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Charles Quiles' "Fais-Mois L'Amour" Opens May 1, 2014 At ArtNowNY

4/30/2014

Charles Quiles' first solo exhibition, Fais-Mois L'Amour, runs at ArtNowNY (548 W 28th Street 2nd Floor, New York) May 1 to 24, 2014. There will be a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday May 1, 2014.

Quiles, from Puerto Rico, splits time between New York and Stockholm and is known for his photos of a variety of celebrities and famous brands. His first book comes out next year.

These images are personal images and a sort of photo diary by the artist--they show his loved ones along with a variety of famous faces (don't worry, no James Franco). These particular images have never been shown previously.

"Four Decades: Drawings And Works On Paper, A Group Exhibit," Runs May 1 To June 28, 2014 At John Berggruen Gallery

4/30/2014

Four Decades: Drawings and Works on Paper, A Group Exhibit, runs May 1 to June 28, 2014 at John Berggruen Gallery (228 Grant Ave., San Francisco). There will be a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday May 1, 2014.

The exhibit is an new perspective on the history of drawing and painting by artists at various points in their careers (from "emerging" to "dead"). Artists include; Willem de Kooning, Sam Messenger, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Longo, Chuck Close, Mark di Suvero, Ellsworth Kelly, Peter Doig, Spencer Finch, Julie Mehretu, Diana Al-Hadid, William Cordova and more.

William Powhida's "Unretrospective" Runs May 1 To June 7, 2014 At Platform Gallery (Seattle)

4/29/2014

William Powhida's Unretrospective runs May 1 to June 7, 2014 at Platform Gallery (114 Third Avenue South, Seattle). There will be an artist's reception from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 3.

This is Powhida's third exhibit with Platform but the first with the gallery in six years. His text infused drawings and works on canvas deconstruct the art and financial worlds and the intersection of the two. His work has a sense of humor to be sure.

This exhibit also includes "republications" of earlier Powhida works produced in an painting village in Shenzhen, China. I suppose these are sort of...forgeries with the artist's consent.

The release I received had the artist musing on having a show where nothing was for sale but was told that would be...stupid. Stupid and economically infeasible are sort of the same thing.

David Walker's "Swapping Souls With Strangers" Opens May 10, 2014 At Robert Fontaine Gallery (Miami)

4/28/2014

David Walker's Swapping Souls With Strangers opens May 10, 2014 at Robert Fontaine Gallery (2349 NW 2nd Ave., Miami). There will be an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday May 10. The exhibit runs through May 31. Walker is based in Berlin but is orginally from London. His medium is freehand spray paint portraits. This exhibit is his solo debut in the United States and consists of a dozen large works.

The pieces show Walker's multi-layered style. He uses abstract and scrawled lines to create his colorful portraits. There is something very "alive" about work by the best artists using spray paint in their work. It always calls to mind "street art." (a term I am personally getting tired of and let's not get into how art not on the street can be street art!). This is fine art using techniques often used by graffiti artists to be sure but it has a style that owes as much to abstract art and photo realism as anything else.

Bruce Davidson's "Time Of Change" Opens May 1, 2014 At Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco)

4/22/2014

Time of Change

Bruce Davidson's Time Of Change: 1961-1965 runs May 1 to June 28, 2014 at Robert Koch Gallery (49 Geary St. 5th fl., San Francisco). In these photos the renowned photographer chronicled the pivotal years in the American struggle for desegregation and racial equality.

Davidson worked as a freelance photographer for Life Magazine beginning in 1957. In May, 1961 he traveled by bus to Montgomery, Alabama with anti-segregationist Freedom Riders. He received a Guggenheim Fellowshipthe next year allowing him to continue this work. These images show the era where public demonstrations and the brutal reaction by authorities captured the attention of the nation--and the world.

Davidson lives and works in New York.

"Along The Lines," A Group Exhibition Featuring: Charles Hinman, Jong Oh, Florian Schmidt Opens May 1, 2014 At Marc Straus (New York)

4/21/2014

by Florian Schmidt

Along The Lines, a group exhibition featuring: Charles Hinman, Jong Oh, Florian Schmidt runs May 1 to June 22, 2014 At Marc Straus (299 Grand St. New York). There will be a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, May 4.

The three artist in this exhibit have work connected by their use of straight lines and a crisp formalism. The extraneous is omitted removed. But don't pull out the trusty moniker "minimalist" either. There is more to these than simply that.

Chris Jones' Second Exhibit With Marc Straus (New York) Runs May 4 To June 22, 2014

4/18/2014

Chris Jones' second exhibit with Marc Straus (299 Grand St., New York) runs May 4 to June 22, 2014. There will be an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, May 4.

Jones, from Britain, is a sculptor using books, magazines, atlases and encyclopedias as the basis for his works. These pieces deconstruct the original materials and then refashions them. These now oft-overlooked items are given new significance.

Jones has an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design.

Prabir Purkayastha's New Collection Of Black And White Photos Runs May 1 To May 31, 2014 At Sundaram Tagore (New York)

4/18/2014

Prabir Purkayastha's new collection of large black and white photos runs at Sundaram Tagore (547 West 27th St., New York) May 1 to May 31, 2014. There will be a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 1.

In these photos Purkayastha documents colonial architecture in Calcutta--now fading. The project has been eight yeas in the making. In 2006 the artist noted the slowly crumbling Parsi, Christian, Armenian, Jewis and Ango-Indian communities in the city. He was awestruck by the crumbling architecture associated with all these groups. The project grew to include British colonial architecture as well.

Purkayastha’s 2002 exhibition, Aksaha received the Habitat Award for Best Photography Exhibition. This is just one of the awards he's been nominated for or received.

Joris Laarman "Lab: Bits and Crafts" At Friedman Benda (New York) May 1 To June 14, 2014

4/18/2014

Joris Laarman Lab: Bits and Crafts runs May 1 to June 14, 2014 At Friedman Benda (515 W 26th St.,New York). There will be an opening 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1.

Laarman, a designer from Holland, creates experimental designs via cutting edge tools. The exhibit has four themes; Maker furniture; Micro Structures; Vortex; and Spirographic. Each theme is the result of extensive research, handcraft and cutting-edge fabrication.

Laarman graduated Cum Laude from Design Academy Eindhoven. His work is in collections such as MoMa (NYC) and Centre Pompidou (Paris).

Tatjana Valsang's "Light Paint" Runs At Galleri Anderson/Sandstrom (Umea) April 26, 2014

4/17/2014

Tatjana Valsang's Light Paint runs at Galleri Anderson/Sandstrom (Aktrisgränd. 6, S-903 64, Umea) April 26 through May 23, 2014. There will be an opening from 1 to 4 p.M., Saturday April 26.

Here abstract works detail complicated interactions between composition, form and color. She paints wet on wet and thus colors mix and shapes appear within these colors while, at the same time, other shapes are obliterated. Her process is evident via the overlapping, translucent layers she uses.

Valsang lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany.