2021 September : EXIT

MIMI PLUMB – THE WHITE SKY

Posted on 2021-09-27

Plumb’s black and white photographs of 1970s life in Walnut Creek expound evocatively on the peculiar banality of Californian suburban sprawl, touching on candid narratives of youthful summertime wanderlust. The resulting eerily compelling images lead the viewer through tangential story lines that are mysterious yet familiar.

Opposite – Couple at the Gas Station, 1972

Exhibition runs through to November 26th, 2021

Robert Koch Gallery
49 Geary Street 5th Floor
San Francisco
CA 94108

kochgallery.com

CURRAN HATLEBERG

Posted on 2021-09-27

The photographs on view span Hatleberg’s second body of work, for which he has been travelling the country by car to photograph the slough of the white man’s American dream.

Hatleberg is known for his depictions of human exchange, in all of its complexity. This presentation is, in a first for the artist, a purposeful turn. The photographs are nearly completely emptied of bodies; when they do appear, they are fragmented and obscured. We are left with only traces of human presence: the remains of an abandoned kitchen, the open road beyond a car windshield, or a dangling alligator carcass. The artist writes, “Our country is different and changed in its present iteration and we can’t help but regard it with a stare that we hold in reserve for the most difficult circumstances.”

Opposite – Untitled (Bathtub), 2019

Exhibition runs through to November 13th, 2021

Higher Pictures Generation
16 Main Street
Brooklyn
NY 11201

www.houkgallery.com

JESSICA WYNNE – DO NOT ERASE

Posted on 2021-09-27

Do Not Erase contemplates the meaning, emotion, and energy of symbols. Her photographs- which can easily be mistaken for three-dimensional chalkboards- illuminate the narrative, linguistic, and visionary elements of these representations, providing timeless meditation on the abstraction and intimacy of visual expression.

Wynne studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and Yale University before moving to New York City in 1999. She was first introduced to the beauty of chalkboards through her neighbors Amie Wilkinson and Benson Farb, mathematics professors from the University of Chicago. Intrigued by the imagery she saw on these boards, Wynne directed her focus on capturing-rather than deciphering-the meaning and beauty of these symbols. Reminiscent of Cy Twombly’s “blackboard” paintings and Brice Marden’s serpentine Letters canvases, Wynne’s blackboards illuminate the power of the whirling web of shapes, numbers, and calculations scribbled in the heat of discovery.

Opposite – Sahar Khan, Columbia University, 2019

Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2021

Edwynn Houk Gallery
745 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor
New York
NY 10151

www.houkgallery.com

YAN BING – SUDDENLY, EVERYTHING BECAME CLEAR

Posted on 2021-09-27

Profoundly influenced by his growth experience in the rural area of northwestern China, Yan Bing’s works revolve around the simplest daily objects and refine them on a spiritual level. The exhibition title comes from a sentence attributed to the Russian writer Anton Chekhov; echoing this wonderful and mysterious sentence. The exhibition is inspired by a journey the artist went on this year. He returned to Gansu alone in spring but deliberately bypassed his hometown. During the nearly fifty days of field walk, Yan Bing started from a river, from east to west, tracing his early memories along the way. At the same time, the artist was perceiving his inner transformation and relief, which results in his new work.
Wild vegetables and wastelands are the core images in Yan’s new body of work. Different from the dignified and gloomy atmosphere in his previous paintings, this series of works are made lighter and broader, aiming to shape the will and dignity of life in the dimness and broadness. As Yan Bing said, “I walked into a new spiritual world at my old haunt. The new feelings and insights took me through the original cognition backward, like walking out of
a cloud shadow. Suddenly, everything became clear.”

Opposite – Wild Vegetable Seekers, 2021

Exhibition runs through to October 17th, 2021

ShanghART
West Bund, Bldg.10, 2555 Longteng Avenue
Xuhui District
200232 Shanghai

www.shanghartgallery.com

KIIMI – RITUAL

Posted on 2021-09-27

Kiimi breaks new ground with ‘Ritual’ with celestial synths and UKG tropes.

kiimiworld.bandcamp.com

BREMER MCCOY – NATTEN

Posted on 2021-09-27

The duo’s latest release Natten, which means “The Night” in Danish, strives for even more transcendence, more freedom, more of everything in whatever sound they’re making. It’s still hard to explain. It’s not meant to be explained. These 11 tracks are tinged with the sublime: watching the setting sun, feeling the planet tilt on its axis. If you listen closely, you can hear the constellations. Let Bremer/McCoy bring the night mood to you, whatever you’re up to.