Lillianna Pereira’s solo show is coming up soon, and she’s uploaded a few sneak peeks onto her Flickrstream. Now this is a show I could get behind!
What: The Record is Far From Complete
When: March 26, 2010 – May 1, 2010
Where: Elephant Room Gallery 704 S Wabash Ave. Chicago IL 60605
Lorraine Peltz will be exhibiting some of her new works beginning this week at Micaela Gallery. She is best known for her acrylic and oil paintings featuring ornate chandeliers on dark backgrounds that look like fireworks in the night sky.
From the release:
Peltz’s paintings are complex ruminations on the nature of private identity and public persona. Using imagery culled from both personal history and the contemporary moment the current paintings include the remembered image of a particular chandelier and through its simultaneous resolution and dissolution shift the focus to memory, which can be both melancholic and exuberant. Included also in the exhibition are paintings where she joins that image with patterned flowers, starbursts, and decorative flourishes to present the now – particularly in relationship to women and culture.
What: Lorraine Peltz New Works
When: March 2, 1010 – May 1, 2010
Where: Micaela Gallery, 49 Geary St. San Francisco, CA 94108
Wall Flower No. 1, 2010, 6 ft diameter, cast aluminum with pigment
Norman Mooney will be showing his new Wall Flower sculptures. The yellow sculpture shown above consists of over 500 aluminum castings all projecting outward four feet off the wall. Another larger wall flower in crimson resin having a diameter of 6-7 feet will also be a part of the exhibition. Also included will be the three final windseeds from a group of six are also cast in aluminum, but seem light enough to move in a breeze and have been likened to dandelion seeds.
If you’re in Berlin, don’t pass up the opening reception of Emil Holmer – Dead Letters at Galerie Michael Janssen on March 12, 6-9 p.m. Emil’s painting are dark, featuring body parts, distorted figures, and weapons yet colorful and full of firework-like explosions of paint.
The large format paintings are violent image symphonies, in which the density inherent in every depicted scene creates a blur, straining the viewer’s eyes. Drawing on such areas as psychopathology, fear, power, sexuality and the body, Emil Holmer is strongly influenced by pop culture, midway between the horror film and the comic strip.
What: Emil Holmer – Dead Letters
When: March 13, 2010 – April 22, 2010
Where: Galerie Michael Janssen, Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse 26,10969 Berlin
Rhode Island School of Design hosts its Photography MFA Biennial this week, featuring Jordan Baumgarten, who we’ve talked about before.
What: Five by Seven RISD Photography MFA Biennial 2010
When: February 25, 2010 – March 14, 2010
Where: RISD Sol Keffler Gallery, 169 Weybosset Stree, Providence, RI 02903
W Magazine sent over a link to a fantastic article where writer Diane Solway interviews Canadian artist Karel Funk re: the inspiration behind his portraits and the urbanites they depict.
A stand-out quote from the article?
On how riding the New York City subway changed his career: “I was fascinated by how this boundary of personal space completely disappeared on the subway. You could see the details of somebody’s ear or neck that you’d never observe just socializing with friends because there’s this boundary we all keep.”
Karel’s art will be featured at New York’s 303 Gallery in April. So excited!
Particolare by Giovanni Anselmo is currently exhibiting at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris. Two projectors project the word Particolare — one toward the wall and one toward the crowd, where exhibit attendees will meet the bright light. The additional pieces in the exhibition are directional. The hand indicates a direction to the spectator, while the other pieces such as “North” and “East” offer specific directional instructions. The magnetic needles embedded in granite is entitled “Direction.”
“Realize that reality can be understood as the sum of its individual components, but never captured in its infinite totality” is the essential message of Particolare.
Madeline Silber’s paintings are oil on linen. Stunning shapes and movement.
She currently has five paintings including Promise (above) in the 62nd Exhibition of Central New York Artists at the Munson Williams Proctor Institute Museum of Art in Utica, NY. The exhibition runs through May 2nd.
Thanks, Julie!
Northern Liberties’ Projects Gallery will host “Gone Printin’“, a collective art show in the spirit of Philagrafika; Philadelphia’s celebration of printmaking in contemporary artistic practice. Co-curated by Helen Meyrick, director of the Projects Gallery, and Caryn Kunkle, curator and innovator of the Philadelphia Salon, the exhibition will feature the artist NTEL along with members of the Philadelphia Salon mixed with Projects Gallery regular artists.
“Gone Printin’” will be the first in a series of events that fuses the established stable of the Projects Gallery with the dynamic and creative energies of Caryn Kunkle and the Philadelphia Salon. “Gone Printin’” will run throughout the month of February.
What: Gone Printin’
When: February 5, 2010 – February 28, 2010
Where: The Projects Gallery, 629 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
Colin Keefe’s exhibition will focus on his Architectural Pollination series, which implements a biological interpretation of a city’s evolution, each drawing resembling a microscope slide teaming with life. In this Petri dish of architectural spaces buildings breed, consume one another, fuse and fission.
What: Colin Keefe’s Exhibition
When: February 3, 2010 – March 7, 2010
Where: Robert Henry Vintage, 683 6th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215
