Pattern Pulp

Tuesday’s Gallery Picks




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This week’s artists focus on shapes and patterns to explore their points.

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1. Fred Tomaselli and Carl Boutard will discuss their work, nature, site-specificity, adaptation, and making ephemeral materials permanent at The International Studio & Curatorial Program
2. Jeff Kahm describes his work as being “rooted in Indigenous abstraction and Modernist aesthetics” at Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art
3. Maneuvering between painting and photography, realism and abstraction, Don Suggs explores the role imagery plays in our perception of nature. As the basis for this conceptual inquiry, Suggs returns to his familiar circular abstractions and landscape photograph at La Louver
4. Stephanie Syjuco employs unlikely materials with ingenious vision—found 3-D models, publicly-sourced audio files, “ethnic” carpets downloaded from eBay, photo shoots staged with mass-produced fashion garments, and a large scale “still life” installation—to create a perceptual clash that bridges historical representation with contemporary forms at Catharine Clark Gallery
5. As visual reflections on identity and consciousness, these abstract paintings by John Mills illuminate how perception is shaped by the subjectivity of the mind and its fleeting memories and experiences at Rosamund Felson
6. Søren Behncke entered, deconstructed and re-painted Van Gogh’s La Chambre à Arles again and again during the course of a year. In 20 works on canvas, cardboard, and paper Søren Behncke engages the iconic image of the room in Arles and various artistic profiles including Philip Guston, Henri Matisse, Albert Mertz, and Roy Lichtenstein, while challenging his own craft and style of painting at V1 Gallery

June 4, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s artists use shape to evoke deeper thought and play.

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1. Raoul De Keyser’s subtly evocative paintings appear at once abstract and figurative. Made up of simple shapes and marks, they invoke spatial and figural illusions, yet remain elusive of any descriptive narrative at David Zwirner
2. Hans Hofmann’s famous phrase “push and pull” is most often associated with the Abstract Expressionist painter’s signature works of the 1950s and 1960s, in which bold color planes emerge from and recede into energetic surfaces of intersecting and overlapping shapes. Employing color, plane, and space, Hofmann sought to achieve creative expression that paralleled nature at BAMPFA
3. Tom Hackney has created geometric abstractions based on the movement of pieces in games of chess. In the case of the present exhibition, they are games played by the celebrated French artist and chess player, Marcel Duchamp at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
4. A retrospective of at textile artist and interior designer Alexander Girard’s oeuvre Vitra Design Museum
5. Gabriel de la Mora’s art practice subverts function through contemplative and systematic modes of enquiry. For De la Mora, art is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed. The artist collects materials that have been discarded after their manufactured function ceases to exist, and these form the basis of his two- and three-dimensional works at Timothy Taylor
6. Karen Carson’s seminal Zippers series at Rosamund Felson

March 29, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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We’re ushering in 2015 with bright colors, bold graphics and deep implications.

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1. “Staycation,” titled from the idea of temporarily checking out of reality without actually going anywhere, compels the viewer to consider whether today’s current techno-cultural revolution in San Francisco, where the “we’re changing the world” mantra is as omnipresent as it was in 1968, and to ask what, if anything, is different? at Wolfe Contemporary
2. Rendered with a precise freehand technique, and without the use of tape, Warren Isensee’s work manages to avoid the anonymous, impersonal appearance often associated with hardedge painting. His unexpected juxtapositions of vibrant color are visually intense via Danese Corey
3. Andrew Falkowki’s work examines the relationship between studio production and media outputat Rosamund Felson
4. Spatial Planes includes a selection of artists whose print-based work plays with the visual and conceptual representation of space. In addition to the abstract and often geometric imagery activating multiple planes and pulling the viewer into contemplative space, the works are new statements on perception, an ongoing discourse of artists and theorists at Bluestar Contemporary Art Museum
5. REFRACTION. THE IMAGE OF SENSE brings together artists who accentuate how art operates in an era of new media, in a world which is organically and indiscernibly both human and non-human at the same time. at Blain Southern
6. Carlos Oviedo’s works speak to the fragility of social icons in pop culture and the representation of self and identity through the prism of fame and glory at Galeria GUM

 

January 6, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Exploring the art of perception with this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Dan Fischer graphite drawings are meticulous transformations of photographs of artists or their signature works of art at Derek Keller
2. Andrew Falkowski presents graphic paintings replete with cross cultural references that pose questions about the state of things and ask “what goes from here?” at Rosamund Felson
3. Samantha Bittman and Gabriel Pionkowski’s range of hand-woven textile paintings, deconstructed canvases, and embroidered work, the artists explore perception, form, and new perspectives in abstraction at Thomas Robertello
4. Patricia Gaeta’s recent work was inspired by architecture, particularly the empty, dilapidated buildings near Gaeta’s hometown of Niagra Falls, New York at Masters Pelavin
5. Karla Wozniak’s oil paintings and works on paper are based on places she visits around the United States, and in particular these new works are inspired by east Tennessee, where Wozniak has lived since 2011 at Gregory Lind Gallery
6. Rob Reger’s art aesthetic is a multi-media mix of surrealism, DIY punk, and pop sensibility resulting in what he calls “elegant absurdity” at 111 Minna Gallery

 

June 11, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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