(New York — October 26, 2011) Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Otherworldliness, an exhibition of surrealist and magic
realist paintings on view from November 5 to December 23, 2011.
Not exact matches
From Megan Marrin & Tyler Dobson's Postkartenständer (Postcard Stand, 2014),
on which photo -
realist selfie
paintings were offered as postcards stacked among kitschy tourist
views, to Allora & Calzadilla's Contract (SWMU 10)(2015), a huge silkscreen of the lush, tourist brochure - style palm trees printed over a Warholish sweep of grey
paint (a sign of the silkscreen medium itself), representation was shown helplessly submitting to the production which makes it visible.
One of the earliest works
on view is Fisherman's Family (1931), a seemingly
realist oil
painting of a family scene.
On view October 22, 2016 — January 22, 2017, this exhibition surveys the state of representational
painting at the beginning of the 21st century and features approximately 40 works by 20 contemporary
realist artists from throughout the United States and Canada.
Recently
on view at Danese Corey Gallery in New York, artist Shelley Reed's mural - sized
paintings evoke the work of
realist French or Dutch
paintings from a bygone era — although at a slight removal given their monochromatic palettes.
On view are nature - inspired contemporary
realist paintings by Adam Straus.
The powerful works
on view represent four major branches of contemporary Chinese art: ink
painting,
realist oil
painting, conceptual photography, and performance and new media art.
Nine of those studios, painstakingly reproduced by Fig as miniature sculptures or as
realist paintings, are
on view in «NEW / NOW: Joe Fig,» at the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut through July 20.
The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting
on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist
view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works
on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment
on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings
on handmade paper reflect
on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's
realist, pure light - filled oil
painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic
paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.
It may well be the theme for Betty Tompkins» large - scale
realist paintings of heterosexual sex currently
on view at PPOW gallery.