SERGEJ JENSEN

Posted on 2010-12-27

The first solo exhibition of the Berlin-based artist at a New York museum.
Jensen’s poetic artworks provide a fresh approach to Minimalist painting. Employing a wide range of textiles, the artist uses additive and subtractive physical methods like bleaching, fraying, or sewing to stand in for the traditional gestures of pure painting. Through these processes, Jensen creates fragile and quiet abstractions that become contemplations of the history and reuse of his chosen materials, and conjure a network of visual and visceral associations from the stains, holes, cracks, and other traces of use that in turn become his primary pictorial elements.

Exhibition runs from January 23rd to May 2nd,  2011

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City
NY
11101

ps1.org

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JOSE PARLA

Posted on 2010-12-27

Brooklyn artist José Parlá incorporates calligraphy into pictures that resemble distressed city walls. Art historian Michael Betancourt divided his paintings into three categories: walls, diaries, and pictures. Walls are mural sized, diaries are smaller than walls, heavily filled with writing, and resemble a palimpsest. Pictures are the size of traditional paintings, but their visual contents resembles the walls but without the scale.
His book Wall, Diaries, and Paintings is available now.

Exhibition runs from March 4th to April 9th,  2011

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
505 W 24th St
NY, 10011
USA

www.brycewolkowitz.com

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BRETT AMORY – INTENTIONAL ABSTRACTIONS

Posted on 2010-12-27

Intentional Abstractions marks the artist’s first solo show in the UK.A selection of Amory’s work depicts the urban individual’s yearning for presence and the seeming
impossibility of attaining it. The paintings portray commuters in transit immersed in a quiet, even hopeful state or alternately plagued by the anguish of unfulfilled anticipation.
Initially begun in 2001, the series focused on travelers waiting underground on subway platforms. As the series progressed, the subject ceased to be exclusively travelers with the emphasis shifting to anonymous figures snapped in the city streets. Although the experience of waiting remains, the perception has been transformed from a simple, mundane task to one of transcendence.

Exhibition runs from January 13th to February 12th,  2011

The Lazarides Gallery
8 Greek Street
Soho
London
W1D 4DG

www.theoutsiders.net

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