A couple of weeks ago in Casablanca, Morocco, Mexican artist Smithe presented a mural amongst
several other artists from Mexico, Spain and Morocco for the Sbagha Bagha street art show during Boulev
Not exact matches
I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but not similar enough to explain the coincidence: I am speaking
from a podium to a fairly large audience on the topics of — to put it broadly — evil, suffering, and God; I have been talking for
several minutes about Ivan Karamazov, and about things I have written on Dostoevsky, to what seems general approbation; then, for some reason or
other, I happen to remark that, considered purely as an
artist, Dostoevsky is immeasurably inferior to Tolstoy; at this, a single pained gasp of incredulity breaks out somewhat to the right of the podium, and I turn my head to see a woman with long brown hair, somewhere in her middle thirties, seated in the third or fourth row, shaking her head in wide - eyed astonishment at my loutish stupidity.
While his imagery has changed
several times over the years, the
artist characterized himself as being «
from the beginning, a minimalist abstract
artist, a geometric abstractionist, with no recognizable shapes in my work» —
other than circles, which have always captivated his imagination as «the perfect shape.»
Calculated to stand out
from the
several dozen white male
artists at the Biennial (and in every
other high - profile show and job applicant pool), Scanlan uses «Woolford» to usurp the visibility accrued to minority
artists in the contemporary art spotlight by the fact of their relative absence.
, García will stage a new iteration of
several ongoing performance works stemming
from texts written by the
artist, by
others following the protocols given by the
artist, or utilising and responding to iconic literary texts such as James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
It is designed and developed in close collaboration, and over
several years, by major European art institutions: Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Beyeler Foundation in Basel, LVHMs Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris, and by the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.The project «L'Europe des artistes» will result in a major exhibition bringing together
artists from all over Europe, which will be presented
from the year 2014 in the institutions that initiated it before travelling to
other museums in Europe and the world.
He was a member of the collective OJO, which was active
from 2004 to 2013, with
artists Brenna Youngblood, Joshua Aster, Justin Cole, and
several others.
In addition, the exhibition features representative works
from several of the
artist's
other series, including bodies of work created in large part through acts of destruction.
The idea for this exhibition sprang
from Donald Judd's great interest in Dürer (Judd owned
several woodcuts and etchings) and the wish to see the stark images of two such different
artists, who lived five centuries apart, while simultaneously considering the motivation for one's interest in the
other.
He has also received grants
from the Lila Wallace Fund; the Asian Cultural Council; the Massachusetts Cultural Council; the Berkshire Taconic Foundation's
Artist Resource Trust; the LEF Foundation; and
several other awards which assist
artists in mid-career.
Six months after Franklin Sirmans took the helm of the Perez Art Museum Miami, the institution has announced a series of major acquisitions, including 100 works donated by Miami developer Craig Robins
from his personal collection, as well as the Douglas and Bearden works, and
several others by African American
artists.
Several works here are by
artists included in the historic Ninth Street Exhibition of 1951, mounted by Vicente and
other Club members in a building that was slated for demolition — a kind of proto - alternative space that shifted attention away
from the commercial galleries of 57th Street to the downtown
artists» scene.
For the first time in its history, DAS 2018 created new connections between South, South East Asia, and the Indian Ocean belt, exhibiting
artists from Thailand, Malaysia, Madagascar, the Philippines, and
several other countries.
This exhibition running
from the 3rd to the 27th May at the Jointure Studios will show works by Chris Aggs, Peter Archer, Mariella Baldwin, Imogen Baldwin, Day Bowman, Henrietta Dubrey and
several other gallery
artists.
Laure Genillard has been seminal to the practices of
several British
artists, whose work first showcased at her gallery, including Catherine Yass, Fiona Banner, Martin Creed, Peter Doig, Gillian Wearing, Simon Starling as well as many
artists from Europe such as Maurizio Cattelan and Sylvie Fleury amongst
others.
From 1995 to 2005 he was Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, where he developed numerous group exhibitions, such as East Village USA and Living inside the Grid, and
several individual shows dedicated to the
artists Martin Wong, William Kentridge, Carolee Schneemann, Carroll Dunham, Doris Salcedo, José Antonio Hernández Diez, among
others.
The
artists have examined the concept of the exhibition
from diverse angles - the legacy of institutions which now sit uncomfortably with each
other, the question of identity which oversteps fiercely guarded national borders with
several challenges thrown to the viewer to ponder on what is deemed to be the «status quo».
Several happenings
from the 1960s and onwards were called Self - Obliteration and involved the
artist covering herself and
others with dots.
Several years later Giacometti agreed to cast three bronzes
from the plaster, of which the
other two were acquired by the
artist's dealer Aimé Maeght and dealer Heinz Berggruen — who donated the plaster original to the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1983.
In the second Behind the Scenes podcast produced on the occasion of the exhibition Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings
from the National Gallery of Art, 1500 - 1800, Grasselli talks to host Barbara Tempchin about the Gallery's exceptionally rich collection of 18th - century drawings by the major
artists - Boucher, Fragonard, Greuze, and Watteau, among many
others - each represented by
several works of outstanding quality.
Represent culminates with a wide - ranging array of portraits created by
several generations of
artists,
from those active over a century ago to those making work today, as well as audio excerpts of interviews with contemporary
artists Moe Brooker, Barkley L. Hendricks, Odili Donald Odita, Joyce J. Scott, and
others.
GW: While still in graduate school at Columbia, I won an award
from the
Artists for the Environment to be a resident artist at Bear Mountain with several other artists who used nature in diverse ways: Melissa Meyer, Ned Smyth among
Artists for the Environment to be a resident
artist at Bear Mountain with
several other artists who used nature in diverse ways: Melissa Meyer, Ned Smyth among
artists who used nature in diverse ways: Melissa Meyer, Ned Smyth among
others.
She has received the 2008 M - tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, the 2009 Djerassi Honorary Fellowship, support
from the Shearwater Foundation, and fellowships
from several other artist residency programs.
From politics, fashions, through market forces, histories and
other social forces to private or personal urgencies,
artists negotiate
several stakes.
There, kachina dolls and Eskimo masks compete for attention with works
from other «primitive» societies,
several of Donati's startling Surrealist sculptures, and a constantly changing selection of the
artist's older and more recent paintings.
Included are works: «A walk with Antirrhinum majus», a performance by Augustas Serapinas on the discovery of the wildflowers of San Giuseppe delle Scalze; a tour through the architecture of the Sanità district guided by Fabrizio Ballabio of
artist collective, åyr; a library by BeckBooks and
other contributions
from several more
artists including Rob Chavasse, Isabel Lewis, Hannah Weinberger and Maria Loboda.
But the rise of Latin American art is not just focussed on Los Angeles, although it does have strong links with Latin America and 48 % of the total population in the area is Latino which is one of the reasons The Getty Foundation focussed on this particular area,
several other major exhibitions of Latin American influenced
artists are planned or have recently been shown, including Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America
from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, while the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative will take its Under The Same Sun: Art From Latin America exhibition to Brazil and Mexico in 2
from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, while the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative will take its Under The Same Sun: Art
From Latin America exhibition to Brazil and Mexico in 2
From Latin America exhibition to Brazil and Mexico in 2015.
Moving
from sublet to studio share to Yaddo and
other residencies over
several years, Butler has incorporated the migrational spatial experience of a contemporary painter into shifting imagery, material, and process, reflecting the transient and often tenuous existence of
artists in New York.
For World Wide the
artist created a process, repeated in exhibitions at
several other museums, by which he enlarged images and details
from his paintings and screened them on transparent sheets of vinyl, hung so that they surround the viewer.
Presenting this exhibition in the context of Pace Gallery, there are
several artists Fred Wilson, Adam Pendleton, Louise Nevelson, Sol Lewitt, who are represented by Pace, but you have a good number of
artists from other major galleries in this show, too — Glenn Ligon, Carrie Mae Weems, Wangechi Mutu, Steve McQueen, Pope.L, Rashid Johnson, and Ellen Gallagher, among them.
Several artists navigate directly the main thematic map of the exhibition;
others chose a more personal approach, looking at the presence of domestic workers in households, the public sphere, and the
artists» lives, while another group of
artists create abstract and poetic landscapes that bring a different and necessary vocabulary in an exhibition that tries to address such a wide and contradictory array of topics and perspectives,
from personal desires and dreams, to historical processes.
Several of the
artists represented in the exhibition studied and / or worked in Spain, or were influenced by Spanish art in
other ways; seeing their paintings in the context of the Meadows» collection of Spanish art, especially those works
from the same period, will enable visitors to detect early European influences, and understand how many of these Mexican
artists later began to forge their own artistic path distinct
from their European contemporaries.
Proceeds
from the sale of this work as well as
others by Ofili, Damien Hirst and Jenny Saville, who were part of the Young British
Artists movement, will go to build a wing for
several large - scale works by James Turrell.
Not many art appreciators were there to block my view of Rob Pruitt's hilarious installation: big fancy abstract paintings twinkling with the
artist's signature glitter, innertube objets encrusted with more sparkly «action painting,» and (literally) heavy - duty floor pieces composed entirely of cement - filled jeans (Levi's, Sasson, brands
from every price point): Five stuffed pairs «sitting up» created a starfish; a snakelike lineup of
several more doing splits straddled the floor like a team of torso - free cheerleaders; denim couples, oozing cement cellulite, spooned, mounted each
other, and / or tempted one to sit on them like furniture.
COBRA
artists got their inspiration
from several different sources, notably: prehistoric art, various forms of primitivism, so - called folk art, gestural and textual graffiti, Nordic mythology, and especially children's pictures, Art Brut and
other types of Outsider art.
Abstract Expressionism also provoked avant - garde responses
from several other artists including Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011), whose calligraphic scribbling is part - drawing, part - graffiti; and the Californian abstract sculptor Mark Di Suvero (b. 1933) noted for his large scale iron / steel sculptures.
Helen Frankenthaler was one of the first
artists to use the stain painting technique, pouring the paint mixture directly onto the unprimed canvas and painting shapes as they stained, Morris Louis started soaking his canvases and eliminating brushes completely
from his practice, and
several other artist started experimenting with spray painting and the use of stripes.
There are also
several other sectors to explore including Nova, Designed for galleries to present one, two or three
artists showing new works that have been created within the last three years, the Nova sector often features never - before - seen pieces fresh
from the
artist's studio and strong juxtapositions.
The opening reception will be held on February 18,
from 6 - 9 pm, and also honor featured
artists Rebecca Baron + Doug Goodwin, Jennifer West, Sean Dockray in addition to
several others.
Other works on display include Seher Shah's graphite on paper drawings, Brutalist Traces (2015 - 16), of the modernist architecture of New Delhi;
artist Gauri Gill's notebooks entitled «1984» (2005, 2009, 2014),
from which are also displayed
several photographs of the people and interior spaces of the «Widows Colony» in Tilak Vihar, where families affected by the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 were provided housing by the state; and a series of streetscape photographs by Pablo Bartholomew, including Man Asleep in Front of Political Graffiti, Calcutta (1978) which embodies how, in South Asia, history inflects the everyday.
Like
several other shows
from the early 1990s, including Jeffrey Deitch's Post Human (1992), Kelley's experiment took its cue
from the rise of «mannequin art,» a term he coined to describe
artists like Charles Ray, Kiki Smith, and Jonathan Borofsky, whose life - size sculptures — not, in fact, all mannequins — evoked anxieties about the role of the human body in a time wrought by the AIDS epidemic, the growth of plastic surgery procedures, and advances in biotechnology.
Working
from sculpture, type based, abstract, graphic, and
several other aesthetics each
artist was able to utilize the subject matter and bring their own vision.
Supported by a catalogue essay in which the curator Catherine Lampert discusses their habits and methods and introduces previously unseen writing by the
artists, the exhibition will look at the way their conversations impacted on the development of their work, demonstrating that despite their wide - ranging styles they are each linked by a desire to catch what Bacon describes as «the mystery of appearance within the mystery of making», and in doing so broke new ground in contemporary painting The exhibition includes major works by each
artist,
several borrowed
from public collections, among them Francis Bacon's Pope I 1951
from Aberdeen Art Gallery, David Hockney's Man in a Museum 1962
from the British Council and
others like Frank Auerbach's Primrose Hill, Winter Sunshine 1962 - 64 and Euan Uglow's Nude, Lady C 1959 - 60 which have not been seen in public for many years.
There is a core director's programme, overseen by Parry, a supported programme, to which Glasgow International (GI) contributes some funding (not enough, I'm told by
several artists and curators) and a wealth of
other initiatives whose support
from GI is promotional rather than financial.
«During the
artist's seminal years 1982 - 83 the Schorrs acquired
several of his most important paintings, but in contrast to virtually every
other early collector, the Schorrs also pursued and acquired a great number of works on paper both directly
from the
artist and
from his early dealers,» explained curator Fred Hoffman.
Cattelan's first solo show in this country since 2003 celebrates the
artist's return to sculpture after
several years of publishing and curatorial work, including his 2002 co-founding of The Wrong Gallery in Chelsea, New York, his collaborations on Permanent Food (an occasional journal comprised of altered pages torn
from other magazines)
from 1996 - 2007, his co-editorship of Charley (a conceptual project and independent series on international contemporary
artists)
from 2002 — present, and his curation of the Caribbean Biennial in 1999 and the Berlin Biennial in 2006.
Its purchase comes on the heels of
several other recent acquisitions, among them Ellsworth Kelly's Tablet, an untitled sculpture by Tony Smith, an untitled painting by Mark Rothko and a group of 12 works by
artists from Texas.
Hank Willis Thomas, Chris Johnson and
several other artists produced a video montage
from interviews with 150 African American men across the social spectrum, creating illusory dialogues that illuminate their shared concerns.
Abstract
artist Estelle Asmodelle,
from 2008 started showing her work in solo exhibitions in Sydney, most notably at the Global Gallery, Gigi Gallery and
several others.
Damien Hirst, Jake Chapman, Antony Gormley and Sarah Lucas and a
several other artists were given a fully decommissioned AKA - 47
from a war torn region of the world and asked to turn it into a work of art