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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Imagination, inner worlds and their impact and implications on the outer world take precedence in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Fascinated by the persistence of animal imagery in mythology and communal cultural imaginaries, Matthew Grabelsky superimposes its presence onto his depictions of the contemporary world. For the artist, the animal becomes a manifestation of the inner workings of the hidden subconscious, literally revealing the latent identities and motivations lurking beyond the composure of the human mask at Thinkspace Gallery
2. Dima Drjuchin’s “The Infinity Key” consists of a new series of paintings whose subject matter continue to reflect the artist’s unique hyper dimensional worlds densely populated with his fictional characters and creatures at Campfire Gallery
3. Ward Shelley makes paintings with information the way historians make stories from facts. His new exhibition is titled “The Felicific Calculus” and presents eight new paintings that tease out narratives on the subject of consumer culture at Pierogi
4. Having been heavily influenced by British culture in the 1990s, Scott Listfield plays homage to this time in his life using British urban landscapes as his backdrop and referencing iconic British music. Using his astronauts, he takes us on an alternative journey through the streets of London, creating a strange world of the familiar yet surreal at StolenSpace Gallery
5. Camilla d’Errico on her latest work: ““With my ‘Dances with Dreams’ showing, I wanted to invite audiences to explore the hauntingly beautiful states of the subconscious mind – while awake and in dream.  The feeling as though they were walking through a colorful and serene dreamscape when pondering whether the girl in each portraiture is dreaming or whether she is the viewer’s dream.” at Corey Helford Gallery
6. Amy Hill’s inspiration for her most recent body of work is American Folk Art, which served as a reflection of the artists’ impressions of society, its needs and mores. In updating these paintings, Hill has depicted urban children decorated by logos, tattoos, piercings, drugs and digital media. This allows for an examination of the phenomenon of innocence, its value, and the possibility of its survival in a fast moving world at Front Room Gallery

May 3, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s artists are driven by their curiosity about the world and methods of perception.

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1. Gergö Szinyova’s latest work, the industrial hues of grey, ochre, violet and spearmint reflect on the imagery that influence his painting, gathered from browsing the internet for photographs of modernist environments. The artist translates the experience of browsing, and the urban human environment, as an abstracted memory of kinetic gestures and hidden content at Anat Ebgi
2. Ruth Tabancay’s latest work spins the hexagonal form into various configurations and renders them in a range of materials that correlate to the concepts of the finished work. Tabancay is driven here by a childlike fascination with geometry, and an educated intellectual curiosity about microbiology at Mercury Twenty
3. Broken Colours features six artists whose works employ color as a near material.  It considers how a schismatic chromatic composition might lead to an integrated structural form, and vice versa at Nicholas Metivier Gallery
4. Liz K. Miller has created a new language to communicate musical scores to produce the intricate etchings and prints presented in this exhibition. The premise for these works is the use of the repetitive motifs that occur in music in order to generate concentric patterns. The resulting imagery looks like it could have naturally occurred or grown, like constellation patterns or rings of a tree at BEARSPACE
5. While many former graffiti artists drop their pseudonyms when they enter the world of art, Jason Williams (aka Revok) refused. In Revok, he goes beyond the self to examine perceptions of consciousness and unconsciousness at Ruttkowski;68
6. Inspired by his Brazilian heritage, Fernando Chamarelli channels the disparateness of his cultural environment through his work, tapping into his country’s rich history of contrasts and coexisting diversities at Thinkspace

 

August 18, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s gallery picks tell their stories through the human form.

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1. Dustin Yellon’s fascinating figures encased in glass at Richard Heller Gallery
2. Erik Jones clothes his figurative subjects in brilliantly patterned areas of color and geometry. Superimposing the graphic precision of these expanses against beautifully rendered portraits, the artist offers surrealistic images through the collusion of unexpected relationships at Thinkspace
3. For this exhibition, Todd James features his women: a colorful cast of warriors, sunbathers, sorcerers and girlfriends that have populated his work from its earliest years through today at Sandra Gering Inc.
4. Yinka Shonibare’s Making Eden interprets literally the notion of overthrowing the current social order in favor of an imagined “better place” at Blain|Southern
5. Recently, Richard J. Oliver’s portraits have crossed into the dark, brooding world of Grimm’s fairytales and surrealistic subjects that help convey the emotion and tragedy of our world’s children at Known Gallery
6. Combining stylistic elements from several different artists who cross multiple generations, George Condo’s portraits subvert traditional practice and only infrequently take as their subject real people; instead, the works often portray a fantastical assembly of characters derived specifically from the artist’s own imagination at Simon Lee Gallery

March 4, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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