Editors Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week The art world returns from winter break. Artnet News, January 6, 2020 Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them below. . . . Clarity Haynes, Genesis (2019). Courtesy of the artist and Denny Dimin Gallery. 16. “Clarity Haynes: Altar-ed Bodies” at Denny Dimin Gallery For her new show at Denny Dimin, Haynes hones in on the alter…Read More
By Valencia Tong “My philosophy has always been, if you want to learn how to paint, then paint,” says SCAD professor Stephen Thorpe. “It’s not as flippant as it may sound.” He raises his eyebrow as he gestures towards an art work nearby. “Paint is a fluid material which acts in a variety of ways under a variety of conditions, and only through rigorous practice can you understand the nuance and subtle elements to handling paint.” In Professor…Read More
ANN SHELTON: CLOSE TO THE WIND A new exhibition by one of New Zealand’s most lauded lens-based practitioners Ann Shelton explores female experiences of representation, control, fertility and trauma. Words: Sue Gardiner Photography: Bonnie Beattie The politics of the body is currently coalescing around social control of women’s reproductive health. Here in New Zealand and Australia, progressing abortion decriminalisation bills have led to fresh and often raw debates while in the USA, several states have passed or are proposing to…Read More
Dana Sherwood, “Astride Hades Horses,” 2019. Photo courtesy of Denny Dimin Gallery. Dana Sherwood: Horses for Trees UNTIL DECEMBER 21 DENNY DIMIN GALLERY / NEW YORK / ART The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, “If a lion could speak, we would not be able to understand him.” Dana Sherwood puts this observation to work in her fantastical art, which gives a voice to the world’s non-human inhabitants. In a time when man has an overarching influence on the environment, Sherwood’s work reminds us that…Read More
Curator Carmen Hermo Shares Her Favorite Works from UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach By Artspace NOV. 18, 2019 Associate Curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Carmen Hermo spends her time curating historically significant exhibitions—like “Roots of The Dinner Party: History in the Making” (2017), “Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty” (2016–17), and the Brooklyn presentation of “Radical Women: Latin American Art,” 1960–1985 (2018), just to name a few. Before joining the Brooklyn Museum, Hermo worked with the collections at the Solomon…Read More
Cheeseburgers, Oil and Minimum Wage: Building a Museum of Capitalism A roving exhibition, now on view in Manhattan, looks back on capitalism and its “artifacts” from an imaginary future after the system has disappeared. [Matt Kenyon’s “Supermajor,” a fountain of motor oil (actually, dyed water), is a “memorial to the era of petro-capitalism and its mistaken beliefs” of endless supply, according to a wall label at the Museum of Capitalism. George Etheredge for The New York Times] By Jennifer Schuessler…Read More
New York Galleries Are Moving to Tribeca En Masse. Here’s Your Go-To Guide for What to See, Eat, and Drink in the Neighborhood Make a day of it with our roundup of Tribeca highlights. November 6, 2019 What’s old is new again in Tribeca, the neighborhood that fell off New York City’s cultural map when galleries moved en masse to Chelsea. Today, the area is booming again as dealers rapidly relocate their galleries to the triangle below Canal Street. In light of…Read More
Ann Shelton interviewed by Joy Garnett Art by Ann Shelton Joy Garnett: Please give us some background about yourself and your development as a photographer: How did you come to be interested in exploring the relationship between photography and violence and the viewer in your work? Ann Shelton: I grew up in small-town Aotearoa New Zealand, in the South Island, where the landscape is complex and profoundly beautiful. I had access to the coveted lands of the Southern Alps and Otago,…Read More
Erin O’Keefe: Seeing Things Denny Dimin Gallery, New York City By Stephanie Cash While it’s true that things aren’t always what they seem, it’s also true that things can be hidden in plain sight. A show of new works by Erin O’Keefe embraces both maxims. Just as Photorealist painters flipped the script on their medium, a number of photo-based artists of late have been tinkering with processes and materials to painterly effect. Consider the process-based abstractions by Matthew Brandt and…Read More
Dana Sherwood Brings ‘Horses for the Trees’ to Denny Dimin Gallery The artist’s latest work is inspired by her trips to Mongolia. By Kristen Tauer on November 4, 2019 From the pocket of a white denim jacket in the back of Denny Dimin Gallery, Dana Sherwood pulls out a rock. Not just any rock, though: she’d picked this one up while visiting the Gobi Desert. Shortly after, she took it to a Mongolian shaman, who blessed it and handed it back to her…Read More
Dana Sherwood’s new paintings focus on her experience of living amongst nomadic tribes in Mongolia Written by Katy Cowan For her stunning new series of paintings, New York artist Dana Sherwood centres on her experience of living and working amongst nomadic tribes in Mongolia. During her time there, Sherwood immersed herself in the tribe’s culture, spending a month in a traditional yurt, taking part in ceremonial Ayahuasca rituals, and navigating the vast landscape with the tribe’s herders and their horses. She emerged…Read More
SEEING THINGS by Erin O’Keefe Selected by Rebecca Leona van Enter, Artist and Gallery Liaison, Unseen “Carefully aligning colourful 3D blocks, Erin O’Keefe’s abstract compositions play with space and spatial perception. The resulting photographs trick the eye, and are often mistaken for paintings.” Unseen Platform: How long do you spend on the composition of each work? Do you make sketches of the desired result beforehand, or is it a matter of playing around until you’re happy? Erin O’Keefe: It’s a…Read More
The newest additions: Mead Art Museum exhibit features treasure trove of contemporary art By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer What exactly defines contemporary art? As David Little sees it, there’s a fair amount of gray in that definition, since there’s debate about when modern art, the dominant theme of the 20th century, segued into contemporary art — sometimes broadly defined as “the art of today.”But the director and chief curator of Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum also notes that many contemporary artists are…Read More
Erin O’Keefe, Seeing Things @Denny Dimin By Loring Knoblauch JTF (just the facts): A total of 9 large scale color photographs, framed in grey and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the divided gallery space. All of the works are archival pigment prints, made in 2019. Physical sizes range from 25×20 to 50×40 inches, and all of the prints are available in editions of +2AP. The show also includes 5 sculptures (2 single works and 1 triptych) made of plywood, paint,…Read More
Interaction of Space Erin O’Keefe at Denny Dimin Gallery As a student of Western art history, I have been asked to study the work of Pablo Picasso a little too frequently for my taste. I thought I could confidently say that I had puzzled over his collages—you know, the famous still lifes that incorporate wine bottles and cut up pieces of le journal—enough to be thoroughly fed up with seminar table conversations on representation and reality in pictorial space. Imagine…Read More
LOS ANGELES iris yirei hu and ivan forde VISITOR WELCOME CENTER 3006 W 7th Street Suite 200A September 21–October 26, 2019 View of iris yirei hu and ivan forde, 2019. At the center of iris yirei hu’s installation is a tapestry hanging from a Navajo loom atop clay shards that resemble dry earth mounded over a grave. The woven image is of a weaver, a picture hu pairs with a print of a woman weaving silk (the source image is…Read More
Sep 23, 2019 Deliciously Dark Art Of Mark Dion Seizes Moment In The Sun At Storm King Natasha Gural Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood, Conservatory for Confectionery Curiosities, (2008/2019). Mixed media installation. 9 ft. 10 1/8 in. x 13 ft. 1 1/2 in. x 66 15/16 in. (300 x 400 x 170 cm) . JEFFREY JENKINS An octagonal glass greenhouse modeled after those found in a courtly garden is filled with a tower of brightly colored, transparent cast-resin desserts reminiscent…Read More
September 23, 2019 at 2:30pm GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL NAMES ARTISTS PARTICIPATING IN 2020 EDITION Ana Mazzei, Body Wall, Paluca, 2018. Photo: Gui Gomes. Glasgow International, Scotland’s biennial festival for contemporary art, has announced the details of its upcoming program, which will take place from April 24 to May 10, 2020. More than one hundred artists—including Kader Attia, Yuko Mohri, and Eva Rothschild—will participate in the approximately sixty exhibitions and other events that will be staged in various venues across the city. “The theme…Read More
TriBeCa, the New Art Stroll With the decline of retail, storefronts in the Triangle Below Canal Street are filling with galleries — it’s New York City’s most unlikely new art scene. Visitors waiting to be admitted into James Cohan, which is showing “Observations at Night,” an exhibition of new work by Josiah McElheny. The gallery hosted performances by the Sun Ra Arkestra, part of a performance series curated by Blank Forms, during the Tribeca Gallery Walk on Saturday. Calla Kessler/The…Read More
The Return of the Tribeca Art Scene By Jerry Saltz Shona McAndrew, Alina (2019), currently on view at Tribeca’s Chart gallery. Photo: Shona McAndrew/Courtesy of Chart/Photograph by Dan Bradica Something wonderful is happening in the once and future art neighborhood of Tribeca. On the first Friday after Labor Day, these blocks were populated with crowds of artists and art lovers, all drawn by the siren song of possibility. But the smell of money, hustling collectors, and deal-makers was nowhere to be…Read More
There’s more to Erin O’Keefe’s still lifes than meets the eye PEI-RU KEH 11 SEP 2019 A bright and vibrant colour palette doesn’t often figure into the oeuvre of a trained architect, but for the artist Erin O’Keefe, who not only studied architecture but has taught it as well, the power of colour couldn’t play a bigger role in how she perceives space. ‘I taught for 23 years as an architectural professor and as part of that, I was teaching…Read More
A New Body of Work By Erin O’Keefe Asks What Makes a Space “Real” by Jill Singer The artist Erin O’Keefe — whose work we’ve been continuously sharing since 2014 — has a solo show opening this week at Denny Dimin Gallery in New York. While her work has remained fixated on a single subject during that time — how to manipulate space and our perception of it — the ways in which she interprets that subject seem to be almost infinite. In her photographs, she builds still lifes from painted wood blocks…Read More
21 Gallery Shows You Won’t Want to Miss in New York This Fall, From Amy Sherald’s Star Turn to a Historic Cuban Artist’s US Debut Here’s a taste of what’s opening this season in the Big Apple. Caroline Goldstein & Sarah Cascone, September 3, 2019 It’s that time of year again… back to school, back to work, and back to the galleries. With so many venues, it can be daunting to try to figure out what’s worth your time and Instagram attention. So…Read More
Tribeca Emerges as New Hub for Galleries James Cohan, CANADA, Monica King Contemporary, kaufmann repetto and Andrew Kreps Gallery open new spaces with exciting exhibitions in September By Paul Laster With five new gallery spaces opening in Tribeca on September 6, two others joining the neighborhood this past summer, and at least three more rumored to be putting down stakes next year, the Triangle Below Canal Street has emerged as New York’s hottest destination for art. The phenomenal success of…Read More
