Artist Talk: Carrie Pollack: Source Material, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
View of Carrie Pollack’s studio, Brooklyn, NY Saturday, February 25, 2012, 4-5pm 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. Refreshments to follow.
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.
George Ortman, Constructions: 1949 – 2011, Algus Greenspon Gallery, New York, NY
George Ortman’s painted constructions of the 1950s and early 1960s are pioneering works. Their reductive geometry and modular color were widely seen as being at the forefront of young artists move away from abstract expressionism.
Resonant Frequencies, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Resonant Frequencies explores the complex relationship of sound and image in contemporary art. The exhibition surveys the role that sound plays in the conceptual and aesthetic development of contemporary sculpture, painting and technologically-driven art.
Michael Scott: Black and White Line Paintings 1989-2011, Gering & Lopez, New York, NY
Over the last twenty five years my work has taken several forms of expression, from concentric circle or target paintings, to black and white line paintings, to photographs, to cartoon-inspired drawings, to paintings that can be described as psychedelic ‘candyland’ themed landscapes, to small thickly encaustic abstractions.
John Tallman, OK Harris, New York, NY
John Tallman’s process starts with the creation of a unique support cast in urethane plastic with the dimensions being about the same as a piece of paper. Each acrylic painting has a different and original starting point that denies a chronology.
Textility, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Textility is an exhibition that explores the inventive ways contemporary artists employ materials, concepts, and processes associated with textiles to convey their ideas.
Christian Megert: a new space, Mayor Gallery, London, England
James Mayor invited Christian Megert to give his view of the origins of Zero and to explain his own contribution to the development of the group in this catalogue. What he produced is not a complete presentation. In the form of a scarce curriculum vitae, Megert recalls, without pathos, events, meetings and facts.
David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
The Wexner Center for the Arts is pleased to present David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, the first major thematic exhibition devoted to the work of the renowned 20th-century American sculptor. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the exhibition brings together approximately 80 works from throughout Smith's career.
Colorific, Ecole des Arts de Braine-l’Alleud, Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium
The Ecole des Arts de Braine-l'Alleud in Belgium presents the exhibition "Colorific," featuring the work of almost 20 artists who explore color.
Grid List, Center Galleries, College for Creative Arts, Detroit, MI
Grid List presents 16 artists, 13 working in geometric abstraction, and three working quite “gridless” (Can the grid be active behind the image?). Their conceptual fodder ranges from sports, math, science, film, graphic design and video games.
Dana Bell / Alasdair Duncan / Don Voisine, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
Theodore:Art is pleased to present the first exhibition in our new home in Bushwick: work by Dana Bell, Alasdair Duncan, and Don Voisine. These three artists, while creating very different work, all touch on the possibilities of communicating ideas in a space outside of language.
Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
A key figure of the Paris avant-garde in the 1950s and ’60s, Jesús Soto (1923–2005) is widely recognized for his groundbreaking innovations in color theory, serial composition, and movement in art. Less well-known is the wide range of styles and mediums that he explored early on. Drawing inspiration from optics and serial music, Soto employed repeating geometric forms and superimposed surfaces to convey a sense of physical displacement.
Lotte Lyon: Souterrain, Galerie Lisaruyter, Vienna, Austria
“Souterrain” will consist of new objects built in response to the gallery space, a wall painting, and recent photographs from 5 different series. Lotte Lyon’s sculptures employ a pragmatism in the materials used, in the methods of assembly, and in the delivery of associative ideas.
Islands of Order in a Sea of Chaos, Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Participating Artists: Anneke Klein Kranenbarg - Els Moes - Guido Winkler - Henriette Van ‘t Hoog - Iemke Van Dijk - Jasper Van Der Graaf - Mel Prest - Ro Hagers - Roland De Jong Orlando - Ruth Van Veenen - Sarah Klein Tineke Porck
Nancy Holt: Sight Lines, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
Nancy Holt: Sightlines is a thematic exhibition offering an in-depth look at the early projects of this important American artist whose pioneering works falls at the intersection of art, architecture and time-based media.
Ward Jackson 1928-2004: A Survey of Five Decades, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Ward Jackson was born and grew up in Petersburg, Virginia. He studied painting at the Richmond Polytechnic Institute of the College of William and Mary, now Virginia Commonwealth University, earning his Master's Degree there in 1952. While still in school Jackson began the correspondence with Guggenheim curator Hilla Rebay that would eventually lead to his long tenure with that institution.
Cage Transmitted: Celebrating + Playing John Cage, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY
Starting January 24, 2012 Joining the worldwide celebration of the centennial of John Cage, Norte Maar will collaborate with E.A.T. to present Cage Transmitted: Celebrating + Playing John Cage. The twelve evenings of performances of music, poetry, theater, visual art, and dance, occurring once each month, will span the calendar year of 2012. Most of the performances will take place in the front room of Norte Maar’s apartment gallery, and will be broadcast onto the [...]
The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, England
Bernard Frize, Suite Segond 100 No 3, 1980 Household paint on canvas 51 x 64 inches January 14 – March 10, 2012 The Indiscipline of Painting is an international group exhibition including works by forty-nine artists from the 1960s to now. Selected by British painter Daniel Sturgis, it considers how the languages of abstraction have remained urgent, relevant and critical as they have been revisited and reinvented by subsequent generations of artists over the last [...]
Cottage Work: Michelle Grabner, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
The Green Gallery will feature Michelle Grabner’s new body of paintings in the exhibition, “Cottage Work,” a title that implies an association with the informal and practical traditions of craft, particularly weaving.
Daniel Göttin: Objekt und Raum, Kunstraum Oktogon, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstraum Oktogon in Bern, Switzerland, is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Daniel Göttin.
Re-Generation, The Painting Center, New York, NY
The Painting Center is pleased to present Re-Generation, a traveling exhibition featuring the work of three generations of painter-teachers. This exhibition traces the regeneration of thought in painting and art education by linking the translation of visual ideas between students and teachers to the teaching of Josef Albers.
On Kawara: Date Painting(s) in New York & 136 Other Cities, David Zwirner, New York, NY
David Zwirner is pleased to present the exhibition On Kawara: Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities, on view at the gallery’s 525 and 533 West 19th Street spaces. The exhibition will feature over 150 works selected by the artist, comprising a seminal presentation of his renowned date paintings from 1966 to the present (known collectively as the Today series).
Kees Visser and Anett Frontzek, Galerie Hein Elferink, Straphorst, The Netherlands
Painting by Kees Visser January 12 – February 18, 2012 Galerie Hein Elferink in Straphorst, The Netherlands, presents a two-person exhibition featuring the artists Kees Visser and Anett Frontzek.
Alfred Jensen/Sol LeWitt: Systems and Transformation, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of Alfred Jensen and Sol LeWitt, two artists whose bodies of work connect to the grid and are governed by systems. Exhibited side-by-side, Jensen’s colorful and tactile diagrammatic paintings and LeWitt’s minimalist white structures reveal the vastly different outcomes that can arise from similar conceptual foundations.
Jim Isermann: Reunion, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Installation view. January 5 – February 4, 2012 On 5 January 2012, Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Fifth Avenue location Reunion, a selection of work from the 1980s by JIM ISERMANN. Isermann belongs to that influential second generation of LA artists who post-graduated from CalArts in the late 1970s. Isermann had been ahead of the curve by being out of step to begin with. During the high point of Postmodernism, he was excavating [...]
The Non-I Protects the I, SoHo20 Chelsea, New York, NY
The Non-I Protects the I is a three-person exhibition with the work of Joelle Dietrick, Meg Mitchell, and Judy Rushin. Taken from Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, the title focuses on Bachelard’s ideas about the importance of shelter.
Gary Petersen & Halsey Hathaway: New Paintings, Paintings by Rob de Oude, Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Storefront Bushwick presents an exhibition of new paintings by Gary Petersen and Halsey Hathaway.
Happy Holidays
MINUS SPACE will be open by appointment only from December 19, 2011 - January 12, 2012. We look forward to seeing you again in the new year.
