Installation view at Konsortium, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2007 Daniel Göttin: Sydney Tape Factory 49, Sydney, Australia (April 10-19, 2008) Daniel Göttin Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia (April 11 – May 21, 2008) Daniel Göttin: Network 40 Peloton, Sydney, Australia (April 16 – May 10, 2008)
Urge Your Senators to Co-Sponsor the Senate Artist Deduction Bill, Americans for the Arts Action Alert
Urge members of Senate to co-sponsor bipartisan legislation, S. 548, which would allow artists to take a fair-market value deduction for works given to and retained by nonprofit institutions. The U.S. tax system accords unequal treatment to creators and collectors who donate tangible works (e.g., paintings or manuscripts) to museums, libraries, educational or other collecting institutions. A collector may take a tax deduction for the fair-market value of the work, but creators may deduct [...]
Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Hans Richter, Still from Filmstudie, 1926 35mm film transferred to video (black and white, silent) March 19–June 23, 2008 This exhibition considers the transformation of the art object from static image to light projection within two distinct artistic lineages: the unconventional optical techniques and social analyses of the 1920s Neue Optik, or “New Vision,” generation of artists, among them László Moholy-Nagy, Hans Richter, and Marcel Duchamp; and the situational aesthetics advanced by Gordon Matta-Clark, [...]
Leon van den Eijkel: The Next Big Religion, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Leon van den Eijkel, Crusade 01, 2008 March 19 — April 12, 2008
Daan van Golden, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
Daan van Golden, Study H.M., 2004 March 20 — April 19, 2008 Greene Naftali presents the first US exhibition of legendary Dutch artist Daan van Golden, organized for the gallery by Anne Pontegnie. Renowned and celebrated in the Netherlands since the sixties, he remains largely unknown in America–no doubt helping van Golden develop his reputation as an artist?s artist of the highest order. In its own manner, van Golden’s art ties into the longstanding [...]
Manfred Mohr: Installations et autres tableaux, Galerie Lahumiere, Paris, France
March 15 — April 30, 2008
Jessica Centner: Desire, Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart, Germany
April 4 — May 24, 2008
Tadaaki Kuwayama: Paintings from the 1970s, Gary Snyder Gallery, New York, NY
Tadaaki Kuwayama, TK5182-3/4’75 Metallic paint on canvas, 82 3/4 x 82 3/4 inches March 1, 2008 — May 25, 2008
Bob Bonies: Paintings 1965-2008, Galerie De Rijk, The Hague, The Netherlands
Bob Bonies, 09, 1974 Acrylic on panel, 30 x 30 cm March 16 — April 20, 2008
John Armleder, Gerold Miller, Gerward Rockenschaub, Stadtische Galerie Ravensburg, Ravensurg, Germany
John Armleder, Nothing March 8 — May 18, 2008
15 Years, 15 Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Connie Goldman, Arena 1 Oil on panel, irregular shape, 22 x 21 inches March 8-31, 2008
Dan Flavin: The 1964 Green Gallery Exhibition, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
March 6 — May 3, 2008
Julian Stanczak, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Julian Stanczak, Lumina, Red Plus Yellow, 1991 Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 inches March 21 — April 22, 2008
Terry Haggerty, Andreas Grimm Gallery, New York, NY
March 20 — April 30, 2008
Upside Down: Sydney Non Objective Artists
March 2008
Upside Down features eleven artists affiliated with Sydney Non Objective (SNO), Australia. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media exploring a broad range of conceptual and formal concerns. Many of the artists are exhibiting in the United States for the first time.
Machine Learning, Curated by Matthew Deleget, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
March 8 – May 3, 2008
An exhibition examining pattern painting in the information age, featuring four NYC-based artists Henry Brown, Terry Haggerty, Gilbert Hsiao & Douglas Melini.
John Phillips: New Paintings, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL
February 29 — April 12, 2008
Lee Ufan: New Work, Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
April 2 — May 10, 2008 Painter, sculptor, writer and philosopher Lee Ufan came to prominence in the late 1960′s as one of the major theoretical and practical proponents of the avant-garde Mono-ha (Object School) group. The Mono-ha school of thought was Japan’s first contemporary art movement to gain international recognition. It rejected Western notions of representation, focusing on the relationships of materials and perceptions rather than on expression or intervention. The artists of [...]
Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth (Colnaghi), London, United Kingdom
March 5 — April 12, 2008
Big Red Show, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
February 14 — March 14, 2008
Classical: Modern II — Abstraction, Informel, Stuttgart & Karlsruhe Painting School, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Domnick Foundation in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1952 March 7 — June 1, 2008 The Daimler Collection is pleased to announce the exhibition “Classical Modern II” at Daimler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. The “Classical : Modern I” exhibition, 2006, largely presented concrete and constructive tendencies in the Daimler Collection from Classical Modernism up to the post-war art period, while the second part of the series intends to introduce the complementary areas [...]
Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi: Umbrian Paintings, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
March 21 — April 13, 2008 Hand, color, stone. In the work of Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi we encounter painting, and color, at a level of intensity and purity that is irresistible. Fratteggiani Bianchi’s small scale, monochromatic works are pure powdered pigment applied directly onto pietra serena, the Italian limestone native to the Umbrian district where he lives. Pure in this case means that there are no binders, glues, or mediums used to attach the [...]
Martin Wöhrl: kontrapost, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
February 29 — April 5, 2008 Spencer Brownstone Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Munich based sculptor Martin Wöhrl, the artist’s first exhibition in the United States. Wöhrl’s wide-ranging practice routinely incorporates reinterpreted motifs and strategies drawn from the history of art, architecture, and design, and is characterized by an elliptical skirting of the borders between form and function. Often using found objects or materials sourced form budget DIY and hardware [...]
John Zurier: Night Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
John Zurier, Night 19, 2007 Distemper on linen, 30 x 20 inches March 1 — April 19, 2008
Gerry Hayes & Scott Malbaurn, Platform, New York, NY
Scott Malbaurn, Black Rainbow, 2007 Acrylic on canvas over wood panel, 12 x 12 inches March 6 — April 5, 2008
Marietta Hoferer: Unknown, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
February 8 — March 23, 2008
Zipora Fried, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY
Zipora Fried, Untitled, 2008 Baseball bat, wool, mixed materials, 34 x 8 inches March 20 — May 4, 2008 Moti Hasson Gallery presents Zipora Fried, an exhibition of drawings, sculpture and video. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Architectural and intimate, weighty and delicate, Israeli-born, New York-based Zipora Fried’s works evidence the hand as a primary vehicle for creation as well as the potential instrument for its negation. Fried’s meticulous drawings [...]
