Cuban-Dominican artist Quisqueya Henriquez opened his first major museum survey exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts yesterday evening. “The World Outside: A Survey Exhibition 1991-2007,” showcases the artist’s sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs, videos and light/sound works created over the past two decades. In addition to the exhibition, Henriquez was featured in this month’s ARTnews magazine. The artist’s work investigates social environments through cultural[…..]

The large scale photographs of Martin Schoeller have developed as one of the most distinctive photographic styles today. The artist produces large format color portrait photographs that are often presented as 4 foot high, tightly cropped images that contain no direct outside point of reference. The artist began his inventory of celebrity images in 1993 when he came to the U.S to work with Annie[…..]

Coming Sept. 5 at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York are the photographs of Chris Gentile. Presented as allegories of his studio practice, the artist constructs lightning bolts, surfboards and lifeguard chairs that are meticulously cast in small scale and mixed with a variety of functional studio objects, such as plywood, saw horses and a trashcan. The combination of the important being symbolic and[…..]

Opening just yesterday at Lawrimore Project in Seattle is “Anne Mathern — Moses Lake,” new photographs, film and a live installation. Along with the opening, Mathern presented a live installation and performance, featuring fantasy metal band DOOMHAWK. “Moses Lake” is the first solo exhibition at Lawrimore Project for the Seattle-based artist, and the show is centered on a cluster of small farm towns in Eastern[…..]

Artist Nathan Baker creates large-format photographs often depicting multiples of the same figure within a single space. Baker constructs these images digitally, allowing greater narrative possibilities to emerge and offering insight into contemporary American life. In his recent series “Rupture,” the artist photographs moments directly following spills or knock-overs. Referencing Martin Heidegger‘s idea of the “Present at Hand,” the artist’s new series attempts to capture[…..]

Opening Sept. 7, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery in Chicago will present new works by photographer Charles LaBelle. LaBelle has been developing an ongoing series of works that feature hundreds of one-inch square photographs complied into a single, large and intricately compounded work. The artist acts as both a tourist and artist, traveling to cities all over the world, taking snapshots that are then brought back[…..]

The photographic process employed by California-based artist Noah Wilson includes traditional gelatin mono-print photography with direct applications of charcoal. The artist’s main interest lies in the process of development and the possibility and interpretation of uncertainty. Wilson illustrates feelings of tension, isolation and the unknown by rendering portions of a scene, while allowing the remaining sections to be ambiguous and undetermined. The work provides questions[…..]