Works on Paper, Guy Goodwin's Third Solo Show at NYC-based Brennan & Griffin

June 2, 2014, 9:17 am

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Guy Goodwin,Chicken Finger Palace, 2014, Acrylic and tempera on cardboard, Images Courtesy of the Brennan & Griffin

From June 8th to July 13th, 2014 the New York City-based Brennan & Griffin is presenting the gallery's third solo exhibition entitled "Works on Paper" by New York artist Guy Goodwin (BFA, Auburn University '63, MFA, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana '65)which was designed as a companion to Goodwin's previous exhibition "New Paintings" that were on view at the gallery on April.

Throughout his career, Goodwin, 74, has explored the material, structural, and formal limitations of painting, resulting in several distinctive, but related bodies of work.

Each major body of paintings is preceded by a series of works on paper where the forms, palettes, materials, and architecture of the paintings are designed and loosely assembled.

The works being exhibited are culled from three bodies of work: I Tread The Dark (1977 -1979), Food Paintings (2005 - 2008), and his most recent Cardboard Paintings (2010 - present).

Hotel Motel - IN, 2014, Acrylic and tempera on cardboard

In the earliest works on view, made over the course of two years in the late 1970s, Goodwin has drawn overlapping, curving forms in black oil-stick.

Here, the artist's daily drawing practice illustrates his interest in building a density of simple shapes that hover somewhere between abstraction and text.

These drawings became the blueprints for the richly pigmented wooden shapes that Goodwin amassed into the heaving, improvised structures that characterized his late-70s era paintings.

Goodwin's most recent works have extended his interest in painting in relief and the use of unconventional materials in his vibrantly colored paintings on cardboard.

Two years ago in April, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith referred to Goodwin's new paintings as his best of his career so far. "They are laugh-out-loud beautiful with an upholstered, cartoonish and joyful effect."

An Opening Reception will take place on Sunday from 6 to 8PM. Brennan & Griffin, 55 Delancey Street, New York, NY, 10002.

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Cuban-born Artist Carlos García de la Nuez at the Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami Beach

June 3, 2014, 6:51 am

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Carlos García de la Nuez, La Semilla 2011, Mixed media on canvas, Images Courtesy of the artist and Guijarro de Pablo.

A private evening event will take place this coming Thursday, June 5th, 2014 from 6 to 8PM at the Ritz-Carlton Residences in Miami Beach for Havana-born, Mexico City-based artist Carlos García de la Nuez (Academia de Artes de San Alejandro, Cuba '79, BA, Instituto Superior Arte, Cuba 83, MFA, College of Art, Boston '88) hosted by Lionheart Capital and by the Mexico City-based gallery Guijarro de Pablo.

García de la Nuez, 54, is an outstanding figure among the group that marked the generational rupture in Cuban abstract painting and the first Cuban artist to be awarded with the Rockefeller Scholarship.

A turning point in the history of Cuban abstract art took place in Cuba during the early 80s when García de la Nuez along with Gustavo Acosta, José Franco and Moisés Finalé participated in a collective exhibition entitled "4x4."

Mi Estrella, 2007, Mixed media on canvas

In the show, García de la Nuez stood out individually amongst the group, as a teacher, painter and active participant in Havana's cultural scene demonstrating throughout his practice a singular painting technique that marked a turning point in the Cuba's visual arts scene at the time.

Since 2000, the artist's work oscillates between the abstract and the symbolic, using significant resources of aesthetic sublimation such as color, texture and over scale.

In Miami, his work was recently showcased with Guijarro de Pablo in Art Miami 2013 and Art Wynwood 2014.

His work can be found in public collections such as the permanent collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba, The Jumex Collection, Mexico City, The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The Museum of Costa Rican Art, San José, Costa Rica, Housatonic Museum of Art, Connecticut, Regional Art Museum. Morelia, México and the Museum of Art of Queretaro, Mexico.

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Adaptation, A Collateral Event of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

June 3, 2014, 9:51 am

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EMGdotArt Foundation, Adaptation, Installation view, 2014, an Official Collateral Event of the 14ˆVenice Architecture Biennale, Image Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

This coming Thursday June 5th, 2014 at 5PM, a collateral event entitled "Adaptation" will be inaugurated as part of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Veneziataking place at Palazzo Zen, a new cultural venue renovated by the Chinese architectural studio O-OFFICE of Guangzhou.

Organized by EMGdotART Foundation and curated by Marino Folin & MovingCities, the exhibition is on view from Saturday June 7th through November 23rd, 2014.

During the past two decades, the architectural profession in China has changed significantly in order to respond to new and diverse demands.

In contrast to the tremendous and largely anonymous production by large-scale design institutes, several small-scale architecture studios have come to the foreground.

They showcase a personalised and pluriform architectural practice –oftentimes through critical involvement with the client and context.

Their projects can be found in locales ranging from urban frontiers, post-industrial clusters, and rural or remote areas.

In China, the architectural or urban project is something that can be changed, transformed, and challenged at any moment and by any means.

Architectural proposals are not presented with the fundamental ambition to be realized as initially conceived, rather they represent a flexible spatial, formal and tectonic idea that inevitably will be adapted, all the way from concept to completion.

Adaptation introduces and interprets an important moment in time and shows, how across different generations, Chinese architects develop innovative strategies when faced with constraints imposed by context or capital.

Absorbing the client’s demands, works are constructed while facing a waning of traditional craft, but illustrate a construction culture in development.

This exhibition gives insight - through a selection of case studies spanning generations of architectural practice- into the expectations, experience and expertise developed in various scales, locations, and climates.

Adaptation is a mirror for Chinese architects, their production and context; a focused lens for outsiders to look at today’s evolution of the architectural profession in China.

Invited architectural firms: Trace Architecture Office (TAO) [Beijing]; standardarchitecture [Beijing]; META-Project [Beijing]; LIXIAODONG ATELIER [Beijing]; TM Studio [Shanghai]; Scenic Architecture [Shanghai]; Atelier DESHAUS [Shanghai]; Zhaoyang Studio [Dali]; O-OFFICE [Guangzhou]; Atelier Chen Haoru [Hangzhou]; LYCS Architecture [Hangzhou].

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Appreciating and Accepting Life's Circumstances, California-born Photographer Alison Turner's Vanscapes

June 4, 2014, 10:32 am

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Alison Turner, Vanscapes, 2014, Images Courtesy of the artist

This WUM's REBLOG post via NPR's on Tumblr and L E N S C R A T C H is to celebrate the work by Southern California-born photographer Alison Turner whose most recent work entitled "Reflected Identities" was featured on April in National Geographic's PROOF.

In 2008, Turner decided she needed a change from her work in corporate advertising.

She rented her house and for the next three years, she lived with her dog Maggie out of her car and a tent.

When she had enough money saved, she bought a van and traveled the U.S. visiting 48 states, a solo dream travel vacation that many people wish to accomplish in their lifetime.

During her travels, she continued with a drinking habit until one day she picked up the camera and started taking pictures instead. It was her own process of becoming sober while traveling the road.

Last April, Turner decided to have another solo dream trip, but this time far away in New Zealand, to live in a rented van just like she did in America.

Unfortunately, her adventure was suddenly transformed when within hours of landing in her first stop, all of her possessions were stolen.

"It was a shock to see all of my bags gone, but I didn't get that upset since my three most important possessions -passport, wallet and iPhone- were on me,"Alison Turner said.

Accepting and appreciating life's dramatic turnaround, the artist followed her intuition and for the next three weeks, she took photos everyday of the most beautiful places, and thus a new series honoring both, her rented van and her dream escape became a reality in Vanscapes, 2014.

"Instead of the common 'I wish you were here' postcard, I posted several of my 'Vanscapes' on Instagram (@alisontravels) from inside of the van looking out so they would get the feeling that they were with me," she added.

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15 Site-specific Art Works at Parcours, Art Basel 2014

June 4, 2014, 11:03 am

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Gottfried Bechtold, Panamera, 2007-2013, Galerie Krinzinger, Images Courtesy of Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna and Art Basel

From June 19th- 22nd, Art Basel in Switzerland will be inaugurating its 2014 show presented by its Lead Partner UBS showcasing 280 of the world’s leading galleries.

Parcours, an official sector of Art Basel, looks to engage with Basel’s past and present by weaving artistic interventions into the fabric of the specific location each edition inhabits.

Florence Derieux, Director of FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, will curate Parcours for the second year.

The sector will open to the public with Parcours Night on Wednesday, June 18, and will include special one-off performances by Guido van der Werve and Mario García Torres.

Parcours will be sited in various locations around the Rheingasse in Kleinbasel, featuring a total of 15 site-specific art works by internationally recognized artists: Francesco Arena, Darren Bader, Gottfried Bechtold, Pierre Bismuth, Jean-Luc Blanc, Chris Burden, Ryan Gander, Mario García Torres, Mark Handforth, Iman Issa, João Penalva, Seth Price, Eva Rothschild, Guido van der Werve, and Zeng Fanzhi.

Eva Rothschild, This and This and This, 2013, Eva Presenhuber; Stuart Shave/Modern Art Image Copyright the artist, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich and Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich

Zeng Fanzhi, Untitled, 2014, Image Courtesy of Zeng Fanzhi Studio, Image Courtesy of

Gagosian Gallery

Mark Handforth, Tilted Shadow, 2013, Image Courtesy the artist and Galleria Franco Noero; Gavin Brown’s enterprise; The Modern Institute; Eva Presenhuber

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Fe Ciega, Blind Faith: Argentinian-born Photographer Marcos López at PhotoEspaña 2014

June 5, 2014, 8:11 am

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Marcos López, Cristo en Ipad, 2013, Ed. 2/10, Inkjet print hand colored, Image Courtesy of the artist and gallery

From today, Thursday June 5th to July 5th, 2014, the Madrid-based gallery Fernando Pradilla will be presenting for this year's edition of PhotoEspaña the works by one of the most prominent Latin American artists within the contemporary photography scene, Argentinian born artist Marcos López.

With a long professional trajectory of creating distinctive visual language in his photographs, López, 55, has developed a line of work marked by his life experience.

At Fernando Pradilla, "Fe Ciega" or Blind Faith consists of fifteen photographs shot last year in the city of Toledo, Spain, a selection of works from the artist's series devoted to El Greco and the City of Toledo which were part of the photo project entitled "Toledo Contemporánea" included in the exhibition program celebrating the fourth centenary of the death of El Greco.

Marcos López reprises his autobiography as a starting point for rethinking the world around him. He inquires into its moral standards, in faith, and also in what he believes and what upsets him.

With a critical eye, sometimes sarcastic and corrosive, his work has paved the memories of a life immersed within restrictive contexts such as the atmosphere found in his Catholic middle class provincial school led by Catholic priests whose absolutely-structured securities were both orthodox and classic.

In Toledo, López lived an intense mixture of sensations, from the connection with the religious superficiality and skepticism. The result are photographs that speak of faith, family and personal history.

"In Toledo, I entered some sort of mystical state, at times half-bipolar in which I found myself walking in circles inside a cathedral and connecting with the Christian faith of my mother, of my Spanish grandparents, and those emotions led me to exaggerated states of lucidity," said Marcos López.

To produce his body of work, the artist mixed those feelings with El Greco, with the idea of Toledo as the epicenter of cultural crossroads.

And he found them in his distinctive way, excessive and colorful, mixing and overlaying textures in his mystical vision of the ancient City of Toledo, one that is recreated in its interior, from a hotel room or inside a cathedral, with its iconic and kitsch representations to conceive his final images as an act of blind faith.

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Mnuchin Gallery To Present Historical Masterworks at Art Basel 2014

June 5, 2014, 9:46 am

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John Chamberlain, Miss Remember Ford, 1964, Painted metal-flaked, and chromium-plated steel, Private collection. © 2012 John Chamberlain/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image Courtesy of L&M Arts, New York  and Mnuchin Gallery.

Mark Bradford,White Girl, 2002, Acrylic, end papers, Xerox Paper and foil, on canvas, Image by Tom Powel Imaging, Inc. Courtesy Mnuchin Gallery

From June 19th to 22nd, 2014, the New York City-based gallery Mnuchin will be showcasing (Hall 2, Booth E9) historical masterworks alongside examples by leading contemporary artists at Art Basel 2014 in Switzerland.

Referencing its history of museum-quality monographic exhibitions, the gallery will showcase an anodized aluminum-and-Plexiglas stack by Donald Judd, alongside a mobile by Alexander Calder and a crushed metal sculpture by John Chamberlain.

Contemporary highlights will include paintings by Mark Bradford and Christopher Wool.

Lexicon for John Chamberlain: "Though a friend and admirer of many poets, John Chamberlain rarely claimed to be one.

However, his love of language, words, puns, and allusions, the sound of certain words, and even the typographic shapes of letterforms provided a fertile outlet for him to create the multilayered and sometimes humorous or off-color titles attached to his artworks.

The titles arose from his readings and observations, from suggestions by acquaintances, and occasionally writing single words on index cards and shuffling them to arrive at nonsensical combinations that struck a visual or verbal association for the artist.

While sometimes tangentially autobiographical or sourced from popular culture, Chamberlain’s titles rarely make direct reference to the form or content of the individual work.

Chamberlain’s recent practice of combining words into one uninterrupted string of capitalized letters complicates defining which individual words appear in the title.

Miss Remember Ford, 1964: a wordplay on a monthly magazine or calendar pinup girl (e.g., Miss September) and the American car company founded by Henry Ford in 1903."The Guggenheim Museum.

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Au Panthéon! Encapsulating the Humanistic & Universal Values by the Panthéon

June 6, 2014, 8:56 am

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Images Courtesy of JR, rue Sedaine, Paris

The restoration work being carried out on the Panthéon, at the Place du Panthéon in the 5th arrondissement in Paris, is one of the largest projects in Europe and the monumental self-supporting scaffolding system is a great technical feat.

The Centre des Monuments Nationaux has chosen to commission French artist JR to create a participatory work which was inaugurated on Wednesday June 4th, 2014 and is now open to the public.

Inspired by his INSIDE OUT project, JR's installation with thousands of faces collected in March 2014 encapsulates the humanistic and universal values embodied by the Panthéon (1758-1790), a masterpiece created by architect and designer Jacques-Germain Soufflot and architect Jean-Baptiste Rondelet on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in Paris.

JR’s installation covers the dome, the cupola, and the floor of the Panthéon.

The outside artwork will be exposed throughout construction on the Pantheon’s upper parts, whereas the inside installation will remain until October 5th, 2014.

Some of the most notable French personalities of all time are interred in the Panthéon: Comte de Mirabeau, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Baptiste Treilhard, Jean Lannes, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Leon Gambetta, Alexandre Dumas, and many others.

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How Can We Perceive Photography as an Art Object?

June 6, 2014, 10:03 am

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Jeff Wall, Boxing, 2011, kleurfoto, Image Courtesy of van de kunstenaar

How can we perceive photography as an art object, considering the influences of magazines, film, and different techniques such as assemblage?

On Sunday, June 15th, 2014 at 3PM, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Science4Arts now, will present a mini-symposium in conjunction with the exhibition entitled "Jeff Wall: Tableaux Pictures Photographs 1996 – 2013" exploring contemporary thinking on photography as a (hybrid) art object.

Featuring acclaimed speakers such as David Campany (reader in photography at the media, arts, and design department of the University of Westminster), Helen Westgeest (lecturer at Leiden University), Caroline von Courten (researcher at Science4Arts), and Monica Marchesi (conservator, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam).

In conjunction with the exhibition Jeff Wall: Tableaux Pictures Photographs 1996 – 2013, the Stedelijk Museum and the Science4Arts NWO present a mini-symposium that explores contemporary thinking on photography as an (hybrid) art object. Featuring acclaimed speakers such as David Campany (Reader in Photography at the Media, Arts and Design department of the University of Westminster Watford Road London), Helen Westgeest (Lecturer at Leiden University), Caroline von Courten (researcher at Science4Arts) and Monica Marchesi (conservator Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam), during this afternoon the speakers discuss from both a theoretical perspective as well as from the perspective of the object the question: how can we perceive photography as an art object, considering the influences of magazines, film and different techniques such as assemblage? - See more at: http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/calendar/forum/jeff-wall-photography-as-an-hybrid-art-object#sthash.SVgGPjcw.dpuf

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Gucci To Collaborate with Spinello Projects' Artist Canadian Painter Kris Knight

June 6, 2014, 10:55 am

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Gucci 2015 Resort Collection inspired by Canadian-born artist Kris Knight, Images Courtesy of Gucci and Spinello Projects

Miami-based Spinello Projects has announced that   Gucci Creative Director Italian Fashion Designer Frida Gianninihas partnered with Canadian-born artist Kris Knight (B.A Honours Ontario College of Art & Design, '03) for the new Gucci 2015 Resort Collection creating a floral print featuring plants that have historically been used by women to seduce, command power over men, and otherwise provide protection.

This is not the first time Knight's work influences a Gucci collection. Earlier this year, Giannini's Fall 2014 Menswear Collection was inspired by Knight's chalky drawings and dusty pastel colors.  

"I went beyond the flower box and picked botanical that either blossomed at night, dawn, or dusk, but also chose plants that have strong roots for adaptability, persistence, and resistance in harsh environments," said Kris Knight in a press release for the collection.

Knight, 33, is an artist that draws personal histories of rural escapism through imagination painting mythical and ambiguous characters that are lost between youth and adulthood.

His work examines performance in relation to the construction, portrayal and boundaries of sexual and asexual identities creating portraits that are a synthesis of fantasy and real-world memory as they tiptoe between the dichotomies of pretty and menace, hunter and hunted, innocence and the erotic.

In December 2014, Spinello Projects will present a solo show by Kris Knight during Art Basel Miami Beach.

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59 Suspended Triangles Pulsing with Light by NY-based Artist Jamie Zigelbaum at Design Miami/ Basel

June 6, 2014, 11:54 am

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Jamie Zigelbaum's Rendering of Triangular Series Design Miami/ Basel 2014 Commission, Images and Video Courtesy of Design Miami/ Basel

New York-based designer Jamie Zigelbaum (B.A. Human Computer Interaction Tufts University '06, Master's Media Arts & Sciences, MIT Media Lab '08) will create an immersive spectacular installation commission entitled "Triangular Series" for Design Miami/Basel’s 2014.

Every June, Design Miami/ Basel commissions a monumental work by an early- career architect or designer offering a platform for experimentation and engagement with an international audience.

The Design Commissions are a biannual event, taking place in June as part of Design Miami/ Basel and in December as part of Design Miami/.

Suspended from the ceiling of the entrance hall of the Herzog & De Meuron-designed Basel Exhibition Centre, the forms that make up Jamie Zigelbaum’s Triangular Series resemble highly evolved stalactites, blurring the boundary between life and not-life.

Pulsing with light and responding with a unique sensitivity to the people sharing the space with them, 59 large, suspended tetrahedra of varying sizes will be scattered throughout the space to create an all-encompassing, immersive environment for visitors as they arrive and depart the fair.

Constructed from translucent acrylic, the refined forms of Triangular Series are the outer shells of a highly sophisticated interactive system.

The heart of each form is a synthesis of custom electronics, including high-power LEDs, advanced sensors and software that allows each form to communicate with both individuals in the space, as well as each other.

Each form has a luminous respiratory system, a gentle rhythm of illumination that is uniquely its own.

As visitors approach each object, their respiration changes and the forms react. The tetrahedrals also communicate with each other, synchronizing rhythms of illumination through an invisible, digitally-mediated dialogue.

While each form is itself an individual, synthetic organism, together they act as one—an emergent presence that transcends each’s individuality.

In designing Triangular Series, Zigelbaum, 35, was interested in communicating the concept of entrainment—a phenomenon affecting both the organic and inorganic worlds by which rhythms fall in step with one another.

Entrainment is seen, for example, in the synchronized flashing of Malaysian fireflies, in the human heart rate, and in the way that pendulum clocks placed close to one another will gradually assume the same period.

The inventor of the pendulum, Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, first observed the phenomenon in the 17th century, calling it an “odd sympathy.”

Left alone, the light quality and ‘respiration’ pattern of the Triangular Series forms will likewise fall into synchronicity—the arrival of a moving figure in their space acts as a disruptive force, modifying their behavior; they will switch from cool white to a warm quality of LED light, and respond to the movement of the bodies through the space.

“For me, the process of creation is about understanding,” said Zigelbaum.

“I hope that the process of understanding the world around us is translated through the work. I’m interested in using technology to explain harder-to-communicate ideas; in Triangular Series it is to create a dialogue between organic and inorganic entities,” he added.

The Triangular Series installation is realized through use of Perspex® Spectrum LED 1TL2.

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From Miami to Seattle, Mark T. Smith at Frederick Holmes and Company

June 7, 2014, 11:53 am

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Mark T. Smith,A Brief History of Global Domination, 2013, Mixed media on canvas, Images Courtesy of the artist

On view through June 29th, 2014 is a solo show entitled "Secret Societies" by Delaware-born artist Mark T. Smith at the Seattle-based gallery Frederick Holmes and Company in Washington.

Featuring new paintings, sculpture and original lino cuts, Smith, 46, created all works for this solo show in Miami where he worked and lived.

It also marks the gallery's first anniversary exhibition and the artist's first series showcased since 2010, a year in which he went through difficult personal circumstances that allowed him to internalize and review all of his work as well.

Some of the canvas and paper used in Secret Societies are repainted works from earlier periods with emerging themes that are darker and heavier than any of the artist's previous work.

Phobia, 2014, Mixed media on paper

In a "Brief History of Global Domination," Smith reacts to the current state of affairs in the U.S.; in other pieces, he criticizes the lack of interest for things that are commonly regarded as moving or exciting.

Made in 2009, Smith is also exhibiting one of his first sculptures cast in crush marble entitled "Charisma" showcasing his iconic horse on wheels decorated with the artist's distinctive designs.

"Sculpture is the final frontier for a painter and draftsman and I am approaching this new expression with a renewed love of the creative process, the tabula rasa of a wise child who falls in love again with the arts' seductive forces," said Mark T. Smith.

Charisma, 2009, Cast parian, 37" x 29" x 1.5"

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Venezuelan-born Artist Meyer Vaisman's Solo Exhibition at Eleven Rivington, New York

June 8, 2014, 9:57 am

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Meyer Vaisman, "In The Vicinity of History, 5774"at Eleven Rivington, Images Courtesy of the gallery

In his first solo exhibition in New York since 2000, Caracas-born, Barcelona-based Jewish artist Meyer Vaisman(Parson School of Design '80) is showcasing a new large-scale inkjet paintings on poplar plywood at Eleven Rivington's two gallery locations in New York City.

On view through July 3rd, 2014, the exhibition entitled "In The Vicinity of History, 5774" is the artist's full return to the art scene whose work is currently included in the museum exhibition "Permission to be Global" at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on view through July 13, 2014.

Vaisman, 53, is also working on a forthcoming solo institutional exhibition at Portikus in early 2015, organized by Stadelschule director Philippe Pirotte.

At Eleven Rivington, the artist is presenting new series that reflects on his own practice of the past 28 years, while forging a new and concentrated exploration on ideas of self-representation through a coded abstraction.

Since the mid-1980s, Vaisman has sought to create paintings without his hand or touch, and his earliest works employed mechanical techniques and commercial process inks.

He continues his interest in photo mechanical reproduction and its transformation into digital printing, employing the most current available technologies and creating inkjet paintings on industrial plywood.

Where the artist previously zoomed in on the canvas weave of a picture’s surface, these new works draw our attention to the back, wooden stretcher bars of a painting: everything is inside out, back to front, upside down, and mirror-imaged.

The primary motif in this exhibition is Vaisman’s own signature.

While a signature is the smallest gestural mark one makes on a daily basis, it is rendered useless and impersonal by repetition.

The artist’s early works articulated the displacement of actual painting by simulated and reproduced imagery; his new paintings investigate the idea of self as subject through the deployment, repetition, and layering of his own auto graphic mark or thumb print.

In 1984, Vaisman founded the now legendary artist run gallery International With Monument in the East Village showcasing the work of Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, Ashley Bickerton, Sarah Charlesworth, Robert Smithson, and Peter Halley, among others.

Vaisman's work is included in numerous museum collections, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Walker Art Center, MN; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; La Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas; MOCA Los Angeles; The Broad Foundation; The Hammer Museum, LA; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv.

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Paris-based Art: Concept To Participate at Art Basel Galleries Sector and Parcours Sector

June 9, 2014, 8:36 am

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Ulla von Brandenburg at Art Basel 2014, Image Courtesy of Art: Concept

From June 19th-24th, 2013 Art: Concept will showcase (Hall 2.1 Booth M5) a group exhibition during Art Basel by Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Julien Audebert, Jean-Luc Blanc , Ulla von Brandenburg, Hubert Duprat, Geert Goiris, Nathan Hylden and Adam McEwen.

The Art: Concept booth will have a focus on paintings and works on paper to offer visitors a diverse artistic vision from the U.S. to France exhibiting paintings on aluminum by L.A.-based artist Nathan Hylden; delicate watercolors by Paris-based artist Ulla von Brandenburg and powerful drawings by Paris-based artist Jean-Luc Blanc.

Furthermore, the gallery will also insist on importance of images and representations through new sponges works made by New York-based artist Adam McEwen but also intriguing pictures of recomposed landscapes by French artist Julien Audebert or abstract close-up photographs realized by Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, along with work by Belgian artist Geert Goiris and his fantastic pictures.

After the huge bark-stripped trunks lying on the floor covered in gold-colored tacks presented last year, Hubert Duprat will present a new sculptural work, an irregular polyhedron literally inhabited by omnidirectional spatially made of plaster and brass.

This year, Jean-Luc Blanc will take part at Parcours presenting a young boy portrait in a store front at Lindenberg 15, 4058 in Basel.

Parcours transforms a variety of unique locations on and around Rheingasse in Kleinbasel, a five-minute walk from the fair.

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Athens-based Gallery Bernier/Eliades To Showcase at Art Basel 2014

June 10, 2014, 8:35 am

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Annette Messager, Jalousie/Love, 2010, Image Courtesy of the artist and Bernier/Eliades

LionelEstève, Some Waves, Installation View, 2014, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece, Image Courtesy of the gallery

Amongst the 300+ leading global galleries to exhibit works next week at the premier art show of the world, Art Basel, from June 19th-22nd, 2014 is the Athens-based gallery Bernier/Eliades, a contemporary 37-year-old space which is currently showcasing the third solo exhibition entitled "Some Waves" by French-born, Brussels-based artist Lionel Estève on view through July 15th.

For more than four decades, one of Europe's leading living artists, French-born artist Annette Messager, 70, has been working and exploring the prescribed role of woman in society and her own identity, but nowadays her work has assumed a more universal and timeless character.

Last year, the gallery presented a solo exhibition from November 2013 to January 2014. In an interview, Messager talked about the concepts of possession and appropriation, which are at the center of her interest; she also spoke about the role of others and whose function play a definition of identity, a prevailing issue in her work.

Three decades ago, at a time when minimalism and conceptual art prevailed- something that the artist was not interested in- Messager started to incorporate knitting, sewing and embroidery in her artistic vocabulary, all of which allude to domestic practices, in contrast to the highbrow techniques one associates with Fine Arts.

"I began to work in the early 70s even before I was a student, a bad one, and when I entered the art world, as a woman, I asked myself what is it like to be a woman in this time and to do art? so, I continued to work regardless of becoming important and people started calling me collector, trickster, practical woman, etc.," said Annette Messager.

In her apartment, the artist has two very well differentiated living areas displayed in striking juxtaposition, in one part, Messager lives as a collector, in the other she lives as an artist.

"In my bedroom, I collect a lot of things, magazines, newspapers and see what roles are in there, Is it about woman?, Or woman having children?, so the first collection I made was the Marriage of Annette Messager, I took pictures from married couples and I put my name on these pictures so I did about two hundred marriages of Annette Messager," she added.

There is a clear domestic basis in Messager's work that is not limited to femininity however.

The artist is greatly interested in the idea of home, of the familiar and the domestic, mainly in the notion of the "microcosm, a world in reduction."

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American-born Designer Christopher Schanck at Johnson Trading Gallery

June 10, 2014, 9:00 pm

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Christopher Schanck, Image Courtesy of Cranbrookart.edu

As part of the Commissioned Works for 2014, this coming edition of Design Miami/ Basel will showcase ALUfoil laminated pieces by American-born designer Christopher Schanck with the New York-based Johnson Trading Gallery which will also exhibit selected works by Aranda\Lasch, Jack Craig, Max Lamb, Kwangho Lee and Katie Stout.

Founded in 2007 by Paul Johnson, the NY gallery is committed to commissioning and funding unique contemporary works from emerging artists, designers and architects as well as curating the finest exhibitions of twentieth-century design.

Images Courtesy of the artist and Design Miami/ Basel

Interested in materials and design processes that are not traditionally associated with luxury, mass-production, and standards of perfection, Schanck, 38, likes to accept the idea that an object does not have to be reproducible to mimic a commercial form or process.

Among his best-known pieces are those that comprise his “ALUfoil” series, in which industrial or discarded materials are covered in aluminum foil, painted, and then sealed with resin.

The final pieces are both durable and light.

His methods characteristically involve both marginalized techniques as well as the help of marginalized members of his Detroit community.

Schanck has a background in commercial model-making, and has produced commissioned works for Tom Ford.

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Afterform, a Unique Piece by David Maljkovic at Annet Gelink, Art Basel 2014

June 11, 2014, 3:53 pm

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David Maljkovic,Afterform, 2013, Inkjet prints collaged and mounted on alubond, Unique, Image Courtesy of Annet Gelink Gallery

Next Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 from 4 to 5PM, the Amsterdam-based gallery Annet Gelink will introduce Croatian-born artist David Maljkovic (Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb) who will be present at the gallery's booth (Hall 2.1 P12) during Art Basel 2014, to sign copies of his newest catalogue 'David Maljkovic 2003-2013' published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, February 15 - August 3, 2014.

Examining the collective memory and amnesia in contemporary Croatia, Maljkovic, 40, incorporates images of dilapidated modernist landmarks, monuments and buildings commenting on the country's idealistic discontinuity.

Erected during the communist era and left empty or deprived from its original use, these rundown monuments mark the gap between utopian heritage and disillusioned presence.

Maljkovic works on collages, installations, videos and drawings. He received the International Contemporary Art Prize Diputacio de Castello, Spain.

Other Annet Gelink's artists to be exhibited at Basel are: Yael Bartana, Ed van der Elsken, Anya Gallaccio, Roger Hiorns, Erik van Lieshout, Carla Klein, Meiro Koizumi, Antonis Pittas, Wilfredo Prieto, Glenn Sorensen and Marijke van Warmerdam.

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New Paintings by California-born Artist Brenna Youngblood at VOLTA 10, Basel

June 12, 2014, 9:08 am

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Brenna YoungbloodUntitled, 2014 Mixed media on canvas 60 x 48 inches, Images Courtesy of Honor Fraser Gallery

From June 16th- 21st, 2014, the L.A.-based cutting-edge gallery Honor Fraser will be showcasing new paintings by L.A.-based artist Brenna Youngblood (BFA, California State University, Long Beach '02, MFA, University of California, Los Angeles '06) during the 10th edition of VOLTA Basel.

Art in America calls Youngblood a rising young artist whose last exhibition at the gallery in 2013 entitled "ACTIVISION" was a combination of large-scale mixed media paintings and found-object installation in which she "reeled the viewer out complacency and into active vision."

Working in a dynamic hybrid of abstraction and collage, Youngblood, 's often monochromatic works derive their subtle coloration from their intensely textured surfaces: her compositions are achieved by layering and removing materials on canvas or panel.

ACTIVISION Exhibition at Honor Fraser, Installation view with Revolver, 2013 at the center

Embedding fragments of mundane items that are often overlooked but which are connected to her daily life such as food wrappers, wallpaper, wood paneling, and photographic images of clocks and light switches, Youngblood is committed to the potential for common objects to communicate personal experience and participates in the ongoing conversation on collage and found materials initiated by artists such as Noah Purifoy, Robert Rauschenberg, Betye Saar, and Alexis Smith.

At VOLTA, this presentation of Youngblood's work includes her recent sculpture Revolver (2013).

Made of found and altered doors that turn on a central axis, Revolver is a portal leading from the open space of the fair into a smaller inner room where art viewing is a more intimate experience.

Her work entitled "Brenna Youngblood: Loss Prevention" is currently on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum, St. Louis, MO.

In January 2015 the Pomona College Museum of Art will present Project Series 50: Brenna Youngblood.

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Andréhn-Schiptjenko To Showcase Hapaska, von Hausswolff & Mntambo at Art Basel 2014

June 12, 2014, 3:56 pm

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Annika von Hausswolff, Crop Memory Machine, 2013, Vitrine with Easel Mask, Images Courtesy of the gallery

With a flawless booth designed by architect France Lanord, the Stockholm-based gallery Andréhn-Schiptjenko -one of the leading Scandinavian galleries to be present at Art Basel next week- will showcase three of its artists: London-based artist Siobhán Hapaska, Swedish artist Annika von Hausswolff and Swazi artist Nandipha Mntambo.

These artists all work with carefully staged combinations of form and materials that suggest particular circumstances, conflicts and ideas.

Their ideas are drawn from universal human myths that unite us on a conscious and subconscious level and explore and reflect psychological reality and conventional perceptions.

Irish artist Siobhán Hapaska (Middlesex Polytechnic '88, London, MA Goldsmiths College London '92) has a sculptural practice celebrated for its diverse vocabulary and materials, its complex layering of narrative and its immaculate crafted, descriptive detail.

Following her MA at Goldsmiths, Hapaska, 50, has created work difficult to categorize, often juxtaposing the organic with the slickness of the seemingly ready-made.

Her sculptures incorporate extraordinary objects raging from olive trees to buffalo skulls, goatskins to old socks.

Siobhán Hapaska, Olive, 2014, Mixed media, Dimensions variable

Annika von Hausswolff (University College of Arts, Craft & Design, Stockholm, '94, Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts'96) has since the 1990s made her mark as one of Scandinavia’s major artists.

Working in a conceptual, feminist, and analytical way with the photographic medium, her photographs are charged with a great deal of mystery: often surrealistic and filled with recurring motifs and personal references.

In a specific installation, von Hausswolff, 46, is literally re-visiting the tools for the trade that were central in the processes of analog photography.

She has produced images and objects from materials and equipment that is no longer in use.

With a strategy of poetic justice she has given these near historical items a new life that cannot be reduced to their original function but have gained a new temporality and sexuality.

Johannesburg-based artist Nandipha Mntambo (Michaelis School of Fine Art '07, Cape Town, South Africa) works with sculpture, works on paper, videos and photography.

Nandipha Mntambo, ...everyone carries a shadow V, 2013, Archival pigment ink on 300 gr Baryta paper

Mostly known for her large scale sculptures often featuring a collision between cow-hide and the female body, her work deals with issues of identity, race and gender but also with the perceived dichotomy of the public and private – the spectacle as it were.

As reference and sometimes as tool, Mntambo, 31, uses her own body and experiences in works ranging from Ukungenisa, a video-work where she engages in bullfighting, to … everyone carries a shadow, a new photographic series on view.

Her recent work, using natural, organic materials such as cowhide and cow hair, oscillates between the figurative and the abstract and may sometimes be interpreted as fragments of body parts.

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Spinello Projects, The Only Miami-based Gallery at VOLTA 10

June 13, 2014, 6:22 am

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Farley Aguilar, Man and Dog, 2014, Ink on mylar, Image Courtesy of the artist and Spinello Projects

Next week from June 16th- 21st, 2014VOLTA is celebrating its decade edition as Basel's renowned art fair for new and emerging art.

Returning to Markthalle -the historic domed landmark situated in the heart of Basel whose rotunda has been recently renovated- 68 exhibitors from six continents will converge to mount a compelling discourse of contemporary art projects, including over 50 galleries from previous Basel editions.

From the U.S. there will be 16 galleries present at VOLTA10, the majority from New York and Brooklyn and the rest from Los Angeles, New Orleans, Boston, Birmingham, and Miami.

Miami-based Spinello Projects will be showcasing a series of paintings entitled "The Veil: Reprise" by Nicaraguan-born, Miami-based artist Farley Aguilar.

This new series is a practical and metaphoric extension of Aguilar's celebrated series entitled The Veil, which debuted and subsequently sold out in a single day at VOLTA NY 2014 in March.

"Aguilar's work was featured on The New York Times just prior to the sell-out of the entire series including an acquisition to the private collection of Michael and Susan Hort," said Anthony Spinello.

Aguilar, 32, sources his paintings from antique photographs, in the style of pre-arranged group portraits. The figures are always in disguise: masked, made up or rendered unrecognizable.

Just as notions of history tend to, in the popular imagination, fetishize the 'fixed' event or collective series of events, the construction of the mask aims to invariably petrify emotion or gesture.

While masks may emulate expressions of joy, horror, indifference or perhaps nothing at all, it obscures more than it reveals.

For Aguilar, the mask is a threatening, separatist object that distances the subject from its audience. These long-dead figures act as sharp reminders of the broken, dysfunctional systems of empathy and communication they inhabited, and as we inhabit, ourselves.

Thus, these characters place a barrier, a thin wall between us and them: The Veil.

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