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This week’s gallery picks examine the art of science and technology.

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1. Louise Despont’s Energy Scaffolds and Information Architecture examines the movement of energy at The Drawing Center
2. For Lights Out, Michael Kagan reinforces his fascination with man’s moments of triumph over nature’s limits captured through iconic imagery at Joshua Liner Gallery
3. Larissa Fassler’s work is constructed out of a mass of topographic tracking, sketches, observations, and feelings that she experiences on site, and that are then synthesized into large graphic compositions, models, and sculptures at Jérôme Poggi Gallery
4. Agostino Arrivabene’s approach to painting stems from his artistic influences Gustave Moreau and Odd Nerdrum. He follows traditional methods that include grinding his own pigments and the almost forgotten technique of mischtechnik. This attention to the minutiae has resulted in Arrivabene’s paintings actually embodying a process of alchemical transformation, in which the physical matter of painting itself is transmuted into extraordinary light-filled visions at Cara Gallery
5. Felipe Pantone’s “W3-DIMENSIONAL” takes inspiration from Teilhard de Chardin’s 1950’s theories, which postulated the existence of “an enveloping sphere of thought, a living tissue of consciousness, enclosing the Earth and growing ever more dense.” at Mirus Gallery
6. Laura Poitras’ Astro Noise examines our modern era of mass surveillance at Whitney Museum of American Art

February 17, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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Textile and texture abound in this week’s gallery picks, as our artists explore their materials and their culture.

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1. Omar Chacon latest show Las Mesalinas y Otros EnsayosLas Mesalinas y Otros Ensayos intertwines his heritage with his interest in classical Roman culture and myth. Chacon’s colorful and energetic configurations symbolize both the unity and diversity of the Americas, specifically Colombia, where he was born and raised and New York, where he currently lives at Margaret Thatcher Projects
2. A retrospective of Frank Stella’s prolific output from the mid-1950s to the present through approximately 120 works, including paintings, reliefs, maquettes, sculptures, and drawings at Whitney Museum of American Art
3. Hilary Harnischfeger presents wall-mounted and free-standing works composed of clay, plaster, paper, ink, and minerals in this exploration of the landscapes surrounding her work area in the Catskill Mountains. Referencing both the body and the landscape, these new works tend to be at odds with themselves, both raw and overworked, adroitly crafted and accidental, peaceful and violent at Rachel Uffner Gallery
4. For Dead Treez, Ebony G. Patterson assembled five eye-popping tapestries and a life-size figural tableau of ten male mannequins, dressed in a kaleidoscopic mix of floral fabrics. Meant to present a complex vision of masculinity, the installation is a meditation on dancehall fashion and culture, regarded as a celebration of the disenfranchised in postcolonial Jamaica at Museum of Art and Design
5. Jeffrey Gibson, who is half Choctaw and half Cherokee, creates sculptures and paintings that intermingle more traditional Native American art with contemporary art and culture. Almost all the works in the show contain text that are charged with personal meaning, elaborately embroidered in beadwork and testament that design can have content at Marc Straus
6. Sheila Hicks’ revisits and reimagines The Treaty of Chromatic Zones, a monumental bas-relief of pure pigmented fiber originally realized for Art Basel Unlimited in June of 2015. Hicks showcases the supple and flexible qualities of her materials, sometimes deconstructing and reassembling previously used entities to explore their infinite possibilities of form and movement at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

November 10, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s artists experiment with materials + medium to explore and express their message.

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1. Crystal Wagner’s work in Biotica combines 2D and 3D forms while investigating alternative uses of materials through hybrid approaches to printmaking, sculpture, and installation. Her work consists of smaller shadowbox-like sculptures and large scale paper installation that fill the gallery space at 108 Contemporary
2. Jane Rosen’s new exhibition of stone, glass, and bronze works, Cash-Morandi, is a play of presences—a balance between nature and culture, or what Rosen calls “landscape time and domestic time.” In her works, birds of prey and vessels formed of opaque glass perch on hewn stone piers, their surfaces and edges as worn as beach glass at Sears-Peyton Gallery
3. While utilizing the plethora of techniques and materials, Ruth Hardinger and Kara Rooney choose to express their ideas through the exploration of three dimensional, or sculptural idioms, with drawing, photography, digital collage or stone wool being an integral part of the work. There is an open ended dialogue of technologies and materials enacted, of past and present experience; there are traces of the multiple processes and substances used to create individual pieces at Five Myles
4. These new Ingres-inspired paintings are an evolution of Taner Ceylan’s Unfinished Painting series, which also examine historical Orientalist portraits through a contemporary, Eastern lens. The portraits involved an in-depth study of Ingres’ technique and process, as well as a detailed, in-person analysis of the original painting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York at Paul Kasmin Gallery
5. Jared Madere primarily creates installation-based works featuring disparate materials such as salt, flowers, foodstuffs, and plastic tarps that are assembled and aggregated in a manner that insists on their material connections to society, economics, industry, and human emotion. For Madere, the meanings and associations of objects are never stripped away— floral arrangements can point to longing or sadness and a burnt coat is imbued with isolation and dejection at Whitney Museum of American Art
6. Kim Simonsson uses traditional techniques to create sensitive and surreal painted ceramic sculptures. His sculptures combine innocent animal and child forms with a twist of violence and suspense to create a monumental physical presence at Jason Jacques Inc.

October 13, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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In this week’s gallery picks, we’re celebrating America.

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1. Over the period of one year, San Francisco based artist John Chiara made numerous trips to Coahoma County, Mississippi, located in the town of Clarksdale. The photographs made during this time showcase the rich quality of the Mississippi earth with subtle notes of local history at Rose Gallery
2. Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent is the first full-scale exhibition to survey the entire career of pioneering artist and designer Corita Kent. Her vibrant, Pop-inspired prints from mine a variety of secular and religious sources and using the populist printmaking medium to pose philosophical questions about racism, war, poverty, and religion. Her work was widely recognized for its revolutionary impact and remains an iconic symbol of that period in American history at Pasadena Museum of California Art
3. New York View celebrates a selection of work by artists, illustrators and graphic designers who have been commissioned by the MTA to design posters and who have been selected to create permanent public work for the MTA system. We examine the way the artists move from pen and paper to more durable materials like glass, mosaic and stainless steel as work is translated to become a permanent fixture in the neighborhoods of New York at Society of Illustrators
4. Kelly Franklin & Carol Jarvis’s show, “Poor Richard”, is an ode to the writings of Benjamin Franklin in his published work “Poor Richard’s Almanac” from the early to mid 1700’s. Many of these sayings about life and practical living have survived in everyday use, and just as many have been forgotten at Paradigm Arts
5. Comprising more than six hundred works, America Is Hard to See elaborates the themes, ideas, beliefs, and passions that have galvanized American artists in their struggle to work within and against established conventions, often directly engaging their political and social contexts at Whitney Museum of American Art
6. Known for his iconic street art pieces of playful children set in urban contexts, Bumblebee draws from a nostalgic love of childhood memory and its simplicity at Thinkspace Gallery

June 30, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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