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
This Artist Arranged Botanical Abortifacients Into Stunning Floral Designs for a Timely Show About a Woman’s Right to Control Her Fertility Ann Shelton uses a Japanese style of floral arrangement to craft beautiful photos of the herbs and flowers historically thought to induce miscarriages. By: Sarah Cascone, May 17, 2019 Ann Shelton’s brightly colored photographs of exquisite floral arrangements, on view now at New York’s Denny Dimin Gallery, aren’t just beautiful—they also carry a hidden meaning. Historically, all the flowers, herbs, seeds,…Read More
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend Much of the work of the Harlem Renaissance artist Augusta Savage, who countered 20th-century stereotypes of African Americans through her sculptures of black figures in a classically inspired style, has sadly been lost. The New-York Historical Society redresses this with its show of 50 of Savage’s remaining works, Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman (until 28 July), including a small version of her sculpture Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing (or, The Harp), made for the 1939 World’s…Read More
JTF (just the facts): A total of 10 large scale color photographs, framed in white and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the two room gallery space and the office area. All of the works are archival pigment prints, made between 2015 and 2019. Each is sized 44×33 inches and is available in an edition of 6. Comments/Context: At first glance, Ann Shelton’s floral still lifes look like any number of photographs we have all seen before. Elegantly controlled arrangements,…Read More
New York, NY, May 8. Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to announce our exclusive United States representation of New Zealand-based artist Ann Shelton. The artist’s solo exhibition jane says is on view in our new Tribeca location through May 19th, 2019. Image: Ann Shelton, jane says, Denny Dimin Gallery, April 18 – May 19, 2019 Jane says, a solo exhibition by photographer Ann Shelton, is on view at Denny Dimin Gallery through May 19th, 2019. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States and follows…Read More
Editors’ Picks: 6 Great Art and Design Events This Week Alicja Kwade unveils a rooftop installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum hosts its annual gala By: GALERIE Editors Here are Galerie’s picks of the must-see art and design events in New York this week, from the unveiling of Alicja Kwade’s rooftop installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Brooklyn Museum’s annual gala. … 6. Ann Shelton: Jane Says Denny Dimin Gallery The gallery inaugurates…Read More
The Dallas Art Fair kicked off last night with a VIP preview. Now in its 11th edition and with nearly 100 exhibitors, the fair opened with a colorful bang and welcomed international galleries including Blain|Southern, Lisson Gallery, and Sadie Coles, all of which were among the first-time exhibitors. At the Thursday morning preview, the fair revealed the artists who had been acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) through its annual acquisition fund. Now in its fourth year, the…Read More
The Artists Everyone Was Talking about during Art Basel in Hong Kong By: Alina Cohen, Apr 1, 2019 1:03pm Early last week, a well-heeled group of international gallerists and collectors infiltrated Central Hong Kong’s busy streets as Hong Kong Art Week kicked off. Before the seventh edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong commenced, a flurry of exhibitions opened in galleries across the city, including at some younger, hipper spaces, such as Empty and Blindspot, which have set up shop…Read More
CLASSMATES CONNECT THROUGH ART Elizabeth Denny and Luke Diiorio’s partnership is a story of how Lawrenceville connections emerge sometimes years after graduation. Both members of the Class of 2002, Diiorio’s paintings are currently on exhibition in Denny’s art gallery in New York City. The exhibition, titled “High Earth,” opened March 14 and runs through April 14. Diiorio’s first solo exhibition with the gallery features original paintings housed in an immersive installation. Denny opened her contemporary art gallery in 2013,…Read More
Denny Dimin Gallery, which maintains a space on New York’s Lower East Side, will open a Hong Kong outpost on March 29. The inaugural exhibition at the enterprise’s first location outside New York will showcase new work by Erin O’Keefe and Matt Mignanelli. The gallery’s Hong Kong space will be housed in a residential building in the city’s Mid-Levels neighborhood, and Katie Alice Fitz Gerald, a founding partner of the gallery, will serve as its curator. According to a release, Denny Dimin…Read More
UNTITLED ART. As the name suggests, the fair has emerged to reject a typical art fair and offer a new alternative to the art market. Is there not only a few successful galleries and star artists in the global market? Untitled Art is motivated by the opportunity to provide equal opportunities to artworks that resist them. Providing priority participation opportunities to nonprofit art institutions and galleries operated by artists. Thanks to that, you can see works like pearls in the…Read More
Denny Dimin Gallery, which has been located on New York’s Lower East Side since 2013, is moving to a new space in Tribeca this spring. The new site, at 39 Lispenard, will be down the street from the future homes of Andrew Kreps Gallery and Canada, who are leaving Chelsea and the L.E.S., respectively for the area. “It’s been really scary and sad in the Lower East Side for the past couple of years,” Robert Dimin told ARTnews. “Everyone’s either leaving or closing. Although…Read More
Art dealers are still plumbing the depths of the West Coast’s murky art market waters, but California’s Bay Area is home to an increasingly strong collector base driven by powerful local art advisors and buoyed by institutional efforts to cultivate the art scene across commercial and nonprofit sectors. That was more or less the consensus from new and returning dealers alike at the FOG Art + Design and Untitled Art fairs in San Francisco this past weekend (17-20 January), many…Read More
As San Francisco weathered two very minor earthquakes and braced against voracious rain that forecasters had classified as an “atmospheric river,” two art fairs in the city—FOG Design+Art and Untitled—went about their business of opening with nothing but signs of positivity in sight. The older, more established FOG and the newer upstart Untitled (a West Coast satellite of a fair initiated in Miami) offered different vibes but together courted collectors and curiosity-seekers to a Bay Area art scene that rose…Read More
I left my conversation with Amanda Valdez carrying with me a modest list of book recommendations ranging in subject from myths of the moon to a material history of the United States. That I had such a list came as no surprise, as I had frequently heard Valdez described in various articles as a “research-based artist.” Being a research-based artist, however, does not mean that she is a didactic artist, intent on teaching us something with her work. “I don’t…Read More
