Pattern Pulp

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s gallery picks feature bursting color, pattern and unique perspectives.

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1. A selection of paintings, collages, drawings and prints by Dado from the 1970’s. His phantasmagorical dramaturgy draws its inspiration from a sort of redemption, through painting or drawing, of adolescent memories of tragedies and human cruelties that occurred in his native Montenegro at Jeanne Bucher Jaeger
2. A group show featuring six contemporary photographers from Africa and its diaspora. The exhibition explores multiple themes that challenge accepted notions of belonging and identity; the everyday and the fantastical; the past and the future; the public and the private at Red Hook Labs
3. Anne-Sophie Cochevelou offers a reflection on the cultural appropriation within an “unplanned obsolescence” – through a maximalism that is dear to her, thus celebrating the richness and variety of different cultures through reclaimed material. The artist questions the female body within the post-modern society and particularly the paradoxes of feminism through a costume-based performance at Isabelle Gounod Gallery
4. Presented on yellow walls, Natalie Frank’s new paintings in paper and on wood portray women who have created worlds of their own liking–full of voyeurism, performance, pets and the hot colors and exuberance of horror films at ACME
5. Mike Davis renders complex paintings embedded with symbols of mortality, folly, and hubris in the style of the Netherlandish Flemish Primitives such as Bosch, Bruegel and van Eyck. His oil paintings create an alternate world where anything is possible, combining arcane personal symbols with social commentary. His work depicts a world of myth and colliding timeframes, a land “on the other side of the bridge,” but one that resonates with our own—not as memory but as a dream at Copro Gallery
6. Collin van der Sluijs’ work is marked by the various artistic techniques he blends together to render his unusual subjects. He has created his own intricate, colorful, odd world with the subjects of his pieces. He takes inspiration for these subjects from the personal pleasures and the struggles of daily life. This world when expressed through the various techniques Collin has mastered, creates beautiful, multi-dimensional pieces of art work, that draw the eye in and keep it there at Vertical Gallery

May 10, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday’s Gallery Picks




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Training our eyes on personality, perspective and the art of the gesture in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Our perception of space, our engagement with space, and through it, our interaction with each other, has never been more pertinent as a topic for exploration. Just as the adoption of perspective as a means of representing reality became synonymous with how Europe positioned itself with a view to the rest of the world in the 15th Century and beyond, so our attempts to rethink this use of perspective in art, could have a profound effect on what happens in our age, and in the future at Grimm Gallery
2. Helen Levitt’s playfully poetic photographs, made over the course of sixty years on the streets of her native New York City, are notable for the way they find delightful twists within the daily lives of her subjects. One thing that set Levitt apart from the more socially concerned documentary street photographers of her time was her focus on the body language of her subjects. Frequently what her photographs are most about are dance-like gestures; by turns elegant, or comic, and sometimes both at once at Laurence Miller Gallery
3. Menagerie showcases an eclectic body of work from some of the most recognized names in photography at Michael Hoppen Gallery
4. Anthony Lycett’s Self-Styled includes more than 200 diptychs representing eccentrics, dandies, punk, gothic, transvestites and the vanguard of London and Paris at Isabelle Gounod Gallery
5. Within seemingly vacant, haunted domestic and public spaces, Farley Aguilar’s distorted characters populate familiar scenarios of unrest, disquiet, and active protest. There are hints of the figures looking outward, beyond their present conditions, but they remain static and dazed at Spinello Projects
6. The Age Of Innocence compares Andy Rementer’s urban tales to Fulvio Mendini’s Edenic allegories, drawing attention to their shared graphic matrix, the terse tendency and the predilection for flat colors and bright hues. Both artists build a hypothetical and sublimated world, dominated by geometry, where characters, objects and places pave the way to the discovery of additional, multiple dimensions at Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea

February 27, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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