The lone female artist of the Arte Povera movement showed recent works and earlier ones in a very intimate but poetic way. Arte Povera coined by Germano Celant in 1967 referred to artists subverting the long held conventions and materials used in Western Art. Merz used everyday and organic materials to make pieces of art [...]
Israeli artist, Yael Bartana, presented a trilogy of films made in Poland between 2007 to 2011 for her solo exhibition. It revolves around the activities of the Jewish Renaissance Movement seeking the return of the Jews to the land of the forefathers. The total running time of the three film series is about 60 minutes [...]
April 4, 2013
DUMBO section of Brooklyn
First Thursday Art Night
Several days ago while I was riding on the F train, a young man walked into the car and started perusing some small sized, beautiful photographs. As there was an empty seat next to me, I asked him to sit down, inquiring about his [...]
“Art is either revolution or plagiarism” – Paul Gaugin
When going into an art opening reception, I am expecting two things: something that I’ve never seen that will blow my mind or there is that referencing or appropriation or homage to a past art legend. Only one is apparent in my experience for most shows [...]
Artist statement:
Julian Lorber’s artworks are a combination of layers of mixed media and paint. Built upon a canvas-like panel that is conceived as an “architecture of pollution”, they are in fact made of superposed “externalities”, as an echo to soot and graffiti paint build up on urban architecture. On the outer surface, they play with [...]
Some are life-sized and others in miniature scale but there is no denying that the sculptures of Emil Alzamora livened up Krause Gallery for the opening of his show, Soft Pioneers. The hand sculpted pieces of gypsum and resin was a garden of delight as AF trekked into the interiors of this amazing gem of an [...]
Real luxury is not about the bling or the brand – it is about that self-indulgent and individual quality thrill that enhances your life. One of the art industry players that certainly enhanced the lives of his clients is Executive Art Consultant, Cole Harrell, of nAscent Art New York. A native Texan, he lives it [...]
As the bitter cold winter gives way to the gentler blossoming air of spring, there will be the shedding of outer layers then exposing some skin. Baring their best efforts, three artists explored through various disciplines and material about their unique take on skin. Borderline: Depictions of Skin scratched the surface as three women artists bared all at [...]
Fedele Spadafora: New Paintings
Slag Contemporary, Bushwick
56 Bogart Street
Exhibition Date: March 22-April 20, 2013
Slag Contemporary is proud to announce the opening of Fedele Spadafora: New Paintings, an exhibition of 14 recent works on canvas on view from March 22 to April 20, 2013.
In starkly contrasting imagery, alternately abstract and figurative, Spadafora [...]
Paul Thek and His Circle in the 1950s
April 12 – July 7, 2013
Co-curated by Jonathan David Katz and Peter Harvey
Opening reception: Friday, April 12, 2013, 6 to 8 pm
(New York, January 11, 2013) On April 12, 2013, the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art will open a [...]
Spanning two of the gallery’s spaces on West 19th Street in New York, Thomas Ruff’s exhibition features the world debut of his new series, photograms, alongside his ongoing series, ma.r.s.
The photograms series depict abstract shapes, lines, and spirals in seemingly random formations with varying degrees of transparency and illumination. Their compositions are reminiscent of artistic experimentation with camera-less photography [...]
Margaret Thatcher Projects had a fantastic opening for Adam Fowler’s solo show, Escaping Forward. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and includes Fowler’s first large scale wall installation, Untitled (41 Layers). Here, Fowler has developed a system to counter the limitations of size in the paper he works with in order to complete his [...]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) became famous for asking this question in Sonnet 43, How Do I love thee? Let me count the ways. In the case of the latest show at Fred Torres Collaborations for Gaetano Pesce that the three kinds of love count more than the sum of its parts. This was his first [...]
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