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This week’s artists examine the places where inner and outer worlds collide and form communication.

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1. A pioneer in what could be called photographic abstract expressionism, Liz Nielsen audaciously experiments with photographic process, expressing her individual psyche while attempting to tap into universal sources of imagination. Even when creating images based on visual realities, Nielsen favors a highly abstracted mode. In her latest show, The Medium she has created pictures at a larger scale than was previously possible for her and which allow her to further explore the expressive potential of color. Reflective and cerebral, Nielsen’s pictorial notions make an elemental impact somewhere between the luminous and the sublime at Danziger Gallery
2. Meeting, for the first time in a European institution, Swoon, Maya Hayuk, MOMO and the artistic duo FAILE offer a multi-dimensional picture of culture 2.0, the cosmopolitan spirit of the museum. The exhibition highlights the relationship between the artist’s own aesthetic and his desire to communicate with his audience at The Millenium Iconoclast Museum of Art
3. The Ocular Bowl examines vision through physical manifestations of light and sight lines, metaphorical symbolism and transcendental themes. The works include build upon conflicting attitudes about belief at Kayne Griffin Concoran
4. Jules de Balincourt’s practice occupies a distinct emotional hyperspace, ranging with easy fluency across abstraction and figuration, collective imagination and singularized perception to make idiosyncratic connections within the landscape of contemporary westernized culture at Victoria Miro
5. Joe Bradley on his work: “I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you’re sort of entering into a shared space. There’s everyone who has painted in the past, and everyone who is painting in the present.” at Gagosian
6. Maser combines his experience as a graffiti artist with his formal art education to develop this singular body of work, balancing hard-edged blocks of neon color that congeal into expressive, figurative compositions. “Orbiting on the Periphery” continues Masers’ exploration into the philosopher and mathematician Thales of Miletus’s theory; “mens sana in corpore sano,” in which physical health and condition are recognized as an essential part of psychological equilibrium at Lazarides Rathbone

April 16, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s artists view the world with a little magic, mystery and myth.

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1. In this groundbreaking presentation, Takashi Murakami continues to conflate historical, contemporary, and futuristic Japanese references with myriad styles, methodologies, and forms—a practice that has canonized him as of one of the most celebrated artists of our time at Blum & Poe
2. Young Chun’s ’s elaborate oil paintings feature muses with brilliant, chromatic glasses – magical lenses that highlight beautiful and fascinating elements in the world at C.A.V.E. Gallery
3. Alchemy is an expansive group exhibition curated by prolific multi-media artist Monica Canilao. Using the medieval forerunner of chemistry for inspiration, Canilao asked the group of over 40 artists to create both two and three dimensional works that will transform the gallery into a contemporary reflection of this well worn path through the eyes of the contributing artists at Inner State Gallery
4. Deedee Cheriel’s latest work “mixes ancient legend with modern life, predator with prey, east with west, and man with beast – weaving an appropriately complex tapestry of the societal fusion that defines our contemporary world.” at KP Projects
5. The shapes, colors and sections of the Marta Marcé’s multicolored canvases are often arranged and placed much like pieces on a gameboard or puzzle. Her latest works are inspired by the her recent journey to Guatemala, where she learned about Mayan cosmology (the origin of the cosmos) and its symbols, as well as readings of the philosopher and mystic, Ibn ‘Arabi at Rifle Maker
6. Margaux Ogden’s Chekov’s Gun at ltd los angeles

 

August 11, 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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This week’s artists reference a starting point from which their work leaps into something wholly their own.

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1. Tauba Auerbach’s newly created sculptures and photographs take as their starting point the scientific principles of symmetry and reflection as a means to hint at an alternate, mirror universe at Institute of Contemporary Arts
2. The works in this exhibition address the tension between the advancing economical, industrial, social and environmental issues that affect communities across the world, uniting us all and enabling Liu Bolin to communicate powerfully and effectively to a global audience at Scream London
3. Bradley Castellanos’ pictures “are not the depiction of an actual place; the initial photograph is a departure point to an imagined world achieved through manipulation, cutting, and painting.” at Ryan Lee
4. Reenacting the Old Masters, with a little twist at Stux Gallery
5. Articulated Structure investigates the roots of architectural, neurological, musical, and visual form. at Dedee Shattuck Gallery
6. Often inspired by contemporary and historical events, Swoon engages with climate change in her installation as a response to the catastrophic Hurricane Sandy that struck the Atlantic Coast in 2012, and Doggerland, a landmass that once connected Great Britain and Europe and that was destroyed by a tsunami 8,000 years ago at Brooklyn Museum

April 22, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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