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Tuesday’s Gallery Picks




This week’s gallery picks have a focus on the lines between nostalgia and current events.

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1. A rare opportunity to see 14 American quilts dating from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s at Minneapolis Institute of Art
2. Through the power of artistic expression, HEATWAVE celebrates a season that personifies escapism and outside culture. The sensation of sand between your toes, an idyllic romp in the green grass, a sweaty late night rendezvous–all this and more drips with newfound perspective via ceramic booty sculptures, vibrant paintings, paper cutouts and textiles at Stefanie Chefas Gallery
3. ABOVE’s stencil and text-based artworks usually have a strong message or awareness about social, political, or international current events, while his abstract works are a visual language of shape, color, and form at The Quin Hotel
4. Stephanie Syjuco’s Neutral Calibration Studies (Ornament + Crime) features works across a wide swath of media that touch on the legacy of historical colonialism, fictional fabrications, and perceptual studies of photographic “neutrality” at Catherine Clark Gallery
5. Mark DeLong’s Several Shades of Sugar at Cooper Cole Gallery
6. Luke Pelletier’s newest body of work continues to riff on his own moral dilemmas of romance, self reliance, and leisure, playing with ironic twists on both tourist culture and American nostalgia at New Image Art

August 20, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week, we’re celebrating America and it’s diversity through art.

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1. Jen Stark’s brightly colored paper art reminds us a little of fireworks at Cooper Cole
2. Work from 36 contemporary Native American artists, who reflect on the diversity in tribal affiliation, geographic location, gender and age, and share an intricate vision of life lived in different worlds, from the long traditions of their specific tribes to the politics and pop of the world at large at 516 Arts
3. Tanja Rector’s art reflects upon her impressions while along roads through the southwestern states at Launch LA
4. Ales “BASK” Hostomsky’s “Übermensch” will showcase works depicting children painted as superheroes on found and weathered surfaces that exhibit an energetic urban art aesthetic at 1 AM Gallery
5. Deeply engaged with the unique setting of the Bay Area, artist Richard Diebenkorn profoundly influenced postwar American art during his years spent working in Berkeley, from 1953 to 1966 at de Young
6. Brett Amory’s work in Twenty-Four in New York portrays abstracted studies of urban life through fragmented cityscapes and anonymous, isolated figures at Jonathan Levine Gallery

 

July 2, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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