Creating Worlds: Jessie Edelman Interviewed by Sara Roffino Paintings that aim to facilitate daydreams. Feb 21, 2022 Jessie Edelman, Irises, 2021, oil on canvas, 78 × 96 inches. Look once and you see a beautiful landscape. Look longer and that landscape unfolds into a psychological state. And if you continue looking, you may find yourself within a story, perhaps your own, perhaps not. Or perhaps it’s the sort of story that is both your own and everyone else’s too—longing for…Read More
Enid Tsui Published: 5:15 pm, 21 Feb, 2022 Conceptual art the focus of couple’s new gallery in Hong Kong, particularly the works of women and queer artists ‘We were fed up with the status quo,’ says Willem Molesworth of his and Ysabelle Cheung’s decision to open their own art gallery in Causeway Bay Meanwhile, Rossi & Rossi gallery is back in Wong Chuk Hang, alongside the new Hong Kong branch of New York’s Denny Dimin Gallery Two…Read More
Aotearoa Photobook Award 2022 finalists Award judges, Athol McCredie, Claire Mabey and Neil Pardington choose these 10 books as finalists of Aotearoa Photobook Awards. The three equal winners, and those highly commended, will be announced on March 4th. The finalists will be displayed at the Photobook/NZ festival in August 2022, and at the Australian Photobook of the Year Awards. mother lode Photographer: Ann Shelton Publisher: Bad News Books Designer: Duncan Munro Digital drawings: Ann Shelton and Duncan Munro Text:…Read More
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now Want to see new art this weekend? Start in TriBeCa with Jessie Edelman’s lush, patterned paintings. Then head to NoLIta for satiny installations by the performance artist Colette Lumiere. And don’t miss John Seal’s photorealistic paintings and Shane Darwent’s black vinyl awnings thought double as minimal sculptures. Newly Reviewed TRIBECA Jessie Edelman Through Feb. 26. Denny Dimin Gallery, 39 Lispenard Street, Manhattan. 212-226-6537; dennygallery.com. Jessie Edelman’s painting “Candlesticks” (2021) in her…Read More
For Photographer Ann Shelton, the Japanese Art of Floral Arranging is a Medium for Messages. Pōneke/Wellington-based photographer Ann Shelton’s personal ikebana-inspired revival has resulted in some astonishingly beautiful works. Like all good images, they can be appreciated in and of themselves, but there is an interesting story behind them. One chilly morning, a taxi driver and I negotiate our way into the hills beyond Wadestown to Wilton, where Ann lives with her designer/art director partner Duncan Munro in…Read More
This year’s nominees were selected from a list of over 400 entries, thanks to the hard work of our expert juries in each individual category (more on them here and here)—who chose the finalists after playing, discussing, and meticulously evaluating each of the games in consideration. Independent Games Festival Ceremony: March 23, 2022 Here is Jeremy Couillard’s list of finalists for each category of the 2022 IGF Awards, along with “honorable mentions”: EXCELLENCE IN VISUAL ART Fuzz Dungeon (Jeremy Couillard) NUOVO AWARD…Read More
Editors’ Picks: 9 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Etel Adnan’s Final Paintings to Surrealist Art From Beyond Europe Plus, check out gallery openings for Jessie Edelman and Howard Smith, and a show of works by Black artists from the American South. Artnet News, January 4, 2022 Saturday, January 8–Saturday, February 26 Jessie Edelman, Early Evening (2021). 5. “Jessie Edelman: Getaway” at Denny Dimin Gallery, New York After nearly two years of limited travel, Jessie Edelman has turned…Read More
KATIE ALICE FITZ GERALD Photo: Katie Alice Fitz Gerald © 2021 11/26/2021 ON GENDER AND IDENTITY Katie Alice Fitz Gerald is a Gallerist, Curator and Writer. She has been a partner of Denny Dimin Gallery since it opened in New York in 2013 and will be Director of Denny Dimin Gallery, Hong Kong which will open in Wong Chuk Hang, in January 2022. Since her Masters at Goldsmiths, studying queer theory and performance, Katie Alice has fostered a special interest…Read More
The pandemic is ongoing and confusion persists—and I’m not talking about the Omicron variant. You can’t discuss art in 2021 without mentioning N.F.T.s. Non-fungible tokens stormed the gates of the contemporary-art establishment in March, when Beeple, the nom de keyboard of the digital artist Mike Winkelmann, sold a crypto-art work at Christie’s for more than sixty-nine million dollars. As to the calibre of Beeple’s art, based on my admittedly cursory viewing, I’d say that it’s aptly described in his Instagram bio as…Read More
When an Artist’s Body Breaks Down Human Relations Become Crucial Michael Mandiberg’s Timeframe exhibition gives the viewer a window into a period of time when they had to deal with the breakdown of their own body. by Seph Rodney December 22, 2021 Michael Mandiberg, “My doctor has prohibited me from doing any more work”(Zorn Palette) (2020) oil and inkjet on canvas 12 x 9 inches There is a way in which the human body functions like a machine, and the…Read More
Machines have a history of generating identity formations with significant social implications. Buffalo is known as the “City of Light” because the electricity produced at Niagara Falls at the end of the 19th century made it possible to introduce street lamps, which stimulated its industrial boom. The illuminated urban environment transformed social interactions. Everywhere, electricity produced new work forces and identity formations—including stereotypical assumptions about aptitude and engagement. Recognizing this is crucial to understanding the work presented in Difference Machines:…Read More
LOS ANGELES Amanda Valdez THE LANDING 5118 West Jefferson Boulevard November 13, 2021–January 8, 2022 Amanda Valdez’s new works here—abstract canvases that incorporate paint, embroidery, sourced fabrics, and handwoven or hand-dyed textiles—recall the coastal sea stacks in the Pacific Northwest, where the artist grew up. Geomorphic shapes rise from the bottom edge of each picture but scarcely touch the surrounding borders. Some of these masses contain imagery of hills and fields, as in Autumn Flight and Dusk Remembrance, both 2021….Read More
Purchase Book. Ann Shelton with a text by Pip Adam Photographs, texture, historical documents and a fictional short story weave a book about a house, in the suburb of Wilton in Wellington, New Zealand. “I moved in to this house amid stories about its commissioner, a trail-blazing woman and the one responsible for bringing the woodwind instrument, the recorder, to New Zealand. The narrative of her and her architect’s lives struck me as still critical and relevant today as…Read More
DMs w Jeremy Couillard Nov 18, 2021 There is a place in your head where a thought slowly morphs into a real thing. The thought passes through a part of your brain where it turns into something different than what it was before it awkwardly becomes reality. This place is called the Fuzz Dungeon. It is responsible for everything from failed nation states to bad drawings. Good ideas turn into bureaucratic nightmares. Daydreams turn into mass starvation and…Read More
St. Petersburg November, 11–23 Artists: Galina Alferova, Semyon Koltsov (Russia), Karin Andersen (Germany), Anestis Anestis (Greece), Grigory Kirgizov (Russia), Alina Kugush (Russia), Jeremy Couillard (USA), Alexandra Lerman (USA–Russia), Nataliya Lyakh (France–Russia), Alexander Pogrebnyak, Anton Shchegolev (Russia), Danita Pushkareva (Russia), Miriam Simun (USA) CYFEST, one of the biggest international media art festivals in Eastern Europe, was founded by a group of independent artists and curators in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2007. Since its inception, CYFEST’s main concerns have been to examine…Read More
BY MARLEY MARIUS, November 5, 2021 Since 2003, the San Francisco-based FOR-SITE Foundation has centered “art about place,” mounting affecting exhibitions at Fort Mason Chapel (2017’s “Sanctuary,” examining “the basic human need for refuge, protection, and sacred ground” through a series of contemporary handmade rugs), Fort Winfield Scott (2016’s “Home Land Security,” which activated former military structures in the Presidio), Alcatraz Island (2014’s ”@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz”), and other sites. With its latest, “Lands End,” opening to the public on Sunday, the…Read More
Friday, November 5–Thursday, December 23 Michael Mandiberg, Carlo Montagnino (502 hours, 2006-2008), 2019. Photo courtesy of Denny Dimin Gallery, New York. 6. “Michael Mandiberg: Timeframe” at Denny Dimin Gallery, New York Michael Mandiberg presents two ongoing bodies of work related to themes of memory, illness, and building relationships through work and learning. Their durational performance “Live Study” includes an 850-hour archive, still growing, of live-streamed video from the artist’s painting sessions of studio assistants and other colleagues. The project spans Mandiberg’s…Read More
Council often uses humor as a political tool to expose systems of power and inequality in a society in which even death carries a high price tag. by Ksenia M. Soboleva “It’s absolutely wild that this is the first time I’ve directly referenced Twitter in my work,” wrote Pamela Council on their Instagram the day before the opening of their survey show, Bury Me Loose, at Denny Dimin Gallery (which has announced its representation of the artist). Over the past decade, Council…Read More
In ‘Feedback,’ a 21-artist knockout of a show, Helen Molesworth curates a nuanced and complicated conversation about race — the kind of talk we desperately need. By Will Heinrich Published Aug. 12, 2021Updated Aug. 14, 2021 KINDERHOOK, N.Y. — Feedback is what you get when a system’s output is looped through its input, as when Jimi Hendrix, closing out the Woodstock music festival in 1969, used an electric guitar with an overdriven amplifier to turn a performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” into a…Read More
BLACK PHENOMENA: On Afropessimism & Camp by Hafizah Geter “Me, we,” Steph says, quoting Muhammad Ali. She points her finger from me to her, turning the history that daisy-chains us into shorthand. We gaze out from Prospect Park’s highest pinnacle. Like the frogs chameleoning in the pond two hundred feet below us, our sentences leap from one conversation to another—art, ancestors, this Hunger Games called America. Gulps of white clouds hover at our waist level, pressed like pennies between a gentrifying Brooklyn…Read More
Coordinated by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and installed at the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health Services is Amir H. Fallah’s stained glass installation in collaboration with Judson Studios. (Pictured: Installation of Amir H. Fallah stained glass works, photo by Alan Shaffer.)
Jeremy Couillard‘s gloriously idiosyncratic art is being splashed across 80 synchronised screens in New York throughout October. His video Fuzz Spiral (2021) is part of Times Square Art’s Midnight Moment project, which shows art on advertising screens nightly from 11:57pm until midnight. The video is derived from Couillard’s game Fuzz Dungeon, which was released on Steam in June. You play as a rat-dog-witch named Flip as she navigates the space where good ideas get lost in search of a Sasquatch sex amulet that will somehow transport her…Read More
Critique and Care: Sheida Soleimani Interviewed by Cassie Packard Photomontages that expose power and brutality. Sheida Soleimani’s collapsed images teem with signification. The Iranian American artist, who lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, constructs elaborate tableaux that incorporate an array of symbolic objects (bubble gum, toilet paper) and found source imagery (aerial views of oil fields, crooked politicians’ gesturing hands). Compressed into two-dimensional photographs with the seductive gloss of an internet aesthetic, these scenes deliver searing critiques of global systems…Read More
Aruna D’Souza Pamela Council: Bury Me Loose, Denny Dimin Gallery, 39 Lispenard Street, New York City, through October 23, 2021 At Denny Dimin Gallery, the multidisciplinary artist Pamela Council told me that the work in their new solo exhibition—the first since signing on with the dealer—was “dark, maybe the darkest I’ve done.” That fact is certainly not obvious at first glance. The sculptures, videos, and assemblages here, made over the last decade, evince an exuberant, fit-it-all-in formal and conceptual energy and contain references…Read More
