Currently exhibiting at la BANK in Paris is a solo exhibition, entitled NO CASH/CASH, featuring two series of work by Juliana Beasley. Beasley, a former assistant of Annie Leibovitz, has become a notable photographer in her own right. The two series being shown at la BANK, Rockaway Park and Lapdancer, are seemingly polarities in terms of subject matter, but both cut to the heartbeat of[…..]
Blair Thurman‘s first solo exhibition opened last week at Galerie Frank Elbaz on rue St.-Claude in Paris’s Marais neighborhood. The show, entitled Krumms Along the Mohawk is named after an ice-cream flavor at Thurman’s local gas station in New York. The exhibition is in concept a mini-survey of Thurman’s work over the past decade and a half – although most of the pieces are new,[…..]
Opening this Friday, October 17th, at Thierry Goldberg Projects on Rivington St., on the lower east side of New York, is the first solo exhibition of paintings by Logan Grider. The exhibition will include Grider’s latest work – paintings depicting colorful blocks and abstract shapes of the bold-colored and moody-shadowed variety. Grider’s oeuvre conjures up Cubist kings like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, within a[…..]
MADE UP, the fifth edition of the Liverpool Biennial‘s International Exhibition, opened September 20th and runs until November 30, 2008. The lineup of international artists exhibiting this year spans the globe and a broad range of media. The abstract, and suitably loose, curatorial theme of “made up” exalted artists like Australian photographer and film maker Tracey Moffatt to create a series of self-portraits, which depict[…..]
Jesse Bercowetz has a huge mobile on display at The Happy Lion in Chinatown. His solo exhibition, which is the New York artist’s first on the West Coast runs until October 11th, flaunts several works, but the luminary piece– and the real reason for going– is the behemoth, nearly room-sized installation entitled The Pale Memory of Man. The roomy gallery space, usually noted for its[…..]
A major mid-career survey of renown photographer Catherine Opie opens this week at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Catherine Opie: American Photographer opens Friday September 26th and runs through January 7, 2009. The exhibition will showcase over 200 of Opie’s iconic images from the past decades. Opie’s “Portraits” clinched her a place on the map of art history, depicting bold statements of identity for[…..]
After first being introduced to the artists dealing with the decades long conflict in Lebanon after seeing Walid Raad‘s Let’s be Honest, the Weather Helped at MoMA’s Color Chart exhibition earlier this year, I quickly learned that John Jurayj is among the other prominent artists involved in this global discussion. In his second solo show at Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles, entitled Untitled (We[…..]
