The Gravity of Sculpture: Part II Curated by Saul Ostrow Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
The Gravity of Sculpture: Part II, Curated by Saul Ostrow, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Banned in D.C., Curated by Mark Dagley, Ventana 244, Brooklyn, NY
Ted Stamm: Paintings, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Ted Stamm: Paintings, a survey of works from 1973 to 1981 by the late New York City-based painter. This is the second exhibition of the artist’s work at the gallery. Prior to Stamm’s unexpected death in 1984 at the age of 40, the artist created a substantial mature body of work that was at once responsive to the past, reflective of his time, and telling of the future. Stamm’s practice was dedicated to complicating a Minimalist vocabulary with elongations suggestive of speed and the appearances of movement.
Alan Uglow, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
The present exhibition includes Standard paintings from the mid-1990s and Portrait(s) of a Standard from 2000, the latter, large-format silkscreens depicting the Standard(s) at an angle. Both the paintings and prints are installed on wooden blocks.
Mariah Dekkenga: Soft Geometries, Eli Ping Gallery, New York, NY
Dekkenga works out the compositions of her paintings in Adobe Illustrator. After applying an impasto underpainting, she uses herself as printer to transfer the composition to the painting surface. The procedure produces a thing that levels action and stops movement, making it impossible to retrace a series of painterly moves.
Linda Francis: We Can Build You
February 15 - March 23, 2013
MINUS SPACE is pleased to announce the exhibition Linda Francis: We Can Build You. This is the New York-based artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and it will feature a suite of new large-scale oil paintings on wooden panel.
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show will feature over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in Nsukka, Nigeria; and the global history of abstraction.
Jered Sprecher: I Always Lie, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
Sprecher’s paintings combine disparate and conflicting visual imagery from a variety of sources: quilts, children’s drawings, signage, gemstones (to name but a few). A wide range of patterns, color and texture come together into elemental, fluid shapes.
Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
A retrospective exhibition of NYC-based color painter Sanford Wurmfeld (b. 1942 in Bronx, NY).
Angular Seduction, Curated by Vincent Como, TSA, Brooklyn, NY
Since the dawning of Modernity painting and the plastic arts have moved farther and farther away from the blatant lies perpetuated through the fallacy of caricature and representational imagery conjured from the world around us.
Nearly Neutral, Curated by John O’Connor, The Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Rudolf de Crignis: New York 1985-2006, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
Margarete Roeder Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of Rudolf de Crignis New York 1985–2006, published by Radius Books, Santa Fe with a foreword by Lawrence Rinder, a text by Georg Imdahl, and an interview with the artist by Joseph Cunningham.
Sharon Brant: Sideswiped
November 9 - December 22, 2012
MINUS SPACE is pleased to announce the exhibition Sharon Brant: Sideswiped. This is the Beacon, New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and it will feature a suite of new paintings and works on paper.
Materializing “Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
This exhibition is devoted to examining the defining impact Lucy R. Lippard’s groundbreaking book Six Years had on the emergent Conceptual art movement. Published in 1973, Six Years simultaneously catalogued and described the development of conceptual art practices in the late sixties and early seventies, and is now widely considered an essential reference work for the period.
Rey Akdogan: off set, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
Assembling works from industrial materials like lighting gels, common packaging plastics, Mylar, and other commercial-grade films, New York-based artist Rey Akdogan is interested in the physical presence of her works and consistently highlights their materiality.
David Reed: Heart of Glass, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
David Reed, born 1946 in San Diego and a resident of New York since the 1970s, has in his good forty creative years developed an oeuvre that, with all its concentration on specific forms of painting, also maintains relationships to other, more recent image media, especially to film and video art.
Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Josef Albers (1888–1976) is best known for his series of paintings, Homage to the Square, in which he endlessly explored color relationships within a similar format of concentric squares. Less well-known are the studies he made for these compositions.
James Lee Byars: The Monument to Cleopatra, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY
For summer, Michael Werner Gallery presents The Monument to Cleopatra, an exhibition of works by James Lee Byars. The exhibition features a major gilded sculpture, “The Monument to Cleopatra”, shown for the first time in New York.
Amy Feldman: Dark Selects, Blackston, New York, NY
Feldman composes striking images by employing a limited number of pictorial elements on the surface of her paintings. Simple yet acute gestures coupled with basic formal devices dovetail to create images that have a strong visual impact on the viewer. Feldman seeks a visual clarity that is at once profound and undercut by humor.
Ken Weathersby: Strange Fit, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Ken Weathersby’s exhibition, Strange Fit, presents abstract paintings that shuffle optical and physical elements, playing the visual against the tactile. In each painting there is an unraveling of expectations as paint, linen, and wood deviate from their usual roles.
Brancusi: The Photographs, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
Constantin Brancusi, Lizica Codreano in Brancusi’s Studio 1, 1922 Gelatin silver print, 9 1/8 x 7 inches April 26 – June 23, 2012 Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to present Brancusi: The Photographs, an exhibition of the artist’s groundbreaking photographic works. Featuring over 40 original prints, each made by Brancusi himself, this exhibition reveals Brancusi’s visionary dedication to the photographic medium as means of personal expression—an art form that the artist explored parallel to his sculpture. The [...]
Regina Bogat: Stars, Art 101, Brooklyn, NY
Bogat's initial fascination with the octagon led to the evolution of these paintings. Ogdoadic (8 points), Decagon (10 points), and Heptadic (7 points) stars will be shown.
Cosmology, StoreFront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
StoreFront Bushwick presents a group show "Cosmology" opening on June 1. Artists include Nancy Bowen, Matthew Mahler, Paula Overbay, and Lauren Seiden.
Soledad Arias: On Air, RH Gallery, New York, NY
Soledad Arias’ text-based work explores the slippage of meanings in the aesthetic and literary reading of texts. The title of the exhibition, ON AIR, refers to live broadcasting relating to the dialog initiated by Arias’ work while also relating to the breath of air necessary for speech. The work explores the materiality of text as well as its poetic, visual and phonetic meanings within the context of dialogue and colloquial communication.
Gabriele Evertz: Geometry of Color, Art Sites, Riverhead, NY
Julian Jackson: Crossing, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
Hélio Oticia: Penetrables, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
For the first time in New York, three of the late Brazilian avant-garde artist Hélio Oiticica’s rarely-seen multi-sensorial installations of color: Penetrável PN1 (1960); Penetrável Filtro (1972); and Penetrável PN28 “Nas Quebradas” (1979) will be on view at Galerie Lelong.
Kristin Baker, The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY
ILLUME-MINE, an exhibition of new work by Kristin Baker, investigates the transformative effects of light, expanded expectations of the painted medium, and the artist’s unique process.
Sven Lukin, Gary Snyder Gallery, New York, NY
Gary Snyder Gallery is pleased to announce Sven Lukin, an exhibition of paintings and drawings at 529 West 20th Street. Opening on May 24, 2012, the exhibition is the first since 1978 to present new works by the artist.
Frank Stella: Black, Aluminum, Copper Paintings, L & M Arts, New York, NY
I would like the paintings to be their own justification, so that anything asked of them would be irrelevant. - Frank Stella
Tauba Auerbach: Float, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
San Francisco-born, New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach has described her work as an attempt to reveal “new spectral and dimensional richness…both within and beyond the limits of perception.”
Brice Marden: New Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
On view in the gallery at 502 West 22nd Street is a painting called Ru Ware Project, 2007-2012, made up of nine small panels painted in different shades of pale blues. The legendary Ru ware is the rarest of all ancient Chinese pottery.
Lucio Fontana: Ambienti Spaziali, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce a major and unprecedented survey of the work of Lucio Fontana. Six of his groundbreaking environments, known as Ambienti Spaziali, have been faithfully reconstructed, providing a completely new perspective for the rich and varied retrospective of more than one hundred major works that surrounds them.
Debra Ramsay: Desire Lines, Blank Space, New York, NY
BLANK SPACE is pleased to present Desire Lines, the second solo exhibition by Debra Ramsay with the gallery. Ramsay locates the foundation of her work in “primitive mathematics and spatial relationships.
Sylvan Lionni: Lost in America, Kansas Gallery, New York, NY
Sylvan Lionni reinterprets established hierarchies and dissolves cultural hegemony through appropriative techniques which deconstruct symbolic objects and their clichés. Familar icons are illuminated by a new vocabulary that serves to charter networks of analogy between lived and imagined form.
Sonic Network No. 9, White Box, New York, NY
White Box is pleased to present the collaborative project between John Aslanidis and Berlin-based sound artist, Brian May: Sonic Network no.9. Akin to their first collaboration in 2006, May has composed a generative sound piece to be played for the duration of the exhibition in conjunction with Aslanidis’ painting, Sonic Network no.9.
Ron Gorchov, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Gorchov’s distinctive and assertive saddle-like stretchers were created in the late 1960s as an alternative to the pervasive Greenbergian formalism of the time, evidenced in the dominance of minimalist sculpture. The stretchers offered a foil to the novel images, as yet seldom seen in contemporary painting.
Mamie Holst: Secrets of the Universe, Feature Inc., New York, NY
Mamie Holst distances her subject matter with the use of a limited palette of black, white, and gray. This helps the paintings close down on notions of illustration and, as well, expand out into diagrams.
Hans Hofmann, Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, NY
In his essay for the exhibition catalogue, William Agee describes Hofmann as going against the grain of the artistic canon of the day; “His art was too big, too bold, to be encapsulated in a few years after 1945, the years we generally identify as the heyday of abstract expressionism.”
Sam Moyer: Slack Tide, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
Rachel Uffner Gallery is pleased to present a show of new work by Sam Moyer. For her second solo show at the gallery, Moyer will exhibit pieces that continue her examination of the liminal space between the two- and three-dimensional, albeit in a larger, more imposing scale than her work has explored before.