Art

Good Mother Gallery is moving to West Adams. To commemorate the new space, the Los Angeles-based gallery will unveil a new group exhibition tonight entitled Rendezvous. Founded 10 years ago in Oakland by French-American artist Guillaume Ollivier, Good Mother has championed a range of West Coast contemporary artists working across painting, sculpture and installation. Rendezvous will feature new and existing work from 40 artists who probe into themes related to order and chaos, intimacy, interaction and unity. Painting takes special precedence throughout the exhibition, from Paul Reidmueller's monochromatic still lifes, Nancy Hollinghurst's ephemeral reflections on memory, to a more abstracted basketball matchup by Jacob Rochester. Occupying a much larger space, Good Mother's new location i...

For Argentine-Spanish artist Felipe Pantone, superstimulation is a creative space. For his new solo show presented by Underdogs Gallery in Lisbon, Pantone explores all that unfolds when all the time is screen time. In a vibrant interplay of color, light, and geometry, the artist brings his signature optical art into conversation with everyday technology, giving the glitch a new aesthetic meaning.For Pantone, color is a participatory practice. Featuring works across painting, sculpture, and installation, Perceptual Phenomena, Color Spaces, Structural Honesty creates the visual language for a reality that can’t seem to find its footing, capturing contemporary life in full flux. As each work stands as its own chromatic microcosm, Pantone keenly oscillates between various texture, graphics, an...

The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., is set to showcase a unique pairing of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Banksy. Opening later this month, the year-long exhibition will feature Basquiat’s 1982 painting “Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump,” reportedly purchased by hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin for over $100 million USD as per Artnet.The work will be displayed alongside Banksy’s reimagined version, which includes stenciled police officers frisking Basquiat's skeletal figure. Banksy originally created the piece outside London’s Barbican Centre to highlight the irony of a street artist being exhibited in a museum that typically erases graffiti.Both artists have a history of using public spaces for their work, with Basquiat emerging from the graffiti duo SAMO and Banksy’s guer...

Plato Gallery has lifted the veil on two concurrent solo exhibitions by artists Ákos Ezer and Maude Corriveau. While each show occupies its own aesthetic terrain, they make up two sides of the same coin. Together, the artists of Living Room Campout and Depth of Surface each present a unique interpretation of escape with splendor and elegance in hand.For Ezer’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, the Hungarian artist seeks to strike a balance. According to a recent gallery statement, Living Room Campout begs the question: “If we are constantly expected to play games, why not enjoy the ride and dance with the music set for us?” Ezer’s cast of brooding hipsters mediate the fluidity of social identity as each character morphs and transforms into the shape of their occupied role: wallflowers ...

To celebrate its 200th anniversary, the Brooklyn Museum is championing creative visionaries across its namesake borough in a new group exhibition organized by Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, Fred Tomasell and Jeffrey Gibson. The latter artist, a Brooklyn native himself, is currently exhibiting a pioneering exhibition of work at the Venice Biennale that challenges the foundation of American mythology through vibrant sculptures, installations and film, drawing from his Mississippi Choctaw-Cherokee heritage.The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition includes work from over 200 prominent and emerging figures, including Brad Kahlhammer, Nancy Grossman and Josiah McElheny. The institution received 4,000 submissions from artists across the borough. To have qualified, individuals would need to have lived or mai...

The first comprehensive survey of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York paintings is now on display at the Art Institute of Chicago through September 22, 2024. Created in a male-dominated art world that advised against her dark and angular approach, these paintings, drawings, and pastels of urban landscapes often remain overshadowed by her more well-known Southwestern scenes. The works of My New Yorks paved the path for O’Keeffe to become one of the most influential figures in modernist art.Before New Mexico, O’Keeffe made a home in Manhattan. The artist married photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1924, and the two moved into an apartment on the 30th floor of Midtown’s Shelton Hotel. Life in the then tallest residential building in the world gave her wings for magnificent perspective.My New Yorks envis...

American artist Josh Smith has worked with Case Studyo on a new ceramic sculptured entitled IN THE DARKEST DESPAIR A SPARK OF HOPE LIES WITHIN US.Based in New York City, Smith first rose to prominence in the 2000s through vibrant paintings that incorporated his own name as both a signature and conceptual framework to conflate the boundaries between authorship and artistic production. Over the past two decades, Smith has veered more towards abstraction, taking recognizable motifs — fish, skeletons, trees — and distorting their image in a way to emphasize and celebrate the act of painting, rather than the usual pursuit for perfection.In Smith's latest edition, he casts the grim reaper in white porcelain with hand-painted black embellishments that spell out the artist's name. The sculpture st...

RendezVous — Brussels Art Week is an annual celebration of the city’s diverse contemporary art scene, connecting galleries, institutions, artist-run spaces, and collective studios. Taking place each September, the event marks the reopening of the art season following the summer break. For its inaugural edition from September 12 to 15, 2024, RendezVous will feature 52 participating galleries, offering a packed weekend of exhibition openings, performances, and impromptu gatherings across downtown, midtown, and uptown Brussels. From works imbued with "delightful horror" by John Fou at Stems Gallery to Bilal Hamdad's naturalistic depictions of contemporary solitude at Templon, check out our list below of five must-see shows during the RendezVous festivities. Cave Canem by John Fou at Stems Ga...

Galerie Buchholz presents a new solo exhibition featuring several installations by Isa Genzken in celebration of her newly released self-titled book. On the heels of her 75th birthday, Genzken continues to build on her brilliance, inspiring a new generation with her radical curiosity and immaculate technique. Heralded as one of Germany’s most important and influential contemporary artists, the artist gives us a visual language for life in a commodified world.The exhibition presents some of the artist’s latest pieces, including Untitled (4 Türme, 3 Stelen), Untitled (Schauspieler), and Vollmond 1997. This foray in scale is chaotic and lyrical at once, probing perceptual awareness through miniature architectural figures and large-scale sculptures. Additionally, she calls on her "Schauspieler...

Dragons have appeared in virtually every culture, from East Asian art, Persian poetry, Medieval manuscripts to film and television. They aren't real of course, but have served to represent symbols of power, wisdom and destruction since antiquity. Dragons and other mythological beings have long been a fascination for Pakistani-American artist Hiba Schahbaz, who incorporates the flying beasts in her latest spiritual compositions at Almine Rech.Housed at the gallery's London location, Summer of Dragons comprises of 15 new paintings made with watercolor on wood and tea-stained paper that she builds by hand, as well as traditional oil on linen canvases. Schahbaz is trained in Indo-Persian miniature painting at the National College of Art in Lahore, and moved to Brooklyn where she received her M...

As an extension to the KAWS: HOLIDAY installation in Shanghai, AllRightsReserved has announced that it will be releasing a miniaturized version of the installation through DDTstore.Standing 8 inches tall, the “KAWS BIG MOON” functions as both a vinyl art toy and a mood light. Playing with its smaller scale, the collectible piece boasts a playful twist on its inspiration.The original installation features the COMPANION cradling a full moon while lying leisurely on the North Bund dock. The lamp features COMPANION in a less relaxing state, as the moon he’s hugging does not come in a much larger size than its body — exuding a comical effect of the character being crushed by the glowing moon.Starting September 15, 11 p.m. EDT/September 16, 11 a.m. HKT, the “KAWS BIG MOON” lamp will be available...

Johnson Tsang and Avant Arte have developed a fruitful partnership in recent years, releasing a suite of surrealist ceramic sculptures that feature contorted faces in place of utilitarian objects, from mirrors to planters. The Chinese artist and London studio are returning with a new edition entitled The Moment, a wall-mounted resin sculpture of a white featureless head and two inner faces kissing within. The artwork is based off an identical porcelain sculpture Tsang created in his Hong Kong workshop, both of which emphasize the possibilities that can happen when one opens themselves to love. “I believe in life," Tsang said in a statement. "Life is based on love, designed with wisdom, and allows us to grow through experience.”Tsang's grotesque, humorous and sometimes endearing artworks st...