Have you ever seen those word tricks on social media where they spell words with numbers and backwards letters but your brain, after looking a few seconds? I am sure the artist would hate this but his interest in the how the human eye searches for form is a similar notion. We look for a story in a a painting.
Antonio Murado's Terras runs at Von Lintel Gallery (520 West 23rd St., New York) October 24 to December 7, 2013. Murado, from Spain creates work that is realistic and abstract at the same time. His paintings seem realistic from a distance but as you look more closely the image is abstract.
Have you ever seen those word tricks on social media where they spell words with numbers and backwards letters but your brain, after looking a few seconds? I am sure the artist would hate this but his interest in the how the human eye searches for form is a similar notion. We look for a story in a a painting.
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Bill Beckley's "Facts (Fuck) I Love You" Opens October 30, 2013 At Friedman Benda (New York)10/22/2013 Bill Beckley's Facts (Fuck) I Love You runs from October 30 to December 21, 2013 At Friedman Benda (515 West 26th Street, New York). There will be an opening reception 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 30. Beckley, in this exhibition uses diptychs to juxtapose image and narrative as an avenue to an exalted state. He has been exhibiting for over 30 years and his work is hard, after just reading about it, to describe adequately. This is always a good sign, an artist whose body of work makes you think. His work is conceptual and uses images to impart a narrative to his audience. Even the static pieces have the feel of a performance. Beckley's photos have been part of The Venice Biennale, The Paris Biennale, The Whitney Biennial, Document and other exhibitions. His work is in the collections of The Guggenheim, The Whitney, the Smithsonian, The Daimler Collection, the Tate Gallery and others. Michael Oatman: An Exhibition of New Collages and Videos runs from October 25 to December 21, 2013 at Miller Yezerski Gallery (460 Harrison Ave, Boston). There will be a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, November 1. The collages are assembled from a massive number of pieces cut from children's books, science encyclopedias, arms catalogs, nature guides and other publications. There are also three new videos. The exhibit is of work where Oatman looks at the animal kingdom (including animals of the hairless ape variety). He looks at the various relationships and interactions involved via portraits, piles of stuff and a cosmic peacock. Sheila Gallagher's "Ravishing Far/Near" Opens November 2, 2013 At Dodge Gallery (New York)10/21/2013 Sheila Gallagher's Ravishing Far/Near runs from November 2 to December 22, 2013 at Dodge Gallery (15 Rivington Street, New York). This is Gallagher's second solo exhibit with Dodge. There will be a booklet to go along with the show. Gallagher is from Morristown, New Jersey and attended Connecticut College and then received a MFA from he School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). This exhibition is an exploration of the sacred and the profane. The title comes from Marguerite Porete, a Christian mystic burned at the stake for writing a treatsie on the ecstacy of the soul in love. The works examine eros in relation to various religions. This is, interestingly, work with no figures. Galerie Forsblom (Galerie Forsblom Lönnrotinkatu 5 00100 Helsinki) runs a new exhibit of paintings by Ron Gorchov from October 25 to November 17, 2013. There will be an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, October 24. Gorchov paints with remarabe colors and shapes, using curved frames that are home to his minimalistic installations. This is the artists first in Finland He is a modernist painter who has often worked using geometric shapes--even now he does but with more of a movement toward a biomorphic form. The artist lives and works in New York. His art is included in the collections of the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and many others. Handle With Care, a solo exhibit by Alexander Kaletski runs from October 23, 2013 to December 20, 2013 at Anna Zorina Gallery (533 West 23 St., New York). On a recent trip to New York I visited Anna Zorina Gallery to see their inaugural exhibit Heart of Art NY, an annual exhibition to celebrate the resilience and creativity of New York. An interview and photos of that exhibit (which remains on display until October 19, 2013) will be up soon. Their next exhibit is, as noted, Alexander Kaletski's Handle With Care. Kaletski, as any regular reader will know, is a Mapanare favorite since seeing his work several years ago at Art Miami during Art Week. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery. In Handle With Care Kaletski, brings his love of using found materials again to the forefront. A piece of cardboard is garbage, unless an artist finds it and uses it in his work; then it is something to "handle with care." But the images Kaletski creates go my simple metaphor. Kaletski does not EXCLUSIVELY use found materials when he does there is a purpose there, a regeneration. In these pieces Kaletski's characters are clinging to things the value and, gazing directly at their audience asking you what it is you value what is is you hold onto as if it were life itself? Are these things worth the emotion and the effort we put into "protecting them." And do we value that which enriches us? Or that which destroys us. All of this is told in images on a variety of surfaces from canvas to wood and using various media. David Klein Gallery (163 Townsend, Birminghand, MI) runs Torque, a solo Exhibit by Trevor Young from October 26 to November 30, 2013. The exhibit consists of new paintings of "non-places" by Young. He paints the places we overlook, finding beauty in the every day--gas stations, fast food restaurants, lonely old style photo booths. Read an interview with Young HERE. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in the Detroit area. Between the Door and the Street, A Public Performance, takes place 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., October 19, 2013 on Park Place between Vanderbilt and Underhill Avenues in Brooklyn. The performance is by Suzanne Lacy, one of today's most socially engaged artists of the day. Three hundred people, from all age, gender, social and racial groups will gather on the stoops in this residential area. They will then engage in unrehearsed discussions on issues of gender politics today. You can wander among the groups and listen to the discussions. One participating group is SAWCC whose team of artists, activists and curators will engage on the topic of women of color in the arts. Their "stoop" includes Shelly Bahl, Sunita S. Mukhi, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Maria Hupfield and one of our favorite artists, Monica Jahan Bose. H.P. Adamski's Route 66 opens at Morgen Contemporary (Ackerstr. 162 D-10115 Berlin) October 24 and runs through November 15, 2013. There will be a reception with the artist from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday October 24. There will be an introduction by Prof. Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath. The exhibit shows the artist's paper cut series, Flight Shadows, as well as his other drawings of Asian burial shirts and more. Adamski is from Kloster Oesede, Germany and studied at Düsseldorf Art Academy. He is also one of the founders of the artist group Mülheimer Freiheit, Cologne, Germany and a dean at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Young New Yorkers Second Annual Silent Auction happens Wednesday, October 16, 6- 10 p.m. at Allegra La Viola Gallery, 179 East Broadway, New York. Tickets are $40 at the door. Sixty visual artists are banding together to help 16 and 17 year olds prosecuted and sentenced as adults in the stat of New York. Young New Yorkers is a restorative justice program designed to help kids of this age group. Criminal courts give eligible defendants an option of participating in Young New Yorkers instead of doing jail time and having a criminal record. It offers kids another chance to become part of society rather than rushing to make them a burdon on society. |
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