Clarity Haynes DENNY DIMIN GALLERY A pair of hairy, pendulous tits and a huge belly marred by stretch marks, drooping skin, fresh bruises, and old wounds: This is a general yet reasonably accurate description of an obese, middle-aged physique—one that belongs to me, a gay man.I see myself reflected in the luminous portraits of nonbinary, trans, and female torsos—fat, scarred, imperfect—by Clarity Haynes. But in her pictures, I don’t find shame or self-loathing—feelings I imagine those with nonnormative bodies, like…Read More
KENNEDY YANKO AT DENNY DIMIN GALLERY “Nothing feels as good as scouring a yard, spotting a piece that calls to you, digging for its entirety, and revealing its full glory,” says Brooklyn-based sculptor Kennedy Yanko. She is speaking of her trips to salvage yards in search of discarded metals she will later repurpose for her sculpture practice. “It’s a full day or multiday activity, scavenging. But again, it’s an integral thrill and informs everything that follows.” The fruit from some…Read More
Hong Kong Video Art Lands in New York City In New York, amidst the current pandemic demobilizing our cities, Denny Dimin Gallery in New York mounts “Hong Kong — Tales of the City,” a panoramic showcase of Hong Kong video art, co-presented with Videotage. TEXT: Barbara Pollack IMAGES: Courtesy of Denny Dimin Gallery Coronavirus COVID-19 has hit New York, leading to a general shutdown of galleries and museums, at-home quarantine and panic shopping, shocking locals who seemed entirely unaware that…Read More
10 More Recipes From Artists Who Are Getting Creative in the Kitchen to Spice Up Dining in the Era of Social Distancing Dana Sherwood, Olafur Eliasson, and other artists share some of their favorite recipes. Sarah Cascone, March 25, 2020 As much of the world hunkers down, practicing social distancing and sheltering in place, everyday life is shifting dramatically. And for artists, like the rest of us, that means preparing for an extended stay at home by stocking up their larders….Read More
Amir H. Fallah Remember, my child, nowhere is safe Science is the antidote, superstition is the disease Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion Empathy even for those who do not speak You will always live between borders Everything happens for no reason What you seek is seeking you Ideas are bulletproof Dying for invisible lines, killing for invisible gods The animals of the world exist for their own reasons Let your teacher be love itself No gods, no…Read More
March 17, 2020 at 10:07am ARTADIA NAMES 2020 LOS ANGELES AWARDEES Artadia has announced the recipients of the sixth annual Los Angeles Artadia Awards: Beatriz Cortez, Amir H. Fallah, and Suné Woods. Cortez, a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist, whose work explores topics such as versions of modernity, memory and loss in the aftermath of war, and migration, and Woods, who is best known for her multichannel video installations, photographs, and collages, will be given $10,000 in unrestricted funds. The artist…Read More
Art Industry News: The Metropolitan Museum of Art May Be Closed, But the Met Gala Is Still On + Other Stories Plus, Studio 54 regulars look back ahead of the Brooklyn Museum’s show and mega-galleries in New York temporarily shutter. Artnet News, March 13, 2020 Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, March 13. For an up-to-the-minute list…Read More
For Immediate Release March 12, 2020 ARTADIA ANNOUNCES 2020 LOS ANGELES AWARDEES NEW YORK, NY – Artadia is pleased to announce the recipients of the sixth annual Los Angeles Artadia Awards are Beatriz Cortez, Amir H. Fallah and Suné Woods. Beatriz Cortez will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds supported by Capital Group, Suné Woods was selected as the recipient of the inaugural Angeles Art Fund Artadia Award and will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds, and Amir H. Fallah was selected…Read More
As Tensions Rise With Iran, So Does Interest in Art It Inspired This year, several museums in the United States will feature works by Iranian artists in exile. By Farah Nayeri LONDON — The Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary works out of a luminous studio in a leafy corner of southwest London. Her misty abstract paintings evoke the galaxy, the cosmos, the afterlife. To make them, she floods the canvas with water, pours pigment over it and draws tiny marks over the…Read More
Visiting the 2020 Armory Show Amid Ominous Headlines From art about environmental recklessness to Caribbean post-coloniality, Armory kicked off the spring art fair season in spite of growing coronavirus concerns. Dessane Lopez Cassell Amir H. Fallah’s work on view in the Denny Dimin booth as part of Focus at Pier 90, curated by Jamillah James (all photos by Dessane Lopez Cassell for Hyperallergic, unless otherwise stated) ’Tis the season: with Thursday’s public opening of the Armory Show, spring art fair…Read More
MAR 06 2020 ROUNDUP FROM THE ARMORY SHOW 2020 BY PAUL LASTER The blackened entrance to The Armory Show 2020 at Pier 94, New York, during the VIP Preview Day. All photos by Paul Laster for ArtAsiaPacific. The Armory Show, which returned to Piers 90 and 94 on New York’s Hudson River for its 26th edition boasted 183 exhibitors from 32 countries, although most were American and European galleries while only 14 were from Asia or have a presence there. “The fair looks…Read More
MARCH 6, 2020 Scenes from the 2020 Armory Show The 2020 edition of the Armory Show opened to invited guests on Wednesday, March 4, and runs at Piers 90 and 94 through Sunday, March 8. Despite ongoing concerns around the world over the new coronavirus and the ways in which it could spread in large crowds, the fair went on, and many dealers said the affair was business as usual during its early hours. The fair brings together over 180 galleries from…Read More
The Armory Show: Playing It Safe During an Unsettled Time Another year, another crisis: The Armory Show proves resilient again as it opens amid the coronavirus outbreak. Our critic surveys the fair’s many welcoming entry points. By Martha Schwendener March 5, 2020 Last year the Armory Show weathered a crisis when Pier 92 over the Hudson River was condemned shortly before the art fair opened, precipitating a last-minute reshuffling of booths and the shutting down of a satellite display. This year, the fair has…Read More
Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week From the Armory Party at MoMA to the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, there’s something for everyone this week. Sarah Cascone, March 2, 2020 Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them below. . . . A participant at the Wikipedia Asian Month: Edit-a-thon on Exhibition Histories, A Space, AAA, November 2019. Photo by Winnie…Read More
See Highlights from the 2020 Armory Show The 2020 edition of the Armory Show opens to the public later this week, running from March 5 to March 8, with a preview day on March 4. This year, more than 180 local, national, and global exhibitors will gather at New York’s Piers 90 and 94. Mega-enterprise Gagosian will be joined by returning galleries such as 303 Gallery (New York), Victoria Miro (London and Venice), Jeffrey Deitch (Los Angeles and New York),…Read More
February 27, 2020 White, Woll, and the artist’s sense of control Taylor Anton White, Above The Fruited Plainnnz!, 2020, acrylic, airbrush, wax crayon, pencil, paper, rubber coated wire, cardboard, screws, and plywood, 36 x 36 x 2 inches. Contributed by Riad Miah / Taylor Anton White and Andy Woll’s solo exhibitions opened at two galleries next door to each other in Tribeca, White’s at Monica King Contemporary and Woll’s at Denny Dimin Gallery. Their bodies of work are outwardly different,…Read More
The Armory Show and beyond – around the galleries in New York Samuel Reilly The Tourist (detail; 2019), Amir H. Fallah. Denny Dimin Gallery at the Armory Show The Armory Show (5–8 March) returns to Manhattan this year with an enhanced curatorial presence, continuing the innovations that director Nicole Berry began to introduce on taking over at the fair in 2017. The fair’s main section at Pier 94 sees the usual jostling of blue-chips with lesser-known galleries – but for the…Read More
Mapping Wikipedia An unprecedented data set shows where the encyclopedia’s editors are, where they aren’t, and why. MICHAEL MANDIBERG. FEBRUARY 23,2020 A map of the United States shows the percentage of households editing Wikipedia by county. (ANALYSIS OF WIKIPEDIA IP EDITOR ACTIVITY) Wikipedia matters. In a time of extreme political polarization, algorithmically enforced filter bubbles, and fact patterns dismissed as fake news, Wikipedia has become one of the few places where we can meet to write a shared reality….Read More
Five Questions for Artist Justine Hill Other People’s Words: “Hill exhibits an easy-seeming confidence, both in her exuberant facture and in her engagement with art history. Her work evokes that of Pierre Bonnard, Elizabeth Murray, Frank Stella, Pablo Picasso, Brice Marden, and various other predecessors, but manages to be wholly its own thing.”— Elizabeth Buhe, Art in America Five Questions: Interviews in Excellence with Artist Justine Hill 1. How do you get in the right mindset to make your work?…Read More
Your Concise Southwest US Art Guide for Spring 2020 Your list of must-see, fun, insightful art events this season in the Southwest United States. Spring has sprung (or has started to) in northern New Mexico (where our Southwest US editor Ellie Duke lives), and that means it’s time to come out of hibernation to explore the artistic offerings of the season. As always, there are many wonderful exhibitions, festivals, and art events taking place during the coming months throughout the southwestern US. We’ve put…Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2020 Amanda Valdez: Piecework Exhibition Introduces Artist Amanda Valdez in First Long Island Show On view March 21 to May 3, 2020 Contemporary artist Amanda Valdez creates brilliantly colored, patterned, and textured abstract paintings by cutting, sewing, dying, painting, and embroidering canvas and other cloth. Featuring more than 20 works, including several that are among the artist’s largest and most recent, Amanda Valdez: Piecework explores artist’s engagement with abstraction and “women’s work” with fiber. She conjures…Read More
Image Above: Installation view of Michael Mandiberg, Quantified Self Portrait (One Year Performance) at LACMA’s Ray’s & Stark Bar. Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to announce the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)’s recent acquisition of two works by Michael Mandiberg. LACMA acquired both works following the artist’s exhibition, Workflow, at the museum. For Workflow, Mandiberg used self-tracking technology to understand the changing definition of labor in the digital age. The endeavor had multiple components, including a one-year sonic installation,…Read More
Patterns Converge at Butler Gallery’s ‘Fanfare’ By Polina Uzornikova, Staff Writer February 5, 2020 ANDREW DRESSNER/THE OBSERVER Eight different artists’ styles come together in a new exhibit which explores patterns’ ability to make both a social and aesthetic statement. On Jan. 23, the daily Fordham landscape went through a rather eye-catching and colorful change. Positioned across from the escalators that lead to the indoor plaza, Ildiko Butler Gallery now proudly hosts “Fanfare,” a group exhibition curated by Amie Cunat, which…Read More
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
