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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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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

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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The art of construction and destruction reign in this week’s gallery picks.

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1.With a relationship to concrete poetry, Katsumi Hayakawa’s 3D works make visual connections between the complex and unseen substructure of the information age and the increasingly dense landscape of modern cities at McClain Gallery
2. Don Kimes’ new works are inspired by the old and blemished paintings that were destroyed by a flood almost a decade ago in the artist’s home. Kimes was fascinated by the outcome, drawing incentive from the way the ruined work looked after the natural incident at Denise Bibro Fine Art
3. Elise Ansel’s paintings are derived from Renaissance and Baroque depictions of bacchanals and figures in the landscape. Her work is about reclaiming, re-visioning and re-presenting paintings that were created at a time when women were seen as objects rather than primary participants in the creative dialog at Pheonix Gallery
4.In Alon Kedem’s paintings, complex entanglements of human beings, x-ray machines, production lines of figures and body parts constitute works full of humor that by their nature elude the expectations created by a theoretical system. They create an attempt – connected with foregone failure – at organization and order.  The works are found in a transition, in an interim world of examination, lack of success, in processes without conclusions at Feinberg Projects
5. The relationship between destruction and creation is an underlying concept in Ori Gersht’s work. “I’m interested in those oppositions of attraction and repulsion and how the moment of destruction in the exploding mirrors becomes for me the moment of creation.” at CRG Gallery
6.Charles Gaines is celebrated for his photographs, drawings, and works on paper that investigate how rules-based procedures construct order and meaning. Working serially in progressive and densely layered bodies of works, Gaines explores the interplay between objectivity and interpretation, the systematic and the poetic at Hammer Museum

February 3, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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