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.
A rare opportunity to view an unexamined period of Reinhardt’s career with the first public presentation of a recently rediscovered early body of work, featuring fifty geometric paintings and works on paper, ranging from bold collage to vibrant gouache. Influenced by Cubism filtered through the lens of American artists such as Stuart Davis and Charles Sheeler, the works reveal the reductionist process that led Reinhardt to his iconic monochromes.
It was May 11, 1971 when the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris opened the influential exhibition “Computer Graphics – Une Esthétique Programmée”. A solo exhibition by Manfred Mohr, it featured the first display in a museum of works entirely calculated and drawn by a digital (rather than analog) computer.
StandPipe Gallery is proud to present "Laura Sue Phillips: Flower Target Paintings. Phillips’ vibrant, iconic works share significant overtones with both the Pop and Minimalist traditions. Well established in the New York art scene, the artist's work has been the subject of numerous group and solo exhibitions.
I overheard two artists in the gallery chatting about the deluge of abstraction that’s been around and one quipped to the other that abstraction flourishes in conservative times. Hard edge abstraction seemed to be the one to take a look at as it’s probably the most ubiquitous and the one that tends to get the most formal.
KANSAS is pleased to present Hey Harmonica!, a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Tamara Zahaykevich. The humble, wall-mounted and freestanding constructions of Tamara Zahaykevich have an undeniable rough-hewn charm. Fashioned from mostly cast-off, paper-related materials mined from the studio and street including Styrofoam, foam board, canned foam, found paper, paint and ink, the resultant objects are joyous celebrations of color, texture and form.
30: A Brooklyn Salon has been organized to celebrate BRIC Rotunda Gallery’s status as Brooklyn’s oldest continuously operating contemporary art space and to offer a look back at the wealth of artists who shaped the character of our exhibition program over three decades. With work by some 50 Brooklyn-affiliated artists, the exhibition presents a diverse segment of the nearly 1,500 artists who have exhibited at the Gallery and contributed to BRIC’s history.
McKenzie Fine Art is pleased to announce its first exhibition of the fall season, a three-person show featuring the work of abstract painters Douglas Melini, Gary Petersen, and Sarah Walker. The exhibition explores how the artists, all of whom work in a geometric abstract vocabulary, create different modes of spatiality in their work.
Gutzeit generates paintings from a variety of source materials ranging from sources in nature as m ediated through his own earlier drawings—highly representational landscape studies—and from mathematical objects such as Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Eric Dever, IB1, 2011 Oil on canvas 48 x 48 inches Sara Nightingale Gallery is pleased to present Eric Dever, Black as White, opening Saturday, August 20, 5 – 8 p.m. The materials and methods of painting are the subject of this work. “I work on linen, burlap and canvas, sized or gessoed, all manifesting grades of absorbency and viscosity. Transparency and opacity are dependent upon paint quality. My four year investigation into the limits [...]
Installation view. Staten Island, New York, July 2010 —COAHSI is proud to announce Container Series, a new public art installation on the Grand Staircase of the St. George Staten Island Ferry Terminal, and which is part of DOT’s Urban Art Program pARTners track. Conceived by artist Victoria Munro, in partnership with the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, the piece is composed of 106 colorful aluminum strips attached to the risers of [...]
Installation view. August 4 – August 13, 2011 ART BLOG ART BLOG is extremely pleased to announce the opening of “Snowclones” curated by Benjamin King (HKJB) and Rob Nadeau. This show is the fifth in a series of exhibitions ART BLOG ART BLOG is presenting at a temporary location in Chelsea, NY on the 11th floor of 508 West 26th St. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, August 4th from 6 – 9pm. [...]
Valeska Soares, The House of Exile (from Bindings), 2011 72 x 102 inches Antique paper jackets and hardcover books on linen July 7 – August 12, 2011 Eleven Rivington is pleased to present Tablet, a three person show with new works by Michael DeLucia, Joshua Smith, and Valeska Soares. The exhibition includes work concerned with formal compositions comprised of simple planes and blocks of color.
