In March of this year Pierogi Leipzig presented the first extensive exhibition of Ward Shelley‘s Timeline paintings called the Re-materializing Art. These are elaborate works that describe art-historical narratives using illustration, data plotting, and graphical conventions. Each piece references a different figure of recent art history such as Arto Lindsay, and Carolee Schneemann. Other works will address groups and movements such as the Velvet Underground.[…..]
In his first gallery exhibition since 1992, Jonathan Borofsky will present “Human Structures” opening on November 2nd at Deitch Projects in NYC. This exhibition will feature works that the artist has created over the past seven years. The dominant work in the exhibit is a sculpture composed of 366 life sized steel genderless figures all interlocking together to form a modular 44′ x 11′ x[…..]
Hanneke Beaumont was born in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 1947. Now living and working in Belgium, Beaumont creates life size figurative scuptures that deal with the human psyche with figures and are lying prone, sitting in, or standing up in desolated postures. Beaumont started her artistic studies in 1977 at the Academie de Braine l’Alleud, then at La Cambre & in Anderlecht. Her work is[…..]
California based painter Jeff Soto is having an exhibition next month title “Cold Ice Age” with the Black Market Gallery in Los Angles. Themes present in this new show consist of Soto’s staple imagery of robots, toys, monsters and dreamy surrealism, but this exhibition is rooted in new ideas of world war and global energy crisis. Soto has been featured in several art and contemporary[…..]
Best known for her works involving meticulous cutting and layering of hundreds of pieces of white paper, Noriko Ambe creates sculptural landscapes that evoke a subtle feeling of loss and detachment. Pierogi presented the first New York, one-person exhibition of Ambe’s work, mapping the mysterious land between physical and emotional geography. Ambe’s second solo exhibition in New York was with the Josee Bienvenu Gallery, named[…..]
Josh Keyes is an Oakland based painter drawing attention to the complex interaction and overlay of urban development and the natural environment, exploring the idea of nature as an expendable object. Keyes is a graduate of the Yale School of Art and has been featured in New American Paintings and most recently on San Francisco based FecalFace.com. In 2007 Keyes will have a new solo[…..]
Marc Horowitz is a San Francisco based conceptual artist who works in a variety of mediums from photography to absurd video and performance. Horowitz is the co-creator of Sliv & Dulet Enterprises, a conceptual company staffed with thirty artists posing as business people to developing problems for people’s solutions. National Dinner Tour is a recent project that has been featured on dozens of radio stations,[…..]
