Tracing Networks of Political Corruption in Sheida Soleimani’s Slick, Hyper-Stylized Tableaux “Hotbed” zeroes in on the places where these power relations and abuses between the US and Iran make themselves most visible. by Cassie Packard December 18, 2020 Installation view of Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed, Denny Dimin, 2020 (all images courtesy Denny Dimin) The compressed, hyper-stylized images in Sheida Soleimani’s first New York City solo show bring a critical eye to the tense relationship between the US and Iran, as well as the corruption that…Read More
In the studio with Sheida Soleimani by OSMAN CAN YEREBAKAN Photography by Cole Barash The Iranian-American artist invites us into her converted, 19th century barn in Rhode Island, where politically charged installations co-exist with her hobby of rehabilitating injured wildlife Sheida Soleimani always imagined she’d become a vet. Growing up with a doctor father and a nurse mother, who were forced to flee the post-revolution regime in Iran, Soleimani considered the family practice indisputable. However, when she tried her…Read More
5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now by JILLIAN STEINHAUER Sheida Soleimani’s “Iran Heavy” (2018), archival pigment print Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed Through Dec. 23. Denny Dimin Gallery, 39 Lispenard Street, Manhattan. 212-226-6537, dennygallery.com. You would be forgiven for thinking that Sheida Soleimani made the photographs in her exhibition “Hotbed” digitally. Collapsing space and subject matter into densely layered images of body parts, food, electronics and more, they’re informed by a certain internet aesthetic. But Ms. Soleimani’s artworks are analogue,…Read More
5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now Thornton Dial’s “Flying Tiger,” Thomas Eggerer’s protest painting, Harriet Korman’s brilliant canvases, Sheida Soleimani’s portraits of Iranian-U.S. relations, and Etel Adnan’s tapestries. Dec. 9, 2020 Sheida Soleimani Through Dec. 23. Denny Dimin Gallery, 39 Lispenard Street, Manhattan. 212-226-6537, dennygallery.com. Sheida Soleimani’s “Iran Heavy” (2018), archival pigment print.Credit…Sheida Soleimani and Denny Dimin Gallery You would be forgiven for thinking that Sheida Soleimani made the photographs in her exhibition “Hotbed” digitally. Collapsing space…Read More
CATALOGS AVAILABLE! Exhibition catalog for Sheida Soleimani Hotbed an exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery, New York City, November 6 – December 23, 2020. Catalog essay by Jane Ursula Harris. Jane Ursula Harris is a Brooklyn-based writer who has contributed to Art in America, Bookforum, BOMB, Cultured Magazine, The Paris Review, Flash Art, The Believer, and GARAGE, among other publications. Her essays appear in catalogues including Carnegie Mellon’s forthcoming Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth; Participant Inc.’s NegroGothic: M. Lamar;…Read More
Multiple Exposures: Sean Fader’s #Wishingpelt And Humor In Social Media Performance by David J. Getsy Sean Fader, #wishingpelt Instagram image #907 (2014). Digital photograph posted on Instagram from PULSE Art Fair, New York. Read full Essay PDF. Read more on ASAP Journal.
Elizabeth Denny’s Top Picks | Miami Beach 2020 UNTITLED, ART UNTITLED, ART is pleased to introduce a new series of curated selections from the art fair. Cultural tastemakers, international curators, gallerists, and local collectors will be tapped to share their picks from the Online Viewing Rooms of UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach 2020. Today’s highlighted selection comes from Elizabeth Denny, founder of Denny Dimin Gallery, which is participating in its ninth straight edition of the Miami Beach fair. Read on to…Read More
Jeremy Couillard is presenting a new video “Voluntary Associations” with the Daata Fair in Miami. The Daata Fair Miami is an online-only art fair dedicated to showcasing the best of international contemporary video and digital art from leading art galleries around the world. Daata Fair Miami: December 1-13, 2020. Visit the Fair. “Voluntary Associations” is also now on view in The Bass Museum’s satellite IG gallery @thebasssquared. “Voluntary Associations” will also be presented as a screening program at the New…Read More
The way we live now “The Zoom Paintings” are dispatches from a strange year In lockdown Michael Mandiberg started capturing the offices, bedrooms and kitchens of others while on video calls by S.H. Dec 3rd 2020 IT IS THE corner of someone’s empty kitchen. Cabinets have been left open haphazardly; an oven hood and a slice of the ceiling is visible. The scene has a slightly dizzying quality, as when a laptop camera is tilted upwards, but this is an…Read More
by Clarity Haynes I first saw multidisciplinary artist Pamela Council’s work at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2015. Council’s sculpture “Flo Jo World Record Nails,” constructed of fake nails, formed an arc that evoked the sensation of taking flight, and paid homage to late track and field athlete Florence Griffith Joyner. I’ve since followed their work, which explores Black joy, grieving, grooming, and memorials in extraordinary ways. I was happy to have the opportunity recently to discuss Council’s work…Read More
Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2020 by Dessane Lopez Cassell Bye 2020. You’ve been a whole lot. For this final month of a wild year, we’ve pulled together a list of shows and film series that provides both ample distraction and some opportunities for reflection. Scroll below for our top 10, the majority of which are available online or by appointment. Installation view of Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed, Denny Dimin, 2020 (image courtesy Denny Dimin) Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed…Read More
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Congratulations Erin O’Keefe for being featured in the Winter Issue of the Paris Review! Check out the portfolio along with an essay by Kate Tarker. The latest issue of ‘The Paris Review’ features an Art of Poetry interview with Edward Hirsch and an Art of Theater interview with Suzan-Lori Parks, issue no. 235 also includes plays by David Adjmi, Kirk Lynn, and Claudia Rankine; fiction by György Dragomán, Dantiel W. Moniz, and Jack Livings; poetry by Rita Dove and Natalie…Read More
Image: Paula Wilson, Creatures of the Fire, 2020. Relief print, wood block print, monotype, acrylic, oil, on muslin and canvas. 64 x 57 in/162.5 x 144.7 cm. Artists: Amanda Valdez Jessie Edelman Justine Hill Paula Wilson VIP & Press Preview: Begins Tuesday, December 1st 11AM EST Public Hours: Begins Wednesday, December 2nd 11AM EST The fair will then run uninterrupted through Sunday, December 6th. Visit our Online Viewing Room (OVR).
Artists At Home: Between Familiar Environments And New Perspectives By Adam Hencz November 2020 “I was yearning for colors… Vibrant colors! I started doing self-portraits and was watching myself manifested in a fictitious milieu, in interiors that were colorful and peaceful. Colors made me feel safe.” Maria Kassab A variety of circumstances have led to artists being isolated from society. Depending on the situation, a time of solitude can be welcome or uninvited, deliberate or involuntary. Many artists have thrived…Read More
On High by Paula Wilson Locust Projects, Miami, FL November 21, 2020 – January 23, 2021 “Looking at this work now, in the current moment, it feels aspirational, linking past and the present, ushering in the potentials of the future.” – Paula Wilson On High at Locust Projects features Paula Wilson’s 2017 video Living Monument, a one-minute, two-channel video. On one screen is footage compiled from online sources of the confederate General Beauregard Equestrian Statue’s removal in New Orleans in…Read More
Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed @Denny Dimin By Loring Knoblauch / In Galleries / November 17, 2020 JTF (just the facts): A total of 11 color photographs, generally framed in color-matched artist’s frames and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the divided gallery space. All of the works are archival pigment prints, made between 2018 and 2020 (two of the works are being exhibited as 120×90 inch Phototex prints adhered directly to the wall, but are available as regular framed prints)….Read More
Sheida Soleimani’s latest show comments on the complex political relationship between Iran and the US by MARIGOLD WARNER The Iranian-American artist presents her latest body of work, Hot Bed, at New York’s Denny Dimin Gallery Sheida Soleimani’s work combines photography, sculpture, collage and film to comment on historical and contemporary socio-political issues. She tackles ethical questions about power and exploitation with references to present-day crises, offering a wider narrative centred on global politics and corruption. The Iranian-American artist’s current exhibition,…Read More
Visit the Tribeca Galleries on Saturday, December 5th from 11am-7pm! Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to be hosting “Hotbed” a solo exhibition by Sheida Soleimani. Visit the exhibition page: Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed. In the below video, Sheida Soleimani is joined with curator Jasmine Wahi to unpack the imagery and sources that make up the Iran-U.S. finger-pointing diptych, 1/8/2020 and PS752. Both these photographs are part of Soleimani’s newest series, Levers of Power. Together they illustrates how technologies of power…Read More
‘It’s Memorializing How Unmemorable It Is’: Artist Michael Mandiberg on Painting Melancholy Portraits on Zoom Mandiberg’s “Zoom Paintings” are going on view this week in a virtual exhibition. By: Taylor Dafoe, November 10, 2020 Michael Mandiberg, PSC-CUNY Action I, 3:00 — 4:00 PM, June 23, 2020 (#13) (2020). Courtesy of the artist. Quarantining has no doubt had a dissociative effect on us. Think about the strange ways in which time passes, or the moments during video chats when you have…Read More
Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed Speaking truth to the crises that define relations between Iran and the United States, Soleimani superimposes source imagery onto sculptural backdrops to reflect and critique hot-button issues such as demands for reparations, sanctions on trade and resources, and the “crude” history of the petroleum industry. The self-titled Hotbed (2020), one of the exhibition’s most evocative works, comments on Iran’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic by freezing the arm of the country’s deputy health minister in the physically…Read More
Join us over Zoom for a celebratory opening conversation of the exhibition, Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed. The online event will include a walkthrough, discussion of the work, and Q & A. Watch the event Sheida Soleimani received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BFA from the University of Cincinnati, College of Art. Soleimani’s most recent solo exhibitions were at Harlan Levey Projects in Brussels, Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago and the evolving exhibition Medium of Exchange that examined…Read More
Matt Mignanelli: Between Nature & Structure ~ a Public Art Installation at Five Bryant Park November 2, 2020 afinelyne Denny Dimin Gallery announced the solo public art installation, Between Nature & Structure by artist Matt Mignanelli at Five Bryant Park. Located at the intersection of West 40th Street and Sixth Avenue, across from the southwest corner of Bryant Park, Between Nature & Structure bridges the natural world of Bryant Park ~ a lush, green oasis in the heart of Manhattan…Read More
Amir H. Fallah: The Facade Project Institute of Contemporary Art San José The ICA San José presents The Façade Project with a major mural commission from Amir H. Fallah and opens its doors to become an Official Vote Center for November 2020 election. The Institute of Contemporary Art San José is excited to debut The Facade Project—an ongoing public art program dedicated to exploring the most critical social and political issues facing our time—by tapping Amir. H. Fallah as its…Read More
