CURRENT EXHIBITS [373]

MoCADA is teaming up with 2AC Gallery owner Pablo Sue-Pat to mount a satellite exhibition space. The exhibition space features two exhibitions, the first, Camouflage Nursery is a sculpture series which poignantly explore the loss of childhood and innocence in the face of adult projections created by Pablo Sue-Pat.Newsfeed: Reconstructions of Experience @ 2AC Gallery is the base for the installation...   [more]

532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckelis pleased to announce “Paint and Memory” an exhibition of new paintings by John A. Parks.  Executed as finger paintings, these pictures explore the artist’s memories of his English childhood in a series of richly evocative images. “In a sense I’m using a childish means to recreate a child’s world,”says Parks, “although the resulting paintings are far mo...   [more]

Acquavella Galleries is pleased to announce Wayne Thiebaud: A Retrospective, from October 23rd to November 30th 2012. Curated by John Wilmerding, the exhibition will include paintings, works on paper and prints spanning the length of the artist’s career from the mid 1950s to today. The exhibition will include all of the artist’s major subjects: confections and diner foods, figures and portraits, Sa...   [more]

Somnath Hore was born in a village called Barama in Chittagong, present day Bangladesh, in 1921. While he was still very young, he started making posters for the Communist party. It was with the help of the leader of this party that he was admitted into the Government College of Art & Craft. Between the years 1954 to 1967, Hore handled a number of jobs in various capacities. From 1954 to 1958 he wa...   [more]

Born 1887, West Bengal Born in 1887 in a small village in the Bankura district, West Bengal, Jamini Roy joined the Government School of Art, Kolkata in 1903. He began his career by painting in the Post-Impressionist genre of landscapes and portraits, very much in keeping with his training in a British academic system. Yet, by 1925, Roy had begun experimenting along the lines of popular bazaar paintin...   [more]

An exhibition of 8 ‘Airmail Paintings’ by Eugenio Dittborn will open at Alexander and Bonin on Saturday, October 20th. The works, executed between 1989 and 2011, were selected to emphasize their origin and the journeys they make as they circulate from Santiago de Chile (the artist’s home) to multiple destinations throughout the world.Dittborn began his series of ‘Airmail Paintings’ in 1984,...   [more]

Opening: October 20th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to present its second exhibition with Melvin Edwards, spanning the trajectory of Edwards’ nearly 50-year career. Concurrently, Edwards is a featured artist in the celebrated exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 on view at MoMA/PS1, organized by Kellie Jones for the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the exhibition runs through March 11, 2013....   [more]

Opening: November 1st, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Intense magic realism and a haunting tenderness describe Brett Bigbee’s (American, b. 1954)human-scaled figurative paintings.  Two early paintings from the 1990s are on view – one depicting his wife and frequent model sitting nude on a bold flower patterned sofa.  The second is a self-portrait of the artist holding his infant son.   [more]

 A selection of woodcut prints using traditional Japanese methods and related drawings and watercolors of the Maine landscape by Neil Welliver (American, 1929 – 2005), best known for his monumental oil paintings of untouched woods of Northern New England.   [more]

Allegra LaViola Gallery is pleased to present Super Supra Diluvian, an exhibition of performance, installation, sculpture and collage by Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw.   As performers and sculptors, Catron and Outlaw are known for creating altered and displaced environments while they take on various roles, such as  Jen n' Outlaws Fish Fry Truck and Crawfish Boil, in which the artists cre...   [more]

Opening: November 14th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

American Contemporary is excited to announce the opening of an exhibition of new work by Daphne Fitzpatrick, titled "Whistle and Flute". The title, taken from the machismo world of cockney rhyming slang, strongly reflects Daphne's playful and approach to metaphor, gender and imagery, where, seemingly captured in an instant, one thing becomes another or another thing is already something else. Fitzpatrick spent som...   [more]

Opening: November 8th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

“Foiled: Tinsel Painting in America” is the most comprehensive museum exhibition to focus on this under-recognized decorative art that was widely practiced in America from 1850 to 1890. One of the great revelations of the exhibition is the way this modest technique touched upon so many aspects of American life, innovation, and culture. Tinsel paintings are reverse paintings on glass with smo...   [more]

Opening: September 12th, 2012   10:30 AM - 5:30 PM

An attraction to shiny things is a primal human impulse. It may be instinctive and emotional, or profoundly meaningful within a cultural context. In the visual arts this has been expressed through the use of myriad materials that glitter and reflect. “Ooh, Shiny!” will highlight three centuries of artworks—ranging from needleworks by 18th-century schoolgirls to sculptures by contemporary ic...   [more]

Opening: September 12th, 2012   10:30 AM - 5:30 PM

The Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to present Untitled, Goshka Macuga’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.  The show is comprised of works that were recently shown at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, which was the first major presentation of her work in a public institution in Poland.  At the core of the show lies the theme of censorship in Polish art after 1989 and the relat...   [more]

Opening: November 10th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Anna Kustera Gallery, in collaboration with Kravets/Wehby Gallery, is pleased to announce the opening of I DREAD TO THINK, an exhibition of new works by Nina Chanel Abney.  At Kravets/Wehby Gallery, Abney will present new small and mid-sized paintings. At Anna Kustera Gallery, Abney will debut her sixty foot long, six foot tall painting that she has been working on for the past two years. Start...   [more]

Opening: October 18th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

For his sixth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, German painter Eberhard Havekost has put together a body of 15 paintings under the title “COPY + OWNERSHIP”. The title declares the painter to be both author and consumer of the images he presents. Havekostʼs meticulous and confident painting technique and evidently photographic reference material make it clear that he does not try to...   [more]

Opening: October 25th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM