Throughout his distinguished career, Richter has remained at the forefront of contemporary abstraction and image-making, embracing haptic process and technological advancements in equal measure and harnessing found imagery in groundbreaking ways. Editions are a central feature of his practice. He modifies details and sometimes entire compositions from his oeuvre, producing artworks that are simultaneously self-referential…
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Iván Carmona At PDX Contemporary
Based on nostalgia for his homeland of Puerto Rico, each of Iván Carmona’s sculptures draws from specific landmarks and key aspects of the Puerto Rican landscape. Abstractions of flora, fauna, water, earth, architecture, and specific cultural references come together to recreate the landscape. Teeming with life, these haptic objects, with their saturated colors and evocative…
PIERRE ET GILLES At Art Center La Malmaison
Pierre et Gilles, the Taste of Cinema explores the many facets of their complex relationship to cinema, whether they choose actors as models, pay homage to their own cosmogony of film references, or simply create atmospheres intrinsically connected to the Seventh art. For the first time, a part of their creative process will be unveiled…
John Gerrard At Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
The latest iteration of John Gerrard’s Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), 2017 will be unveiled in central Madrid outside the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza to coincide with the 25th United Nations Climate Change conference (COP25) on 2nd December 2019. This iconic gesture of protest will be shown on a giant LED wall in the public realm outside…
Thanksgiving 2019
This week, all across the United States, families are beginning to gather for their annual Thanksgiving get together, friends are gathering for Friendsgiving, and some are just happy and thankful for the solitude of a very quiet day alone, a day where everyone and everything seem to stop in their tracks and just sit. A…
Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite At MoAD
The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is presenting Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite, the first exhibition to focus on this key—and until now under-recognized—figure of the second Harlem Renaissance. Organized by Aperture Foundation, the exhibition of more than forty iconic images illuminates how, in the late 1950s and 1960s, Brathwaite (b….
Jefferson Pinder At San Francisco Art Institute and Aggregate Space Gallery
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and Oakland’s Aggregate Space Gallery (ASG) is presenting the debut of four new video works by Chicago-based, interdisciplinary artist Jefferson Pinder in an original exhibition titled Flash Point. Collapsing history into the present, Pinder traces a path back to the Spring of 1919, when Blacks across the United States saw…
John Currin At Gagosian Hong Kong
There’s a kind of a distortion that happens with adoration. — John Currin In a series of new portraits, Currin returns to his most beloved subject: women. These latest paintings demonstrate some persistent themes in Currin’s oeuvre, as well as a deep exploration of the genre of female portraiture. Characteristically, these women often appear as…
Dennis Koch At Galleri Urbane
Primarily known for his large-scale colored pencil drawings, TIME/LIFE shifts focus to Koch’s ongoing series of Cutouts. The body of work is comprised from dozens of vintage Life magazines, published in the 1960s and early 70s, whose covers have been meticulously excavated by hand to unveil images below. The resulting objects feature unforeseen correlations between…
