A group exhibition entitled Lucid Dreaming opened Saturday, January 17th at Curator’s Office. The exhibition includes works from the Estate of critically acclaimed abstract symbolist painter Simon Gouverneur, who pursued a lifelong investigation into the structures of language and meaning. His work invokes a wide range of ideas–from the principles of structural anthropology espoused by Claude Levi-Strauss to the teachings of Jewish mysticism, Buddhist texts[…..]

Bejing-based Yue Minjun is one of the most important artists of the Chinese avant garde. Part of the Chinese avant garde movement, Cynical Realism, Yue Minjun’s work is characterized by a signature laughing figure which serves as a portrait of the artist. Upon greater inspection the smiling faces contain fear, animosity, and a sense of discomfort that is a product of facing reality in contemporary[…..]

Amy Bennett‘s newest work captures viewers with cinematic scenes marked by stark contrasts. Reflective symmetry, gestural figures and overcast skies portend any number of human misfortunes. Past first glance, her acute realism reveals that she studies more still-lifes than she paints en plein air. Her crisp lines and angular brush strokes depict the multifaceted surfaces of a 13 x 3′ styrofoam and resin model of[…..]

Los Angeles-based artist Tomory Dodge creates paintings that contain formal abstraction and representation within the same ground of the work. Dodge renders landscape environments that are fragmented and intentionally distilled. Often the disarray in his work is a reference to disaster and chaos as a potential force for transcendence. Dodge is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and Rhode Island School of[…..]

Like the Spice Gallery in Brooklyn will be presenting Jenny Morgan‘s recent figurative oil paintings in the exhibition Abrasions, opening on January 9th. Morgan completed her M.F.A. in 2008 at the School of Visual Arts in New York and this will be her first solo show in New York, where she currently lives and works. Abrasions presents several startling portraits of people close to the[…..]

Galerie Michael Janssen in Berlin will be presenting the work of two artists, Tine Furler and Gerard Hemsworth, in January and February of 2009. Both Furler’s show, Vererbungslinie Vampyropoda, and Hemsworth’s show, Now Then, will be on display at the gallery from January 17-February 28, 2009. The opening will take place on Friday, January 16th from 7-9. Berlin-based artist Furler began as a painter and[…..]

Seattle-based painter, Grant Barnhart, recently shifted the focus of his paintings to directly confront certain iconic American imagery such as cowboys, football players, cheerleaders, and showgirls in an attempt to build a vocabulary that is positioned neatly between satire and homage. In a time where it is increasingly easy to portray American life and culture in a generally pessimistic light, Barnhart takes on the challenge[…..]