Author: Press Releases

P O P·u·lar. Featuring GREG MILLER, JOHN “CRASH” MATOS + MICHAEL CALLAS | An Online Exclusive ?? Popular, I know about popular ?? JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present, “P O P·u·lar,” an exhibition featuring the works of Greg Miller, John “CRASH” Matos, and Michael Callas. Inspired by the long-running Broadway musical Wicked, and its famous song, Popular, the show examines contemporary society through the lens of Pop Art. Touching on notions of conformity, beauty, popularity, and the current cultural landscape, Miller, Matos, and Callas challenge convention through their inclusion and disjunction of pop-culture and advertising. In the aforementioned…

Signature works by two titans of contemporary art, Gerhard Richter and Alexander Calder, lead Bonhams’ Post-War & Contemporary Art sale on November 18 in New York. Created during the peak of Richter’s implementation of a pioneering new form of abstraction, Abstraktes Bild (Untitled) 679-3 is a seminal work by the artist and is estimated at $1,500,000- 2,500,000. In the Abstraktes Bild series, Richter mixes relatively common techniques such as troweling, scraping, and brushing, with his signature squeegee technique – in which he applies and re-applies layers of paint, dragging them across the canvas to produce shimmering planes of color. Calder’s Little Red and Blue, a trademark monumental mobile by the innovative 20th century master of sculptural…

Sotheby’s Presents A GRAND VISION: THE DAVID H. ARRINGTON COLLECTION OF ANSEL ADAMS MASTERWORKS One of The Most Significant & Comprehensive Collections of Ansel Adams Photographs in Private Hands Featuring 100+ Works by the Legendary American Landscape Photographer and Environmentalist, Spanning Six Decades of His Illustrious Career Sale is Led by: Adams’ Masterpiece Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico Printed Circa 1941-1942, * The Earliest Print to Come to Market* Estimate $700,000/$1 Million Several Mural-Sized Prints, Including Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming Estimate $400/600,000 Early Prints of Boards and Thistles; Lodgepole Pines, Lyell Fork of the Merced…

A solo exhibition by the artist Nickie Hayden, a member of our Associate Gallery Artist (AGA) group at the Olivier Cornet Gallery.  Online Launch of the exhibition: Sunday 8 November in our 3D Virtual Space (which will be activated then). A special online event, including poetry reading, will take place the following week, details to be announced soon.  Availability of the show: Tuesdays to Sundays at the gallery from 1st December 2020 (or as soon as Covid Level 5 measures have been lifted). The show is also available in our 3D Virtual Space from 8 November onwards. Images of the work are also available on…

Thought missing for decades, the panel will be reunited this week with the artist’s Struggle series, now on view in an exhibition at The Met that closes November 1, 2020. The work will also join the exhibition tour, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, and be on view at subsequent venues through fall 2021. (New York, October 21, 2020)—The Met announced today the discovery of a painting by esteemed American artist Jacob Lawrence that has been missing for decades. The panel is one of 30 that comprise Lawrence’s powerful epic, Struggle: From the History of the American People (1954–56), and…

Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, is pleased to announce its representation of Ethiopian American artist Tariku Shiferaw (b. 1983). The gallery will hold its first solo exhibition of his works in Spring 2021. Tariku Shiferaw is known for his practice of mark-making that explores the metaphysical ideas of painting and societal structures. This formal language of geometric abstraction is executed through densely layering material to create “marks,” gestures that interrogate space-making and reference the hierarchy of systems. As the artist explains, “A mark, as physical and present as cave-markings… reveals the thinker behind the gesture—an evidence of prior markings…

Launching their new Maddox Street Gallery, Shapero Modern will hold the first comprehensive UK exhibition of Frank Stella works since 2013. The exhibition covers the period 1967 2001, showing the progression of Stella s pro lific career. The Shapero Modern show is a survey of Frank Stella sprints and work s on pape r bringing the experimentatio n in his printmaking, his love of c olour and his enduring relationship with abstraction to a new audience. Gallery Director Tabitha Philpott Kent , comments, This exciting mo ve for Shapero Modern solidifies the gallery as a distinct entity from our Rare…

Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, is pleased to present Seasons, the second solo exhibition of works by Etel Adnan. The exhibition will show recent works by the artist, including wool tapestries, leporellos, and paintings. Known for her distinctive abstract landscapes conveyed in a harmonious palette, Adnan’s portrayal of forms, shapes, and gestures are explored in multiple mediums. A brilliant colorist, Adnan conceives her works as visual poems, each color carefully chosen in writing a language of her own. The exhibition coincides with the release of her newest book, Shifting the Silence, a rumination on the process of aging. The exhibition takes its…

Renowned American artist and filmmaker Danielle Durchslag has never before exhibited in Europe until now. A rising star this side of the Atlantic, Danielle is making her UK directorial debut at the BAFTA qualifying UK Jewish Film Festival, where she will present two provocative short films from her critically acclaimed BOUNTY series. The BOUNTY series daringly lifts the curtain on the inherent tensions present when the Jewish history of oppression is combined with extreme privilege. Using voice actors, live actors, animation and complex editing techniques, Durchslag makes video collages that subvert familiar British cinematic tropes to explore political and psychological…

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art today publicly announces the departure of Director Mikala Tai. After over five years leading our organisation, Tai will depart 4A to take up the role as Head of Visual Arts at The Australia Council for the Arts. Julie Ewington, Deputy Chair of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, said:”Since joining 4A as Director in 2015, Mikala has led the organisation with a creative and entrepreneurial spirit that has built 4A’s reputation locally and internationally. Her breadth of knowledge and skill as a researcher, curator, and academic have seen her lead 4A – and the wider…

Two Monumental Masterworks by Giorgio de Chirico and Man Ray to Highlight Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 28 October in New York SOTHEBY’S TO PRESENT: TOTEMS TWO EXTREMELY RARE AND MONUMENTAL MASTERWORKS BY GIORGIO DE CHIRICO AND MAN RAY One Of The Finest Metaphysical Paintings By de Chirico Remaining in Private Hands: IL POMERIGGIO DI ARIANNA (ARIADNE’S AFTERNOON) From 1913 Is Estimated to Sell for $10/15 Million One Of The Most Important Works By Man Ray Ever To Appear at Auction: BLACK WIDOW (NATIVITY) From 1915 Is Estimated to Achieve $5/7 Million These Seminal Examples of Dadaism and…

Pace Gallery is honored to present Sam Gilliam: EXISTED, the artist’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery since joining it in July 2019. Opening on November 6, 2020 at both 540 and 510 West 25th Street in Chelsea, the exhibition debuts new works and artist-led installations that reflect the culmination of Gilliam’s six-decade-long career with color. The exhibition features three new bodies of work that include large-scale paintings, some titled as tributes to influential Black contemporary and historical figures; a series of geometric color-drenched wood objects; and monochromatic paintings on Japanese washi paper. Accompanying EXISTED is a fully illustrated monograph that…