Currently on view at the Cerasoli Gallery in Culver City, California is new work by artists John Grande, Franziska – Klotz and Nick Potter. Each artist has been given an individual gallery to present new paintings concurrently, while the exhibition loosely focuses on the various photographic genres that these artists reference within the work. German-born Franziska Klotz creates figurative paintings that remain highly abstracted in[…..]
Currently on view at DiverseWorks in Houston, TX is a group show entitled Solution. Often, but not always, group exhibitions are classified within the hierarchy of the contemporary art world as, well, much less important/prestigious/notable– you pick the adjective– than solo shows, but sometimes a group show is actually an explosive culmination of nearly everything and everyone that keeps us interested in art. Such is[…..]
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[…..]
Currently on view at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco is new work on paper by artist Alex Lukas in the exhibition titled and another shall rise to take her place. The artist creates mixed media works, produced with ink, acrylic, gouache and silkscreen, often on book pages, which depict city-scapes submerged in rising water and desolate lands that are void of human presence. The[…..]
Closing today at the Scion Installation Space in Culver City is Sao Paulo a group exhibition curated by Choque Cultural Gallery featuring the work of nine artists from Sao Paulo. The exhibition, which mixed on-site creations with work that was shipped in, offered wide artistic diversity and provided some insight into the artistic activity that is currently present in that city. Scion’s following exhibition PaperShapers,[…..]
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[…..]
ART DUBAI, one of the most important contemporary art fairs in the United Arab Emirates, has officially opened at the luxurious Madinat Jumeirah Hotel in Dubai. The third installment of the fair showcases 68 galleries (from over 250 applicants) from the Middle East and around the globe. The fair has three main components: two exhibition halls, the underground project space ‘Art Park’, as well as[…..]
