PAM POSEY – THEREABOUT

Posted on 2023-05-08

In Thereabout, Posey reflects on her lifelong fascination with the landscape, tracing her journey from early experiments with abstraction in the 70’s, to her current explorations of painting from memory, imagination, and place. As Posey explains, “it’s not just what I see in my head, but what I see happening as I paint that I seek to understand and depict.”

During the pandemic, Posey spent countless hours in her studio, looking through photos of the places she’s been and using them to ignite her memory of being there. She reimagined these places in a way that involved mapping her experience of being in landscape into painting, creating movement between intuition and intention. The paintings in Thereabout are a result of this process, depicting the landscapes that she has visited and reimagined; each painting becoming a place that she has simultaneously viewed and created. As Posey explains, “Painting is both intentional and exploratory, a call and response system. As characters are said to take on life of their own for the writer, so too does the landscape take on its own growth and weather for the painter.”

Opposite – Headland, 2023

Exhibition runs through to May 13th, 2023

Praz-Delavallade
6150 Wilshire Blvd
CA 90048
Los Angeles

www.praz-delavallade.com

  

CRISTINA IGLESIAS – MONOTYPES ON COPPER AND PAPER

Posted on 2023-05-01

Galerie Marian Goodman is pleased to present an exhibition of monotypes by Cristina Iglesias that uncovers the intricacies of her practice through the study of her sculptural works. The presentation includes a selection of works on copper and paper from the Cave Study (2022) and the Hondalea Study (2021) series, resulting from her 2021 Hondalea project. Hondalea is a unique sculptural intervention, located within an abandoned lighthouse, on a small Spanish island in the bay of Donostia / San Sebastián. The works show both real and envisioned views of Hondalea, which evoke the mysterious, cavernous nature of the thalassic world. At the opening on Thursday, April 6, Cristina Iglesias will sign the eponymous publication recently published by Hatje Cantz about this fascinating project.

Opposite – Cave Study VII, 2022

Exhibition runs through to May 13th, 2023

Marian Goodman Gallery
66 rue du Temple
75003 Paris
France

www.mariangoodman.com

  

MICHEL FRANÇOIS

Posted on 2023-05-01

The exhibition opens with the impressive Golden Cage, a cage covered entirely with gold leaf that, with its over four square meters, occupies the entire room. Made of thin metal and large grids, the work opens up to multiple suggestions related to the idea of imprisonment and escape because, despite being made of gold, it is still a cage. An ambiguity of meaning given to the viewer who must decode the work according to his sensitivity.
On a museum scale, the work Retenue d’eau, suspended from the ceiling like an ancient chandelier, is composed of the cluster assembly of over two hundred small transparent bags filled with water tied to nylon threads. The work synthesizes many of the themes related to the artist’s sculpture made up of physical tensions, voids, solids and a poise of forces. A combination of everyday elements that take on monumental proportions recreating a glass effect but without using that material.
Accompanied by drawings and lithographic prints, the exhibition is enriched with chairs assembled in precarious balance, aluminum strips that with the use of magnets compose sculptures with sinuous lines and finally of burnt apples that leave the mark of their passage on the gallery walls.

Opposite – Scribble, 2010

Exhibition runs through to May 13th, 2023

Alfonso Artiaco
Piazzetta Nilo 7
80134 Napoli
Italy

www.alfonsoartiaco.com

  

TOM FRIEDMAN – THINKING ABOUT WHAT IT’S MADE OF

Posted on 2023-05-01

Thinking About What it is Made of brings together recent sculpture, drawing, and wall mounted works. The exhibition is figure focused, with many pieces engaging the idea of the human body in literal and conceptual ways. Created specifically for this presentation, Medium Huddle features eight figures gathered together in a posture of intimacy and discussion. Friedman often works in opposites—the original idea for the Huddle series came after the artist created his monumental Circle Dance, which features 10 people holding hands while moving in a wide, jubilant dance. Where Circle Dance imagines human figures as an open circle, Medium Huddle considers what the reverse might look like. Medium Huddle also reflects Friedman’s deft ability to manipulate scale—while this sculpture stands at three and a half feet, a larger-than-life size Huddle was commissioned by the Dallas Cowboys for their training facility in Frisco.

Opposite – Group of People I, 2023

Exhibition runs through to May 08th, 2023

Lehmann Maupin
247 Worth Avenue
Florida 33480 Palm Beach
USA

www.lehmannmaupin.com

  

GILBERT & GEORGE – THE CORPSING PICTURES

Posted on 2023-04-24

In the art of Gilbert & George, meaning is inferred through feeling and atmosphere, and these possible meanings can be in stark contrast to one another. They can be read like a paradox or aphorism in which the juxtaposition of apparent opposites creates levels of interpretation beyond those first encountered.

Such a high velocity interplay of meanings is acutely felt in ‘THE CORPSING PICTURES’, beginning with the arresting or even shocking title of the group, that could refer, dizzyingly, to both death and dead bodies, and the theatrical slang for an actor who suddenly steps out of character during a performance, by either forgetting their lines, or laughing, or causing another actor in the scene to lose their composure. To break the spell therefore: to admit the illusion of acting, to revel in revealing the ‘pretence’ of theatre.

Opposite – KNOT, 2022

Exhibition runs through to May 13th, 2023

White Cube Mason’s Yard
25 – 26 Mason’s Yard
London
SW1Y 6BU

www.whitecube.com

  

SPENCER FINCH – LA GRANDE JATTE

Posted on 2023-04-24

Finch’s monochromatic irregular polygon paintings were formed by zooming in and cropping out identifiable or memorable moments of the historic painting, e.g., the monkey, parasol or top hat. Those crops were then analyzed to determine the number of colors used, as well as the quantity of that color used, to form that particular shape or motif. To create each painting, an ultra-high resolution photograph of the Georges Seurat painting was consulted. The total number of distinct paint colors found within each crop determined the number of sides of the corresponding painting as well as which colors were painted onto the sides of the shaped panels. Each crop was then overlaid with a 400 square grid and the amount of each paint color used was tallied and percentages calculated. The smaller the percentage of color, the shorter that side’s length. The percentages of the paint colors were then mixed together to produce the front facing color for each painting. Finally, when added together, the surface area of the 17 paintings on view, equals the surface area of the original Seurat canvas.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to May 13th, 2023

Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 West Chicago Avenue
60622 Chicago

www.rhoffmangallery.com