Marc Seguin Studio Visit
by ArtJetSet
I had the immense pleasure of visiting Marc Seguin’s Brooklyn Studio, and seeing some of the new works in progress.
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Volta NY New Stance for Tomorow: Noam Gonick + Luis Jacob
by ArtJetSet
Volta NY art fair presented an off site performative installation in Tribeca Grand Hotel’s Sanctum, Wildflowers of Manitoba by Noam Gonick + Luis Jacob. The work is presented within a furnished geodesic dome whose projected films feature four young men living off the grid in an idealistic survivalist camp on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. The loosely scripted scenes establish a naturalist idyll seemingly removed from modernity and, like wildflowers, the male subjects are intimately tied to a seductive meadow […]
Categories: Volta • Tags: Noam Gonick + Luis Jacob, Volta
Santa Fe, New Mexico
by ArtJetSet
Santa Fe, New Mexico has a huge art community featuring predominantly regional – South Western Art. Not just cowboys crossing the mountains, in Santa Fe you can find all kinds of treasures in the over 300 galleries. A must see is Site Santa Fe, a contemporary non-profit non-collecting space. Current show Pretty is as Pretty Does, featuring this enticing wall installation fur and teeth like bubbled through welts and scars in the walls by Ligia Bouton, and stunning embroidered silk […]
Categories: Santa Fe • Tags: Angelo Filomeno, Canyon Road, Ligia Bouton, Site Santa Fe
Juliana Romano at Marvelli Gallery
by ArtJetSet
Juliana Romano gave a talk at Marvelli Gallery for her first solo show. She is a painter’s painter, and uses historical paintings to navigate through the development and build up of the heavy drapery in contrast to the highly reductive facial features. I like this figuration, and am happy to see a nuanced return to portraiture with this Elizabeth Peyton-esque style.
Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Juliana Roman, Marvelli Gallery
Jacob Kassay at Eleven Rivington
by ArtJetSet
Jacob Kassay is an innovative young artist. Kassay’s first solo show on view at Eleven Rivington, his paintings are paint on canvas that are plated in silver. The technique of the underpainting creates an textured dynamic surface. The painterly graphic quality of the brushstroks are seen quite deliberatly. Tragically the paintings do not photograph well, and unlike this image, these paintings do NOT look like mirrors. I was most attracted by the quality and subtly the dipping technique would slightly […]
Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Eleven Rivington, Jacob Kassay
Lisa Kirk at Invisible Exports
by ArtJetSet
Housing in New York for only $199.99! Not a recession special, it’s an art installation by Lisa Kirk!! The real estate bubble burst, global markets are crashing down around us, Lisa Kirk’s Maison des Cartes offers buyers a way to invest in housing and in art at the same time… for the Low Low price of only $199.99! Lisa Kirk’s exhibition is an environmental installation of two real spaces created within the Lower East Side gallery Invisible Exports. In the […]
Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Invisible Exports, Lisa Kirk
Dror Studios and Dov Talpaz for Yigal Azrouel Men
by ArtJetSet
Dror Studios and Dov Talpaz for Yigal Azrouel Men Collection F/W 2009 Dror Studio created □2 , a structural system of four identical L-shaped pieces requiring no fasteners. These panels, at first frame the catwalk, are the □2 that pop into dimension and become the constructed wall. The mural is painted by Dov Talpaz, his prints are also incorporated into Yigal Azrouel garment design. Not just a metaphor, the harmony of the 3dimentional creating a solid, strong, and unity, is […]
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Skulls… Still All The Rage!!
by ArtJetSet
Skulls…. still all the rage! We’ve seen them in bone, diamond encrusted, and now duct tape! On view at D’Amelio Terras Gallery
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Sigumoto at Gagosian
by ArtJetSet
At Gagosian Gallery, “7 Days / 7 Nights,” an exhibition of fourteen photographs from the Seascapes series by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Where sea and sky merge, Sugimoto created this series where the horizon blurs and then gradually sharpens in each successive photo. One room is white and brightly lit, the other is black and each photo illumated by a spot light.
Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Gagosian New York, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Thomas Hirschorn
by ArtJetSet
Thomas Hirschorn is a conceptual artist who builds familiar yet disjuncted spaces, with a lot of brown packing tape and plywood. Universal Gym at Gladstone Gallery featuring makeshift gym equipment, tvs showing pulse rates and biological rhythms, and the usual mannequins in vitrines. Much more relatable than the last show of Hirschorn at Galerie Chantal Crousel called Concretion Re, some kind of narration on the body, manipulation and mutilation, disease, and torture. Concretion Re involved heavy amount of photos of […]
Categories: Paris • Tags: Galerie Chantal Crousel, Gladstone Gallery, Thomas Hirschhorn
On Kawara One Million Years
by ArtJetSet
On Kawara’s One Million Years is a project in process at David Zwirner Gallery. The project is about time, and years, the time it takes to narrate every year from One millions years ago until one million years from now. A man and a woman sit in the booth, each couple for a 2 hour period. They read the date… 3756BC…. or three thousand seven hundred fifty six bee cee, 3757 BC…. three thousand seven hundred fifty seven beeecee. Chatting […]
Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: On Kawara, One Million Years
Fashion Photography and the Defunct Gallery Space
by ArtJetSet
Chadwick Tyler and Paul Rowland are editorial photographers bringing their glam fashion photographs out of the magazines and temporarily taking over bankrupt gallery spaces to host crossover exhibitions. Walking down 11th Ave at West 21st St there is a white wall with a cutout entry… SUPRISE, yes Alice in Wondeland… it is a narrow doorway to the HoneySpace.Tiberius is Chadwich Tyler’s exhibition. He said the title is a word he likes, because it could be a place, a clan, a […]
Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Chadwick Tyler, HoneySpace, Paul Rowland
Yves Saint Laurent SALES SALES and PUBLICITY
by ArtJetSet
On Feb. 23, auction house Christie’s International will begin a three-day sale of up to $425 million worth of art collected by the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, industrialist Pierre Bergé. The sale of nearly 700 artworks — from Roman antiquities to paintings by Mondrian and Picasso — will feature a celebrity-studded red carpet, $400 souvenir catalogs and a 44,291 square-foot salesroom built into the Grand Palais, Paris’s glass-domed exposition hall near the Champs-Elysées. Concurrently, YSL […]
Categories: Auction • Tags: Christie’s, Yves Saint Laurent
Marlene Dumas at the MoMA
by ArtJetSet
The Museum of Modern Art presents Measuring Your Own Grave, a retrospective of South African painter Marlene Dumas. The dark expressive paintings present intimacy in a raw crude way. From the diversity of people, races, expressions, and faces comes naked bent over figures, massive over sized babies, and highlights of colour dotted throughout a predominantly dark show. Dumas is asking questions of gender, identity, race, religion, and sexuality. The viewer is challenged, as indicated by the title, how deeply do […]
Categories: New York • Tags: Marlene Dumas, MoMA
Francesca DiMattio at Salon 94 Freemans
by ArtJetSet
Francesca DiMattio at Salon 94 Freemans showing large, Bacon – De Chirco inspired paintings.
Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Francesca DiMattio, Salon 94 Freemans
New Museum, Snow, Blum, and the Rain Forest
by ArtJetSet
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
by ArtJetSet
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
by ArtJetSet
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.
by ArtJetSet
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
by ArtJetSet
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
by ArtJetSet
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
by ArtJetSet
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
Helvetica The Film
by ArtJetSet
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film by Gary Hustwit, about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. I would never have imagined being so captivated by a documentary on typography, but I was so engaged by the history, the origins, and the passionate eloquence of typographers and designers. Helvetica was revolutionary in that […]
Categories: Film • Tags: David Carson, Gary Hustwit, Helvetica
Cindy Sherman, new works at Metro Pictures
by ArtJetSet
Metro Pictures presents new works by Cindy Sherman. Sherman interogates identity cliches, now she has moved towards the vielle bourgois dame, investigating cliche of beauty and aging…. too much make up, too many facelifts.The funny part of this exhibition, there was a group of women being toured around Chelsea Galleries, the tour guide was being tactful enough until the one visitor remarked “WOW, she looks exactly like Joan in this one!!!”
Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Cindy Sherman, Metro Pictures
Tadashi Kazamata Tree Huts in Madison Square Park
by ArtJetSet
Japanese-born artist Tadashi Kawamata transformative public installations, also known as “displacements,” transform the spaces they occupy, as whole environments are turned inside-out. Under Kawamata’s direction, complex and chaotic architectural growths of raw lumber, found objects and construction scraps bloom around existing aspects of the urban landscape. Tree Huts is on view in Madison Square Park until Feb 15.
Categories: Public Art • Tags: Tadashi Kawamata, Tree Huts
NADA Fair Miami
by ArtJetSet
NADA, the New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, was one of the most pleasurable fairs to visit. The hammocks and lush green space surrounding the tents complimented the light humoured mood of the fair. NADA is a fair which encourages and promotes New Art Dealers and emerging innovative artists. Some works I enjoyed James Bonachea’s organized randomness and Ariel Orozco’s reworking of unexpected colour at Myto Gallery, and Scott Treleaven pensive collage at Kavigupta Gallery. NADA showed a raw and youthful […]
Categories: NADA - New Art Dealers of America • Tags: Ariel Orozco, Charlie Kaufman, James Bonachea, Kavigupta Gallery, Myto Gallery, NADA, Schott Treleaven, Synecdoche
Scope Fair Miami
by ArtJetSet
Scope Art Fair the fair that was about collectivity and creation more so than just commerce.The Friendswithyou Fun House for kids, the Cafe corners.Brilliant programs which artists created works in and as a part of the fair, like Lucia Madriz EAT, and Russell Young’s screen printing performed live, grafitti artist Mr.Brainwash’s works which could be found in around and throughout the fair. The Girl Project (TGP) is a national initiative that explores the lives of American teenage girls and empowers […]
Categories: Scope • Tags: Adela Goldbard, Annie Kevans, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Lucia Madriz, Mr.Brainwash, Russell Young, Scope Art Fair
Pulse Miami Fair
by ArtJetSet
Pulse Miami is a fair which features international galleries showing cutting edge but polished emerging young artists. I saw some great new artists, but the fair itself was much to maze-like and very difficult to navigate. I kept finding myself in the Grolsch Cafe without knowing which way was up and which way was out. A special feature was the upstairs portion Geisai Miami, Takashi Murakami’s studio of young artists presenting their works directly to the public. My favorites at […]
Categories: Pulse • Tags: Amanda Besl, Elijah Gowin, Grzeszykowska, Martin Golland, Pulse Miami Fair, Timothy Tompkins
Art Asia
by ArtJetSet
Art Asia Fair was the first Asian fair in Miami, and was hosted along side sister fair Scope. The 44 exhibitors from 17 countries showcased the best in Asian Contemporary Art. As the Asian Art market has been growing over the past few years, Asian art was in all the satelite fairs, but nice to see a collection of pervasive Indian and South East Asian artists at Art Asia. A unique part of Art Asia was the vibrancy of the […]
Categories: Asia • Tags: Art Asia Miami
Art Miami Fair
by ArtJetSet
Art Miami Fair hosts a wide variety of leading national and international contemporary art galleries and institutions. The spacious clean and airy interior gave a pleasant and cohesive experience to viewing these reputable galleries. I especially enjoyed Howard Lonn at Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Jennifer Vasher at Richard Levy Gallery, The series by Hung Liu, and Xiaoze Xie at Nicholas Metivier Gallery.
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Photo Miami
by ArtJetSet
Photo Miami was an interesting fair. Many of the other fairs included a lot of photography, and I feel there is an inherent challenge in hosting an entire photography fair, but viola quite a diversity of works and galleries. Among the halls and halls of stunning photos, I personally enjoyed the layered stiched technique of German Gomez at Fernano Pradilla Gallery, and José Ramon Amondarain at Galeriea Estiarte.
Categories: Photo Miami • Tags: German Gomez, Jose Ramon Amondarain, Photo Miami Fair
Design Fair Miami
by ArtJetSet
The Design Fair Miami was the smallest, but most beautiful logistically. The black carpeting, clear signage and homely inviting booths made the Design Fair a sweet pleasure to attend amongst the chaos of the satalite fairs.
Categories: Design • Tags: Design Miami Fair
Art Basel Miami Beach 2008
by ArtJetSet
Art Basel Miami Beach is the scene-and-be-seen art fair. It is considered the most important art show in the United States, as it hosts over 250 leading art galleries from around the world. Satelite art fairs have formed and clustered around the main event, creating a true marathon of must see art. Art Basel Miami hosts thematic fairs within the main fair. Art Projects in Lummus Park on Ocean Drive, outdoor installations, a bit obscure, must see was Ai Weiwei […]
Categories: Art Basel Miami Beach • Tags: Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Positions, Art Projects, Art Supernova
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse Miami
by ArtJetSet
Housed in a large, newly converted warehouse in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, the Marguleis Collection, brilliantly curated by Katherine Hinds, is a stunning survey of the best and most pivotal contemporary art, from the private collection of Mr. Martin Margulies. From Vik Muniz photos, to videos by Doug Aitkens, to installations by Ernesto Neto, to more traditional American Pop Art of George Segal and Oldenburg, the Margulies Collection is a must see.
Categories: Private Collection • Tags: Doug Aitkens, Ernesto Neto, Margulies Collection, Vik Muniz
Kehinde Wiley at Deitch Project
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Kehinde Wiley at Deitch Project He describes his approach as “interrogating the notion of the master painter, at once critical and complicit.” He makes figurative paintings that “quote historical sources and position young black men within that field of ‘power.’” His “slightly heroic” figures, slightly larger than life size, are depicted in poses of power and spiritual awakening.
Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Deitch Project, Kehinde Wiley
Economic Meltdown – The Artists that are Holding Strong
by ArtJetSet
According to Art journalist Alexandra Peers, Market Watch in the midst of the Financial Crisis, the following artists are investment opportunities that could survive the downturn. William Eggleston – his photographs are in major museum collections Christian Marclay – major collectors likePeter Norton are fans Gabriel Orozco – has a solo show at the MOMA planned for 2009 Kehinde Wiley – collectors include Russell Simmons and LL Cool J
Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Christian Marclay, Gabriel Orozco, Kehinde Wiley, William Eggleston
P.S. 1 NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith
by ArtJetSet
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith is a stunning sculptural, visual, and olefactory experience discussing ritualism, spiritualism, and artistic production of a great display of talented artists. NeoHooDoo, a phrase coined by the poet Ishmael Reed in 1970, celebrates the practice of rituals, folklore, and spirituality in the Americas beyond the scope of organized religion. The endurance of these centuries-old traditions of magic and healing. Radcliffe Bailey’s sculpture of a ship plunging through a wave of piano key arms. Rebecca […]
Categories: New York • Tags: NeoHooDoo, PS1, Radcliff Bailey, Rebecca Balmore
P.S. 1
by ArtJetSet
P.S.1 is the Museum of Modern Art’s contemporary affiliate. It is really not that far out of the city, it is 3 stops east of the MoMA on the V train.From the exterior it looks like Art Jail, immense concrete walls that box in vast baren courtyards of gravel… you wonder who they are trying to keep out, or what they are trying to keep in.Each room of the interior, including the basement and the stairwells houses artworks.Norwegian artist Borre […]
Categories: New York • Tags: Borre Saethre, Leandro Erlich, PS1, William Kentridge
7 Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
by ArtJetSet
Sarah Thornton has just published her second book, Seven Days in the Art World. The Auction * The Crit * The Fair * The Prize * The Magazine * The Studio Visit * The Biennale Seven days, Seven Chapters, and numerous clever insights into the mysterious underbelly of the $12 million dollar stuffed shark beast! The Devil Wears Prada for the Art World, Thornton captivates and demystifies the art world in an accessible way. She shows how value is accrued […]
Categories: Book • Tags: Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World
theanyspacewhatever at Guggenheim
by ArtJetSet
The Guggenheim got a long deserved facelift, and is now sparkling new!!! theanyspacewhatever is the perfect title for this show. Scattered and not at all cohesive, with areas underconstruction, empty spaces, one space for a work whose only presence was in the audioguide (thank you Philippe Parreno) there was a lot of SPACE and a fair amount of WHATEVER. Overall it was a pleasure to be in the Guggenheim. A not serious, witty, ironic, group of compelling contemporary artists, seemed […]
Categories: New York • Tags: Guggenheim New York, Liam Gillick, Maurizio Cattelan, Rirkrit Tiravanija
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