I am interested in transformation and artifice. My newest exhibition will engage with the history of France and its outward facing relationship to black and brown bodies, specifically relating to sexual proclivity. Gauguin features heavily in the imagination of France and her global interface – with that comes an entire history of complicated gazing. I…
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Eddie Martinez At Perrotin Hong Kong
Perrotin Hong Kong presents Eddie Martinez’s second solo exhibition with the gallery following “Blockhead Stacks” in Tokyo in 2018. Eddie Martinez is a Brooklyn-based artist whose poignant approach to painting combines figuration with abstraction, using various combinations of media–oil, enamel, spray paint, leaves, thumbtacks, baby wipes–to introduce texture imparting his candid and uninhibited creative process….
Selected Tapestries from Magnolia Editions At Rena Bransten Gallery
Don and Era Farnsworth, artists and founders of Magnolia Editions, celebrate the time-honored medium of tapestry with a unique blend of old-world weaving processes and new digital technologies. The contemporary artists who collaborate with Magnolia Editions are drawn to Don and Era’s sense of experimentation and innovation, and commitment to pushing the boundaries of image…
Marilyn Waligore At Ro2 Art
Marilyn Waligore creates images using reclaimed aluminum forms to develop new sculptural structures in an absurd comment on the potential possibilities for the reuse of post-consumer waste. Her work in Post-Convenience forges a link between photography and sculpture and reflects on our societies complex relationship with consumption. The artist collects her aluminum objects during walks…
Lee Mingwei At Perrotin Tokyo
The Tourist, commissioned in 2001 by Rice University Art Gallery of Houston, is presented for the first time in Japan. Lee Mingwei is an artist whose practice dwells in the intimacy of human exchange. Sculpting scenarios through agreed protocols, the artist honours coalescence between foreignness and intimacy. His practice conjures a space of conviviality and…
Joan Brown: The Authentic Figure At Anglim Gilbert Gallery
A San Francisco artistic icon, Brown’s expressive portraiture is steeped in self-determination. A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, she was one of the few women associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement and the Rat Bastard Protective Association — the legendary artists’ collective that included Bruce and Jean Conner, Manuel Neri, Wally Hedrick,…
Sanctuary At Arc Gallery
The word Sanctuary has recently been associated with individual and municipality resistance to the Federal enforcement of immigration laws. Sanctuary itself has a wide range of definitions: a place offering shelter, a sacred or consecrated place, a container of holy things, a refuge for humans or wildlife, and a place offering immunity from law. This…
June Edmonds At Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Allegiances and Convictions explores the American flag as a malleable symbol of ideals, promises, and identity. June Edmonds’s new Flag Paintings create space for the inclusion of multiple identities including race, nationality, gender, and political leanings. Each flag is associated with the narrative of an African American, past or present, a current event, or an…
Francis Bacon At Gagosian At Grosvenor Hill, London
The moment a number of figures become involved, you immediately come on to the storytelling aspect of the relationships between figures. And that immediately sets up a kind of narrative. I always hope to be able to make a great number of figures without a narrative. — Francis Bacon Bacon’s disturbing images—his portrayals of friends…
