Courtesy of the Artist and Metro Pictures Metro Pictures in New York is currently presenting several recent charcoal drawings by artist Robert Longo. Longo achieved critical acclaim in the 1980s with Men in the Cities, a dynamic drawing series depicting modern businessmen in contorted positions, a commentary on our contemporary afflictions and anxieties. The exhibition at Metro Pictures, Surrendering the Absolutes, opened on April 23rd[…..]
Gagosian Gallery is presenting two major exhibitions in New York and Beverly Hills to celebrate Yayoi Kusama‘s eightieth year. The artist, born in Japan in 1929, started painting with polka dots and nets as motifs around the age of ten. She moved to the United States in 1957, where she showed large scale paintings, soft sculptures, and environmental installations using electric lights and mirrors. From[…..]
Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles is currently presenting Beaut-esque, an exhibition of new paintings by Queens-based artist Yi Chen. The artist’s process begins by culling images from popular advertisements and fashion magazines and selecting distinctive facial characteristics from both human and mammalian figures. He then rearranges these physical features to create a hybridized race, disregarding color, age, gender and even species. These composite figures[…..]
Palestinian artist Nida Sinnokrot is currently exhibiting in this year’s Sharjah Biennial, which runs until May 16th throughout several venues in the Emirate. His powerful sculpture, Ka (JCB), seen above, is constructed of two symmetrical JCB backhoe arms. With this symbolic placement, the artist invokes the Egyptian concept of life force, or ka, signified in hieroglyphics by 2 raised arms with the palms stretched outward.[…..]
Saatchi Gallery in London is currently presenting the group show, Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, which proudly showcases the recent work of 21 artists originally from the Middle East and currently living around the globe. Participating artists include Diana Al-Hadid (a Syrian-American artist also currently showing an outdoor sculpture at the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates), Halim Al-Karim, Kader Attia, Nadia[…..]
Kutlug Ataman, a winner of this year’s Abraaj Capital Art Prize, recently awarded at Art Dubai, recorded a performance entitled Strange Space using himself as subject wandering through the desert blindfolded and barefoot. The performance, part of his most recent project Mesopotamian Dramaturgies, was inspired by a classical Mesopotamian folk tale, in which the hero is blinded by the love of the female character and[…..]
The Sharjah Biennial opened on March 16th in the Arts and Heritage Area of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and will run until May 16th. The Biennial consists of three components with the main exhibition taking place in the Sharjah Contemporary Art Museum, curated by Isabel Carlos, and titled “Provisions for the Future.” This segment explores the connection between the search for happiness and[…..]
