Category: - Mapanare.us Constantly.Consuming.Culture.

Dodge Gallery (New York) Showed Work By Lorna Williams At Expo Chicago 2013

10/15/2013

Dodge Gallery (15 Rivington Street, New York) showed these sculptures by Lorna Williams at Expo Chicago 2013.

Williams is from New Orleans and has a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. She also studied at a number of other institutions including Norfolk Program at Yale. You may have seen reviews of her work in Art in America, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and many others.

These sculptures are unique and have a look, feel that you can spot across the room. I use that description often because when an artist creates something you can look at from across the room? It means they have a style all their own (until people start ripping them off).

Williams lives and works in Philadelpia.

Galerie Ernst Hilger (Vienna) Showed Asgar/Gabriel's "Grisaille-Kunst Ist Anarchie" At Expo Chicago 2013

10/14/2013

Galerie Ernst Hilger (Vienna) showed this piece by Asgar/Gabriel. The piece is oil on wood and cardboard. Check out the video to see some of the wonderful detail in this monochromatic piece.

OK, it isn't really monochromatic but close.

It is a curious piece since many others by Asgar/Gilbert are brightly colored.

R.S. Johnson Fine Art (Chicago) Showed Work By Paul Guiramand At Expo Chicago 2013

10/14/2013

L'oisea de nuit by Paul Guiramand

R.S. Johnson Fine Art (Chicago) showed this startlingly beautiful piece by Paul Guiramand at Expo Chicago 2013.

Guiramand, a French artists, worked for weather bureau, designing sets and also did a stint in the military. In his late 20s he began to have success as an artist. Curiously his first solo show was in Texas. By the early 1960s he was regularly exhibiting his work.

This single piece, in my opinion, was one of a half a dozen best pieces shown at Expo Chicago 2013. The notion of the simple and the complex, as images and technique, in the same piece is compelling.

Hackett/Mill (San Francisco) Showed Work By Howard Hodgkin, Milton Avery,Manuel Neri, Milton Resnick And David Park At Expo Chicago 2013

10/14/2013

Poison Ivy by Howard Hodgkin

Hackett/Mill (San Francisco) specialize in art of the 1950s and 60s. They do not limit themselves to any particular school or continent; there are artists from Asia, America and Europe in their mix.

Here are pieces by Howard Hodgkin, Milton Avery, Manuel Neri, Milton Resnick and David Park.

The above artists are mostly American (with one Brit and one Russian who US immigrant). Different schools and notions of art perhaps but all of a time when new things were happening.

Three Birds By Milton Avery

Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Showed Work By Jonathan Meese And Aaron Van Erp At Expo Chicago 2013

10/14/2013

"GENERAL PROLLUTUS SCHWÖRT SICH:
LOLITACHEN MAG FORMFLEISCHMENSCHEN
ÜBERHAUPT NICHT FÜTTERN,
NUR DROHNE "KUNST""

by Jonathan Meese

Tim Van Laere Gallery (Antwerp) showed work by Jonathan Meese and Aaron Van Erp at Expo Chicago 2013.

Maybe it is a Germanic thing, although Meese is actually Austrian. Maybe I am just not of his generation....but I sort of miss what Meese is trying to get at. Is it humor? Is it parody? I might just not get German humor. Who knew there WAS such a thing?

Maybe it is just the use of mythological imagery. Reading up on Meese didn't help, nor did his website. This may sound like I am being negative toward the artist--far from it. Something hard to figure is a good thing (unless he is some sort of Fascist which I do not think is the case...)

Van Erp's work seems like from some alternate, vaguely empty world. The figures are only partially there in many of the works (as the one below). Again! Pieces not easy to pin down as to purpose or school or any of that nonsense and, again, it is a good thing.

"HEY, FRÄULEIN RAUSCHGIFTCHEN "ERZKUNST" KENNT KEINERLEI PUPSKAPITULATION" by Jonathan Meese

Uit de hand gelopen after officeborrel by Aaron Van Erp

Paul Thiebaud Gallery (San Francisco/New York) Showed Work By Grace Munakata, Hadas Tal, Wayne Thiebaud, Pam Sheehan And Paul Wonner At Expo Chicago 2013

10/11/2013

Bittern by Grace Munakata

Paul Thiebaud Gallery (San Francisco/New York) showed their usual bevy of wonderful artists at Expo Chicago.

Shown here are works by Grace Munakata, Hadas Tal, Wayne Thiebaud, Pam Sheehan and Paul Wonner. The gallery is one of the half dozen or so "must see" booths at any show they attend and Expo Chicago was no exception.

You can see more on all of these artists at their website. I was concerned about the angle and color of Wayne Thiebaud's painting so I shot a brief video of it. It turns out the video is worse than the image.

We've posted on Fertig's work many times-- these pieces that seem pulled from another time yet also seem thoroughly modern. Hadas Tal is new to Mapanare, however, and these dense, yet subdued in color urban pieces are truly beautiful.

Shift by Hadas Tal

Grey by Hadas Tal

Wayne Thiebaud

Black Shoes by Wayne Thiebaud

Paul Wonner and Pam Sheehan

Il Ponte Contemporanea (Rome) Showed This Piece by Zhang Zhan

10/11/2013

Zhang Zhan's piece--I do not have the name-- was shown (I think) by Il Ponte Contemporanea out of Rome At Expo Chicago 2013.

I could not find the artist on their site and usually I wouldn't post a piece where I was unsure of the gallery but I found this piece striking.

You can see a little more of why in the video below.

Tandem Press Showed Prints By Jim Dine And Judy Pfaff At Expo Chicago 2013

10/11/2013

The New Building by Jim Dine

Tandem Press (Madison, Wisconsin) always have impressive large-scale prints to show--be it at Expo Chicago 2013 or at Ink in Miami Beach during Art Week.

These are by artists Jim Dine and Judy Pfaff.

Dine is often called a "pop artist". Pop art uses images from popular culture in the work. I don't always see this in Dine's work (is a heart part of pop culture) but he certainly comes for the era and has similar style to other pop artists.

Pfaff is most known as an installation artist but she also does large scale woodblock prints like the two below. She is also a painter and a sculptor. A few years ago she was the subject of a career retrospective exhibit at New York's Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe Gallery.

Pieces By Judy Pfaff

The Black And Red Heart by Jim Dine

Galerie Terminus (Munich) Showed A.R. Penck At Expo Chicago 2013

10/10/2013

Jager, rotes Nashorn by A.R. Penck

A.R. Penck, from Germany, was shown at Expo Chicago by Galerie Terminus (Munich). Yes, I know there is a chair in the photo.

A.R. Penck is a painter, sculptor and printmaker. His real name is Ralf Winkler, which is, in fact, at least as cool a name as A.R. Penck.

Fleisher Ollman (Philadelphia) Showed Eugene Von Bruenchenhein's "Red Wing Tower" At Expo Chicago 2013

10/10/2013

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein's Red Wing Tower was shown by Fleisher Ollman Gallery (1216 Arch Street, 5A
Philadelphia) at Expo Chicago 2013. The gallery is also opening an exhibit of the artist's work October 10 which runs until December 7, 2013.

I regret not getting a better photo of this piece. I tried to make up for this by posting the video.

Von Bruenchenhein lived and worked in Wisconsin and was a new renaissance man. He worked as a baker but was also a poet, painter, photographer and sculptor. He often used "re-purposed" objects in his work.

Diverse, creative and truly beautiful his work is something anyone in Philadelphia between now and December should be sure to see.