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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s artists explore home and identity.

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1. In her work, Sherman proposes powerful questions about identity, representation, and the role of images in contemporary culture. From screen siren and pin-up to socialite and businesswoman, the roles Sherman depicts through her monumental body of work provocatively engage with contemporary life’s mediated personas and stereotypes, drawing not only from art history but also from the histories of advertising, cinema, and media at The Broad
2. Divided into two sections installed in separate galleries, the exhibition is organized around the two outposts that Peter Beard calls home – Africa and the East End of Long Island at Guild Hall
3. Wild West explores artistic responses to the natural and cultivated landscapes of the western United States from the frontier era to the present at Legion of Honor
4. Brian Jungen’s new sculptural objects, wall reliefs, and hanging curtain are made of cut, spliced and reformatted Air Jordan trainers transformed into abstracted compositions that generate broader interpretationsat Casey Kaplan Gallery
5. Hilary Pecis’ El Verano displays honest depictions of the everyday objects and the living spaces that sustain the artist and her family; husband Andrew Schoultz and son Apollo at Guerrero Gallery
6. Imagined Futures features works by Chesley Bonestell, Fred Freeman, John Berkey, Jim Burns, Don Dixon, Bob Eggleton, Chris Foss, Fred Gambino, Ron Miller, Ludek Pesek, Richard Powers, Alex Schomburg, and Tim White, alongside, for the first time, works from other artists inspired by the visualization of the unknown; Ansel Adams, Max Ernst, Robert Longo, René Magritte, Simon Norfolk, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth at Pivot

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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We’re celebrating the Fourth of July by looking at America through time and space in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. . As children, Damian Stamer and his identical twin brother would explore the woods around his home. Within his work are the memories and images of ruined buildings from a time and way of life in the South that was and is coming to an end at Zane Bennett Gallery
2. Rhode Island-based Steven Coyle’s new beach series at Paul Thiebaud Gallery
3. No doubt we are living in the future, but is it the place we imagined ourselves growing up into when we were young? at Gauntlet Gallery
4. Bill Owens’s Suburbia (1973) is a series of strange and compelling photographs that reveal the complexities of the American middle-class landscape.at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
5.Having spent a great deal of time in the Southwestern United States, John Oteri is inspired by those areas and uses them as backdrops for the majority of his work. at Joe Wade Fine Art
6. Robert Weingarten describes Pentimento, his recent body of work, as “a re-affirmation of the power of photographic memory.” Beginning with historic photographs that document major events of the last hundred years, Weingarten re-visits the original locations of these pictures and then makes photographs of the site as it exists today at Craig Krull Gallery

 

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