Lilian Garcia-Roig's Made in Cuba opens November 2, 2018 at Cernuda Arte (3155 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables). The opening for this one-artist exhibition takes place from 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, November 2. The artist will be in
attendance.

This exhibition comes with a 36 page catalog with an essay by Dr. Carol Damian, former Director and Chief Curator of the
Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum of Art (FIU).

On Saturday, November 3 there will be a lecture by Damian at 4 p.m. and an artist talk With Garcia-Roig at 5 p.m.

Emily Eveleth's Past Imperfect At Howard Yezerski Gallery (460 Harrison Ave., Boston) October 19 To November 27, 2018. There will be an opening reception from 2 to 5 p.m,, Saturday, October 20th.

Eveleth has worked for over 20 years. She is a painter whose realistic work that brings a whiff of the classical but the subject matter is as thoroughly modern as the work. Once upon a time I saw a lovely painting by the artist of a donut.

Sadie Barnette's Black Sky runs October 20 to December 1, 2018 at Charlie James Gallery (969 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles). There will be an artist reception 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, October 20. This is the artist's second solo show with the gallery.

The artist, in her statement on this show, says she didn't think she could make this show happen and she didnt WANT to because, as she eloquently states;, "everything sucks." Yet she completed the show by looking back at the people who came before her and realizing that the work is what a "beginning looks like."

But let's quote her more directly--
 
"I made this show for my ancestors. And for Drake. I made this show for Little Rodney, and cousin David. There they are in my Dad's quintessential 70's dining room, looking at the camera, not knowing their lives will be cut short - but looking like they understand everything. In two new large scale works I continue my investigation of the 500-page FBI surveillance file kept on my father, Rodney Barnette, who founded the Compton, California, chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968. My glittering holographic redactions propose a counter-surveillance, a resistance and a restorative technology. A lightbox image of a street sign bearing the name of Martin Luther King Jr., set against a galactic sky, imagines a black space beyond gentrification and police violence and volunteers to follow Sun Ra from Oakland to the stars. I've also included in this show my first video work - a medium that is making a strong case for itself in my practice."

Find out more about Sadie Barnette HERE.

Mary McCartney's The White Horse runs October 18 to November 21, 2018 at Berggruen Gallery (10 Hawthorne St., San Francisco). There will be an opening from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday October 18.

This collection of photographs is the artist's larges boyd of work to date and it pays homage to the beauty of a white stallion, Allejandro. The photos show him in the landscape of Sussex where McCarthy grew up. She used both medium format camera and 35 mm over the course of a year.

These intimate pictures highlight and explore the relationship between the rider and this majestic, almost mythical-looking, animal.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (New York) returns to Art Basel Miami beach with East/West,  featuring prominent American artists influenced by Asian culture.

Asian art has had a profound influence on modern and contemporary art in the USA but this has rarely been acknowledged.
The gallery will show artists influenced not just by techniques of Asian art but also by architecture, aesthetics and Asian philosophy.

The highlights of the  year include Barbara Chase-Riboud's Well of the Concubine Pearl, Morris Graves' Ritual Bronze and work by Mark Tobey. Work by Tobye includes and untitled ink drawing from the late 1950s.

Chase-Riboud, abstract artist, sculptor, novelist (of the award-winning book, Sally Hemmings) and poet, creates as  wide a variety of work as this resume would suggest. Her sculpture is unique in that it incorporates rigid, cast materials like bronze alongside silk; although she is certainly not limited to these materials. The artist has been exhibiting since the late 1950s and sold her first piece, a woodcut, to the Museum of Modern Art at the age of 15. She studied at both Temple and Yale. You can find out more about her and her work HERE.

Graves was perhaps the most prominent abstract artist from Pacific Northwest. He was certainly one of the earliest to be lauded by critics and gallerists. His mystical work has been referred to as "visionary art." Even though he was born in Fox Valley in Oregon he spent a great deal of time in Asia and his work is especially influenced by Zen Buddhism. He received  a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Japan in 1947. He never took it up because U.S. occupation authorities
would not let  him enter the country. It is impossible to avoid the conjecture that this had to do with his friendship with prominent Japanese Americans and his attempt to be classified as a conscientious objector to the war. He remained a self-taught artist. Find out more HERE.

Tobey, a friend, of Graves, was also influenced by Asian artists but of a different sort; his dense, deeply packed work was influenced by Asian calligraphy. The Wisconsin-born artist is considered a part of the Abstract-Expressionist school and was one of the founders of the Northwest School, along with Graves. While attended the School of the Art Institute he was mostly a self-taught artist. Tobey was another great traveler and we recently discussed the "chicken or egg" debate over which came first, his work or Jackson Pollock's. Find out more HERE.

The gallery will be in booth G4.

Ritums Ivanovs' White Light rpens at Bastejs Gallery (Alksnāja iela 7, Centra rajons, Riga, Latvia) October 18 to November 11, 2018. There will be an exhibition opening at 6 p.m., Wednesday, October 17.

The artist's new work explores light via black and white charcoal and plaster pieces. This is Ivanov's third solo exhibiton at the gallery. Previous exhibitions include Symbol of Illusion (2013) and Connect (2016). He has also exhibited his work at Volta Basel, Start Art Fair, Scope Miami and Basel, Context New York and Luxembourg Art Fair. Find out more about the artist HERE.

Shining Invitation, works by Christopher Baer, runs October 20 to December 1, 2018 at Addison/Ripley Fine Art
(1670 Wisconsin Ave., NW Washington D.C.). There will be a reception for the artist from 5 to 7 p.m., Saturday October 20.

This is the artist's second show with the gallery and consists of a collection of oil paintings (on both panel and canvas). Twenty works were painted during the past year for this show. The deeply inscribed circles are the
unifying element in all these pieces.

Hew Locke's Patriots runs October 11 to November 10, 2018 at P.P.O.W (535 West 22nd St., New York). There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, October 11.

This is Locke's first exhibition with the gallery. This investigation is part of the artist's ongoing examination of public statues. This exhibit looks at sometimes controversial statues in the USA but the artist was originally inspired by Victorian statues in the U.K.

Locke takes large scale photos of these statues and then embellishes and decorates them.

Edward Burtynsky's Anthropocene runs October 11 to December 29, 2018 at Robert Koch Gallery ( 49 Geary St., San Francisco). There will be a signed monograph available. A reception, with the artist will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, November 1.

Burtynsky’s work, for the past 30 years, has explored the line between industrial growth and environmental awareness. Some pieces are taken from far above while others are of housing projects or, perhaps most haunting, of a graveyard of decommissioned ships. The photographs can be on a large scale or more localized but there is always something massive about them

Some of the pieces were recently shown at Expo Chicago 2018.

Hollis Taggart (New York) showed work by Mark Tobey and Richard Pousette-Dart at Expo Chicago 2018.

Tobey was from Wisconsin and moved to Chicago and became an illustrator. His fine art career began when he moved to New York City. Tobey also spent time in London and Seattle, the former as a teacher.

Tobey was involved in a mid 20th Century art controversy; a sort of Biggie Vs. Tupac of the art world (except to my knowledge there was no gunplay). Tobey created a technique he called "white writing" in his experimental, abstract pieces. This style appeared around the same time Jackson Pollock appeared on the art scene. For the record Tobey's exhibition at Willard Gallery (NYC) was before Pollock began exhibiting his abstract paintings.

Pousette-Dart was another early, influential Abstract Expressionist, who was born in the Midwest (St. Paul, MN). He moved to New York City. Unlike many of his compatriots he had no formal art training. Willard Gallery and Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century gallery showed his art. He was a major contributor to the Abstract Expressionist movement.

In 1951 he left the city for Rockland County where he lived the rest of his life.  Pousette-Dart wanted his work to have some distance from Abstract Expressionism. He died in 1992.