DIFFERENCE MACHINES: TECHNOLOGY AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY ART Dates: January 28 to April 29, 2023 Opening Reception: January 28, 2023 – 2:00pm Curated By: Tina Rivers Ryan and Paul Vanouse Image: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF THOSE THAT ARE NOT, 2020; Digital game displayed on projector; gaming chair; pink lights; and vinyl text. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Tina Rivers Ryan for Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Artists List: Morehshin Allahyari, Zach Blas, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, A.M. Darke,…Read More
Denny Gallery, NY, now presenting Judy Ledgerwood’s exhibition ‘Sunny’ Judy Ledgerwood, Skylarking, 2022. Oil on canvas. Images courtesy of Denny Gallery and the artist. NEW YORK, NY.- Denny Gallery recently opened ‘Sunny’, a solo exhibition of new work by painter Judy Ledgerwood. On view at the gallery’s New York location since January 7, it will continue to February 11, 2023. Ledgerwood is a renowned painter whose work has featured in numerous international exhibitions and is included in prominent public collections…Read More
Amir H. Fallah Shining A Spotlight On Women’s Rights Protestors In Iran Chadd Scott Jan 13, 2023 Artist’s rendering of Amir H. Fallah “Woman, Life, Freedom” neon artwork. AMIR H. FALLAH A woman’s face. An unshrouded woman’s face in Iran and that government’s medieval response to it have launched the women’s rights and freedom protests which have swept that nation since the September 2022 arrest of 22-year-old Jina “Mahsa” Amini by Iran’s morality police. She died three days…Read More
Amir H. Fallah Shining A Spotlight On Women’s Rights Protestors In Iran Chadd Scott Jan 13, 2023 Artist’s rendering of Amir H. Fallah “Woman, Life, Freedom” neon artwork.AMIR H. FALLAH A woman’s face. An unshrouded woman’s face in Iran and that government’s medieval response to it have launched the women’s rights and freedom protests which have swept that nation since the September 2022 arrest of 22-year-old Jina “Mahsa” Amini by Iran’s morality police. She died three days…Read More
ART SEASON HIGHLIGHTS: 12 SHOWS TO SEE THIS WINTER AND SPRING SHANA NYS DAMBROT JANUARY 12, 2023 January is always a great excuse to reset the big-show calendar with a fresh season, and it’s also the run-up to the new tradition of Art Week Los Angeles (don’t call it Frieze Week) in February. That will be its own weather system, and more to come on that later. In the meantime, here are 12 exhibitions — from kings of Pop…Read More
Eyes on Iran at FDR Four Freedoms Park Looks to the UN By Ilana Herzig January 6, 2023 In early December, over 300 volunteers crowded onto the lawn of New York’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, designed by Louis Kahn. The crowd gathered to form a waving embodiment of the free-flowing hair of Nika Shahkarami, a 16-year-old girl found dead after joining a protest in Tehran in September over the death, in police custody, of Mahsa Amini. As part…Read More
With ‘Eyes on Iran,’ Artists Bring Protests to Roosevelt Island At the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, across from the United Nations, an exhibition has an undeniable mood of urgency. Sheida Soleimani, “Mahsa” (2022) at “Eyes on Iran” at Roosevelt Island, part of an artists’ response to the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran in police custody in September.Credit…Austin Paz/for Freedoms By Will Heinrich Published Dec. 8, 2022Updated Dec. 9, 2022 A hand holds a burning white…Read More
Artist Sheida Soleimani The world must keep our eyes on the brave citizens of Iran and open to the possibility of justice. We have our #EyesonIran and stand in solidarity with the movement to remove the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Commission for the Status of Women. Sign the petition at bit.ly/IRIoffCSW EYES ON IRAN ART ACTIVATION FACES THE UN IN NEW YORK CITY November 28, 2022 Speakers: Hilary Rodham Clinton, Gissou Nia, Sheida Soleimani, Shirin Neshat…Read More
“Medium of Exchange” is an urgent publication that exposes the oil industry’s entanglement in global networks of violence, corruption, and abuse. The 13 historic member nations in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) represent an extension of the ongoing photographic series by Soleimani of the same name, which uses genres of art (camp, punk, street, kitsch) and living (masculinity, BDSM, food) to bring to light the corrupt relationships of OPEC oil ministers and western government officials. The portrait…Read More
Join Ann Shelton (left) and Victoria Munro (right), the Executive Director of the Alice Austen House, as they discuss Shelton’s current show at Denny Dimin Gallery and Shelton’s upcoming exhibition at the Alice Austen House in 2024. Thursday, November 17th, 6:30-7:30pm ET Register for Zoom. For more than a decade, Ann Shelton has explored the micro, marginal, bleak and traumatic counter-histories of plants through her photographic and performance-based art work. Linking gender politics and the climate crisis in a critical…Read More
Enjoy this 3 minute video where artist Justine Hill shares her ideas, inspirations and process in creating the commission The Travelers The Travelers is a large-scale work by Justine Hill, commissioned by the Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross where Hill received her BA. For The Travelers, Hill draws from a long-standing interest in science fiction and fantasy, citing Octavia Butler, Ursula le Guin and N.K. Jemisin as inspirational authors in this genre alongside an interest…Read More
Turning to the Light: Paula Wilson Interviewed by Heidi Howard Works that blend ecology and eroticism. Oct 24, 2022 Paula Wilson, Sunflower Night, 2022, acrylic and oil on muslin and canvas (relief, woodblock, and monotype print), 68 × 89 inches. Courtesy of Denny Dimin Gallery and Paula Wilson. I first encountered Paula Wilson’s art as an MFA student in Gregory Amenoff’s office at Columbia University. I was drawn to an image that featured a female figure in a…Read More
Imago Earth Angel by Paula Wilson 155″x155″; acrylic and oil on muslin and canvas (relief, silk screen, monotype, and lithography print), wooden and beaded jewelry made in collaboration with Mike Lagg; 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Denny Dimin Gallery, New York. COLLAGE ON VIEW Paula Wilson: Imago at Denny Dimin Gallery in New York, New York, USA 9 September-29 October 2022 “Imago” is an exhibition of new work by multimedia artist Paula Wilson. With the scope of…Read More
Three exhibits at Albuquerque Museum are inspired by Thomas Cole by Kathaleen Roberts / Journal Staff Writer Oct 21, 2022 Thomas Cole, “Dream of Arcadia,” ca.1838, oil on canvas, 38-5/8-by-62-3/4 inches. (Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum) The Hudson River painter Thomas Cole captured the raw beauty of the land, imbuing his canvases with the power and awe of nature. Cole’s massive “Dream of Arcadia,” on loan from the Denver Art Museum, began greeting visitors to the Albuquerque…Read More
“The Value of Destruction Is Worth More Than the Value of Construction,” 2022 acrylic on canvas 5’x5′ courtesy of the artist and Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, (Yubo Dong/For The Times) BY AMIR H. FALLAH OCT. 19, 2022 7 AM PT All of my art starts from a very personal place. In a lot of ways, the work is autobiographical, dealing with me coming to terms with being an immigrant in America, being a refugee in America and straddling two…Read More
Tina Knowles Lawson Builds a Collection and a Foundation to Support Black Art The 2001 Ace Award Winner might be best known in the public eye for her work in fashion, beauty, and entertainment, but over the course of her life Tina Knowles Lawson has also become an ambitious art collector and philanthropist. In 2017, she and husband Richard Lawson established Where Art Can Occur (WACO) Theater Center, an artist empowerment organization dedicated to creating opportunities for young…Read More
Pep Talks for Artists: Interview w/ Paula Wilson, Oct 20, 2022, Hosted by Amy Talluto Listen to the Podcast As a super fan, I was thrilled to welcome multi-media artist, Paula Wilson to the podcast this week. Paula joined me to talk about her current show, “Imago,” at Denny Dimin Gallery in NYC (up right now through Oct 29, 2022) and also allowed me to pepper her with questions about her work in general. Paula works in expansive…Read More
Inside Overcoming Necessary Obstacles — an introspective games exhibition A screenshot from Studio Oleomingus’s Folds of a Separation Upon entering the Project Space at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the first installation that jumps out to the eye is an anachronistic set-up in the center of the room. Colorful, glowing LED keyboards that look like they came from a Twitch streamer’s set up are attached to monitors that look like they belong in the early 2000s. This is…Read More
Art and Technology Glitching Time and Time-Based Media By Charlotte Kent Michael Mandiberg, Still from Postmodern Times, 2017. Video commissioned from online workers on Fiverr.com. TRT 87:00. Courtesy Michael Mandiberg and Denny Dimin Gallery. Michael Mandiberg appropriated Chaplin’s classic by hiring gig workers from Fiverr to reproduce scenes for Postmodern Times (2017). Mandiberg’s new media work makes a kind of Allan Sekula-like move to position art and its practices within a social and technological history attached to labor relations….Read More
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now By John Vincler, Jillian Steinhauer, Max Lakin, Martha Schwendener and Travis Diehl Oct. 13, 2022 Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Start on the Upper East Side to catch Issy Wood’s pleasingly discomfiting paintings at Michael Werner. Then head to Chelsea for Zoe Leonard’s photographs of the Rio Grande at Hauser & Wirth. And don’t miss Jennie Jieun Lee’s wildly colored ceramics at Martos in TriBeCa. Newly…Read More
IV Chan is a Hong Kong-based artist and costume designer whose multidisciplinary practice incorporates sculpture, installation and performance. IV’s artistic interests are rooted in the complexity of the human body and the mind. Through her eerie yet childlike sculptural works and installations, she reflects upon her own problematic bodily experiences while exploring themes such as mythology, religion and psychoanalysis. IV’s latest work deals with the “death” of childhood and the detachment of the parent and is presented as part of…Read More
We are delighted to formally announce the Art in Embassies, US Department of State acquisition of Amanda Valdez’s artwork, Full Tanit, 2018. The large-scale weaving made in collaboration with the New Roots Foundation in Antigua, Guatemala, continues Valdez’s primary inquiry of combining multiple methods and traditions of painting, mark making, and textiles. Full Tanit mimics that approach by integrating weaving methods that are unfamiliar to one another. The assemblage of these differing elements was inspired by the landscape surrounding the…Read More
“Crying Non-Stop” Performance by IV Chan Saturday, October 15th, 3-4 pm Location: Denny Dimin Gallery, Hong Kong No. 612 Remex Center, No. 42 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong Denny Dimin Gallery is delighted to announce a one-off performance by artist IV Chan whose work is currently on view as part of the group exhibition, The Thread is Not Straight at the gallery’s space in Wong Chuk Hang. The performance continues Chan’s ideas on the formation of identity in childhood,…Read More
