Art : EXIT

DAVID SALLE – SELF-IRONING PANTS AND OTHER PAINTINGS

Posted on 2020-02-17

Minimalist, experimental, intellectual and primal. Black and white abstraction. Formal and yet technically avant-garde. Vibrant, refined, gestural – in and out of control. Arrested motion. Perfected through repetition, but never perfect. The work of Craig Costello is all about equilibrium. Surface, movement, paint, application and reaction.

Craig Costello, born 1971 in New York City, USA, lives and works in Brooklyn, USA. Recent exhibitions include Beyond the Streets, New York, USA, 2019, Fundamentals, Rouen, France, 2019 and WHQ, agnès b. Galerie Boutique, New York, USA, 2017. Costello is the founder, owner and operator of Krink Inc. – innovating the finest inks, high quality paint markers and specialty artist equipment for interior and exterior use. Costello uses his own paints and tools – modified fire extinguishers, garden sprayers and shoe polish bottles – in his paintings, sculpture and large-scale, site-specific installations.

Opposite – A Night in the Sky with Friends, 2019

Exhibition runs through to February 29th, 2020

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Marais
7 rue debelleyme
75003 Paris

www.ropac.net

CRAIG COSTELLO – NEW WORK

Posted on 2020-02-10

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to February 22nd, 2020

Eighteen
Slagtehusgade 18c
Kødbyen
1711 Copenhagen

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SALLY J. HAN – FOREPLAY

Posted on 2020-02-10

Sally J. Han’s acrylic paintings on paper, mounted on panel, are confessions but also secrets. The answer to what they might reveal or conceal rests in a space between the surreal and the earthly. Gazing at the sky, whispering and gossiping, sleeping and bathing, fighting and waiting, resting and walking, smoking, cleaning. All are familiar rituals but what lies beyond the confines of these scenes? For Han, who was born in China but grew up in South Korea, her memories are transformed into culturally specific puncta painted throughout like tiles pieced together creating a mosaic that stands for a history (story): the traditional versus contemporary clothing worn by the painted figures, the colors, the landscapes, walls, objects, and interiors.
Foreplay, the exhibition title, is more than its association to physical activities, like kissing and touching, it can also point to mental and verbal landscapes, like whispering, gazing and gossiping. The settings created by Han could all be said to be in a state of foreplay. Pulling hair, as in the painting Foreplay and A Sneak Peek, tension reigns between faceless figures, as they engage in an act that is both erotic and playful. Hair as relating to our private, involuntary fantasies, thoughts and longings, is being pulled out of its roots.

Opposite – Gossip, 2019

Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2020

Fortnight Institute
60 East 4th St
NYC 10003

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JOSÉ PARLÁ – IT’S YOURS

Posted on 2020-02-10

José Parlá: It’s Yours will be the first solo museum exhibition of the internationally renowned artist in New York City. The new paintings evoke the artist’s personal connection to the Bronx, as well as the borough’s influence, which have helped to shape how Parlá views painting history and cities around the world. José Parlá: It’s Yours is organized by guest curator Manon Slome.

While celebrating Parlá’s roots in the hip-hop energy of the Bronx, this series of paintings address the suffering caused by redlining policies, the waves of displacement imposed by gentrification, and structural racism. It’s Yours encourages viewers to question ownership in New York’s rapidly changing neighborhoods.

Parlá’s work is deeply connected to experimentation and innovation to conjure complex memory abstractions as he challenges traditional painting methods. The rich building up of surface and Parlá’s signature gestural line resemble the layers of city walls, reflecting the movement and textures of neighborhoods, the marks and traces people leave behind, and the energy and challenges of the streets. In addition to large-scale paintings in the museum’s gallery, the exhibition features Parlá’s sketchbooks and drawings from age ten to seventeen as well as site specific responses in the lobby and outdoors that seek to integrate the museum with the city.

Opposite – Detail Social Visual / Studio Gaze, 2020

Exhibition runs from February 26th to August 16th, 2020

The Bronx Museum
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx
New York 10456

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LYDIA BLAKELEY – HOSPITALITY

Posted on 2020-02-03

Hospitality, is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Lydia Blakeley, all of which present scenes from horse races in Great Britain. They depict the characters one might see at these events including the security guards and sniffer dogs who are stationed at the entrance; waiters in the hospitality tent; and tipsy patrons, some of whom have passed out. As a group, the paintings are a patchwork of scenes at the races with the characters captured in tabloid moments of enjoyment, distraction and oblivion.

Opposite – Creasing, 2019

Exhibition runs through to February 8th, 2020

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

steveturner.la

Y.Z. KAMI – NIGHT PAINTINGS

Posted on 2020-02-03

Kami’s tenebrous Night Paintings (2017–) are composed largely from a single shade of indigo—said to be the color of the night—mixed with various gradations of white. Each canvas in this new series is filled with blue-whitish apparitions that float just past the limits of materiality and concrete representation. These outlines shift between seemingly solid, liquid, and gaseous states—an osseous structure melts into a milky swirl, which in turn evaporates into a coil of smoke—yet their true forms and references ultimately remain veiled beneath hazy brushwork.

Opposite – Night Painting II (for William Blake), 2017–18

Exhibition runs through to March 21st, 2020

Gagosian
Via Francesco Crispi 16
00187 Rome
Italy

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