Exhibition catalogs for Amanda Valdez: Gratitude, an exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery, New York City, April 2nd – May 15, 2021.
Soleimani started taking these photographs “to document these forays and efforts to explore whatever we were doing one week or another.”
We are honored that the Heckscher Museum of Art has acquired New Me (2021), an important new painting by Amanda Valdez. The acquisition comes on the heels of Valdez’s solo exhibition Piecework at the museum last year.
Inspired by the Japanese art of flower arrangement, ikebana, Shelton has carefully shaped various flora—sticks, moss, flowers, seeds—into striking compositions that she photographed against bright monochromatic backgrounds.
As we peer into these night visions through Sherwood’s lens, her other-worldly sets and confections invite us into another reality. Through her patient and humorous overtures, the animals reveal themselves. The creatures upend our notions of order as they wash their paws in teacups and walk on the table. They surprise us.
For the past year, Amanda Valdez has been contending with gratitude as a tool to navigate stress, loss, and tragedy after the tumultuous past year saw her lose a parent and become a mother. Her process begins by “dislodging” ideas with small-scale drawings with shapes that emerge from motherhood, growth, and relationships. Utilizing both hand-dyed and commercially sourced fabrics, Valdez then sews the shaped panels of fabric into the canvas before stretching it over the frame, and then paints with a combination of oil stick, gouache, acrylic, and embroidery. This body of work also introduces weaving and quilting as an element in her paintings after experimenting with her four harness floor loom.
Sheida Soleimani was commissioned by the New York Times to consider what fun looks like now.
“I make photographs for a world in crisis.”
Traditionally the decorative arts are concerned with the aesthetics of functional objects such as furniture, vessels, and textiles, which are often designed to be reproduced. “Close Parallel” initiates a bold and daring conversation about perceptions of form and function through domestic vignettes that feature unusual juxtapositions and mutating motifs.
Scott Anderson and Sarah Diver discuss the artist’s current exhibition “Biotech” .
Exhibition catalogs for Scott Anderson: Biotech are now available to order!
Soleimani’s use of bright colors and textured backgrounds draw the viewer into the conversation and ask us to spend time there. By suggesting rather than spelling out the violence she so often takes up, Soleimani maintains the privacy and agency of her subjects instead of probing into their pain.
“A Lovers’ Herbal” is Shelton’s first solo show since New Zealand legalized abortion (for up to twenty weeks’ gestation) in March 2020. This web presentation, dense with information, displays new photographs from “jane says,” a short video interview, ikebana book images, and texts that detail the links between colonialism and the suppression of herbal medical knowledge.
Best known for his unique approach to portraiture, Amir H. Fallah
has made a name for himself not by painting incredible likenesses of people but by revealing who they are through the objects that they possess.
Future Retrieval: Close Parallel opens at the Cincinnati Art Museum on February 26 and features contemporary reimaginings of works from the Museum’s extensive permanent collection.
“I’m interested in finding/discovering/choreographing moments of uncertainty that exist in the image, but not in the ‘real’ spatial condition,” says Erin O’Keefe, erstwhile architecture professor turned full-time photographer of vision-confounding images. “You are left with just the image and its wrongness—you can never backtrack to compare, although the question of how it was made is still present.”
The art duo’s “Close Parallel” exhibition launches this month at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
The new paintings imagined as a how-to manual for Fallah’s son, featuring icons, imagery, and references to the culture that forms us—from advertising and pop culture to the books we read as children.
As a photographer who captures images of elaborate stage-like sets, Sheida Soleimani is engaged with contradictory modes.
Artist Ann Shelton and Critic Claire Voon will be in conversation about the artist’s current virtual exhibition “A Lovers’ Herbal” at Denny Dimin Gallery.
Ann Shelton’s new work ‘an invitation to dance’ was commissioned by Photo Australia and the Metro Tunnel Creative Program for PHOTO 2021.
After a Sexual Assault, an Artist Paints Women Who Can’t Be Knocked Down
Future Retrieval’s exhibition Close Parallel at the Cincinnati Art Museum, February 26–August 29, 2021.
