Daniel Levine, born and bred in New York City, studied photography and painting at SUNY Buffalo – at which time he also became involved with Hallwalls and CEPA Gallery where he followed directly the generation of Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman and other “Pictures Generation” artists. His own paintings and works on paper, often seen as […]

The artworld is setting up for what should be an exciting season this March.  At the forefront is Volta, whose incredibly unique approach captures a wide range of artists.  Amanda Coulson, the art critic and fair director, is a dyanamic personality who is passionate about her project.  To see more, check out her video interview […]

While all of the proposals for Where We Begin will be displayed in the exhibition, the artist has chosen to realize only a select group. In many cases, these realized proposals relate to found objects that Liversidge encountered on his recent visits to New York. Banal, everyday materials are repurposed for his use, in this […]

Canada Gallery opens a show which of Gerald Ferguson’s work which feel incredibly fresh, given its age.  Recently deceased, Ferguson came of age at a time when abstraction met process met conceptualism.  He began teaching at NSCAD in Halifax and soon developed what Dalhousie Art Gallery curator Susan Gibson Garvey referred to as “literal, task-oriented […]

  It has been almost one year that we started an art project with the artist Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929, Austria). Since the 1950s, Rainer’s work has been characterized by over-painting: he uses existing images (paintings, photos, or drawings of his own art or that of others) to work over, in order to make them […]

Karlyn De Jongh and Sarah Gold were crucified in Hermann Nitsch’s Aktion (Action), the 130th of these multimedia performances, at the Museon Hermann Nitsch in Naples. During the week before the performance in May 2010, they took part in the rehearsals and met Nitsch every day to talk with him about his life experiences and […]

The exhibition planned for next year has the density of a storm-filled sky: invasive, over-the-top and massive, François Mazabraud’s wooden sculpture takes up almost the whole of the ground floor. Its weight is so great that seems only to hold together thanks to a delicate balance. Close by, the anxious figures in the large painting […]

Rennie Collection’s latest endeavor features video, sculptures and a wealth of paintings and drawings by Canadian artist Damian Moppett, as well as a large-scale special commission. Moppett often works in serial form, and his over-arching project sees a kind of omnivorous processing of art history paired with a hermetic self-reflexivity. By fervently collecting Moppett’s work […]

Paola Fiorido: Why are you working with dead material? Iris Shieferstein: Because it was lying on the street. Nobody is interested in dead animals that nobody eats. I picked it up like Duchamp. And I use them, like the author uses the fable. Hopefully, the creations inspire a new point of view on death. If […]

Fran Hill Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition entitled “In The End A Good Story Is All That Remains.” The exhibition features the recent work of eight “story telling” New York City based artists, each one unique in their focus, concerns, and manner of presentation. While much art on view today is about […]