KEVIN MCNAMEE-TWEED – TABLEAUX VIVANT

Posted on 2020-08-10

Tableaux Vivant is a solo exhibition by Kevin McNamee-Tweed which features a selection of new ceramic paintings which are his largest and most complicated works to date. Each shows a salon-like interior with a myriad of disparate images. In one of the works, TXT, all of these images nicely coexist: an active volcano, a cover of the fictional Iowa Review, a spider hanging from its web, a round mammal standing on its hind legs, a hexagonal trade sign with a leaf pattern, an ad with contorted fingers and the word “DONT,” a houseboat at sea with a palm tree at the edge of land, a seesaw with a four-headed person on one end and three-headed person at the other, a sculpture of a trumpet-blowing figure riding a rooster, a headless pegasus with a large “P” where it’s head would be, a pollywog in an enclosed glass sphere with a tailed frog just outside the glass. In his essay on the artist in the new monograph, Ceramic Paintings, Andrew Berardini writes, “This is a world of dreams and memories that erupt into pictures, they are signs of the new flowers and new stars sprinkling over the fields and skies of the fleeting, empty outer world. A sign of what is and what was and had been and can be and it is only ever a picture away.”

Opposite – Back from Gary’s, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2020

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

steveturner.la

  

ANDREA ZITTEL – WORKS 2005 – 2020

Posted on 2020-08-10

For 30 years Zittel’s art practice has considered the ways in which spaces, objects, and acts of living all intertwine as a single evolving investigation. “How to live?” and “What gives life meaning?” are some of the core issues in Zittel’s life and art practice. Answering these questions has entailed the examination of social norms, values, hierarchies, and categories. There are complex relationships between our needs for freedom, security, autonomy, authority, and control — for instance, sometimes living within a set of constraints actually makes us feel freer than having open-ended options, and sometimes total freedom can actually become quite stressful and resource intensive. The exhibition brings together a diverse array of works made over a fifteen-year period (2005 – 2020) that examine conceptual aspects of production, materiality, and use, and reflect Zittel’s ongoing aesthetic inquiry into what it means to exist and participate in culture today.

Opposite – Planar Studies: Vast and Specific 12, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2020

Regen Projects
6750 Santa Monica Boulevard
CA 90038
Los Angeles

www.regenprojects.com

  

REBECCA BRODSKIS – TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY

Posted on 2020-08-10

Tomorrow Is Another Day is a solo exhibition by Paris-based Rebecca Brodskis that features nine new highly pared down portrait paintings. According to Brodskis, all of her characters are in an “in between” state, one of suspended animation, frozen still in the precise instant before the storm hits. The figures do not come out of one particular time period. They could be from the 1860s, the 1920s or from now. They are timeless and placeless and convey an overriding anxiety that reflects a highly uncertain future.

Opposite – Quelques Minutes Avant Le Départ, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2020

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

steveturner.la

  

CHRIS GAROFALO – FALLING UP

Posted on 2020-08-03

For “falling up” Garofalo has crafted an extraordinarily delicate installation of ceramic forms that hang from the ceiling and walls of the gallery, in what the artist considers its own ecosystem. The fragility and contingency of the works invoke the natural environment that inspired it, serving to remind us that humans present both an existential threat to our planet’s biodiversity as well as the greatest hope for its preservation. “Whether blossom or human being, life is fragile and temporary,” Garofalo writes. “‘falling up” invites us to undo conventional notions of human primacy and separation from nature, to embrace the profound porosity between categories of living beings, becoming more empathetic members of the entire biological community.”

Opposite – Arengu, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 15th, 2020

Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 West Chicago Avenue
60622 Chicago

www.rhoffmangallery.com

  

JAN VOSS – PARCELLES

Posted on 2020-08-03

In his Berlin studio, last May, Jan Voss produced a set of ten Parcelles, along with the following statement:

“The painter is a loner in his studio, unless he leads a production team, which I do not. Therefore, not much has changed in my working approach during this lockdown. My work consists of worrying about the paper: its smoothness, its modestness and its two-dimensions bother me. I dream to add a bi-dimensionality to this medium. A sheet of paper will never measure up a block of marble, for sure; but still, a little more texture wouldn’t be that bad for it. The easiest way to add relief and even an entire dimension to a sheet of paper would be to roll it into a ball. However, let’s bet that this ball would end up immediately in the wastebasket. I do not dream of eternity, trust me, but a little more sustainability would do me good. So then, no balls of paper. Folds perhaps, as in some paintings of the ancient times? Yes, why not. Holes, as in the slightly less remote work of an Italian master? Yes, why not. Strings too. And above all, colors that add, I hope, the dimension of pleasure.” Jan Voss.

Opposite – Parcelles 2, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 30th, 2020

Galerie Lelong & Co.
13, rue de Téhéran
75008 Paris

www.galerie-lelong.com

  

STEFAN BRÜGGEMANN – UNTITLED ACTION (GOLD PAINTINGS)

Posted on 2020-08-03

Spanning, and sometimes combining sculpture, video and painting, Stefan Brüggemann’s work deploys text in conceptual installations rich with acerbic social critique and a post pop aesthetic. Evolving from his existing Text Pieces, these laconic texts employ language we regularly encounter in our accelerated digital lives. Presented as shortened modern poems, Brüggemann’s new series offers a caustic perspective on modernity and the digital age, the staccato rhythms of these sloganistic lines mirroring the relentlessness of newsfeed culture. The gold works intend to cut through the noise of the present moment, and their reflective surfaces, with varied textures and mesmeric rhythms, invite contemplation.

Opposite – ONLINE DISCONNECTED (HYPER-POEM LOCKDOWN), 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 30th, 2020

Hauser & Wirth
Via Serlas 22
7500 St. Moritz
Switzerland

www.hauserwirth.com