Francesca DiMattio at Salon 94 Freemans
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Francesca DiMattio at Salon 94 Freemans showing large, Bacon – De Chirco inspired paintings.
Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Francesca DiMattio, Salon 94 Freemans
Monthly Archives: January 2009
New Museum, Snow, Blum, and the Rain Forest
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New Museum hosts a interesting show discussing inhabitation and our living environment, our constructed surroundings. Mathias Poledna’s Crystal Palace is a stunning 35mm film showing a lush rainforest landscape with gentle rain and winds blowing through the foliage. The intense soundtrack, suggests the physiological experience of abstract and structural film. Contrasting with Agathe Snow decoupage installation Master Bait Me, a cage with blue magnetic balls, surrounded by decoupage of found images, celebrities from magazines. Be(com)ing Dutch at a Distance Blum’s […]
Categories: New York • Tags: Agathe Snow, Mathias Poledna, Michael Blum, New Museum New York
Peter Doig: New Paintings
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Peter Doig’s first exhibition of new paintings in the United States in nearly ten years is being shown as a joint exhibition at two distinctive New York galleries. During these difficult economic times this artist is cleverly marketing his new work by actively choosing what he shows and where. At Michael Werner’s 77th Street gallery is an intimate austere show that articulates a natural succession of paintings in Doig’s style, contrasted by the paintings at the progressive downtown Gavin Brown’s […]
Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Gavin Brown Enterprise, Michael Werner, Peter Doig
John Beech at Peter Blum Gallery Soho
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Obscure / Reveal is the title of collaborative show at Peter Blum Gallery featuring paintings by John Beech complimented by words by Edward Albee. Beech’s overpainted photos are beautiful and nostalgic and Albee hits this delicate insight with his brief yet poigniant words.
Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Edward Albee, John Beech, Peter Blum Gallery
Mr. Nobody Dies at Lehmann Maupin Chrystie St.
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Lehmann Maupin showing Mr. a Japanese artist, discovered by Takashi Murakami in 1995 and since then has been involved with Murakami’s art studio and enterprise Kaikai Kiki. The exhibition of paintings, photos, and a film installation, is an examination of the Otaku subculture in Japan, which emerged in the 1970s and mainly consists of obsessive males whose fetishes include cuteness or kawaii. Mr. highlights these typical Japanese kawaii girls weilding plastic guns in technocoloured camoflauge army fatigues, being cute and […]
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Lily Ludlow Sowing Circle at Canada New York Gallery
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For the first time in a long time it was a great pleasure to watch an entire video piece. This was a captivating and seductive glance through the keyhole, into the lives of a group of women. Canada New York Gallery presents Lily Ludlow’s Sowing Circle, a 3 screen installation showing the intimate and mundane moments of a group of women. Effectuated in a cinematgraphic vibrance and nostalgia, the music fluid and rhythmic, your eyes transition across the screens as […]
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Postcards From the Edge, Benefit for Visual Aids at Metro Pictures
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Held at Metro Pictures, Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All works are sold on a first-come, first-served basis for $75 each. The works are signed on the back and exhibited so the artists’ signatures cannot be seen. While buyers receive a list of all participating artists, they don’t know who created which piece until purchased. All proceeds support the work of Visual […]
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Brooklyn Museum
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Visited the Brooklyn Museum, and it is immense! It is a multi experiential space showing traditional American paintings, design of furniture and interiors, jewellery, cultural artifacts, contemporary art, feminist art, you name it they have a department. The feature exhibits of the moment is The Black List Project, photos by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, portraits of influential African-Americans in contemporary society ranging from musicians, politicians, artists, writers, and activists. Burning Down the House, a feminist art collection. Over fifty feminist artists, housed […]
Categories: Brooklyn • Tags: Brooklyn Museum, Gilbert and George, Kehinde Wiley
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