Sydney Blum's Fuzzy Geometry runs June 5 to July 3, 2014 at Kim Foster Gallery (529 West 20th St., New York). There will be a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 5.

Imagine a geometry informed by mathematics wherein spatial coordinates are variable having a range of value? Our idea of shape might be irrelevant in such geometry. Blum creates forms made of colored synthetic hair that is wraped with fine wire around heavier wired in grid substructures. These shapes are variations on familiar shapes. Yet they imply a "betweenness."

Charlie James Gallery (989 Chung King Road, Los Angeles) opens two new exhibits, Saturday May 31st, 2014. The two are; Luke Butler-In Color and Black and White and Material Object, a group exhibit curated by Justin Cole. There will be opening receptions for both from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 31.

The solo exhibit by Luke Butler, his first with the gallery, features paintings such as The End. The words here are the figure in the artist's landscape. Is it poignant or ridiculous?
 
Material Objext is a group exhibit featureing work by Phil Chang, York Chang, Justin Cole, Emilie Halpern, Soo Kim, Evan La Londe and Gina Osterloh.

Hossein Irandoust's Tumult Of Lovers runs June 5 to 21, 2014 at Shirin Gallery (511 W. 25th suite 507, New York). There will be a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 5.

The exhibit is the Iranian artist's first with the gallery. Tumult of Lovers explores the mystical dimension of Islam and Sufism, depicting spiritual expression with minimal color. Irandoust's grandfather was Chinese and he avails himself of the artistic traditions of China in his minimal use of color and also the interplay of black and white as an expression of good and evil/yin and yang.

ArtNowNY opens two exhibits on June 5, 2014, Caution by Gabriel Angemi & Mia Tyler and Rainbow Dreams of the Serpent Queen by
Chor Boogie. There will be an opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 5 at ArtNowNY (548 W 28th Street 2nd Floor, New York). Both exhibits run until June 21.

Caution is a photography show while Rainbow Dreams of the Serpent Queen features spray paintings on canvas.

Holly Lynton's Pioneer Valley runs May 23rd to July 1st 2014 at Miller Yezerski Gallery (460 Harrison Ave., Boston). There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, June 6th.

This is the photographer's first solo show with the gallery. Her work explores the tension between people wishing to maintain agrarian traditions in a globalizing, high tech world. Her work also references Italian and Dutch masters in its compositions.

Lynton works and lives in Massachusetts, has a BA from Yae and an MFA in photography from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Her work has been shown in publications like The Village Voice, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe and Oxford American.

Cernuda Arte (3155 Ponce de León Blvd., Coral Gables) presents Cuban Art In Miami Public Spaces a presentation by Jorge A.Hernández at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 4, 2014.

As art aficionados not living under a rock are aware, Miami has become an art destination, an epicenter of arts in America. This is in no small part due to artwork installed in publc places.

Hernández, using powerpint, will show his audience the location of a variety of works; murals, installations, sculpturs and monuments creeated by Cuban artists (including; Agustín Cárdenas, Carlos Alfonzo, Cundo Bermúdez,  Antonio Gattorno, Tony López, Rolando López Dirube, Manuel Carbonell, Domingo Ravenet, Juan José Sicre, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Enrique Riverón, José Bedia, Manuel Mendive and more.)
 
Hernández, holds an MBA from Florid International University, a Masters in Management from Nova Southeastern and a BA in Computer Science fro the University of Havana. He is also a researcher on and enthusiast for Cuban art.

Vivian Maier: Exposed runs at The Cleve Carney Art Gallery (425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, IL) June 17 to August 16, 2014. There will be an opening reception 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, June 17. There will also be an Afternoon with Vivian Maier film screening, panel discussion and book signing from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 27.

The museum, associated with College of DuPage is showcasing a mix of silver gelatin and digital prints by the artist. Maier, originally from New York City, grew up in France. She returned to NYC in the late 1930s, working as a nanny for 40 years. She produced more than 100,000 negatives. Her work was not discovered until 2007. She is a true undiscovered genius. It is sort of sad she was not acknowledged until the very end of her life. In fact her work really didn't receive true acclaim until after her death in 2009.

All the exhibited photographs are from the collection of Jeffrey Goldstein, one of the three original owners of the artists work. He and others have championed this work. Goldstein needed 275 rolls of Maier's film developed and he contacted Frank Jackowiak, a College of DuPage faculty member (at that time). He and a team of students worked on the prints. Jankowiak is the co-curator of the exhibit.

The SCAD Museum of Art (601 Turner Blvd, Savannah, Georgia) presents An American Master of Inventive Design an exhibit on the work of fashion designer, Stephen Burrows, from May 20 to September 15, 2014. The exhibit features work from Burrows' forty years in the business. Burrows is to receive the 2014 André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award which is presented during the SCAD Fashion Show. The exhibit is curated by André Leon Talley.

SCAD, aka the Savannah College of Art & Design, is a private nonprofit educational institution offering degrees in over 40 majors. They have campuses in Savannah, Atlanda, Hong Kong and Lacoste (France).

Expo Chicago (September, 18 to 21, 2014) has announced curators for In/Situ and the Expo Video program at the 2014 fair. The former is curated by Renaud Proch. In/Situ is the Expo's "public space" art--outside the confines of exhibitor booths. In a way it knits the fair together.

Proch was the Senior Director at Project in NYC, a co-founder of Art2102 in Los Angeles. Proch is also founder of the backroom, an archive/research project presented in five cities throughout Mexico, France and the USA. He has curated a variety of impressive projects around the globe.

The video program at Expo Chicago 2014 is to be curated by Astria Suparak. Expo Video, comprised of curated viewing stations in the hall, will feature three stations with videos from artists associated with exhibiting galleries. A fourth viewing station will feature work by students from Chicago's Columbia College. Suparak has curated screenings, performances and live music events and exhibitions for art spaces, academic venues and film festivals around the world.

Expo Chicago is in its third year and is the rebirth of the high end fine art fair in the city. It was a welcome return and seems poised to perhaps be that proverbial "tide that raises all boats." Others seem to have caught on that having multiple events at the same time can attract more visitors and make Chicago more of an art destination. Find out more at www.expochicago.com.

Mark Sheinkman's New Work runs May 17 to June 21, 2014 at Von Lintel Gallery (2685 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles). There will be an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 17.

a painter whose origins are in minimalist drawing. His work reflects, at its heart, his attraction to line and space. His works on paper (from the 1990s) were mechanical grids with massed lines that mix and intertwine.

His work remains abstract with titles of an arbitrary nature. He still draws on the venerable lexicon of the New York School in this new work (think Cy Twombly and Jackson Pollock) but while the theory is the same the work is unique.
Sheinkman has a BA from Princeton. His work is included in museum collections at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney, the National Gallery and many others.