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An untitled work by Jennifer Guidi, at her studio in the Glassell Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on Oct. 5, 2022. Her new show at David Kordansky Gallery reveals a spiritual sensibility and inspires the pleasures of looking. Im thinking of color as a way to connect a way to engage that invites people into a sense of aliveness, Guidi said. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times).
by Robin Pogrebin
LOS ANGELES, CA.- At a time of turmoil in the world inflation, political division, military conflict overseas Jennifer Guidis artwork can at first seem utopian, Pollyannaish, just plain pretty. And Guidi makes no bones about being inspired by suns, moons, flowers, birds and rainbows. Nor does she apologize for liking the color pink. But while easy on the eyes, her paintings and sculpture which go on view Saturday at David Kordansky Gallery here belie a depth and complexity that curators have increasingly come to recognize. Its more than it initially appears, said Heidi Zuckerman, director of the Orange County Museum, who is organizing a Guidi show next fall. Part of that is the complexity of the underpainting and what she hides underneath the surface. I think thats an interesting metaphor for women and the essence of who we are at our core. The pleasing quality of Guidis work also masks an edge her struggle to be respecte ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A detail from the interior of âAlignâ (2022), the centerpiece of Xaviera Simmonsâs exhibition at the Queens Museum in New York, Sept. 29, 2022. In contrast to the blunt message on the structureâs exterior, the interior is a place for visitors to watch videos and images of landscapes and an opportunity for respite and contemplation. (Jasmine Clarke/The New York Times).
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| Kasmin announces exclusive global representation of Robert Motherwell | | Sotheby's unveils full scope of forthcoming November sales of Modern & Contemporary Art | | Georgia Museum of Art and Terra Foundation team up | 
Robert Motherwell, Open No. 97: The Spanish House, 1969, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 92 1/2 x 114 1/2 inches, 235 x 290.8 cm. © 2022 Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by the Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin announced exclusive global representation of the work of Robert Motherwell in partnership with The Dedalus Foundation. Robert Motherwell (19151991) was one of the leading American artists of the twentieth century. He worked with a wide range of imagery, which reflected his acute awareness of the richness and complexity of human experience, and he was also the leading spokesperson for the Abstract Expressionists. The broad expressive range of his paintings includes the passionate and politically fraught Elegy to the Spanish Republic series, the austerely serene imagery of the Opens, and a large body of spontaneously executed works on canvas and paper. He was one of the most important collagists of the twentieth century, and he ... More | | 
Andy Warhols White Disaster [White Car Crash 19 Times]. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- As the market prepares for the biggest season it has ever seen, Sothebys today unveils the full contents of its New York Marquee auctions. Among the most valuable sales series ever staged by the company, this season is also distinguished by the remarkable freshness of the material on offer, the vast majority of which has not been seen on the market in a generation. Opening the season will be the hotly-anticipated sale of works from the collection of David M. Solinger - 23 exceptional works, each one with its own story to tell, and all bought soon after their creation, either directly from the artist or from those most closely connected with them. A highly successful lawyer who was a transformational force as President of the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art (the first person from outside the Whitney family to hold this position), David Solinger was at the vanguard of collecting in the post-war years, his collectio ... More | | 
John Singleton Copley, Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress, 1763. Oil on canvas, 50 1/4 à 39 3/4 inches. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.28. Photography © Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.
ATLANTA, GA.- On June 1, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia began a new partnership with the Terra Foundation for American Art when it received four oil paintings from the Terras renowned collection that will be on loan for the next four years. The collaboration also includes a grant for $25,000 each year of the loan to fund exhibitions and programming related to these works. The museum will work with the Terra Foundation to center marginalized and underrepresented perspectives in American art by pairing the foundations paintings with works from its own collection that resonate with these expanded narratives. Founded by Daniel J. Terra in 1978, the Terra Foundation houses a collection of more than 750 paintings by 242 artists, which it generously loans to an international variety of organizations ... More |
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| Galerie Templon opens an exhibition of works by Norbert Bisky' | | Phillips and Sight Unseen announce partnership in Los Angeles | | Ed Cross now representing British-Nigerian artist Abdulrazaq Awofeso Abdulrazaq Awofeso | 
Norbert Bisky, Time Warp, 2022, oil on canvas, huile sur toile, 170 x 130 cm, 67 x 51 in.
PARIS.- Norbert Bisky's last exhibition in Paris, which opened the day before the first lockdown in March 2020, had to close its doors as soon as it opened. His frustration resulted in Utopianistas, a post-pandemic and energetic Parisian exhibition that proposes to a brand new reading of the concept of utopia developed by Thomas Moore. The artist was born in 1970 in the GDR, his father a prominent member of the communist party. He has spent many years exploring the notion of political utopia, its practical ambiguities and the weight of ideology. The fall of the Berlin Wall and discovery of the West prompted him to embark on a career as an artist. He has drawn on this watershed moment, both historical and intimate, to build an exhilarating and engaged artistic practice. His oil paintings, their colours shimmering so brightly they can be blinding, borrow as much from the ... More | | 
Squeeze 1 Table, Christopher Norman
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Phillips and Sight Unseen are proud to announce an exciting partnership centering around the auction houses recently-launched outpost in Los Angeles. Through the collaboration, Sight Unseen will curate a rotating selection of contemporary design pieces for Phillips West Hollywood gallery space, to be exhibited alongside the auction houses consigned works of 20th century and contemporary art, design, jewelry, and watches. The first installation, on view in Phillips space at 9041 Nemo Street, includes the works of ten designers from California: Atelier de Troupe, BZIPPY, Casey McCafferty, Christopher Norman, LAUN, Michael Felix, Nicholas Bijan Pourfard, Objects for Objects, Ryan Belli, and Soft-Geometry. All of the pieces will be available for purchase through Sight Unseen. Phillips will also host a book launch on 9 November for How to Live with Objects, ... More | | 
Installation view.
LONDON.- Ed Cross has announced its representation of British-Nigerian artist Abdulrazaq Awofeso (b. 1978, Lagos, Nigeria). Ed Cross will present a solo exhibition of new work by Awofeso at 19 Garrett Street, London, in spring 2023. Widely known for his use of forgotten materials, Awofeso dismantles structures such as pallet boxes before using the timber to represent human figures. His installations and sculptures tell stories about different environments and the communities that live in them. Recently relocating from Lagos to Birmingham, Awofesos 2022 exhibition Out of Frame at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, was loaded with connotations of human migration, as well as referring to the artists own frequent journeys through African and Europe. For more than a decade, Awofeso has produced stand-alone figures formed of geometric wooden blocks. Part of his ongoing project Boujee ... More |
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| Maureen Paley opens its first exhibition at the gallery by New Zealand artist Fiona Connor | | Heide presents the first major Australian survey of one of the world's greatest woman sculptors | | Annet Gelink Gallery opens Pathways, Roger Hiorns' new exhibition | 
Fiona Connor, Community Notice Board (Firefighters), 2022, enclosed cork board, silkscreen and UV print on aluminum, pins, tape, staples, vinyl, surface treatments, 91.4 x 61 x 5.1 cm.
LONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting the first exhibition at the gallery by New Zealand artist Fiona Connor who is based in Los Angeles. Fiona Connors work draws attention to specific objects and architectural spaces and seeks to investigate and interact with social arenas such as public parks, night clubs or exhibition venues. By utilising processes of reproduction and simulation, Connors sculptural language challenges how we interpret often overlooked peripheral forms and spatial details within these sites of exchange and communication. Presented in this exhibition are examples of work from recent projects that are brought together for the first time, directing the viewers attention between various sites, materials, and states of being, while also engaging with the specific location of the gallery. Included are recreated bulletin boards that were found ... More | | 
Barbara Hepworth, Figure 1933. Alabaster and slate, 21 x 14.7 x 8 cm. Photo: © Tate. Barbara Hepworth © Bowness.
MELBOURNE.- This summer Heide Museum of Modern Art presents the first major survey in Australia of the celebrated British artist Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (19031975). A leading figure of modernist sculpture in Britain in the 20th century, Hepworth is best known for her organic abstract sculptures and pioneering method of piercing the form. Presented at Heide from 5 November 2022 to 13 March 2023, the exhibition Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium brings together more than forty works from significant international and national collections, introducing Australian audiences to Hepworths enduring oeuvre and remarkable story. Presented throughout Heides main galleries, the exhibition charts the trajectory of Hepworths artistic career. From early figurative carvings through to large-scale purely abstract forms in stone, wood and metal, the exhibition features works on loan from the collections of Tate Britain, The ... More | | 
For his latest paintings, Hiorns returned to the use of copper sulphate dissolution. This material he famously used for his Tuner Prize nominated work Seizure (2008), in which he cast an entire demolition-ready apartment in London in it, inciting a chemical process that filled the interior with sparkling blue and razor-sharp crystal formations.
AMSTERDAM.- Pathways, Roger Hiorns new exhibition at the Annet Gelink Gallery, is an aesthetic project that offers an alternative route to the limitations the present puts us under. In his work, Hiorns investigates material and form in the widest sense, pushing forward the tradition of sculpture by reusing and transforming existing objects. His work often consists of opposites on a formal and conceptual level. In attempting to grasp the object as a pure version of itself, Hiorns separates the power from the object, de fetishizes it. In so doing, he lays bare the way in which these objects impose a certain power onto us, while simultaneously proposing a way in which to fully comprehend our ... More |
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| Laguna Art Museum Dives into 'The Sea Around Us' with Rebeca Méndez | | Anne Schofield AM gifts extraordinary personal jewellery collection | | Konrad Fischer Galerie Düsseldorf opens an exhibition of works by Bruce Nauman | 
Rebeca Méndez, The Sea Around Us, 2022.
LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF.- Laguna Art Museum presents its 10th annual Art & Nature, a multidisciplinary exploration and celebration of arts various engagements with the natural world. The multi-faceted event is the museums largest public program of the year, bringing together thousands of participants to foster a love of nature, raise environmental awareness, and discover cross-sections between science and the arts. This years 10th annual Art & Nature Festival will once again bring the community together to appreciate the intimate connection between art and nature, said Julie Perlin Lee, Executive Director of Laguna Art Museum. The festival celebrates the museums long-standing history as a cultural center, offering in-depth programming and impactful exhibitions that honor the rich history of California art. Rebeca Méndez returns to Art & Nature as the featured artist with her newest project The Sea Around U ... More | | 
Ring, gold, ivory, pearls, hair, maker unknown, England, c. 1800. Photographer Ryan Hernandez.
SYDNEY.- Powerhouse today announced an unprecedented gift from Australias leading antique jewellery dealer, 100 rare pieces of historical gemstone jewellery, this acquisition is one of the most significant donations in the museums history. Anne Schofields personal jewellery collection includes works created between the 17th and early 20th centuries featuring an astonishing range of gemstones and techniques. Highlights from the Anne Schofield Collection include exquisitely crafted archaeological jewellery, 18th century hardstone intaglios, Carlo Giuliano earrings, an Egyptian-style lapis lazuli demi-parure, Art Nouveau dragonfly and wasp pedants, Cartier and Georg Jensen pieces and a French demi-parure with onyx cameos from 1820. Internationally renowned for her knowledge and passion for fine jewellery, Ms Schofield established her legendary boutique Anne ... More | | 
Work included in Bruce Nauman: Practice.
DUSSELDORF.- After the first presentation in Berlin, Konrad Fischer Galerie is showing Bruce Nauman's new video installation entitled Practice also in Düsseldorf. Since Six Sound Problems for Konrad Fischer, the artists first solo exhibition in Europe at Konrad Fischer in 1968, Konrad Fischer Galerie has held 19 solo exhibitions dedicated to Bruce Nauman and assisted in presenting his work at numerous exhibitions around the world. Nauman has repeatedly made his body, and in particular his hands, the object of his work. Practice shows the artist's hands slowly moving across on an old wooden table. In this process, the camera alternately shows the left and right hand, each of which draws one and the same mark on the tabletop. The apparently endlessly repeating gesture remains the same, forming an X over and over again. Nauman's work is inspired by reading the catalog Reservation X: The Power of Place from the First People's Hall at the Canadi ... More |
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, âTo Repel Ghosts,â 1985 | New York | November 2022
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 Magenta Plains opens an exhibition of works by Alex KwartlerNEW YORK, NY.- Magenta Plains
opened Eclipse, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Alex Kwartler. For this exhibition Kwartler has created a makeshift planetarium: large, multi-panel paintings of the constellations, dotted with smaller paintings of eclipses. Kwartlers paintings exhibit a material collapsing of the celestial and the everyday. Painted on plywood panels like the ubiquitous construction site barrier evident on so many New York streets, this starry sky is dotted with pennies, tin cans, Tums and telephone receivers. These lost objects of quarantined couch life are objects manqué for the deep potential locked in the night sky. As anachronistic objects of pure utility, they take on an iconographic quality due to their presumed obsolescence. While the objects appear haphazardly ... More  Oude Kerk opens a solo presentation by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim MahamaAMSTERDAM.- From 5 November 2022 to 19 March 2023, the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam presents Garden of Scars, the first Dutch solo presentation by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama. over 800 commemorative stones, composed of casts of Ghanaian monuments and the gravestones in the Oude Kerk, have been set up in the space. In the past ten years, Ibrahim Mahama has become an internationally respected artist who uses his work to draw attention to the cultural and social effects of international trade and migration. Commissioned by the Oude Kerk, Mahama has spent the past two years working on his new large-scale site-specific installation. Garden of Scars connects local history with an international context. Mahama places over 800 upright stones, composed of casts he made of the floor in the Old Church and the floors of Fort Elmina (1482) on the coast of Ghana, ... More  Dona Nelson presents 50 years of work at Thomas Erben GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Dona Nelson views the medium of painting as a material/conceptual construct. In ReFiguring, one painting at a time (1977 to 2022) on view now at Thomas Erben she presents to us how her work, over a career of 50 years, has evolved into its unique position, merging materiality with ideas and bodily experience. The works selected exemplify Nelson's original thinking, addressing such questions as What is painting space, How can painting address the viewer, and How can a painting be constructed to provoke physical as well as intellectual engagement in the viewer? Figuring out one canvas at a time, Nelson casts the medium onto unstable ground, connecting it to our reality of existing day by day. Since her participation in the first iteration of the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in 1968, Nelson has pursued an independently minded practice, countering Painting ... More  Rebecca Godfrey, author who found humanity in teenage violence, dies at 54NEW YORK, NY.- Rebecca Godfrey, who mapped the complex landscape of teenage transgression with exquisite detail and precise language in a novel, The Torn Skirt, and later in a nonfiction book, Under the Bridge, about a murder that became a cause célèbre in Canada, died on Oct. 3 in Manhattan. She was 54. Her agent, Christy Fletcher, said the cause of her death, in a hospital, was complications of lung cancer. In 1997, Godfrey was in her hometown, Victoria, British Columbia, where her novel was set, researching a juvenile detention center, because her troubled heroine would spend time in one. While there, she caught a glimpse of the teenagers who had been charged with the murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk, and she was caught off guard by their youth and vulnerability. Godfrey became captivated by the case and decided it would be the subject of her next ... More  Gerry Wedd's ceramics brought to life in immersive installation WAVE ADELAIDE.- Premiering as part of the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival, a genre-defying work of art that unites digital imagery, ceramics and sound opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia. In WAVE, Gerry Wedds mythic imagery is brought to life in an immersive 360-degree installation, accompanied by an evocative soundscape by Gabriella Smart and directed by Wedd, Smart and filmmaker Mark Patterson with digital production by Jumpgate VR. Comprised of three acts, WAVE invites visitors on an epic journey from sea to sky inspired by a major new ceramic urn created by Wedd following the tradition of narrative pottery which was used as a form of storytelling in antiquity. The work commences with Wedds urn spinning like a globe, inviting viewers into a landscape before European invasion, and abundant with life. The second act sees the arrival of a strange new reality, whereby vast urbanisation gives way to bu ... More  Douglas McGrath, playwright, filmmaker and actor, dies at 64NEW YORK, NY.- Douglas McGrath, a playwright, screenwriter, director and actor who was nominated for an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony Award, and whose one-man off-Broadway show, Everythings Fine, opened just weeks ago, died Thursday at his office in Manhattan. He was 64. His death was announced by the shows producers, Daryl Roth, Tom Werner and John Lithgow. Their representative said the cause was a heart attack. Lithgow also directed the show, a childhood recollection of McGraths about a middle-school teacher in Texas who gave him an inappropriate amount of attention. He was a dream to direct, Lithgow said Friday. None of us had ever worked with someone who was so happy, proud and grateful to be performing his own writing. McGrath had a wide-ranging if under-the-radar career in television, film and theater. In the 1980-81 season, just ... More  Against the grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley's art 'about nothing'NEW YORK, NY.- Art should be about nothing, my friend Liam Everett, an abstract painter, told me recently. It should be an encounter with a UFO, an unknown object you have to work out how to come to terms with. Its a provocative, hard-line position, one more fitted to an artist than a critic. But given arts recent turn toward the figurative, the literal, and the narrative, I too often find myself hankering for art that doesnt try to tell me things. What critic Peter Schjeldahl, writing on Piet Mondrian, recently termed obdurate mystery. Two exhibitions of abstract paintings are currently up in Los Angeles that fit that bill. At the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022 is a tour though this LA artists joyful and tenacious pursuit of invention and reinvention in abstract painting a genre considered, when Morris set out, to be moribund. ... More  Review: In 'Where the Mountain Meets the Sea,' missed connectionsNEW YORK, NY.- Migration doesnt necessarily have a set endpoint. Looking for belonging in an unfamiliar place, and lingering over memories of whats been left behind, can result in a perpetually itinerant state of mind. For the Haitian schoolteacher who legally gains passage to the United States in Where the Mountain Meets the Sea, that means giving up a fulfilling vocation to handle strangers baggage at the Miami airport while hoping to find love and start a family. Its evident that Jean (played with an almost childlike wonder by Billy Eugene Jones) gets his wish, because hes joined onstage by his son, Jonah (Chris Myers), who has moved across the country to study linguistics at UCLA another act of flight toward the unknown. Set apart in time and place, father and son each carry a microphone and address the audience in alternating confessional monologues. ... More  How female playwrights are adapting, and revamping, 'Macbeth'NEW YORK, NY.- When playwright Jiehae Park was in high school, applying for college was a competitive sport. One of her friends, she recounted recently, applied to every Ivy League college and only got into one: the University of Pennsylvania. Instead of feeling joy, her friend started weeping, bemoaning what she considered to be the inferior Ivy. Which is a bananas thing to say, Park noted. For her part, Park went to Amherst, not an Ivy League school. But that high school experience stayed with her, becoming the inspiration for Peerless, a Macbeth adaptation about twin sisters who are so determined to get into an elite college that they resort to murder. This Primary Stages production, onstage at 59E59 Theaters through Sunday, follows the major plot points of Macbeth, but the setting and story couldnt be more different: the cutthroat environment of college admissions ... More  Auction Life sale to offer MacKenzie-Childs collectibles on November 16thWEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- A trove of mackenzie-childs collectibles (and pieces inspired by mackenzie-childs) will headline Auction Lifes November 16th sale. The auction, online and live with limited available seating, will also feature gorgeous art glass, crystal, fine art, handbags, jewelry, porcelain, sculptures and more over 500 lots in all. Fans of MacKenzie-Childs the manufacturer of ceramics and retailer of hand-painted imported furniture and home décor, founded in 1983 by Victoria and Richard MacKenzie-Childs will have an opportunity to add to their collections in an auction slated for Wednesday, November 16th, by Auction Life, starting promptly at 2 pm Eastern time. The 513-lot auction is loaded with gorgeous art glass, crystal, fine art, handbags, jewelry, porcelain, sculptures and more, but also features an entire estate of perhaps the biggest MacKenzie-Childs fan ever. That person procured all of the Courtly Ch ... More  'Sam Gilliam: White and Black Paintings, 1975-1977' opens at David Kordansky GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- David Kordansky Gallery is presenting Sam Gilliam: White and Black Paintings, 19751977, on view in Los Angeles at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl. from November 5 through December 17, 2022. Sam Gilliam (19332022) is one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. Each stage of his six-decade career was characterized by a quest for reinvention, formal and material experimentation, and a desire to renew his audiencesand his ownunderstanding of what painting could become. White and Black Paintings, 19751977 brings together important works from a period when Gilliam experimented with color, texture, scale, and materiality in wholly new ways. Beginning with the White paintings, Gilliam built up sculptural, all-over surfaces dominated by layers of white paint made viscerally frenetic through the incorporation of hardening mediums that give ... 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Jean-Michel Basquiat in Montreal
Flashback On a day like today, French artist Maurice Utrillo died November 06, 1955. Maurice Utrillo (born Maurice Valadon (26 December 1883 - 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there. In this image: Maurice Utrillo, Ruelle des Gobelins à Paris, 1921, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Maurice, Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, signed, dated and titled on the reverse Maurice Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, 65 x 92 cm.
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