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.
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.
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.
D. Wigmore Fine Art presents the exhibition New Materials, New Approaches, featuring work by artists Mon Levinson, Leroy Lamis, and Julian Stanczak.
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.
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’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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Storefront Bushwick presents an exhibition of new paintings by Gary Petersen and Halsey Hathaway.
Middlebrook’s long-standing interest in abstraction, intersecting disciplines and nature are the cross-currents of his most recent exhibition. For the first time, Middlebrook is presenting an in-depth investigation of a singular body of work: his planks. The exhibition also marks the artist's most abstract body of work to date.
Cathy Choi: Recent Paintings is the culmination of a decade long study depcting the elusive, prismatic qualities of water. In this lateest series, Choi employs a combination of liquid resin, hot-glue forms, and oil paint capturing an otherwordly topography of electric color and physical depth symbolic of her personal views on nature.
The exhibition will emphasize the articulation and shift between concretist and neo-concretist art.
Roth’s paintings are reductive objects and talismans of contemporary culture. Though geometric in appearance, the paintings reference such diverse sources as product and package design, masks, nature, architecture or contours of the body. The saturated color palette is painted in either Flashe or acrylic.
Krause Gallery presents a two-person exhibition: David E. Peterson: Puzzles; and Noah Scalin: Skull-a-day.
Acquavella Galleries is pleased to announce Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism, a retrospective of seminal paintings curated by Dieter Buchhart. The exhibition will include over forty major paintings and papiers collés by the artist, all on loan from prestigious international public and private collections.
An exhibition focusing on the year 1941, a seminal moment in Alexander Calder’s career and the apotheosis of a decade of experimentation following his invention of the mobile in 1931.
Byron Kim, Untitled (for J.B.), 2010 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 72 inches James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist Byron Kim’s recent work—a series of large-scale paintings inspired by the sky at night in the city. The exhibition opens on Friday, November 4th and runs through Saturday, December 22nd. Byron Kim: Dark, a 56-page hard-cover catalog including 15 color plates of the new work along with essays by [...]
Cedric Christie draws most of his inspiration for Color Movement from dance - in particular George Balanchine’s ballet, Agon (1957). This ballet consists of a series of dance movements in which various groups of dancers interact in pairs, trios or quartets.
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present a remarkable group of new works by Uta Barth. As the artist's ninth solo exhibition with the gallery, this show will bring together two of Barth's latest series of color photographs within the main floor exhibition spaces.
The exhibition features more than 100 works by 35 artists including Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, Kenneth Snelson, Jack Tworkov and Cy Twombly among others.
This exhibition, a collaboration between EFA Project Space and Telephone, uses the work of the Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos as a catalyst for an experimental multi-disciplinary exercise in which an outstanding group of poets and artists, who exist across a continuum of text, sound and visual expression, invent translations of select examples of De Campos' work.
Barnett Newman, Treble, 1960 Oil on exposed canvas 20 x 7 inches October 21 – December 17, 2011 Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, NY presents an exhibition of paintings by Barnett Newman
In Hodgkin’s paintings, abstraction and figuration are held in perfect tension. Assertive compressed gestures, sweeping complex textures, a lush palette, and the dynamic interchange of light and dark are all hallmarks of his distinctive signature.
Gary Snyder Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition, Nicholas Krushenick: A Survey, an exhibition of paintings, collages, and drawings at its new location at 529 West 20th Street. Opening on September 22, 2011, the exhibition is the most comprehensive presentation of Krushenick’s work in almost twenty years.
Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by the late Milton Resnick. The gallery has been the exclusive representative of the artist’s estate since 2006. Cheim & Read’s previous exhibition of Resnick’s paintings was in 2008 and focused on works from 1959-1963.
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Raoul De Keyser, on view at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street space. For nearly fifty years, De Keyser has created subtly evocative paintings and works on paper which appear at once straightforward and cryptic, abstract and figurative.
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce “Geometric Variations,” the first New York gallery exhibition to explore the historical importance of Frank Stella’s iconic square paintings from the 1960’s and 1970’s. The exhibition will include large single and double canvasses from Stella’s Concentric Square and Mitered Mazes series, as well as the seminal “New Madrid” painting from his Benjamin Moore series.
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present Junction (2011) and Cycle (2010), two new sculptures by Richard Serra. Serra has pushed the unique sculptural syntax that he developed over the last fifteen years to arrive at entirely new forms in two of his most complex and challenging works to date.
This is the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of the 20th century. The exhibition, which will only be seen at MoMA, presents an unparalleled opportunity to study the artist’s development over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s.
In the four decades since her untimely death at age thirty-four, Eva Hesse (1936–1970) has become internationally renowned for the sculptural assemblages she made beginning in the mid-1960s. Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 presents for the first time a group of nineteen oil paintings created when Hesse was just twenty-four years old. Composed of two bodies of work, the Spectres paintings present a young painter establishing her own creative identity.
Meulensteen is proud to announce DRMN’, an exhibition of new paintings by Ann Pibal. The show will be accompanied by a catalog with an essay by Robert Storr. In this series of paintings, Pibal continues to explore the possibilities of her medium through her abstract geometric compositions.
Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Frederick Hammersley. In the post-war years, Frederick Hammersley shifted from a promising career as an academic painter and illustrator to that of an artist engaged in mid-century modernism and its abstract tendencies.
