Pattern Pulp

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Contemplating patterns and paths in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Jerry Carniglia’s process-driven methods and exploratory nature parallel his constant and evolving search for meaning that may be found in the unseen and otherwise unarticulated structures that underlie all of existence at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
2. In Esmé Thompson’s paintings and multi-panel wall reliefs the use of color and pattern create a dynamic and engaging viewing experience.  Colorful and bold, the paintings attest to a lifelong interest in decorative designs as diverse as those found in Islamic textiles and ceramic tiles to those of medieval paintings and illuminated manuscripts at Bowery Gallery
3. In 1905, Hilma af Klint received a ‘commission’ from an entity to create her most important body of work, The Paintings for the Temple. Consisting of 193 predominately abstract paintings in various series and subgroups, the artist painted a path towards a harmony between the spiritual and material worlds; good and evil; man and woman; religion and science at Serpentine Galleries
4. Nathan Hayden (b. 1977) dances each day to induce visions that he draws on small pieces of thick torn paper referred to as “the cards”. The shapes and geometric patterns he derives from inner and outer landscapes bounce between abstraction and figurative representation, resulting in drawings that explore personal mythologies and hallucinations. Hayden’s latest series of paintings for Pure Pretty Fever depicts hallucinatory landscapes at CB1Gallery
5. Robin Mitchell’s intensely colorful paintings are a combination of stitch-like marks layered over radiating imagery. Her exhibition, How Many Heartbeats in a Lifetime?, continues a line of visual thinking that has progressed through her previous four exhibitions at Craig Krull Gallery
6. Donald Groscost creates large paintings that challenge the viewer’s perception of the traditional medium. The show will feature his earlier works executed in the early 2000s, which are formal investigations of painterly abstraction and the process of image simulation in our digitized era. His oils on canvas deceivingly appear to be created by some form of virtual media, with a vibrancy of palette that only heightens the impression of a mechanically transmitted image at Heather Gaudio Fine Art

March 8, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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

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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

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Paper and every day materials reign in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. As the world becomes a more complicated and chaotic place, the appeal of miniatures as a means of both escape and commentary will likely endure for years to come at Apex Art
2. Pascale Marthine Tayou’s unique visual language is based on archetypes, made and found objects and traditional craft at Serpentine Galleries
3. Often working for weeks or months on individual pieces, Judith Scott used yarn, thread, fabric, and other fibers to envelop found objects into fastidiously woven, wrapped, and bundled structures at Brooklyn Museum
4. Works on paper from a bevy of talented artists at ACME
5. Fernando Mastrangelo’s NOTHING alludes to the endless possibilities of transformation in the common and everyday goods we have around us, providing hope for the possibility of aesthetic utility in what we overlook as banal at Mike Weiss Gallery
6. Paper Cut is a group exhibition featuring artwork by six artists who cut into, tear into, and deconstruct the humble, traditional medium of paper to explore the terrain of their subject matter at Subliminal Projects

March 24, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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