JONATHAN MONK – NOT ME, ME, NOT ME

Posted on 2021-02-22

The main work is a single installation, An Ensemble, which fills a large area in the gallery space. An Ensemble is composed of many of Monk’s existing works spanning the last twenty-five years, including sculptures, paintings, and neons.

The paintings are stacked up on the floor, leaning up against a wall. Some are partially covered up, others entirely covered up. The sculptures and neons are on the floor directly in front of them, installed tightly together, with intention. The space around each piece is too small to weave through them, yet open enough to be able to appreciate the pieces on their own.

Opposite – An Ensemble (2021)

Exhibition runs through to April 10th, 2021

Galleri Nicolai Wallner
Glentevej 47 – 49
DK-2400 Copenhagen
Denmark

nicolaiwallner.com

  

ROSA BARBA – SELECTED WORKS

Posted on 2021-02-22

Rosa Barba engages within the medium of film through a sculptural approach. In her works, Barba creates installations and site-specific interventions to analyze the ways film articulates space, placing the work and the viewer in a new relationship.

Questions of composition, physicality of form and plasticity play an important role for the artist as Barba examines the industry of cinema and its staging vis-à-vis gesture, genre, information and documents. Her film works are situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative. They often focus on natural landscapes and human-made interventions into the environment and explore the relationship of historical records, personal anecdotes, and filmic representation, creating spaces of memory and uncertainty.

Opposite – Stellar Populations, 2017

Exhibition runs through to March 10th, 2021

Esther Schipper (Online Viewing Room)
Potsdamer Strasse 81E
10785 Berlin
Germany

www.estherschipper.com

  

MALIA JENSEN – NEARER NATURE

Posted on 2021-02-22

This body of work is the culmination of Nearer Nature Project, a two-year endeavor which grew out of the artist’s desire to explore our complex relationships with the natural world and with one another. Beginning in early 2019, Jensen carved six sculptures from livestock salt licks and installed them in carefully selected wild places across the state of Oregon. Over a year, eighteen motion-triggered cameras monitored the sculptures and the surrounding landscape, recording not only wildlife but also the dissolution of the carved salt and the changing seasons.

Using an intricate filing system and working closely with an editor, Jensen’s trove of wildlife footage was compiled into a six-hour video entitled Worth Your Salt, displayed on three monitors in the gallery. Comprised of thousands of 30-second clips captured by the trail cameras, the video features four quadrants of sequential footage on each monitor, evoking the grid of closed-circuit surveillance.

Opposite – Foot, 2020

Exhibition runs through to April 3rd, 2021

Cristin Tierney
219 Bowery, Floor 2
NY 10002
New York

www.cristintierney.com

  

JULIA DUBSKY – M/MODESTY

Posted on 2021-02-15

Julia Dubsky’s paintings weave a playful web of references to the history of painting and ideas drawn from literature. In a speculative essay ‘M/modesty’ to be published this Spring, she probes the notion of modesty and its application to the ‘feminine’. Her research for this essay coincided with the making of this recent body of paintings focussing on the ‘Fig Leaf’, modesty’s earliest symbol.

The works were made in Wexford, Ireland, and in Dubsky’s studio in Berlin. In both locations there was a fig tree nearby, whose leaves she drew over and over. In each space she also kept to hand an image of the painting Infidelity (1570-75) by Paolo Veronese. The work depicts a fig plant growing in front of a drape that is failing to perform its function as a cover for a woman’s nakedness (As TJ Clark notes in Heaven on Earth, Veronese would have been aware of the representational irony of painting a fig tree in front of a drape so that its decorativeness acts doubly: both imposed like decoration on the cloth depicted and as a decorative painting on stretched canvas.)

Opposite – Fig Rabbit Duck (Kaninchen und Ente), 2020

Exhibition runs through to March 27th, 2021

Amanda Wilkinson
1st Floor, 18 Brewer Street
W1F 0SH
London

amandawilkinsongallery.com

  

JESSIE HOMER FRENCH – WEST COAST

Posted on 2021-02-15

Jessie Homer French is a self-taught artist whose paintings emerge from a continuous analysis of places surrounding her and reveal the artist’s personal and profound attitude to a local and transient type of composition. Homer French treats with delicate care existential issues related to death and personal loss, nature and climate changing, rural life and the beauty of wide-open outdoor spaces. In her work, humankind and nature are linked by an indissoluble bond, caught in a sardonic interplay in which
humanity appears as a toxic intruder in a melancholic environment.
The exhibition features nineteen works that range from the late eighties until the present day, all speaking about the lands of the Pacific Northwest and Southern California, where the artist lives and works. The paintings appear as sensitive commentaries on the places surrounding her, and the narrative element of her work is made clear by the titles placed on the recto of the canvases and plywood.

Opposite – Ezra and the Skunk, 1988

Exhibition runs through to April 17th, 2021

MASSIMODECARLO
55 South Audley Street
W1K 2QH
London

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

LOUISE BONNET – UNTITLED, 2021

Posted on 2021-02-15

In Untitled, 2021, a new work on paper by Bonnet, a fleshy figure bends forward, exposing its undulating, nude body to the viewer’s gaze. Devoid of facial features, the figure’s agony is only conceivable from its lactating breasts, from which tear-like droplets cascade down and fall onto a barren surface.

Opposite – Untitled, 2021

Exhibition runs through to February 27th, 2021

Galerie Max Hetzler
Bleibtreustraße 45
10623 Berlin
Germany

www.maxhetzler.com