Category Archives: Gallery

Jon Kessler and Ryan McGinness at Deitch

March 20, 2009 by ArtJetSet

The very lovely director Mlle Nicola Vassel gave us a brilliant tour of the current two extremly different shows at Deitch Project Soho spaces. Ryan McGinness new works are florescent technocoloured silkscreens of icons, interlaced and layered upon each other, echoing the noise of the everyday and technology. McGuinness designs his own icons, ranging from people, to calculators, to arrows, trees, etc.I especially like this green one, the 2D icons layer and grow into a very naturalistic organic feeling techno […]

Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Deitch Project, Jon Kessler, Ryan McGuinness

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Memories of the Future, Jakob Kolding at Team Gallery

March 17, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Team Gallery presents a fun show by Danish born Berlin based Jakob Kolding. Cultural collisions in the contemporary city, we have a melding of architecture, urbanisms, grafitti, skateboarding, electronic music, nature and technology in these printbased mixed media works.

Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Jakob Kolding, Team Gallery

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Juliana Romano at Marvelli Gallery

March 2, 2009 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

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Jacob Kassay at Eleven Rivington

February 28, 2009 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

February 23, 2009 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

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Sigumoto at Gagosian

February 16, 2009 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

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Thomas Hirschorn

February 15, 2009 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

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On Kawara One Million Years

February 11, 2009 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

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Fashion Photography and the Defunct Gallery Space

February 8, 2009 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

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Francesca DiMattio at Salon 94 Freemans

January 29, 2009 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

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Peter Doig: New Paintings

January 22, 2009 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

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John Beech at Peter Blum Gallery Soho

January 20, 2009 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

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Cindy Sherman, new works at Metro Pictures

December 29, 2008 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

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Kehinde Wiley at Deitch Project

November 26, 2008 by ArtJetSet

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

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David LaChapelle at Tony Sharfazi

October 15, 2008 by ArtJetSet

David LaChapelle, always very Hollywood and more and more bling! Really enjoyed these 3D photos printed on cardboard assembled in a four car pile-up diarama.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: David LaChapelle, Toni Sharfazi

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Annika Von Hausswolf at Casey Kaplan

October 2, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Casey Kaplan presents a solo show by Annika Von Hausswolf, titled ‘I Am the Runway of Your Thoughts’ I love the title of this exhibition. The dreamy romantic title is as alluring as the gorgeous photos of a model plane flying towards her open mouth. The fragmented scenes and the pairing of black and white and colour prints create a dynamic narrative.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Annika Von Hausswolf, Casey Kaplan

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Banksy and New York Street Art

October 1, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Famed British grafitti artist Banksy lands in New York with an obscure exhibition at the West Village Pet Shop and Charcoal Grill. Some of the highlights were Chicken nuggets feeding off of sauce in chicken coups. Typical Banksy rats in the city began popping up all over as well.

Categories: Graffiti, New York - SOHO, Street Art • Tags: Art in New York City, Banksy, Pet Shop and Charcoal Grill

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Cecily Brown at Gagosian

September 28, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Cecily Brown large abstracted paintings are an explosion of sensual vibrancy and movement. Yes, they are abstracted, yet there are elements of figures and body parts that seem to uncover themselves just below the surface.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Cecily Brown, Gagosian New York

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Rashawn Griffin at Smith Stewart

September 24, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Rashawn Griffin at Smith Stewart Gallery New York based artist Rashawn Griffin senstive poetic installation is comprised of collaged drawings and wall framings. He stretched denims and fabrics around entire portions of the walls in the gallery to frame the architecture as a component of this intimate work. The drawings are collaged and sketched, and the walls extend out in dialogue with the framed pieces.

Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Rashawn Griffin, Smith Stewart

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Charles Stankievech at Galerie Donald Browne

July 31, 2008 by ArtJetSet

By far one of the most compelling artists works I saw in Montreal were the sound sculptures of Charles Stankievech at Galerie Donald Browne. Horror Vacui counterpoints the transparency of sight with the density of sound. Using Alvin Lucier’s compositional technique of reiterative recording, turn-of-the-century vacuum bell jars become the instruments to create micro-soundscapes. The lyrics of the Velvet Underground, in the bell jars haunting whisper “If you close the door, the night could last forever. Leave the sunshine out, […]

Categories: Montreal • Tags: Charles Stankievech, Galerie Donald Browne, sound sculpture

Canadian University Galleries – UQAM

July 29, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Gallerie UQAM (Gallery of the University of Quebec at Montreal) has held celebrated exhibitions of darling artists like Douglas Gordon, as well as Canadian art darlings Janet Cardiff with George Bures Miller, and David Altmejd. Current exhibition at UQAM highlighting work by Viennese artist Erwin Wurm entitled Désespéré/Desperate, that take a critical but playful look at our desire to fit into the world around us. Irreverent, openly incorrect and gifted with a cutting wit, this Viennese artist questions the […]

Categories: Montreal • Tags: Erwin Wurm, UQAM

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Clint Roenisch

July 28, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Clint Roenisch gallery shows great works inside, but exudes the Badass ArtStar trend of the moment from the exterior. Roenisch gives you handwritten, barred out and rescribbled, graffiti chic rock and roll. He was also known for using goldstar stickers for sold paintings, though I am not certain if that is still in practice.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Clint Roenisch

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Lilian Rodriguez Gallery Teach Me Tonight Group Show

July 19, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Galerie Lilian Rodriguez Teach Me TonightA group exhibit revolving around the subjects of Night, Dreams, Love and Hope The night is the symbol of sleep and death, dreams and fears, love and tenderness, deceptions and conspiracies. It is full of the promise of new beginnings: “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof“(Matthew 6:34). However, it also provides the backdrop for nightmares […]

Categories: Montreal • Tags: Elena Willis et Jason Sanchez, Jannick Deslauriers, Lilian Rodriguez Gallery, Sylvie Moisan

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SKOL (Centre des arts Actuels) Montreal

July 16, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Skol’s mandate is to present the work of artists and theorists in the early stages of their careers, particularly those whose work is accompanied by critical thinking.Its goal is to privilege the promising practices of the future; to establish the conditions for facilitating the involvement of artists by creating a participatory space which contributes to the centre’s visibility; and to give greater space to spontaneous initiatives and to partnerships in order to better respond to the community’s needs. Skol has […]

Categories: Montreal • Tags: SKOL (Centre des arts Actuels) Montreal

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Parisian Laundry

July 12, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Parisian Laundry is a phenomenal Montreal gallery, featuring up and coming young Canadian talent like Alyssa Andrews, Alex Da Corte, Janet Werner, Jennifer Lefort, and the trio collective BGL.

Categories: Montreal • Tags: Alex Da Corte, Alyssa Andrews, BGL, Janet Werner, Jennifer Lefort, Parisian Laundry

372, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest Montreal

July 12, 2008 by ArtJetSet

372, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest is a multi-tenant space home to many fantastic art galleries, as well as music dance and martial arts studios. If you want to see great contemporary art and take a belly dancing class to the soundtrack of an orientalist remix of Jay-Z’s Big Pimping… 372, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest is the place were it will happen!

Categories: Montreal • Tags: 372, Multi tenant art space, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest

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Corkin Gallery Ryoko Suzuki

June 15, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Corkin Gallery in Toronto’s Distillery district not only features remarkable photographers, but the exhibition space itself is an architectural delight. The structure in the historic distillery retains the exposed brick enhancing the effect of the high ceilings with frosted glass walls. The recent exhibition for Contact, featured Japanese photographer Ryoko Suzuki who as a feminist artist critiques the fetishized japanime doll heroine body with her own face. Remarkably skilled the juxtaposition is uncanny and well emphasizes the point of […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Corkin Gallery, Japanime, Ryoko Suzuki

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Marc Séguin: Roadkill

June 15, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Mark Séguin is the hottest shocking Ottawa born painter of the moment. His works are provocative nostalgic and familiar. His reoccuring guy in a hoodie is every where out side, yet in his paintings cast an erie familiarity in the scenes that make you never want to go camping again. His works are a brilliant mix of folklore and contemporary media.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Marc Séguin

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Toni Hafkenscheid at Birch Libralato

June 2, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Toni Hafkenscheid’s exhibition titled Confabulation at Birch Libralato gallery is an absolute must see. Hafkenscheid creates these stunning bird’s eye photos that recall hazy childhood memories in an sublime idealism. The Birch Libralato is a powerhouse gallery representing star artists like Kelly richardsonPaul de Guzman, Michelle Gay, Kelly Richardson, Shaan Syed, Micah Lexier, Euan Macdonald, Steve Reinke and David Altmejd.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Birch Libralato Gallery, Toni Hafkenscheid

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Rosangela Renno, The Last Photograph at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art

May 29, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art The acclaimed Brazilian artist Rosangela Renno invited photographers to capture landmarks using different cameras. The actual cameras are exhibited along side the photos, enriching the significance of the media, tactililty, and an art form advancing towards digitization. My favorite was the Holga and its image of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Rosangela Renno

YYZ Gallery I_wanna_see_YOU_[Y.Y.Z.Ca_DE_overslag.nl]

May 24, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Yes… the YYZ gallery put on an increadable show with a horribly complicated name. I_wanna_see_YOU_ is a show created by 4 Dutch artists who came to Toronto and built an exhibition around their preceptions of Toronto and Torontonians. This piece was fantastic. Postcards from around the world, with TORONTO printed on each one in the direct center of the card. Perhaps a comment on our brilliant multiculturalism, perhaps a comment on our diverse landscape, its true, from the Danforth’s Greektown […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: I_wanna_see_YOU_[Y.Y.Z.Ca_DE_overslag.nl], Robin van’t Haar, YYZ Gallery

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Yam Lau at Leo Kamen Gallery

April 27, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Redefining pictorial space in art and media, Yam Lau creates a 3D perception from a 2D animation of his bedroom, on view at Leo Kamen Gallery. It’s morning, I would guess a sunday morning. Yam Lau creates a spinning cube reflecting on each outer surface simultaneously like a mirror, the slow waking and rising from bed. The reconception and refiguration of space is the most astonishing part of this work.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Leo Kamen Gallery, Yam Lau

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HOT Canadian Galleries

April 14, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Montreal’s Galerie SAS featuring artists like Karine Giboulo who creates sculptures of ironic miniature interiors. Calgary’s Skew Gallery featuring artists like Matt Crookshank who does stunning abstract works, and Terrance Houle dynamic contemporary Aboriginal artist. Toronto’s Greener Pastures featuring André Ethier, an increadible artist, paintings are erie and striking. Toronto’s LE Gallery next big thing artist Katie Pretti, Nicholas Di Genova, and Dalek. Vancouver’s Tracey Lawrence Gallery, feature photographer-performance artist Tim Lee, iconic Jason McLean who’s freeform photo drawings are […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Galerie SAS, Greener Pastures, LE Gallery, Skew Gallery, Tracey Lawrence Gallery

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Yasumasa Morimura at Thaddeaus Ropac

April 14, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The brilliant and funny Yasumasa Morimura exhibition titled Requiem for the XX Century at Thaddeus Ropac. Morimura transforms himself into heroic and iconic portraits. This portrait of himself as Che was hung facing a small video screen previewing the live recording of the character.Morimura’s work has used icons from Western Art historical traditions, for this exhibition as a reference he used very iconic cultural historic figures.

Categories: Paris • Tags: Thaddeaus Ropac, Yasumasa Morimura

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Xavier Veilhan at Emmanuel Perrotin

April 12, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery has two locations, one at 76 rue de Turenne and the other just down the street at 10 impasse Saint Claude. Xavier Veilhan’s feature exhibition titled Furtivo, which means movement, was an akward juxtaposition of works. Singularly you can see how each piece is negoting the theme of movement, yet the exhibition lacked unity. At rue de Turenne, a shark, then legs underwater of galloping horses, then these automatic self-functioning air hockey tables. Mechanical, cold, yes […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Xavier Veilhan

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ORLAN at Galerie Michel Rein

April 10, 2008 by ArtJetSet

ORLAN, she is her own canvas. Since the begining of her career she has used (by photographic documentation) her surgical and medical interventions as her artform. All the works are in ORLAN’s exhibition at Galerie Michel Rein are titled Refiguration Self-hybridation, indian-american series. The use of lightboxes was interesting. Very selfobessed in an Orlan way.

Categories: Paris • Tags: Galerie Michel Rein, Orlan

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Barney Kulok at Galerie Hussenot

April 9, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Barney Kulok is a great contemporary photographer who’s work comments on surveillance, and the cracks between the spaces around us… looking objectively at common places. The lower level of the Galerie Hussenot, is a great big open white space. The prints are massive, yet you still manage to feel really small in the big void of empty space. In the context of this particular show of Barney Kulok, it worked. The gallery space echoed what we feel in Kulok’s photos.The […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Barney Kulok, Contemporary Photography, Galerie Hussenot

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Barbara Prézeau and Inés Tolentino at JM’Arts

April 6, 2008 by ArtJetSet

I had never heard of the The JM’Arts gallery at 36, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris, walking past I was loured in by the glittering icons in Barbara Prézeau’s painting in the front window. This exhibition featured to female artists of west Caribean origins, Prézeau from Haiti, and Inés Tolentino from the Domincan Republic. In an adherently feminist method, both artists use embroidery in their works. Prézeau creates complex alters to the Virgin Mary. Her use of mashup mixed media, found […]

Categories: Paris, Uncategorized • Tags: Barbara Prézeau, Inés Tolentino, JM’Arts

Galerie Agnes B PostPunk ColdWave

April 5, 2008 by ArtJetSet

DANSEZ!! Glowed in the entrance of the collective show at Agnes B Galerie du Jour!Featuring music, photos, and memoriabilia about the music scene in France from 1978-1983.This exhibition is a fun. Polaroids, concert posters, and listen rare or unreleased listening stations, gives a priviledged glance into a great musical era! Also a remarkable indicator of the current revival in Post punk ColdWave, seen in new music and fashion. I could relate to this show as North American doing Blondie and […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Agnes b, Cold Wave, Phillipe Huart, Post Punk

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Philippe Bradshaw at Thaddaeus Ropac

March 23, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Philippe Bradshaw hangs coloured chains to create these stunning vibrant murals or more like tapistry.Using Pop Art Warhol-esque symbols and icons, other times superimposing video projections, the layers of chains which create a massive swaying tableau.

Categories: Paris • Tags: Philippe Bradshaw, Thaddeaus Ropac

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