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FIAC Lights Up Paris In October
FIAC In 1974. FIAC returned to the center of Paris in 2005, at the Grand Palais, the Jardin des Tuileries and the Jardin des Plantes. This year FIAC will take place from October 18th to Sunday 21st, 2012 The Grand Palais brings together modern and contemporary art galleries-showing solo, group or thematic exhibitions-as well as […]
Martina Reinhart: Mind & Body
By Jill Smith Martina Reinhart’s work has focused on continually denaturalizing the human body. Her work has followed a steady progression from conceptualizing the stages of human life in man, woman, and child – to creating a series of chimeras – figures who are partly human and partly anthropomorphized, their body parts completely re-organized. Reinhart […]
Watch Your Step In Chelsea
The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present “Watch Your Step,” a group exhibition of floor works including Grimanesa Amoros, Kiki Smith, Richard Serra, Polly Apfelbaum, Lynda Benglis, Patricia Cronin, Tara Donovan, William & Steven Ladd, Richard Long, Michael Phelan, Julianne Swartz, and Corban Walker among others. “Watch Your Step” examines the relationship of the […]
Nuit Blanche at Hotel Chantelle
The Social Exposure version will treat its guests like a blank canvas with digital productions of cloud and sky images to whisk people away into a heavenly world. The goal of the event, aside from celebrating the mid-summer feverous energy, is to bring together the social media mavens, the creative entrepreneurs and the nightlife goers […]
Confrontation At Forum Box Gallery
Törmälehto’s work stands out as an exciting combination controlled spontaneity and coincidences where stiff paintwork is applied lovingly against lighter marks. His irrational confrontations are embodied through a variation of “bad painting” techniques with delicate, beautiful strokes. Here the distinction between good and bad is delicate – if it even exists at all. The third […]
Grete Jacobsen: Illuminating Light
powerful confrontation “Rothko initiated color as a prism through which to access deeper, dormant human emotions, and Jacobsen advances this endeavor with nuance and idiosyncrasy.” Grete Jacobsen, Harmony. Courtesy of the artist. Grete Jacobsen: Illuminating Light By Jill Smith Caked in thick blues and cracked greens, Grete Jacobsen’s canvases remind one of the Earth’s […]
Russell Tyler At The Window 125
Employing a loose geometry, heavily applied, neon oil paint and a paired down aesthetic, Russell Tyler has created a unique painting language. Working in a more is more fashion; the artist pushes pattern-based imagery into new territory. Specifically in a work such as Data (2012) Tyler creates the effect of a broken T.V. screen circa […]
Jordi Alcaraz at Tomlinson Kong Contemporary
The title of this exhibition, loosely translates to “Wakes and Doors.” A common hallmark of this artist’s work is the rupture or manipulation of the acrylic surface. These ruptures behave as doors or corridors pointing the eye toward the space separating the viewer from the work while “deixants,” the word used for the trail or […]
Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of the Infinite
“McElheny’s oeuvre combines the legacy of conceptual art and a keen interest in history with an extremely high proficiency in glass blowing, a degree of craftsmanship almost completely outmoded in today’s art world,” said Molesworth. “Over the past two decades, the problem of infinity has driven McElheny’s efforts to represent the unrepresentable, as the infinite […]
