Clarity Haynes The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but torsos are even more telling in this mid-career New York artist’s new group of intimate, numinous paintings. In this show, titled “Altar-ed Bodies,” Haynes explores the possibilities of feminist figuration in cropped compositions whose subjects are frankly depicted, in frontal poses, with their scars, stretch marks, and sagging flesh. Their tattoos and jewelry assume a talismanic significance, which continues in a companion series—its genre might be called “queer…Read More
An Artist’s Altars to Unsung Women Rendered in a rainbow of vibrant colors, Clarity Haynes’s portrayals of queer, heavy, and disabled bodies reimagines the white box as a communal space that allows for the possibility of healing. – Christen Clifford Installation view, Clarity Haynes: Altar-ed Bodies at Denny Dimin Gallery, New York. Foreground: Clarity Haynes, “Genesis” (2019), oil on linen, 58 x 52 in. Background: Clarity Haynes, “Grace” (2019), oil on linen, 62 x 62 inches (all images courtesy of Denny…Read More
What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries Nicky Nodjoumi’s dreamy serial paintings; Albert Oehlen’s “mirror paintings”; Clarity Haynes portraits of breasts; Kim Tschang-Yeul’s abstract brand of Pop Art … Clarity Haynes Through Jan. 25. Denny Dimin Gallery, 39 Lispenard Street, Manhattan; 212-226-6537, dennydimingallery.com. Clarity Haynes’s “Genesis” (2019) in the show “Altar-ed Bodies.”Credit…Clarity Haynes, New Discretions and Denny Dimin Gallery Since the late 1990s, Clarity Haynes has been painting portraits of people’s breasts. They aren’t descended from the sexy and sexist classical…Read More
CLARITY HAYNES ART AS A HEALER As a lesbian woman, artist Clarity Haynes is aware that her “contributions to culture are likely to be erased as I am doubly marginalized”. However, her paintings of torsos and altars, which play a cathartic role both on her, the people who model for her, and the audience, will go down in history. With the aim to promote peace, empower the marginalized and fight the patriarchy, her beautifully honest, raw and truthful artworks serve…Read More
Editors Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week The art world returns from winter break. Artnet News, January 6, 2020 Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them below. . . . Clarity Haynes, Genesis (2019). Courtesy of the artist and Denny Dimin Gallery. 16. “Clarity Haynes: Altar-ed Bodies” at Denny Dimin Gallery For her new show at Denny Dimin, Haynes hones in on the alter…Read More
Dana Sherwood, “Astride Hades Horses,” 2019. Photo courtesy of Denny Dimin Gallery. Dana Sherwood: Horses for Trees UNTIL DECEMBER 21 DENNY DIMIN GALLERY / NEW YORK / ART The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, “If a lion could speak, we would not be able to understand him.” Dana Sherwood puts this observation to work in her fantastical art, which gives a voice to the world’s non-human inhabitants. In a time when man has an overarching influence on the environment, Sherwood’s work reminds us that…Read More
Curator Carmen Hermo Shares Her Favorite Works from UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach By Artspace NOV. 18, 2019 Associate Curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Carmen Hermo spends her time curating historically significant exhibitions—like “Roots of The Dinner Party: History in the Making” (2017), “Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty” (2016–17), and the Brooklyn presentation of “Radical Women: Latin American Art,” 1960–1985 (2018), just to name a few. Before joining the Brooklyn Museum, Hermo worked with the collections at the Solomon…Read More
Cheeseburgers, Oil and Minimum Wage: Building a Museum of Capitalism A roving exhibition, now on view in Manhattan, looks back on capitalism and its “artifacts” from an imaginary future after the system has disappeared. [Matt Kenyon’s “Supermajor,” a fountain of motor oil (actually, dyed water), is a “memorial to the era of petro-capitalism and its mistaken beliefs” of endless supply, according to a wall label at the Museum of Capitalism. George Etheredge for The New York Times] By Jennifer Schuessler…Read More
Ann Shelton interviewed by Joy Garnett Art by Ann Shelton Joy Garnett: Please give us some background about yourself and your development as a photographer: How did you come to be interested in exploring the relationship between photography and violence and the viewer in your work? Ann Shelton: I grew up in small-town Aotearoa New Zealand, in the South Island, where the landscape is complex and profoundly beautiful. I had access to the coveted lands of the Southern Alps and Otago,…Read More
Erin O’Keefe: Seeing Things Denny Dimin Gallery, New York City By Stephanie Cash While it’s true that things aren’t always what they seem, it’s also true that things can be hidden in plain sight. A show of new works by Erin O’Keefe embraces both maxims. Just as Photorealist painters flipped the script on their medium, a number of photo-based artists of late have been tinkering with processes and materials to painterly effect. Consider the process-based abstractions by Matthew Brandt and…Read More
Dana Sherwood Brings ‘Horses for the Trees’ to Denny Dimin Gallery The artist’s latest work is inspired by her trips to Mongolia. By Kristen Tauer on November 4, 2019 From the pocket of a white denim jacket in the back of Denny Dimin Gallery, Dana Sherwood pulls out a rock. Not just any rock, though: she’d picked this one up while visiting the Gobi Desert. Shortly after, she took it to a Mongolian shaman, who blessed it and handed it back to her…Read More
Dana Sherwood’s new paintings focus on her experience of living amongst nomadic tribes in Mongolia Written by Katy Cowan For her stunning new series of paintings, New York artist Dana Sherwood centres on her experience of living and working amongst nomadic tribes in Mongolia. During her time there, Sherwood immersed herself in the tribe’s culture, spending a month in a traditional yurt, taking part in ceremonial Ayahuasca rituals, and navigating the vast landscape with the tribe’s herders and their horses. She emerged…Read More
SEEING THINGS by Erin O’Keefe Selected by Rebecca Leona van Enter, Artist and Gallery Liaison, Unseen “Carefully aligning colourful 3D blocks, Erin O’Keefe’s abstract compositions play with space and spatial perception. The resulting photographs trick the eye, and are often mistaken for paintings.” Unseen Platform: How long do you spend on the composition of each work? Do you make sketches of the desired result beforehand, or is it a matter of playing around until you’re happy? Erin O’Keefe: It’s a…Read More
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
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
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
