Gallery Visits in the Lower East Side Released November 22, 2017 Listen to Podcast. Nicole Will, an art adviser in New York (Will Art Advisory) brings Ally and Steve to three different shows in lower Manhattan to meet artists and discuss their work. Caris Reid, walks them through her show “Sub Rosa” at the Denny Gallery. Jess Johnson shows at the Jack Hanley gallery (where Ally experiences a trippy virtual reality experience). Lastly, they visit a showing of Karl Wirsum’s work…Read More
Future Retrieval Comes to NYC with New Solo Exhibition October 26, 2017 by Caitlin Confort Read on Art Zealous We’re excited to announce that our friends at Future Retrieval opened their first solo exhibition with Denny Gallery in NYC entitled Permanent Spectacle. Dynamic duo, Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker, spent the past year in their studio working on Permanent Spectacle, which was first shown at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA this spring. The pair worked with the…Read More
Photograms that Capture Darkness and the Flicker of Fireflies Michael Flomen’s first photographs were made with the light of fireflies, inspiring a series of work that converses with rain water, earth, and plant life. By: Seph Rodney | October 2, 2017 Read on Hyperallergic. Michael Flomen,”Two Step” (2004), gelatin silver toned print, archival mount on museum board, framed with museum glass, 34.5 x 36.25 in; artist proof from edition of 4 + 1 AP (all images courtesy Michael Flomen and…Read More
Michael Flomen, Dark Waters @Denny By Loring Knoblauch / In Galleries / October 3, 2017 Read on Collector Daily. JTF (just the facts): A total of 3 black and white photographs, framed in black steel/wood and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the smaller second gallery space. All of the works are toned gelatin silver photograms, made in 2015 and 2016. Physical sizes range from roughly 14×11 to 84×56 inches, and all of the works are unique. (Installation shots…Read More
5 Must-See Gallery Shows in NYC This September By Margaret Carrigan • 09/11/17 3:45pm Read on the Observer. Caris Reid at Denny Gallery September 7–October 8 The flat surfaces of Reid’s paintings are misleading. Her work is rich in mystical iconography, in a way that is both timeless but also exceptionally immediate thanks to her bold, bright palette. The artist plays on this tension of past and present, known and unknown, in“Sub Rosa,” a Latin phrase meaning “under the rose,” which was invoked…Read More
A CLANDESTINE WORLD By: Chennie Huang | Saturday, August 26, 2017 Read on CH Reviews. In celebration of her new solo-exhibition at Denny Gallery, which opens on September 7th, I invited artist, Caris Reid to have a conversation with me about her work and how she discovered a brave new world of clandestine spiritual energy living amongst the beauty of nature. Caris gracefully accepted my invitation. Caris Reid Matriarchal Matrix, 2017 Silkscreen, 29 x 22 in. / 74 x 56 cm…Read More
Treats, Jewelry and AstroTurf: Scenes From an Art Show for Dogs By JOSHUA BARONE Photographs by KRISTA SCHLUETER Produced by LAURA O’NEILL AUGUST 11, 2017 Read in The New York Times. Could a pioneering art show for dogs — supposedly organized by a dog — be called anything other than Dogumenta? The idea came from the art critic Jessica Dawson, whose rescue dog, Rocky, often accompanies her on trips to galleries. “I was surprised to see that Rocky…Read More
Erin O’Keefe By: Jeff Gibson Summer 2017. Vo. 55. No. 10.
Erin O’Keefe, Book of Days @Denny By Loring Knoblauch, May 1, 2017 JTF (just the facts): A total of 15 color and black and white photographs, framed in white and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the two room gallery space. All of the works are archival pigment prints mounted on museum board, made in 2016 and 2017. Physical sizes are either 20×16, 25×20, or 40×32, and all of the prints are available in editions of 3. Comments/Context: While…Read More
The Phenomenon of Light and Shadow: A Q&A with Erin O’Keefe BY TAYLOR DAFOE | APRIL 24, 2017 Picking up in the tradition of still life photographers such as Barbara Kasten and Jan Groover, as well as sculptors like Brancusi and David Smith who used photography to explore the perspectival limitations of their own work, Erin O’Keefe makes pictures that reinvent physical space. She creates sculptures in a sense, but they’re not autonomous; they cannot exist without the photograph. O’Keefe…Read More
Bouquets Highlight Plants Used to Control Women’s Reproductive Health An exhibition looks at plant remedies that women have used to control their reproductive lives. by Claire Voon April 10, 2017 Ann Shelton, “The Vixen, Ginger (Zingiber sp.),” from jane says (2015-ongoing) AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Delicate and dainty, Queen Anne’s Lace is a popular pick for wedding bouquets — but the white flower also has a long history as a naturally occurring contraceptive. The alleged power of its seeds, when…Read More
Elizabeth Denny spoke with Claire and Erica from Of a Kind about running an art gallery. Episode 82: An Education in Making Costume Jewelry and Running Your Own Gallery Listen Of a Kind podcast.
Jordan Tate Visits the Big Apple for Recent Exhibition March 15, 2017 by Caitlin Confort Read on Art Zealous. Jordan Tate is an artist who doesn’t use Instagram filters. #nofilter He’s a Cincinnati resident who works as an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Cincinnati – although Jordan is an art professor, he did not have a traditional art school experience. His focus was more towards critical thinking, critique, and deconstruction so he has always approached art from…Read More
Get Beamed Into an Alien Afterlife via This Trippy Video Game and Gallery Show MARCH 13, 2017 BY SAM PATWELL Taken by yours, mine, & ours gallery You wake up in a hospital. There is a doctor standing over you in scrubs, running his hand down a clipboard, a mask pulled tight across his face. There’s a vague beeping behind you and the sounds of miserable sobbing coming from somewhere. The beeping grows longer and louder until, all of a…Read More
Lots to Explore During Annual NYC Art Fair Week By Stephanie Simon Friday, March 3, 2017 Watch on NY1. NY1 VIDEO: It’s Art Fair Week in NYC, meaning more than 75,000 art lovers, buyers, collectors and the curious will take in one or more of the 10 major art fairs. Most run now through Sunday. Most fairs have an array of admission prices starting around $15 and $25 plus multiple day options.
Art Uncovered with Kimberly Ruth Listen on BTRtoday. This week Art Uncovered hits the Spring Break Art Show, a curator-driven art fair that showcases over 150 curators who premiere new artworks created by over 400 artists. The selected curators were chosen based on their proposals that deal with the theme of “Black Mirror,” which is not a reference to the popular Netflix series, but, rather, a concept that includes ideas such as self-reflexivity, especially in the digital age.
Occupying Offices: Independent vs. Spring/Break By PAUL LASTER, Mar. 2017 Read on Whitehot Magazine. Armory Arts Week brings the touring art circus to town—without the live animals. The Armory Show, which focuses on contemporary art, looks better than ever under the leadership of new director Benjamin Genocchio this year; it’s sister fair VOLTA, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, shines a spotlight on new art; the ADAA Art Show offers a smart, blue-chip selection of galleries, which mix classic modernism…Read More
FACING THE BLACK MIRROR: SEAN FADER’S AWESOME YEAR BY ANDREA ALESSI Read on ArtSlant. Oscar Wilde famously suggested great art “reveal beauty and hide the artist.” For the 2017 BLACK MIRROR exhibition at SPRING/ BREAK, more than 100 curators will feature artworks that explore the dance of identity the artist undergoes—between showing what’s unseen and hiding in plain sight—especially in the face of modern technology, political unrest, and glimmers from ghosts of Art History’s past. ArtSlant will be exhibiting the…Read More
Ann Shelton In Conversation with Casey Carsel and Laura Thomson March 3, 2017 Through a wide range of photographic investigations, Wellington-based artist Ann Shelton has, over her 20-year career, explored the construction of narratives that surround social, political and historical contexts. A selection of Shelton’s prolific practice has been brought together in her review exhibition, Dark Matter, at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, which opened on 26 November 2016 and continues through to 17 April 2017. While studying photography…Read More
The SPRING/BREAK Art Show Curator List Is Finally Here There’s a lot to look forward to next week. Sarah Cascone, February 24, 2017 Read on Artnet. New York’s SPRING/BREAK Art Show has finally revealed the list of its 2017 curators responding to the theme “BLACK MIRROR,” based on the idea of identity and what artists chose to reveal to the world of their personal selves. It’s an organizing principle that is drawn from the Claude glass, or black mirror, used…Read More
Enter an ‘Alien Afterlife’ Inside a Video Game Installation Aliens and the Tibetan Book of the Dead collide in artist Jeremy Couillard’s latest new media installation. By DJ Pangburn February 19, 2017, 7:50am What if the afterlife is neither total universal awareness nor void, but an alien world? Artist Jeremy Couillard envisions the possibility in Alien Afterlife, a first-person video game installation where players die in a hospital, then find their afterlife hijacked by aliens. This surreal and disorienting world,…Read More
Jordan Tate: Prefaces @Denny By Richard B. Woodward / In Galleries / February 17, 2017 Read on Collector Daily. JTF (just the facts): A total of 7 color photographs, framed in light orange and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the main gallery space and the reception area. All of the works are Lambda prints, mounted to ACM board with gloss laminate and dated 2016. Physical sizes range from 16×24 in. to 40×60 in. Six of the 7 are…Read More
Read on art|REAL By Nicole Bray, posted February 2, 2017 Walking into Russell Tyler’s studio is an absolute treat for the eyes as you’re greeted with an array of colorful and luscious canvases. A master of color and movement, Tyler draws upon our art historical forefathers of Abstract Expressionism, the Sublime, and Minimalism. Tyler works in three different styles, yet they all look and feel unquestionably connected: minimalist forms with expressive gestures, expressive abstraction of instinct and chance, and abstract…Read More
Read on ARTNews Opening: Jordan Tate at Denny Gallery (Thursday, January 26, 6-8 p.m.) Jordan Tate’s latest show features photographs of exhibitions that never existed. To some extent, they seem real—you could be tricked into thinking that IDGI @ Kunsthalle Bern (2016), in which images of ancient Greek sculptures hang on a teal wall, really was on view at one point, but that’s an easy effect to create with digital technology. Relying on Photoshop and the sense of irony that…Read More
