Wonderful group show at Paul Petro, with gorgeous yet mischeivous photos by Miles Collyer
Wood benches by one of my most favorite Canadian artists, Tom Dean
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Lithuanian installation artist Zilvinas Kempinas uses magnetic tape film, fans, reflective panes of mylar to create this cool and visually striking space. Red and Blue coloured lightbulbs hanging by their wires circle and spin around in localized confinement while noisey fans push the bulbs and the loops of magnetic tape. The experience is an overwhelming sensation of chaotic and static at the same time.
Erik Patton at Amos Emo Gallery
1 Mar
I loved these works by New York based artist Erik Patton, seen at his solo show at Amos Emo in Dumbo. Patton photographes models while projecting video scenes on them during the shoot. He then layers paint onto the printed images -creating a layering of not only media but of gender and charged emotion.
As the title of the show is Metasexual, the harmony and dichotomy is emphasized both visually and metaphorically. We see a beautiful blond woman with a black and white naked man superimposed on her, surrounded by a radiating aura of warm colours and dark ominous shadows. The results are both dark and glowing, but still captivating and beautiful.
Kunié Sugiura at Leslie Tonkonow
13 Feb
The collaged canvases incorporating photography and blocks of solid coloured paint by Kunié Sigiura’s work on view at Leslie Tonkonow really speaks to Greenberg-Benjamin discourse of what is painting and art in the age of mechanical reproduction. I especially appreciated the preliminary sketches and colour blocks works presented alongside the final paintings, as true insight into the labourous explorative techniques of these works created in the 1970s .
Visually, it reminded me of one Ian Wallace’s works, http://artjetset.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/ianwallaceatyvonlambert23.jpg
Explosive Landscape Photography at Paula Cooper
12 Feb
Michael Sailstorfer rocket launched tree, and the breathtaking installation of waves breaking on the shore by Paul Pfeiffer. A tranquil aesthetic show at Paula Cooper.
Michael Snow at Jack Shainman
8 Jan
It was an absolute pleasure to have met Michael Snow at the opening of his new show In the Way at Jack Shainman Gallery.
Snow is one of Canada’s greatest contemporary artist, whose ground breaking experimental films revolutionized new media and recontextualized experiencing and ways of seeing and looking.
His new video installation remphasizes what Snow does best, creating an environment where the viewer is physically engaged in active looking.
The other video work, In the Way, was shot while filming a fleeting road below while driving. The simultaneous conflicting sensation of standing while on the floor is projected and extraordinatry speed of movement is vertigo inducing and yet amazing.
I will never forget the first time I saw Michael Snow’s So Is This in a theatre setting. So Is This will stand forever as one art piece that changed and influenced my life parcourse. Here is a little youtube preview but this work really needs to be seen in a theatre setting.
Palais de Tokyo: Carte Blanche All of the Above
18 Nov
On of my favourite contemporary spaces, the Palais de Tokyo, is undergoing massive renovations, and during this time are hosting selective exhibitions in the atrium and main auditorium.
John M Armleder curated a All Of the Above, by presenting a variety of art works by 20 different artists (including sculptures, videos, and paintings) in an non-traditional manner. He staged the works on a multilevel platform allowing the viewer only a frontal viewpoint.
This intriguing display method gave me a whole different perspective and challenged the way I typically evaluate and look at art. Generally by passing video – the small monitors really stood out between the imposing works around them.
Eva Nielsen at Dominique Fiat
18 Nov
The second solo show of this young emerging artist Eva Nielsen at Dominique Fiat gallery exhibiting really impressive scale of painting.
Nielsen combines black and white screen prints of industrial architecture embedded in luscious painterly landscapes for a beautiful compelling body of work. Her technique emphasizes the contrasts of dark and light and the incongruence of imposing developments and industry in the natural landscapes.
Evan Gruzis and Emerald Couture at Hole Gallery
16 SepThe Hole Gallery hosted at presentation of Emerald Couture’s Fall Fashion Week, bringing together a fusion of art by Evan Gruzis, fashion by Emerald Couture’s various designers and music by Seamosters and BELL.
Exotic Beta is an interesting exhibition featuring ink paintings, and an stunning collaborative installation by designer .
Rodney Graham Phonokinetoscope at Matthew Marks
5 AugI first saw this video in 2003 at The PowerPlant along side a massive exhibition on Liam Gillick. Now seeing and hearing this piece in a small draped corner at the back of the Matthew Marks gallery concretized the interplay between the film projector and the scratchy vinyl in a more engaging and profound way.
Rodney Graham’s The Phonokinetoscope is a vinyl record which once engaged launches the 5 minute film loop – a phonokinetoscope.
The film is of Graham riding his bike through Berlin’s Tiergarten high on LSD. The vivid saturated colour of the film enhance the dreamy quality of Graham’s trip and journey through the lush gardens populated by tulips and playing cards.
Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post Punk Graphics at Steven Kasher
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This exhibition of punk posters from the 70s and 80s created by the most infamous and reknown graphic artists of the day, such as Peter Saville, Malcolm Garrett, Barney Bubbles, Gee Vaucher, Linder Sterling, Keith Haring, Robert Williams, and, Jamie Reid.
Christian Marclay’s The Clock
10 May
From January 21 – February 20 The Paula Cooper Gallery presented Christian Marclay’s The Clock, 24 hour video installation that garnered much acclaim during the run.
Some waited up to 3 hours in the bitter New York winter to view the piece, which is heralded as a compelling transfixing work, where Marclay edits together thousands of clips of watches and clocks from popular film. The excerpts are supposed to illiterate the spanning of time and the importance of passage of time in cinematic narrative. The 24 hour piece is ironically synced to the local time of the exhibition space.
Good news for those who did not get to see the showing, The Clock has been recently acquired by the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
CRG Wishing and Praying
14 Apr
CRG presented Wishing and Praying as their curated show during ADAA fair in New York, and now at their main gallery space in Chelsea. This thoughtful and contemplative show exemplifies contemporary look at religious iconography in a variety of media. Beautiful.
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Marc Séguin New Works at Mike Weiss Gallery
24 Mar
Marc Séguin is an ArtJetSet favorite, whose career we have watch since 2008. His masterful grisaille technique combined with layering of think pigments and taxidermied animals is visually beautiful while emotionally challenging.
For Séguin’s first solo show at the Mike Weiss Gallery titled Failures, he exhibited portraits of political figures and destroyed chruches. We have seen his earlier large scale works that depicted political and religious figures (click HERE and HERE to see the other ArtJetSet posts), and now we see his portraiture scaling down in size which emphasizes the theme of failure of these iconic figures.
By contrasting personalities like Lee Harvey Oswald, the Pope, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, and Nazi soliders, the message is a persistent narrative of the failures in the hands of the powerful.
NewArtNetwork Winter Social at the Sculpture Center
27 FebThe NewArtNetwork and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts hosted their winter social, a glam evening of performance, dance and music at the SculptureCenter.
The incredible recovered wood sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard became the stage for a modern dance peformance choreographed by Nancy Garcia to present the F/W jewlery collection of SAMMA , by designer Hanna Sandin.
As the dancers moved the jewlery clanged together and against the performers adding a weight to the sound of the performance.
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Nic*Rad at Lu Magnus
24 Feb
Celbritist Manifesto
Lu Magnus is a new space in the LES framed as an art laboratory and salon.
Hosting a variety of events, Lu Magnus goes beyond the traditional notion of gallery as exhibition space towards a participatory environment of the salnons of the past. The diversity of their program brings together a spectrum of genres of art including performance, book readings, fashion, film, dance and food. Check their website for upcoming events.
Nic*Rad’s live performance of his Celebrtiist Manifesto was the perfect complement to the idiom of this space. A brilliantly intelligent and sardonically hilarious culmination of art, conversation, performance and spectacle, he frames James Franco “as the greatest artist of this generation if not all time.” The manifesto is insightful and dramatic and filled with some great anecdotal one-liners that poignantly spins the icon of James Franco around pop celebrity culture to artstar-dom. One of my favorite lines: James Franco who should play Vito Schnabel in a movie about Vito Schnabel directed by Julian Schnabel in which Vito Schnabel plays the young Julian Schnabel… wherein they lounge together and talk about the excesses of the art world and sip port in the Palazzo Chupi.
Highways Connect and Divide at Foxy Productions
11 Feb
The sound installation at the opening of Highways Connect and Divide at Foxy Productions, blew the crowd away!
Gas tanks expelled a cold wind of oxygen and sound. The piercing shrill lulled into a humming buzz as the tanks emptied.
Trey Speegle at Benrimon Contemporary
11 FebIts Not About You is a clever pop show, which integrates paint-by-numbers sets, vintage icongraphy, and montage of frames and images with text to create a humorous narative.
The side gallery at Benrimon Contemporary hosts RePop, a popup store where buttons, prints, multiples like carved soap and catalogues can be purchased.
En-Garde II: omg at Ronald Feldman
20 Jan
A show featuring predominantly video, film, and sound installation, En-Garde II: omg at Ronald Feldman Gallery, brings a challenging group show of artists who question and challenge the status quo.
The exhibition includes the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz, that had been recently censored by the Smithsonian and created much uproar in the conversation around censorship and religious iconography in the museum space.
oh my god, by Sam Van Aken is a wall of stereo speakers emitting various voice clips of people saying “oh my god” – from television and film to attrocious news media stories.
Sharon Stone in Abuja at Location One
19 JanLocation One is an independent non-profit space dedicated to exhibitions, performance, and artists residency programs meant to encourage experimentation and dialogue around social and political discourse.
Sharon Stone in Abuja combines video, photo, and installation in a discussion around Nollywood – Nigeria’s growing film industry.
The space is engaging and inviting, pushing a comfort and familiarity with photos by Pieter Hugo, an inviting salon installation by Mickalene Thomas, and video piece by Zina Saro-Wiwa, British-Nigerian film-maker and founder of AfricaLab.
Reprise at Aicon Gallery
16 Jan
Exhibiting uniquely artists from the Indian Subcontinent, the Aicon Gallery brings forward strong visual aesthetics underlined by socio-political thematics in the current show Reprise.
The show presents an extensive range of themes, textures, subject matter. Gorgeous painting made with paint and tea bags and urban landscaped created on a reflective surface shot by paint. The sculptural works of Debanjan Roy, Ruby Chishti, and G.R. Iranna resonnate issues of the human condition in India extending from gender, class and social political challenges.
Rob Pruit at Gavin Brown
27 Oct
Rob Pruit’s super pop show at Gavin Brown Enterprise is a fun must see show. Pruit’s self portrait montages give homage to great artists and personalities including Andy Warhol, Magritte, and many others. Love the silver painted chairs and the piles of tires as sweet bowls.
Alejandra Almanza Pereda at Magnan Metz Gallery
28 Sep
An amazing show with a poetic title, The Heaviest Luggage for the Traveler is the Empty One, at Magnan Metz Gallery, Pereda uses large scale sculpture set against a stunning black and white wall papered forest.
Contrasting light and dark, strong and fragile, massive cinder block sculpture mirrored by ghostly pencil on paper drawings of cinder blocks – leave the viewer questioning the ideas of what we occupy and the limits of weight and space consumed around us.
Pace, 50 Years of Pace
27 SepCelebrating their 50th anniversary, Pace Gallery presents a multi-venue retrospective highlighting some key pieces that have passed through their doors.
Thematically divided by Pop art, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalist, Post Moderns and contemporary, this blockbuster show exemplifies the power house artists and the major collections that have acquired the works.
My favorites include Chuck Close portrait of Zhang Huan, Kiki Smith sculpture, Michal Rovner, amazing Clifford Still, Zhang Huan airplanes.
Pipilotti Rist at Luhring Augustine Gallery
24 Sep
Heroes Of Birth, at Luhring Augustine presents new works by Swiss installation artist Pipilotti Rist layers light sound and video into a naive childhood memory dividing the corporal and the spiritual bodies.
Sarah Sze at Tanya Bondakar
23 SepSarah Sze uses bottles, cartons, found objects, and constructed objects that resemble everyday objects to build an intricately ornate installation at Tanya Bondakar Gallery.
The Uncountables (Encyclopedia) is a structural labyrinth. Sze obscures the familiar by wrapping milk cartons, and whitewashing bottles. She effectively blurs the cognizance of our relationship with details of the everyday things that surround us.
I really loved the abstract film created by the flickers of light reflecting off a styrofoam plate filled with water, and the pill and vitamin dispensers come plant pots.
Jennifer Steinkamp at Lehmann Maupin
22 SepJennifer Steinkamp recreates nature using 3-dimension animation in her wall projections.
This projection was stunning and captivating. Staring up from under a massive tree, Steinkamp skillfully recreates the passage of time through the seasons. With blooming leaves and bursts of colourful flowers — then petals rain down on the viewer as summer moves to autumn, until there are only bare tangeled branches stretched out towards you. The seamless snaking arms of the tree loop back into each other and then back to spring and summer.
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Zilvinas Kempinas Ballroom at Yvonn Lambert
21 Sep
Lithuanian installation artist Zilvinas Kempinas uses magnetic tape film, fans, reflective panes of mylar to create this cool and visually striking space. Red and Blue coloured lightbulbs hanging by their wires circle and spin around in localized confinement while noisey fans push the bulbs and the loops of magnetic tape. The experience is an overwhelming sensation of chaotic and static at the same time.
Marc Newson at Gagosian
20 Sep
A brilliant showcase of Australian designer Marc Newson’s reinterpreted designs for different modes of transportation. Newson’s fluid aesthetics of design and the buoyant functionality of the machines stirs a desire for a James Bond-esque Mediterranean vacation.
Dan Colen at Gagosian
2 Sep
Dan Colen is quoted as saying that this current show at Gagosian is about “failure and potential, accident and intention, most minute and most infinite.”
Colen creates a transitionary space using an inverted skateboard half-pipe, and installation of knocked over customized Harley Davidson motorcycles, and massive canvases with abstract patterns painted with chewing gum. A self-reflective self-indulgent show.
Other Spaces at the Lieu Center 548
29 JulThe Dia:Chelsea come X-Initiative Space in its newest incarnation as the Lieu Center 548.
Other Spaces, curated by Jayne Dorst, is a poignant show based on Michel Foucault’s theories on the psycho-spatial experience. The concept works will with this space, since the Lieu is as well a transient space where information is shared, ideas are created and transformed by those who pass though it.
Enjoyed Palma Blank’s optical abstract paintings, Sam Falls’ photos. The video piece by Left Coast ( the collaborative formed by Sarah Kuhn, Lane LaColla, and David Shull) silohetted woman doing yoga in the Lieu’s frieght elevator.
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