Lauren Edwards' In The Turn runs November 16, 2013 to January 11, 2014 at Andrew Rafacz (835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago) in Gallery Two. There will be a reception, with the artist fro 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, November 16, 2013.  This is the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. Edwards uses sculpture and photography installations to examine relationships between perception and experience.

This exhibit includes landscapes, historical reenactment characters and staged walls. Among the questions asked here are; how do we experience physical space through time?

Cheng Ran's Existence Without Air, Food, or Water opens November 22, 2013 at Gallerie Urs Meile (Rosenberghöhe 4
6004 Lucerne, Switzerland). Ran has shown his work on three separate occassions in Beijing. Now, Galerie Urs Meile (Lucerne) is introducing the artist to the West in his first solo exhibit which runds forom November 22 to January 18, 2014. There will be an opening 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, November 22.

Ran is also a a novelist and his book, Circadian Rhythm, can been seen as the subtext of this exhibit. The installations are sort of props and unfinished parts of the story. Video works by the artist will also be shown. Visitors are welcome but make an appointment.

Guy Yanai's Accident Nothing runs at Aran Cravey Gallery (6918 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles) from December 12, 2013 to February 15, 2014. This is the gallery's inaugural exhibit at their new Hollywood location. It is also Israeli artist Yanai's first solo show. There will be a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, December 12. The artist will be on hand.

The show includes 18 new paintings. His work deals with apprehension, being in a defenseless state---quite similar to how a person feels after an accident (hence the title). Yanai, from Haifa, lives and works in Tel Aviv. He attended Parsons and New York Studio School and received a BFA from Hamphshire College. He has been exhibited in his home country and Europe.

If you are attending Art Week events (in South Florida everyone calls the whole thing "Art Basel") Scope is always one of the fairs to be sure to see. In the past it has been held in Miami nearby Art Miami/Context, Red Dot, Project Miami and not too far from Pulse. This year Scope has moved to Miami Beach (1000 Ocean Drive at 10th St.).

Like many of the fairs during Art Week in Miami/Miami Beach, Scope has musical and other performances as part of their offerings to art enthusiasts and buyers. Among this year's events is the VH1 and Scope hosted ART + Music + Beach at Scope's new digs on Miami Beach. Their December 6, 2013 opening features a performance by Tegan and Sara a will as DJ Cassidy. This is by invite only.

In addition to this night's performance there will be 100 international exhibitors, 15 Breeder Program galleries, numerous curated projects, sponsor programs and Platinum VIP tours. The first VIP event is the Monday VIP Opening Monday December 2 (free for Platinum VIP cardholders, by invitation or with a $150 donation to the Mourning Family Foundation). The fair shows contemporary art by well known artists but have a stronger representation of emerging artists than some other fairs.

Find all those details on the Scope website. Specifically look for the exhibitor list HERE.

Some visitors who are not serious collectors find Art Basel itself too expensive to get in and too massive to go through. It also isn't a place to go for even moderately wealthy folks to buy art. The same is somewhat true of Art Miami. Scope, while certainly not "chock full of bargains" does, as noted, have some galleries showing work from emerging artists. NOW, that term sometimes gets used on artists whose work seems to have emerged ages ago. But at Scope there are legitimately artists who are not well known in the general or art worlds but who, in many cases, soon will be.

If you are in town for Art Week go to Scope.

Marwen Foundation's Art Fair 2013 takes place 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday, November 8th at 833 North Orleans Street Chicago.

The annual fair is an exhibition, sale and celebration of the myriad programs at Marwen. There will be over 200 pieces in a multitude of media--created by teachers, students, alumni and staff of the organization. If you go there will be food, drink and music--and a chance to meet the artists (all is included with ticket price).

All artists donate half of their sales to programs for under-served young people in Chicago.
 
Tickets--
$35 advance tickets on sale now through November 6.
$45 tickets at the door

János Szász' Vintage Photographs at Robert Koch Gallery (49 Geary St., San Francisco) November 7 through December 21, 2013. There will be an opening reception 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Szász, a modernist photographer from Hungary, worked from the 1950s to 70s. His photos featured the life and landscapes of his home country. His photos used radical perspective, formal composition and start black and white printing. This exhibit is part of Robert Koch Gallery's laudable bringing to light of work by lesser known, but significant, photographers. Szász was edcated as a lawyer who was not allowed to practice in Communist Hungary. He worked as a photographer and a sign painter. He also worked documenting buildings in the region and published a book on folk architecture that won a number of awards.

Valerie Hird: The Maiden Voyages Project, a talk and reception takes place at The Center for Book Arts (28 West 27th Street, New York) at 6:30 p.m. Friday, November 8, 2013. There is a suggested donation of $10 or $5 for members.

The exhibit features the diaries of five women--four from the Middle East (Iran, Egypt, Jordan and the West Banc)-- and one by Hird, who is from Vermont. The women wrote on the same day, once a month, for a year. They kept detailed notes on their day. Then Hird illustrated the diaries.

The idea behind this is to give the audience an intimate look at the daily lives of women from different cultures. Issues such as religion, gender, personal identity and cultural differences are all viewed through the prism of these diaries.

Bobby Mathieson's Cheats and Codes runs from November 14 to December 14, 2013 at Lyons Wier Gallery (542 West 24th Street, New York). There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, November 14.
 
Mathieson places historically and/or culturally recognizable figures in pieces mared by their texture. The expressionist paintings show the complexity of the relationship here between artist and subject. They exist somewhere between revulsion and reverance.

Mathieson is a graduate of Vancouver Film School with a degree in Classical Animation. Later receiving a BFA from Eily Car Institye of Art and Design in British Columbia. He lives and works in Columbia.

Charles Hinman 6 Decades runs from November 15 to December 22, 2013 at Marc Straus (299 Grand St., New York). There will be anopening reception 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, November 15.

Hinman has influenced generations of artists with his work. He builds "reverse ribs: into his hard edged canvases giving them contour. His work is three dimensional in the real world not simply ON the canvas.

His work is about space and these contours as well as minimalist coloration.

His work is in the permanent collections of the Rockefeller Collection, MoMa and the Albright-Knox Gallery. Many of the early exhibitions Hinman was included in, at The Whitney (1965) and Shape & Structure at Tiboe de Nagy, have become legend. He was a Guggenheim fellow last year (2012).

Fifteen works by David Bomberg set to be shown from November 18 to December 7, 2013 at Waterhouse & Dodd (47 Albemarle Street, London).

Waterhouse & Dodd is set to exhibit 15 works by David Bomberg that all come from private collections and have never been on the market previously. Pieces include works that span the artist's career from sketches created in 1914 to paintings from the mid 1950s.

Bomberg, an unsung artist in his day, has come to be thought of as one of the finest British artists of the last century. He was also a teacher. Students include Leon Kossoff, Miles Richmon Dennis Creffield and Frank Auerbach.

Also in cluded in this exhibit are paintings and drawings by Bomberg's second wife, Lilian Holt.
 
Bomberg was largely overlooked by critics and collectors after 1919 although he is now seen as one of the greatest British artists of the 20th Century. He was also an influential teacher and the inspiration behind the foundation of the Borough Group of artists. Bomberg's students included Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Miles Richmond  and Dennis Creffield, the  works of all four showing a clear debt to Bomberg's own.