CATALOGS AVAILABLE! Exhibition catalogs for Amanda Valdez: Gratitude, an exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery, New York City, April 2nd – May 15, 2021. Catalog essay by Lisa D. Freiman, Ph.D. Lisa D. Freiman is a professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts. She also works as an independent curator and art consultant. For over thirty years, she has served in leadership and curatorial roles in the modern and contemporary art field. She was the inaugural…Read More
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 in 2020. The exhibition featured nineteen paintings, including some of the artist’s largest, and explored Valdez’s engagement with the histories of abstraction, “women’s work” with fiber, and the museum’s permanent collection. New Me (2021) includes the newest aspects of Valdez’s practice where she creates quilt…Read More
by Susan Byrnes on March 27th, 2021 In mid-March, the 2021 National Council on Education of the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) annual conference was to be held in Cincinnati. Due to the pandemic, this highly anticipated event was changed to a virtual conference. However, in preparation for the conference, many exhibitions of ceramics were planned well in advance. The Cincinnati Art Museum, the Weston Gallery, Manifest, and the galleries at Northern Kentucky University, just to name a few, are currently…Read More
Artist Scott Anderson and Art Historian Sarah Diver in conversation about the artist’s current exhibition “Biotech” . One of the many topics they discuss is how the title “Biotech” and the work in the show has shifted for them both since the exhibition was originally scheduled to take place in April 2020 to all most a full year later when the exhibition was actually hung and opened to the public in February of 2021. Recorded on March 18, 2021. …Read More
CATALOGS AVAILABLE! Exhibition catalogs for Scott Anderson: Biotech, an exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery, New York City, February 26 – March 27, 2021. Catalog essay by Sarah Diver. Sarah Diver is an emerging writer and curator located in Portland, OR. She is currently working as the Research Associate for the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. During her tenure as part the curatorial staff at Storm King Art Center between 2016 and 2020, she helped realize several major outdoor exhibitions, including artists…Read More
Thursday, February 11th, 2021 7 pm EST Artist Ann Shelton and critic Claire Voon in conversation about the artist’s current virtual exhibition “A Lovers’ Herbal” . They discussed the evolution of Shelton’s work and how her practice was affected by a visit to New York City in 2019. Watch the full recording: PRESS: “Editors’ Picks: 13 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week” in Artnet “Ann Shelton: A Lovers’ Herbal” in Arts Intel Report by Air Mail, February Newsletter 2021…Read More
Thursday, January 28th, 2021 7 pm EST Artist Amir H. Fallah and Collector Liz Dimmitt will be in conversation about the artist’s current exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery, the evolution of his work over the past few years, and building a meaningful art collection. Watch the recorded event Amir H. Fallah’s work across painting, installation, drawing and sculpture investigates the complexities of belonging and otherness in the very place one calls home. Amir H. Fallah (b 1979 in Tehran, Iran….Read More
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In the studio with Sheida Soleimani by OSMAN CAN YEREBAKAN Photography by Cole Barash The Iranian-American artist invites us into her converted, 19th century barn in Rhode Island, where politically charged installations co-exist with her hobby of rehabilitating injured wildlife Sheida Soleimani always imagined she’d become a vet. Growing up with a doctor father and a nurse mother, who were forced to flee the post-revolution regime in Iran, Soleimani considered the family practice indisputable. However, when she tried her…Read More
CATALOGS AVAILABLE! Exhibition catalog for Sheida Soleimani Hotbed an exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery, New York City, November 6 – December 23, 2020. Catalog essay by Jane Ursula Harris. Jane Ursula Harris is a Brooklyn-based writer who has contributed to Art in America, Bookforum, BOMB, Cultured Magazine, The Paris Review, Flash Art, The Believer, and GARAGE, among other publications. Her essays appear in catalogues including Carnegie Mellon’s forthcoming Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth; Participant Inc.’s NegroGothic: M. Lamar;…Read More
Jeremy Couillard is presenting a new video “Voluntary Associations” with the Daata Fair in Miami. The Daata Fair Miami is an online-only art fair dedicated to showcasing the best of international contemporary video and digital art from leading art galleries around the world. Daata Fair Miami: December 1-13, 2020. Visit the Fair. “Voluntary Associations” is also now on view in The Bass Museum’s satellite IG gallery @thebasssquared. “Voluntary Associations” will also be presented as a screening program at the New…Read More
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Congratulations Erin O’Keefe for being featured in the Winter Issue of the Paris Review! Check out the portfolio along with an essay by Kate Tarker. The latest issue of ‘The Paris Review’ features an Art of Poetry interview with Edward Hirsch and an Art of Theater interview with Suzan-Lori Parks, issue no. 235 also includes plays by David Adjmi, Kirk Lynn, and Claudia Rankine; fiction by György Dragomán, Dantiel W. Moniz, and Jack Livings; poetry by Rita Dove and Natalie…Read More
Image: Paula Wilson, Creatures of the Fire, 2020. Relief print, wood block print, monotype, acrylic, oil, on muslin and canvas. 64 x 57 in/162.5 x 144.7 cm. Artists: Amanda Valdez Jessie Edelman Justine Hill Paula Wilson VIP & Press Preview: Begins Tuesday, December 1st 11AM EST Public Hours: Begins Wednesday, December 2nd 11AM EST The fair will then run uninterrupted through Sunday, December 6th. Visit our Online Viewing Room (OVR).
Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed @Denny Dimin By Loring Knoblauch / In Galleries / November 17, 2020 JTF (just the facts): A total of 11 color photographs, generally framed in color-matched artist’s frames and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the divided gallery space. All of the works are archival pigment prints, made between 2018 and 2020 (two of the works are being exhibited as 120×90 inch Phototex prints adhered directly to the wall, but are available as regular framed prints)….Read More
Sheida Soleimani’s latest show comments on the complex political relationship between Iran and the US by MARIGOLD WARNER The Iranian-American artist presents her latest body of work, Hot Bed, at New York’s Denny Dimin Gallery Sheida Soleimani’s work combines photography, sculpture, collage and film to comment on historical and contemporary socio-political issues. She tackles ethical questions about power and exploitation with references to present-day crises, offering a wider narrative centred on global politics and corruption. The Iranian-American artist’s current exhibition,…Read More
Visit the Tribeca Galleries on Saturday, December 5th from 11am-7pm! Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to be hosting “Hotbed” a solo exhibition by Sheida Soleimani. Visit the exhibition page: Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed. In the below video, Sheida Soleimani is joined with curator Jasmine Wahi to unpack the imagery and sources that make up the Iran-U.S. finger-pointing diptych, 1/8/2020 and PS752. Both these photographs are part of Soleimani’s newest series, Levers of Power. Together they illustrates how technologies of power…Read More
Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed Speaking truth to the crises that define relations between Iran and the United States, Soleimani superimposes source imagery onto sculptural backdrops to reflect and critique hot-button issues such as demands for reparations, sanctions on trade and resources, and the “crude” history of the petroleum industry. The self-titled Hotbed (2020), one of the exhibition’s most evocative works, comments on Iran’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic by freezing the arm of the country’s deputy health minister in the physically…Read More
Join us over Zoom for a celebratory opening conversation of the exhibition, Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed. The online event will include a walkthrough, discussion of the work, and Q & A. Watch the event Sheida Soleimani received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BFA from the University of Cincinnati, College of Art. Soleimani’s most recent solo exhibitions were at Harlan Levey Projects in Brussels, Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago and the evolving exhibition Medium of Exchange that examined…Read More
Amir H. Fallah: The Facade Project Institute of Contemporary Art San José The ICA San José presents The Façade Project with a major mural commission from Amir H. Fallah and opens its doors to become an Official Vote Center for November 2020 election. The Institute of Contemporary Art San José is excited to debut The Facade Project—an ongoing public art program dedicated to exploring the most critical social and political issues facing our time—by tapping Amir. H. Fallah as its…Read More
Congratulations Michael Mandiberg on receiving one of this year’s NYSCA/NYFA Fellowships in Digital/Electronic Arts! NYFA has awarded $588,000 to 85 New York State artists working in Craft/Sculpture, Digital/Electronic Arts, Nonfiction Literature, Poetry, and Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts. The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the 2020 recipients and finalists of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program, which it has administered for the past 35 years with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). For the…Read More
IN CONVERSATION Join Justine Hill and art historian and catalog essay writer, Dana Rodriguez as they discuss Hill’s current exhibition “Touch.” Wednesday, October 14th, 6-7pm EDT Watch the recorded event Purchase Catalog Read Online Justine Hill is based in Brooklyn, New York. Hill received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from the College of the Holy Cross. Hill’s most recent solo exhibitions were Touch at Denny Dimin Gallery and Pull at MAKI Gallery in Tokyo (2020)….Read More
Join us for extended evening viewing hours of Touch, an exhibition by Justine Hill, as we open our doors alongside our neighbors for Tribeca Gallery Night.
Editors’ Picks: 7 Things for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Ruth Asawa-Inspired Workshop to an Outdoor Photo Show Gallery exhibitions are largely open in New York by appointment only—but there are plenty of other activities available 24/7 online. Artnet News, August 17, 2020 Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health situation, we are currently highlighting digital events, as well as in-person exhibitions…Read More
