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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s gallery picks are full of quirk and wonderment.

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1. M.A. Peers’ new exhibition is a summation of the two idiosyncratic areas she has explored throughout her career — dog portraiture and painterly abstraction at Rosamund Felsen Gallery
2. In Ulrich Wulff’s most recent paintings, we are presented with a figure that has made reoccurring appearances in nearly all of his paintings for over a decade. This character, with it’s bulging, antenna-like eyes, embodies for Wulff a mutable, calligraphic, or even cartoonish attempt at self representation. Though it can be identified as a central actor in a narrative tableaux of sorts, it’s primary function is to orient the artist in the endless field of possibility that opens up any time a new painting is begun at TIF SIGFRIDS
3. David Shaw’s sculptural work mines the domestic and cosmic, nature and science, craft and fine art. Organic materials brushes against the machine made and the distinction between the two breaks down. It is in this state of entropy that Shaw finds release, if not radiance at Bailey Gallery
4. For WONDER nine leading contemporary artists created site-specific installations inspired by the Renwick. Together, these installations will turn the building into a larger-than-life work of art at Renwick Gallery
5. In Informal Arrangements, Michael Wolf juxtaposes an abstracted view of Hong Kong’s seemingly endless industrial facades with an intimate perspective from within its hidden network of back alleys, in a series of photographic typologies and vernacular sculptures.at Flowers Gallery
6. Leon Benn’s paintings are inhabited by participants, either person or animal, engaging in pleasurable activities within hallucinatory environments at Roberts & Tilton

November 24, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s gallery picks feature portraiture in the exploration of identity.

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1. Ramon Maiden’s “Turbo Faith, Ladies Of The Night & Dandy Delinquents” celebrates Barcelona’s junkies (‘kinki’s’); the authentic junkies, the one’s that truly had nothing to live for at Stolenspace
2. Rina Banerjee’s work investigates the possibilities of cultural identity; its relics, how we identify ourselves, and how that perception changes through the eyes of others at Jacob Lewis Gallery
3. Jouissance will feature new paintings made on found bed sheets, pillows, and curtains. Maslansky renders his images of anonymous figures in various states of undress and sexually charged activities in such a way that allows psychological and emotional readings of the found images he works from at Honor Fraser
4. The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture at Brooklyn Museum
5. Known for her frank and revealing representations of the issues surrounding identity, Lucy Jones’ paintings address conventional notions of femininity, aging and disability, through her close observation of the self at Flowers Gallery
6. Tali Lennox’s Layers of Life is a reaction to the phenomena of social media, “selfies”, and casual narcissism at Catherine Ahnell Gallery

April 14, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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We’re taking a look at architecture and the systems that define our society in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Tomoo Gokita’s artworks point to dated archetypes lifted from pulp fiction, Hollywood rags and film noir. The figures appear appear in a state of destruction or deterioration appropriate to their origine in memory at Mary Boone Gallery
2.Franz Ackermann creates cartographic watercolour drawings of urban areas undergoing rapid growth and development. These ‘mental maps’ form the basis of his multi-faceted site-specific artworks at White Cube Gallery
3. Daniel Rich’s new body of work continues to examine how the reproduction and proliferation of images shape our perception of physical structures and the ideologies that they embody at Peter Blum Gallery
4. By using traditional materials of oil on canvas, in the form of thick coats of paint to the canvas’s surface, Murat Pulat creates dotted textures. The texture the artist creates on his oeuvre defines the paintings from the realism of a film-still; however, these textural grains reference the pixels of a film, reminding the viewer of the origin of the paintings’ subject matter at Leila Heller Gallery
5. Michael Wolf has been consumed by the social and architectural fabric of Hong Kong since he moved there in 1994  at Flowers Gallery
6. Much of Thomson & Craighead’s recent work looks at how communications networks like the worldwide web are changing the way we relate to the world around us  at Dundee Contemporary Arts

 

January 21, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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Bright colors and unexpected materials rule this week’s gallery picks.

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1. With extraordinary delicacy, Tom Phillips has dissected his previously used, discarded plastic palettes and converted fragments of them into intricate oil collages mounted on panels at Flowers Gallery
2. Jacques Roch’s paintings tell a narrative that comes close to the edge of a nightmarish darkness, taking a last minute playful turn with sexual daydreams and humorous, childlike doodles at Kim Foster Gallery
3. Jason Roth’s newest series of paintings on shop rags are explosions of multicolored forms that possesses a bold graphic flavor and tough, matte surface at Masters Pelvin
4. Shane McAdams and Caroline Jane Harris experiment with unusual mediums – paper, ball-point pen ink, resin – taking nature and landscapes as a starting point but with very different results at Scream London
5. For Ati Maier, the first Moon Walk serves as both metaphor and unifying theme to her latest exhibition, The Map Is Not the Territory at Pierogi 2000
6. David Poppie’s amazing work with colored pencils at Pavel Zoubok

 

September 3, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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