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The artists in this week’s gallery picks explore duality.

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1. Leehyun Kim paints to reveal the emotion underneath the masked expressions of passersby at Pheonix Gallery
2. Fuel to the fire forms a bridge between the two figures Ricardo Brey unites within himself: on the one hand the historical artist at a crucial time in the history of Cuban art, and on the other the artist who lives and works in Flanders, and makes work that is highly contemporary, critical to the consumption of images and the slickness in which they now tend to dress themselves at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
3. Ryan Callanan aka RYCA draws upon a broad spectrum of Contemporary popular culture in his works; referencing film, music and art history that is often seen as refreshingly comic and accessible. With early influences including Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Ryan would take classic Warhol imagery and replace its subject with Star Wars and other movie references in his work at Copro Gallery
4. Chloe Wise conflates so-called “guilty” commercial, gastronomical, and sexual pleasures—it bags, carb-rich breakfast foods, and fetish gear— creating imagined hybrids of frivolity and excess. Cast in urethane, strikingly painted with trompe l’oeil effects, and re-contextualized as art objects, food and fashion are rid of their use value and are planted firmly in the symbolic at Division Gallery
5. In his new body of work, Yinka Shonibare contemplates the changing state of the Earth’s climate and the human instinct for survival in the face of the extreme weather experienced worldwide. Rage of the Ballet Gods sees Shonibare connecting with myth to find solace in the fantastical during an unnerving time at James Cohan Gallery
6. “At the heart of these works is the eternal push and pull of the spirit. The two-headed beast, the twin within, living just beneath the skin, sharing the shell and breathing life in through the cracks. They are psychic creatures blistered by hope and beaten with twinges of nostalgia” Sarah Louise Davey on her works in The Garden of No Distant Place at Paradigm Arts

April 29, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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Using the landscape as a jumping off point for lush abstractions in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. IN MEDIAS RES is a chronicle of José Parlá’s life, beginning with his childhood and including his extensive travels around the world. Through choreographed, painterly works, the artist creates impressions of life-altering moments that have impacted his art making process at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
2. David Johns’ work combines fine art training with the traditional teachings he learned as a child and the Dine philosophy of life by which he lives. The symmetry of David’s paintings reflect this harmony and balance; the colors and textures he creates reflect the beauty of the land from which he comes at Zane Bennett Gallery
3. A look into the brief but critical period in Helen Frankenthaler’s career during 1962–63, when she “composed with color” rather than with line, resulting in the freer compositions that came to exemplify her long and prolific career at Gagosian Gallery
4. David Kinsey’s “Cushion of Memory” takes cues from the likes of the Sequoia National Park — near his home on the west coast — to create deep, abstract landscapes at Library Street Collective
5. Angelina Nasso’s presents a new group of oil paintings inspired by the lush forest setting of upstate New York where she lives and works. Her use of vibrant color and abstract forms is a vehicle for her continued study of the notion that all things come about from unity by means of adaption at McClain Gallery
6. Sue Williams’ work has long been known for combining themes of gender politics and the body. The exhibition features some of Williams’ earlier anthropomorphic paintings from the late 1990s leading to current works painted during the last seven or eight years, moving from the untidy, abject visual play on the body and bodily functions, to paintings which address traumatic geopolitical and environmental events at James Cohan Gallery

 

September 30, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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Get lost in the landscape with this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Val Britton’s massive installation of her hand cut assorted papers in her thematic series of cartography inspired landscapes at Gallery Wendi Norris
2. The works in Samuel Denoncour’s This Land Is speak specifically to the comfort and beauty of self realization that comes only after allowing yourself to be lost at GRIN
3. Elizabeth Glaessner’s most recent paintings depict a highly detailed mythology of post-human existence on earth that features anthropomorphic, gelatinous figures in familiar, yet toxic, landscapes at P.P.O.W
4. Leif Podhajsky’s work explores themes of connectedness, the relevance of nature and the psychedelic experience. By utilizing these subjects he attempts to inspire the viewer into a realignment with themselves and their surroundings at Galerie Hors-Champs
5. Ryan Molenkamp’s Fear of Volcanoes at Linda Hodges Gallery
6. This group exhibition explores the seasonal rhythms of natural systems, the human disruptions of these once-balanced cycles, and the increasing alarms of global climate change at James Cohan Gallery

July 29, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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Using shape and pattern to contemplate the intricacies of life in this week’s gallery picks.

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1.Correspondence is an on going drawing project between friends Kristen Palazzo and Karin Schaefer at Layla
2. Bryan Ida’s new series of paintings uses round and rectangular shaped panels to explore the intricacy, diversity, complexity, and beauty of the cities we live in. Cities are built in layers, and when you peel away layer by layer truths are revealed at George Billis Gallery
3. In Francie Hester’s work, “time is marked and measured; and time is unbound, fluid, infinite” Susan Eley Fine Art
4. Utilizing news media images, Sanaz Mazinani challenges the relationship between perception and representation, exploring concepts such as censorship, scale, and the body as a site of action or violence at Taymour Grahne Gallery
5. Finding inspiration from the physical and metaphysical qualities of water, Cathy Choi paints with pigmented resin, pouring thin veils of color in works such as S1401, or pooling color using a sculpted ledge in the paintings B1403 and B1404 at Margaret Thatcher Projects
6. Fred Tomaselli presents 8 new paintings and over 30 works from his ongoing New York Times collage series at James Cohan Gallery

May 6, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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The artists in this week’s gallery picks brood about the intricacies of life and art in moody, muted palettes.

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1. Collaging ephemera collected from New York City sidewalks with artist Simon Evans’ own notes, the artist’s abstractions resemble dense, gestural almost-landscapes. Their expansive accumulation parallels the omnipresent digital cloud, archiving the trace elements of human experience to map a collective consciousness at James Cohan Gallery
2. George Condo has explored the relationship between the directness of drawing and the controlled methods of painting. His new works on paper are characterized by a dark brooding palette and a return to the figurative in subject matter at Skarstedt Gallery
3. Ross Chisholm distorts traditional portraiture with interventions and various manipulations – such as injecting geometric abstraction, combining figures from different centuries, or even updating a noblewoman’s fashion with 1980s punk accents at Green Art Gallery
4. For The Bestiary, Phlegm creates a modern bestiary within his own universe through an immersive and large scale installation in wood, clay and plaster. at Howard Griffin Gallery
5. Tiffany Wollman raises questions about the impact of the oil & gas industry and the Harper Government on fresh water in her latest work at AVALANCHE!
6. “Drawing is explosive, it is direct, and it is amoral.  Drawing is honest, and deceitful, it is raw, out of control, and it is measured, it is the pristine page of a notebook and also debris of the studio floor.  Drawing is the wellspring of the mind pouring onto the page – the most direct form of visual communication.” at Greenpoint Terminal Gallery

 

February 18, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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