“For Karla there is an intrinsic value in making something with her hands. She is interested in the introspection that is generated as a consequence of repeating an action many times during the production process of her pieces.”
MONTERREY.- In 2021, when Grupo Costeño needed an artistic concept for its new restaurant Animal, located in Polanco, Mexico City, it looked no further than artist Karla Mayrl to create a visual experience that would set the stage for what the diner could expect to see when he or she went up the elevator to reach it. After initially asking Karla to create a piece to put in the elevator, Karla recommended that instead they make a piece out of the elevator – an artwork that would be movable. A piece that could serve as a transporter between the city and the other completely different ambiance of the restaurant. Following suit of the “jungle-animal-zebra-pattern” concept of the restaurant Karla designed zebra-styled stripes, along with mirrors (to create the infinitely repetitive patterns now characteristic of her work), lights, colors, and an audio recording to create the portal for the restaurant. Since then, the ... More
Alma Thomas, Earth Sermon – Beauty, Love And Peace, 1971. Acrylic on canvas. 76 × 52 1/8 in. (182.9 × 132.4 cm). The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, 1980. Photo by Cathy Carver.
WASHINGTON, DC.-The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents “Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection,” an exhibition devoted to the work of nearly 50 women and nonbinary artists in the Hirshhorn’s collection. The exhibition brings together almost a century of work in a range of media drawn exclusively from the museum’s holdings, beginning with early works by Carlotta Copron, Barbara Hepworth and Julia Thecla. One-quarter of the artworks have been made in the past decade by the likes of Loie Hollowell, Rachel Jones, Deana Lawson, Sondra Perry and Kiyan Williams. Recent acquisitions include art works by Dana Awartani, Zanele Muholi and Billie Zangewa that reflect the museum’s mission to highlight global voices. Many works from ... More
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Self-Portrait in a Cap, Wide Eyed and Open Mouthed, 1630. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
DUBLIN.- On Saturday 16 July 2022, the exhibition Dutch Drawings: highlights from the Rijksmuseum opened at the National Gallery of Ireland. Forty-eight works by 31 different artists who worked during the seventeenth century are on display. This historic and important exhibition will give Irish audiences the unique opportunity to view, at close quarters, drawings and prints by seventeenth-century Dutch artists from the Rijksmuseum's collection. The works in the exhibition give intimate insights into life in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, from a child taking its first steps, to a captive monkey. Anne Hodge, curator of the exhibition, commented: "Shakespeare’s well-known lines ‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players …’ encompass the diversity of subject matter contained within these works on paper chosen from the Rijksmuseum’s renowned ... More
Michael Sailstorfer, Heavy Eyes 103 ROSE, 2022. Lead, eyeshadow, 50 x 40 cm; 19 2/3 x 15 3/4 in Unique.
SEOUL.-KÖNIG SEOUL is presenting HEAVY EYES, the first solo exhibition of Michael Sailstorfer in Seoul. Three distinct work groups – lead paintings, lamps cast in bronze, and other objects, also cast in bronze – revolve around a core tension between heaviness and lightness. The exhibition’s title HEAVY EYES conveys both heaviness and beauty, though within this framing Sailstorfer still manages to create something light and spirited. He achieves this by playing with materials and their potential meanings, like in the “Heavy Eyes” series in which the artist covered stretched canvases with an incredibly thin (1mm) layer of an otherwise hefty substance: lead. To add to this impossible levity of materials, Sailstorfer then decorated the lead surface with shimmering, metallic eye shadow. The addition of eyeshadow both hides the dark areas and represents potential glamour ... More
Michael C. Thorpe, Fly guy, 2022. Pigment on canvas, quilting fabric and batting, 37 x 26 in.
BOSTON, MASS.-LaiSun Keane is presenting a fiber and textile art group presentation, STITCH! featuring Lovid • Mary Tooley Parker • Michael C. Thorpe • Stacey Lee Webber on view from July 8 - August 21, 2022. The elevation of textile art in recent years to the realm of fine art is supported by the proliferation of this medium’s representation at major museums, art fairs and art galleries. This exhibition is our contribution to this conversation by showcasing four artists working in textile and fiber art whose works are diverse and provocative. The title “Stitch” refers to mending, joining or bringing pieces together. More than describing an action in textile related work, stitch in a metaphorical sense expresses our desire to see healing in the world we live in, hence making this exhibition an uplifting presentation for the eyes and the mind. LoVid is an artist duo Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus whose tapestry strad ... More
Graciela Iturbide, Sahuaro, Desierto de Sonora, Mexico, 1979 Signed by the artist in ink on recto. Silver Gelatin Print. Sheet: 20 x 16 inches/Image: 13.75 x 13.75 inches,
SANTA MONICA.-ROSEGALLERY is presenting LIFE:STILL, a group exhibition dedicated to the imagery of trees and nature. The exhibition proposes an assemblage of artists both local and international who derive their work from surrounding landscapes and territories, allowing for varied and personal depictions. Utilizing the visual imagery of trees and other organic forms as its focal point, the artists featured in this exhibition explore the social and environmental changes brought along by time and human civilization. Shaped by notions of climate change and impermanence, the photographs, drawings, and ceramic sculptures included in the show provide an introspective critique that documents the ever-changing character of the world. At the center of this ... More
Nam joined Ballroom Marfa in 2020 from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University where she served as the Assistant Director from 2015–2019.
MARFA, TX.-Ballroom Marfa announced the appointment of its new executive director, and curator Daisy Nam. Nam was previously the curator at Ballroom Marfa, where she organized exhibitions, such as the solo presentation of new works by Donna Huanca ESPEJO QUEMADA, as well as launched an artist-in-residence program Ballroom Session–The Farther Place during the pandemic with Ballroom music curator Sarah Melendez. In her new role as executive director and curator, Nam will continue to work closely with the current team and the Board of Trustees to support the organization’s mission and expand its programming in the lead up to its 20th anniversary in 2023. Nam joined Ballroom Marfa in 2020 from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University where she served as the Assistant Director ... More
Image is the material emanation of the past reality as it represents the moment when the subject becomes an object.
LONDON.-Missing Place Missing Face draws upon the artist’s experience of the intermittent lockdown culture of the past few years. The show reflects the many contradictory parts of contemporary life; the tension between memory and oblivion, the boundary between personal and public space, individual modes of expression, and the fragments of life experienced. Since lockdown, our perception of reality has become tangled with online interaction and we have been forced to expand and rely on these internet relationships. Society as a collective nation shares a parallel experience of separateness, from itself, its body, its community, and its family. Consequently, this experience of virtual diaspora leads to artists’ excessive use of virtual space for connection and compounds a sense of estrangement. Xinan ... More
Austin Eddy, Mystical Dusk, 2022.
KASTRO.-Galerie Eva Presenhuber is presenting Crossing the Bar, the gallery’s second exhibition with the American artist Austin Eddy, who was recently the subject of a solo presentation at Eva Presenhuber’s showroom in New York. Crossing the Bar is the gallery’s eighth summer exhibition at Kastro, Antiparos. Austin Eddy’s paintings quietly circle the subject of death. Temporality and fragility appear as simplified, semi- abstract representations: birds and bird pairs perched on seaside sand bars—symbols of the ephemeral and the transitional, just as the seas’ ebb and flow stand for the coming and going to which our lives and our loves are ultimately also subject. Eddy has called his exhibition Crossing the Bar, a title that refers to an 1889 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in which the tides become a metaphor for goodbyes and departures. “Twilight and evening bell”— that is the ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-LGDR will be working with China-based artist Zhang Zipiao, in collaboration with White Space gallery in Beijing. Zhang’s first solo exhibition with LGDR will go on view in New York City in 2023, and paintings by the artist will be featured in the gallery’s booths at the upcoming editions of Frieze Seoul (September 2022) and Art Basel Miami Beach (December 2022). Known for her enigmatic large-scale paintings, Zhang has honed a nuanced visual language based upon intuitive brushwork and filled with abstracted anatomical elements of flora and fauna. Drawing inspiration from such historical masters as Gustave Courbet, Francis Bacon, William de Kooning, and Georgia O’Keeffe, she constructs brightly hued compositions of animal flesh and floral motifs. Zhang renders these with a distinctive graphic linework that reflects the influence of digital imagery, ... More
Ken-Matt Martin in front of Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater, shortly after he became its first Black artistic director, in Chicago, on April 9, 2021.Nolis Anderson/The New York Times.
by Mark Caro
CHICAGO, IL.- Victory Gardens Theater, a vibrant fixture here since 1974, had long prided itself on being a champion of diversity while also bringing new works to its audiences. In 2001, it received the Tony Award for outstanding regional theater for its role in “contributing to the growth of theater nationally.” The theater was jolted in the wake of the social-justice movement of 2020, when its board set off protests and the mass resignation of its affiliated playwrights by appointing its white executive director to become the artistic director as well — a decision not communicated with the theater’s artists. After an upheaval, the executive director resigned, along ... More
Installation view. Photo: Evan Bedford.
LOS ANGELES, CA.-Regen Projects is presenting Iconographia, James Welling’s eleventh solo exhibition with the gallery. For Iconographia Welling’s camera becomes a time machine, reanimating images of Greek and Roman busts. The exhibition debuts these Personae, as well as a selection of images from his Cento series. Welling has used the camera as a vehicle to “time travel” in previous bodies of work such as Diary/Landscape, Seascape, Wyeth, Buildings by H. H. Richardson, Glass House, and Maison de Verre, but rarely with the emotional intensity of this latest exhibition. The exhibition’s title, Iconographia, refers to a seventeenth-century portfolio of intaglio portraits made by Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck. “While making Cento, my ongoing series of photographs of sculptures and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean region, I discovered the celebrated Korai sculptures in Athens. I reanimated one, Kore 674, by i ... More
Lindsey Mclean in her studio, 2022.
LONDON.- Unfolding in ebullient strokes of creamy whites, rose pinks, and dusky purples tones, Mclean’s work is immediately recognisable in its traditional aesthetic and contemporary execution. Characteristic of her practice are voluptuous figures that play with the idea of entanglement and movement as they are accompanied by lavish feather boas, fans and veils. Exploring notions of femininity surrounding the female figure and the male gaze at its centre, Mclean’s series playfully draws from classical iconography and 20th century paintings. Almost suspended in time - they recall the aesthetic of François Boucher and Titian. Concerned with reclaiming feminine excess and frivolity on strictly feminist terms, this body of work draws from the fête galante paintings but with a distinctly contemporary freshness. Mclean’s paintings are also about the exploration of paint, as each fluid brush stroke coalesces lyrically on ... More
Quote I don't work after nature, but before nature and with her. Pablo Picasso
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Two ambitious new artist commissions responding to Compton Verney's Naples Collection COMPTON VERNEY.-Compton Verney and Unlimited announced two ambitious new artist commissions responding to Compton Verney’s Naples Collection. The commissions will be developed in response to the theme of the senses over the next year by DYSPLA, a neuro-divergent led award-winning arts studio, and Aaron McPeake, who makes work that integrates physical encounters with the visual imagination, and that often deals with his own experience of sight loss. These commissions will form a key part of Sensing Naples, a new display of works from the collection that will animate and address the theme of the senses. The display will open on 1 April 2023. Compton Verney has one of the richest collections of Neapolitan art in the world outside Naples. The Naples collection includes over fifty pieces of fine art and decorative objects ... More
Mercer Union presents group exhibition titled "Evidence" TORONTO.- Evidence is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists who highlight the unique and alternative perspectives of the world that can be found in art by children. The projects in Evidence by Brian Belott, Petrit Halilaj, Ulrike Müller, Oscar Murillo, and Alanis Obomsawin, draw art by children into the framework of contemporary art, from which such cultural production has been historically excluded. In spite of its invisibility, art by children has played a major role in the history of modern art since 1900. Between and after the World Wars, it was used by artists to help make sense of a world turned upside down. From Picasso to Dubuffet, countless artists were drawn to children’s distinct and unbridled modes of expression, amassing vast collections of art by children. Like their modernist forebears, the artists in Evidence recognize ... More
EXPO CHICAGO announces 2023 program curators CHICAGO, IL.-EXPO CHICAGO, today announced program curators for the 10th anniversary edition (April 13-16, 2023) returning to Navy Pier’s Festival Hall. Showcasing large-scale sculpture, video, film, and site-specific works throughout Festival Hall, the 2023 IN/SITU program will be curated by Claudia Segura, Curator of Exhibitions and Collection of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts at Americas Society in New York has been selected to curate the 2023 EXPOSURE section, which highlights solo and two-artist presentations from galleries 10 years and younger. Lukin will curate a presentation focused on heralding emerging artists and exhibition programs, with counsel from the Selection Committee and exposition’s directors. "As a convener of international ... More
Hammer Museum presents Andrea Bowers LOS ANGELES, CA.-The Hammer Museum at UCLA presents the first museum retrospective surveying more than two decades of work by the Los Angeles–based artist Andrea Bowers (b. 1965, Wilmington, Ohio). Bowers has built an international reputation as a chronicler of contemporary history, documenting activism as it unfolds and collecting research on the front lines. Her large-scale installations, detailed color pencil drawings, and impactful videos speak to deeply entrenched inequities and the work of generations of activists fighting for immigration rights, workers’ rights, climate justice, and women’s rights. Andrea Bowers brings together approximately 90 works spanning drawing, performance, installation, sculpture, video, and neon as well as a trove of ephemera. Coorganized with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the exhibition ... More
Tenant of Culture realises an ambitious new site-specific installation for Camden Art Centre LONDON.- Tenant of Culture, the anonym for Dutch artist Hendrickje Schimmel (b. 1990, Arnhem, Netherlands), realised an ambitious new site-specific installation for Camden Art Centre, her largest work to-date. The artist’s point of departure begins in the archives of the gallery, where she uncovered reference to the largely unrecognised mass labour of women in the laundry industry, in 19th Century Britain. Huge sculptural forms filling gallery three, comprised of a bespoke hanging system and reminiscent of high-end fashion display mechanisms, suspend a mass of synthetically coloured textile works consisting of used and reassembled garments. Deconstructed, bleached, re-dyed, re-assembled, wrung-out, pressed, hung and stretched, the sculptures are akin to the methodologies employed in the laundry and textile dye industries. The garments ... More
Pollock-Krasner Foundation awards nearly $2.7 million to 106 artists and nonprofit orgs NEW YORK, NY.- Today, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation announces it awarded $2,685,000 to 106 artists and nonprofit organizations during its July 2021-June 2022 fiscal year grant cycle, providing essential support to U.S.-based and international artists. Spanning Los Angeles to India, the latest iteration of grant and award recipients comprise artists from 14 states and 16 countries. Since the Foundation’s establishment in 1985, it has awarded nearly 5,000 grants totaling over $84 million in 79 countries. Particularly critical during the continuing global health crisis, the Foundation’s ongoing funding imparts professional support to artists around the globe, allowing the grantees to create new work, purchase materials, rent studio space, prepare for and mount exhibitions, attend residencies, and offset living expenses. The Foundation ... More
Review: In 'The Butcher Boy,' an anti-coming of age story NEW YORK, NY.- They creep in from the shadows, snorting and snickering. The singing pigs that skulk and shimmy through “The Butcher Boy,” which opened Monday at the Irish Repertory Theatre, are silly but also half-menacing. Below the neck, they’re dressed like townspeople in 1960s Ireland, where the new musical, written and composed by Asher Muldoon, is set. From the jowls up, however, their snout-nosed masks are eerily impassive. The swine chorus appears to be a totem of indecency, embodying the dark and unknown depths of the show’s narrator, Francie (Nicholas Barasch), a jaunty lad with flame-colored hair and an implacably sunny disposition. In his upbeat brogue, Francie recounts a tale of boyhood mischief and alienation with a zeal that belies what seems to be the threat of promised violence. If there’s danger lurking beneath his gleaming ... More
'Paradise Square' faces new complaints over payments NEW YORK, NY.- A union representing the director and choreographers who worked on the recently closed Broadway musical “Paradise Square” is asking a federal court to enforce an arbitration award that was agreed upon in May, according to a lawsuit filed late last month. The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society asked the U.S. District Court in Manhattan to confirm and compel payment of nearly $150,000 that is owed to the union; the show’s director, Moisés Kaufman; the choreographer Bill T. Jones; and a few others who worked on the production. The suit, filed July 22, said the production company still had not “satisfied its obligations under the award.” The lawsuit names as defendants the limited partnership that produced “Paradise Square,” a musical set amid the racial strife of Civil War-era New York City, as well as Bernard Abrams ... More
BLINK, illuminated by Artswave, announces first wave of artists CINCINNATI, OH.- Thanks to new technology, communities of artists have been able to reach new audiences, but rarely–particularly in recent years–do they get to take that connection IRL. The emerging and rapidly growing world of artistic possibilities is thrilling, but the true magic lies in the crossover between digital and physical. That very space is where BLINK, Illuminated by ArtsWave lives, bringing people from all over the world to Cincinnati and allowing them to experience truly immersive art amidst the cityscape. The nation’s largest light, art, and projection mapping experience, returns to Cincinnati for the first time since 2019 at the perfect time, bringing with it transcendent works across mediums. Exciting fans and drawing in new attendees, the immersive art experience releases the first round of participating artists, proving the almost ... More
The classical music event of the summer is in Salzburg's shadow SALZBURG.- Shostakovich’s “Babi Yar” Symphony, a celebration and condemnation of Russian life and cultural memory, was met at the Grosses Festspielhaus here on a recent evening with a standing ovation that lasted more than five minutes. Preceded by a setting of the Kaddish and opening with an evergreen reproof of antisemitism, the symphony is the kind of music that welcomes reflection. But it was understandably difficult to keep quiet after a performance of a masterly art delivered with mastery. And that was only the first concert of the night. Such a lengthy, substantial evening is typical of the Ouverture Spirituelle — a Salzburg Festival series separate from the main slate, and originally designed to ease into it — which started with the “Babi Yar” on July 19 and continued through Thursday, often with at least two programs a day. Now ... More
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