The Lives of the Artists: Paula Wilson By Brainard Carey, September 28, 2022 Hosted by Praxis on Yale University Radio Listen to the Podcast Paula Wilson received an MFA from Columbia and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Alongside her current exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery, she is currently exhibiting within a group exhibition Plein Air at MOCA Tucson and has an upcoming solo exhibition Toward the Sky’s Back Door at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and…Read More
After Kandler, Yellow Tureen (2020) by Future Retrieval was acquired by the Cincinnati Art Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, following their expansive exhibition Close Parallel in 2021.
Multiple artworks by Dana Sherwood were acquired by the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT following her survey exhibition Animal Appetites and Other Encounters in Wildness which closed September 18th. (Photo: Paul Mutino)
Creatures of the Fire (2020) by Paula Wilson was acquired by the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, in anticipation of her upcoming two-person exhibition Ashley Bryan | Paula Wilson: Take the World Into Your Arms in 2023.
We are delighted to announce the Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) acquisition of Sean Fader’s “Insufficient Memory” (2020)! “Insufficient Memory” is a body of work consisting of still photographs and a Google Earth Interactive Tour that examines the moment of 1999–2000 when the Hate Crimes Prevention Act was first being debated in Congress (and not passed). Inspired by the discovery of an old Sony Digital Mavica in 2018, Fader asked what was overlooked, invisible, or…Read More
13 Buzzy Back-to-School Gallery Shows to See During Armory Week, From a Red-Hot Group Show to Rick Lowe’s Gagosian Debut It’s “back to school” for the art world—here’s a guide to the best openings on tap this week. Sarah Cascone, September 6, 2022 Paula Wilson with Mike Lagg, Earth Angel (2022). Courtesy of Denny Dimin Gallery, New York. “Paula Wilson: Imago” at Denny Dimin Gallery Mixed-media artist Paula Wilson will transform Denny Dimin Gallery with her large-scale collages, tromp l’oeil assemblages,…Read More
Natalie Lo Lai Lai (b. 1983, Hong Kong) has a distinct practice, using video installation as a means to interact with nature. She is a member of Sangwoodgoon, a farming collective started in 2010 by activists in Hong Kong who opposed the construction of a high-speed railway which would displace villagers and farmland. Lo’s practice is at once deeply connected to Sangwoodgoon while working beyond its context, using farming to think through alternatives to repressive governance and the relationships between…Read More
Plein Air Is a Sobering Reminder of Human Impact on the Environment From borderlands and elevations to ecology and isolation, curator Aurora Tang brings together artists who work deeply in their regional geographies. by Thao Votang Installation view of Plein Air at MOCA Tucson, 2022 (photo by Julius Schlosburg, courtesy MOCA Tucson) TUCSON — By noon on a July day in Tucson, Arizona, it’s already 100 degrees and still climbing. Going to see an exhibition at the…Read More
Wild kingdom: Dana Sherwood’s Old Lyme show explores “Animal Appetites and Other Encounters in Wildness” August 16, 2022 12:38 pm By Kristina Dorsey Artist Dana Sherwood on the film set The Artists’ Bedroom Bestiary in Old Lyme in 2021. (Photo by Paul Mutino, Courtesy of the artist) The bedroom sits on a lawn, as if torn away from a house, only two walls still standing. It looks like a film set, and it is. The green wallpaper is emblazoned…Read More
Sheida Soleimani’s Art Is for the Birds The artist’s home and studio in Providence, R.I., is, among other things, a wildlife clinic. By Marisa Mazria-Katz Aug. 9, 2022 Sheida Soleimani speaks the language of birds, deftly contorting her lips and breath to recite lilting sounds with distinct avian fluency. As far as the Iranian American artist is concerned, it’s her second language after Farsi. “Before I could speak English, I used to listen to bird sounds on tape,” says Soleimani,…Read More
The Sublime Danielle Steel: For the Love of Supermarket Schlock August 3, 2022 By Dan Sinykin Sean Fader, Sugar Daddy IN 1978, BILL GROSE, editor-in-chief at Dell, decided to make a star of a young author from San Francisco. Grose was a thumper of novelizations from popular film and television, a fan of media tie-ins, a man with his finger in the air to feel the direction of the wind. Dell, a mass-market house, had recently been acquired by…Read More
Ann Shelton, selfie (pale green rose), 2021, pigment print, 117 x 89 cm (framed), edition of 6 + 2 AP. Courtesy of the artist and Two Rooms Ann Shelton: A flower, a maverick By Jo Bragg Purchase the Magazine Online. The word “technology” is elastic, at times mean-ing an artefact an obdurate object—at others, an activity or process. This slippage of application presents opportunities to rethink contemporary and seemingly concrete historical categories. Wild and intangible, the flower, as…Read More
The Lives of the Artists: Dana Sherwood By Brainard Carey, July 7, 2022 Hosted by Praxis on Yale University Radio Listen to the Podcast Dana Sherwood received her BFA from the University of Maine, Farmington. In 2022, Sherwood installed her first solo museum exhibition at Florence Griswold Museum, CT. Sherwood has exhibited in dOCUMENTA 13, Mass MoCA, Storm King Art Center, Nassau County Museum of Art, FluxFactory, Socrates Sculpture Park, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, and Marianne Boesky Gallery. Sherwood has…Read More
By Duncan Forbes Purchase the Magazine Online. In their film Postmodern Times (2017), Michael Mandiberg recre-ates Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) shot by shot using free-lancers employed via the digital labor platform Fiverr. Filmed in more than twenty-five countries and involving 182 actors, the result is a discordant and strangely compelling transformation of the orig-inal. The Tramp and his numerous global impersonators waddle in and out of the frame, bringing today’s digital factory into critical dialogue with the most famous…Read More
Plein Air Challenges Assumptions and Aesthetics at MOCA Tucson By Lynn Trimble Lynn Trimble (she/her) is an award-winning writer based in Arizona whose work for regional and national publications ranges from arts reporting to arts criticism. In Plein Air at MOCA Tucson, artists challenge norms in paintings, installations, and video works that confront the white gaze that privileges colonizer culture and systems of oppression. Plein Air, installation view, 2022, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson. Photo: Julius Schlosburg. Courtesy Museum…Read More
By Dr. Jordan Amirkhani Portrait of Sheida Soleimani during the installation of her solo exhibition at Providence College Galleries as part of the “On The Wall” series. Photo by Mel Taing for Boston Art Review. “The exile knows that in a secular and contingent world, homes are always provisional.[…] Seeing ‘the entire world as a foreign land’ makes possible originality of vision. Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home; exiles are aware of…Read More
May 24, 2022 What’s Showing in Hong Kong, May 2022: Southside, Wan Chai, Kowloon BY THE EDITORS Galleries in Wong Chuk Hang and the greater Southside district continue to mount some of the city’s most interesting exhibitions, from both international and local artists. An afternoon of exploring the area’s industrial buildings is a chance to see artists in greater depth in these shows compared with the setting of an art fair. Further destinations await in Wan Chai and Tsim Sha…Read More
Amir H. Fallah;s “Joy As An Act Of Resistance” on RTHK’ s The Works Watch in English. Watch in Cantonese. Miniature art, Amir H. Fallah@Denny Dimin Gallery & in the studio: Anna Lo & VSing Humans have been creating miniature representations of reality since prehistoric times. Many of the earliest were funerary objects, but throughout the history of art miniatures have come in the form of paintings, drawings, engravings, book illustrations and sculptures. Miniature paintings came to the fore in…Read More
Artist Amir H. Fallah joins advisor Adam Green the on ArtTactic Podcast. Fallah explains why he believes it is important for artists to openly discuss their experiences navigating the art world. He shares some guiding principles that help him manage several aspects of his career. Fallah discusses what it was like to not experience success immediately in his career, identifies qualities he looks for in a gallery, explains the importance of having relationships with his collectors and reveals how he…Read More
The managing director of the art appraisal and advisory firm the Winston Art Group discusses her latest buys and the best collecting advice she’s received Daniel Cassady 17 May 2022 Von Habsburg with a recent purchase: Stephen Thorpe’s A Mediation Between the Physical and Spiritual World (2022) Courtesy of Elizabeth Von Habsburg One could be forgiven for thinking that being Austrian royalty is the most interesting thing about a person. But that is not the case with Elizabeth von Habsburg….Read More
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend From Ouattara Watts at Karma to Lydia Ourahmane at the SculptureCenter Gabriella Angeleti and Benjamin Sutton 13 May2022 Future Retrieval, Adaptation, Slouch (2022). Courtesy Denny Dimin Gallery and the artist. Future Retrieval: Crystal-Walled Seas Until 4 June at Denny Dimin Gallery, 39 Lispenard Street, Manhattan What if our lives could be as thoroughly designed and ordered as the interior of an aquarium? That seems to be the ideal…Read More
May 11, 2022 Curatorial Essay: Art and the Internet By Kristine Tan ‘Information Wants To Be Free?: Art and the Internet’, 2022, installation view. Image courtesy of Quek Jia Liang (ADM Gallery). ‘Information Wants To Be Free?: Art and the Internet‘ draws on the development of digital technology and networks to consider and critique the online information economy that governs our daily life. ‘Information wants to be free’ was an aphorism made by Stewart Brand, editor of the…Read More
Justin Kamp May 9, 2022 vanessa german Workhorse, 2021 The art world descended en masse upon Manhattan during the first week of May for the inaugural edition of New York Art Week, the far-reaching partnership between museums, galleries, art fairs, and auction houses focused on highlighting “an unprecedented offering of global art market events and institutional exhibitions,” according to the initiative’s website. The weeklong programming had at its heart a quartet of fairs scattered across…Read More
May 9, 2022 Widewalls Editorial Art week is underway in NYC, with four fairs transpiring across Manhattan last week. New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) has held their NYC art fair’s post-pandemic return after a four year hiatus–a triumphant comeback that kicked off with a gorgeous spring day last Thursday, May 5th. NADA is “the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art.” Member galleries from The Hole to The Pit…Read More
