Virtual Insanity
Fiedler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
February 24 - March 22, 2012
Artist Talk: Carrie Pollack: Source Material, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
Please join us on the final day of Carrie Pollack's exhibition Witness for an hour-long conversation with the artist in which she will discuss the source materials for her recent work and greater studio practice.
Tops, Open Space, presented by President Clinton Projects, Long Island City, NY
President Clinton Projects is pleased to present "Tops," featuring new work by 15 artists based in New York, Chicago and Baltimore. All included work will be displayed on tables.
Treasure Maps: Nate Either & Julie Shapiro, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
Lenore Gray Gallery presents an exhibition of work by artists Nate Ethier and Julie Shapiro.
Bob Bonies: Formeel 2012, Museum Waterland, Purmerend, Netherlands
Museum Waterland in Purmerend, The Netherlands, presents an exhibition of paintings by Bob Bonies.
The Other Ken Weathersby, Gallery Affero, Newark, NJ
Ken Weathersby’s exhibition at Gallery Aferro includes easel-sized, patterned abstract paintings, photographic works, and several wall-mounted boxes containing tiny, crafted objects resembling miniature paintings.
Charles Long: Minimal Surfaces_Ocean of Hours, Tanya Bonakdar, New York, NY
Through the exploration of new processes and materials, Long endeavors to arrive at spatially and visually engaging works that aim to offer the viewer an open experience by eschewing external reference. These lively and poetic forms continue the formal language Long has been building for decades.
Nicole Wermers: Spray, Tanya Bonakdar, New York, NY
In her new sculptures and photographs, Wermers recontextualizes and reimagines modernist forms in ways that frame, contain, and transform the spaces in which they are installed. Exploring how methods of display and presentation affect our understanding and experience of space, these new works continue Wermers' investigation of the legacy of modernism and the aesthetics of consumption in contemporary visual culture.
Layers, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Gallery Sonja Roesch is pleased to announce a group exhibition titled ‘Layers’, featuring work by Gabriele Evertz, Lev Khesin, and Julia Steiner. This exhibition is an exploration of the act of layering. The idea of Layers calls up several visual and biological associations ranging from the earth’s strata to the various layers of our skin.
Don Voisine, Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL
Don Voisine’ reductive and “hard edged” paintings are informed by Architecture, in his own words: “a language of space that delineates boundaries, exposes points of access, exit or entry, and enables the user to interact with the structure of a defined space.”
Dan Flavin: Drawing: Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Best known for his fluorescent light installations, Dan Flavin was also an avid draftsman. This first retrospective of his drawings will include over one hundred sheets representing every phase of his career: early abstract expressionist watercolors of the 1950s, studies for light installations, portraits and landscape sketches, and pastels of sailboats from the 1980s.
Jonathan Lasker: Early Works, Cheim & Reid, New York, NY
Cheim & Read is pleased to present an exhibition of early work by New York painter Jonathan Lasker. The show groups together twenty seminal paintings, dating from 1977–1985, which attest to the origins of Lasker’s methodology, and ideas about abstraction, figuration and language.
Whatever Lola Wants, Gerhard Hofland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Whatever Lola Wants is a group exhibition with new works by Fritz Bornstück, Klaas Kloosterboer, Simon Hemmer and Jan van der Ploeg.
Fernando Mastrangelo: Black Sculpture, Charest-Weinberg, Miami, FL
For “Black Sculpture,” Mastrangelo focuses on art history for the first time. After creating exact molds based on the work of Frank Stella and Ad Reinhardt, Mastrangelo casts his reliefs out of compacted gunpowder. The pieces teeter on the precipice of annihilation; by forging the work of canonical artists in gunpowder, Mastrangelo simultaneously pays homage to the work of earlier iconoclasts and seeks to destroy them for himself.
Jean-Luc Moulène: Opus + One, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY
New York, NY–Dia Art Foundation presents Opus + One, the first comprehensive museum exhibition in North America devoted to the work of Paris-based artist Jean-Luc Moulène. Commissioned by Dia, Opus + One will comprise objects and images created over the past two decades and will be on view at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, in New York’s Hudson Valley for one year.
Brian Griffiths: The Invisible Show, Vilma Gold, London, England
Filling the gallery space with concealed cuboid structures, Griffiths considers whether an exhibition can be an absurd feet of invisibility. The show will be of ‘readymades’, of sorts: The mass produced multiple in the form of the cuboid metal frames, and what Griffiths refers to as the ‘fabricated found object’ in the form of the tarpaulins covering them; these being singular, touched, expressive yet understated surfaces.
Notations: The Cage Effect Today, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present Notations: The Cage Effect Today, on view from February 17-April 21, 2012. As 2012 marks the centennial of John Cage’s birth, this exhibition commemorates the widespread effect of the artist’s six decades of assiduous, and relentless inventive creation on subsequent generations of artists
Material Occupation, University Art Museum, Albany, NY
The artists represented in Material Occupation challenge the idea that abstraction is a rarified concept that bears little relation to everyday experience. Using familiar patterns, structures, designs, and systems, these artists explore the cultural associations inherent in prosaic materials.
New Materials, New Approaches, D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY
D. Wigmore Fine Art presents the exhibition New Materials, New Approaches, featuring work by artists Mon Levinson, Leroy Lamis, and Julian Stanczak.
Lori Ellison, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
In her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Lori Ellison will exhibit ink on notebook paper drawings and gouache on panel paintings. Also in the show will be paintings executed on shaped panels in various materials ranging from enamel and glitter to egg tempera.
Doug Wheeler, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
David Zwirner is pleased to present an ambitious new work by American artist Doug Wheeler (b. 1939), whose large-scale installations have rarely been seen in the United States. The exhibition marks the first presentation of an “infinity environment” by the artist in New York.
