Community Board: October 2020
COMMUNITY BOARD:
OCTOBER 2020
A selection of exhibitions from our community.
How Bout Them Apples? Install View
Ross + Kramer Gallery, New York City, 2020
Courtesy of Ross + Kramer Gallery
ross + kramer GALLERY, nyc
how bout them apples?
Ross + Kramer Gallery inaugurates their new Chelsea gallery with the group show, How Bout Them Apples? Here it speaks to the resilience and toughness of the artists whose work is featured in this exhibition, New Yorkers who persevered through one of the city’s most trying periods. By opening a new gallery space, albeit carefully, with an ambitious group show during a pandemic, the show hopes to communicate that while things may not be the same as always, the spirit of New York endures, especially through the artists who create within its borders. The exhibition features work by artists Nina Chanel Abney, Trey Abdella, Ana Benaroya, Jonathan Chapline, Julie Curtiss, Timothy Curtis, Todd James, Ludovic Nkoth, Eddie Martinez, Tony Matelli, John Rivas, Koichi Sato, Anna Park, Erik Parker, and David “Mr. StarCity” White. On view through October 30, 2020.
Installation view, Impresse, 2020.
Courtesy of Alberta Pane, Venice.
alberta pane, venice
Marie Denis & Michele Spanghero
impresse
‘Imprese’ opened at the gallery’s Venice location, it presents the merging of artworks and installations by French artist Marie Denis and Italian sound artist Michele Spanghero. The show is the culmination and direct continuation of the artistic residency both artists undertook at Giovanardi, where both artists had the opportunity to employ high-performance machinery and materials to produce a new set of works. Marie Denis’ reinterpretation of the vegetable kingdom is juxtaposed and in dialogue with the visual and sound investigation of Michele Spanghero. Curated by Martina Cavallarin the exhibition is in partnership with Giovanardi and Lunardelli.
Shirley Villavicencio Pizango
Hole in Chiclayo Avenue, 2020
Acrylic on canvas, 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches (90 x 70 cm)
Courtesy of the artist & Steve Turner Gallery.
Steve turner, la
shirley villavicencio, digging a hole to the surface
Shirley Villavicencio presents a new body of work at Steve Turner Gallery, running through October 10th. Born in Peru, ‘Digging a Hole to the Surface’ is an intimate portrayal of the artist's first eighteen years of life in the crowded tenements of Lima. Featuring melancholy portraits of her family members or other subjects based on memory, her work is imbued with strong traces of inspiration from European artists, having studied in Ghent, Belgium where she now works and lives.
Sam Friedman
From the exhibition Island at Dio Horia, Athens
Courtesy of the artist and Dio Horia
dio horia, athens
sam friedman, island
Dio Horia presents ‘Island’, a solo show of works by Sam Friedman. Opening on October 7 at their new Athens Project Space. Friedman’s newest body of works offer themes on landscape and natural phenomena. Installed by color throughout the gallery, the images repeat, change and mutate, evocative of sound and music.
Yasmine Nasser Diaz
From the exhibition Soft Powers at Ochi Projects, LA.
Courtesy of the artist and Ochi Projects.
ochi projects, la
Yasmine Nasser Diaz, soft powers
Ochi Projects presents Soft Powers a solo-exhibition of works by Los Angeles based artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz. Iteratively exhibited at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, MI, Diaz's solo exhibition reflects on coming-of-age nostalgia and Yemeni American girlhood. The exhibition showcases new silk-based fiber etching works that utilize photographic images depicting intimate moments of leisure amongst familiar company, mined from her personal archive and the archives of other Yemen-American women. The exhibit will run from October 10 through November 21.
Hans Vandekerckhove, Voltaire's Advice, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, 2020
Courtesy of the Tatjana Pieters.
tatjana pieters, ghent
Hans Vandekerckhove, voltaire’s advice
The past year, Hans Vandekerckhove has been working on a new series of paintings, mentally called ‘Voltaire’s Advice’. In his eponymous, ecological fairy tale, and after travelling the world, Candide concludes that we could better cultivate our own garden: il faut cultiver notre jardin.
Everyone can give their own meaning to this expression. Vanderkerckhove aspires to re-enchant the world through his paintings. Creating a paradise-like world with colour and shape in which looking at things leads to a connection with the origin. Looking at the world as if you were seeing something for the first time. Discover the beauty in every small place, look for the mystery that is hiding at every fleeting moment. Due to slowing down our way of living throughout the Corona crisis, we had the opportunity to rediscover the here and now: our living room, the light in the painting studio, red and orange, the most paradise colours, green, brown and blue, the most natural colours. On view at the gallery from September 16 - October 25, 2020.
Lucia Love
High on my Dark Horse, 2020
Oil on canvas, 60 × 60 inches
Courtesy of JDJ and the artist.
JDJ, GARRISON
lucia love, firewater
Lucia Love’s debut solo exhibition at JDJ brings together seven visually rich paintings loaded with narrative and symbolism, with references to art history, mythology, politics, and the dynamics of power.
Like works of speculative fiction, each painting contains a pastiche of fantasy and reality, as elements sourced from news media exist on an equal plane to those of pure imagination.
The paintings are bound by their depictions of contradictory states. The juxtapositions of doom and hope, tragedy and comedy, and destruction and renewal depicted in the works feel uniquely American, and particularly poignant at this distinct moment in our society as we face disaster after disaster and yet we continue to hang on to the possibility for a brighter future. On view at JDJ from October 17 - December 19, 2020.
Installation View from BORN TO BE ALIVE at Season, Seattle, 2020.
Courtesy of Season.
season, seattle
born to be alive
Seattle’s Season gallery presents BORN TO BE ALIVE, a tenth anniversary show celebrating the artists that have inspired and supported the gallery over the past decade. The show includes 88 artists from 10 countries with drawing, painting, photography, found ephemera, collage, sculpture, ceramics and perfume. The exhibition is open October 11 - December 31.
Andrew Salgado
Seasons in the Apocalypse, 2020
Oil and Oil Pastel, Mixed Media and Collage on Linen
175x185 cm
Courtesy of Beers London & the artist.
beers london, london
andrew salgado, strange weather
Beers London presents a solo exhibition by Canadian-British artist Andrew Salgado. Opening tomorrow, October 17, the new body of work continues the artists development of fantastical narratives, mythology-building, and contemplation of the individual and the human condition. Featuring over 20 new pieces, Strange Weather leads the viewer through chapters in a magic-realist novel, allowing them a peek at Salgado’s strange world of allusions, appropriations, nods to art-history, various inspirations, and a host of subtle literary references.
From the exhibition Here, featuring Matthew Feyld and Francine Savard, 2020
Courtesy of Blouin Division.
blouin division, montreal
FRANCINE SAVARD & MATTHEW FEYLD, HERE
Matthew Feyld and Francine Savard exhibit a two person exhibition at Blouin Division in Toronto. Feyld uses mathematical precision to place layers of colors around a single centered dot, resulting in a monochromatic surface defined by simplicity. Buttressed alongside are the works of Savard, who’s swatches of color occupy the gallery walls in an architectural fashion. The majority of the works in the exhibition are an homage to the minimalist sculptures of American artist Anne Truitt, known for eschewing the industrial process and instead laboriously making her impeccable sculptures by hand.
The exhibition is organized by the Toronto Contemporary Syndicate, Arsenal Contemporary Art Toronto. The show is on view from September 9 - October 17, 2020.
Claudia Hart, The Ruins, bitforms gallery, 2020. Left to right: The Orange Room, 2019; Big Red, 2019.
bitforms, nyc
claudia hart, the ruins
The Ruins implements still lifes, the classical form of a memento mori, to contemplate the decay of western civilization. In this exhibition, Hart revises the canons of modernist painting and the manifestos of failed utopias. Exhibited works are meditations on the flow of history, expressed as a cycle of decay and regeneration. The Ruins is an antidote to a world in crisis, navigating from a Eurocentric paradigm of fixed photographic capture into a reality of malleable and inherently unstable computer simulations and systemic collapse. The exhibition presents a different notion of time, a present that viewers experience through the possibility of simulation technologies that use scientific data to model natural forces, the crystallization of past, future, and present into a perpetual now.
Click here to read Charlotte Kent’s review on the exhibition for the Brooklyn Rail.
Daimely Lorenzo
Nudo, 2019
Cardboard and concrete
Variable dimensions
Courtesy of the artist and El Apartamento.
El apartamento, havana
Daimely Lorenzo, LICENCIA DE OBRA
Ernesto Crespo, CAUSALIDAD
El Apartamento in Havana recently exhibited two solos of contemporary Cuban artists Daimely Lorenzo’s LICENCIA DE OBRA and Ernesto Crespo’s CAUSALIDAD.
Kim Dorland
From the 2020 exhibition Way Lost,
Courtesy of Patel Brown and the artist.
patel brown, toronto
kim dorland, way lost
Steeped in psychedelia and anxious energy, Dorland's most recent body of work continues to explore the transformative power of nature while evoking the vulnerability of our environment and, consequently, our own well-being.
Accompanying Dorland’s expansive paintings, the gallery presents a suite of original drawings pulled from a recently released artist book. As a self-proclaimed superfan of graphic novels, this two-year undertaking acts as Dorland’s homage to the genre, and its unique storytelling capacities. The book, of the same title Way Lost, features two distinct personalities, which the artist refers to as the “couple.”