Exhibition featuring new paintings by Barbara Takenaga opens at DC Moore Gallery
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Sunday, November 24, 2024


Exhibition featuring new paintings by Barbara Takenaga opens at DC Moore Gallery
Barbara Takenaga, Serrulata 2. 36 x 42 in.



NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting Barbara Takenaga: Shibaraku, featuring new paintings in the artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition runs from November 12 – December 23. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with an interview by the artist Tom Burckhardt, with Barbara Takenaga.

Shibaraku is a Japanese word that refers both to a type of Kabuki drama and also a word that loosely translates as “wait a moment!” In fact, each moment with Takenaga’s paintings will shape and re-shape the forms into something else, creating new beginnings with each glance. Starting with fluid pours of paint onto the canvas, Takenaga then creates undulating shapes with brushstrokes resembling dots, splashes, and sparks coming together and receding in outwardly infinite space. They can be understood as kaleidoscopic layers of outlines, horizons, and atmospheres, that coalesce as much as they diverge.

In the title work, Shibaraku, an expansive five-panel painting, Takenaga creates spans of white and gray atmospheric space in the middle panels. Closer observation reveals layer upon layer of muted flashes painted like small fireworks and cloud-like structures, flickering and disappearing depending on the movement of light around them. Dark, fluid, abstracted shapes coalesce like figures at each end of the sequence, underscoring the openness and depth of the middle panels, and imbuing the work with a boding yet alluring and mysterious aura.




Takenaga’s paintings continue to offer abstract visual translations alluding to the ever-changing nature of the physical world, while challenging our understanding of those very spaces in a psychologically mesmerizing manner.

In 2020, Barbara Takenaga was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Fine Arts, and was commissioned by New York MTA Arts & Design to create a permanent installation of mosaic and laminated glass for the Metro-North Railroad White Plains Station. In the fall of 2017, Williams College Museum of Art organized a twenty-year survey of Takenaga’s work, curated by Debra Bricker Balken, accompanied by a book published by Prestel. Other solo presentations of her work include a traveling exhibition Waiting in the Sky at DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY which traveled to Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI (2016); a large-scale public commission for SPACE | 42 at The Neuberger Museum of Art in NY (2017); an exhibition at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE (2018); and a large-scale installation Nebraska (2015-2017) at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA.

Takenaga is represented in the permanent collections of The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearny, NE; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; The San Jose Art Museum, CA; Smith College Museum of Art, MA; Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, among others.

The artist lives and works in New York City.










Today's News

November 15, 2020

The word at MoMA is 'rotation, rotation, rotation'

Exhibition brings together seminal drawings, paintings, sculpture and wall reliefs by Charlotte Posenenske

Egypt finds treasure trove of over 100 sarcophagi

Sotheby's teams up with Fai Khadra for next 'Contemporary Curated' auction

Little Richard's wardrobe and Jimi Hendrix's rare guitars head to Julien's Auctions Icons & Idols

Exhibition featuring new paintings by Barbara Takenaga opens at DC Moore Gallery

RETNA, Banksy and Hebru Brantley set records in $1.2 million Heritage Auctions Urban Art event

Academy Museum completes $388 million pre-opening fundraising campaign goal with closing gift from Laika

French poets' London home for sale in threat to arts centre plan

Sophia Loren makes her return to film: 'I'm a perfectionist'

In 'Small Axe,' Steve McQueen explores Britain's Caribbean heritage

UK film industry in rude health despite virus horror

Demands on nonprofit groups rose in the pandemic, even as volunteering fell

Rance Allen, frontman of a new-sounding gospel group, dies at 71

Sebastião Salgado launches Prix Pictet podcast on sustainability and photography

The Afrobeats star Davido, an upbeat voice in a turbulent time

World's largest video game auction to be held Nov. 20 & 22

Kohn Gallery opens a solo exhibition with Chicago-based artist Caroline Kent

Friends forever, filmmakers for now

Rhiannon Giddens aims at 1800s America in her Silkroad plans

The Yves Saint Laurent wardrobe of iconic dancer Zizi Jeanmaire offered at Christie's

Walker Art Center opens artist Michaela Eichwald's first solo U.S. solo museum show

How George Benson turned an early 'no' into a career of 'yes'

New Geoffrey Beene Archive at Phoenix Art Museum to be unveiled at February virtual event

How to accelerate the collection of debts on debts in a construction company?

Jayce AP Build: Playing Jayce on the Mid Lane




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Attorneys
Truck Accident Attorneys
Accident Attorneys
Houston Dentist
Abogado de accidentes
สล็อต
สล็อตเว็บตรง
Motorcycle Accident Lawyer

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site Parroquia Natividad del Señor
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful