Sunday, December 18, 2016

Max Ruf at Múrias Centeno



Untitled (prussian Blue lines, transparent green), 2016, oil on canvas, diptych, 47.25 x 63 inches



Max Ruf:  Stadt
November 16 - January 14                     muriascenteno.com


Múrias Centeno
Rua Capitão Leitão 10/16
1950-051 Lisboa - Portugal













Untitled (yellow ground; green, blue, red and grey lines and fields), 2016, oil on canvas, 96.5 x 52.75 inches














Sunday, December 4, 2016

Julia Rommel at Bureau







Julia Rommel:  Man Alive
November 6 - December 18, 2016                            bureau-inc.com


Bureau
178 Norfolk Street
New York, NY  10002














Saturday, November 26, 2016

Ulrike Müller


Others, 2015, vitreous enamel on steel, 15.5 x 12 inches



Ulrike Müller is one of the sixty-three artists picked for the 2017 Whitney Biennial.














Saturday, November 19, 2016

Figurative Geometry | Organized by Bob Nickas


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Ron Gorchov at Vito Schnabel


Spice of Life, 1976, oil on linen, 49 x 75 x 15 inches (124.46 x 190.5 x 38.1 cm)





Ron Gorchov:  Works From the 1970s
November 10 - December 17, 2016


Vito Schnabel Projects
360 West 11th Street
New York, NY  10014                     vitoschnabel.com














Saturday, November 5, 2016

Merlin James at Sikkema Jenkins & Co


C.2016, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 16.5 x 19.25 inches



Merlin James:  Paintings for Persons
OCTOBER 13 - NOVEMBER 12, 2016                                              sikkemajenkinsco.com

Sikkema Jenkins & Co
530 WEST 22ND STREET
NEW YORK NY 10011





















Sunday, October 30, 2016

Anke Weyer at Canada


Installation View, Frightful Falls, 2016




Anke Weyer:  Frightful Falls
October 27 - December 4, 2016                                    canadanewyork.com


Canada
333 Broome St
New York, NY  10002




















Saturday, October 22, 2016

Torey Thornton at Shane Campbell Gallery






Torey Thornton:  Rapport Vroom
September 23 - November 4, 2016
* At Lincoln Park location                       shanecampbellgallery.com


SHANE CAMPBELL GALLERY
2021 S WABASH AVE
CHICAGO IL 60616














Sunday, September 25, 2016

Charlotte Cain Memorial Retrospective at ICON


I Am That I Am #6, 2005, Dorlan's wax and gouache on antique Indian paper on Baltic Birch, 8 x 8 inches












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Recurring Small Forms #26, 1982, acrylic on fabric laminated to canvas, 60.5 x 60.5 inches











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Navel of the Sky, 1979, machine knitted wool laminated to canvas, 70 x 51.25 inches













Infinite Stars, Infinite Stripes, Triptych (Unity of America), 1980, machine knitted wool laminated to canvas, 103 x 134 inches












16 Kolams 2A, 2003, Dorlan's wax and gouache on antique Indian paper on Baltic Birch plywood, 8 x 8 inches 













Yellow Bindu, 2006, gouache on antique Indian paper, 8 x 8 inches










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Charlotte Cain:  Memorial Retrospective
Through October 22, 2016
Gallery Hours: Tues–Fri, 12:00–4:00 PM, Sat, 1–4 PM           icon-art.org


ICON  Iowa Contemporary Art
58 North Main Street ("On the Square")
Fairfield, Iowa  52556

















Sunday, September 11, 2016

Guy C. Corriero at Junior Projects


photo courtesy John Zinsser



Guy C. Corriero:  Make Me
September 15 - October 29, 2016 
Reception: Thursday, September 15, 6-8 pm            juniorprojects.com


junior projects
139 norfolk st
nyc  10002














Sunday, September 4, 2016

Paul Monteiro at Office Baroque


Distancia / Untitled, 2016
oil on wood and oil on canvas
2,5 × 5 × 2 cm and 15 × 11 cm (1 × 2 × 7/8 inches and 5 15/16 × 4 5/16 inches)


Paulo Monteiro:  The Inside of Distance
September 8 -  October 22, 2016
Opening:  Thursday, September 8th, 5-9pm                officebaroque.com



Office Baroque
Bloemenhofplein 5
Place du Jardin aux Fleurs
1000 Brussels, Belgium















Sunday, August 28, 2016

Yevgeniya Baras at Nicelle Beauchene


Untitled, 2016, oil and mixed media on canvas, 24 x 18 inches




Yevgeniya Baras: All Inside of Itself, Close
September 10, 2016 - October 9, 2016
Opening reception Saturday, September 10 6-8pm          nicellebeauchene.com


Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to present All Inside of Itself, Close, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Brooklyn based artist Yevgeniya Baras. 

For All Inside of Itself, Close, Baras continues to work intuitively in her medium while taking an expansive step forward in both the scale and structure of her paintings. Remaining faithful to the materiality and autobiographical nature of her more intimately sized works, here the artist pushes into larger canvases, incorporating found materials into allegorical, albeit elusive constructions. Embedded with found and collected objects, including wood, tire rubber, human hair, stones, and family bedsheets, Baras’ heavily worked canvases evolve almost archeologically, with an equal consideration for the painted surface and the architecture of materials beneath. 

Throughout these poetic abstractions, Baras traces a wide-ranging continuum of experiences, from that of the body, to language, to landscape, and anthropology -- and their attendant symbology. Through the canvases’ rich surfaces, allusions emerge slowly, the many modes of application (embroidery, collage, quilting, wood working) lending a depth to both the physical and semiotic structure of the painting. Only at this point does the imagery arise, pivoting upon each authentic translation and interpretation of the work. Despite the specificity of her personal, pictorial vocabulary, the work’s impact is direct in any context, and rewards a multiplicity of readings. 

Yevgeniya Baras received an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Fine Arts and Psychology as well as an MS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including recent group exhibitions at Gavin Brown Enterprise; Murray Guy; White Columns; and KANSAS, NY, as well as a solo exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY in 2015. In 2014, Baras was awarded a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. The artist recently completed residencies at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, in New York, NY, and the MacDowell Colony Residency in Peterborough, NH. Baras is a cofounder of the artist-run gallery Regina Rex, and lives and works in New York City.



Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
327 Broome Street (between Bowery & Chrystie)
New York, NY 10002














Sunday, August 7, 2016

John Schlue


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John Schlue:  EatChewAlive
July 2 - August 30, 2016


Belle Plaine Area Museum
901 Main St
Belle Plaine, IA  52208                bpiowahistory.com














Saturday, July 16, 2016

Zachary Armstong at Feuer/Mesler
















Lee boy, 2016, oil and encaustic on canvas in artist's frame 84 x 60 inches




Zachary Armstrong:  Hills & Dales
June 23 - July 29, 2016



Feuer/Mesler                          feuermesler.com
319 Grand Street
Second Floor
New York, NY 10002















Sunday, July 10, 2016

Group Show at Marianne Boesky


Thornton Dial, Slavery to Freedom (triptych), 1989-90
oil, wood, canvas, industrial sealing compound on canvas mounted on wood
variable dimensions













Thornton Dial, Slavery to Freedom: People Coming Out, 1989-90
oil, spray paint, wood, canvas, industrial sealing compound on wood, 72 x 75 1/2 inches 182.9 x 191.8 cm





I Talk with the Spirits

Curated by Chris Wiley                     marianneboeskygallery.com
June 23 – August 12, 2016


Marianne Boesky Gallery
509 West 24th Street
New York, NY  10011














Stephanie McMahon at T + H Gallery


Doppio, 2015, oil on panel, 20 x 16 inches



Stephanie McMahon:  Close to Me
June 3 - July 31, 2016


T + H Gallery
460 Harrison Ave C19 & C20
Boston, MA 02118                           tandhgallery.com       stephmcmahon.com














Saturday, July 2, 2016

Bill Adams at Jeff Bailey Gallery


Sunup #2, 2016, ballpoint pen and watercolor on paper, 20 x 16 inches













Bird, 2012, oil on canvas, 18 x 13 inches




BILL ADAMS:  Sunup
June 4 - July 3, 2016                                        baileygallery.com



JEFF BAILEY GALLERY
127 Warren Street
Hudson, NY 12534















Saturday, June 25, 2016

Margot Bergman & Brian Calvin at Anton Kern


              


                                      Left: Margot Bergman, Doris, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches.
                                      Right: Brian Calvin, Shore Leave, 1992, oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 26 1/2 inches.



MARGOT BERGMAN
JUNE 30 - AUGUST 19, 2016


BRIAN CALVIN: EARLY WORK
BACK GALLERY
JUNE 30 - AUGUST 19, 2016


For her debut solo exhibition in New York, Anton Kern Gallery has invited Chicago-based painter Margot Bergman (b.1934) to present a body of recent portraits. Paired with Bergman’s work is a selection of early drawings and paintings by Brian Calvin (b.1969), from the Popeye series created during his time in Chicago in the early 1990s. These side by side exhibitions depict the human figure and all its grotesque facets, and reflect the painterly Neo-Expressionist sensibilities of the Chicago art scene. With an emphasis on building up paint, working and reworking their materials, both artists create layers; Bergman in a physical sense and Calvin in a more figurative sense.

Margot Bergman builds layers of paint atop found artworks. The interplay between elements of the found works she exposes and her own additions creates distorted and uncanny forms, reminiscent of Modernist collage. Her constructed ‘double-portraits’ converge into a single subject. With titles like Auntie Gladyce,Gloria Jean, and Patty, each painting possesses a unique personality, a soul. This process of prosopopoeia stems from the artist’s relationship with the found paintings, who she has “rescued” from flea markets and kept in her home. As Bergman explains, “It was a process - living with them, understanding what I was looking for, beginning to draw it out, slowly and without a plan, responding to the original paintings. I didn’t know what the next step would be. Once I found my way to the portraits, it was magical for me.”

When Brian Calvin moved from Berkeley to Chicago in the early 1990s, his predisposition toward painterly figuration was broadened through local influences such as the Imagists and the Hairy Who, resulting in a tonal shift in his painting. In his ‘Popeye’ works, Calvin renders the stark cartoon figure in thickly applied paint against a dark brooding background, paused amid mundane activities such as smoking a cigarette, standing in the rain, lying awake in bed. The contrast and stillness creates a sense of unease and focuses the viewer’s attention on the subject’s gestures. Calvin subverts Popeye’s inherent cartoon lightness by reimagining himself in an alternate reality, restaging him in a bleak psychological landscape. With the memory accumulated from drawing this iconic character repeatedly in his youth, Calvin uses the figure’s instantly recognizable shape, and it’s associations, as a vessel for ruminations on pathos.



ANTON KERN GALLERY
532 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011                 antonkerngallery.com














Sunday, June 19, 2016

Joe Bradley at Eva Presenhuber


Installation view




Joe Bradley:  Canton Rose

JUN 12, 2016 - JUL 23, 2016


Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Maag Areal
Zahnradstrasse 21, CH-8005 Zurich                 presenhuber.com