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We’re examining structures in life and art with this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Using a wide range of materials, Joanne Greenbaum infuses her paintings with elements of drawing. Examining both form and narrative, Greenbaum perpetually changes, adds, or negates her own actions, simultaneously celebrating and questioning the act of painting.  Upstairs, the sculptures reveal  the artists strong affiliation with form as a structure for further mark making at Rachel Uffner Gallery
2. The exhibition Ellen Lesperance, Helen Mirra, Traversing features new paintings and a recent interactive project by Lesperance, and an international, intergenerational weaving project* organized by Mirra at Armory Arts
3. Yoshiaki Mochizuki has created a dozen new paintings on wood panels featuring his signature use of layered gesso, burnishing clay, ink, pigments and precious metal leafing. These materials are each subjected to various treatments including sanding, polishing and manual distressing. Finally, the surfaces are scored with a needle resulting in highly detailed, tightly wrought patterning, and a dynamic excavation of these underlying layers at Marlborough Chelsea
4. Utilizing salvaged materials from recently closed Chicago Public Schools, Preus has constructed functional sculptural works which revel in the histories embedded in their component parts. Whether these histories are implied, or as literal as a student’s writing on an old desk, Preus’s process of transforming old to new is both cathartic and political. These objects hold our collective memories at Rena Bransten Gallery
5. Excerpts from the Natural World, features artists who use nature in imaginative ways as source material. Mari Andrews and Esther Traugot combine natural and fabricated objects to create delicate sculptures and installations, and Sarah Hinckley combines images from landscapes to create meditative drawings and paintings at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
6. Interested in opening up a broader context in which art could be experienced, Alan Shields created objects that hang freely in space and are experienced in relation to the movement of the human body. His brightly colored, layered works illustrate Shields’s belief in a direct connection between art and life, revealing a multifaceted practice that merges the sculptural, the painterly, and the theatrical at Aspen Art Museum

June 18, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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Our artists are focusing on adventure and leisure time in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Focusing on informal moments shared by friends and lovers,Nicole Eisenman’s paintings concentrate on interior spaces and those casual situations that occur only behind closed doors, be that of the studio, a New York apartment or a train compartment at Anton Kern Gallery
2. Marcel Dzama presents new film works, sculpture, and large format drawings alongside a walk-in installation at Sies + Höke
3. As a member of a generation of artists noted for their “return” to figurative painting, Jocelyn Hobbie has honed a formal inventiveness in which neoclassical figures with pensive expressions are depicted amid bold and striking patterns. Her heightened naturalism and enhanced degree of saturated color reveal an uneasy relationship to realism and firmly root these unusually psychological paintings in the age of post abstraction at Fredericks & Freiser
4. As life in America continues to distance itself from the countryside, vacations and travel are a time to reintroduce the self to nature. As summer approaches in America, this idolized time of year brings thoughts of travel, escape, and road trips. With individual freeways that stretch over 3,000 miles, taking the car across country reveals America’s boundless diverse landscapes, as travelers immerse themselves in America’s ever changing personality at Joshua Liner Gallery
5. In the party game Who’s Coming to Dinner? participants are asked to choose any number of dinner guests, famous or not, from any period in time, and imagine what the party would be like. Annelie McKenzie’s exhibition is her personal variation of that game, except that she has imagined a museum exhibition, choosing artists—famous or not, from any period in time–and they become her “Old Masters” at CB1 Gallery
6. When we think of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art, it is often the names like Frazetta and Hildebrandt that come first to mind. However, all along through the art history of the genre you have women such as Kinuko Craft, Mary Blair, Julie Bell, and many more who have been creating their own visual worlds and illustrating the worlds of authors, filmmakers, and game designers. For the first time, the work of women in this genre will be exhibited together in Point of Vision: Celebrating Women Artists in Fantasy and Science Fiction at Society of Illustrators

June 15, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s artists focus on shapes and patterns to explore their points.

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1. Fred Tomaselli and Carl Boutard will discuss their work, nature, site-specificity, adaptation, and making ephemeral materials permanent at The International Studio & Curatorial Program
2. Jeff Kahm describes his work as being “rooted in Indigenous abstraction and Modernist aesthetics” at Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art
3. Maneuvering between painting and photography, realism and abstraction, Don Suggs explores the role imagery plays in our perception of nature. As the basis for this conceptual inquiry, Suggs returns to his familiar circular abstractions and landscape photograph at La Louver
4. Stephanie Syjuco employs unlikely materials with ingenious vision—found 3-D models, publicly-sourced audio files, “ethnic” carpets downloaded from eBay, photo shoots staged with mass-produced fashion garments, and a large scale “still life” installation—to create a perceptual clash that bridges historical representation with contemporary forms at Catharine Clark Gallery
5. As visual reflections on identity and consciousness, these abstract paintings by John Mills illuminate how perception is shaped by the subjectivity of the mind and its fleeting memories and experiences at Rosamund Felson
6. Søren Behncke entered, deconstructed and re-painted Van Gogh’s La Chambre à Arles again and again during the course of a year. In 20 works on canvas, cardboard, and paper Søren Behncke engages the iconic image of the room in Arles and various artistic profiles including Philip Guston, Henri Matisse, Albert Mertz, and Roy Lichtenstein, while challenging his own craft and style of painting at V1 Gallery

June 4, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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Explorations of shape and abstraction abound in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. A showcase of Etel Adnan’s work from across her career including paintings, drawings, poetry, film and tapestry. at Serpentine Gallery
2. A historical survey exhibition of works from the 1950s by Lygia Clark. Clark’s groundbreaking work radically innovated the relationship between the art object and audience and has become a reference point for generations of artists pushing the limits of sculpture today at Alison Jacques Gallery
3. Jaro’s paintings feature non-objective, geometric forms in a colorful mélange called geometric abstraction at Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association
4. The line is at once a road and a horizon. Between the Lines considers the space in between. Bringing together an international group of artists, it surveys the landscape of a movement that started in the grimy backstreets of Paris, London, New York, and LA but has since exploded to become a worldwide phenomenon at The Mine
5. Judy Ledgerwood’s Pussy Poppin’ Power explores and confronts the history of abstraction, as well as artistic domestic work created by women across generations at Tracy Williams Ltd
6. Stanley Whitney presents a series of oil paintings and gouache on paper works made over the last few months in response to global events, literature and music, among other sources of inspiration. Whitney’s unique ordering system revolves around his use of a loosely painted grid, which he has experimented with in various ways over the course of almost three decades at Lisson Gallery

May 30, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s artists examine the narrative and cycle of change.

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1. In Minoan Girls, Elaine Reichek focuses on the ways in which the Greek myths are continually retold and reenacted over the centuries, in the same way that sewing doubles a thread back upon itself repeatedly at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
2. Peter Linde Busk’s work is sincerely concerned with detritus: the literal, cultural and societal. He channels ancient Spolia architecture, where unneeded buildings or monuments were demolished and repurposed for the construction of new patchwork structures at Derek Eller Gallery
3. Inside Out, Home and Place will bring together a series of van Dalen’s works, providing a meditation on his longstanding interest in the clash between nature and technology, capitalism and humanity, and the way in which one’s sense of home and place in the world can be an ever-shifting construction due to external and often uncontrollable circumstances at Sargent’s Daughter’s
4. Sara Jimenez excavates personal and historical narratives as part of her artistic process. This search has led her to the image of casting wide nets into the deepest parts of the ocean, which symbolically connect here (NY) and there (the Philippines), two spaces that connote  “home” for the artist. In the attempt to capture and contain lost information, she weaves fabric nets which are suspended from the ceiling of the gallery and fill the space at Five Myles
5. Ayline Olukman, Stephane Joannes, and Amanda Scuglia come together to present present NATURE/MADE at Massey Lyuben Gallery
6. Michel Huelin imagines a universe of mutations giving rise to both fascination and discomfort, manifestations of a techno-kind expansion according to a principle of proliferation, as nature itself without control or limit except that of the perception of detail, this notion itself becoming imperceptible and blurred at galerie zürcher

May 25, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s artists contemplate nature and cycles of change.

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1. An exhibition deriving inspiration from the seasons themed paintings in the Frick Collection by François Boucher; artists are invited to create four paintings of the same size to commemorate each one of the seasons at Haven Art Gallery
2. Multiplicity examines our individual and cultural environments through the use of archetypal and reflective imagery. The artists create multiples as a way to reflect on our psychological, natural and societal predicaments.  The use of archetypal imagery varies widely in this show from cultural constructs to the mythological, and the symbolic, encompassing individual as well as collective psychological landscapes at Dacia Gallery
3. Highlights features portraits of individuals from the Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s past, who, through various means, were able to make it out of the notorious Robert Taylor Homes public housing project. These compositions give shape to Quinn’s memories, the figures from his past finding their way from the subconscious to the paper. In their abstracted bodies and faces, Quinn’s personal narrative transforms into a wider exploration on the resiliency of human nature at M + B Art
4. Nina Yuen’s two new films and a series of photographs poetically and intimately explore universal themes of time, death, and beauty at Jane Lombard Gallery
5. Amandalynn intends to capture the beauty of nature’s cyclical change within this newest series of work at Distinction Art
6. For Mountain Full, Andrew Hem was inspired by the action of leaping, depicting many of his stylized subjects hovering or plummeting over expressionistic landscapes. Like snapshots taken from a dream, his surreal figures and environments retain familiar elements but are otherworldly, existing one step outside of everyday life at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

May 17, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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