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Jessica Westhafer’s solo exhibition Somewhere That’s Green” is on view
through January 7, 2023
Taking its title from the song “Somewhere That's Green” from the 1982 Off-Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors, Westhafer’s presentation alludes to an idealized realm that seems realistic and attainable, but that in fact lies just beyond reach. The paintings on view depict memories of childhood events and sites that may or may not have existed.
Louise Lawler’s latest exhibition “NOT ENOUGH TO SEE” is on view
This latest series of dye sublimation prints focuses on images of Jasper Johns' iconic painting Three Flags (1958), taken earlier this year at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lawler is a steadfast investigator of the making of pictures. Using long exposures, swift camera movements and cropping, Lawler creates abstract images of this well-known motif. Here, these analog techniques both manipulate the image and comment on both perception and the fast-paced flood of images that marks everyday life in the digital era.
through December 23, 2022
Alex Katz :“Gathering” is on view
Emerging as an artist in the mid-20th century, Katz forged a mode of figurative painting that fused the energy of Abstract Expressionist canvases with the American vernaculars of the magazine, billboard, and movie screen. Throughout his practice, he has turned to his surroundings in downtown New York City and coastal Maine as his primary subject matter, documenting an evolving community of poets, artists, critics, dancers, and filmmakers who have animated the cultural avant-garde from the postwar period to the present.
through February 20, 2023
Hank Willis Thomas: “Everything We See Hides Another Thing” is on view
Gallery
Thomas’ retroreflective works exhibit an interest in the repetition of mass-produced imagery and attention to the hand of the artist, referencing works by Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. Trained as a photographer, Thomas has always focused on framing and context, and often appropriates archival images along with new or rarely used technical processes.
through October 29, 2022
Jason Martin: “Vortex” is on view don’t miss!
In Jason Martin’s paintings paint is both the material and the motif. In his first exhibition in New York since 2018, the artist’s monochromatic oil works explore their own materiality, sculptural presence and transmutative nature. Martin begins on these paintings with only the essentials – a small selection of colors in similar tones, a few brushes or tools and a number of square aluminum panels.
through 15 October, 2022
Matisse: “Red Studio” exhibition is on through September 10,2022
Paintings and drawings closely related to The Red Studio will help to illuminate the picture’s history: its rejection by the patron who commissioned it, its international travels, and its eventual acquisition by MoMA. A rich selection of archival materials, including photographs and letters, will reveal new information about the painting’s subject and history. The exhibition also explores the radical nature of its almost entirely red surface and present recent discoveries about the process of its making.
through September 10, 2022
Lyn Liu’ latest solo exhibition “Dogville” is on view
Liu’s work addresses the psychological tension underpinning relationships between individuals through a sequence of uncanny cinematic tableaux. Comprised of paintings realized between 2019–2022, the exhibition draws from the artist’s personal experiences of alienation, utilizing symbolism and an atmosphere of the absurd to provoke reflections on what Liu considers our oppressive social reality.
through August 12, 2022
Don’t miss Barbara Kruger’s latest exhibition
The exhibition features nine large-scale video works and installations, as well as sound installations and vinyl wallpaper, that not only reaffirm the cultural prominence of Kruger’s iconic visual language but reveal the radical inventiveness and lasting relevance of her incisive work with pictures and words.
See it before it ends!
through August 12, 2022
Nam June Paik’s solo exhibition
is on view gallery
Melding an early training in classical music and subsequent interest in musical composition with radical, collaborative approaches to aesthetics and performance, Paik produced multimedia works that introduced the technology of television into the realm of fine art.
through August 26, 2022
Audrey Flack: “Force of Nature”
is on view
Force of Nature, a selection of Abstract Expressionist works, including early never-before-seen works on paper, by the renowned artist.
The exhibition is her first Abstract Expressionist show at Hollis Taggart since the 2015 Audrey Flack: The Abstract Expressionist Years, which provided an expansive overview of her paintings from the 1950s and 1960s.
through June 24, 2022
Alfredo Jaar “The Temptation to Exist” is on view
For over four decades, Alfredo Jaar has used photography, film, installation, and new media to create compelling works that examine complex socio-political issues and the ethics and limits of representation.
The exhibition is constructed in two moments with two major installations, both presented in the U.S. for the first time.
through June 25, 2022
Vasily Kandinsky: “Around the Circle” is on view Museum
The artist’s stylistic evolution in this regard was intimately tied to his sense of place and the communities with which he engaged.
Kandinsky gained insight from meaningful intersections with artists, musicians, poets, and other cultural producers, especially those who shared his transnational vision and experimental bent.
Uprooted time and again, he adapted with his every relocation across Germany, back to Russia, and eventually to France—all against the backdrop of the sociopolitical upheavals occurring around him.
on view through September 5, 2022
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
MoMA
Devoting his life to a quest for knowledge, Bouabré captured and codified subjects from a range of sources, including cultural traditions, folklore, religious and spiritual belief systems, philosophy, and popular culture. “I do not work from my imagination," he once said. “I observe, and what I see delights me.”
through August 13, 2022
Juan Genovés: “Reconsidered” is on view
Genovés, in the midst of an era of political turmoil during the Spanish Civil War, witnessing the rise of the Franco dictatorship at a young age. This turmoil catalyzed him to emerge as a distinct artistic and activist voice in opposition to fascism and injustice, serving to inform his visual language and signature motif of the crowd.
Developed in the early 1960s, the crowd paintings, typically executed from an aerial view, depict groups of people fleeing, hiding, or being harmed by agents of the state, thus creating a landscape of bodies in motion.
Can be seen through July 1, 2022
Ernesto Neto’s “Between Earth and Sky”
is on view
Arte Povera and Minimalist sculpture, along with Neo-concretism and other Brazilian vanguard movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Ernesto Neto’s work incorporates organic shapes and materials that engage all five senses.
He is inspired by a wide range of sources– from Brazilian avant-garde artists such as Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, through the Modernist abstraction of Alexander Calder and Constantin Brancusi, to the natural world, shamanism and craft culture.
through June 16, 2022
Nari Ward’s new exhibition “I’ll Take You There; A Proclamation” is on view
Ranging in scale from the monumental to the domestic, Ward creates sculptures and installations composed from discarded material found and collected in his Harlem neighborhood, including repurposed objects such as baby strollers, shopping carts, bottles, keys, cash registers, and shoelaces, among other materials.
through June 4, 2022
Tiemar Tegene’s solo exhibition is on view
Tiemar Tegene is an artist living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tegene's work is anchored in her training as a printmaker, expanding etching processes into practices of mono printing through spontaneous experiments, most often using found household items and their textures.
Although falling into this category, Tegene does not implement numbered editions that are struck from the same plate. Rather, each unique work falls outside of fixed description as she finds new ways to press the texture of an image through the application of ink onto the page.
through May 20, 2022
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Art and Objecthood” can be seen through June 11,2022
Bringing together a breadth of unconventional painted supports and found-object sculptures, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood provides an innovative, in-depth look into the artist’s sculptural practice.
In addition to painting and drawing on everything within his domestic spaces—refrigerators, chairs, cabinets—Basquiat harnessed and left his mark on items he encountered on the street—discarded windows and doors, mirrors, wood boards, subway tiles.
Shio Kusaka’s new solo exhibition is now on view
Known for her playful and open approach to the medium, as well as her characteristic line work and intuitive sense of color, Kusaka crafts vessels that embrace organic imperfections, recurrent techniques and patterns, and imagery that alludes to historical and contemporary forms.
through April 30, 2022
Cameron Welch : “RUINS”
is on view
Cameron Welch meticulously assembles hand-cut bits of marble, stone, glass, and tile, to produce his monumental mosaics. His intricate compositions recount epic stories of contemporary life in America, laden with references to ancient mythology, art history, and his identity. Mosaic, the artist’s medium of choice, allows each constituent piece to embody its own history while simultaneously contributing to the work’s grander narrative.
through May 7, 2022
Brian Scott Campbell: Holiday is on view
“Holiday.” In varying shades of mottled grays with an occasional orange sun, these modestly-sized paintings, if asked to be neatly tucked into a genre, would have to check the “landscape” box. Yet with each thinly painted brushstroke and bloodletting of color, they gallop out of that stricture. One senses instantly that their maker is not looking at any one environment or lived experience, but instead touching on archetypes and conventions of looking and representation. Campbell uses the basic elements of round suns, rectilinear trees, or triangular mountains and sailboats as easily grasped building blocks.
through March 26, 2022
Juan Muñoz: “Seven Rooms” is on view
The presentation features seven discrete installations from throughout Muñoz’s career that highlight his expansive notion of sculpture. Among the most significant artists to rise to international prominence in the mid-1980s and 1990s, Muñoz sought to foreground the relationship between the art object, architectural space, and the viewer in his formally and conceptually inventive work. Wide-ranging in scale and format, each installation provides viewers with a distinct experience.
through April 9, 2022
New exhibition opening:
Dorothea Tanning: “Doesn’t the Paint Say It All?” brings together canvases and works on paper drawn from the artist’s remarkable oeuvre to present the most comprehensive solo presentation of her work for US audiences in decades.
This is the first exhibition at the gallery dedicated to the work of Tanning, whose pioneering explorations into the space between abstraction and figuration continue to influence vital painters today.
Through April 16,2022
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A must see exhibition on view
Ad Reinhardt: Color Out of Darkness, Curated by James Turrell
Turrell: After Effect”
The presentation, titled Color Out of Darkness, features Reinhardt’s paintings illuminated by a lighting concept conceived by Turrell, whose pioneering investigations of light, color, space, and perception have been greatly influenced by Reinhardt’s practice and legacy, in particular his “red,” “blue,” “white,” and “black” paintings.
The show examines the ways that both artists explore the decentra lization of the object in their practices, and Turrell’s lighting concept for the show will foreground the experiential nature of Reinhardt’s work.
Dominic Chambers : “Soft Shadows”
The artist’s most recent bodies of work feature images of friends, family members, and acquaintances engaged in acts of leisure and contemplation, set in vividly colored environments that border on the ethereal. A writer as well as an artist, Chambers draws inspiration as much from art historical models as from literature–particularly Magical Realism and the writing of W.E.B. Du Bois.
Many of his compositions incorporate Fabulist elements, including ghostly silhouettes meant to be stand-ins for the artist, and lush, surreal landscapes that feel at once familiar yet uncanny.
Can be viewed through February 26, 2022
Alec Soth: “A Pound of Pictures”
This new body of work brings together images Soth completed between 2018 and 2021. As is often his custom, Soth began A Pound of Pictures by taking a series of road trips, in this case on a quest to further explore a deeper connection between the ephemerality and physicality of photography as a medium. Depicting a vast array of subjects — from Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to sun-seekers and a bust of Abraham Lincoln — this series reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and crystallize experience, especially as it is represented and recollected by printed images.
through February 26, 2022
Chaz Guest :“Memories of Warriors”
The presentation features approximately eight new monumental portraits and tableaux that together suggest a bold, distinctive form of contemporary history painting. In the works on view, Los Angeles-based artist Guest reclaims longstanding cultural narratives through powerful new tales of his own creation.
through March 19, 2022
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