JEFF WHETSTONE – BATTURE RITUAL

Posted on 2018-10-08

Jeff Whetstone’s photographs and videos explore the micro- and macro-economies and ecologies along the Mississippi River’s batture near New Orleans, Louisiana. “Batture” is the French-creole term for the thin strip of weeds, trees, and mud between the water’s edge of the Mississippi River and the tall, hardened levees that contain its floods. The batture is ephemeral. It disappears when the river is high and re-emerges when the tide falls; it is swept and transformed. It is a cyclical land, untied to human time, unclaimed, and unowned, a temporary alluvial wilderness. Families fishing for food come within feet of international oil tankers and container ships that facilitate global trade. Whetstone does not depict the batture as a dividing line, but rather a magnet that draws animals and industry, fishermen and ocean ships, all manner of life into contact.

Opposite – The Eastern Hope, 2017

Exhibition runs through to October 27th, 2018

Julie Saul Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
New York
10011 NY

www.saulgallery.com

  

POWELL TILLMANS – FEEL THE NIGHT

Posted on 2018-10-08

The debut EP from Powell Tillmans, a new collaboration between Oscar Powell and Wolfgang Tillmans.

xlrecordings.com

  

FRANK STELLA

Posted on 2018-10-08

Few artists are as synonymous with the history of 20th and 21st-century American art as Frank Stella. His work across media, from painting to sculpture to printmaking, has continuously broken ground at each stage of his decades-long career, remaining influential and relevant to subsequent generations of contemporary artists. The selection of works highlights the artist’s ongoing experimentation with spatial representation and includes the début of a new painting series.
In its broad array of forms, colors, and scale, Stella’s recent work offers viewers an equally remarkable and confounding visual experience. Planes intersect, cutting through each other as if in virtual space, while metal frameworks balance brightly painted, sinuous shapes whose appearance shifts radically when viewed from different perspectives. Since the 1990s, the artist has worked with computer renderings of complex forms, piecing together compositions from recurring motifs inspired by smoke rings, a spiralcoiled
hat, stars, and other visual phenomena. Though Stella conceives of all his works in relation to painting, they often extend into three dimensions and are inspired by various disciplines, including literature, philosophy, and music.

Opposite – The Broken Jug. A Comedy [D#3] (left handed version), 2007

Exhibition runs through to November 3rd, 2018

Sprüth Magers
5900 Wilshire Boulevard
CA 90036
Los Angeles

www.spruethmagers.com

  

SOUTHEAST X SOUTHEAST

Posted on 2018-10-08

This international exhibition focuses on the contemporary works of photographers living and working in Thailand, with special consideration given to photographers in association with Chiang Mai University, home to Thailand’s leading university photography department.. The exhibition includes a diverse range of photographers who work in styles ranging from street photography, to commercial, to alternative processes. Southeast X Southeast is curated and organized by Patricia Lois Nuss Bambace, photography instructor at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies.

Exhibition runs through to October 27th, 2018

Southeast Museum of Photography
1200 W. International Speedway Blvd
Daytona Beach
32114 FL

www.smponline.org

  

RONNIE FIEG X VASQUE FALL 18

Posted on 2018-10-01

The outdoor footwear line’s signature Sundowner and Skywalker models take on the collection’s color palette with premium suede and leather upgrades.

Lavender coats the Sundowner as it also welcomes burgundy and oxblood as complementary colors found on the laces and Gore-Tex lining. The release’s Skywalker silhouette is presented in two color choices of Tan/Olive along with a combination of Navy/Red, each sharing a two-toned look. Suede upgrades and Gore-Tex lining are also placed onto the model and met with nylon mesh for enhanced durability. Vasque’s traditional logo is also reworked using Ronnie Fieg’s last name on the lateral side of each left boot.

Available at all KITH Shops and KITH’s online shop, October 26th.

kith.com