The newest additions: Mead Art Museum exhibit features treasure trove of contemporary art By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer What exactly defines contemporary art? As David Little sees it, there’s a fair amount of gray in that definition, since there’s debate about when modern art, the dominant theme of the 20th century, segued into contemporary art — sometimes broadly defined as “the art of today.”But the director and chief curator of Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum also notes that many contemporary artists are…Read More
Erin O’Keefe, Seeing Things @Denny Dimin By Loring Knoblauch JTF (just the facts): A total of 9 large scale color photographs, framed in grey and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the divided gallery space. All of the works are archival pigment prints, made in 2019. Physical sizes range from 25×20 to 50×40 inches, and all of the prints are available in editions of +2AP. The show also includes 5 sculptures (2 single works and 1 triptych) made of plywood, paint,…Read More
Interaction of Space Erin O’Keefe at Denny Dimin Gallery As a student of Western art history, I have been asked to study the work of Pablo Picasso a little too frequently for my taste. I thought I could confidently say that I had puzzled over his collages—you know, the famous still lifes that incorporate wine bottles and cut up pieces of le journal—enough to be thoroughly fed up with seminar table conversations on representation and reality in pictorial space. Imagine…Read More
LOS ANGELES iris yirei hu and ivan forde VISITOR WELCOME CENTER 3006 W 7th Street Suite 200A September 21–October 26, 2019 View of iris yirei hu and ivan forde, 2019. At the center of iris yirei hu’s installation is a tapestry hanging from a Navajo loom atop clay shards that resemble dry earth mounded over a grave. The woven image is of a weaver, a picture hu pairs with a print of a woman weaving silk (the source image is…Read More
Sep 23, 2019, 03:21pm Deliciously Dark Art Of Mark Dion Seizes Moment In The Sun At Storm King Natasha Gural Mark Dion American, b. 1961 Dana Sherwood American, b. 1977 Conservatory for Confectionery Curiosities (2008/2019) Mixed media installation 9 ft. 10 1/8 in. x 13 ft. 1 1/2 in. x 66 15/16 in. (300 x 400 x 170 cm) Courtesy the artists and Tanya JEFFREY JENKINS An octagonal glass greenhouse modeled after those found in a courtly garden is filled…Read More
September 23, 2019 at 2:30pm GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL NAMES ARTISTS PARTICIPATING IN 2020 EDITION Ana Mazzei, Body Wall, Paluca, 2018. Photo: Gui Gomes. Glasgow International, Scotland’s biennial festival for contemporary art, has announced the details of its upcoming program, which will take place from April 24 to May 10, 2020. More than one hundred artists—including Kader Attia, Yuko Mohri, and Eva Rothschild—will participate in the approximately sixty exhibitions and other events that will be staged in various venues across the city. “The theme…Read More
TriBeCa, the New Art Stroll With the decline of retail, storefronts in the Triangle Below Canal Street are filling with galleries — it’s New York City’s most unlikely new art scene. Visitors waiting to be admitted into James Cohan, which is showing “Observations at Night,” an exhibition of new work by Josiah McElheny. The gallery hosted performances by the Sun Ra Arkestra, part of a performance series curated by Blank Forms, during the Tribeca Gallery Walk on Saturday. Calla Kessler/The…Read More
The Return of the Tribeca Art Scene By Jerry Saltz Shona McAndrew, Alina (2019), currently on view at Tribeca’s Chart gallery. Photo: Shona McAndrew/Courtesy of Chart/Photograph by Dan Bradica Something wonderful is happening in the once and future art neighborhood of Tribeca. On the first Friday after Labor Day, these blocks were populated with crowds of artists and art lovers, all drawn by the siren song of possibility. But the smell of money, hustling collectors, and deal-makers was nowhere to be…Read More
There’s more to Erin O’Keefe’s still lifes than meets the eye PEI-RU KEH 11 SEP 2019 A bright and vibrant colour palette doesn’t often figure into the oeuvre of a trained architect, but for the artist Erin O’Keefe, who not only studied architecture but has taught it as well, the power of colour couldn’t play a bigger role in how she perceives space. ‘I taught for 23 years as an architectural professor and as part of that, I was teaching…Read More
A New Body of Work By Erin O’Keefe Asks What Makes a Space “Real” by Jill Singer The artist Erin O’Keefe — whose work we’ve been continuously sharing since 2014 — has a solo show opening this week at Denny Dimin Gallery in New York. While her work has remained fixated on a single subject during that time — how to manipulate space and our perception of it — the ways in which she interprets that subject seem to be almost infinite. In her photographs, she builds still lifes from painted wood blocks…Read More
21 Gallery Shows You Won’t Want to Miss in New York This Fall, From Amy Sherald’s Star Turn to a Historic Cuban Artist’s US Debut Here’s a taste of what’s opening this season in the Big Apple. Caroline Goldstein & Sarah Cascone, September 3, 2019 It’s that time of year again… back to school, back to work, and back to the galleries. With so many venues, it can be daunting to try to figure out what’s worth your time and Instagram attention. So…Read More
Tribeca Emerges as New Hub for Galleries James Cohan, CANADA, Monica King Contemporary, kaufmann repetto and Andrew Kreps Gallery open new spaces with exciting exhibitions in September By Paul Laster With five new gallery spaces opening in Tribeca on September 6, two others joining the neighborhood this past summer, and at least three more rumored to be putting down stakes next year, the Triangle Below Canal Street has emerged as New York’s hottest destination for art. The phenomenal success of…Read More
JUSTINE HILL Interview by Frédéric Caillard, February 2019 When did you start to work with shaped panels? I started doing the cut-outs shapes and building my own panels almost four years ago now. But to me the works I was making before were the same, except they were rectangular. They also were abstract landscapes that talked about space, shapes and colors. So you did not think that transition was an important step at the time? I felt like it…Read More
Three Exhibitions to Look Forward to This Fall in New York and Wisconsin By Annie Block Three exhibitions featuring feathers, textiles, and pigment prints open in New York and Wisconsin this fall. “Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe” at John Michael Kohler Arts Center Photography by Rich Maciejewski/courtesy of the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation, New York, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, a nonprofit museum in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, promotes the work of self-taught and contemporary…Read More
Watch an Artist Paint Every Assistant They’ve Ever Had By: Casey Lesser, Jul 30, 2019 Michael Mandiberg, Live Study , 2019. Courtesy of the artist. A lone painter agonizes over a canvas, working into the wee hours of the night. Such mythologized visions of artists have been widely popularized, but hardly reflect reality. In truth, many artists, particularly those at the top of their game, work like any other highly skilled professionals, with defined work hours, methodical processes, and the support of assistants….Read More
Food Is Part of the Fun at Storm King By: Florence Fabricant, July 16, 2019 “Mark Dion: Follies,” a show at Storm King Art Center, is a series of small structures and sheds. Food and eating figure into some of the whimsical interactive works by the American artist Mark Dion that now dot the Storm King Art Center’s more than 500 acres and museum in the Hudson Valley. Called follies, they’re small structures and sheds that the visitor can enter or peer…Read More
Introducing | NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program Recipients and Finalists NYFA has awarded $661,000 to 98 New York State artists working in the categories of Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, Choreography, Music/Sound, Photography, and Playwriting/Screenwriting. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the recipients and finalists of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program, which it has administered for the past 33 years with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). The organization has awarded a total of $661,000 to 98…Read More
Erin O’Keefe continues to trick the eye with her bewildering photography By: Ayla Angelos, July 2, 2019 Erin O’Keefe is no stranger to It’s Nice That. She first graced our screens in 2014 and again in 2015 – like magpies we were instantly drawn to the bright colours and structural geometry that features throughout her work. And now she returns with her latest series, Built Work. But don’t be fooled – these aren’t paintings. The New York-based photographer and former architect majestically…Read More
‘You can’t do this by yourself’: in a lean market, New York’s smaller galleries stick together Younger dealers share experiences and expertise to survive the middle-market squeeze By: Tess Thackara, June 27, 2019 As the dominance of mega galleries rises, New York’s younger dealers say camaraderie and mentorship will be key to surviving the middle-market squeeze. With Chelsea growing increasingly expensive, Tribeca has seen a recent influx of galleries, joining stalwarts such as Andrew Kreps and Postmasters, and newcomers are…Read More
Glitches in the Simulation The Phillips x Daata artist commissions By Michael Connor Jun 26, 2019 In Jeremy Couillard’s HOTR Home Furnishing, an IKEA-like warehouse store serves as a re-education camp for billionaires following the Earth‘s salvation at the hands of aliens. As a necessary condition of the transition to a more equitable and climate-friendly society, the aliens are attempting to retrain the billionaires of the old world to perform humble and useful tasks—specifically, to assemble prefab furniture. This work, along…Read More
5 Artists Whose Instagram Accounts Are Just as Vivid, Colorful, and Bold as Their Artworks Take a look at how these top artists are documenting their works on social media. By: Nora Brara, June 26, 2019 Artists and Instagram: has there ever been a better pairing? It’s almost like the photo-sharing service was designed for creators to show off their wares. And not only that: Instagram also allows outsiders to get behind-the-scenes access to studios, works in progress, cultural inspirations, and the…Read More
516 shows spotlight transplanted viewpoints By: Kathleen Roberts, June 16, 2019 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two New Mexico artists thread inspiration from the state’s high desert terrain through seemingly opposite styles. Paula Wilson’s print world entangles silhouetted figures with fantasy landscapes. Mira Burack’s collages evoke roiling suns and water droplets created from textiles. 516 ARTS is hosting both women in solo shows opening on Saturday, June 22. The art will hang through Aug. 31. Wilson grew up in Chicago and earned…Read More
Amanda Valdez’s art: part painting, part quilt, 100% fun By: David Pagel, May 28, 2019 Like painters everywhere, Amanda Valdez applies paint to canvases that have been stretched over sturdy supports. But that’s just the start. She adds hand-dyed and commercially printed fabrics to her works — sometimes stitching blob-shaped sections to canvas, other times cutting holes in the canvas and patching them with precisely measured sections of fabric, as if repairing torn trousers without wasting an inch of cloth….Read More
Art This Week: Extinct Fish and Playable Simulations … Seven Games / Sometimes to Deal With the Difficulty of Being Alive I Need to Believe There is a Possibility That Life Is Not Real Opening Thursday, May 23 at Denny Dimin Gallery, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through June 30. The line between art and video games was blurred a long time ago, but the two shows opening at Denny Dimin Gallery this Thursday cast an even wider net,…Read More
