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This week’s artists explore energy, memory and interaction.

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1. By knitting together childhood recollections, photographs old and new, the moving world seen from the windows of trains, stills harvested from the television set and other media, Edwige Fouvry pursues an “emotional truth” in which the recorded, the remembered, and the imagined must each play a role at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
2. Something Else features ten artists whose work deals with the energy inherent in living things. Each artist constructs a world in which the activity of life is visually enacted, not by specific portrayals of the forms of existence, but by an emphasis upon their innate core energies and exuberantly pulsating character at The Painting Center
3. Wayne Koestenbaum considers his latest paintings novels: “Crowded, incident-packed, meandering, digressive, unplanned. Conglomerations of marks.  Anthologies of moods.  Messy and non-figurative, but threatening at any moment to spill into image” at 356 Mission
4. Apropos of the current political scene in America and barbaric events worldwide, Lou Beach’s exhibition of new collages is titled, A Plague of Fools at Craig Krull Gallery
5. Yuichi Hirako paints brilliant and fantastical scenes in deep and wild forests where plant-like humans intermingle with elements natural and man-made. The artist is interested in the different meanings given to nature depending on religious and cultural backgrounds. In Japanese tradition, the forest is regarded as mystical and sacred, while in Western folklore, the forest is often portrayed as wild and barbaric. As all societies move towards greater dominance over nature, Hirako examines the desire for humans to coexist with the natural world at Fouladi Projects
6. In Entrance to the Void, George Condo condenses the disparate styles of his previous artistic periods into individual paintings that broach the void between figuration and abstraction. Moreover, his new body of work becomes a philosophical exercise in counteracting ideas of ‘nothingness’ through the visual consolidation of a personal, and in this case, artistic history at Sprüth Magers Los Angeles

April 26, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s artists use color to explore relationships in all of its forms.

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1. Tom Krumpak’s Bamboo tall, blue sky, a painted abstract picture, inside wooden room is comprised of a body of work, inspired by the relationship between Mid-20th-Century Modern architectural design and traditional Japanese Shoji screened dwellings found in the United States and Japan at Lora Schlesinger Gallery
2. Concrete Cuba is one of the first major presentations outside of Cuba to focus exclusively on the origins of concretism in Cuba during the 1950s, and will include important works from the late 1940s through the early 1960s by the twelve artists who were at different times associated with the short-lived group at David Zwirner
3. Zhu Jinshi All the works in the exhibition are accumulations of Chinese aesthetic and socio-political histories and hard labor, drawn from the artist’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution at Blum & Poe
4. The genesis of Agathe de Bailliencourt’s Couleurs du temps is rooted in a three month residency in Marfa, Texas in 2014. Marfa’s extraordinary landscape and desert environment had a profound impact on Bailliencourt’s notion of time, space and horizon. The new paintings produced in Berlin continue her reflections on these concepts, with the artist questioning ‘what does it mean to paint a landscape today?’ at Blain|Southern
5. In Odili Donald Odita’s The Velocity of Change, the artist “hope[s] to engage the intrinsic power of color in its ability to escape the definitions of language that limit and paralyze” at Jack Shainman Gallery
6. In Color Matters, the artworks examine how color relationships function, on many levels, with their own logic. By definition, the first, or root, level of color usage is the purely abstract manipulation of the element of color for its own sake. It can be perceptual, realistic, theoretical or symbolic at The Painting Center

January 5, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s gallery picks focus on action and evolution in the artist’s process.

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1. This series presents a new take on pixelation, as Peter Fox’s work in “Blind Trust” distorts a color grouping from spherical drops to elongated color flows, which are swept across the canvas, spread and stretched in all different directions at Front Room
2. In Jug Life, artists breathe new life into still life at Park Life Gallery
3. About her work, Galen Cheney has said, “I like my paintings to exist on a tightrope, right on the edge of coming apart. Not fixed, not static, but open, and with a sense of still being composed. I want the process, the struggle to be right out in front, not covered over or tidied up.” at The Painting Center
4. Felipe Pantone’s body of work spans from graffiti to kinetic art. Strong contrasts, vivid colors, effects, and the use of mixed medium and varied technique combine to impact strongly on the viewer at Delimbo Gallery
5. “My inspiration fuels the belief that risk and guesswork will reveal new possibilities” – Kevin Broad at George Billis Gallery
6. THE COYOTE is a show of five NYC based painters implementing humor, kitsch, repetition and stark glyph like visuals, combining disparities to create new meanings at Gallery Steinsland Berliner

June 16, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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Contradictory influences and potent memories inspire the artists in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Peter Doig creates potently colorful works that primarily show people and architecture in landscapes of seductive beauty. These pictures are memories of and yearnings for a wondrous dream world that seems strange and at the same time familiar to us at Fondation Beyeler
2. Almost all of Howard Hodgkin’s works refer to memories and personal experiences but deliberately avoid the representational. A self-described painter of “pictures of emotional situations”, Hodgkin offers insight into his subjects with titles but it is his intuitive use of color that evokes a specific place, object or feeling at Nicholas Metivier Gallery
3. Filtered through memory, Marianne Van Lent’s work examines the mysterious forces of the physical world and investigates our fragile position in the universe through the intersection of natural and technological modalities at The Painting Center
4. Lady Shalimar Montague’s fragile and exuberant drawings depicting the reframing of her early life as a famous performer at White Columns
5. Jackie Saccoccio’s newest paintings balance various contradictory forces – explosive energy, atmospheric and diaphanous space, majestic compositional sensibility, and radiant color combinations, sometimes joyous, sometimes tinged with melancholy at Corbett vs. Dempsey
6. Zao Wou-Ki was born in China, but spent most of his life abroad. His work combines influences from traditional ink-and-wash-paintings and modernist abstraction at de Sarthe Gallery

March 17, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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The artists in this week’s gallery picks effectively refine the beauty in contradictions.

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1. Augustine Kofie’s recent collection began with a series of small notes and doodles on found paper, “a usual task in the studio, but this go around I kept the idea in mind of sound structures and systems of reliability” at White Walls
2. Jason Yates’ work finds meaning and therefore truth in contradictions, a reflection of a culture chasing it’s own tail. The artist distills his punk aesthetic,editing out representational imagery,to find the essential at M.J. Briggs
3. In her work, Vadis Turner has created a visual language that re-imagines gender roles, rites of passage and the classification of heirlooms in a contemporary cultural context at Jack Geary Contemporary
4. Leonardo Ulian’s Sacred Space consists of a series of mandalas, a symbol from Hindu and Buddhist symbolism that represents metaphysical enlightenment, made entirely from meticulously arranged electronic components at Beers Contemporary
5. For Tim Biskup, a ‘charge’ can be harbored by things constantly rejected as too abstract, too small or too anomalous. Biskup acts as a physical receptor to these alternative cultures, by producing works that channel musicality and vibrancy into a stream of progressive Modernism at Martha Otero
6. Alyce Gottesman’s paintings and works on paper reflect the interconnectedness between nature, geometric forms and space. The work is at once both intuitive and analytical, while exploring a spiritual connection with nature at The Painting Center

October 1, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s picks seek to connect the dots of the universe in manners large and small.

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1. Making the real and the imagery pop at La Louver
2. Negar Ahkami’s paintings celebrate Persian art’s connectivity and its contributions to global visual culture at Leila Heller Gallery
3. Marianne Van Lent’s “Cosmologies” is an investigation and a reaction to our fragile position in the universe at The Painting Center
4. Aubrey Williams’s Shostakovich series was created in response to close listening, over a long period, to the symphonies and string quartets, of one of the greatest composers of the mid-twentieth century at Hales Gallery
5. Julian Hoeber continues his investigation of intuitive processes within geometrical compositional systems at Blum & Poe
6. Ian Kimmerly’s softly blurred photorealistic figures slip between abstract gestures while gleaming, thickly impastoed streaks of paint are counterbalanced by bright, geometric pops of color at Dolby Chadwick Gallery

 

June 4, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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