Amongst the labyrinth of booths at this year’s Art Chicago is Partisan, a special exhibition of works that explore social and political ideas. Selected from Art Chicago and NEXT galleries by guest curator Mary Jane Jacob, independent curator and director of exhibitions at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Partisan works represent a multitude of political ideas and positions from around the world.[…..]

On view at the Deitch Projects Wooster Street Gallery is The History of the Heart in Three Rainbows, a new series of large-scale watercolor paintings by Francesco Clemente . For this series, Clemente has literally wrapped the gallery with his new water colors, creating an immersive environment for contemplation. The artist has also continues his use of capturing spiritual experiences through art. As the title[…..]

Opening next weekend at the Stefan Stux Gallery in Chelsea will be Join or Die, new paintings and drawings by artist Scott Anderson. The included paintings continue to employ references in composition to historical religious and landscape painting, while introducing an entirely new vocabulary of distortion and deconstruction. The images drip with a hyper-color palette which cause the subject to exist within a surreal world,[…..]

Opening this Friday, May 1st at 643 Project Space in Ventura, CA is a solo show of work by Washington based artist Charles Timm-Ballard. The exhibition, entitled Terra Form, displays work that contains many of the aesthetic elements found in contemporary landscape painting, yet it is created out of ceramic material. The thick slabs of clay are a testament to the sculptural and tactile qualities[…..]

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[…..]

Opening this weekend in Brussles will be a new exhibition titled Against the Day by famed painter Luc Tuymans. WIELS will be presenting the first solo show in Brussels for the artist. The exhibition will feature twenty new paintings which were created specifically for the exhibition. The new paintings are a continuation of a previous series, which explores and manipulates television-based imagery through painting practices.[…..]