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Keith Mayerson and Peter Saul at Robert Blumenthal Gallery

mauri — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:35:38 +0000

Peter Saul, Raccoons Descending a Staircase, 2012. Acrylic, Colored pencil on paper,
50 x 35 in. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery.

Keith Mayerson and Peter Saul
July 8-August 8, 2014
Robert Blumenthal Gallery
1045 Madison Avenue, 3A
New York City
robertblumenthal.com

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Zhang Dali’s Square at Klein Sun Gallery

mauri — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:00:56 +0000

Zhang Dali, Square-Sketch No. 4, 2014.
Acrylic on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Zhang Dali: Square
June 21-25, 2014
Klein Sun Gallery
525 West 22nd St.
New York City
kleinsungallery.com

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Tom Friedman: Paint and Styrofoam

mauri — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:00:44 +0000

Tom Friedman, Toxic Green Luscious Green (Detail), 2014. Paint and Styrofoam, 60 x 96 x 5 1/2 in.

Tom Friedman: Paint and Styrofoam
May 22 – Aug 8, 2014
Luhring Augustine Bushwick
25 Knickerbocker Ave
Brooklyn
luhringaugustine.com

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Badrinath Pandit and Acharya Vyakul at Adams and Ollman Gallery

mauri — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:00:06 +0000

Badrinath Pandit, Untitled, 1960. Pigment on paper, 11 x 8 in.

Badrinath Pandit and Acharya Vyakul
June 20–July 12, 2014
Adams and Ollman
811 E Burnside St #213
Portland
adamsandollman.com

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Vince Contarino: For Your Eyes Only

mauri — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:00:37 +0000

Vince Contarino, Elegy, 2012. Acrylic on Canvas, 48 x 36 in.

Vince Contarino: For Your Eyes Only
May 16 – June 22, 2014
TSA
44 Stewart Ave, #49
Brooklyn
tigerstrikesasteroid.com

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2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition at California College of the Arts

mauri — Wed, 21 May 2014 10:00:45 +0000

Clare Rickman, spacegodlovers560, 2014. Image courtesy of artist and CCA.

2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 15-25, 2014
CCA San Francisco Campus
111 Eighth Street
San Francisco
cca.edu

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Columbia University 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition at Fisher Landau Center for Art

mauri — Thu, 15 May 2014 09:00:46 +0000

Image courtesy of Matt Taber and Columbia University

2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 28 – May 19, 2014
Fisher Landau Center For Art
38-27 30^th Street
Long Island City
arts.columbia.edu

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Daniel Cooney Fine Art is Making Waves

mauri — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:49:26 +0000

Salt water skin, stretched Lycra, pearled perspiration, oiled up glutes, and bathing caps. Making Waves illuminates the epitome of summertime through this conglomeration of photographs. Daniel Cooney Fine Art captures the sensual and blithe antics of summer, while also effectively using the potency of memory and identity to anchor the exhibit. The show incorporates archetypal prints of swimmers and divers, saucy images of porn stars in Speedos, bikini clad rich girls who reside by Hollywoodian pools, and abstract images where the naked body is spliced or converged. This final group of images subverts the very apparent sexiness and almost cliché theme, transforming Making Waves into an exhibit that uses summertime as a platform where questions of representation and the body can be explored.

Brea Souder’s Sunburn in Naples (2010) teeters between a staged photograph and a minimalist painting. From far away the photograph dissolves into a hazy array of colors that are balanced perfectly by the images overall symmetry and delicate construction. The distilled elegance of the photograph immediately recalls the prints of Katsushika Hokusai. However, as you get closer to the piece—the head in the center of the image becomes incredibly massive and tactile. It is as if you can just barely run your fingers through the woman’s brown, sun-kissed hair; you can almost locate the salt in between the strands. The smell of hot summer afternoons and that damp mineral taste of sand linger on her burnt skin.

Slava Mogutin, Paradise Superm: Brian Bending, 2012. Image courtesy of Daniel Cooney Fine Art

Making Waves also showcases five efficacious images from Slava Mogutin’s series Paradise Superm (2012). In Brian Bending (2012), the naked male body is transformed through a slow dissolve. The body is reprinted, reversed, and divided against beached driftwood. The dissident textures of the idyllic masculine form, against the naturalistic, callus setting galvanizes the tension within the piece. It is most concentrated within the folds of the overlapping body parts. The male form, as object, crouches and hunches his shoulders forward, concealing his face from the viewer. The body clashes with nature, and even with itself in this image, alluding to discordant social norms and binary gender roles that are confronted throughout the series’ entirety.

This provocative collection of photographs is definitely making waves. Not only is it unapologetically voyeuristic and raunchy, but forces its audience to look beyond the skin tight bathing suits and bare-chested babes—capturing intimate, yet collective perceptions on the expectations of the body through experience. Making Waves confronts those experiences on the beach or in the pool, where the body is unabashedly on display.

By Ashley Temple

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