Since the 1980s, Di Fabio has addressed the relationship between art, science, and the cosmos through a body of work that investigates the natural world and physical phenomena that define it. Moving steadily toward abstraction, and animating the optical, kinetic-at times spiritual-elements that characterize his work, Di Fabio continues to captivate international critics, museums, and [...]
Sam Reveles At James Kelly Contemporary
The exhibition will consist of approximately seven new large-scale drawings on paper and two related oil and acrylic paintings on canvas. The drawings are the primary focus of the show, all made either in Ireland, or inspired by Reveles’ recent residency there. (Reveles was granted a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Artist’s Fellowship in Ireland in 2011.) [...]
Pard Morrison At James Kelly Contemporary
Morrison continues his interest in geometric abstraction with this new body of work. Using his preferred materials of welded aluminum and baked-on enamel paint, he now is investigating pictorial illusion by emphasizing the three dimensional space of his objects. As in the past works, these new pieces are objects that are installed on the wall, [...]
May 12, 1936: Frank Stella
Frank Stella May 12, 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant in the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella moved to New York in 1958, after his graduation. He is one of the most well-regarded postwar American painters still working today. Frank Stella has reinvented himself in [...]
May 11, 1904: Salvador Dali
Salvador Domènec Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989 Salvador Dalí was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter who was born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed [...]
May 6, 1880: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner May 6, 1880 – June 15, 1938 Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or “The Bridge”, a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, [...]
Nancy Holt At The Santa Fe Art Institute
Nancy Holt: Sightlines, is an in-depth examination of Holt’s early projects from 1966 to 1980. Holt’s pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture, and time-based media. The career of this important American artist took off in the late 1960s when she and other like-minded artists in the U.S. turned away from the emerging [...]
“Random Acts of Time” at OCCCA
This exhibition investigates our relationship to the concept of time, the choices we make and the random, uncontrollable events that shape our lives. From the moment we begin our journey into the cacophony of the world – a series of decisions, choices and twists of fate guide us – often lurching or blissful and occasionally [...]
Lucio Fontana At Gagosian Gallery New York
A major and unprecedented survey of the work of Lucio Fontana will be on display next month at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. Six of his groundbreaking environments, known as Ambienti Spaziali, have been faithfully reconstructed, providing a completely new perspective for the rich and varied retrospective of more than one hundred major works [...]
Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris-Vallauris 1943-1953 At Gagosian Gallery New York
“Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris-Vallauris 1943-1953″ is the fourth major exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery to present in an ongoing series on the life and work of Pablo Picasso, following the critical and popular success of “Picasso: Mosqueteros” (2009), “Picasso: The Mediterranean Years” (2010), and “Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’amour fou” (2011). The exhibition includes many [...]
