, as a way of moving her practice forward.