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Hi – Lo by Summer Wheat
Samsøn is pleased to announce the 1st solo exhibition by New York-based artist Summer Wheat.
Hi – Lo, on view from February 3rd to March 17th, is a comical, yet crucial comparison of upper and lower classes. This body of work encourages broader understanding of these extreme classes. Caricatures of aristocrats and peasants are “perfect deformities” of the timeless and incredibly real issues regarding class structure. The paintings suggest similarities between these seemingly different people. This sameness is apparent in Wheat’s smart, confident use of color. There is equilibrium between horror, vulgarity, bastardization and sophistication, eloquence and retainment.
Wheat explores a varied range of textures and patterns from observing southern antebellum quilts, transforming the grotesque into elegant passages of ornamentation and amplified color. The few verse the many conspiring to comment and corporatize all demeanors—high, low, and the mud in between. Rilke described the disinherited as “ones to whom neither the past nor the future belongs.” Wheat, a humorist and slight satirist, combines what humans find innately funny with the thrill and disturbing nature of horror to create a full-bodied commentary on class in our society. Disharmony, is there anywhere where there is none? These works are not divorced from the capacity of people to act.
Gentleman’s Relish
Casey Kaplan is extremely proud to present the gallery’s first solo exhibition Gentleman’s Relish with New York based artist, Matthew Brannon. Utilizing our three separate gallery spaces, the project presents: new silkscreen and letterpress prints, paintings, sculptures, and a series of collaborative artworks with the designer and artist, Carlo Brandelli. These artworks suggest various props, personas, sets, dialogues, and scenarios of an unpublished noir mystery narrative(written by Brannon) – the plot of which involves a sexually frustrated private detective who is hired to investigate a murder whose prime suspect is a sexually deviant dentist.
Through December 17, 2011
Walton Ford
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of nine new, large-scale watercolor paintings by Walton Ford, on view for the first time, at 293 Tenth Avenue. The most monumental watercolors that Ford has painted to date, three of the works measure approximately 9 x 12 feet on a single sheet of paper.
These nine paintings are grouped into two series of work: one comprising three portraits of King Kong; and the other six meditations on a passage from the memoirs of the ornithologist John James Audubon (1785- 1851). Both series were painted in 2011, and are consistent with Ford’s practice of expanding the visual language and narrative scope of traditional natural history painting.
Through December 23, 2011
Agnes Martin: The ‘80s: Grey Paintings
An exhibition of more than twenty grey paintings from the 1980s, reunited for the first time in more than two decades. During the ‘80s Martin concentrated on horizontal divisions of six-foot square canvases, discovering endless permutations by dividing the canvas with pencil lines and varying the tonal range within a palette of greys. The works serve as a bridge between the artist’s early and late works.
Through October 29, 2011
de Kooning: A Retrospective
This is the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of the 20th century. The exhibition, which will only be seen at MoMA, presents an unparalleled opportunity to study the artist’s development over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s. Bringing together nearly 200 works from public and private collections, the exhibition will occupy the Museum’s entire sixth-floor gallery space, totaling approximately 17,000 square feet.
Through January 9, 2012
Lichtenstein’s Entablatures
The Paula Cooper Gallery will present an exhibition of works by Roy Lichtenstein from his celebrated Entablatures series. The paintings, realized between 1971 and 1976, will be on view from September 17 through October 22, 2011.
Lichtenstein’s Entablatures comprised of a first series of paintings from 1971-72, followed by a second series in 1974-76, and the publication of a series of relief prints in 1976.
Alex Katz
On September 10, 2011, acclaimed American artist Alex Katz will unveil a major new suite of paintings in his first exhibition at Gavin Brown’s enterprise. The group of thirteen canvases, of somber portraits and flower-strewn fields, will comprise the artist’s first show in New York in two years.
The exhibition will remain on view through October 8th and will be accompanied by a catalogue.
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
620 Greenwich Street, New York
Carrie Moyer – Canada
Carrie Moyer’s new paintings are the most lyrical and personal works to date in her ever-evolving painting practice. “Canonical” displays a confidence in expressive power of pure abstraction. These paintings are simultaneously stripped down and filled up, full of surprising interplay between figure and ground, and enlivened by a brightly nuanced and carefully considered palette.
Through October 16, 2011
Canada
55 Chrystie Street, New York, 10002, T (212) 925-4631
Ian Wallace
Hauser & Wirth is pleased to present an exhibition of four new groups of work by Vancouver-based artist Ian Wallace. With these works, Wallace takes the discourses of painting, sculpture and architecture and unites them within a single framework. As a development from the literary, expressive themes of his previous works, Wallace focuses on a ‘classical’ construction influenced by the compositions of modernism and minimalism in art and architecture.
Through November 5, 2011
Cole Sayer – Karma
Karma presents, ‘Good place and no place’, an exhibition of paintings by Brooklyn based artist Cole Sayer.
Each element of Sayer’s compositions pulls from the entirety of painterly language. From faux marble settings, and geometric waterfalls, to globetrotter ephemera, and industrial materials — the works mediate forms of representation and abstraction to create ridiculous pastiches where anything is possible and everything makes sense.
Aaron Young – Built Tough
Bortolami is pleased to present the second solo show at the gallery of new works by Aaron Young. Entitled BUILT TOUGH, the exhibition includes new sculptures, paintings and silk screens. Initially working from a combination of found and staged photographs, these representational works continue Young’s personal commentary on contemporary American culture and iconography.
Through June 4th, 2011
Paintings from the 80s
This is a perfect opportunity for an audience to see the genesis of the Marilyn Minter paintings that took the world by storm in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Minter, an overnight sensation (after thirty plus years of showing in New York), has been a mainstay of the downtown scene and this triumphant return to her roots is appropriately taking place in SoHo. This exhibition will present paintings from two bodies of work: the 1986-87 series Big Girls/Little Girls, built from imagery with an almost journalistic remove, alongside works from her 1989 Porn Grids, which capture women and men engaged in what the porn industry refers to as “money shots.” All of these paintings fed off the discourses most dear to the New York art world of the eighties: appropriation, feminism, commodification, and the body.
Through April 30, 2011
Jonas Wood
February 3, 2011, New York—Jonas Woodʼs third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery takes an assertive step forward into the pictorial and psychological-emotional investigation of interior spaces, gently leaving behind the Calder-like vibrant flower still lifes recently shown at the Hammer Museum. Los Angeles-based Wood has put together a body of paintings and drawings that confronts the viewer with formal rigor and emotional intensity combined with a strong dosage of contemporaneity, thrill and pleasure.
Through March 26, 2011
Eneas Capalbo – Fake Condo Series
Eneas Capalbo celebrates the tenth anniversary of his fake George Condo series, while the artist in question stages his own survey just blocks away at the New Museum. Eneas pays tribute to the virtuosity and brushstrokes of his predecessor’s imaginary portraits in all-too-real time, prompting the New York Times in 2001 to challenge the provenance of the works themselves. So perhaps, more than anything, these fake Condo paintings are a call to complicity; an open rejection of the dictatorial nature creation demands. They’re funny, too.
Through February 14, 2011
John Baldessari – Pure Beauty
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty (on its last leg following stints at the Tate Modern, Museu d’ Contemporani de Barcelona and LACMA) opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s the first major U.S. retrospective of his work in nearly 20 years. Considered one of the most influential conceptual artists to come out of the 20th century, Baldessari was bucking the system long before it was cool, and then mundane to do so.
Through 9 January, 2011
Chris Vasell
Team is pleased to announce our first solo presentation of work by the Los Angeles based painter Chris Vasell. Chris Vasell’s abstractions are informed by elements of color field painting, op art, figuration, and the abject. His paintings and collages are structured with a keen cerebral control that exists alongside a constant flirtation with chaos, repeatedly blending slapstick humor with a serious encyclopedic knowledge of his medium’s historical lineage.
Through 18 December, 2010
Tom Wesselmann
American painter, sculptor and printmaker Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) is widely regarded as one of the leading figures of American Pop Art. Haunch of Venison London will present ‘Tom Wesselmann: Works 1958-2004′, the most extensive exhibition of his work to date in the UK. The exhibition brings together a selection of major paintings and drawings from across his career. Spanning four decades, the show will examine the evolution of Wesselmann’s style, revealing his openness to a range of subject matter, scale and media.
Through November 4, 2010
Narwhal Art Projects & FriendsWithYou
Narwhal Art Projects & FriendsWithYou are pleased to present Daydreamers, a solo exhibition with Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval iii, the incredible minds behind the magic that is FriendsWithYou. Showcasing the first exhibition of their painted works in several years, and focusing on large scale acrylic paintings and soft watercolours, FriendsWithYou reveal a fantastical universe full of colours, magical themes and spirituality.
Narwhal Art Projects, 680 Queen Street West, Toronto, Canada
Through 4 July 2010
Friends With You
Art collective Friends With You unveiled their new flagship boutique to coincide with Art Basel Miami, located at 3930 NE 2nd Avenue Suite 202, Miami. There you’ll find a host of brand new limited edition products, including clothes, toys, prints, and fine art in their whimsical and inimitable style.
Mike Kelly at Gagosian Gallery
Currently showing at Gagosian Gallery in New York is an exhibition of paintings by Mike Kelley entitled “Horizontal Tracking Shots.” The show is Kelley’s first exhibit in New York which is devoted solely to paintings.
On view until 23 December, 2009