“SPIRAL” MARCUS JAHMAL AT ALMINE RECH GALLERY
In Marcus Jahmal’s new paintings, purple hurtles along the continuum of human history. The figures that populate his washy fields wear little clothing or nothing at all, a self-abnegating refusal of millenia of class structure. They have become purple itself,…
MANI NEJAD AT KIPS GALLERY NEW YORK
Mani Nejad's paintings unite the languages of abstraction and figuration in a single canvas weaving togehter spontaneous tracks of composition that result in works that are organized in their own autonomous way ...
GARY SIMMONS – REMEMBERING TOMORROW
For over 30 years, Simmons’ multidisciplinary practice has probed American history to examine the pervasive nature of racist ideology and its manifestations in visual culture. Drawn from both personal and collective memory, his works address themes of race, identity, politics,…
IL LEE “PAPER AND PROCESS”
Il Lee has defined a new role for the pen, that of a discipline, where he has taken the pen’s seemingly endless ability to make a continuous and fluid line to a masterful level that transcends the pen’s pedestrian associations. Lee’s…
Alex Hubbard “Staircase Descending a Nude”
Alex Hubbard is a painter and video artist who weaves together both fields by using the same approach in each medium and thereby rethinks video, painting, and their connections ....
ROSS BLECKNER – THE VIABILITY OF PAINTING
Internationally acclaimed American artist Ross Bleckner offers insight into a body of work that has never been exhibited so far —not even in past retrospectives—and provides an intriguing and revealing debut look at his earliest years as a painter. Furthermore,…
A GLIMPSE OF TRANSCENDENCE – PAINTINGS BY ANNA CONWAY
American Painter Anna Conway’s process of conceiving and fully realizing her paintings without preparatory studies is stunning and necessitates continual additions and erasures. The tracks and traces of meticulous revision are present in each work and render visible the same…
“MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD” ERIC FISCHL AT SKARSTEDT GALLERY PARIS
Eric Fischl “In My Old Neighborhood” inaugurates the new Paris premises of Skarstedt Gallery with a selection of recent large scale paintings. Fischl stages moments of human interactions set outdoors, on daylit sidewalks and front yards of suburban streets. One of…
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