Color People, an exhibit curated by Rashid Johnson, runs at Rental Gallery (East Hampton, NY) July 1 to July 25, 2017. There will be an opening reception 6 to 8 p.m., Saturday July 1.

The exhibit includes work by: Walter Price, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Robert Colescott, Marina Adams, McArthur Binion, Sam Gilliam, Alteronce Gumby, Mary Heilmann, Loie Hollowell, Tony Lewis, Amy Sherald, Bob Thompson, Mary Weatherford and more.

The best description of the show is below from it's curator, Johnson. If you are the area be sure to check this out.

Trove, a collection of works by Perle Fine, runs June 23 to August 12, 2017 at McCormick Gallery (Chicago). There will be a 50 page catalog.

Fine was an Abstract Expressionist painter and like many women artists of her era was given less credit than she was due during her life.

MCCormick Gallery has worked with the artist's estate for 16 years which is admirable. Wouldn't it be neat if she had gotten her due within her lifetime? But we can say that about artists like Helen Frankethaler too. Sure they had the odd article praising them but compared to their male counterparts? Nothing. If you disagree with this? I would feel fine punching you in the face. Thank goodness galleries like McCormick are championing these women artists today.

My violent tendencies aside? Be sure to see this exhibit if you have a chance. If you shit money you can buy a piece or two.

Heather Kanazawa, Investigations of Life, runs at Boxheart Gallery (4523 Liberty Ave. Pittsburgh) July 11 to August 11, 2017. There will be a reception with the artist from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday July 15. The artist's recent abstract works are in oil and wax and are based on time spent in Japan (Kanazawa is from Pittsburgh).

Kanazawa has a BFA and MA (Art Education) from Edinboro University (Pennsylvania). She currently lives in Kennedy, New York, where she is an art instructor at Jamestown Community College.

Running at the same time is a group show, Group A, Now. The reception with the artists from the group takes place concurrently with Kanazawa's.

Shulamit Nazarian (616 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles) presents a conversation with Josh Faught and Kate McNamara, Saturday June 24 at 4 p.m. The artist's work is on exhibit in Broken Language, a group exhibition also including Greg Ito, Takeshi Murata and Wendy White, until July 1, 2017.

Faught uses textiles, collage, sculpture and archival materials with an eye to collective and personal history. Novelty buttons mix with greeting card text and other sentimental ornamentation mix in the artist's handmade textiles. Faught holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his work is in the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Rubell Family Collection and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

McNamara is the Director of Galleries at Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) and was previously Chief Curator at the Boston University Art Gallery. She is a co-founder of Cleopatra's (Brooklyn). She has also worked in curation at MoMa, PS1 (New York), AIR Anterpen (Belgium) and Participant Inc.

Andrew Rafacz (835 West Washington Blvd., Chicago) opens two exhibits, Figured Out!, Bodily Form in Contemporary Ceramics, a group exhibition and Lullaby, a solo exhibit by Greg Ito. Both run
June 23 to August 19, 2017.

The former features work by: Saul Alegria, Aubry Broquard, Lilli Carré, Alex Bradley Cohen, Manal Kara, James Kerley, Em Kettner, Katie Kimmel, Kate Klingbeil, David Leggett, Liz McCarthy, Jeffry Mitchell, William J. O'Brien, Jacob Raeder, Jennifer Rochlin, Julia Saldaña, Leon Sadler, Elisa Soliven, Cristina Tufiño, Mark Whalen, and Bari Ziperstein.  

Lullaby features sculpture, new paintings and an environmental installation by Ito. Ito has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has been exhibited widely around the world. He lives and works in Los Angeles. 

Tsibi Geva, an Israeli artist, is now represented by Albertz Benda (515 West 26th St., New York).

Geva lives and works in Tel Aviv and New York.  He was born at Kibbutz Ein Shemer in 1951.

His work has been the subject of exhibits at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Haifa Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), The American University at the Katzen Arts Center (Washington DC), MACRO Testaccio (Rome) and Mönchenhaus Museum of Modern Art (Goslar, Germany). He also represented Israel at the 56th Venice Biennale and has been the recipient of numerous awards in Israel.

He will be the subject of an show at Albertz Benda in October, 2017. This exhibit will be both new work and pieces from the Venice Biennale. There will
be a catalog accompanying the exhibit.

Morph, an exhibition of contemporary ceramic sculpture, takes place at Asya Geisberg Gallery (537B West 23rd St., New York) June 22 To August 11, 2017. There will be an opening reception 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 22.

The show features work by: Kathy Butterly, Ling Chun, Future Retrieval, Valerie Hegarty, Cody Hoyt, Heidi Lau, Rebecca Morgan, Joakim Ojanen, Elise Siegel, Anthony Sonnenberg, Guðmundur Thoroddsen, and Cristina Tufiño. The photos look like there is some fantastic work in this group show.

This show is a cross section of artists working in this resurgent medium.

Art All Ways Projects and Take Two Interactive present work by Lori Hyland at E-3 Expo (Los Angeles Convention Center) June 13 to 15th.

It is fitting that an forward looking artist like Hyland would have work shown at E-3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Her latest work are ruminations on words. These complex pieces are difficult to explore via photograph so this is an excellent opportunity for art lovers.

Superfine! Art Fair runs May 4 to 7, 2016 at 459 West 14th St., New York City (Meatpacking District). This is  the fair's inaugural Frieze Week edition.
 
Superfine! The Fairest Fair was a highlight of Art Week in Miami. The funky, manageable fair with a range of artists who
some might call "outsiders" but who are really right in the middle of what contemporary art is all about. Or what it should be all about.

The NYC version will feature the Young Collectors' Ice Cream Social feat. DJ set (with live vocals) by Penguin Prison from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday May 5. There will, of course, be other happenings and you can find out about all of them HERE.

Gross McCleaf Gallery (127 South 16th St., Philadelphia) presets Celia Reisman's A Moment Noticed from May 3 to May 26, 2017. There will be an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday May 5.