Opening this Thursday at the Deitch Projects 76 Grand St. Gallery will be new works by painter Kurt Kauper. The exhibition, entitled “Everyone Knew That Canadians Were the Best Hockey Players,” will feature four larger than life size figurative paintings, along with two other smaller paintings all of which reference vintage hockey stars. Within each portrait, the artist has removed the clothing from the subject,[…..]
Currently on view at David Zwirner Gallery in New York City is an exhibition of new work by English-born artist Chris Ofili titled, “Devil’s Pie.” This show will feature works in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing, uniting the artist’s interest in the themes of birth, death, seduction, and salvation. Religious references are also found in these works as the artist repeats and reinforces his imagery[…..]
Cleveland-based artist Michael Dotson is interested in the appearance of things, especially through the lens of fashion and architecture. Dotson looks at how individuals and spaces become dressed up and made to compensate or fight against an otherwise mundane body or landscape. Created under the principle that fascination comes out of boredom, Dotson has taken structures such as sports arenas as a point of departure[…..]
Los Angeles-based artist Natalia Fabia will present “Hooker Safari: A Glamorous Jungle Pageant,” a solo exhibition of new works with the Corey Helford Gallery in L.A. The artist’s realist figurative style of painting, mixed with the humorously seductive women pictured in the jungle with wildlife raise interesting questions like, “what are these hookers doing in the jungle?” This over the top imagery will be matched[…..]
Artist Francesca DiMattio’s paintings are rooted in architectural structures and the still life, yet explode with movement due to the deconstruction and fragmentation of these otherwise familiar and stable objects. Scale is very important in a DiMattio painting, as the artist attempts to engulf the viewer within the imagery, furthering the illusion of space both through scale and through the flattening of the objects rendered.[…..]
New York-based artist Dannielle Tegeder recently opening the exhibition “7(x) = 20x + x5d-1 + (Yellow)”, at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco. The seven new works on paper are based on a diagrammatic method of illustrating space which results in a geometric materiality that is concrete and stable. The artist combines linear patterns with hard edged painting to create the illusion of space[…..]
Opening this weekend at L.A. Louver Gallery in Venice, California is an exhibition of recent paintings and other works on paper by British artist Tony Bevan. For this series the artist has returned to the subject matter of heads and architectural structures, both of which are rendered with a crude application of acrylic paint and pure pigments, evoking a refined yet primitive surface. Formally, Bevan’s[…..]
