PPOW Gallery in New York City opened a new exhibition this weekend titled Intuitive Visualization of the Unseen, featuring new works by artist Bill Smith. The sculptures presented explore natural systems of order and how they can be translated three dimensionally. The works are meticulously created out of various industrial materials. The artist has stated,” All terrestrial behavioral events and physical components, however bland, sweet[…..]
Featuring works from Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art collection created mostly in the 1980s and ’90s by artists including Chris Burden, Alfredo Jaar, Louise Lawler, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, and Adrian Piper, this exhibition reveals the continuing resonance and complexity of topics such as freedom of expression, militarism, the dynamics of race, human and economic consequences of globalization, and other defining elements of society today. Included in[…..]
Currently on view at Simon Preston Gallery in New York is a solo show of three new works by Brooklyn based artist Michelle Lopez. The exhibition, entitled The Violent Bear It Away, directly references Flannery O’Connor’s eponymously titled 1960 novel, which deals achingly and complexly with theological themes. O’Connor’s title, in turn, references the Bible verse Matthew 11:12 (Douay-Rheims). The theme of baptism imbues Lopez’s[…..]
Regeneration Gap is the title of a new installation by Canadian-born artist Jarod Charzewski on view at the Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto. The exhibition features three major works, each representing a cross section of a hypothetical landscape, complete with revealed geological layers, created entirely out of used clothes. The artist obtains the used clothes from local Goodwill stores, which are given on loan from[…..]
Jonathan Owen’s current solo exhibition at the Doggerfisher Gallery features new works by the artist. Throughout the show, Owen alters everyday images through acute attention to detail. Owen’s largest piece, Untitled, was painstakingly constructed by Owen of foam board, wood, and paint. Its pattern, inspired by the chip found on European credit cards, epitomizes the artist’s preoccupation with motif pulled from everyday existence. This work[…..]
The art world is guilty of hierarchical thinking and elitism, and probably always will be. This, I think most of us would agree, is a shame. So it becomes that much sweeter when an institution renown in the contemporary art world unapologetically presents an exhibition of contemporary ceramicists–artists whose medium has historically lived in the gray area between “fine art” and “craft”, despite its having[…..]
San Francisco’s Baer Ridgway Exhibitions is currently presenting Tell Everyone That You’re Smiling, new works by Seattle-based artist Tyler Cufley. This marks the artist’s second solo exhibition with Baer Ridgway, following his exhibition last year titled Ready Set Go! Tell Everyone That You’re Smiling features a mix of the artist’s new works including sculpture, painting, photography. While the work seems to be firmly rooted in[…..]
