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Ice Bag - Scale C (1971) by Claes Oldenburg via NY Times
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is currently featuring a Claes Oldenburg retrospective The exhibition explores Oldenburg’s early career as well as his longtime collaboration with wife Coosie van Bruggen. The retrospective details nearly five decades of Oldenburg’s work.
The sculptor is best known for his public art installations. His work tends to feature very large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. The exhibit comes to a close on September 6th, 2009. For more information visit, www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com or www.whitney.org
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is currently featuring a collection of sculptures and drawings by sculptor Tony Cragg. The exhibition, which involves three floors of the Ropac space, involves new works in bronze, stone, stainless wood and polished stained steel. Cragg’s drawings explore his ideas concerning form-- specifically how new forms can emerge from landscapes and figures. Tony Cragg won the Turner Prize in 1988. The Tony Cragg exhibit will come to a close on June 13th, 2009.For more information visit, www.ropac.net
The Musee Maillol in Paris is currently featuring the work of George Condo. The exhibit, titled ‘The Lost Civilization’, is part of a series of exhibits that focus on American painters. Over 100 works of art by George Condo are on display.
George Condo has an impressive exhibition history. For example, Condo’s work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the at the Tate Modern. Condo emerged within the same timeframe as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and other American artists of note.
The exhibit comes to a close on August 17th, 2009. For more information visit, www.museemaillol.com
The Lehmann Maupin gallery is currently exhibiting a new body of work by contemporary painter Hernan Bas. The exhibit, titled The Dance of the Machine Gun & other forms of unpopular expression, marks Bas’s first solo exhibit in over four years. A retrospective of Hernan Bas is currently on exhibit at Brooklyn Museum as well. The Brooklyn Museum Hernan Bas retrospective involves the artist’s work from the Rubell Collection of Miami. The exhibit at Lehmann Maupin will come to a close on July 10th, 2009. For more information visit, www.lehmannmaupin.com
Congratulations to the www.myartspace.com artists selected for representation at the NYAXE Gallery. 3 artists-- Jane Fulton Alt, Leah Tomaino, and Miles Holbert, will have their work physically represented at the gallery. 17 others will be represented digitally.
NYAXE Gallery is located at 818 Emerson St. in Palo Alto, CA. The represented members were chosen from a selective-- ongoing --competition that allows members of the myartspace.com community to compete for NYAXE Gallery representation. The gallery serves as a bridge between the online and physical art world.
The NYAXE Gallery in Palo Alto, CA marks myartspace.com as one of only a few social art sites to have a physical presence in the form of a brick & mortar gallery-- as well as the only online art community to have a physical gallery presence in the heart of Silicon Valley. The NYAXE Gallery places myartspace.com members art within reach of some of the most powerful-- and wealthy-- professionals in the United States.
Catherine McCormack-Skiba, Founder and CEO of myartspace, notes "It's very exciting to energize the creative spirit in Silicon Valley with world-class contemporary art. The blend of the technology innovation center of the world, and compelling art is very inspiring".
The competition is free for Premium myartspace.com members to enter. Standard members pay a $25 submission fee. Myartspace.com pays shipping expenses to and from the exhibit for artists who are selected for NYAXE Gallery representation.
White Cube is currently preparing for an exhibit of Tracey Emin’s work. The exhibit, titled Those who suffer Love, will feature a number of recent works by Emin including a new series that has been described as erotic drawings. Those who suffer Love at White Cube will mark Tracey Emin’s first exhibition in London in over four years.
In a press release Emin stated that the meaning behind the title of the show is “self-explanatory” and that “Love rarely comes easily and if it does, it usually goes quite quickly.”. The exhibit opens on May 29th and will come to a close on July 4th, 2009. For more information visit, www.whitecube.com
The 2009 exhibitor list for Frieze Art Fair (www.friezeartfair.com) has been made public. According to the Frieze website-- details of Frieze Art Fair 2009, 15-18 October, have been announced by directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover. The site explains that a fresh and exciting addition for 2009 will be the first presentation of Frame, a new section within the fair dedicated to solo artist presentations. Frame will show young galleries from around the world that have been in existence for less than six years.
Frieze Art Fair takes place every October in Regent’s Park, London. The fair provides an environment to introduce and showcase new and established artists to visitors from around the world. Frieze Art Fair features more than 150 galleries from around the world, providing visitors with a unique opportunity to see and buy art by the world’s leading artists. The fair hosts an annual curatorial programme, presented by Frieze Foundation.
Clare Stephenson -- Analysis & Reflection, 2009, framed xerox and collage on paper, 62 x 47.5 x 4.2 cm -- Represented by Sorcha Dallas
alexis granwell panel 1 (2009), ink on paper, 8.5” x 11" by qi peng
envoy enterprises is currently preparing for an exhibit involving the work of conceptual artist qi peng. The exhibit, titled the qi peng dynasty (we are duchampions), will involve a complex installation featuring a hybrid fusion between traditional works on paper and painting and cutting-edge new media art. The installation has been described as being based on the idea of autobiography loosely based on James Joyce’s novel “A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man” smashed with Facebook and Xerox.
qi peng combines selected “interview portraits,” which he has published through www.examiner.com as an online art project, between art professionals which he has met in real life or Facebook or Twitter or other social networking websites into a larger installation project. By delivering a cross section of the international art world, focusing on New York City and Los Angeles mostly with a small dose of his current hometown of Salt Lake City, the artist attempts to democratize how the public perceives any particular individual within this complex web of artists, art dealers, museum curators, art workers, and “slaves” who comprise this whole system of people who put together contemporary art for the audience. By displaying offset prints of these portraits like a digital version of August Sander photographs, peng attempts to humanize the art world as an antithesis to the glossy art market and blue chip players portrayed by the magazines.
edward winkleman panel 2 (2009), ink on paper, 8.5” x 11" by qi peng
This installation piece will present secondary documents that will reflect on how the artist’s first solo show in New York City became extant at envoy enterprises. Mixing together proposals, acceptance and rejection letters, critiques, as well some surprising documents that feature a Chelsea gallery, and a painting that is based on a prominent Brooklyn artist with overtones of the idea of “WWPD,” this work becomes a brave exploration of the politics of how exhibitions are created and galleries are curated.
This is a fairly dispassionate view of the artist’s subjective journey from a virtually unknown artist as a displaced New Yorker located in Utah into a slowly emerging artist as a small player within the international art world. He also highlights the challenges of an atypical Utah conceptual artist attaining both “critical affirmation” and “artistic defiance” with and against the somewhat insular New York contemporary art world reframed as the Garden of Eden.
qi peng states that there will be a surprise ending to the whole installation and a possible inclusion of the following events: an artist book signing at a table, an unexpected appearance of the Zero Dollar project by Laura Gilbert, a performance duel between Rick Herron and the artist himself, and guest appearances by famed bootlegger Eric Doeringer and collaborating artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton.
william powhida panel 1 (2009), ink on paper, 8.5” x 11" by qi peng
“the qi peng dynasty (we are duchampions)” is qi peng’s first solo exhibit in New York City. qi peng was born in 1976 in Queens, New York City. He lives and works mostly in Salt Lake City and sometimes in New York. His work has been exhibited at The Lab at Belmar, Anna Kustera, James Cohen/NURTUREART, Metro Pictures/Visual AIDS, modern8 gallery, and Projects Gallery. Currently he is represented by The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida.
envoy enterprises is a contemporary art space dedicated to the generation, presentation and promotion of contemporary visual arts practice. envoy enterprises' dynamic program of exhibitions, performances, concerts, artists' talks, publications, video and movie screenings, aims to provide opportunities for artists to exhibit their work within a context of current national and international practice. For more information visit, www.envoyenterprises.com
Emin at work. The cover image for the retrospective.
The Kunstmuseum Bern is currently spotlighting the art of Tracey Emin in an exhibit titled Tracey Emin: 20 years. The exhibit includes over 70 works of art. The exhibit was made possible by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art-- which compiled the first retrospective of the artist which is currently one display at the Museum of Fine Arts Bern. The exhibit marks Emin's first solo exhibition in Switzerland.
Emin is often accused of creating shocking art simply to attract publicity. However, the artist recently stated that her intention is not to be a troublemaker, stating, "I won't put up with any shit and I won't tolerate injustice, but I never make work to shock. That would be so easy. Anyone could go and shit outside parliament and put a little sign in it saying 'this is art' and it would hit all the newspapers. But that wouldn't be art. Not even if I did it!"
Tracey Emin: 20 Years will come to a close on June 21st, 2009. For more information visit, www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
Galerie Almine Rech is currently featuring the art of Aaron Young. The exhibit marks Young’s first solo exhibition in France and is aptly titled, Introducing Aaron Young. Aaron Young has received criticism in the past for what some described as “thin spectacle”. Others have described Young’s art as the embodiment of “art world decadence”. This is mostly due to a showing that involved motorcyclists who Young hired to drive over painted wooden panels.
Key figures in the art world may have not been amused, but the media picked up on the story rather quickly. That said, one of Young’s videos of a motorcyclist repeatedly cycling around the San Francisco Art Institute was bought by MoMA. Young also creates sculptures and drawings. The exhibit at Galerie Almine Rech will come to a close on June 6th, 2009. For more information visit, www.galeriealminerech.com.
Human Skull in Space (oil on canvas) by Damien Hirst. The painting is the cover art for the 150th anniversary edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
The Wallace Collection is preparing for a Damien Hirst exhibit titled Damien Hirst: The Blue Paintings. The exhibit will feature 25 painting by Damien Hirst completed between 2006 and 2008. The exhibited has been billed as “Hirst’s return to painting”. Sources state that Hirst’s work will be exhibited beside Old Master paintings. Of the exhibit Hirst has stated, “I’ve chosen to show my new paintings here because I love the fact that it is a family collection,”. Hirst describes the Wallace Collection as “a world away from the world.”.
According to the Wallace Collection website-- “The Wallace Collection is a national museum in an historic London town house. In 25 galleries are unsurpassed displays of French 18th century painting, furniture and porcelain with superb Old Master paintings and a world class armoury.”. For more information visit, www.wallacecollection.org.
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is currently featuring the art of Antony Gormley in an exhibit titled ATAXIA II. The exhibit involves recent drawings and sculptures by Gormley. The exhibited works explore different states of the body with ‘loss of control’ as a general theme. The exhibited work also explores how the body is influenced socially and physically by outside forces.
Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live." Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994. The exhibit at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac will come to a close on May 23rd, 2009. For more information visit www.ropac.net or www.antonygormley.com.
Robert Miller Gallery is currently featuring the art of Dustin Yellin. Yellin is best known for his works that involve layers of ink and resin. His work has been described as permutations of natural life and form. The exhibit marks Yellin’s 3rd solo exhibition in New York. He has been represented by Robert Miller Gallery since January 2005. The exhibit, titled Dust in the Brain Attic, will come to a close on May 22nd, 2009. For more information visit www.robertmillergallery.com or www.dustinyellin.com.
111 Minna Gallery is currently preparing for an exhibit titled Berliner Unkraut,. The exhibit is curated by Gabe Scott and artist Jay Howell and will feature works by Johan Potma, Tina Zellmer, Mateo Pisa 73, and Evol. Berliner Unkraut, is scheduled to open on May 7th. For more information visit, www.111minnagallery.com.
Jonathan LeVine Gallery is currently preparing for a solo exhibition of new works by Andy Kehoe. The exhibit, titled Living in Twilight, will feature a new series of oil and acrylic painting on wood panel by Kehoe. The exhibit will include some of the largest paintings created by Andy Kehoe to date. The solo exhibit at Jonathan LeVine Gallery will mark Kehoe’s first solo show in New York and the largest collection of his work in a single exhibit to date.
Andy Kehoe’s allegorical compositions are painted in a strict palette of rich earth tones beneath a fine layer of crisp black accents. His work often involves themes of alienation and the concept of finding peace in solitude. His isolated figures are often surrounded by the majestic grandeur of nature. Kehoe’s body of work draws inspiration from folktales and mythology. In his work the viewer observes visual narratives of the fantastic and grotesque. The exhibit opens May 16th, 2009 and will come to a close on June 13th, 2009. For more information visit, www.jonathanlevinegallery.com
Signal Gallery is currently preparing for an exhibit, titled Domestic Science, that will feature the art of Russ Mills aka Byroglyphics. The exhibit will feature large mixed media canvases that explore movement and the figure. It should be noted that Byroglyphics launched his career independently online by producing a series of prints that quickly captured the imagination of the public. The exhibit will be open on May 22nd at Signal Gallery in London. It will come to a close on June 13th, 2009. For more information visit, www.signalgallery.com.
Matthew Barney’s ‘Ancient Evenings: Libretto’ (installation view) via Gladstone Gallery
Barbara Gladstone Gallery is currently featuring the art of Matthew Barney. The exhibit, titled ‘Ancient Evenings: Libretto,’ involves a series of drawings from a seven act opera that Barney is developing with composer Jonathan Bepler. The Barney & Bepler collaboration focuses on Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings-- a novel set in ancient Egypt that chronicles the journey of the dead. Thus, the opera explores the seven stages the soul passes through after bodily death according to Egyptian mythology.
Barney adds a twist by focusing on a 1967 Chrysler Imperial rather than the human body-- Egypt has been replaced by a contemporary industrial setting. The exhibit will come to a close on May 9th, 2009. For more information visit, www.gladstonegallery.com
Sophie Calle, from “Take Care of Yourself,” French Intelligence Officer, Louise (2007). Via Paula Cooper Gallery.
Paula Cooper Gallery is currently featuring the art of conceptual artist Sophie Calle. The exhibit involves Calle coming to terms with a lover’s breakup via email. Calle has used the traumatic experience as a way to explore issues of intimacy clashing with mass technology. In the past Sophie Calle has explored similar themes. For example, she once hired a private detective to follower her at her own request in order to document the experience. The exhibit will come to a close on May 22nd, 2009. For more information visit, www.paulacoopergallery.com
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas is currently featuring an exhibition titled FOCUS: Rosson Crow. The exhibit involves a small collection of Crow’s grand-scale paintings. The exhibit marks Rosson Crow’s first solo exhibition in a museum. In the past her work has shown at Deitch Projects, New York and White Cube, London. The exhibit will come to a close on May 17, 2009. For more information visit, www.mamfw.org.
Kunstmuseum Basel is preparing to open an exhibit billed as the "the world's first complete survey of landscape paintings" by Vincent van Gogh. Though barely known during his lifetime van Gogh’s surviving paintings, groundbreaking painterly technique, and life continues to captivate viewers. The exhibit involves a collection of over 70 landscape paintings by the Dutch legend and will also feature landscape painting by a handful of his contemporaries-- including, Henri Matisse and Camille Corot.
According to Wikipedia, The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland, and is listed as a heritage site of national significance. Its lineage extends back to the Amerbach Cabinet purchased by the city of Basel in 1661, which made it the first municipally owned museum. Its collection is distinguished by an impressively wide historic span, from the early 15th century up to the immediate present. Its various areas of emphasis give it international standing as one of the most significant museums of its kind. These encompass: painting and drawing by artists active in the Upper Rhine region between 1400 and 1600 and on the art of the 19th to 21st centuries.
Ice Bag - Scale C (1971) by Claes Oldenburg via NY Times
Clare Stephenson -- Analysis & Reflection, 2009, framed xerox and collage on paper, 62 x 47.5 x 4.2 cm -- Represented by Sorcha Dallas
Kaye Donachie -- Every mornin' our love is reborn, 2004, Oil on canvas, 24 5/8 x 35 3/8 inches -- Represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery
Stef Driesen--Untitled, 2008, Oil on linen, 70.875 H x 59 W inches -- represented by Marc Foxx
Joel Croxson-- Echo Balls, 2009, Acrylic on Linen with wooden strip, 130 x 68 cms -- represented by Dicksmith Gallery
edward winkleman panel 2 (2009), ink on paper, 8.5” x 11" by qi peng
william powhida panel 1 (2009), ink on paper, 8.5” x 11" by qi peng
