DANIEL RICHTER – FUROR II

Posted on 2022-11-07

Furor II continues Richter’s exploration into this iterative process. Here, a postcard from 1916 depicting two wounded WWI soldiers serves as one in a limited set of germinal reference images for these paintings. The postcard, once produced for mass commercial distribution and consumption, becomes the departure point from which Richter considers the atrophying effects of repetition on meaning, context, and feeling. Through such repetition, Richter transforms his source images into complex, paradoxically joyful compositions that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. Human figures metamorphose into forms resembling steam shovels, distended teardrops, shattered ribcages, even butterflies. Sharp lines jut across patchy color-blocked backgrounds, hinting at competing horizons, while the outlines of witnesses and onlookers take shape in the foreground. Unsettling yet ultimately playful, Richter’s newest paintings address social, political, and historical issues, while the frenetic furor of his process results in open-ended compositions that defy categorization.

Opposite – Stairs creaking, clinking, 2022

Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2022

Regen Projects
6750 Santa Monica Boulevard
CA 90038
Los Angeles

www.regenprojects.com

  

NICK DOYLE – YES DADDY

Posted on 2022-10-31

Nick Doyle has been unraveling the myth for some time now. His art stages a cognitive scramble of coded objects: wilting poppies and smashed bouquets, wrenches and vises, all enlarged to a uniformly exaggerated scale and rendered in layered denim, the feminine and the masculine given equal weight—the trompe l’oeil of Doyle’s many layered collage technique suggesting painting where none exists.

Opposite – Be Prepared, 2022

Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2022

Perrotin
130 Orchard Street
NY 10002
New York

www.perrotin.com

  

SAM FALLS

Posted on 2022-10-31

Concerned with the intimacy of time, the illustration of place, and exploration of mortality, Sam Falls has created his own formal language by intertwining photography’s core parameters of time and exposure with nature and her elements. Working largely outdoors with vernacular materials and nature as a site-specific subject, Falls abandons mechanical reproduction in favor of a more symbiotic relationship between subject and object. In doing so, he bridges the gap between photography, sculpture, and painting, as well as the divide between artist, object, and viewer.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2022

Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Lichtenfelsgasse 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria

www.presenhuber.com

  

ANNA WEYANT – BABY, IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER

Posted on 2022-10-31

Baby, It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over features seven new paintings along with ten new drawings. The exhibition, which sees Weyant further develop the aesthetics and themes of her previous work, takes its title from a song by Lenny Kravitz—which in turn repeats Yogi Berra’s aphorism—and riffs in self-aware fashion on popular expectations of a young artist’s career trajectory. Many of the exhibited portraits depict the same figure in two slightly different poses, suggesting subtly divergent aspects of the same persona and making reference to the biblical doubled image. The paintings hang on a lush green velvet backdrop, supplied by design house F. Schumacher & Co., which resonates with the images’ hint of camp theatricality.

Opposite – Two Eileens, 2022

Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2022

Gagosian
980 Madison Avenue
NY 10075
New York

gagosian.com

  

VERONICA RYAN

Posted on 2022-10-24

This exhibition follows Ryan’s participation in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, New York, and succeeds her critically acclaimed 2021 survey at Spike Island, Bristol, for which Ryan has received a nomination for the 2022 Turner Prize (on show at Tate Liverpool from October). Ryan’s large bronze and marble outdoor works Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae) and Soursop (Annonaceae) were unveiled in Hackney, London in 2021 as the nation’s first permanent monument to honour the Windrush generation.

Opposite – Collective Moments I, 2000/2022

Exhibition runs through to November 12th, 2022

Alison Jacques
16-18 Berners Street
W1T 3LN
London

alisonjacques.com

  

EARTHSEED

Posted on 2022-10-24

The dystopian world created by influential science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1947−2006) in her prescient Parables novels opens in 2024 in an America devastated by climate change and corporate greed, where a Christian-fundamentalist brand of fascism is taking hold. ‘Earthseed’ is both how the central character, Olamina, refers to all human beings, and the name that she gives the movement she founds amidst the ruins of civilisation. Earthseed is a matriarchal cult, a philosophy and a manual for survival: ‘God is Change’, Olamina pronounces, and it is only through malleability and adaptability that we can take control of that inexorable change and resist chaos and victimhood. Humans – Earthseed − contain the potential to escape our self-engineered destruction and instead ‘take root among the stars’. The works in this exhibition resonate with the notion of travel to outer space and inner space, in different ways considering the female body as a site of transformation as well as a portal for the imagination.

Looking to the distant past as well as the future, Marguerite Humeau locates the roots of our spiritual sensibility entangled with the origins of human consciousness and speculates on our scope for evolution. Julie Curtiss’ disquieting surrealist representation of femininity hints at secret rituals while suggesting a post-human hybridity and adaptation. Loie Hollowell’s work, taking shape from the female body, celebrates the miracle that is human reproduction, in a language of forms that reference earth, seed and cosmos.

Opposite – Underground branching passages, soil inhalations, soil exhalations, 2022

Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2022

White Cube
10 avenue Matignon
75008 Paris
France

www.whitecube.com