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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
Os Gemeos Mural NYC
Replacing the infamous Keith Haring tribute mural painted last year at the corner of Houston and Bowery is the new OS GEMEOS mural. Os Gêmeos (Portuguese for The Twins) are graffiti artist identical twin brothers (born 1974) from São Paulo, Brazil, whose real names are Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo. In this mural, Otavio and Gustavo depict “reality harmonically blended with the abstract.”
Scribble – Karl Haendel
Head to New York’s Soho to see the temporary installation by Los Angeles based artist Karl Haendel. Commissioned by the nonprofit Art Production Fund, Haendel has produced a giant scribble on a donated wall at 441 Broadway at Howard Street, challenging our pre-conceived ideas of street art and public mark making.
Yayoi Kusama at The Gagosian Gallery
New and recent works by the renowned doyenne of the Japanese art world, currently celebrating her 80th year in the business. Kusama is known for her trippy anti-minimalist installations, sculptures, and screen prints frequented by giant polka dots, sealike figures, and sexy yet childlike objects such as mushrooms and chunky shoes. Our highlight of the exhibition is the mind-blowing installation (pictured) nicknamed the “Infinity Room”—a seemingly gigantic void filled with mirrors and floating lanterns.
April 16 – June 27th 2009
555 W 24th St, New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011
Francesco Clemente
May 2nd sees the launch of Francesco Clemente’s new exhibition at Deitch Projects, NYC. The gallery walls are wrapped in continuous meditative, rainbow-themed large-scale watercolor paintings for the daydreamily titled show, “A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows.”
May 2nd to 30th 2009
Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street, New York NY, T 212 343 7300
On Display
Veenman Publishers have released “On Display” by the Dutch master of still life photography, Maurice Scheltens.
In “On Display” Maurice Scheltens demonstrates the art of staging and reassembling objects into surreal miniature worlds. His style is playful and highly personalised and his work ranges from art pieces to applied projects and editorial commissions. Rearranged and reedited for this glossy-book, the photographs in On Display represent an overview of Scheltens’s work of the last ten years. Alongside commissions from Vitra and Nike, Fantastic Man and Wallpaper, it also includes work for galleries and museums. An essay by Emily King reflects on Scheltens’s multi-layered constructions and cross-references the worlds of fashion, design, architecture, painting, photography and graphics.