Community Board: September 2020 (Part 2)

COMMUNITY BOARD:
september 2020, part 2

A selection of news and exhibitions from our community.

Installation view Mario Cresci, Combinazioni Provvisorie, 2020.
Courtesy of Matèria and the artist.
Photo: Roberto Apa

Matèria, rome
Mario cresci
Combinazioni Provvisorie

Materia is presenting a Mario Cresci’s first solo show at the gallery until October 31 in Rome, a number of the works were previewed at Future Fair Online. Titled ‘Combinazioni Provvisorie’, Provisional Combinations, Cresci produced the body of work on display between the late seventies and eighties. Merging signs, images, text, drawings, notes and fragments of icons kept in archives and drawers, the exhibition portrays an intimate diary of an iconic journey that avoids the formalistic implications tied to the canons of classical photography.

Dumitru Gorzo
Generative System I, 2020
Acrylic and pigments on canvas, 70 x 35 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Slag Gallery.

SLAG Gallery, New york
Dumitru Gorzo, Generative System
Zac Hacmon, Dispositif

Slag Gallery presents two exhibitions in their new Chelsea space running until October 18; a solo exhibition of new paintings by the Romanian-born, New York-based artist Dumitrue Gorzo, the artist’s sixth solo show with Slag, and an exhibition of sculptures by Israeli-born, New York-based artist Zac Hacmon.

Depicted above is Generative System I by Gorzo. Tension is at the root of every work by Gorzo, each is a manifestation of diametrically opposing forces, whether it is dynamism x solidity, surrealism x realism, or even outsider x high art. Like a jazz improvisation, each new work in this exhibition offers a variation on a theme, and it does so in a gestural lexicon that transcends categorization.

Theodora Allen
The Atom, No. 2, 2020
Oil on linen, 16h x 16w in
Courtesy of the artist and 12.26.

12.26, Dallas
theodora allen
light pollution

Dallas based gallery 12.26 recently opened Light Pollution, a solo of 7 new works by Theodora Allen. From the artist’s series entitled Moth to the Light: A Sequence (2020), the compositions span emblematic representations of various natural phenomena and forms, from moons and moths, to flames and molecular geometry. Realized in Allen’s signature process-based approach, each canvas distills its rune-like appearance through light-emanating formalism—hovering between the almost believable soft silvery cast produced by moonlight, and the trompe l’oeil apparition of metal barriers.

Harriet Riddell
Mindy and Margaret, 2020
Machine stitched with applique, 57 x 80 cm
Courtesy of the artist and C+N Canepaneri.

C+N canerpaneri
harriet riddell, meditation in color
michaela younge, an introduction

C+N CANEPANERI opens their fall season today (Sept 17) with a double solo show of the young artists Harriet Riddell (Gloucester, 1990) and Michaela Younge (Cape Town, 1993) both of whom are exhibiting in Milan for the first time. The two artists consider, differently, the medium of sewing on fabric to create figurative images that narrate scenes between surreal and vulnerable. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Italian critic and curator Lorenzo Bruni.

Harriet Riddell’s body of work ‘Meditation in Color’ draws comparison with the places or people she depicts on her fabrics by creating unannounced performances to establish an evocation of being.

Michaela Younge, ‘An Introduction’, sews manually on merino wool to create splatter or grotesque and comedic scenes to highlight the social dynamics governing reality, to unmask obsolete conventions, and create a new collective starting point to analyse and transform it.

Jacob van Schalkwyk
Artist Unknown, 2018
Found re-used, re-purposed rubber strips, wood. Return flight to Malawi, Transport, 1 night stay on Lake MalawiincmEdition 1/8
Courtesy of the artist and Suburbia Contemporary.

suburbia satellite, florence
surroundings

Opening Friday, September 18 in Florence, ‘Surroundings’ welcomes and presents ten artists that Suburbia Contemporary have collaborated with over the years; Jake Aikman, Michelangelo Consani, Bonolo Kavula, Sepideh Mehraban, Mabel Palacin, Laura Paoletti, Robert Pettena, Jaime Poblete, Jacob Van Schalwyk, Shakil Solanki. 

From writer Federica Fiumelli text on the exhibition “Suburbia, Satellite and on this occasion “Surroundings” - find in their first letter “S” a serpentine, non-linear, sinuous, telluric movement, oriented to the experimentation of the unexpected, unscheduled, original, multiple and sensitive form.”

Julie Schenkelberg
Splendor, 2020
Vintage broken china from Brooklyn beaches, found glass from Great Lakes, Cleveland and Detroit auto and steel factory abandoned floors, found screen, plaster, acrylic paint, painted wood from Ohio forests, copper found in Detroit, wax covered vintage fabric, Carrara marble, resin, found tureen top
28h x 23w x 4d in
71.12h x 58.42w x 10.16d cm
Courtesy of the Asya Geisberg Gallery and the artist.

asya geisberg gallery, new york
Julie Schenkelberg, from the ashes

Asya Geisberg Gallery opens the season with "From the Ashes", the fifth solo presentation of Julie Schenkelberg. The exhibit is both a timely response to the moment we find ourselves in, and a continuation of the artist's symbolic excavation and elevation of discarded or decaying forms. Combining research in ancient symbols of the sacred across societies with physical detritus gathered throughout the US, Schenkelberg marries ever wider ranging ideas and visual entry points.

Marie Denis
Installation View from the Centre d’art et de photographie de Lectoure, 2019
Courtesy of the artist and Alberta Pane.

Alberta pane, venice
marie denis & michele spanghero, imprese

‘Imprese’ opens Saturday Sep 26 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.

Exhibition flyer, Terence Koh at Launch F18, 2020.

launch f18, new york
terence koh

LAUNCH F18 opened the fall seasons with a new solo exhibition by installation artist, Terence Koh. In his installations, objects, wall pieces, and performances, Terence Koh creates a space in which memory and imagination mix with art history and subculture. He explores such diverse subjects as mythology, religion, identity, power, fashion and sexuality, in an often provocative manner, charged with possible symbolic readings. This exhibition marks the first solo exhibition by the artist with the gallery.

From the exhibition Peanut Power Peanut Pride, Ranee Henderson.
Courtesy of the artist and Rubber Factory.

rubber factory, new york
Ranee Henderson, Peanut Power Peanut Pride

Rubber Factory begins the fall season with a solo show by painter and Future Fair Online alumni, Ranee Henderson. The exhibit titled ‘Peanut Power Peanut Pride’ features an overview of recent paintings and objects by the artist. The show opens on September 18, 2020.

Installation view Anecdote at Stems, Belgium, 2020.

stems, belgium
anecdote

Stems Gallery recently opened “Anecdote” at their gallery. in Belgium The group exhibition includes artists Susumu Kamijo (b.1975 Nagano, JP); Misaki Kawai (b.1978 Ōkawa, JP); Minami Kobayashi (b.1989 Nagoya, JP); Hiroya Kurata (b.1980, JP) & Koichi Sato (b.1974 Tokyo, JP). “Anecdote” features work by a diverse group of figurative Japanese artists based in the United States. As the title suggests, the Anecdote is an exploration used by the featured artists to think about various aspects of their artworks outside the scope of stereotypes often related to their homeland Japan.

Installation view, Meghan Brady, Said + Done, 2020.
Courtesy of Mrs.

mrs., maspeth
meghan brady, said + done

Said + Done, an exhibition of bold new paintings by Meghan Brady opened the fall season at Mrs. Gallery. The body of work explores opposing modes of communication through written and spoken language, versus the physical act of making. For Brady, painting is a process of getting lost and finding her way: a progressive contradiction between body and brain knowledge; logical and illogical thought.

Focused on what cannot be expressed through words, Brady considers the possibility that we live with worlds inside ourselves which have yet to be discovered, largely due to the failings of language in helping us make sense of them.  Does language make these worlds, or is it simply the tool we use to rationalize worlds that already exist? The exhibition runs through November 7.

Brian Belott
Untitled, 2020,
Paint, Wood, Stone, Sand,
10 x 4 x 3.5 in. ( 25.4 x 10.16 x 8.89 cm)
Courtesy of Mother and the artist.

mother, beacon
brian belott & Bridget Caramagna, finally golden

Mother Gallery in Beacon opened finally Golden a duo exhibition featuring Brian Belott and Bridget Caramagna, two artists who utilize distinct processes to engage a cosmically connected, creative source of pure possibility.

Belott creates work that extends beyond the judgment of taste. For finally Golden, Belott has created 13 assemblage wall sculptures consisting of ready-made objects—used children's blocks, batteries, and wood pellets—arranged with rocks, and clay concretions, all cradled in sand.

Caramagna is a devoted student of sacred geometry, which she employs to gain a deeper understanding of the metaphysical realities beneath all appearance. By meticulously painting transparent solids—light and form in space—she seeks to expand her understanding of the basic building blocks of reality.