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This week’s artists examine the narrative and cycle of change.

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1. In Minoan Girls, Elaine Reichek focuses on the ways in which the Greek myths are continually retold and reenacted over the centuries, in the same way that sewing doubles a thread back upon itself repeatedly at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
2. Peter Linde Busk’s work is sincerely concerned with detritus: the literal, cultural and societal. He channels ancient Spolia architecture, where unneeded buildings or monuments were demolished and repurposed for the construction of new patchwork structures at Derek Eller Gallery
3. Inside Out, Home and Place will bring together a series of van Dalen’s works, providing a meditation on his longstanding interest in the clash between nature and technology, capitalism and humanity, and the way in which one’s sense of home and place in the world can be an ever-shifting construction due to external and often uncontrollable circumstances at Sargent’s Daughter’s
4. Sara Jimenez excavates personal and historical narratives as part of her artistic process. This search has led her to the image of casting wide nets into the deepest parts of the ocean, which symbolically connect here (NY) and there (the Philippines), two spaces that connote  “home” for the artist. In the attempt to capture and contain lost information, she weaves fabric nets which are suspended from the ceiling of the gallery and fill the space at Five Myles
5. Ayline Olukman, Stephane Joannes, and Amanda Scuglia come together to present present NATURE/MADE at Massey Lyuben Gallery
6. Michel Huelin imagines a universe of mutations giving rise to both fascination and discomfort, manifestations of a techno-kind expansion according to a principle of proliferation, as nature itself without control or limit except that of the perception of detail, this notion itself becoming imperceptible and blurred at galerie zürcher

May 25, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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In this week’s gallery picks, process, pattern and color reign supreme.

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1. Rosson Crow has long been fascinated by history and the psychology of interior spaces, and has addressed subjects as varied as French Revolutionary interiors, New York City graffiti and the films of Alfred Hitchcock in his work. This exhibition represents Crow’s response to the paintings of Florine Stettheimer and debuts a new technique of Xerox transfers layered with painting on the canvases at Sargent’s Daughters
2. Richard Hull calls his recent paintings and drawings “stolen portraits.” His crayon drawings, in particular, are portraits in the form of hairdos, each one expressing a distinct visual personality rather than a representation of a particular individual at Western Projects
3. The bold brushstrokes and swirly shapes in Yayoi Kusama latest works seem to hover between figuration and abstraction; vibrant, animated, and intense, they transcend their medium to introduce their own pictorial logic, at once contemporary and universal. As such, while they continue Kusama’s innovative exploration of form, subject matter, and space, they also represent a connection to her work from the past six decades at David Zwirner
4. In James Little’s new paintings, color and structure are critical fixations that complement his geometric pictorial style.  The edges of his vertical bands are saturated with lucid color as they give way to other patterns – chevrons, rectangles and zigzag designs of varying widths at June Kelly Gallery
5. By folding, tearing, and combining, Yun-Woo Choi obfuscates the meanings constructed in two-dimensional printed material in an attempt to deliver intuitive feelings to the viewer at Open Source Gallery
6. Carlos Estrada-Vega’s paintings are composed of more than 300 blocks of color. Considering each as an individual brushstroke, Estrada-Vega proceeds to compose his paintings intuitively, mounting these pieces onto metal plates using magnets at Margaret Thatcher Projects

May 12, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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We love the sumptuous color palettes in this week’s gallery picks- they’re lush, vibrant and full of punch.

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1. Casper Brindle’s work occupies the space where Color Field painting, Light and Space conceptualism and Finish Fetish sensibilities intersect at William Turner Gallery
2. Bill Jensen attempts to create paintings which, like self-contained beings, affect the world around them—a characteristic Jensen refers to as “emotional density.” His new paintings explore these longstanding concerns at Chaim Read
3. Laura Lancaster’s work is extracted from an archive of anonymous thrift store and flea market photographs. In these new paintings, Lancaster has used found home movie reels of super 8 film, the first time that moving images have been incorporated into her work.  Each work is a captured one-second frame, chosen from hundreds of films Lancaster viewed and then reviewed to render in either a domestic or cinematic size at Sargent’s Daughters
4. Drawing on manifestations of home, Ann Agee creates installations that explore notions of interior life, material culture, feminism and personal history. Interested in investigating the limitations of appropriation, mimicry and manufacturing, Agee employs familiar motifs – from household objects to modernist architecture – that she at once subverts, infusing them with her own personal and familial narratives at P.P.O.W
5. Richard Diebenkorn’s seductive color palettes and intricately balanced compositions draw from the light and a sense of the places in which he worked, and define a career that spanned more than four decades at Royal Academy
6. A decade Linda Touby ‘s art in Rare Bird at CK Contemporary

April 7, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s artists examine the nature of duality with their work.

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1. In the sensitive, finely balanced, and often transparent application of delicate colors arises the impression of an exciting connection between the constructed and the freem between chance and control, calculation and spontaneity – a dialogue between fizex order and dynamism at 333 Montezuma Arts
2. Paul Fägerskiöld’s work assumes painting as a language and then works within it to develop meaning, to explore form and to provide poetics. For his first solo exhibition in the United States, Paul will articulate two clear faculties of painting, its semiotic voice and its aesthetic voice, via two distinct series at PRISM
3. Julie Cockburn transforms second-hand objects and vintage photographs into meticulously constructed, psychologically charged artworks, by using a mix of embroidery and collage techniques at Yossi Milo Gallery
4. Christopher Astley and Saira McLaren’s work is more than meets the eye at Sargent’s Daughters
5.Constructing entire worlds of colorful, larger than life, composite creatures and hybrids, Nosego and Curiot explore the symbolic possibilities of juxtaposition; working with the known of the every day and transforming it constantly through free association at thinkspace gallery
6. AJ. Fosik explores the idea that humanity faces an inherent struggle between its dualistic nature—a physical self and a symbolic self. Works in the show are greatly inspired by The Denial of Death, a 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning work of psychology and philosophy by Ernest Becker at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

December 10, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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