Pattern Pulp

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




gallerypicks_patternpulp161

Our artists are focusing on adventure and leisure time in this week’s gallery picks.

*            *            *

1. Focusing on informal moments shared by friends and lovers,Nicole Eisenman’s paintings concentrate on interior spaces and those casual situations that occur only behind closed doors, be that of the studio, a New York apartment or a train compartment at Anton Kern Gallery
2. Marcel Dzama presents new film works, sculpture, and large format drawings alongside a walk-in installation at Sies + Höke
3. As a member of a generation of artists noted for their “return” to figurative painting, Jocelyn Hobbie has honed a formal inventiveness in which neoclassical figures with pensive expressions are depicted amid bold and striking patterns. Her heightened naturalism and enhanced degree of saturated color reveal an uneasy relationship to realism and firmly root these unusually psychological paintings in the age of post abstraction at Fredericks & Freiser
4. As life in America continues to distance itself from the countryside, vacations and travel are a time to reintroduce the self to nature. As summer approaches in America, this idolized time of year brings thoughts of travel, escape, and road trips. With individual freeways that stretch over 3,000 miles, taking the car across country reveals America’s boundless diverse landscapes, as travelers immerse themselves in America’s ever changing personality at Joshua Liner Gallery
5. In the party game Who’s Coming to Dinner? participants are asked to choose any number of dinner guests, famous or not, from any period in time, and imagine what the party would be like. Annelie McKenzie’s exhibition is her personal variation of that game, except that she has imagined a museum exhibition, choosing artists—famous or not, from any period in time–and they become her “Old Masters” at CB1 Gallery
6. When we think of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art, it is often the names like Frazetta and Hildebrandt that come first to mind. However, all along through the art history of the genre you have women such as Kinuko Craft, Mary Blair, Julie Bell, and many more who have been creating their own visual worlds and illustrating the worlds of authors, filmmakers, and game designers. For the first time, the work of women in this genre will be exhibited together in Point of Vision: Celebrating Women Artists in Fantasy and Science Fiction at Society of Illustrators

June 15, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




gallerypicks_patternpulp112

This week’s artists invite you to look a little closer – things aren’t always as they appear.

*            *            *

1. To create mixed-media objects, assemblages, collages, and performances, Dan Bainbridge draws from nature, history of representation, Western mythology, childhood, adult fantasies, and popular culture. Bainbridge’s menagerie remind us of medieval compendia of animals’ symbolic meanings that made no distinction between animals native to Europe, exotic species, and imaginary beings at Art 3
2. In addressing systems of both taxonomy and display, Max Hooper Schneider’s Accidental Menagerie becomes a set of conditions rather than a discrete “plot”. Made up of over 25 specimen trays and created through a horizontal process of arrangement, the components of this work are hung vertically to create a visually permeable “wall”. Composed of many counter-taxonomic parts, these trays include rogue specimens, ornate detritus, and fragments from lived experiences such as a well worn band t-shirt or the contents of an anonymous junk drawer at Kayne Griffin Corcoran
3. Letha Wilson cuts, tears and shapes her photographs, pushing and pulling the prints into place and then encases portions of the composition in cement. She explores the magnetic pull of the American West, alluding to landscape’s intrinsic role in our own myths of reinvention, endless possibility, and inevitable promise Grimm Gallery
4. Liu Bolin disappears into the background at Houk GalleryGalerie Edwynn Houk
5. Andrew Dadson heightens the relationship between painting and the surrounding physical world by experimenting with painting’s foundational components (color, texture, medium, and support) and by bringing awareness to the body and its modes of perception at David Kordansky Gallery
6. Duane Hanson’s lifelike sculptures at Serpentine Galleries

June 9, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




gallerypicks_patternpulp84

The shows in this week’s gallery picks explore transitions: in their work, in their selves and in the world around them.

*            *            *

1. “Chris Ofili: Night and Day” spans the artist’s influential career, encompassing his paintings, drawings, and sculptures. The artist’s diverse oeuvre has taken imagery and inspiration from such disparate, history-spanning sources as the Bible, hip-hop music, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Blaxploitation films, and the works of William Blake. at New Museum
2. Inspired by the notion that “every place is unfathomable, infinite, [and] impossible to describe, because a place…[is] constantly arising and decaying,” Alluvial Constructs provides a visual exploration of the intrinsic, unavoidable and poetic processes of construction and degradation at Octavia Art Gallery
3. The Bruce High Quality Foundation re-imagined the much-fabled Arnold Böcklin painting Isle of the Dead as a stark reality when two members, one clad in a makeshift shroud and the other at the helm of a dinghy, sailed toward a garbage dump with the skyline of New York City rising in the distance. Here, they exhibit silkscreen versions of Böcklin’s first version of Isle of the Dead paired with silkscreen versions of their encomiastic image at McClain Gallery
4. Somewear is a series of self-portraits, which struggles with the idea of identity. Is it possible to isolate our purest self from everything that surrounds us? at Praxis
5. Kent Williams’ acute sense of human anatomy has consistently been a staple in his work throughout his career, yet as we see with How Human Of You, the natural tendency we have to explore, experiment, and transition has lead Williams to fresh ground at 101/EXHIBIT
6. Using simple forms and creating broad swaths of rich texture, Alexis Portilla has mastered the subtle connection between soft and hard-edged abstraction. His surfaces are especially vibrant with layer upon layer of soft, yet rich color at Birman Wood Fine Art

 

November 4, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tracking Repetitive + Awesome.
On Instagram.