JOE ANDOE – CHINATOWN

Posted on 2022-06-20

In Chinatown, Andoe presents a series of galloping horses painted in various shades of red. Throughout his career, Andoe has always painted horses, but this is his first exhibition focused on the subject specifically. The image is inspired by Andoe’s admiration for the early twentieth-century Chinese painter Xu Beihong, one of the pioneers of modern Chinese art, who is known for his depiction of horses and birds in India ink, and his large-scale oil paintings portraying epic themes from national history. In New York’s Chinatown, where Andoe lives, there are many restaurants whose signs also feature reproductions of Xu’s horses. To Andoe, this is a familiar, yet foreign, visual language, like so many of the things seen from the side of the road.

Opposite – Untitled (after Xu Beihong ), 2022

Exhibition runs through to August 5th, 2022

Almine Rech
27 Huqiu Road, 2nd Floor
200002 Shanghai
China

www.alminerech.com

  

PHILLIP ALLEN – COARSE GRAIN

Posted on 2022-06-20

Phillip Allen (b. 1967, London, UK) lives and works in London, UK. Exhibitions include Deepdrippings, Miles McEnery, New York (2020); Deepdrippings, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (2019); Deepdrippings, The Approach, London (2019); Deepdrippings, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2017); Tonic for Choice, The Approach, London (2014); …the urgent hang around, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece (2010); Classified (group show), Tate Britain, London (2009); Phillip Allen, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (2006); Archipeinture: painters build architecture, Le Plateau/Frac Île-de France, Paris, France; Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2006); British Art Show 6 (group show), Touring Exhibition organised by Hayward Gallery, London (2005); Phillip Allen: Recent Paintings, PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, Brooklyn, NY (2003). Paintings are included in the collections of Arts Council England, British Council and Tate, London.

Opposite – Kibitzer (Titled Version), 2021

Exhibition runs through to August 6th, 2022

The Approach
1st Floor, 47 Approach Road
Bethnal Green
E2 9LY London

theapproach.co.uk

  

SYLVIA SNOWDEN – GREEN PAINTINGS

Posted on 2022-06-13

Sylvia Snowden has developed a singular body of work spanning six decades, which is characterized by a visceral and sculptural application of paint in which color and texture emerge from densely-worked underlayers. Working in series, Snowden’s work aims to depict the struggles and triumphs of humanity and dispel the societal myths that are used to push us apart. Most notable is Snowden’s M Street Series started in the late 70s after Snowden moved to Washington’s Shaw Neighborhood, where she still resides, which was marked by impending dislocation due to gentrification. Snowden aimed to portray the people she encountered within the neighborhood, many of whom were transient, unemployed, and/ or unhoused, depicting each with their own individual grace and dignity. Pushing against the bounds of the paintings’ frames, Snowden’s figures seem to urgently wrestle with the energetic abstractions that surround them, as a way to depict their resilience in the face of adversity.

Opposite – Green I, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 26th, 2022

Andrew Kreps Gallery
22 Cortlandt Alley
10013 New York
USA

www.andrewkreps.com

  

SONIA GECHTOFF

Posted on 2022-06-13

Gechtoff is best known for her atmospheric abstractions of swirling colors redolent of seas, skies or smoke. Inspired by the work of Clyfford Still, Gechtoff developed a distinct technique of palette knife painting. Her drawings were executed similarly, with long deliberate strokes of graphite that evoke windswept grasses and vegetation.

By the 1970s, Gechtoff had fully transitioned from oil paints to acrylic. Until this point, she had considered painting and drawing to be wholly separate, if equally important, aspects of her art practice. However, the flat, matte, and fast drying surfaces of acrylic provided new opportunities to combine painting and drawing media. Working on both paper and canvas, Gechtoff applied silvery graphite over most of her paintings for the last few decades of her life, contrasting flat planes of color with textural and compositional effects only possible through drawing.

Opposite – Celestial Red, 1994

Exhibition runs through to August 26th, 2022

Andrew Kreps Gallery
22 Cortlandt Alley
10013 New York
USA

www.andrewkreps.com

  

ON THE NATURE OF THINGS

Posted on 2022-06-13

On the Nature of Things looks to curator William Seitz’s landmark 1961 exhibition The Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art as a starting point that traced the origins of the medium from the early 20th century to the early 1960s, where it gained an increasing foothold across a variety of movements and styles. As Seitz said in the exhibition’s press release, “Every work of art is an incarnation: an investment of matter with spirit. The term ‘assemblage’ has been singled out with this duality in mind, to denote not only a specific technical procedure and form used in the literary and musical as well as the plastic arts, but also a complex of attitudes and ideas.” On The Nature of Things brings together several artists from Seitz’s 1961 exhibition including John Chamberlain, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, Louise Nevelson, Alfonso Ossorio, Anne Ryan, Kurt Schwitters, and Lucas Samaras, while also exploring how the medium has been adopted and pushed in the years since the exhibition. In considering how artists speak with and through extant materials, On the Nature of Things includes works by a broad range of artistic voices from around the globe including significant loans from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, which champions the work of Black Artists from the American South.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to August 6th, 2022

Andrew Kreps Gallery
22 Cortlandt Alley
10013 New York
USA

www.andrewkreps.com

  

LOUISE BONNET – ONSLAUGHT

Posted on 2022-06-06

In Onslaught, Bonnet focuses on corporeal fluids as objects of societal disgust, investigating art historical precedents for their depiction and considering the ways in which modern aesthetic and ideological conventions complicate the ways in which they are now received (“We are much more prudish about certain things now than people were in the 1500s,” she observes). The paintings explore our sense of mortification at our own bodies and the way they seem to betray us by leaking, sagging, or failing in various ways. “I’m interested in shame and the body in my paintings,” she states, “and bodily functions bring extra shame and embarrassment.”

Opposite – Projection 2, 2022

Exhibition runs through to August 6th, 2022

Gagosian
7/F Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street
Central Hong Kong
China

gagosian.com